We Have All Been Lied To - Alan Watts On Money

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  • @yannakisala5298
    @yannakisala5298 16 днів тому +41

    The ONLY truest "currency" that matters most is your Consciousness and your energetic frequency (that you put out). Therefore, a pure authentic LOVING frequency is all that matters. Simple concept. Yet the most difficult to achieve in BEING and Feeling for most humans. Much luck to you all.

    • @James-zp5po
      @James-zp5po 11 днів тому

      ​@@dadigitechmanthey tell us cooked food has more flavor but we eat for nutrition and heat kills the nutrition and there are no germs I have been eating raw meat for 9 years and I look and feel 20 years younger

    • @James-zp5po
      @James-zp5po 11 днів тому

      @@dadigitechman goatis

    • @mikegoodwin5951
      @mikegoodwin5951 5 днів тому

      I don’t understand what he’s saying. Can you summarise it for me please? I’d be greatful

  • @lloydwaycott8178
    @lloydwaycott8178 9 днів тому +9

    Final line: ''People have to be persuaded, to play fair with each other.'' There sir, is the rub.

  • @RyanNelly
    @RyanNelly 15 днів тому +80

    I'm happy to go on food stamps and walk around with everything I own since I can't afford a home anyway. Even after years of hard labor, I have only a van. And now I can't even afford that. Everyone looks miserable in their vehicles rushing around everywhere. We make life too difficult for how easy we are capable of making it.

    • @funkyfreshEazyO
      @funkyfreshEazyO 13 днів тому +2

      Hopefully they shut off food stamps

    • @RyanNelly
      @RyanNelly 13 днів тому +6

      @@funkyfreshEazyO says dude in mom's basement

    • @lloydwaycott8178
      @lloydwaycott8178 9 днів тому +1

      @@funkyfreshEazyO What are you going to do when you need them SFB?

    • @tagmantag4345
      @tagmantag4345 8 днів тому +4

      I just pray you get through all the tough times brother, god bless you 💕

    • @RyanNelly
      @RyanNelly 8 днів тому +1

      @@tagmantag4345 you too man 🐆

  • @cheesedanishable
    @cheesedanishable 18 днів тому +38

    If only he knew how much BS we have today...

  • @AnnetteCurtain-tc4mh
    @AnnetteCurtain-tc4mh 13 днів тому +11

    As money becomes worthless,freedoms we enjoy now,will be taken away.

  • @saf.revealed369
    @saf.revealed369 6 днів тому +3

    My WISDOM about Health is beyond compare that even Doctors comes to see me. Their money cannot help them. My WISDOM I carried anytime anywhere. I AM A WEALTHY SPIRIT. Thank You for reading this!

  • @dr.MadisonSoley
    @dr.MadisonSoley 12 днів тому +106

    it's kinda crazy how nobody's talking about the forbidden ebook called hidden laws of the game on borlest

    • @utv5490
      @utv5490 10 днів тому

      It looks cheap and nasty. Real David Icke stuff.

  • @carolynomm4013
    @carolynomm4013 14 днів тому +4

    I got beaten at school for getting my maths wrong, now the government gets praised for doing it wrong.

    • @WhiteManXRP
      @WhiteManXRP 6 днів тому

      That's when you realize everything they tried to teach is wrong..Trust you judgement

  • @brentwinfield5713
    @brentwinfield5713 18 днів тому +50

    “Money is not real”, “money is not wealth”

    • @deanbutler3264
      @deanbutler3264 17 днів тому +1

      " Nothing is real " 😉

    • @justhomas83
      @justhomas83 16 днів тому

      It's all going to HELL

    • @justhomas83
      @justhomas83 16 днів тому +2

      I stopped caring a long time ago.

    • @33beatzmusik
      @33beatzmusik 16 днів тому

      🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 ty sir. I believe you will share this, here's your Undisputable truth about money.......... it begins with the human condition called duality. Money is a measurement of so called wealth, and in order to have, you create the condition of have not. So therefore, "zero" would have to be "absolutely nothing" in order to measure anything, + or - respectively. With that outta the way, its nonsense to think a 1000 dollars would be greater than 100, 10, or 1, because it doesn't matter how much nothing you put in front or behind something, it's still nothing. people = wealth.
      That's why America's letting every1 in, and china's technically richer than us lol. Your ssn is like the sticker they put in a cows ear, and they use that to compare wealth or financial stability, with other countries. MAN POWER = POWER OF MAN. That's why we are all constantly lied too, so we don't wake up and realize we're literally paying for everything we already have. Then wonder why we can't get ahead lmao.

    • @imnobody303
      @imnobody303 15 днів тому +1

      @@deanbutler3264 Nothing except the permanent. Everything that is changing cannot be real. Everything that appears out of me, distinct from me cannot be true.

  • @PhilJones-bb1wn
    @PhilJones-bb1wn 18 днів тому +18

    '...to play fair with each other.'
    Well that's never going to happen.

    • @janetbaker7848
      @janetbaker7848 15 днів тому

      I do believe that most basic humans are honest people I think we've been programmed into not being that way. After all it's greed that runs our world.

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому

      Not under the conditions of a survival system that is perpetuating the worst conditions that trigger the worst behaviors for self-preservation reasons, selfishness, competitiveness and greed, hoarding, property.

