Comments by "TheSuperappelflap" (@TheSuperappelflap) on "" video.

  1. Even the "higher education" in USA is problematic. I have talked to people who have graduated in economics from renowned US universities who were not educated on any economic system besides Austrian school laissez-faire economics. Even their lauded Adam Smith warned against the dangers of unbridled free market capitalism lmao.
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  2. Hahaha I remember that meme about the girl with the cheese wheel, from years ago. Half the comments on that twitter post were saying "marry him"
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  3.  @BlackHoleSpain  You have laptops in Spain? I thought you were using the internet with hand-cranked film projectors and telegraph posts!
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  4. Also important to consider; modern society demands a lot more from people in terms of social interaction. For example, I work as a computer programmer. Now, this is a new field. But in the past, as an engineer, you would just go to school, learn your profession, then work in the same engineering company for your whole life, probably in the same office building, designing bridges or cars or whatever. You would get set up with a wife in church when you were 20 years old and take care of the home and raise your kids together. Social obligations were within the local community. Now, I have to have a Linkedin profile where I need to advertise myself as some extraverted sociable programming whizz just to get invited for job interviews, the job market requires you to be flexible and open to switching jobs because inflation is 10% per year, and you arent getting that kind of pay raise if you stay at the same company for long. I would go down significantly each year in income if I didnt force myself to engage in these very competitive social environments where you have to try 100 times to get one career upgrade just to keep your head above water. This is a very unnatural state of doing things for me, but I dont have any option if I ever want to achieve things in life like buying a house, getting married, having kids. Further in the past people who were not very sociable could just go build a cabin in the woods somewhere and hunt animals for pelts, come into town once a year to sell pelts and buy idk cans of beans or clothes or a new axe or whatever. It was much more possible for people with some neurodivergence to take care of themselves without being forced to expose them to high impulse environments all the time. I cant even commute to work or go shopping for groceries without being bombarded by flashing advertisements on tv screens, chaotic traffic situations, crowds of people everywhere.
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  5. Their latest cope is that they are now apparently paying for our healthcare instead of getting ripped off.
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  6. The scale of the history is the difference. You can go back in the US from a Euro-centric perspective (excluding all the native civilsations from that perspective) since arguably time of first colonies being established. Which was in 1607 when a few English dudes showed up. If you want to trace civilisations in Europe you go back to the Bronze Age with city states in the Mediterranean region. Of course this also shows the ignorance of Americans and their Euro-centric perspective because there were already civilisations in the Americas in the Bronze Age as well, just not white people so I guess that doesnt count for them?
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