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Capitalism: Why being libertarian and using common "logic" is dangerous
  • Watch this video, even if on 1.5x speed.

    Louis is amazing man, smart repair guy. But his conclusions and advices are very common and very stupid.

    So, we have Apple who make quite good notebooks, overpriced and becoming more and more custom designed. As it is very costly and hard to repair, good technician can make a living and even make small successful firm out of it.

    Recently Apple added and slowly more and more integrated their custom T2 chip with custom firmware. Sole purpose of this chip is to maximally harden repairs and custom software installations (including hackintosh on PCs). We will see software thing in full in coming 2 years, but hardware already works.

    Apple is effective monopoly with very closed ecosystem. If you worked as editor on Macs for many years and want to use your skills - you only other option is to make some custom hackintosh install, but if you need to follow all recent software updates and plugins it can be really hard thing, and new problems can come each year, making it almost impossible.

    Libertarian view is little strange, Louis want you to apply logic that works on some markets with small/medium firms who produce lot of very similar products. But such approach can't be used with any efficiency in the huge tech giants age, manufacturers are too large and too social for this. And computer products are frequently too specialized.

    If some of Apple investors asked few Apple top managers to do something with improving service income and shorten product lifecycle, it has nothing to do with end users. It has nothing to do with poor engineers spending their life on shitty useless stuff they are not fans of. And blaming normal, good people for actions of few "enemies of the people" (I special asked the term that had been used for many years to scare the shit out of ordinary guys, as capitalist are so afraid of real meaning of it) is not good thing. Why tens and hundreds of thousands must be responsible for actions of very few morons?

    May be Louis does not know, but nice Intel secure boot stuff (if implemented certain way) also allows programming chipset with special data to prevent it's usage on any other board (and prevent any other chipset being used on this board), very similar to T2. Such notebooks exist in Windows ecosystem. And it will be more and more of them. As all other tech giants are similar to Apple, they remove upgradability, make service worse, make support worse. As their greed actually has no limits, unless you will stop it, but not in the stupid way of selecting another greedy guy product.

    It is only few leading international corporations who are designing laptops and it is only few real contractors who are making them in Taiwan and China. Btw Macbooks are frequently made by same people who assembly another 3-4 leading brands in adjacent weeks. And it is tens of thousands of good engineers and workers. And exactly 0% of them want to make crappy product with short life cycle. It is the orders they are getting and are forced to implement.

    It is the way capitalism works - if some top management will refuse to follow owners orders - they will be removed and proper one placed. If you change owners persons for another set - same thing happens, nothing will change much. General direction won't change for certain.

    Thing that Louis want to tell, but can't express properly - in normal society notebook is made to fulfill your real, normal everyday needs. Not to maximize profits of manufacturer, not to feed advertising machine, not to be present in reviews of mostly prostitute press, and not to die due its design issues one month after you will pay half of its price for small service repair. And in normal society schemes are not secret, as well as production plans.

    Is it possible to find solution on real present computer market by selecting another manufacturer each time you have such experience? No, of course not, it is stupid to even think such. At best you could buy some small time, at worse just spend ton of money and get even worse product.

    It is time to change the system, as present is sick, it is not Apple fault, btw. All you see in Apple laptop designs is just image of the system in mirror, image of the old corpse-like man who has its hands around your neck. Time to cut this hands and breath normally, Louis.

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  • Louis meeting imperialism and bureaucracy of it

  • Interesting attempt to twist things to make reason for unequal life standards because some work is more complex. Well, issue is that such system actually created situation Luis is in and hates so much and it makes it worse and worse, you can heck in PV topics hundreds of articles and charts.

  • One man certainly can't change the world, fully true and it is masses that are doing this.

    But it is also not blatant idealism that Louis promotes, it is materialism that is able to destroy Apple, destroy Google and any other horrible corporations that should not exist.

