Scarcity is Real and It's Not Going Away

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @josepheastham9717
    @josepheastham9717 5 років тому +810

    Scarcity is real. There is a scarcity of Bob and we should allocate more resources for Freedom Toons.

    • @Eclectic-Sheep
      @Eclectic-Sheep 5 років тому

      DONATE ON SUBSCRIBESTAR

    • @campkira
      @campkira 5 років тому +1

      or we can just go to other channel... scarcity only existed in small world....

    • @FrankHarwald
      @FrankHarwald 5 років тому +1

      Why does
      nobody knows how to make a pizza?

    • @FEEonline
      @FEEonline  5 років тому +86

      Y'all realize this isn't actually FreedomToons, right?

    • @FrankHarwald
      @FrankHarwald 5 років тому +15

      @@FEEonline yes, I realize the show's name is Common Sense Soapbox

  • @warrenlehmkuhleii8472
    @warrenlehmkuhleii8472 4 роки тому +124

    “I was thinking of Portland.”
    That statement actually did age well.

  • @watsufizzi
    @watsufizzi 5 років тому +420

    Like the moon?
    I was thinking more like Portland.
    😆😆😆

    • @Lucas.Blevins
      @Lucas.Blevins 5 років тому +20

      As someone who’s lived in Portland my whole life I laughed and agree with this 👌

    • @MWH12085
      @MWH12085 5 років тому +12

      So it happened....They died of stupidity.

    • @Azknowledgethirsty
      @Azknowledgethirsty 5 років тому +6

      He is still in Antarctica, and it's green, it seems Portland died of global warming

    • @Eruaphadian
      @Eruaphadian 5 років тому +11

      @@Azknowledgethirsty He was thawed out in a museum, meaning he was probably found in Antarctica and moved north.

    • @Azknowledgethirsty
      @Azknowledgethirsty 5 років тому +3

      @@Eruaphadian yes, but still the fact that there's a desert in that latitude is only possible if global temperatures are significantly higher

  • @k9lego
    @k9lego 5 років тому +681

    Thanos should've used his power to double the universe's resources lol

    • @DangerDavis21
      @DangerDavis21 5 років тому +11

      k9lego
      #Thanosdidnothingwrong

    • @jessetorres8738
      @jessetorres8738 5 років тому +48

      Dorkly made a video about that. The problem isn't too many people. The problem is we can't properly distribute the resources we have to everyone efficiently. If we had twice as many resources, we'd fix so many problems.

    • @FEEonline
      @FEEonline  5 років тому +139

      @@jessetorres8738 we also made two videos about this... Just sayin'

    • @youtubesurfer134
      @youtubesurfer134 5 років тому +2

      I saw the one about Thanos being wrong but where is the second one?

    • @supercalifragic1551
      @supercalifragic1551 5 років тому +17

      No, you don't double resources. You make it so people require less. Like a Mass Effect 3 Green Ending- Technorganics. Refine biology to peak efficiency and augment it where it's lacking, or translate biology into a synthetic counterpart. Cells into femtobots and so on. Just, replicas that don't decay or are easily fixed automatically.
      Biological life no longer requires food, sleep, wont die from exposure, doesn't even need a home if they don't want one, medical care is mostly erased. People who still want to induldge can do so on nutrionless replicas, or even literal cardboard or foam shaped to different textures and tastes emulating real food so you don't even notice the difference but it's magnitudes cheaper to produce.
      Alternatively, integrate augmented reality into the mind and. Just make a digital version of these things and you experience all the same pleasure without consuming resources- and with this method you can even have extremely luxurious surroundings as any surface can be digitally reskinned with augmented reality into any theme you want. You don't have to worry about exposure, being a synthetic life form now.
      A similar step could be done where instead of maintaining a synthetic body, you completely migrate to a digital existence. Matrix style- though the body is optional. (However, in real life you wouldn't really be alive anymore if your body is gone, but the digital version of you would be very glad you did it. In the context of a Thanos snap however, the Soul Stone means that your "Soul" can continue to move to the digital body, maintaining your Continuity.)
      You can also imagine that people would Work in reality, while they "Go home" to the digital reality. Like commuting to work.
      A digital civilization can exist a near indefinite amount of time past the heat death of the universe via constructing matrioska worlds and hoarding raw matter and collecting stars, dedicating all the power to running the entire civilization on the power it takes us to just run a lightbulb. (The digital minds would experience relative time, though in reality they'd be slowed down to the point it's like time was stopped, or nearly so).

