poorwill - 2010-12-18
I liked your Youtube comment!
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memedumpster - 2010-12-18
Perfect submitter name, perfect submitter YouTube comment.
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IrishWhiskey - 2010-12-18
It says if she had been born two centuries earlier she'd have a life expectancy of thirty.
First of all, that's not true. Second, weren't the 1800s the height of unregulated industrial capitalism? It was the financial crises in 1890s, and then the 1930s, that lead to market regulation and the welfare state.
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phalsebob - 2010-12-19 I don't have the numbers right here but lower classes did die earlier, as after they were worn down, they were difficult to sustain (much like today!). Nobles lived longer due to all the comforts they could afford, and monks and clergy lived the longest, mainly due to a moderate diet. Ninety year olds were rare, but not unheard of.
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Discordia - 2010-12-18
Correlation does not imply causation
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whensaidthemoon - 2010-12-19 It says a lot that our Tea Party propaganda and our pharmaceutical ads look exactly alike.
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Senator_Unger - 2010-12-19
All of these claims about the miracle of capitalism would be a lot more effective if we didn't have Europe doing just as well as us under a social-welfare system.
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Tom Collins - 2010-12-19 ...but with a longer life expectancy.
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grimcity - 2010-12-19
I heard capitalism, but felt Scientology.
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Ocyrus - 2010-12-19
Ask the people of Bhopal, India, how capitalism has improved their quality of life.
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Feyd - 2010-12-19
The only thing sillier than this PSA extolling capitalism as if it was a miracle drug is you fruitcakes lambasting capitalism as if it was an ethos.
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dowstroyer666 - 2010-12-19
Were you hoping this beautiful rich child would reach the age of 8 months ....support your local raider / barbarian horde regime
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dystopianfuturetoday - 2010-12-20 Because if it's not capitalism, it's barbarian hordes. What a subtle and persuasive dichotomy you've created for yourself.
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dead_cat - 2010-12-20
But... But capitalism doesn't do any of those things.
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The God of Biscuits - 2010-12-20
In 400 years, humans will look back on capitalism the same way we look at feudalism.
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Cat_Mech - 2010-12-25 In 400 years, humans will look back on most of humanity with a deep and unending sense of embarrassment and shame at the fact that we spent over 2000 years giving oligarchy different names and different structures for the powerful to gain and retain power at the expense of all others, all the while bickering over the supposed value of one route to oligarchic ownership of the masses rather than another, different route, that leads to the same people in power claiming ownership over the rest of humanity.
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