Real Billionaire Conspiracy: Freeport Capitalism

[@giovannimartin3239]

It’s like Mark Fisher said, they can hide things behind entertainment and make it easier to accept. A normal person can go ”Finally they’re talking about x that’s a real problem!”. Then it becomes topical but in a performative way, companies engage in performative charity and boom social issue goes from “real” issue to fiction that was vanquished because Scarlet Witch referenced it in Avengers 37.

[@DaveE99]

Yes yes yes yes!!!!!!

[@DaveE99]

I arrived at this on my own but glad to hear that the likes of mark fisher was talking about it.

[@TylerRein]

Interpassivity!

[@irpwellyn]

to talk about something dire is for it to become mundane and uninteresting given enough time and saturation through the monofilter of information-as-media consumption, yet to to not talk about something allows it to fester away, out of sight and out of mind, hell, just think about how many people, even us included, are growing bored of Gaza coverage because it's only through screens that we learn anything about it, and those same screens inundate us with advertisements more than half the time, and how to just turn away from the screen doesn't produce a polar opposed goodness Spectacle, recuperation, interpassivity, depressive hedonia, all those words, yet again

[@giovannimartin3239]

@@irpwellyn I think it’s less about talking about it and more about presentation of it. The presentation becomes spectacle, whilst actual communication or even rumination on it might be closer to the actual issue.

[@ricopena2053]

The beauty in art is creating it. Write a poem. Sing a song. Sculpt clay. Don’t let rich people commodify everything.

[@roxane1237]

It's difficult to create art when you are a slave to your wage.

[@ricopena2053]

@@roxane1237 true. I work 12 hour swing shifts, but still keep a nature journal and take pictures of animals I see. If you work more than that, look for easier work while still keeping the current job.

[@kussemeinkont]

@@roxane1237 great art must come from suffering

[@OsirusHandle]

​@@kussemeinkont but not artificial suffering created intentionally, no? otherwise it is purely masochism

[@cgsrtkzsytriul]

I've encountered more novel ideas in a single Plastic Pills video than in an entire semester of university. How is this channel allowed to exist?

[@whataboutthis10]

1. the channel makes money! The content is anti-system, but at the end of the quarter that's still just content. Capitalism doesn't need to shut critics, it profits off of them 2. if you're trying to look through a more totalitaristic power-holding lens: the channel is not big enough to cause capitalists concern anyway and in a way trying to shut him down could raise his credibility and people awareness. That's why capitalism further goes well with free information, the complex truth will stay buried by mindless entertainment and immediate-rage baits 3. by this point certain class is so out of touch they might not even know what information is missing for masses; 4. it is hard to believe information alone would bring people together, since division and individualism still go strong 5. they don't need to fight individuals or small groups, the capitalist scheme is to double down its own side of propaganda: the american dream marketing and general discouragment to look into class-war stuff by making it cool to make fun of it 6. they are too busy growing their shit, 7. prefering to speedrun inequality increase while possible, because: 8. they can't really know how it would break anyway, so they can only take preventative measures in 5. 9. of course restructuring the system would help, but they aren't really interested, they wouldn't know how, all they need is it to work _for now_ 10. because they feel safe and 6 is too fun 11. in case of a real full blown uprise - triggered by some catastrophy upon inequality being pushed way over the line for people of all nations to unite - the solution is short and at hand: start all out nuke war

[@MattStranberg]

Oprah metaphysics still working on a planetary level

[@ricopena2053]

This is why the media wanted us angry with those soup can throwing teens. That Van Gogh was some oligarch’s retirement account

[@ricopena2053]

@@Joe-sg9ll I believe the beauty comes from creation and not curation. Go and sculpt your own work from clay, paint your own canvas, write your own songs. Van Gogh would not have liked billionaires hoarding his work in crates.

[@ricopena2053]

@@Joe-sg9ll I enjoy the Sistine Chapel and the Weeping Woman as much as anyone else. I’m not stopping you from going to museums or hiring an artist. Watch this video and you’ll will see our problem with “high art”. $500 million for a painting that never leaves a warehouse is ridiculous

[@ricopena2053]

@@Joe-sg9ll yes! Freeport capitalism shouldn’t be a thing. All international sales should be taxed and put limits on “In Transit” times.