  • @cledgefenrir5681
    @cledgefenrir5681 5 років тому +208

    Bob: A hologram isn't going to tell me anything
    *a familiar voice* : Well actually
    Bob: oh, no

  • @nachofilament294
    @nachofilament294 5 років тому +153

    Lecture girl is a robot.
    You can tell because under Futurama rules, robots have square pupils.

  • @thatotherguy8138
    @thatotherguy8138 5 років тому +127

    Weirdest thing - every single one of the Recommended videos on this video? Kids Video. Peppa Pig, Kids Diana Show, Cocomelion, Babybus and Blippi Toys are the ones showing up. And I just came from watching a bunch of League of Legends videos - which I do regularly, and normally I get other League of Legends videos recommended to me, even if I clicked on a non-LoL video.
    This is weird.

    • @Twisted_Logic
      @Twisted_Logic 5 років тому +11

      Holy crap, you're right. That's bizarre.

    • @megalithphul9542
      @megalithphul9542 5 років тому +2

      Same problem lol

    • @Sigurther
      @Sigurther 5 років тому +10

      Yeah, that's really odd. Wonder if he goofed on the keywords or the algorithm is fudging it/intentionally trying to present his videos as children's cartoons so it doesnt reach a larger audience.

    • @samuelpierre-louis384
      @samuelpierre-louis384 5 років тому

      We should play together!

    • @metawarp7446
      @metawarp7446 5 років тому +1

      Man... what's up with that

  • @IchigoGyuunyu
    @IchigoGyuunyu 5 років тому +170

    I can imagine an economics teacher getting fired for showing this to their class since it works

    • @mvmlego1212
      @mvmlego1212 5 років тому +5

      This would make very little sense to someone who wasn't familiar with the other videos, and I don't think the other videos are as fundamentally true as this one is, so it would be a tough sale.

    • @jameswhite3415
      @jameswhite3415 5 років тому +3

      Sardonic A Nah this really underestimates the rapid growth of technology. Human will be surpassed by AI, which will change everything drastically. It's hard to predict exactly how.

    • @bioemiliano
      @bioemiliano 4 роки тому +3

      @@pedropradacarciofi2517 You both cannot know how the future will be so stfu

    • @Momo-hh6er
      @Momo-hh6er 4 роки тому +7

      @@jameswhite3415 People have been always saying that and yet more jobs get created. The typewriter and computer was thought to erase many jobs too.

    • @zeehero7280
      @zeehero7280 3 роки тому

      @@pedropradacarciofi2517 Everything would change since we would be slaves to our new robot overlords, or dead.

  • @grandarkfang_1482
    @grandarkfang_1482 5 років тому +79

    The fact that Portland is uninhabited makes me chuckle. But now I'm worried about Andy.

    • @TGNXAR
      @TGNXAR 5 років тому +2

      I'm sure he gets a good job somewhere else.

    • @beareble-lion4446
      @beareble-lion4446 5 років тому +1

      No he goes ape shit after being privlige checked one to many times a kills everyone.

    • @Lucas.Blevins
      @Lucas.Blevins 5 років тому +1

      As someone who’s lived in Portland my whole life I laughed and agree with this 👌

  • @JimmmyRaynor
    @JimmmyRaynor 5 років тому +253

    FRES HONG KONG, THE REVOLUTION OF OUR TIMES!
    *BOYCOTT BLIZZARD*

    • @sirwannabeguy4886
      @sirwannabeguy4886 5 років тому +36

      Sir, this is a Wendy’s

    • @asmith7094
      @asmith7094 5 років тому +10

      How do we fres them?
      And how did you get your phone to write fres instead of free?

    • @metalram9527
      @metalram9527 5 років тому +1

      Opportunity cost - say we do successfully boycott blizzard. They lose money and have to end a lot of jobs especially the ones in China for something that the president has admitted was totally out of their control because they have no direct control of Chinese offices only Netease has say in it.
      You get Blizzard to lose a lot of money but you lose out in helping Hong Kong directly like maybe sending hospital funds to protestors so they can be healed or doing anything else that will directly benefit Hong Kong instead you shot down another source of wealth (Blizzard) for USA who was providing services to Chinese citizen consumer and gamers(who Chinese Government hates btw) in exchange.
      Look at the big picture here.

