14:30 You are 100% right. Artificially cheap bread, something that was implemented in all communist countries of East Europe led to something (un)expected. People were buying cheap, subsidized bread and - fed their hogs and chickens. This is how cheap bread turn into immensely expensive failure: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zairt6yNh7G_pcY.html

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

Already seen your video, sir 😉 I'll pin your comment because your (wife's) channel is highly under-subscribed. I also think this other video of yours is the best you've made so far kzread.info/dash/bejne/qI5_q9uDlavSmLg.html EDIT: Also, is that your channel or not? I know TruthOverFacts has a book out called "unlearning communism" which is why I assumed it was the same person at first. EDIT 2: It's his wife's channel, so changed some words above

@floydlooney6837

2 жыл бұрын

Oil countries doing the same with super cheap gasoline it seems.

@tenetgg

2 жыл бұрын

The best part was when the state factories started to cut down the meat in bologna with wood dust and paper scraps. A socialist specialty.

@robert48044

2 жыл бұрын

Did the people eat the hogs they fed the bread to?

@aleksazunjic9672

2 жыл бұрын

TIK fails to acknowledge that NS system, although imperfect, was far better than liberal capitalism. It is far better to have coupons for bread, then to allow situation where tiny minority of uber-rich buys all food and then dictates food prices leading to mass starvation. It is also better to take larger part of the corporation profit to subside poor, then to have hunger and possibly rebellion and crime wave.

It's impossible to study a war correctly without including the related economics.

@tyvamakes5226

2 жыл бұрын

Even Sun Tzu mention this in The Art of War

@SonofTiamat

2 жыл бұрын

Economics is at the heart of all war. Just look at the Civil War

@juliantheapostate8295

2 жыл бұрын

'The sinews of war, infinite money ' M T Cicero

@888ssss

2 жыл бұрын

economics is what all wars are fought over.

Yes, I did misspell a word... but when I spotted it I didn't have time to re-render, so it is what it is

@VADemon

2 жыл бұрын

:) It is technically possible to cut/add/insert a part without re-rendering the entire video but the tool (ffmpeg) requires... "technical affinity"

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

​@@VADemon Maybe... I don't think it's worth it though, it's only a minor mistake. Interestingly, you said the word that's misspelled!

@ricardosmythe2548

2 жыл бұрын

You know your playing with fire here right? Just incase you don't a heads up. Keep it up for aslong as they let you 👏👏

@jspec-vz3mc

2 жыл бұрын

That it is..

@loyaltyisroyalty5616

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight it’s sad that you even have to mention it bc your detractors will shamefully point it out.

Dear TIK, politics,economics and TANKS are conected. And you are correct. Continue in this path, Sir. Thank you very much for your videos.

@timbushell8640

2 жыл бұрын

Riles, artillery, planes... ...

@zulubeatz1

2 жыл бұрын

I agree and it something that needs to be discussed. I have learnt a lot from these videos. Things that I was not made aware of even after studying History and Social Policy.

@stevewhite3424

2 жыл бұрын

@@timbushell8640 and the money and resources needed to make all those. Let alone the men to run them.

@frankmueller2781

2 жыл бұрын

Too many people seem to think that wars and battles take place in some kind of social and economic vacuum.

"Men win battles, economics wins wars"- some economist probably

@Pangora2

2 жыл бұрын

Amateurs study tactics, Professionals study logistics. They're related enough.

@yc6018

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pangora2 Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics They don't even study tactic, they "talk about it" 😂

@yc6018

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pangora2 is the quote from Eisenhower or Barrow ? Or Patton ? I don't remember

@MakeAllThingsBeautiful

2 жыл бұрын

if the economy is good you don't need the war, i think Germany back post WW1 felt 'robbed' which is the feeling they wanted to move away from, maybe 'robbed and stabbed in the back', whatever, war felt better ... for a while

@yc6018

2 жыл бұрын

@@MakeAllThingsBeautiful you need the war to achieve hegemony and then maintain it though, and many nations strive for it

"Amateurs stick to tanks, professionals stick to Banks" -Adolf Hitler(British Agent and 3rd degree Tibetan Wizard)

@M30W3R

2 жыл бұрын

Waiting for a HoI4 mod based on this to be honest

@johnburns4017

2 жыл бұрын

Hitlers in Liverpool: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oIyHuZmGms-Xn8o.html

Comments: Stick to Tanks TIK: But tanks need oil, and oil comes from economy and economy comes from politics

@tyvamakes5226

2 жыл бұрын

@@Edax_Royeaux Mercenaries in a nutshell Edit: Oh, and militia units as well. (Especially Americans)

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

@@Edax_Royeaux Absolutely. If they can't afford to but their own bullets, then their services are not in need by the rest of society, and thus, they would be a drain on the rest of society.

@theeccentrictripper3863

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight This is an interesting point, should a war only be conducted if it's profitable for society? It seems as though there's a great many cases where the economic drain is an afterthought in the face of potential oblivion, should a nation that cannot afford to conduct a war to its completion surrender regardless of the terms? I'm curious to hear your response because it seems overly focused on the economics to the point of absurdity. Love your videos and love what you do man, keep on keeping on.

@juliantheapostate8295

2 жыл бұрын

@@Edax_Royeaux I have a feeling the soldiers may want to defend themselves. Certainly the Singapore garrison regretted their surrender

@Bingo_Bango_

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Edax_Royeaux Conservatively firing weapons is a core skill on the battlefield and has been for centuries, ammo does not appear out of the air and no military force has infinite ammunition stores. Tying it to an individual soldier's wallet might help them take that seriously, though more properly ammo use would be a collective burden shared as a squad or a unit, just as it is now with mercenaries, due to simple constraints on counting and rationing ammo in active wartime scenarios. Soldiers who shoot less may even lose a battle over it, but logistically, they win more wars. In the situation where you have a tremendous amount of ammunition with few men- why would you assume the price is fixed? Clearly, in such a situation, the price of any given case would be incredibly low, and your concern about "incentive" becomes moot. This is enough to discard your platitudes, since adding a price to the bullet adds a disincentive to wasting ammunition in cases of scarcity, but not in times of surplus- in fact, it would also provide an incentive for soldiers to use the weapons they have the most ammunition for first unless they have a pressing need to do otherwise, which would help further reduce resource wastage in combat. Secondly, to think anything in your post makes sense, you have to assume that people are gibbering monkeys who will mull over the weight of their wallet while they're being shot at. They aren't, I'm afraid. Trigger finger itches first, and when firing from a safe position, morale issues are always more basic than cognitive ones. Price will not factor in unless soldiers are inadequately paid, which is already a red flag without any ammo cost policy. Bonus: Any large-scale privatized military force would almost certainly also have a system of incentives for performance, just as the military has medals and awards with cash incentives. If you get a hundred dollars bonus for each confirmed kill, are you going to cry over a dime a case? Perhaps if you are only in the habit of wasting hundreds of shots and hitting none, which is indeed a "market sign" you should redistribute your ass over to the reserves, lol. Human psychology favors large prizes over small expenses and something like 60% of people are incapable of estimating the total expenditures from a series of small costs, so any "muh human nature" argument actually benefits a shot-per-objective incentive approach. If anything, you would likely see an increased willingness to shoot or take more daring action from soldiers of middling morale, since they can bag a tidy bonus if their commander sees it. At least judging from your boneheaded comments, if any country bothers to implement common-sense policies in warfare, I have no doubt you'd volunteer to be the first "bonus" while in the process of wasting your entire magazine.

