Here's what I do: I make my own tools and I've been doing that for as long as I've been able to swing a hammer. So a ready-made CNC was never going to be the ultimate for me, much like a store-bought table saw wouldn't be. Even if the Stepcraft CNC performed perfectly, it was still my intention to eventually build my own. The build was an interesting challenge and also a learning experience. I designed and 3D printed a number of the parts, including the couplers that connect the ball screws to the new motors. I reused the X and Z axis, mostly unchanged, from the Stepcraft, but replaced all of the steppers with larger closed loop ones. I changed the control electronics and the software that drives it to Mach 3. In effect I now have a machine that runs flawlessly and if it does break or do something wrong, I can fix it. My "cringey" politics isn't political - it's a worldview - values - an operating philosophy. As I've said in previous videos, I have no interest in the circus that is modern day politics. And I believe that a major leap forward in societal progress could be achieved by outlawing politics as we know it today. That would start by taking away the bulk of the power that modern politics has hoarded and giving control back to the individual. Of course I'm realistic enough to know that'll never happen, but it's important to point out to misguided people that their "non-cringey" policies are the root cause of most of the problems we have today. Take away the freedom for the individual to act and you take away the economic progress that comes from it, as aptly shown in the disparity between the US and Europe. Canada is and has been on an express train to hell that was accomplished with the same policies that have tied an anchor to progress in Europe. If I were 15 years younger I'd already be gone. The truth is that the US built our modern world and ushered in unprecedented material prosperity throughout the world. Minus the US - if the US never happened - Canada wouldn't be much different from rural Russia 100 years ago. Naturally, we arrogantly take all of that for granted and actually resent the success the US has had, acting like it's no big deal or putting on air of superiority that are completely groundless. The US took the concept of individual freedom and ran with it, and pulled in innovative and enterprising people who knew how to put that freedom to good use. Of course that's grinding down as well, as more of the "non-cringey" policies that stymied progress in Europe and Canada have crept in.
The idea that Americans (I am one) have extensive individual control over our lives is a fallacy. There’s no way to cover the full extent of the conversation in UA-cam comments, but here’s one worthwhile perspective, in three parts: Our legal system is only accessible to those who have many thousands of dollars to spend on the fees and costs of litigation, and even that is limited if your dispute is with someone who has more than you. So right from the get-go, your “individual freedom” only exists if you manage not to get noticed by the legal system. Some reasons for getting pulled into it are within your control of course, but many aren’t and if you just get unlucky, you’re at the mercy of whatever they decide to do to you. (Im also a lawyer.) That’s not individual choice, it’s just luck. Our medical system is the best in the world, for those who can pay for it, but very few Americans have that wealth. Most of us are getting healthcare on par with some middle range country like Egypt, and about 20% of us are totally uninsured, by design, leaving us on par with peasants from the Middle Ages. Here again, you have some choices that can help you stay healthy, but a lot of it is luck, and for some reason we allow rich people to use our air, water, soil, and food as a garbage disposal for their toxic waste, so the “luck” aspect is slanted too. The same basic pattern applies to education. And all of this is slanted by a use of government power that funnels money from working people to the wealthy in a million different ways. The difference between wealthy and poor in America is so bad that it’s hard to find any society in history that compares. We are worse off than peasants from the Middle Ages in this way; we might be comparable to the time of the Egyptian pharaohs. We’re getting pretty close to chattel slavery, where the masters found it convenient to let the slaves have a place to sleep and food to eat, but the moment any specific slave became inconvenient, all that could be stripped away and the unwanted annoyance could be mistreated as badly and for as long as the master saw fit. See again the fact that the legal system is basically only available to the wealthy as a way to resolve disputes, and just functions punitively to everyone else. Not coincidentally, we also have the largest prison system in the world and 12% of Americans are under various forms of judicial control, which includes not only incarceration but also bond, parole, probation, restraining orders, etc. So no, this isn’t some wonderful land where people are free to make their own way. I know two people who have felony convictions for having a single pill in their vehicle. One was a pill from an old prescription that they had thrown away years before, the other was in a borrowed car they had no idea had a pill stuck under the seat at some point for who knows what reason. When you’re looking down the barrel of that kind of injustice all day, every day, you’re just hoping that you never get looked at. If you do get looked at, it’s pure luck if your life isn’t ruined.
You're painfully unaware of your self-contradiction when you claim you would have left Canada for the US if you were 15 years younger. While you don't elaborate why, I suspect you fear being a victim of its healthcare system and its lack of socioeconomic security.
Oh my goodness. How to unpack this "U.S. is the saviour" bullshit... The freedom to starve is no real freedom and no progress. The freedom to harass people without consequences (like Trump does) is no real freedom (and no progress, quite the opposite) The freedom to poison nature and the people with chemicals, waste and harmful aeorosols is no real freedom and no progress. The freedom to rack up medical bills is no real freedom and no progress. And lets not start about those "progressive" and "innovative" child labour and 12-16 hour work days in the "good olden days". NO THANKS to that U.S. bullshit! What you call freedom is actually slavery to the lord and saviour "capital" and "money" and oligarchy and thankfully we got(mostly) rid of it in Europe. If you want to be slave to some robber barons... please, be my guest! I don't want to.
I enjoy that you will speak how you feel. You are one of the first You Tube channels I started following years ago. You truly are one the most talented and innovative woodworkers around. My wife thinks you are too grumpy but she says I am too.
Couldn't agree more regarding individual first. You, in the GREATEST WAY, do your individual first and then share that part of your genius with the rest of us. I'm a creative guy, have multiple patents for products in my industry and am always amazed - learning something from you.... STRING TWIST. John, where did you get this from? Really, do you have a reference book, did you go to MIT, or are you DaVinci / Archimedes / Michaelangelo reincarnate? Please, even if you only feel like sharing "once in a while" keep going. You inspire and teach the rest of us more than you will ever know!
That's not hidden. That's basic fucking comment sorting that anyone under the age of FUCKING ANCIENT is aware of. Do you think those thumbs mean nothing?
As an European I think having not having any politics at all or having your own politics opinion that might be a different one than I have is completely OK.
I come here for your world view, John. I live in Los Angeles though and we, too, are circling....I'm 58 as well and hope to get out of here soon and move to a free state - at least we have that option here in the US - relatively speaking. I have a disability that is complicating up and moving but even at 58 I think my quality of life would be a lot better elsewhere. And don't feel bad, I'm sure I'm pretty cringe to to many of my neighbors around here.
@ my family lives in Central Ohio. I’d like to find a couple of acres. Been looking for a few years, but I use a wheelchair and every house there has a basement which is a non-starter.
I'm about the same age, and after more than half of my life time in the same place, seeing with my own experience how the society around my neighborhood has degenerated, I no longer feel safe or happy where I live. I wish you were my neighbor but not here. In a place we all could be left alone, be our own. Away from demanding compliance with mob mentality and neighbors that think they have some right over you by vote.
@@Aiasoy "Degeneracy" as you see it is not the result of some systemic collapse of morals or mob mentality, it's the symptom of wealth concentration. The more you take from people, the worse they become. Power corrupts, and so does persecution.
