How The Gravel Institute Lies about pretty much Everything.

The Gravel Institute started as a leftwing counter narrative to Prager U. Or at least, that's their claim. The reality is that The Gravel Institute largely focuses on pushing economic misinformation in favor of Marxist lies and outright nonsense. When the Gravel Institute states a statistic, and you check the source of that static, chances are pretty good that it's taken out of context.

This video is a compilation of refutations to a selection of videos I feel best showcases their deception and overall poor reasoning.

00:00 Intro
01:13 "You Will Never be Rich"
04:15 Conservatives Created Cancel Culture
06:36 Is Big Government Really the Problem?
13:04 Does Capitalism Mean Freedom?
18:49 Why Bitcoin is a Scam
23:41 Is Capitalism Actually Reducing Poverty?
29:17 Conclusion

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Music: Image Comes Down - Glitch Hop/Chill
License: CC 4.0 Attribution

[stephenkneller]

I like how the American Dream has been redefined from the opportunity to succeed based on one’s own hard work to material wealth.

[bfranciscop]

Also their praise of USPS feels... backwards. "It provides jobs, while allowing people to deliver packages". It sounds as if they think that providing jobs is the main point, while actually providing a service is a secondary consideration.

[evilemperorzurg]

The difference between being a millionaire and a billionaire is staggering.

If your average American makes an average salary, has a decent retirement/ investment fund, and stays out of prison the chances of them being a millionaire at some point in their life is high.

To become a billionaire you either have to revolutionize a market or inherit the money from someone who did.

[jhonklan]

The American dream was never about being middle class or even home ownership. It was about being able to carve a life out for yourself free from undue interference. OF being the maker of your own destiny. There has been a strange comodifacation of the American dream recently.

[patrickbuckley]

I love how Gravel's argumentation from 13:05 to 18:00 Is literally refuted the moment you realize that the reason Big Companies have so much power is because the Government has so much power.

[reuvenpolonskiy]

Gravel logic:
The government is bought by big buisness.
Therefore giving more power to government over us is good.

[marcusmoonstein]

It's interesting that the Gravel Institute complains about how businesses and billionaires are buying the government, but conveniently forget to mention that one of the worst offenders in this regard are unions. Especially at local and city level, union support (both financially and by political endorsement) are a major driver of local politics.

[Madman]

Late to the party, but concerning 4:39, it is the same cringe people. The one spearheading the banning of rock music, video games, and D&D was in fact Tipper Gore. They literally threw a rock, hit themselves, and said 'evil conservatives'.

[praxben]

“Dude we need to change the script to billionaire. I just googled it and there’s more millionaires than billionaires”

“Yea just change the M here to a B and we can record this”

[wyssmaster]

"You don't actually have a choice because every small company that deals on this commodity is owned by the same large corporation"

That's actually explicitly false, particularly in the case of beer. The idea that a few beers being owned by the same company means that all beer is owned by a single company is ludicrous. Yes, many major brands are owned by a few corporations (including many well known craft breweries), but there are plenty of widely available independent craft beers.

What she said is the equivalent of someone asking if I prefer Pepsi or Coke, to which I respond "Well Sprite, Barq's and Coke are all owned by the same company, so there's really no difference"

[DLR]

Seeing Australia higher on the “human freedom index” is hilarious. They arrested people for going to parks and beaches ALONE during Covid? And now they’re literally bringing a comedian to court over a joke.

[llLorenzoll]

There is something poetic about the fact the Prager U commie counterpart has beautiful graphics and art and far FAR worse methodology and biases

[OuroborosChoked]

The Gravel Institute: named after what fills their cranial cavities.

[Cloud_Seeker]

Oof. That "you can choose bud light but everything else is owned by the same corporation" didn't age well. It seems people found a way, and I am sure Gravel are very mad about it.

[ill_steal_your_pbj]

Shilling for China and setting them as a gold standard for increasing the quality of life of their citizens is insane, especially when China is trading an insane amount with the rest of the world using capitalistic systems.

[_WhiteMage]

"You're more likely in America to be a millionaire than homeless" 👏🏻

[charlesferdinand]

And to state a few facts:
Capitalism and the United States WON the Cold War while the Soviet Union disintegrated under its own weight without a single shot being fired; Socialism is the obsolete ideology that failed miserably in Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Grenada, Vietnam, North Korea, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Libya, Sri Lanka, Chile, Hungary, Nicaragua, Poland, El Salvador, Mozambique, Romania, Honduras, Mongolia, Bolivia, Afghanistan, Angola, China (which has been Capitalist in everything but name since the economic reforms of 1964 by Deng Xiaoping), Russia (of course), and everywhere else it has been tried.
Capitlism continues to be the best and only option while Socialism continues to be the worst, the most failed and most lethal after having caused at least 120 million deaths in less than 90 years which would translate in more than 1 million deaths per year.
BTW, how come reds keep bitching about American "imperialism" but never mention Chinese imperialism in Vietnam or North Korea? Or Soviet imperialism in Afghanistan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, East Germany or Yugoslavia? Or Cuban imperialism in Angola, Mozambique, Grenada, Nicaragua or Venezuela? Or Yugoslav imperialism in Albania?

And let's finish with the Socialist prayer:
If it's a Socialist atrocity, it never happened
If it happened, it wasn't that bad
If it was bad, they deserved it
I'd they didn't deserve it, mistakes might have been made
If mistakes were made, that wasn't real socialism.

[pubcle]

Reminder that when in the 90's that the Satanic Panic amounted to "I don't like this, I think it is immoral and want you to know it."

Even Jack Chick just believed it should be discouraged, not banned. The argument on the Satanic Panic isn't even remotely comparable to modern cancel culture.

[Not.a.bird.Person]

At 9:08, I like how Canada is listed #4 in the 2019 human freedom index... while having had some of most restrictive lockdowns of any country during 2019 to 2022. We had mandatory curfews at 8pm, vaccine passports to go to restaurants and legally enforced obligations to wear a mask for 2+ years in most provinces. There is a reason why people were pissed and went to the freedom convoys... and that they were called *freedom* convoys. But hey, Canada is so free that the organizers had their bank accounts cut off without a judicial process... At this point I legitimately just hope that Poilievre gets into power before we get a social credit score and before I am blocked from writing comments like this one.

[bigslurpee]

"Is BiG gOvErNmEnT rEaLlY tHe PrObLeM?"

YES. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.