…From a presumed statist. I dare you guys; your head is going to explode due to the robust logic.
I wasted 1.5 minutes of my life watching this.
I must say, his ideas are EXACTLY LIKE MINE WERE WHEN I WAS 16! His ideology is IDENTICAL to mine at that age. I wasted my youth and my entire college life with idiotic socialist ideas like this. I received these ideas from my government paid public school teachers. Thanks, public education!
Volume’s too low, and I can’t find my headphones lol
wow…I literally dont know where to begin…
Much factory work IS being done with machines…and its unions that force people to work where its unnecessary.
I actually do agree with his criticism of representive democracy…
he’s right about technology making our lives better and solving previously ‘unsolvable’ problems…but where do we get that technology? FROM THE MARKET!!! It amazes me how many people fail to grasp this very simple observation…
Haha, SirThinkALot, I was thinking the exact same thing. “Technology has gotten us to where we are,” or he said something to that effect. Well, what is the motivation behind producing said technology? Did people do it out of the goodness of their own hearts or was there a reward to be gained by producing technology?
I’m too lazy to go back and watch that nonsense, but didn’t he say something to the effect of technology also taking away jobs? I never understood the anti-technology frenzy that arises when humans figure out they can produce things by machines. “Machines steal jobs!” Yeah, and the buggy whip industry went out of business. What’s your point? First off, you’ve created a brand new market for creating the machines, so jobs were gained there. It adds to efficiency in the production, so the laid off workers can apply their skills elsewhere. “Jobs, jobs, and jobs” as Nancy Pelosi puts it is not entirely the end-all-be-all, although it is significant in a healthy economy.
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Story of my life. Luckily I didn’t pay too much attention during history classes.
I know what you mean, I have come to see that a lot I learned in public school has been a big hinderance to me academically. Luckily my history department wasn’t good in High School and I had to look elsewhere to learn detailed history. Also, kind of off topic but in this article Robert Nozick makes a pretty interesting analysis of public school and the intellectual class. It kind of struck me as intuitively making sense though it would be great to have some more first hand accounts of it.
This might be a truthism: Bad grades at school = less indoctrination.
lol, kind of ironic you just posted that, as I think that was what Nozick was getting at in the ‘schooling of the intellectuals’ part in the above article.
You think if school was really a place to learn they would examine all sorts of political philosophy. The first time I encountered Proudhoun (who I never really cared for, but he’s “out there” enough), Spooner, Rothbard, Nozick, Nock, even Mencken, etc. was from Wikipedia. I took an AP Government class my senior year in high school (08-09) and we just went over the details of American government, American political history, and American government political theory/policies. Never once were we introduced to another idea. The basic argument presented was “this is how we do things in America, and we’re not going to let you consider anything else.”
Any high school history class practically worships Abraham Lincoln and FDR without giving opposing views. The same B.S. history is parroted throughout the course (I remember in 10th grade learning how the early 20th century progressive movement saved us from unbridled capitalism). It really is kind of sad. Even in economics from high school I remember the teacher (being an archon of sorts gives them some influence) saying that “mixed economies” usuallly give us the best of both worlds.
And can we be surprised?
Another gem titled “In Defense of Socialism”:
It’s videos like which makes me feel that leftists are the best targets to convert to ancap. If they just understand that people can get along without coercion, then it all falls into place. I really think we present an cap the way leftists present socialism.
I’m trying to watch the video but his hair is a serious distraction.
This comes to mind.
^ LOL
I feel a bit sorry for the rambler as I have come from the same path.
It’s not freedom that’s dangerous, it’s ramblers like you (and the past me) forcing upon others their own “ideas”!
Does it make me gay that I think he’s beautiful?
LOL@the irony of this statement, “… the common man was not considered intelligent or informed enough to make his own decisions…”
Clayton -
Haha, SirThinkALot, I was thinking the exact same thing. “Technology has gotten us to where we are,” or he said something to that effect. Well, what is the motivation behind producing said technology? Did people do it out of the goodness of their own hearts or was there a reward to be gained by producing technology?
Yea, you would think somebody who loves technoligical development and hopes for it to be the way to solve future problems would want MORE capatalism, MORE opportunities for inventors and and entraprenuers to make profit from their inventions.
But I suppose common sense really isnt that common.
@Libertyandlife, I disagree. I think there is a fundamental disconnect between people who see things like the guy in the video and between people like us on the Mises Institute. It’s easy for some of us here to analyze economic decisions down to the lowest form, which studies human action. And then there are those who can’t see the machine for it’s parts and can only conceptualize the whole (socialists). It would be like trying to figure out how to fix a car without knowing how to build a car.
So at any rate, I guess they could learn, but it wouldn’t be easy. To be fair, it would be like me trying to compose a piece of music or appreciate art. Different things come easier to different people.
6:34 – “politicians just don’t solve problems. Technology solves problems”
love how he contradicts himself there.