    • @sirwannabeguy4886
      @sirwannabeguy4886 5 років тому +3

      Metal Ram Sir, we will call the police if you keep doing this, do you want to order or not?

    • @billybobjoe198
      @billybobjoe198 5 років тому +2

      I genuinely couldn't care less about anyone than the people in Hong Kong right now. Their fathers failed to fight. The British had to do that for them.
      And now they refuse to fight, and want the Americans to do it for them.
      No more western blood should be shed for these useless people.

  • @JokerReaperComedy
    @JokerReaperComedy 5 років тому +30

    It's a weird feeling when you stumble upon a comment section without anyone. It's a lonely experience...

    • @Sarmachus
      @Sarmachus 5 років тому +4

      JokerReaperComedy even weirder when there isn’t actually a video to watch :(

    • @NOONE-bs5zh
      @NOONE-bs5zh 5 років тому +5

      what a weird way to say "first"

    • @principleshipcoleoid8095
      @principleshipcoleoid8095 5 років тому +1

      Epstine didn't kill himself.

    • @AtarahDerek
      @AtarahDerek 5 років тому +1

      Ah, you found future Portland.

    • @gusmc2220
      @gusmc2220 5 років тому

      @@AtarahDerek you beat me to it! Well played

  • @meshackin
    @meshackin 5 років тому +12

    Thanks. These videos help me explain these principles to my 10, 9, and 7 year old children.

  • @thecheese4255
    @thecheese4255 5 років тому +20

    It’s like an Ayn Rand wet dream

  • @mr.sorrow8025
    @mr.sorrow8025 5 років тому +50

    I was debating a marxist and I asked why would people work. He responded with everyone would have everything they wanted. It was at this point I realized he was crazy.

    • @filipr670
      @filipr670 5 років тому +6

      You don't know what Marxism is do you?

    • @Barskor1
      @Barskor1 5 років тому +11

      @@filipr670 Apparently you don't either.

    • @yellla2787
      @yellla2787 5 років тому +15

      Karl Marx literally never worked or own a business, he was a freeloader.

    • @alanywalany6460
      @alanywalany6460 5 років тому +6

      @@yellla2787 He *literally* did work at least once, so your statement is wrong and no misuse of "literally" is ever going to solve that.
      Also who gives a shit if he owned a business or not it's completely irrelevant lmfao

    • @Barskor1
      @Barskor1 5 років тому +7

      @@alanywalany6460 Masturbating and knocking up the housemaid then dumping her on the street does not count as work.

  • @silverousleonidas5790
    @silverousleonidas5790 5 років тому +25

    ​Anyone else suspecting giant computer Shams that appears as a giant floating head?

    • @MasterrangerABR
      @MasterrangerABR 5 років тому +4

      That or a hologram of him.

    • @ShadrachVS1
      @ShadrachVS1 5 років тому +4

      Causing Bob to have an aneurysm, which coincides with his coming to awareness in a hospital in normal time... and all of this was a fever dream of his subconscious beating him up for not realizing when Sheamus is right.

  • @Samborondon11
    @Samborondon11 5 років тому +24

    The only thing I wish was that this would have adressed falling prices due to rises in efficiency and productivity.

    • @yemo34
      @yemo34 5 років тому +3

      Also the concept of satiation. Actually human wants for resources are not infinite. 70,000 is about all it takes for us to be happy. Also at high incomes like that, birth rates decline below replacement levels. With greater automation and efficiency this may not be a bad thing. Also it's not really the monetary number that's important, it's resources it buys. So over time, that number may decrease as basic commodities become more dirt cheap. Much as food has.

    • @Samborondon11
      @Samborondon11 5 років тому

      And solutions akin to negative income taxes or universal basic income become more plausible. Akin to the reduction of labor from agriculture to specialized fields while having and overabundance of crop yields, for general problems such as bone fractures & the flu in medicine, healthcare costs may drastically go down. Making it, effectively, accessible to everyone.@@yemo34

    • @izdatsumcp
      @izdatsumcp 5 років тому +6

      @@yemo34 What you are saying about satiation is wrong. People's standards adjust. What is enough for someone now won't be enough for someone in the future.

    • @izdatsumcp
      @izdatsumcp 5 років тому +1

      @@Samborondon11 UBI won't become more plausible because there will be new things for people to buy. We won't get to a point where everything is created and we just have to distribute everything.That's what UBI is for.

