THE DRIVELATOR IS BACK

@Arrakiz666

5 жыл бұрын

YUS, the hentai-man returns! You have no idea how glad I am that this character is a part of the narrative. ... Also, parodying the KZread style popularized by Matpat is one of the most brilliant things you're ever done Olly. You never seize to amaze comrade!

@sourwitch2340

5 жыл бұрын

Nani? Love the shirt.

@zoeholme9640

5 жыл бұрын

Needs his own channel

@sociallyineptspider-man2366

5 жыл бұрын

Hehe the Hentai in the beggining

@thatguy1628

5 жыл бұрын

You bozo, you stole my comment 😭😭😭

'crisis of infinite sub-prime mortgages' made me have to pause the video laughing

@wakelyn

5 жыл бұрын

Literally looking at this comment right now because I had to do the same and decided to check the comments.

@TreeHairedGingerAle

5 жыл бұрын

Same!

@EmeraldLavigne

5 жыл бұрын

I literally howled at the Hareton Splimby II joke... Perfect

@reaganbartels9993

5 жыл бұрын

@@EmeraldLavigne Same

@tomw6926

5 жыл бұрын

Isn't that a Harry Potter novel?

Finally, a good nonpolitical video that has no _secret meaning_ whatsoever!

@TwentySeventhLetter

5 жыл бұрын

yeah tbh ollie's been getting waaay too involved with politics glad he decided to do a video a gamer like me can enjoy /s

@ryan_806

5 жыл бұрын

huh... Socialist? that's a funny last name

@SelaNaama

5 жыл бұрын

@@ryan_806 huh... G is a funny last name.

@booketoiles1600

5 жыл бұрын

Jokes aside, gamers really think that about Alan Moore comics

@Oops-All-Ghosts

5 жыл бұрын

Heyyyy, #NotAllGamers >:( (kill me)

ok. i only just came across this video. i watched the whole thing and as an ex-homeless person, i want to say something. homelessness is a problem that involves real people and you're never too far away from becoming homeless. quite often all it takes is something as small as you loosing your job and sometimes it can be something as big as an abusive partner. homelessness isn't always someone sleeping in the doorway of a closed down business. it can be couch surfing, sleeping in your car, breaking into abandoned industrial buildings. for many of the people i met in my time as a homeless person, i heard some real horror stories and even encountered a few of them myself. women staying having to stay with physically abusive partners because "they had a roof over their head, they can go back to it" pregnant women being told to "just stay with the father for a while and try saving some money" in my case, i was priced out of the area i was renting in but the job i was working at the time didnt give me enough money to pay my rent. when i was homeless, i found myself couch surfing, sleeping in my friends car, sleeping under bridges and wherever else i could. in the uk, you "present" as homeless and you have someone basically say if you are able to get help or not. quite often these are situations are really scary. in my case, i had a really nasty woman. i explained how i became homeless and that because i didnt have a permanent address, i couldn't get a job or benefits, i couldn't get my anti-depression medication and that i had been self harming and tried to commit suicide. i even brought in the medical/police records about the situation. she ignored those, grabbed my arm, pulled up my sleeve to see my cut marks (which went all the way up both arms, both under and over) then said "next time, try cutting deeper. now get out my sight" i had to go back with a social worker and the same woman suddenly was nice as hell. i'd heard of one woman who had had a similar experience with the woman who was so depressed, she jumped into the river. personally i think in all the talk of "homelessness" we do forget we are dealing with real people and that no matter how easy it is to fall between the cracks of society, it's 10000x harder to climb back out.

@immediateegret2120

4 жыл бұрын

That's awful, I'm so glad to hear you are no longer homeless. It's so easy to dismiss homelessness when you convince yourself that it only happens to people who deserve it, but that's not remotely the case.

@Robstafarian

4 жыл бұрын

As a disabled person, I was born into a crack in society. Were it not for the fact that my parents own their home, I would have already been homeless (i.e. nearly dead). I do not give a single fuck how much of a "loser" someone may judge me to be: I am alive.

@poofballoon

4 жыл бұрын

That woman is a murderer

@stoodmuffinpersonal3144

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate you sharing your story. I am sure it wasn't easy. But you're absolutely right. You didn't stop neing a person when losing your home, but you weren't treated like one. And that shit sounds scary as fuck

@DragonNexus

3 жыл бұрын

For anyone reading this, if you're homeless you can apply for a job and benefits even if you have no address. You can supply the address of either the hostel you're staying in; friend or family member; day centre if you're sleeping on the streets; local jobcentre. There are still ways to get financial help.

So called landlords can't even earthbend. Complete joke

@disappointingperson9162

3 жыл бұрын

landlords? more like landlosers

@garygrinkevich6971

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA kudos!

@seneca983

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, I suspect the First Sea Lord can't waterbend either.

@MegaMementoMori

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the lame city landlords can't, but just wait and see the episodes with suburban houses. They can earthbend like there is no tomorrow, it just uses a lot of their power reserves (that they regenerate by renting the houses, so it's not a big deal).

@Rabbit-the-One

3 жыл бұрын

They really dropped the ball on that one. What an oversight. Totally misused characters that could've been much more popular if given a better framing for the customers to interact with them through.

Abolishing rent would also mean a sharp drop in the number of both teens and adults who are trapped in domestically abusive households, just because they are dependent on their abusive parents or spouses for a place to stay.

@TreeHairedGingerAle

5 жыл бұрын

"@Aunty Agony " Same, kinda. ^^ Disabled, in a dark, cold, spidery basement, with folk that I no longer mesh with, but...it's still better than before. Just ... as I'm sure you know, it's a ***low*** freaking bar for a life. It would be so much easier to start over again and to heal from the experience, if I just had my *own* place, where I knew I didn't have to be constantly worried about not having resources or any place to go next. Far less frustrating if I could make my own decisions about what I need and want, without burdening or getting in the way of everyone else every single time I try to do something that would be mind-numbingly simple otherwise. And really? I don't think *anyone* needs to go through that trouble. Not you, not me, not anybody. It's a cruelty when we have enough resources for all; and it's a shame, when us and those like us could be using our efforts, brain power, and passions in other, more worthwhile or more helpful endeavors.

@kylelou1983

5 жыл бұрын

@Aunty Agony Just ignore all the problems then its perfect.

@kylelou1983

5 жыл бұрын

@Aunty Agony it was a joke i agree with you

@kylelou1983

5 жыл бұрын

@Aunty Agony sorry if i seemed that way

@cameronmiller6240

5 жыл бұрын

Although you might find other sources of abuse occurring such as if families were forced to take people who might abuse their children or fights breaking out between young men forced to live together without the pacifying effect of older family members. Also teens might move out simply because they are having a strop with their parents and end up in worse troubles.

I'm so glad that youtube still has creators like Philosophy Tube, it seems like it's all overrun by leftist sjw crap nowadays. Isn't it nice to just sit down, cut the crap and talk comics?

@ataridc

5 жыл бұрын

No n33d to get political i only like objective things like dirt and creeks

@artificialgravitas8954

5 жыл бұрын

Isn't Philosphie Tube leftist...

@user-js1eg6vp7w

5 жыл бұрын

its so nice to not talk about politics for once...

@andrewbellahcene2267

5 жыл бұрын

@Fourth-Dimensional Quasar r/ihavereddit

@jackbarman7063

5 жыл бұрын

Artificial Gravitas also not all leftists are SJWs... but that’s more of a side point

When I was homeless, I realised how ridiculous it is to have to pay to be able to sleep somewhere. Then I realised it's ridiculous to have to pay to not starve. And it's ridiculous to have to pay to be able to wash yourself, and to pee somewhere that isn't the street. Paying for basic human needs is ridiculous. And that is the story of how I became an anarchist!

@MrJaaaaake

4 жыл бұрын

Without society you would have to pay for all of those things too. With blood, sweat and tears. You would have to build a shelter. Grow or hunt your food. Find safe water. Being homeless in a city is way easier than being homeless in a forest.

