Is Capitalism Moral? | 5 Minute Video

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@SgtMickle 5 жыл бұрын

I just wanna know where I can get 4 pounds of steak for twenty bucks

@bobthompson2807 4 жыл бұрын

Climb into your time machine and go back to 2015 and you can find $5/lb (or less) steak in any grocery store. LOL

@theboatman360 4 жыл бұрын

@@bobthompson2807, or move to Texas?

@tchha 4 жыл бұрын

the free MARKET BABYYY

@theboatman360 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheHeartatck, do they eat cow in India?

@JK-gu3tl 4 жыл бұрын

Steak is cheaper in NYC than it is in cattle country.

@RagingGoldenEagle 9 жыл бұрын

Now we just need to figure out how to solve the biggest problem: How do we keep government from growing over time? No matter the government, we all know governments grow and become more power hungry over time. Is there any way short of periodic revolutions to stop this? We need to find out, since this is the bane of any "small government" idea. Might start out that way, but won't stay that way.

@long-timelistenerfirst-t-us2yy 9 жыл бұрын

+Raging Golden Eagle well simple. "government" is NOT the "the state". "the state" is the idea that violence has to be used coercively to enforce rules, therefore we vest the use of that violence in a monopoly, so that it is out of the hands of everyday people. the idea has some surface level appeal, but any digging will reveal its critical flaws. I am sure you are fully aware of these flaws (nature of people attracted to violence, un-altruistic nature of people that are required to be altruistic, etc etc etc). "government" are the rules. we DO need rules. BUT they do NOT have to be enforced through violence, or the monopoly over the use of that violence will be required (ie statism). get rid of the state, get rid of the violence, and we get rid of the problems.

@RagingGoldenEagle 9 жыл бұрын

***** OK so how do we do that then? And more importantly stop it from forming again.

@long-timelistenerfirst-t-us2yy 9 жыл бұрын

well, that is not so simple :-) it will be a multi-generational process.

@LordOfTheObvious 9 жыл бұрын

+paragshah2112 Sorry son but at long as we don't have a technological way to alter the core of our violent human nature, we cant effort to get rid of statism(police/army by your definition). Cant let murderers (bush and cheney) and thieves (wall-street) run free. At least not for long.

@Avidcomp 9 жыл бұрын

+Raging Golden Eagle Simple. Stick to the Bill of Rights. It's all in the constitution and the bill of rights. All that is required is that it is upheld; as it is ludicrously sworn in to protect on oath, but not adhered to. A man is permitted to do anything he wants unless he violates the law. A government isn't permitted to do anything other than what the law states it can do. It really is that simple. The founding fathers were huge intellects and had very carefully worded these documents. How many Americans today think of and/or speak of America being a democracy? You know that something has gone wrong when you hear it said.

@MrCombineGuy 7 жыл бұрын

The way he defined the concept of money from 0:25 to 1:20 is the most genius thing I've seen in several years.

@PathfinderHistoryTravel 4 жыл бұрын

Certificates of performance. Parents should start calling it that and spreading this brilliant observation.

@issacyasrom3421 3 жыл бұрын

Right, that was fire!

@MrTrombonebandgeek 3 жыл бұрын

@TrashCan and a logical extreme offer argument that being enslaved is a moral good because you’re asking for nothing and giving your services willingly

@idk-cj2qy 3 жыл бұрын

@TrashCan People are able to get away with doing nothing because of inflation and the central banking system. As long as they hold onto a non-cash asset that has real scarcity/lasts long like a house, they can steal the value of the currency. This is because the federal reserve regularly prints money/creates debt to purchase and inflate these non-cash assets. The non-voluntary aspect of our current central banking system is that you are forced to use the dollar. Several wars have been fought with oil rich countries because they chose to sell oil in a different currency.

@akilansundaram2181 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, and that's how I used to think of money after high school.

@uzi1251 5 жыл бұрын

Capitalism: im poor Communism: we're all poor

@UsernameInvalidTHIS 5 жыл бұрын

Silence, liberal.

@suhas6508 5 жыл бұрын

If it is the thing then why still many people regret fall of ussr

@miriam7779 5 жыл бұрын

@@suhas6508 because even communism has its pros. Those who lives in it knows, like my parents,..

@theboatman360 4 жыл бұрын

@@miriam7779, if you had a free ticket to America. Would you go and leave communism?

@wespenn6139 4 жыл бұрын

too bad pure communism has never been preformed before. USSR was far from Communist. IF we wish to achieve such- we must democratically eradicate capitalism (via socialism) and things slowly turn their way to a money-less, classless society.

@cortelldavis923 9 жыл бұрын

fundamental flaw here, free market capitalism as it is practiced today is still subject to elements of coercion because people in the labor force have very little choice to be voluntary participants. Its effectively work for a living or be hungry and homeless, which is the definition of coercion.

@cortelldavis923 9 жыл бұрын

Ken MacDonald you would be right if that were true, effectively in modern times that is increasingly more difficult to do. You are free to "try" to grow your own food, own your own land, male your own clothes, etc... but the barriers are very high. Its not a matter of being lazy, that's a simplistic view, some are simply less able to work, less able to think, less able to do. Whether because they are physically and mentally inferior, or because all the means of production have already been bought and owned by a competing party.

@cortelldavis923 9 жыл бұрын

Fine let's say your 100% right, that its laziness to not want to work for a living, whether your disabled, or a child, or a pregnant woman doesn't matter. If you won't or can't work the you must be lazy. Even if that's true are you not free to be lazy? I would think that you are, if you are willing to sacrifice your living standards. If you do not wish to sacrifice your living standards,then its still not 100% voluntary labor right? Its effectively do something you ordinary wouldn't do if you want to live comfortable, because if you don't your lazy and deserve to be poor, hungry, and homeless? You may be free to purchase land, but you still need money in order to do that, and you have to work for that money. You need to buy the land, buy the materials, but the foods,etc.. Which means you still have to work, even if you don't want to work, which is still coercion. Furthermore Well rich people who do very little work can end up with a lot of money, while poor people who do more labor do not end up with a lot of money. Some people simply inherited their fortune, and they are free to enjoy the benefits of hard working, while still in fact being lazy, or doing very little. Let's be clear, I'm not against capitalism, its better than the alternatives, e.g slavery, but let's not pretend its perfect because its not

@cortelldavis923 9 жыл бұрын

Firstly i think a lot of what you are saying is valid, but you are assuming that i am arguing for entitlement. I am not, i am not picking sides, simply pointing out the flaws of both, but i am not offering a solution. In my opinion its coercion on both sides, either someone else works for you, or you work for your self, both however are coercion. You may be free to do what you will, but that doesn't mean you want to do it. You may work for a better living standard, that doesn't mean you want to work. So in essence you are being coerced to do something you don't want to do, for something you want, which in most people's mind is okay and fair. I'm not saying they are wrong or right, i'm not saying capitalism is wrong or right, i am just stating that it is in fact based around coercion, that is, "work for a living, or else [fill in the blank]" which is a type of coercion.

