"MAMA ECONOMY" (THE ECONOMY EXPLAINED) ORIGINAL SONG by TAY ZONDAY Feat. LINDSEY STIRLING
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- Опубліковано 12 лис 2011
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THE GIRL ON THE VIOLIN:
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---- MAMA ECONOMY SONG LYRICS ----
Are you confused about the economy? Well have no fear --
I'm going to explain the American economy right now
+The dollar just think of it like
a promise from the government
But the value of the dollar
has to be there to be relevant
The value of the dollar comes from
China and Iran
When they put their cash reserves
in a U.S. dollar plan -
+They buy treasury bonds from
The Federal Reserve
We say "we owe you extra money
cause you gave us some of yours"
That's a big part
of the National Debt
All the interest that we
haven't paid to China quite yet -
+And a hundred other countries
Cause we're such a good investment
The whole world gives us money
We say "Hey we'll pay you interest!"
This is how money is created from air
Bank bailouts, federal budgets
Money isn't really there -
+It's an I.O.U., remember dollars are a promise
When you borrow from a bank
It's not from other depositors
The money for your loan
Gets created on the spot
Then they put it in your name
Gamble on your life and body -
+But if you lose your job
Then you were a bad bet
If a million lose their jobs
Then we have a recession
Here's the dirty secret
Your labor's too expensive
Wall Street wants you spending money
But they never want to pay you -
+In your life cash and credit
They are very different things
But your credit's someone else's cash
Once it leaves your name
This is why money is debt
And your debt is good for
Wall Street prosperity -
+And economic growth since the 1970s
Is consumers getting credit
Without wages increasing
So when they talk about the housing crisis
They never say we need to lower housing prices -
+We need ^better devices
To afford high prices
Meaning higher debt lower interest
Cause you're underpaid to begin with
That's the cycle we're in
We don't understand so
All we can do is question
[Chorus]
Mama economy make me understand
All the numbers why Daddy's on a welfare plan
'Turnin thirty forty fifty gotta move in with my parents
And the stocks go up but the jobs disappear
+^Because wages barely grew for 40 years
When you buy stuff
They delay the cost of ownership
You can't afford it
so they make it to depend
On endless small transactions
Which is more like renting
+You pay more for printer ink
Than you do for gold and
More for bottled water
Than you do for oil
Razor blades are made to
Oxidate
So you're forever in debt to them
Just to shave
+It's a type of socialism
called market socialism
The best designed product
Meets a need and doesn't last
We subsidize waste
With landfills and holidays like
Earth Day teachin' kids:
Recycle please
+Kids won't learn in school
we live one worldview
neoliberal economics
In all of our politics
They don't ask why corporations
are human citizens
Or why grandma pays more taxes
Cause she lacks stock dividends
+Or why private bankers
Print the public money
Or why democracy is broken
Cause their leaders won't be cutting
Loopholes or subsidies
For constituent industries
Putting legislative bodies
In a deep freeze
+So the Ph.Ds and the G.E.D.s
Cry with Ayn Rand down at the temp agency
Sayin' "we believed in
Meri-tocracy
But there's more to the story--
Someone answer me!
[Chorus]
Economy:
An economy (Greek οίκος - "household" and νέμoμαι - "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents in a given geographical location. Understood in its broadest sense, 'The economic is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the production, use and management of resources'.[1] Economic agents can be individuals, businesses, organizations, or governments. Economic transactions occur when two parties agree to the value or price of the transacted good or service, commonly expressed in a certain currency, but monetary transactions are only a small part of the economic domain.
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mama dollary
10 years later we are all back enjoying your video again! woo hoo! bonus views!
This is really well thought and catchy. Also, thanks for not adding anything too political or one side vs another.
@Big Tittius ah yes, because communism equals poor, and everyone under capitalism is doing just fine. Yup, no unsustainable system here.
Aged like a fine wine
Completely agree
He's 38 lol
@@CargoGamer ? Okay? What do you think I'm talking about?
