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 RUclips style popularized by Matpat is one of the most brilliant things you're ever done Olly. You never seize to amaze comrade!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
"@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.
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 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
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.
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 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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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...
@@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?
@@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.
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
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.
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?
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
@@Randint73 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)
That's true, but even in countries that have socialized healthcare, people still can get healthcare privately. Olly is not only talking about the government making sure everyone has a roof over their head no matter what (which is fine goal that can be achieved in many ways), but about prohibiting people from owning real estate altogether.
@@Stratocasterlaserblaster 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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
@@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
"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.
@@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.
"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.
@@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 :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!)
@@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.
@@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
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
@@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.
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!
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.
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?
@@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.
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.
@@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.
"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.
>"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]
If I had a nickel for every crossdressing theatrical philosophy RUclipsr who turned out to be trans, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
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!
@@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.
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.
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).
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.
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)
@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.
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.
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 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)
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'..."
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.
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
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
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Remember that in Sweden there are state-enforced protections on long-term rental contracts, thereby hindering housing market/crisis to exercise his full power.
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
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!
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
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.
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?
@@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)
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
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.
I've been watching the housing market closely, Prices have been skyrocketing for years. It's going to be tough for first-time buyers to enter the market." how can one diversify $280k reserve .
I agree, It's not just the prices, but also the increasing interest rates that are making it more difficult for people to afford homes. With a good FA you can make up your portfolio.
That makes sense. I’ve been using a financial market expert for two years now and I own a six-figure diversified portfolio from investing in stocks. I want to diversify more this year, though.
There are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with ‘’Sonya Lee Mitchell’’ for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive. She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.
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.
Is it a satire of communists?... I've watched it several times and become more gobsmacked at the cheerful stupidity every time. Thorn is a good artist but a very bad economist and philosopher.
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.
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.
@@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
@@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.
Agree totally that the Housing Crisis is an enormous issue and that the problem is exacerbated rather than helped by the influence of Housing Market, and don't get me started on Airbnb. However, i felt, more so than on other videos, a little bit like you skipped over the alternative. After all the "series" doesn't just end if (the) Housing Market disappears. You talked about how putting complete control over housing in the state would be somewhat problematic but you didn't really raise or respond to the problems that might arise with Communal Housing (I think that would probably be the character that would inherit the series). Communal Housing might not literally be Housing Crisis in the same way as Housing Market but they have lots of their own weaknesses and I thought maybe you might have thoughts on them that you just didn't have time to address in the video. I'm particularly interested in how you might incentivise building new homes under Communal Housing. You could run up against a similar Housing Crisis simply because the population has expanded but the industry surrounding construction no longer has an incentive to keep building. Unless your proposal is that the government constructs the new houses under Communal Housing? Although that sounds to me a lot like the Russian experiment you mentioned which you didn't seem so keen on. Further, houses aren't really fungible, they're not perfectly interchangeable. Two "dwellings" picked out at random in London are unlikely to be equal. So how would Communal Housing decide who ends up in the mansion house, and who ends up in the slightly dodgy flat with the weird smell and the leaky taps (obviously not suggesting capital is a good system for doing this, just wondering if you had thoughts on what an alternative might be)? Equally, how will the system avoid overcrowding. If everyone begins to concentrate in the cities (because that's where the a lot of the work is) then there just won't be enough space for everyone to have housing, even if we do everything we can to ensure that no house goes empty. I get that the assumption in the above is that the rest of the system remains the same around the Housing Market and if what you're proposing is more radical than just scrapping Housing Market and you actually want to scrap the whole of the Market series of characters then that's a different conversation. P.S. I love your channel and all the work you do. Your videos are amazing and it's astounding how much the production value and editing has improved over the lifetime of your content. I don't want to be antagonistic, just to respond to ideas with a sceptical eye
The problem with this fanfic of yours is that it assumes the fall of Housing Market wouldn't also lead to the dissolution of the Perpetual Growth League. It assumes that the main champions of Perpetual Growth, Job Market and Stock Market would not fall to the same fate as Housing Market. But even assuming that humanity eventually outgrew the current oversupply of housing? How would Communal Housing avoid the return of Housing Crisis? Easy. As in most other human societies in history who existed within their ecological means, Communal housing would either subdivide housing into ever smaller more denser units, and/or set out into unoccupied land to start new communities. TL;DR people don't need a monetary incentive to build housing. They'll do it because they need it to survive, and as long as governments or corporations don't get in their way by telling them when and how to do it humanity will probably figure out how to house itself on its own.
@@saoirsecameron People don't need incentive to want housing but building it is cost prohibitive to so many, unless you're talking about shanty towns and the like. People of means can take care of themselves, but there is little incentive to arbitrarily help everyone else. Small groups or communes might pull it off on a quid pro quo basis, but that scales poorly. The incentive to invest comes from the expectation that one will receive something of value in return. Unless you want to go back to bartering, that's what money is for.
