Comments by "Incurable Romantic" (@incurableromantic4006) on "How Money Works" channel.

  1. "People are no longer being greedy, they're being desperate" Damn. That sums up just about everything.
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  2. I've got more respect for creators who are sharing a genuine passion for a particular hobby or subject rather than the one's who are selling a lie of a fantasy "lifestyle". But that said, we need a social shift so that people understand that an "influencers" job is always at least in part to sell you stuff.
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  3. It's interesting to see footage of cities 100 years ago - and notice that not every square inch of surface is covered in advertising.
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  4. The thought of being dependant on strangers for everything is the number one reason I fear getting old.
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  5. "WTF is BlackRock (actually) Doing In Saudi Arabia?" I don't know - but I bet it's really, really evil.
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  6. My experience of hiring and firing is that it almost entirely comes down to who you know. I have a friend who got catapulted into an unbelievably desirable position he was is NO way qualified for - because he was in a social club with the person doing the hiring. It wasn't even a club with anything to do with the industry in question. Honestly it's why I wanted to strike out on my own, I hate schmoozing.
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  7. The more I see of modern capitalism - the more convinced I become that the system only works if companies are allowed to fail. The current system of bailouts, low interest rates, money-printing, lobbying and massive government intervention in the economy: entrenches corruption and incompetence.
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  8.  @lukabosanac2671  Actually we've had capitalism for centuries - we've had a housing crisis since interventionist big-governments provided the financial industry with infinite amounts of printed money at zero interest rates for nearly 20 years: and also allowed open borders that spiralled the price of housing stock.
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  9. Just understand that Cramer isn't a financial advisor anymore than Jerry Springer is a family therapist.
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  10. So workers are going to have to suffer so Blackrock and Goldman don't have to take a drawdown on their real-estate investments. What an inspiring pitch.
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  11. "You will own nothing" Brought to you by private equity.
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  12. It's really true - the only job my father ever loved was being seconded to work in a local government bureaucracy. That's got to be the most boring work imaginable, but he talked all his life about all laughs and good times he had with the people he worked with there.
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  13. I don't wholly disagree with that - but I'm also noticing a slow but definite increase in indifference and even hostility towards "celebs". Witness the slow death of the Oscars, and how during Covid when all those celebs were telling us they felt our pain from their multi-million dollar mansions the response was highly negative. Pretty much every time a celeb starts telling people what to do or think now, a large and growing number of people are typing - "STFU".
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  14. "There is a shortage of cheap labour" Which is also a big part of why the elites love open borders.
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  15. People are naturally drawn to the idea of easy-gains: and they become more attracted to it the poorer they are and the less chance they have of ever climbing out of it. E.g. Lottery tickets being mostly bought by the poor.
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  16. Get into congress - then you can do insider trading, and it's legal.
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  17.  @bornkinggamer3347  Quoting Marxist ideology is not an argument. Any more than quoting astrology is an argument.
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  18. While simultaneously being told they are "the problem" and they are "privileged".
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  19. "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual would believe them" - George Orwell You see this phenomenon all the time. Smart people tend to over-complicate and over-think things that don't really need deep thinking.
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  20. If it was only about making money - that would be less concerning. What's really scary is that data is increasingly being used as a tool of repression and control.
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  21. "It’s about breaking and degrading the people" Sadly yes - they want only the people who can be easily bullied.
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  22.  @bornkinggamer3347  Then you clearly don't know any history.
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  23. People (some of them) also fell for the slick PR of the tech companies that these were hippie bros who wanted to make the world better. Rather than psychopaths who wanted humans to be as controllable as their machines.
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  24. Student loans are quickly getting to the point of being debt-bondage.
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  25.  @sprinkle61  So if an activity makes money. . . . . . by definition it can't be evil? Don't think that makes logical sense.
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  26. Great video - I could never understand how something like this could happen, and now it seems a bit more comprehensible.
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  27. The thing with all these "values" projects is they're vague and lack accountability - at least when a company is solely interested in profits, its behaviour is predictable and easier to regulate.