@RisenSlash

4 жыл бұрын

The point is that we no longer are in need of those resources. It's not an issue of supply, merely distribution.

@oibruv3889

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrJaaaaake you may be missing the point

@rockawayb1tch

4 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry if this sounds a bit dumb, as I’m somewhat uninformed on anarchism, but wouldn’t socialization of these things go against the idea of anarchism?

@midnighthope7752

4 жыл бұрын

@@rockawayb1tch anarchy isn't a society without governance or regulation, it's a society without hierarchy an-archy: without rulers

I hate how little empathy people have sometimes. I became homeless after getting kicked out of my sober living house because someone thought I snuck out one night (I didn't). I never in a million years thought it would happen to me. I never realized just how close to being homeless most people are all the time. Most of us are really just one eviction away from being homeless. When I was homeless, I was couch surfing, and then I was sleeping in a wooded area next to the highway. I lost an insane amount of weight. I lost my sobriety because I couldn't deal with my situation. I could barely afford food. I would shower at the gym, which I was still a member of, because my parents never took me off of their family membership (thank God). I got a job as a stripper, which absolutely saved me. It was the only way I could work without a permanent address. I finally had enough money to save up for an apartment. The job was a godsend, and I eventually got my sobriety back, but it was FUCKED, and I realized then that homeless people aren't just lazy; I learned just how terrifying homelessness actually is. I learned how hard it is to be sober, take care of yourself, etc etc while homeless. I went from being a 'productive member of society' with a job and a home to a homeless, jobless junkie in a couple days. Most people aren't nearly as lucky as I was. Some people are homeless for years, some people can't find a job without an address. Some people don't have a gym they can shower at. I was in the best situation a homeless person could possibly be in, and I was still scared for my life most days. A house is pretty much a requirement if you want any kind of job, and homeless people are the victims of an insane amount of violent crimes. And how do you avoid getting everything you own stolen while you sleep? How do you avoid someone hurting you while you're vulnerable?? Shit, how do you even go to the bathroom, charge a phone, anything? Did I overshare? Sorry

@brickellvoss7739

Жыл бұрын

You did not overshare. Normal people need to hear these stories. Too many people are blind or want to keep their ignorance because it makes living their privileged lives easier. But then again less and less people are privileged. Continue to share as you see fit. If anyone has a problem with you sharing then... that problem is their own and their own feelings to deal with. I appreciate what you have shared and it will allow me to be even more compassionate than I was before so thank you.

@CullenCraft

11 ай бұрын

I've teetered close to that point. You are not over sharing. The world needs more sharing from people like you. Thank you.

@juliuswi8767

2 ай бұрын

You shared your parent's gym membership, why not their address?

Housing should be socialised for the same reason healthcare is socialised. The 'demand' is not demand but necessity. Which give the supplier the power to make prices whatever they like

@curioussoul6059

5 жыл бұрын

That's a good point x.x maybe, just maybe.. the market shouldn't get to determine who lives and who dies?..

@Randomgen77

5 жыл бұрын

“Healthcare *is* socialised” *cries in American*

@curioussoul6059

5 жыл бұрын

@@Randomgen77 I'm guessing you're part of the 99% who would benefit from socialized healthcare? Not part of the 1% that own >50% of the wealth? (I'm assuming this because they benefit from the privatized healthcare system)

@Randomgen77

5 жыл бұрын

@@curioussoul6059 Yep, I'm one of those poor suckers who gets shafted by imaginary prices cooked up by providers and private insurers.

@lookowl4693

5 жыл бұрын

Curious Soul that's why I'm for the welfare state. If we have market systems we should at least make sure everyone get's to live comfortably.

Come on, AirBNB might be popular right now, but we all know Free Healthcare is best girl

@TheDoctor423

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Lady Marion FairShare, she who taxes the 1% in the dead of night and redistributes to the poor, the homeless, the schools, the infrastructure and so many others in need!

@paulc2945

5 жыл бұрын

What is this thing of which you speak? Free Healthcare?

@robw4789

5 жыл бұрын

What about the Princess Common Land sadly defeated by the Domesday cult and their horrific book.

@bainbonic

5 жыл бұрын

@@paulc2945 Oh she's a great character. I'm a big fan of her run in the Ultimate Kontinuity run (UK for short) where she's currently got her own spin off series battling against the villain Privatisation, a pretty sinister villain who has the power to bend the minds of the heroes and turn them into villains. It's really good, I'd like to see her show up in the Unlimited Society Arc too at some point.

@michikomanalang6733

5 жыл бұрын

@@paulc2945 everyone's true waifu

rule 34 gentrification Edit: Sry, wrong window.

@disastermidi1990

3 жыл бұрын

Rule 34 gentrification hentai

@disastermidi1990

3 жыл бұрын

Rule 34 gentrification profile hentai Nudes

@disastermidi1990

3 жыл бұрын

Why is google

@astra8308

2 жыл бұрын

I need this tbh

@glassphoenix9095

3 ай бұрын

@@disastermidi1990 "old man yaoi" this "old man yaoi" that HE HAS DONE SO MANY CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY 😭

Ironically, if my rental agency was dismantled and all it's properties distributed to the tenants, some of these properties might actually get fixed up.

@Phil9874

4 жыл бұрын

indeed that would be great

@sundayschoolflunkie3979

4 жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome. As if we needed more reasons to start a revolution.

Loved it. Thanks for letting me do the art!

@PhilosophyTube

5 жыл бұрын

You did an AMAZING job, thank you!

@michaelflattery2298

5 жыл бұрын

The art was SOOO GOOOD! Well done!

@artisinventable

5 жыл бұрын

@@PhilosophyTube did you pay him?

@yunglynda1326

5 жыл бұрын

Art was amaaaaazinggggg

@KyletheScott

5 жыл бұрын

fantastic stuff, highlight of the video to be sure.

"Only under capitalism do millions of empty homes and millions of homeless people just sit and stare at each other." -Richard Wolff

@recklessroges

5 жыл бұрын

Location, location, location. (Most of the "empty" houses aren't where they would be of use to the homeless.)

@smartsweetandsassy

5 жыл бұрын

Reckless Roges lol, yeah.. the houses are just, not Next To the homeless people.. that's why they gotta be homeless

@sogghartha

5 жыл бұрын

@@recklessroges Well isn't that capitalism's fault too, building stuff where it isn't needed or wanted?

@XRXaholic

5 жыл бұрын

@@recklessroges There are 20, 000 empty homes in London, UK (many quite large, could house multiple people comfortably). Likewise there are 25, 000 empty units in Vancouver, BC. This pattern is more or less the same for most major cities. Yeah I'm sure the homeless... *squints*... won't find it useful to live in the largest metropolitan areas in the world. Now, it can be a bit different in parts of the US, with its sprawling and wasteful suburbs, where fallow or empty housing (or so-called "investment properties") could potentially exist far away from health care providers, jobs and services... but that's a problem of capitalism and poor city planning. That's an artificially-created problem.

@jesusgonzalez6715

5 жыл бұрын

@@XRXaholic Suburbia is the biggest deliberate waste of resources in human history.

I'm sad gentrification looked like a gentleman instead of a rich dude dressing like a homeless guy in the name of fashion

@AshAtropos

3 жыл бұрын

Fair but also it's very hard to convey that succinctly visually in a way that doesn't look like you're calling homeless people gentrifiers

@redriot2115

3 жыл бұрын

I think he's using an older design of gentrification

@Rozilla

3 жыл бұрын

@@redriot2115 oh yeah, in the recent reboot he's a lot more hipster!

@squashfei8907

3 жыл бұрын

Because he's a *gent*

@Pluveus

3 жыл бұрын

@@redriot2115 Yeah, the new version is the filmmaker kid from Rent.

Housing Market is Housing Crisis. Waht a tweest. Seriously though, everyone has known since the industrial revolution arc. We've just got a bunch of newbies who refuse to read anything prior to the RED MENACE arc.

