Probably the most faux-intellectual thing I've read this week, bravo

Nailed it.

The rise of socialist greed is a sign of our terminal decline as a nation.

we worship the rich because they are respected, have lavish life styles, and young beautiful women throw there bodies at them.... that equates humans with a terminal decline as a nation

@@samurilip Actually, people become rich either by doing something useful or by stealing from others. When our rich were self-made men, our country prospered. Now they are increasingly socialist thieves. That equates with a terminal decline for a nation.

George Carlin said - That's why it's called the American dream. Because you have to be asleep to believe it.

We still haven’t understood our own basic nature, a lot of what we do is just to take the easiest path forward and then justify it to ourselves afterwards. A great deal of what we do is to some degree unconscious, but people react with outrage when you suggest that they aren’t fully in control all of the time. Being in control all of the time means that you are at all times fully aware of your actions and conscious of the long term repercussions that they entail, both for yourself and for the wider community. Asking that plastic bags be banned for instance shows that we don’t want to be burdened with having to make that choice, because convenience would win out almost all of the time for most people.

@@thomasjaggers3576 he said this, but that doesn't make it true.

@@rinzler9171 That's right, just like what you said doesn't really mean anything.

Going all the way back to Colonialism. What's happening in America and by extension Europe is the natural outcome of believing absurdities to justify atrocities

Its name is crony capitalism. And capitalists like to say it's socialism(it isnt) and progressives like to say socialism for the rich(also not true)

what a visionnary, and this was before COVID where States use fear and terror to protect us from the "evils".

I agree. I’ve called it ‘corpocracy’,.

In my youth I worked serving executives of the defunct Times Mirror Corporation. I was also a student at USC, so my work experience was very formative. Something that stroke me about your comment is that your allusion to what I refer to as corporate slavery. We all end up being corporate slaves. The only thing that may save the day is that from the times of Egypt there were scribes. I thought, yes, it has been the only way to get by, but in reality, I have never believed that slavery has been abolished.

It's childish

People always like to pretend that the problems we face today didn't have equivalents in the past.

I was thinking the same thing - the "barons" of the 19th and early 20th Century in the United States - just prior to major anti-trust, anti-monopoly legislation - had those same characteristics. Richest people in the world, large scale humanitarian concerns (who didn't have a Carnegie Library in their town growing up?)...but ultimately they were the same. Read Sociopathic Society, by Charles Derber, if you're interested.

@@jollyrancher667 Goes back even further than that too. My super right-wing anti-establishment friends don't know jack shit about Shay's Rebellion or the Whiskey Rebellion. Common folk were getting fucked over by the Founding Fathers ffs. John Hancock legitimately let shit go to hell, then sat out an election cycle claiming to be ill just so his successor would take the fall, and then swoops back in. All while Sam Adams said anyone unwilling to support the republic is a traitor and should die.

Its similar but different, what Facebook has done in changing the minds of Americans is unprecedented. This isn't just money talking anymore its control of a technology that has powerful sway over its users emotions. Its faaar more dangerous.

@@madisonbryant4417 And I'm all for some good ol' fashioned trust busting and clamping down on the propagation of misinformation in the meantime. But still, having sway over people's emotions? That has been happening since forever. The election between Adams and Jefferson had newspapers flat-out saying you'd be damned to hell if you voted for the wrong candidate.

thats an oxy moron... if they dont view themselves as evil/villains then they cannot be categorized as such. because they wont have the perspective of being evil or villainous. therefore you cannot help or change them from being as such.

@@plewtz80 Not necessarily; you would be right for those of a chaotic evil alignment but lawful evil, someone can fully acknowledge their desire to exploit others for their own selfish benefit, which is evil, but their lawful nature leads them to rationalise that while this specific act might be harmful, it is for the benefit of the society since it was carried out within a certain framework (you would see this sort of thing with say the Wehrmacht in WW2...

@@mduckernz dude... you are using dungeons and dragons alignments to not make a point... wtf. also you cant classify someone as evil if they dont feel they are evil, because a someone doing evil actions out of necessity isnt evil. for instance someone with a horrendous addiction kills someone while attempting a robbery to pay for their addiction, simpletons would just classify that junkie as evil. however intelligent people realize the junkie isnt simply evil. that person sought out a solution to their horrible situation in life and it went very wrong, which resulted in a death. it's various shades of neutrality if anything D&D alignment related, not simply good and evil.