@@horricule451 he did age well though, he looks very young
@@declan7551 i was talking about the song aging well
2:05 It’s crazy that the line “Because wages barely grew for forty years” has now become “Because wages barely grew for FIFTY years”. The more things change, the more they stay the same
Didn’t expect to find one of my favourite youtubers on this video
Based Carykh
Are channels you are subscribed to boosted in your comment feed? Or is it verified accounts? Weird
Things won’t get better without a revolution. We must abolish capitalism.
@@justinwatson1510 put a lot of thought into considering which species of revolution is necessary to bring about the kind of society you wish to see in its aftermath.
I call for a revolution of the heart. I call for the development of parallel systems of production, distribution, and justice. I call for nonviolent mass-acts of civil disobedience. I call for a conscious refusal to cede the moral highground to those power-minds with a monopoly on the legal use of force.
Welcome back, friends.
hi
Browsing reddit, i see
Chocolate GAAAIIINNNNNS
browsing wsb too?
reddit moment
The sad part is this isn't even radical, this is just the facts of how things work with the american economy.
It's radical in the form those facts are presented.
@@roqbar8764 gotta love when simple facts become radical. Really convincing me of this system.
it’s not radical for anothe reason, its still in the overton window
You should let that fact radicalised you
Blew my mind when I realized this was recorded in the LAST economic crisis.
The game never changes, you fucking prole. Get mad ~ Karl Marx
Awesome name and icon,.comrade
@@CommunistJugular Thanks!
@@jclwhite lol, Communism is trash.
@@GeraltofRivia22 maybe consider who told you these things and read Capital to prove to us what's wrong with Marxism. I want to be more informed I assume you would be too! What's the problem with the concept of the three mods of alienation?
This song wasn't ahead of it's time, we're just stuck in the same cycle we were 11 years ago.
Your mistake is not understanding this has been happening for ages
Hey look, 10 years later and nothing has changed.
Got worst
Something did change! We sort of broke the cycle of lower interest to support higher prices. Now both are high and it sucks.
@@BellisariusScaevola 100% got worse. The working class got screwed while the banks bought up what little the unfortunate lost.
And Anarcho-Zondayism was born and it was beautiful
Now that's a cult of personality I can get behind!
Tay was like 3000 years ahead of me, going back and listening to his stuff as an adult and you understand them. Just makes you appreciate them even more
Bro I just came on here just to see what other songs of He's went over my head as a kid but is so relevant, and I'm floored. He was warning us.
Absolutely! I used to listen to Chocolate Rain as a kid after some classmates mentioned that I sounded like him. I loved the tune but now that I go back as an adult and actually listen to the lyrics properly, that song hits me differently.
Just realized how old this is and now it's hitting me much, much harder.
Das Kapital: three massive volumes each tiring in their own right
MAMA ECONOMY: four minute long jam
Virgin Marx vs. chad Zonday.
Me at 14: hehe funny man speak fast.
me at 23 today: This is a more effective economics lesson than I received in 17 years of education.
Jesus, this is 10 years old?!
God damn, Tay was waaay ahead of his time
wait till you find out that chocolate rain was about institutional racism, just learned that myself today.
@@Luck_x_Luck honestly, tay is just an amazing musician in all aspects
Wait until you hear about this Marx guy.
@@NRobbi42 Meh, he understood the issues that stem from small groups controlling the majority of production fairly well. His idea's for solutions are hilariously stupid though. Mises, Rothbard, and Hayek are much much much more intelligent and rational.
I saw this on Reddit today and I thought it was a new song because it was so accurate for today
Same…
As we are hurdling to another once in a lifetime recession, I have the feeling this song is going to get a second wave of popularity.
It is here
Yea
well, another "once in a lifetime" recession.
Here it is baby wohoo
Man, this is ten years old and nothing's changed...
Hadn't changed for a few decades before it was recorded either! Capitalism baby :)
Thomas Robert Malthus was saying this in 1800.. Nothing has changed in 200 years.
