Comments by "James Adams" (@ExPwner) on "Actual Justice Warrior" channel.

  1. “wHY wOn’T yOu dEbAtE SAm sEdeR?” “Because he is a liar and smear merchant.”
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  2. If you just look into her eyes, you can tell that she grills hard. “I didn’t choose the grill life, the grill life chose me.”
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  3. Communists are incapable of good faith discussion of ideas.
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  4. Ana agreeing with Sean in the intro and not being overlaid with Careless Whisper is the biggest crime of the century and I won’t stand for it.
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  5. And they’re just wrong. The company doesn’t make money off of your labor. They make money off of a good or service that your labor contributed towards making, and notice I did not say that your labor made there, because your labor alone isn’t producing the revenue.
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  6. These social media companies are just making things up as they go. We are living in the age of Pravda.
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  7. Marxists do not understand value.
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  8. Sean, here are some more to debunk. 1. The lie that Medicare for All would save money based on a deliberate misreading of the Mercatus study, which the author himself refuted. 2. The bogus notion that Medicare has lower administrative costs than private insurance, wherein they divide administrative costs by total spending instead of looking at per patient administrative costs. Mises has an article up on this going into why this is dishonest: Medicare is old people who have higher total spending which artificially lowers that percentage. Furthermore, they are not comparing apples to oranges because Medicare does not prevent fraud while private insurers do prevent fraud and that benefit is not captured. Lastly, they also leave out the administrative costs associated with collecting payment which is done through the IRS and SSA. 3. The myth of infant mortality being so much higher in the US. This is again apples to oranges. 4. The lie that healthcare quality in the US is low or bad compared to other countries when the criteria used literally includes “access” as a large driving factor of the methodology. It is infuriating that this is being conflated with quality. 5. The denying of reality of waiting lists and shortages as well as people dying from not receiving care in universal healthcare systems. 6. The lie that universal healthcare saves money as evidenced by the only honest metric: before and after within the SAME country. The UK for example did not lower its costs after introducing the NHS. Costs went up and not down. 7. The lie that Obamacare saved lives.
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  9.  @thethrashyone  exactly. These people will repeatedly lie and make up things that others never said. They only care about winning. They do not care about truth.
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  10. You nailed it, especially at the end. These morons are pushing watermelon politics: "green" on the outside but red on the inside.
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  11. "Yeah, where are the fathers? Isn't that the problem?" Yes, Anna, it absolutely is a large part of the problem. But way to prove that you can't form a coherent argument again.
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  12. We call that being a liar.
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  13. "So no, you don't need the government to pay for roads." THANK YOU!
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  14. “It’s not really CRT but CRT would be a good thing because it’s just teaching history of race!” “Antifa is just an idea and not a group but everyone should be against fascism so it’s a good thing!” “It’s not real communism but real communism but be great because it’s just sharing!” Leftists always lie, project and double down, and they also try to redefine language to lie to you more.
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  15. Don’t ask for permission. 3D print your own
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  16.  @AnthonySopran0 not even close
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  17. And dishonest. Econ 101 teaches how value is subjective and he lies about that. Plus he claims everything bad to be from capitalism like a true Marxist piece of shit.
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  18. This. His recent Joe Rogan was full of bullshit especially on economics.
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  19.  @AnthonySopran0  it factually wasn’t a coup. Absolutely no one there was trying to overthrow the government.
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  20. Also watched that debate. He just made shit up and lied. Like attributing world wars to capitalism? What a piece of shit!
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  21. Not just a terrible term, they just do not exist. You can walk, bike, take a bus, drive a car or whatever other means of transportation to just go to a store. All they mean when they say “food desert” is that you don’t have a store very very close to you. By this definition I was in one in college but that didn’t stop me from taking the bus or walking to the store to get groceries every week.
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  22. Damn right! Time value of money
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  23.  @k19sparks there never was consent
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  24.  @Joe-Przybranowski profit isn’t the problem. A government middle man isn’t better
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  25. It’s beyond time I would say
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  26. No it isn’t. Profit is not a bad thing
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  27. 🤣🤣
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  28. There was no panic attack.
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  29.  @johannesh.9955  it's about wealth redistribution at its core. An environmental policy does not need to be concerned with wealth or income inequality. It does not need any kind of "guaranteed income." It doesn't need increases in income taxes. It doesn't need a government healthcare system. GND shows that they're socialists/communists. Also it isn't trying to save the environment because if it did then it would be pushing nuclear which is the only viable alternative energy source right now. Intentions do not save the environment by themselves.
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  30.  @darthhogan8191  yes, absolutely. Hierarchy is not avoidable nor would it be desirable to end all hierarchy.
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  31. Yep, the left literally uses works of fiction as if they were real. The Jungle, Star Trek, Monopoly (the board game), BioShock…the list goes on and on for what fantasy nonsense they will use to proclaim that socialism is good/capitalism is bad.
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  32. Can confirm. See Lysander Spooner and the American Letter Mail Company.
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  33. Still garbage because value does not come from costs but from the customer. Value of labor is not a subtraction problem. See Bohm Bawerk and the time value of money. Marxists conflate the present value of labor with the future value of product sold. It makes no sense whatsoever.
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  34. NICE
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  35.  @waltlock8805 nope. Corporations are pass through entities. They don’t “eat” any of it. It is all passed along in one way or another.
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  36. “Now too many see the protests as the problem. No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets: persistent, poisonous inequities and injustice. And please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful. Because I can show you that outraged citizens are what made the country what she is and led to any major milestone. To be honest, this is not a tranquil time.” Make the left listen to their own bullshit being applied against them.
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  37. EPI isn’t even measuring wage theft. An agreement to work for less than government mandated minimum wage is not theft. All they did was attempt to quantify how much less than minimum wage is paid out. That is NOT wage theft. Theft would be you earning something and not getting paid that amount.
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  38. Agree 100%
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  39. An offer is not predatory. You are free to reject it.
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  40.  @AtariDad  you won't find people marching to stop government handouts because they always live under the impression that someone else is paying for it. That is entirely irrelevant to the economic arguments at hand here. This is what we call a red herring and appeal to popularity. I didn't ever claim that it was unpopular. That is just a straw man. The text of what I said is not edited. You have no grounds for making this shit up. Popularity is not a determinant of standard of living you moron. That one would have to explain this to you shows the childishness of your attempt at an argument.
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  41. Sean is wrong on that one. It’s not caused by prescriptions. It’s largely caused by illicit drugs
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  42. Bro is about to fall off when she can’t give him any more content to farm. I for one will mourn the loss of this beautiful opportunity. It was good while it lasted, gents.
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  43. No, it was not capitalist. It was socialist. This is a leftist talking point that started with literal Soviet propaganda because they didn't want to be called the same thing even though they were doing the same kinds of things. They didn't have real private ownership because the state decided who would and wouldn't have ownership, and the state was ultimately calling the shots. We can see this directly from their policies. https://mises.org/wire/yes-nazis-were-socialists
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  44. Commies aren’t improving anything and he was spot on in this video.
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  45. @HC there is no good faith pushing of blatant falsehoods when we are on the internet and the information is literally at one’s fingertips. When a person goes to make a claim on the internet and wants to make it in good faith, that requires not spewing blatant falsehoods. This is the problem with socialist ideology. It will cling to falsehoods in the face of real world evidence to the contrary. Case in point right here. Talks about “fair” but refuses to answer the question about what is fair about taking away justly acquired property. Talks about inequality while misrepresenting capitalism and socialism as well as the basic facts on inequality. A good faith participant does not dodge questions when they poke a hole in one’s ideas.
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  46.  @jpoeng  some of us aren't as technically inclined. :) Pointing out that people can DIY is the important part.
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  47. Activists are the most ignorant people out there. They get invested into something except for the part about getting the facts right.