Joe M. A lot of assumptions in this argument. First that there being people with means and people without is a state of nature. But it’s not. People don’t have the means because they are denied the means by those who control them. That denial is backed by the monopoly of violence inherent to the nation state in the form of police and the courts. Looking at the historical record in the formational stages of any society almost all means are acquired violently and then justified post-hoc with titles and charters and land grants. Returning the means to those who need them simply require those titles be declared null and void and the threat of violence backing them stand down. It assumes any system must be infinitely scaleable to be effective or legitimate. That unless something can be implemented uniformly across society it’s not realistic. But what is truly not realistic is the idea of a uniform society based on a uniform set of rules and norms. Decentralized, horizontally run, overlapping, fluid, interdependent communities will necessarily have different localized solutions that make the most sense for their communities. It’s why we don’t have a one world government. Finally the assumption that the opposite of a capitalist economy is a barter trade economy. But that’s not true. Barter trade is just an earlier stage of capitalism. Goods are another form of capital. Both systems are predicated on the idea of scarcity. That there isn’t enough to go around, so people must make rational self-interested choices about how to acquire goods by exchanging capital. The true antithesis of capitalism is a post-scarcity economy in which production is so efficient that capital becomes meaningless and social capital in the form of gifting and generosity become the principles means of distribution. And while that might sound utopian and unrealistic, against human nature even, the historical and material evidence directly contradicts this. Even in situations of extreme scarcity, societies in almost every era in every corner of the globe have formed stable, sustainable, and productive societies based on gift economies. People make and give you things because they like you and want to to survive and be happy and you do the same. The more you give the more people like you and the more you get back, not in direct exchange for any individual transaction but as a sum total of all of your relationships. Studies of human psychology have shown that purpose and social belonging are just as powerful motivators of behavior as survival and self-interest, and that people still desire to be productive even once their material needs are met. And it’s more attainable now than ever. We produce more food than hungry people. More houses than houseless. More clothing than bodies to clothe. Large quantities of consumer goods never make it to the shelf and many of those goods than get destroyed never having been bought. All to maintain the scarcity necessary to drive capitalism.
@@saoirsecameron So how do we solve the distribution problem? Issues of use of force, growing government power, checks on corruption, who gets to decide what is too much, seem impossibly complex. It seems like voluntary exchanges between individuals will inevitably produce winners and losers of varying degree over time. Modern nations seem to use government to curb the harmful excesses of capitalism, but is there another method that can replace its successes without introducing greater negatives?
Modern governments only curb the most harmful bits of capitalism to legitimize their existence while in general propping up and defending the capitalist mode of production from both internal (economic collapse) and external (revolution) threats. Even openly socialist governments fall in to this trap to protect their own power and revenue streams. Rather than workers owning the means of production, they do, acting as a government created monopoly. Again, not to sound redundant but there is going to be no society wide single answer to issues of distribution. And while there are bad actors and their effects cannot be ignored I think its disingenuous to automatically assume that all voluntary exchange must inevitably fall into a zero-sum game scenario before even considering what other possible positive alternatives might exist. I will provide two examples, not as an example of how it should be done, or even how it will be done, but of how one might begin to do it. One is Food Not Bombs. No centralized leadership. No formal hierarchical rules for declaring a chapter or appointing leaders. Each local chapter decides when and how to do distribution. Minimal to no start up capital needed. Entirely based on voluntary labor and exchange. Uses entirely salvaged goods. And while obviously for systemic reasons they can't eliminate all hunger within a capitalist system, they are able to provide a meaningful anti-capitalist praxis against hunger within the confines of a capitalist system. The chapter in Tijuana is able to provide 3 meals a day 4 days a week for up to 500 people. No molotovs or bricks necessary. A second example is Femmes Strike Back. To address the legal impunity surrounding sexual assault and abuse, Femmes Strike Back exists as a horizontal network of Femmes supporting Femmes. They do their own investigations, collect their own intel, and distribute their findings to the public. They do doxxing campaigns, call ins, and boycotts to help to isolate and reduce the reach of predatory actors who refuse to take accountability for the harm they create. No central command. No organizational structure. No non-profit tax status. All voluntary and all mutual. And again, while this project for obvious systemic reasons can't eliminate all patriarchal violence within a state carceral system, they are able to provide a meaningful abolitionist praxis against violence with the confines of the state carceral system. No fighting cops or mobs with pitchforks necessary. These two projects alone won't solve all of the problems of Capitalism. They won't even solve the problems they are intended to address all by themselves. But through them we can begin to see a vision of what a society with many many different voluntary associations of people working independently towards similar goals might be able to achieve. What I'm trying to get at is that while the end goal is to completely dismantle and replace Capitalism, we can still work on figuring out how to do voluntary association and mutual aid right now. The revolution will be incremental, and local, and if we are organized and resilient meaningful mutualistic organizations and communities can begin to form before Capitalism falls. If your fear is a power vacuum, create dual power now rather than retreating to the skeptical centrism of "well its not perfect but its the best we can do". If your fear is not having any positive meaningful alternatives, start building them now before its too late.
lol, That's technically "southern accent" which tends to be, um, stigmatized. also to be honest I thought there an accent is really close to like a British accent as are African American Vernacular accents. So this helps him not slip back.