@swanstarr1441

4 жыл бұрын

Even as recently as the wall street arc we see the authors almost confirm it in interviews

@harrylane4

4 жыл бұрын

Still want somebody to bring back that Marx thread. If the Russia series hadn't had that disastrous change in writing staff after the revolution arc, we could have gotten a really awesome plotline out of that.

@Nejvyn

4 жыл бұрын

Problem is, at this point in time I lost my hope that there're any writers out there who'd actually commit to those themes set up in the Marx thread. They always want to adapt it "with a twist!" just to seem original and edgy -.- And I'm like: Please ... just give us a straight-up pay-off to that set-up. No more "subvert your expectations" crap!

@datvo3076

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine being so economically illiterate to believe this shit. By that logic, car market cause car crisis right? Oh wait that doesn’t exist and vast majority people still own affordable cars. Fuck out of here with that dumbass shit. Demand for houses change over life time, you can absolutely have housing market without housing crisis. Please watch unlearned economic criticism on this shit video. Only people that can agreed with this are dumb fuck who never take an econ 101 class before.

@soupisfornoobs4081

3 жыл бұрын

@@datvo3076 imagine being so generally illiterate to think cars and homes are comparable in that way. Lol, go take 1st grade, leave the Econ 101s to people with the ability to think

wowww, that art tho! amazing, Skutch. this was brilliant!! thanks for letting me rant about laissez faireboys.

@PhilosophyTube

5 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for bringing the brainpower!

@skutch2439

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It was a privilege to contribute to such a fantastic project and to work with two of my favorite youtubers!

@_jhc

5 жыл бұрын

Please make him vegan now ;)

@vladimirstarostenkov4417

5 жыл бұрын

Привет, Мекси!

@mathieuleader8601

5 жыл бұрын

ooh contributor comments

Not gonna lie, the art style was so good for a hot second I was legit thrown off and thought there WAS such a thing as the "house market comic" and I was like "well comics are really weird so what do I know"

@christophercheck1590

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, comics ARE weird. Read half of anything Grant Morrison ever wrote. He has a comic (Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery) that is basically Charles Atlas fanfiction.

@BannedFromTheaters

5 жыл бұрын

@@christophercheck1590 I don't know what half these words means which proves the point haha :P

@gentleman_oni

5 жыл бұрын

Well, "Captain Tax time" is a thing that exists, so nothing about comics surprises me anymore.

@rowanlavellan9755

5 жыл бұрын

@@gentleman_oni then you have the entire catalog of Tandy PSAs (they're canon and I can't be convinced otherwise)

@brain_apostrophe_t

5 жыл бұрын

Im with you man. If i didnt know better id say the flaming carrot was an elaborate economic metaphor

So I guess the British accent was fake this whole time then

@Isaac-iu6bx

4 жыл бұрын

Wait.........

@ragnar3434

4 жыл бұрын

I KNEW IT

@nerdywolverine8640

4 жыл бұрын

It's a testament to my inability to differentiate accents that I didn't even notice he wasn't speaking with his British accent

@harrylane4

4 жыл бұрын

@@nerdywolverine8640 he mentions in another video (I think his fandom one) that the American accent he was taught isn't necessarily accurate, but it's *juuust* American enough that a British audience can identify the character as American. Think about how we Americans tend to use a quasi-RP accent when we want a character to be British, even if they're from the north.

@nerdywolverine8640

4 жыл бұрын

@@harrylane4 I know lol, it's not that I thought it was either British or American, just that any difference in accent tends to fly past my awareness, sometimes even in cases where it's explicitly pointed out

Olly: "...there's more empty homes than homeless people." Shirt: *NANI*

@ocima_ankapa

4 жыл бұрын

well in socialism (proposed solution) there is more homeless people and no empty homes it's not better if you want the least homeless people possible

@ZeroPlayerGame

4 жыл бұрын

@@ocima_ankapa does socialism magically decrease the number of homes or what?

@ocima_ankapa

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZeroPlayerGame it does decrease house production, yes not magically but economically

@adamplentl5588

4 жыл бұрын

@@ocima_ankapa Oh yeah? Socialism just adopts the policy of "more homeless people, less home production," as one its core economic principles or did you plan on elaborating on that totally baseless assertion in some sort of substantive way? Can you point to the specific policy in the Socialist Guidebook that espouses this principle or is it something you just fabricated to fit a certain narrative that you already agree with? Also, even assuming that were somehow a supportable assertion, it isn't, that doesn't really address the issue in any way at all. There are empty houses. There are homeless people. Do you see the problem? Do you see how saying "Hurrr durrr well there would more homelessness under ," doesn't really address that problem in any way at all?

@UserJWR

4 жыл бұрын

@@ocima_ankapa "House production" lmao. You don't produce houses, you build them. The difference is that a "product" is a movable object, therefore it has a high mobility as a commodity and is very flexible in the ways it can be traded. That is not true for homes. The value of a flat or house is related to its direct environment and therefore much more exposed to value swings, while the product's value is more stable because the product can adapt to its environment through its flexibility. Approaching the housing market like any other "free market" can lead to some very false conclusions because of this. I recommend reading Henry George on this, he did a lot of work on land value and speculation.

From now on I'm going to add "in the comics" after making any radical point

@joakimandersson7769

5 жыл бұрын

Noam Chadsky .... jesus that's funny, here have ten+ upvotes XD

@JakeFace0

5 жыл бұрын

That's what Vaush was doing to avoid being banned from Twitch. "We should all punch Nazis... In a video game. In Fortnite"

The fact that you made this entire 20 minute video into both an explanation of the current housing crisis, while also making it a pastiche of the average youtube comic channels was sheer genius. Using these creative ways to share philosophy with comedy is a fantastic way to get people into actually wanting to think. Many kudos to you.

@gothicfan51

5 жыл бұрын

who's that guy in your pfp, I see that image everywhere, it's quite familiar.

@discountchocolate4577

5 жыл бұрын

The defensive "this is just speculative/my opinion/etc." qualifiers are particularly annoying and recontextualizing them in a political video essay just makes the arguer sound like a coward or a dumbass, which I hope was the intended effect.

@Elzilcho87

5 жыл бұрын

@@gothicfan51 It's from the cover of a book called "You Are Not So Smart".

@XenaBe25

5 жыл бұрын

I love that username :) It brings back memories of when I was a little kid on a long car trip, looking for pictures in the jet streams imprinted on the clouds. Blah. The adult environmentalist me cringes a little at the memory. And yet I still play that game with my kids on long road trips...

I found Mr Thorn's "American Nerd" accent offensive. I feel personally attacked. Being insufferable isn't just an Act for me Mr Thorn. I have a proud history and culture of being absolutely Insufferable, Mr Thorn. It took practice to become This insufferable, and I'd appreciate some recognition in just how incredibly insufferable me and my friends really are

@augydoggy999

3 жыл бұрын

i know this is 9 months after you made this comment but i just had to let you know that made me fucking CACKLE.

@searchingfororion

3 жыл бұрын

As an American, who has been a nerd forever, I was freakishly tricked by this (brava to that acting ability) temporarily - Totally sounded like SuperCarlin Brothers.

@kadran3263

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 I couldn't watch the entire video. Truely Insufferable.

I love that this parallels The Sentry.

@spacepillow

3 жыл бұрын

@driveasandwich6734

3 жыл бұрын

How so?

@dinninfreeman2014

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@jermox

2 жыл бұрын

@@driveasandwich6734 Spoilers for a 20 year old comic... . . . . . . The Sentry and his nemesis are the same person.

@shady8045

2 жыл бұрын

holy shit ur right. nuts lol.

you didn't have to come for nerdsync like this

@stephbrown4034

5 жыл бұрын

didn't have to and yet I'm glad they did xD

@Love1nOther

5 жыл бұрын

I just said this out loud! Spot on impersonation

@ThatOneGuy7550

5 жыл бұрын

The Scott Niswander impersonation was too well done, damn

Wow, you should have a panel at CommieCon

@spencerjames9417

5 жыл бұрын

I hope to god that actually exists

@ithemba

5 жыл бұрын

^ this! Make it happen! CommieCon!