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  48.  @bryanbadonde9484  nope, you're wrong. Value never has been defined by labor. Marxist "economics" is not economics and never has been and never will be. None of what you posted here is a coherent argument, it's just empty dumbass claims.
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  49. Wolff is an idiot. His credentials don’t make him correct. His idiotic labor theory of value was proven wrong over a century ago
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  50. Appeal to authority smoothbrain.
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  51. Immunity, that’s why.
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  52. He is neither of those things. He is a liar, a sophist and a propagandist.
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  53.  @misterauctor7353  😂 what absurd cope. The communist regimes that they CONSTANTLY call “not real communism/socialism” absolutely followed the text from Marx. What they really mean is that it did not reach the end stage utopia in their minds, and that is because it never will. There is no “moneyless, classless, stateless society” because inequality is not something that can be willed away. Also “libertarian socialist” is an oxymoron. On the bright side, it looks like some of the other socialist lunatics have finally embarrassed themselves enough and stopped posting entirely.
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  54. ^ dictionary definition of capitalism refutes the “capitalism death count” BS that commies peddle.
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  55. Nope he got it right and debunked the socialist idiocy that Wolff spews
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  56. Yes because Marx has been disproven.
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  57. No he isn’t. He is a lying socialist propaganda peddler nothing more
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  58. Wow first?
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  59. Excellent take down of communist BS talking points. More like this please!
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  60.  @Ausaini17  wrong. Watched his garbage and his lack of credible sources for the stupid nonsense he spews. Absent Thought is literal Marxist propaganda.
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  61. I conkirk
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  62. But that isn’t what it does, though. It treats value as not being subjective at all. In order for workers to be underpaid and profit to be theft, there has to be an objective measure of labor’s value. If we grant that labor’s value is subjective then it is whatever is agreed upon in exchange, and by extension the value of capital is also subjective and therefore not theft. Further, if we accept that people are rightful owners of their labor and the stuff which they gain through voluntary exchange then how is it that other people have a claim to means of production that I have obtained in this way?
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  63. That is complete and utter nonsense. First off it is empirically false that a free market leads to inequality or poverty. That’s just st a bold faced lie. The data consistently shows that freer markets make people wealthy and more equal than socialist economies. Second, the definition of value has nothing to do with what you think is “fair.” Value is subjective and that is just a statement and of reality. Your feelings on the matter don’t factor into that. Further, you have not established that communism is more fair. And third, you did not answer my questions.
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  64. First off, capitalist countries have LESS inequality than socialist ones. Second, the Nordic countries are not socialist. They are arguably very capitalist. Again, this is shown by the data. You are not entitled to your own set of facts.
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  65. No I do not have any such obligation to not judge others. When people are being dumbasses I can and will call them out for that. And yes I have seen people that are mistaken. They do not pivot when confronted on an error. You’re not getting it. I have no obligation to uphold your double standards of argumentation. I reject them. I deal with logic and facts. If and when people reject those, they rightfully get ridicule.
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  66.  @curtisjamesbeck8789 there is no such Muslim ban
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  67. It’s hilarious seeing these rabid Second Thought stans crying in the comments section 😂
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  68. I can't stand Sanders, but if I were him I would have flipped that moderator the bird and walked off of the stage for calling me a liar. Then I would have immediately called out the moderator for being fake news.
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  69. The fact that they are lazy parasites.
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  70. If not him then his paid shill cultist Michael Mappin who constantly lies and runs cover for him.
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  71. No he isn't.
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  72.  @limitisillusion7 that’s like saying one man’s astrologist is another man’s astronomer.
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  73. That's utter nonsense. Loans are repaid with interest. That would require an income to repay. This is a narrative devoid of literally any facts to back it up, spewed by leftist clowns who regurgitate it without two seconds of thought about it.
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  74. Wolff posted this same lie in another video recently.
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  75. No, it isn't. The workers are not producing the profit. The labor theory of value is debunked nonsense. Learn actual economics.
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  76. There is no such thing as predatory pricing
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  77.  @michaelmappin1830  why are you commenting on a video that you refused to watch? I linked it to you as proof that he lied. What is wrong with you?
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  78.  @sprockkets  the collapse of socialism is not the same as “capitalists taking over” and no one cares about polls except brain dead leftists.
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  79. Want to discuss? Okay, start with the labor theory of value which is wrong. Can you accept that value is subjective and not strictly tied to labor given that economic theory has overwhelmingly supported these things?
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  80. It’s not irrelevant. The tolls are at his fingertips and he refuses to use them. I am neither lying nor being unfair. You are being a dumbass and a useful idiot. Congrats on adding nothing useful to the conversation. Now piss off, troll.
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  81. Who said anything about changing his mind? Like I said from the start, communists cannot deal in good faith and he didn’t. Yes he did pivot. Go back and read the thread. I asked a question and he avoided it to pose a dumbass assertion that fails in every way. That is bad faith and you don’t care because you are a concern troll. Now piss off. You clearly haven’t added anything to this conversation.
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  82. Correction: print one and don’t ask for permission to do so.
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  83.  @TrustNJesusChrist  that's right, no one CAN take the guns.
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  84. Yes he did shred the lying Richard Wolff's claims about capitalism causing deaths when he didn't even bother to do his own research.
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  85. There is nothing thoroughly researched about Second Thought's propaganda.
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  86.  @royalpayn4089  I do. The fact that he has links does not make it "well researched." He literally puts whatever media piece confirms his narrative and then just regurgitates it. I have followed up, and when you do, almost EVERY SINGLE TIME he's lying. Take his pizza shop example. Complete lie.
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  87. Michael Mappin is a paid shill who supports Richard Wolff in comment sections for a living. He tried claiming that Richard did not lie and was credible. I linked him to this video and he is still denying it, spamming lies and gaslighting in replies to other people’s comments.
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  88. Wow...I thought that the movie was alright, but you had a lot of better ideas for sure. You had better writing ideas for character building near the end of your video than they had in the entire movie.
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  89. Harambe wasn’t about race but nudism. #DicksOutForHarambe
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  90. The counter is simple: Venezuela was shit long before US sanctions were implemented. The timeline does not even remotely add up. Commies once again do not read. They just repeat dumb shit that someone else said.
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  91. "Taking away muh healthcare" shows that Innuendo Studios is a lying piece of garbage. You cannot take away someone else's healthcare through a vote. That conservative would be voting to NOT be forced to pay for Innuendo's healthcare. What a turd.
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  92.  @freestylesk8nj nope socialist idiocy is the joke
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  93. No it was not comparable. Look again. The two lines it was more comparable to are South Korea and Japan. The former of which basically wasn’t developed and the latter of which was literally nuked. The USSR was nowhere near the living standards of rich capitalist counties.
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  94.  @AnthonySopran0  and there is the motte and bailey. Delaying a process is not a coup and you know that it isn’t. Quit being a disingenuous hack
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  95. Good content! I was not aware that that’s what they meant with pre-approval. Also I don’t recall you mentioning it, but one doesn’t have to pay a dime in interest to build up that credit. Maybe most already know that, but not all do.
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  96.  @socialmoth4974  pretty much. When Richard Wolff went to debate Gene Epstein, the latter pointed out that you can already form cooperatives under capitalism today and asked why more people aren't doing that. When actually pressed on what he would change, Richard Wolff's response was to say that companies should be mandated to give a right of first refusal to workers (selling the company and with government picking up the tab through loans) should the company want to ever sell, offshore or shut down. Meaning that he actually wants to force everyday people to subsidize his business model and pay for the cost if and when those businesses fail and the workers cannot pay back said loan.
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  97.  @ayeguyy779  nope all value does not come from labor. What you just said is economically illiterate and rejected around the world by economics. Look up time value of money, fool.
