Its actually a sample/rip of jayz 'moment of clarity' produced by Eminem... I mean I don't mind it, it's just odd a channel like this would use that instrumental 🤷🏾♂️
I just gotta say, Professor Wolff, your non-sugar-coated delivery of these facts is refreshing! (Someday soon when I've got a few bucks, I'll donate on Patreon. I'm spreading it out right now by alternating donations between my favorite independent news outlets!) Until then, I'm subscribed and do the "thumbs up" thing. Thanks so much for all your hard work on behalf of American workers, which actually extends to all laborers everywhere. Bring on the Revolution!
At least the Ottoman Empire stayed around for 600 years. The American empire, by contrast, is barely a hiccup in the inflammatory illness of feudalism/neofeudalism (aka Capitalism).
Think about this. I'm 63. When I joined the work force, the man worked , the woman (yes, my wife) stayed home and raised my kids. That was normal. We were fine. Well , things changed. Now even me and my wife's income have trouble meeting our needs. I still work and so does she. Both of us Are limping through life. This is NOT how how life should be. Capitalism is why
What a scam those “jobs” cost the public treasury around $308,000 each ! Each worker could easily get a free college education for that price ! Who is lining their pockets ?
Thales Nemo Not quite true, the 4.5 billion are given in a 15 years period. Still, the government could pay nearly all of them a guaranteed and well paid job with that amount of money. host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/memo-foxconn-cost-to-public-nearing-billion/article_83a3ab6e-6c7e-553e-ba97-976c9c32fe76.amp.html
True and if they try to get rid of Medicaid for disabled or sick demanding they work they maybe not able to go back to work, this is why they went on it because they're unable to work like they did before either from an illness or a disability. .
Really thankful to have found your show. Could you talk about the trade war and the recent tariffs among the countries? A lot happened this week and I'd like your take. Keep up the good work.
When did offshoring become so prevalent? The trend began in earnest in the late 1970s at large manufacturers such as General Electric. GE’s then CEO, Jack Welch, who was widely respected by other corporate chieftains, argued that public corporations owe their primary allegiance to stockholders, not employees. Therefore, Welch said, companies should seek to lower costs and maximize profits by moving operations wherever is cheapest. “Ideally,” Welch said, “you’d have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy.” Not only did GE offshore much of its manufacturing, so did its parts suppliers, which were instructed at GE-orchestrated “supplier migration seminars” to “migrate or be out of business.”
Mohamed, my friend, I'm afraid many of us already see a dystopia and there is no waiting needed. But we don't always observe silently. It is true that we don't hear each other's voices but that doesn't mean we are all being silent, only that there aren't enough of us to overcome the blanket of silence yet
Usually in those situations when the company is promised money they do not get it in case they get it in tax reliefs and infrastructure. so nobody is going to lose anything. giving money to the company directly is not very reasonable thing to do unless you provide it as some kind of credit.
Uncontrolled Substance YES ! I knew I recognized the name from somewhere. They have to put suicide nets outside their buildings to try to prevent suicides in their sweatshops
I can't think of a more 'deserving' state for it to happen. Many people in wisconsin are cultish and cliqueish and basically just assholes. I know this. I'm from there. It's karma.
Excuse me...? I've been told by countless people that I 'deserved' to be sexually assaulted, tased and tortured. For what...? In actuality, knowing my rights. This all happened in the state of wisconsin. They basically told me this. Yes, they deserve destitution...in my humble opinion. Ever see Making A Murderer...? That's not fiction. I lived that. And if I had stayed, I'd probably have been set up for some bullshit charge myself. I wasn't willing to take that chance. I left.
5:57 If the Supreme Court were consistent on that, then that would mean only those people would have to pay taxes, who voted for the current President and Congress.
Labor v Leisure Class. The leisure class will make you believe the labor class, with all the technology advances, is not productive when all actuality if the labor class is less productive, the leisure class is even more less productive due to technology.
Once workers take over all the businesses we won’t need unions. Until then all employees should automatically be enrolled in a union and that union should be publicly funded.
I always love to listen to Dr Fraud and how she disects humanity, then completely ignores the possibility to stop all shenanigans simply by stopping to breed more humans.