@@plewtz80 But if that action is repeated multiple times by the same person, is it evil then?

@@mjc42701 depends. also no. willful evil acts when they dont need to do them is abhorrent, but stealing from a store for some food is nature. primates steal, other animals steal and kill and a variety of other "evil" actions. declaring someone evil is simple to do, but understanding that doing evil shit is a capability by anyone given certain circumstances is a complex matter. like kids that bully other kids, evil or primitive territorial behavior displayed by a child's brain? granny that lies to her doctor about the severity of her pain to get a prescription filled and sells half the pills for cash. evil or intelligent bartering?

I'm brazillian, and if you think things are bad in America, danm, here everyone is desperate for money, inequality is even more staggering and with instagram and shit, we developed this sort of bragging culture, showing how hotter and richer than other people we are

Unfortunately no. My Mother felt that because she lived in the US, she would speak only English. I wish now that she hadn't. Only time I heard Portuguese was when my Aunts and Uncles came to visit. I completely loved their spirit.

I find this to be sad. The very wealthy are making this crap happen Every where. They should realize that we have them outnumbered.

@@user-tz8ze3tp7m Young people are doing that in Iran too these days, even as the rest are living crushed under the effects of sanctions. Instabullshit, showy-offy behaviour is a world-wide phenomenon.

Thank you, Gary, for sharing this. It gives some hope knowing that wealth-worship hasn't always been around. Then we _can_ build a path to a society of saner values.

He seems to have a problem with white people no?