@@asdfghjkl7507 If you were my neighbor I would not mind to seat down over some beverage and know who you are and where you stand. However, commenting via this mean provided by youtube is something I fight against it. I felt compelled to say something towards @supergimp2000's post. Nevertheless, I appreciate your reply and in courtesy to it I would say that perhaps there is truth in what you say, notwithstanding, envy and jealousy coated in a thick layer of avarice, all together wrapped in pretty virtue propositions has been my observations.
Build my own CNC as well, it's been working flawlessly for 5 years already. It uses UCCNC, it's been working for me just fine. It's fun to build your own and you get to choose the parts.
"I have a worldview I have an operating philosophy that I that I go by and my operating philosophy basically puts first the individual and throws away the group the group has limited utility for the individual" I do not only believe on that statement but I have lived by it. I wish the best to every individual, as long as it doesn't demand, evangelize or coarse anyone to be part of a group. I do not believe in placing a greater value in a group than in a single person. I detest the words "...for the greatest good" if someone in representation of a group makes that statement, in their behalf. No one should have the power to make that determination for the individual. Today, we see the result, worldwide, of societies (in nations) demanding sacrifice in behalf of the greatest good, creating groups and favoring those groups for their own leverage.
Appreciate the effort and level of skill into your builds. Funny telling someone to not talk about something in their own space. For myself, if someone says something I don't agree with, then, as I see it, I have a few options. Ignore it and keep doing what I am doing. Or I stop listening and/or watching. Or put my own reasoning/counter point out there. If option C creates a conversation, great, we can talk about it. But if it's an argument rather than a discussion, likely back to option B. But I won't tell them to stop talking. especially in their own space.
I love your vertical router setup. A CNC is well within my means but won't fit within my space. This is a great alternative. Enclosed is a large improvement as well.
Agreed. You're the 1st creator I subscribed to, I've bought and built several of your plans, and I'm a locals member. Surprised the "bots" haven't shut you down. Stay free and God bless!
Great final segment and I think swapping to wood gears keeps the project coherent, i love it. Wood gears painted black for contrast would yield the same in my opinion.
Have you looked into mirroring your channel(s) on other sites like rumble or odysee??? They're both a lot less restrictive than Alphabet/Google/UA-cam, in both content, AND comments.
John, politicians are cringy. They and their talking points. I absolutely agree with your philosophy. Happy new year! And stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Im going to be there for all your last video until youtube block your channel. And if they do it, im going to see you else where. Thanks and have great days
I do hope that you continue this channel as it is a breath of fresh air for me. I agree with you, Canada is spiralling out of control. I feel bad for the younger generations. I am glad that you rebuilt your CNC. I built my own many years ago and I also run Mach3 as well. Hopefully I will get back to using it in the spring.
The scrap binnwas supposed to be about inspiring people to make things from what you can find. When it got too advanced it just lost its practicality for most people
Interesting video John and I agree with you about all of the political nonsense going on around the globe. Just keep on posting and I will keep on viewing! 👍👍
The problem with taking the gamesmanship and popularity out of politics is that the skills of politicking that enable one to win an election are the same skills needed to be an effective politician.
The CNC info was interesting but I REALLY enjoyed your non-political rant on politics. Hope to keep following you and your builds/projects on your YT channels for many more years.
Not far from the truth. The US has been the recipient of a lot of the more daring, intelligently entrepreneurial and resourceful people who fled minor or major oppression in their own country. The process acted as a filter to drain the people who are more interested in succeeding and doing stuff out of countries that make that activity harder to do. They didn't come here, because the US has always had more opportunity.
John, you said it perfectly my man. Individual freedom is very important. It's what creates success, wealth and security. When people say the "we" thing I always tell them that I don't want to be part of your "we". I just want to be left alone. I'm almost the same age as you and if I was younger and didn't have a dependent I would be living in Tennessee.
Tennessee is one of the least free states. Especially if you are a female. Abortion is illegal in Tennessee, with limited exceptions. The ban took effect on August 25, 2022, following the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade
Funny that you said that you would leave Canada if you where 15 years younger. Family of mine is actually looking to leave Vancouver to move here ( Belgium) especially because of the cost of living and housing prices. And yes you are right about circling the pot. So many things are not improving or getting worse that in my opinion we are not far behind Canada . On the other side we all complain etc. But there is no place on earth I would rather live then here. Our Healthcare is one of the best in the world I.m.h.o. We have the best beer and chocolate and you never need a snowblower 🤣🤣🤣.
John, I would love for you to do some think about doing a video of you doing some of the some freecad. there isn't a lot of free content out there. I use free CAD inversion one is you know Lightyear is better than where it was even just a couple years agoand I think it'd be really nice to have somebody of your technical abilities. Explain how they use it.
There is a party literally called the Libertarian Party of Canada. There is also a "populist" party called People's Party of Canada, their policies are somewhat Libertarian. All of those options get banned from the debates so as to conceal their existence and their ideas.
Maybe I need to watch the other video. It would be exceedingly helpful to understand what 'circling the bowl' actual means in practical examples to decide if your position has merit. Going broke as a nation due to choices regarding level of taxation vs government services is one thing. Not being allowed to misinform (the usual code I hear whenever people complaining about their posts being flagged/banned/hidden. Forgive me if that is a wrong reading) on private social media companies is something else entirely. I would * love * to have universal health care in the states for all its citizens. Good luck to you.
DUDE! Retirement is the PERFECT time to get out, if out is where you want to get. There are areas in the world where, if you've done some retirement planning, you could truly maximize your retirement funds and have a great time seeing the world.
There's a long history of Canadians who wish they were American. As a dual citizen of Canada and the US, who has chosen, very deliberately, to stay in Canada I can say I don't relate. I was a libertarian for a while too, but I grew out of it.
The libertarian individuals in Canada (99.9% of them are of European origin) won't bode well with the new Asian majority, so to say. Your group, i.e. your people are a shield, which are necessary for us to be free in the first place. Can you be free as the last European in a random neighborhood of Toronto populated by Sikhs or Pakistanis?
17:18 I was with you until you starting talking as if Canada has problems that are unique and showed that chart and implied it was a good thing. Companies making billions does not equal a happy thriving population; there's a good argument that can be made it shows over-exploitation of the populace. That's why you can have places doing great in terms of GDP but with unhealthy and unhappy people.
Yup. A large part of the problems in modern 'western' society are pretty easy to trace back to a time before the oligarchs had all the power. The wealthy are doing fine at the expense of the rest of us.
"Companies making billions does not equal a happy thriving population; ..." It basically _does_ equal a thriving population. "...there's a good argument that can be made it shows over-exploitation of the populace." Nobody is forced to buy. They spend their money because they are free-and happy-to do that. Because those companies make what the people want.
I like your "politics" John. Perhaps things will get better now that you have gotten rid of Justin. Yes, I'm in the US. Hopefully our "world" will change for the better starting Monday. At 81, I've seen quite a few so called leaders and I can still remember the 2016 election, and YES I was better off then for four years even with all of the opposition. Maybe I can get back to that if I have time left. I can't imagine what a little cooperation would have done for the country. I am so sick of woke, free stuff, not having to be responsible for your actions(crime, student loans...), give me/laziness attitude and the like that if "Chameleon: would be taking the reins on Monday I would be looking for a tall building or high bridge. Good presentation.
