Comments by "ItCouldBe Lupus" (@itcouldbelupus2842) on "ContraPoints" channel.

  1. Checking the comments to see if anyone actually tried to argue that Capitalism is good.
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  2. It's still exploitation. There is no choice, sell your labor to whoever will pay for it or die in poverty, that's exploitation. Just because you agree to something doesn't mean you weren't exploited. If a landlord asks a tenant to agree to have s3x with them so they won't be homeless, and the tenant agrees, they were exploited. It's essentially the same thing with a wage. What else are you gonna do? You have rent to pay and food to buy.
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  3. I don't think she did.
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  4.  @MoonSlayer95  Yes, you do need to tell me about them, I have no idea who those people are.
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  5. You should watch her video on Terfs. Might be somewhat relevance to you.
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  6.  @kalig.4982  She didn't tell women how they feel though. Can you point to the timestamp where you think she did? Feminism is about equality by the way.
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  7. the facts are not on your side
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  8. You're kidding right?
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  9. Why do you think that?
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  10. Iphones exist so Capitalism is good. This braindead argument. I'm watching this on a 8 year old smartphone that was worth $300 brand new, I was given it second hand. Smartphones are cheap and easy to own, even for the unemployed. Not everyone has iphones but even poor people can afford old iphones. Smartphones are not a sign of wealth anymore, it's not the 90s. Capitalism is failing, and it's never worked for the working class. It just bleeds us dry and tells us to be grateful for our iphones.
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  11. No it isn't
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  12.  @eyesfullofsky9776  That's not true at all, you're being dishonest or just arguing in bad faith. She addressed it in the video, what you're saying is nonsense.
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  13. Plenty of Lesbians have been murdered throughout history as well, cis men didn't start openly fetishising lesbians until around the 90s.
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  14. This is addressed in the video you're commenting on.
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  15.  @eyesfullofsky9776  Wait, so you think that all issues can be solved through *debate and civil discourse "? If only they knew that in the Civil war and world war two, they should have just sat down with the confederacy and the Nazis and had a civil debate about whether it's okay to enslave human beings or do a holocaust. Genius buddy. You are totally living in reality.
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  16.  @LittleMissPyeWacket  Well you are wrong, the facts are not on your side. The tavistock thing is not the smoking gun you're pretending it is and trans people are not justified by their feelings, they are validated by science and history. Trans people have always existed, that's a fact. Your ideologically driven hatred is justified by your feelings, and you cherry pick facts to try and validate your opinion and ignore all the facts that contradict it. We see right through you.
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  17. I don't know that it is. I think some other systems had potential, but this system crushed those. That's what this system is best at, crushing human beings and calculating GDP growth.
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  18.  @Jaybiiird  See, I don't see those advancements and achievements as the result of capitalism. Just because they happened under an economic system doesn't mean they happened because of that system. I think all of those advancements could have happened under a form of socialism or an anarchist society, because many of them did. So many technology advancements happened in the Soviet Union. Most of the tech advancements if the past 40 years were government funded or breakthroughs made through government research. So they could have happened under any system with a government. Capitalism doesn't create anything, it's just the system for distributing resources and wealth. People are always going to make things, the economic system just decides who gets paid for it essentially.
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  19.  @Jaybiiird  I would argue that is the point of capitalism, it's designed to deny the rights of those without money. Think about what economic systems are, what power structures are, who they are designed by, for what purpose? Monarchy was designed to serve the monarchs. Then enough lords wanted to move to feudalism, because it was an advancement for the masses and a great system to be a feudal lord in. Capitalism was next, and it's essentially the same. It's designed to be described to the masses as a system where everyone has the opportunity to succeed if you just work hard enough, but it serves the people who the masses end up working for. Those who are generationally wealthy have complete freedom, those at the bottom have very little. Billionaires are arguably more powerful in today's society than Feudal lords were in our last economic system. This economic system has outlived its usefulness, we need to move to a more egalitarian, resource based economy, where resources are distributed based on human need rather than profit. We would still have jobs and could use money to buy luxury goods, but everything a human being needs to live and be a happy, healthy and productive member of society would be provided for them by that society. Not everyone would need to work, and most people would only need to work about 5 hours a day, 4 days a week. Any essential jobs needed for the upkeep of society that were lacking in workers could offer better benefits to entice more workers. Human beings enjoy working, we don't need extra motivation to work, especially if all our needs are met and we have control over when and how we work. Don't you think you would still want a job, even in a society where you don't need one in order to have food and shelter? Working 5 hours a day, a few days a week, in exchange you can have money to buy videogames or go see a play or hear live music? I would love that.
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  20.  @jakemoran287  trans men are men, just like cis men are men. You don't understand it because you haven't bothered to learn enough about it to understand it.
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  21. The Vaush drama is unfortunate but it's a good reminder that he isn't someone to be taken seriously, he's just a progressive Ben Shapiro.
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  22. An anarchist resource based economy?
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  23.  @nessa6135  who are you referring to exactly?