Johanna Smith I get your point. I'm USAmerican & I didn't know he was doing one either. I love linguistics so i also love studying accents. I was thinking about how antebellum gentry modeled some of their speech after British rich people. This is supposedly how the non-rhotic accents happened. Also "blaccents" seem to have a lot in common with the southern accents due to slavery captivity. To be fair, "blaccents" do vary from place to place. But yeah, it's like how Irish Accents & Jamaican accents commonly get mixed up by USAmericans. In fact the AAVE usage of "been" & "be" is often *attributed *to Irish accents. This is why I mentioned the British connection to the Southern accent. That being said, my knowledge isn't based on experience but academic studies & researchers back in the day therefore biased enough to think it was relatively uniform, even though today we have evidence that it isn't uniform, that the "blaccents" are becoming more regionalized, and that there probably weren't enough black people in academic when those observations were made. Also I do get what you mean about nationalist worries. Fortunately it's not so much coercion as much as acclimation & convience that dictate accent acquisition when you live in a region. In other words, regional accents tend to be like that platform effect where the first there tends to be the dominant & new folks assimilate to it. Therefore for realism it'd make more sense to work on the actual accent, as would word choice etc. Also yeah, it would've been better had he had a better quality one. However if he only had a month or so, whatever. But it also could've been that it sounded familiar enough that I didn't recognize it & as you said he would've needed to choose a region & its particulars in order to mark his vocals as an accent. I can give sources if you want. Accents are a fascinating topic.
You know what's weird? As an American, I often don't notice when a British person is doing an American accent, even if I'm familiar with that person. I didn't notice that Abby was doing an American accent until I saw it noted in the closed captions.
Your American accent is very good! A couple areas to keep practicing, though, would be your pronunciation of the letter "o" as in "comics." Also, we place the emphasis on the first syllable of "details." And hit that "w" and "y" just a teensy bit harder in "powers" and "buyers," respectively. Sorry, I don't mean to nitpick, just thought you'd appreciate the tips! :)
Yep, the accent was good enough that the few Brittish-y pronunciations of "powers" bothered me. Yeah, some southern accents skip the "w", but this isn't a southern accent, and generally it is always pronounced with 2 syllables here. But sometimes he said the word just right.
Olly, this was an absolutely delightful takedown. Never would have expected to see the housing situation presented as a comic book rivalry, but it worked so well! I personally hope that your ideal ending comes true, too... in the comics 😉
You did it mate. you really did it. you convinced me that you could pull off an american accent for an entire video length. and also that the housing crisis is immoral, but also everyone already knew that.
i love your videos and i'm glad to see you back with more content! you clearly put a lot of work into your videos, which I appreciate, and I like seeing you collab with other youtubers. I've been turned on to several great content creators from watching your videos, so thank you for that! it might just be me, but the format of this particular video was somewhat hard to follow at times, and maybe I just need to watch it once or twice more. I love that you mix up the style and presentation of your videos and keep your work feeling fresh and varied, but I hope your more 'traditional' style video essays aren't going away entirely. thanks for all your hard work :^)
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
THE DRIVELATOR IS BACK
YUS, the hentai-man returns! You have no idea how glad I am that this character is a part of the narrative.
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Also, parodying the RUclips style popularized by Matpat is one of the most brilliant things you're ever done Olly. You never seize to amaze comrade!
Nani? Love the shirt.
Needs his own channel
Hehe the Hentai in the beggining
You bozo, you stole my comment 😭😭😭
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.
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.
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.
That woman is a murderer
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
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.
'crisis of infinite sub-prime mortgages' made me have to pause the video laughing
Literally looking at this comment right now because I had to do the same and decided to check the comments.
Same!
I literally howled at the Hareton Splimby II joke...
Perfect
@@EmeraldLavigne Same
Isn't that a Harry Potter novel?
So called landlords can't even earthbend. Complete joke
landlords? more like landlosers
HAHAHA kudos!
To be fair, I suspect the First Sea Lord can't waterbend either.
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).
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.
Finally, a good nonpolitical video that has no _secret meaning_ whatsoever!
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
huh... Socialist? that's a funny last name
@@ryan_806 huh... G is a funny last name.
Jokes aside, gamers really think that about Alan Moore comics
Heyyyy, #NotAllGamers
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(kill me)
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.
"@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.
@Aunty Agony Just ignore all the problems then its perfect.
@Aunty Agony it was a joke i agree with you
@Aunty Agony sorry if i seemed that way
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 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
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.
I've teetered close to that point. You are not over sharing. The world needs more sharing from people like you. Thank you.
You shared your parent's gym membership, why not their address?
Loved it. Thanks for letting me do the art!
You did an AMAZING job, thank you!
The art was SOOO GOOOD! Well done!
@@PhilosophyTube did you pay him?
Art was amaaaaazinggggg
fantastic stuff, highlight of the video to be sure.
Come on, AirBNB might be popular right now, but we all know Free Healthcare is best girl
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!
What is this thing of which you speak? Free Healthcare?
What about the Princess Common Land sadly defeated by the Domesday cult and their horrific book.
@@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.
@@paulc2945 everyone's true waifu
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.
indeed that would be great
That sounds awesome. As if we needed more reasons to start a revolution.