I actually prefer the economics videos now, its much more relatable to current day. I've always looked at history from a more military or political viewpoint rather than analyzing the economics, so its nice to see this perspective.

@Digiidude

2 жыл бұрын

Feel the same

@MikeF1189

2 жыл бұрын

War is economics by coercion.

@fazole

2 жыл бұрын

@Marcin Berman Are you living in Poland? Do you have any insight on what us really going on in Belorussia? We see very little about it in the US other than protests.

@WJack97224

2 жыл бұрын

Honest economics is Christian and all else is dishonest, Satanic rot.

@probusthrax

2 жыл бұрын

I think I agree @Luger. Except I love his military videos so much!

"For the censors: no, I'm NOT a Nazi" which is EXACTLY what you would say if you were a CLEVER nazi!!

@Panos-xo9rc

2 жыл бұрын

There are no nazis after all,only SOCIALISTS who wear Hugo Boss.

@QuizmasterLaw

2 жыл бұрын

@@Panos-xo9rc SStylissh!

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

Unless I was doing 4D chess, in which case, it was to fool you into thinking that I was a Nazi, when in reality I am not a Nazi, in order to get you to accuse me of being a Nazi, proving that you're secretly a Nazi, because only a real Nazi would know the tactics of clever Nazis!

@QuizmasterLaw

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight You nazbols are the absolute best at camouflage and thus the very worst of the socialists

@johnwolf2829

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight We could ask what a clever Communist would say, but those seem to be in short supply in the Current Century. Why else would they parrot everything the Soviets said during the Cold War?

I am an economist and in later life, I got a degree in history too. From the very beginning, I understood that economics explains many things in history (not all) but my teachers were not too much in it and did not appreciate my contribution in that regard. I tried to switch over to "History of Economics" but the professor himself called me and told me I would not learn many things in his class and give me the advice, not to show up in his courses. Afterwards, I understand why: the professor of "History of economics" had only basic knowledge of economics himself despite giving a lot of interviews in the mainstream media, which always describe him as an "international authority". Therefore, I appreciate your videos very much.

@khankrum1

10 ай бұрын

I wrote an essay about the economy of Justinian being similar to the " toxic inflation" of the James Callaghan government of the late 1960's, and the tutor did not know what the hell I was talking about. I was a " mature" student and much older than he was and had lived through that period, and all he had was " left wing" litterature to draw upon. I suspect he had no experience of " Robbing Peter to pay Paul", basic economics!

Came for the tanks, stayed for the banks.

As the old saying goes "Amateurs study tactics, professionals - logistics". Military strategy highly depends on economics and you can't fully understand reasoning behind it without at least taking a look at economic goals, policies, and circumstances of parties involved. So one can never fully STICK TO TANKS (unless cowardly "keeping away from politics"). I personally think that you currently are keeping a near perfect balance between TANKS and BANKS in a channel.

@tankdriver65861

2 жыл бұрын

Someone’s read red storm rising😂

@zionsantos6323

2 жыл бұрын

@@tankdriver65861 that book is good ngl

@robertbodell55

2 жыл бұрын

This line from the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandria This is a bullet, munitioned in Saint Petersburg. I send it off to war. How does it get there? On a single spur of railroad track four thousand miles long. And in the middle, no track at all. God help us, it spends three days packed on sleds. This works the same way for every pair of boots, first aid kit, or pound of tea we send.

@pierren___

2 жыл бұрын

Napoleon

@Silly2smart

2 жыл бұрын

"...And the guy that studies both is called "The winner." Fixed it! :)

The Patreon question is very relatable to me, I do enjoy learning stuff about military history to have a good understanding of it but I find it simply fascinating how simple economic knowledge can recontextualize my vision about World War II regimes or even today's governments Keep making these it's awesome

Stick to banks, refute the cranks.

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

😂

TIK, will you ever consider doing a dedicated "Capitalism Defined" video like you did with Fascism?

@AndreLuis-gw5ox

2 жыл бұрын

I havent watched it yet, but I guess he defines Capitalism in his "Private vs Public" video?

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

I already have kzread.info/dash/bejne/nad109RtnK-nj7w.html

I'll be a lifetime viewer of your economics/ideology videos. I never realized what a confusing, garbled mess I'd been taught about WW2 until you came along and beat my head in with a thousand sources.

I agree with the commenters TIK highlighted. These videos are excellent.

Really excellent job on this video. Cogent and well-supported throughout. Worth every minute!

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

Wow thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!

I'm really excited with your Interwar history project. I'm learning a lot form your interwar economics and politics videos such as MEFO bills video

It's funny when the people say that the Nacional-Socialism is the child of capitalism, bourgeoisie product, etc.

@codyraugh6599

2 жыл бұрын

Which gives me a bigger laugh considering that in Marxist texts they subtly imply that Capitalism leads to Communism, which means Communism is a product of Capitalism. But hey it's Authoritarian Socialism, the blame is always put on the victim.

@aleksazunjic9672

2 жыл бұрын

National Socialism is actually reaction to Capitalism failing.

@dpt6849

2 жыл бұрын

@@aleksazunjic9672 or deliberately blamed to cover up failing socialist policy. Just the same bs like boomers who were socialists just after ww2 and those a are now in top positions in big corporate.

