It has become nearly universally said, to keep people hopeful.

it isn't???????

,😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏

In high school, my anatomy teacher managed to get our class to chant POWERHOUSE and go bat shit crazy whenever he referenced the mitochondria. He was the best.

Except the mitochondria really are the powerhouse of the cell, and small businesses are certainly not the backbone of our economies.

And that how you get a Emmy.

Reminiscent of South Park episode “more crap” after winning an Emmy.

So sad that they lost that magic a couple years ago. :( I wish the genius writing would return. I only watch for the reporting at this point and cringe the rest of the time.

John is a douche that doesn’t deserve an Emmy

@@ahums16 i think they lost a bit of their funny when frustration about the world set in... 4 years of trump cam probably do that...

Folks, even rich ones, once had a sense of shame, or propriety. Now the higher up the food chain, the more they brag about getting away shit that'd land us lesser mortals in prison

Johns Bond Villan Impression was so fucking spot on it was amazing! 11:30

@@coldfusionstormgaming1808 Maybe he can be the villain in the new Bond film, "Aversion to Violence", starring John Oliver as 007.

@@dmitrybykh9880 That is in no way a defense for his actions

Not just sunglasses - almost every upscale prescription glasses manufacturer AND retailer is owned by them.

This baby can’t be tamed waaa waaa

Poor business daddy. He’s trying his hardest, but John just won’t cut him any slack.

@@Quintusblake well how would he know how much they try if their service is so shity they can't tell him anything?

@@HopeRock425 oof

@@HopeRock425 *dead body reported*

So let's put them together to get a bigger backbones

Go to "dan pena" on UKposts his students made 665,000,000,000$ (665 billion dollars)

Underrated comment right here. This needs more love.

It's true in a way.

And consumers have the power to choose small businesses over big corporations.

Teddy Roosevelt wouldn't say something cool, he'd just do it. The problem with our politicians, both party, is that they talk big, talk sweet, and talk long but talking too big for too long means you have less time to do what you say.

Except neither actually makes sense when you get down to the nitty gritty.

gooka boo u just said "doubt" so u don't actually know. so y r u making assumptions. y dont u just look it up.

Gal Dagon What's the "nitty gritty" that makes this nonsensical? Please do enlighten me.

1. What's the maximum size of a bank or company that's not too big to fail? By what metric do you even determine that size? How should the government prevent them from growing any larger? What should be done about the savings of customers of a bank that failed even though it was small enough? It's a meaningless slogan when you think about it. 2. He voted both ways: www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-sanders-auto-bailout-20160307-story.html

GOLD

Love it

Cambro 64 for the win! Kudos, my friend.

@The man your Mom warned you about r/woosh

Poke Emblem I am posting this on reddit

Oh and the middle class. The good news is that rich rich ceo can finally buy a new yacht. It’s a sacrifice I’m willing to go hungry for.

@@Powderlover1 but that could be you one day!!!1!!! So keep taxes low on the rich in the hope your scratch card will somehow give you both millions of dollars and the financial and social background necessary to safely keep it all!

That and 2:18 and 14:17

Not to mention the epic, informative, hilarious rants, and then just throw in some ridiculous, funny sh*t at the end for good measure, as the icing on the cake (:

I just noticed the motorola logo. and here i thought that company went down the drain

I've owned that specific Motorola cable box... That was cathartic.

You know long ago I thought cable boxes were cool til I realize how boring they can be. :(. Used to had digital well still got but anyway hbo go nada so yeah seeing that cable box being blown up brings a smile in fact a lot of smiles when people saw that. 👍🏻Keep up the good work mister Oliver.