    • @Samborondon11
      @Samborondon11 5 років тому

      @@izdatsumcp I disagree, the purpose of UBI is like capital investment. The unit amount spend has a purpose generating more total capital while providing a basic standard/threshold.

  • @TheBcoolGuy
    @TheBcoolGuy 5 років тому +22

    _looks over at my nearly empty jar of gingerbread_
    He's right, you know!

    • @TheBcoolGuy
      @TheBcoolGuy 3 роки тому +1

      Lol. I still have that jar and it's still has some gingerbread left in it. I guess that's what happens when demand collapses.

  • @asmith7094
    @asmith7094 5 років тому +113

    I can barely decide what to buy for myself.
    Imagine thinking that you know what is best for 300,000,000 people.
    If you believe you know that, I have some socialism to sell you

    • @jakubcesarzdakos5442
      @jakubcesarzdakos5442 5 років тому +19

      communists: Let us introduce ourselves

    • @gusmc2220
      @gusmc2220 5 років тому +30

      That's the whole point of socialism you get rid of all the stuff so you can't buy anything. Your gift to everyone is having Nothing!
      (In shaky Bernie Sanders voice)
      'And that's a good thing!'

    • @campkira
      @campkira 5 років тому

      u don't...

    • @tenhirankei
      @tenhirankei 5 років тому

      @Gus Mc Like in the stores available to the masses paying in Rubles during the "good ole days" of the USSR.

    • @BladeOfLight16
      @BladeOfLight16 5 років тому +1

      My gosh, no! Don't sell them that. Sell them some drugs or something. At least then they'll only hurt themselves.

  • @gatovillano7009
    @gatovillano7009 5 років тому +22

    If Bob wants to escape economics he can go to Ottawa. I'm pretty sure that, even in the future, they still wont have a clue of what economy even means on Parliament Hill.

    • @gatovillano7009
      @gatovillano7009 5 років тому

      @@thotslayer9914 LOL Yeah

    • @gatovillano7009
      @gatovillano7009 5 років тому +1

      @@thotslayer9914 I'm an AnCap too =D

    • @gatovillano7009
      @gatovillano7009 5 років тому +2

      @@thotslayer9914 AnCaps are not leftists. They are the polar opposite of leftists. We want to abolish government and replace it will private enterprises. There are no bigger capitalists than us =D

  • @litigioussociety4249
    @litigioussociety4249 5 років тому +18

    How are the views on these videos so low compared to FreedomToons videos and other FEE videos? Seamus probably needs to remind his subscribers to watch these.

  • @JackBond1234
    @JackBond1234 5 років тому +4

    Scarcity is why automation will never necessitate a UBI.

  • @nikharpatel4151
    @nikharpatel4151 5 років тому +1

    Scarcity is real good channel and people like you are the perfect example of it

  • @hepthegreat4005
    @hepthegreat4005 5 років тому +2

    The problem with assigning cost to things like healthcare and housing and food (at least in a completely free market) is something called "elastic cost". It means, these things have infinite demand. What would you pay to live? Or eat? Be in a safe space? And the corporations have figured this out. They artificially lower supply and then raise prices (like they do with diamonds) they do this by lobbying for laws that affect housing and healthcare and food so that not everyone can provide these things. They make the bar higher and the supply lower. this video is for a 2 year old and has an unnuanced view of the subject matter.

  • @Libertyfudge
    @Libertyfudge 5 років тому +1

    I love your videos! Please don’t stop making them, I have infinite desire for these toons

  • @Zarysazane12345
    @Zarysazane12345 4 роки тому +4

    Man your Portland joke aged like fine wine lmao ya

    • @FEEonline
      @FEEonline  4 роки тому +1

      This is where I'd like a sad-react, but... yeah.

  • @Crazelord91
    @Crazelord91 5 років тому +3

    This looks like a kid focused old school point and click game

    • @shorewall
      @shorewall 5 років тому

      They could probably make it into one.

    • @tenhirankei
      @tenhirankei 5 років тому

      @If that's what it takes to get the information into their minds then I say "go for it!"

  • @johntheherbalistg8756
    @johntheherbalistg8756 3 роки тому +1

    Hypnotizing chickens is not usually difficult. All you have to do is put your finger under the end of their beak and tilt their head upward slightly. More aggressive chickens are more resistant, but many will totally trance out while their heads are forcefully tilted upward. Weird, but true

  • @megalithphul9542
    @megalithphul9542 5 років тому +13

    Please answer the question. Did you squeeze the statue into your contract?
    Also why is there all this kid stuff in the recommended tab?