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  28. From what I've heard it sounds like these companies got incredibly bloated during the long, long years of rising stock prices and limitless credit. Now that the good time are ending, they don't need quite so many 20 something's making TikTok's about the free juices and meditation rooms.
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  29.  @scottandrews947  "China is a capitalist country" Not really no. China has more government control over their economy than almost any society on earth, and it's been steadily increasing over the past couple of decades: the massive bloat in "infrastructure" spending that's created so many ghost cities, being a prime example. You don't seem to be in much of a position to sneer at someone else's knowledge of the place.
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  30. They will be only too happy to terminate you.
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  31. Well - have you heard of "debt slavery"?
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  32. "Good investing should be boring" This cannot be over-stated. The times I've made money trading are when it was about as exciting as staring at a wall for a month.
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  33. Welcome to the world of being a "conspiracy theorist" - you'll be proved right all the time, and no one will ever acknowledge that you were.
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  34. Every party needs "that guy" who says, "it's getting late and you're all drunk, I'm taking away the punchbowl". No one likes that guy - but we need him there.
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  35. I honestly hoping that by the time I'm old we'll have robots who can do most of the work of looking after the elderly - robots are less likely to abuse you or cut corners.
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  36. Why do you think they're pushing for medicalized self deletion? It's not for your benefit. . . . . .
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  37.  @robert2690  "What history?" I was thinking the 100 million plus people who died as a direct result of your "alternative" to capitalism. And the vast misery inflicted on the survivors. But yeah - Iphones are over-priced, and that's really the same thing. . . . . .
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  38. I genuinely worry that could unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum. Or at least, make for some very confusing headlines in the financial press.
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  39. "Then why your seats don't also come 'in all sizes'?" Ohhhhhh - headshot!
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  40. I've heard SO many professional traders who "fade" (trade in the opposite direction) to Cramer. Just treat him as an entertainer, not a serious analyst.
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  41. At least in most places though there are laws regulating rents and giving tenants some protections. And there used to be a lot of landlords - now we're looking at the Blackrock's of the world owning every apartment in the city and calling their rent a "subscription". That's a dark world.
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  42.  @baller84milw  Shadow-banning: very nasty, manipulative invention.
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  43.  @LadyMontane  I agree completely. I've started going to the gym over the last few years in the hope of avoiding needing personal care when I'm older.
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  44. Call me sentimental if you like - but I feel an economic setup that requires you to spend a lifetime alone and childless in order to make ends meet: is one that merits major reconsideration.
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  45.  @SilentShiba  "we gave up the wrong things and called it prosperity" Agreed. We keep telling ourselves how rich we are, and yet everything that matters is broken and rotting.
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  46. "it's next to impossible to get a consistent answer on what "woke" actually means" It's just cultural Marxism. People over-complicate this.
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  47. The games industry has essentially learned all the dark arts the gambling industry has perfected over the years about manipulating human weakness. Most of them deeply unethical, and which caused gambling to be regulated in a way that the games industry isn't. "Free" is always the most expensive type of game.
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  48. It really pissed me off in that film where the Belfort character says something like "Ah you're not interested in any of this - here's more drugs and hookers". I don't mind the character being a patronizing asshole, but when he's breaking the 4th wall and speaking directly to the audience, then it feels like the film is patronizing me.
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  49. And his writers have the easiest job - just repeat the same half dozen leftist clichés every week and radiate smugness.
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  50. I love that you ranked lobbying as bellow fraud and drug dealing in ethical terms.
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  51.  @bornkinggamer3347  I would have no interest in someone who denied the USSR was communist anymore than I would be interested in talking to a Holocaust denier.
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  52. I've found just in the last few months I've had to get more and more creative about how I phrase things, and fewer and fewer comments are getting through the censorship net.
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  53. It's not unreasonable in a small number of cases - such as where a high-ranking employee could immediately take valuable research or inside secrets to a competitor. But there was never any justification for expanding it to ordinary employees.