From now on I'm going to add "in the comics" after making any radical point
Noam Chadsky .... jesus that's funny, here have ten+ upvotes XD
That's what Vaush was doing to avoid being banned from Twitch. "We should all punch Nazis... In a video game. In Fortnite"
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"
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.
@@christophercheck1590 I don't know what half these words means which proves the point haha :P
Well, "Captain Tax time" is a thing that exists, so nothing about comics surprises me anymore.
@@gentleman_oni then you have the entire catalog of Tandy PSAs (they're canon and I can't be convinced otherwise)
Im with you man. If i didnt know better id say the flaming carrot was an elaborate economic metaphor
rule 34 gentrification
Edit: Sry, wrong window.
Rule 34 gentrification hentai
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Why is google
I need this tbh
@@disastermidi1990 "old man yaoi" this "old man yaoi" that HE HAS DONE SO MANY CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY 😭
wowww, that art tho! amazing, Skutch.
this was brilliant!! thanks for letting me rant about laissez faireboys.
My pleasure, thanks for bringing the brainpower!
Thanks! It was a privilege to contribute to such a fantastic project and to work with two of my favorite youtubers!
Please make him vegan now ;)
Привет, Мекси!
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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.
who's that guy in your pfp, I see that image everywhere, it's quite familiar.
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.
@@gothicfan51 It's from the cover of a book called "You Are Not So Smart".
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'm sad gentrification looked like a gentleman instead of a rich dude dressing like a homeless guy in the name of fashion
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
I think he's using an older design of gentrification
@@redriot2115 oh yeah, in the recent reboot he's a lot more hipster!
Because he's a *gent*
@@redriot2115 Yeah, the new version is the filmmaker kid from Rent.
Wow, you should have a panel at CommieCon
I hope to god that actually exists
^ this! Make it happen! CommieCon!
#CommieCon
Do you perhaps mean COMECON?
It existed for a while guys.It'a called ComeCon
you didn't have to come for nerdsync like this
didn't have to and yet I'm glad they did xD
I just said this out loud! Spot on impersonation
The Scott Niswander impersonation was too well done, damn
Olly: "...there's more empty homes than homeless people."
Shirt: *NANI*
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
@@ocima_ankapa does socialism magically decrease the number of homes or what?
@@ZeroPlayerGame it does decrease house production, yes
not magically but economically
@@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?
@@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.
This is a brilliant video. These styled ones are very simple to introduce apolitical friends too!!!
Yeah seriously, this angle is _extremely_ useful
Communis-*chokes* COMICS.
Oh look. It me.
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
i know this is 9 months after you made this comment but i just had to let you know that made me fucking CACKLE.
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.
🤣 I couldn't watch the entire video. Truely Insufferable.
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?
No n33d to get political i only like objective things like dirt and creeks
Isn't Philosphie Tube leftist...
its so nice to not talk about politics for once...
@Fourth-Dimensional Quasar r/ihavereddit
Artificial Gravitas also not all leftists are SJWs... but that’s more of a side point
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
That's a good point x.x maybe, just maybe.. the market shouldn't get to determine who lives and who dies?..
@@Randint73
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)
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.
If the supplier really had power to charge you whatever they want why don't they just charge a million dollars?
That's true, but even in countries that have socialized healthcare, people still can get healthcare privately. Olly is not only talking about the government making sure everyone has a roof over their head no matter what (which is fine goal that can be achieved in many ways), but about prohibiting people from owning real estate altogether.
Olly, your American accent is fantastic. Also, I love the MatPat parody.
ALSO. COMMIE CRATE. BRILLIANT.
Seemed more like NerdSync that matpat
@@Stratocasterlaserblaster 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.
@@theobuniel9643 oh damn kill em
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
@@SamuelGarcia-lf1sm the hard "arls" as they'd pronounce
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
Hareton Splimby isn't a man. He's an idea. And ideas...are bulletproof.
Hell yea
V time
Hubert Maliszewski ideas are a spook invented by the collective consciousness in order to prevent the rise of the ego of the individual
Mac Mcskullface ofc, lmao
Is a mantle.
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.
Even as recently as the wall street arc we see the authors almost confirm it in interviews
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.
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!
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.
@@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
The hareton splimby lore runs deep
Miss the guy. You too?
"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.
LeftTube Extended Universe is heating up
Who will be hareton splimby 3?
@@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.
"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.
was just gonna comment that i'm gonna tattoo this phrase on my forehead or something ...
You know better than all the economists. Good job my dude. You're so smart. :)
@@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.
@@beingandtreeing oh so you've found a few niche economists who affirm your priors that's cool
@@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 that this parallels The Sentry.
How so?
LMAO
@@driveasandwich6734 Spoilers for a 20 year old comic...
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The Sentry and his nemesis are the same person.
holy shit ur right. nuts lol.
Just so everyone knows. There's no after credits scene on this one. You're welcome!
Thenk
Thanks lol
The music in the credits is good though.
But there is a joke and shout out in the closed captions at the end of the credits!
Maybe he hid Nick Fury in the credits
"Co-comunis---COMICS" lol me at family reunions
So I guess the British accent was fake this whole time then
Wait.........