Breediot Joel: You are wrong, having a child gives you purpose and joy. Their a blessing from Gawd. Preventionist: Thanks Joel you cleared that up… LMFAO ROTF Why is it about giving YOU purpose and Joy. What is truly in it for the child? Children are also humans and not just objects like toys. The unborn have no problems until they are raped into existence by creepy, disturbed, child hating, bored to death, miserable, toxic against children, merciless, irresponsible, egoistic, cruel, brutal, violent, unempathetic, uncompassionate, lonely, loser, drug addict/alcoholic, coward, poor, toxic, narcissist, selfish, broke from all points of views, low IQ, sadist, psychopathic, depressed, anxious, mentally ill, delusional, evil, hateful, purposeless megalomaniacal power tripping control freak breediots. The public indoctrination camps don't teach you how to think, they teach you WHAT to think. Breeders are so blind to how evil they are. Procreation is worse than murder. It is the first step for the possibility of murder to occur after all! Where do breediots get the right to impose unnecessary risk, exploitation from all points of views, suffering and death, without consent/permission? This question is a “check mate” for every breeding dipshit. Because they must expose themselves to be sadomasochists in order to honestly answer any part of it. Ability doesn’t equal right. Life isn’t necessary. And consent matters. Breeders have no rational or ethical/moral response to any of this. Pro life = pro-suffering and pro-death. It’s all or nothing. The only thing a parent can guarantee their child, is that they’ll be exploited from all points of views, suffer and die, pointlessly. If one considers themselves empathetic, it is this fact alone that they must refuse to recognize because they subconsciously know it completely destroys any feelings of entitlement towards procreation. A child is consigned/forced to a lifelong of exploitation from all points of views, suffering, misery and death by his own father and mother. Birth is but the beginning of a trajectory exploitation from all points of views, suffering, misery and death plus eternal torture in hell for forever/eternity for 80- 90% of humanity; for all their love, breediot-parents cannot halt any of these ‘gifts’/’wonders’ of life and in a sense have "given us to death" merely by giving us birth, i.e raping us/forcing us against our will, without our consent/permission into this hellish existence. It is so cute and endearing that your reaction to the certitude of an impending ecological disaster that includes famine, civil-unrest and irreversible mass extinctions all over the world (as a consequence of breeding), is to pump out another sweet little unit, I mean baby. How about adopting ? Procreating is the ultimate egotistical display and irresponsibility. Those with the right dose of DELUSION are more likely to FORCE innocent souls against their will into this hellish existence, whereas those who see the human condition for what it is, are unlikely to force innocent souls AGAINST THEIR WILL into this hellish existence. Become a hero! Do NOT Reproduce. Meaning, do not force innocent souls against their will, without their permission into this hellhole existence. Spare your child from a lifelong of: exploitation from all points of views, harm, disease, misery, suffering, DEATH and eternal torture in hell. If innocent souls were forced into this hellhole by an act of pure selfless reason ALONE, would the human race exist? Would not a man/woman rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of hellish existence, or at any rate not take upon himself/herself to impose that hellish burden upon it with selfish cold blood? It is curious that while the few good people that still exist on earth go to great lengths to spare their children, who they forced into this hellish existence against their will in the first place, from suffering... few of of the few of them seem to notice that the one and ONLY guaranteed was to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to force those innocent souls against their will into this hellhole existence in the first place. Even the luckiest inhabitants of this hellhole suffer MUCH discomfort, pain, anxiety, disappointment, fear, grief, death and much else. AL of these harms could have been avoided if the people suffering them had never been force into this hellish existence. Great exploitation from all points of views awaits ALL innocents souls who were forced against their will, without their consent/permission by their irresponsible, selfish, sadist breediot parents. Even the most privileged people could force a child against his/her will into this hellhole that will suffer unbearably, be raped, assaulted, or be murdered brutally. The 'optimist' suffering with severe/extreme hopium addiction surely bears the burden of justifying this procreational russian roulette. There are no such things as responsible breeders/breediots. Strollers...resemble bulldozers, both in form and function. And...they have a directly proportional economic relationship: the more baby strollers needed, the more bulldozers will be manufactured to clear wild lands and make way for the suburban housing developments and agricultural fields necessary to support those endless, shrieking little shit factories (who will become HUGE shit factories)--and their offspring, and their offspring, ad infinitum... The definition of slavery fits to ALL children being forced into existence against their will. Most of them are brought to satisfy needs of someone other than themselves, the rest are born out of accidents. Almost all are imprinted with ideologies of their breediot-parents. By definition they cannot escape this. This along with the fact that they were brought here without their consent/permission makes the similarity to slavery uncanny. Whether you have 1 slave or a 100 slaves, or if you have 1 child or a 100, it is only a matter of degree. there's no viable possibility whatsoever of bringing a human being into existence with their explicit permission/consent. Procreation in itself is always a selfish and irresponsible act by the breediot parents. If there were a way of obtaining a concerned person's consent, it'd be a different discussion, but there obviously is none. Objectively, there is nothing lost for the person concerned if not forced into existence. I'm loving my child so much I will never force it into existence, even if we had a perfectly pacifist society. Combining the view that fetuses lack moral standing in the earlier stages of pregnancy with the view that it is always a harm to come into existence turns the prevailing presumptions about abortion on their head. Instead of a presumption in favour of a continuing pregnancy, we should adopt a presumption, at least in the earlier stages of pregnancy, against carrying a fetus to term. This is the 'pro-death' view of abortion. On this view, it is not any given abortion (in the earlier stages of pregnancy) that requires justification, but rather any given failure to abort. For such failure allows somebody to suffer the serious harm of coming into existence. My argument has not been simply that pregnant women are entitled to have an abortion (in the earlier stages). I have argued for the stronger claim that abortion (during these stages) would be preferable to carrying the fetus to term. This is not the same as arguing that abortions should be forced on people. Thus my conclusion should be viewed as recommendations about how pregnant woman should make use of the freedom to choose whether or not to abort. I am recommending that she does abort and that she needs excellent reason not to. It should be clear that I do not think that there is any such reason. Women are COMPLETE human beings. NOT potential mothers. Motherhood is just an option. Women ain't breeding machines ! Lisa Ling said she had her 2nd child so that her first child won't be "alone in the world" should she and her husband die. Imagine being brought into this world for the sole purpose of keeping a sibling company... like a kind of 'PET-human' !?..... even then its not certain that company will last forever: siblings also go a divergent way & dont care for each other any longer… and the irony is that the more crowded the world gets, the more people breed out of fear of being "alone." Sad. Oh, Lisa Ling is also hopeful that her daughters will bring her grandchildren. If destruction is violence, creation, too, is violence. Breeding/Procreation, therefore, involves violence. The creation of what is bound to perish certainly involves violence. Caring men and women should have qualms about forcing a child without his/her consent/permission into this world. 'So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern.... Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football/sports, sex, fashion, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. to keep them in control was not difficult.' - George Orwell's 1984 book.

its a great book. He verified many thoughts Ive had for decades. His new book, The Persuaders is just as good.