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  98.  @michaelmappin1830  what is wrong with you? You spent more time spamming stupid ass comments but refuse to watch the video in the first place.
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  99.  @Lastbornschwab7 actually it does because the core tenets are based on lies.
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  100.  @misterauctor7353  it is a fairy tale. I don’t even think they believe it themselves. Their entire ideology revolves around taking control of the state and having total control over the economy, then just HOPING that it “withers away.” That is what Marxists actually believe. Oh hey! I remember you on the Epstein/Wolff debate video. We were exposing communist fool Michael Mappin. I since started putting out videos exposing his dishonesty.
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  101.  @JuggaloSupreme nope you only deserve what your work is worth. Inherently you deserve nothing. Your work is not automatically worth a “living wage” just because your feelings say so
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  102.  @richardunderwood9683  "There is a gap between the workers output and their compensation" No there isn't. Marginal revenue product of labor is not an objective measurement. It is a theoretical construct which holds capital investment constant. The notion that profits are unpaid labor is false. "My disagreement with Wolff is his model for reducing this gap goes too far." Gotcha.
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  103. It means that both parties see themselves as being better off after the trade as compared to how they were before the trade.
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  104.  @moemoe7082  nope. Try making a coherent thought of your own, 🤡
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  105. He absolutely advocates for government. This has been revealed multiple times from his debates to his own book where he admits that he wants the government to prop up coops through loans and edicts like forcing companies to “sell” to workers (backed up by government money) with a right of first refusal if the company wants to go public, offshore or close the company.
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  106. @Garden State NJ no they did not. Quit lying.
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  107. @Garden State NJ yes you are lying, and your claim is rooted in just blaming random nonsense on capitalism without ever making any connection, just like every other lying commie propagandist does.
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  108. Yep. Full of outright lies and contradictions. Claims to have a “new” socialism, then turns around and advocates for government all over again.
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  109. The left always lies, projects and doubles down. Remember that the next time they try to tell you something outrageous.
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  110.  @michaelmappin1830  no it isn't inaccurate. You are a Wolff shill and you're now on a second video debunking his lies and you're still spewing commie propaganda.
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  111. Exactly!
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  112. Nope
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  113.  @michaelmappin1830  why did you comment on a video asking where he lied without watching the video? You’re still trying to deny that he lied despite commenting on the very video proof of it.
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  114.  @michaelmappin1830  “Wolff didn’t lie” You keep saying this on other videos despite commenting on this video proving that Wolff lies.
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  115.  @michaelmappin1830  “you still haven’t learned the difference between fact and opinion” Says the person who still presents his OPINION that Richard Wolff did not lie while commenting on a video showing the hard FACT that he did lie. Yet again you get caught lying and being a massive hypocrite
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  116.  @michaelmappin1830  what’s wrong with you? You spent tons of time spamming comments but never actually watched the video.
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  117. You did not do your research then. Wolff constantly advocates for nationalization of lots of sectors as well as higher taxes and redistribution to achieve his ends.
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  118.  @michaelmappin1830  you are projecting. Quit lying and making things up. Capitalism is not when the government does stuff.
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  119.  @peterbuckley3877  he is a paid shill. This Michael Mappin spams lies like this from a script and has been doing so for over two years on Richard Wolff videos. I have made multiple videos exposing his lies.
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  120.  @michaelmappin1830  once more, why are you spamming lies and not watching this video?
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  121. All you do is spam dumb one liners like this to stan for communism.
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  122. Want to discuss? Okay, start with the labor theory of value which is wrong. Can you accept that value is subjective and not strictly tied to labor given that economic theory has overwhelmingly supported these things?
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  123. A person that is merely deceived or mistaken does not assert things without looking them up, and they also do not dodge the issue when it gets too tough. I asked a simple question about how he would justify violating property rights and instead he pivots to some bullshit claim about inequality and poverty while literally ignoring socialism’s actual track record. So again that is bad faith. A good faith participant does not derail and switch topics. An ideologue without an argument does.
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  124.  Ayy Lmao  again nothing predatory about an offer.
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  125. Nope, democracy is not moral.
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  126.  @royalpayn4089  yes, I can say that it's a complete lie, and this is revealed by even reading his OWN sources. Go to his video on "self made billionaires" and read the story about the pizza shop. He tries to paint this as some proof that capitalism is evil and "stealing surplus value from workers" a phrase that he uses in nearly every video, yet the actual story wasn't even about the pizza owner giving profits to workers but the entirety of its sales and tips. I shouldn't have to belabor how dishonest this is since it isn't sustainable (a business cannot give all of its revenues to workers since there are nonlabor costs as well), but Second Thought uses this as if it is proof that workers should be paid more. Not only that, but this entire talking point rests on the utterly discredited labor theory of value which if you study literally ANY objections to it you'll find is completely false. That not enough for you? Go to his "billionaires pay less in taxes than you" video where he straight up just reads from the debunked ProPublica piece and treats gains in paper wealth as if they were income, then goes on some nonsense rant saying that they just endlessly borrow from their stocks and never sell (which has no evidence to support it and defies logic since loans have to be repaid with interest). Or you could go to his videos on Cuba where he tries to pretend like Cuba is a bastion of medical innovation. Kirk Wilcox has multiple videos debunking Second Thought, and one of which is on this topic itself.
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  127.  @royalpayn4089  no, you don't know that I'm misled. You didn't even bother to look at the evidence, did you?
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  128.  @royalpayn4089  no, the pizza example is not "nitpicking terminology." If you cannot comprehend the difference between sales and profits or the difference between subjective value and Marxist labor theory of value then you're not even trying to engage in good faith. The Cuba example is not "only be disputed by controlled media sources" but is debunked by actual reality since Cuban healthcare isn't a miracle, Cuban doctors aren't philanthropes, and Cuba isn't a bastion of innovation. You didn't bother to look up any of these. You immediately jumped into defending the propaganda. It's time that you admit it because you've clearly been exposed here.
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  129. I can’t stand arrogant leftoids who try to pretend like self interest is an objective and calculated decision that just so happens to be everything they want rather than subjective preferences.
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  130.  @anguscarruthers2868  wrong. Real wages (adjusted for inflation) are not stagnant but have risen over time. See Federal Reserve of St Louis for real compensation.
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  131. Tankie propaganda
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  132. No, it disproves his labor theory of value nonsense.
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  133. The conspiracy theories are downright idiotic. "Oh there was some white guy with an umbrella! That means that no one else has agency whatsoever!" "This isn't being done by BLM....it's not being done by Antifa....it's white supremacists sabotaging!" Ridiculous. The mental gymnastics they have to go through for that is just astounding.
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  134. He didn’t destroy anyone. He just got exposed more for being a liar which this video does. Clearly you did not watch it.
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  135.  @michaelmappin1830  no it isn't capitalism's fault when the government does stuff. Quit lying you idiotic Wolff stan. No one is extracting wealth from labor. The labor theory of value is wrong. You've been repeatedly given the sources.
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  136.  @Bill_Cosby717  well said! This Michael Mappin is a Wolff stan and outright lying shill, by the way. He goes to practically every video on Richard Wolff to lie and peddle Marxist propaganda at every turn. He spews it from a script and just goes back to the comments to parrot the same debunked garbage day after day after day. He's been on the Wolff vs Epstein debate video lying about capitalism for over a year solid now, and he keeps lying even after he gets proven wrong with sources.
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  137. Retired early in January. Largely unrelated to Modelo but I did quit.
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  138. What is wrong with it is forcing it upon unwilling participants. He wants to force me to fund this through a central bank. He wants the state to monopolize finance.