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  24.  @MoonSlayer95  nope, you can't admit to something that isn't even a thing. Go away Transphobe, no one likes you.
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  25.  @allyjay7395  That's a really ecofascist way of looking at it. We aren't a virus, we can change if we try. There's no reason it has to be this way forever. We might fail. But we might not. It's not inevitable. Have some belief in the human spirit.
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  26. Love you Natalie. Everyone is a broken piece of shit, some are just better at hiding it than others. I personally enjoy how the light shines off the cracks in your facade. 2020 will be better than last year. It has to be.
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  27.  @リンゴ酢-b8g  Right, so if I'm poor and unhappy I should go study for a few years, which isn't free or accessible, while also making enough money for food and rent, so that I can maybe "get a better job", in a few more years and not be unhappy with my station in life? Is that your advice?
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  28. When has capitalism ever been good?
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  29.  @spuntik_sweetheart  I would argue Capitalism is also pretty bad on paper. In reality it's a travesty. We can do better.
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  30.  @dubiouspractices  Only just saw these "arguments" of yours, pretty pathetic. You obviously think you're very clever but you're dumb enough to think smartphones exist because of Capitalism just because that happened to be the dominant economic system at the time of their creation. Smartphones, like all luxury goods are the product of labor and human ingenuity, they could have been created under any economic system, just like many prolific inventions were made in the soviet union, such as tetris. An economic system can't create anything, it is merely the system by which we value and distribute labor and wealth and resources. Capitalism as an economic system actually stifles inovation, it gave us planned obsolescence, it naturally incentivises monopolies. You need to talk less and learn more, you aren't as smart as you think you are.
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  31. They should come out, fuck some dudes and chill the fuck out.
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  32.  @Jaybiiird  Yeah, well my larger point is that we need to start moving away from Capitalism and striving for something like this. We need to acknowledge as a species that this system has outlived it's usefulness.
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  33. If we reform capitalism into a better version of itself but leave the power structures the same, then those in power will slowly undo those reforms until capitalism looks like it does in the US today. I don't agree with your analysis that no one would do shitty jobs under a different economic system. People like to work, once they have all their basic needs met and they have enough rest and free time, human beings don't need extra motivation to do things, we are naturally creative and problem solvers. The solution to who is a janitor can be solved, through a combination of workers and robots. Keeping capitalism under the rational that no one will be motivated to clean up after us under a different economic system is just cynical and short sighted. You seem to have internalized a lot of Capitalist propaganda.
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  34. Basically, capitalism is inherently unstable and unsustainable. It's a system built on infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. It's madness.
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  35.  @robertmichalic4500    This economic system has outlived its usefulness, we need to move to a more egalitarian, resource based economy, where resources are distributed based on human need rather than profit. We would still have jobs and could use money to buy luxury goods, but everything a human being needs to live and be a happy, healthy and productive member of society would be provided for them by that society. Not everyone would need to work, and most people would only need to work about 5 hours a day, 4 days a week. Any essential jobs needed for the upkeep of society that were lacking in workers could offer better benefits to entice more workers. Human beings enjoy working, we don't need extra motivation to work, especially if all our needs are met and we have control over when and how we work. Don't you think you would still want a job, even in a society where you don't need one in order to have food and shelter? Working 5 hours a day, a few days a week, in exchange you can have money to buy videogames or go see a play or hear live music? I would love that.
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  36. Queen shit
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  37. A few humans might survive, most won't. Unless someone gets a case of the fuck-its and launches a nuclear missile
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  38.  @Sfourtytwo  Them being "silly" is a matter of perspective. Societal expectations can be insurmountable when one is trying to live in a society that is completely at odds with who they are. Internalized societal issues are usually reinforced externally by the society at large. You must be in a very privileged position to look at these things, which are life and death for some, as "Silly".
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  39.  @Sfourtytwo  Definitely not the only explanation but you don't seem interested in explaining anything.
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  40.  @Sfourtytwo  I'm guessing English isn't your first language and I feel we might be getting lost in translation a little. What you said makes no sense, just grammatically, so I can't understand the point you are trying to make. Communication is hard, it's the most important and most challenging part about being human.
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  41.  @maurycy4735  are you actually a Capitalist, or just a worker with Stockholm syndrome?
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  42.  @jakemoran287  did you feel like the video adequately answered your questions?
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  43.  @chikari123  Are you suggesting that is ALL that age has ever said about trans people? Really?
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  44. Sometimes violence is inevitable.
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  45.  @Luiseut59  But you realize we can't have civil debate with literal Nazis right?
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  46. Look up a video by Hakim on Universal basic income under capitalism, he's got a lot of critiques, doesn't think it's a good idea at all.
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  47. All forms of government are somewhere authoritarian
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  48. Capitalism is a system built on infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. It's inherently unstable and unsustainable. It's madness.
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  49.  @blancmull3886  Just checking in 10 months later to see if you still believe free market Capitalism would work?
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  50. If everything was equal now, the only people who would have less stuff are the ultra wealthy. There is more than enough for all us regular people to keep all our stuff.
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