Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040 | Economics Explained" video.

  1.  @theondono  Do you think you could edit this into the initial comment? It seems like a really good explanation that doesn't get seen unless you click on the section and it seems criminal to not simply see it.
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  2.  @Theviewerdude  finally someone in this comment section who isn't pushing leftist talking points
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  3.  @blessedpigeon6304  That is probably the best recipe for economic, social, and political collapse you can have as the right is largely the retarding force on the leftward push. The left unopposed goes too far, too fast, and eventually everything just unravels.
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  4.  @thevoiceofthelost  What do you mean? That's the point that IS peddled to us. That's why I said "leftist talking point" because I've seen it so often. And I find it stupid every time. Especially on that bit about 1/3rd of the world starving since it's at least half of that and most of it is because of political reasons with dictators wanting to opress their people. Because for the first time in history no-one starves unless people specifically will it.
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  5.  @thevoiceofthelost  Basically any leftist news outlet you can find a piece on that. And furthermore they're really not business friendly. They're simply the type to do whatever it takes to hold on to power and because of that frequently specifically keep from doing things like industrializing which would make them more rich. The only ones they're really "business friendly" are the Chinese as they go ahead and attempt to Basically turn Africa into China. It's not that it fails to meet the needs of the people so much as it is a tool for controlling them and keeping them weak so that they can't just rebel. Latin America in particular is basically a story of giving the CIA too much credit. In many instances they blamed the US but Latin America has tons of problems that really are there with or without the Americans. Honestly the thing the Americans do most is by keeping out other powers so they don't just get conquered again. Btw Bautista in Cuba was ousted in part by the Americans because they thought he was too oppressive. Iran in particular is an interesting one to me because if the negotiations weren't held so incompetently and the optics so bad it probably wouldn't hate the US like it does currently because the US has a habit of installing a dictator or regime (historically it's really just been to oppose the enemy who would've done it themselves and so that entire thing is more an issue of foreign politics than capitalism) and then sending in another team to overthrow the power because they got too brutal. They didn't like the dictator they had but he wanted treatment for a disease so they just said okay. Btw while it's bad that 9 million die of hunger every year, it's entirely for political reasons and without the free market system in the first place even more would die as currently there are less than 1 billion skinny people on this planet and more than 2 billion obese which has never been the case in human history. I think it's right to criticize, there's also informed criticism and also considering the alternative. Because there's absolutely a way to solve that: invade and depose the dictator so that the people don't go hungry. Can't just pressure them because China (and previously the Soviets) will support them instead. Welcome to global politics where the reason people get screwed over in tiny countries is because other people are self interested and being not self interested gets you killed 99% of the time.
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  6.  @03david08  To be fair he did say he wasn't a programmer and so I give him the benefit of the doubt of simply not understanding well enough while also being an interesting concept to discuss.
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