Yeah, I get this commenter's point: the breadth of John's woodworking knowledge is breathtaking and I've watched his stuff for years, but his political pronouncements always do feel a bit infantile to me too (as a fellow Canadian). My family escaped from a communist dictatorship with real, observable limitations on individual freedoms, and from my perspective, John just seems to have weirdly reactionary views on everything without understanding what encroachment on individual liberty is in actual practice. I'm not really sure why he thinks Canada or Western Europe is less "free" than the US--I just don't see it and I'm only a couple years younger than he is. "The group has limited utility to the individual" is something that seems proven patently untrue to me any number of times a day just going about my daily business. We're just supposed to arrange everything on a one-to-one basis with the individual firefighters and the police? And building roads to connect the country doesn't necessarily involve "the group"? You don't want any regulatory bodies enforcing the safety of the food we eat and the water we drink? There are literally hundreds of examples like this. None of this makes sense to me unless you live in a cabin in the woods surviving entirely without the involvement of anybody external to your personal activities and don't use money in any capacity. Maybe I'm being uncharitable to his qualifying "limited" here, but every time he speaks on this topic he sounds like a teenage edgelord who has zero real life experience with what an actual loss of freedom might be like and thinks he's way better informed about the topic without actually having done any reading on the history of the topic.
"I'm not really sure why he thinks Canada or Western Europe is less "free" than the US..." I presume that those places have more restrictions on free speech and more regulations in how one operates. "You don't want any regulatory bodies enforcing the safety of the food we eat and the water we drink?" He didn't say that there should be _no_ regulations. But some places already restrict far too much, to the point that the government is not merely helping us be safe, but controlling what we can and can't do to an unreasonable level. "We're just supposed to arrange everything on a one-to-one basis with the individual firefighters and the police?" No, but why have firefighters' ability to act on their own expertise being more and more taken from them with centralised bureaucrats controlling what they can do?
Enjoy it too much to see it ending, so hopefully, this isn’t your last video on the channel. 🫤 P.S. 58 isn’t that old to be moving; especially if you are moving to a warmer climate with lower taxes,! 😂 Here is a list of which states (in the US) that are both warm, and let you keep the most of your money 😬 1. Florida • State Income Tax: None • State Sales Tax: 6% 2. Texas • State Income Tax: None • State Sales Tax: 6.25% 3. Tennessee • State Income Tax: None • State Sales Tax: 7% 4. Arizona • State Income Tax: 2.59% - 4.50% • State Sales Tax: 5.6% 5. Missouri • State Income Tax: 0% - 5.4% • State Sales Tax: 4.225% 6. Oklahoma • State Income Tax: 0.25% - 4.75% • State Sales Tax: 4.5% 7. Louisiana • State Income Tax: 1.85% - 4.25% • State Sales Tax: 4.45% 8. Kentucky • State Income Tax: 5% • State Sales Tax: 6% 9. North Carolina • State Income Tax: 4.75% • State Sales Tax: 4.75% 10. Georgia • State Income Tax: 1% - 5.75% • State Sales Tax: 4% 11. South Carolina • State Income Tax: 0% - 7% • State Sales Tax: 6% 12. Alabama • State Income Tax: 2% - 5% • State Sales Tax: 4% 13. Mississippi • State Income Tax: 0% - 5% • State Sales Tax: 7% 14. West Virginia • State Income Tax: 3% - 6.5% • State Sales Tax: 6% 15. Arkansas • State Income Tax: 2% - 5.5% • State Sales Tax: 6.5% 16. New Mexico • State Income Tax: 1.7% - 5.9% • State Sales Tax: 5.125%m
Most localities in Texas add 2% for sales tax so you might as well say 8.25%. I have watched a number of your videos and find them interesting. So far, I have not made any of your plans. Mostly it is a matter of not having a shop and the projects I do have have made sort of a mess of the dining room, yeah. I am 78.
John, you always state your point very cogently. Thank you. Your channel was among my first subscriptions on this thing called UA-cam. Then AI took over. But you always came through. You. The real person. The thinking man. Thank you.
Excellent video! Thank you so very much for all the skills i have learned from watching your videos! Speaking as an American, many of us would love for Canada to join the US because we love Canadians. Im from Texas and have many Canadian friends who are working here or wintering here. We are hoping and praying for all Canadians to be free and prosperous.
Companies make money, or at least successful ones do. They do that by making a product that people want and then people buy the product - they give their money in return for that product. No different from you going to a corner store and buying a chocolate bar. If you have no money or don't want the candy, you won't buy it - you have that freedom, like everyone else. It's called business and some companies are better at it and bigger than others. Short lesson on basic economics, since it's obvious you know how to operate a hammer.
@@IBuildItScrapBin your theory is over-simplified, does not account for monopoly, collusion, coercion, market manipulation, corruption... No person creates millions and billions of $ of value. Millionaires and billionaires make their money through theft, plain and simple. Companies are similar.
The points you list from your "deeper" understanding are of no significance or are incorrect. For example: monopolies - how do they affect you? Can you name some? I can only name one: government. In the private sector competition exists that make gaining a real monopoly impossible. Jeff Bezos in setting up Amazon made his billions with that business. No theft involves. In fact businesses like Amazon not only don't steal, they also employ people that in turn make money. And not just the people who work directly for Amazon, but also the peripheral businesses that get work from Amazon, like accounting, bookkeeping, legal, PR, etc. Tell me, have you ever set up and ran a successful business? I have, twice. I've made honestly every million I have. Build a business - try it and see if at the end of a year of working 100 hour weeks you pump you fist in the air cheering the fact that you stole everything to have.
“I don’t have any politics” (Proceeds to rant for 5 minutes about politics) 😂 As a middle-aged straight white male, the US is perfectly fine for my individual freedom, like you said. But for anyone that’s not all of those, the US is getting pretty scary, and in a lot of ways leading the charge down the drain. And while I might be fine, I worry for my fellow humans who aren’t so privileged. We’re witnessing the end of the American Empire, the next few decades are going to be interesting.
"But for anyone that’s not all of those, the US is getting pretty scary,..." How so? On the contrary, there is plenty of evidence that 'straight while males' are often deliberately discriminated against. "We’re witnessing the end of the American Empire,..." We're witnessing the decline of Western Civilisation, of which the U.S. is a (significant) part.
Indeed about the politics. If you come to the UK I would like to buy you a pint and discuss this but the current government is banning talking at pubs. lol
"...the current government is banning talking at pubs." Seriously? I'm intrigued, because of the following comment from an Indian academic, Vishal Mangalwadi, about the translation of the Bible into English. “Almost every alehouse and tavern turned into a debating society. People started questioning and judging every tradition of the church and every decision of the king. People could question religious and political authorities because they now had in their hands the very Word of God. The Word of God was an authority higher than the authority of the church and the state combined. ... “Alehouses became debating clubs as people interpreted and applied the Bible differently to the intellectual and social issues of the day. Some were content to let the church settle their disputes. Others realized that the only way to determine which interpretation was correct was to read the Bible with valid rules of interpretation. This was a bottom-up intellectual revolution. It infused the minds of all literate Englishmen-not just those in the universities-with a new logical bent. It took no time for that revolution to spread into other aspects of people's lives. Until that time, England was only a middling power. But once the English people began using logic to interpret the Bible, they acquired a skill that propelled their nation to the forefront of world politics, economics, and thought.”