"when they talk about the housing crisis, they never say we need to lower housing prices"
that hit differently.
Or bring rent WAY down 👇
Deal with landlords and the housing crisis ceases to exist.
Tay is on fire again 🔥🔥🔥
what do you mean by "again"?
this song is 9 years old
"always has been"
Remember this dude has a Phd
Welcome back
Tay left the PhD program in 2008 with a master degree when he moved to Hollywood. I believe he could have gotten the PhD if he stuck to that, that said, I get why he chose what he did for career path.
ALMOST got his PhD
10 years later and still just as relevant.
Just like value of dollars
kinda thinking the same thing right now while singing this masterpiece
Ten years later, this classic is still relevant, and holy jesus, Lindsey Stirling?
so funny how shes the girl with the violin back then and now shes prob more famous than he is :D
Dear Internet,
Why did I not know of this masterpiece?
Sincerely,
Me
Internet reply: I'm cluttered with too much of the nonsensical. I need your help!
Me today lol
the truth shan’t stay shrouded from the masses any longer
I just found it in 2021 so you're not alone.
Too right mate. Political Compass Memes sent me.
How is this 10 years old and even more true now than it was back then smh..
Watch Carlin talk about "supposed choices" He called it 25 years ago
I listen to this song every 5 years or so. Every time, it hits slightly harder.
when the cycle happens multiple times in your lifetime so the bars stay relevant
Basically every 12 years, in this case exactly 12 years
I'm so floored by this... Wha.. 2011? Why now?!
This is such an awesome song. I wish they would play this on the radio.
But then EVERYONE will understand, and we can't have that
Bro was ahead of his time💀💀💀
Well this has absolutely aged like wine.
wow, it's been over a decade and absolutely nothing has changed. no, I take that back, it's gotten worse.
Why did I only know about this song now? So accurate. And a collab with Lindsay Stirling? Brilliant!
Cool new song ... 9 years ago
This song is more instructive than anything that I studied at school...
that's a lie
That's the truth
Spitting straight fax
More relevant than ever.
You've been on reddit today and that's just the obvious
@@Somethingfunny5161 I'm glad reddit brought this gem again.
This is a song by a Socalist buddy, kinda think you missed the point.
Becoming more relevant every day. Faster and faster until guillotines.
@@kommon2443 being opposed to neo liberalism does not make one a socialist. You can still appreciate the song from a right wing perspective.
This entire message and song are massively underrated.
Tay deserves better.
Uploaded 8 years ago and now more relevant than ever before.
One of the most important people on the entire fucking worldwide web. Period.
Liam Duff Fuck yes
it's 2021 and it's happening again!
When has it stopped? 🤣
It's been happening for 50 years now
Pleasantly surprised to see this song kinda tried to address the real complexities of how the market is broken rather than just taking cheap shots.
Agree
]Tay was always woke we just never realized it until now cause we were too busy memeing him
9 years old? I only saw this today because it's been posted on reddit
Watched this when it came out and it taught me something neat
Watched it today and it made me want to cry
God I hate how accurate this is. I really dislike how I have to grow used to bullshit that Tay points out.
They don't say "ignorance is bliss" for nothin. Sometimes I wish I could just be completely unaware of all the injustices in our world.
Legendary video even more true 9 years later, they keep showing the stock market green arrows going buzzt going up but millions of people are barely surviving living paycheck to paycheck.
I thought this was made last week. So sad how absolutely nothing has changed in ten years.
10 years ago, houses were $120k to $160k in my city. Now, they're $300k-$500k....sigh.
Austin, Texas?
@@MrIansmitchell Close, Houston Texas.
It's a bubble lad dw. It'll crash to where they're 175-300k.
Still relevant in 2021
The way things are going it probably won't be in a few years... because there won't be an economy
@@SIGSEGV1337 Sure there will be. It'll consist of GME, Bitcoin, and Dogecoin holders. To the moon. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
@@ALittleOffProduction The internet as you know it won't exist either, Bitcoin will be a bunch of people sending transactions in flash drives
It's been relevant for half a century and at this point it looks like it will continue to be relevant for another 50 years...