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  139. You can always tell when a smug, terminally online leftist gets hit by reality. Their fantasy gets shattered, and they realize that they are the villain in the story rather than the hero they imagine themselves to be. Sunlight is the disinfectant that these immoral asshats never seem to realize will expose them for what they really are until they’re right in the middle of it, and if prior experience is any indication of future events, he will immediately go into cope mod after this by either claiming that he won when he gets back onto Twitter or excusing it as some kind of far right conspiracy against him.
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  140. He should be. Maybe a few more months.
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  141. Wrong
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  142.  @rc7625  yeah because I read the actual data unlike online leftoid idiots who just invent things and assert them as truth without actually looking at said data.
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  143. Bingo.
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  144.  @michaelmappin1830  why are you commenting on this video and not watching it?
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  145. @Garden State NJ wrong again. They absolutely were. Look up the TIK video and the PraxBen video. Full of primary sources on both.
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  146. @Garden State NJ wrong. I just gave you references PROVING that the fascists were socialists.
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  147. @Garden State NJ no, they are not “opposites on the political spectrum” Michael Mappin alt. There is nothing contradictory about it because fascists were economically socialist.
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  148. That’s because they don’t have an argument. They just repeat the same garbage someone else said. No. Venezuela failed because of socialism. Not sanctions. Not CIA. Socialism.
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  149.  @Mark-zk3gu  workers always get what they agreed upon which is the right amount. Profit is not theft. Learn basic Econ.
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  150.  @Mark-zk3gu  wrong. What you are worth is subjective. If she threatened to quit then she changed her opinion of what her work was worth and so did the company. You are always paid what you are worth. Learn economics and stop peddling Marxist BS.
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  151. There's nothing common sense or researched about his Marxist propaganda.
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  152.  @humbletotodile  nope, another person who debunks BS from leftist clowns like you.
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  153. Anyone is above Wolff’s level. He is a lying idiot who just regurgitates talking points.
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  154.  @johnpeterson462  I agree that only the guilty should be punished. My point was that this "study" was outright propaganda that is being pushed to try to sell you a narrative that is entirely false: that a movement as a whole is "mostly peaceful" when 7% of it is in fact violent and destructive. If you had a club in which 7 out of 100 people were being violent and destructive, your club would be called quite violent and destructive as a whole. Or put another way, RBG was 93% cancer free!
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  155. That's on Wolff for lying about it.
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  156. You get a thumbs up automatically for Hayek
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  157. Capitalism did no such thing.
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  158.  @michaelmappin1830  no they have not. You are a liar. Quit attributing government actions to capitalism and simping for Richard Wolff.
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  159. @Garden State NJ nope, none of those are because of capitalism. Inequality does not cause death. You’re just talking out of your ass here. Mexico is not unregulated capitalism either.
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  160.  @michaelmappin1830  this is the video. This shows direct proof that Richard Wolff is lying and you still to this day keep lying and saying that he did not lie. I am going to ask again since you clearly did not watch this video: why are you ignoring the proof?
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  161. Well said. Also PraxBen has a good video on this too.
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  162. Every "discussion" or "debate" that Richard Wolff does he lies, spreads falsehoods about history and economics, and then tries to cope when he gets called out on his blatant lies.
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  163. Yeah, they also have no conception of the costs of financing a business. Like if I put a million dollars into a business and then get back exactly a million dollars years later, they think that is all that I should get. No concept of basic economics and finance (such as time value of money).
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  164. Nope. You are the one lying here, not Sean. First, the bottom 50% are not below the poverty line. Median individual income is over 30k while the poverty line is less than 15k. Second, FICA is at most 7.65% of income which is not more than federal income tax rates. The poorest people get the EITC which offsets the FICA taxes as well, so in no case are they shouldering some large tax burden.
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  165.  @KDH-br6hy  not an argument. Cope harder.
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  166. Overall your point stands though. This notion of citing raw life expectancy numbers as some sort of indictment against our healthcare system is idiotic.
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  167. Agreed. It shows how much of an idiot he is.
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  168. They embraced it until it turned to shit.
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  169. Piketty is an outright hack too. He and his coauthors make shit up to peddle their narratives. No really, they actually fabricated data to seem legitimate.
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  170.  Eidelmania  no they don’t
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  171. Wrong. It was not debunked and FEMA responded to this issue.
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  172.  @Mark-zk3gu  it really isn’t. There is about a $2,000 per capita difference and that was around the time when the total was around $10k. And that isn’t even to mention the huge issues with poor reporting.
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  173.  @Mark-zk3gu  a $2,000 difference between $10,000 and $12,000 means a lot more than say $52,000 and $54,000. Also I looked up France, Germany and Italy and they were all above the USSR and by at least the same margin. Nowhere near comparable.
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  174. Yep. She straight up inserted that.
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  175. No they don’t
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  176. Fantastic video! Definitely worth keeping for later and sharing.
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  177. He isn’t an economist
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  178.  @AnthonySopran0  which again isn’t a coup
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  179.  @KhanBalkan  democracy is your religion. Doesn’t make it moral.
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  180.  @KhanBalkan  Nazis absolutely were socialists. Watch the TIK video.
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  181. Read Tom Woods's rebuttal to Einstein's economic idiocy.
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  182. Wrong. “On March 10, 1914, a replacement worker's body was found on the railroad tracks near Forbes, Colorado. The National Guard said the strikers had murdered the man.” “Company towns indeed brought tangible improvements to many colliers' lives, including larger houses, better medical care, and broader access to education.” And workers are not creating profits. You are peddling outright falsehoods.
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  183.  @ayeguyy779  wrong. Workers are not creating any of the profit because all value is not from labor smoothbrain.
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  184.  @Ko-vb9mq  emotionally loaded leftoid speak you got there.
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  185. Not one fucking thing about it was capitalist. This is a lie that Marxist liars peddle to deflect. Anything they don't like they label as capitalism to avoid criticism of their shitty systems.
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  186.  @johnstone2701  yep, the welfare state's impacts on single parenthood are just astounding. Remember though, these people don't realize that their progressive heroes were rooted in eugenics. They just don't realize that they're also promoting said eugenics.
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  187. Also an appeal to popularity is not winning the argument.
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  188.  @thenormalberries6767  being a communist who hates on others for having wealth isn't compatible with driving luxury cars you dunce. Being a capitalist and getting sponsorships isn't a contradictory view.
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  189.  @SupaFlyJedi  and not just risk but also time value of money. $1m today is not worth risking into a business venture today that MIGHT return exactly $1m in ten years. Nor would most workers want to front capital today for that long just to get a wage only after product sells.
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  190. 😂 I love how leftists lead with “He’s a moron and you shouldn’t make me watch his content to find out” which instantly tells you they don’t know what the content was and are just triggered that someone said you proved them wrong.
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  191. Or Menger, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, David Friedman, Bob Murphy, etc.
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  192.  @leonardbreaux3156  if you're talking about timber then you'd also have to acknowledge that those companies build their own private roads too, which factors into the conversation. Now if you want to discuss the issue of heavy users not paying proportional to their use of said road (and subsequent need for repair) then privatizing makes ever more sense. I think we're more or less on the same page here. Make the use line up with the cost of use.
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  193.  @leonardbreaux3156  depends on the specific situation, but based on what you're describing here the most sense imo would be for the businesses to own and maintain the road for their business use and then charge a small fee to residents for their portion of the upkeep. And from what you're describing, residential use may be negligible compared to business use.
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  194.  @leonardbreaux3156  agreed on the not texting and driving. Hope you're staying safe on the roads. It's wild and icy in my area. Never hurts to take it slowly.
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  195.  @limitisillusion7 irrelevant. Two wrongs do not make a right
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  196.  eSports Prodigy Juhani L9  "Nobody in good faith would expect every socialist to share their wealth until every socialist is equally wealthy." This would mean that "good faith" requires accepting that socialists are unprincipled.