@GajanaNigade

5 жыл бұрын

#CommieCon

@benl2140

4 жыл бұрын

Do you perhaps mean COMECON?

@cantutmez8854

4 жыл бұрын

It existed for a while guys.It'a called ComeCon

Olly, your American accent is fantastic. Also, I love the MatPat parody. ALSO. COMMIE CRATE. BRILLIANT.

@joeyjones4929

5 жыл бұрын

Seemed more like NerdSync that matpat

@theobuniel9643

5 жыл бұрын

@@joeyjones4929 Yeah, if this was MatPat, Olly'd just be narrating the entire thing, make his voice more nasal, and just slap on a headshot of his and edit the crap out of it.

@joeyjones4929

5 жыл бұрын

@@theobuniel9643 oh damn kill em

@SamuelGarcia-lf1sm

5 жыл бұрын

His accent isn't THAT great, but its still a fantastic video. Those damn Englishmen can't exactly say the hard R's the right way

@joeyjones4929

5 жыл бұрын

@@SamuelGarcia-lf1sm the hard "arls" as they'd pronounce

This is some next level lefty shitposting, and I am 110% here for it

This is a brilliant video. These styled ones are very simple to introduce apolitical friends too!!!

@TwentySeventhLetter

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah seriously, this angle is _extremely_ useful

Hareton Splimby isn't a man. He's an idea. And ideas...are bulletproof.

@RainfallHarbinger

5 жыл бұрын

Hell yea

@memoryfoam2285

5 жыл бұрын

V time

@anonymousmisnomer5443

5 жыл бұрын

Hubert Maliszewski ideas are a spook invented by the collective consciousness in order to prevent the rise of the ego of the individual

@anonymousmisnomer5443

5 жыл бұрын

Mac Mcskullface ofc, lmao

@Whosaskin

5 жыл бұрын

Is a mantle.

every time she throws in a "IN THE COMIC" with a glance at the camera i loose it

In China around 800 CE I believe they redistributed all the land. This gave them 200 years of peace. It wasn't a perfect solution that lasted forever. However, it did help solve the landlordism problems for a bit.

@sleepyhead6023

2 жыл бұрын

communism is supposed to be based in a situation without de facto scarcity, capitalism is supposed to be based in a situation of reducing de facto scarcity, and pre-capitalism is supposed to be based in a situation of maintaining/having de facto scarcity

@chrismcguffin216

11 ай бұрын

That's becuase the commons was treated as the commons. The benefits of exclusive right that enclosure gave us has obvious benefits. So that's not the real problem with enclosure. The current problem with enclosure is the fact that landholders have the right to keep all the economic rents from the land to themselves. They didn't create that value, the community and it's economic activity did. They get it by way of imputed rents (they don't have to pay anyone rent, and the rent they do pay to the state is a paltry amount). Or in the context of landlords, they literally extract it from the economy by way of taking a large chunk of someone's wages, while creating no added value (that's the economic rent bit, simply owning a location and being able to charge for it). Tax away that economic rent as close to 100% market rate as possible, and you have effectively made the liquid value of the land common property as it is now revenue to better the community and even distribute some as a citizens dividen (UBI). The rich and corporations that are holding lots of property will be incentivised to offload some of it as the cost to hold won't be worth it for a lot of their properties. And for the ones they hold, they are compensating the community for the exclusion by way of paying taxes, taxes they can't avoid other than dropping ownership. Corps will drop because the speculative and rent seeking incentive will be gone. All landlords to be successful will have to become true property managers, supplying excellent service and emenities as the improvements would the be their only profit margin, and buildings, being capital, are a depreciating asset, so they can be a sinkhole. The rental market will shrink but have better options, and owner occupancy will increase. By not taxing improvements, it incentivises development and encourages owners to maintain and improve their property. Frankly, the premise provided in this video is not on the mark. To think that we don't need to continue to build more housing as a factor of solving the problem is rediculous, and thinking that 70-100 year old developments still serve the current population's needs is also rediculous. Tokyo has land use policy that makes housing a depriciating asset (probably becuase the American economist that was sent to help rebuild Japan's economy was a georgist) which encourages efficient land development. The land is to be used by the living, so it should be developed to meet the needs of the current population. It's why Tokyo has relatively affordable housing and more economic opportunities than your average north American City. As for the real bad guys in displacing the poor and minority groups, you can blame the auto industry and it's lobbying and monopolization in the transit industry in the US for displacing the most people to build car dependent infrastructure like highways, expand streets to Stroads, ect. Cars are a huge cost burden compared to public transit, and when your infrastructure is car dependent, that means in most cities in NA, you'll need a car to find employment, as reliable transportation is generally a must, and let's face it, a lot of NA city's public transit is not reliable enough. The belt comment in this video is also rediculous because if it's literally illegal for developers to build anything but detached SFH car dependent neighborhoods in the suburbs, then you're not going to get the density you need to house everyone close enough to economic hubs (urban cores). Solutions are simple: Tax land rent values as close to market rates as possible. (the effects of this are vast, check out @LandTaxerMemes, he does a decent job of unpacking it). Remove restrictive zoning and arbitrary building codes that limit the type of development we can have. Well structured subsidies for low income housing. "Men did not make the earth.... It is the value of the improvement only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property.... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds." - Thomas Paine "Our legislators are all landholders, and they are not yet persuaded that all taxes are finally paid by the land… therefore, we have been forced into the mode of indirect taxes. All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and the propagation of the species, is his natural right which none may justly deprive him of; but all property superfluous to such purposes is the property of the public." - Benjamin Franklin Many of the founding fathers were also in favor of the commons being the commons economically. One of the factors they were running from was the negative effects of enclosure. "In terms of buying land, you would be entitled to develop it, yes, but to keep the ground rents, no. Buying shares of a monopoly doesn't justify monopoly, does it? You could buy a slave, but that wouldn't justify slavery. You could buy stolen goods, but all you bought was a bum ethical title. Only things made by labor are ethically own able, and last I checked, none of us made the land." ~Steven B Cord

The hareton splimby lore runs deep

@marekwygnany924

5 жыл бұрын

Miss the guy. You too?

@RevolutionaryLoser

5 жыл бұрын

"I am Hareton Splimby". You think you're the only lefty with structural critiques of our culture? Mr. Bomberguy, you've become part of a bigger universe, you just don't know it yet.

@lronjack

5 жыл бұрын

LeftTube Extended Universe is heating up

@alexnorth9670

5 жыл бұрын

Who will be hareton splimby 3?

@marekwygnany924

5 жыл бұрын

@@RevolutionaryLoser No I am Hareton Splimby. And I'm here to report everything is good in the game industry. There's no need to enforce capitalistic Pax Romana.

Communis-*chokes* COMICS. Oh look. It me.

I don't think your fan theory would work or maybe I just missed a big part of it. Either way, let me know. If the property force is destroyed, and no one owns any of the property, then wouldn't that destabilize the social mobility force? Like, say you have a young medical student. He doesn't need a lot of space, just a studio apartment near the medical school. But then he graduates, builds a career with a ton of social utility, and wants to start a family. He'll need a couple more rooms (or at least a much bigger studio). But all the surrounding larger homes close to the hospital are occupied! *How* does he determine *who* he bargains with to swap homes with and *what* does he bargain with? Does housing space priority rise and fall with one's social utility? Who decides that ranking? Isn't this just a reimagining of Housing Crisis? How often is there a redistribution? "How many damn times do I need to help you move your futon?" the young doctor's friend with a truck asks. The Russian AU and the Chavez Spin-off had answers to this problem but I don't see what yours is. I guess there's the ancient hero's code of "From each, according to his ability. To each, according to their need." but who enforces that if the state doesn't own the properties? I think this opens up a dimensional portal for a long-dead vilian to return: Hobbesian State of Nature. And we all remember HSoN's superpower: the elimination of the Social Contract psychic field which results in everyone placing their own short-term survival over long-term societal growth! Again, I might be missing something obvious here and I'm not trying to nitpick holes just to be an edgy Housing Market fanboy. I'm legitimately interested in what your theory is but I feel like I only picked up on half of it.

