Too bad he doesn't really understand what it means...since it's not the people paying protection that have the power...and yet he keeps stating that it is the corporations paying it that do. If there is anything consistent about Wolff, it is his constant self-contradictions...but as you are all "exploited victims", this is the only thing that resonates, and in the process, you miss everything else.
Professor Wolff, sometimes i put your videos on loop because i enjoy hearing your voice so much, it reminds me of old-time radio (i wasn;t there, but i've heard such historical programs on RUclips), where presenters were well spoken and erudite. Better times, if only in memory. Thank you for your videos, they are always full of wisdom, i just wish the world would listen and act upon it.
Thanks for another great "Update"-All we need do is watch the evening news to see what the Ruling Class has done today without our consent or approval,
I am a 77 Olay from New Zealand I really enjoy your program. We have a real right swing govt here at present. We need someone like you Richard to let people to know there is other ways. In the mean time we will keep watching you and making the odd comment
Young people should read Edward Bernays' "Propaganda"; General Smedley Butler's "War Is a Racket"; and George Orwell's "1984" for a primer in contemporary American life.
Unlike Marx, he doesn't really know what "money" is...nor it's history, so he isn't going to do that...and he neither reads these comments, nor answers questions posed here.
Referring to QE and how they have created asset inflation, funded fuedal technocrats and rise of billionaires? ruclips.net/video/lbji8utP6dU/видео.html
So just encourage him to make his statement of it and then criticize it point by point. That would mean much more than a judgment in advance, and it would encourage a substantial exchange with others.@@jgalt308
Thank you Professor Wolff for a brilliant talk .You have encapsulated so many ideas here. I always come away with a much clearer understanding of what is really going on in our world today . Thank you so much for bringing us together here .
Capitalism doesnt distribute power, power distributes capitalism. Power and domination is what determines economic outcomes in a competitive market. Also the history of conquest and imperialism and first movers advantage is what made the capitalist class so powerful. Power begets power.
Believe it or not, quite a bit of what you say was, and could be again, mitigated in favor of the working class with something called laws and regulations. It worked pretty well after WW2, but needed some adjustments. Basically, it's reasonable taxes on the wealthy (and reasonable investment incentives) and keeping banks well controlled. The primary adjustment would be adding 'For all'. Capitalism today has virtually no competitive markets and the bankers (whether public or private capital) put the screws to everybody they can.
Market capitalism is unsustainable on all levels. That’s the bottom line. We need system change. But how? Try One Small Town Contributionism. If not, what else?
@@breft3416 That was an illusion, killed by fiat and the 300% inflation that occurred between 1939 and 1970. ( according to government calculations ) That doubled in the 70's to 600% and in terms of "lawful money" which still exists actual inflation now exceeds 5000%. ( see Constitution ) Sadly, people don't know the difference between "lawful money" and "legal tender", nor what "income" is...and as it pertains to "income" what an "employee" is. Then there rights vs privileges...and you no longer have the former having traded them for the latter, without any clue about how this was done. So while the "exploited victim" narrative is attractive because it absolves responsibility for what exists, it is ignorance that brought you here and will keep you here until you start asking the right questions, and you're not even close to even beginning to do that.
Powers are very relative term. But if we’re talking about social, economic, and political domination….Capitalism seeks to expand its range of exploitation, therefore it relies on its current conquest to spread itself further. Think about the influence the east India company had on the British Empire. Power existed before capitalism came to rise, and the influence of capitalism spread itself with the assistance of power it had conquered. So capitalism is a system replace the power structure of feudalism with itself within those societies, and those societies spread capitalist, influence, and conquest through imperialism. capitalism absolutely realize on a state to give it rise and to ensure it doesn’t collapse on itself. But it is the economic engine that drives most of the world today.
@@sojourner4726 Do you recognize that monetary-market economics is structurally unsustainable? We need system change. That's the bottom line. And social system change needs to come from the bottom-up, community level cooperation. If we aren't working on that, then what sort of future are we looking towards?
