[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njSV5LtVmR4[/youtube] Though free market theory seems logical enough to me in a vacuum, this video does a good job of explaining why I am wary of transitioning into it while the other existing power structures eagerly await the demise of Government (as much of a facade it is).
It's about how anyone wealthy is an evil oppressor and that they force us to buy stuff that we don't need. I gave up then and turned it off, I doubt that it will mention anything about personal responsibility and blaming others for our own failings.
If you have the patience, methods of taking responsibility to overcome passive "enslavement" are given. It's a mash up of numerous news reports, interviews etc, and yep, there is some whinging. It's a bit hard to reduce the variety of information into a short summary though. If you are content with the current system, or it serves your interests, there's probably not much in it for you except maybe an awareness of how widespread the discontent of others runs and the options being promoted as an alternative to passive acceptance. If you are one of the discontent who don't know what to do about it except whinge, you'll have some more effective ideas afterwards of how to change your situation. The delivery includes emotive soundbites that aim to engage the short attention span of the modern citizen, followed by more detailed discussion of issues many are unaware of such as fractional reserve banking, resource based economy, leveraging accessible technology and community interaction to reduce reliance on traditional structures that have begun to fail in serving a large proportion of the population.
\ The problem with vids like these are they only take into account the top (lets say) 10% and the bottom (and very loud) 20-30% of people. What about us quiet and relatively content 60% in the middle. There has always been wealthy and always been poor and this is what makes life so wonderful. What does one have to strive for if everyone and everything is EQUAL? We need the people at the bottom to clean our toilets and when they have cleaned enough and want more the start employing people to help them. When they have enough people to help them then they do not do as much of the cleaning and do more organizing. When they get just as proficient at organizing then they will get someone in to take that over for them as well and then they are in the top 10% enjoying life after all the hard work. Yet we all seem to miss the beginning and middle stages of these top 10% lives. Or may be it just suits the argument better that they were just born into money and lets just forget the years of their lives spent slaving in order to attain and enjoy their riches? This is not the best example , but some of you will understand exactly what i am trying to say
Specifically what challenges does the video bring to a free market? It's not about corporatism is it?