@codyraugh6599

2 жыл бұрын

@@aleksazunjic9672 see, Socialists blame Capitalism for all their crimes, "we committed genocide, because the capitalists". What's the saying "they who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"? And then we see Marxism, National Socialism etc in practice, "We the state have to raid loot and pillage otherwise we can't provide for you. We the state had to murder the farming community over there, destroying their crops ans livestock, and start paving over it with a road no one will use. They proved themselves vile capitalists by saying 'please don't destroy our farm for a state ego project'. See we also had to take your son as soldiers to invade the neighboring country, they had proven themselves evil capitalists by demanding favors or good in exchange for what we wanted. Oh and we also will now be taking your daughters now that your son died because we need cooks and easy women for our leaders to celebrate with now that capitalism has been defeated." Isnt it funny how the examples used to show the horror of the Feudal Serf system, and the negatives of a monarchy can easily be applied to Socialist states and with real historical examples, but you have to stretch for capitalism

@aleksazunjic9672

2 жыл бұрын

@@codyraugh6599 What is the point of your rant ? To prove that NS was bad ? I suppose we all know that :D But like it or not, their system with food coupons was far better then letting rich hoard food and use it as a weapon.

I would be interested in an expansion of the knock on effects of a minimum wage that you referred to.

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

While not a full explanation, this other video does a reasonable job of showing some of the unintended consequences of a minimum wage kzread.info/dash/bejne/YpqnuKtsddC7nrQ.html

@steinarvilnes3954

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight One thing I think about there. One thing communism, libertarianism and nazism have in common is the zero tolerance for fit for work people living on public expense. In contrast, socialdemocrats, one nation conservatives and some variants of modern liberalism may think that having some fit for work people on welfare or disability may be the best all in all.

It is your channel, do what you ever want. You are doing great on all your topics, so please keep up that work.

I appreciate your understanding of the economic aspects of National Socialism and economic systems generally. Otto Strasser provides good insight to the NSDAP’s ideological roots. Central planning never works.

@willmickel71

2 жыл бұрын

The problem with central planned economies is knowledge. No one knows enough to second guess everyone else.

@WJack97224

2 жыл бұрын

@@willmickel71, No one is perfect and no politicians should tell us how to live, i.e. mandates are wrong and AH showed the world how horrible his "mandates" were. Someone needs to remind Arnold Schwarzenegger that mandates are wrong just as were Hitler's mandates.

@f__kyoudegenerates

2 жыл бұрын

@@willmickel71 Even if someone knew everything would you trust them to manage your life?

@willmickel71

2 жыл бұрын

@@f__kyoudegenerates I would not. Just because I said it’s a knowledge issue doesn’t mean there wouldn’t be other issues doing it. You can break the agreements down different ways.

@willmickel71

2 жыл бұрын

@@WJack97224 Yes. Also it would supper cede all of the available knowledge from everyone in society. Only the knowledge from the planners would be used making society worse off as a result.

Where I live (Scotland), there are constant demands by some to introduce 'a minimum living wage for all' and/or 'full employment' and it's incredibly difficult to convince people who support this that such measures would in fact make things worse for the poor than better.

@juliantheapostate8295

2 жыл бұрын

Same. It's next to pointless to try to explain liberal economics to anyone with a sub 100 IQ - too much abstraction

@kevfullo

2 жыл бұрын

@@juliantheapostate8295 You sound nice.

@BroadHobbyProjects

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevfullo Facts supersede emotional opinions.

I really enjoy the wide range of topics that you cover as they really help provide much more context to the military history that you provide as the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Disney plus streaming service tells us "it's all connected." Many people nowadays don't realize that everything is connected either obviously or not so obviously and that the connections can be discerned with a little research. Again, thank you for all the topics that you provide information on I really enjoy listening to them and learning the facts presented in them. You present well written and presented videos that are a treat every time you upload them!

When I was in secondary school, Autarky was taught as a means of creating emotional isolation from the rest of the world, not as an economic strategy. The economic assumptions behind Autarky and the coercive economy seem to be interpreted as part of propping of building up a militaristic spirit. It takes a lot of effort to articulate that the economic assumptions made the win-lose assumptions behind rapacious conquest plausible and the poor quality of economics education I saw likely perpetuates such thinking.

I intensely hated economic history in university. I was all about political history and military history. Economic history, that was the boring stuff. And also way too much Marx as I overheard two professors talking. TIK is the first time I come across economic history that is relatable, understandable, makes sense and explains so much.

Hi TIK, thank you for your economic series, please keep it going. Not only it is interesting, it is very helpful to all of us and might help us through what's most probably coming.

Food is subsidized all the time. It’s why your chicken is super cheap from Tyson but expensive when it’s from homesteaders

@Cloud_Seeker

2 жыл бұрын

That is not actually the case. Just think about what it takes to build a car. Now imagine what it takes to build a car from scratch in your garage by yourself. It will take quite a while and cost a lot of money doesn't it? So clearly. Cars are not possible to be built and they will cause a fortune no one but the richest people can buy. Unless. Unless having dedicated factories, with optimized production lines, with several people working together and through mass production make cars so cheap you by yourself can never compete with them when it comes to price. No. Your chicken might be subsidized, but it can also be cheap because there are systems created to mass produce chicken meat so it can be sold cheaply. So cheap a simple homesteader can not compete as they do not have the infrastructure or the critical mass to make it cheap.

Please keep the economics videos. It's great to hear historical economics from something more realistic than boiler plate Keynesian models. Especially, when dealing with 20th century wartime economics. Also, there are too many similarities between the 1920s and the 2020s. Keep up the great work.

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, there are definitely similarities with the 1920s and 2020s! I would also say there are similarities with the 1930s and 2020s too

@orksy2935

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight Oh boy what a combo, 1920s + 1930s + nukes - competence = the state of the world as we know it.

Very nice of you to talk about this topic.

you are doing an amazing job TIK, you have discovered a gold mine of conversation topics. I think making sense of the financial systems in relation to all contributing pressures and stresses is possibly too much for any 1 man, but your look back at WW2 deserves more credit than all curriculums taught in all schools, colleges and universities, just my opinion. Where you go with this, who knows, you are very good to listen to, and to of revisited so many aspects of Hitlers germany noone ever really bothered to try and understand and usually suited all parties to misrepresent and recycle history in various ways, but you have hit a gold mine here. the main thing is to enjoy what you are doing, that is what comes across most of all.

This sounds like a temporary/emergency system, something that was implemented as a “to be determined” until lebensraum was seized

@michaelkovacic2608

2 жыл бұрын

that is my perception as well. clearly, having the resources of eastern europe at hand would change the whole system. without a shortage of consumer goods and with slave labour available from russia, the system might actually have worked. TIK explains this when he talks about "relocation of wealth". If the people of eastern europe suffered, the germans would have certainly profited. Perhaps TIK can pick this thought up.