    • @travissmith2848
      @travissmith2848 5 років тому

      @Iorclins Eveirnis Funny thing is "Cool World" has large animated sections and "Wizards" (1977) may have a PG rating, but is not exactly a kids' movie.

    • @shorewall
      @shorewall 5 років тому

      I'm sure Sheamus can get them to approve a statue, to be completed by the time portrayed in this video.

  • @Diembee
    @Diembee 4 роки тому +1

    “The Moon”
    “Oh we colonized that, I was thinking more of- Portland.”
    I see what you did there Seamus.

  • @afelias
    @afelias 2 роки тому +2

    I love how this was posted in November of 2019 and one of the jokes was that doctors should be treating a then-unknown illness that would surface in the future
    Was not expecting that future to be the near future

  • @rommelscat4795
    @rommelscat4795 4 роки тому +2

    That Portland joke aged so well

  • @23Raind
    @23Raind 5 років тому +3

    There is a Seamus halogram inside.

  • @jeice13
    @jeice13 5 років тому +1

    One thing to keep in mind using this as an argument against guaranteed income is that human labour is becoming less efficient than machine production. Though this does explain why keeping money around is important rather than just making things free

  • @Off-Brand_Devin
    @Off-Brand_Devin 5 років тому +1

    I appreciate the touch of pixelating Bob only after he's fixed by the doctor robot.

  • @schuylergeery-zink1923
    @schuylergeery-zink1923 3 роки тому +3

    There was an ad on this vid where they sing: “having colored hair doesn’t make you unprofessional.” Disagree but having colored hair more importantly reveals how woke you are. And lets me know to avoid too many or too long of interactions with you. As I flaunt my naturally distinct red hair. They just jelly.

  • @dogestoevsky2853
    @dogestoevsky2853 5 років тому +7

    "It's called 'science FICTION' for a reason." This is how I'm a libertarian AND a Star Trek fan. 😜

    • @voluntarism335
      @voluntarism335 4 роки тому

      science fiction doesn't exclude money that's just commie startrek

    • @afelias
      @afelias 2 роки тому

      Star Trek isn't Communist though - there's like that one guy who canonically owns a bar. Private Property is still a thing.
      But you wouldn't be seeing them spending money if 99% of the show was just on ships after all.

  • @TickedOffPriest
    @TickedOffPriest 5 років тому +1

    I do not think that Bob can ever escape lectures on economics.

  • @someginger6996
    @someginger6996 5 років тому +3

    Yeah Bob listen to the chicken....listen to the sound of its voice.

  • @illbeyourmonster1959
    @illbeyourmonster1959 5 років тому +10

    Resource scarcity is one of the top things I see the enviro alarmists have absolutely zero understanding of where it comes to their all AE/RE energy based utopian fantasies.
    Fact of reality it their AE/RE based power systems if implemented to the scales needed to make them work will take more of certain rare earth and like elements than we have available on the planet both already mined and inplay and potentially minable in best possible technological capacities.
    Sad reality is you can build a super system that takes XXXXXXX tons of rare element Y when the planet literally doesn't have half that amount of the element that is capable of being mined ever. And that not even beginning to touch the reality of finite amount of money and human labor and time available to build it even if there was enough to go around.

    • @sorzin2289
      @sorzin2289 5 років тому

      I don't think you understand. I know full well that the Renewable Energy isn't going to measure up the power scale we have now. But burning fossil fuels is not only unsustainable but self destructive and incredibly damaging. As environmental alarmist I fully accepted that in order to live sacrifices will have to be made. We'll have to learn to use far less energy than we use now and learn to live without it part of the time. In order to protect the things that are more valuable. Like food production, and ecological diversity and a stable climate.