I'd cheerfully help, just sayin' ! ;)-

@@ThomasR415 honestly? Considering it’s John Oliver we’re talking about, I _really can’t say for certain_

And they always use that emmy joke after the most juvenile joke... Haha love it

@@DoctorPortal_IX I automatically thought it was real because of how good the show is. There's ZERO chance that he DOESN'T have an Emmy

@@ThomasR415 I feel like it HAS to be his

It's tricky. On one hand, most support techs want to fix the problem because they don't want to deal with the customer again. On the other hand, relying on the customer to follow the simplest of directions is like praying for a tsunami halfway up Everest. Go for it, you're still going to be freezing your a** off... but you'll be dry.

Comcast is the Super Devil.

@@aaronlampkin284 not from America so don't really understand why - care to share?

GOT YOU, BUSINESS DADDY

Did you ever receive a question that you new about/were aware was a problem, and were told to play dumb? I’m honestly wondering if the porn sites I visit create things tech industries can’t help with or they’ve been told not to.

I'd wager it wasn't that hard. Pick a politician who's been in office for more than say... four to six years, and they've probably said it at least once. One of those charming platitudes that has virtually no connection to reality but makes people feel better and more at home with being stepped on by the faceless corporate entities that have long since come to rule the industrialized world.

I sometimes pity the Last Week Tonight interns

Don't. I'm certain they are well-compensated and love their job. Who wouldn't?

I know the feel 😒

A machine does that

Small businesses are actually the backbone of the economy and I'm sure that they aware of it. They pay the most taxes and employ the most people (in relation to revenue they create). Its just that they don't pay the most money to the Politicians.

Martin Neumann - but corporations are the backbone of political donations which is why lax anti trust laws that make small businesses get crushed like Oakley and either beaten down and then gobbled up or completely put out of businesses if they get in the way, or they win the war and become the next and eventually join hands like google and Facebook etc. Cable and internet companies are monopolies in many places, electric companies are state sanctioned monopolies, and more and more industries are oligopolies, this does not benefit anyone as if they all do anti consumer practices how can you vote with your wallet? Even if you are lucky enough to have multiple internet providers you go from the worst ranked to the second worst ranked company or reversed in customer service. Net neutrality and pay for data limits or potentially moving towards pay per data block is the future they are heading to and no amount of customer outrage stops them anymore because regular capitalist principles no longer apply to these businesses as it’s a necessary goods and services with no other options if they all work in unison or are a monopoly. So because the corporations pay the money to politicians they get the benefit through that and the massive amount of lobbying the do of the laws the politicians make and the cutting of govt agencies which are meant to regulate anti trust, putting in deregulators in key Office who are against anti trust laws, cutting corporate tax rates without closing loopholes and creating more loopholes. The smaller the pool of companies the less it’s a capitalist society and average person has little ability to vote for their wallet or get the best product, industry innovation, or driving down inflated prices. Hell even bad practices or defective products no longer hurt companies, customer service is less of a concern if the customer has really no choice and all the ones you bleed end up going to a competitor that does the same thing so you get back through the bleeding your competitor does around the same you bleed and is consumers every few years get fed up and switch brands or companies only to eventually realize it’s the same.

ntm4 true

Small business are pretty much dead, and have been for decades. But it is an image that politicians like to trot out so they sound good.

It sounds like the Borg collective at the end.😆

Hypocritcal bastards! Stop giving breaks to mega-corporations and start helping the people of our country. Impeach Trump Now, as well!

"The greater good..."

Tag the time please? 13:51 :)

Great Harmony.

True

It's so accurate!

gobbling em' up.

What happened to 20th century Fox?

@@jimmyjohn8008 Disney

Is he going to leap out and assemble an army of cowboys to storm Capitol Hill?

Hindru Denver bruuuuh 😂

Howard Taft too

Long live the bull moose party

TheWishingPanda that's because republicans love low taxes for corporations, and democrats love regulation of businesses, both or which are directly or indirectly effective at protecting big business interests. If anything we should raise taxes for big businesses and deregulate small businesses (50 or less employees)...

The economy is a complex system with too many loopholes for businesses to take advantage of. They indirectly harm the nation and their consumers for self gain. It's awful.