Read about monetary creation at the FED. His ideals are dangerously incomplete. These types just want to use ignorant people as canon fodder. I don’t trust him. Not that he doesn’t make good “points”
As a working musician in 1972 a good pay for a night playing at a bar was $100 today in 2024 pay for a night playing at the bar $100 or less because you have fun playing music so you don't need to make money tell that to my landlord
It is a profound shame and a sad statement that our society operates the way it does. It does not have to be this way. The socio-economic "caste system" that has evolved in America is a refutation of most of the principles we supposedly cherish, the values ensconced in our holy books and historic mythologies. To say one thing and then do the opposite is the height of depraved hypocrisy.
😂🤣😂🤔😂 That anyone thinks America is either a Democracy or a Republic shows how ignorant and brainwashed y'all are. You live in a Capitalist Oligarchy. The same as all the other western 'Democracies'.
"An investigation by the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division uncovered child labor violations across eight states, with over 100 employees - some as young as 13 years old - working 13-hour overnight shifts in meat processing facilities. But is child labor is on the rise in America? Cases of child labor violations have fallen since the early 2000s. But from 2015 to 2022, the number of minors employed in violation of child labor laws rose by 283%, according to data from the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division." "A series of investigative reports over the last few months has revealed that migrant children, mostly from Central America, are working in some of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. New York Times investigative journalist Hannah Dreier has interviewed more than 100 migrant children working in violation of child labor laws across 20 states." This post is for the capitalists who claim that child labor in the USA amounts to paper routes...
Wait whaaaat. How would a company grow if it didn't incentivize production... Look if ur not getting the wage you deserve stand up for yourself and give your employer notice. Or if you dont know how to move up in your company ask! Most jobs offer some type of training for improvement in sales, customer service etc. Richard is describing the companies you dont want to work for lol
"For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press." - Lenin in 1917
Could you do an update on europe? Maybe even the netherlands? I live there and am really curious about what you think its going. Cause i feel like its slipping badly. But i am no economy professor.
Something called cost benefit analysis and what is cost prohibitive. I didn't understand economics until I was introduced to the notion of the cost of all things....
Yes, but who's paying the costs versus who's getting the benefits? If it costs a CEO less to pollute the environment than to clean it up, he'll pollute the environment. To him, that's just an "externality" --- he'll be charitable enough to let the public suffer the consequences.
Interesting perspective...machinery and technology are the bearers of value in the workplace, these tools make money out of time. The machines have a social arrangement with live workers but the workers have no value arrangements with the owners of the machines.
In order for "democracy" to work under capitalism, it has to be kept as limited as possible. We get to vote on political candidates, often put up and supported by capitalists. But the majority of decision that affect us in our daily lives are made directly by unelected owners. I believe it's called "bourgeois democracy" - fancy word for democracy controlled almost entirely by the rich. (BTW, "democracy" controlled by the State is no better.)
It is a conundrum isn't it. The powerful can and will always buy the vote of the people as people will sell their vote, often just for nice promises which never materialize. So when people cannot make up their own mind, does it really matter whether they have the right to vote? Is it surprising that people often don't like the outcome, and could not wait to change the person they put the crown on. That is the human condition. I do like democracy because there is the possibility of bargain. But we have to accept that it is messy.
Prof. Wolff: Interesting show, I too question the powers that run our somodel. ciety. Your show is needed to be able to think, talk over things. It seems to me though that the scale of modern institutions is more our problem: Capitalism is only a piece, along with Chinese, Russians, Latin America, etc. systems of organization.
The athletes unionizing should get compensated in terms of paid housing and food on campus, tuition credits and stipends for career advancing seminars and events, rather than cash, as only a small percentage of all student athletes go on to be professional athletes. This won’t be a big bite percentage of student body wise for schools.
