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So i've stumbled upon an interesting youtube video, and I was wondering what
the smarter people around here would respond to his theory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqrZeC2ee0k

The man claims that our economy is inherently flawed and will lead to our extinction.
what is your opinion? Is this just another Malthusian crackpot theory or could there
be some validity to what he is saying?

My opinion is that he's exaggerating the gravity of the matter, and we have come out of
economic collapses in the past. Problem is, I don't really have the words to counter.
What do you think?

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Just reading his comments proves that the guy is insane.  He spouts out 20$ words to make himself appear more intelligent and the idea of "mass extinction" through a recession is laughably exaggerated.  Talk about hyperbole.

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves." -Matthew 7:15

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Well, while I don't think he's insane (well other than for the reason that he choses to post this on YOUTUBE)

I think it's crazy to equate recession-depression to humanity's extinction. I don't think he's stupid, however.
His Physics videos are pretty interesting, that's for sure.

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I don't take much stock in what people say in youtube videos.  Jesus himself could make a second coming that's posted on the front page and I'll be like "pfff whatever"
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Heh, yeah youtube isn't the best place for someone to boost their credibility, that's for sure.

Still, ever so often you find those gems you can either laugh at or think about. The guy looks old enough to have
given it some thought... just when I thought youtube was full of only crazy KIDS, eh?

Any other thoughts?
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I can't say he gave it thought.  More like he had a dream and suddenly "EGAD WORLD COMING TO AN END"

Dear everyone with an apocalyptic vision: please include a proposal on how you would fix things.  Thank you.
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Well, the Economy IS inheriantly flawed with one simple basis that pretty much almost all of it is based around, "growing food for the growing population." Basically all it means is that our population will keep going until food is truly scarce and when some serious viral/bactiral academics happen, it's gonna hit hard, and the higher the population the harder it's gonna hit. It should also be noted that the population thats starving only increases because of our atempts to feed everybody.

But then again I didn't watch that video.
A tool is a tool regardless. I mean if you suck, you suck, and not even the most perfect tool could save you. And if your damn good then even with the worst tool ever conceived you could chug out some high quality shit.
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i stopped watching once he showed the clip from children of men

what a load of crap
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the US has enough stored food to feed the entire population (rationed out) for something like 2 years.  if every animal's meat suddenly became poisonous and the soil magically dried up we'd be able to feed ourselves for a long time.

that is, as long as we take strides to keep them mexicans out.  i bet if you separate all them illegals from the pure blooded amerikans we'd only have a population of 100,000,000 or so.

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i stopped watching once he showed the clip from children of men

hey that was a good movie and i'd write my thesis on it if i went to college
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im not saying its not, i also think its really good (though i remember i had some minor issues with it but cant remember what), the point is it made the rant a lot less serious.

like if he started talking about HOW WE SHOULD SAVE THE WORLD and then there's a video of link running around in ocarina of time... ocarina is still a good game but you'd imagine how completely amateurish it comes off as.
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Extinction hmmm I don't think so althought it has caused the extinction of several species the thing is it's just not  very sustainable and generates too much waste. You know how some countries like Japan don't have enough room for landfills and they just ship their garbage to Africa?




So it's just harmful in general
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I'll not TAKE ANYTHING you write like this seriously because it looks dumb
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Well, I figured it would be an entertaining view for us.

I would play devil's advocate for the guy, but I find myself laughing the concept off.

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I see how his story would explain a collapse of our economy or even destruction of civilisation, but not an actual extinction. Also a major flaw is, you can almost never make any predictions in economics. You can only observe the past and explain it and analyze it. But as soon as you try to extrapolate it to the future it crumbles.

Its pretty easy to try to extrapolate like that, look ill do it too: if food becomes scarce that means food becomes more valuable, which means more industries will develop in food production and with more industries and more competition it means food production technologies will improve drastically as each company tries to outgrow its competitors and will create more effective OGM shit that can feed more people for cheaper.
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Yeah, I stopped watching in the children of man bit too. Seems like his entire argument is based about people going exctinct in movies.
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or you guys are stupid and didn't watch the bulk of the video at all :(
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I still believe the youtube theory that everyone important is a reptilian and I think they would overlap if I considered both of these credible
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yeah, i think this guy is pretty dramatic. he has some intelligent things to say, and ideas to consider (how it seems unlikely that we will miraculously recover from a service economy WITH a service economy), but i really think he is stretching this pretty far. this is pretty much the ultimate pessimist.
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I'm gonna make a post about the reptilian conspiracy theory some time when I feel like writing words, it is my favorite thing ever

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Theres so much fucking theories out there

-Hollow Earth
-Nebiru/Planet X
-Free Masons
-Reptilians
-NWO


I just don't know who to believe anymore,  matter of fact instead of enlightening, all these theories confuse me more.  I can see how theorists become insane over time by watching and reading stuff like this all the time...

And first of all, to me this is all just some sci-fi story, where is this guy getting all this info? hes like a fucking sci-fi pseudo historian.
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Theres so much fucking theories out there

-Hollow Earth
-Nebiru/Planet X
-Free Masons
-Reptilians
-NWO


I just don't know who to believe anymore,  matter of fact instead of enlightening, all these theories confuse me more.  I can see how theorists become insane over time by watching and reading stuff like this all the time...

And first of all, to me this is all just some sci-fi story, where is this guy getting all this info? hes like a fucking sci-fi pseudo historian.
Reptilians and Illuminati/freemasons/NWO are the best ones IMO.

I watched that whole video series(there's 24 of them) and I'm pretty sure he's some kind of paranoid schizophrenic
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So which one do you think is the most legit out of the many many many theories?  For me it's NWO by way of Planet X flooding the shit out of the planet in 2012 and they will pop out.