  • @DavidRose-m8s
    @DavidRose-m8s 7 днів тому +1

    Playing fair is against the nature of having possession's, or else we would be in mud huts. I would say that infrastructure equates to money where the land can be made productive. Civilization's are successful or not based on land quality, and connectivity. Limit one or both then extraction, or the lack of it is all you have left which is temporary, and cannot be sustained so becomes the same thing. A desert has to be paired with good land to make capital.

  • @suzukikawasaki5165
    @suzukikawasaki5165 17 днів тому +3

    Supply and demand are all that matter. People will charge as high a price as they can. Money is just a medium of exchange and has no value.
    The Venus Project from Years ago has some interesting ideas.

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому

      A tool of greed, yes, because it doesn't spoil like everything else and so allows hoarding into infinity and beyond. And greed is a self-preservation mechanism, a reaction to scarcity, which the (monetary) market system is based on and perpetuates, greed is hoarding and the result of hoarding is property, which again is causing scarcity, because what one has too much of is missing for others to survive, it is bad enough by nature, but money increased it to such a level that individuals hoard basically the entire planet and so control all of humanity with systematic blackmailing which they call "money incentive".
      The (monetary) market system evolved from a system of self-preservation to an anti-economy and finally to a cancer ideology, because to try to overcome artificial scarcity created by property and the contract law, exponential growth of consumption is required for artificial demand for labor, which means overproduction and extremely wasteful production, consumerism, planned obsolescence, etc., turning limited means into exponentially growing waste mountains, while the non-ideological definition of "economizing" is to make the most use of limited means while avoiding and reducing waste. Unfortunately Watts didn't get it and got stuck in that "energy" nonsense, while energy is actually a great example for how to know value, energy is expressed in SI units, like every real value, this is what is required instead of the absurd abstract token money that represents nothing but itself. He made some valid points here, but completely failed on the the underlying ideology, the actual system that is based on scarcity and inefficiency, abundance, sustainably, longevity, peace, health.... is the death of the market religion, no problems can be solved but more must be created to preserve and create jobs, it is a war on progress and freedom aka. unemployment.

  • @33beatzmusik
    @33beatzmusik 16 днів тому +8

    Spread this truth.
    How can $1000 be greater than 100, or less than 100,000? It truly doesnt matter how much "nothing" you put in front or behind something, its still "nothing"...

    • @imnobody303
      @imnobody303 15 днів тому +1

      But spread is time, and time is another illusion. And spread is still believe in false valuation. The faster the information propagate the faster the effect appears the more people are stressed. Economy is for machines.

    • @chemicloud6443
      @chemicloud6443 10 днів тому +2

      @33beatzmusik yes but in our reality it will take 15 years to dsae 100,000 and alpt less for 1000 so it is very real in our reality. Trust me I was homeless for 4 years

  • @MichaelMcCausland-pg6qs
    @MichaelMcCausland-pg6qs 9 днів тому +1

    There is no real shortage of gold. It’s maintained as a managed shortage.

  • @chemicloud6443
    @chemicloud6443 18 днів тому +5

    Wow very well said

  • @imnobody303
    @imnobody303 15 днів тому +2

    Money is like a drug, alcool or anything comparable.

  • @4tea509
    @4tea509 17 днів тому +4

    Fuck 🤯

  • @kennymmmKay
    @kennymmmKay 5 днів тому

    Idle hands are most certainly the devil's playground. Keep yourself busy and surrounded family and loved ones.

  • @christinedandy7020
    @christinedandy7020 14 днів тому

    Watch the ‘ Great Taking’ ( Webb)

  • @peace-c2r
    @peace-c2r 9 днів тому

    Context please: when was this recording made of Alan Watt's voice, not the vid, thanks? Otherwise hear here, now but how?

  • @ZOGGYDOGGY
    @ZOGGYDOGGY 13 днів тому +1

    What happened in 1971? It's a long story, but fundamentally what happened was that the U.S. Dollar was no longer guaranteed by the government as being worth $35.00 in gold.
    Say what?
    Your currency represents the wealth labour produces and that which lies in the natural resources of the borders of the political State you live in. Gold has been used down the centuries by humans as a money commodity representing a more or less stable amount of socially necessary labour time. Stick a pin there.
    "August 1971. With inflation on the rise and a gold run looming, President Richard Nixon's team enacted a plan that ended dollar convertibility to gold and implemented wage and price controls, which soon brought an end to the Bretton Woods System." In other words, the value (value as understood by Aristotle, Smith, Ricardo and Marx i.e. the socially necessary labour time embodied in the commodity known as the U.S. Dollar) was not being reflected in the price set by the U.S. government. Floating the U.S. money commodity in the world market led to a big surprise for "consumers", the price of everything rose and rose a lot to meet their values as expressed in U.S. dollars. Price usually fluctuates around value with the winds of supply and demand. Today the U.S. dollar is more in tune with its market value (the socially necessary labour time it represents in wealth produced within the U.S. by workers), to wit: $ 1,846.94 per ounce of gold.
    Meanwhile between 1971 and now, all sorts of hanky panky went on in repricing the value of labour power i.e. wages in a stagnant or downward way. The capitalist class saw an opportunity to deal with declining rates of profit by unhooking wages from the surplus value which was being produced by labour. You'll see this decoupling, if you pay close attention to all the graphs in the link below. Productivity is essentially measured as output per hour of labour. While real wages (wages adjusted for inflation) stagnated, productivity increased, leaving workers less and less of the social product of their labour to use, even as taxes for the capitalists were cut, along with cuts to the social wage i.e. public health, education and welfare all in order "to balance the budget".
    Interestingly enough, while these graphs are mostly centred on the situation of the U.S. working class, the ACTU in Australia published a study which came to a similar conclusion about productivity of wealth and workers' share, to wit: that the Australian working class have 13% less of a share of the real Gross Domestic Product now than they did in 1975.
    There are lots of graphs here, not just the one pictured below. Take a look, read 'em and weep. Workers have been taken to the cleaners by the buyers of their labour power, the employing capitalist class.
    wtfhappenedin1971.com/?fbclid=IwAR0k0_2Of9g3fvvPmYDej_C8kpZKP1Di6kQrfTsTyzRVTvkKBx_z7AR8YBQ

