Comments by "" (@shamrock141) on "How Money Works" channel.

  1. Oh is that what you've been told to believe XD
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  2. But not desirable to many
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  3. Nope, you can't strip away people's rights, not unless you want society to collapse
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  4. My personal 2 cents worth is it's about relativity. If your life is really hard growing up and then gets much better, you'll be delighted and have tons of kids, but if your life was always decent but is slowly getting worse, that will take precedent in your mind over having kids. And then there's being poor and kids being more a source of labour and retirement insurance than actual human beings, but that requires society to go completely tits up
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  5. That's not just the case, the average worker's purchasing power has decreased significantly in the past 50 years. This isn't "millennials keep eating avocado toast" this is the fact that housing prices have completely skyrocketed hundreds of percentage points in price upwards while salaries can't even match inflation half the time
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  6. ​ @rutvikrs  I hope so, patriotism is also a device used by the wealthy and corrupt to control the young and energetic, when 1% of the country owns over half its wealth things don't often trend well, hopefully the situation will improve
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  7. The anti union propaganda is still strong I see
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  8. You say that while standing on the foundation that Roosevelt built for you, the only reason Steel and Oil is affordable in the US is because of him, and his square off with Rockefeller. The most obvious anti-monopoly policy, Section 2 of the Sherman Act , has been used numerous times to break up and punish harmful monopolies and monopolisers. They're not perfect and probably won't be for time to come, but to say they're counterproductive is utterly wrong and devoid of fact
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  9. ​ @kompassorpigo7600 of course there will, it'll just be fewer people. 300 million people having 260 million kids is hardly "no working people"
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  10. That's never going to happen, the best we can work towards is making single paying households feasible through policy changes. Women have the choice to work or not, no one's going to take that away
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  11.  @Onemadfiddler  I understand, but you also make well into the six figure salary range, no?
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  12.  @Onemadfiddler  I'm not guessing, those were your words verbatim.
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  13.  @Onemadfiddler  "I'm an aircraft mechanic making very well into the 6 figure territory and I'm just about mid career" That's your comment, word for word, one month ago.
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  14.  @Onemadfiddler  are you denying it? Are you saying you don't make well into the 6 figure range?
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  15.  @Onemadfiddler  interesting, for the record you commented that on "Is the Collapsing Relevance of the College Degree... A Good Thing?" Now I have complete respect for your work, assuming you're telling me the truth now, but as you are no doubt aware, making a 6 figure salary is pretty decent and makes having kids more doable. Many people, including myself, are holding off on kids until or unless we reach that level of financial stability.
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  16. I'm genuinely perplexed as to why so many Indians will vehimently defend these corrupt corporate overlords in the comments. Atleast when I look at America they possess a general distrust for politcians and business tycoons but from my experience Indians online will defend these guys, even though they're the corrupting factor in they're economy, which is in stark contrast to Indians I've talked to in real life
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  17. What? Half of these guys are degree graduates in career positions
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  18. So why are the worst states in terms of average salary republican...
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  19. This isn't your dark fantasy
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  20. A 5% interest rate on a 700k home is a lot less manageable than a 5% interest rate on a 60k home
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  21. Bullshit, the top priority among young people in the polls is consistently affordable education, healthcare and housing
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  22. No the biggest factor is poverty, when you have nothing decent in life suddenly having a child who will take care of you later on sounds great. Even when immigrating to America then you feel like you have so many opportunities that having a family seems so much easier than back home.
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  23. The EU has not lowered car tariffs, that's an offer on the table currently if an agreement is made not to initiate tariffs
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  24. It's an absolute travesty to lose her, she did a lot in four years
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  25. ​ @james-wx6jh 10k per year to live on? That sounds... optimistic
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  26. Capitalism is to blame, monopolies are the ultimate destiny of any exclusively capitalist society and it's not even subtle. The best way to make money in your industry is to buy out your competitors either overtly or discreetly and then control the market, double points if you sell something that everyone needs like say Steel or Oil, almost reminds you of a certain old family name that went toe to toe with Roosevelt in the 19th century. It wasn't "free market trade" that gave us labour protections, affordable food, third party repair services or even the best products, since planned obsolescence is very much real with products today. China is a very obvious example of how a free market capitalist society isn't absolutely necessary for manufacturing, of course they have their own monopolies but they were forged from different forces. In China the party runs the country and the companies, they impose monopolies, in the US the companies inflitrate and run the government, lobbying to keep their power enriched. The EU managed to both standardise systems and infrastructure to allow for easier trade whilst also removing trade barriers and unnecessary bureaucracy between member states, it's not a perfect system but it does more for most people than arguably anywhere else
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  27. Patens aren't the problem, being able to purchase and control all of your competition is
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  28. Unfortunately that's unlikely, the elderly will mostly sell their homes to pay for old age communities or facilities, unless legislature is brought in more rental and housing corporations will sweep them up and rent them out
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  29. What the video neglected to mention is people have babies when things are going either really well or really poorly, but promoting the idea that society completely regressing and crumbling may be good for birth rates is self defeating, because the whole point of it being important is to protect society and civilisation from collapse
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  30. They are bad, inherently bad, because they don't just spring up by happenstance, they exist either through mandate or by eliminating their competition, all to reach the same goal, maximise profits. The difference with vital services like power or water is most of the time those services are nationalised, so there isn't a board of shareholders that the company is responsible to, but rather to the local government who want service delivery consistently and efficiently.
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  31. One company doesn't have the power to bankroll the entire nation's private sector
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  32.  @ElRosco187  do you?
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  33. Christ you weirdos need a real life
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  34. Marriage isn't the problem, divorce rates have been steadily dropping for 50 years
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  35. ​ @gregorycotter6461  that's not what a tariff is genius, you quite can't force importers to charge more or less, you can only tax or restrict what they can sell to your businesses, and they will be the ones who pass that extra cost along.
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  36. Divorce rates peaked in the 70s and have been declining ever since, so that's not the reason. People, especially women, just don't want kids anymore, not in this environment
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  37. Unions are the only entities that protect workers from predatory companies, the cartel hoax is old cold war propaganda
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  38. Authoritarianism
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  39.  @Eluderatnight  afraid of equality and accountability? No Afraid of numbskulls giving the state power to dictate what a relationship should be under criminal law? Yes. If I wanted that I'd move to Iran
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  40. You're delusional
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