Tackling environmental and social issues would be so much easier if crucial industries would be owned by the public. There is a strategy behind the anti-government sentiment that makes the rounds on the right, not only in libertarian circles. But Government (flawed as it is - there is much room for reform and better candidates) should represent the people and work for them and in their name. Public owned means owned by the citizenry. That is a good thing! We, the regular people, should demand more public owned industries and services! Government should play a bigger role, ditch the B.S. about "private enterprise is always better", the selling out of public lands, services (education, transport, electricity) etc. Those "neoliberal" ideas are still perpetuated, even if they were proven wrong. I think Government should actually nationalise several industries. For instance the chemical industry. It is highly dangerous (prone to accidents, pollution etc) and their products are potentially toxic for the consumer. That is not a good combination of facts for a profit driven industry! The Government could put up e.g. higher environmental and work safety standards, limit certain toxins that are on the market (pesticides which kill bees, cancer causing materials etc.). Also, since the pharmaceutical industry is part of it, the Government could produce and sell medicine for a reasonable price; the profits would go back to the state, i.e. the citizens. And of cause, accountability and transparency are a must, even if the industry is owned by the public. Insane that we are not doing this! For the sake of society and environment alike. To communicate this to the general public has to be the main effort of activists. For less crucial industries and enterprises, I am absolutely for Richard Wolff`s "Worker Co-ops" idea. And of course, there can be small businesses that are privately owned, too (e.g. B&Bs, restaurants) as long as they follow environmental, health/safety and work(er) related regulations. (But big companies, multi-nationals should be dismantled.)
William Jones go on...the government is complicit in the drug trade so it can fight drugs, the government creates the 3 strike rule and petty crime laws so it can keep people in jail(vast majority people of color), needs to topple a brutal dictator that it helped to put into power so that it can wage war. What do all have in common? Profits.
It's very simple: if industrial jobs were to be made plenty again in the US, the standard of living and working conditions have to match that of third-world/ developing nations. The economic tenet that cannot be broken is that the upper class will never sacrifice capital gains for the sake of the workers: gains have to grow constantly. We have to rethink how Capitalism is being applied. Currently it is very dangerous, and will usher the #SecondGreatDepression.
I am in the group of - white middle aged men - recently fired - and cannot get a job due to age discrimination and being over qualified (which means they would have to pay me too much money to hire me)... And divorced and I have not had a girlfriend in 7 years and life looks like shit... and I understand the pressures of why suicide is desirable or seen as the only option.
Slave-labour, illegal migration, poverty can be curbed if all governments implement a basic income payment. See my version of a basic income - poverty eradication worldwide/michael samuel - on youtube.
I am for re-nationalisation of crucial industries and services. Why? As a (global) society we face two main threats: socio-economically it is the unfathomable Wealth Gap, the other is the environment, including Climate Change. Both are entangled, the connective point: (neoliberal) Capitalism (including its byproduct, Consumerism). I would like to say those issues are getting tackled. But they are not. Look around, media and the public alike are talking endlessly about... any other topics. Some are valid (racism, migrant crisis and mistreatment, MeToo etc). But they are missing the underlying structure that creates practically all those problems: Capitalism, again. Somehow people have to learn that the environment is not just some "spoilsport annoying issue created by some stupid entitled bourgeois white folks who hate humans, especially brown and poor people, who they possible even want to get rid of via genocide" or some similar B.S. that seems to make the rounds in leftist circles. (I do not even mention what right wingers think of it, they just care for money anyway.) If people do not even see environmental issues as vital and essential, it will be hard to do what has to be done. And it HAS to be done. Tackling environmental and social issues would be so much easier if crucial industries would be owned by the public. There is a strategy behind the anti-government sentiment that makes the rounds on the right, not only in libertarian circles. But Government (flawed as it is - there is much room for reform and better candidates) should represent the people and work for them and in their name. Public owned means owned by the citizenry. That is a good thing! We, the regular people, should demand more public owned industries and services! Government should play a bigger role, ditch the B.S. about "private enterprise is always better", the selling out of public lands, services (education, transport, electricity) etc. Those "neoliberal" ideas are still perpetuated, even if they were proven wrong. I think Government should actually nationalise several industries. For instance the chemical industry. It is highly dangerous (prone to accidents, pollution etc) and their products are potentially toxic for the consumer. That is not a good combination of facts for a profit driven industry! The Government could put up e.g. higher environmental and work safety standards, limit certain toxins that are on the market (pesticides which kill bees, cancer causing materials etc.). Also, since the pharmaceutical industry is part of it, the Government could produce and sell medicine for a reasonable price; the profits would go back to the state, i.e. the citizens. And of cause, accountability and transparency are a must, even if the industry is owned by the public. Insane that we are not doing this! For the sake of society and environment alike. To communicate this to the general public has to be the main effort of activists. For less crucial industries and enterprises, I am absolutely for Richard Wolff`s "Worker Co-ops" idea. And of course, there can be small businesses that are privately owned, too (e.g. B&Bs, restaurants) as long as they follow environmental, health/safety and work(er) related regulations. But big companies, multi-nationals should be dismantled.