    • @illbeyourmonster1959
      @illbeyourmonster1959 5 років тому +5

      ​@@sorzin2289 Ah, so you assume the ignorance of me through the obvious ignorance you hold yourself.
      You know that's a lot like projectionism, right? 😥
      What dont I know? The fact that most of you are now brainwashed fools crying over thing you are constantly shown that you dont not have the full and accurate facts and general understandings of? 😉
      Do you know that I and pretty much everyone like myself knows the difference between Alarmist, skeptic, and actual Denier dn how its become well known that tit the larmaists sect that are the hard core deniers of reality? 😊
      Something those like you constantly show you have near zero ability to understand let alone point out the reality of who actually sees and believes in what PLUS how many of those now in the skeptics camp are former believers who finally came to see just how badly informed they were under their blind faith doomsday cult view of things? 😡

    • @sorzin2289
      @sorzin2289 5 років тому

      @@illbeyourmonster1959 All I just said was that burning fossil fuels is damaging and unsustainable and that we'll have to give up certain aspects of our current life in order to survive in a more sustainable future. The infrastructure, the economy all that has to change. Then you launch into an erractic rant that's longer than comment I wrote.

    • @illbeyourmonster1959
      @illbeyourmonster1959 5 років тому +3

      ​@@sorzin2289 Ah, so you have no valid counter argument and chose to attack me for my writing methods instead?
      And also feel that the planet getting greener and more favorable to the very plant and general life that keeps us all alive and happy is a bad thing too? 😞
      Rather a bit of a low witted loser grammar nazi defection play there! 😥
      So, why that rather than digging into the real world numbers behind things and show who and what is really the provne and constable problems? Don't you know those subjects or are you afraid I'd call you on it if you got any part wrong? 😒
      Here's a good informative video on the real world statistics of those problems as they stand today. It looks alot like those of who and what that are getting all the blame are nowhere near the points of concern they are being attacked by you types for. 😁
      ua-cam.com/video/31Bi2LpLoK8/v-deo.html

    • @sorzin2289
      @sorzin2289 5 років тому

      @@illbeyourmonster1959 Do you consider yourself a libertarian? I'm starting to think that this ideology presents problems in a superficial light that can be easily solved by a self serving policy that only takes advantage of the problem to better only themselves at the expense of everyone else, but doesn't actually solve it or adress it. Your statement on greenhouse gas emmisions benefiting plant life while ignoring all the other problems with a rapid rise in CO2 in the atmosphere is kind of telling me that's the case.

  • @Herowebcomics
    @Herowebcomics 7 місяців тому

    This new style of making the show is awesome!😊

  • @RaithCA
    @RaithCA 5 років тому +2

    I low key got hypnotized by that chicken. 😂

  • @ray495903314
    @ray495903314 5 років тому +1

    2:50 bob is choking a chicken

  • @haberak3310
    @haberak3310 5 років тому

    2:50 hold on, where did that chicken come from?!

  • @Hornetog9vp
    @Hornetog9vp 5 років тому +4

    Jokes on you I'm watching this In my bathroom break.

  • @gran9773
    @gran9773 5 років тому +1

    An intertaining way to explain an important topic.

  • @asmith7094
    @asmith7094 5 років тому +1

    If something is free, YOU are the product.
    Facebook is free to you. Your personal information is free to Facebook.

  • @the500mphtortoise
    @the500mphtortoise 5 років тому +1

    Small gripe: the way your describing opportunity cost could lead people to believe it is the sum of all other options, when really it is just the total benefits of the next best alternative.

    • @FEEonline
      @FEEonline  5 років тому +2

      Tbf, we already did another video exclusively about opportunity cost. But this is true, it isn't a cost of "any option you can imagine" but of those that you actually have.

  • @abcdef-ms9mb
    @abcdef-ms9mb 5 років тому +1

    The only thing there's no scarcity of is people like Bob

  • @navyseal4000
    @navyseal4000 4 роки тому +3

    The Portland joke was ahead of its time

    • @FEEonline
      @FEEonline  4 роки тому +2

      I don't remember now what city was in the first draft, but we had a different place in that joke originally. I grew up in the Portland area, and my folks live there now, so I made it a point to change it. Glad I did.
      - Sean
      Creative Director, FEE

  • @beefsupreme4671
    @beefsupreme4671 5 років тому +9

    Great video. Even people I trust and listen to, don’t understand how scarcity works

    • @me-ye6ld
      @me-ye6ld 11 місяців тому

      This video is in favor of artificial scarcity and consumerism to try to sustain and unsustainable system.

    • @beefsupreme4671
      @beefsupreme4671 11 місяців тому

      @@me-ye6ld perfect example of someone who knows nothing but thinks they are smarter than everyone else.

  • @banderfargoyl
    @banderfargoyl 5 років тому +14

    Portland 🤣

  • @williampalkow6647
    @williampalkow6647 Рік тому

    Bob has come such a long way.