I never heard you say anything about politics except in the last video where you said UA-cam has many political videos these days - not you but everyone else. So how does the European guy know your politics enough to call them cringey? Maybe you're spouting off on politics somewhere else and I'm missing it. You took the opportunity in this video to let us know your views. EU circling the bowl and Canada in the sewer pipe is ... unconventional wisdom. Canada is in trouble economically? Not just yet. Employment is high. Stock market is high. Housing is terribly expensive. That's economic boom times. There could be tariffs in future that negatively affect the economy but they've not been imposed yet so people are still buying and selling at a good clip. There are problems. There's a wealth gap. There's a wage gap. There are very serious healthcare problems in all provinces. They're a function of policy. Some are felt more strongly in a hot economy. But the economy is certainly not lagging in Canada.
"Canada is in trouble economically? Not just yet. Employment is high. Stock market is high." Apparently the country has a debt of more than $1.2 trillion. That doesn't sound good.
I've made a number of videos on this channel on the subject - my views are no secret. As for the economic situation Canada is in, it's more complex than the government issued stats on employment and what's happening in the stock market. Prime examples are the drop-off-the-cliff in foreign investment in this country and new business startups and the number of businesses that are going out of business. Entrepreneurship is at an all-time low and trading in real estate is the largest segment of our economy now, not production. These are all the result of policies that have been enacted over the 60 years as we shun the prosperity that we should be enjoying my being the biggest trading partner with the largest economy in the world - the US, and actively embracing policies that have been proven to be detrimental in Europe.
@@IBuildItScrapBin I missed your videos with this content. I thought I’d seen them all. That’s definitely a more nuanced position than “out the toilet in the sewer pipe” lol I can’t disagree with any of that. I’m missing some data on new biz starts and biz closures but I take your word. This biz climate would be a result of poor policy and would be helping lead to a concentration of wealth and low wages. I’m a biz owner and considering selling, possibly to a foreign buyer, because government compliance (tax and licensing and and) is such a burden. As you say, this is a multi decade problem. Non partisan too. All parties contributed IMO. 20 yrs ago I had none of these problems. My customers haven’t stopped buying. Quite the opposite.
@@mattym8 "Compare debt to gdp against other g7 countries. If everyone is in debt to the tune of 75% gdp then everyone is in same boat" Everyone else being in the same bad situation somehow makes it good? You'll have to explain that to me.
@@laneromel5667 "Germany, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, etc..." Listing some companies is not evidence that countries with the most social programs have the least debt. So do you have any evidence or not?
@@laneromel5667 "They all have very generous social programs, and have very little debt, if any at all." Repeating your claim does not constitute evidence. Why do you have such a problem with providing evidence?
@@galileo_rs "And I should care what you, or anyone else, thinks?" If you expect people to take you seriously, yes. If you can't point out where he is wrong, that suggests that he _wasn't_ wrong, and therefore that you were.
@@PJRayment Dear airhead: I left a comment on a YT video, mostly because I wasted my time on a rambling video. I did not write a blog post and I have no intention to write (in a comment) about history of USA imperialism, Monroe doctrine, Bretton Woods systems etc just to make some random dude happy.
"The truth is that the US built our modern world", Typical limited American world view. Look at your country it has halted for over 40yrs. You have a very simple and selfcentered view.
Lmfao And how fucked would your country be if the us economy completely collapsed When the US had the 2008 recession the rest of the 1st world soon followed
Absolutely. Western Civilisation (of which America is a part) is based on Christianity, and it's the rejection of Christianity in much of the West that is behind the decline of the West.
@@PJRayment aren't they everywhere? As stated as an outsider so I see is people making UA-cam videos about the evil of them, there's lots of videos to hide the impression that it's very common
@@lezbriddon "aren't they everywhere?" That wasn't my question. Where does the United States, i.e. the _government,_ require that people observe HOAs? It seems from your lack of an answer on that that _the United States_ doesn't dictate that.
Here's what I do: I make my own tools and I've been doing that for as long as I've been able to swing a hammer. So a ready-made CNC was never going to be the ultimate for me, much like a store-bought table saw wouldn't be.
Even if the Stepcraft CNC performed perfectly, it was still my intention to eventually build my own.
The build was an interesting challenge and also a learning experience. I designed and 3D printed a number of the parts, including the couplers that connect the ball screws to the new motors.
I reused the X and Z axis, mostly unchanged, from the Stepcraft, but replaced all of the steppers with larger closed loop ones. I changed the control electronics and the software that drives it to Mach 3.
In effect I now have a machine that runs flawlessly and if it does break or do something wrong, I can fix it.
My "cringey" politics isn't political - it's a worldview - values - an operating philosophy.
As I've said in previous videos, I have no interest in the circus that is modern day politics. And I believe that a major leap forward in societal progress could be achieved by outlawing politics as we know it today.
That would start by taking away the bulk of the power that modern politics has hoarded and giving control back to the individual.
Of course I'm realistic enough to know that'll never happen, but it's important to point out to misguided people that their "non-cringey" policies are the root cause of most of the problems we have today.
Take away the freedom for the individual to act and you take away the economic progress that comes from it, as aptly shown in the disparity between the US and Europe.
Canada is and has been on an express train to hell that was accomplished with the same policies that have tied an anchor to progress in Europe. If I were 15 years younger I'd already be gone.
The truth is that the US built our modern world and ushered in unprecedented material prosperity throughout the world. Minus the US - if the US never happened - Canada wouldn't be much different from rural Russia 100 years ago. Naturally, we arrogantly take all of that for granted and actually resent the success the US has had, acting like it's no big deal or putting on air of superiority that are completely groundless.
The US took the concept of individual freedom and ran with it, and pulled in innovative and enterprising people who knew how to put that freedom to good use. Of course that's grinding down as well, as more of the "non-cringey" policies that stymied progress in Europe and Canada have crept in.
The idea that Americans (I am one) have extensive individual control over our lives is a fallacy. There’s no way to cover the full extent of the conversation in UA-cam comments, but here’s one worthwhile perspective, in three parts:
Our legal system is only accessible to those who have many thousands of dollars to spend on the fees and costs of litigation, and even that is limited if your dispute is with someone who has more than you. So right from the get-go, your “individual freedom” only exists if you manage not to get noticed by the legal system. Some reasons for getting pulled into it are within your control of course, but many aren’t and if you just get unlucky, you’re at the mercy of whatever they decide to do to you. (Im also a lawyer.) That’s not individual choice, it’s just luck.
Our medical system is the best in the world, for those who can pay for it, but very few Americans have that wealth. Most of us are getting healthcare on par with some middle range country like Egypt, and about 20% of us are totally uninsured, by design, leaving us on par with peasants from the Middle Ages. Here again, you have some choices that can help you stay healthy, but a lot of it is luck, and for some reason we allow rich people to use our air, water, soil, and food as a garbage disposal for their toxic waste, so the “luck” aspect is slanted too.
