[unioneserry]

I'm not gonna spend time watching that video.....but about the whole argument of "well don't shop there" or "work harder to get a job" - its a deception. As the video Money as Debt clearly shows, there isn't enough money in existence to pay back all of the debt owed in various forms. So you will always have the weakest segment of society that can't take care of themselves in this model. The solution isn't to tell that weakest part of society to try harder and be more competitive because then another group will be the new weakest group.

On an individual scale, yes, all you have to do is out-run your competitor to be ok. With enough work, you can do it. But do we really want to have life be about which slave can work harder than the rest? Its a ridiculous game. So all these people constantly saying, don't buy at walmart, work harder, be more dedicated, sacrifice more - ironically they are the ones supporting the entire system by mindlessly outworking the majority of others.

So these types of clips really bother me. On the one side you've got young people who instinctively don't want to be slaves all their lives, and on the other side you've got the self-deceived intellectuals who are usually full of themselves and defend the system because they identify with their own self importance brought on by amassing knowledge.

Yeah, unfortunately watching this video, he's talking about "true capitalism" as the solution, and lack of it as the problem. Unless the fundamental problem with money creation is addressed, any talk of "isms" is totally pointless.

I would much rather live in under a socialist society with an honest money system than a pure capitalist society under a debt based monetary system. I always find these impassioned people talking about capitalism vs socialism to be just pawns or tools designed to clash. I've never ever heard any popular movement talk about the monetary system.