Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Then & Now" channel.

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT DOCUMENTERY - fascinating. As a Brit living in Bulgaria the thing I notice the most here is I am PART of a society that cares about me, and i care about it. In the UK I was a guy locked in a nice house.
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In 1927 the average US family had less than $500 in savings according to the news real. Thats $8,409.63 in todays money BUT the median savings in the U.S.A. 2022 is $5,300, People in the U.S.A. are on average POORER than 1927
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@ouknow1446 - If you are talking about the national debt - thats less of an issue. The USA can make its national debt go away any time it wants. The national debt is just a way of giving tax money to rich people. It goes like this. We have this printing machine but instead, you give us your money you are so rich you are not using and we will give you say 3% per year for nothing. There is LITERALLY no difference in spending borrowed money or printed money when it comes to inflation.
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We will - Gen Z are not buying the crap we swallowed - their friends are all over the globe - you cant tell someone they live in the greatest country on earth when their mother cant afford insulin but their mates in "3rd world countries" get it for free Its why the right wing are screaming about Tic Tok. Not cos its Chinese - cos its connecting teenagers to other teenagers in other countries living very different lives.
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In 1968 my parents bought a house in the UK for £2,200. In Dec 2021 that house sold for £1.2 million [they no longer owned it]
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@ouknow1446 " Yes, but have way more credit than what they had in 1927" yeah - thats not a good thing - that is selling your future labour at a discount. If you cant survive on your wages now, how can you survive in the future on less...???
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@ouknow1446 - Does it? It may go away but what legacy did that debt cause your family and children... ? What missed opportunities did that debt cost your family? California just paid a black family $25 million - their beach front home was taken off them illegally in 1904 [?] the property is worth $25 million and they had to pay the current value of the land... But what did 120 years of missed opportunity cost the family?
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@ouknow1446 It is - but its wrong to think of the US debt as debt. Its just an ongoing free gift to rich people - its a way of taxing rich people and them 20% and then giving them 3% back. If the national debt didnt exist they would just tax them 17%. YES its a generational burden on ordinary Americans - but its very clever - cos you CAN increase a 17% tax rate to 35% instantly. But you CANT just wipe of a national debt wiht 25 year bonds - you are COMMITTED to paying the rich people 3% for 25 years... Sneaky
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In 1927 the average US family had less than $500 in savings according to the news real. Thats $8,409.63 in todays money BUT the median savings in the U.S.A. 2022 is $5,300, People in the U.S.A. are on average POORER than 1927
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Na you just have a tiny propagandised brain
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Said the man who has not watched the vodeo
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@KrytoRift Bsc in psychology, Ba in Philosophy, 3 books published on the collapse of civilisations, 2 on the psychology of narcissism and individualism in modern society and no desire to have a pointless conversation.
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@KrytoRift "Man, it's not an invention." the concept of "Individual Responsibility" is literally an invention of the industrial revolution. It was not even a concept before then. Also - just for interest - the idea of the "family unit" simply did not exist before the industrial revolution. Society looked after the family as it does where I live now, your children are not YOUR responsibility, they are EVERYONE's responsibility. If you read Winston Churchill's diaries you will find they are all about "duty" in 1890 to 1940, only when you get into the 50's does he start talking about personal responsibility. Before Darwin, there was not even the theological framework for "personal responsibility" to exist in, cos we were ALL Gods creatures. "If I own myself I'm also responsible for my own actions." Again - not really - the idea of free will is pretty murky on many levels from the quantum to the evolutionary biological. Mostly we act on evolutionary biological impulses and then retrospectively justify the action with a logical justification. If you use F-MRI scans - people choose options BEFORE their brain has engaged the higher logic processes. In the amygdala and brain stem. When you question them they have a fully worked out justification, but we can see that they CHOSE the option and THEN thought of the reason they chose it. Humans are communal spiritual creatures who behave on impulse, you don't own yourself, you can not survive by your self if left alone in the wilderness you die. You are part of a communal organism, behaving in a way moulded by millennia of evolution to keep that organism alive.
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@KrytoRift - How do you take "personal responsibility" if you are the black kid growing up in Chicago in the areas the govt didn't clean up the lead pollution and your IQ is lowered and your heath impaired as a result??? https://youtu.be/-fxbtQkAXO0 "If I own myself I'm also responsible for my own actions." But this was a failing of the government BEFORE you were even born, cos its a poor neighbourhood and no one cared about poor people with dark skin You are 16 and you are down 10IQ points and you have health issues cos of something that didnt happen before you were born...??? How do you "own yourself"?
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HAHAHA very good
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Wasn't expecting that from looking at your profile picture...
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