Bill Clinton went to Georgetown. Whoring themselves out for money is why many students choose Georgetown. It's also why there's such a large presence there of socialist student clubs.

This is heartbreaking. I can only wish you well and better luck for the future. And no. It is not your fault. It's a messed up system that refuses to look after their own people, and cater to the whims of a few wealthy entitled bullies.

I’m very sorry. How are you now? Healthcare is a travesty

God help us all. May you be well, happy, and peaceful.

@@mazscsu Healthcare? More like Healthprofit.

I really really hope things have gotten better.

@Kawhi's burner account same for Bill Gates - he just stole or bought innovation - he was smart for his business insight . Guys like Nicholas Tesla ( who was poor at the end) Are the true contributors to our species.

I used to work for wealthy people in their homes. Appalling how banal they are, while believing themselves to be exceptional.

Yes, that is what i saw too, moment people make some money they get impression they are experts on everything.

And most did not "make it through hard work." They either hit the birth lottery or did whatever was necessary to increase their wealth. No billionaire is benevolent.

@@timberdoodle6924 bought "innovation" well actually no he bought through stolen exploited privledge money access to progress and they are able to impose there illusion of "rule" over everyone else through regression progress capping propagation of an illusion through ppls incompetance and blind unconscious thoughtless adaptivity subserviancy to just or just as whatever the new way in which is being given to them as an illusive treat / survival immediate survival and incompetance and to sustain this illusion they have to make whatever they ahve as "importance" or prioritisation so they dehumanise ppl to make them prioratise something regressive destrucdtive harmful unsustainable based on corruption manipulation and but of which i have just explained is nothing but regression disguised as innovation that to unknowledgable ppl seem like progress because its the only thing they are being fed or have exposure of which he used through resorting back to the only authoritarian ways he knows of and then degeneration and exploitation of it for further trivial illusion of advantage the only weay he knows how

The elite do use democracy, they chose who you can vote for.

electoral college. And votes don't compare to donations.

Validation

you're not crazy to think that, don't let anyone convince you that you are.

@Shariq Torres I, too, have noticed that it is not just corporations, for lack of a better term, within capitalism that need competition to function best, but capitalism itself. I think that we can all agree that it doesn't work particularly well on its own.

@@cpuwrite Not without strong government regulation and oversight.

@@alacritouscrier7315 That's where the competition comes from. Sorry I didn't make that clear.

Mercantilism in conjunction with the renaissance overthrew feudalism, not capitalism.

Not sure if we're on the same page here, but if you're saying capitalism isn't perfect but it's better than what it replaced, I couldn't agree more. I think the New Deal ushered in a lot of positive changes (again, not perfect) that are being destroyed by radical idealism (thank you to Jordan Peterson for speaking out against this). Lastly I had to stop watching this video @ 8:30 when Anand said: "We have a system for making this country better, it's called democracy" maybe someone can tell me if there was anything valuable said in the rest of the video but I could no longer find it a valuable use of my time to hear someone's opinions on democracy and capitalism when they clearly have no understanding of tyranny of the majority. Anand Giridharadas, I'm not sure if you will ever see this but if you do, please read the essay On Liberty by John Stuart Mill published in 1859 discussing the breakdown of our government as a result of democracy. There is a reason Xi Jinping has brought 800 million people out of poverty in the last 10 years... it is NOT democracy.

The center is so much farther to the left than we think

Agreed, he speaks extremely well and has good sources/has done his research, and has a way of looking at things from multiple perspectives that makes him persuasive, I'd love to have those kinds of traits to be able to make a difference and win people over. Too many people in our culture worshipping the rich and the status quo.

It seems he has talked with a variety of people to come to these conclusions!

AutomatedLuxuryPosadism Who cares how far left he is, his opinions make sense and are well researched

Exactly!!!

I have been doing so for the past 6 years. But then, I've always been anti-Americanist so...

Don’t blame people by naming, most are innocents contaminated by a system of greed at the expense controlled brainwashed humans. The Earth is not for anyone to own it is our home, no way out of it but CHANGE. The best educated pro humans could make a New World System, not a Religion, Democracy, or a Capitalistic slavery. They can all be contaminated.Advance can not be made if cost or Kick back, is in use. No cost to do anything no matter how huge or time or Labour. United effort , is only way to proceed.