@cortelldavis923 9 жыл бұрын

actually your definition of coercion is wrong. coercion is persuading someone to do something against their will by threat or force, it's not necessarily violence.

@cortelldavis923 9 жыл бұрын

Ken MacDonald sorry sir look at the actual definition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion "Coercion /koʊˈɜrʃən/ is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner by use of intimidation or threats or some other form of pressure or force." you can threaten people without violence, but if we can't agree on a simple definition, then perhaps this discussion will not make any more progress.

@alvisedwald 4 жыл бұрын

The man who showed me a world beyond being a leftist, and am eternally grateful for you. *RIP Walter Williams.*

@ImperialCommissarRikart 4 жыл бұрын

Fallen comrade:(

@zoubekukrutny9266 4 жыл бұрын

Please don't let PragerU shape your world view! This video is so oversimplified it hurts.

@michaelweber1674 4 жыл бұрын

@@zoubekukrutny9266 to be fair, most of the videos if not all of the videos are really not that good and probably misinform people

@SaneTheBro 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelweber1674 The thing is when I use prageru to make an argument in a debate without my opponent knowing where I got my information they more often than not change their view because of the reasonability

@rapidroha9245 2 жыл бұрын

@@SaneTheBro because if it’s from prager u chances are it’s source is either being cherry picked or it’s not credible

@cafepablo1968 4 жыл бұрын

Rest In Peace. I would have traded minds with him but I know he would have rightly refused mine.

@blairbrown4812 3 жыл бұрын

Presumably because you actually used yours.

@warthunder9155 2 жыл бұрын

@@blairbrown4812 how's the revolution going?

@justingolden21 3 ай бұрын

He shared his with the world and educated people. He made good use of his. Now go make good use of yours! 😁

@ImperialCommissarRikart 4 жыл бұрын

The problem lies with those who have NOT served their fellow man yet still have immesurable amounts of wealth which can allow them to determine markets that do not serve the will of the people!

@nhanqul384 3 жыл бұрын

for example?

@ImperialCommissarRikart 3 жыл бұрын

@@nhanqul384 for example? Give ME a billionaire that hasn't gotten their wealth from unethical means and I'll give you 20 which have

@nhanqul384 3 жыл бұрын

@@ImperialCommissarRikart How you define unethical means? do you mean corruption with the government. If that's the case, sure. That's not free market. Or do you mean Steve jobs, gates, musk, buffett, etc ?

@soulplexis 3 жыл бұрын

@@nhanqul384 it wasnt reaal capitalism

@badge5575 3 жыл бұрын

@@ImperialCommissarRikart elon musk he is wealthy and he is serving humanity also one of the very few trying to stop climate change with his new technologies

@booberry6715 8 жыл бұрын

What Mr. Williams is missing in this is that many today feel they have an inherent right to the goods and services produced by business.

@thegoldenarm6422 8 жыл бұрын

Correct. However, you're not entitled to someone else's labor.

@booberry6715 8 жыл бұрын

No you're not. That's why employer and employee engage in a contract over labor. The value of said labor is largely determined by the scarcity of the skill set. This is called a labor market and this is what so many people today can't seem to wrap their heads around.

@booberry6715 8 жыл бұрын

Anon ymous I think this nation's founders would strongly disagree with your perspective. They understood the principle of incentive and individual responsibility, you don't seem to.

@FletchforFreedom 8 жыл бұрын

+Anon ymous Absolutely not. Rights are inherent, not based on need, and cannot exist for anything that must be provided by others. One has a right not to have their life taken from them (inherent). But no one has the right to force others to give up their property or work effort under any circumstances - even to preserve or improve one's life. To address your second point, one need not have a right to something for a concerned society to undertake to improve the lives of those around us. This charitable interest (and capitalism has made us the most generous society in human history - primarily by facilitating prosperity) is an entirely different thing to a right or "entitlement" to such things. Not being indifferent is not the same thing as conferring a right to anyone.

@booberry6715 8 жыл бұрын

FletchforFreedom This is where they philosophically stumble. They look to the government for everything, even their rights. Many claim to have read our founding documents, but few seem to comprehend the principles behind them. Thanks for being one of the few and for showing the patience I lost a long time ago. XD

@jookbj 6 жыл бұрын

Tried to show this to my leftist family they nearly had a heart attack.

@SchizoMelody 4 жыл бұрын

Did they give a cogent counter argument?

@jookbj 4 жыл бұрын

@@SchizoMelody of course not they tried to discredit it. The right can't convince the left. They just need to wipe them out i.e enforce moral standards and new rules instead of following leftist rules.

@ehwhat4305 4 жыл бұрын

@@jookbj Ok but don't think to yourself that Capitalism is perfect, because it is far from it. Much better economic models out there than ancap.

@jookbj 4 жыл бұрын

@@ehwhat4305 who said it was? straw man much! Don't bring up things people aren't talking about.

@ehwhat4305 4 жыл бұрын

@@jookbj Oh so you find it ridiculous that I told you that you see Capitalism as perfect, good. Then you realize how silly it is to use full blown socialism as a straw man for social welfare programs. Personally I hate when I advocate for democratic socialism, only to hear some right wing nut case tell me "socialism doesn't work," as if that's even close to what I want (democratic socialism is essentially capitalism with more social welfare to ensure equal opportunity).

@GiovanniMascheroni 7 жыл бұрын

Walter Williams is great! His documentary "Good Intentions" is just awesome.

@bpqd2624 4 жыл бұрын

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@rayboish 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation of the documentary. I am from England 🇬🇧 but I love Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell. They both need to be acknowledged for their common sense and clarity of approach dealing with these issues. I am an admirer of them both .🇺🇲

@GiovanniMascheroni 2 жыл бұрын

@@rayboish 👊🏻👊🏻they’re great indeed!

