Comments by "Thurso Berwick" (@thursoberwick1948) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1.  Macysond  Really? Ever tried to phone up one of their helplines? You'd be lucky to speak to a human or a native English speaker in many instances. "Excellent service" my hat. This website is run by Google. Try finding their helpline. Most of their products are not useful, are driven by fashion/marketing and fall apart quickly since they are made in a red country. A case of the tail wagging the dog, not vice versa.
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  2. Yes, and imagine if the same logic was applied to medicines, and the population forced to take them. Oh wait....
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  3.  @cherylmoniz4012  People treat them as if they are their friends. It's bizarre. I feel like saying they're not on our side. They just live off us. It is so hypocritical when they deal with environmental issues as well.
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  4.  @Richard-ib3kp  The idea that wealth is related to hard work is a myth. It may work some of the time, but you'll make far more money off pre-existing capital invested wisely or other people's labour than you'll make slogging away. If that was the case, every corner shop/convenience store manager would be loaded - I know some of them work twelve hour shifts.
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  5.  @Richard-ib3kp  I've heard all this. My grandmother used to say, "you need money to make money." She was right, but most hard working people don't make much money, may face crippling debt and all the rest. There are better ways to make money - marry it, inherit it (like Gates, Musk, Trump etc), invest it... and of course, underpay your employees and overcharge for your products. Even at "grunt" level, a stripper or a reiki therapist can often make better money than someone who works in the mines or the sewers... even though they do less work. At higher levels, you can get paid more for a five minute cameo in a film or an advert than running your own small business. In my experience, I've found it easier to make money by buying things in and reselling them at a higher rate than sweating away on a building site, even though that was harder to do. (And I still pay for it physically.) Work and income are not as interrelated as people think they are.
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  6. Yeah, imagine something with planned obsolescence that the public was forced to comply with, and could even threaten your job, but needed to be renewed every six months. They couldn't do that, could they?
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  7. Can't have the peasants speak for themselves, not democratic.
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  8. Money buys time.
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  9. Yes, but with a grin on their face? This guy loves it, regardless of where it's from.
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  10.  @Ss23803  He's actually done quite a lot wrong, at least on the business side - too much to list here. He was even taken to court by the US government. As for the "philanthropy", it's a tax write off in the States. He makes far more than he givea away. I don't think he has anything to be smug about. His solutions are ugly and dangerous. His mask slipped when he was asked about subsidizing shots for the Third World in a British interview, although he backtracked shortly afterwards. He has enough money to do that, if so wished.
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  11.  @PlaysAura  Please write that with commas, questionmarks etc.
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  12.  @MrErick1160  None of which is true. The real reason is that he is rich, and of above average intelligence. Most of his solutions benefit some people economically, and are inconsistent.
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  13.  @Ss23803  That doesn't matter... Regarding charity, Jesus tells the story of the Widow's Mite, where she gave a tiny coin, because she was poor and that was all she had. He says that was worth more than what the rich people gave. Now whatever one thinks of Jesus, he was right here, since the widow gave far more in terms of what she had. BG doesn't give away that much money proportionately, for the simple reason that he makes far more. What he gives away comes with strings attached. He uses that money to buy influence (hence you see him here) and to make more money (his climate work is linked into his investments in renewables). It really doesn't matter where the bug came from in some ways, BG has exploited and directed this situation. The WHO takes advice off him and national governments. His solutions have involved increased ςεnsοrshιρ/crushing independent voices, monetising the treatments, linking them to digital ΙD systems (I am referring to mobile phones here, not any alleged thing in the body), and economic warfare on small business. At the same time he has been keen to keep international travel going, which is complete hypocrisy in this situation. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could kick him.
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  14.  @keensoundguy6637  "As economics teaches" - Economics is a broad discipline and doesn't hold a single opinion on this matter. It is also an abstract concept, not an entity or individual. Really folk need to get away from phrases like "scientists say..." that are so common in the media. In reality, you'll find there is a variety of opinion, not a single monolithic one. The worst one I saw recently was a gov ad with the phrase, "Midwives say...." - I feel like asking, "which midwives?" They can't have quizzed all of them. p.s. It isn't necessarily to do with production at all, since overproduction often leads to a crash in price, with supply outstripping demand. Stocks and shares have long moved away from that. Much of that is electronic now. There is also the issue of debt and that of interest, neither of which are directed related.