Strange analysis. Functionalism is an important tenant of capitalism as it sees the family being the building block of society, yet according to the lady, capitalism is destroying families 'and' patriarchy which is contrary to capitalism basic tenant. Also, does that mean lesbian and gay families and women liberation is a product of capitalism?
Dr. Wolff’s complaints towards the ‘free rider’ employees leeching off of the hard work of the union members was pretty interesting. It is morally objectionable that people pull benefits from the work of others. There is actually a brilliant book that details what happens when that happens. It was written by a Dr. Yaron Brook and titled the “Free Market Revolution” if anyone is interested.
Is it really? I hate to break this to you but capitalism is really outdated. So are the rest of the institutions put into place in the 1700's. Its as if people don't want to put the work in to create something better. Stop being lazy.
Relationships don't work like that these days. Men have to do a good amount of work around the home and outside of the home. When I had a relationship, I washed the dishes, vacuumed the house, cleaned the floors, cooked sometimes, and my ex would do it sometimes as well. The tasks were split, because both of us worked full time jobs. In this day and age, no woman is going to do everything for you. Unless you make enough to provide for the entire family.
Ace1000ks1975 - I think you're missing our point... The point was - women have been taken for granted for millenia. There's something about Judeo-Christian-Muslim values that denigrate women and their typical role in the home and society. We're brought up to be subservient. And we're finally tired of it (thank goodness). It really has less to do with 'this day and age' than capitalism's failure on its 'promise'. It fucked up. Hell, I've read that the only reason women's suffrage was taken seriously was because of the threat of the influence of soviet communism. So, sorry - it's a new paradigm. And you're gonna have to get used to it.
Everything dies, people and countries, and that is perfectly normal for nothing lasts forever. Rather than moaning about the decline of America (its reasons for its decline are evident in its founding i.e..: religious intolerance, genocide and bigotry and racism) and shouting rah, rah America, or worshipping it, recognize that what the United States is experiencing and that this too is normal and those who have a knowledge and appreciation of history recognize that fact. We no longer are the leaders of the free world, we are not great, we are not a shining beacon on the hill, in fact, we are a backward, poorly education country which has not yet joined the 21st century. We cannot make changes unless we recognize the facts and reality, and not rely on myth. Therefore, we need to change and transform the United States as most of the countries of the world have done. Don’t believe me? Ignoring the collapse of hundreds of ancient empires, let’s examine those countries at the beginning of the 20th century and beyond. The last emperor of Chine was Aisin-Gioro Puyi and China ceased being a monarchy after the turn of the 20th century. India became the world’s largest democracy after the collapse of the British Empire, Japan became a democracy after its defeat after WW II. All the monarchies of central Europe and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire ceased after WW I. The Empires of England, France, Germany, Holland, all ceased to exist. Empires usually collapse after 200-250 years. England after its regicide (the execution of Charles I), during the interregnum, and Cromwell, went from a monarchy, to a Commonwealth with increasing control passing from the king to the parliament, and after Cromwell’s death into a more constitutional monarchy, England after 1888, evolved into a more social democracy. France (which went through many transformations until it became a democracy), and Russia (the Russian revolution failed because it filed to take into consideration and implement economic reforms, as it fails to do so today) , after their revolutions evolved into entirely different forms of government. Germany, after WWII went from a dictatorship into a social-democracy. England lost its huge empire after WWII. Everything changes, a normal succession of historical events still occurring today. What the Trump supporters do not understand is that America has become a failure, a has-been where its form of government no long works and it no longer serves the needs of its citizens. They are in denial and live in the mythical past about a mythical United States. Also, there is no such thing as race, we are all Homo-Sapiens. We are not separate races, we are however, separate ethnic and cultural groups. Because of rapid transportation and migration, immigration, marriage, and integration (mixture of the gene pool), and there is an increasing mixture of the gene pool (proof: genomic analysis). Those Native North, South, Central Americans and the Caribbean, are Asian, with a later add-mixture of Spanish and Blacks (proof, genomic drift). Many of us live in a non-existence past, perpetuating a myth, because we do not appreciate history and fail to recognize that change and evolution is the norm and always has been. Nothing lasts forever, nor should it. However, what is different from all these other historical events, is global climate change which will destabilize much of the world.