@AtlasAugustus

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelkovacic2608 agreed. Although it isn’t a full analysis of mine

@davidburroughs2244

2 жыл бұрын

Strikes me if after lebensraum would be achieved no economic change would be automatically be revealed with out an intense over haul and freeing of the market system. That is a change I think the NS's would find for themselves little temptation to change as they would surrender or lose control of all that money and over all economic control. They preferred to squeeze it dry, whittle it to the bone, move on to vampire economics and extend hegemony over neighboring states and rob them to the point of starvation. I've seen no studies of the affected states, made colonies and recognized autaurchies, etc., of such a short time span, so I do not know if there is a clear answer to the question.

@michaelkovacic2608

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidburroughs2244 no the system would remain the same, but there would be plenty of goods for the german people to buy, i think. Basically the state steals it from the east and then rations/sells it to the people, but if enough goods were available, then rationing would be relaxed. Hitler always wanted to be popular among the german people. Just my 2 cents, however ...

Well, yeah! :D Economy is part of war, so is logistics. It's a niche that opens up way wider understanding of conflict and management. Thank you!

Yes, economics & history is a great combo. I am also trying to adquire expertise in both subjects.

Thank you TIK for continuing to make your economic and political history content. I for one, I'm extremely grateful that there is a historian actually speaking the truth in great detail, and not skipping over the importance of past economics. In relation to how they helped to shap the politics of the past.

Your economic and political videos may be some of the most important work you do and is extremely high quality and should be a gold standard at minimum for high school I will personally use your videos to teach my kids one day

On your recommendation, I just finished reading The American Great Depression by Rothbard. What an eye opener! Please keep up with the economics related content. Military history and economics go hand in hand with each other.

Don’t spend any energy trying to understand or appease your detractors TIK! You do a great job; I learn lots from you. Keep doing whatever you feel led to do; you talk about topics that interest lots of us! Go TIK!!

@boobah5643

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes they have a point; refusing to even look at their arguments because they disagree would be a disservice to everybody. That doesn't mean one needs to continually repeat oneself in public, however, when they continually throw the same, debunked ideas at you.

Thank u tik for Focusing more production into economic videos they are a high demand for it and I am one of them lol. And when I was in school it’s kinda sad that they didn’t gave us suggestions to pick economy class. My teenage years I was completely ignorant about economics. And me as a beginner of learning about economics I am slowly believing that learning economics is very important to learn to make better decisions in life, business and electing politicians understand. Austrian economics. Thank you tik for helping me opening my eyes to the real world and helping me chance my dreams in a way

10:57 Bachelors had taxes imposed on them in communist Romania too in 1966. It was called "the celibacy tax".

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

I did not know that. Funny how the Communists and Nazis had similar policies

@dragosstanciu9866

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight Exactly.

@juliantheapostate8295

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight The funny thing is, even with that tax, you're probably still saving money

@gumdeo

2 жыл бұрын

National-communist Romania wanted more children, other more standard communist regimes didn't care about the birth rate.

@dragosstanciu9866

2 жыл бұрын

@@gumdeo Yes. Even so, it was a violation of the personal lives of the citizens, it was an abuse.

The world needs people like you, TIK. The myth that the Fascists and Nazis were rightwing is still pervasive and needs to be dispelled at all costs. This distortion has done irreparable damage to our understanding of politics, and you're doing good work in undoing that

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

I just wish more people would actually listen. Too many people are happy to stick to what FEELS right, rather than what is right. That's our main issue right now.

@SonofTiamat

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight Tell me about it. That's the biggest problem with the dissident-right is they focus on culture and ignore economics to their own detriment. The only prominent one I can think of who doesn't is Academic Agent, but The Distributist still drinks the Nazis were rightwing kool-aid despite all the times I tried to convince him otherwise

@koj2698

2 жыл бұрын

What's more baffling is people are so ignorant about economy despite it literally decides everything and major factor behind every important decision.

@Gauntlet_Videos

2 жыл бұрын

@@SonofTiamat One reason is because many people have it seared into their brain that anything nationalist is right wing and anything internationalist is left wing. It simply depends what metric a person's LeftRight spectrum is using. TIK tends to put collectivism/state-controlled markets on the left and individualism/free markets on the right

@Alte.Kameraden

2 жыл бұрын

Starting to think liberalism is right wing.

People forget the Class biases in 1930s Germany at their peril (why the technocrats hate being reminding of it?).

We can find military history everywhere on youtube (although not with the narrative quality and rigor of sources you have shown), but the economics related videos and the whole contextualization, you're the first (the only?) one to bring it us, the masses! And we thank you ! Great leader of the socialist people's republic of Tikistan !

How about an episode on German sausage production problems - STICK TO FRANKS.

I like your videos, even if I don't agree with everything, it is always good to see other viewpoints and since you always explain your points and state evidence I don't understand people who just hate on you

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

I understand them: they don't understand me, or the arguments I'm making, because they're ASSUMING things that are not true. I used to do the same when I was a socialist or Keynesian, so I understand why they're doing it, but they need to realize that they've been deceived into believing what they believe. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a way to get through to them. They'd rather live in their emotional-support bubble than learn and grow.

@aquilatempestate9527

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight Antony Sutton sir.

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

@@aquilatempestate9527 I have his books, and I've had them for a while. I'm not convinced. Now here's the question to you: what would be the counter-argument to Antony Sutton's books/argument? Could you give it? Or have you not asked 'the question' I always encourage you to ask?

@aquilatempestate9527

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight It's not enough to have them. One must read them too. You've read the academic series that came prior to the Wall Street series? Concerning Soviet technology transfer?

The opinions and analyses in this channel are the best of what I have found on YT. TIK don't listen to the nay-sayers and continue with the good work.

