The Communist Manifesto
Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
Avoiding communism and poverty, and the human misery, poverty and 6 and 7-figure death tolls that so often come with it is far more productive than getting a certain economic or policy lever "just right".
This is similar to health where avoiding things like smoking are more important than finding the perfect diet.
Robert understands how money works today, knows a ton about the banking system. Both him and Donald Trump are wealthy and successful, and besides getting rich quick has worked many times for many people (including many who use this site: the dotcom boom, crypto, NFTs, etc) — if you have no ability to figure out how to play certain games, that's another discussion.
If partnering with Trump isn't enough of a red flag, Robert has plenty of failed businesses on his record to prove how useless his mind is
Wasn't an advice, just stating the known fact that people got rich overnight on various things, e.g. NFT.
Most of the US was "partnered" with Trump for four years and it flourished, the economy was booming, the US did not get involved into a single new war during that time.
Most businesses fail, all businesses fail to some degree, it's not an indicator of how "useless" somebody's mind is, even if they make one out of 100 that succeeds, it's a success.
You're likely in your late teens / early 20s, convinced that you've figured out how the world works and everything looks crystal clear to you. That is not confidence, rather lack of data points, life experience, research. You dismiss things and try to discredit people without really understanding the topic and resort to personal attacks, that makes you look unstable and childish, I can't really take seriously things you say, the arguments you make, there's not much that can be done here from my side, as you seem to have already made up your mind about things, driven by fear, anger, and other basic emotions, rather than logic and reason. This topic was about understanding central banking, and continuing this discussion would be a waste of my time as to understand something, one must be able to accept and analyze different points of view, instead of calling people names.
You admire this guy Robert as a man who knows how to be successful under capitalism yet you also are comfortable that the only success he has had is baiting people like you into thinking that he is indeed successful.
Thinking that the economy flourished under Trump is sycophantic nonsense. He cut corporate tax rates to incredibly low levels and ordered the fed to cut interest rates despite the already out of control stock market, so of course indexes like the Fortune 500 skyrocketed. Not an indication of the real economy in any way or how the labor class is actually doing, but an indicator of growing CEO wealth and growing inequality
Marx's "labor theory of value" surely sounds great, but you have to know that that guy never worked a day in his life. He was a spoiled lazy brat who was sponsored by his friends until death, friends who had wealthy parents that owned factories and businesses (evil capitalists). Not an expert on labor.
As for Trump, the question here wasn't how he did it, it's the fact that he did it... the game is rigged, the money in today's world is just paper, it's one big ponzi scheme, and once again, it's the FED and Marxist central bank to blame for... he had to work with the tools he had, and he's done many great things for his country despite non-stop attacks from the left. The financial system we have today is very detached from actual labor. Despite him bringing a lot of manufacturing back into the country, those two will likely never ever become as connected as before due to automation and virtualization.
You seem to be attacking people rather than ideas, ignoring successes, and fight instead of trying to improve and create something. With that attitude you will be poor your whole life, and people who promise you equality, or blame capitalists/men/racism/etc just want to steal the rest of your money from you. Humans have a natural tendency to compete. The fairness of things being unfair is how the world works, and no amount of surveillance, policing, or social credit scores will ever be able to change that.
Anyway, why are you so reflexively critical of the labor theory of value? Capitalism is leading to the overproduction of goods and the destruction of the environment, so why is that any better than considering a form of socialism?
The "labor theory of value" as you put it, sounds like a noble idea only until you try to implement it, the history has shown it many times, and yet gullible people with little life experience still keep falling for it. Socialism can work in a small town where everybody is like a family, the larger the scale the more corruption and less trust ends up being part of the system, and it just turns into Venezuela or USSR with tyrannical govt and everybody stealing what they can. Free market is how things work in nature, cruel but it works. I've never said that I view capitalism as ideal or the best way of doing things, no system is perfect. And today you don't see much of it in the western world anyway, it's mostly aspects of kleptocracy that get falsely blamed on supposed faults of capitalism.
It is better because it works and grants the most amount of personal liberties to express yourself and live your life, pursue endeavors and invent new things. Overproduction of goods is somewhat better than underproduction (empty shelves), you're about to be able to compare the two if you live in the EU or US.
And as a side note, I find it beyond hilarious that people like you use inventions and devices that were created in many aspects thanks to capitalism, and then try to convince everybody that it's bad, on a website of a company that puts seed capital into startups (evil capitalism again!). You guys should just leave for Venezuela, and live your life there, enjoying socialism away from this terrible system that overproduces things and ruins the environment.