I KNEW IT
It's a testament to my inability to differentiate accents that I didn't even notice he wasn't speaking with his British accent
@@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.
@@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
I will never be this creative.
Just try another Irish accent x x
It's okay. I'll still support you both.
You dont need to be, friend
Ur last video was boring but in general ur videos are well made up, I think y have the power to surpass this creativity
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
every time she throws in a "IN THE COMIC" with a glance at the camera i loose it
I love the idea of Marx and Engles being modern day nerdbros hosting some podcast talking about socialism and Marvel movies.
Never looked at Chapo as a direct continuation of Marx and Engels' methods of communicating their ideas, but I guess it shoulda been obvious
@@WebsiteTourist
Engles totally would have been a gamer.
@@c.andrew3944 Engels=Felix????
WebsiteTourist I literally popped down to comment, Chapo?
Would he be equally lazy today?
But of course, that's just a theory... An _economic_ theory!
Hero of the Beach enconcomic? i’ll go home
@@racoon2623 encoconminc
And a bad one at that.
Fellow theorist, so good to meet you here 🌸
@@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.
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!
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.
The point is that we no longer are in need of those resources. It's not an issue of supply, merely distribution.
@@MrJaaaaake you may be missing the point
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?
@@rockawayb1tch anarchy isn't a society without governance or regulation, it's a society without hierarchy
an-archy: without rulers
"Only under capitalism do millions of empty homes and millions of homeless people just sit and stare at each other."
-Richard Wolff
Location, location, location. (Most of the "empty" houses aren't where they would be of use to the homeless.)
Reckless Roges lol, yeah.. the houses are just, not Next To the homeless people.. that's why they gotta be homeless
@@recklessroges Well isn't that capitalism's fault too, building stuff where it isn't needed or wanted?
@@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.
@@XRXaholic Suburbia is the biggest deliberate waste of resources in human history.
Did you have fun saying "landlords" in an American accent 5000 times? XD
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.
@@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.
landlorrrrrrrrrrrrds
"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.
>"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]
If I had a nickel for every crossdressing theatrical philosophy RUclipsr who turned out to be trans, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Commie-c Crate is such a rip off, I bought one and it was full of bread
Does it have an USSR label?
Sometimes it's filled with AK47s, though
Well, at least you did not have to queue for it
Mine had Peace, Land and Bread. A friend of mine, V. Lenny recommended it to me.
My had bread as well as well as a bunch of roses and books. Also a guillotine that's ready to assemble.
This is some next level lefty shitposting, and I am 110% here for it
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!
ana-the-unknown you can't really talk about this without talking about political and economic context.
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.
@@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.
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.
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).
Tryin' to sneak that marxist thinking into the RUclips meta?
Good Praxis!
By the way, your American accent ain't bad. Keep working at it.
Got 69 likes on this comment. Nice.
Olly should only speak british into my ears though
Scott Wittie it was awful lol
It shows how nasally his voice is
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.
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)
@@woobilicious. Are _you_ a socialist?
Google Murray Bookchin.
@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.
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.
Legitimately two of the best RUclipsrs in the world.
(and Contra)
You forgot ContraPoints and Lindsay Ellis
Guys, he said "of the".
@@subroy7123 you must really be into semantics.
@@ThatOneGuy7550 Yep. I'm also into reading what is written.
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 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)
respect though not necessarily appreciation for running with the bit that hard
go on chapo
Yes, get this chap to Chapo
This should be the new "Contra go on Chapo"
👏Olly👏go👏on👏Chapo👏
go on chapo Olly
Added this to my communism playlist -- I mean comics playlist.
share the link with the class dont be shy
Lol checked ur profile and u really do have a communism playlist with 500+ videos
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'..."
GOLD
Your American nerd content-creator voice is IMMACULATE. 100% real.
“Crisis of infinite subprime mortgages” LOL! A+
That's my favourite line in the whole thing haha
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.
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
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
I always worry I'll end up homeless when I'm too old and ill to work any more.
xzonia1 yeah, a constant anxiety in the back of my mind.
I have had that concern and found actual solace in the idea that I would die before I get old enough to retire.
It's not like you can put money aside when you're young so you can use it when you're old... oh, wait.
Bjorn Tessendorf What money?
@@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.
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.
This is comics. It is pure and free of politics, just like video games were before Anita Sarkeesian got her hands on them.
I like your lack of irony.
@@Erika-gn1tv I hope this isn't a Poe's Law thing.
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
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.
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.
@@RoyalFusilier Why don't you become one?
@@VecheslavNovikov you need to inherit a house for that to be the case.
@@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.
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.
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...
Remember that in Sweden there are state-enforced protections on long-term rental contracts, thereby hindering housing market/crisis to exercise his full power.
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
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
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!
we need Housing First
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
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?
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.
oh yes, all due to an "error" →.→
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?
@@DeoMachina he's venezuelan. There is no muuuch democracy anymore there, there certainly is not local free media.
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
^ proof that therapy is effective ^
For fucks sake don't bring up politics with a therapist.
@@christiantaylor1495 what am i supposed to talk to my therapist about? my personal problems?
