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The big problem is the arrogant nature of your assumptions.
Also what has showing people a âbetterâ alternative got to do with your confused (or anti-) capitalist take?
In a free market individuals choose between a given set of goods and services, consensually, without force or coercion. Simple. End of story.
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This is the most important podcast for veterans day. If you want to stop wars, you need to stop the money printing.
It is incredibly frustrating to listen to the depth of Fiat brainwashing. They are completely lost and confused on what is money and how it functions.
@saifedean has the patience of a saint trying to shake these useful idiots into reality.
This week's podcast episode is my full @DohaDebates on the nature of money with two MMT economists, @jasonhickel and @ptcherneva. This was a good one you don't want to miss!
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The Office: Michael Puts Dunder Mifflin on a Bitcoin Standard (Part 1)
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It is not capitalism producing that. It is human nature. Manipulation, cheating, monopoliesâŚyou name it. Socialism also brings manipulation, cheating and (State) monopoly. Capitalism is simply a way to organize human sins so that poverty is minimized. Greed is human, by nature.
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every politician and state official is inherently a bad actor, the honest entrepreneurs bringing real stuff to fruition are the good actors. the bad actors just muddy the waters
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If black people were better at math there would be so much less racial tension in this country. Unfortunately, black ppl are on average very low IQ and often have egos and arrogance levels you can barely begin to imagine.
Thereâs an account on IG where this guy goes up to people and asks them if theyâre an entrepreneur and so many of the black guys lie and say yes, and then proceed to have no idea theyâre embarrassing themselves by not being able to answer the most basic questions about finance or running a business.
When youâre incredibly stupid, and surrounded by other incredibly stupid people, you just have no idea how stupid you really are.
Amazing dialogue on CNN.
"The Black fatherlessness rate is the worst out of all the demographics in this country, unfortunately"
"Excuse me, that's a false steroetype Black fathers are in the household more than any other race."
"What are your facts on that?"
"I had a father in my home."
"That's called anecdotal, but that's ok"
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It was so brutal watching communist âeconomistâ @jasonhickel get destroyed over and over and over again.
The guy is LITERALLY a tool of socialists and central bankers, with an entire career devoted to promoting theft.
And he doesnât even know it. What an awful existence.
This week's podcast episode is my full @DohaDebates on the nature of money with two MMT economists, @jasonhickel and @ptcherneva. This was a good one you don't want to miss!
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No, I hate socialism regardless of who happens to shill it.
It is destructive, retarded, and imorral.
It promotes laziness and punishes productivity. More importantly, though, it distorts price signals, which misallocates resources and turns people into dishonest, entitled, intellectually numbed zombies.
Above all that, socialism is deeply unethical. Taxes are theft, inflation is slavery, and involuntary popularity contests don't change these facts one bit.
Socialism is a highly contagious collectivist plague that must be recognized and resisted by individuals at all times.
It is YOUR moral duty to always avoid paying taxes and fight inflation to whatever extent you can!
Afuera, ffs!
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This appearance is one of @saifedean best. Go listen to the full video.
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Watching these commie marxists spewing their delusions is painful, @saifedean spoke truth, and these MMT'ers are actually appalled at simple truths- this is actually painful
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A Free Press reporter asks New Yorkers if socialism is good for America.
They all say yes.
Then she brings out Daniel Di Martino, who fled Venezuela, and they get a firsthand horror story they werenât ready for.
NEW YORKER: âI think socialism is actually really good for society.â
DI MARTINO: âAre you familiar with how socialism worked out in other countries historically?â
NEW YORKER: âJust because it didnât work out so well in other parts of the world doesnât mean it wonât work out well for New York.â
Di Martinoâs family lived through the promises these voters are buying.
DI MARTINO: âMy family went from making $2,000 a month 20 years ago to $100 a month in 2016. That was because the government gave everything you can imagine for free.â
âWe went from being a normal middle-class family with a car and then no electricity, no water.â
Asked if they support âgovernment grocery stores,â the answer is just as confident.
NEW YORKER: âOf course I do.â
So Di Martino explains what grocery shopping looked like under socialism.
DI MARTINO: âThere was very little supply of chicken, toilet paper. It was a line for blocks and blocks for a grocery store.â
NEW YORKER: âWhat happened in Venezuela isnât going to happen here. The policy is more focused on helping people out.â
A man describes lines stretching for blocks just to buy chicken and toilet paper, and a Mamdani voter waves it away. Because THIS time, theyâre sure it will work.
