Comments by "Anik Samiur Rahman" (@aniksamiurrahman6365) on "What Eating the Rich Did For Japan" video.

@jordankidd4443 Those thousands of "independent creator" has little to no say on which video will be promoted by the algorithm. The viewers mostly watch the videos recommended to them - which again is completely controlled by YouTube algorithm. And comments are often deleted. Sure, YouTube isn't a monopoly! Not to mention the so-called "independent creators" has to work harder than most regular job-holder for less and this label allows YouTube to completely shun any responsibility that regular companies have to provide to their "employees".
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@jordankidd4443 U want proof? Just list the companies from US SEC and try to list what's owned by which conglomerate and how that changed in the last 50 years.
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@juanok2775 Natural resources don't hold much value any longer. This is why Shell or BP aren't the largest companies in the world. But do you know what holds the largest value these days? Information and Automated tech. And American big businesses are spot on in that. For Japan, it took 50 years and major privatization by the govt for a few oligarchs to own everything. In the US, the entire tech business became the playground for only 7-8 companies within just the span of 30 years.
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I guess the video is ultimately correct. Cos that same Keiretsu, this time controling Japan's financial system, has also chocked Japan of her growth. And after only a few decades of growth and prosperity, Japan is marching firmly towards another era of Keiretsu oligarchy.
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@YamiSilaas Marx's economic analysis are great. His base-superstructure model is probably applicable for far general "systems" and not on society alone. However, his solution to capitalism is completely bonkers. That "proletarian dictatorship" holds the key to solve this problem feels more like a reactionary or desperate nonsense by his own standard. State directed capitalism in Japan and later other Asian Tigers rather showed a much more effective solution. Deeper involvement of govt. in many European nations might also be a good example.
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My takeaway from this video - China today is what Japan was in the 30s and we are a decade or two away from WW3.
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@AnyVideo999 Purchase power and wealth are comparable from any time/place. If French peasants from the 1700 has more purchase power or greater wealth, then they were indeed well off by any standard. And Tesla having such a ridiculous valuation, despite the fact that it adds nowhere close to that value to the market, rather shows the problem, not the lack of any. That leads us to the "equilibrium" theory of yours. In an equilibrium, there should be no net change among the parts (Don't teach me Chemistry, I'm a Biochemist). Plz, tell me, if there's an equilibrium, then how on earth even American middle class is in such decline while the Über rich is on a meteoric growth? If your equilibrium has anyone but upper and upper middle class excluded from Capitalism, then it's essentially the same conclusion as Marx. There's no need of any revolution.
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After watching the "Prices of Yen" documentary, I feel like this video should've been called: "How eating the rich ensured a period of the highest growth and equality for Japan, but how her economic growth is trapped and chocked to death".
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@VineFynn Most Economist b4 Karl Marx were merely trying to figure out: "what's the best way to make and keep wealth", "how to maximize profit" etc. Karl Marx is probably the first economist who rather asked things like: What is capital?, What is Labor?, What's the relation between them? How an economic system evolves as a whole? What's the main trend in economic growth and what might be its limit? etc. These are the type of question a true scientist, say a Physicist or a Biologist might ask. Karl Marx is also The First western intellect, who identified the role of what we now call "Chaos". People claiming ...Marx wasn't an economist... is rather the same as that creationist claim: ...evolution is just a theory... Take any other economist for example. Let's take Marshal. The fact that he copied all his math from contenporary physics isn't that of a crime. But the fact that all his concepts shifts in meaning from page to page, makes him a shaman, not a scientist.
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