Cory Hinman As much as it saddens me to have to do so, I’ll have to concede to that point. Have a look at a good many of Jesse Ventura’s interview segments included ( typically ) in the concluding halves of his shows on RT. He is, in fact ( and even astonishingly ) a FAR superior listener.
Yes, Wolff and Hedges are top personalities, often take time listen to their valuable analysises, but rather disturbing interviewers. But both have excellent guests and they seem to tolerate this.
Although, listening to the whole clip, must correct - Wolff leads the interview with dr. Fraad very professionally. Maybe he has considered some constructive criticism from the past ;-)
Even god required his people to pay taxes ...doing the Kings times and during Mosses rule. as far i know GOD was the first one to require taxes of some kind. So Tax Paying is not man made but if you don't believe there is a god look up how they started by all men.
Harry Hightower I urge you to read Matthew 22. Jesus grabbed the coin with the emperor's face on it to show that it belonged to the Caesar. The Pharisees simply tried to provoke the people against Jesus, that's why they dressed up the question of paying taxes as a moral/religious issue (which it is not). The problem is extremely simple: You don't have to pay taxes, but then you also have to say goodbye to all the benefits of being an imperial subject, such as military protection, infrastructure, safe trade etc. (and also con't get conquered in the first place). In other words, you can't have the cake and eat it too, but this choice has absolutely no spiritual meaning. God is no respecter of persons, and that is why we can live on this Earth in complete equality and mutual love, and anyone who plays king is clearly against sharing this Earth and its fruits with his neighbor, thus lives in sin. Even if you look at Old Testament kings like David or Solomon, whenever they actually used their power and acted as kings, they always sinned. The very mission of all the prophets was to chastise the evil kings and their followers. Whether a people want a king or not is their choice, and it has nothing to do with anyone's spiritual salvation.
Tomato Pa And yet Isaiah prophesied about the debt jubilee and the end of bondage and servitude. And then Jesus said to have fulfilled that prophesy when he famously unrolled the scroll in a synagogue in Galilee (and then those wonderful Israelites tried to lynch him for saying those things). There is an intrinsic evil in the system that enslaves people and no amount of law or morality will ever change that.
I'm I the only one that gets pumped when hearing the intro music
Keevan Crawford hahahahaha naw I get the same way hahahhaha
Its actually a sample/rip of jayz 'moment of clarity' produced by Eminem... I mean I don't mind it, it's just odd a channel like this would use that instrumental 🤷🏾♂️
Keevan Crawford definitely not
I just gotta say, Professor Wolff, your non-sugar-coated delivery of these facts is refreshing! (Someday soon when I've got a few bucks, I'll donate on Patreon. I'm spreading it out right now by alternating donations between my favorite independent news outlets!) Until then, I'm subscribed and do the "thumbs up" thing. Thanks so much for all your hard work on behalf of American workers, which actually extends to all laborers everywhere. Bring on the Revolution!
Same here ! Thanks for sharing.
At least the Ottoman Empire stayed around for 600 years. The American empire, by contrast, is barely a hiccup in the inflammatory illness of feudalism/neofeudalism (aka Capitalism).
Vincenzo - Seems akin to inflammatory bowel disease. Definitely indigestion.
Nazi, fascist, Germany -12 Years. Extreme Military Industrial Complex !
Well the roman empire lasted almost a MIllenium
The Egyptians lasted arguably thousands but was periodically interrupted by collapses and changes of dynasties.
Think about this. I'm 63. When I joined the work force, the man worked , the woman (yes, my wife) stayed home and raised my kids. That was normal. We were fine. Well , things changed. Now even me and my wife's income have trouble meeting our needs. I still work and so does she. Both of us Are limping through life. This is NOT how how life should be. Capitalism is why
What a crap deal. The government could directly hire 80,000 workers for $4 billion. Consequence of oligarchy
More Government workers why America is in trillions of debt
What was the 4 billion used for? Probably corporate buybacks and bonuses.