  • @markbailey6051
    @markbailey6051 16 днів тому +4

    Fiat ponzi $

  • @WhiteManXRP
    @WhiteManXRP 6 днів тому

    XRP comes to mind😎⚔️🤑

  • @brianb6957
    @brianb6957 13 днів тому

    Enough with talk. Let's do something about it!!

  • @andrew69novak
    @andrew69novak 17 днів тому +2

    Our money is becoming complete dung 💩. Barter becomes attractive all over again once they debase as they do now.

  • @MyBill66
    @MyBill66 8 днів тому

    Can I come live in this perfect world that you live in, what you say will never happen. 🤣😂🤣🤣😂

  • @cheesecake7671
    @cheesecake7671 18 днів тому +2

    The prices are going up because the monetary supply is expanding or the Goods and services are shrinking or both. The fix is to fix the monetary supply and create enough for everyone. Having lockdown interrupting the creation of goods and expanding the monetary supply has made most people poorer.

    • @zoltanhorvath8568
      @zoltanhorvath8568 18 днів тому +1

      Correct,they stopped production and increased money supply worst decision made

    • @karl1808
      @karl1808 18 днів тому

      The centralized western banking system is corrupt to the core...

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому

      Yes, inflation is the result of money thrown into the masses to keep up consumption and so demand for labor to fight actual progress and freedom aka. unemployment.

  • @WilliamReed-i4y
    @WilliamReed-i4y 6 днів тому

    ONLY NEED AND MUST HAVE AN HONEST INVENTORY. YOU ASK INVENTORY OF WHAT? AN INVENTORY OF PEOPLE. ONLY NEED KNOW THE PEOPLE. NO NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE HAVE. ONLY NEED TO KNOW WHO IS DRIVING OUR OR THIS GOVERNMENT. COME ON MAN. WE ARE GONNA HAVE AN INVENTORY OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE USA. GUI.

  • @carenkurdjinian5413
    @carenkurdjinian5413 12 днів тому

    It Becomes Real When A Person Is Hungry via- Need “Money “ Unfortunately or Fortunately Called M . --To Buy A Bread and So On -For Simple Conditioned Living …..🌞

  • @jeffreymichaels9801
    @jeffreymichaels9801 14 днів тому +1

    The language uses on this video and concepts presented presented strongly suggest this video is AI generated

  • @AstralApple
    @AstralApple 17 днів тому

    Money. Capital. Ownership. Possession.
    Possession, as in demonic possession.
    Ever heard of angelic possession in the real world?
    Neither have I.
    Animus dominion/domination forcibly submitting the forces of evil in lieue of ownership is the answer.
    Don't have a body, be a body.
    Don't have property, dominate your house-sized-dominion.

  • @Tropical_Frank
    @Tropical_Frank 11 днів тому

    All the points made sense but the end was nonsense

  • @robertmitchell8630
    @robertmitchell8630 16 днів тому +1

    September 12th 2024
    Gold spot price $2,550
    Silver spot price $29.90

  • @istvanrothhammer4231
    @istvanrothhammer4231 7 днів тому

    Shouldn’t put the bloody music under!!! Why do I have to listen instead of listening the real wisdom? Is it getting deeper with music? I doubt it.

  • @DrJohnPollard
    @DrJohnPollard 12 днів тому

    Money is a medium of exchange. That makes it real. Alan Watts isn't saying anything coherent about money.

  • @aYeyqoyeYyadej
    @aYeyqoyeYyadej 18 днів тому

    urology is the main job we should be doing now. and petitionin our government to allow three day training Qualifications. its not rocket science

  • @ancienttech4264
    @ancienttech4264 18 днів тому +5

    BITCOIN

    • @zoltanhorvath8568
      @zoltanhorvath8568 18 днів тому

      BTC?please tell me what value btc create?

    • @ancienttech4264
      @ancienttech4264 18 днів тому

      Study . I starting buying 2017 and I keep buying . I decoupled from the rat race and you can to . Read "the bitcoin standard " I just feel everyone deserves this experience. Not here to upset people . If I do I apologize.

    • @JamesVannordstrand
      @JamesVannordstrand 17 днів тому

      ​@@zoltanhorvath8568it's the first time in human history that we've had an information network with no system admins. Everyone on the network has the same access. There is no admin that can manipulate the system unilaterally. Not even developers can introduce changes without approval from the majority of the participants. Bitcoin is the hardest information network to change in the world because it is so large and incompatible changes always require social consensus. The mechanism that protects the network from being changed by a minority of the participants is called Proof of Work. Bitcoin is intentionally the most expensive computer network in the world to change or hack. That is by design. Anything that runs on Bitcoin is running on the most secure network in the world. That's what makes it valuable.