@truthseeker7326 4 жыл бұрын

This makes too much sense for me, I want to believe lies, it makes me feel comforted.

@limitless1692 4 жыл бұрын

Look man your idea of Morality is for me to give a damn about you . My idea of Morality is for me to give a damn about me and for you to give a damn about you . You see I am Selfish and you are Altruist .

@himnishmishra5069 3 жыл бұрын

@BHTQ18 3 жыл бұрын

@@limitless1692 lol nailed it

@chrishess7443 3 жыл бұрын

@@limitless1692 that is not morality its actually the opposite of morality. A Kinder word for it is self interest . or another word is self importance. core beliefs, mindset, personality, corporate practices- like bail outs- of a "group" im positive your claiming to be against... yet you share missing morality and i have no doubt you share more than that.... If you had their wealth & influence, YOU WOULD ABSOLUTELY STEAL FROM PEOPLE LIKE THEY HAVE/DO. Btw those are preditory behavior's same as (STRANGER DANGER) whos victim #'s are many times higher than every offender of the past 50 years combined.

@charlesepperly1526 3 жыл бұрын

@@limitless1692 what does altruistic mean?

@nekrasov95 9 жыл бұрын

I have few questions: 1) Does this video mean that 2009 crisis was caused by inefficent companies? Did policy makers have to abstain and do nothing, leaving banks, industries and companies with their own problems, how it did during Great depression? 2) Does it mean that only under capitalism you deserve your goods and services? What about Soviet Union? People there did nothing and got food and apartments for free from their fellow citizens? 3) Is it better to substitute "you" by "poor" and "fellow citizens" by "rich"? 4) In your illustration only people pay taxes, not companies. Coincidence? 5) Why do you read the Consitution like the Bible, citing your interpretation of founding fathers' ideas and articles of the Consitution? It doesn't give you more credibility. 6) Why is your video called "Is Capitalism Moral?" when it should be "Is laissez faire policy moral?". You definitely change the subject and manipulate your audience. On paper it looks great. When you talk this sounds perfect. When you implement it strictly according to your ideas, it creates a system of inherited wealth - once you are in a position, there is hardly a chance anyone would get decent (or prestigious) education (except for the rich), fellow citizens would not be always fair with you and you would not be able to create the money you deserve. There is no free market economy in the world in your interpretation (except maybe for Hong Kong) because it is both inneficient and immoral. Not only it doesn't provide funding for fundamental science and fellow citizens who are in trouble, it creates a vacuum of power and has an extremely naive picture of human conscience and character. From Russia with love (sorry for mistakes).

@archieaion9729 9 жыл бұрын

+Сергей Некрасов "In your illustration only people pay taxes, not companies. Coincidence?" Companies do not pay taxes. Companies are not people. The ones paying the taxes are the customers of the company or the share holder, who is usually the bank common people have their money on.

@nekrasov95 9 жыл бұрын

+archie aion Companies do pay taxes. Read more about corporate personhood. Or read Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - case many republicans enjoyed.

@archieaion9729 9 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I understand that. What I mean is, taking money from a company in whatever form, is taking money from their customers or shareholders in one way or the other.

@nekrasov95 9 жыл бұрын

+archie aion While you're partly right, your view is still shallow. According to this logic we can't fine companies for breaking laws. Or treat parties in a certain way - there also only people exist.

@archieaion9729 9 жыл бұрын

Сергей Некрасов "According to this logic we can't fine companies for breaking laws. Or treat parties in a certain way - there also only people exist." We can fine the company, but the people paying the bill would be... the customer or the shareholders. The point is the same. Companies do not pay taxes.

@Urbanfour 6 жыл бұрын

People always forget that a fully free market is exactly why we needed Child Labor laws, minimum wage laws and working condition regulations. Yes too much regulation can make a strangle hold on businesses, but without it the end result of free markets is giant monopolies running everything (And buying out or destroying any emerging competitor) which is why we have anti-trust regulations to begin with.

@francismausley7239 4 жыл бұрын

"The time has come when those who preach the dogmas of materialism, whether of the east or the west, whether of capitalism or socialism, must give account of the moral stewardship they have presumed to exercise. Where is the "new world" promised by these ideologies?" ~ The Universal House of Justice, Baha'i Faith

@emptyendeavor2762 3 жыл бұрын

Your faith also claims that God changes according to the people he reveals himself to. Way to lump God in with all the false Gods..

@francismausley7239 3 жыл бұрын

@@emptyendeavor2762 Not true. Baha'u'llah, the Prophet-Founder of the Baha'i Faith, proclaimed: “This is the changeless Faith of God, eternal in the past, eternal in the future.” Baha'is recognize the Founders and Prophets who came before - among them are Krishna, Abraham, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad. But, there are two types of Teachings. 1) Eternal (same always) and 2) Social (changes from age to age as man grows). It is Man that changes! Revelation is Progressive to teach Man in steps. For example, first one learns arithmatic, then higher math, then algebra, then geometry, then log rythms etc. A new teacher comes about every 1000 years.

@pinnacleroofing9841 3 жыл бұрын

"Where is the 'new world' promised by these ideologies?" Look around - for all of human history people were enslaved, tortured, starved, destitute serfs with nearly half of children dying before age 5. Now even the poorest among us have iphones, world class health care they don't have to pay for, self determination, life spans at all time highs, MASSIVE community and Gov't help and handouts, mountains of food readily available, and an infant mortality rate around 0.005. What planet are you on that you can not see the good that is all around you. Nothing is perfect and NEVER WILL BE but for goodness sake man, look around

@luciernagas5661 5 жыл бұрын

Capitalism is not a Zero Sum game but the capitalists class, the wealthy, the business community are against any development in workers rights? They know that their income depends on maintaining the workers divided and the salaries the lowest possible.

@diogocoelho293 5 жыл бұрын

they are not force to work

@arcanumhypercubed8859 5 жыл бұрын

diogo coelho how’re you supposed to eat if you don’t work for the only job provider available to you

@sleepyfleepy597 5 жыл бұрын

Capitalist society only functions when the few are prioritised above the many

@SL2797 5 жыл бұрын

Competition in the free market is what forces businesses to provide better conditions for their workers. Remember that businesses compete for workers too.

