Comments by "RexFx" (@RextheRebel) on "Valuetainment" channel.

  1. But, but hear me out. What if I told you something very obvious... The current model does not at all work.
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  2. Noam is such a beautiful human being with Al much knowledge and wisdom. Truly a blessing to be in his presence.
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  3. They can fix their homelessness. They choose not to.
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  4. Writing a book and making money off it doesn't make you a capitalist, morons.
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  5.  @kenbowser5622  1. He did become a millionaire off his books. 2. By default, every member of Congress has to have minimum of two residences. One in their state that they represent and one in DC. 3. The third home isn't his, it's his wife's, it was handed to her but her family. 4. Bernie has been fighting for social housing for decades.
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  6. Its interesting how the American Dream exists in other countries but not America.
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  7. And yet he is still criticizing it because he realizes it doesn't benefit most people. You can still be for the working man without being a working man.
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  8. The Communist Manifesto isnt a book. It's a pamphlet. Essentially cliff notes of Marx's ideas. It's entry level Marx. Read further into Marx if you wish to genuinely have an informed opinion.
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  9. Of course rich people employ people as they are the only ones who CAN create jobs. But all they do is lay people off and move all their labor overseas when it's convenient. The importing of labor too is destroying jobs. The rich may employ people, but they destroyed the American middle class.
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  10. In Capitalism, you have the choice to decide which shitty owner gives you a shitty wage. All the choices you have are the same, the only difference is the face of the company.
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  11. While I sympathize with the Anarchist position, as I was one when I was a teenager, it's wholly unrealistic and unacceptable to believe that people will be able to self govern without a central authority. There will always be hierarchy and a need for authority to enforce rules and prevent undesirable acts. Governments achieve great things, things that decentralized can never achieve something as great as a central government can thanks to the collective gross of a nations people.
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  12. The family unit is a great example of socialism not Capitalism. Things are bought, made and distributed according to need. There is no market. There is no private ownership where someone profits off the labor of others. Socialism is by no means opposed to different people with different skills having power over their labor contribution, in fact, that is quite literally what socialism is. I wish Prof Wolff would had mentioned that. In a family, decisions are made by the producers according to contribution and distributed as such. When the children grow old and their contribution becomes greater, they have greater say in the planning of that household. A family unit a decentralized planning apparatus.
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  13. Hes literally the poorest member of government. Every other politician is worth over 30 million minimum. And it's not from selling books.
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  14. Sam Seder has decent political opinions but he himself is not a decent person.
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  15. Somehow marginal tax percentages have yet to be understood. And no one cares about some actor making a bunch of money off their movies. What socialists care about are the wealthy who profit off people's labor. We aren't critical of highly paid actors. We're critical of those who profit off those actors and the various other workers who contributed to that profit. He just unwittingly admitted that the private military contractors overcharge the government for their technology... Good grief.
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  16. Patrick you're complaining about taxes being misused, yet don't seem to understand they are being misused because of large private interests who legally bribe the government to implement policies that support them at the expense of the American people. So who's fault is it then and what can we do about it? Go after corporations and end the "money is speech" culture we've created.
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  17. That's self preservation or having integrity. Not selfishness.
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  18. You do have examples of monopolized industry today. Corn, oil, meat, nuts, cable, water/sewage, baby formula, shipping, paper towels, cheese, eggs, bananas, concert tickets, airlines (nearly).
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  19.  @dam11232  yes, because one cabin is totally enough to house 2 million people. Your smooth brain might find this difficult to comprehend but newsflash, housing is something that has to be solved systemically, not through individual charity.
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  20. You mean the government which is supposed to be for the people, by the people?
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  21. Even the CIA, who was staunchly anti communist, had data that showed the caloric intake, literacy and healthcare outcomes of Soviet citizens. So it's untrue that there isn't evidence to suggest their successes. The market only pays those who follow along with it. Skills and innovations that aren't profitable don't get through. Which often time what is best for society is not best for private capital. This is the problem with capitalists, they narrow everything down to people. "so you're saying there are bad capitalists". No. Its not about the people themselves. It's about the structural imperatives of the capitalist mode of production itself. For example, a liberal will say we regulations to curtail the negative externalities of capitalism and we need more diverse landlords. The socialist says no, we don't need to continue prescribing pain killers if we know what is causing the pain and repair it outright. We also don't want a more diverse array of landlords, we don't want landlords period. Workers have to put up with bad bosses and polices all the time or else lose their healthcare, income and whatever else to subsist. That's the difference. Workers have only their labor to use to live by. Socialists believe that should be enough. Capitalists want to instead profit off others labor productivity and reap the rewards made by others hands. Governments do not create monopolies. Quite the opposite. It's deregulation that incurs monopolies and the second the government steps back on its enforcement the creation of monopolized capital skyrockets faster than ever. We see this time and time again. What government does do, is benefit already existing monopolies via lobbying that ensures centralization of wealth happens even more for the capitalist. Whatever criticism you have of government corruption, always ask the question, who is funding the corruption. You will always follow the money trail back to an oligarchical capitalist. Edit: I don't want John or Jose to become the next Bezos and create the next Amazon. That's the point. You cannot do that without the exploitation of millions. What is the number of Amazon workers on food stamps? I don't recall the