If you look at the data from the whole world from the dawn of man to today, you will see a decline in violence. ".market capitalism is, indeed, empirically socially destabilizing" How long do you think your business survive if you decide to only sell 300 gallons a month for 20 bucks a gallon (SPOILER: One month) It's not just tuna, not just farming in general either, it applies across the board. The only business that would be OK with holding back good from the market are those with a state-protected monopoly because if you know you can have competition you can't survive hiding back goods for higher prices. Entrepreneurs on a market want to create abundance to serve the demand, sustainability to preserve their business model, and efficiency to keep costs of production and price of final goods down. Now tuna was pretty abundant when this all started to become noticeable and these alternatives were being explored. It's driving entrepreneurs to find sustainable fishing and farming methods to fulfill this demand including more efficient ways to feed them that would alleviate the threat on overpopulation in their eco-systems. Tuna, being one of the most popular fish used for sushi, are becoming threatened by this new demand. As the Chinese people are moving away from poverty they are developing a taste for sushi. "Abundance, sustainability, and efficiency are the enemies of profit" So "business as usual" wouldn't happen because of the price mechanic because both consumers and producers would be restrained financially to do so. Now we don't even use kerosene, we use tungsten, neon gas, and LEDs. The world was sure we couldn't sustain wale oil to light everyone's home until kerosene came along. Supply goes down, prices go up making it more advantageous to extract in harder to extract locations, develop new methods of creating said resource, or seek and develop alternatives.
Problem is it ignores the price mechanic. Shows a study that said if we keep business as usual we'll overshoot this balance and start running out of resources. He talks about resource consumption and reproduction. Before that I did take some notes from what I did see of Part 1. However curiosity got the better of me and I jumped to Part 3 of the video where he tries to address the ECP.
It's disgusting when PETA does it, it's no less disgusting when Merola does it. He's devaluing the horrors of chattel slavery to serve his ideological position. When I heard him make this direct comparison, I turned the video off in disgust. I take it less seriously than Marx's Labor Theory of Value or Reverend Moon's claim of divinity. The wage slave argument, as I've illustrated before, is intellectually bankrupt. I'm sorry your McBoss is a jerk, but he doesn't beat you, kill you, and rape your female family members. The idea that having to work in a market economy to make a living is comparable to chattel slavery is beyond the pale. It has always amused me how much mental gymnastics a collectivist can do to disprove an incorrect theory.Ĥ. Needless to say, the socialist responses to ECP have always been terribly bad, factually inaccurate, and logically inconsistent. Even if the conclusion is faulty, the reasoning does illustrate how money and trade works. It's the only reason I keep that video and blog post up. While it doesn't show that socialism is impossible, it does point out the importance of the price system, trade, and private ownership has in an economy.
I don't subscribe to the ECP anymore but there's a few things you must consider about the argument that stands well.
ZEITGEIST X FORCE SERIES
The views and subscriptions to TZM's Culture in Decline series have been pretty dismal too if you discount the obvious view bot activity that happened around April of this year.ģ. Attendance at their events like Z-Day and The Zeitgeist Media Festival since have been steadily declining after the split with TVP. TZM is a 'dead' 'movement.' Though it was hardly alive in it's heyday in 2009-2010, it was so fringe even then it made anarcho-capitalists seems like a viable political outfit. When he's not out trying to knuckle anti-TZM websites out of existence, he's constructing an epic tower of fail at the word salad bar.Ģ. He's not too shy to send me bogus legal threats and he did (probably still does) think I'm James Kush because Jim is short for James and we both oppose TZM. Peter Joseph Merola, the leader (yes, he is the leader) of The Zeitgeist Movement is an incoherent, ignorant, megalomaniacal prick. I initially had no plans to make this for 4 reasons:ġ. Responding to Peter Joseph's Economic Calculation Problem Lecture.
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