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  197. And also a documented liar
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  198. Wrong. Second Thought is a Marxist propagandist.
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  199.  @moemoe7082  Marxism is cringe unscientific religious trash
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  200. 100% correct
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  201.  @GeorgeSchneider8889 wrong on both. This channel literally already debunked that. Accounting for inflation minimum wage should be lower if you go back to its inception. You only get $24 if you cherry pick the highest inflation adjusted amount back in the 1960s or 1970s rather than 1938 or whatever. And the average CEO to worker pay is about 4 to 1 and not 400. The larger number is only for the top 400 firms which makes no sense.
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  202.  @GeorgeSchneider8889 so what? They don’t represent all of the labor market. Most people are not working for a Fortune 400
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  203.  @moemoe7082  not an argument leftoid
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  204. Voting on stuff does not magically make financing no longer an issue. Shove off with this "muh democratic control!" bullshit.
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  205.  @richardunderwood9683  again, marginal revenue product is a conceptual thing, not a mathematically proven fact. Value is subjective. The employer values the labor more than the wage and the employee values the wage more than the labor, but there is no mathematical proof of employee output. What Marxists like Wolff do is automatically assume that the employer adds no value and then proceed as though all profits were generated by the employee with bad math. In reality, all inputs are valuable if the output is valuable and we're not doing unnecessary things. Take a simple example. Imagine that a business requires 1 million dollars in startup capital which is then spent on building/buying a facility ($250k), buying equipment ($300k), buying raw materials ($200k) and hiring workers ($250k). After a certain period of time (let's say a year for simplicity), all of the raw materials are used up, the labor is paid, and the facility and equipment depreciate to zero. Also at the end of that year of production, the final products are sold to an end consumer for $1.1 million. The owner profits $100k. Properly understood, this is not only a risk premium but also a financing cost. Interest. The input from the capitalist at the beginning of the year in the form of the million dollar investment is not worth $1 million in perpetuity. Instead, his gain comes from the value added by investing money and waiting for the return. Workers are paid every two weeks for their work, but the owner only gets paid when products sell. https://mises.org/library/bohm-bawerks-critique-exploitation-theory-interest
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  206. Also wealth is not zero sum.
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  207. Also Hayek, Mises, Carl Menger, Bohm Bawerk, and Friedman.
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  208. No, he understood it fine and Wolff and his stans are economically illiterate morons.
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  209.  @damien4969  capitalism has nothing to do with fascism. You’re talking out of your ass.
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  210.  @misterauctor7353  😂 yeah I saw that. Sure he is! 🤣
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  211. Exactly!
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  212. Government control isn't improving living standards.
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  213. Nothing wrong with AnCap itself.
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  214.  @Nielsfest  being free does not require being equal. Wealth is not hoarded and it isn't a zero sum game. It does not come at the cost of other people.
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  215.  @Nielsfest  read Ben Powell's work on sweatshops, NPC. Yes, wealth is not "hoarded." Wealth on paper is not sitting in a vault but being used in productive enterprise. It does not come at other people's expense. That is literally the zero sum fallacy. Learn economics. So no, profits are not theft from someone else.
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  216.  @Nielsfest  you're not getting how "hoarding" is not a thing. Musk and Bezos aren't keeping resources away from others. Those resources are in Tesla and Amazon being used every day. And no, profit is not just from labor and natural resources. Profit comes from the value added by capital. Workers are not the only ones producing wealth. You're wrong. LTV is wrong.
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  217. Social spending hasn’t been cut. It has only gone up over time.
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  218.  @davidpeppers551  quite the opposite. Social Security was expanded to include more people with disabilities. Medicaid was massively expanded with the ACA. Also Piketty was refuted on the notion of inequality only going up.
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  219.  @davidpeppers551  that’s debatable given that his data was largely made up to make a graph that he wanted to show. See Phil Magness on this one. I would imagine per capita has only went up given how rapidly spending has went up and population not so much.
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  220.  @davidpeppers551  the shape of the graph doesn’t stay the same. He showed how if you use either of the series that Piketty claims to source and stick with them without Piketty’s manipulations you don’t get the same result.
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  221. Usually I like his general finance advice, but on credit cards he's just wrong. You're not there to "beat" them, because it's not zero sum. So what if they make money on a person that pays it off every month? Even my measly 1% is 1% that I didn't get before...and guess what? Those companies still charge fees for debit cards too. My take is only use a card if you can afford to pay in full and have the discipline to not go into debt from it. Once you've done that, use them for your regular expenses and get those rewards!
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  222.  @ActualJusticeWarrior  yep! Same with 401(k) plans. It's not a failure when people don't use them properly. They're a great tool. You have to use it wisely. Good content as always. I always look forward to your debunking videos as well.
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  223. It’s hilarious seeing these rabid Second Thought stans crying in the comments section 😂
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  224. Every time I see someone post something from The Hill it is unhinged commie BS. I have never seen a principled, reasonable take and I also haven’t seen anything remotely resembling conservative thought. Instead they went for this Bernie clown and the “Breaking Points” fools went to a show with Kyle Kulinski who is also basically a commie clown.
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  225. Crowdfund it then. Don’t force unwilling participants to pay for it.
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  226. It’s hilarious seeing these rabid Second Thought stans crying in the comments section 😂
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  227. He is a socialist so he loves being publicly owned
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  228. What is it with these BLM simps constantly trying to come up with alternative “solutions” to the criminals they are trying to defend? That woman literally running at another with a knife? Should have aimed for the limbs! Shoplifter? Should have been stopped by the employee! Dude with a gun spins around really quick? Should have used superhuman reflexes and ability to freeze frame irl to see him drop the gun seconds earlier behind a fence! Criminal trying to fight off police? Should have let him run away! It’s just pathetic.
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  229. These far leftists ALWAYS do this. When they get caught lying, they double down and then try to change the subject into some other buzzword nonsense. They aren’t there to debate. They are there to peddle their narrative and make anything and everything come back to their talking points.
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  230. It doesn't. They're idiots.
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  231. Disagree on qualified immunity for cops. No Sean, I do want bad cops to be bankrupt and I want all cops to act with the knowledge that they are personally liable for their actions. Private security does not need that, neither should government cops.
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  232. Based DBZ reference
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  233.  @johannesh.9955  where? What's the citation for that one? GND is wind and solar. Where are any countries seeing success with just these? Poor people largely impacted by climate change are farmers in third world countries, not poor people in the urban US. I agree that carbon taxes would impact the poor, but wealth redistribution of the GND kind is socialist and not just a mitigation of carbon taxes. Look at the real numbers here.
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  234.  @rockflageagle3870  what part? That these people are communists? It's not controversial.
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  235.  @johannesh.9955  okay, so which of them are doing this? You don't need wealth redistribution in order to not have the poor paying for the CO2 of the rich. That's the point.
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  236. Yeah. Sean has been memeing her for years.
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  237. Actually you cannot objectively arrive at what you produce. That is the point. Marxists lie and claim that you can. Marginal revenue product is a concept, not a concrete fact. Value is not a subtraction problem.