[@JeredtheShy]

The soup can throwing teens are paid actors from some public relations firm. Take note of how Just Stop Oil - a deliberately stupid and childish name - always does things that are easily laughed off, like attacking already well-protected paintings, or gluing themselves to the street. They never harm property, no matter what. Their job is to make activism look stupid, ineffective, and childish. That's why people like Greta Thunberg are never seen with them, everyone knows what they are, except the average person, who thinks they are real.

[@poindextertunes]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@ricopena2053not only that but Van Gogh was broke his entire life. It pxsses me off that someone with enough money can just create a market for something and corner it right away instead of these markets being created organically. It seems like everything in the world today is a grift for some rich person to get richer 😑

[@hypehypehype]

That graph spiking now for an unknown reason is freaking me out

[@marcoonroad7]

panic button intensifies😅

[@WarrenPeaceOG]

China's economy is now bigger than the global hegemon. [Runs naked and screaming down the street on fire]

[@danciagar]

Plenty of possible bubbles to pop off next month/year: China, AI, real state, etc. Late capitalism is just a giant global pump-and-dump job.

[@Leenneon]

For no reason? -Russian-ukrainian/NATO War -Usa/Israel-palestian/Iran/Hebollah/Houthis conflict -China-Taiwan growing conflict -Growing fascism in europe -Japan market crash -Possible US economic recession There's much happening actually

[@FrznFury27]

There's another recession

[@wmd40]

i said this about NFTs. they are basically digital paintings for rich people. artwork has been used as a way to move/launder money for centuries. you can't bring large sums over the border. but items.... property... ways to hold money in forms that can be sold off later or borrowed against.

[@nolanhardy3320]

I think the main way NFT failed to be that was to generate faith. Like PP said, there has to be an underlying faith in the system and the sublime objects for the system to work. I feel like NFTs have been mocked so thoroughly it failed to gain that faith.

[@wmd40]

@@nolanhardy3320 yeah exactly. I hate NFTs btw. I just think that's what the real purpose of them truly was meant to be

[@Cricket12226]

Wow, it's almost as if the real war is class war

[@put-on]

Forgot to mention the Walton family. They have their own museum.

[@alexchurn8181]

Explains a lot about the stamp collecting frenzy around NFT's that most paintings are owned by people who only see them ad big cardboard post cards.

[@alexchurn8181]

Commodities even.

[@RobertMunro]

it's like a massive baseball card swapping game - glamorized by the entertainment industry to create and expend cultural capital within the top circle.

[@poindextertunes]

infuriating is what it is ughhhhh

[@bpalpha]

Let me guess, all the mega-yachts track around these map points too?

[@WhizPill]

schocker

[@t.m.2415]

14:19 It's important to note that capital only seeks out stability for itself, capital. It doesn't care about how many workers die in the process.

[@CC3GROUNDZERO]

I mean, it's not the capitalists' fault that human workers aren't robots... /s

[@arberi9186]

Why would it.?

[@t.m.2415]

@@arberi9186 It wouldn't. I'm only pointing out the inhumanity of the system. The fact that we organise around these principles and celebrate the anarchy of production needs to end.

[@yogurtballoon8090]

where could I read more about this?

[@MichelleHell]

Capital is not conscious, so it's not capable of caring nor apathy. I've known quite a few poor people who were more generous with the little money they got than wealthy people. Capital is a tool.

[@tomt55]

Excellent video. Fun, entertaining and so sad... Vijay Prashad said years ago that the rich were on tax strike, man, a truer statement has never been said...

[@DaveE99]

It’s called counter insurgency tactics within contained opposition

[@poindextertunes]

@@DaveE99is it?

[@DaveE99]

@@poindextertunes I suggest looking up both those concepts independently just know they work together

[@josiah14]

rules for thee, but not for me.

