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Capitalism: Why being libertarian and using common "logic" is dangerous
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  • It is fun how Louis is defending totally broken system and badly wants for it to continue to be this way.
    Here you can see totally and openly his new greedy side, still very diplomatic and with pretense to be his old "worker" side, but it is not. His position towards interns comes not from logic, but from pure economic calculations at the present time, including space and time limits. But give coronavirus a little more time and it will turn 180 degrees, as to survive during hard time Louis will be more than happy to get any intern. We already see quick degradation of type of orders he gets, as offline orders plummeted and they had been most simple and most profitable. And instead he gets more and more very hard and complex repairs via mail. Most of mail in businesses have very hard time during last two years as quality of the job is degrading and mostly people send horrible condition stuff that had been further damaged by previous repair attempts.

  • It is good reason Louis is so popular, as besides being good in his job he always do that ruling class wants to hear, he don't get orders, he just feels that is needed to be said and done.

    Want to hear fairy tale on how everyone can be successful businessman? You'll get it. It is utter lie, but who cares.

    Want to hear fairy tale on how services and data restore facilities don't work with CIA and FBI? You'll get it. Despite I am sure that Louis signed multiple papers and provided multiple batches of totally private and even encrypted data to proper people. No one can prove it, but it is whole point. It is just 1-2 people who need to know and they'll be for long years in jail for disclosing it.

    This note service made that good honest people should do and even had brains to understand who FBI in US presently are.

    Just get small pause as Louis will go for another government support credit. And after this will paint same government with dirt for not letting market forced to decide the firms fate. Paradox.

  • The New York state governor announced on Tuesday that parts of the city would go back into full or partial lockdown as he unveiled a colour-coded “cluster initiative” closing non-essential businesses, schools and limiting capacity of places of worship in the worst affected areas.

    The scheme, designed to target Covid-19 hotspots where infection rates have significantly increased, will send some neighbourhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and the northern suburbs – including some with sizeable Orthodox populations – back into lockdown on Thursday.

    This is that Louis is afraid of. But this time his old tactics won't work.

  • And here we go again, as Louis became scared he finds anyone who refused to follow laws and orders, as he also want to repeat this. I have no idea why Louis think that his quite generic small repair business or this totally generic food business have high value to society. In fact, history teach us that such small businesses regularly died in million and no one cared.

  • Half of all small businesses expect to need more aid from the government over the next 12 months to survive, according to a survey by the right-leaning National Federation of Independent Business. Sales for about one-fifth of small companies are still down 50% or more from pre-pandemic levels.

    May be it is time to let them perish? And allow more efficient owners to make their own business?

  • Note how here Louis almost openly lies that Apple is somehow caring for your privacy, while in same time it is working in tight contact with FBI, NSA, CIA providing all they need and implanting holes where they need them.

    Such lie can be unintentional and comes from inner parts of the brain that want more profits, as if poor Apple users will realize reality it will be less high paid and quite easy work (as it is around 100x less Mac models compared to usual PC notebooks service) .

  • Look how Louis behaves likereal enemy of the people, defending contracts and Apple deeds that are clearly against common interests. He such way defend Apple, as he basically tell you that company can destroy common property costing tens of billions of dollars because it will bring more profits (selling new phones). This crappy "logic" comes from libertarian values and they are coming from his position being head of small business. We already saw during first lockdown how all libertarian stuff had been wiped away and big "help, and give me money!" remained.

  • We are more alone than ever in an increasingly massified world that promotes individual interests and weakens the communitarian dimension of life. Indeed, there are markets where individuals become mere consumers or bystanders. As a rule, the advance of this kind of globalism strengthens the identity of the more powerful, who can protect themselves, but it tends to diminish the identity of the weaker and poorer regions, making them more vulnerable and dependent. In this way, political life becomes increasingly fragile in the face of transnational economic powers that operate with the principle of “divide and conquer”.

    The world was relentlessly moving towards an economy that, thanks to technological progress, sought to reduce “human costs”; there were those who would have had us believe that freedom of the market was sufficient to keep everything secure. Yet the brutal and unforeseen blow of this uncontrolled pandemic forced us to recover our concern for human beings, for everyone, rather than for the benefit of a few.

    http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html

    In is important to understand that Louis libertarian views are actually even more right than fascism, as fascism appeared exactly from the dreams of scared libertarian petty bourgeoisie that had been used by large financial capital and shifted to the left to be more or less useful to fool other people.

  • It is lot of logic flaws here.

    First, why bike had been standing right at the door entry, not inside and not outside. Like it had been placed to make such nice effect. As firefighters just kicked it down and effect had been gone.

    Second, why Louis is so sure in his bridge rectifier diodes? Why he is so sure in circuit brakes, as fire happened instantly after they had been used, some water from condensation inside (or that went via rain) could cause short circuit exactly at this moment. Also no one actually know that he had been doing right at this moment, as it can be completely different from that he told.

