Favorite YouTube Channel's

[trish]

[AshlynCreamher]

I thought you were an anarchist? Maybe it's Atheist?

Did you know that moveon.org is practicly the greatest lobbiest for the Democratic Party? In fact the organization owns the Democratic Party and also brought forth the Beast 'Barack Obama' . really the only thing I appreciate about the organization is the bashing of the Bush Administration.

[trish]

Definitely not an anarchist nor a libertarian. No engine or dynamic system will run without a regulator to assure it that operates within working tolerances and that includes the markets. Von Neumann and Morgenstern demonstrated the instability of free markets over sixty years ago with their definitive Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Libertarianism is reactionary politics, not an economic theory. The same goes for Communism. I’m a pragmatist not an ideologue; I’m a adherent of real mathematics and real science.

And yes, by most definitions I’m an atheist and am not adverse to the label.

Oh, and I voted for "The Beast" twice and do not regret it: given the choices.

[sukumvit boy]

Is this still the 'Favorite You Tube Channels' thread? WTF ?

OK than... #1 is: "This is the economy on ... whatever" and # 2 is:"Capitalism in action"

[Stavros]

Capitalism used to make people rich in this country with inflated dollars. The only way you end up as a slave in this country is to take a loan from a bank or accepting a credit card or collect a check from the fed. No one ever became a slave from buying a bottle coca-cola or buying nonrecurring subscription to SheMaleYum.com

BTW: did you know that capitalism provided you with a computer/tablet, thats loaded with parts from all around the world. That you're sending data though a communication system that connects to a satellite and sends the data back to servers here on earth. Where do you think these technologies comes from? Aliens???

I agree with you on the benefits of Capitalism, but it is not a perfect system, and while it is the dominant economic system in the world today, it is based on capital, and if you cannot exist without being part of a monetized economy, then you are, in effect, a slave to capital -your Coca Cola is not free, it must be paid for, unless it falls off the back of a truck or you are given one without charge. You could of course try and live outside the system presumably by bartering goods or services in exchange for food, and living rent-free in a squat, or in a tent on common land or building a home on common land with materials you did not have to pay for, and so on -but the taxman will find you, eventually. It is harder to opt out of a monetized economy which is one reason why attempts to abolish money have not been successful. The choice you have today is between different ways of managing capitalism and its effects. The libertarian argument that taxes and government are immoral, impediments to freedom, etc, are valid arguments, but libertarian economies have not provided successful long term solutions to the world we live in.