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  15.  @MrErick1160  It's completely relevant - who gets the contracts for the treatments, how that is costed and funded etc? Also, if more stuff is done online or electronically, he gets richer. As for the exchange of goods and services, this has been largely halted, causing some businesses to go bankrupt while select companies profit.
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  16.  @MrErick1160  Actually yes, he has already. He was asked whether Indian plants and African countries could manufacture their own or get them at a reduced/subsidised price and he said no.
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  17.  @absolutium  Yes, but also because he pushes himself forward. He bought himself a TED talk, which was the launch of his mainstream career as epidemic spokesman. The man's wealth is a primary driver here. He has no medical qualifications, and isn't even a graduate of any particular scientific discipline.
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  18.  @absolutium  He pays for other people to conduct research, which he then presents in such a way to benefit himself econonically. This bug is giving no indication that it will make us extinct, in fact it kills a fraction of what malaria does every year.
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  19.  @absolutium  We've been through all this.
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  20.  @testep02  "literally throwing his entire fortune" - No he isn't, he makes more money each year than he gives away so that is blatantly a lie. Charitable donations are also tax deductible under US law unlike some countries. Either you are being paid to write his hagiography, or you aren't. I'm not sure which is worse. He is and remains one of the richest people in the world, and he continues to invest millions each year in non-charitable projects, so he's hardly going broke as you claim. Bill Gates has regularly lied about aspects of his life and that is provable. For a start (like Elon Musk), thirty or years ago he used to try and claim he had come up from notning, which is a total lie as both sides of his family were already multimillionaires in the seventies. His business practices at Microsoft were so corrupt even the US government hauled him in (look it up). He also ripped pff the inventors of various things, including the Helvetica Font, which he had an inferior copy made of called Arial. He is not medically qualified in any way whatsoever. In fact the man never even got a. degree (excluding honorary ones given to him later in life). I notice you drag out the "conspiracy theorist" tag - maybe you should look a bit closer to home before you make nonsensical claims about him "literally" giving his wealth away. The man has at least six private jets, and who knows how many homes in several countries, and makes major business investments every year, yet you claim he's giving it away. Jesus wept.
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  21.  @yingyang7666  Disprovable on a number of scores - here are two for you: * Microsoft is not and never has been the sole originator of software, in fact it frequently plagiarises it or copies it from elsewhere (as happened with DOS and Netscape Navigator etc). * Mr. Bates doesn't even come up with every programme from Microsoft - other employees do almost all of that. Are you being paid by him to write this? If not, you should be. The man's a thief, a provable liar and bad in both business and his personal life. (Which is beginning to emerge.) p.s. I hope your name is deliberate. There is only one "g" in Yin Yang.
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  22. Look at it another way, and you end up with billions not working and a few thousand superrich. No wonder they want the world population reduced.
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  23.  @daninraleigh  Actually the families of both BG and Musk were very wealthy. One of his BG's uncles owned his own bank. Musk's family had diamond mines in South Africa. They might pretend to have come from nothing, but that isn't true. Inherited money. BG would never have got into MIT without it, and he even dropped out.
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  24. Ironic that to work in that fire station nowadays, you probably need a six monthly "booster" just to stay in the job.
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  25.  @odinkusters5868  Where have you been the last three years?
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  26.  @odinkusters5868  Hmm... what thing have many people in many countries been forced to take to stay in their jobs? Clue: It gets put in your arm, every six months. Most people have had three or four of them so far.
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  27. Montgomery Burns has more charm.
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  28.  @dianemitchell1717  * Quarter
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  29. A bit like when we're told getting rid of free expression creates a safe environment.
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  30. There is, it's called the food supply
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  31. He's also creepy as hell, however much he does the nerdy uncle thing
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  32.  @ca6360  I'm talking in much less specific terms than that. The man is just extremely creepy. I've no idea what he does or doesn't do in his private life.
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  33.  @ca6360  That would tip the balance too much.
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  34. There are many things which become rapidly obsolete. They even try to force us to put some in our bodies to stay employed.
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  35. He's not a meteorologist either.
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  36. Soviet Union, not Russia. Most of the people in the USSR were not ethnic Russians. Stalin for example was not a Russian.
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  37. What are this man's medical qualifications?
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  38. We don't need coffee.
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  39. There is planned obsolescence in many things. Now we're being forced into it. No booster, no job.
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  40. The rooms are infinitely dirty too
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  41. Which medical school did he attend?
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