Hardkill

Leo mentioned in "When Does The Left Go Too Far?" part 2 vid, that some things that need to be deregulated, especially when they are outdated. What are some specific or actual examples of regulations that definitely need to be removed? Moreover, what regulations are there that can be safely removed without it leading to unintended long-term negative consequences for countless people like what happened with the 2008 financial crisis after about 3 decades of limited government intervention in the US economy and the deregulation of many businesses, banks, and the stock market in America?

I thought that Leo's entire 2 part vids series on "When Does The left Too Far?" was excellent. He made a lot of valid points as to how and when it becomes a serious problem when someone takes any kind of ideology to such an extreme, whether it be right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism, or even extreme centrism. The only point he made in that series that I definitely disagree with Leo on is when he essentially said that he agrees with the idea of American citizens being allowed to defend themselves with guns in case the US government one day ever becomes truly tyrannical. Worrying about a such possible government take over of everything ever happening in the US is so ridiculous because something like Socialism, Communism, or Totalitarianism will never happen in this country. Certainly not with any of our lifetimes. Monarchy is also certainly never coming back to America. Furthermore, no other developed countries in the world allow their citizens to buy guns of any kind at all and their countries have had much less gun violence per capita than the US has ever had. Now, maybe guns would be needed to fight the right wing fascists in the US, but even Leo doesn't believe that our country will ever get taken over by fascism. So, I don't see how Leo point's on this makes sense. Moreover, if banning all assault weapons in our country won't work, then what should be done to reduce the gun violence problem in the US?

I know you said that in your vid, "When the Left goes too far: Part 1," that you are concerned with the idea of a company having a 4 day work week because you say that that could cost that company many valuable hours of productivity, which would cause that business to be less competitive than other businesses who have all of their workers do the usual 5 day work week. However, I think that a 4 day work week would really help every worker in the business get the sufficient amount of emotional and mental recovery they need to be fully refreshed and feel even more motivated to work even harder and better the following week. Furthermore, I really believe that it will help reduce or eliminate workplace burnout. It sounds counterintuitive, but couldn't that actually make a company be even more competitive by working smarter and not longer?

Great... Now, the whole world is going to have another major problem that will have unforeseen consequences.

I guess we are really going to have see what happens and pray for our country not to get taken by right-wing authoritarianism. I am also very worried about what the right wingers will do to social security, medicare, and many other social safety nets and rights if the Republican party takes control of the House, Senate, and Presidency by 2024.

Yeah, I don't see what Leo has done that would be signs of him of having bipolar. He hasn't done anything that has been out of the ordinary impulsive. I haven't seen his mood swinging at all from being overly energetic to being severely depressed, or vice versa. He hasn't ever made any outlandish or highly exaggerated claims about things that sound irrational or maybe even sound conspiratorial. Also, as far as I know about him, he doesn't seem to have any kind of maladaptive coping behaviors that would decrease stress and anxiety in the short-term, but actually would increase stress and anxiety in the long-term such as gambling, binge eating, consuming any tobacco products, excessive alcohol use, taking any illegal drugs, sex addiction, etc. Yes, he does take psychedelics frequently, which I think is supposed to be illegal in the US. However, their has been growing amount of legitimate scientific and medical research that does seem to show that psychedelics might be very beneficial as long as you know how to use them, and I am inclined to believe that Leo seems to know how to use them properly.

Well, Michael Moore believes that this time the voters are most concerned with abortion rights and democracy being threatened.

If they do win this election, then would you begin to consider moving to another country?

When? During the 19th century, when people such as factory workers and children were forced to work that much? That indeed was a very unhealthy and very unjust situation for all of those people? What about being to make a least a million dollars through legitimate means? Or getting a high status job of any kind or becoming a famous celebrity (which I know is like 1 in a million chance of ever happening)? Or creating something inventive or innovative for your society or for the whole world?

Yeah, but can most people mentally and physically handle even a few years of an extreme amount of hours and days per week every week? I mean if everyone in the world then wouldn't the amount of people who end up with workplace burnout, diminished work performance, death from overwork, diminishing work performance, too much competition, etc. skyrocket all over the world like crazy? Also, don't you need to have above average natural talent in something in order to become truly successful at anything. I could be wrong, but I don't think that most people in the world have any natural talents for anything. Therefore, I still don't see how most people can become successful in life through hard work alone, even if they worked as hard as hell for many years. So, you no longer believe that you are most creative and connected to life on your off days? Or is it more nuanced than that and depends on each individual? Yes, China will have the largest economy in the world by around 2030, and yes other countries India, Russia, and Brazil have become very competitive, but America is by far the most powerful, most successful country, and the richest country in the world. It's still ruled by an authoritarian dictator, who lately has been coming off even more like a totalitarian ruler like Kim Jong-Un in North Korea. That's why the political elites in China cannot and will not even receive the constructive criticism from high quality independent journalism and public opinion that would provide such crucial honest feedback on what things the government needs to do in order to greatly improve their country. Xi Jinping and the other political elites probably only has yes men telling him what he wants to hear instead of telling him what he needs to hear because everyone else in China is probably afraid of getting severely punished or killed if they either speak out against them or point any mistakes they are making or tell them any bad news they don't want hear about. Also, their medical technology is still inferior to western nations. Plus, to my knowledge, the country doesn't have any where the amount of highly creative and highly innovative individuals that the US has. Moreover, their overall quality of infrastructure is not anywhere near as good as America's infrastructure. You even said that even big powerful countries such as Russia, Brazil, China, and India are still so underdeveloped that it will take them at least 50 to 100 years to maybe catch up to America. Russia has lately proven to not nearly as tough or as threatening as we thought before given how much they've already been struggling to even take over Ukraine, which quite frankly is turning out to be such a historic embarrassment of epic proportions. Also, because there's no real democracy there, political elites of Russia, particularly Putin, also only have yes men telling them what they want to hear. In fact, everyone in Russia has recently become terrified of telling Putin the mistakes he's been making. Additionally, this war is taking such a profound toll on the entire economy of Russia that top economists around the world have been saying that not only is Russia in a severe recession, but it will more than likely enter into a real economic depression. Btw, the country has already been having a significant brain drain in recent months. Furthermore, they have a worse overall quality of infrastructure than China does. https://fortune.com/2022/08/20/russia-brain-drain-young-russians-leaving-after-ukraine-war-putin/ India, does have some amount of real democracy, but I don't think that their democracy is nearly as high in quality as the US. Also, while the country's economy has undoubtedly become increasingly richer and larger at a very significant rate v the country is still much poorer than China and Russia. Not to mention that their level of infrastructure is actually much worse than either China's or Russia's level of infrastructure. Brazil has about the level of real democracy as India, but the country overall is still no better off than either China, Russia, or India, in any way at all. So, doesn't that mean that the US already so far ahead of every other country in the world in power, wealth, and overall success that there is absolutely no way that any other country will be able to take over America's spot as the number one superpower nation in the world for several decades? Even if America no longer became number one in the world overall, so what?

