Michael Malice

And we don't have to worry about the capitalist class just basically exploiting people and having these huge estates while these people can't even feed their own families.

The steel man argument for socialism is if you have everything up to private industry-

You do not have a guarantee that someone won't fall between the cracks.

And the other concern is in any other context, if someone is, let's suppose, mentally ill, right, through no fault of their own, or someone's handicapped, you know, they can't feed themselves or mentally disabled or something like that,

If you have everything up to charity, you see this with endangered species, right?

The species that are cute, it's easy to raise money for them and protect them.

Some weird kind of frog somewhere that no one cares about, you can't raise money for it.

People's interests are to what they find interesting.

So if someone is...

someone who's like not socially appealing in some way, whatever capacity, they're gonna fall between the cracks and they're screwed.

Under socialism, if you have a government taking care of everything, no one is left behind.

You are guaranteed that the lowest of the low and the worst of the worst are still going to make sure that they're not starving the street or just left behind.

So that is a big moral case to be made for having the state

running everything in terms of economics it's a lot harder um but the argument there would be it's why it's it's not fair a term which in my view does not actually have a good meaning but it's not fair that because you were born a rockefeller and i was born in poland that you never have to worry about food the rest of your life whereas i have to worry about you know you

paying for a doctor for my kid.

Like you just, you won this lottery when you're born and now I have to be screwed and I have to respect all your property.

Why?

So that is another strong argument to be made for socialism.

And the other argument is if you have a media apparatus that is operated under profit-seeking principles, it is going to feed into people's worst

qualities, most basic animal-like qualities and sensationalist qualities, and will be used as a mechanism for capitalist control.