Comments by "Tannman" (@tann_man) on "Consumerism u0026 Austerity in Communism and Capitalism" video.

  1. I want the state to end its monopoly on violence and money but "the end of money as a concept" (if that's what you meant) is ridiculous in a reality with scarcity (time, resources, energy, people...). Money is good actually. If value exists and it does we need a way of storing, earning, and exchanging said value. That's the purpose of money. Ideally its supply (value) cannot be manipulated, it cannot be confiscated, and transactions & storage are easy and private (XMR/BTC). Under a free market of value creative consensual trade the more money you earn (earned fairly; ie no deciet/coercion) equates to the more value you created for others.
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  2. The end goal of free market capitalism is value creation. When both parties benefit from an exchange the transaction occurs. Otherwise it does not. You must provide value to the other person in order to benefit yourself. Value is created when differentials in subjective demand are satisfied. Satisfying or creating this differential requires some amount of labor. capital reduces the amount of labor needed. Efficient use and creation of capital is a byproduct.
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  3. @KingMinos316 The USSR absolutely wrecked their environment. We knew #3 for almost a century at this point.
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  4. Communism is pretty well understood by the public IMO. "Capitalism" however is a mess of semantic overload.
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  5. UBI: forcefully confiscate citizens labor and give some fixed amount back. why don't we just not steal so much labor from citizens in the first place?
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