@woobilicious.

4 жыл бұрын

Redistribution becomes ever more complex when you consider economics of scale, companies and corporations own lots of land because it maximises the efficiency of production, a classic example are farmers, depending on the equipment, a single farmer can produces wildly different quantities of food, a horse-plow isn't very efficient, but it doesn't require a lot of capital investment, a "gas" powered plow can be more efficient, but it's more costly, and requires investment, not only investment in the gas-powered plow, but the entire industry and "size" of the facilities required to manufacture the gas-powered plow, and the supply chains to supply the fuel, it's a lot easier as entrepreneur to understand your customers, how much they might be willing to pay for a certain increase in productivity, and compare the "market size" and check if it's at this point in time it's more efficient to stay with horse-plows, or invest in purchasing land and other materials to build these gas-plows, the entrepreneur takes on the burden of risking his personal wealth, for more wealth, and generally 66% of all business fail after 10 years, and that's with a robust price system that helps "atomise" the economy into manageable components. Socialist always want to socialise the profits gained from successful enterprise, but the reality is that they're also socialising the risks, like slow growth, depressions, or worse famines (Venezuela use to produce food, after their socialist government expropriated it's farm land, it left it to waste and now imports 100% of its food, exposing it's food supply to unnecessary systemic risk)

@mxpronounced3224

4 жыл бұрын

@@woobilicious. Are _you_ a socialist?

@TheTheThe_

4 жыл бұрын

Google Murray Bookchin.

@MrJaaaaake

4 жыл бұрын

@Soviet who Cuts lmao..come on man. A horse and a fucking plow is nowhere even close to as efficient as modern farm tools. The quality may be worse but the scale is way bigger. Quality must suffer with the sheer quantity of people we have now.

@the33rdguy

4 жыл бұрын

That's why I think housing market should be taking out on the lower level so everyone has a base. But still able to operate if you would like to move up to a better home. Kinda like how theirs private and public healthcare in canada. Their would be public and private homes.

"Don't forget to check out her awesome channel when you're done here, for all kinds of cool videos about communis- ABOUT COMICS." I laughed for a solid minute.

"You can't sell or build your way out of a problem of distribution." This should be engraved over the door of every school of public affairs and economics.

@beingandtreeing2979

5 жыл бұрын

was just gonna comment that i'm gonna tattoo this phrase on my forehead or something ...

@karinisaksson1961

5 жыл бұрын

You know better than all the economists. Good job my dude. You're so smart. :)

@beingandtreeing2979

5 жыл бұрын

@@karinisaksson1961 I do not know if that is supposed to be irony (it is kinda hard with written sentences), but of course I do not know better than _all_ the economist, since economics is a wide field with various different approaches. :D But the ones that convince me most in my reading have obviously shaped my opinion so that I very much agree with the quote above.

@karinisaksson1961

5 жыл бұрын

@@beingandtreeing2979 oh so you've found a few niche economists who affirm your priors that's cool

@beingandtreeing2979

5 жыл бұрын

@@karinisaksson1961 :D :D i love the idea that anything that's "niche" is wrong, absolutely no worrisome implications abt world politics to see here! (also: my "priors" were that i was a total pro-capitalist social-darwinist dick before actually starting to read up on history, politics and economics. as it turns out, knowledge and understanding can make people change their minds, i can only recommend it!)

I love the idea of Marx and Engles being modern day nerdbros hosting some podcast talking about socialism and Marvel movies.

@WebsiteTourist

5 жыл бұрын

Never looked at Chapo as a direct continuation of Marx and Engels' methods of communicating their ideas, but I guess it shoulda been obvious

@c.andrew3944

5 жыл бұрын

@@WebsiteTourist Engles totally would have been a gamer.

@dvillines26

5 жыл бұрын

@@c.andrew3944 Engels=Felix????

@champagneandgummybears

5 жыл бұрын

WebsiteTourist I literally popped down to comment, Chapo?

@christiantaylor1495

5 жыл бұрын

Would he be equally lazy today?

The landlord who happens to own a plot of land on the outskirts of a great city watches the busy population around him making the city larger, richer, more convenient and all the while sits and does nothing. Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains - all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is affected by the labour and cost of other people and the taxpayers. To not one of these improvements does the land monopolist contribute, and yet, by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived. The unearned increment on the land is reaped by the land monopolist in exact proportion, not to the service, but to the disservice done. - Winston Churchill, 1909

@immediateegret2120

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like some folks heard Churchill say this and said "Wow, really? What a great idea! I'll go buy some land right now!" rather than taking it in the spirit intended.

@RoyalFusilier

4 жыл бұрын

It truly is astounding that we've got so many people who've directly inverted things, and say poor people are lazy, while the rich work hard or any of that. The easiest job it is possible to conceive of is being a landlord. You can in many cases start one second after your birth.

@VecheslavNovikov

3 жыл бұрын

@@RoyalFusilier Why don't you become one?

@williancruz9657

3 жыл бұрын

@@VecheslavNovikov you need to inherit a house for that to be the case.

@VecheslavNovikov

3 жыл бұрын

@@williancruz9657 No you don't. Buy one with money from your job, pay out part of it, leverage it to buy another property you'd rent.

i know your wearing the ahegao shirt for the jokes BUT the fact that you own one is still undeniably a sin,

@PhilosophyTube

5 жыл бұрын

If it helps, I was given it by a friend

Just so everyone knows. There's no after credits scene on this one. You're welcome!

@aagantuk7370

5 жыл бұрын

Thenk

@RainfallHarbinger

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks lol

@janisreimringer9604

5 жыл бұрын

The music in the credits is good though.

@diribigal

5 жыл бұрын

But there is a joke and shout out in the closed captions at the end of the credits!

@MountSilky252

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe he hid Nick Fury in the credits

I will never be this creative.

@sagethecommunist5275

5 жыл бұрын

Just try another Irish accent x x

@xenoblad

5 жыл бұрын

It's okay. I'll still support you both.

@shmuelhoit7118

5 жыл бұрын

You dont need to be, friend

@CorsTymadorDofus

5 жыл бұрын

Ur last video was boring but in general ur videos are well made up, I think y have the power to surpass this creativity

@sgtbluehead

5 жыл бұрын

You already did something like this (although in a smaller scale) in your "How to get people to like you" video. Keep up your content, I love to binge it

I live in Denmark. Social housing is very popular here - In most towns there are plenty of houses and apartments which are rented at price which is about 20%-50% from the market price - so those are very affordable. The houses are generally nice and cozy, often located in the very center of a town. IMO, it is a prefect solution. The only disadvantage is that you have to wait in que from 1 to 20 years for a specific apartment/house to become available for you (Though you are able to be in multiple ques simultaneously)

Holy shit. Hareton Splimby II had me on the floor 😂

"Co-comunis---COMICS" lol me at family reunions

...holy shit. My landlord BARELY handles repairs. I haven't had running hot water for ten years!

@oddmerit6530

5 жыл бұрын

lol, this comment is funny bc (at least when sorting by new comments) two comments above someone is complaining "bUt WhO wIlL mAkE rEpAiRs" when half the time, landlords don't even repair their properties bc it's not profitable to do that

@jdprettynails

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly! I'm already handling my own repairs. Let's see....what would make doing my own repairs easier? I know! Not paying rent! Then I can use that money on a new water heater, new bed, plaster for the hole in my ceiling, an exterminator to remove the family of mice in my walls, remove the mold in my shower, buy a stove from THIS century and fix the damn doorbell! Hell, my poor neighbour has a hole in her bedroom wall. Birds from outside keep flying in.

@Bloodstone_DC

5 жыл бұрын

In the commics.

@horseenthusiast1250

4 жыл бұрын

jdprettynails are you ok? I’ve had some shit landlords but yikes

@rreeeekk

4 жыл бұрын

Lol it's illegal for landlord to not make repairs.