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  54. Now now - stop spreading crazy conspiracy facts like that.
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  55. Honestly the more I've learned about economics and geo-politics: the more pessimistic I've gotten about the future.
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  56. Has anyone ever met a person with a good word to say about HR? They seem to be universally loathed for their mediocrity and attitude to everyone else.
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  57. Unions can be a two edged sword - sometimes they help to tackle bad conditions and toxic cultures: and sometimes they just add another layer of bureaucracy and bullying.
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  58. It's amazing how many problems in the work place can be traced back to the rise and rise of HR departments.
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  59.  @bornkinggamer3347  I'm really not interested in debating Holocaust deniers, or people who say Communism never happened. Either you're wrong, or every single person who remembers or wrote about living under, or visiting the Soviet Union: is wrong.
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  60. "guess I am just too broke to be alive" Fortunately Canada has a solution for this problem in the MAID act. I guess you could call it a "final solution".
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  61. Yeah, a huge warning sign is when you're paying money to SKIP gameplay. If the game is actually fun and balanced - you shouldn't want to do that, and you're only paying to increase your ranking. I see that as different to being charged extra money for extra content that you actually enjoy.
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  62. The government is about half the economy, and corporations conspire with government - so I'm not sure how "capitalistic" America is anymore.
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  63. "I never found a job & it went to waste." And this is at the same as (in my country at least) we have a shortage of dental staff. It's madness.
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  64. Why do you think they like open borders so much?
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  65. I'm increasingly convinced that the financialization of the economy is one of the things that's gradually destroying capitalism. Everything is now geared towards the short-term demands of finance conglomerates, especially private equity firms: and everyone is suffering from it.
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  66. I know Russian oligarchs are not an easy-to-sympathize with group: but I don't like the idea that the government can simply confiscate property without due process. If they can do it to rich Russians, they can do it to you and me, and saying the property is "frozen" is irrelevant, you have still been deprived of the use of them with no trial. Look at what just happened in Canada, where opponents of the government simply had their money frozen despite having committed no crime.
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  67. Mainly it seems to be about making the pond-scum who inhabit HR departments feel more important.
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  68.  @bornkinggamer3347  I don't debate holocaust deniers, or people who say communism never happened.
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  69. It's almost like there's a. . . . . . .reset going on. A really big reset. Sort of a. . . . . . . .great. . . . . . . . .res. . . .
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  70. One of the many tings that made ESG a bad joke was that it meant that plastering rainbow flags everywhere counted more than using slave labour in Wuhan in determining if you were "ethical".
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  71. Elon Musk sacked 3/4 Twitter employees and it works better now than it did before. If we could trim the government by that much, we'd solve so many problems.
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  72. Strangely - we stopped hearing "just learn to code" about the time that job losses started hitting liberal media organizations. . . . . . . .
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  73. The greatest military force there has ever been - that just lost to some Afghan peasants with rusty old AKs whose main mode of transport was donkeys.
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  74. Funny how all these programs always seem to end up being aligned with the desire of the elites for more top-down power. . . . . . .
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  75. It reminds me of what's happened in the world of hiring - it's now dominated by "HR professionals" who usually know nothing whatever about what the job entails: and are only skilled in their own made-up pseudo-psychology gobbledygook. Plus a hefty does of woke brain-washing.
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  76. If "Middle class" means that your life is not a constant scrabble to make enough money to afford the basics of life, plus a few luxuries - then the number of middle class people in the west has nose-dived in the last 30 years. It absolutely appals me how many people have good jobs and yet are living pay-check to pay-check due to astronomical rents.
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  77.  @cicero4272  I mean a fact of history as well documented as any other - which you are clearly too ignorant to have heard of. You can start with the Frankfurt school and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov in the unlikely event you're open-minded enough to learn.
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  78.  @cicero4272  Thanks for confirming my suspicion that you are too frightened to question the narratives fed you by corporate media. I bet you believed that Jussie Smollet was beaten up by white racists in maga hats didn't you?