  • On Louis illusions

    One of the most important elements of keeping society submissive is creating the impression among the working people that almost all of them are the owners of some property, in practice - capitalists. More often than not, this feeling is created through the ownership of housing and cars. Most people fall for it, but they are all wrong.

    Such illusions are characteristic not only of the working people, but also of the so-called "middle class", that is, the newly-born aristocracy (the most sleek and well-fed bourgeois lackeys) and the middle-petty bourgeoisie (as well as those who consider themselves to be it). And this too is completely in vain.

    The fact is that within the framework of capitalism, the only owner of everything is big business. All the rest, if they use any property, it is only out of his grace. If it needs this for some reason (mostly if it is profitable).

    As soon as capital has a desire, it easily and naturally deprives any "owner" of his property, even without violating any laws (and if it really is necessary, it will do it, violating any of its laws, strictly within the framework of the law; well-trained wickedness will easily accept and legitimize any decisions it needs).

    Therefore, within the framework of the capitalist paradigm, any property, except for the property of big capital, is a myth. Hence any property right is based solely on the goodwill of a gang of greedy bastards who are in power.

  • He doesn't like hacks and leaks and is all for usual capitalist approach (that can't work at all in imperialism stage), but due to them he still in business.

    This is called idiotism.

    A Jew comes to the common bathhouse with a cross around his neck.
    Everyone stares at him - first at the cross, second at ...
    Then one can not stand it, and says:
    - Joseph Solomonovich, you either take off the cross, or put on your panties ...

  • It is very funny how petty bourgeoisie can't get how capitalist bureaucrats work and why they do that they do.

    As bureaucrats have exactly same mindset as capitalists, they want to rip you and get money or resources for themselves. They also have nice plans, so if they don't have enough fees collected they go and use one of thousands regulations to get that they need.

    And note that Louis propose - we need to find the place where it is less of this, not change anything, no. Just try to run and after this run again to another place. Petty bourgeoisie constantly feels like temporary residents.

  • Remember - capitalism kills!

    And Louis loves it and wants more of this - hence want more dead bodies.

  • Special explanation for some new members

    Libertarians like Louis are more right than even most extreme neo nazis. In case if you are ill or you have issue they are most ruthless (towards you, logic does not apply to them) - you made error and you must pay in full, including death. Don't have savings and funds for expensive medicine where prices are being determinate on the "free market"? Bad for ya! You will die, like really free man. I mean, before this you must transfer your belongings and savings to successful (for now) people, like Louis.

  • In the future if Apple manager will rape Louis he still will be able to find good reason why it happen such way.

  • The mass consciousness, the spontaneous consciousness, cannot think theoretically. Theoretical consciousness is the highest form of consciousness, it assumes the possibility of complete abstraction from the existing. Only having risen to a sufficiently high degree of abstraction, it is possible to model the future on the basis of scientific knowledge of the past and present, and not being in their captivity. The scientific socialism of Marx and Engels was born because the school of Hegelianism, the dialectical method requires an extremely high degree of abstraction - when the most general laws of society become visible.

    Idea of Louis is to provide simple solutions to extremely complex problem and it arises from lack of theoretical understanding that lies in the foundation of this complex problem.

  • More on Louses of this world

    It is common misconception that there is an oligarch - a dishonest monopolist who usurped the market by collusion and bribery of corrupt officials, but there is an "entrepreneur" - an honest business man to whom society should be grateful for his organizational efforts. In fact, an entrepreneur, businessman or capitalist (call it what you want) is an oligarch "in development", ie a world eater and a parasite that has not yet fully realized its potential, but actively strives for this. Of course, this may seem wild to someone, he will remember some Uncle Vanya who runs his own shop, often substitutes for the seller behind the counter, and will be amazed: “Is he a parasite? Is he a world eater? It must be some nonsense. " But after all, newborn cubs look cute and harmless, but then they grow into ferocious predators. Of course, just as in nature not every tiger cub survives to adulthood, so not every Uncle Vanya makes it to the middle size and large capitalist. But here it is important to understand the very essence: capital is born from the labor ... of someone else's labor. The capitalist lives off the appropriation of the unpaid share of the labor of his workers. Louis is absolutely no exclusion.