    • @trippnface
      @trippnface 17 днів тому

      @@dadigitechman This is nonsense.

    • @trippnface
      @trippnface 17 днів тому

      @@zoltanhorvath8568 The value is in it's laws & application.
      Inflation proof, medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account, no central entity/ 3rd party interference required, instant trade anywhere in the World.

  • @FreddieWestberg
    @FreddieWestberg 18 днів тому +3

    lovely edit.
    btc fixes this, iykyk

  • @charlesking3384
    @charlesking3384 7 днів тому

    Sounds like Satans wisdom…

    • @iamrocketray
      @iamrocketray 5 днів тому

      @charlesking3384 TYPICAL 🤣, If you can't understand something it must be the work of either God or the Devil.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @SFsurf
    @SFsurf 8 днів тому +18

    Our health is our real wealth. Nothing else really matters

  • @davienstrong
    @davienstrong 16 днів тому +91

    Man this recording has aged like fine wine. Everything he said is happening today as we speak.

    • @mikegoodwin5951
      @mikegoodwin5951 5 днів тому

      I don’t understand what he’s saying. Can you summarise it for me please? I’d be greatful .

    • @Robert-ho1ie
      @Robert-ho1ie 5 днів тому

      ​@@mikegoodwin5951mumbo jumbo! Just learn how the banking system operates and you will see the greatest fraud on mankind and the evil judges and lawyers who side with these snakes in order to get bribes and kickbacks to keep the deception going. Banks don't loan you anything for they have nothing to loan. They accept customers deposits and promissory notes from so-called borrowers and fractionalize those negotiable instruments up to 10 times creating fiat out of thin air. You fund your own loan when you lend the bank your promissory note and yes, you are the creditor who lent the bank something of value and they return it to you as a loan plus usury. Way more to this but I'm tired of trying. I know so much more even with proof.

  • @chauncygardner123
    @chauncygardner123 14 днів тому +45

    Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality.
    -A. Einstein

    • @firsttimemommy3735
      @firsttimemommy3735 13 днів тому +2

      ❤ on point with this one! So true

    • @lloydwaycott8178
      @lloydwaycott8178 9 днів тому

      ''That's bollocks.'' - Lloyd Waycott.

    • @mikegoodwin5951
      @mikegoodwin5951 5 днів тому +1

      I don’t understand what he’s saying. Can you summarise it for me please? I’d be greatful

    • @chauncygardner123
      @chauncygardner123 5 днів тому

      @@mikegoodwin5951 Watts is basically pointing out the misuse and unfair distribution of money and how we have been conditioned to value it when it has none. The idea that man/woman must “EARN a living” is absurd, and is utilized as a form of social control.
      I have inserted a link to a video which contains a very thorough and concise explanation of the monetary system and how it abuses the general population. Although I highly recommend watching the video in its entirety, the segment I refer to starts at 4:25:
      ua-cam.com/video/3FvKzSBSQcc/v-deo.htmlsi=yihMd6Vp1Oum2KQH
      Hope this helps🌞

    • @mikegoodwin5951
      @mikegoodwin5951 5 днів тому +1

      @@chauncygardner123 thank you 🙏

  • @SnifferRiffle
    @SnifferRiffle 18 днів тому +70

    Energy is real money.

    • @TCTALKSTCFITNESS
      @TCTALKSTCFITNESS 18 днів тому +7

      💯💯💯

    • @marcusmiller5443
      @marcusmiller5443 18 днів тому +6

      Personal energy/time is what money pays for, yes.

    • @Jophiel50
      @Jophiel50 17 днів тому +2

      💯💯💯💯💯. Our energetic currency is what we spend to get the paper and “signature worth” to pass between us as an agreement, but is oppressing and slave labor inducing…money helps you determine how much your soul is worth as much as the plastic baby one is actually buying…just my $.02 😁

    • @heightenedsenses9605
      @heightenedsenses9605 13 днів тому +2

      Money has no real value at all 😂 it's true...its all the matrix 😎 money is a rule to keep the world in order.

    • @marcusmiller5443
      @marcusmiller5443 13 днів тому +1

      @@heightenedsenses9605 correct. Almost anything with a numerical value placed on it is used toward a 'big diq' measuring contest only.

  • @dadigitechman
    @dadigitechman 18 днів тому +181

    Untill we care for each other enough to get up and do the things we do every day, out of nothing more than the want to ensure that everybody has their needs met, nothing will ever change.

    • @TCTALKSTCFITNESS
      @TCTALKSTCFITNESS 18 днів тому +8

      Exactly 💯

    • @marcusmiller5443
      @marcusmiller5443 18 днів тому +9

      Money is implemented to create a divide, that's all. Division vs unification

    • @mathewwilburn513
      @mathewwilburn513 18 днів тому +4

      People have to find out what they’re good at and what they’re willing to do for a buck.

    • @marcusmiller5443
      @marcusmiller5443 18 днів тому +8

      @@mathewwilburn513 'for a buck...'
      Nope...you didn't get it.

    • @EdekLay
      @EdekLay 17 днів тому

      You love it ​@@marcusmiller5443

  • @shannonpeacock3509
    @shannonpeacock3509 16 днів тому +71

    Money is not the root of evil, it’s inert. It’s greed. Wanting more than you need, especially at the cost of others having enough. My grandad always told me, “Enough is as good as a feast.”