@UsernameInvalidTHIS 5 жыл бұрын

@@diogocoelho293 Bruh look at this dude. Oh no no no

@TheZeus826 4 жыл бұрын

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

@lol-oh5zq 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, someone with common sense here.

@vonbass1300 4 жыл бұрын

Something that sounds deep that ends up being incorrect. When it comes to what enslaves the mind, believing you are free even if you somehow aren't, has never held any one back. Falsely believing you are not free on the other hand, holds billions back on daily basis. From believing the system is rigged against you, from believing your situation holds you back. From believing you were born with disadvantages, or into the wrong caste, class, or social group. No, believing you are free when you are not, if it even exists, has never held anyone back. But believing you aren't free when you are, has proven clear physical examples all around you, here in the real world.

@TheZeus826 4 жыл бұрын

@@vonbass1300 Let's hear some specific examples of BILLIONS of people who falsely believe they are not free. What BILLIONS? 1.3 billion people in China falsely believe that they're in an authoritarian regime?

@vonbass1300 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheZeus826 are you saying that China is not a authoritarian regime? Because they obviously are. The very fact that anything you say negative about the government can get you thrown in prison. And that every thing they don't like is scrubbed from their internet. We can start with the billions who have lived and died in India's caste system. And still do. Believing they can not rise above the position they were born in to. Or all the people , even here in the US who have been convinced that they are being held down by some invisible system that is rigged to make them lose. When the only oppressive thing that is actually holding people back is the constant repeated message that you can't make it out of your situation because of the place you were born, or how much money your parents have, or without the government's help. The world is full of people , most of which have quietly accepted the idea that this is how it is, and I can't do anything about it. So, yes, I am saying billions of people who are held back by false mental chains verses the number who "think they are free but arent" which I do not believe is a real thing. Every one knows when they live in a non-free place. It's just middle class Americans who can't seem to see that they are in no way oppressed.

@lol-oh5zq 4 жыл бұрын

@@vonbass1300 Yikes, ima get out of this shithole that is the prageru comment section

@charlesparera 4 жыл бұрын

The idea that the consumer decides the fate of a business is not always true in real world. The corporates always shape the thought of consumer through the media and influencers. Its like how they make you to eat junk food with no nutritional value. Theory and reality are very different, for both socialism and capitalism.

@MrTrombonebandgeek 3 жыл бұрын

The Reality being That our founding fathers didn’t envision a world where there would be companies like Disney or Google/ABC that have basically vertical and hortizonal monopolies that “don’t fulfill the full requirements of being one”

@HARMstudio6 2 жыл бұрын

Media doesn't make you eat junk food. that is a whole other physiological thing entirely. People wouldn't do it if there was no incentive.

@marshmallowok 9 жыл бұрын

What's more important than "free markets," however you define that, is the threat of competition. The problem with laissez-faire markets is they tend towards monopolies, collusion, and corruption, which destroys competition. This is why industrial countries run mixed economies.

@MrUppmas 9 жыл бұрын

+Ken MacDonald *Monopolies are easily destroyed in free markets because anyone can create a competing business.* But if a company achieves enough foothold, they can always temporarily drop the prices (if someone founds a competing company) so low that no-one can compete. They have the capital to endure temporary losses and the mass production to have things cheaper to begin with. You'd need a big-ass company to compete, but they don't want to. Why? Because it's not profitable to do such a thing. Instead they form cartels, so that they both get the biggest amount of money out of the deal. That's the biggest issue with free markets - competing is not always the route capitalists want to go, and that's when you run into issues.

@MrUppmas 9 жыл бұрын

Ken MacDonald *First off, this is GREAT for customers. Now customers can spend less on the product that company sells and reserve more money for other products and services they otherwise wouldn't be able to afford. Not sure why you are so against companies driving prices down.* I wasn't saying it's bad. That's just what it is. Sure, it's great for the customer as long as it lasts. But it doesn't make for a healthy competing arena. *The entire point of fearing monopolies is that monopolies can RAISE prices above market prices, not because they will LOWER prices.* Not really, the point of monopolies (or duopolies or whatever) is to create a stabilized system wherein consistent profit can be made without competition. Rising the prices is just one thing. And I wasn't saying they keep prices low /all the time/, only when (if) someone tries to compete. *Second off, if your contention is that after they push everyone out of the market, they will then just raise prices, then that higher prices DOES make it profitable for others to enter the market.* My point is they can always *temporarily* lower the prices to drive people off the competition. *Temporarily.* *Why would you be against a company indefinitely driving prices down?* I am not because they won't. You can only go so low, and there's no real profit in going very low (unless you find a way to do that) for either side. *Third off, the other way I know you're wrong, is that NOT A SINGLE monopoly ever formed the way you described. And for the reasons I described.* Standard Oil controlled 64% of the oil refinement business in 1911, and was thus forcibly divided by the government, because they were deemed to have established a monopoly, which they pretty much had. The main reason why such monopolies don't form is that they've been illegal for quite some time, alongside with the common tactics. *Again, cartels can only form if politicians prevent competitors from entering the market. If companies A, B, and C get together to collude on prices that are above the market price, company D can enter the market and price their product lower than the collusion price of A, B, and C.* Mate. It's not like anyone can just enter the market just like that. You need capital to do that. Unless you are rich, you'll probably get that by taking a loan from a bank or having investors. You won't have investors unless someone rich thinks you plan seems profitable and worthy to invest in. If your plan consists of trying to take on a monopoly, good luck with that. You can always take a loan, but few people want to take such a risk. Such problems won't exist if it's a big company seeking to spread, but then again, will they find competing profitable? Not really, the best markets are those where you can still innovate and/or which are not cluttered with competition. Not a market which is held in a chokehold by a couple of companies. *The biggest problem I find with anti-free market types is their lack of knowledge of economics (inability to explain why lower prices is a bad thing)* The biggest problem is that *you* don't understand how capitalism works. You have a naive sense of free-market capitalism, in reality, there is no silver-bullet economic model that can fix absolutely everything. *actual economic history (that not a single monopoly ever formed by continually driving prices down in a free market; they were ALL formed by using political power to prevent competition from entering the market).* There has never really even been free-market capitalist society. I guess the 1800's USA was close to that, but only /close/. My problem is not with capitalism. Capitalism just is.My problem is with people who... 1) Advocate for 'capitalism' when really they advocate for something else (free marketism, meritocracy etc.) 2) Don't understand socialism / communism 3) Dontt understand that USSR, North Korea etc. are/were not socialist/communist 4) Believe in a skewed version of 'freedom' 5) Are not even capitalists (aka they own and use capital)

@MrUppmas 9 жыл бұрын

Ken MacDonald I like how you carefully avoided the part where I explicitly tell you I'm not any sort of collectivist, yet you still insist I am one. Blehg. Whatever, I guess I sort of expected that you can have a meaningful discussion about economics in a P.University video. Have a nice life.