This continues to be true. Nothing has changed.
This made me want to organise.
Thanks WSB for pointing me to the greatest song ever
Edit: I see he edited with some lyrics and some other tweaks. Nice!
Ayy same
🏇🏇🏇🎱
9 years later and even more true =(
It's gonna keep getting more true. We're screaming towards the collapse of capitalism and until that happens, it's only gonna get worse.
Comrade Tay!
The fact that this is still extemely accurate is extremely upsetting
Well if it had been extremely accurate for decades why would it be any different 8 years later.
It was accurate in the 70's. so unsurprisingly...
Yeah.
Nothing much has changed.
Its still as accurate as ever
this song is so fricken amazing. getting better over the years. I'd pay him to make more songs like this
Welcome back
Same
I can’t believe that this brilliant song has been out for 9 years and I am just seeing it for the first time today! Thanks WallStreetBets!
Sadly, this song will never stop being relevant.
It will somewhat soon, I think. The system as it exists can't go on as it is for much longer, one way or another it will collapse and be replaced.
@@Icameron259 I guess a pandemic happend
OH MY GOD IT'S FROM 2011!? HAIL TAY ZONDAY!
this song did not play during my economy class, why..?
Well, I guess nothing ever fucking changes.
this is why we hold!
How the hell has this house of cards stood for 40 years? I don't know if I should be more impressed or horrified.
@@jjoonathan7178 The latter. It's like everyone up top took the wrong lessons from European history. "Well, it's not feudalism, but that lasted an awful long time before the revolts really started."
Vote, support your local DSA. Dont be complacent with an unjust system, fight the good fight
Time is indeed a flat f*cking circle.
If they just played this video for me in ECON 101 instead of a full semester's worth of lectures, I feel I would have done just as well (or not well)
Wages barely grew for the last *50 years now
9 years old and couldnt be more relevant than today.
My gosh. Ive had this song stuck in my head for days.
same lmao
Try years!
Comrade Tay's been trying to wake us up for years 😭
me in 2007: haha funny meme song man
me embarassingly later: wait, is this about systemic racism
@@SuddenlyPaulP for reals
Communism will never be the way
@@adamsapple9667 are you a bot? Why depict him as a communist? Why putting it as the only alternative is communism which is bad?
There's a big universe of alternatives and adjustments.
Go inflict fear of change somewhere else. The status quo is choking us to death
@@adamsapple9667 Capitalism isn't either. Look where it's got us.
What the hell. how did I miss this??? is this algorithm nonesense? well happy to see it now :)
Oh hey Demon Mama! Nice to see you here.
WSB sent me here
It aged like wine this one. Amazing 🚀
Track laid in 2011? yet I'm hearing this for the first time now?
So basically it's been 20 years and we're still screwed.
Nice.
No we are screwed-ER
The truth is, the game was rigged from the start
I assure you the dollar and capitalism is older than 20.
Sadder than it was when it was released. People really underestimate Tay's intelligence and just see him as a funny low voice man.
I was linked here by WSB
Why tf is everyone amazed this is still relevant? It isn't like we've switched economic systems
Cuz things never changed. That's quite sad.
Stupid algorithm didn't highlight this gem to me for a decade.. I had to have it pointed out to me by r/WallStreetBets. Great song Tay 👌
This became relevant again
Always has been
That feeling when something's just as relevant almost a decade later. That look at the end just screams "You haven't learned anything, have you?"
...also, was Lindsey Stirling booked? Is that how we got Phelba?
This is aging like the very finest wine 🍷
Glad this song is getting more recognition now.
My economic teacher should've played this in class
This song is now truer than ever TODAY! 😂😂😂😂
Dude you are fucking brilliant. Never stop creating. I discovered this song because of the GME/AMC movement and from everything I've learned on this journey is corroborated by this song and you wrote it 10 years ago!!! Simply incredible.