    • @justhomas83
      @justhomas83 16 днів тому +15

      Nothing matters bro.
      Housing is out of reach, money is useless. Credit is bullshit this whole world is backwards and bullshit

    • @RustyNeverSleepz
      @RustyNeverSleepz 15 днів тому +2

      Then why did Michelle Obama take $775,000 to make a speech? I'll go make a speech for less than half of that. How much is enough for her

    • @devkoopsyr332
      @devkoopsyr332 15 днів тому

      MO doesn't matter

    • @victorarregnelle8976
      @victorarregnelle8976 14 днів тому

      We are all on a race to become "god", or as close as we can get. It's about the ego.

    • @Clearingthepathtoascend
      @Clearingthepathtoascend 13 днів тому

      Avarice- extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

  • @galactic904
    @galactic904 16 днів тому +20

    What a coincidence, the radio pops up Pink Floyd "The Machine" while listening to this great video

  • @xikano8573
    @xikano8573 18 днів тому +41

    How effing brilliant this man is...

    • @d.owenpowell9023
      @d.owenpowell9023 18 днів тому +5

      Yes, he is insightful and thinks deeply. We listen to his depth of thought and discover the countless hidden truths he conveys.

    • @iamrocketray
      @iamrocketray 5 днів тому

      @xikano8573 WAS!

    • @Chachi21
      @Chachi21 3 дні тому

      @@xikano8573 Well he was a grifter and worth 62 million when he died

    • @xikano8573
      @xikano8573 2 дні тому

      @@Chachi21 🤣🤣🤣Well, he was an ordained minister...

    • @Chachi21
      @Chachi21 2 дні тому

      @@xikano8573 he was Buddhist

  • @Yannis2022
    @Yannis2022 9 днів тому +8

    Watts reminded us that money is merely an illusion distracting us from the true treasures of life: nature and our own creative spirit, due to treating money as if it is a tangible resource like food and water.

  • @Jophiel50
    @Jophiel50 17 днів тому +16

    “Frippery” is my favorite new word 😁💎

  • @theotherguy5516
    @theotherguy5516 6 днів тому +4

    Much of Watts's predictions, concerning the inevitably of pointless work, endless bureaucracy, and the age of all-encompassing advertising /propaganda, has of course come to pass. He was a truly brilliant, perspicacious man.
    David Graeber captured this, incidentally, in his 2013 essay on BS jobs and expanded further in his later, excellent book, "Bullsh*t Jobs." But Watts saw it all coming.

  • @RubenArroyo-k1q
    @RubenArroyo-k1q 17 днів тому +6

    It's been there plan all along... maybe we the people should change that.

  • @erics2506
    @erics2506 10 днів тому +6

    Finding a labor that you love is key.

  • @jameslee-dp6cb
    @jameslee-dp6cb 13 днів тому +7

    We're already in a depression. No one wants to admit it. But when you cant buy with money, then your effectively in a depression whether you know it or not. The only real question is how deep will this depression take us. Will it cost us our homes? Will it cost us our jobs? Will it cost us our family members? Will we, ourselves live to see the end of it? Its a real concern. I think Ive seen where 12 million Americans died of starvation during the great depression of the 1930s. Ive not heard of how many lost their homes. Its been estimated that only 25% of the population became unemployed during that time. I have heard some people say that this depression will be worse than the 1930s depression. And I try to encourage everyone to get a small partial of land to grow food on. Trucking companies will go bankrupt and no one will be bringing imported food to your grocery stores because of run away inflation. Hang onto your land and learn to grow your own food. Your life may depend on it. Sorry about the doom and gloom, but preparing for the worst and hoping for the best is all we really have as things deteriorate further. Help your neighbors. This will build bonds that will help to sustain you. It is the wisdom my grandfather passed down to me and now I'm passing it on to you. He told me that nobody had any money during the depression and people were so hungry, they were eating the bark off of trees. You need to prepare

    • @andymorales6907
      @andymorales6907 12 днів тому +2

      There will always be sufficient number of those who would rather take it from you than toil themselves so it's a moot point at best. Unfortunately..

    • @johncrowe850
      @johncrowe850 11 днів тому

      When Humanity evolves and awaken enough to truly share the resources of Earth for our survival and abundant wellbeing, there will be no need for the retarding thing called money ,which now enslaves both rich and poor in an uneccessary madness of the present condition of today's World. All glorious energy , Air, Water, Food ,Land etc etc has only real use value & the False Ownership, Buying & Selling of such Energy is tantamount to an Early Death of Humaity sooner than later. Plus the Destructive harm enkindled on Your Planet Earth 🌏 close to Midnight 😢

    • @lloydwaycott8178
      @lloydwaycott8178 9 днів тому +1

      I'm certainly depressed.

    • @AndreaWondergem
      @AndreaWondergem День тому

      Get in the mindset of not wasting ANYTHING. including water, paper, money and goodwill.

  • @dalepointer9414
    @dalepointer9414 18 днів тому +27

    Money is a tool. Like a shovel or hammer, its purpose is to build or destroy. The more money larger the tool. A larger tool makes it easier to manipulate. Rich have strong spoons and poor have plastic spoons.
    But here's the remedy--love not money but live within your capabilities. Believe it are not, a plastic spoon can be very effective if used wisely. It won't dig you a swimming pool...but better than no spoon at all

    • @brentwinfield5713
      @brentwinfield5713 18 днів тому +2

      Excellent

    • @imnobody303
      @imnobody303 15 днів тому +2

      There is no something like rich people, or poor people. That is a concept of a confused mind. Money is your tool of self slavery, in your world. I pray to you to become a rich person.