@christianlibertarian5488

2 жыл бұрын

Double plus good on this comment.

i like the economic sided content as its very unique and there are plenty of historians on youtube, such as Simple History and Military History Visualized, but you still go to a depth that no other creator dares to when discussing historical content, and that makes your other content just as good as the economic content, and i wouldnt miss a video either way

Just at the part where you mention you have a video on the interwar period planned, super interested as someone studying Weimar Germany for college. Do you have a rough estimate for when that would come out? Thanks for all your great work

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't decided yet, but I may split it into separate videos and make it a series. In that case, the first episode could be out in a couple months

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

Also, it is about Weimar Germany, so it would be perfect for you

@trinxty6099

2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, thanks for your reply

An aside on the topic of minimum wage: It's also mainly a punitive lobbying tool. You mentioned it off-hand, but a lot of people don't realize that, like with any other government intervention, there are effects far and beyond the raw externalities that economists tend to focus on. Minimum wage was consistently advocated by industry, in particular, from fields of industry with high yield per employee. Contrary to public perception, the largest lobby *for* minimum wage was also "big business." Businesses that hire huge quantities of people (service sector) have marginal profit margins per employee. They make "millions/billions of dollars," but only make $100k-200k per employee - prior to expenses, prior to variation in wages and role within the company, etc, that leaves a very narrow raw profit. Hiking up minimum wage would force a reduction in # of employees (complicated by COVID but happening), radical business model restructuring (already happening), raises in fees and prices (happening), and business collapse (happening in areas with the highest local taxes or most expensive transport networks). Since 2010, most tech firms can afford to pay every employee 10x-15x the minimum wage and still turn a profit, while retail has a safety margin between 1.0x-1.4x before deficit or price hikes. This is why tech executives and investors accrue so much money, so fast. By crushing down on narrow margin "goods and services" companies, they can poach services that would normally be procured locally. By leveraging unregulated automation (via the internet) they can bypass the regulation of human capital that everyone else on the planet has to deal with, creating an absurd leverage over local business. Amazon is a major current driver, essentially trying to use minimum wage as a wedge to collapse "big chain" supermarkets by forcing price hikes or into outright closing locations, to drive more market-share to digital shopping. To make things worse, tech's incredibly profit margin per employee also means more money to lobby - Amazon makes only 110bn but spent 10 million on lobbying, Walmart makes 560bn but spent only 6.9 million on lobbying. Both revenue figures are prior to expenses, so it's plain to see that Amazon has much more free money per dollar earned. Other tech companies are invested for the same, more cynical motivation that industry had, which is simply public opinion manipulation. If they are seen promoting "the public good," that takes the heat off the incredible profits on the backs of ignorant consumers, the willfully overpriced/obscelescing goods, the manipulative marketing tactics, the political meddling, the use of foreign labor often in sweatshop conditions, etc., things that normally rile the public up. By making "minimum wage" the definition of pro-worker government intervention, it serves as a simple red herring to keep their business models safe from meddling, while punishing businesses they directly or indirectly compete with.

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! It crushes the small businesses (the 'private' capitalists) and helps the big businesses (the 'public' corporations - the organs of the State). It's a trick. It also causes mass long-term unemployment, and hurts the young and inexperienced workers, plus any minorities or disadvantaged. And since the private sector is the engine of the economy, this is why I said it hurts the workers and the poor - it lowers productivity and thus hurts everyone.

@ladygrey7425

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight Correct. That's why whenever people complain about "capitalism," they complain about corporatism, aka the blending of "private" corporations and the state, also referred to by the term "fascism." Whoever thinks that modern Western countries such as the US of A are "free, equal, and independent" is a fool. Their tyranny is far more subtle and insidious than that of the more overt methods of National Socialist Germany or the USSR, but it is still tyranny. The only reason why they haven't been overthrown yet is because the average Westerner, even the poor ones, are far too comfortable and lazy. That, and the illusion of voting works.

@totsamiyandrey

2 жыл бұрын

I don't buy it. It will hurt profit margins of big business directly and in absolute figures they will lose much more. I think it is more of fear that workers will have nothing to lose but their chains that makes big corporations advocate for wage increase. Such a driver was behind many post-war social policies in the West. Moreover, you will not ever convince me that working people shouldn't afford a roof above a head, food on a table and basic healthcare.

@Bingo_Bango_

2 жыл бұрын

@@totsamiyandrey You've already "bought it," this is simply an unveiling of what has been sold to you. If you are meaningfully concerned with the US wealth gap, and that's your priority, minimum wage does literally nothing to stop it. "Big corporations" are not universally an advocate for minimum wage increase, though many have capitulated and agreed to stop fighting it due to the massive PR damage from tech/industry propaganda. To protect their businesses, since the rise of minimum wage policy as a hot-button talking point, these corporations are automating, divesting employees, restructuring, raising prices, etc., because they know they can no longer fight it. Walmart in particular abandoned a longstanding opposition to these policies over the rise of minimum wage and is now trying to drop employment per store as fast as it can. "Big corporation" will survive even if they suffer, but everyone else will suffer with them. The allied corporations ADVOCATING minimum wage hikes - Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, major finance (including Bank of America & Chase), Comcast, etc. - happen to be the companies who have the largest digital automated presence, the largest revenue per employee, and the most offshore employees not affected by US minimum wage laws. These are the ones I was referring to, to name some names, not companies like Walmart or McDonalds who employ millions of Americans on extremely thin profit margins. It is simply market warfare using the government and you have fallen for it, hook line and sinker. It isn't anything to be ashamed of, many cases of "anti big business" policy that go mainstream are invented by factions within big business to claim more marketshare, or for punitive reasons. It's a difficult thing to disassociate from when "consumer advocates" hawk them. Minimum wage is also inferior to other policies for establishing "a roof above a head, food on a table and basic healthcare." It would in fact be superior to have the government directly supply those things, or provide benefits to make acquiring those things attainable with minimal personal contribution, so long as minimum wage is abolished, because this would free up high volume/independent employment opportunities. Taxation to support this policy could focus on scraping off cash from the people actually making money through various revenue and asset targets (capital gains, land taxes, etc.) Policies like this are also crushed by *all* big business lobbies, by the way, I wonder why? Perhaps because it would actually affect most of them? Better to stick to wages... I don't personally support this course of action, but it would serve you better than blindly following "minimum wage is best".

@totsamiyandrey

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bingo_Bango_ where did I say wealth gap? As far as I'm concerned, billionears are free to hoard as much wealth as possible and f off to Mars, the further the better, as long as living standards for the rest of the people are high or at least wages are livable. Now to your second point, I really don't care how those standards are achieved, but I'm all for people have at least livable income, especially if they try to earn it for an honest work.

"did the national socialist state rase living conditions?" *Looks at images of 1945 Germany* No, no they definitely did not.

@TheGunderian

2 жыл бұрын

Ummm, that is cherry picking your 'facts'. Even Totalitarian leaders have to enhance some follower's lives. Example: Today in N Korea there is a privileged class that live better than they otherwise would. So citing Germany in 1945 is not a good example.