No, what we can do is tax the ultra wealthy elites, get money out of politics, unionize the work place, and get back to a New Deal era, democratically-controlled government that regulates the economy meaningfully to reign in the excesses and inherent flaws of global capitalism, especially the financial sector.

It's a good ascetic practice. Your health will improve. We should vote with our wallets. As much as you can buy from small businesses. Main street rather than malls and big box stores.

That college admissions scandal would have greatly pissed me if I didn't expect something like that to happen.

Bull Moose Progressive exactly. It was not surprising at all.

Healing_ Awakening I am constantly checking myself regarding how I treat others and my own internal beliefs about people’s circumstances that I know nothing about or haven’t experienced myself. I have always found it interesting for anyone to speak on another’s circumstances when they themselves have never even gone through that experience but feel they can tell someone how and what they should be doing. Very entitled way of being.

It's always been that way. The huge problem I have is that these tens of trillions of wealth transfer to the top has been because the Fed has forced interest rates to Zero for a decade now which steals sour free market savings rates and wealth to the top so they can finance and ride asset bubbles for almost free, they can speculate for almost free, and debtors are saved. Horrible.

Waaaaaah

This is actually a point Anand misses. He focuses on the personal and not the systemic. He recognizes that the Georgetown graduate has personal incentives (doing well), and that those run up against social incentives (doing good), but he frames Zuckerberg's failings as personal, neglecting the fact that his personal values and morals are irrelevant because of his institutional role: a CEO. If it wasn't Zuckerberg running a massive company, it'd be another person, and they'd make largely the same decisions in the interest of share price. And if they didn't, they'd be replaced by the board. This isn't a failing of individuals, it's a systemic incentive that forces people to make decisions in the interest of capital and against the decisions of humanity as a whole. This is, in a nutshell, the difference between a liberal critique and a socialist critique. And what's more, Anand's position as a wealthy journalist is what prevents him from seeing the systemic critique - because be benefits from the system. In all probability, he has benefitted from a system that protects property rights and drives up stock prices at the expense of the average person. There's also something to be said for the fact that even as I critique him from a left perspective, I've only considered Americans. The "average person" as I've described is the average AMERICAN. It disregards the majority of people on the planet, who also suffer as a result of the decisions of US companies. And if we play the "democracy" game on the national scale, we are by definition excluding most people on the planet. That is why socialists are internationalists. If you want what's best for humanity, you need to consider all of humanity. In a single term, this viewpoint is described as materialism. The materialist application in politics is called Marxism. Though there are many schools of Marxism and even more critiques thereof, this is the starting point for thinking of politics as a means toward human freedom - and in the context of the ongoing climate disaster, human survival.

​@@bucketiii7581 Excellent points. I also wanted to add that in addition to Anand likely benefitting from capitalist systems, INET is a think tank funded by George Soros and thus is also limited to the liberal critique. Soros is well known as a generous benefactor to left-leaning causes, but he is doing so by means of the same system that right wing neoliberal heavyweights use to bring about ideological and political influence. This is why they always stop short of acknowledging capitalism as the problem, because their institution is a product of capitalism.

Not really

Eh, I'd argue there's a lot of other signs that have existed before that. It was just that technology become "cheap" enough that it didn't require the effort of an entire nation's desire to develop its err... deterrent capabilities. As well as national pride. The original space race was two-pronged. Going into LOO isn't that expensive anymore, but we probably shouldn't waste so much on the enjoyment of the few. 8 people riding to the boundary of the atmosphere to satisfy their own bucket lists..how wasteful is that? Extremely...

The problem is corporations running the world. Not that they aren't running it the 'right way' with, as you write about 'true giving'.

" True giving represents sacrifice, not tax deductions...". I keep telling this to all those "charities" who are stoping me in the middle of big cities around the world asking for donations. but they still keep on telling me that they only want my money, not my personal involvement.

@@beldiman5870 Money is easier for most.

@@antediluvianatheist5262 Indeed, it is easier to just donate and walk away with a "good" conscience. It is more difficult and time consuming to be personally involved in charity activities.

Rita Marie Kelley more like since the First World War

Genius way of verbalizing the issue with rich worship. Anand is a wordsmith

You tote the ignorance of liberal thought. Sad

To say the American dream doesn’t happen here is just fucking false.

