Comments by "James Adams" (@ExPwner) on "Jubilee" channel.

  1. Most people are NOT in minimum wage jobs. What is it with the obsession over minimum wage? It's a very small minority of the workforce. It's literally a statistical outlier.
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  2.  @halamaxx  "please paint me by my stated intentions which are only good but paint my opposition with the worst light possible!" Fuck off with that. Communists aren't just advocating for cooperatives and never have been. Their entire ideology is built around dictatorship of the proletariat which is accomplished through the heavy hand of government oppression. Own up to it and quit being dishonest. There is no such thing as concrete classes. People who work have no physical or legal barriers to owning means of production and people who own means of production are for the most part working. The notion that you're going to completely have an elimination of what YOU call "classes" is a fairy tale.
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  3.  @someonenotnoone wrong
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  4.  @Maksie0  no, socialism is built upon theft and murder. See? Anyone can do that.
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  5.  @pogo8050  most people are NOT working minimum wage jobs (something like 3% of the workforce). The middle class is shrinking because they get richer, not poorer. Try data instead of platitudes.
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  6. It's not racist to point this out. No one is claiming that the race of the person CAUSES success or failure. It's an observed fact that there are differences. That's it. You're delusional if you think that there will always be statistical equality in all metrics across all races. That's not how it works.
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  7.  @Maksie0  well they certainly don't get more for their labor because the labor theory of value is wrong. You've been on other comments sections before. Why don't you address that?
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  8.  LOVE  happy to answer. The labor theory of value is wrong because value is subjective, not objective. Therefore value does not originate with labor but with people's subjective preferences. It doesn't matter how much labor goes into something but rather how much people value it that we determine what is valuable and HOW valuable it is. An example of this would be the diamond-water paradox. While water is abundant, people value it less than they do diamonds. When water becomes scarce, people can value it more than diamonds. This is again entirely independent of how much labor went into getting the water or the diamond. A diamond could be found (practically zero labor) and still be more valuable than water which took tons of labor to clean and deliver when water is in abundance, or the diamond could have a ton of labor put into it and it still wouldn't be as valuable as a bit of water for someone who is without water. The labor theory of value was also demonstrated to be incorrect by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk who explained that the time value of money is also a consideration which impacts value and has no requirement for labor (ie interest).
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  9.  LOVE  not a "right winger" thing nor is it superficial to teach basic economics, dumbass. Why don't you piss off? You've clearly not come in good faith and are only here to spread more Marxist nonsense. No one is "extracting wealth" from labor you dumbass. Now get lost.
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  10. Absolute capitalism works just fine
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  11. No, because socialists are constantly lying about the facts and gaslighting when they can't get basic definitions of words correct. They are stuck in the past and married to dogma.
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  12. @m. a. false. Language is used to communicate specific things and that's why we have objective and concrete definitions of words. The leftist tactic of trying to change language to suit an agenda is quite literally the equivocation fallacy. It's a slimy tactic and it is used precisely to avoid reality. Pushing for a concrete definition of words isn't what people in 1984 did (and which I haven't at all referenced so it isn't "my beloved" at all). The people in 1984 did the opposite and proclaimed that anything that they said became the new definition/reality.
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  13. @m. a. yes, it does. The fact that language is used to communicate specific things means that words DO have concrete definitions at a minimum within the confines of a particular society/setting/era. Definitions aren't constantly changing. Your desire to constantly change them doesn't actually make it so. The definitions of words aren't subjective, and no amount of your appeals to relativism will make that so either.
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  14.  LOVE  no, I didn't. Words have actual meanings and are not CONSTANTLY changing. Otherwise language would be impossible.
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  15.  LOVE  1. of, relating to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one's same sex 2. happily excited Webster isn't that hard to find.
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  16.  @Maksie0  that's not what a landlord is at all. A landlord fronts capital and maintains the property. Contrary to the narrative socialists spew, most landlords actually do that themselves too instead of hiring managers for it.
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  17.  @1Dylan1  you're not "struggling due to capitalism."
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  18. @MX 3 USSR's actual growth rate was garbage during that time. China grew faster only after instituting market reforms. Socialism is garbage.
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  19.  @delzerui4975  no they aren't. They are socialist and they aren't 80% private.
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  20. @MX 3 citation needed.
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  21. Human rights abuses
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  22. Only brainwashed ones are socialists.
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  23.  @orangeinks6681  no it isn't. Socialism is an old idea. There is no "progression of history" set in stone. There is nothing more "fair" about socialism, and we don't "need" democracy. We need individual liberty instead.
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  24.  @someonenotnoone no it doesn’t
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  25.  @ekeg_ that was debunked over a century ago
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  26. Answer: they don’t
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  27. By getting roommates, living frugally, going to a trade school or community college...that kind of thing.
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  28.  @boyhenry1  when I was in college I got loans, I got 3-4 roommates, I ate on a budget and I got a part time job. I should have went to community college FIRST and that would have helped more. I also only went in after I had a field that I knew would get a good job once I was done.
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  29. @MX 3 Marxists couldn't properly critique anything. Their arguments are nonsense and they didn't accurately predict history like they thought they were.
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  30.  @Maksie0  the labor theory of value being wrong and subjective theory of value being right would be one.
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  31.  @arthurmorgan1550  I've already argued and explained it to him elsewhere and he didn't seem to care. That's the point.
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  32. @Hello Human Public schools are not by any rational metric "underfunded." Look at the funding over time ffs.
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  33.  @Infinitecreek25 wrong. There is no such thing as surplus value. The worker values the wage more than the work and the employer values the work more than the wage.
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  34.  @someonenotnoone wrong. Cost is not value and making more than costs is not exploiting workers
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  35. @MX 3 nonsense. In a coop each owner is a worker. You can't just "fire" someone who is an owner and force them to leave without their consent. You can't force someone to sell if they aren't willing to sell and haven't agreed to sell.
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  36.  @logantrofimov99 wrong. Socialists did not create either of those
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  37.  @Maksie0  it's not McCarthyism to point out how communists killed millions of people you moron.
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  38.  @someonenotnoone nope he means socialism in the real world and not your made up fantasy land in your head
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