[@whataboutthis10]

Third way feudalism incoming, especially after middle class finally loses land/flat ownership

[@adityathakur3161]

Thanks for getting me back to my usual depressed self

[@NoPrivateProperty]

The solution is Metallica's debut album

[@tinseltq5032]

al gore rhythm dodged better than the ultra rich do taxes

[@stephenfrancis303]

Ask lars how many paintinga he has

[@MattAngiono]

This is the perfect documentary for viewing right before watching an art heist film.. If you ever get confused as to who the real bad guys are, this can make it clear. Admittedly, most of these films do paint the thieves as the good guys, but we still don't quite get the sense of the real power dynamics most of the time. Anyway, great work as usual!

[@theonetruetim]

love this comment! [ques Heist flic score]

[@geneevans7885]

Ever seen art of the steal😂? Pretty good flick.

[@spaceboy1224]

never misses

[@Xsiondu]

This explains why governments invest so much money into preventing and prosecuting art counterfeiters

[@MattStranberg]

Fantastic work on every level

[@Bojoschannel]

As Zizek said it, we all know we are participating in a self-destructive grift of a system, but we do it anyways... Which is, i guess, what happens when everything has already been decided forwardly by "they", including our minds and imaginations and energy for something different

[@poindextertunes]

yup. its too far gone to do anything about it and those who opt out end up getting killed. if a counter movement is created the cia has already infiltrated it or they flat out concocted it to begin with

[@TheLeftCulprit]

Great to see you're still making videos. You've done good wotk

[@zezuntxiduntxi]

this is revolting

[@CrustaceousB]

Things will get worse before they get better. The fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil is not poisonous forever. It is a ripening fruit, and the masses are getting hungry. 💪

[@SageLittleHawk]

How dare you attack my bs way of life. It's my way or the highway, bub. If you don't like it, go live on Mars. 😁✌️

[@TheLeftCulprit]

Welcome to real world. Machiavellianism will never not be relevant to the nature of power and influence. Its a war of ideas, and those who want to win will play dirty.

[@johannesbongers]

Great video Pills!!

[@hammadusmani7950]

Let's not embellish the intelligence of billionaire's. They're not the ones suggesting these types of money laundering and tax evasion, it's the people and lawyers around them. We must hold the firms who enable the bad behavior of those billionaires accountable. At this point, everyone has a neuron trained that inputs "tax" and outputs "bad" every time. This is by design and helps those in power keep the voting population from eliminating the tax loopholes. In fact, good accounting practices overpay taxes so the bill doesn't increase as time goes on. However, the wealthy currently have trillions in unpaid taxes and they're afraid of what's going to happen when that bill is due. This is because of how ignorant and corrupt most of the wealthy are.

[@bmatthews15]

Let's not downplay their intelligence. Even if the government has more tax revenue, you still have to appropriate the funds. I don't think there's a single populist in Congress. There are a few playing one on TV. How do you hold Congress accountable when they control both political parties? They are their lawyers too. Partisan politics ensures their failsafe. The peasants keep falling for divide and conquer strategies, a story that's as old as time.

[@chazzbranigaan9354]

Sigh, as usually communists and liberals can't math. The entire wealth of US billionaires is 5.5 trillion. Not even enough to pay the welfare bill for 8 months. There isn't enough money at the top to support hundreds of millions of US citizens. You will have to be skilled and productive if you want to live a good life, you can steal the money if you want, but 9 months later you'll have to get a job commie.

[@HoboGardenerBen]

Mixed bag, gotta be some brilliant assholes in the mix that carry the rest along with them with the help of the smart parasites that circle the rich

[@scaryteri8]

Having just watched Tenet, this is great. Nolan knew what was up (major scenes take place in super-secure airport storage, that all the air can get sucked out of to prevent fire).

[@AJayZy]

Nolan could very well be apart of the circle this video is talking about so it makes sense

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

What is even left to a person to whom even the prospect of amassing even more redundant capital is better handed over to investment firms? We don't look up because, otherwise, the billionnaires may begin to suspect that it is _they_ who are impoverished. As above, so below.

[@lemurlaemu]

what is left? all the joys formerly known only to aristocracy. i really don't think that a life of a peasant with its necessary/inevitable strife carries any more meaning, even though it might be felt as naturally/intrinsically more meaningful.