The same basic pattern applies to education.
And all of this is slanted by a use of government power that funnels money from working people to the wealthy in a million different ways. The difference between wealthy and poor in America is so bad that it’s hard to find any society in history that compares. We are worse off than peasants from the Middle Ages in this way; we might be comparable to the time of the Egyptian pharaohs. We’re getting pretty close to chattel slavery, where the masters found it convenient to let the slaves have a place to sleep and food to eat, but the moment any specific slave became inconvenient, all that could be stripped away and the unwanted annoyance could be mistreated as badly and for as long as the master saw fit. See again the fact that the legal system is basically only available to the wealthy as a way to resolve disputes, and just functions punitively to everyone else. Not coincidentally, we also have the largest prison system in the world and 12% of Americans are under various forms of judicial control, which includes not only incarceration but also bond, parole, probation, restraining orders, etc.
So no, this isn’t some wonderful land where people are free to make their own way. I know two people who have felony convictions for having a single pill in their vehicle. One was a pill from an old prescription that they had thrown away years before, the other was in a borrowed car they had no idea had a pill stuck under the seat at some point for who knows what reason. When you’re looking down the barrel of that kind of injustice all day, every day, you’re just hoping that you never get looked at. If you do get looked at, it’s pure luck if your life isn’t ruined.
Ah, yes, the US superiority fable
American exceptionalism myth and a half baked idea about individualism etc. Definitely stick to woodworking.
You're painfully unaware of your self-contradiction when you claim you would have left Canada for the US if you were 15 years younger. While you don't elaborate why, I suspect you fear being a victim of its healthcare system and its lack of socioeconomic security.
Oh my goodness.
How to unpack this "U.S. is the saviour" bullshit...
The freedom to starve is no real freedom and no progress.
The freedom to harass people without consequences (like Trump does) is no real freedom (and no progress, quite the opposite)
The freedom to poison nature and the people with chemicals, waste and harmful aeorosols is no real freedom and no progress.
The freedom to rack up medical bills is no real freedom and no progress.
And lets not start about those "progressive" and "innovative" child labour and 12-16 hour work days in the "good olden days".
NO THANKS to that U.S. bullshit!
What you call freedom is actually slavery to the lord and saviour "capital" and "money" and oligarchy and thankfully we got(mostly) rid of it in Europe.
If you want to be slave to some robber barons... please, be my guest!
I don't want to.
I enjoy that you will speak how you feel. You are one of the first You Tube channels I started following years ago. You truly are one the most talented and innovative woodworkers around. My wife thinks you are too grumpy but she says I am too.
Couldn't agree more regarding individual first. You, in the GREATEST WAY, do your individual first and then share that part of your genius with the rest of us. I'm a creative guy, have multiple patents for products in my industry and am always amazed - learning something from you.... STRING TWIST. John, where did you get this from? Really, do you have a reference book, did you go to MIT, or are you DaVinci / Archimedes / Michaelangelo reincarnate? Please, even if you only feel like sharing "once in a while" keep going. You inspire and teach the rest of us more than you will ever know!
To reveal the hidden comments, select "newest first" instead "top comments" under the "sort by" menu :)
That's not hidden. That's basic fucking comment sorting that anyone under the age of FUCKING ANCIENT is aware of. Do you think those thumbs mean nothing?
Remember... some day these will be 'The Good Old Days'. Oh Gawd!
As an European I think having not having any politics at all or having your own politics opinion that might be a different one than I have is completely OK.
I come here for your world view, John. I live in Los Angeles though and we, too, are circling....I'm 58 as well and hope to get out of here soon and move to a free state - at least we have that option here in the US - relatively speaking. I have a disability that is complicating up and moving but even at 58 I think my quality of life would be a lot better elsewhere. And don't feel bad, I'm sure I'm pretty cringe to to many of my neighbors around here.
Where exactly do you plan to move to?
@ my family lives in Central Ohio. I’d like to find a couple of acres. Been looking for a few years, but I use a wheelchair and every house there has a basement which is a non-starter.
I'm about the same age, and after more than half of my life time in the same place, seeing with my own experience how the society around my neighborhood has degenerated, I no longer feel safe or happy where I live. I wish you were my neighbor but not here. In a place we all could be left alone, be our own. Away from demanding compliance with mob mentality and neighbors that think they have some right over you by vote.
@@Aiasoy "Degeneracy" as you see it is not the result of some systemic collapse of morals or mob mentality, it's the symptom of wealth concentration. The more you take from people, the worse they become. Power corrupts, and so does persecution.
@@asdfghjkl7507 If you were my neighbor I would not mind to seat down over some beverage and know who you are and where you stand. However, commenting via this mean provided by youtube is something I fight against it. I felt compelled to say something towards @supergimp2000's post.
Nevertheless, I appreciate your reply and in courtesy to it I would say that perhaps there is truth in what you say, notwithstanding, envy and jealousy coated in a thick layer of avarice, all together wrapped in pretty virtue propositions has been my observations.
Build my own CNC as well, it's been working flawlessly for 5 years already. It uses UCCNC, it's been working for me just fine. It's fun to build your own and you get to choose the parts.
"I have a worldview I have an operating philosophy that I that I go by and my operating philosophy basically puts first the individual and throws away the group the group has limited utility for the individual"
I do not only believe on that statement but I have lived by it. I wish the best to every individual, as long as it doesn't demand, evangelize or coarse anyone to be part of a group. I do not believe in placing a greater value in a group than in a single person. I detest the words "...for the greatest good" if someone in representation of a group makes that statement, in their behalf. No one should have the power to make that determination for the individual. Today, we see the result, worldwide, of societies (in nations) demanding sacrifice in behalf of the greatest good, creating groups and favoring those groups for their own leverage.
The human race is circling the bowl.
It didn't have to be like that Mike, we certainly should have made better choices last Fall!
@@TeufelHunden-o2d Lol
Appreciate the effort and level of skill into your builds. Funny telling someone to not talk about something in their own space. For myself, if someone says something I don't agree with, then, as I see it, I have a few options. Ignore it and keep doing what I am doing. Or I stop listening and/or watching. Or put my own reasoning/counter point out there. If option C creates a conversation, great, we can talk about it. But if it's an argument rather than a discussion, likely back to option B. But I won't tell them to stop talking. especially in their own space.
I love your vertical router setup.
A CNC is well within my means but won't fit within my space. This is a great alternative. Enclosed is a large improvement as well.
Agreed. You're the 1st creator I subscribed to, I've bought and built several of your plans, and I'm a locals member. Surprised the "bots" haven't shut you down. Stay free and God bless!
Great final segment and I think swapping to wood gears keeps the project coherent, i love it. Wood gears painted black for contrast would yield the same in my opinion.
Nice. Do your gears use an involute profile?
Yes. I used FreeCAD to produce them - it has a gear generation section.
Those wooden gears are a thing of beauty John. They tug at the heart strings of our inner cave man.
You quit again.... OK .... see you next week 🤞
The topic of today's video is about the last video he posted. A tongue in cheek click bait title. You'll see him again in a week or two.