So, then Elon Musk was right all along about needing to work 80+ hours per week every week every year for the rest of your life in order to become truly successful? If that's so, then that makes me wonder what the point of living is?

Okay, I see your point there. But what about the idea how most successful people are not happy at all because of the excessive amount of work they constantly put in order to achieve the success they made? Furthermore, how does and ambitious, hard working individual supposed to know when to slow down or cut down the amount of hours he/she works before they suffer the consequences of the excesses and toxicity of stage Orange?

Actually, it looks like a growing number of companies in the US are trying this out and seeing how it will really work in the long run. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/business/four-day-work-week-risk-takers/index.html But what instead of having a 4 day work week should companies be doing to solve the issues of workplace burnout, quiet quitting, life dissatisfaction, mental and physical health problems from overworking, death from overwork, diminishing work performance, etc. all of which have becoming growing widespread issues in countries such as the US and Japan?

Nouriel Roubini. who's moniker is Dr. Doom, was one of the very few economists out there who accurately predicted the 2008 financial during the early 2000s. Now, he's predicting that the US and the rest of the global economy will in the next year or two enter into a financial crisis worse than the one that occurred during the 70s and early 80s. He actually predicts that this financial crisis we will be going through will be what he calls a stagflationary debt crisis, which he says is something that the entire world has never experienced before. Furthermore, he talked about how there have already been so many other negative things that have been going on this world within recent years including major backlash against free-markets and laissez faire policies, major backlash against trade and deglobalization, massive increase in wealth and income inequality, rise of extreme left and right wing populism in many countries, authoritarian regimes becoming increasingly popular, the war in Ukraine, climate change crisis, rise in deaths of despair all over the world, COVID still not being over, etc. Then, he said that all of things in addition to this upcoming stagflationary debt crisis will ultimately lead to such severe socio-political consequences throughout the whole world to the point that many countries across the globe including the US, many nations in Europe, China, India, Russia and what have you will each be on the brink of a civil war, violent insurrections and revolutions, secession, world war, and possibly worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RYGWwn88wQ Is the end of the world really nigh or are these predictions way too over the top and he's just doing a lot of fearmongering?

Do you believe that successful CEOs, top lawyers, rich and famous showbiz celebrities deserve to make a lot more money than other high level professionals such as doctors, scientists, college/university professors, architects, engineers, elite level soldiers, members of SWAT team, fire chiefs, etc.?

Speaking of rights, in your part 2 vid, can you please give your rebuttal to how progressives a lot of times mention how historic figures and eras in US history such as the Populist movement, the Progressive era of the 1900s, FDR and the New Deal era, the Civil rights movement, LBJ and the Great Society era, etc. were all able to successfully make such big and bold structural reforms in our country that created much greater equal rights and economic equality within our country to such radical degrees each time?

Why do you think he is making anti-semitic statements? Is it out of ethnocentrism? Or could he be very envious of Jewish people? Or is it because his psychosis has greatly influenced him into believing in all kinds of conspiracies like the idea of "Jews taking over the whole world behind the scenes"?

Wait, if Russia and China actually each have a lower Gini coefficient than the US does, then is there truly lesser economic inequality in Russia and China than in America?

The mid-1900s in the US was a time of egalitarian growth for practically every American citizen. According to https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide-to-statistics-on-historical-trends-in-income-inequality : "The best survey data show that the share of wealth held by the top 1 percent rose from 30 percent in 1989 to 39 percent in 2016, while the share held by the bottom 90 percent fell from 33 percent to 23 percent. Census family income data show that from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, incomes across the distribution grew at nearly the same pace." That's why we really need to have both the distribution of wealth and distribution of income to go back to the way it was before the rise of neoliberalism occurred.

As an artist myself, I fully agree with that.

I agree with that, but as you've mentioned before, that also doesn’t mean that CEOs and other rich folk should be allowed to cause the growing economic inequality that’s been going on since the late 70s/early 80s. Working and middle class people like those in the military, police, fighters, etc. who work very hard and put their lives on the line everyday all deserve to make at least 6 figures.

What's wrong with having those who are intellectual, competent, open-minded, and of sound mind, be the only ones to vote for the best leaders of a country?

Okay, so you're generally not necessarily against the use of psychiatric medications prescribed appropriately by psychiatrists, yeah?

His music is creative and fun, but he's not on the level of someone like Beethoven or Wynton Marsalis.

Do you believe that those with bipolar need to be treated with mood-stabilizing typically prescribed by psychiatrists or be treated with psychedelics?