Not the only campus doing that sadly.

Entirely a different Expectation...Elites versus Simple Blessings..Control...

Edgar Arenas That's neoliberalism.....

Who actually said it?? Just want to know...

Rina Singh it was a quote stolen from Charles Baudelaire.

@@fatesrequiem thanx

As a quote it doesn't mean anything...define 'devil' please. There is no entity of devil in the same way there is no god.

Same here... thought I was the only one...

@@jayrideau What’s your role?

the white nationalist terrorists are giving us Neo-feudalism its going to be like in a fallout 4 video game,its going to be raiders versus settlers, its going to be the road wars from mad max .. we must stop these white nationalists before they strike again like they did on January 6, 2021.

Late stage capitalism is a lot of things but it simply is not feudalism .. it's capitalism. These fancy terms are unnecessary and obscure the real issue which only serves the elite. I heard a lot of "what i call" from this guy. He should read more theory rather than create his own that is less accurate.

Thank the algorithm

Do you seriously think we don't want to have better uniformity in this country? Damn near everyone wants to live with each other better and genuinely wants to do good with themselves and their family, community, and do good to the country. Doing good isn't the issue, because seemingly everyone wants to do good, the real question is HOW DO WE DO GOOD, that question is the only thing stopping us, people for the most part can't agree on that, wanting to do good is something almost all people want to do.

@@___Truth___ it's good that understand this. Now we can only do it one way. If someone comes at you while being angry or triggered or anything else. Just simply tell them that it's not very nice. Tell them that although there is free speech in this country I'd never wanna use it to hurt you or insult you. Just by saying these words you can make even the most different of people feel included. In the end everyone just wanna feel included. Tell them that no matter what their opinion is, your country wouldn't be a country without them. Do what Gandhi did, if they're angry, then you become sensible. And most importantly don't be just pretend to be sensible & understanding, actually be one. Because it'll take a lot of convincing for your fellow man. At the end of the day, if any calamity comes, only your fellow man/woman/transwoman will have to face them, along with u. All of us are different but we are same in the fact that we just want three things, a job, social acceptance, & a roof over our head .

"Our only true friend is our fellow man who is suffering from the same problem" Why? His life is his own. His choices are his to make. Maybe there is a very good reason he is suffering. Does he drink to excess? Does he smoke? Gamble? Does he do nothing to improve his lot in life by learning more marketable skills? "No middle class youth in today's economy can afford to buy a house, a car. " Hence the collapse of all real estate and car sales. Wait, no. That's not true at all. Middle-class people buy homes and cars all the time. Even during the world period of the last recession, buying slowed but did not stop. "Almost every one is working two jobs & is totally depressed." Only those who are either young or too dumb to properly economize. "Between the haves & have not." Says the person on a free website from a computer or smartphone. That website, along with many others, providing free educational content on everything from woodworking to plumbing, to computer programming, to speaking Italian. The average person has an embarrassment of riches at their fingertips. If they can't think of anything useful to do with it, then they should be depressed.

" Do what Gandhi did" Be incredibly racist toward Africans?

So impressed by your thoughts bro .. i totally connect with you.

But we know what you mean. We can talk about it till we're blue in the face or start burning shit up. Oh wait....(Yellow vests). Remember the Tedtalx with Nick Hanauer? The problem is these people are sick and demented. The systems will never change as long as people use them and their primary goal is to deceive. If the systems break in the current condition we should hunt them all down and try them and hang the guilty and treasonous bastards.

I'm no published economist, but I have been talking about the post Reagan economy as a feudal analog well into the last century. An no, I am not claiming to have invented the concept, just that from the perspective of a Medievalist, the parallels are striking.

@@paulpeterson4216 Paul thx for the message. What is becoming evident is what Anand said, they are running out of time. There are millions upon millions of people who have come to the conclusion that you and I and Frank have come to; this system needs to die and anyone who gets in the way as well. This shit is going to get us ALL killed as reckless as it is.

Socialists are the architects of neofeudalism.

@Rank Amateur Either you've never heard of communism as the Bolshevik means of returning to serfdom, or you're just another unscrupulous Left fascist pushing product.

Don't know about the "empire" part though lol America is collapsing within itself.

it is a human habbit to greed more for more and people will always fight about it.