@TheProgressiveParent 9 жыл бұрын

+marshmallowok oh my god that argument has been debunked so many times why don't you do a quick youtube search "free market monopolies" to hear counter arguments before posting such a pedestrian objection. Free markets are hard to monopolise. Regulated markets are easy to monopolise.

@jasonschneijder2012 9 жыл бұрын

+MrUppmas is right +Ken Macdonald

@libereligion3864 3 жыл бұрын

“People，to the best of their ability，shaping their own destiny. ” Made my day❤️

@maryeverett2266 2 жыл бұрын

If you disregard literally everything else that shape someone's destiny, sure.

@michaelbradley7621 2 жыл бұрын

Shaping their own destinies with massive government, read Taxpayer funded, subsidies for a certain, tiny class of Americans.

@willnitschke 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbradley7621 Sounds like Socialism...

@warthunder9155 2 жыл бұрын

@@willnitschke that's because it is.

@Marcara081 9 жыл бұрын

Acting on a desire, no matter the desire, is selfish. That is, you do what you do because you want to do it. 'I do what I want'. Ergo, there is no such thing as 'selflessness' and 'selfishness' is just the term 'agency'. Typically when one asks or demands you to be 'selfless' they are merely asking or demanding you be useful to them which is, obviously, a selfish request. Selflessness is a means of social control wherein you convince one to act against their better interests according to a false moral standard. This also does away with the concept of sacrifice which is just an attempt to make one the victim of their own choices. A 'sacrifice' is a choice - often an exchange - like any other. This does away with most religious and political ideologies which command you to be 'selfless' and 'sacrifice' for the 'greater good'; all of which don't exist. Start with that, then work your way up to free market capitalism because until you rid yourself of the mind-virus society has inflicted upon you, you'll never understand what freedom actually is let alone how it is able to operate amongst a billion selfish individuals.

@RoyleEagle83 9 жыл бұрын

Actually there is a better term, self interest well understood that explains all of that. Tocquville coined it before the American Civil War.

@justinbeagley5151 9 жыл бұрын

+Marcara081 Acting on desires might be selfish... but it has nothing to do with 'morality'. I desire that people don't suffer from starvation isn't an immoral desire. Asking that everyone in society, including myself, be forced to pay taxes that would go towards making sure that no children suffer from starvation isn't an 'immoral' desire either. I'm simply asking that everyone in society participate in making society more moral. Forcing people to be moral is no more immoral than parents forcing their kids not to steal. It's the intolerance of immorality. You're suggesting that by 'forcing people' to do moral things is somehow 'immoral' - no, actually... what you're suggesting is simply that everyone should tolerate immorality. And there really is no tolerance of immorality - there's just a word for people who are tolerant of immorality... cowards.

@RoyleEagle83 9 жыл бұрын

+Justin Beagley forcing myself and anyone else to help another is immoral. it takes from me the ability to make the moral choice of rendering assistance. the problem with this is that it ignores one key element, am I actually in a position to render aid?

@justinbeagley5151 9 жыл бұрын

Royle Rogers Actually it does no such thing. A system that demands that everyone help absolutely could be created in such a way as to analyze whether you're in a position to help or not. We do this already in america... and it seems to be working all over the world... As far as your comment that it 'takes your ability away from you to make a moral choice' It does take your choice away from making an immoral decision.. you're right... it forces you to be moral. Do you have a problem forcing children NOT to take crack cocaine? Do you have any moral hangups about physically slapping crack cocaine out of the hands of a toddler?

@RoyleEagle83 9 жыл бұрын

So then as long as it is for the greater good forcing a person to relinquish their property is not only justified it is moral? So then who decides what is the "greater good"? We then run into the economic systems that are in conflict with capitalism and we enter a system where all are slaves. Choice then is the root of morality, and therefore an economic system based on choice, capitalism, is the only moral system.

@BUZZTROLLInc 4 жыл бұрын

Why can't soy boys at my school understand this simple concept?

@somebodythatyouveusedtokno9604 4 жыл бұрын

they are Ignoring the others perspective

@quantumfrost9467 4 жыл бұрын

Accountability

@dominicj7977 4 жыл бұрын

Not all services follow the rules mentioned in this video

@damiangrouse4564 4 жыл бұрын

Dominic Joseph Give us examples...

@dominicj7977 4 жыл бұрын

@@damiangrouse4564 The video itself begins with wrong statement that there is no coercion and exchange of goods for service is voluntary.

@justfrank9431 8 жыл бұрын

If you think that individuals who are out of work, or on low salaries, should not have access to housing, healthcare, or even food, then sure a pure free market is a great idea. Also if you think consumers should be overcharged for goods and services, from unregulated monopolies, with price setting power, which are allowed to buy up all the competition in a market, then again a pure free market is a great idea. If you think thousands should be made unemployed, by stopping government subsidies for large businesses, and you are willing to use tax money to instead, pay for their welfare, or just leave them with nothing, then a pure free market is a great idea.

@sohanturtorial3856 6 жыл бұрын

1There's nothing stopping them to quit that job.And now in modern society its easy to start ur own buissness if u have the creativity and dedication etc to do so 2Lets say we have two buissnesses one big one small.The product quality is the same but the price of the small buissness is less whose product would people buy? 3Big buissnesses need more employes does decreasing the number of unemployed

@blu2106 5 жыл бұрын

That outcome of capitalism is completely inaccurate. Name me a capitalist company or person who hasn’t provided economic growth to those around them.

@blu2106 5 жыл бұрын

Colin Murray - There are many people making private homeless programs, however they are often taken down by local governments because the officials would rather have a homeless program with a big budget for them to bring up in re-election campaigns. Just look at this man who was making dozens of houses for the homeless and was shut down by the city council: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGfLaJmCZ5eKeac

@PathfinderHistoryTravel 5 жыл бұрын

Please read Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics.

