How Capitalism made Nature, Care and our Lives Cheap (Raj Patel)
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- 💰 Today we’ll try to unmask the true cost of cheapness in our societies. Over the last decades and even centuries, a small part of the planet has been enjoying more and more cheap stuff. From sugar, to coffee, to energy, everything seems to get produced and consumed at an ever lower price. To keep these prices low, something had to give. Nature, Care, Labour and even Lives are some of the elements Capitalism needed to make cheap in order to perpetuate itself. However, what happens when you run out of things, land and people to make cheap ?
🎓To guide us through the systemic forces of this hyper-exploitation and propose a path out of it, I have immense pleasure to talk with Raj Patel. Raj is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. and co-author with Jason W. Moore of the book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.
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The word "capitalism" has been bastardized. Capitalism is private ownership at its core. People confuse Neo-liberal libertarian absolutism with capitalism when it's more closely linked to feudalism and corporatism than capitalism. Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations acknowledged that regulations and competition are essential to capitalism.
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3 Billion people have money by making 5 Billion people poor.
Wrong, extreme poverty has declined precipitously from 1.9 billion in 1990 to about 736 million in 2015. It wasn't communism that helped.
Capitalism sugar pollution cancer
The Anti Christo is Raj Patel,Maitreya
O filho da perdição (anticristo mayteeya)
Destruirá aí muitos que vivem despreocupadamente.
Preparate o igreja o fim está próximo
ninguem esta attento aos vossos comentarios,eles nem acreditam em Deus ou no inferno e não imaginam que por trás dos olhos dessa pessoa é o próprio diabo quem está ali . estao todos com o espirito apreparado a nova era: a terra sofre dos fogos( ja sabemos que a mafia mundialista cria e paga pyromanas), a raiva contra as pessoas que tem mais que mim ( anarchistas contra pessoas de direita)... o pass carbon et toda a merda. e tempo perdido de alertar as pessoas, com respeito a vocé.
Being anti-capitalism is fine, but I never see a better alternative suggested. Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Collectivism ... you can keep them all. A 100% Libertarian system would be the goal, but it's always corrupted. I trust the anti-Capitalists less than the Capitalists. Sorry.
Is this the same system that brought 3 billion people out of poverty? Because everyone isn't equal people like this assume the system has failed when in fact it has succeeded massively.
One could argue that most of these improvement occurred in non fully capitalist settings and from NGOs and international agencies. One could argue that, left to it's own premises capitalism doesn't do that well in terms of poverty and equality...
Despite of increased capitalism, humanity managed to get some people out of exploitation.
He doesn't argues that capitalism is not beneficial to some extend. He argues that capitalism is now based on cheap labor, cheap food, cheap energy, cheap lives....
@@adrienbegue LOL that's what capitalism does. It makes products cheaper. Would you rather cars remain insanely expensive so that only a few people could afford one? How about a computer? Cell phones? It used to be people had to grow their own food. If there was a drought they starved to death. Capitalism lowered the price of transportation to where almost everyone can now afford a car and many families have 2-3. Almost everyone has a cell phone, a computer or access to one. General life expectancy has increased from 30 years to almost 80. Irrigation has rendered droughts mostly non consequential.
What he is actually talking about is corruption. That has existed since the beginning of time. It's actually worse in socialist societies. Unless you can find a way to change human behavior corruption will be with us for the rest of eternity. So just accept it. It's a small evil but one that in the big scheme of things doesn't change the positive direction capitalism has produced over the last two centuries.
@@adrienbegue Its not as if indiginous civilizations didn't treat those lives cheaply either (As weird and useless as that term, are the Japanese in Hoshu not indigionous? the Germans in the Rhine? the English on the Thames?) The Aztecs centered their civilization around human sacrifice, the Iroquois around kidnapping wars, and The Vedic peoples of the subcontinent committed genocide to get dominance of the Gangetic plain. The examples abound. but it is Capitalism that broke free of traditional power structures (family, class, religion) being hereditary and bringing them closer to being meritocratic (if that is a worthy goal.)
You are right that much of the lifting out of poverty happened with government and NGO involvement. But communist china wouldn't have been able to develop without opening to the capitalist western system in the 1970s. Similarly with many African nations, many of whom's worst atrocities are based on ethnic issues (see south Sudan recently), not on capitalist development.
@@General8675Meritocracy is the great American lie... it's not a real thing.
Yeah but what created all that great poverty in the beginning? Capitalism and capitalistic-style governance. Be it Kings of old hoarding wealth generated by their peasants or modern day oil mogul leaders siphoning wealth and productivity from the working class? It's always the same kind of system that causes mass wealth inequalities which create all the poverty issues, wars, and human suffering.