Comments by "Tespri" (@Tespri) on "Type Ashton" channel.

  1. Your comment shows lack of education. You need productivity in order to live. Good luck having food when no one produces it.
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  2.  @jorge69696  well people in Haiti live now in worse condition than they did as slaves. So... Depends on perspective.
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  3. Rich people don't pay taxes. Stop lying, they spend their money via loans not through income.
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  4. and? GDP still shows the wealth of the nation. IT just doesn't show ´how it's used.
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  5. Actually it does mean is country poor or rich. You're a bad teacher. What it doesn't measure is living conditions.
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  6. It's only metric for economic power. Just not metric for everything.
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  7.  @Forodir  It's not a problem. You can't have high living standard without high GDP PERIOD. And having GDP does reflect economic might of the nation. Thus not useless metric either. It all depends on context where you use it. The video was terrible btw.
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  8. ​ @HebbY_ ad hominem is when you're trying to discredit someone on basis of their history, motivation, class, gender, age, career, and education. List is even bigger than that. The word mwans "to the person". So instead of refuting my points you're trying to argue that everyone should dismiss my opinion on basis of actually studying the very subject that gives proper understanding on how things work. Also no, reading marx's work doesn't quality as studying economics. Or even understanding it.
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  9.  @aoe9015  It's, it basically undermines these people's argument.
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  10. ​ @hungrymusicwolf nope, income inequality is not same as poor living condition. Modern minimum wage claas enjoys better life than emperors of the Past. Objective fact
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  11.  @beyondborderfilms4352  Cost of transportation in USA is ridiculously cheap due to low gas prices. Healthcare is expensive because of medicare and other similar programs. If you look at history of the cost related to healthcare, it increased after those things were implemented. Regarding to your comment about local food and imports, you make 0 sense. You're major exporter of food products. None of this is related to "capitalism being greedy" but everything related to government messing things up.
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  12. ​ @philipnorthfield so you're still refusing to address issue that you can't have high Iiving standards without high gdp per capita?
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  13. ​ @philipnorthfield i have consistently been talking about gdp per capita. You're attacking strawman because your lQ is too low to address my point that GDP valid and sound measurement of country's economic strength
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  14.  @LeafSouls  You never wondered why government spending expands every year but nothing significant seems to happen around you beside steady decline in public infrastructure and security? So you can't name a single country which has low GDP per capita and is having high standards of living. Thus proving my point. It's impossible to have high standards of living without high GDP. You can't enjoy life of plenty when you produce so little.
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  15. ​ @SigFigNewton i literally responded to you. So again, name a country with low gdp per capita where living conditions are high
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  16. ​ @alexandernater6284 hmm my comment keepa being removed. Country you named is terrible place. No clue why you though it as good example
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  17. ​ @Urza26 nope ppp is bad because economy isn't fixed pie thus argument about income inequality is just low lQ
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  18.  @Forodir  So you can't name one? Spain, Italy, Germany and Canada ALL HAVE HIGH GDP PER CAPITA. I asked you to name one with low GDP per capita. Hilarious. Productivity and GDP is the same. Do you even know what GDP stands for?
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  19.  @QWERTY-gp8fd  I literally grew up in hoods. Living standards are about how much you can afford to buy with what you have. Not about are there criminals in your region.
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  20.  @Forodir  How is that shiftingoalpost again? So you couldn't even give the defination of GDP. Hilarious. Yes 30K is negligble. Let's put example for someone who has as low lQ as yourself to understand. If you're millionaire and you have 50 million dollars. Would you life standard change drastically if it was 51 millions instead? This is why I mentioned the threshold. You only need to reach certain point to have high living standard. The whole video and this thread is strawman. GDP is not used to measure life quality. It's used to measure economic power. However GDP per capita does correlate extremely strongly with quality of life. You don't have a country where life quality is low with high GDP per capita, nor do you have country where life quality is high with low GDP per capita. Too easy
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  21. It shows accurately what it's suppose to do. Economic activity, it's irrelevant do you find value in what someone does. Also no, the "GDP" grew point is pretty low lQ by you. Why you might add? It does give short term GDP growth, but it can't grow beyond that since there is no growth model for it.
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  22. ​ @HebbY_ County is rich by definition when having high GDP amd its impossible to have high living standard without high GDP
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  23. ​ @HebbY_ of couse not, but you can't dismiss the fact that it's required and showa nations economic power. How the country uses that power is up to it.
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  24. ​ @HebbY_ nope, economics is soft science where they study how economy works and what policies historically has lead to what results. Funny how you tries to turn this into ad hominem. Desperation is pretty clear
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  25. ​ @ETophales not true. You're mixing up power differences between different currencies. Living standards correlates 100% with gdp per capita. Just look at top 10 countries regarding to gdp per capita
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  26. ​ @12345anton6789 definition of middle class changes. That is not same as living standard declines. Beside the fact that USA still has high living standards even according to other measurements than gdp
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  27.  @ETophales  The index you refer isn't based on actual quality. However it's a country that is within top 50 of GDP per capita. 49 to be precise. Above Greece. The index you refer adds there stuff like safety, climate, commute times and pollution. These are not tied at all to economic growth. So this was your best example? This was easy one for me. Both Ireland and France has high GDP per capita. You still haven't named low one. This was too easy.