This is the youtube embodiment of that futurama joke where Al Gore is talking about climate change and says: "As I said in my book 'Earth In the Balance' and the much more popular 'Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth'..."

@randomalienfrommars0567

4 жыл бұрын

GOLD

this is not even a subject I'm interested in, but you are so creative I ended up watching everything and learning more than expected olly does it again

But of course, that's just a theory... An _economic_ theory!

@racoon2623

4 жыл бұрын

Hero of the Beach enconcomic? i’ll go home

@harrylane4

4 жыл бұрын

@@racoon2623 encoconminc

@CrestOfArtorias

3 жыл бұрын

And a bad one at that.

@deirenne

3 жыл бұрын

Fellow theorist, so good to meet you here 🌸

@CrestOfArtorias

2 жыл бұрын

@@blakejohnson3864 I would assume that they are referring to socialism. Context - I am not American, I am from Europe and I do live in one of the "nordic" countries. These are generally considered to be socialist in America. This is simply not accurate. Socialism necessitates that private property does not exist. However, in pretty much every nordic country private property is not only alive and well it is in fact considered to be one of the main pillars of our wealth. This usually comes a long with special protections in our constitutions. Denmark for instance has a private fire fighting service that currently is responsible for around 65% of municipality fire brigades. The point I am trying to make is that, no this is not socialism. So when I say socialism, I am in fact referring to the theory of socialism. When you take away private property you make it so that the means of production are owned by the public. This in practice means that it is managed by the state and while the "public" is theoretically the "owner" of these means, they do not have the means to manage them. Simply by virtue of that being a giant task that no single citizen could ever accomplish on its own. And a direct democratic approach would not be feasible. Which means committees and expert groups will be in charge. This leads to a centralisation of power, which regardless of economic system always favour corruption. However now there is only one single entity that needs to be "corrupted", the state. Socialism isnt just an economic theory its also a social ideology and that works to its detriment. Because it assumes that everybody will buy into the ideology and has no selfish agenda. This is of course not realistic at all. So pushing for a system that essentially creates a group of managers and experts with the power of the state behind it isnt exactly a great idea. If you are concerned right now that the rich, an exclusive group of experts are in control of PARTS of the economy and your life, then going for a system that leads to more control by expert groups doesnt seem to be a logical or desirable solution. Because in practice, the expert groups and committees will be in charge and not the simple worker.

As I'm living out of an airbnb in Seattle with another transgirl in a 10 by 10 room, I find this video about comics very relevant to my life.

@pepesilvia5936

5 жыл бұрын

@@thotslayer9914 dude (if you are in fact a dude) can you read?

@user-js1eg6vp7w

5 жыл бұрын

@@thotslayer9914 fuck off

@jonnysac77

3 жыл бұрын

@@thotslayer9914 get a pair of reading glasses dude

@jonnysac77

3 жыл бұрын

@@thotslayer9914 well I already have the basics down, I have average sight but you really need to see your doctor abt this, I can't imagine it's easy to not even be able to read a KZread comment

@jonnysac77

3 жыл бұрын

@@thotslayer9914 case in point, you can't even type the words you want to say without making a dozen typos, for real dude, go get your eyes checked

Ugh. Ever since Captain America said "Hail Hydra." EVERYONE has been pulling the "Hero-is-secretly-their-own-villian-all-along" thing. LAAAAAAAAME!

@halfpintrr

5 жыл бұрын

Thank fuck it was just cosmic cube BS

@LoveLearnShareGrow

5 жыл бұрын

I know you're talking about the comics, but this is even more funny now.

Commie-c Crate is such a rip off, I bought one and it was full of bread

@troubletaker6614

5 жыл бұрын

Does it have an USSR label?

@Srymak

5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes it's filled with AK47s, though

@Cythil

5 жыл бұрын

Well, at least you did not have to queue for it

@transsylvanian9100

5 жыл бұрын

Mine had Peace, Land and Bread. A friend of mine, V. Lenny recommended it to me.

@user-sd5dz2dc6u

5 жыл бұрын

My had bread as well as well as a bunch of roses and books. Also a guillotine that's ready to assemble.

>"Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover in history." >"Smash Ultimate is an even bigger crossover!" >[Olly asks ContraPoints to hold his beer as he calls Mexie]

@astra8308

2 жыл бұрын

If I had a nickel for every crossdressing theatrical philosophy KZreadr who turned out to be trans, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Visiting London a year ago I was shocked to see so many homeless people. Coming from Finland that was really strange, because our way of dealing with homelessness is to give the homeless a state-provided housing first so they can then start to solve their other problems. It's just that much easier to sort your life when you have a roof over your head. That being said, I really liked your video and it did raise important issues, but, I'm trying to say this in the kindest way, maybe some basic economics literature would be good to expand your thinking over economic issues. I'm not saying to go all Milton Friedman, although he did support universal basic income. Cheers and keep up making amazing videos! You have expanded my thinking and I thank you for that!

@arkdotgif

Жыл бұрын

we need Housing First

"When the belt hits the floor it is utter chaos!"

Did you have fun saying "landlords" in an American accent 5000 times? XD

@Pfhorrest

5 жыл бұрын

What's so different about the American and British pronunciation of "landlords"? I mean, I get that Brits would say "lawn'd low'd", but that's just the usual difference; what's special about this word? It's not like "supanover" where the difference is funny.

@ellen39a

5 жыл бұрын

@@Pfhorrest It involves two transitions in quick succession from vowel to consonant where both the vowel and the consonant are pronounced in a slightly different part of the mouth in the American vs. British accent - the "a-n" and "o-r-d". IME it's challenging to accurately pronounce this type of combination in an unfamiliar accent with the correct timing/syncopation of the sounds.

@tracesigns9933

5 жыл бұрын

landlorrrrrrrrrrrrds

The delivery of your message was amazing and the framing was wonderful. However I hope you don't mind a small Venezuelan perspective on the nuances of that housing project: it didn't work out because it never was intended as a proper humanitarian aid or with the intention to help homeless people, and instead as a distraction to funnel money out of the economy, the houses were never completed and the politicians involved ran away with the money to live in mansions in Miami. Chavez' successor closed down all of these projects and currently refuses any monetary or humanitarian aid. Countless Venezuelans flee the country every year hoping for a chance to ear an living and find a home. I've been out of the country for more than a decade and I continue to keep up with the news, there doesn't seem to be a solution to the corruption problem and the government's grip on power doesn't seem likely to loosen any time soon. I liked your inclusion of the project as a side note, but I don't like seeing the government's initiatives put in a positive light without actually talking about the lack of results, since it tends to spread misinformation. Thank you for your video though!

@mehwhatever1402

5 жыл бұрын

ana-the-unknown you can't really talk about this without talking about political and economic context.

@pedrogomezid

5 жыл бұрын

as a fellow leftwing anti-venezuelan gov, thank you for this comment. We gotta stop the rightwing from using our country as their personal scapegoat.

@discountchocolate4577

5 жыл бұрын

@@pedrogomezid What's the basis for your left wing critique of Chavez's and Maduro's government? I've heard the criticism that Chavez was too socdem and Maduro has barely been an improvement.

@katherinemorelle7115

5 жыл бұрын

I do find Venezuela really sad. It was something that looked as though it might have potential and promise.... and it was brought down by corruption and outside influence (and some corruption from outside influences). It’s just sad.

@Aresftfun

5 жыл бұрын

a side effect of not expropriating effectively. The punishment that the rich give communities and nations for voting away their wealth is to run away with their already hoarded, liquidated wealth (capital).

At 1:20 you can see the hbomb sonic in the corner of the Housing Crisis comic book.

If you took a shot of Apple juice every time you heard "in the comics", you'd still somehow get drunk.

Tryin' to sneak that marxist thinking into the KZread meta? Good Praxis! By the way, your American accent ain't bad. Keep working at it.

@fakechemicals

5 жыл бұрын

Got 69 likes on this comment. Nice.