@xxfir3guyxx819

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGunderian You: *oMg dUDe YoUrE ChErRYpIcKiNg!* Also you: *bUt AcTuAlLy tOdAy iN nORtH kOReA...*

@Pangora2

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGunderian I hope you realize that comes off as a joke. It is like asking "Did Japan benefit from Imperialism?" and showing a mushroom cloud.

@MrKakibuy

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGunderian And? Germany had just that... it was called the Nazi party, and all people who had connections to it lived effectively like nobles in the new regime.

@cattraknoff

2 жыл бұрын

@Wulf Their failed economic system forced them to go to war to keep the bubble from bursting.

3R economics were definitely interventionist, but I wouldn't call them actually socialist. Socialist economics use interventionism to support the ideological goals of socialism: the dignity and well-being of the working class. Hitler's economics were strictly war-oriented. The market interventions of the Reich were only a tool to make a massive war waged by Germany after the restrictions imposed by Versaille not only possible but shockingly successful at that. This economic model was in no way able to sustain itself past the end of the 1940s.

I always watch your political/economic videos. The only tank videos that I watch are ones that feature Australians (can you guess where I'm from?). The amount of parallels to the modern day horrifies me. As a 22 year old, It's my generation that is going to suffer the consequences of these fallacious economic policies of the last 80 years. I'm keen for your take on the modern situation since I have absolutely no clue what to do to prepare for the future.

As a child I was drawn to the 'pageantry' and technology ( yes, tanks ) of WW2. Growing up led to the realization that the story as a whole was much more complex ( politics, economics, trade, etc. ) and filled in gaps in the narrative that made sense. Many times it fills in gaps you hadn't even realized existed. That said, keep up the good work. You provide reasoned insights to the whole picture and I love it. Thanks so much for your analysis and example of how history should be presented.

Thanks for this video. I understand you could not possibly cover everything in half an hour but there is much more to talk about regarding the living standards, price controls etc. For example when prices were not allowed to increase quality instead fell. A coat while in theory no more expensive than before was of much worse quality. If you wanted the same coat in terms of quality then it was several times more expensive than before. We are led to believe that inflation is only an increase of prices. But if prices are kept in check inflation will happen in other ways. Either through lower quality goods, less of a good in a package for the same price as before or shortages. It is almost impossible today for prices the rise for many items. Either through direct control or through the more subtle social control we have. Anyone rising prices of a good that is in short supply is branded a scalper and immoral. It is easier for a business to explain that the current conditions make it impossible to keep stock rather than explaining that it increased the price. It seems at least so far people are more willing to accept shortages than price increase. I've lost count of how many times over the last couple of years I've heard that a store is out of a specific sofa, table, chair, wardrobe etc because of covid. And of course covid is a huge reason for the shortage but the inflation is not helping. So far this hasn't caused massive issues. If they are out of stock of video cards or a specific sofa etc it doesn't impact the standard of living such as food shortages would but it is important to understand that are living standards are affected but from a higher point than any other time in history so it doesn't seem as bad. The savings of people are increasing a lot since again since they haven't been able to buy everything they want so they save the money. It will be interesting to see what happens. I don't predict any catastrophic events like hyperinflation but we'll see. Anyway keep up the great content.

This is forsure a vote to keep doing the economic videos. I don’t have the money to give but I would for sure keep watching if you make more. I learned a lot from your video on Hitler and have had several conversations with people who still think Hitler was a fascist. I even realized after that video how many people don’t understand hitlers socialism and how many people are ignorant to the realities of both policies.

I do enjoy the economic videos, and very much enjoyed the dive into the MEFO bills. I picked up an advance reading copy of George M. Taber's Chasing Gold in a secondhand bookstore on Cape Cod a few years back, and it's about the Nazi pursuit of gold throughout the continent (and its partial drive of Nazi war aims). Along with the military choices made for their oil thirst, the drive for gold is another area that I think would be worth your time in some future videos. Keep up the good work, TIK.

Yesss!!! I can't wait for the video on the interwar years!!! I've always wanted a video like that since it is largely ignored despite it's extreme importance.

Subscribed due to Razorfists recommendation keep up the great work!

@Baamthe25th

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't notice that recommendation, when did he do it ?

@BalrogUdun

2 жыл бұрын

@@Baamthe25th usually on his livestreams every now and again

@juliantheapostate8295

2 жыл бұрын

Nice, Razorfist is great

Most slept on channel, this is a real treat. I wish I had more teachers like you that can spin seemingly mundane subjects into captivating history lessons.

Wasn't the only program worth anything the Volks-radio thing? The hilarious mismanagement of the Volkswagen project was a good laugh.

The communist historians were trying to explain history by economy. But you cant explain something if you mask causes and want result dictated by party orthodoxy. Yes, politic is in the bed with economy, and they share bed with war. We need more videos like this. I believe that we need more videos like this and other That you did can open the eyes of global society.

The poor are against a minimum wage - really? We’ve had a minimum wage in the UK for the last 20 years and there is no serious opposition to it now from left or right. All the dire predictions of negative consequences never happened.

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't say that the poor are against the minimum wage (many are for it). I said that the poor are HURT by the minimum wage as a result of the unforeseen consequences.

@Zveebo

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight Sure, okay, but what are those unforeseen consequences it causes?

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zveebo The fact that you have to ask that question says that you haven't done your homework. First, watch this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/YpqnuKtsddC7nrQ.html Then I would suggest reading "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt, followed by "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell. You can find free audio book versions of their books on KZread if you don't want to buy physical copies.

@BroadHobbyProjects

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zveebo It means the government who are arm in arm with corporations now have a line to set for your value as a worker. Basically tying you to that line, unless you break beyond that and move into the median wage bracket. It's also a huge exploit for corporations to import cheap labour from abroad. That's the dark truth about immigration in this country, any western country really. We are told its to help people, its merely to keep the dwindling population going up (more workers) and to exploit people more willing to work those jobs around or below minimum wage you or others wouldn't do. In turn keeping the mininum line there at that low level not just socially now but the legal side too.

@Zveebo

2 жыл бұрын

@@BroadHobbyProjects That sounds an awful lot like unsupported anti-immigration tin foil hat conspiracy theories. Corporations have always opposed the minimum wage because it raised pay for most low paid workers and cost them more money.

Imagine getting a reply after a year. And props to you for replying all the questions.