@@chambergambit That's million dollar question.
@@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)
Holy shit. Hareton Splimby II had me on the floor 😂
i know your wearing the ahegao shirt for the jokes BUT the fact that you own one is still undeniably a sin,
If it helps, I was given it by a friend
...holy shit. My landlord BARELY handles repairs. I haven't had running hot water for ten years!
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
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.
In the commics.
jdprettynails are you ok? I’ve had some shit landlords but yikes
Lol it's illegal for landlord to not make repairs.
At 1:20 you can see the hbomb sonic in the corner of the Housing Crisis comic book.
Oh my, Ollie with American accent is the trippiest 😆
We need to get an accent expert to analyze what he did and didn't do well...
This is what I call an iconic duo! Great to see you guys collabing on videos to own the neolibs
If you took a shot of Apple juice every time you heard "in the comics", you'd still somehow get drunk.
I've been watching the housing market closely, Prices have been skyrocketing for years. It's going to be tough for first-time buyers to enter the market." how can one diversify $280k reserve .
I agree, It's not just the prices, but also the increasing interest rates that are making it more difficult for people to afford homes. With a good FA you can make up your portfolio.
That makes sense. I’ve been using a financial market expert for two years now and I own a six-figure diversified portfolio from investing in stocks. I want to diversify more this year, though.
Could you possibly recommend a CFA you've consulted with?
There are a handful of experts in the field. I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with ‘’Sonya Lee Mitchell’’ for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive. She’s quite known in her field, look-her up.
Thank you so much, this is exactly what I needed right now. I wrote her an email and am waiting for her reply. Hopefully, she responds soon.
"When the belt hits the floor it is utter chaos!"
the switch between accents made me feel like i had a stroke
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.
Are you midwestern too because he sounds super similar to me too
Don't forget the section-8 saga in the 90s. Rob Liefeld was on the art though so the anatomy is all wrong.
Happy Little Heroclix lot of Clinton bloat
This is one of the best video of philosophy tube. I think I watched it at least 20 time. The satire is just great
Is it a satire of communists?... I've watched it several times and become more gobsmacked at the cheerful stupidity every time. Thorn is a good artist but a very bad economist and philosopher.
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.
Nat's got one coming in few days that's gonna be amazing
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.
@@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
@@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.
lol I love that username Libertarian Leninist
Agree totally that the Housing Crisis is an enormous issue and that the problem is exacerbated rather than helped by the influence of Housing Market, and don't get me started on Airbnb. However, i felt, more so than on other videos, a little bit like you skipped over the alternative. After all the "series" doesn't just end if (the) Housing Market disappears.
You talked about how putting complete control over housing in the state would be somewhat problematic but you didn't really raise or respond to the problems that might arise with Communal Housing (I think that would probably be the character that would inherit the series). Communal Housing might not literally be Housing Crisis in the same way as Housing Market but they have lots of their own weaknesses and I thought maybe you might have thoughts on them that you just didn't have time to address in the video.
I'm particularly interested in how you might incentivise building new homes under Communal Housing. You could run up against a similar Housing Crisis simply because the population has expanded but the industry surrounding construction no longer has an incentive to keep building. Unless your proposal is that the government constructs the new houses under Communal Housing? Although that sounds to me a lot like the Russian experiment you mentioned which you didn't seem so keen on.
Further, houses aren't really fungible, they're not perfectly interchangeable. Two "dwellings" picked out at random in London are unlikely to be equal. So how would Communal Housing decide who ends up in the mansion house, and who ends up in the slightly dodgy flat with the weird smell and the leaky taps (obviously not suggesting capital is a good system for doing this, just wondering if you had thoughts on what an alternative might be)? Equally, how will the system avoid overcrowding. If everyone begins to concentrate in the cities (because that's where the a lot of the work is) then there just won't be enough space for everyone to have housing, even if we do everything we can to ensure that no house goes empty.
I get that the assumption in the above is that the rest of the system remains the same around the Housing Market and if what you're proposing is more radical than just scrapping Housing Market and you actually want to scrap the whole of the Market series of characters then that's a different conversation.
P.S. I love your channel and all the work you do. Your videos are amazing and it's astounding how much the production value and editing has improved over the lifetime of your content. I don't want to be antagonistic, just to respond to ideas with a sceptical eye
The problem with this fanfic of yours is that it assumes the fall of Housing Market wouldn't also lead to the dissolution of the Perpetual Growth League. It assumes that the main champions of Perpetual Growth, Job Market and Stock Market would not fall to the same fate as Housing Market.
But even assuming that humanity eventually outgrew the current oversupply of housing? How would Communal Housing avoid the return of Housing Crisis?
Easy. As in most other human societies in history who existed within their ecological means, Communal housing would either subdivide housing into ever smaller more denser units, and/or set out into unoccupied land to start new communities.
TL;DR people don't need a monetary incentive to build housing. They'll do it because they need it to survive, and as long as governments or corporations don't get in their way by telling them when and how to do it humanity will probably figure out how to house itself on its own.