[@OsirusHandle]

aristocracy is relatively cheap too. you only need like 10 million in assets with like 100k income to practically live as the richest aristocrats did. these billionaires buy houses they dont even live in. they arent gilded, they dont throw balls and feasts, they dont show up to public affairs. thats basically just celebreties who do that. ​@@lemurlaemu

[@lemurlaemu]

@@OsirusHandle while i'm pretty sure i won't get to this 'mere' 10m threshold/since i don't even try to, that would take a miracle/, what i was relating my answer too is alleged 'impoverishment' of people devoid of strives pertinent to common people. As I read it, it is that strife that makes poor richer than the rich is among their riches, a notion that i perceive as some sort of rationalization - a psychological defense concocted to, simply put, feel better about not being a billionaire. the only millionaire slightly closer to me used too make fun of working class heroes he employed, or rather, of the commonplace ideas or 'values' dwelling in our psyche, or the rules of the game as some see it. most ppl in order to get that well paid job would try to sell themselves as enthusiastic workers. so he paid them little, less than expected, just to pierce that bullshit con. and the joy was to watch the fallout.

[@lemurlaemu]

@@OsirusHandle previous reply vanished when laptop boiled, so in short: amanofnoreputation's comment screeches 'sour grape' rationalization to me.

[@OsirusHandle]

@@lemurlaemu i dont agree, i think capitalism does impoverish the soul and in a way, its "superseccion" eclipses our body too: more and more the profit motive feeds *itself*, inhumanely: eventually the bourgeoisie would be left entirely behind if it was persued to the end, but I suspect the logic breaks before then. I suspect we break before then too...

[@petterericson6230]

It might also be useful to compare and contrast these small but highly influential territories to the 'pinpoint empire' of American military bases all over the world.

[@poindextertunes]

theres literally american military bases in every country regardless

[@EconMcCausland]

Your F1 / Freeport map overlay blew my mind. 😅

[@npcdaniel7761]

@PlasticPills I don't know if you will see this comment. when I watch your videos I can't help but get the mental image of a despairing or apathetic soul screaming into the abyss that is mass media, and while it sometimes listens seemingly very attentively the abyss is effectively deaf for all it truly understands and for the lack of change or action the apathetic or despairing soul's screams seem to produce. all this is not to say I know you, I just got inspired to write this after watching a couple of your videos and thinking about it. honestly, this whole thing is just a shower thought that I felt was pseudo-poetic enough to actually write down. If you see this I like your videos and desire more pls and thank you! :D

[@gonzalollach1189]

You nailed it with the excess capital map! Thanks

[@shorunqualtec2070]

It brings joy and hope to my hart to see the young ones wide awake and reacting in a sensible way. Keep up the good fight brother, you'll get a lot of headwind but never forget, the one thing that cannot be stolen from you is if your own mind.

[@jamesconkle9158]

Sponsored by Master Works

[@manncr]

You named your report conspiracy, but it's the most powerful investigative journalism I've ever seen.

[@scottfroschauer6274]

I worked on a documentary a few years ago called “The Price of Everything” that was about this subject. It was pretty good.

[@guidovanthaar3761]

To paraphrase the brilliant Thirtyseven/Wombaticus Rex: "The fat cats come together, some art is debated. A 100 million bucks is just magically created. And that's funny right? This whole economy is comedy."

[@fps6612]

Excelente video mi hermano! Felicidades.

[@houseofvenusMD]

"Tenet" opened my eyes to this strangely enough

[@sc4295]

a commenter above said this : "It’s like Mark Fisher said, they can hide things behind entertainment and make it easier to accept. A normal person can go ”Finally they’re talking about x that’s a real problem!”. Then it becomes topical but in a performative way, companies engage in performative charity and boom social issue goes from “real” issue to fiction that was vanquished because Scarlet Witch referenced it in Avengers 37." Thats what Tenet is an example of

[@crashedcan]

Pills & team please consider deepening this analysis with the ideas supported by work by Tom Burgis on corruption/global organised disorder :) you are the people that are perfectly positioned to carry this story forward!

[@TribuneAquila]

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Pills, and You. Will. Atone.

[@FlosBlog]

See thats whz I prefer literature. Oprah can buy as many copies of leatherstocking tales as she likes and the text stays public

[@garynet20]

Awesome video, thanks and greetings from Mexico

[@yokothespacewhale]

I see a lesson here about artistic ambition.