TheWishingPanda this is more a worldwide problem then you'd think

We love board games.

Capitalism is for profit, these companies are sure as hell getting profit.

"Take a walk, Ron."

True

PushoverMediaCritic same reason time Warner is now heavily pushing their streaming services to challenge them. Barely anyone seriously questioned Disney buying spree until it's too late and they control literally everything worth while to watch

BlackSteel KeyChain Honestly, I felt Disney owning Marvel was an inevitability since Time Warner has DC

CN What I'm Saiyan? Me too, as well as pixar to compete with Universal purchase of DreamWorks, but not LucasFilm and the other two at the same time, it's too much influence.

As far as entertainment goes, I feel the biggest issue is the absurdly long time copyright lasts. If copyright only lasted 15-20 years, media companies wouldn't be able to have the huge monopolies they have now, as most of their characters would be in the public domain. While Disney could still make new Marvel movies, and would own the rights to publish those particular movies, the characters could be freely used by Time Warner, or even an independent studio for that matter.

Another Made Up Internet Subculture whats ESPN? 🙃

They were ruthless, but I like AT&T D:

BANA Nawal at&t is a staunch supporter of the GOP...

Dude at and t's prices are a rip off sadly i cant even upgrade on these shitty prices because of my area

at&t bought Direct TV, they offered a 'deal' making it sound like the price is 'fixed' for 2 years (what they hide in the small print) is after the 1st year the rates increase by about $55(per month)/unless you add another service(but their satellite freezes up during rain storms) so by having internet from SPECTRUM my internet continues to work while the tv is glitchy or even completely blacked out(so 'why' would i want their internet service?) Just say'n they went out of their way to make it 'appear' that i would get direct tv for around $65/mo and it wouldn't increase for two years(i won't use them again)

Not as priceless as the satisfaction you get from their crystal clear, reliably strong, and overall GREAT SERVICE!!! #TotallyNotAnAd

He'd make a hilarious Bond villain!

Daenym I dont want to sound mean, but that was a really cheap/easy gag, which is why he joked he was above it

Kurt Sudheim Except he... didn't? He joked he was above the fart jokes bit.

OOH looks like you were the fuckhead this time, idiot!

*Take a stand America*

Applies to almost everything in politics. Especially Republicans with Trump.

Will Higgins Well Obama was on the left and did nothing of what he promised.

Will Higgins Both sides are guilty

Dana ! How did your Research paper turn out ?

Can I read it?

Good luck!

Bella Snid they take forever to write

I would really like to see the resulting report.

The screeching sounds, presumably made by tiny ejaculating macaws inside of his skull, eventually become soothing, like an audial manifestation of Stockholm syndrome

Leatheryfoot I've just watched a lot of last week tonight with John Oliver to make up for how long he has been gone XD

John is the backbone of the US

Very?

I never had cable, you know... Here, in the magical lands, where political leaders aren't retards (Europe), satellite TV has been the standard for years.

Another Made Up Internet Subculture Lol, either your technology is far behind, or your satellite dish is somewhat defective, or it's not aligned properly and just barely gets a signal in perfect weather. Because I grew up with satellite TV and I live in Germany, at the coast of the northern sea. Basically, our weather is the same as in England. Still, weather never had an influence on our TV experience. Satellite worked in the worst of thunderstorms.

umiluv if net neutrality doesn't stick..... it'll get much worse.

Lol who watches tv anymore

Your satellite providers must give you better dishes than, I've known a few people here in the US with satellite, and it was just as the user above described.

Kartik Soni this needs to be at the top of comment section.. Holy shit I never knew this was suck scam.. I always thought producing glasses was an expensive process

Ash bro only when they make it out of real glass, which is still pretty cheap. Nowadays they're all made of plastics

Zenni is amazing! I hope they don't get bought out :(

Our optometrist actually has his office inside a Lens Crafters (he is independent). When we told him we were going to get our glasses online at Zenni, his reply was "Great! those guys are awesome! Let me add your pupillary distance...". So if your optometrist is being a dick, get a different optometrist.