EVERYONE… Male and Female Alike, White and Black in Positions of Authority and Power Should Be Held Accountable No Matter How Much Monetary Means They Accrue or Which Position They Hold. We Are Ever Evolving Spiritual Beings Having Human Experiences Though Perfect Within Our Imperfections Nonetheless, We All Fall Short. As We’re Meant to Do. Justice is a Universal Principle. Religion Has Nothing to Do With It.🗽
You know that's the sad thing about the human being and that goes for everybody all over the world you have to suffer enough everyone has to suffer together to push something through
They want you to work till you are 70 to receive your social security , Is this the reason why ? In Fact they want to send Grandma And Grandma in the street or send them back to work ?
Dear Professor, I greatly respect your work. I love your 'Classes'. But I have stopped coming here because - radically, one can say, rigidly - I cannot accept that anyone should equate the discussion of CLASS with any other discussion. Maybe I'm wrong - I feel I'd be Betraying the Working Class: more and more betrayed every day! I study Zen. I study Gender Relations. I study Psychoanalysis. I like Lao Tse. I like Jung. I love Hanna Arendt... But CLASS discussions are not on the same level. They are Structural to the Human Race. Wishing you the best of the best! #judiascomPALESTINAS
Excelente programa, professor. Apenas, como brasileira, devo dizer que Bolsonaro (a quem eu espero chegar a ver no cárcere) não deve nada a “Mister Trump” , como a quem o professor polidamente se refere. De outra parte, eu gostaria de viver para ver ao menos o pluripartidarismo aqui nos EUA. Já ajudaria um pouco.
In the dark, like how he failed to mention the forced labor of children in communist societies, vs volunteer labor in capitalist societies? Seems like a lack of context from our professor.
@@yogikarlnope says the person who actually read Steinbeck’s actual writing on the topic which was mocking communists for their delusions and not capitalists. “Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property. "I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew - at least they claimed to be Communists - couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves." If there is an idiot in this conversation it’s you bud.
@@jillfryer6699 I have to stand my ground unions have driven the cost we want we want so price goes up so now the next group wants more and on and on the price of everything go's up it seems to me that we are living on fake money 💰.
No one ever mentions that capitalism gives people PTSD. Erich Fromm eluded to capitalism/ mental illness authoritarianism and or capitalism. One must groom and prime their children to participate and conform to a capitalist economy. Especially middle class progressives who once rebelled participate in commodifying their children by sending them to universities and competing for slots in those schools. There’s little to no room for self expression, self exploration, time to relax and thrive. Why doesn’t Richard Wolff ever talk about this or yourself ? This is a highly abhorrent system. There’s no community to fall back on. Not to mention it encourages very toxic people like narcissists and sociopaths to show their true colors with no shame. Which makes any hope of community, family, extended family absolutely impossible.
You don't need to be authoritarian socially if you only socialize with your own class. That's why you don't see CEOs swilling beers with construction workers down at the local tavern. They'd rather have champagne at the country club.
I've been watching professor Richard for more than 10 years .And still learning from him.
Funny how he avoids the topic of the FED. He just talks about the demon “capitalism”.
@@raymondkey1952ask him about the FED. What is your question?
Calling our politician-corporation political system a "protection racket" is hitting the nail on the head. Good description.
Too bad he doesn't really understand what it means...since it's not the people paying
protection that have the power...and yet he keeps stating that it is the corporations
paying it that do.
If there is anything consistent about Wolff, it is his constant self-contradictions...but as you are all
"exploited victims", this is the only thing that resonates, and in the process, you miss
everything else.
It's just a glorified mafia that looks "professional"... they're not much different.
😂🤣😂🤣😂 there nothing funnier than seeing someone displaying willful ignorance and thinking others don't see through it. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Name one willful contradiction.
So who displays willful ug iran e?
Professor Wolff, sometimes i put your videos on loop because i enjoy hearing your voice so much, it reminds me of old-time radio (i wasn;t there, but i've heard such historical programs on RUclips), where presenters were well spoken and erudite. Better times, if only in memory. Thank you for your videos, they are always full of wisdom, i just wish the world would listen and act upon it.