Life in the Corporate States of America. UGH
What a scam those “jobs” cost the public treasury around $308,000 each ! Each worker could easily get a free college education for that price ! Who is lining their pockets ?
Thales Nemo Not quite true, the 4.5 billion are given in a 15 years period.
Still, the government could pay nearly all of them a guaranteed and well paid job with that amount of money.
host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/memo-foxconn-cost-to-public-nearing-billion/article_83a3ab6e-6c7e-553e-ba97-976c9c32fe76.amp.html
Thales Nemo in Australia there is 51% taxes on $70000 Aud car . If Americans want to.pay $20000 more for a Camaro zl1 be my guest
Luxury car tax 33% funds free health for bludgers
$30000 ,more for a m3 . M3 in Australia $48000 of the price $129,900 is tax
True and if they try to get rid of Medicaid for disabled or sick demanding they work they maybe not able to go back to work, this is why they went on it because they're unable to work like they did before either from an illness or a disability. .
Really thankful to have found your show. Could you talk about the trade war and the recent tariffs among the countries? A lot happened this week and I'd like your take. Keep up the good work.
When did offshoring become so prevalent?
The trend began in earnest in the late 1970s at large manufacturers such as General Electric. GE’s then CEO, Jack Welch, who was widely respected by other corporate chieftains, argued that public corporations owe their primary allegiance to stockholders, not employees. Therefore, Welch said, companies should seek to lower costs and maximize profits by moving operations wherever is cheapest. “Ideally,” Welch said, “you’d have every plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy.” Not only did GE offshore much of its manufacturing, so did its parts suppliers, which were instructed at GE-orchestrated “supplier migration seminars” to “migrate or be out of business.”
I wonder if foxconn will install the suicide nets first or wait for the suicides to start
Derrick Bentham the world is slowly turning to a distopya and we are just silently observing!
Mohamed, my friend, I'm afraid many of us already see a dystopia and there is no waiting needed. But we don't always observe silently. It is true that we don't hear each other's voices but that doesn't mean we are all being silent, only that there aren't enough of us to overcome the blanket of silence yet
Derrick Bentham true.
LOL I thought the same thing. What a sad world.
Can we go back to 1 hour segments?
Usually in those situations when the company is promised money they do not get it in case they get it in tax reliefs and infrastructure. so nobody is going to lose anything.
giving money to the company directly is not very reasonable thing to do unless you provide it as some kind of credit.
Those workers in Wisconsin that work at Foxconn are fucked. Reports of employees jumping out of windows to their deaths.
Uncontrolled Substance YES ! I knew I recognized the name from somewhere. They have to put suicide nets outside their buildings to try to prevent suicides in their sweatshops
I can't think of a more 'deserving' state for it to happen. Many people in wisconsin are cultish and cliqueish and basically just assholes. I know this. I'm from there. It's karma.
Oh please. No one deserves destitution.
Excuse me...? I've been told by countless people that I 'deserved' to be sexually assaulted, tased and tortured. For what...? In actuality, knowing my rights.
This all happened in the state of wisconsin. They basically told me this. Yes, they deserve destitution...in my humble opinion.
Ever see Making A Murderer...? That's not fiction. I lived that. And if I had stayed, I'd probably have been set up for some bullshit charge myself. I wasn't willing to take that chance. I left.
In my eyes ,Richard: U are a real Red Lion not ”Wollf” in defending the workers class rights and the humen rights as well!!
🌹👍🥊❤️✊
5:57
If the Supreme Court were consistent on that, then that would mean only those people would have to pay taxes, who voted for the current President and Congress.
Labor v Leisure Class. The leisure class will make you believe the labor class, with all the technology advances, is not productive when all actuality if the labor class is less productive, the leisure class is even more less productive due to technology.
Once workers take over all the businesses we won’t need unions. Until then all employees should automatically be enrolled in a union and that union should be publicly funded.
John Lenin you just gave me a political erection
John Lenin fuck off you're not talking over a struggling small business left asswipe
watched from south texas
I always love to listen to Dr Fraud and how she disects humanity, then completely ignores the possibility to stop all shenanigans simply by stopping to breed more humans.
When I tried to take action I got:
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well, the history of the US is also one where the wealthy, the oligarchs have been favored. It is simply that now it is more apparent.