@andrestorp

5 жыл бұрын

Olly should only speak british into my ears though

@mehwhatever1402

5 жыл бұрын

Scott Wittie it was awful lol

@deadletter4317

5 жыл бұрын

It shows how nasally his voice is

Damn it, Olly, your stuff is so good. Your accent ALMOST tricked my brain, but there were a couple bits--like "details"--where I heard your Brit voice sneaking back in. 😉

I love returning to see Abby’s brother host these episodes.

for all kinds of cool videos about communis- (chokes) ABOUT COMICS

Boy, I'm sure glad this video contains no politics in it whatsoever. I'm also glad this doesn't have anarchist overtones all over it.

@Calpsotoma

5 жыл бұрын

This is comics. It is pure and free of politics, just like video games were before Anita Sarkeesian got her hands on them.

@Erika-gn1tv

5 жыл бұрын

I like your lack of irony.

@Calpsotoma

5 жыл бұрын

@@Erika-gn1tv I hope this isn't a Poe's Law thing.

Added this to my communism playlist -- I mean comics playlist.

@irismiller8666

3 жыл бұрын

share the link with the class dont be shy

@doodooo2372

3 жыл бұрын

Lol checked ur profile and u really do have a communism playlist with 500+ videos

the switch between accents made me feel like i had a stroke

I guess my one concern is how, after the initial setup, people will maintain a legal right to stay in the housing they've claimed and not get kicked out or infringed upon by other people who've decided to move. Trade tokens that signify which housing belongs to you? Also, what happens if you need to take a trip out of town? Are hotels still allowed? Also, what happens with properties that aren't being rented or intended to be rented in the future that a person could technically live in (+/- significant reconstruction)? Leave 'em be, and only distribute stuff that was the market but vacant? Put them in the cycle even if they're not safe to live in? My gut feeling is an end system where people basically "check in" to an area and go, "hey, I'm moving here from Y and want to establish residency" and in turn get a standardized apartment appropriate to their family size seems about right, with a lot of existing housing becoming a Fancy Bonus Game would be right.... but part of that is shaped by the fact that USA has very different housing development patterns than Europe!

@sleepyhead6023

2 жыл бұрын

only private property rights end in a legal sense with the initial setup, personal property (say, the house one lives in) rights stay and get stronger with the initial setup.

@sleepyhead6023

2 жыл бұрын

hotels, if cooperatively owned and run, then yes. but people also imagine a post capitalist revolutionary world to be a post scarcity world meaning that property wouldn't be scarce in this scenario meaning that hotels wouldn't need to exist in the first place. it could be like a free market ideal without the money involved.

I always worry I'll end up homeless when I'm too old and ill to work any more.

@heliumtrapeze69

5 жыл бұрын

xzonia1 yeah, a constant anxiety in the back of my mind.

@JFDavis-lq1bp

5 жыл бұрын

I have had that concern and found actual solace in the idea that I would die before I get old enough to retire.

@bjorn3538

4 жыл бұрын

It's not like you can put money aside when you're young so you can use it when you're old... oh, wait.

@rooness2184

4 жыл бұрын

Bjorn Tessendorf What money?

@genieglasslamp5028

4 жыл бұрын

@@bjorn3538 Not saving money isnt justification for letting people be homeless. That's like saying you shouldnt get treatment when your sick because you shouldn't have been sick in the first place.

“Crisis of infinite subprime mortgages” LOL! A+

@PhilosophyTube

5 жыл бұрын

That's my favourite line in the whole thing haha

its hard to explain but this is my comfort video and i watch it whenever i want to feel hopeful about the world and get the joy of olly's adorable almost-american accent

One of your most underrated videos. I love all the work that went into making this one! w/ the drivelator, perfect parody

Legitimately two of the best KZreadrs in the world.

@x_x_6__

5 жыл бұрын

(and Contra)

@ThatOneGuy7550

5 жыл бұрын

You forgot ContraPoints and Lindsay Ellis

@subroy7123

5 жыл бұрын

Guys, he said "of the".

@ThatOneGuy7550

5 жыл бұрын

@@subroy7123 you must really be into semantics.

@subroy7123

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThatOneGuy7550 Yep. I'm also into reading what is written.

Troublingly relevant right now. The local council are trying so hard to kick us out of this house that they are pulling some seriously shady shit. A few months ago they sent us a letter saying that due to a calculation error on their end they had not been charging us the correct amount of rent and as a result we owed them around £1,500 in back rent, that we had 28 days to pay it off and that if we didn't they would begin repossession proceedings. After a month of panic and scrambling we managed to borrow the money from a family friend and square everything away (although the stress took a toll on my mum's already fragile mental health, but we were seemingly secure) Cut to 2 days ago when we get another letter informing us that, oops, we did it again guys! Turns out we were still off and you owe us ANOTHER grand, 28 days, repossession etc, only this time they are under no obligation to rehouse us because we turned down their offer of a house last time (which we did because we had secured the money to pay off what we were lead to believe was all that we owed). So now we are looking totally fucked, my mum has essentially had a breakdown and I had to have the mental health crisis team out and we have a specific awful monster of a woman from the council visiting the house every other day harassing us and honestly I don't know what the fuck we do from here> I swear they won't rest until she fuckin kills herself or has a complete mental break and winds up in a psychiatric ward And this is a council house, a fuckin state-owned social housing unit... Anyway great video mate, glad you are focusing on some really relevant issues

@DeoMachina

5 жыл бұрын

What the fuck Which council is this? The local media need to hear about this, this is horrific. Can you write to your MP or something?

@cantrip7

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you might want to contact publications and name names. Far from guaranteed to work or go through, but I'm assuming there's no higher authority you could go to (that isn't in on it). Or chuck the councilwoman down the stairs and begin the revolution.

@quaternaryyy

5 жыл бұрын

oh yes, all due to an "error" →.→

@XenaBe25

5 жыл бұрын

What DeoMachina said. Contact the MPs and the media. Put out your own youtube vid. Make some noise (respectfully ofc, it won't help you to get yourselves arrested.) Also, isn't there a housing tribunal where you are? Idk much about laws in the UK, but their healthcare and other infrastructure are said to be better than ours, so there must be legislation in place to protect you from this type of scam?

@alangivre2474

5 жыл бұрын

@@DeoMachina he's venezuelan. There is no muuuch democracy anymore there, there certainly is not local free media.

You nail superheromovie youtubers. The way they talk, how they dress, all the soundeffects! its nuts

This format is honestly really good! It makes it easier to understand the concepts

Your American nerd content-creator voice is IMMACULATE. 100% real.

respect though not necessarily appreciation for running with the bit that hard go on chapo

@darkcowboyhero

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, get this chap to Chapo

@jacemiller9017

5 жыл бұрын

This should be the new "Contra go on Chapo"

@Canosoup

5 жыл бұрын

👏Olly👏go👏on👏Chapo👏

@lucciadelmoira1487

5 жыл бұрын

go on chapo Olly

Hi Oli. I really enjoy your work. The quality and the cogency of your arguments is really refreshing and even when I don't agree with them, I 'm often nudged into thinking differently about something or thinking about a problem I hadn't thought about before. In the context of a twenty minute film, appreciate you have to make it about something rather than everything but what shows up here feels like a meme-ification of the housing crisis, a reduction to 'abolish rent' rather than an essay on how to fix it. I think this is, in part, is due to using Engels as the frame. Yes, he talked about housing problems, but the housing crisis as we define it today is qualitatively and qualitatively transformed from the crises that Engles was interested in. Engels simply wouldn't recognise the levels of home-ownership, property speculation and national and local policy complexity in building new homes. or the colossal changes to household composition from nineteenth century to today. Also, there's this underlying assumption that because we have empty homes all you need to do is allocate homeless people to empty homes to remove the whole housing market. That's not the case. And any analysis of the UK's empty homes problem shows that up. Affordability is a massive problem in the south east of the UK,and elsewhere, it's more of a lack of fit between the right kind of homes in the right places to meet labour market needs elsewhere. For me, any discussion of fixing the housing crisis needs to look way, way beyond rents and airbnb debate and consider: > Supply of homes, including homes for social rent. > supply of land - and if you want a short meme, taxing land wealth would be more encompassing actionable and beneficial than abolishing rent. > infrastructure investment from public and private sources > housing and the welfare state: we're obsessed with home ownership because that's the only way we'll save enough for later life, siwtching government subsidy from capital subsidy for building homes to revenue subsidy for renting homes drives up rent and housing instability. > household composition : for older people, the housing crisis looks very different - it looks like nowhere to live apart from nursing homes if you can no longer maintain your own home independently. > Austerity and the decline of preventive support for people in vulnerable situations at risk of homelessness .