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому

      A tool of greed, yes, because it doesn't spoil like everything else and so allows hoarding into infinity and beyond. And greed is a self-preservation mechanism, a reaction to scarcity, which the (monetary) market system is based on and perpetuates, greed is hoarding and the result of hoarding is property, which again is causing scarcity, because what one has too much of is missing for others to survive, it is bad enough by nature, but money increased it to such a level that individuals hoard basically the entire planet and so control all of humanity with systematic blackmailing which they call "money incentive".
      The (monetary) market system evolved from a system of self-preservation to an anti-economy and finally to a cancer ideology, because to try to overcome artificial scarcity created by property and the contract law, exponential growth of consumption is required for artificial demand for labor, which means overproduction and extremely wasteful production, consumerism, planned obsolescence, etc., turning limited means into exponentially growing waste mountains, while the non-ideological definition of "economizing" is to make the most use of limited means while avoiding and reducing waste. Unfortunately Watts didn't get it and got stuck in that "energy" nonsense, while energy is actually a great example for how to know value, energy is expressed in SI units, like every real value, this is what is required instead of the absurd abstract token money that represents nothing but itself. He made some valid points here, but completely failed on the the underlying ideology, the actual system that is based on scarcity and inefficiency, abundance, sustainably, longevity, peace, health.... is the death of the market religion, no problems can be solved but more must be created to preserve and create jobs, it is a war on progress and freedom aka. unemployment.

  • @d.owenpowell9023
    @d.owenpowell9023 18 днів тому +5

    …but is Gold as rare as we've been told? There are, or maybe there are ancient technologies.

    • @coolhandluke1503
      @coolhandluke1503 18 днів тому +5

      It's not that we didn't have enough, just we didn't have enough for exponential growth, nothing is infinite and yet that is what a fiat economy demands. Every fiat economy has had the same fate and we've had a lot of them. The only thing that could have delayed the inevitable was good regulation and we are witnessing the complete corruption of all regulation protecting the ppl.

  • @jeffreymichaels9801
    @jeffreymichaels9801 8 днів тому +2

    I just confirmed this to be genuine Allan Watts via comms with Mark Watts of the Allan Watts org. I thought this was AI because Allan nailed money as a network. Wow.

  • @danielfisher6501
    @danielfisher6501 6 днів тому +2

    You can't eat or drink gold, and it won't keep you warm. It's just a heavy metal.

  • @fredrikpettersson2693
    @fredrikpettersson2693 15 днів тому +3

    Money is the Opposition of fair play and was created from that intention. Thus people still chase it and through that chase ackumulating the Money in the Top 1%... crazy.

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому

      Yes, the entire (monetary) market system is an anti-economy, a self-preservation mechanism that perpetuates the conditions that it came up from, scarcity that is triggering selfishness, competitiveness and greed, hoarding, property, which again creates scarcity artificially.

  • @alessiamogavero2278
    @alessiamogavero2278 9 днів тому +2

    It seems like the video is incomplete. What was Alan Watts going to say after that? "Be fair with others by not raising prices" and...what else? (Also, side note: the background music is unnecessary. The video would be so much better without any music). Certainly, good provocative thoughts. Thank you.

  • @kennymmmKay
    @kennymmmKay 5 днів тому +1

    I love Alan watts he is amazing I wish he was still alive to talk about today

  • @Jophiel50
    @Jophiel50 17 днів тому +2

    💯💯💯💯💯. Our energetic currency is what we spend to get the paper and “signature worth” to pass between us as an agreement, but is oppressing and slave labor inducing…money helps you determine how much your soul is worth as much as the plastic baby one is actually buying…just my $.02 😁

  • @ycdbralai
    @ycdbralai 18 днів тому +23

    The only thing you can trust is uncertainty. ...and that's not even a THING, so it can't be trusted...
    Wu wei 🙏

  • @edwardsimmons8247
    @edwardsimmons8247 День тому +1

    im 56 now. Ive been questioning the monetary system since i was 8. The idea that rarity means value, is horseshit. That, is exactly what causes castes, and thievery. The trade of services, knowledge, skill; those are more valuble than a goddamn useless gem stone.

  • @a.crawley5064
    @a.crawley5064 11 днів тому +1

    What actually happened during the Great Depression, any good suggestions?

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому

      General Market Saturation, the point when people have enough of everything that is not used up and reduce consumption and so demand for labor, increased by technical efficiency through technology.
      The Great Depression was the natural end of the (monetary) market system, because market saturation means abundance and abundance can't be sold, there is no point in trading if abundance is given. But it counts only for those who had money to satisfy their needs, to reach global abundance a global UBI is needed, which cause a consumption boom like never before, business would move and expand and this way the missing infrastructure would be built, meanwhile data could be collected to use it for feedback loops, efficiency protocols and production and distribution algorithms for Cybernetics, a self-adjusting adaptive system that makes sure that there is always enough but never too much and is reducing waste this way, a true economic system by the definition of economizing, making the most use of limited resources while avoiding and reducing waste.

  • @ps603
    @ps603 6 днів тому +1

    Well first we have to get the Government to stop Price Gouging the Tax Payers..