  • @GabrielTobing
    @GabrielTobing 3 роки тому

    3:27 I love how this predicts the future to a point where it's not even funny but still funny because it's fact XD

  • @suthinanahkist2521
    @suthinanahkist2521 5 років тому +2

    The only way we could ever eliminate scarcity is if we had Star Trek style replicators. Even then, thermodynamics and entropy are in the way.

  • @thelonerider9693
    @thelonerider9693 4 роки тому

    Also: "like portland" - after the last few months I almost believe you have a crystal ball. That is, if I didn't know the ideas behind those events were already in motion before... but it is uncanny.

  • @JustABill02
    @JustABill02 4 роки тому

    "I was thinking more like Portland..." wow LOL

  • @justinle998
    @justinle998 3 роки тому

    This is amazing!!

  • @DH-xw6jp
    @DH-xw6jp 4 роки тому +1

    That portland joke aged very well

  • @shadowsa2b
    @shadowsa2b 5 років тому

    When the chicken started talking, i felt like i was watching an episode of Home Movies, style wise.

  • @azophi
    @azophi Рік тому +1

    I guess the sad thing is we could end world hunger quite early. But yeah

  • @coltondodger
    @coltondodger 5 років тому +1

    Hologram is Shamus, calling it now.

  • @FelipeKana1
    @FelipeKana1 5 років тому

    This actually disproves the "thanos is wrong" videos (if you take the logic all the way) AND undermines even the other videos of this series.

  • @yippeoo5683
    @yippeoo5683 4 роки тому

    that Seamus can predict the future theory holds some water

  • @zeehero7280
    @zeehero7280 3 роки тому +1

    Scarcity no matter what will be a thing for some resource or other. the idea of post scarcity is normally referring to for necessities of normal life. it's a possibility if we think in the most optimistic way we possibly can about the future without literally abandoning reason and everything we know, to have a huge abundance of everything people need for everyday civilian life, enough that we dont need to charge for reasonable amounts of it.
    What will never happen is a society where everything comes free. Something will always be in high demand and scarce.

  • @leecobb3424
    @leecobb3424 5 років тому +2

    Yet no alternative means to addressing scarcity is used. It's always prices. If anyone is interested in a moneyless alternative of determining supply and demand, comment below

  • @matrixman8582
    @matrixman8582 5 років тому +3

    There are definitely artificial scarcities created by central planning

  • @carbonfibercrypto2919
    @carbonfibercrypto2919 5 років тому +8

    The problem is when the government creates more scarcity through legislation, thus driving prices artificially higher.

  • @whyisthisnottyping
    @whyisthisnottyping 5 років тому +1

    Hypnotising chickens is awesome and fun

  • @Skilliard
    @Skilliard 4 роки тому +1

    >Portland uninhabited
    This video was ahead of its time

  • @gargantuanhead512
    @gargantuanhead512 5 років тому

    You had me at talking chicken.

  • @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739
    @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739 5 років тому +1

    Limited resources means unlimited wealth. If there is always a limit, there is a demand that creates value, which creates wealth through trade. It really shouldn't be hard to grasp this....but apparently it is.

  • @Ami-vh7sr
    @Ami-vh7sr 5 років тому +2

    The Pixilation Hurts Mah Eyes!!!!

    • @HeIsAnAli
      @HeIsAnAli 5 років тому +1

      I've seen enough Japanese pornography to know where all that pixelation is going.

  • @117Jorn
    @117Jorn 4 роки тому +1

    The only way I see us ever becoming a post-scarcity society is if we create genuine Replicator tech like from Star Trek.

  • @bpskotch
    @bpskotch 3 роки тому

    I love these videos, but I gotta ask, what is this music thats used in virtually every Common Sense Soapbox video? I love it and want to hear it seperate from the video.

    • @FEEonline
      @FEEonline  3 роки тому +1

      It's called "It's Always Funny in Philadelphia" and you can find it at Premium Beat.

    • @bpskotch
      @bpskotch 3 роки тому

      @@FEEonline Thank you so much! Keep the good uploads going, hopefully these videos reach those that need to hear it most.

  • @StormySky48
    @StormySky48 4 роки тому

    3:11 what in the seven realms is "flag nar syndrome" ??

  • @leeiif
    @leeiif 2 роки тому

    Taco flavored ring pops.
    That's scarily believable nowadays.