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  238.  @kingboy280  no you cannot, because employees are not the sole source of generating revenue. Labor is not the sole source of generating revenue. Labor value is not a subtraction problem. You are erroneously trying to compare the present value of labor performed with future value of revenues coming in. That's not how it works. While the labor you provide to the firm is worth more to them than the cost to them, it is also the case that the capital contributed by the owner is worth more than its costs. Here is an article that explains the time value of money and breaks it down: https://mises.org/library/bohm-bawerks-critique-exploitation-theory-interest
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  239.  @kingboy280  that's because you're not reading or learning economics and want to peddle a narrative. Try reading. It's not an oversimplification. It's not a subtraction problem. I literally just explained this. Profits do not come from labor. Let me dumb it down more for you: the capitalist puts in say $1,000,000 as startup capital to buy capital goods and pay for materials and wages at year 1. In year 2, the business produces stuff and workers get paid. In year 3, product is sold for a total of $1,500,000 and the owner gets a profit of $500,000. You cannot subtract out the cost of depreciation/materials/labor and say that the owner contributed zero additional value because they fronted the necessary capital for 3 years to make it happen. And the workers got paid in year 2 same as when they worked, rather than waiting to get paid until product was sold. The money the workers got in year 2 is more valuable than the same dollar amount held and not paid to them until year 3. This is basic, intro level economics. Disagreeing with this is like saying the Earth is flat. We know it to be wrong. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/timevalueofmoney.asp
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  240.  @kingboy280  what part of "you're wrong" don't you understand? This isn't a matter of opinion. It's one of fact and the facts are against you.
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  241. I disagree that capitalism and democracy aren't in conflict. They are. Capitalism is about private property rights. Democracy is a majority rule. These are fundamentally incompatible since majority rule means that private property rights cannot be consistently upheld unless all of the majority votes go for private property (which they don't).
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  242. No they aren't. Georgists are idiots but just slightly less idiotic than Marxists. I don't owe other people for THEM moving into my area and the value of my property subsequently going up.
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  243. Sean was made for this video
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  244. Can we all agree that the real villain in this story is the insane woman that has an organization called “We heart Seattle?” That should be like a gang name for people within Arkham Asylum.
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  245.  @prod.adrienaline  human rights abuses you dolt.
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  246.  @michaelmappin1830  you are still lying and peddling propaganda and still refused to watch this video exposing the lies.
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  247. Attitudinal under insurance based on their FEELINGS? Holy shit, these people are insane!
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  248. This but unironically. Lol dumbass got BTFO’d by David Friedman.
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  249.  @stanm25  I was being serious. We should make those private and the state is authoritarian.
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  250. Shocker: communist doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about!
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  251. The middle class got richer, not poorer.
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  252. Cuomo actually didn’t get it right here. Check out the Louis Rossman video with clips from an interview of CEO of WeBull. They shut down buying due to collateral requirements, which are not present when one is selling but are present when buying.
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  253. Wages aren’t stagnant
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  254.  @itsblitz4437  yep
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  255.  @FP194  CTRL+Pew would beg to differ
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  256. It’s hilarious seeing these rabid Second Thought stans crying in the comments section 😂
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  257.  Ben  🤣🤣🤣tankies calling others bootlickers is just absurd.
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  258. The "hurr money in politics!" is most definitely idiotic. People can do what they want with their own money. If you don't like people buying stuff to influence politics then first get politics out of my money! You can elect your own clowns as much as you like so long as said clown can't take my money or dictate my business.
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  259. There isn’t any support for the notion that Medicare would not create shortages and delays. We have the evidence from other countries. Likewise, any of the respectable literature on the subject shows that it would be more expensive than what we have now. Leftists constantly lie about this.
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  260. More accurately it is Marxist propaganda and therefore trash. Can we get a ticker for how many times that idiot says some variant of "workers are exploited" while not once ever proving it?
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  261. 🤡
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  262. It is wrong because it claims that all value comes from labor. Value is subjective. It comes from the consumer, not the worker. It is not objective. It is not inherent to things. Check out Bohm Bawerk. Time value of money.
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  263.  @aucontraire593  yes it literally is what it says. I know this because I have studied it quite extensively. See Marx's third thing argument to try to support it. He literally thinks that the thing that gives things value is the labor.
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  264.  @aucontraire593  and the third thing argument is nonsense because there is no fixed ratio, and how people subjectively value things does not change based upon the labor that went into it per se but how they value it. All value is subjective. Doesn't matter if you call it "market value" or not. Even if you refuse to sell something for sentimental reasons, that's still you subjectively valuing it more than what someone offers to pay you for it.
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  265.  @aucontraire593  "Under equilibrium conditions, the ratio of the prices between commodities are relatively fixed." No, they aren't. Equilibrium is a conceptual approach, not something that is ever fully achieved. There are always changes going on in the market. There is no fixed exchange ratio. Commodities fluctuate constantly. Sure, there absolutely are objective conditions that influence subjective valuations. If I want to live then I must eat, and that need for food to continue my survival impacts my desire to obtain food. I don't dispute that fact. It's just that there's also a lot more to it than that. Supply and demand influence how much I will value a steak as opposed to rice and beans. Same with the diamond-water paradox.
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  266. He literally just refuted that in the video. So have numerous other sources. The longitudinal data shows that wages are increasing for practically everyone.
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  267. No he is a liar and joke. Learn real economics.
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  268. We absolutely can have vigilantes and we should. The law is illegitimate here.
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  269. You can pick a company or none at all. You do not have to act positively to NOT work for someone, but the state claims that you MUST act in order to not consent. This violates what it means to consent or not consent. Apply it consistently: if you want to NOT work for Company ABC then you must move, pay fees, and also choose another company to work for...with no option to ever work for yourself. See the difference?
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  270. Already been done and Wolff does not argue. He spews Marxist bullshit, uses circular reasoning, makes shit up and then when corrected on outright lies he smears the people disagreeing with him.
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  271. Taxation is theft. Capital gains are not. Wanting to keep your own money is not greedy. Wanting to tax someone else's money is, dumbass. Value does not require labor. Get that through your head.
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  272.  @tkoch7503  "In the example I gave, cutting Romney's taxes led directly to an increase in my taxes" No they didn't, because that's not how taxes work.
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  273.  @tkoch7503  I'm not a socialist. Proudhon was a moron. I am full aware that there hasn't been any real cuts to spending. That's the problem. We shouldn't be tied to a majority rule system like that in the first place. And no, we haven't made any agreement. An assertion that there is an agreement is not proof of an agreement. Nope, wanting to keep any sum of money that you rightfully earned is not greed no matter how many times you try to peddle it. Again you're projecting. " I did not say anything about value. I said WORK. Somebody who digs a ditch for $30 has worked for his money. Somebody who makes $3.3 million (or even, like myself $500) in interest has not." Irrelevant, because money is not made solely through WORK, but through VALUE. "Meanwhile Romney has gotten $360 in interest - for doing nothing." Wrong. it's not doing nothing. Investing is valuable. "Only working people should have to pay taxes." Correction: no one should have to pay taxes.
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  274. The US doesn't have a massive poverty problem. No, inequality does not create the things that you claim it does (Piketty and his ilk were refuted long ago). You're just spewing nonsense.
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  275. And commies still coping
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  276.  @ryant1680 well said
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  277. No, AJW is 100% accurate and did not misrepresent anything here.
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  278. Kyle shows himself to be even more of a dipshit here. If telling the truth about the implications of your policy is “unfair” then you have a shitty policy. If approval is only up when you say the name of it, you have a shirt policy. This is what happens when you push slogans and have no argument to support said policies.
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  279. Shitty, not shirt.
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  280. No, he got it right and you're 100% wrong. Smith was operating on a primitive form of the labor theory of value. He didn't have it all correct and he admitted as much. Basic economics absolutely eviscerates the labor theory of value. There is no misunderstanding. There is nothing missed. It's wrong, and you're just lying if you claim that there is any validity to it. Value is subjective and BOTH parties benefit from the exchange or they wouldn't exchange. The investment absolutely does matter, too. Bohm Bawerk describes exactly why in his takedown of the exploitation theory.
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  281. It’s a fact that Venezuela failed because of socialism and not US sanctions. The failure predated the sanctions. And yes they did steal property to nationalize it.
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  282. Not entirely accurate. Your portion of the production process is subjective, not objective. Marginal revenue product is not a concrete thing but a conceptual one. Both parties get more than they give.
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  283. Looters aren’t victims. More cope from TYT as usual.
