Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

@chico9805 That makes no sense— last time the US tried No Government Intervention we got Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel, monopolies that exploited their positions and gouged customers while keeping other competition out. It was state intervention (Teddy Roosevelt, Trust Busting) that broke the monopolies and forced them to be competitive again. Sorry, but not only are you wrong, literally the complete opposite is true. All companies want to maximize profits and the easiest way to do that is to snuff the very thing (competition) that allowed you to exist in the first place.
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Well, babies still need language training so enunciating and repeating your words might not be such a bad idea. That being said, once they're language proficient, you should speak to them with an understanding of their capacity for understanding. I wouldn't spill all the family secrets on them right away, but just don't be condescending.
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@ryan33262 "The one extreme scenario" It's literally what happened when the Government let the markets run on their own, like you wanted. It's repeating itself in today's US, your telecommunications companies suffer from a cartel system. Even repressive Moscow has better competition for Internet providers. The state needs to intervene in certain industries. That may hurt you emotionally but it is simply true. Companies cannot be allowed to become too big. Without a government to keep watch of them, they always become too big. Governments can also encourage monopolies— but in a capitalist system there needs to be a higher force than companies. Otherwise they do mergers until you have Disney-Pixar-Lucasfilms-HBO-Prime. And because they have nobody to compete with, their products become stale. Another thing you are starting to see.
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 @Sakky_wakky You may be confusing it with Opera or Edge. Both switched to Chromium
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@johnrildo2325 ..What the fuck?
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 @drunkenhobo8020 "Their kind" migrated to all other parts of the Internet...
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@bongwelll Ah, a fellow SecondThought enjoyer
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@notubist Sure. There are plenty of areas in United States politics where less government would spur growth. My point was that the person who thinks that corporatism (definition?) is due to stare intervention is wrong. Corporatism is capitalism. Without government interference in some areas, companies always consolidate until a monopoly is formed. We saw it then with Oil and Steel and we see it now with ISPs and Pharma companies. And media. The only difference is they fear being broken up so they stop just short of a monopoly.
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@deeplorable2913 That has been your response to everyone in any thread. How about you actually prove it? You're saying "you're wrong, Hilary Clinton is (I'm assuming) bad scary socialist, read up on it" But you don't give any sources or arguments, you just present your idea like its automatically true, which it isnt. Even Nancy Pelosi said "I'm sorry, but we're capitalists, that's just the way it is"
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 @Xjuijau True, but its subreddits need to be archived. There's troves of very valuable info on there. Yes I'm serious
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@infiltr80r "The idea that every moron with a Robinhood account should be making money by randomly gambling is ridiculous." Wow. I've never heard a more pretentious example of gatekeeping in my life. They shouldn't be making any money! Everyone knows that only smart and rich people deserve to have money!
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 @Animal_lives_matter Don't give them ideas please
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I guess, but other countries don't seem to have this problem. Spain's gov't nationalized their payroll, no extreme closure spikes like we have here. And when it's over, they'll go back to normal, like they've demonstrated before. You can hate the government for its incompetence, but to shun its potential capability in the middle of a crisis is just foolish. Unless, you've got a "small government" solution to a virus that spreads across small governments' jurisdictions?...
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@deeplorable2913 But most public transport systems don't suck this much. I don't think this is just a "government money = no improvement" situation. This is a uniquely American problem. Hell, Moscow's metro system is a tourist attraction in of itself. And the Russia economy is tiny compared to the US, what gives?
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@nightmareeternal8454 Not to the extent necessary to completely ditch Reddit. Lots of people (in the comments, already) were lamenting the loss of access to info for the 2 days. And I'm sure that will be a factor in whether a competitor or decentralization will be successful.
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@Face He didn't even mention what he was talking about lmao Looks like someone's projecting their own subconscious doubts onto him..
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If you think that's bad, wait till you hear what US citizens living abroad have to do. It's a very clever way to keep immigration out to a minimum. Keeps the country populated and strong. What the country does with that strength is questionable.
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@My_Old_YT_Account Drank the koolaid lmao You've literally never been. You're doing the exact same thing everyone is mocking— eagerly nodding your head at whatever the media tells you. Tell me exactly how you know your view is right?
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 @DCMAKER133 Then nobody should subsidize anything, and any company or country that gets to a technology first has earned the right to a monopoly for the rest of time. Brilliant.
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@steveb9713 just find some local crackheads and put them in Halloween costumes
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@cowbless Unfortunately, that's the best most people can do. It's logistically a nightmare to pony up enough for real investments, even if you save every penny and live like a spartan. Plus if inflation-adjusted savings accounts were universal, we'd have a stunted economy.
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I read into a Macworld response to the video, and their answer is interesting. They "say" (really they implied it for plausible deniability) that Apple just says that to cover their true motives. The real reason is that Apple doesn't want to replace the missing part (legally speaking, because he took the machine apart), and would rather he buy a new machine. Not to save him money, like Alexander Thomsen suggested, but because they want more money. Of course they have a support network for replacing the new lineup's parts.
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@whosjoe323 Not really.
