Philosophical Research:RatingHub/YT/PredictiveHistory
Background
Rating subject: YouTube video channel pronounced @PredictiveHistory
- This is a channel for public lectures by universities.
- This channel appears to be using at least part of a Marxist framework, but being primarily focused on specific textbook models of reality, its exact alignment is unclear. The channel claims to be a psychohistory channel.
- This channel's content is approximately popular-level.
- pronounced [P] alias (en) [string]
- Predictive History
- URL
- pronounced @PredictiveHistory
- pronounced @profjiangclips
- approximate number of entries
- 87
- approximate number of entries
- 14
Rating sheet (main channel)
Rating sheet (clips channel)
Motifs
- crisis of capitalism
- Poor people are created to make you work [1] -> this is.... kind of correct but a little misleading. you can see the contradiction inside the lecture itself. nobility used money in order to arrange people into a kingdom. into an armored, armed "crab". it's easy to think the key word is "used" and that they're exploiting people and burning everything valuable for their own gain, but the key word is "arrange". in that example money is empowering people to form into societies. in Europe we can bring up how churches weren't entirely malevolent and sometimes they'd take their money and land and do administrative functions; today they run kindergartens. money enables merchants to test out the tiniest experiment in global capitalism before settling back into local small-capitalism because going around the world is hard. but what money is doing there is proving that people can connect one city to another city. the merchants actually succeed on the basis of creating connections. then when they create banks, again the bank is creating the connections between the nobility and the armies or the royal ministries later. with the development of capitalism-proper the local states lose control and the chunks become the businesses, which have to expand to accommodate population growth, but they succeed or fail based on how effectively they link to various other businesses in the world. particular rings of success take slots in society away from people who don't become inherently compatible with strengthening either individual business territories or the arrangement of connections. those are the poor people. so, the reason it's hard to end poverty is all the other individuals are actively working against all the individuals below them. they wouldn't have to be if they could just see the business lattice and realize that everybody has to be fit into it, and if everyone would just get a little smarter about arranging people nobody would have to waste work or arbitrarily take someone else's slot in the structure only to make the world a little worse. at this point they can kick out the capitalists. the issue is, capitalism keeps totally falling apart and leaving people unable to build up the business lattice fast enough to be able to remain united instead of necessarily having to fight each other and the outside "poor people" or Refuse layer.
Additional remarks
- I have a suspicion the clips channel is strategically clipping the channel to make it sound more Marxist than it is. I can't fully check this right now. — R.D. (talk) 08:02, 28 August 2025 (UTC)