Canada

It's refreshing because I try to avoid a partisan bias in my videos, mainly because I think both the Liberals and Conservatives have created these problems for us over the long term. On most platforms, because the Liberals have been in power for a while, this tends to lead to backlash from conservatives who think I'm saying that if things aren't 100% the fault of the Liberals, we should just keep voting for them. So, to see people elsewhere thinking I'm pushing a conservative agenda means I'm probably striking the right tone in terms of not favouring either of the two parties that control all of federal politics.

There's a reason I don't want to favour either of those parties, and it's not because I'm simply trying to create an appearance of being unbiased, it's because I think both parties have failed regular working people, through their persistent focus on short-term economic metrics and an over-adherence to economic orthodoxy, which presumes that maximizing total profits is the same as maximizing quality of life.

The main thing I try to do in my videos is get people to set aside the partisan culture war bullshit and start understanding the root causes of problems, so we can better advocate for policies that work for us. Neoliberalism - which is promoted through the policies of both parties - has produced more profits, but the benefit of those profits is not being accrued by the people who do the productive work to create them. The delusional, out-of-touch nature of these policies can be seen in the emergence of terms like "vibecession", where economists have been confused as to why households feel strained even though macroeconomic indicators are looking good.

The connecting thread through my content, particularly in my stuff on housing, is that excessive financialization, and the overall use of monetary tools as "solutions" rather than real productive action, is siphoning wealth away from working people and towards people who already have vast amounts of wealth. Something I've mentioned before is that the much-touted "largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history" when boomers eventually pass away isn't going to be from parents to children, it's going to be from parents to their creditors. This all flows from something I started suspecting from looking at data all the way back in my teen years, which is that wealth inequality has been persistently increasing, and increasing wealth inequality invariably leads to decreasing quality of life. As I've continued to look at the economy over the past twenty years, I think the main conduit that this happens through is increasing financialization and deregulation of the financial industry, which absorbs a great deal of profit in the economy while effectively producing nothing.

This is the stuff that normally leads to me being called a communist (which I'm not), so I'm still working on how to address these topics more directly without having half the viewers immediately shut off their brains and stop listening. I don't think the solution is to redistribute wealth so that everyone is exactly equal regardless of what they're doing with their life, it's to change the rules of a system that's currently set up in a way that constantly redistributes wealth upward and makes it more and more concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people. As you can probably imagine, finding a way to broach this subject without immediately being accused of being a raging commie hack is a tough nut to crack. But I'm working on it.