REPORTER: âYou know, they have tried that in the Soviet Union from where my parents and my grandparents are from. All they remember of grocery stores is empty shelves.â
DI MARTINO: âThe DSA went to Venezuela just last year to support the dictator and say that he won the election that he didnât.â
NEW YORKER: âI had no idea. I did not know.â
DI MARTINO: âGovernment rent control. Itâs going to stop people from renting apartments because theyâre not going to be able to profit. There are going to be fewer apartments for rent.â
NEW YORKER: âThatâs a good point. I agree with that. Okay. I understand more about socialism now for sure.â
Socialism always sounds good to people whoâve never had to live under it.
Those who have never want to live under it again.
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This is one of my favorite @ComicDaveSmith clips in a long time, and it's something we should absolutely be talking about more:
Academia is a Ponzi scheme and a gov't welfare program that primarily serves to start kids' adult lives off in debt.
"If Thomas Sowell's or FA Hayek's economics were followed, all of academia is put out of business. So, shocking that academia hasn't valued them as being really intelligent thinkers. It's directly against their incentives."
"Academia is entirely a government program. It's completely artificial. There's no market demand for it...Student loans is a government program....Pick an 18 year-old and walk into a bank and say, 'I want a $200,000 loan,' but for a business, for a house...you'll get laughed out of the bank."
"It's unbelievable there's not one college professor who feels a moral obligation on day one to go, 'Hey, I'm teaching you environmental studies, and they're charging you 200 grand for this degree; you should really think about whether this is worth it.'"
"College is a multi-trillion dollar program. Where did we take that from? Who did we take that from? What else might we have had if we hadn't done this?"
"You've got your kids all going into debt on essentially a welfare program, but who gets the welfare? Not even the kids. The kids just get the debt."
On a personal note, I spent six years in higher education. I got a Masters in Computer Science (CS) from one of the best CS schools in the country. It did not take long once I got out into the real world to see how much more impressive programmers are just in the games industry than in academia. All of CS is just chasing private industry and trying to teach their students what those people accomplished.
⢠Unix and C++ were invented at Bell Labs
⢠Java was invented at Sun Microsystems
⢠The GUI was developed at Xerox and put into mass production by Apple
⢠Every single tier 1 ISP that laid the cables to make the internet as you know it possible are private sector businesses
I was even studying AI in grad school, and of course the AI breakthrough came out of the private sector when academia was busy fiddling around with dead-end tech demos that would never pass the Turing Test.
College is an outdated model from time when that was where you went to find all the books. Government student loan programs need to be ended NOW, and if you're someone who takes part in the hiring process at your company, do what I did and encourage your company to remove college degrees as a prerequisite for applying. This madness must stop. It's turning all of our kids into socialists because they blame the failures of this system on capitalism because that's what their Marxist college professors who've never worked in the real world told them to blame it on.
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I watched this hoping that the MMT guys would present something compelling that I hadn't thought of before. I've been wrong so many times in life, that I like to listen to all view points. Sometimes I'm wrong.
This was not one of those times.
The 2 professors against Saif essentially argue that, deflation (prices going down) is bad, hard money is bad, and the money printer is good. The problem is the control of the money printer is in the hands of bad people and we should vote for good people to decide how much money gets printed and who gets it.
Yep. These are the professors in our universities, teaching 'economics'.
The full episode is available on YouTube and podcast platforms:
youtu.be/vgsSZ4mAHfQ
open.spotify.com/episode/5KyâŚ
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcasâŚ
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BREAKING: Reindustrialization goes nuclear. America approves its first advanced nuclear facility at an industrial site, a major Dow chemical manufacturing plant in Texas.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission just approved a construction permit for four X-energy Xe-100 reactors, designed to supply both electricity and high-temperature steam to Dowâs chemical manufacturing operations. Chemical production is traditionally a very energy-intensive process, requiring large amounts of electricity and heat.
This marks the first U.S. construction permit for high-temperature gas-cooled reactors in nearly 60 years.
ALT Source: X-Energy
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So simple, yet so few understand
âThis is a very common theme, that people blame capitalism for the problems of fiat moneyâŚand itâs an extremely powerful meme because it gives the people in power exactly what they want to hearâ @saifedean đĽđŻ
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