    Third, battery assembly company is not who is directly and solely responsible for such hazards, as it is usually user or 18650 cells suppliers. Thanks to Samsung, LG and few others patents and cell prices it is huge invective to make fake cells now by each player on this market. Especially for high current cells that Louis asked for.

    Forth, blaming that sales girl who knows English and is not expert in electronics is quite stupid, she is not who makes or designs batteries.

    Last, is it so accidental that attack on Chinese company coincided with Youtube/Google promotion of such videos?

  • Bankruptcy filings in the region have skyrocketed since the middle of March, when the state of New York reported its first deaths from Covid-19 and Governor Andrew Cuomo closed all nonessential businesses. There were 610 filings in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York from March 16 to Sept. 27, according to court records. That's a 40 percent jump from the same period in 2019 and the most by far for any year since the financial crisis. The districts include some nearby counties.

    Almost 6,000 New York City businesses closed from March 1 to Sept. 11, according to Yelp, the website of user reviews. Over 4,000 of those closed permanently.

    Once you hit below 60 degrees... between 25 and 50 percent of restaurants in New York City will not come back.

    A third of our small businesses could be closed if it won't be strong recovery soon. The fate of small businesses will determine the fate of the city.

    Who could have thought.

  • Libertarian logic.

    Apple has right to set any price, if you don't like it - you are not lucky guy and should buy other cheap stuff, pass on Apple.
    Lenovo has right to set any price, if you can't buy it - do not complain, just choose other option.
    Any landlord has right to set any price, just choose good one among many available options. If you can't find good one in your city - go to cheaper city.
    Landlords who try to cheat you are not bad, it is normal business practices.

    But

    After you signed contract with landlord and you are Louis, you can start arbitrarily pay 50-60% of rent referencing COVID, same time looking to buy $800 thousands home for cash and declaring how business is good. As landlord comes and ask why you decided to do that you did and to check your profits - you tell him to go fuck herself or go to court (in the time all of them are closed), because profits allow you to pay full rent without issue.

    "Logic".

  • No, no, not again :-)

    Louis try to scare ruling class declaring that they should not rely on police and hence must not enforce mask mode and hence not introduce lockdown and how he hopes that this time his small business who broke law during spring won't be closed ruining all that he has.

    Yes, it is scary, but life is always scary for small business owner (aka penguin). Time to live with it.

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    Up above the sea’s grey flatland, wind is gathering the clouds. In between the sea and clouds proudly soaring the Petrel, reminiscent of black lightning.

    Glancing a wave with his wingtip, like an arrow dashing cloudward, he cries out and the clouds hear his joy in the bird’s cry of courage.

    In this cry — thirst for the tempest! Wrathful power, flame of passion, certainty of being victorious the clouds hear in that bird’s cry.

    Seagulls groan before the tempest, — groan, and race above the sea, and on its bottom they are ready to hide their fear of the tempest.

    And the loons are also groaning, — they, the loons, they cannot access the delight of life in battle: the noise of the clashes scares them.

    The dumb penguin shyly hiding his fat body in the crevice … It is only the proud Petrel who soars ever bold and freely over the sea grey with sea foam!

    http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/23066/song-of-the-stormy-petrel

  • Louis Rossmann, the owner of the electronics repair store, Rossmann Repair Group, said he asked Mr. Weber for a rent reduction after he lost between $50,000 and $70,000 in revenue in April as foot traffic dramatically declined in Manhattan.

    The store sits on West 27th Street, where signs seek new tenants for at least seven retail and office spaces. Other shops and restaurants, like one advertising pizza for 99 cents, remain shuttered. A page taped to the window of Kano Martial Arts said it has shut its doors to safeguard public health.

    Mr. Rossmann said he appreciated the lower rent, which helped him keep workers employed. He has also been bolstered by an uptick in customers mailing their devices in for repair, and he was able to pay 60 percent of the rent in August, Mr. Weber said.

    Still, he is considering leaving New York since even his reduced rent is still higher than he would pay in other cities. Without reliable foot traffic, he said running a small business in Manhattan is probably impossible.

    “I don’t know what the city is going to be next year,” Mr. Rossmann said.

    Capitalism kills, remember it!

    Louis now wants to leave as he need to pay back all the rent he saved now during next year. Smart idea.

    “Demanding that small businesses pay 100 percent of their rent in the worst pandemic in 100 years and the worst recession since the Great Depression hardly seems like a winning business proposition,” Mr. Ehrenberg said.

    Well, if everyone is here to be ripped off, as landlords think, it is normal thing to do.

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    Capitalism kills and it is long nice description of lot of parasites that sit on your head and profit from this. And it is nature of capitalism!

    But Louis still be supporting capitalism and private ownership of means of production. Because.. well, scared.

