is capitalism a pyramid scheme?

It took me a long time to finally find the right time and brain availability to watch your video i know you worked a lot on and i'm NOT disappointed. Love itttt !!! Very well made, well thought, well delivered.

YES.

#4 is consumerism.
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Great video. Shared. 👍👍👍
Also good Hun impression 😁

This is better than the Breadtube analysis on capitalism, given that they basically still support capitalism whether it's safest nets increased, or having capitalism as long as it's woke. Very bizarre and patronizing to be lectured on capitalism from one who has a lot of money. Examples include Vaush, Contrapoints, and Philosophy Tube.

I also appreciate you mention the late 70s because that was the last time America had a fighting chance to oppose capitalism, which unfortunately crumbled because Reaganomics became a standard, which is basically corporatism. The US has had a synthetic economy ever since they moved past the gold standard. However the problem gets deeper, as the US currency was at it's strongest when silver and gold were a standard. Not just one sole indicator (gold standard or fiat).

My problem with anti capitalists, and they come from the left wing mostly is that they think leftism is a solution (which is so useless because it's capitalism but woke), or liberalism (which is the status quo and basically center) and then the conflating of socialism and communism. Basically, you get either tankies, Che Guevara socialists, socdems, or woke bread tubers. Communism we know is a failure. The standards of living in Cuba, is bad. See the horrors of the USSR. Modern day China to an extent, although they are just technocrats.

Socialism aims to be a fair proposal in practice but it fails because it doesn't take the full measure of communism. It tries to negotiate fairness to a greedy billionaire.

There is an alternative and the people will prevail. The recovery of Japan after WWII indicates that as long as you have a cooperative economy where there isn't class war favoritism (capitalism is on the rich folks side, socialism is on the poor side), you can get an economy that can coexist and give incentives. With no taxes, and having it be voluntary instead, you have an incentive for the rich to fulfill charities. The poor can actually get out of poverty when you have a currency not based on fiat and printing it in excess to where their work is devalued or wasted, but it's fixed on the precious metals system, and giving them shares to a company once a week. That's class cooperation, and we should strive for that. Instead we have a terrible system that frankly makes me want the US to dissolve entirely. The evil billionaires dodging taxes yet using loopholes to pay a penny to none, on top of profiting off people's misery, such as Elon, Jeff, that being in charge of Facebook, etc. No society should allow a billionaire.

Charities can be corrupt, but I'd argue taxes are 100% corruption. Your money going to things you didn't consent or wanted. These taxes, are also wasted on some very stupid things. I find it shameful the left loves taxation when California (a capitalist shit hole) absolutely cripples poor people. I'll never understand the pro taxes mentality.

There is a clear path to set forth distribute economics. It worked in Japan, until Japan decayed into being solely super capitalist as the US. Hence why there are low birth rates in every first world country.

I will not vote on the issue. Instead I root for the death of capitalism, where people can hold individual power to then rebuild from the ashes of a failed civilization. That's the inevitable.

The zoom call skit is the world's class acting.

"When I started with this, I was doing my dishes in the bathtub." 😆

who is that angry spider-like woman pushing MLM stuff? Edited to add timestamp for example 23:17

I haven’t even gotten into the video yet but YES I HAVE THOUGHT THIS FOR SO LONG I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOUR OPINION

the ride out…

The ironic thing about this video is that I got ads for MLM products haha.

This reminded me of the “cults vs religion” discourse, but a more exact analogy would be “MLMs vs legitimate business.” Some argue that the cult/religion distinction is arbitrary, though most would admit it’s a matter of degrees (some sects are more “cultish,” in the pejorative sense, than others, but they all share certain defining characteristics) and it seems like you’re making a similar argument.

But the need for money is so omnipresent, we can’t individually quit capitalism (or most can’t) except by going and living off the land in a commune (sounds kinda cultish ;))

Anti capitalists are atheists that have to go to church! I hear Unitarians are alright…

You're a good actress

Thank you for this video! I currently am down the 1 path and feeling pretty doomed, but this video made me feel so seen and validated in my feelings and beliefs!

Also Anna's analysis has a great 2 part video on mlm

Your videos are so so so well done, I just joined your patreon because I literally felt like this was too good for me to get it for free 😂💕

literally praying on Monat’s downfall, it’s sad how many friends I’ve had get pulled into it since the pandemic started and anytime you try to say anything your the enemy

As soon as you invoked the DeVos name I started hooting & hollering because of course they are connected. Nepotism, babyyyyyyy! (Amazing video, as ever, you can tell how hard you work on all of them, this one especially!)

it's nothing at all like a pyramid scheme, it's all about wealth trickling down to the bottom, it's the total opposite of a pyramid, it's upside down, more like a funnel, and the wealth just trickles down, down, down into the pockets of the rich, nothing like a pyramid scheme whatsoever, more practical, using gravity and whatnot, and if you think that "trickle down economics", is sort of like raining wealth, or gold, a sort of golden shower on the peasants, sounds about right, not called peons/pee ons, for nothing

This video is AMAZING 🤩

the production, the acting, the research, the humor, the creativity. one of your BEST videos!!!!