I had the same experience! My optometrist was acting like, "Well, technically I shouldn't be helping you get cheaper glasses," but he gave me all of the information I needed to get the glasses I wanted.

They should add these to the John Oliver Drinking Game, along with him ending a clip with "HO-LY *SHIT* "

@@TheSecondVersion Somebody needs to make a current compilation of those

Is that bulma I see as ur profile pic lol

And because there is no competition.....

Could you please elaborate your comment.. I would love to know the details of this corporate game from someone in another country

Corporations/big business are given tax cut after tax cut to generate profits for owners and presidents of these companies. Then when things go wrong, like the 08 financial collapse and this pandemic, big business is at the front of the line asking for MORE free money to prop their company up. And its given to them. Every time. TO PUT MORE MONEY IN THE POCKETS OF THE PRESIDENTS AND CEOS. Not to the workers or worker safety.

The worst thing I saw in The Netherlands was some companies probably being the most logical ones to want financial support due to the pandemic because of how their customers stopped using their products (public transportation, for the most part) suddenly had to fight for them, along with the fact that transportation companies were at risk of getting fined for cutting services because the money they normally received from commuters was now going low very quickly. But back in 2015 or 2016, the transportation company in my area was complaining about financial shortages making them unable to pay the wages for their drivers, but how did they end up getting into those shortages? By having marketed themselves to want to run the services in a concession contract for such a low amount of money, any economist could've said "You can't do that for the amount of years you need to run your buses, and pay your personnel." Yet somehow, when they DELIBERATELY decided to sell themselves short and got into financial trouble, they were allowed to beg at the people who made the contract, to have the contract changed. I seriously didn't understand how deliberately undercutting yourself could make you able as a company to say "Oh let's change the contract mid-way" but when something happens they LITERALLY had no control over, government going "Not our problem...."

cable companies are a perfect example of the worst part of capitalism.

I notice Americans often don't understand what capitalism actually means. It's a system designed for maximum profit margins which must be archived through efficiency and the way to archive efficiency in the free market is through capitalisation. That's why it's called capitalism. The free market is competitive by design and competition is inherently exclusionary - losers leave and winners stay this process alway results in a few or just one big Corp. left in the end in a given field and it's inevitable, because that's the goal, by design.

@@behemoththekitty Alas, competition dies when the market is impenetrable to new companies. Because a company without competition is safe to exploit its workers and customers.

@@jasonstormsong4940 That is what is always going to happen in an inherently exclusionary system like Asbestos said, capitalism having a free market is pretty much an oxymoron.

*Owl who couldn't get a prom date

Bundit meanwhile in the Netherlands we have 13 atm

If we had more than 2, a lot of elections would be decided by the house of representatives because there would be few majority winners and more pluralities. Always geared toward two party system. Real concern is the shitty options we're given by both parties, especially as of recent years.

Kinda hard to forget. Lol. What sucks is how tribal we are. I was an Army Ranger for nearly a decade before a vbIED took my eye and riddled me with shrapnel including bone fragments of dear friends thst didnt survive fucked me up up mentally and physically. After a year in z wheelchair and a lot of hard PT i reupped, leanred to use my rifle left handed which im luckily cross dominant (eyesight for how you sight in with a firearm, approx 1/3 of people are). My long-winded point is that in war and when working in warzones and broken parts or the world the politics of the person watching your back usually melts away. Practicsl, logical, rational decisions become very important and we lost the ability to do that here. We need to empathize with each other or we are fucked. Thank fuck for my wife and brothers in arms, they brought me back from a very self destructive bender and way of living when i got back ti the real world. Which feels so spoiled, slow in some ways. And he's too many peoole looking for the latest problems like fads

