I, Pencil: The Movie

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1. A very good way to explain how the free market needs to be free. No one government or group of people can make all the right decisions to make this colossal process work efficiently.
   
   But don't expect the left not to try and de-legitimise this essay. The left aren't interested in providing humanity a better path. That's just what they say they're interested in, their only interest is to use nice sounding platitudes to achieve POWER for themselves.
2. Outstanding.
3. Well, libertarianism might be interesting as a philosophy discussion, but in the real world its merits are not very useful. We have yet to see a country live by libertarian principles, and the fact that no country has implemented it says something about its usefulness in real life.
4. Kor høge va an? Så høga va an!
5. CHECK THE SOURCE...
   
   For your own filter/lens, it's worth full-disclosure that the group responsible for this video are:
   - Climate change deniers
   - Anti-Union
   - Chemical manufacturer advocacy
   
   Not intending to open a political rage thread, but always best to understand sources :)
   
   About the authors...
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Ebell
   https://cei.org/expert/william-yeatman
   
   Apparently they also dislike bees?
   http://www.safechemicalpolicy.org/honeybees
   
   I guess by promoting that the intricacies of globalization are so interesting, we'll forget all the terribleness? ¯\(ツ)/¯
6. I had an economics orgasm watching this.
7. I'm presenting this to a rhetoric class within a CSU school that churns out many fragile snowflakes. I hope to introduce this class to the miracles of voluntarism and free trade.
8. Soooooo sloooooooow! I love movies about how interesting mundane things are but this is so boring.
9. thoughtful thinking
10. This native <3 capitalism... didn't see this short until now!
11. Free Market Capitialism in a Global Market and Free Trade at its best.
12. Should be mandated to be taught in all Middle and Highs schools....Economics doesn't have to be a dry topic as proven here.
13. If you watch this video you can take into account that this principle of not understanding everything behind the making of the pencil can be taken and applied to a bunch of things in life and how important it is to understand where something came from
14. "this is a pencil. youve probably been using one since before you coukd read or WRITE"
    
    Uhm...ok...
15. Who can vote this down? Bet all 200 are sanders supporters. Lol
16. I brought my pencil! Give me something to write on, man!
    -- David Lee Roth
17. Thinking like this is how I have lived my whole life. Excellent video and topic.
18. capitalist pig! We'll see what kind of pencils are made when the proletariat seizes the means of production!
19. Great video.
20. Is this supposed to be proof of a god?