Is Capitalism DESTROYING the World!? w/ Dr. Alex Plato 

Every system WITHOUT VALUES will fail.

Y'all have introduced me to the Honorable G.K Chesterton and his work. I am so grateful for that. Must read and study!

Catholic Distributism it is.

Crickey! Dr Plato unlike most philosophers speaks and communicates ideas so simply.

How many NPC comments will there be just reading the title and assuming Fradd is a Marxist now? 🤣 Should we get some sort of tally going? "There are things that exist other than capitalism and Marxism?! I thought Catholicism and capitalism were the exact same thing! Prostitution can't be the result of capitalism... so it must be... Marxist. Sure. That makes sense."

A massive portion of this was solved with remote work during the pandemic. People previously tethered to some large metropolis could move back to anywhere and work near family. Buuuut that couldnt continue because Wall St. needs you in the office, otherwise it was cause a CMBS meltdown and your not buying lunches downtown will hurt sales tax income.

Capitalism pyramid is very connected with technological pyramid.And it is not followed with normal family pyramid.

Love your work! I am really interested to hear the entire episode. Admittedly, I was ALMOST triggered by the title. Just being honest. I think the 'Is capitalism destroying the world' title is a bit misleading. So, I looking forward to getting complete context. That said, in my opinion, the two biggest problems with our economy - or any economy - is cronyism/special interests and weak money. These two things drive most of the problems.

The essay by Heidegger identifies the problem of identifying a cause with the Latin word for cause which is mechanistic where as the Greek word is humanistic and deontic. In his essay on technology he reemphasizes the need to recognize Dasein as disclosing through care not mechanisms.

Chesterton, legend !

"Speechless" by Michael Knowles is a good book on this.

Alex is entirely incorrect at the level of premises on most of his examples. No, socialists are NOT desiring to "protect the family" as a response to the evils of the free market. St. Simon, Faurot, Marx, Friedrich Engels all advocated for the end of the nuclear family and marriage. Belloc cited correctly that Great Britain was an aristocracy, which resulted in too few capitalists. This changed however over time. It was not a permenant aspect as to the nature of the free market or capitalism. Distributism REQUIRES, at some point, the forcible redistribution of private property by a government authority. This doesn't pass any sort of moral rational muster. It doesn't help the institution of the family. It only makes normal families poorer. The historical record is very clear that FEWER people live in poverty with the expansion of free market, capitalist economies. This is particularly true in those states with LESS government intervention, not more.

I've recently come to hear of distributism through Dr Larry Chapp and Dorothy Day. Thank you for having this discussion

When are you going to have Tom Woods on?

I have yet to listen to the entire episode, so I am only responding to those commenting on Distributism below. I think you can get to a distributed economy through capitalism. Doesn't competition do that naturally? (that's an honest question) Things tend to centralize in two ways (or both). One is through a great idea. Great ideas deliver greater value to people and people/markets gravitate towards that. So that's good. The second one isn't so good. That's where cronyism and special interests wield their power to have an advantage over those who are trying to enter the market... sometimes with an even better idea. They usually get squashed through regulation that the "top" company so gratuitously helped create. Sorry for the long comment.

Matt, please invite on Dr. Tom Woods.

This is exactly what is happening in Agriculture. We are forced to manipulate animals and plants for our own survival purpose(greed). Instead of letting animals and plants own NATURE produce goods for us.

As is often the case with philosophers, I have no idea what this guy is trying to accomplish.

As it is with most philosophical views on economics, this fails practical application.

We need Tom Woods

How can we implement a distributive system eventually? What's the first step we can take today to start a grassroots movement to eventually make the american capilist system be replaced?

Let's try thinking of words as signs and guides, not just tools. They're here to enable us to understand ourselves, not just control the world around us. Seeing words as tools ties us into a technocratic mindset, aligning us with Team Sludge! 🧟‍♂️ Let's shift our focus instead to values like community, humanity, and connection. Rise up for what truly matters: relationships, human persons and meaningful work, while honoring our roots! 🏞

No, greed and power are, though.

While I agree that American capitalism is a deeply flawed economic model, I could never get behind actual distributivism, whoch always struck me as campy socialism with a Catholic veneer. What i always thought people really want is a limited Aristocracy, a landowner who has repsinsibilities to his employees, to give them a good life and to build beautiful things, homes, countrysides, ect. I think its what the socialists really want. They want a semi governental official to be responsible for housing them, giving them work, giving them healthcare, and keeping things beautiful. Well, that is just an Aristocrat. It is also what the capitalists want. Without protections, we would have seen captialism devolve into company towns, which is just Aristocratic serfdom with none of the mutual demands of responsibility, and all of the exploitation for someone who lives someplace else. And Aristocrat who is tied to an estate has a natrual interest in keeping his estate in the best condition possible, both for his enjoyment and for his progeny. He has an interest in maintaining a good life for his workers, who without which he would be destitute, and his land would be delivered to someone else. He has an interest in building good, lasting things rather than cheap, disposable things, because he is passing said things of value on to his children. Basically, everything people want is just a meritocratic Aristocracy.

We've found nothing better than Capitalism.

According to the DR, I'm an innovator and conditioner, however I don't reject transcendence.

This is worst thing I've listened to on Pints w Aquinas! Don't use technology, yet 'I'm using this digital platform to spread my opinions ' (if you tell people not to use technology, then why aren't you in some field, city square etc to spread your views????) I'm a catholic and very angry right now!!