exact number but it's over 60%. By definition, that is a starvation wage since their wage must be subsidized by government welfare. That's not a good thing. Now is Stalin any better? That is where I disagree with the Prof. "At the cost of millions of people" he says over and over and over again. I wanted him to become one of those millions lost after awhile. We get it. But what about everything we have today? Coffee, chocolate, cars, batteries, refrigerants, oil, aluminum, steel, our plastics, clothes, component parts etc. At what cost globally do we as Americans benefit from the cheap labor of those people around the world? What about transporting dangerous chemicals on trains that derail and explode? What about the cost of the people from east Palestine? Do they not matter? And then he tells the Prof to move to a country that no longer exists... He's not defending Russia you bafoon. He's making the case for why the Soviet Union wasn't as bad as American propaganda claims. Wait wait wait... Now he's blaming socialism for the backwards rules of theocratic Iran???! Negative IQ points. Plenty of refugees and migrants come to America for handouts. That's literally the problem we're having right this very minute at the border.. "How hard was it to get a PhD" who cares!? How hard is it to repair sewer lines and clean rooftops? How hard is it to climb cell towers? How hard is it to maintain a family farm? Infinitely more tasking and strenuous than it is to become a professor. You'd think these people with important labor intensive trades jobs would make hundreds of thousands. But they don't. The market instead rewards a PhD more than the gritty blue collar workers who maintain our society. How do you explain that?! "What can I do to my employee who flips me off and quits? Nothing". Yeah sure nothing at all. Besides taking away his health insurance, income and blacklist him from other places of employment. But yeah other than literally revoking everything he had to remain healthy, sure, you could not do anything. And 40 million were killed because they quit working? Now we're just making stuff up. Btw, Right wingers approve of that. If you starve it's because you chose to be a slacker and not work for your meals. So what are you complaining about? According to your ideology, 40 million lazy bones got deleted for not being contributing members of society. Saying that America refuses to ban Chinese Owens TikTok isn't exactly the pro market position you think it is champ. America should ban it. It's in our national interest, not the interest of global capital. We d not have freedom of speech in America btw. Talk to literally any conservative or anti anti war, pro union lefty. Censorship is the name of the game.
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  22. Capitalism doesn't work regardless. You work for it. It doesn't work for you.
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  23.  @ThiccBoi23  become? The Right is by definition, defenders of the ruling class. Always have been.
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  24. It's not necessary for every worker to democratically decide every little decision. But its is the workers who democratically decide who should be in charge. And because there is no private owner, the person in charge doesn't directly profit off the value created by the other workers.
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  25. Government doesn't fear religion. It uses it. Religion fears government. Morality doesn't come from anywhere, it doesn't exist.
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  26. No, it employs more people because don't rely on the same people for the same schedules.
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  27.  @TheNotimprezed  i don't agree with 4-10. I agree with 4-6 or 4-8 or whatever is decided between the worker and their employer/union. Most productivity lasts about 3 hours anyway. Also, you want people to work for you? Stop bitching and make your business more attractive to potential employees.
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  28. Crony capitalism is capitalism.
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  29.  @perezfranklin  but capitalism can only lead to cronyism due to it's natural tendencies to collapse, attain patents and concentrate wealth.
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  30.  @Hornet135  because it's been taken over by big moneyed interests.
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  31. Meat. Eggs. Housing. Cars. Shoes. Cereal. Milk. All of these things have increased drastically. Amazon has such low costs because they wiped everyone else out. They command the trade of goods. No company can survive without going through Amazon as it's not economically feasible. But because there is no true competition, Amazon gets to dictate the rates of those companies who sell their products through Amazon.
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  32. This is a weird combo I wasn't expecting to see.
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  33. A communist society would quite literally ensure you would be able to be an artist without having to worry about starvation. As for the starting threw businesses, who the hell cares? What do the achieve and what do they provide, how much do you personally contribute to them and how much do you profit off them in comparison to your workforce?
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  34.  @toadsauce8091  no one has ever lived under communism you dingle berry. And I fail to see how socialist states failed when they became a powerful threat rivaling the US in the span of a decade or two. Considering their history and need to catch up they did pretty well considering what they were up against.
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  35. Um, the society you described already exists. It's called America.
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  36.  @meyou4923  funny meme but other than heresy and right wing propaganda what do you have to corroborate this?
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  37. Sure. So long as there are national referendums that the people vote on to determine where it's distributed then sure.
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  38. Reagan and Trump objectively die not create more revenue. They created and expanded deficits.
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  39. That's not how socialism works.
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  40. There are no such thing as wages in communism.
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  41. Why not just create a universal basic income and invest in community land trusts so tenants can buy and manage their own neighborhood?
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  42. After hearing your oppositions to it I must say; they were not at all convincing. For the record, workers should be able to choose to work more than 4 days a week if they want to. Having 3 days off allows for creativity, fun, socializing, pursing hobbies and recuperating from work and emotional stress.
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  43. He watched a 10 minute video of Milton Friedman before making this video. Guaranteed.
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  44. There is no such thing as an anarchist country dum dum. By definition, a country has borders defined by the state, which Anarchists are against. Very small brains here on this podcast. Not an Anarchist myself but I understand the appeal.
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  45. Patrick, how can you say you grew up in poverty when your father owned two Iranian companies?
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