[@paulhopkins3534]

Watch it Pills, who you calling a peasant?!?

[@DaveE99]

“Hey guys I got a wild idea, if we all just agree and take a vote that art is our new currency with xyz rules, we can just exchange art back and forth based on our faith in the system given that money is made up any way”

[@dwijgurram5490]

Some monasteries were deeply involved in making art forgeries. The con is way older

[@guidovanthaar3761]

If we take 'authentic' holy relics in good faith we can conclude that John the Baptist had at least three heads, arguably four.

[@yo252yo]

cue that scene from Network 1976

[@tinseltq5032]

"Good morning Mr. Beale, they tell me you're a mad man."

[@packman2321]

The pointilism (I hope I'm spelling that correctly) of the freeport, F1 and other comparisons was very interesting. I remember reading about the disaggregation of physical power in this way in How to Hide an Empire, and it makes sense that money is doing the same shift, as we move to technologies (radio, plane, tv, computing) which don't need to store their physical bulk in the same place as their values. I also really think the metaphors of religion and faith you find for capitalism are solid. I could see a good Calvinoesque folkloric compliation growing from things like the gods of oil, places that travel, religious faith in the market etc.

[@Bill-Sama-Gates-Laden]

basically art is like NFTs / shitcoins for billinoaires in a low-interest + high money printing environment

[@AJayZy]

Honestly not a good comparison but I suppose your message was conveyed

[@wasabiginger6993]

Just found your channel and so far, loving the content! Am so sick of everyone else all emotional over politics bs.

[@goodname5920]

Drunk social criticism is my favourite genre now

[@RomanHold]

Imagine you got so much fiat in oil and gold that no matter what your liquidity and net worth is always combined more than all of worlds fiat currencies combined.

[@underwater5474]

More spots for your cork board map: "How the World’s Wealthiest People Travel": kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3OxlIyufa-Dgqcsi=jMduDFWPMC0HA-VT

[@lorenzocapitani9556]

Very very interesting video, as always, thanks pills. 💊

[@buglepong]

in a fiat money world, at some point everything becomes money laundering

[@Hoosier765]

For 5 minutes I was expecting a masterworks commercial

[@msaggregated3036]

New sub here. Love the video!

[@FabianEllis]

Great video! Tenet is such a good film

[@spectralvalkyrie]

Second time watching. Great production!

[@tresjordan982]

And you get a tax break,and you get a tax break,and you get a tax break………

[@ZER0--]

You painted a very good picture of capitalism... Someone might buy it and put it in storage

[@CodeProvider]

Hint: if it hasn't been censored by KZbin, it probably isn't a consequential conspiracy theory

[@duvetboa]

Which conspiracies have youtube censored?

[@bardoface]

This is the era of conspiracies + media. It’s always been there. Same with trolling for attention. It’s media and meme.

[@francescomurano8038]

Plainly brilliant

[@jeffmunkynutz1568]

Mmm, so the cats not dead, its a Renoir.

[@HhaaJshshs-zr8ir]

Plastic pills is a high end critical theorist in multimodal format

[@CC3GROUNDZERO]

I wonder what people like Klimt, Rembrandt or Picasso would say about all that.

[@Bojoschannel]

Well, picasso was a communist, so he would probably say something like eat the rich for sure

[@shanemenken5729]

And then the museums give us a show by Amelia Pico as if that was some kind of consolation.

[@Zeitaluq]

Very well explained with nodes connections

[@victorsalazar445]

Great video!!!

[@AshleyGraetz]

How wars start "They want freedom from freedom."

[@forgottenclown9115]

Beware of that rage stranger.