@dylanw.4533 5 жыл бұрын

Shohan Tutorial 1: there are plenty of things keeping them from quitting: the uncertainty of finding a new job, the bills they still have to pay stacking up or going unpaid, the uncertainty of life that may inflict them with illness or injury that they can’t afford to treat if there’s no chance of government help. And small business success is actually declining and has been since the 70s due to the inability to compete (see next rebuttal) 2: it’s not going to happen. Large companies have the resources to mass produce, lowering cost of manufacturing, whereas small businesses can’t get the same level of huge wholesale discounts or access to oversees sweatshops with underpaid workers. And even if they could compete price wise, corporations have massive amounts of money to spend on advertising, beating out small business’ voices, meaning most wouldn’t even know a small-business option exists 3: I’m honestly not sure what that word-soup means

@drewgladwell5875 3 жыл бұрын

My high school economics teacher showed us this video... probably one of the most informative videos you will find on the internet

@danki2000daniel 9 жыл бұрын

the problem isn't free capitalism, it's crony capitalism that's the problem. ..when you can buy politicians to pass laws to make you profit, that you pay no taxes on, is the problem

@alexwr 7 жыл бұрын

That's corporatism and collusion, not capitalism.

@barrackobama2216 Жыл бұрын

both of those are outshoots of capitalism

@dwwolf4636 3 ай бұрын

Actually, no.

@danki2000daniel 3 ай бұрын

@@dwwolf4636 yes

@rovar00 9 жыл бұрын

Like many political philosophies, capitalism seems very simplistic and efficient in theory, but there are many complications that we, as a nation, must deal with practically. For instance, the notion that "if you work hard, you will make a decent living" is becoming less of a reality. Nowadays, it's becoming increasingly difficult to get a decently paying job without obtaining a college degree. As a result, demand for college degrees have risen along with the price tag. Starting out with $30,000 debt is a large and risky price to pay for the opportunity to show that you can work hard.

@FujibearGames 9 жыл бұрын

+rovar00 The idea works on paper, and it probably would in reality if there was some way to start with a clean slate.

@theawecabinet 9 жыл бұрын

+rovar00 "..For instance, the notion that "if you work hard, you will make a decent living" is becoming less of a reality. .." We do not live in a capitalist society. That's why.

@Turtletanks 7 жыл бұрын

rovar00 The price of college degrees have also risen due to the government stepping in and giving loans to students

@awesomemantroll1088 5 жыл бұрын

@@Turtletanks And jobs are difficult to acquire without experience thanks to minimum wage and the resulting outsourcing.

@Brandon_letsgo 9 жыл бұрын

Please record some videos defending the second amendment and business like Uber(share economy)

@olanordmann7836 9 жыл бұрын

+Lucas P Firearms is a human right.

@Turtleday112 9 жыл бұрын

+Vegan Dearest Uber just got a suit dismissed by a judge in queens m.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens-judge-tosses-taxi-challenge-uber-lyft-rules-article-1.2354916 I'm not disagreeing with you necessarily. But once Uber gets their system running smooth with no legal hiccups. Taxi companies are just gonna have to get creative to compete, and that's the way it should be.

@blurglide 9 жыл бұрын

+Vegan Dearest The banning of guns in Australia had no statistically significant effect on their already low murder rate, and crime went up for a while afterwards, although it's begun to decline again in recent years.

@blurglide 9 жыл бұрын

+Vegan Dearest If you don't like how Uber treats their drivers, I recommend not driving for Uber.

@Turtleday112 9 жыл бұрын

+Vegan Dearest Give the free market a little time. Uber will find themselves having to compete for employees once these other ride sharing services pick up steam. Then they'll be put in the same position they put the taxi companies in. This is gonna be fun to watch play out

@stevenkeller452 4 жыл бұрын

I'm poor but I'm a strong supporter of capitalism

@SuperGreatSphinx 7 жыл бұрын

"Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain." ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

@EaglePicking 5 жыл бұрын

Absolute nonsense. People move in and out of the "capitalistic class" all the time. Bill gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg: all very powerful businessmen who are completely self-made and who are prime examples of this.

@MrJackPeppers 4 жыл бұрын

@@EaglePicking Do people move all the time from a working class into a capitalist class? I believe not. I believe this shift mostly happens at the beginning stages of revolutions (industrial revolution, the digital revolution, etc.) You gave an example of the hard working lucky few that did become capitalists (owners) thanks to their work yes but this also happens largely due to the wave of digital revolution they successfully took advantage of. But what about the hard working many who didn't have such luck (workers)? People like to focus on the very few success stories while forgetting the millions of "failure" stories of hard working people who despite providing value to society (teachers and nurses and other essential workers) didn't get even a tiny tiny tiny fraction of what these men got. Self-made... You think Bill Gates generated all his value by himself? I give him tons of merit... But do you think he generated billions of value to society alone?? By himself... Every penny he got?? Really? A lot of the technology he used was developed before through state funded research. A lot of work had already been done before Gates that he benefitted from. We all sit in the shoulder of giants. What makes these billionaires so special? For some reason we allow these guys to claim the value of the entire giant by adding a tiny rock to it and market it during times when things are about to go off. They deserve to get the value for the rock they added for sure (making them modest well deserved millionaires in these specific cases), but they surely don't deserve to get the whole giant's worth! Millionaires and billionaires are often not made because they pulled themselves by the bootstraps and worked 30 hours a day. No. They usually become millionaires the moment that what they own becomes worth a lot. Whether they worked a lot for it or not. Unlike workers who despite being responsible for the increase in value of a company, will never get their due share simply because they are not owners/shareholders. They will only get their wage and a pat on the back. Not the actual value of work they put. Again billionaires and millionaires generally ride a wave of revolutions to get where they are or just inherent the wealth. To ride the wave you have to work hard to stand on the board and be good enough to ride it, but it is the wave that is in fact pushing you forward and doing the great work (society and its workers), not just you! Whether you think is nonsense or not here is a fact: During the last three decades the wages of workers have stagnated despite productivity doubling while asset prices have exploded. The working class, those who make the world go around, are being devalued. The owner class, those who own assets like real estate and the means of production in general, whether hard workers or not, are richer and richer. Given what I said, do you find it fair? Do you find it fair that the ownership of collective knowledge produced by society and the resources given by mother earth is what largely makes you wealthy? Not the work in contributing to said knowledge or the work of transforming the resources into goods, but good old ownership. We need risk takers like Bill Gates yes. And they should be rewarded. But do we need to have these guys suddenly become lords of old who for some reason own our lands and companies? And for that have an obscene claim to society's work? Capitalism and feudalism are too strangely similar to me... Talking about absolute nonsense is how people don't even dare to make the comparison... Owners (lords) and workers (serfs). Same shit. Different day.