  • @industrialist2002
    @industrialist2002 10 днів тому +1

    A yet people think elected officials are out there to work for them ... don't be so naive, gullible and stupid!

  • @James-zp5po
    @James-zp5po 11 днів тому +1

    The small hat people still printed up all the money they wanted during the depression

  • @ericm6633
    @ericm6633 15 днів тому +1

    Devil is a lie

  • @adrianostafford8240
    @adrianostafford8240 6 днів тому +1

    Everyone on the dole? What like a UBI?

  • @karrskarr
    @karrskarr 18 днів тому +4

    'Gilt'y as 'charged' :P

    • @NoOne-hq9cp
      @NoOne-hq9cp 18 днів тому +2

      Guilt gilt guilds city London they have a monetary value

  • @MrELMENDA27
    @MrELMENDA27 18 днів тому +10

    Inflation is just another tax.

    • @coolhandluke1503
      @coolhandluke1503 18 днів тому

      Tax is like a government surcharge. Inflation is the value of money being divided

    • @MrELMENDA27
      @MrELMENDA27 18 днів тому +3

      @@coolhandluke1503 and losing it’s value thus things cost more today than they did yesterday…ergo tax.

    • @trippnface
      @trippnface 17 днів тому +2

      It's a hidden tax, and the worst tax of all.

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому +1

      No, just money thrown in the masses to increase consumption artificially to preserve jobs after the natural end of the (monetary) market system, the general Market Saturation.

  • @mkortz12095
    @mkortz12095 18 днів тому +3

    I sleep better when I work more than 8 hours a day.

  • @christinegrace6783
    @christinegrace6783 15 днів тому +2

    yep. only all ways love love love give-in freely for we each are this love

  • @katherinekelly6432
    @katherinekelly6432 14 днів тому +1

    Money is used as a measure of value. It is never an accurate measure of value because value is constantly being determined by the economic relations between people. If all the paper money disappeared and people returned to using precious metals or other materials that are scarce that would still represent a store of value. Everything is a store of value to the degree it is valued. That is why money is an illusion. Its value could disappear if no one valued it. In a nuclear war paper money would revert to the value that paper has. Food would be used as a form of money. Money is inert. It is not the problem. Peoples relationship to the problem of survival is where the difficulties with money arise. People blame externalities for the corruption but do not see that the source of corruption arises out of the inner self's relationship with externalities. Money is not the problem. Humanity is the problem, or more specifically humanities relationship with Pain & Pleasure, Suffering and Death.

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому

      The only way to measure value are SI units, money doesn't represent anything but money, it can't represent anything alone because of the fact that money doesn't spoil, but this fact makes money to a tool of greed, it allows hoarding into infinity and beyond.

  • @michaelryan9311
    @michaelryan9311 11 днів тому +2

    It is impossible to stop something that can't be replaced. What does the world do?

    • @if6wuz9
      @if6wuz9 7 днів тому

      Watts did not get to the nitty gritty of things, but rather made it seem more mystical .It is not complicated at all to change and the world was not always like this. Clue : Andrew Jackson's greatest accomplishment. And it lasted until 1913.

  • @datazndood
    @datazndood 14 днів тому +1

    Sometimes I wonder, does the channel creator actually give AF with all the moving music and is doing something good themselves since obviously they are making “money” off these videos from someone else’s mind and thoughts. Some would call in the comedy world a hack but it’s not that you see, it takes time and effort to assemble this content, to which maybe the creator feels deserving of their “money” for his/her sustenance. Who’s worse, the homeless guy with endless excuses or the billionaire with his explanation in his deposition and congress spiel for destroying the world is necessary. Which one are you.

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому

      In a system where your survival is not dependent on existing resources and productivity but on some absurd abstract token like money, you need to get money to survive, just look at reality at what people are forced to do to get money to survive in a world of extreme abundance. Pretty simple thing actually, might spend some serious time on education to train your brain to logical thinking.

  • @benderbender1233
    @benderbender1233 18 днів тому +4

    🖖

    • @johnege7352
      @johnege7352 14 днів тому +1

      I grok. Live long and prosper.

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому +2

      RBE, NOW! 🖖

  • @spartanstu8495
    @spartanstu8495 18 днів тому +3

    Where and when was this speech/lecture made?

    • @rezanasiri6941
      @rezanasiri6941 17 днів тому

      This is Alan Watts, he died at 1971

    • @spartanstu8495
      @spartanstu8495 17 днів тому +2

      @@rezanasiri6941 Yes. but that is not the question I asked.

  • @artsmart
    @artsmart 7 днів тому +1

    Watts had amazing insight. We could use some of that insight today.

  • @CyndiP1111
    @CyndiP1111 16 днів тому +1

    Economic Collapse is leading to Societal Collapse and the Climate Crisis isn’t making things any better.
    If there’s a way to stop it, I haven’t found it yet and even if I did, I can’t seem to get the message out.

  • @biasedknowledge
    @biasedknowledge 2 дні тому

    I love how this talk exposed the status quo bias that exists around our relationship with work and money. It’s so true-people cling to outdated systems and resist change, even when technology can eliminate drudgery and improve lives. A family member of mine worked in manufacturing for years, but as automation took over, he struggled to find meaning because of that deeply ingrained belief that work equals worth. This conversation opens the door to rethinking what labor and wealth really mean in the modern age

  • @marcusmiller5443
    @marcusmiller5443 18 днів тому +5

    Alan Watts says what I tell everyone. Money has no actual value...it CAN'T, as it does nothing beneficial.

