Posted on 09/12/2025 5:56:18 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Businessman and Media personality Patrick Bet-David recently appeared on Jubilee to defend Capitalism against 20 socialists. What followed was masterclass on the topic of why socialism fails.
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- Hiding behind altruistic motives, one debater claimed that he “served humanity” as a substitute teacher and tutor. Then he wondered why he wasn’t worth more in the market, even as he presented himself as a homeless guy wearing a dress.
- Another debater admitted to his disability and mental illness, although he blamed it squarely on capitalism, and then refused the offer of psychiatric help on PBD’s dime.
- Multiple speakers trotted out the age-old “true socialism has never been tried” argument, refusing real-world example after example of failed socialist states such as China, Cuba, North Korea, and the Soviet Union.
- Multiple debaters accused PBD of being an elitist who doesn’t understand the plight of the poor and/or is currently guilty of running a pyramid scheme. But the truth is he came from abject poverty, didn’t get rich due to white privilege, and manages a legitimate network marketing business that is currently worth millions. The well-worn ad hominem attacks all failed to hit the mark.
- The socialists constantly equated “working” with “providing value,” not understanding the simple truism that some work is inherently more valuable than other work, and that the basic and fundamental laws of economics cannot be changed.
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I am not familiar with Patrick Bet-David. Maybe I need to become familiar with him. If he primarily works through a podcast, I rarely connect with those.
This is a great article highlighting the debaters as misfits who are really elitist in that they don’t want to change and thereby admit that there are rules for success in life.
These need to be shown more often because foolish but well-meaning students often don’t realize that the others behind the cause are “misfits, users, and bums”.
True socialism has been tried.
Israeli Kibbutz system has been in place since before ‘48.
Its slowly dying as the only thing you are then trained for is military service and agriculture.
90% of the IDF air force is staffed by Kibbutz security personnel.
Outside of that, socialism has been a global failure since it was created in the mid 1800’s
Bkmk
Even earlier then that. The Pilgrims nearly starved to death when there were those that did not pitch in. When they changed to capitalism then all had plenty including the freeloaders.
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