It's 2021 now though..

@@imarchello You’re very observant.

Ironically, he wants to put the entire control of money, to politicians and bureaucrats.

Well done ;)

kingogkingswoodz are you okay bro? You are doing some mental gymnastics there lol fyi the happiest, best quality of life, and life expectancy are all far more positive (better) in democracies with socialistic tendencies. There is a reason why the USA is declining in life expectancy, and why we are one of the few developed countries with this magnitude in wealth that doesn’t want to provide healthcare for all. And they won’t because again, the ruling class rules all.

Zangief The Red I was gonna ask the same thing, but I had to answer this angry fellow over here^

kingogkingswoodz also a pure socialist country in the USA would never happen lol lets be honest with ourselves here, you think the ruling class would ever allow that lol

Wow... Thank you... Do you suggest to go in that order? Or doesn't matter?

Beautifully put

He meant serfs. The average peasant had it "okay." This is corporate serfdom.

Killing the host is a book ? Right?

You could not leave your village, (only merchant had a permit) and you would never learn to read or write. During famine, 80% to 100% of you food would still leave your village. During wars, you where forced conscript WHITHOUT PAY.

@@jacqulineard140 Serf's never 'Up', in a Feudal system.

Its not just about how much influence the new aristocracy has, thats very surface level. Its about the conditions that the new serfs, us, live under. Gig based work. Lords had a request, something they wanted done, and they would get serfs to do it and reward them for it, whether that was in gig style for service, or in requisition style for products. Until the lords had a job, the serfs used their trades to barter for eachothers trades to subsist. We don't do that much now aside from craigslist, but we will start having to do it more and more over time, and thats what we have seen. Lords payed more than they do now as well. About land owning, serfs didn't, they were tenants. Written into their gig based and long term service contracts was land use. A workshop for craftsmen, a field for farmers, all owned by the lord, but worked for the lord by craftsmen, who were allowed to use them for subsistence in between jobs. How many modern day serfs do you know how can afford a house in this day and age? Of those who still own one, how many had to inherit it instead of buying it? How many sold their previous in order to afford it, which they in turn inherited? More and more people are living by rent, in worse and worse, lets face it, peasant huts, stacked on top of eachother in apartment buildings? More and more of us live that way. I'm on track to be an academic, a real reversal of fortunes from my barely out of poverty birth, but I will NEVER be able to afford a house on today's trajectory, and I'll likely only be able to afford a 1 or 2 room apartment, potentially with a roommate to half the rent even then. Even as an educated renaissance man with a list of academic, craft, art, and generalized life skills as long as my arm, I'll be living as a serf. Thats that, thats a fact of my life. and of everyones unless we roll out the guillotines, figuratively speaking.

We need to clean up the fraud in mainstream economics classes. Today's economics students are not taught pluralism (different principles of economic theory), economic history, nor do they discuss money, debt or banks! “...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money. How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving out Banks, Debt and Money is a bit to me like an ornithologist trying to work out how a bird flies whilst ignoring that the bird has wings...” ― Steve Keen “Economics students are forced to spend so much time with this complex calculus so that they can go to work on Wall St. that there’s no room in the course curriculum for the history of economic thought. So all they know about Adam Smith is what they hear on CNN news or other mass media that are a travesty of what these people really said and if you don’t read the history of economic thought, you’d think there’s only one way of looking at the world and that’s the way the mass media promote things and it’s a propagandistic, Orwellian way. The whole economic vocabulary is to cover up what’s really happening and to make people think that the economy is getting richer while the reality is they’re getting poorer and only the top is getting richer and they can only get rich as long as the middle class and the working class don’t realize the scam that’s being pulled off on them.” ~ Michael Hudson

God forbid they find out about the corporate coup that ended FDR-style fiscal policy: "The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by SEIZING CONTROL OF THE POLITICAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical." ~ Barry Goldwater, With No Apologies, 1979 "The “nation-state" as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.” ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages, 1970

Amen.