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  28. ​ @bartrammeloo5046 bad teacher on basis of his views. Just because someone has degree, it doesn't make them competent. You will learn this once you get older. Also i speak 4 different languages. One of which is considered one of the hardest ones on the planet
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  29. It doesn't work like that. People would still buy something even if medicine was cheaper
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  30. @DontUseHack it does lmao
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  31. ​ @iraklimgeladze5223 hmm you removed my response both of them in fact. You're objectively wrong and it's clear that you never did the math regarding to your claims
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  32. ​ @LeafSouls by false flagging. Anyway i already countered his nonsense
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  33.  @philipnorthfield  lol you liked your own comment XD Desperate much? What all of this has to do with me saying that you can't have higher level of living standards without having high GDP per capita? desperate much with spouting non-sense?
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  34. ​ @jodylang8781  the subject is more complicated than that. Plenty of rich people tried to help homeless but government stopped them. And you don't understand what incentives are and the fact that getting rid of rich people it still wouldn't solve the issues you mentioned. This has been tried before with catastrophic results
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  35.  @FlamesRunner  I have answered the arguments made by others. The irony here is that you guys haven't. Too easy
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  36.  @jodylang8781  I did watch it and I have refuted it in several parts of this comment section. Homelessness being a crime in some cities literally has nothing to do with does GDP work as good measurement of economic power. " but please explain why any one person NEEDS more than $10M for personal use." The key word is need here. This is manipulative of you. You're trying to make a frame where I would have to specifically address the need. Instead of why someone should have more than 10 million. To refute you with simple example... Explain why there is need for for even one house? Humans used to live in outdoor in tents in far past. ;) Of course there isn't need. Just like there is no need for house, spices, beer, wine etc... Also the rich people don't usually have 10 million cash. They have property that has collective worth of that. That can't be directly translated into food and house for someone. Yes, I know it's hard to understand as someone with very smooth gray matter above the neck.
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  37.  @LeafSouls  I don't know about Portugal to be in exact but Slovenia and Estonia definitely don't have high living standards. They are considered as poor by Finnish people. You're just throwing names without knowing any specific about those countries. Were done, you lost.
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  38. ​ @philipnorthfield you're not even reading my comments
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  39. ​ @juancarlosalonso5664 no you can't. Name country with low gdp per capita that has high living standards. USA is massive country and most of it's production is concentrated to big cities. Living standards are actually high in usa. Spain is smaller country. You need to compare gdp per capita not by entire gdp.... man you have a low lQ
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  40. ​ @Forodir name one, you can't name one because you need to have high productivity in order to have resources for luxury
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  41.  @dalriada7554  No, they are large because they are doing medical research that Europe and Canada isn't doing. The actual profit margin was somewhere around 3%. 3% to the cost of your normal treatment isn't much at all
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  42.  @williamjuru3778  Finland has high GDP per capita ranked as 24's on the world. You haven't lived in our country so you can't really term the quality of social policies. I have done the math regarding to USA and their own policies. You clearly don't know the system in USA if you think that there isn't welfare support there. Using NY as example is just pretty desperate. The state of city is business of public sector and how politicians have neglected taking care of it. Did you know that single toiled made by public sector costs 1 000 000 dollars in NY? While private one less than 10 000? Not to mention that crime isn't even punished there, thus people are more likely to litter and break public and private property. Another easy win for me.
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  43.  @Forodir  Tell me what GDP is short for and then let me laugh at you. Also 30k difference is negletable when you reach certain threshold. Germany is far from poor country. "By your logic, the USA should be the much better place to live," That's not what GDP is predicting or tries to predict. It's about economic power of the country, however you can't have good living standard without having strong economy as well. It's objectively put... IMPOSSIBLE. Too easy
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  44. ​ @williamjuru3778 huge load of waste of time without going straight to the point. One person being rich is not away from another. It's not fixed pie so you're fallacy is meaningless
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  45. Italy and Spain as you used to make comparison had those buildings over thousands of years and in some cases of hundreds. Using those historic buildings as "they can't be poor because they have this" is not good argument. GDP is good indicator because it shows how much goods and services you are providing. Strong GDP means that the region which has it has more avaible resources that can be used on different projects. This can be used in public sector via taxes. In private via building up new businesses or having higher salaries. It's always good to have strong GDP and if your GDP is in decline or stagnant while population is increasing, then you will have lowered living conditions.
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  46. ​ @philipnorthfield  so you're copy pasting your irrelevant post from another thread. I have consistently been talking about gdp per capita.
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  47.  @philipnorthfield  Why should I answer to Strawman? I have consistently been talking about GDP per capita. Thus your scenario A or B doesn't apply here. Not going to humor manipulative person who can't be honest.
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  48. ​ @arnodobler1096 buildings need constant maintenance and they so get old and dangerous. Leaving old building stand for free is juat lawsuit in future
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  49. ​ @philipnorthfield again i have been talking about gdp per capita. Why you keep repeating this nonsense and act as if it's silver bullet to me? You're embarrassing yourself
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  50. ​ @philipnorthfield incentives, lack of it would cause massive drop in GDP. It wouldn't make everyone richer but poorer instead
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