Comments by "" (@josephcoon5809) on "Why Is The Government So Wasteful?" video.

  1. And yet, you feel that the reason we elect “experts” is because the average citizen doesn’t understand economics or politics? 😅😅😂😂 Did your account get hacked or are you just a contrarian that hopes their conflicting comments are associated with each other? The worst case is you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about which leads to you expressing contradictory ideas as if they support each other. I’m giving your intelligence the benefit of the doubt while calling your integrity into question. I can go the other way and assume you are honest but confused. Your choice.
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  2.  @jakelilevjen9766  Did you know babies take 4-8 weeks to LEARN how to see color? Guess how much longer it takes for adult infants to see rational ideas. If more people voted for a racist than voted for the first half-Black President isn’t evidence enough, I don’t know what to tell you. I mean, Biden called Black men “super predators,” and Kuntmala even called him a racist in the primaries. But SOMEHOW 80 million voters were convinced that President Trump was the “racist.” Perhaps because… Trump versus Tech Oligarchy Trump is worth $2.4 BILLION. Bezos is worth $200 BILLION. Zuckerberg: $130 BILLION. Gates: $130 BILLION. Page: $115 BILLION. Brin: $112 BILLION. Speigel: $15 BILLION. Dorsey: $13 BILLION. Total: $715 BILLION versus Trump’s $2.4 BILLION 2016: Trump is worth $3.7 BILLION, Bezos is worth $50 BILLION. 2018: Trump is worth $3.1 BILLION, Bezos is worth $100 BILLION. 2021: Trump is worth $2.4 BILLION, Bezos is worth $200 BILLION.
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  3. 0:20 Easy. America was never meant to be a run by a centralized government because it is the least moral and least efficient type of government. The best government is exemplified by 100 BILLION neurons that organize into the typical human brain. Nature spent billions of years perfecting government, but people are convinced the exact OPPOSITE is true. It is a hard fact that every complex system decentralizes as it grows: except human government. Wanna guess why every other complex system is functional while human government is not? 1:45 “seeing government as being a step or two away from tyranny.” GOVERNment IS tyranny. This is why America was designed to be a population that SELF-GOVERNS. You wanna address the most efficient government, try studying the brain. No single neuron is under the direct control of the prefrontal cortex: the analog to a national government. The process of skill mastery is the direct result of the prefrontal cortex relinquishing control to neuronal groups that build direct connections to each other. For a skill that may incorporate 20 different and distinct tasks, which is more efficient: •Information being sent to the prefrontal cortex which has to serially process that information, decide what signals need to be sent out to the motor cortex while waiting for confirmation that the first take was accomplished correctly before sending signals out to the next group of neurons to execute the next task…. and so on…. OR •For each group of neurons that represent information retrieval or action execution to communicate directly with each other? For an easy visual, imagine three non-linear points: one is information sent from the somatosensory cortex; one is commands received by the motor cortex; one is the prefrontal cortex. No matter how you arrange those point, the distance between the somatosensory cortex and the motor cortex will ALWAYS be shorter (fewer neurons along the path; less activations; less resources expended) than the distance from the somatosensory to prefrontal to motor cortex. New skills have to be organized centrally by the PFC, but if those skills are not mastered by delegating those task to sub-conscious attention, then the brain would never be able to deal with a rapidly changing external environment. Imagine if you had to consciously attend to looking at the tachometer; releasing the accelerator; depressing the clutch; shifting the gears; wiggling the shifter to confirm a proper shift; releasing the clutch; and depressing the accelerator EVERY time you shifted your gears. Driving in congested areas and/or watching for road signs would be nearly impossible if not absolutely lethal to you and everybody around you. Let’s just say that it’s a good thing that “experts” who design human governments never contributed to designing the brain.
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  4. 2:30 “Government” is supposed to do as little as possible the higher up the chain you go. Anything that can be handled locally should NEVER be interfered with at the county, state, or federal levels. The more laws you create, the less able society is to evolve and flourish. Tao any problem with 20 possible and viable solutions. What are the chances of a single government committee selecting the “best” option versus thousands of smaller governments selecting the “best” option? You’re talking a difference in ratios of 1:20 versus 1,000:20. A FIVE percent chance in a centralized government versus a FIVE THOUSAND percent chance. That is why parallel processing in a decentralized system is far superior to serial processing in a centralized system.
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  5. 4:00 It is NOT more efficient to force EVERYONE into the same “solution” only to find out it was at best, not the best solution, and at worst, created more problems. The internet has made information practically free and readily accessible, yet the cost of tuition has continually skyrocketed making higher “education” and college textbooks the fastest growing markets for the last half century. Why? Because the Federal government got involved in the sixties. That was when the artificially inflated demand for higher “education” cause the cost of tuition to begin diverging from the rate of inflation. That RATE of divergence only increased since then as the federal government became MORE involved. As a bonus, flooding the job market with graduates without providing the jobs to justify all that “education” did one thing: suppressed wage growth. It is basic economics that dictates that whatever side is in SURPLUS is the side that has to COMPETE for the side in SCARCITY. A surplus of graduates and a scarcity of jobs causes graduates to accept lower wages as they compete with each other. A surplus of jobs would have the exact opposite effect. So, think about who benefits from a surplus of “educated” workers that is “educated” on somebody else’s dime… You guessed it. The corporations that draft all the bills you never read signed by people you’ll never meet. You were never supposed to elect people you don’t know to run your, and everybody else’s lives. That is insane, ignorant, and tyrannical.
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  6. 5:40 America is NOT a democracy. At least it was never meant to be. To learn why, go back two thousand years and learn how Socrates proved, with his life, how a democracy is nothing more than tyranny with lipstick.
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  7. 6:30 You seriously chose a codified pyramid scheme to support your point? Look at any period of time since SS was implemented and compare the gains SS provided versus the gains the stock market WOULD have provided IF money wasn’t taken under the guise of “for your security.” Do you know what provides the best security? An actual community of individuals. Unfortunately, Americans were conditioned to believe rugged individualism or centralized federal government are the only two options…
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  8. 7:30 “We don’t trust our officials…” Do you make a habit of trusting strangers to sign mortgages in your name? Because that is EXACTLY what you are advocating for right now.
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  9. 8:10 Why would you ever invoke other “democratic” societies as a counterpoint to America? Which country are you referring to? Make sure it isn’t a country that is far more homogeneous culturally, has a relatively similar population size, and doesn’t benefit from NATO which is over two-thirds American contributions. I would love nothing more than for America to take back all of the resources tossed into NATO just so we can see how European social programs fare against China and Russia when they go marching across multiple continents. You aren’t even comparing apples to oranges. You’re comparing apples to orange seed husks.
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