her attributing scientific progress solely to capitalist backing is pathetic. the soviet union went from feudalism to sending the first man in space in around 50 years. please tell me more about how capitalism has been efficient in scientific research that isn’t related to warfare and cool new killing machines.

All my homies get their science YouTube news from Rebecca Watson. She has a great takedown of Hossendelder’s pathetic “trans realism” video. https://youtu.be/r6Kau7bO3Fw?si=rKp9bICpWNjvIoc-

Shitty “scientist” with a failed career turned into a youtube grifter. It’s no surprise her main selling points are bigotry against trans people and those on the autism spectrum, and this… braindead drivel.

Accurate reporting reason

I haven’t yet watched the entire video (in fact, I didn’t pass two minutes) but right off the bat she assumes that economies were originally (and always) sustained by a bartering system, a presumption as old as capitalism. Many scholars prove that this was not the case. This repetitive anecdote only serves to create an imaginary problem to justify the necessity of capitalism later on.

I might edit my post as I watch the rest of the video.

Edit: “but that’s another story,” a story which she will actively avoid because it overturns the entire mode of production on which she a priori built her fantasies.

Edit 2: her conflation of capitalism and “progress” is very problematic in its own right. She’s basically saying that without capitalism there could be no “progress”, no “innovation” and no “civilization”. The only way to progress is through capitalism. I am reminded by what Mark Fisher wrote on capitalist realism, which is a “widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it.”

Edit 3: she writes in the description that “[t]his video is a brief summary of a dip I did into microeconomics literature in a dark hour of my life.” It shows.