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  79.  @jghifiversveiws8729  You are a good little drone that always repeats what the corporate media tells you to repeat.
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  80. It's the power - buying politicians and controlling global policy is addictive.
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  81. The social control aspect of this doesn't seem to be getting enough discussion. We just found out from the Twitter files that tech companies and the government were colluding on a massive scale to silence dissent and keep their scandals secret - imagine if they could also shut down your car, eject you from your home, terminate your banking, end your internet access etc: if you say the "wrong" thing.
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  82. ​ @leandervr  Thanks for admitting you're one of CNN's sheep.
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  83.  @robert2690  "Ignoring the rising cost of living" "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" - John Maynard Keynes Government's are the one's who debase the money supply and keep interest rates artificially low. We used to have a thing called "sound money" based on metals: then "smart" people in government realized they had more power when money was debt-based.
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  84.  @KnoxOnTopProductions  "And the amount of people that have died due to capitalism is easily 10x that amount." So - the USA should have had 10x as many deaths from capitalism than the USSR from communism? You realize that would be 250 million people right? Which would mean the continental US would be essentially de-populated at this point. But hey - just keep making things up to defend your failed ideology why don't ya? You've got nothing else.
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  85.  @bornkinggamer3347  Lol - "nUt rEaL cOmUnIsM!"
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  86.  @bornkinggamer3347  OK dude: I'll sit here with the survivors of the USSR plus every serious historian ever: and you can sit over there with the Holocaust deniers. Enjoy your bug-eyed lunacy.
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  87.  @imnotusingmyrealname4566  Firstly - many can, there's lots of wealthy people from Russia, China, India etc buying up property . Secondly - they don't need to. Landlords can make a lot of money by turning family homes into squats for a dozen guys.
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  88.  @imnotusingmyrealname4566  There is nothing whatever free about it.
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  89.  @BOSSDONMAN  And?
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  90.  @Iden_in_the_Rain  Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Progressivism - all just slightly different flavours of what George Orwell called "Oligarchical Collectivism".
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  91.  @Iden_in_the_Rain  I bet you're one of the "sOcHuLisM hAs nEvuR bEeN tRyD!" mob aren't you? And I bet you were cheering the Chavez regime in Venezuela when it came along weren't you?
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  92.  @Iden_in_the_Rain  "Fascism, which one of the basic tenets is returning to a glorious past." No actually - the National Socialist German Workers Party espoused the idea of society "volk" being perfectible through government intervention, eugenics and ideological purity: which is textbook progressivism. It's not an accident that the chosen art-genre of the fascist movement was "Futurism": or that it was so similar to the tropes used in Communist art.
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  93.  @veemo8605  Any country that does not deport illegals - so the US, and nearly all European countries.
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  94. In theory, the technology is neutral. In practice, it always seems to be used for evil. . . . . . .
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  95. "There are some ideas so stupid only an intellectual could believe them" - George Orwell. Everything from UBI to open borders to trans ideology come under this heading.
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  96. Move to Canada - they will happily euthanize you the moment you can no longer afford your medical bills. Or if you just get worried about not being able to afford them, they'll happily kill you then too.
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  97. "Companies are laying people off while complaining about not being able to find enough employees" And yet there are literally millions of people pouring into the US every year on the excuse of "we need workers". . . . . . . .
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  98.  @07Flash11MRC  Pretty sure you can thank liberals for that. They're the one's who opened the border and did everything in their power to make immigration control impossible.
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  99.  @07Flash11MRC  No you can thank the DNC for that.
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  100.  @07Flash11MRC  OK - enjoy the results of "vote blue no matter who".
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  101. Given how weaponized US government agencies have become - I'm afraid I'm sceptical that this will be used impartially.
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  102. 11:56 - That's a real insight into what's changed in the industry: you don't buy anymore, you have to rent it per year. The game isn't the product anymore, the vast library of crap sold separately for the online component of the game: is the real product. Not long ago, you bought the game, and that was that. Now there are huge numbers of games where you literally never stop paying for it, either because it requires you to rent it endlessly or because there's always some shiny new turd that you "have" to have.
