What is capitalism? Where did capitalism come from? What does capitalism do? What was life like before capitalism? Mark Pellegrino answers these questions and corrects some misconceptions about capitalism.
00:00 What's the truth about capitali…
What is capitalism? Where did capitalism come from? What does capitalism do? What was life like before capitalism? Mark Pellegrino answers these questions and corrects some misconceptions about capitalism.
00:00 What's the truth about capitalism?
00:45 Is capitalism driven by the profit motive?
01:41 What was the real world like before capitalism?
02:17 The effect of capitalism
03:00 What is systemic economic liberty?
03:24 The birth of capitalism
03:47 The Age of Reason
04:30 What does capitalism do?
05:10 Capitalism is progressive
05:37 The moral object of capitalism
06:01 Life has been hard for humans for 200,000+ years
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'Since the moral object of capitalism is self fulfillment and not self sacrifice, it has chaffed against the dominant altruist ethics from its inception.'
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Mark Pellegrino is a successful actor who appeared in Lost, Supernatural, Being Human, 13 Reasons Why, American Rust, The Closer, The Tomorrow People, Dexter, The Big Lebowski, Mulholland Drive, Capote and more. Mark teaches at Playhouse Paris, the acting school he and his wife founded in Paris. He is also a co-founder of the American Capitalist Party and a graduate of the Objectivist Academic Center.
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