@@mafia6330 Bernie is our best option and i say this as a gun toting semi libertarian combat veteran. He's as honest as we can hope for and as far as i can see he isnt owned by any corporations. The country really started going to hell with Reagan and Reaganomics, deregulation, 401ks replacing pensions, etc. It's a historical fact that every democratic president has left office with the economy on the rise, if not leaving us with a growing surplus vs deficit. Bill Clinton for all his bullshit and huge array of problems did a lot of good for the U.S and Jimmy Carter daerved a 2nd term more than almost.anyone. Obama's biggest mistake was thinking he could work with the other side, ideally he should've. It should be noted hes the most filibustered president in history, by far. I saw a bill for medical aid for 9-11 responders get filibustered and held up right before Christmas by, thunk, McConnell who out the also said his main goal was to make Obama a one termer. It's insane to.me.we.got a birther in office right now

@Roman Hauksson-Neill The problem with approval voting is that candidates would only focus on densely populated areas of the country and leave the small, rural populations behind (save more money, reach more people). A few states would be in control and receive the most attention.

AZ resident I had the same problem!

@@josephmontoya5822 we're in Tucson!

@@ruby5787 dont tell the internet!

Brendan Murphy Who you gonna call? Trust Busters!

Corporations are stronger now, you'd need Teddy, Che, Trotsky, Robspierre, and Bernie to touch rings and combine their powers

BIG STICK!!

I would kill myself just to join his posse.

WHAT'S UP, BITCHES?!

As soon as John started telling the story, I was like "I bet he wanted Oakley to increase their prices and they said no."

That may be what it sounds like to you. To me it sounds like someone is smart enough to know the difference between confidence and arrogance.

LEMMING MARXIST

Jo King you think you're very intelligent don't you?

Those who cannot make fun of themselves lack confidence and are weak cowards. They rely on their ego to compensate for their weak character.

Jo King bin

Kevin Ray

Well said Richard Wolfe

Capitalism gravitates to monarchy, because through lobbying these also essentially write laws for themselves

„Sozialismus und Demokratie sind nicht dasselbe, aber sie sind nur ein verschiedener Ausdruck desselben Grundgedankens; sie gehören zueinander, ergänzen einander, können nie miteinander in Widerspruch stehen. […] Der demokratische Staat ist die einzig mögliche Form der sozialistisch organisierten Gesellschaft. […] Weil wir die Untrennbarkeit der Demokratie und des Sozialismus begriffen haben, nennen wir uns Sozialdemokraten.“ “Socialism and Democracy are not the same, but they are different implementations of the same idea; They belong to each other, fulfill each other and cannot exist without the other. The democratic state is the only way though which a socialist country can exist. Because we believe in the unseperatability of Democracy and Socialism, we call ourselves Social Democrats." Speech of ond of the founders of the German Social Democratic Party.

@raffle baffle Not at all! We even have an active Socialist Party in Germany. In Germany it is forbidden to display Nazi Symbols, be a Nazi, glorify the Third Reich or deny the Holocaust. Sure, that's against freedom of speech, but in this case, your freedom would activly hurt somebody elses freedom. That's why this policy is very much accepted in Germany. Please don't confuse Socialism with National Socialism, they are VERY different and basically opposed.

just wait til the revolution kicks in.

chasemebaby like the "corporate congress" on that tv show Continuum.

is that Novacorp or Lexicorp?

According to Sovereign Citizens, the US is already one big corporation. Gotta love the videos with traffic stops though...

MegaBlueT Are corporations inherently bad, though?

Pretty sure the majority of dystopian literature involves the world being run by one government, not necessarily one corporation.

HA-HA!

may god help you poor man

I'm in a Comcast area. Not much better.

#ThanksFiberOne #Feminism #Farts

When you're not from the US and don't have to deal with shitty ISP's. \o/

Spencer Tracy lol

Great, now I have fewer choices once I have to roll in my grave.

That’s okay I don’t like caskets anyways #TeamCoffin

Frederic Bastiat Are you trolling? Or are you genuinely stupid?

