Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "'Japanification’: As U.S. Inflation Surges, Here’s Why Japan’s Prices Have Held Steady | WSJ" video.

@osmanbey8796 - My friend sent me a picture of her breakfast - it was in a plastic tray, it had been delivered to her house. She lives in a pretty rural part of Utah... NO ONE should be getting their breakfast delivered in single-use plastic by a guy in a car burning petrol for dozens of miles... It simply never occurred to her, that is how they live.
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If you read Karl Marx you realise 2 things. 1) how idiotic capitalism is, it can never work, it is self-cannibalising just like it has got to in the USA today 2) why everyone demonises Karl Marx, you simply can NOT allow Marx to be widely read in a capitalist society or people will immediately stop believing in the system. Capitalism is kept alive by lies in the form of propaganda. Its so strong you genuinely believe it until the total stupidity of it is made clear to you. 150 years ago he predicted that everything would be worthless and manufactured in the cheapest country on earth. That rent and housing prices would go sky high cos there would no longer be any money in making things so the rich would buy all the housing to make money off that. That women would be forced to work in order for a family to afford housing and they would be sold this as "equality". Just a few examples.
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@daemonace5910 - Well it doesn't work in theory OR practice. It relies on infinite growth in a finite world. It has to DOUBLE the size of the economy every 22 to 27 years. Its a total fantasy and it has to collapse on a finite planet. As it is doing in the USA.
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Americans live on an endless diet of propaganda telling them to consume - 70% of the GDP is consumer spending. As a European its just gross to me.
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@SugarWeasel1227 - And YOU are losing - America is collapsing. Not theoretically in the future - RIGHT NOW. This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. The USA scores 18/18. You are correct - its a ZERO SUM GAME and you just scored a big fat ZERO for future. If you want to know what your future will be in the next 10 years, look at Yugoslavia 1992 - only with WAY more guns. BTW - I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations. This is my job. Be smug all you want, but you are doomed. You have reached a point called "cascading systems failure" its the end and it can't be stopped... sorry and goodbye.
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@ColinTherac117 " Free people owning their own property is the core of Democracy" no its not, America is a failing democracy, internationally downgraded. Yet its "free" and everyone owns stuff". What a completely nonsensical thing to say. You are just churning out the propaganda you have been fed. There is NO critique of Marx in there at all. You are a total victim of point No2. There ARE critiques and criticisms of Marx to be made - but you have not made any. "their human right to their own property" NO ONE HAS a human right to own property, that is NOT a "human right" in any of the charters. Please dont reply, I dont wish to spend my day debunking American propaganda./
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@mellamojeff458 - Yeah - almost NO ONE understands what that means.
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@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993 HAVE YOU GOT NOTHING BETTER TO DO at Christmas than insult people on YouTube comments??? MY GOD how desperately sad is your life?? Go for a walk, be nice to someone, donate a dollar to a homeless charity or an animal shelter. But for the literal love of GOD do something better than be nasty to strangers you dont know on the internet on Christmas day/eve
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@hk2336 - It has already been done and the guy has done an AMAZING job of it. Its called "fall of civilisations" the channel. He starts at the Bronze Age Collapse- still my favourite LOL - and goes through pretty much every collapse. His channel was a big source of information me.It si is truly excelent.
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If you read Karl Marx you realise 2 things. 1) how idiotic capitalism is, it can never work, it is self-cannibalising just like it has got to in the USA today 2) why everyone demonises Karl Marx, you simply can NOT allow Marx to be widely read in a capitalist society or people will immediately stop believing in the system. Capitalism is kept alive by lies in the form of propaganda. Its so strong you genuinely believe it until the total stupidity of it is made clear to you. 150 years ago he predicted that everything would be worthless and manufactured in the cheapest country on earth. That rent and housing prices would go sky high cos there would no longer be any money in making things so the rich would buy all the housing to make money off that. That women would be forced to work in order for a family to afford housing and they would be sold this as "equality". Just a few examples.
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THEY CAN ALSO REFECT LAGER ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN A COUNTY Dude - its America that is collapsing - not Japan...
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@jsoftwareect - yeah - well population growth is a 20th century thing that will have to stop. Its that simple. Steady-state populations and economies are needed. Growth can no longer be sustained.
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@jsoftwareect - We CANT sustain the current population. We are at 130% the capacity of the earth to support human life. ALL models of human population show it continuing and then crashing. The level of the crash is the only thing in debate. Most models are starting to show a 50% to 80% drop in the human population. The long term Harvard / MIT study started in the 1960's and still running shows an 80% drop as all civilisation collapses. Im more optimistic than that - I think the collapse of the USA will be a wake up call to other countries - I think peak at 9 billion. collapse after that by 30% to 50% because Im an optomist.
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