What happened to your innocent sense of wonder?

This is spot on, and pretty much how it went down everywhere, not just the UK. Just to clarify: it’s workers, not capital, who create wealth. The staggering rise in inequality, pricing people out of cities and the housing market is having a significant negative effect on productivity which is why Europe is falling behind.

This means lost time where we have not been producing anywhere near our potential, and by consequence also not honing our skills to produce anything in the future. We can’t just win this time back by political change now, it’s lost forever, and young people who should have been at the forefront of developing the economy and making families will never win this back.

We need to be way more angry than we are, and every day that we don’t fix this we’re letting it get worse.

I bet he’s telling the truth. Which is all kinds of even sadder than if he had shot her out of rage for a disagreement.

They use the same rationale for international security. If everybody gas nuclear bombs, then nobody needs them. It’s insane doomsday evangelism dressed up as a debate club argument.

Yeah, I think you’re hitting on something important. This is probably also why people living under dictatorships sometimes approve of their dictator. The devil you know.

It’s about priorities, not cost. And to an extent I suspect it’s about culture, too.

I’m not talking about how to connect distant towns to each other, that’s done with power lines. But in one-family home suburbia it’s easy to provide underground power as a utility. You’ve already got your plumbing underground, just add a pipe for wires.

Why don’t you guys, you know, bury the power lines?

Hanging electric wires from wooden poles is wild to me. They do that in some rural parts of Europe.

Likely lots of people who had contact with Epstein did nothing wrong, at least not on that level.

He was collecting powerful people, in science, business, government, anything. One way to do that is to offer access to other important people. The ability to say to someone “I can connect you with Stephen Hawking” is currency.

The pedophilia ring and sex trafficking is the exact same thing – just a way to appeal to certain people.

I think it’s more interesting to talk about who the fuck gave Epstein a private island in one of the most stupidly expensive spits of sand on the entire planet. Likely the same people who killed him.

I mean I think the bigger issue here is that he sent a Tesla to space when he could have become the Jesus of our times, and saved hundreds of millions of people from abject poverty and despair.

They’re dumping the USD on purpose. But they’re going to get more than they bargained for.

Ah, I see, I guess we don’t have to consider what liberals think and how they view the world, because after all we possess the objective truth and their opinions don’t matter.

Oh he does have a degree in political science from some hoity-toity ivy league school, does he? Well that kind of elitism doesn’t sit right with me, and his opinion is disqualified.

It’s clearer because you can see him, the view isn’t blocked by the car. But Renee Good was also clearly summarily executed, and there was likely a dimension of hate crime involved given the murderer’s history.

No, I’m literally giving examples of how Adam Smith defined the foundations of capitalism, which both liberals and so-called conservatives normally favor as their preferred economic theory, and how these foundations contrast with a different philosophy favored by different people.

Anyway, I’m done beating a dead horse here.

I’m not making the claim that capitalism optimizes work, it’s the claim that liberals make. I think it’s important to actually study and understand what other people believe, and as I stated before the idea of capitalism does not allow destruction or monopolization of natural resources, or to block others from using natural resources in a responsible manner (which was the core problem with feudalism).

The point is that billionaires are not liberals, and they don’t believe in capitalism.

I’m not arguing whether capitalism is a flawed theory of economics which naturally leads to either fascism, social darwinism, or some third thing. I’m arguing that billionaires actually do believe in social darwinism, which is a different thing than liberalism or capitalism.

No kompromat needed for Elon, he just reads the general vibe of the powerful and then parrots it in an edgy package for personal financial gain.

To all the billionaires out there: people will never respect you until you have 2 kg of dick. Go show them who’s boss!

To all the kids out there: accept who you are. Love yourself. Be genuine.

Let me try to rephrase this, so that maybe it makes sense. The point I’m trying to make is that social-darwinism is not an extension of capitalism, they’re two different things but with aesthetic overlap.

Capitalism aims to optimize work, by naturally rejecting inefficient ways to do things. The production line wins over the workshop. It’s about things and processes, not about people directly.

Social-darwinism is about rejecting people. To refuse people the space to thrive or reproduce. To push them to the edge of society until they die from exposure or suicide or simply that their bloodline ends when they can’t support their families over the course of generations. Thus the noble classes dominate by right, and whoever is unsuccessful deserves to die and rot.

Alec is awesome. The content he makes isn’t really my cup of tea, but I recognize that that man has some serious game.

I don’t find his videos to be entertaining, but they’re so educational that I watch them anyway.