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  284.  @sprockkets  the US had the most ridiculous spending to keep people home and it didn’t work. Not only did people still get COVID but it lead to massive inflation.
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  285. He doesn't debate. Second Thought literally is not there to debate.
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  286. Liked just for the DBZ reference. Good content for the rest too, of course.
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  287. No it isn’t. If you pay for something at that rate and millions others do too then it isn’t above market value.
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  288. Because we do not have capitalism but a mixed economy. And no, the banks did not unilaterally cause the recession. Learn basic history and economics, not just dumb commie talking points.
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  289. @Garden State NJ okay, we got through the issue of fascists being socialists. Can you define capitalism?
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  290.  @humbletotodile  NPC dialogue rejected
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  291. @matt holston wrong. I am the only true anarchist. Property rights are enforced privately. No such monopoly on force is needed. Fail on your part.
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  292. It's garbage because there is no such thing as a libertarian leftist. It's a contradiction in terms, as every leftist political policy is backed by the initiation of force.
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  293. That's still violence.
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  294. Learn economics. Child abuse is wrong. Exit the cult before it is too late for your kids.
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  295. Exactly.
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  296.  @johnpeterson462  oh I absolutely agree with that. You just cannot trust the media these days. I don't put blind faith in AJW either. I can see where he gets biased in some places. However, he's also honest enough to back up his claims with sources, which imo is the best way to deal with new information: evaluate the data direct from the source. Sure, it takes more than just reading the headlines as most people do, but honest data matters.
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  297. Stick around for learning economics. Liberty is great. Socialism is garbage.
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  298. If leftists actually cared about the poor then they would give a shit about the results of their policies and STOP making more people poor through progressive policies.
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  299. Employers are not profiting off of labor. The value added by a firm is not all from labor. This is basic economics like Tychon Achae said.
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  300. He knows it is wrong because he's been in debates with people explaining it and laying out the data. He lies to peddle a narrative and sell his book as well as make speaking fees.
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  301. It’s hilarious seeing these rabid Second Thought stans crying in the comments section 😂
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  302. I haven't yet finished the video, but pro-tip if you're no longer a fan of AMC: You can get free AMC sodas, popcorn and tickets on Coke's rewards program. They have free method of entry, so you don't even have to pay Coke to get said free stuff. So now you don't have to give them your money and can still enjoy movies you want to see!
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  303.  @Nimish204  "if everyone doesn't eat filet mignon then how can it be any good?"
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  304.  @nickcollins9170  I did no such thing. Piss off.
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  305.  Ashwin Varghese  the liar here is you. We have different words to describe access and quality. Mixing them up is dishonest and so is mindlessly proclaiming Obamacare to have saved lives with no data to back it up and instead relying on rhetoric and projections from literal estimates.
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  306.  @AtariDad  taxation does not make society function and government does not make healthcare cheaper.
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  307.  @nickcollins9170  it’s not my responsibility so fail on your part.
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  308.  @AtariDad  all of them before states existed. See stateless societies which predate states and span most of human existence. Cospaia, Neutral Moresnet, the Brehons are some.
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  309.  @AtariDad  I am not against paying for what I want to buy. That isn’t screwing me over. No private company forced me to buy their stuff. It’s not corruption that is at play. It is being forced to pay for that which I do not want to buy.
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  310.  @AtariDad  you’re moving the goalposts. You asked about a society without taxes.
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  311.  @AtariDad  no one is forced to use YouTube as a platform. YouTube is not a monopoly and the history of the private market is the opposite of your fantasy.
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  312.  @AtariDad  they weren’t pre-civilization and taxation/collectivism aren’t the only ways to contribute to society. A job contributes to society just fine. An investment contributes to society. Charitable giving contributes to society. All things that do not require states or collectivism.
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  313. Nope, his arguments were spot on. No one cares about your inequality bullshit. Wolff does not debate and never wins any debates because he does not argue. He just spews bullshit and smears.
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  314.  @brenda726  nope. The non-rich and non-employers are not a monolith.
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  315. It’s obvious. Labor as in physical manpower has limitations. People today are not physically moving multiple times more product than they were in the 1950s or 1970s. It is improvements in the machinery that is causing the difference.
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  316.  @Penname25  no, you don’t. It is plainly obvious that a piece of heavy equipment moves more dirt than a shovel for example. You don’t need a “source” measuring some exact amount to prove it.
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  317.  @Charles-pf7zy  burden of proof is on you to show that it would.
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  318.  @pleadthefifth  that’s because she was busy cooking the wings.
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  319.  Justin Macisaac  exactly.
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  320. @Garden State NJ no it is not. It is a lie.
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  321. You can’t because governments are not bound by the same rules that you and I have to follow.
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  322. It’s already adjusted for purchasing power. No wonder you are an Absent Thought viewer. You couldn’t spend two seconds to fact check.
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  323. It’s hilarious seeing these rabid Second Thought stans crying in the comments section 😂
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  324.  @realgcomedy2777  good. Did we talk before? Sorry, I can't seem to recall.
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  325.  @realgcomedy2777  I think you have me confused with someone else.
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  326. Nah, even if it is essential items it's still looting and shouldn't be left alone. Your misfortune is not someone else's burden to bear. You shouldn't give in to thieving assholes like that. Theft is wrong, period.
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  327. Stfu Wolff stan.
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  328. This has nothing to do with capitalism. It’s a failure of government.
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  329. More AOC bullshit starting with outright lies about poverty.
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  330.  @Greiwulfe same here
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  331. Disagree on staying in the mainstream. You should go to alternative platforms AND go to alternative payment options like crypto. We need to make the alternatives viable, converge onto one or two that cannot be sabotaged and then run with that. I agree that it is a chicken and egg problem, but staying here isn’t a valid long term strategy either.
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  332. 😂 😂
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  333.  @FerdarPleaseSubscribe  nope. AnCaps don’t support the existence of corporations. Fk off with your straw man.
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  334. 12:08 no, Sean, you have this wrong. Overdoses are not fueled by some “flooding the market with prescriptions.” The opioid issue stems from people using illicit substances, not some casual prescription usage. Basically no one gets addicted by using prescribed doses of opioids. This is a common myth.
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  335.  @anthonyesposito7  socialism doesn't work even in theory.
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  336.  @anthonyesposito7  not very well it didn't. When you look at practically ANY measure of human well being you will see a hockey stick and it wasn't in the time of soicalism/communism. And no, it isn't hated because of propaganda. People like you peddle it because of propaganda. You don't look at data. You don't study economics. You refuse to accept historical fact. Your ideology didn't fail because of coups. It failed repeatedly on its own. Second Thought has been debunked numerous times. Get out of your bubble and quit telling me to go to garbage like that. Look up the debunkings of that channel and educate yourself on real economics. There have been multiple channels showing it to be nonsense: Shane Killian, Kirk Wilcox, Yaron Brook, Scotty M, and likely others too.
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  337. That isn’t at all what he said.
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  338.  @thedarknessunderneathpodca6366  USPS does not work very well. It is shit
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  339. Yeah Reich is a lying idiot. He was one of the first ones to proclaim inflation wasn’t happening, then when it obviously was happening he started blaming “muh corporate greed” over and over again. Then when that got disproven he just doubled down on it. Only idiots eat up his talking points at this point
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  340. Who takes Briana seriously at all any more? She was the idiot who failed at basic math and doubled down on it to push her leftist narrative.
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  341. Socialists like Absent Thought aren’t doing that
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  342. Yes, because democracy is garbage and antithetical to freedom. Consent is the metric, not mob violence.
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  343.  @moemoe7082  of course you would. You’re incapable of thinking
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  344. He actually is up for resorting to force. If and when people do not voluntarily adopt cooperatives, he wants to force it through the legal system. In his debate with Gene Epstein at the Soho Forum, Gene quoted directly out of Richard Wolff's book. Wolff does NOT abide by the NAP.
