Comments by "coolmodelguy" (@coolmodelguy6304) on "I Allegedly" channel.

Hi Dan. As a new subscriber, I appreciate your wholesome approach. While you are talking about the vacancies, businesses unable to hire, container ships arriving full and departing empty, the crime and homelessness, I am rather astonished that you have yet to touch on the root causes for all of these topics. We have a system that grows wealth faster than the economy grows. Simple as that. Over the past two years with regards to financial assets alone, the gains have been equal to a full year of economic output. We have a system that grows wealth exponentially, has "invested" wealth five times larger than the economy, which in turn is growing five times faster than the economy. This is really simple. We cannot survive a system where the wealthy are getting 10% annual rate of return on a huge pile of "invested" wealth, while the economy can barely make 2% growth annually. This is something I would like to hear from you about.
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@lesliestenta3084 - Thank you, that was the most intelligent reply I've read here today. Most people never look and are unaware that the 1% are looting the country and have the money to buy propaganda that sets us against each other. Antifa/BLM, Marxism and pallets of bricks, the reek of propaganda is thick here. Thankfully there are people like yourself who understand what is really happening to us.
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If you are tired of subsidizing other people, then don't look at the value rise in financial assets, which are funded entirely by the Federal Reserve these days.The past two years have seen a value rise that would take a full year of GDP to pay off, all accomplished with loans from the Federal Reserve. If you think a couple trillion in Covid rental assistance is bad, you really don't want to see how the government is propping up the stock market.
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@lcr2382 - If there is honesty in your comment, then it is also honest to note that you are mistaken. To say "only" elite leftists will go out and use government money is to ignore how our government is set up and who set it up that way. To ignore something on purpose is one thing, but to be convinced to ignore something is the result of propaganda. In this country, it is right wing propaganda that is well funded and organized. Also, to use the words "elite leftists" together is kind of an oxymoron, because elite leftists are an extinct or even imaginary species.
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@outlaw6429 - And yet the wealthy can make well thought out plans to steal everything and make it legal, which leads to the looting and the crime everywhere going up, when people have nothing and get desperate. The irony is super thick.
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@outlaw6429 - If you are looting Neiman Marcus, it is indeed because you need life sustaining supplies. What do you think they are going to buy when they sell the goods, gold or real estate? You are skirting the real issue here, wealth growth is extracting everything from us and desperation ensues. Theft is not a crime if you have the money to buy the government and the justice system, yet legal looting is the root cause of all of the things Dan talks about. There is no wisecrack answer that can skirt that reality.
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@outlaw6429 - All I am doing is pointing out the root causes for crime on the ground at city level and calling out the cause. You wrote "the system is illegitimate", I agree if you are referring to our economic system. There is no system, natural or artificial, that is capable of operating without limits. Yet we pretend that exponential wealth growth is a system that is stable and natural. This "belief" is generated at the top of the food chain and bought into by almost an entire population. Then we wonder why prices and crime keeps going up.
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@outlaw6429 - We are mostly in agreement. Yet I cannot fully subscribe to your explanation that nearly all crimes are crimes of opportunity. Yes, there are a substantial portion of crimes that are exactly that, crimes of opportunity. Yet how many of that portion would actually occur if bellies were full and lives were secure? How many crimes would be organized and planned if the plenty this society generates were not hoarded and made artificially scarce? Crime of all types are a direct result of the way in which our society is organized, primarily that it is organized around greed. That kind of organization creates excessive need, which results in crimes that would not otherwise happen. People get pushed into crime because they have, or feel that they have, no other choice. You should reexamine your hypothesis that theft is a crime of opportunity and greed. You are on the correct path with so much else, yet with this, you are off into the weeds.
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@outlaw6429 - The homeless population. I postulate that a majority of the homeless population knows how to get food without stealing. The homeless population has also learned, for the most part, not to steal from each other. They can get clothing and food, even rudimentary shelter. The homeless are easy to identify and they cannot get away, which is why they don't steal that much, and never the expensive or flashy things. What about the people who are not yet homeless, maybe they have a car, a domicile and other resources, yet are too poor to be employed at anything but starvation wages? These people fear becoming homeless and their choices are limited. Perhaps those Nike shoes and big screen TV's would fetch enough to keep them housed and fed, and keep their connections to society. It is that kind of needless desperation that drives most crime. There are still the narcissists and sociopaths that commit crime and thievery for the joy of it, but the vast majority do so because all other opportunity has been cut off. Just in case you have not noticed, costs just to survive are rising past the ability for a great many people to pay. Those cost increases are solely due to the greed of the wealthy. With modern tech, a loaf of bread, a car or even a house should be lower in cost, not going up double digits every year. We are in our sixties and within sight of being homeless ourselves. We will not turn to crime because we are old, too old for that. Yet my younger self would feel our current pressure and not be able to withstand it. I would indeed become desperate enough when younger and under the same circumstances, to consider theft as a viable option in order to stay afloat. Now, at our age, homelessness, living on the street, would be a better option than crime. We know it would also cost us our lives.
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