I'm going to get buried in "The Cardboard Warrior".

Lollipop Mari Clearly you are living under a rock. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/b6lirIB4jZCpuZs.html Praise be.

lolipedofin Praise be.

Praise be, brother!

Praise be, brothers and sisters in faith. Keep sending those seeds... praise be.

I thought it was Mormonism

If they can't, I'm sure their graphics team could slide him into your family portraits!

Didn't find much on Hillary Clinton....................lots there.

ukposts.info/have/v-deo/oGF9mppomHhqun0.html

Jawel Zimbabwe hey son, I finally found those cigarettes

Trigger Town Yes they did… did you watch his piece on Clinton and Trump? Also, who gives a shit about Hillary? The election’s over, move on

Our planes look likes dicks and fly like one.

United, we hold a great legacy starting with our founder, Randy Orton

Made my day 😂😂😂😂😂

XD

BurningEagle 😂😂

andy garcia except they really aren't that big seeing as though they are owned by a more bigger company

andy garcia Disney owns everything

andy garcia Disney will destroy anyone

Yeah my HS choir went to sing at Disneyworld and for some reason they wouldn't allow us to sing any Disney songs because they were copyrighted. I'm also surprised that he didn't mention Amazon either. :/

Amazon was mentioned alongside Walmart and Google as dominating industries that are impossible to create start-up companies against in the same field.

There's one from the Turkmenistan episode, another from the sheriff episode, and I lost count

Miguel Gordillo no exclamation point?

+NYCzora Why'd you need that? This corner of the internet is for soft-spoken gentlemen slightly less off-kilter than Ben Carson.

Someone made that comment 4 months before you did lmao

@kainoamh It's absolutely Scientology. Nothing else would make sense for the joke.

Praise be!

Raycher Smith I

I was going to say that. But agreed with you though. Congrats on their Emmys.

Thanks!

I wish people would stop giving a fuck about television award ceremonies. It feels like a circlejerk that the little unpopular guy always looses.

Raycher Smith n n n No N Ng j j. M.

VoreText Comm. Yeah, I'm also surprised that my NBN connection didn't di- *the connection was interrupted*

They're working on the technology to do just that.

Their 7 year old self's have tears of joy.

... or just watched a short youtube tutorial on how to do edit for free

It takes about 5 minutes of video watching and even less time doing it. Glad to see you understand a joke!

more likely it was the interns still in college :)

Nothing makes me lol harder than fart jokes and I really can't stand the fact my sense of humor is this way.

John Chessant its not worth the hassle. I have one and i litterally only turn it on for game of thrones and nothing else.

not for long though.

TheUmbrellaCorpX7 im actually planning on returning it for the next 2 years. I just have to sell the idea to my gf

You are not stealing anything here. This is official channel.

@@stayfrosty8470 If she insist on the cable box she is literally a waste of money. Get rid of her and you'll save money.

get too deep, and rock the boat too much, and they might just make you disappear. After all whats one little human in the world.

The laws already exist in the form of anti trust. We don't enforce them. I'm not saying you're wrong, those donations are just heading to a different place, and an even more fucked up place since I would like to think an AG's office should at least pretend to look at everything and everyone equally...

AnarchyAlchemist donations are a bit of an understatement. I’ve been reading up on it and they literally receive TRILLILONS of dollars a year. And that’s ONLY from Pharmacy companies. I can’t imagine what it would be if you added all the other ones with it.

See: Ajit Pai and the Internet.

The part that Oliver misses is the reason why these oligopolies are possible. He claims that we need more regulations and harsher implementations of them. We have FAR more regulations on the books now than we did in 1970. That's not the solution. Lobbyists have successfully pushed legislation and regulation that makes it difficult for small businesses to compete. Harsher implementation means a larger bureaucracy and a greater burden on small businesses and on taxpayers in general. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/sJybaJCabWiJ2IE.html

"Business as you know it is over. We will add your financial and economic distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile."