@fotinisuperawesome

5 жыл бұрын

EframeGadsby good points i absolutely agree with you. the housing crisis is extremely complex and varies group to group

People really think that this is a political video when it is in fact a comic book discussion video from the year 2456

It's so strange when here in Sweden where we have a big housing crisis people be like "what should we do just fund the building of cheap housing that's not a realistic thing to do?" BUT WE LITTERALLY DID THAT AND IT WORKED AND YOU GUYS ARE EARNING A LOT OF MONEY BUY MAKING IT SO YOU BUY THEM INSTEAD OF RENTING.

@allanolley4874

5 жыл бұрын

I wanted to say it seems like some countries with a housing market avoid having housing crisises suggesting they are not actually the same thing...

@An_Amazing_Login5036

5 жыл бұрын

Remember that in Sweden there are state-enforced protections on long-term rental contracts, thereby hindering housing market/crisis to exercise his full power.

@GoogelyeyesSaysHej

5 жыл бұрын

Hopefully it’ll happen again soon because most new apartments are too pricey for most people to live in, possibly due to the expensive land, high regulation level and privatization

@LoveLearnShareGrow

5 жыл бұрын

I'm shocked, shocked that there is sane regulation that works, in developed countries that are not communist nor fascist. Shocked I say!

You just going to do Dr. Splimbly like that man, that's cruel

This Venezuelan super heroe only increased the creation and democratization of very poor building complex or house units. Also created -maybe undirectly, as a consequence of his policies- a new luxury market where you can find US$ 1M (or even more) houses in a country with no access to credit nor a decent salary -unless you work with the government or associates-. Expropiation in this specific case was used as a political tool in order to create a sense of vulnerability in the middle class, not to help the people who can't afford housing. Expropiation in this case is used to threaten detractors. Bureaucracy is massively widespread in Venezuela. If you want a passport, you have to wait for years unless you know a good fella in the government looking forward to help for a litle pay (USD $500 to USD2,000 depending on how much you need it). And never forget that communes in Venezuela are runned by the State, so at the end of the day, no matter how you call it, it's still the State.

@zakhawker344

4 жыл бұрын

As a socialist, totally agree.

@coolanaluz13

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. Chávez was a horribly corrupt dictator that did profound damage to my country. Frankly, even after death he is still fucking us over. I was shocked that Olly would praise such a despicable man so I'm glad someone else criticized Chávez. I don't know all the nitty gritty, but I know shit was so bad that my family and I had to flee the country early on in his dictatorship.

@_Glorie_

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, man . I’ve just found this video. I love Philosophy tube, but when he mentioned Chavez I was like Olllyyyy Noooo! :,( I am Venezuelan, and I worked on this sort of community-oriented development projects for 3 years. It’s all bullshit. It’s all a front for corruption. It absolutely broke my heart, because I really believed I could help make a difference to people in need. I’m still a leftist, but Chavez can rot in hell where he belongs. It really hurts that the left can’t see that Chavez is a terrible example of socialism, because when all the truth comes to light of how much of a sham he was, it will really help the right discredit all the people who championed him :(

@Oruam1111

3 жыл бұрын

When he mentioned Chavez I winced. I feel like if our politicians spent less time acting like our reptillian overlords and actually used the oil money for some good like in Norway, our country could've easily been a leftist model for others to follow, instead of, y'know, the disaster we ended up getting.

Watching in late 2020 hits way different. Another illuminating video. Thanks

Oh my, Ollie with American accent is the trippiest 😆

@jesusgonzalez6715

5 жыл бұрын

We need to get an accent expert to analyze what he did and didn't do well...

"... in the comics!"

No one owns houses.... no property rights. Holy crap. I can see why u went through this with a massive metaphor.

I wish I could like this twice. You both have taken an issue that I thought was affecting me uniquely - a young Londoner - and contextualized it in a crazy more insightful way.

but literally i was talking to my therapist on skype when i made a joke about the housing crisis and the notification for this video came up

@quester09

5 жыл бұрын

^ proof that therapy is effective ^

@christiantaylor1495

5 жыл бұрын

For fucks sake don't bring up politics with a therapist.

@chambergambit

5 жыл бұрын

@@christiantaylor1495 what am i supposed to talk to my therapist about? my personal problems?

@christiantaylor1495

5 жыл бұрын

@@chambergambit That's million dollar question.

@chambergambit

5 жыл бұрын

@@christiantaylor1495 but for real dude, politics has this tendency to like, affect me as a person. i see a therapist so that i don't have a panic attack every time trump tweets. what more do you want from me? (besides proper capitalization or whatever)

Don't forget the section-8 saga in the 90s. Rob Liefeld was on the art though so the anatomy is all wrong.

@Reprodestruxion

5 жыл бұрын

Happy Little Heroclix lot of Clinton bloat

Olly, your videos have been on a whole new level the last year in terms of production but more importantly in terms of brilliant ideas. Truly amazing stuff, you are the best channel in this shady platform by far(at least in my eyes).

I Have been binge watching your videos for the past week, you are quickly becoming one of my favorite youtubers, but then you stepped into Venezuela, I'm from Venezuela, please research more on what those policies brought us. The global housing market truly is a time bomb, but using Venezuela as an argument against it deflates your whole point. Keep the videos going, this was original, eloquent and funny as well

I love how all of Gentrification's costume is white, brilliant social commentary on the part of the illustrators. One of the many reasons why "Housing Market©" is my absolute favorite comic book series of all time!😊

I have to admit - the year 2019 is still young. We haven't even seen one video by ContraPoints yet...But this video will definitely remain in the top 3 of leftist videos of 2019.

@PhilosophyTube

5 жыл бұрын

Nat's got one coming in few days that's gonna be amazing

@fl00fydragon

5 жыл бұрын

I personally wish I it's the worst. Because then it would mean that the videos we have yet to see will be excellent and that we'll finally be able to get our message through to people.

@LibertarianLeninistRants

5 жыл бұрын

@@fl00fydragon that's a good idea! but that would also mean that all the work Olly and Mexie put into this one is just enough for the worst... :/ difficult, very difficult xD

@fl00fydragon

5 жыл бұрын

@@LibertarianLeninistRants it means that they will learn from the experience and get better moving forward. After all that's what we do: we build upon our past selves.

@XenaBe25

5 жыл бұрын

lol I love that username Libertarian Leninist

What a way to break something down and make it fun to listen to. Love the comic style and also all the ideas you put out there. Even if I’m not on the same page with all of them I can’t deny the format and presentation can work wonders

what an awesome concept, totally ahead of its time. basically the "say thing and then say in minecraft at the end" meme.

If this were my first Philosophy Tube video I'd swear he was American. Admittedly, things like Canary Wharf might tip his hand, but still. His accent here sounds a lot like mine.

@charliephoenix3674

4 жыл бұрын

Are you midwestern too because he sounds super similar to me too

This is what I call an iconic duo! Great to see you guys collabing on videos to own the neolibs

Very eloquent video Olly! But of course we comic nerds have a few questions: first, when redistributing property, how do we determine who gets what quality of housing? who gets stuck with the rat-infested 3rd story walk up with a non functioning sink, and who gets the unused 42 million dollar mansion? Also, with no need to pay for housing, what will encourage people to work? Food is still a necessity, as is healthcare (THOUGH IT SHOULDN'T BE), but will it truly be enough to keep us running?

Landlords are hated even more now, lol.