  • @paulperez6167
    @paulperez6167 5 років тому +2

    A Seamus hologram?

  • @seanmckelvey335
    @seanmckelvey335 5 років тому

    Casual shade at Portland is well warranted.

  • @joshuaneace6597
    @joshuaneace6597 3 роки тому

    Medicare has premiums and deductibles, with it only covers 80% after the deductible is met.

  • @donz6211
    @donz6211 4 роки тому +1

    I was thinking more like, Portland. Lol

  • @FiremarshalM1
    @FiremarshalM1 4 роки тому

    "Portland" slam, got a thumbs up. All by itself.

  • @wh0_am_152
    @wh0_am_152 5 років тому +1

    Next time on common sense soapbox: Seamus makes a return as a hologram!

  • @Azknowledgethirsty
    @Azknowledgethirsty 5 років тому +1

    He's still in Antarctica and it's green yet Portland is a desert... Think about it, it's probable that the desert latitude and rainforest latitudes have moved up thanks to global warming (if they managed it correctly that is, otherwise the rainforest would also retreat) so instead of 25° they may be at 50° and that explains both Antarctica green and Portland as a desert

  • @sethmoore151
    @sethmoore151 5 років тому

    Seamus is obviously a hologram in the museum

  • @Fireheart1945
    @Fireheart1945 5 років тому +1

    Arrest all chickens, or they'll hypnotize us all!

  • @conrradnicholls7316
    @conrradnicholls7316 5 років тому +32

    These videos are so far from reality and truly absurd...
    No woman with red and blue hair stripes would be this well versed in economics.

    • @davidmapping4041
      @davidmapping4041 5 років тому +7

      Conrrad Nicholls, actually I have a theory that she is actually an “It”, as in it is a robot. Look at the square pupils, no one else has them but “her”.

    • @innova8861
      @innova8861 5 років тому

      Bob into the future lore

    • @Seekingthesky
      @Seekingthesky 5 років тому

      @@davidmapping4041 HMMMMMM!!!

    • @tenhirankei
      @tenhirankei 5 років тому

      How bigoted of you to judge one's intelligence by one's weird hair color!

    • @tenhirankei
      @tenhirankei 5 років тому

      What's absurd is the idea of being hypnotized by chickens. If they could do that we would have gotten rid of KFC long ago!

  • @SuperRayW
    @SuperRayW 5 років тому

    I find it funny that because this is animated every recommendation is a kids cartoon, mostly Peppa Pig. There's apparently a setting you need to change to let UA-cam know this is an adult channel, otherwise you might get flagged by the algorithms in the new ToS update.

  • @Jeru3
    @Jeru3 4 роки тому +3

    "Portland"
    what's up, August 2020 here to tell you that you guys must be precogs.
    Or just capable to see obvious signs.

  • @basic204
    @basic204 5 років тому

    Thank you for no more grid pattern :)

  • @dillonwagers2975
    @dillonwagers2975 7 місяців тому

    Love that Portland is less inhabited than the moon!

  • @sega3607
    @sega3607 5 років тому +1

    He’s going to talk to Seamus’ hologram

  • @broodypie2216
    @broodypie2216 5 років тому +1

    Apparently we have to produce 4-10 times what we need to outpace scarcity.

  • @kevinhixson1586
    @kevinhixson1586 5 років тому +1

    The pixel art is cool and all but I much prefer the paper style

  • @bEEgMark
    @bEEgMark 4 роки тому

    3:25 Portland being uninhabited. Bruh

  • @Colt45s1911a1
    @Colt45s1911a1 5 років тому +2

    I love this please keep making it. Can’t wait until the next episode

  • @nikoforsyth514
    @nikoforsyth514 5 років тому

    What happens if we move to live in virtual reality? Would we still need much of what we have?

    • @FEEonline
      @FEEonline  5 років тому

      Probably not. But will we really want that?

  • @jkchannel3149
    @jkchannel3149 5 років тому

    dude, when will you make a video about UBI?

  • @fearzila
    @fearzila 4 роки тому

    Chuckles in multitasking.

  • @jladdyost
    @jladdyost Рік тому

    "Like the Moon?" "Oh, we colonized that. I was thinking more like Portland."

  • @nachomolaolivera7580
    @nachomolaolivera7580 5 років тому +2

    Man I feel bad for the birds used in this show, they have to deal with Bob's nonsense.