Learn MMT I think we definitely need to get the money out, without that nothing can be done. I also think we need to change our voting system ASAP! We need campaign reform and one man one vote, NO electoral College or delegates and super delegates, which basically allow the person with the most votes to be passed over through a very corrupt system. If we start with a movement to reform the actual election process, then maybe we can vote in ppl who actually want to drain the swamp. I think we also need to look at our debate system. There’s too many candidates not getting fair airtime and exposure to gain the support they need to get to 1%, in order to participate in debates. The TWO PARTY ELITES work with Corp news to get their candidates full coverage, while marginalizing other candidates. Together they’re picking who we can choose from. We the ppl have got to become more informed to understand why nothing these two parties do, really changes anything and why these corporations and oligarchs are allowed so much power. We have to unite left and right and say ENOUGH!

Economic boom bust Cycles are nothing new they've been happening since 200 BC and all as a result of government in collusion with the leads for the purpose of transferring Wolfpack in the hands of a few at the expense of the majority

you wont hear that one much from todays kinda christian

Not really as Lobbying by Corporations or whatever IS what he speaks of.

@@HighSpeedNoDrag The world is not sustainable in its present economic form. Pandemics are a sign of this. Economic growth is not sustainable ad infinitum. There comes a time when economies must mature and then use resources sustainably/cleanly and ultimately share the wealth of production among society, not just a few. When the majority are left wanting, the economy will not be sustainable on many levels.

Marxism has always resulted in tyranny; has always failed to deliver communism--but at what cost! So clearly, alternative solutions needs to be explored.

Good point. It seems like we only have a choice between villains. Capitalism vs communism Billionaires vs Kings and Queens. We get so up in arms when things are wrong, forget how bad the alternatives always end up being. Humans by nature are destructive and in need of being in power of others. It doesn’t matter what system we adopt.

@@mazscsu "It seems like we only have a choice between villains." This is dead-on, imo. morality and authority, are thusfar functionally mutually exclusive; those who seek power (and are powerful), are by definition, not moral, and those who are moral, by definition, are powerless.

@@Zoie3x8 where does this idea come from? Seen it on UKposts comments everywhere but it doesn't seem to be completely true, was making a nuke immoral? Or better to let your enemy make one so you can be clean

​@@menooby2653 it is a general observation, an example is 'nice guys finish last'. Basically, those who seek power, usually do so at the expense of others, and no matter what is right or even palatable, except where absolutely necessary. Thus, we currently see (and have always had rumors of) elites having a double life - to the public, they are prim and proper, perfectly polished in every possible way - but away from the camera's and prying eyes, we find that they have absolute and grandiose amorality and immorality, to the point where they can rightly be called Monsters of any other name. We can even see it on our streets, to a degree; cops do whatever they can, to make their quota, make their arrests, process you into the injustice system, and all else be damned. Bully cops misbehave, citizens die or are falsely imprisoned for long spans of time, and rather than the bully cops being prosecuted for their crimes, the police close ranks, and at best, the thin blue line gives them a tap on the wrist and shuffles them off to some other PD. At worst, these bad apple police officers actually get pay raises and commendations.

@@mazscsu This is classic misinformation. That it's capitalism against communism. What about democratic socialism or social democracy where rich just pay their share of tax and states sponsor socialist and social security schemes that helps maintain decent standards of living to all people while the corporations can do their work! Comparing the worst on right to worst on left and saying it ain't better, is the simplest way the people who are comfortable/ benefitted by the status quo can resist change!

that was always a myth to some degree...that little howdy doodie fantasy is only applied to 1950s white america

Yep. As I too have been saying since I woke up to the fact years ago: We're serfs with smartphones. Mortgages and loans and wage slavery and mass incarceration and a democracy that isn't remotely democratic... it isn't even arguable.

Thank God I chose to pursue a PhD in the social and political sciences.

Don't weep for yourself yet, there is a movement coming on that will wipe the rich out of politics because the majority will see progressives as reasonable because of their policies.

I used to despise Chomsky (20 years ago) for his grandiose verbiage because he wasn't connecting with the people who needed to hear him (the average American). It does seem like he has, in recent years, adjusted his wording towards a more populist message. I hope more younger people can consider that PR jobs that seek to convey populist messages in an average lexicon are just as important as the ones that will make them money.

So true! Politicans tell us we need to cut social programs to reduce spending, but at the same time they give tax cuts to the rich and they can do it because there are still a lot of people who believe in trickle-down economics. They vote against their interest again and again and again.

Donald McCann ..I would only add that those who watch CNN, MSN and all the alphabet networks are equally blind to the issues raised here.

Preach!

Yeah sure! /s