  • @hayleys-w5q
    @hayleys-w5q 15 днів тому +1

    Fascinating, of course, but knowing all this doesn't help with real life.

    • @kingjoseph5901
      @kingjoseph5901 7 днів тому

      This life isn't even real. Think about that.

  • @faithelizabeth7590
    @faithelizabeth7590 2 години тому

    The hoarding of wealth and the pervasive nature of greed are fundamental contributors to the world's challenges. Humanity often prioritizes money over the well-being of individuals and society as a whole. This is not a complex issue; money is a human invention, not a divine gift. The pursuit of wealth has created a vicious cycle that enables manipulation and control over others. In this context, power and money become potent weapons, distorting values and undermining the greater good.

  • @Memee833
    @Memee833 17 днів тому +1

    Credit 19 Chaldean

  • @AlexDeieso-f5h
    @AlexDeieso-f5h 14 днів тому +1

    Buy bitcoin

    • @iamrocketray
      @iamrocketray 5 днів тому

      And if you switched off the internet permanently(a big coronal mass ejection hitting earth would do it) then all your bitcoin is gone!

  • @r.l.2517
    @r.l.2517 7 днів тому +1

    If your outflow exceeds your inflow; your upkeep will be your downfall.

  • @matthewsheridan9399
    @matthewsheridan9399 11 годин тому

    The world is a horrible disgusting place where humans are treated disgusting and the real life problems are hid and we all are fed a lie.
    Why would anyone want to come into this life knowing what actually happens.
    More than ever we are struggling to be left to suffer if you don’t have wealth.
    What a sad place that’s designed to help and ruin people

  • @Astral_body
    @Astral_body День тому

    Looks like Alan Watts predicted the future of the gig economy?

  • @chrispaul7849
    @chrispaul7849 11 днів тому

    paper currency is not money, the constitution says only gold and silver are.

  • @derrickcobb5360
    @derrickcobb5360 3 дні тому

    How is the United States of America 🤔......the richest country in the world🙄.....and the most in debt at the same time 🤷🏿‍♂️

  • @theeeway7
    @theeeway7 5 днів тому

    Yeshua said to him "I am the way, the truth and the life." YOCHANAN 14 6.

  • @audiobookfull8
    @audiobookfull8 16 днів тому +3

    UBI

    • @Wilson84KS
      @Wilson84KS 10 днів тому

      Absolutely, overdue since the first Great Depression which was caused eGeneral Market Saturation, the point when people have enough of everything that is not used up and reduce consumption and so demand for labor, increased by technical efficiency through technology.
      The Great Depression was the natural end of the (monetary) market system, because market saturation means abundance and abundance can't be sold, there is no point in trading if abundance is given. But it counts only for those who had money to satisfy their needs, to reach global abundance a global UBI is needed, which cause a consumption boom like never before, business would move and expand and this way the missing infrastructure would be built, meanwhile data could be collected to use it for feedback loops, efficiency protocols and production and distribution algorithms for Cybernetics, a self-adjusting adaptive system that makes sure that there is always enough but never too much and is reducing waste this way, a true economic system by the definition of economizing, making the most use of limited resources while avoiding and reducing waste.

    • @iamrocketray
      @iamrocketray 5 днів тому +1

      @audiobookfull8 When UBI comes it will cost our freedom!

    • @audiobookfull8
      @audiobookfull8 5 днів тому +2

      @@iamrocketray What Freedom?

    • @iamrocketray
      @iamrocketray 5 днів тому

      @@audiobookfull8 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😎😎

    • @audiobookfull8
      @audiobookfull8 5 днів тому +2

      @@iamrocketray I'm giving you a choice: either put on these glasses or start eatin' that trash can.

  • @Velaxity
    @Velaxity 4 дні тому

    He was so ahead of his time, it's crazy.. The greed of elite & corporations is/has taken this process away from the people.

  • @natemiller6389
    @natemiller6389 День тому

    3d printers are cool in that they can make anything of any shape only limited by size. One product slows in sales just change the program for a bit and print something else.. no machinery to change just filament. 3d printers to will get better... they never did make it out of that reprap stage of production.... it's still open source stuff. Patents stagnat advancement.

  • @joeblack-l5c
    @joeblack-l5c 3 дні тому

    Protocols of the learned elders of Zion. The happy merchant rubbing his hands and congratulating himself for confusing the masses and picking their pockets.

  • @joecola6487
    @joecola6487 3 дні тому

    He said it but I will clarify :
    Gold is real wealth . Everything else is currency . If you want an experts advice :
    Gold , grub, ground , gas , guns.

  • @PsychoChuck
    @PsychoChuck 12 днів тому +3

    Just when humanity should be coming together, they turn on each other instead..

    • @Fawn-hv7mx
      @Fawn-hv7mx 10 днів тому

      "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars".

  • @SK-le1gm
    @SK-le1gm 22 години тому

    i made a ton of money on penny stocks and shorting the market
    money is totally fictional 🤑
    til you spend it at least 🤗

  • @sekritskwirl6106
    @sekritskwirl6106 2 дні тому

    "imagine all the people... you may say im a dreamer...". weve all heard this before. they gonna implement a money exchange info system alright. and next time when they say take your new biotech injection u get totally locked out if u dont. love love love