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Comments by "Historia, Magistra Vitae" (@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.) on "Can Socialists and Capitalists Find Middle Ground? | Middle Ground" video.

Nope.
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"Bro telling that a single mom working hard to make ends meet, to survive, has an equal chance to be successful is mental. " Depends on what kind of job and education she has.
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@purplegi0n : It is nothing more than a economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Nothing more, nothing less. People are greedy, not the tools they use.
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@James Loehr : "Lol, when Cap atalism inevitably creates mon opolies without anti trust laws." Free market nega tes monop olies. Gover nment regula tions and intervention create them.
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@Djay Windsor: Monopolies do not really exist in the free market ... supply and demand is what dictates the competition. If you see a huge company, that's because the consumers want it to be big. Nobody has to buy from such company and it could go under overnight if everyone would vote with their wallet. The only way they wouldn't go under is if the government intervenes.
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@Thomas Anthony : "Capita lism and soci alism are not diametrically opposed," Incorrect. Capi talism advocates for private ownership for profit, while soci alis m advocates for collective ownership or control. They are literally opposed to each other.
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@Thomas Anthony : "com muni sm and cap italis m are, however." Co mmunis m is a form of (ma rxist) socia lism.
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@mr.congeniality8803 : Nobody is forcing you to "spent working in an authoritarian mini-kingdom" in a capitalist society ... you intentionally chose to do it, you intentionally chose to sign a contract that you would do it, you intentionally agreed to exchange your time for some money. Or on the other hand, if you don't like such arrangements, you can make your own business and hire people to work for you instead and see how that goes for ya... In a socialist country however, you have none such choices.
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"they shouldn't live to work, but work to live." Should not make bad choices that make your life harder than it should be.
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@user-xo2rk4jt8m " we should be able to control of the means of production that we produce." Start a business, be an entrepreneur and get the tools, then you can.
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@thanos8638 : the socialists have always been the statists ... you cannot have a free market nor capitalism in a place that is fully controlled by the state.
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@mo TM mo TM: Anyone with a brain would ... I'm a capitalist. There is no other way.
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@luccalopo8157 : Nope. They certainly were.
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@YTuseraL2694 : Has never been obsolete nor a failed system. Cope harder.
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@Maksie0 " they sto le from w orkers. " If tho se wor kers volunta rily sign ed a con tract, there was no st eali ng to begin wit h ... ste alin g just doesn't work that w ay, hun.
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@Maksie0 "Mugging doesn't exist, people voluntarily give muggers their wallets at gunpoint." Relevancy? Nobody is forcing people to work at gunpoint ... except in soc iali sm.
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@ramosman0469 : Nope.
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@Hackurman .G2 : Here in the nordic countries we still are capitalistic and have social-democracy. ... no socialism here.
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@PaulaX blank: How did you get that cat in the first place? you bought it or did you st eal it?
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@USA-Empire Is-Dead : That's not how fascism works though... it was the State over people. It was a form of socialism.
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@usa-empireis-dead227 : Nope. Here in the nordic countries we are social-democratic, which is based on capitalism.
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@usa-empireis-dead227 : Nope.
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@ivanstoqnov3441 : Labor theory of value makes no sense though ... time ≠ price of the product.
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@slevinchannel7589 : You should go check out his another channel, Grand Test Auto ... the Hypocrite Thought clearly didn't lose his faith in capitalism. 😄
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@AshSera : Then either get a better job or provide something more valuable to the society.... in capitalism, it's the society who is your customer after all.
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@AshSera : There are no such things as "bad jobs" since people are willing to do such jobs ... and not everyone has the skill to work at the higher paying jobs by default. This system is build to literally serve other members of the society and what the society as a whole deems valuable. If everyone would agree that flipping burgers is a "bad job" for example, then the fast food industry would stop existing.
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@Mr Pachino : "If I lived under co mmuni sm or so ciali sm, I would refuse to work." Unfortuna tely you won't have a ch oice... since you will be forc ed to work, for the ben efit of the colle ctive. Soc iali sm is involu ntary you see, and the reas on why it only wo rks with totalit ariani sm.
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@MagikMako : Marxism / Communism is a form of socialism.
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@Si: Nope. People are greedy.
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@purplegi0n : Cap itali sm is only a tool and does nothing by itself.
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@purplegi0n : You need to co pe harder than that.
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@White Rabbit : I never said everyone is greedy.
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@bizmark : Capitalism won't fall. Also in order to achieve comm unis m you need to through so cial ist system first ... and fas cis m was a form of so ciali sm also.
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@masterdeetectiv9520 "A hard core capita list is just some rich guy" Wrong. Hard co re ca pitali st is any and every privat e busin ess own er, or any ord inary citiz en who wants to sell things.
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@Cutiepie6789 : Poverty is usually because of your own poor choices.
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@ivanstoqnov3441 : You can pick any capitalist country and compared it to any actual socialist country... you will find more poor and poverty in those socialist countries for sure.
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@MF Sevin: How is it a b usine ss when it's fun ded by the gov ern ment and ta x pay ers? There is a word for a c apita list m ilit ary: mer cena ries.
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@mr.alandude3938 : Incorrect. The U S mili tary gets the funds from the federal budget. That is not ca pitali sm, hun.