I agree with John, individual first group after last.
Have you looked into mirroring your channel(s) on other sites like rumble or odysee??? They're both a lot less restrictive than Alphabet/Google/UA-cam, in both content, AND comments.
John, politicians are cringy. They and their talking points.
I absolutely agree with your philosophy.
Happy new year! And stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I started following you in 2011, you have a great way about you.
Amen to your individual first! Respect sir.
Im going to be there for all your last video until youtube block your channel. And if they do it, im going to see you else where. Thanks and have great days
You are 100% correct about "politics and UA-cam."
I do hope that you continue this channel as it is a breath of fresh air for me. I agree with you, Canada is spiralling out of control. I feel bad for the younger generations. I am glad that you rebuilt your CNC. I built my own many years ago and I also run Mach3 as well. Hopefully I will get back to using it in the spring.
I used to use Mach3. Did not like the ballistics. I've been using UCCNC for 6 years now. Would not trade back. I'd try using UCCNC again.
I love your cinematography in this. You interviewed yourself!
The scrap binnwas supposed to be about inspiring people to make things from what you can find. When it got too advanced it just lost its practicality for most people
Interesting video John and I agree with you about all of the political nonsense going on around the globe. Just keep on posting and I will keep on viewing! 👍👍
The problem with taking the gamesmanship and popularity out of politics is that the skills of politicking that enable one to win an election are the same skills needed to be an effective politician.
I believe you missed the main point. All politics is force against the individual.
The CNC info was interesting but I REALLY enjoyed your non-political rant on politics. Hope to keep following you and your builds/projects on your YT channels for many more years.
If this wouldn't be such a uncontroversial comment, it would be a hidden one.
'birthplace' perhaps but of the people who then took that with them across the pond
Not far from the truth. The US has been the recipient of a lot of the more daring, intelligently entrepreneurial and resourceful people who fled minor or major oppression in their own country. The process acted as a filter to drain the people who are more interested in succeeding and doing stuff out of countries that make that activity harder to do. They didn't come here, because the US has always had more opportunity.
John, you said it perfectly my man. Individual freedom is very important. It's what creates success, wealth and security. When people say the "we" thing I always tell them that I don't want to be part of your "we". I just want to be left alone.
I'm almost the same age as you and if I was younger and didn't have a dependent I would be living in Tennessee.
Tennessee is one of the least free states. Especially if you are a female. Abortion is illegal in Tennessee, with limited exceptions. The ban took effect on August 25, 2022, following the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade
Love your talks John. You have a place here with us in the U.S. I will give you half my shop space and a room in the house. But you cook. LOL
Individual Rights is what all good documents are based on. F the "collective". F "the greater good"... that is cringe.
Funny that you said that you would leave Canada if you where 15 years younger. Family of mine is actually looking to leave Vancouver to move here ( Belgium) especially because of the cost of living and housing prices. And yes you are right about circling the pot. So many things are not improving or getting worse that in my opinion we are not far behind Canada . On the other side we all complain etc. But there is no place on earth I would rather live then here. Our Healthcare is one of the best in the world I.m.h.o. We have the best beer and chocolate and you never need a snowblower 🤣🤣🤣.
John, I would love for you to do some think about doing a video of you doing some of the some freecad. there isn't a lot of free content out there. I use free CAD inversion one is you know Lightyear is better than where it was even just a couple years agoand I think it'd be really nice to have somebody of your technical abilities. Explain how they use it.
Great stuff, John. The Economic Toilet comparison chart should be in all the textbooks.
Well said.
Is there a Libertarian party (or something similar) in Canada?
There is a party literally called the Libertarian Party of Canada.
There is also a "populist" party called People's Party of Canada, their policies are somewhat Libertarian.
All of those options get banned from the debates so as to conceal their existence and their ideas.
Why didn't you have Canada on your market cap chart?
Canada was there, but the resolution of the image wasn't fine enough to show it. Need to 100X it. :)
Maybe I need to watch the other video. It would be exceedingly helpful to understand what 'circling the bowl' actual means in practical examples to decide if your position has merit.
Going broke as a nation due to choices regarding level of taxation vs government services is one thing. Not being allowed to misinform (the usual code I hear whenever people complaining about their posts being flagged/banned/hidden. Forgive me if that is a wrong reading) on private social media companies is something else entirely.
I would * love * to have universal health care in the states for all its citizens.
Good luck to you.
DUDE! Retirement is the PERFECT time to get out, if out is where you want to get. There are areas in the world where, if you've done some retirement planning, you could truly maximize your retirement funds and have a great time seeing the world.
There's a long history of Canadians who wish they were American. As a dual citizen of Canada and the US, who has chosen, very deliberately, to stay in Canada I can say I don't relate. I was a libertarian for a while too, but I grew out of it.
Good job describing the political landscape. Hard times ahead for fellow Canadians. Do you want to get bit by the snake or stung by the scorpion?
Not even a good bye 😮
Thanks John
The libertarian individuals in Canada (99.9% of them are of European origin) won't bode well with the new Asian majority, so to say.
Your group, i.e. your people are a shield, which are necessary for us to be free in the first place.
Can you be free as the last European in a random neighborhood of Toronto populated by Sikhs or Pakistanis?
When you turn yourself into sheep, the wolves will come.
This was probably the type of those "hidden comments", if I had to guess, so I wouldn't be surprised if I was the only one seeing it now.
17:18 I was with you until you starting talking as if Canada has problems that are unique and showed that chart and implied it was a good thing. Companies making billions does not equal a happy thriving population; there's a good argument that can be made it shows over-exploitation of the populace. That's why you can have places doing great in terms of GDP but with unhealthy and unhappy people.
Although people who buy their overpriced iPhones look quite happy to me
Yup. A large part of the problems in modern 'western' society are pretty easy to trace back to a time before the oligarchs had all the power. The wealthy are doing fine at the expense of the rest of us.
@@alberteinstein5421 As opposed to the overpriced LITERALLY ANY OTHER FUCKING PHONE? Fucking bellends in here.
"Companies making billions does not equal a happy thriving population; ..."
It basically _does_ equal a thriving population.
"...there's a good argument that can be made it shows over-exploitation of the populace."
Nobody is forced to buy. They spend their money because they are free-and happy-to do that. Because those companies make what the people want.
YT's 1 million sub plaque is pure politics.
North america was not descovered by the Europeans, but the vikings more than 1000 years ago.
I am probably wrong but to my mind the Vikings were Europeans.
I like your "politics" John. Perhaps things will get better now that you have gotten rid of Justin.
Yes, I'm in the US. Hopefully our "world" will change for the better starting Monday. At 81, I've seen quite a few so called leaders and I can still remember the 2016 election, and YES I was better off then for four years even with all of the opposition. Maybe I can get back to that if I have time left. I can't imagine what a little cooperation would have done for the country.
I am so sick of woke, free stuff, not having to be responsible for your actions(crime, student loans...), give me/laziness attitude and the like that if "Chameleon: would be taking the reins on Monday I would be looking for a tall building or high bridge.
Good presentation.
got em! John come down to the US! We could use more free thinkers.
