Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "The Deadliest Job Of All Time | Random Thursday" video.

  1. I don't think socialism is a better alternative or anything like that, but just up for consideration, I think capitalism and libertarianism has it's own limits. It's not a matter of being completely for or against an economical system, it's a matter of realizing that taken to their extremes, perhaps no system is great. I personally think that, for instance, most of the socialist implementations failed not because they were necessarily completely bad ideas, but because they were made in a reactionary way, as a rejection of status quo - which naturally leads to extremism. Something by the way that in the vast majority of times tends to go wrong, micro and macro scale. Capitalism became "a thing" because it has a longer history, and it was introduced in a way more gradual way. It wasn't a complete reactionary rejection of how things were done in the past, it just followed an evolutionary path. Which does not mean it cannot get to it's extremes... just that it took longer. I'm biased because I was born in a capitalist economy, but I personally don't think changing systems is a good idea in any way, shape or form. But going less towards it's extremes certainly seems to have it's benefits. At least it's what I have seen through the world. A whole lot of the problems I hear about America goes around human rights related issues and how capitalism isn't doing those any favors. In this video it's about jobs and workers relationships with corporations. In other topics - education and debt, public healthcare and coverage, military spending, pricing of drugs, environmental issues, consumer rights, governmental agencies being taken over by corporate puppets, the shift of information sources towards private owned platforms (social networks), etc etc etc. It creates an imbalance because the ultimate real objective of capitalism is concentration of power and money by individuals. The wage gap is not a side effect of capitalism... the wage gap is capitalism itself, taken to ultimate consequences. So, over the years, some capitalist countries have adopted some socialist concepts (so called social capitalism), to try to strike a balance. Chernobyl is certainly one disaster that could or could not be pinpointed to an economic system, but if that's the case, there are plenty of bad examples on the other side... but perhaps just because of the size imbalance. Three Miles Island, Fukushima, all the superfund sites in the US and rest of the world. Incidents like Chernobyl certainly are not exclusive to countries with socialist or communist systems. But perhaps one big difference between the systems is that capitalism is just much more in tune with human nature than socialism or communism is. These latter two are much more idealist and utopic in their conceptions, which is why they tend to get corrupted far easier and faster. For the most part, most socialist or communist experiments ended up in dictatorship and totalitarianism. Again though, this can also be because of their reactionaty nature - it does not mean that capitalist systems cannot also become totalitarian, something that current populist governments have been proving in recent years. But there you go... just thought I'd share a bit on this topic.
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