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1. haha, this a a joke. capitalism trumps all economic systems. it is also the only voluntary economic system. Are you guys just mad at successful people? You don't think the rulers of the land in socialism or communism don't live like kings? bwahaha, with capitalism YOU or ME actually have a chance to start a business and acquire wealth. Everyone just wants to be a slave to the state and turn over all the means of production to corrupt politicians? gee what could go wrong there
2. There had been numerous analysis on economy but noone among the analysts, economists and politicians had really worked out for what is best...
3. 2:27 ay curramba? i think they meant caramba!
4. Seven years on from this video and things have only gotten worse.
5. From the Communist Manifesto. Marx praising Capitalism:
   "It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades."
   
   Capitalism has many faults and bad they are, as the wealth of society ends up in the hands of few people with layer of grinding poverty created. Marx did not have a solution for Capitalism's severe bad points, so his solution was to get rid of it. Henry George saw the big picture better with a fair workable solution keeping the goof points of capitalism. Then there is the debate whether Marx was influenced by Henry George as his final works take land and its resources into account which was rarely mentioned in his previous works.
6. What about the unseen future? what if we complete known physics by adding space torque and create unified physics? What if all new systems in the future are based on the the understanding of the vector equilibrium. Then what happens to all the man made social systems we have created?
7. Maybe the fed shouldn't exist?
8. Great work but why do you guys always have the audio cut off and have complete on and off silence?
9. The condensed version of his argument is that due to wage suppression and offshoring the rich are getting richer and everyone else is getting poorer. Since the poor can't afford to buy goods which spur economic growth, the entire economy shrinks. This cycles over and over until the economy crashes.
10. JP Morgan burned Nikola Tesla's Lab down cause he created a method of electricity that did not require power lines. JP Morgan had the copper industry on lock down so he couldn't profit on it. The system is designed by them for them. It literally is a few families that run the entire world like a game of monopoly, If they take rights over the internet its check mate. We are already in check BTW so wake up, our species is under threat from a man made parasite. All we know will be fucked if this continues. End the FED. EDUCATE OTHERS NOT JUST YOURSELF. SHARE these videos.
11. Socialism & Communism, both technically the same, only different ideas at how to go about "seizing" the "Power" of the "State" of Governing. Once implemented though, they both implement Blasphemy Laws, where any amount of critique for the system is punishable by Death Sentence or Imprisonment.
    
    Care to debunk that, anyone?
12. I am impressed, not by the video, by the commentary it generates. Automaton BB.
13. 5:13 he says "thesis" not "faeces"...
14. Central bank managed crony capitalism =/= "capitalism." Thomas E. Woods and the other Austrian economists are right.
15. This video convinced me. I'm moving to North Korea there is no capitalism there.
16. "You should know it is crap, and say that it is"
17. "I don't the solution." 10:12
18. I find it was moving too fast. High level. I need something more basic but thanks.
19. He's great!
20. Ha ha ha...Academics are "seriously involved in the world..." give me a break! The David Harvey types are not seriously involved in anything based in reality. Take your own advice...