[@rudigerderudder5430]

Taxes are just for us peasants, you should know that already

[@Bisquick]

Yo I just stumbled across the existence of what I think might be categorized as a sort of "anti-freeport" blackhole entity/service to compliment (or merely extend) the whitehole fortress freeport - specifically what is called Iron Mountain, which touts a specialty functionality in not only storing anything and everything (along with any emergent perception of exchange value of course) for its demonic arcon clientelle who require such unbounded storage capacity, but also promotes its abilities in effectively and entirely _destroying_ these stores of value/massive databases/archives. The creative potential of such a destructive service at such a global scale is not explicitly acknowledged, but its previously demonstrated ability to carry such operations out vouch for its unique offering of legal transcendence via its overarching, one might say mountainous, insulated forcefield of plausible deniability for the prior-owner of now-eviscerated concentration of data/value/"faith" now scrubbed from existence. Of course it's run by an "ex"-CIA dude (William Meaney) and of course it is literally built inside of a mountain (pretty unsubtly referenced in the show Mr.Robot as Steel Mountain upon reflection lol) and of course it resides in the recently newsworthy (yet interestingly almost immediately flattened of any extraordinary cultural significance) town of Butler, PA. Bill Gates has like an underground lake in it or some shit, MGM records supposedly stores its master records, tons of archival/press records, etc. but I guess all of this is to merely consider the potential utility/consequences of "samson option"-ing such stockpiles of securitized exchange value, a total rupture of perceived worth. I guess that's what war is for and why its such a perpetuating pastime short of a revolutionary reorganization of the base material logic or whatever... *_*TLDR; WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS INTENSIFIES_**

[@ericcarabetta1161]

I kept waiting for the MasterWorks ad.

[@TimEssDub]

The "Freeport capitalism" also explains the duty-free stores right at the border crossings.

[@mbrt777]

ive missed u so much

[@noahkristoffersen6710]

This was great

[@lorenzocapitani9556]

💊 makes a 📼 i 👁️

[@natywubet2175]

i was pissed about the "member club only" thing , but now i like it even if am free user i like how members first it is

[@numagama]

look who’s back ~~~

[@crackin2000]

Making art or anything is like making your own lottery tickets Making things is capturing energy. Money is a representation of human energy creating art is like printing your own cash.

[@sc4295]

i noticed a lot of these billionaires send one of their beautiful concubines to do the bidding instead of coming in themselves

[@dmecubano]

Hoy descubrí la gloria con este canal. Gracias a @DiegoRuzzarin 🙌🏻. Saludos desde Cuba

[@jessicalowry5487]

Hi! Thank you for your videos. Could you please cite your sources or tell me where to find them?

[@Primo_extracts]

Subscribed

[@Turtlenigma]

I wish you had less of a clickbait-y title and something that people will take more serious as you're uncovering a really important topic.. Also, I literally had to remove the lowest frequencies on my headphones because the setting was so deep and "pleasant" that it became unpleasant, like uncanny valley. Else heads up. Important work.

[@MattAngiono]

You missed a key opportunity to cut in Brad Pit screaming, "What's in the box?" from Se7en... At least, that all I ever hear in my head when I hear someone talk about what's in some mystery box lol

[@theethanatorem]

“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images”

[@ChristopherRamirez-o9x]

Here for Diego Ruzzarin

[@lutherdean6922]

thanks for sharing this

[@ryanleethomas]

Dara Orenstein’s Out of Stock book is a great deep dive in this world.

[@ryanleethomas]

Also, take those modules you mapped out, and add a layer of shipping routes, and you’ll see something interesting.

[@chuzzles]

Make a video on how they control the illegal market underworld markets & make money like drugs , heroine , organ smuggling etc rackets .. ( of course with some philo pov)

[@Dr_Larken]

The only thing that would make this video better is if you plugged Master Works! lol I honestly feel bad for anyone that messes with that, realizing you lost your money or you can’t get it back! Then again 10 minutes of research or tell you that! Oh the art of fine print & contracts!!

[@FrznFury27]

I forget where i saw it, but i saw some places like Robinhood trading in fractional art shares

[@John-mf6ky]

Stuff like this honestly makes me hate "high art". I much prefer folk art, outsider art, and even vandalism/graffiti (im talking letters, not banksy or gentrification).

[@ATGC256]

excellent

[@Lecj_18]

Hey pills, have you read "El sistema-mundo" by Immanuel Wallerstein? Your video reminds me about that theory.

[@polifemo3967]

that last spike is not really a spike. If you notice the graph has been trending upward for the last 20 years, so every year looks like a spike compared to last year. That *could* mean that billionairs think that the world is getting more unstable in general, but not that they have any insider knowledge that there will be a catastrophe in the near future

[@chuzzles]

We dont even know why and for whom we are working for