The Punk Patriot Fixes the USA Economy

Ha ha ha! So everyone, get on welfare, so the government can give you money to spend on business, which will start hiring us all again! Brilliant!

Government debt and credit is used to enrich others, which is fine, as long as no one calls in the debt! Consumption leads to production, unions increase work standards, so companies go elsewhere. Boycott, Divest, and Sanction those companies who are not held to standards! Consumer protections need to be enforced, with the population EDUCATED as to what is good and bad.

Oh, and you know what would increase productivity? MAKE EVERYTHING FREE. abolish money, produce necessary goods, self-sufficient cities, thriving localities...give "free trade" a new meaning. Let's stop CAPITALIZING on each transaction (taking advantage of others) and recognize that our prosperity is dependent on everyone's voluntary productivity. Get educated as to what makes you really happy. Legalize entheogens, promote fuck clubs (legalize prostitution?), decentralize resources, and overcome scarcity. INFORMATION IS VALUABLE. START CREATING CONTENT!!!! Let demand dictate what is supplied. DEMOCRATIZE THE CORPORATIONS.

The main point: sharing is caring. Kindergarten Economics makes sense again.

LOVE IT! It's like he's channeling all the thoughts in my brain into one cohesive statement. Spread this video far and wide! At the very least (if the earth has enough time left) he'll get the message to the next generation and when all the idiots in charge today die off, from old age we'll have a chance.

Man I'm a big fan of this guy now! Go Punk Patriot!

I don't necessarily agree with the idea, but at least you HAVE one!

Few thoughts from a student in a country for which capitalism is quite a new concept: 1) If you all american companies withdrew from countries which have lower workers protection laws, these countries would loose the income they need so badly, and imho would probably end up even worse. 2)All these CEO guys, they might create jobs with the money they make, don't you agree? Also assuming that being an CEO is all about laying back and collecting money is quite unfair...3) Lowest paid worker? Who is that? The cleaning lady? You would have so much trouble making a law out of this, because it's so vague.

Economic version of Brett Erlich. Is this actually you asherp?

Why would this be under comedy news!

I haven't seen you comment up in here no mores. Wuzzup wit dat?

I love the closing T shirt. Its the reason that the rich love religion. So that the church can guilt everyone into not killing them.

Profits need to be limited in certain sectors...and the CEO's need to have their pay capped as a percentage of the total expenditures. I agree with your idea about indexing the max pay to what the lowest paid person gets...and it should include the workers in third world countries.

BTW I love the unfuck the world Tshirt....its like that unfuck the gulf.

Maximum wage law was the idea of Huey Long.

Everyone should take a class on the history of American Radicalism.

Everything you said is so very true. Upton Sinclair is an amazing writer and I read that story "the jungle".

If we legalized hemp we could make structural panels out of them and we could also make hemp plastics and hemp fiberglass and start up the manufacturing sector once again.

Capitalism is an unsustainable system in a closed environment....we have limited resources. Capitalism is a house of cards that is going to eventual crash to the floor.

*Mortal Kombat voice* "Punk Patriot Wins."

I'm sure after watching this you will notice an immediate improvement in the economy.

Yet many who understand this illusion of democracy, often think ‘If only we could just get our honest, ethical politicians in power,’ then we would be okay. Well, while this idea of course seems reasonable in our established oriented world view, it is unfortunately another fallacy. For when it really comes down to what is actually important, the institution of politics and thus politicians themselves, have absolutely no true relevance as to what makes our world and society function.

“It’s not politicians that can solve problems. They have no technical capabilities. They don’t know how to solve problems. Even if they were sincere, they don’t know how to solve problems.

it’s the technicians that produce the desalinization plants. It’s the technicians that give you electricity. That give you motor vehicles. That heat your house, and cool it in the summer time. It’s technology that solves problems, not politics. Politics cannot solve problems ’cause they are not trained to do so.”

“War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there’ll be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesigning of our culture, our values, and it has to be related to the carrying capacity of the earth, not some human opinion or some politicians notions of the way the world ought to be. Or some religion’s notion of the conduct of human affairs.

