The CONTROVERSIAL Topic Arises Again - These Students Doubted Their Own Socialist Ideas!
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the difference between capitalism and socialism, the role of government in society, and the benefits of socialism and capitalism. We also discuss what it means to be a socialist and a capitalist in today's society.
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I do agree a little bit more with a lot of socialist ideology.
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We shouldn't have that much more power over everything in our lives.
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It's been a good conversation. I appreciate your... I like what you're saying, too.
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Do you think, though, just like this is kind of a question for you guys,
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do you think that is it better for us to have the power to change our lives
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or do you think it should be the government kind of holding our hands?
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I feel like we shouldn't have that much more power over everything in our lives
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because I feel like there needs to be organization to some extent.
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it can't everybody can't just do whatever they want because that would just be entirely chaotic
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but yeah that's what we're talking about the proper role of government here right
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so like the government is a good like it's ideal for like keeping the organization and everything
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um just like fully entirely around the world but yeah i don't know let's pass it over to him
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I'm, you know, I'll be a little controversial here.
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I do agree a little bit more with a lot of socialist ideologies.
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I think that the way Canada runs our health care system
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and our education system is significantly better.
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And in Western society, I think we do it the best,
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And I think that corrupt government and people in the government
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taking uh not using their power in the right way um is something that that needs to be changed but
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i also think that uh we need to come together as people so whether that's sorry whether that's um
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maybe starting uh citizen-led organizations and and moving them up um to the provincial
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leverage or to the federal levels um but i i think that i i'm a big advocate for everybody
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helping each other so i'm i'm not a very uh capitalist mindset i'm a little bit more of a
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socialist uh mindset so i do think that i would rather have the government have a little bit more
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control um and not control in terms of power of our lives but control in terms of um trying to
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help everybody out that's what i think i agree with all of you okay all right so i hope you don't
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No offense taken. I think that's a problem in today's society.
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When someone's on the opposite end, there's a bunch of fights that go on.
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And I'll be honest, you probably know a lot more than me.
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So would you feel more like a socialist government or more like a socialist society?
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I won't lie, there are luxuries of capitalism that everybody enjoys.
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A lot of people want to make money and they want to have nice cars and things,
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and that's more difficult when you move less towards capitalism.
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But I think that a socialist society and especially a government,
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like the way our government runs now with our health care system and our education system
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and then maybe tailoring the housing system more how we have the health care and education systems
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where they're very general and they're there to help all the citizens,
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The way I view it, the best way for everyone to help each other
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is not to make it so that they're forced to help each other.
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So the way I see the capitalist system is that it's like,
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so everyone gets to work together voluntarily but when you move to more of a socialist idea
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you you're forcing conformity as well as unanimity but how would you feel about
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because the way our society has moved is so towards greed and i it's even it's present in
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in myself and i feel like in everybody i feel like if we move more towards the capitalist society
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i understand you're saying not forcing people but um i feel like the greed would just continue i
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if we move towards a socialist society and change the culture of citizens and people,
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and, you know, we start on a country basis or on a provincial basis and whatnot,
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and then eventually move more towards a capitalist society after that.
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Like, I feel like if the government pulled back and we got more money from our taxes and whatnot,
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I think people would, I don't think majority of people are going to help each other.
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like and and i just feel like that's yeah it is like it is kind of human nature to kind of want
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to look out for yourself and your family that's kind of like that's human nature that's why
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parents are so protective of their children they want to look after them and stuff and they want
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to look after themselves that's why people that's why people defend themselves when they're attacked
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because they want to look after themselves right so it's kind of our human nature um i don't i don't
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see that having ever changed it has never changed like people have always so to say that we could
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change that is a little far-reaching i just think there needs to be a balance between the two like
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it shouldn't like people should agree citizens should be able to agree on like just have everybody
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compromise like you're not gonna have everything you want they're not gonna have everything they
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want but you have to kind of meet at the middle otherwise everybody's just gonna get into like
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these arguments and debates that happen online that you see everywhere otherwise like if without
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like me by not meeting in the middle everybody's kind of split up and everybody kind of just needs
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to like stand together and decide what we want to do as like like as citizens and residents of like
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the same towns and everything i know this has been fun but it's been a good conversation i
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appreciate your i i like what you're saying too yeah yeah sorry we yeah all right yeah thank you