Tackling environmental and social issues would be so much easier if crucial industries would be owned by the public. There is a strategy behind the anti-government sentiment that makes the rounds on the right, not only in libertarian circles. But Government (flawed as it is - there is much room for reform and better candidates) should represent the people and work for them and in their name. Public owned means owned by the citizenry. That is a good thing! We, the regular people, should demand more public owned industries and services!
Government should play a bigger role, ditch the B.S. about "private enterprise is always better", the selling out of public lands, services (education, transport, electricity) etc. Those "neoliberal" ideas are still perpetuated, even if they were proven wrong.
I think Government should actually nationalise several industries. For instance the chemical industry. It is highly dangerous (prone to accidents, pollution etc) and their products are potentially toxic for the consumer. That is not a good combination of facts for a profit driven industry! The Government could put up e.g. higher environmental and work safety standards, limit certain toxins that are on the market (pesticides which kill bees, cancer causing materials etc.). Also, since the pharmaceutical industry is part of it, the Government could produce and sell medicine for a reasonable price; the profits would go back to the state, i.e. the citizens. And of cause, accountability and transparency are a must, even if the industry is owned by the public.
Insane that we are not doing this! For the sake of society and environment alike. To communicate this to the general public has to be the main effort of activists.
For less crucial industries and enterprises, I am absolutely for Richard Wolff`s "Worker Co-ops" idea. And of course, there can be small businesses that are privately owned, too (e.g. B&Bs, restaurants) as long as they follow environmental, health/safety and work(er) related regulations. (But big companies, multi-nationals should be dismantled.)
This is to real!!!!
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between a Capitalist and a MAFIOSO?
Don't tell that either of them stay inside of the law.
"Fraad" is kind of an unfortunate last name for a doctor...
Now the gov. Is discharging immigrants so they can house immigrants on military bases. Craziness!
William Jones go on...the government is complicit in the drug trade so it can fight drugs, the government creates the 3 strike rule and petty crime laws so it can keep people in jail(vast majority people of color), needs to topple a brutal dictator that it helped to put into power so that it can wage war. What do all have in common? Profits.
I love you all.
#WeAreTheSerfs
It's very simple: if industrial jobs were to be made plenty again in the US, the standard of living and working conditions have to match that of third-world/ developing nations. The economic tenet that cannot be broken is that the upper class will never sacrifice capital gains for the sake of the workers: gains have to grow constantly.
We have to rethink how Capitalism is being applied. Currently it is very dangerous, and will usher the #SecondGreatDepression.
Small business owners aren't wealthy left asswpe ,. so how you expect wages to grow
I am in the group of - white middle aged men - recently fired - and cannot get a job due to age discrimination and being over qualified (which means they would have to pay me too much money to hire me)... And divorced and I have not had a girlfriend in 7 years and life looks like shit... and I understand the pressures of why suicide is desirable or seen as the only option.
Stephen Cotton
Ain't nothing fun anymore right?
Slave-labour, illegal migration, poverty can be curbed if all governments implement a basic income payment. See my version of a basic income - poverty eradication worldwide/michael samuel - on youtube.
I am for re-nationalisation of crucial industries and services. Why? As a (global) society we face two main threats: socio-economically it is the unfathomable Wealth Gap, the other is the environment, including Climate Change. Both are entangled, the connective point: (neoliberal) Capitalism (including its byproduct, Consumerism). I would like to say those issues are getting tackled. But they are not. Look around, media and the public alike are talking endlessly about... any other topics. Some are valid (racism, migrant crisis and mistreatment, MeToo etc). But they are missing the underlying structure that creates practically all those problems: Capitalism, again.
Somehow people have to learn that the environment is not just some "spoilsport annoying issue created by some stupid entitled bourgeois white folks who hate humans, especially brown and poor people, who they possible even want to get rid of via genocide" or some similar B.S. that seems to make the rounds in leftist circles. (I do not even mention what right wingers think of it, they just care for money anyway.)
If people do not even see environmental issues as vital and essential, it will be hard to do what has to be done. And it HAS to be done.
Tackling environmental and social issues would be so much easier if crucial industries would be owned by the public. There is a strategy behind the anti-government sentiment that makes the rounds on the right, not only in libertarian circles. But Government (flawed as it is - there is much room for reform and better candidates) should represent the people and work for them and in their name. Public owned means owned by the citizenry. That is a good thing! We, the regular people, should demand more public owned industries and services!