TIK I appreciate your long yet juicy history videos. These videos have learnt me more about the complexity of the second world war, the videos on why German logistics were bad which were kind of a shock for me that it wasn't just the common idea that it was the oil and then that was it no more than that. But I want to applaud you for talking about the politics of the two European axis powers, as it never once struck me that the claim that Mussolini and Hitler were socialist actually had a reason behind it and wasn't just Conservatives trying to disassociate with the image of the right being Hitler and Mussolini, and forgot to add, thank you for the economics lessons I have learned more about basic economics from you than from any other teacher in the school!

Yes !! The interwar period is completly overlook and so important ! When the western nations (mostly France and Britain) were at peace, eastern europe was a complete mess.

The virgin Stick to Tanks vs the Chad Stick to Banks

This is a great video TIK. Also, you really shouldn’t take criticisms from ideologically-compromised people as valid. If they want to live in fantasy land, that’s fine, don’t take it personally that communists hate what you say. They hate literally everything everyone says. So long as people are intellectually open and honest with themselves, even if they disagree, they will find your economic/political content edifying. And as a side note, if you ever feel bored and want to do something somewhat different, you could do a video like your Finland Q&A mini-battlestorm on the battle of Warsaw 1920. I’ve found that basically no one knows about it, but it was an incredibly important event in the interwar period. I think I remember seeing a book about it on your shelf and it’d be cool to see the battle visualized in a video format.

Glad to hear that you noted the significant tax increases on alcohol and in particular tabbaco. It is often overlooked today that the basic research into the relationship between tabbaco and lung cancer/serious disease was carried out in Germany. Apparently Hitler who loathed smoking and smokers. Was sure that smoking did cause serious diseases.

I too, enjoy and appreciate your economics video. I like how you show the parallels between the economic monkey business then, and that happening now. Good on ya!

You probably have a lot of Japanese school girls following you. As we learn from Girls und Panzer, those chicks love tanks about as much as they love Cephalopods. As for me, 2 of my 3 undergrad majors was in Economics and History [focused on military natch] So I'm good. However I am a big fat white guy, about as opposite as you can get from a wee Japanese teenage girl.

Love your videos! I am a massive fan of military history, and WW2 always fascinated me; however, I could never find an explanation for a simple question... Why? Everything was always summarized as "because Hitler is bad." Your details on the politics and economics of WW2 Germany have answered so many of my questions. Thanks! I have a request, can you cover the culture/philosophy that influenced people at the time? I've always heard how Nietzsche influenced the National Socialists. However, I see a similar mentality decades before Nietzsche was even popular, so im thinking culture might have a more significant role than we believe. I just want to know why people found Hitler appealing outside of the economic issues at the time.

Hey TIK, great video, I was just wondering, what do you think about the argument that in monobsonic markets the minimum wage is harmless, thats to say if in certain markets workers are paid far bellow their marginal productivity, implementing the minimum wage would not lead to unemployment.

I'm reading "Economics in One Lesson" now. Fantastic read. It's really good in boiling down the false complexity of bad economic policies into what they really are: making special interests "wealthier" at the expense of everyone else so that everyone at the end is worse off than before.

You somehow manage to be the best and also the most biased historian on KZread 🤣

@Alte.Kameraden

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone is bias. It's whether what you're bias about being true or not.

@GopaiCheems

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alte.Kameraden oh absolutely! TIK is biased, but biased in the sense of omitting niceties/things convenient for his opposition; not falsifying information

@Alte.Kameraden

2 жыл бұрын

@@GopaiCheems I put it this way. There is a reason when you have multiple witnesses they're all interviewed separately. They all could of witnessed the exact same event yet came to completely different conclusions to what they saw. Same goes with evidence. Multiple writers and researchers could use the same evidence yet come to opposite conclusions. Look up Foundation for Economic Education's video on Lord of The Rings is Racist a critique of critics who make that claim. It's a good example why writers and historians can easily be more wrong than right.

@dylanc8834

2 жыл бұрын

Well history is built around debate and if you are to win a debate you must have an opinion and be confident you are right if you are to win, it’s a waste of time being unbiased in a debate if you want to win

Hey Tik, "Ring of Steel" is a fantastic book looking at the conditions inside the Central Powers in WW1, looking into many aspects from food, unity, political concerns. Its nowhere near as good as Wages of Destruction was for WW2, but I think WW1 is so under-studied that it becomes a good look.

Came for banks, stayed for tanks... and more banks

TIK, you often say that data produced by USRR and 3rd Reich is not reliable, because their economies were not free. Doesn't it mean we cannot say anything about any economy, since there is no country that has a completely free market economy? Why do we bother talking about US GDP for instance, when it is on constant doping supplied by Fed?

Tik - you always know when you're over the target when the flak starts!

Your historical and political commentary from an economics theory standpoint is groundbreaking. Keep it coming!

Regardless watching your vids helped me to clarify a lot of things about WWII. Do you think Hitler views on the Jews came from racial theories or was it the other way around? As if were his views on the Jews based on his belief in the stab in the back theory etc. that got racialised post factum?

People who want you to stick to tanks watch your stuff because those ancient battles are their hobby. Understandable and you do them well. I want you to be a good historian. A good scientist and that means also doing the economic stuff. As for the people in denial about the obvious facts you outline.. who cares. They don’t subscribe or patronize anyway.

TIK, dont stick to tanks because your analysis of the pre war and war time economics of the WW2 belligerents explains their actions clearly. Only Lindybeige should stick to tanks!

LOVE any topic that pops up on this channel. History is history and TIK can present any of it very well.

Fantastic work as always, Mr. TIK! I too would love more economic/military combo videos, since the two naturally go together!

TIK, your spelling is terrible - Tanks starts with a "T" not a "B".

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I can'b fix ib because my keyboard is broken. Ib doesn'b leb me bype bhe key bebween 'R' and 'Y'

@Boric78

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight lol

Lots of errors in this video, a few of which I'll detail. 1.There were numerous consumption taxes on consumer goods in Germany, not just alcohol and beer as stated. Sugar also had an excise tax add to its prices. There was a sales tax, called a turnover tax, which was calculated between the price the store owner paid and sold the item for and added to the price, so the consumer never saw it. 2. Income taxes always exceeded corporate tax. In 1938 Germany collected 5.4B marks in income tax and 2.4B marks in corporate tax. By 1943 revenue from income tax had risen to 13.4B marks, while corporate tax was 6.7B marks. From 1938 to 1943 the ratio of income to corporate tax raised remains at roughly a 2:1 ratio. The percentage amount of income / corporate tax versus total tax falls from 1938 to 1943. In 1938 74% of all tax revenue came from income / corporate tax. By 1943 that number had fallen to 69%. In 1943 the various war contribution taxes were equal to what was raised by corporate tax. 3. Wage and price controls were instituted largely to artificially devalue the cost of armaments. Both Britain and the US would do the same thing. Though in Germany's case it was largely unnecessary as corporations weren't allowed to hold foreign currency and as an example, iron ore imported from Sweden was purchased through the government, and allocated to corporations, who had to sell at a fixed cost. Government controlled unions made sure manpower costs didn't rise. I'd recommend sticking to Stalingrad....