It means that sustainability and abundance will never ever occur in profit system. For it simply goes against the very nature of the structure. Therefore, it is impossible to have a world without war, or poverty. It is impossible to continually advance technology to its most efficient and productive states. And most dramatically, it is impossible to expect human beings to behave in truly ethical or decent ways.

Thought-provoking Mr. Punk Patriot... I ^ed it!

Bravo , Asher !

Too bad none of those ideas will ever come to fruition or at least not soon, since money is power and well where is that money? In the top 2% that own this country. Also since people don't have any direct influence on their government, well the world will stay fucked.

And the majority of americans are easily influenced, stupid or apathetic...

sigh

The Reality is that "Monetary-ism", so to speak, is the true mechanism, that guides the
interests of all the countries on the planet.
The most aggressive and hence dominant variation of this monetary-ism is the free
enterprise system. The fundamental Perspective as put forth by early free market
economists, like Adam Smith, is that self interest and competition leads to social
prosperity, as the act of competition creates incentive, which motivates people to
persevere.
However, what isn't talked about, is how a competition based economy invariably leads
to strategic corruption, power and wealth consolidation, social stratification,
technological paralysis, labor abuse and ultimately a covert form of government
dictatorship by the rich elite.
The word corruption is often defined as moral perversion.
If a company dumps toxic waste into the ocean to save money, most people recognize
this as corrupt behavior. On a more subtle level, when Walmart moves into a small town
and forces small businesses to shut down for they are unable to compete, a grey area
emerges. For what exactly is Walmart doing wrong? Why should they care about the
Mom and Pop organizations they destroy? Yet even more subtly, when a person gets
fired from their job because a new machine has been created which can do the work for
less money, people tend to just accept that as 'the way it is,' not seeing the inherent
corrupt inhumanity of such an action.
Because the fact is whether it is dumping toxic waste, having a monopoly enterprise, or
downsizing the workforce; the motive is the same - Profit. They are all different degrees
of the same self-preserving mechanism, which always puts the well being of people
second to monetary gain. Therefore, corruption is not some byproduct of monetary-ism,
it is the very foundation. And while most people acknowledge this tendency on one level
or another, the majority remains naive as to the broad ramifications of having such a
selfish mechanism as the guiding mentality in society.

Capitalists argue that incentive is crucial. The problem is that incentive knows no boundaries. What do all millionaires want? To make billions. Billionaires? More Billions. If all billionaires were limited to being millionaires, you're telling me we wouldn't have the same, super-rich people? Bill Gates would still have pursued Microsoft to its fullest advantage.

Incentive is relative. As long as there is some height of ladder to climb, people will pursue that with just as much passion.

Your facial hair alone could create world peace.

NAFTA created Jobs and is between Canada US and Mexico.
Capitalism didn't create computers, the Gov sponsored it.

Bravo Asherp! sharp and cutting as usual.

I do want to point something out while all the ideas that have ever presented of reforming capitalism have been either genuinely altruistic or just an attempt to preserve the system we know. However even as you pointed out capitalism is a flawed system which rewards those who have over those who don't and creates a hierarchy that now with an innumerable amount of educational resources available seems unjustifiable. Capitalism has overseen some pretty cool products invented but not all were created in response to consumer demand (demand which is skewed at best assuming people know what they want without the adverts telling them what to buy). There is a lot of crap out there and if someone were to invent something recyclable that could never become obsolete well you'd crush an entire industry, hence in order to maintain our economy we must manufacture slightly better garbage each quarter to keep the accounts in the black.

It would be nice if we could return a better version of capitalistic america a la 1960 but all the trends indicate otherwise. Either way it wouldn't solve the ravages of those living in poverty and would only sweep them under a rug of progress. I would propose an egalitarian labour less society with manufacturing automated working for all humanity. It would be fulfilling Teslas dream a man whom was very well familiar with the glory of capitalism..

good job! way to lay it down!

The poorest among us create the demand. Yep. That sums it ALL up nicely. +^d

AND INDEX THAT MAX WAGE ! RAH !

you need your own tv show...nice job!

Guy seems to know what he's talking about.