One of the better editions of Democracy at Work, regarding capitalism and political power
Union Strong✊🏼
Many tks Prof.
Thanks for another great "Update"-All we need do is watch the evening news to see what the Ruling Class has done today without our consent or approval,
and framed in most peculiar terms. elliptical explanations on MSM to say the least.
The 'news' our corporate overlords allow us to hear...
I am a 77 Olay from New Zealand I really enjoy your program. We have a real right swing govt here at present. We need someone like you Richard to let people to know there is other ways. In the mean time we will keep watching you and making the odd comment
The corporate entities "own" the goverance of this "place /nation not a nation"
The US government was setup from the beginning to be for the rich not "we the people".
Best government money can buy!
Young people should read Edward Bernays' "Propaganda"; General Smedley Butler's "War Is a Racket"; and George Orwell's "1984" for a primer in contemporary American life.
and Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States",
Not just American life
Oof
Dystopia
Prof Wolff why don’t you dedicate a whole program on how money is created and the role of banks in demise of economy and rise in inequality?
Unlike Marx, he doesn't really know what "money" is...nor it's history, so he isn't going
to do that...and he neither reads these comments, nor answers questions posed here.
Why is that?
@@moji8405 Why is what?
Referring to QE and how they have created asset inflation, funded fuedal technocrats and rise of billionaires? ruclips.net/video/lbji8utP6dU/видео.html
So just encourage him to make his statement of it and then criticize it point by point. That would mean much more than a judgment in advance, and it would encourage a substantial exchange with others.@@jgalt308
Thanks!
Another enlightening & wonderful episode, thank you, Prof. Wolff for spreading your much needed knowledge on all these topics.
Thank you Professor Wolff for a brilliant talk .You have encapsulated so many ideas here.
I always come away with a much clearer understanding of what is really going on in our world today . Thank you so much for bringing us together here .
Great as usual prof. Wolff!
I really enjoyed this episode. Thanks for sharing Dr Wolff. Solidarity forever ✊
Very informative and very educative lecture by professor Wolff,appreciate sir.
Great as always! Thank you Porf Wolff, and your the team for your work!
Very well said.
Capitalism doesnt distribute power, power distributes capitalism. Power and domination is what determines economic outcomes in a competitive market. Also the history of conquest and imperialism and first movers advantage is what made the capitalist class so powerful. Power begets power.
Believe it or not, quite a bit of what you say was, and could be again, mitigated in favor of the working class with something called laws and regulations. It worked pretty well after WW2, but needed some adjustments. Basically, it's reasonable taxes on the wealthy (and reasonable investment incentives) and keeping banks well controlled. The primary adjustment would be adding 'For all'. Capitalism today has virtually no competitive markets and the bankers (whether public or private capital) put the screws to everybody they can.
Market capitalism is unsustainable on all levels. That’s the bottom line. We need system change.
But how? Try One Small Town Contributionism. If not, what else?
@@breft3416 That was an illusion, killed by fiat and the 300% inflation that
occurred between 1939 and 1970. ( according to government calculations )
That doubled in the 70's to 600% and in terms of "lawful money" which still exists
actual inflation now exceeds 5000%. ( see Constitution )
Sadly, people don't know the difference between "lawful money" and "legal tender",
nor what "income" is...and as it pertains to "income" what an "employee" is.
Then there rights vs privileges...and you no longer have the former having traded them for the latter,
without any clue about how this was done.
So while the "exploited victim" narrative is attractive because it absolves responsibility for
what exists, it is ignorance that brought you here and will keep you here until you
start asking the right questions, and you're not even close to even beginning to do that.
Powers are very relative term. But if we’re talking about social, economic, and political domination….Capitalism seeks to expand its range of exploitation, therefore it relies on its current conquest to spread itself further. Think about the influence the east India company had on the British Empire. Power existed before capitalism came to rise, and the influence of capitalism spread itself with the assistance of power it had conquered. So capitalism is a system replace the power structure of feudalism with itself within those societies, and those societies spread capitalist, influence, and conquest through imperialism.
capitalism absolutely realize on a state to give it rise and to ensure it doesn’t collapse on itself. But it is the economic engine that drives most of the world today.