“I am Luxottica of the Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.”

THE MEMES JACK, THE MEMES

Actually... Bees are. They pollinate our fruits, vegetables, make honey, wax and most importantly... they like Jazz.

Just wait until a meme lord consolidates most of the popular memes.

+sprybug That's the beautiful thing of memes, the memelords can't start a fourth meme reich, constantly ensuring competition.

UKposts's not even trying to hide their agenda anymore. Pricks.

Google is owned by Alphabet, a corporation that owns many, many key companies.

Mainly research and other parts of googles. Still very big.

Google is a little different, but yeah, they basically split themselves up into tiny companies, formed Alphabet, and classified themselves (Google) as a subsidiary of Alphabet. If anything goes "horribly wrong" one day, they'll just blame their parent company Alphabet, even though they operate independently.

I think not! ;)

I take what I can get

😂😂😂 that name is simply too precious

Small economies are the backbones of our businesses. Hang on...

Miramar, Florida's famously large cannibal population frequently elect politicians who say this very thing. You might think it's not true, but you can't be absolutely sure of it, can you? After all, it is Florida.

Small penises up the backside of our economy. Otherwise known as Goldman-Sachs.

So long as you weren't kneeling at the time, that's fine

Yes, we've all watched 'Six Feet Under'/

oh my dear... it goes much deeper We do have a monopoly. Everything, EVERYTHING, every large company to every small mom and pop shops is OWNED by 13 families. 8 people own 50%, and rising, of the worlds wealth. They own the banks, food production, medical care, housing, land development, land in general, water rights, mineral rights, school systems, entertainment, manufacturing, retail chains, science boards, academia, the News networks, defense contractors, the IRS, some small countries, and nearly EVERY SINGLE GOVERNMENT ON EARTH. They own it. How do you fight such a thing. Don't believe me still believe your NOT a slave to these families? Follow the money, but beware once you go down this path, you may soon harbor the deep hatred i have for the "Ruling Class" And wish for not only their deaths but the death of this EVIL system. We would all be more free and safe living in the fucking woods then with these vampires

+PTSDSquirrel are you literally just copy pasting this?

I am, many know of the power structure they can see, but find out who rules the rulers. The message must be heard. Mankind must know, if they are to be released from bondage of the Secret Aristocracy. Vivat et liberet homines

Deborah Freedman lol was going to post the same.

Really? I haven't heard that joke before. Do you also still prank call people to see if their "fridge is still running"?

Jakub K exactly

And pee is stored in the balls. (I'm so sorry. I'll leave)

TheDilloWolf so girls dont pee?

Have you ever seen a girl pee? Exactly.

Yup. As soon as he mentioned eyeglasses, I thought, "Luxxotica". Adam's segment on internet providers also fits into this.

"jacked up the price ridiculously, so great cool people couldn't afford them anymore" You mean, poor cool people.

I started getting my glasses online about seven years ago. My sister is an optician, and the markup on frames and lenses is incredible.

their designer frames are ridiculously expensive. love warby parker.

Yes I did. I think most real cool artists/trendsetters don't have $$$, at least at first. I don't find rich lemmings that cool.

Cool people don't wear brands.

Dam that sucks, sorry to hear that. Mergers and Deregulations only help the corporation, while fucking over the customers & employees😫

Sad story for you but it's irrelevant. Business owners have a right to buy, sell, merge their business. It's their property. And sometimes a business owner sells his business and the guy who buys it is a total as... So what? It happens. That doesn't mean that the government has the right to dictate which company can buy which companies. And it doesn't mean that "deregulation" isn't benefiting us. Things change. If you no longer like your place of work simply quit. It's ridiculous to cry that the government should regulate that because things didn't go that well at your place.