@@saoirsecameron People don't need incentive to want housing but building it is cost prohibitive to so many, unless you're talking about shanty towns and the like. People of means can take care of themselves, but there is little incentive to arbitrarily help everyone else. Small groups or communes might pull it off on a quid pro quo basis, but that scales poorly. The incentive to invest comes from the expectation that one will receive something of value in return. Unless you want to go back to bartering, that's what money is for.
Joe M. A lot of assumptions in this argument. First that there being people with means and people without is a state of nature. But it’s not. People don’t have the means because they are denied the means by those who control them. That denial is backed by the monopoly of violence inherent to the nation state in the form of police and the courts. Looking at the historical record in the formational stages of any society almost all means are acquired violently and then justified post-hoc with titles and charters and land grants. Returning the means to those who need them simply require those titles be declared null and void and the threat of violence backing them stand down.
It assumes any system must be infinitely scaleable to be effective or legitimate. That unless something can be implemented uniformly across society it’s not realistic. But what is truly not realistic is the idea of a uniform society based on a uniform set of rules and norms. Decentralized, horizontally run, overlapping, fluid, interdependent communities will necessarily have different localized solutions that make the most sense for their communities. It’s why we don’t have a one world government.
Finally the assumption that the opposite of a capitalist economy is a barter trade economy. But that’s not true. Barter trade is just an earlier stage of capitalism. Goods are another form of capital. Both systems are predicated on the idea of scarcity. That there isn’t enough to go around, so people must make rational self-interested choices about how to acquire goods by exchanging capital. The true antithesis of capitalism is a post-scarcity economy in which production is so efficient that capital becomes meaningless and social capital in the form of gifting and generosity become the principles means of distribution. And while that might sound utopian and unrealistic, against human nature even, the historical and material evidence directly contradicts this. Even in situations of extreme scarcity, societies in almost every era in every corner of the globe have formed stable, sustainable, and productive societies based on gift economies. People make and give you things because they like you and want to to survive and be happy and you do the same. The more you give the more people like you and the more you get back, not in direct exchange for any individual transaction but as a sum total of all of your relationships. Studies of human psychology have shown that purpose and social belonging are just as powerful
motivators of behavior as survival and self-interest, and that people still desire to be productive even once their material needs are met. And it’s more attainable now than ever. We produce more food than hungry people. More houses than houseless. More clothing than bodies to clothe. Large quantities of consumer goods never make it to the shelf and many of those goods than get destroyed never having been bought. All to maintain the scarcity necessary to drive capitalism.
@@saoirsecameron So how do we solve the distribution problem? Issues of use of force, growing government power, checks on corruption, who gets to decide what is too much, seem impossibly complex. It seems like voluntary exchanges between individuals will inevitably produce winners and losers of varying degree over time. Modern nations seem to use government to curb the harmful excesses of capitalism, but is there another method that can replace its successes without introducing greater negatives?
Modern governments only curb the most harmful bits of capitalism to legitimize their existence while in general propping up and defending the capitalist mode of production from both internal (economic collapse) and external (revolution) threats. Even openly socialist governments fall in to this trap to protect their own power and revenue streams. Rather than workers owning the means of production, they do, acting as a government created monopoly.
Again, not to sound redundant but there is going to be no society wide single answer to issues of distribution. And while there are bad actors and their effects cannot be ignored I think its disingenuous to automatically assume that all voluntary exchange must inevitably fall into a zero-sum game scenario before even considering what other possible positive alternatives might exist.
I will provide two examples, not as an example of how it should be done, or even how it will be done, but of how one might begin to do it. One is Food Not Bombs. No centralized leadership. No formal hierarchical rules for declaring a chapter or appointing leaders. Each local chapter decides when and how to do distribution. Minimal to no start up capital needed. Entirely based on voluntary labor and exchange. Uses entirely salvaged goods. And while obviously for systemic reasons they can't eliminate all hunger within a capitalist system, they are able to provide a meaningful anti-capitalist praxis against hunger within the confines of a capitalist system. The chapter in Tijuana is able to provide 3 meals a day 4 days a week for up to 500 people. No molotovs or bricks necessary.
A second example is Femmes Strike Back. To address the legal impunity surrounding sexual assault and abuse, Femmes Strike Back exists as a horizontal network of Femmes supporting Femmes. They do their own investigations, collect their own intel, and distribute their findings to the public. They do doxxing campaigns, call ins, and boycotts to help to isolate and reduce the reach of predatory actors who refuse to take accountability for the harm they create. No central command. No organizational structure. No non-profit tax status. All voluntary and all mutual. And again, while this project for obvious systemic reasons can't eliminate all patriarchal violence within a state carceral system, they are able to provide a meaningful abolitionist praxis against violence with the confines of the state carceral system. No fighting cops or mobs with pitchforks necessary.
These two projects alone won't solve all of the problems of Capitalism. They won't even solve the problems they are intended to address all by themselves. But through them we can begin to see a vision of what a society with many many different voluntary associations of people working independently towards similar goals might be able to achieve. What I'm trying to get at is that while the end goal is to completely dismantle and replace Capitalism, we can still work on figuring out how to do voluntary association and mutual aid right now. The revolution will be incremental, and local, and if we are organized and resilient meaningful mutualistic organizations and communities can begin to form before Capitalism falls.