Government should play a bigger role, ditch the B.S. about "private enterprise is always better", the selling out of public lands, services (education, transport, electricity) etc. Those "neoliberal" ideas are still perpetuated, even if they were proven wrong.
I think Government should actually nationalise several industries. For instance the chemical industry. It is highly dangerous (prone to accidents, pollution etc) and their products are potentially toxic for the consumer. That is not a good combination of facts for a profit driven industry! The Government could put up e.g. higher environmental and work safety standards, limit certain toxins that are on the market (pesticides which kill bees, cancer causing materials etc.). Also, since the pharmaceutical industry is part of it, the Government could produce and sell medicine for a reasonable price; the profits would go back to the state, i.e. the citizens. And of cause, accountability and transparency are a must, even if the industry is owned by the public.
Insane that we are not doing this! For the sake of society and environment alike. To communicate this to the general public has to be the main effort of activists.
For less crucial industries and enterprises, I am absolutely for Richard Wolff`s "Worker Co-ops" idea. And of course, there can be small businesses that are privately owned, too (e.g. B&Bs, restaurants) as long as they follow environmental, health/safety and work(er) related regulations. But big companies, multi-nationals should be dismantled.
Strange analysis. Functionalism is an important tenant of capitalism as it sees the family being the building block of society, yet according to the lady, capitalism is destroying families 'and' patriarchy which is contrary to capitalism basic tenant. Also, does that mean lesbian and gay families and women liberation is a product of capitalism?
Greed.
Small business owners aren't near millioniares
If the "new" Mexican president doesn't play ball with the cartels, he won't be alive very long. 😑
Forgive me for being jaded after the outright lies of brand Obama® Hope and Change© but I'm just really skeptical that Amlo will be willing and able to stand and deliver.
Edith bunkeresque
Dr. Wolff’s complaints towards the ‘free rider’ employees leeching off of the hard work of
the union members was pretty interesting. It is morally objectionable that people pull benefits from the work of others. There is actually a brilliant book that details what happens when that happens. It was written by a Dr. Yaron Brook and titled the “Free Market Revolution” if anyone is interested.
Imo capitalism is the best system ever created.
Is it really? I hate to break this to you but capitalism is really outdated. So are the rest of the institutions put into place in the 1700's. Its as if people don't want to put the work in to create something better. Stop being lazy.
A 1000 years ago people thought feudalism was the best system created until then. Yet, it turned out to be not good enough.
You’re entitled to your IMO. Thanks for checking in.
Tomato Pa comparing nazism to capitalism is not too smart :P
occupynewparadigm what would this new better system be?
1000 year debate? Why? LOL. Really?
I’ve always said every spouse wants a wife, someone to pickup after me, cook the meals, do the laundry, do the housework...etc.
I am 42, and I don't have a wife. I am living proof, you can live without one. LOL
Whatever Imtold, I’m an old Grammy now, but when I was younger I felt having a wife to do the chores would be nice.
Relationships don't work like that these days. Men have to do a good amount of work around the home and outside of the home. When I had a relationship, I washed the dishes, vacuumed the house, cleaned the floors, cooked sometimes, and my ex would do it sometimes as well. The tasks were split, because both of us worked full time jobs.
In this day and age, no woman is going to do everything for you. Unless you make enough to provide for the entire family.
Ace1000ks1975 - I think you're missing our point...
The point was - women have been taken for granted for millenia. There's something about Judeo-Christian-Muslim values that denigrate women and their typical role in the home and society. We're brought up to be subservient. And we're finally tired of it (thank goodness).
It really has less to do with 'this day and age' than capitalism's failure on its 'promise'. It fucked up. Hell, I've read that the only reason women's suffrage was taken seriously was because of the threat of the influence of soviet communism. So, sorry - it's a new paradigm. And you're gonna have to get used to it.