@@sojourner4726 Do you recognize that monetary-market economics is structurally unsustainable? We need system change. That's the bottom line.
And social system change needs to come from the bottom-up, community level cooperation. If we aren't working on that, then what sort of future are we looking towards?
Great stuff Dr. Wolff !
Thank you professor Wolff.
Спасибо за Ваши труды!
Highly enjoy the program professor! You are a major part of my economic formation🙏💪
Read about monetary creation at the FED. His ideals are dangerously incomplete. These types just want to use ignorant people as canon fodder. I don’t trust him. Not that he doesn’t make good “points”
The golden rule: thems with the gold, rule.
Excellent work, Prof. Wolff! I appreciate the exploration of museums--I love them, and we need the workers who run them to be paid fairly.
Hello we didnt believe you guys until you start kearning economics the real economics and its impact on our life.
Thank you for what you do. Your content is priceless 🔥 💪🏾 change MUST come 🔥 💯
Hello friends and prof.! Thank you from Brazil!
Very nice...!!! Thanks for sharing.
Excellent discussion, thank you
Thank you very much ❣️Greetings from CH🙏🕊️
As a working musician in 1972 a good pay for a night playing at a bar was $100 today in 2024 pay for a night playing at the bar $100 or less because you have fun playing music so you don't need to make money tell that to my landlord
Information is Power!
It is a profound shame and a sad statement that our society operates the way it does. It does not have to be this way. The socio-economic "caste system" that has evolved in America is a refutation of most of the principles we supposedly cherish, the values ensconced in our holy books and historic mythologies. To say one thing and then do the opposite is the height of depraved hypocrisy.
😂🤣😂🤔😂 That anyone thinks America is either a Democracy or a Republic shows how ignorant and brainwashed y'all are. You live in a Capitalist Oligarchy. The same as all the other western 'Democracies'.
The constitution is just words some guy wrote and a bunch of rich people agreed on.
Love the CEO analogy.
"An investigation by the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division uncovered child labor violations across eight states, with over 100 employees - some as young as 13 years old - working 13-hour overnight shifts in meat processing facilities.
But is child labor is on the rise in America? Cases of child labor violations have fallen since the early 2000s. But from 2015 to 2022, the number of minors employed in violation of child labor laws rose by 283%, according to data from the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division."
"A series of investigative reports over the last few months has revealed that migrant children, mostly from Central America, are working in some of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S.
New York Times investigative journalist Hannah Dreier has interviewed more than 100 migrant children working in violation of child labor laws across 20 states."
This post is for the capitalists who claim that child labor in the USA amounts to paper routes...
...grande Prof. Wolff!!!...
appreciate the reminder of our home-grown authoritarianism
Private company authoritarian vs governmental authoritarian - is he really so dumb to compare them to each other?
"What do we see going on?" Fighting over scarce resources. Richard Heinberg explained this in his book, The Party's Over.
Brilliant analysis as usual I have learned so much about class analysis from your lectures Dr Wolff
Thank you Sir!
Thank you prof
Wait whaaaat. How would a company grow if it didn't incentivize production... Look if ur not getting the wage you deserve stand up for yourself and give your employer notice. Or if you dont know how to move up in your company ask! Most jobs offer some type of training for improvement in sales, customer service etc. Richard is describing the companies you dont want to work for lol
I really like the theme music.
Thank you professor!
Arguments against basic workers rights of past truly eye-opening about modern insane arguments of rich exploitators
Good day can I get your opinion on investments in gold and silver. Thank you
get your hands on all the gold you can.
Buy low. Sell high.
We did not Give Power to the billionaires - they just grabbed it .
Hello fellow distributers.
"For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press." - Lenin in 1917
What‽ greed ain't good anymore?
It never was.
You forgot to mention Trudeau from Canada with the other Authoritarians.
I never watch the news- this is my news!