If your fear is a power vacuum, create dual power now rather than retreating to the skeptical centrism of "well its not perfect but its the best we can do". If your fear is not having any positive meaningful alternatives, start building them now before its too late.
for all kinds of cool videos about communis- (chokes) ABOUT COMICS
Haha American accent is spot on, almost sounds like the emergency awesome tuber
Alex Clark it's not lol
I’m not American and even I know it was a subpar accent lmao, at least he tried
YUS, the hentai-man returns! You have no idea how glad I am that this character is a part of the narrative.
Ugh. Ever since Captain America said "Hail Hydra." EVERYONE has been pulling the "Hero-is-secretly-their-own-villian-all-along" thing. LAAAAAAAAME!
Thank fuck it was just cosmic cube BS
I know you're talking about the comics, but this is even more funny now.
This might be the best RUclips video I’ve ever seen, and I’m not exaggerating. It’s definitely in my top 5. Great work. Wow.
I think I speak for all Americans when I say, you're severely lacking in "yee haws" in your diction
Malless1 can confirm
Without Yee Haws, he sounds Canadian
At least a few "y'alls"
lol, That's technically "southern accent" which tends to be, um, stigmatized. also to be honest I thought there an accent is really close to like a British accent as are African American Vernacular accents. So this helps him not slip back.
Johanna Smith I get your point. I'm USAmerican & I didn't know he was doing one either. I love linguistics so i also love studying accents.
I was thinking about how antebellum gentry modeled some of their speech after British rich people. This is supposedly how the non-rhotic accents happened. Also "blaccents" seem to have a lot in common with the southern accents due to slavery captivity. To be fair, "blaccents" do vary from place to place. But yeah, it's like how Irish Accents & Jamaican accents commonly get mixed up by USAmericans. In fact the AAVE usage of "been" & "be" is often *attributed *to Irish accents. This is why I mentioned the British connection to the Southern accent.
That being said, my knowledge isn't based on experience but academic studies & researchers back in the day therefore biased enough to think it was relatively uniform, even though today we have evidence that it isn't uniform, that the "blaccents" are becoming more regionalized, and that there probably weren't enough black people in academic when those observations were made.
Also I do get what you mean about nationalist worries. Fortunately it's not so much coercion as much as acclimation & convience that dictate accent acquisition when you live in a region. In other words, regional accents tend to be like that platform effect where the first there tends to be the dominant & new folks assimilate to it. Therefore for realism it'd make more sense to work on the actual accent, as would word choice etc.
Also yeah, it would've been better had he had a better quality one. However if he only had a month or so, whatever. But it also could've been that it sounded familiar enough that I didn't recognize it & as you said he would've needed to choose a region & its particulars in order to mark his vocals as an accent.
I can give sources if you want. Accents are a fascinating topic.
You know what's weird? As an American, I often don't notice when a British person is doing an American accent, even if I'm familiar with that person. I didn't notice that Abby was doing an American accent until I saw it noted in the closed captions.
But that's just a theory: A HOUSE THEORY!
Your American accent is very good! A couple areas to keep practicing, though, would be your pronunciation of the letter "o" as in "comics." Also, we place the emphasis on the first syllable of "details." And hit that "w" and "y" just a teensy bit harder in "powers" and "buyers," respectively.
Sorry, I don't mean to nitpick, just thought you'd appreciate the tips! :)
I do, thank you!
Yep, the accent was good enough that the few Brittish-y pronunciations of "powers" bothered me. Yeah, some southern accents skip the "w", but this isn't a southern accent, and generally it is always pronounced with 2 syllables here. But sometimes he said the word just right.
*your
Dropping the w and y gives a little bit of a Pittsburgh accent.
@@JonahxJoestar Good eye, thanks! Edited.
I love returning to see Abby’s brother host these episodes.
Olly, this was an absolutely delightful takedown. Never would have expected to see the housing situation presented as a comic book rivalry, but it worked so well! I personally hope that your ideal ending comes true, too... in the comics 😉
You did it mate. you really did it. you convinced me that you could pull off an american accent for an entire video length.
and also that the housing crisis is immoral, but also everyone already knew that.
Watching in late 2020 hits way different. Another illuminating video. Thanks
Equal parts brilliant and adorable. "Crisis of Infinite Subprime Mortgages."
i love your videos and i'm glad to see you back with more content! you clearly put a lot of work into your videos, which I appreciate, and I like seeing you collab with other youtubers. I've been turned on to several great content creators from watching your videos, so thank you for that! it might just be me, but the format of this particular video was somewhat hard to follow at times, and maybe I just need to watch it once or twice more. I love that you mix up the style and presentation of your videos and keep your work feeling fresh and varied, but I hope your more 'traditional' style video essays aren't going away entirely. thanks for all your hard work :^)
Yeah, don't worry - they're not going anywhere anytime soon :)
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
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!😊
"... in the comics!"
You nail superheromovie youtubers. The way they talk, how they dress, all the soundeffects! its nuts
One of your most underrated videos. I love all the work that went into making this one! w/ the drivelator, perfect parody