Everything dies, people and countries, and that is perfectly normal for nothing lasts forever. Rather than moaning about the decline of America (its reasons for its decline are evident in its founding i.e..: religious intolerance, genocide and bigotry and racism) and shouting rah, rah America, or worshipping it, recognize that what the United States is experiencing and that this too is normal and those who have a knowledge and appreciation of history recognize that fact. We no longer are the leaders of the free world, we are not great, we are not a shining beacon on the hill, in fact, we are a backward, poorly education country which has not yet joined the 21st century. We cannot make changes unless we recognize the facts and reality, and not rely on myth. Therefore, we need to change and transform the United States as most of the countries of the world have done. Don’t believe me? Ignoring the collapse of hundreds of ancient empires, let’s examine those countries at the beginning of the 20th century and beyond. The last emperor of Chine was Aisin-Gioro Puyi and China ceased being a monarchy after the turn of the 20th century. India became the world’s largest democracy after the collapse of the British Empire, Japan became a democracy after its defeat after WW II. All the monarchies of central Europe and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire ceased after WW I. The Empires of England, France, Germany, Holland, all ceased to exist. Empires usually collapse after 200-250 years. England after its regicide (the execution of Charles I), during the interregnum, and Cromwell, went from a monarchy, to a Commonwealth with increasing control passing from the king to the parliament, and after Cromwell’s death into a more constitutional monarchy, England after 1888, evolved into a more social democracy. France (which went through many transformations until it became a democracy), and Russia (the Russian revolution failed because it filed to take into consideration and implement economic reforms, as it fails to do so today) , after their revolutions evolved into entirely different forms of government. Germany, after WWII went from a dictatorship into a social-democracy. England lost its huge empire after WWII. Everything changes, a normal succession of historical events still occurring today. What the Trump supporters do not understand is that America has become a failure, a has-been where its form of government no long works and it no longer serves the needs of its citizens. They are in denial and live in the mythical past about a mythical United States. Also, there is no such thing as race, we are all Homo-Sapiens. We are not separate races, we are however, separate ethnic and cultural groups. Because of rapid transportation and migration, immigration, marriage, and integration (mixture of the gene pool), and there is an increasing mixture of the gene pool (proof: genomic analysis). Those Native North, South, Central Americans and the Caribbean, are Asian, with a later add-mixture of Spanish and Blacks (proof, genomic drift). Many of us live in a non-existence past, perpetuating a myth, because we do not appreciate history and fail to recognize that change and evolution is the norm and always has been. Nothing lasts forever, nor should it. However, what is different from all these other historical events, is global climate change which will destabilize much of the world.
I love his wife
This will be the rebirth of America.
Small business owners equally poor fuck off lefties , the already struggling to pay off debt
DON'T interrupt, Rick, let Harriet TALK! Swear to God, you and Chris Hedges are both TERRIBLE interviewers!!!
Cory Hinman As much as it saddens me to have to do so, I’ll have to concede to that point. Have a look at a good many of Jesse Ventura’s interview segments included ( typically ) in the concluding halves of his shows on RT. He is, in fact ( and even astonishingly ) a FAR superior listener.
Yes, Wolff and Hedges are top personalities, often take time listen to their valuable analysises, but rather disturbing interviewers. But both have excellent guests and they seem to tolerate this.
Although, listening to the whole clip, must correct - Wolff leads the interview with dr. Fraad very professionally. Maybe he has considered some constructive criticism from the past ;-)
Even god required his people to pay taxes ...doing the Kings times and during Mosses rule. as far i know GOD was the first one to require taxes of some kind. So Tax Paying is not man made but if you don't believe there is a god look up how they started by all men.
Harry Hightower I urge you to read Matthew 22. Jesus grabbed the coin with the emperor's face on it to show that it belonged to the Caesar. The Pharisees simply tried to provoke the people against Jesus, that's why they dressed up the question of paying taxes as a moral/religious issue (which it is not).
The problem is extremely simple: You don't have to pay taxes, but then you also have to say goodbye to all the benefits of being an imperial subject, such as military protection, infrastructure, safe trade etc. (and also con't get conquered in the first place). In other words, you can't have the cake and eat it too, but this choice has absolutely no spiritual meaning.
God is no respecter of persons, and that is why we can live on this Earth in complete equality and mutual love, and anyone who plays king is clearly against sharing this Earth and its fruits with his neighbor, thus lives in sin. Even if you look at Old Testament kings like David or Solomon, whenever they actually used their power and acted as kings, they always sinned. The very mission of all the prophets was to chastise the evil kings and their followers. Whether a people want a king or not is their choice, and it has nothing to do with anyone's spiritual salvation.
Tomato Pa
And yet Isaiah prophesied about the debt jubilee and the end of bondage and servitude. And then Jesus said to have fulfilled that prophesy when he famously unrolled the scroll in a synagogue in Galilee (and then those wonderful Israelites tried to lynch him for saying those things).
There is an intrinsic evil in the system that enslaves people and no amount of law or morality will ever change that.