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@abeIincoIn : Only m ar xi sm cares about the wo rkers own ing the mea ns of produ ction, not s ociali sm as a wh ole. If the m ilita ry would be fun ded by pri vate busin ess es, then it wo uld be ca pita list ... and there is a word for a cap itali st m ilita ry; m erc ena ri es.
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@johanedfors3899 Incorrect. Value comes from the sold product, not from what the workers generate. The workers can do whatever and much they like but as long as their product is not getting sold and bought by anyone... their value is zero. The only way to make profit is to provide a product that other people deem valuable. Has nothing to do with exploitation whatsoever.
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@johanedfors3899 : Well then, those workers should create their own business and employ themselves... problem solved then?
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@johanedfors3899 : Again, it cannot be exploitative when you agree to something. Then nobody is exploiting anyone due to a mutual agreement.
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@thanos8638 Nope. There is no forced labor in capitalism so no exploitation either. You cannot exactly be exploited if you willingly agree to a labor contract.
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@johanedfors3899 : Incorrect. Value comes from the sold product, not from what the workers generate. The workers can do whatever and much they like but as long as their product is not getting sold and bought by anyone... their value is zero. The only way to make profit is to provide a product that other people deem valuable. Has nothing to do with exploitation whatsoever.
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@Ann Handler : Socialism is the opposite of capitalism ... corporate socialism was called fascism.
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@fm56001 Well it can be, for example if you have a use less deg ree that doesn't really help getting empl oyed anywh ere. However getting a ki d is usually a choice, which you should get only when you have a st ab le in com e.
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@krasmasov6852 : Ah yes ... selfishness. Please remind us how many jobs someone like Bezos has created with his Amazon franchise for example? Hint: quite many.
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@krasmasov6852 : Put up your own business if you don't want to work "for pennies"... lets see how that works out for ya. Nobody is forcing you to do backbreaking work, that's up to you.
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@krasmasov6852 : Well if a certain someone can put her farts in a jar or bathwater into a bottle and make millions within a month, you should be just fine... you will figure something out sooner or later. Plenty of choices in a capitalist society you know.
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@khalidhayat6461 : They are victims of a co rru pt go vern ment, not ca pitali sm.
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@khalidhayat6461 : Nobody is stopping you to put up a business that does not work for profit.
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@Grace Nkem : If the government needs to give someone money to survive in capitalist market, i.e. bailout, yes it is socialism. In a proper capitalist society, such business would go under.
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@thanos8638 : Actually capitalism works better the less government there is to interfere with the free market. You have no clue what you are talking about.
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@comradelenin1302 : Capitalism doesn't need the state though.
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@thanos8638 : You don't know history, kid.
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@thanos8638 : country such as?
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@soulfulgardener They already do something like that ... in Chi na.
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@Alex Huezo : True ... which is why nobody who is pro humanity likes socialism.
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@sabrinaeinolf5506 : Nope... certain camps are, but not work. You agree to work. You are not forced to work.
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@earl528: Let me rephr ase your first sente nce: No Go vernme nt syste m will work. There. Priv ately ow ned, cont rolled and oper ated thin gs w ill work just fine but the moment you bring some "go ver nme nt" into th e mi x, everything goes to he l l.
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@OMGUKILLKENNY2 : In purely capitalist society, all the power is on the consumers, not on corporations. It is the consumer who decides which businesses they want to support. There cannot be "ultra wealthy" unless consumers are willingly supporting them and giving them money.
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@Humble Bee : Communism / Marxism IS a form of socialism... socialism is just an umbrella term.
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@whatfffd: Only in s oc iali sm there can exist a c ent raliz ed gove rnm ent with power distribution from the top down.
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@MMDelta9 : Actually only m arxis m seeks to abolish private property. Social ism seeks to own or control the means of production, distribution and exchange. But yes, in order to do the either owning or controlling, you need a totalitarian entity, being it a group, collective or a state.
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@MMDelta9 : They are similar and while owning the means of production and controlling the means of production have the same result, technically they are still not the same. Marxism advocates that the prolet ariat should own the means of production, while soci alism does not make such distinction and does not care who owns or controls the means of production, distribution and exchange as long as it's not the individual. In short, socialism is just collective ownership/control while marx ism is a more narrow, class/proletarian focused. Ma rx was a social ist indeed, however m arxis m is just one of the many branches of so cialis m.
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@Vinny’s Viewpoint: That is only a problem with communism ... in capitalism, people can vote with their wallet and the "raging sociopath" is no more.
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@krasmasov6852 : What exploitation? There is no forced labor in a capitalist society. What inequality? You get what you deserve and more as long as you keep working.
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@soulplexis : Nobody who lived under socialism wants it back. You have no clue. Also no, under capitalism you don't need everyone to be a part of it. You can have your socialist / communist experiment and don't need to engage with capitalism. You can employ yourself. But you will soon figure out that socialism / communism simply does not work.
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@a b: Capitalism is working just fine in every country that is using it... meanwhile there are only few socialist countries since they eventually stop existing.
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@tonicipriani6069 : Cuba and Venezuela would beg to differ ... also of course marxism / socialism in inherently authoritarian since someone has to enforce the "equality" since they are involuntary.
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@Cosmos Reality : ... socialism wants everyone to be equally poor and miserable, yes. And the one who gets to abuse that is the authority who is enforcing that equality.
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@krasmasov6852 : There is no such thing as "living wage" since it depends on the place you live and the expenses you have.
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