  • On guys like Louis as they become "real businessman"

    Cynicism, dishonesty and corruption of business people give grounds to assert that the goals of convicted criminals and those who are engaged in business are the same ... Crime is an extreme and most acute form of realizing the same ideals and values of bourgeois morality.

    Note that Louis almost each day tells you about people like... himself. Just usually who are up the ladder, who are more criminal.

  • On some Louis transformations that he describe in his videos about his life:

    If a liberal is not at the trough, it is simply a liberal. After receiving the trough, it instantly becomes a right wing patriot, he now has something to defend. Having lost it, he instantly becomes a liberal back. And so on, ad infinitum.

  • Capitalists! Stop exploiting proletariat, where is your conscience? Pray for 6 hours and confess!

    Ouch, shit, this never worked, but may be this time it'll be different?

  • "Christmas is going to be a lot harder," Biden said. "And I don't want to scare anybody here, but understand the facts: we're likely to lose another 250,000 people dead between now and January. You hear me? Because people aren't paying attention. People aren't paying attention."

    “The reality is December and January and February are going to be rough times. I actually believe they're going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation largely because of the stress that it's going to put on our healthcare system," Redfield said on Wednesday, "So we're in that range, potentially, now starting to see 1500 to 2000 to 2500 deaths a day from this virus... And I do think, unfortunately, before we see February, we could be close to 450,000 Americans who have died from this virus."

    Remember this is that Louis stands for, actually, being on the side of ruling class - he likes and want your deaths.

    He just wanted it even better - no lockdowns, no vaccines and thriving small business, his business. Just few thousands more dead, but better for him.

  • Bad guys again, do not respect democracy :-)

    Louis, it is just corporations who make the call to ruling class stating that it is their common interest to not allow it. And it is, as oppressed must not rise their voice and their opinion does not matter a lot. Only time it matters is either if it makes no difference or if ruling class is in big danger for not accepting it.

  • @stonebat

    Capitalism is not something you can't avoid. It is just social system that people can change and already changed.

    But proposing that it can be "capitalism with human face" and "proper good capitalism" as Louis is doing is just very bad thing.

    And your proposal is full analogy to proposal of raped person to enjoy being raped. Sick thing.

  • “When you can’t avoid something, enjoy it.” — anonymous

  • @stonebat

    You seem to miss the point. Capitalism helps you keep sense of humor.

    No, I don't miss anything.

    As for his workers it is all not funny, as they see their boss turning into full blown capitalist shark looking at them like they are not humans, but some machines, hence all the talk about replacing.

  • You seem to miss the point. Capitalism helps you keep sense of humor.

  • But we still need "proper capitalism"... May be Louis actually needs some nice NY brick to make brain wiring to start working and making logical conclusions?

  • Interesting video, especially considering how beloved capitalism work for Louis (it does not, lot of cheating, lies and scam around, riots, stealing, etc) and how he still want normal thing that every capitalist want - to become large to survive in the hostile waters and later try to become monopoly.

  • Horrors and horrors around for our little capitalist. Again large companies want to do something bad. How we can change this? May be we need good people again, I mean, like in Apple? What? Did not work in Apple? Sad.

  • "Imperialism stage of capitalism I am living in seems fishy to me"

    Louis Rossman.

    We need to cast this in granite.

  • In search of the good, true capitalism. Again. Same like the drunk man who search for something under the street lamp, just because it is bright and not because thing he search for still exist around.

    "There are two classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie... And whoever isn't on one side is on the other".

    J. Reed

    Time to understand that your workers are not "your friends" and it is not them who are searching to buy big house in NY for cash using COVID related government credit, money underpaid to workers, not paying to landlord fully and other similar stuff.