It's very hard to get there. Looking at 10+ years if you're lucky. My uncle moved there in the 90s and still doesn't have citizenship.
Speaking from the USA general perspecive perspective, when you’re perfect why do you have to change (sarcasm). I’d stay where you are lol.
Excellent insights as always!
Yeah, I get this commenter's point: the breadth of John's woodworking knowledge is breathtaking and I've watched his stuff for years, but his political pronouncements always do feel a bit infantile to me too (as a fellow Canadian). My family escaped from a communist dictatorship with real, observable limitations on individual freedoms, and from my perspective, John just seems to have weirdly reactionary views on everything without understanding what encroachment on individual liberty is in actual practice. I'm not really sure why he thinks Canada or Western Europe is less "free" than the US--I just don't see it and I'm only a couple years younger than he is.
"The group has limited utility to the individual" is something that seems proven patently untrue to me any number of times a day just going about my daily business. We're just supposed to arrange everything on a one-to-one basis with the individual firefighters and the police? And building roads to connect the country doesn't necessarily involve "the group"? You don't want any regulatory bodies enforcing the safety of the food we eat and the water we drink? There are literally hundreds of examples like this. None of this makes sense to me unless you live in a cabin in the woods surviving entirely without the involvement of anybody external to your personal activities and don't use money in any capacity.
Maybe I'm being uncharitable to his qualifying "limited" here, but every time he speaks on this topic he sounds like a teenage edgelord who has zero real life experience with what an actual loss of freedom might be like and thinks he's way better informed about the topic without actually having done any reading on the history of the topic.
"I'm not really sure why he thinks Canada or Western Europe is less "free" than the US..."
I presume that those places have more restrictions on free speech and more regulations in how one operates.
"You don't want any regulatory bodies enforcing the safety of the food we eat and the water we drink?"
He didn't say that there should be _no_ regulations. But some places already restrict far too much, to the point that the government is not merely helping us be safe, but controlling what we can and can't do to an unreasonable level.
"We're just supposed to arrange everything on a one-to-one basis with the individual firefighters and the police?"
No, but why have firefighters' ability to act on their own expertise being more and more taken from them with centralised bureaucrats controlling what they can do?
Please say it isn’t so! Please don’t go (this channel)
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for another great video, Emile from CT.
Stinks that you had to re-engineer a machine to get it to work. PP should help the GWN. Certainly hurt less than T.
PP works for the same master as JT. He will advance the same agenda with a conservative spin.
Thanks for sharing.
Great stuff John, keep it coming!!
Catchy title…
This is the last comment, i write on this channel!
Enjoy it too much to see it ending, so hopefully, this isn’t your last video on the channel. 🫤
P.S. 58 isn’t that old to be moving; especially if you are moving to a warmer climate with lower taxes,! 😂
Here is a list of which states (in the US) that are both warm, and let you keep the most of your money 😬
1. Florida
• State Income Tax: None
• State Sales Tax: 6%
2. Texas
• State Income Tax: None
• State Sales Tax: 6.25%
3. Tennessee
• State Income Tax: None
• State Sales Tax: 7%
4. Arizona
• State Income Tax: 2.59% - 4.50%
• State Sales Tax: 5.6%
5. Missouri
• State Income Tax: 0% - 5.4%
• State Sales Tax: 4.225%
6. Oklahoma
• State Income Tax: 0.25% - 4.75%
• State Sales Tax: 4.5%
7. Louisiana
• State Income Tax: 1.85% - 4.25%
• State Sales Tax: 4.45%
8. Kentucky
• State Income Tax: 5%
• State Sales Tax: 6%
9. North Carolina
• State Income Tax: 4.75%
• State Sales Tax: 4.75%
10. Georgia
• State Income Tax: 1% - 5.75%
• State Sales Tax: 4%
11. South Carolina
• State Income Tax: 0% - 7%
• State Sales Tax: 6%
12. Alabama
• State Income Tax: 2% - 5%
• State Sales Tax: 4%
13. Mississippi
• State Income Tax: 0% - 5%
• State Sales Tax: 7%
14. West Virginia
• State Income Tax: 3% - 6.5%
• State Sales Tax: 6%
15. Arkansas
• State Income Tax: 2% - 5.5%
• State Sales Tax: 6.5%
16. New Mexico
• State Income Tax: 1.7% - 5.9%
• State Sales Tax: 5.125%m
Most localities in Texas add 2% for sales tax so you might as well say 8.25%.
I have watched a number of your videos and find them interesting. So far, I have not made any of your plans. Mostly it is a matter of not having a shop and the projects I do have have made sort of a mess of the dining room, yeah.
I am 78.
I see my comment is right at the bottom. Damn UA-cam bots😢
John, you always state your point very cogently. Thank you. Your channel was among my first subscriptions on this thing called UA-cam. Then AI took over. But you always came through. You. The real person. The thinking man. Thank you.
Excellent video! Thank you so very much for all the skills i have learned from watching your videos! Speaking as an American, many of us would love for Canada to join the US because we love Canadians. Im from Texas and have many Canadian friends who are working here or wintering here. We are hoping and praying for all Canadians to be free and prosperous.
17:10 you think companies hoarding all of the people's wealth is a good thing. It's a miracle you can operate a hammer, let alone a CNC machine.
Companies make money, or at least successful ones do. They do that by making a product that people want and then people buy the product - they give their money in return for that product.
No different from you going to a corner store and buying a chocolate bar. If you have no money or don't want the candy, you won't buy it - you have that freedom, like everyone else.
It's called business and some companies are better at it and bigger than others.
Short lesson on basic economics, since it's obvious you know how to operate a hammer.
@@IBuildItScrapBin your theory is over-simplified, does not account for monopoly, collusion, coercion, market manipulation, corruption... No person creates millions and billions of $ of value. Millionaires and billionaires make their money through theft, plain and simple. Companies are similar.
The points you list from your "deeper" understanding are of no significance or are incorrect.
For example: monopolies - how do they affect you? Can you name some?
I can only name one: government. In the private sector competition exists that make gaining a real monopoly impossible.
Jeff Bezos in setting up Amazon made his billions with that business. No theft involves.
In fact businesses like Amazon not only don't steal, they also employ people that in turn make money. And not just the people who work directly for Amazon, but also the peripheral businesses that get work from Amazon, like accounting, bookkeeping, legal, PR, etc.
Tell me, have you ever set up and ran a successful business?
I have, twice. I've made honestly every million I have.
Build a business - try it and see if at the end of a year of working 100 hour weeks you pump you fist in the air cheering the fact that you stole everything to have.
@@IBuildItScrapBin profound imbecility
As expected, when you don't have even the basic facts to back up your opinions, you revert to type and throw insults instead.
Well said, John! But things are about to get better for Canada and the U.S. Maybe Europe will decide they've had enough at some point. Common Sense!
Spot on…come on down.. you would make a great American.. note… we are interested in Canada..
“I don’t have any politics” (Proceeds to rant for 5 minutes about politics) 😂
As a middle-aged straight white male, the US is perfectly fine for my individual freedom, like you said. But for anyone that’s not all of those, the US is getting pretty scary, and in a lot of ways leading the charge down the drain. And while I might be fine, I worry for my fellow humans who aren’t so privileged. We’re witnessing the end of the American Empire, the next few decades are going to be interesting.