Well that's your opinion. I mean, it's a pretty stupid opinion because deregulation and allowing companies to merge with whatever and whoever played a major part in the 2008 recession. (go watch Too Big to Fail) And another thing, my "Sad story" wasn't supposed to be sad. We all eventually moved past it. I wrote that comment to support John's argument that people suffer from corporate consolidation. So until you tell a story about how this crap has screwed you over somehow, I can't take your opinion seriously. Of course, If you're one of those people that have had life handed to you on a silver platter and have never had to live the life of the lower working class, then f**k you, you have no right to criticize me.

First property rights aren't opinions. If I built a company I would have the right to sell it. Period. Second your claim that deregulation and merger played a part in the 2008 is ridiculous where to start? First do you know that 90+% of a bank's capital (in the context equity + debt) is shielded from loss by the government? It's called deposit insurance and shields depositors from losses. Since the huge majority of banks' capital is provided by deposit, it shield that vast majority of these capital providers from losses. What happens then? Since they can only gain they go for more risk for more gain. For example millions flocked to Country Wide Financial, which had higher interest on certificates of deposits but was also riskier. It had a sweet deal with other government back insitutions: Freddie and Fannie (whose debt is guaranteed by the government) to pass on most those crappy mortgages to them. Before the crisis Chris Dodds and Barnie Frank (democrats) were pounding the table for the government to allow Fannie and Freddie to buy even more crappy loans (to help affordable housing goals). And then there's the time when Clinton sued banks that weren't making enough crappy loans. But I guess your documentary talks about the evil "repeal of Glass Steagal", which allowed for a bank to do both commercial and investment activities. So Glass Steagal would not have affected Country Wide Financial (commercial, failed), Bear Sterns (investment, failed), WaMu (commerical, failed) but would have affected JPM (mixed, didn't fail), Wells Fargo (mixed didn't fail) and Citygroup (mixed, failed). So it would just have affected Citygroup which would have failed anyone since it's in max risk each time since it's always bailed out by the government. That's an awefull lot of regulations the glance over in order to claim the industry was deregulated. Now to your second point "people suffer from corporate consoldiation". People also "suffer" from people closing down their business, changing location, trying new strategies and failing,... Does that mean the government should step in and regulate those as well? Businesses are properties. Owners have a moral right to do whatever they want with them. If it makes sense to close a branch than they have every right to close it even if employees and customers are made worse off. You have a right to buy what companies offer you at whatever price they offered it to you or not to buy anything from them. We are in the market to make ourselves better off. Companies are in the market to make themselves better off. But you have no moral right to go to the government and use it to point a gun at companies and force them to offer you the deal they want. As for your last ridiculous line, "Of course, If you're one of those people that have had life handed to you on a silver platter and have never had to live the life of the lower working class, then f**k you, you have no right to criticize me" it's simply an ad hominem attack. My personnal character or experience has no bearing on me calling your arguments bs. The validity of an argument isn't affected by the character of the person who speaks it. So yeah to summarize my first argument. "Maybe the company you worker for made choices that made you worse off. But that's no argument for getting the government to regulate their activities. They have a right to opperate as they see fit. And if you don't like it you have a right to quit. Period."

Alright, this is going to be my last reply to you, because quite frankly I've got better things to do than to defend myself from a triggered wannabe economist who I'm most likely never going to meet IRL. I don't think I can say anything that you won't label as bs, and based upon how you responded to my last bit, and how you haven't giving an example of how this system has screwed you over, It only strengthens my original theory that you've never worked a hard day in your life, so once again, f**k you. Now, if I am wrong, and you have worked a lower class job, well then I'm wrong, but I won't know. Seriously, I'm done talking to you, so try to resist the urge to respond, you'll just be wasting your time. One last thing though. You could at least bother to research that film before going off making some stupid speculation about it. It's not a documentary, it's a bio drama centered around treasury secretary Hank Paulson and his team trying to find a way to stabilize the banks. If anything, just watch it for James Woods's acting (he plays Dick Fuld)

John Smithy when is he going to start roasting the ZUNE... that's my question...