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  103.  @Youtubeuser1aa  Actually I got to go and see the thing they built, and it was pretty cool.
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  104. Indeed. Exactly none of the global elites who were entertained at Epstein's private pedo resort have ever been called to account for anything,
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  105. I have a lot less problem with the Morons controlling vast wealth than I do with the likes of the Gates and Soros foundations. "Charities" that are really lobby groups. And honestly the more the government takes in taxes the more it wastes and the more it meddles in things it shouldn't be involved in.
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  106. It turned into a way to trap people in their job so companies can treat them worse and pay them less.
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  107. What made Bud-Lite and Target exceptional was that for the first time - going woke actually did have serious consequences for the company's bottom line. Up until then, it was really just a mantra conservatives repeated to make themselves feel better.
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  108. There's a lot of dim-witted people out there who think "law = good".
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  109. 11:55 - Please tell me this is a satire. Please tell me someone didn't actually write this.
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  110. I enjoy intelligent, well thought-out contrarianism - and this channel always manages to deliver that.
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  111. This channel really is underlining how far social mobility has declined.
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  112. The problem with the USA isn't that it's "too capitalist": it's that corporations and the state have now merged into a two-headed monster that cooperate to loot the country.
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  113. Private Equity has become a vampire bleeding the whole world white: and the main reason they have become so powerful is money-printing, very low interest rates and globalism.
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  114. An awful lot of "company culture", looks indistinguishable from ritualized humiliation to me.
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  115. This is why there is a huge push to legalize self deletion all across the developed world - the elites have figured out it's a cheap way to solve the pensions crisis.
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  116. Donate generously to the Biden regime - and they'll bail you out with public money.
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  117.  @FishOfTheSea  Err. . . . you do know the hedge-fund class overwhelmingly support the Dems don't you? And you do know the reason they've been able to do this is because the government did QE and zero-interest rates for 15 years, right?
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  118. Sooner or later, society is going to have to have a "Come to Jesus" meeting with the tech companies - because these psychopaths are gradually eating civilisation.
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  119. The plan is for all housing to be owned by Blackrock, Goldman Sachs other such organizations, and the rest of us will spend our whole lives renting so the billionaires can be trillionaires. "You will own nothing".
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  120. The social control aspect of this doesn't seem to be getting enough discussion. We just found out from the Twitter files that tech companies and the government were colluding on a massive scale to silence dissent and keep their scandals secret - imagine if they could also shut down your car, eject you from your home, terminate your banking, end your internet access etc: if you say the "wrong" thing.
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  121. @ "I repeat whatever the TV tells me to say"
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  122. @ I just found the one guy who still trusts CNN. Remember to wear at least 3 face masks and get your 89th booster jab at the "I support the current thing" demo today. 🙄
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  123. @ Found the one guy who still trusts CNN. . . . . . . .
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  124.  @no1factsspeaker321  Since you are 100% dependent on CNN for what to think and I'm. . . . . not - I'll defer to you on what they do and don't cover.
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  125. Welcome to the great reset - you will own nothing, and they'll be happy.
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  126.  @Betweoxwitegan  "people don't want robots caring for them" I get that completely - but I'd prefer a robot caring for me, than a human neglecting and mistreating me. It would be lovely if everyone could be looked after attentively by people who loved them: but realistically, that's not going to happen.
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  127. What inspires men to work is the prospect of a home, a wife, a family, and being respected as part of a community. They've taken all of those things away, but still expect men to put in 16 hour days for nothing.
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  128. AirBnB seems like the classic example of the 21st century phenomenon of re-branding a major downgrade in quality of life - as an expression of artsy, hipster millennial bohemianism.
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  129. Why do you think the elites are pushing to normalize euthanasia? All in the name of "compassion" of course. . . . . . .
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  130. OK - out of interest what do you see as major game-changing technologies that are likely to come along in the foreseeable future? Say the next 30 years.
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