Andrew Wilson

Now the difference is this guy lives in a castle and you live in a three bedroom apartment.

It's like, it is true that the guy living in the castle is richer than the guy in the castle has ever been,

But the reason you're not a dung heap is because the poor are also richer than they've ever been.

And so it's scalable.

It's a matter of scalability.

But show me in the fattest country in the world, where's all the starving people?

Yeah, so this is a strict materialist view.

The thing is, is like, I don't know when this shift happened to strict materialism, but this seems to be part of a new conversation which people want to have.

And again, that's part of what communism is.

The lens of communism is strictly materialist.

There is no spiritualism.

Communists kill anybody who's religious because that affects a materialist view.

It's an oppressor, oppressed class.

So if you're looking through everything from a materialist view, you can always find an oppressor class.

There will always be people who have more than other people do.

It's one of the big faults with communism.

You can never reach this stateless utopia.

But as far as that goes, when I think historically,

the endless suffering that happened to people inside of nation states, inside of city states, inside of places like that, in comparison to what you see in modern Western democracies.

It's like, if these people had to deal with that in any capacity,