Comments by "Dennis" (@Dennis-nc3vw) on "5 Socialism Myths: Part 2" video.

@mecanwinmac2796 No. Even "the poor" in America live like kings compared to Venezuelans.
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@alexpeer2 The average American living under the poverty line has more living space than the average (not average poor, just average) Western European.
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@kimobrien. No, fascists, who were proud anti-capitalists, started the Second World War. And the deaths from the atom bombs were a drop in the bucket compared to how many the fascists killed. Why on God's green Earth would capitalists want people unemployed!? You can't make many off an unemployed man's labor and an unemployed man has nothing to lose by destroying your business. Why the hell would capitalists want you to pay more for education!? Educated employees make the best workers! Are you even trying to make sense here? Business owners want to make as much money as possible, but they can't disregard the wants of customers and employees or they lose one or both to the competition. Walmart, the most evil greedy corporation ever, runs a profit margin of a whopping 1.1%. When workers are paid minimum wage, its because consumers like you demand cheaper prices on their goods, and since mega-corporations run very slim profit margins the cost of production is tied almost perfectly to the cost of labor. State owned businesses don't have to worry about this, because they'll get their money no matter what through taxation. You judge business owners for being self-interested, yet I doubt you've ever given a cent to the barefoot Africans desiring clean drinking water and basic vaccinations for their children. I've donated thousands to charity during my life time. But I had to cut back because the rage I felt at the hypocrisy of Western progressives/socialists started to consume me.
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According to Bernie Sanders Walmart pays "starvation wages", even though you can buy four loafs of bread with an hour of minimum wage labor.
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@kimobrien. So you're saying you'd deny the maid, gardner, and pool boy a job just to spite the rich (even as you make more in an hour than 80% of the world makes in a day)?
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The same people who support "Democratic Socialism" told us democracy was just an arbitrary Western choice of lifestyle during the Iraq War. They're the same people who glorify tyrants like Castro and Saddam and Mao and called the progenitors of ISIS "freedom fighters."
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Why do they need to pool it? Just gift it!
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@brett4711 No making the food is also a problem. If money goes to those who need it instead of those who earned it, no one has motivation to be productive. In fact they'll be punished for being productive because they'll lose their benefits when they start earning well.
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Marxists will tell you real Communism has never been tried, then throw on a Che Guevara shirt to venerate a man who created one of these "not real Communism" societies.
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@0trynewthings0 First off capitalism works because its competitive and I can't even begin to imagine when competing sewer systems or roads would look like. Second if you get an education or use a road you pay it forward to society, because it would be a lot harder for companies to find productive laborers without these things. Same thing with police and military (no one would have a motive to be productive if criminals could just come and steal their stuff). Socialism totally ignores the idea of whether their programs "pay it forward" and just enables people to be parasites in the name of compassion. The result is decreased motivation to work, which leads to a smaller pool of wealth, which leads to decreased value of money, which leads to more wealth being extracted to achieve the same ends, which further decreases motivation to work, etc.
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@foxman2137 Venezuela was experiencing hyper-inflation before the US put on any significant sanctions.
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We need to update that quote: "The read to hell is paved with willful blindness." 100 years ago the "good intentions" excuse could fly. Not anymore.
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@Cobraman8447 Africa is one of the least capitalist places in the world. Watch John Stossel's video "Lessons from Africa."
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You need to watch John Stossel's video "Lessons from Africa."
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Walmart's profit margin is 1.1% You ignore "human need" and your competition swallows up your labor or customers.
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And they're much better off for it. That should tell you how bad socialism is.
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Japan advanced just as far during the Meiji period without killing tens of millions of its citizens. Also maybe you should compare Communist China to Tiawan, North Korea to South Korea, and Eastern Europe to Western Europe?
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So Bernie Sanders advocates for no minimum wage, flatter taxes, privatized retirement, school choice, etc?
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@umdfan87 No need to get assy.