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  345. Nope that is Wolff and leftist idiots
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  346. Not only does the “100 companies, 71% of emissions” fail to account for the fact that it is consumers and not companies that do most of said pollution, the top “company” on that list is a state owned Chinese entity, so leftists fail twice on the same claim. These people are shameless liars peddling commie propaganda just as you said.
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  347. That Chinese entity is a large majority of said emissions, with all others not even coming close. There is a Reddit post debunking this in full.
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  348. It’s hilarious seeing these rabid Second Thought stans crying in the comments section 😂
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  349.  @jessejive117  yeah, I don't doubt that Sanders pulls the same lies. He does it all of the time with anything related to economics.
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  350.  @misarthim6538  yeah, that's actually what Bohm Bawerk did! :)
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  351. We do know more than him and your appeal to authority is idiotic nonsense. The labor theory of value is wrong and AJW demolished it enough.
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  352.  @justjoshua5759  oh look another delusional leftoid
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  353. The entire notion of financing homes being a bad thing is just an idiotic narrative. If the actual residents do not buy those homes from the financiers at inflated prices then the latter will be stuck with assets they do not want and a lot less cash for future business. It is only when buyers are demanding them so much that they will pay any price that investors get in for arbitrage.
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  354. Great advice! Paid off my mortgage with the exact same mindset as you, Sean. Got it paid off in 4 years. This also makes me reconsider trying to get my POS car back running just to get it on the market. If it could run then it might be worth something these days.
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  355. The poverty line for the US is high by international standards.
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  356. Absolutely. Do not fund them and do not support them.
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  357. No it isn’t.
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  358.  @sprockkets also a lie. It is entirely based in reality. Cope harder
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  359.  @sprockkets  did you have a stroke?
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  360.  @sprockkets  take that as a yes then given the other stupidity you have demonstrated as a stan for Absent Thought
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  361. The amount of mental gymnastics is incredible. To say that someone else interpreted your words as incitement to violence and that makes it incitement of violence solely because of some nonexistent connection is insane. They were looking for a reason and made one up. That’s it.
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  362. And the worker doesn’t produce anything on his own either, so that is irrelevant. Labor is valuable because it is valued by other people, same as with capital. Labor is not the sole source of value.
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  363. Exactly!
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  364. 55:15 imagine being so deluded as to say “the welfare state is in response to single motherhood” as opposed to understanding how it incentivized single motherhood. These people are insane.
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  365. Wrong. You don't know economics.
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  366. If that charge sticks then our legal system is a fucking joke and deserves no respect.
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  367. Nah, capitalism is fine without your statist “checks” and we have the historical proof.
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  368. lol @ literal "he made the trains run on time"
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  369. Wolff is a lying hack, and his followers religiously follow him because they think he’s smart.
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  370. Yep.
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  371.  @leonardbreaux3156  they absolutely can profit from making roads in rural areas. They don't have to be pavement and the users of those roads are fine with it not always being pavement because they don't want or need pavement to nowhere. The answer to your question from a person already living in a rural area is that we deal with it privately by either having dirt or gravel roads or forking over the money to make it better. It's not a loss.
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  372. Corporations are nothing like dictatorships.
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  373. Only a delusional leftist would call it a funding issue. The actual numbers show MASSIVE increases in funding when compared to virtually no increase in enrollment. Public schools are not underfunded.
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  374. Thought Slime is a lying communist whose entire Youtube career is based on spreading lies and propaganda. These people don't care about facts. They care about driving an ideological narrative, and they'll insult and berate anyone who goes against it.
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  375. He is a known liar for sure
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  376. Kyle is another leftist dumbass Bernie bro just like the rest. He has no conception of economics and pretends like he does to peddle socialist nonsense. He uses idiotic talking points in place of real arguments based on evidence.
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  377. Dude, the US has a central bank. The US has had major issues for the exact same reason: central banking.
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  378.  @richardunderwood9683  I would actually argue that Hoover's policy wasn't tight but loose, and some argue that the stock bubble was inflated from loose policy of the latter part of the 1920s. Despite the tropes, Hoover wasn't a do nothing president. Imo, not having a central bank would be the wiser choice.
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  379.  @richardunderwood9683  to be fair, there are different interpretations. I side with the Austrians. IIRC, Chicago school (ie Milton Friedman) goes with saying it was too tight.
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  380.  eSports Prodigy Juhani L9  nope, still not accurate on your definition.
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  381.  eSports Prodigy Juhani L9  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods"
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  382.  eSports Prodigy Juhani L9  no, those are NOT the same thing. A system of mandated collective ownership can only come about through the state. Worker ownership can and for the most part has been done through private means which by definition is capitalism. You're either for allowing private ownership or you aren't. You're either infringing upon it or you aren't.
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  383.  eSports Prodigy Juhani L9  "Almost the same thing with capitalism. The state is currently the only thing that guarantees the private ownership of the means of production. " Nope. Private people defend private property all of the time. See private security. " How and where exactly?" Existing cooperatives such as Mondragon. It was people taking their private property and pooling it together as opposed to the state forcing people to act in a way to form them. Still 100% private property rights.
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  384.  eSports Prodigy Juhani L9  this first part is a matter of semantics. It's still a private property arrangement and will continue to be one. Individuals retain their shares and can buy/sell as they see fit. "I meant that in a sense that somebody can't just take over a private company with a group of people even if they overpower the company's private security. The state won't let that happen." Well that's quite a different argument then. And at that point it is worth ignoring because it advocates for violence and theft.
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  385.  @dannythompson1948 wrong but you are obviously a delusional leftoid
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  386.  @mrfingergunz2460  I'm not saying that I'm agreeing with his quote. In fact I don't agree with it. What I'm saying is that we shouldn't let them get away with a double standard.
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  387.  @10003159  wages aren't stagnant. That's a myth.
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  388.  @10003159  yes it is. Real wages have not stagnated. They have increased.
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  389. Communists ALWAYS lie and keep lying. It’s all they ever do.
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  390.  @chadnine3432 wages do match productivity. Grow up and read the rebuttal to this idiotic EPI nonsense
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  391.  @waltlock8805 there is no such thing as a race to the bottom. It doesn’t exisr
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  392.  @jasminejaramillo5937 wrong. Wages do go up with productivity
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  393. Zizian cult ❌ Zyzz cult ✅ If you know, you know
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  394.  @ceoatcrystalsoft4942 most people are not working multiple jobs
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  395. Nope, his “criticisms” are entirely false as are yours. Wealth like rights are not based on what you think someone else “needs.” Inflation adjusted wages are up, not flat or declining. This has been extensively debunked. Healthcare is expensive because of the government not capitalism. The quality is good. It is the prices that suck.
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  396. Yep. One version of this is the gish gallop. Another one is the motte and bailey.
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  397.  @richardunderwood9683  "I'm a Soc Dem because I believe fully Democratized workplaces across the board would create such a large barrier to entre that it would be counter productive. " I would agree with you on this. Making people invest where they work would mean WAY fewer enterprises.
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  398.  @davidbonesteel9919  their method is just incoherent too. Bohm Bawerk destroyed this socialist garbage over a century ago. Time value of money. Not all costs are monetary. The channel lockoutdays has good videos on this.
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  399. Wrong! Real wages have increased since the 1970s. You are parroting a myth.
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  400.  @beaudavis3808  or even better his son David's work. :) Still working my way through Machinery of Freedom.
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  401. @Eric Khai also good.
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  402. It's hilarious to see a more retarded and even LESS reasonable version of Cenk....and Cenk has to see it. That is irony at its finest.
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  403. NonCompete is just another lying leftist.
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