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@xryeau_1760 Ohh you got me, you exposed me so hard you're such a deep thinker lmao Honestly I could say the same about you. The US is one of the only countries that taxes its citizens abroad, and instead of addressing it you just said "well you're bad too!" Can't handle criticism huh? Gotta shift blame to something else so people don't notice your flaws? Isn't that what you accuse us of doing? "no u" indeed haha
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How fucking petty and childish can you be like "We don't like that you're exposing how greedy and shitty we are, stop helping people!! We don't care how much they suffer, we just want their money WAAAAH" -aPpLe
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@LetsTakeWalk The issue is there's no alternative. Sure there's a patchwork of things that each can replicate individual programs, but nothing unified like Adobe has. Just hope and pray that some company rockets to the top and gives Adobe competition. Or a Chinese company comes out with a suite. It may not be any more secure than Adobe, but even the threat of having their profits plucked will make them change
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@completelyferrouschemist6776 ...Weird, it's almost like the people most likely to throw out emotional comments have the least to say. If you're being tongue in cheek about Marx or something, he wasn't the first to use capitalism in its modern sense. That was Louis Blanc 15 years prior to Das Kapital.
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@elfrjz Probably still fine. All Soviet metros were built to double as bomb shelters. Likely full of debris by now but the general shape of the tunnel is fine And yes, even now it's probably more consistent than a US one
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I guess terrorist groups will need to find a new atv brand lol
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..what? Wanting to give homeless people a helping hand (instead of 'personal responsibility') is a very Left thing to do. In fact, it's anti-Right.
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@xryeau_1760 ...Are we talking about my country or yours?
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Hot hot hot take, love to see you standing by your word!
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@calebpagan2226 Yep, but they're a monopoly. They were the first in the game, and now the whole creative industry relies on them. I honestly hope someone makes a (cross-platform! Tired of these Mac solutions) suite that can finally slap them in their fat faces.
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D Madd11 How is that socialism? In socialism stocks shouldn't exist period
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They'd ideally have everyone enslaved, besides their small clique of rich fucks. I mean feudalism created a world of peasants and a fabulously wealthy group of aristocrats.
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 @AdviceandAdventures Doesn't make sense, Addis Ababa has a great public transit system.
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Definitely not first but WOW I'm early Also this is nice, I can relax instead of raging at Apple for once lol
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I mean in some cases it is actually useful but companies will always have the upper hand over consumers— even if money (campaign "finance") is taken out of politics, and lobbyists can only give information, they will still have more time to spend with those politicians, more training in making convincing arguments, and there will be more of them to spread their arguments. So I think it should die out, but something should replace it (laws for tech do need to be made)
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@heatvisuals I can't not say it Figma LIgma
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@BR0984 I mean... yeah. Government gets in the way of profits. Any amount the government could subsidize a company, they could get more by having slaves. But that's illegal, because the government intervened in the market. So yes. Gubmit good.
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Italy— This what happens when you let the Fr*nch buy your company!
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@chico9805 No, they didn't bribe politicians. They didn't need to, and frankly (thankfully) by the time they fully consolidated horizontal and/or vertical integration, Congress was very hostile to those companies. After the governemnt had to ask JP Morgan to bail then out in the 1890s. Congress passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and eventually broke up the monopolies, how do you think that was possible if they were also supposedly in the pockets of these same giants? No. Most of the consolidation was done through predatory pricing (like Amazon does— when a competitor enters your market, adjust the price of your product so low (even if you take losses) that no company can compete, wait until they go out bust, raise prices again). Or through corporate espionage— which is illegal, and requires state intervention to enforce. Or simple acquisition. Eventually your economy of scale simply can't be surpassed and you have a monopoly. All without government interference. Again, the US Government did very little in the 1890s, sharing your philosophy. Let the markets "work their magic". My point is we've seen that play out and it just doesn't work. It was called the Guilded Age for a reason.
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@notubist No, you're wrong. I'm not taking shit from someone who can't spell Louis correctly. You admitted to me being correct about oil but made an excuse for it. Same with steel— Carnegie Steel's monopoly had fallen to 50% of US production from competition with Bethlehem Steel. That's still half of the entire market. It took decades for anything substantial to change, and by the way the only reason was because Kennedy forced them to reverse their price gouging after WWII— but in the meantime, countless people (especially black convicts) were underpaid for their work. This is precisely the type of thing government intervention is good for. Limiting exploitation. "ISPs are regulated by the government"— that's my POINT. Can you give me the specific reason why Comcast, Time Warner, and Cox haven't merged? They've tried to before, but you seem to think it's because the market just magically regulates itself. Mind telling me what's stopping them from doing what their shareholders would profit from them doing? Pharma suing other companies isn't an example of big government actively taking a role. Even if they didn't take sides, even if we lived in a libertarian country, companies could still sue new companies out of the market. We'd still need courts, this practice wouldn't change. Or they'd just use predatory pricing, which requires no government involvement and is anti-competitive. The only thing that could stop those big pharma companies from turning into monopolies (especially with products that have inelastic demand like insulin)? Care to take a guess?
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I know they're not much better actors here, but if China's automakers play their cards right, they might be able to eat a chunk out of the established companies' profits and gain a foothold in the American market. ] The ads make themselves at this point: the Chinese are know for pirating things... including keysfobs! Our cars don't require a monthly subscription, step into a Chang'an dealer today
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@tolpacourt sounds like the whole system is busted
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 @person800 That's the distraction they told you so you don't wake up
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@cheesypuffs1342 Wait what? Lol AstraZeneca lost out on billions (and was heavily fined) for putting out a faulty vaccine. Same with J&J
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@DM-qm5sc You missed an A in front of that
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