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Didn't the Soviet Union have elections?
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The reason capitalism works is because its competitive. I can't even began to imagine what a society with competing roads to every location would look like.
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Watch the video. It addresses this. You are using a completely different definition of socialism.
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"MOAR FREE MONEYZ LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!" - Democratic Socialists
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@Cobraman8447 Okay, and?
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@cogwheel5287 50 years ago the median house size was about half what it is today.
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@aidenaune7008 Every single society outlaws theft and murder. That has nothing to do with the Ten Commandments. How do the Ten Commandments influence Western law beyond that?
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@sorzin2289 But why would someone lie about being socialist? Democracy is universally seen as a positive. Socialism has mixed connotations.
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Not kingdoms either, though.
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@KhanBalkan So what's your definition of capitalism, anything that's done for monetary gain? That's a mind-boggling strawman. Do you really think ANYBODY who's pro-capitalist defines it that way? Capitalism is a system in which economic transactions are based on mutual consent. Anti-capitalism is taxes, economic regulations, etcs. My point about Africa wasn't even about foreign interventionism, but their endless layers of government regulation strangling free markets.
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@KhanBalkan Capitalism doesn't have a "goal", dumbass, it's a system of government, not a person with character and aspirations. Further, capitalist governments are governments that keep their hands off a citizen's money and corporate profit, so by your moronic definition Communist governments would the ultimate capitalists as they confiscate all of society's wealth for themselves. Chavez died a billionaire. He acquired far more wealth for himself than any capitalist leader in history. Also, China and India has seen explosive economic growth since they started getting "exploited" by international capitalism. Their quality of life has improved tremendously so you're objectively wrong.
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@KhanBalkan You're arguing for a socialism that never happens and against a fake strawman "capitalism" that no one supports. Saying capitalism is any system that makes people richer than other people is as stupid as saying socialism is anything that creates economic disaster and widespread poverty. You're arguing for something that will never happen against something no one supports. You might as well be talking to a wall but maybe that's fitting because a wall would be more in your intellectual league. "Exploitation" simply means offering someone a better alternative to whatever they currently have. Before businesses started "exploiting" third world countries, the kids working in factories were working as subsistence farmers and child prostitutes. While the median household income in India and China is not high, it's much higher than that in almost any African country. Why? Because no one is "exploiting" Africa because its very economically xenophobic and unfriendly to foreign businesses. 30 years ago India and China were just as poor as Africa. Capitalism lifts people out of poverty because it becomes a game of one-up-manship. Someone is making $1.00 a day at the family farm, so Nike offers them $1.50 a day to work in the factory. Then another company sets up shop and offers them $2.00 a day. So Nike has to compete and offers them $2.50. Etc. It's a slow process but if you had your way they would be stuck with that $1.00 a day because the alternative would be "exploitation". Competition forces the rich to care about the workers, because if they don't their workers will go over to someone else. Child labor was on its way out in the US before the government legislated against it. Minimum wage is unnecessary because where I live its $7.25 and yet even Walmart pays $12.00. The one and only regulation capitalism needs is anti-trust laws to prevent monopolies which prevent competition and the aforementioned one-up-manship.
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During the Iraq War, the same people advocating for Democratic Socialism today were calling democracy nothing but an arbitrary Western choice of life style and the people fighting against democracy (the progenitors of ISIS no less) "freedom fighters." These people don't believe democracy is a moral imperative. They would toss the electorate under the bus the instant they got power.
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@cogwheel5287 And the same people crying about the what the US did to Guatemala more than half a century ago were telling us democracy is just an arbitrary choice of life style and the progenitors of ISIS were "freedom fighters" when Bush was in office.
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What country?
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The same people who stress the words "election" and "democratic" when talking about socialism were telling us democracy was just an arbitrary Western choice of lifestyle during the Iraq War. You think they really give a sh*t about those things?
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It's true socialism until it collapses.
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