Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "What Do We Do About the Homeless? | 5 Minute Video" video.

@curtusfetters9422 This is why the US is number one in prison population exceeding even the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. A capitalist economy can't use all the working people they create so some are turned into long term unemployed who are abandoned to homelessness or imprisoned while capitalist bosses take million dollar rides on rocket ships.
7
@TheJeep1967 There are more than enough houses and hotel rooms to house everyone who is homeless today in the United States. The reason for homelessness is the capitalist market system that demands a profit be made for every action that occurs. As long as the capitalist are allowed to ,make all decisions based on maximizing profits than life will only get worse for the majority of people the working class in the United States. Their own accounting books show that the system must go into decline as machines replace labor and profit rates decline. Their only response is to try and shore up profit rates by attacking us the creators of all wealth the industrial working class.
6
@TheJeep1967 What the bosses government says to the unemployed we have no jobs. Your on your own go find one because we don't care. They keep police at the employment security office to arrest anyone who doesn't accept the humiliation of bosses who say we can't help.
3
@TheJeep1967 The capitalist refuse to hire them because it would cost them profits and they don't want to hire more skilled workers or train more otherwise they would not refuse to take older workers. They have no use for anyone who can't give them a bigger profit. They set a wage rate above which they will not go because the demand to make a profit no matter what. They let industrial capacity sit idle because of their greed. Conservatives just jockey with liberals for more power, profits and privileged.
2
@007kingifrit American Imperialism is a failed capitalist system. A ruling class that can not house, feed and cloth its slaves deserves to die.
2
@007kingifrit Capitalism created the new kind of slave the man works like a dog for the boss who owns the means of production. The workers create everything and the capitalist claim ownership of everything. He profits from the unpaid labor of the workers and the uses to profits to further exploit the workers and widen the gap between the rich and poor. The bosses system of profits must always go into decline as he must use machines to replace labor to drive profits his way but this results in less labor to exploit but more capital value inevitable causing the rate of profit by which he measures all his successes to go into decline. So even if capitalism didn't have the problem of the workers being unable to buy back all we can produce and the collapsing of ficticios capital value it would still come to an end as profits inevitably go to zero. It's built right into the profits systems accounting system itself.
2
@Scroolewse Imperialist Social Democratic policies stop working as capitalism goes into crisis. They worked post ww2 because of the destruction of war and the expansion of American Imperialism.
1
@007kingifrit The origin of the capitalists profit is the unpaid labor of the worker. Capitalism creates class struggle as the workers and bosses fight over the size of the profits. Some capitalists do nothing but walk to the mail box every 3 months for their dividend check. There is nothing special about a capitalist since lots of other people can do the work they do. Others do the administration seeking to maximize the profits at the expense of all other considerations like the environment, safety and the lives of the workers. For the capitalist profits come first and the capitalist government works to protect his profits from the workers class struggle.
1
@007kingifrit The boss pays one price for our labor in anticipation of selling it at a higher price to the customer.The profit and surplus value come from the difference between the value we create from our labor and the price of labor paid to us and the price the boss charges for our labor. The bosses own record books prove that.
1
@007kingifrit The boss seeks to maximize profits (shareholder value) above all else. In order to drive profits in their direction the bosses also replace labor with machines. This has the effect of raising the capital value yet lowering the the amount of labor needed to produce which leads to a declining rate of return on investment since our labor is the source of the profit. So the very way in which the bosses measure success has the unintended effect of producing decline. The bosses only produce for a market in which they can make a profit. When they can't make a profit they cut production despite the needs for the products produced. Once again the bosses own record books prove this as one can see from the federal reserve economic stats that the bosses can no longer us all the productive capacity they have. Instead of using about 90% back in 1968 its down to somewhere around 70 %.
1
@007kingifrit No you want to argue about the surplus value. I'll answer it this way no one in Cuba was told they couldn't be an administrator. What they were told is the could not use their position to exploit others. With capitalism the administrators are paid for their loyalty to the owners as the goal is to maximize profits not to produce to meet human needs. With capitalism the best the workers can hope for is that the capitalist will reinvest to expand production and hire more workers but when the market becomes saturated because the workers can not buy back all that can be produced the capitalist halts production and throws the workers out of our jobs. This is caused by the excess profits not being reinvested into expanding production but instead being used to drive up the value of paper values. In other words fictitious capital these values then collapse resulting in the business cycle or recession/depression every 7 to 10 years.
1