"But for anyone that’s not all of those, the US is getting pretty scary,..."
How so? On the contrary, there is plenty of evidence that 'straight while males' are often deliberately discriminated against.
"We’re witnessing the end of the American Empire,..."
We're witnessing the decline of Western Civilisation, of which the U.S. is a (significant) part.
Indeed about the politics. If you come to the UK I would like to buy you a pint and discuss this but the current government is banning talking at pubs. lol
"...the current government is banning talking at pubs."
Seriously? I'm intrigued, because of the following comment from an Indian academic, Vishal Mangalwadi, about the translation of the Bible into English.
“Almost every alehouse and tavern turned into a debating society. People started questioning and judging every tradition of the church and every decision of the king. People could question religious and political authorities because they now had in their hands the very Word of God. The Word of God was an authority higher than the authority of the church and the state combined. ...
“Alehouses became debating clubs as people interpreted and applied the Bible differently to the intellectual and social issues of the day. Some were content to let the church settle their disputes. Others realized that the only way to determine which interpretation was correct was to read the Bible with valid rules of interpretation. This was a bottom-up intellectual revolution. It infused the minds of all literate Englishmen-not just those in the universities-with a new logical bent. It took no time for that revolution to spread into other aspects of people's lives. Until that time, England was only a middling power. But once the English people began using logic to interpret the Bible, they acquired a skill that propelled their nation to the forefront of world politics, economics, and thought.”
I never heard you say anything about politics except in the last video where you said UA-cam has many political videos these days - not you but everyone else. So how does the European guy know your politics enough to call them cringey? Maybe you're spouting off on politics somewhere else and I'm missing it.
You took the opportunity in this video to let us know your views.
EU circling the bowl and Canada in the sewer pipe is ... unconventional wisdom. Canada is in trouble economically? Not just yet. Employment is high. Stock market is high. Housing is terribly expensive. That's economic boom times. There could be tariffs in future that negatively affect the economy but they've not been imposed yet so people are still buying and selling at a good clip.
There are problems. There's a wealth gap. There's a wage gap. There are very serious healthcare problems in all provinces. They're a function of policy. Some are felt more strongly in a hot economy. But the economy is certainly not lagging in Canada.
"Canada is in trouble economically? Not just yet. Employment is high. Stock market is high."
Apparently the country has a debt of more than $1.2 trillion. That doesn't sound good.
I've made a number of videos on this channel on the subject - my views are no secret.
As for the economic situation Canada is in, it's more complex than the government issued stats on employment and what's happening in the stock market.
Prime examples are the drop-off-the-cliff in foreign investment in this country and new business startups and the number of businesses that are going out of business.
Entrepreneurship is at an all-time low and trading in real estate is the largest segment of our economy now, not production.
These are all the result of policies that have been enacted over the 60 years as we shun the prosperity that we should be enjoying my being the biggest trading partner with the largest economy in the world - the US, and actively embracing policies that have been proven to be detrimental in Europe.
@ meaningless. Compare debt to gdp against other g7 countries. If everyone is in debt to the tune of 75% gdp then everyone is in same boat
@@IBuildItScrapBin I missed your videos with this content. I thought I’d seen them all.
That’s definitely a more nuanced position than “out the toilet in the sewer pipe” lol
I can’t disagree with any of that. I’m missing some data on new biz starts and biz closures but I take your word. This biz climate would be a result of poor policy and would be helping lead to a concentration of wealth and low wages.
I’m a biz owner and considering selling, possibly to a foreign buyer, because government compliance (tax and licensing and and) is such a burden. As you say, this is a multi decade problem. Non partisan too. All parties contributed IMO. 20 yrs ago I had none of these problems.
My customers haven’t stopped buying. Quite the opposite.
@@mattym8
"Compare debt to gdp against other g7 countries. If everyone is in debt to the tune of 75% gdp then everyone is in same boat"
Everyone else being in the same bad situation somehow makes it good? You'll have to explain that to me.
Listening to someone constantly gasp for air is not a pleasant experience.
Countries with the most social programs generally have the least debt.
I'd like to see evidence of that.
@@PJRayment Germany, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, etc...
@@laneromel5667
"Germany, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, etc..."
Listing some companies is not evidence that countries with the most social programs have the least debt.
So do you have any evidence or not?
@@PJRayment They all have very generous social programs, and have very little debt, if any at all.
@@laneromel5667
"They all have very generous social programs, and have very little debt, if any at all."
Repeating your claim does not constitute evidence. Why do you have such a problem with providing evidence?
Your analysis reflects your historical ignorance, you have no idea why the USA achieved it's economical success or why Europe "failed".
but 'murica!
So where is he wrong? Accusing him of ignorance but not pointing out any errors reflects badly on you, not him.
@@PJRayment And I should care what you, or anyone else, thinks?
@@galileo_rs
"And I should care what you, or anyone else, thinks?"
If you expect people to take you seriously, yes. If you can't point out where he is wrong, that suggests that he _wasn't_ wrong, and therefore that you were.
@@PJRayment Dear airhead: I left a comment on a YT video, mostly because I wasted my time on a rambling video. I did not write a blog post and I have no intention to write (in a comment) about history of USA imperialism, Monroe doctrine, Bretton Woods systems etc just to make some random dude happy.
COME TO TEXAS! I DID AND SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY!
Thanks for the infographic, John.
It clearly shows me that most of the issues the world is having have come direct from the USA.
"It clearly shows me that most of the issues the world is having have come direct from the USA."
How so?
It tells me that most of the good things come from the US.
51st state!
"The truth is that the US built our modern world", Typical limited American world view. Look at your country it has halted for over 40yrs. You have a very simple and selfcentered view.
Lmfao
And how fucked would your country be if the us economy completely collapsed
When the US had the 2008 recession the rest of the 1st world soon followed
Who built it?
Very well said. The only way to fix it. and it all could be fixed quickly, is with God, and embracing Jesus and his teachings.
Absolutely. Western Civilisation (of which America is a part) is based on Christianity, and it's the rejection of Christianity in much of the West that is behind the decline of the West.
As an outsider looking in at the US, I smile at it calling itself the land of the free, but then has HOA's dictating grass watering/cutting........
I smile at people who choose to live in a place that has an HOA when they have the freedom to choose otherwise.
Confirmation bias is sneaky. There are hoa's, and there aren't hoa's. Many Americans have nothing to do with them.
Where has the U.S. required that people observe HOAs? I'm not asking where private groups have them, but where does the _country_ have them?
@@PJRayment aren't they everywhere? As stated as an outsider so I see is people making UA-cam videos about the evil of them, there's lots of videos to hide the impression that it's very common
@@lezbriddon
"aren't they everywhere?"
That wasn't my question. Where does the United States, i.e. the _government,_ require that people observe HOAs?
It seems from your lack of an answer on that that _the United States_ doesn't dictate that.
SO ? BYE ?
The huge difference with all this bs, is that rural Russia is HAPPY. Are we here ?
Rural russia, given a chance, will move the fuck out at mach 3. However "happy" they are.