@EaglePicking 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrJackPeppers You might be surprised, but the answer to your question is, in fact, "yes". Your wording "capitalist class" is a clear indication of a dangerous ideology. In a capitalist system, people indeed do move in and out of the top % of richest people. A few fine examples in the world today are Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zucherberg. You can find thousands of others, if you search. You can also find a lot of people that went from super-rich to poor. Again: you have to want to see if and search.

@idonegotold 9 жыл бұрын

When I put gas in my car it's because I love what the fossil fuel industry is doing.

@cbrooks97 9 жыл бұрын

+idonegotold You have other options. You could always bike everywhere. If you don't, then there must be things you value more than you dislike fossil fuels.

@justinbeagley5151 9 жыл бұрын

+Chris Brooks That's true. However, the same moral dilemma could be posed to every free market capitalist. You don't need billions of dollars when children are starving, so if you have billions of dollars while children starve than you value money that you'll never even use over your concern of suffering children. What is more immoral? Being tolerant of billionaires who by omission allow the suffering of children, or forcing everyone to pay taxes, (forfeiting their property) so that as as a society we stand together against the suffering of children, and help out to the extent that we can comfortably help? Either way - morality loses (children suffer needlessly, or people lose a part of their property)... the results however are quite different - the result of one is suffering children, the result of the other is everyone living in slightly less luxury. If you prefer to live in slightly more luxury and allow children to suffer - I don't think you can make any claim of being 'moral' or having a 'moral' society.

@missmargarita5505 9 жыл бұрын

+Captain Weeaboo Free market Capitalism is also a fantasy. Go there and start by reading Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

@monsterblood420 9 жыл бұрын

+Justin Beagley who is making these children and why don't they take responsibility for their own children.

@justinbeagley5151 9 жыл бұрын

monsterblood420 well you're starting with the assumption that their parents just left them to die - maybe the parents died. Maybe the parents got injured and couldn't work any more. There could be numerous legitimate reasons why these parents 'failed' their children. I'm not sure if you know this, but the further women go in schooling, the longer they wait until they have children. (meaning they wait until they're in a good position to have children). So one way of getting parents to be good parents that take care of their own children is to help them get a higher education. Education is the most important thing that a society can spend money on. A better educated populace votes more, is more involved in government and politics, is more involved in policies and laws, speaks out against injustice, etc. In other words, the best way to stop the 'welfare' of children, is to provide higher education for free to all citizens. Cut out just 50 billion from the military budget, or do what Bernie Sanders wants to do (hedge fund tax) and we'll pay for higher education for every american. I'll end by saying this however - no matter what the failure of the parents, we as a society have an obligation to look after each other and take care of each other. And we should all be forced to help one another - that's the point of a society.

@AngelLuisTrinidad 9 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but the $20.00 is not prove that he served the fellow man. He could have killed a fellow man for the money. So, possessing the $20.00 doesn't prove where he got it from.

@richardfry5991 9 жыл бұрын

+Angel Luis Trinidad, Or the Bank could make a mistake, and allow people to have unlimited withdraws regardless of my available funds. This does happen and has happened.

@GlobalWarmingSkeptic 9 жыл бұрын

+Angel Luis Trinidad It is proof that somebody provided a good or service though, that's the thing. Prager University oversimplified the meaning of money here. Money is simply the value of goods and services, not necessarily that they were provided by you.

@brwi1 9 жыл бұрын

+Angel Luis Trinidad i don't know what's worse, your comment or the fact that you have 16+ likes

@techsupport1294 9 жыл бұрын

+brwi1 So you believe people's money disintegrates when they die?

@jakatak1134 9 жыл бұрын

+Angel Luis Trinidad Right. The trouble with capitalism is that money isn't awarded according to how well you serve your fellow man, i.e. teachers. Often it's awarded according to how well you exploit your fellow man, i.e. the Koch Brothers.

@imperijaable Жыл бұрын

As a person living in Europe, I must say that capitalism IS moral. I don't even know how much I have because I can travel, speak, live,and do what I want without some dictator telling me what to do. We don't even know what great thing freedom is. That is today in Ukraine also. People are fighting against Russian tyranny. Capitalism is a great thing.

@mikegreen5249 9 жыл бұрын

What about monopolies, often the consumer does not have choice

@vincentwilliams2956 9 жыл бұрын

+mike green The consumer always has a choice... buy a product provided by a monopoly, or don't. As for the monopoly, the challenge is often brought up by other companies seeking to have a stake in that line of business, and the government provides the steps needed to support the challenge.

@bubblegumgun3292 9 жыл бұрын

+mike green well monopolies are created by government, but lets say there is a monopoly in a free market well than you will have the choice to not buy their product. they can't force you too

@mikegreen5249 9 жыл бұрын

BUBBLEGUM GUN Yeah ...but there some products you have to buy, because of the programs I use for work I have to have a windows PC. I have no other choice and I have to put up with there product even if it is a pile of shit.

@bubblegumgun3292 9 жыл бұрын

mike green there is also mac

@mikegreen5249 9 жыл бұрын

BUBBLEGUM GUN There are large number of people who are stuck with windows due to macs and linux's lack of surpport for some high end software, if i could i would switch on to linux but sadly i can not. i know many people who have the same problem.

@AzureSymbiote 9 жыл бұрын

Thank you. This video was highly informative. People like you don't educate enough people unfortunately.

@KeithofRoss 4 жыл бұрын

Yes!! This is exactly what I have been trying to say! Free market capitalism is the only moral economic system because it RELYS on me meeting another persons needs and/or wants!

@isaac8451 6 жыл бұрын

Currency isn’t always proof of hard work it’s often just proof of inherited wealth.

@matteorizzo 5 жыл бұрын

Isaac If someone inherits money he didn't make, and a system isn't in place, that someone doesn't know how treat those money. As a consequence, those money will eventually end up somewhere else.