I would love for a day when this song isn't timely.
All these years later, this song keeps hitting as hard as it once did.
Tay go on Chapo
Tay go on TrueAnon
"Stocks go up but jobs disappear" truer than ever
I listened to this years ago and I'm finally REALLY starting to understand it.
same
Give another listen to chocolate rain if you haven't recently. I'll blame my blindness partly on the fact I was 15 and not really fluent in English just yet, but still I should have seen it
@@roguenoob Ok. I has been years and years since I last listened to it.
@@roguenoob I listened to it again and wow! I missed that way back then. It makes sense. now.
The Ayn Rand slam is always appreciated
@@thelvadam5269 Stability promotes growth, eh? Then we should surely be investing in the health & education of everyone. :) (This would help create a more even playing ground with opportunity - since the notion of meritocracy in our current system is absolute BS, when money = power no matter what). That creates an awful lot of stability. I mean, who could actually argue against human rights, since it would only produce more medical, technological, scientific engineers which do nothing but help mankind in every way?
It's funny knowing that fact while many proponents of capitalism routinely are somehow against welfare/investment into the well being of citizens, who quite literally prop this entire economy up with their backs, aka their labor. (We know why, tbh. It's because those in power who have the most capital don't want advancement of the "underclass". It threatens their own power. It's not only selfish, but quite literally holds back humanity's advancement as a whole. A great argument for abolition of class, completely.)
So, those who measure the "success" of a country by measuring their economy based on GDP are ridiculous. I like those quotes of wise men/women that say we should measure the "success" of a country based on how it treats its most vulnerable. Because it's not only fruitful economically, but from a human rights standpoint as well. :)
Ayn Rand was not only a bad economist or "philosopher"(LOL), she was just a straight up bad person.
@@JaseekaRawr Good analysis, but it's too class- centric.
This doesn't explain supporters of capitalism from a Libertarian standpoint, only from the 'socialism for the rich' standpoint.
How do you explain support for capitalism that doesn't come from the capitalist class?
@@JaseekaRawr educating idiots who are stupid and don’t want to achieve or are too dumb to learn is your plan. It’s not very good
@@fellinuxvi3541 decades of brainwashing and anti-socialist/ communist propaganda where the mere mention of the word can have some people begin trembling like they've heard the news that a family member has died.
@@roojackaroo8517 Maybe, but evidently, some people can overcome this, and yet, tons of people just aren't socialist. The idea of objective class interests is a lie from the start.
2021 and this still hits harder and harder
2023 still going strong. Capitalism still sucks
Every decade I come back and check this song and realize it’s still relevant.
Tay has bad insomnia, been Wide Awake for years
Ayyy it's time to share this again.
This was the unheard anthem of the 2010s NGL
Love it sir, almost 10 yrs. Later still spot on!
This song is true Praxis
holy crap this chorus slaps... i can listen to it all day lol
Sames I love it
Claiming my place in history during the great squeeze of 2021 electric boogaloo
"Camping" on GME has been far more effective than actually camping on physical Wall Street.
how does this only have 1.8m views. Under rated. This deserves at least 10m. I wanna see 100M.
That's a lot of views, weirdo
@@XXXXX8 you are a weirdo unfortunately and the conversation ends there.
@@tvMage imagine bitching about the view count of a video. I guess you would be concerned about that if you averaged 10 views for your own videos.
This will be considered one of the classics after 100 years. Or lost forever. One of these two.
We have been sleeping on Tay Zonday for 10+ years!
This is beyond amazing.
This dude was living in the future....
No, this has been going on since the 70's and will continue well into the future.
Its always been like that, its just that newer generation start to pay attention
I love this song and _Chocolate Rain_ but it really says something that Lindsay Sitrling, who played the violin in _Mama Economy_ , ended up with 12 million subscribers while Tay Zonday, essentially a UA-cam founder, languishes at 1 million subs. But it's never too late for a comeback.