    It is also nice top comment by libertarian aka Austrian guy

    Long story short this is all the result of government distorting the market signals.

    No, it is result of government trying hard to save ruling class. So they act in the common class interest and it frequently means that they make big bubbles and distort things, including destroying whole industries.

    So, dream of libertarians with the state removed from regulation won't turn into nice resurgence of capitalism - it'll turn into big misery, unemployment and later fight and socialist revolution.

    And ruling class saw that in Mordor it had been also big number of free private property and apartments that was not used for years because owners wither did not have money or also had some bank loan. and thing is, that it is not return to ancient capitalism promoted by Luis that solved the issue, it is the socialism who did it and provided access to existing property to people who needed it and also build huge number of other buildings not based of profits or bank wishes, but based on people needs.

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  • Lack of education is never good, so defending Apple from legal standpoint very bad.

    One more time, Louis:

    Law is the will of the ruling class transformed into legal regulations.

    So, the will of exploiters is to declare that ripping you by 30% for doing nothing is legal and good. Not fighting this, not placing Apple top management and their main investors where they belong - at the cemetery of history, is bad and horrible thing to do.

    And it is very interesting how idealism inside pull the Louis into completely fairy tales territory, where small people are trading "freedom for convenience", such way he tries to pull blame and responsibility from ruling class and materialistic reasons. So such theory has good big foundation - he knows that we need socialist revolution, but he is afraid that someone will get all his small firm from him, so it is better to keep suffering and all else. Fear of good people - this is that allow to kill people around, Louis.

  • Louis made up new theory that all means of production owners will make collective suicide, as it is so hard to even think about this shitty socialist revolution. He feels it is near, but it is scary.

  • So, capitalism kills. But Louis loves it, not with his heart, but with his scared mind. Just too scared that can be alternative and from the amount of neurons that need rewiring for normal logical way of thinking.

  • Why libertarians always get strange 0.3-1.4% on any voting even in US? Well, Louis told it in shortest way possible - Apple or any other huge corporation (but not government, no!) can charge you any percent they like 30, 50, 99% and it does not matter at all, instead you need to shut up, throw away your smartphone or tablet and start looking for "alternatives".

    Really? Because of less than 50 people who set all things up and less than 1000 people who get around 90% of all Apple profits people need to shut up? Wow, good idea. May be it is better to do something with this little circle who are literally enemy of the people?

  • Knowing female physiology and aging helps, Louis. So, yes, turning 30 is quite close to the end. Especially if you want to have 2-3 good healthy children (optimal age for female to have them is 18-24).

    And it is nice that Louis understand why Youtube itself and viewers love him so much - because he is promoting american dream (yes, the one that you need to be asleep to believe in). And if he manages to open up his eyes and start talking in opposite direction - bad things can start to happen. And yes, ranting parents and huge inequality come from the sole thing Luis loves so much in public (but, of course, not privately) - capitalism.

  • Capitalism is always nice if it is not in your backyard

    This is why capitalism always sucks. And it will always suck due to private property on the means of production. If all of this "efficient" owners and managers won't be around - it'll be much better infrastructure and lot of better things around.

    And look that libertarian guy wants to do - he does not want to change things around (with RTR he does want to change things, but does not understand how, here he is just scared to even get an idea), does not want to fight for his real right (not the ones capitalists wrote in nice useless paper). No, he dreams about leaving, finding some nice place where it is slightly less capitalism.

  • Small service owner constantly ranting on how shitty is capitalism and open market, but instantly in same tirades telling that it means that only small part is shitty, on average 99% small this part is. :-)

    Libertarian cocroaches inside the head are making their hard work, yep.

  • It is big issue with proposals, as repair business is thing run by petty bourgeoisie.

    Even one video before it Louis told how almost no one is sharing that they know and methods that they use, why? Because people want to keep high price, they want tpofits for themselfs in the expense of everyone else. Can check history of different masters guilds centuries back - they never acted in common interests.

    Even Louis is more and more shifting to ideolgy and values of petty bourgeoisie from his initial simple proletarian approach to repairs (despite totally contradicting libertarian views for all else).

  • Another side of libertarian approach (as it is most right capitalist approach) is that nothing will change around despite any of your actions and you can't interfere with anything (besides yourself and your small barely alive business).

    So, if something is not so good - you need to leave and find place where it is better.

    Worst of all is that Louis do not understand that this approach, his approach, is exactly that creates all this mess he hates so much and wants to run from.

  • Going again about bad and good people and how we need to save nice small businesses and keep private property on means of production (at the expense of anything else).

    Aftr this vivid libertarian wants to find a way to finally impose proper masks mode on people around while still keeping libertarian approach. back to the concept of good and bad people we are.

  • Such products instead of promoting many good things they have do opposite thing - they descredit whole idea.

    As you should never approach consumer (even niche) phone productionw ith DIY like approach.