@ethank.3201 5 жыл бұрын

That inherited wealth was earned from hard work, time, effort, and risk, and was eventually passed down. I wouldn’t complain because anybody can earn enough money to inherit to their future kids in a country that supports the idea that anybody can make it in the market

@kellye2013 5 жыл бұрын

Money is. Proof of good deeds? That sloppy dyadic assumption of critiques supporting “something for nothing,” alternatives? Sure glad I don’t live in a world where the love of money is LITERALLY the definition of my culture’s self asserted “-ism,”. Did anyone edit this script? It may be the best economic thus far, but it is still on the wrong side of our father’s will

@rockandsandapologetics7254 3 жыл бұрын

Are you sure? Better go back and re-read Deuteronomy. There's a few things he brought out that I think you've forgotten.

@boxeriain 5 жыл бұрын

That was lovely. Thank you for this beautifully cultivated synthesis

@bpqd2624 4 жыл бұрын

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@boxeriain 4 жыл бұрын

@@bpqd2624 thank you for sending me this. It's useful to hear the narratives on 'the other side.' there is definitely polarisation of religions forming; Defenders of capitalism Vs defenders of socialism.

@boxeriain 4 жыл бұрын

@@bpqd2624 furthermore, somehow I don't think purging of individuals who don't subscribe to a powerful socialistic government will be taking place on the capitalist side. I am pretty sure the socialists are the power-hungry sadistic mob we need to watch out for. And mobs do not act responsibly.

@hautboxxradio 5 жыл бұрын

Beautifully explained! Great video 🙏

@metroboomin3990 4 жыл бұрын

omg is jimmy duval your cousin!

@hautboxxradio 4 жыл бұрын

Zohaib Rao who’s Jimmy Duval? 🧐

@Arthur-fz5dw Жыл бұрын

I'm not socialist, let alone communist, but a big issue with capitalism is that it eventually leads to monopolies, as some corporations hord all assets from a market and buy/kill competition. This eventually lead to monopolies controlling governments and abusing their power. For example, Google, Amazon, etc. Private banks are also a big problem as they have been given the power to create money out of thin air. The workers need to actually build things, and banks which create nothing concrete and delivers no real services benefit from these things like parasites, and also control governments.

@bradleykrebs7543 Жыл бұрын

100%

@Izaki 9 жыл бұрын

I love this video. For many years I've been discussing that the Free Market is the way to go! My only question that still remains - what about hospitals, or like other commenters have suggested - fuel? What do we do about services that we have a necessity or dependence for? Do we switch to privatized healthcare completely? It's been a challenging thought for me.

@rockandsandapologetics7254 3 жыл бұрын

Walter Williams, I just want to say I loved your presentation. You not only showed how the Free Market system not only works but is the best, but you showed what happens when the government gets involved. It may be that many people who say they are against capitalism these days are just upset with what the government has done to it...especially recently.

@HARMstudio6 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately Walter passed away in late 2020. Very sad 😢

@rockandsandapologetics7254 2 жыл бұрын

@@HARMstudio6 That is sad news to hear indeed. Thank you for keeping me up to date. May you and all those who were comforted by his wisdom be comforted by the Lord.

@jefferyhankins1980 6 жыл бұрын

Professor Walter Williams is awesome, I saw the great long form interview with "The Great One" Mark Levin on his Show Life Liberty and Levin on Fox News Channel airing every Sunday at 10pm EST.

@Dickens69420 4 жыл бұрын

The moment someone says a rich person is a bad and greedy person that's the sign someone is poor

@Steven-wv3qm 3 жыл бұрын

Republican logic. Flawed as usual. Explain Dan Price, Nick Hanauer, Bernie Sanders, Warren Buffett, Stephen Schwartzman, Jamie Dimon, etc. All wealthy people who critique the gap between rich and poor. Quit trying to feel better about yourself.

@terryturner3 6 жыл бұрын

Wow! I love this video! Thank you, Walter!

@KatsKettlebellDojo 4 жыл бұрын

Simple and profound. This is what needs to be taught in kindergarten!

@jimziemer474 4 жыл бұрын

Kat's Kettlebell Dojo Too many people don’t understand this. I was against the auto industry’s bail out for the reason he stated.

@DuckSau2e 4 жыл бұрын

Propaganda needs to be taught in kindergarten?

@jasonbourne9819 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, and not all that drag queen bs

@JamesNobleMusic 4 жыл бұрын

You only dislike this video if you’re entitled, spoiled and self-serving. No one owes you anything. Great video.

@limitless1692 4 жыл бұрын

James Noble Music Nice said . Agree to that .

@redmantis3336 3 жыл бұрын

Money isn't gained by "serving your fellow man". And even if it was, some people require more money to lead a good life than others (e.g. diabetics), and some can't put in as much work as others (e.g. physically or mentally disabled people). "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is the most 'moral' philosophy, though I dispute the use of morality as an argument. And "vote with your dollar" is a really bad idea, because some people have more dollars than other people. And those people will protect their interests, and the interests of those around them.

@rudybrooks7624 3 жыл бұрын

In any economy, some bare minimum welfare (government or private charity) is at times nessercary to help some get off the ground or support those with the inability to support themselves so you can apply the "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" philosophy to some rarer bottom of barrel cases but adopting a economic system where such philosophy is universal regardless of ones inputs and outputs has never been sustainable long term because of lost incentives, misallocation of resources etc. And yes some have more votes (dollars) but it's because they produced more wealth for society from their product, service or labor. You are rewarded with more votes if you produce value so if I sit on my couch all day than I don't get any new votes that day because I gave no value to society. you can point out rare exceptions but I digress

@jameeztherandomguy5418 2 жыл бұрын

I was about to say what the guy above said exactly.

@jameeztherandomguy5418 2 жыл бұрын

@@rudybrooks7624 unfathomably based

@yusirv3031 9 жыл бұрын

I'm a offensive and I find this socialist.

@hellatze 6 жыл бұрын

Jacob K so wrong in this comment... (This vid talk about ho good capitalist lmao)

@hellatze 6 жыл бұрын

Roblox User no you idiot. Socialism always force people to do "good thing". While capitalist always have money to support people. Socialist kill themself. And socialist cannot combined to capitalist. Period.

@DsiakMondala 6 жыл бұрын

I'm entitled to 50% of your offense, for I'm too am socialist.

@hellatze 6 жыл бұрын

DsiakMondala typical Socialist person live in mercy of capitalist.

@tmpqtyutmpqty4733 6 жыл бұрын

I find it funny that you Capitalists, the lazy of all forms of humans possible, living off the working class' work, consider others to be lazy.