@snax_4820

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your thoughts. But your contribution is not complete. The Third Reich had a wide police mix regarding taxes which changed over time. In the beginning, they focused on creating jobs, later on, war efforts become central. Corporate and private taxes were only a part of the equation.

@lotus95t

2 жыл бұрын

@@snax_4820 Clearly you can't read as I said I'll detail a few errors - not all of them. What your post does show is a complete lack of understanding of this subject.

@snax_4820

2 жыл бұрын

@@lotus95t I am honored to talk to a person with so many well-founded arguments.

@TIK in every video, I find myself scouring the bookshelf behind you to see if you have any books I've read. You have several. Black Book of Communism, Halder's War Diary, Hitler's Beneficiaries, The Stalingrad Cauldron, The Desert Rats, Eighth Army, Panzer Battles, and The Battle for Leningrad. If you haven't read it, I recommend picking up Hitler's First War by Thomas Weber. A very informative look at Hitler's experience in WWI, it paints a very different picture of his WWI service than what you see in most other biographies.

@davidburroughs2244

2 жыл бұрын

This may not fit here, but Paulus started the "if H had only listened to me!" as P dealt with his capture by the CCCP, he didn't want to be executed, I think, and P continued it through Nuremberg (well, H clearly did listen to you, P, at least enough to blow off the oil gains he really needed first!). I think the other ex-generals learned from Paulus' twin experiences.

I just want to say I Love your economics and political videos, they show me a side to WW2 I never considered. The economics and politics of the Second World War are an important side to the conflict that many outright ignore, please keep making the videos you want to make be they political, economical or military

Not first! But hello, person reading this comment! Hope you have a great day!

@tyvamakes5226

2 жыл бұрын

Henlow

@TruetoCaesar

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Sir.

@82dorrin

2 жыл бұрын

@@TruetoCaesar You are welcome, Exar Kun! You are fine Sith Lord

Interventionist economics and autarchy aren't socialism. You can't call yourself an economist if you think this. This hypothesis is quite flawed

@nipoone6109

2 жыл бұрын

Why? I don't know much about Socialism, I really want to know.

Hey everyone, I'm looking for more good books on the German economy. Does anyone have any recommendations? I wish I had read Mises's "Omnipotent Government" years ago - it would have saved me a lot of time and hassle! The guy was ahead of his time. The Age of Inflation books was a decent and recent find, but it's a little out of date in some areas. Obviously, Aly's "Hitler's Beneficiaries", and "Wages of Destruction" and "The Vampire Economy" are all good, but I could do with more besides this. Cheers!

@tyvamakes5226

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure the best books on the German economy is (shocking) German. Stick to English videos.

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

@@tyvamakes5226 Well, people have asked me to do a video on Oswald Mosley, so I think that will be the first video of mine where the vast majority of the sources I use will be primary sources

@tyvamakes5226

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight Mosely is an interesting man. Either it defies what a stereotypical fascist wants in foreign policy or its path to fascism is unique to other fascism subideologies. Still I believe that Mosely may have turned socialist if Britain lost WW1. See Kaiserreich.

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

@@tyvamakes5226 Mosley was a socialist. He was a Labour Party member before becoming a Fascist (a bit like Mussolini).

Because of Tik I’ve read Rothbard and mises probably non stop for the last few weeks, and the primer on economics by Hazlitt is brilliant instead of Foucault and all that nonsense that Hazlitt book should be on every political science and social science course from day one, relates directly to those so called sciences as it does to economics. Most common sense thing I’ve read in years. As a direct result of all that I’ve start an executive mba nothing like learning and I love watching these videos because they are directly relatable to other historic events see Rhodes fro instance or Keynes and is also relatable to a post pandemic economic landscape. Thanks tik top stuff mate!

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! I'm really glad to see you absorbed in the books!! They're truly eye opening, especially for anyone who's not heard of the concepts before (e.g. me when I was a Socialist)

@chriswillsdon992

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheImperatorKnight I’ve got socialism but mises next on the list. I was brought up a trade unionist socialist my father fought, and I use the word because it’s true, in the miners strike. At the same time my father felt the Marxist doctrine was an old fashioned approach. I have a law degree a masters in human rights and almos an mba. No one mentions Hazlitt mises or Austrian economics. I have brought the subject up with the odd professor and PhD but blank looks tell you every thing you need to know. I graduated my masters this year. Are you aware you are taught class no longer exists in the U.K.? At a Russel group university? Shockers all round my friend thank you for what you do. Common sense!

Love your videos TIK, but please stop talking about your critics so often. Just do what you want to do, you don’t need to preemptively defend yourself. Us regular viewers enjoy your content and don’t need you to justify it. Great video btw

Not first

@TheImperatorKnight

2 жыл бұрын

Can confirm, you were not first

Great vids, Tik. Off topic If I may... what year is that SG?

Greatly looking forward to the video on the interwar years- keep pumping out the economics videos! How people can study economics and ignore history which is a gigantic part of economics (how often have historical events been driven by a country’s economics…….?) is beyond me

i won so many discussions thanks to TIK. especially when people start saying that the nazis were no socialists while its litterally in the name. so thank u :P

I believe your discussions on economics become uninteresting when you make grand assertions. When it comes to discussions on warfare you generally look at a situation from many different viewpoints and carefully explore each without going beyond what the sources supports. But when it comes to economics you quickly discard and scoff at any theory or viewpoint that doesn't conform to the ideas you hold. This seems foolish when various economic systems have succeeded and failed to various degrees.

Many years ago I used to subscribe to the "New Scientist" magazine. In the comment section someone said , "of no use as a dead lightbulb". In the following episode someone else had replied. I've always remembered this because it shows the stupidity of a Communist state. It goes like this: 1) At your place of work replace a good bulb with a dead one that you purchased at a market. You now have a working bulb for your house. 2) The janitor will replace the dead bulb with a good one. 3) The janitor will then sell the dead bulbs at a market, see step one. I find it amazing how humans have the ingenuity to defeat the system. Maybe TIK can create a spreadsheet concerning lightbulb economics :) I'm only joking TIK, your channel is brilliant.