The workers acquiesced their power to a ruling class. No one needs a ruling class. Take it back.
Could you do an update on europe? Maybe even the netherlands? I live there and am really curious about what you think its going. Cause i feel like its slipping badly. But i am no economy professor.
Thanks for this update. Capitalism is as capitalism does.
You heard it here, folks.
I love this!
Don't call them employers - call them : gift givers - Gift in German is : poison
Something called cost benefit analysis and what is cost prohibitive. I didn't understand economics until I was introduced to the notion of the cost of all things....
Yes, but who's paying the costs versus who's getting the benefits? If it costs a CEO less to pollute the environment than to clean it up, he'll pollute the environment. To him, that's just an "externality" --- he'll be charitable enough to let the public suffer the consequences.
Capitalism Distributes Power among Capitalists
Concentrates, not distributes
Interesting perspective...machinery and technology are the bearers of value in the workplace, these tools make money out of time. The machines have a social arrangement with live workers but the workers have no value arrangements with the owners of the machines.
Good news about the young students waking up to their need to unite and unionize.
In order for "democracy" to work under capitalism, it has to be kept as limited as possible. We get to vote on political candidates, often put up and supported by capitalists. But the majority of decision that affect us in our daily lives are made directly by unelected owners. I believe it's called "bourgeois democracy" - fancy word for democracy controlled almost entirely by the rich. (BTW, "democracy" controlled by the State is no better.)
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When do adjuncts get to have a union? And the university non-academic staff get to be unionized? All of university life should be democratized.
It is a conundrum isn't it. The powerful can and will always buy the vote of the people as people will sell their vote, often just for nice promises which never materialize. So when people cannot make up their own mind, does it really matter whether they have the right to vote? Is it surprising that people often don't like the outcome, and could not wait to change the person they put the crown on. That is the human condition. I do like democracy because there is the possibility of bargain. But we have to accept that it is messy.
Prof. Wolff: Interesting show, I too question the powers that run our somodel. ciety. Your show is needed to be able to think, talk over things. It seems to me though that the scale of modern institutions is more our problem: Capitalism is only a piece, along with Chinese, Russians, Latin America, etc. systems of organization.
The athletes unionizing should get compensated in terms of paid housing and food on campus, tuition credits and stipends for career advancing seminars and events, rather than cash, as only a small percentage of all student athletes go on to be professional athletes. This won’t be a big bite percentage of student body wise for schools.
Government distribute’s power!
EVERYONE…
Male and Female Alike, White and Black in Positions of Authority and Power Should Be Held Accountable No Matter How Much Monetary Means They Accrue or Which Position They Hold. We Are Ever Evolving Spiritual Beings Having Human Experiences Though Perfect Within Our Imperfections Nonetheless, We All Fall Short. As We’re Meant to Do. Justice is a Universal Principle. Religion Has Nothing to Do With It.🗽
Is it fair to say the the employers are ungrateful? I think so.
You know that's the sad thing about the human being and that goes for everybody all over the world you have to suffer enough everyone has to suffer together to push something through
It's called in house outsourcing?
They want you to work till you are 70 to receive your social security , Is this the reason why ? In Fact they want to send Grandma And Grandma in the street or send them back to work ?
No I think they want you to work till you die
Bingo.
Dear Professor,
I greatly respect your work. I love your 'Classes'. But I have stopped coming here because - radically, one can say, rigidly - I cannot accept that anyone should equate the discussion of CLASS with any other discussion. Maybe I'm wrong - I feel I'd be Betraying the Working Class: more and more betrayed every day! I study Zen. I study Gender Relations. I study Psychoanalysis. I like Lao Tse. I like Jung. I love Hanna Arendt... But CLASS discussions are not on the same level. They are Structural to the Human Race.
Wishing you the best of the best!
#judiascomPALESTINAS
Excelente programa, professor. Apenas, como brasileira, devo dizer que Bolsonaro (a quem eu espero chegar a ver no cárcere) não deve nada a “Mister Trump” , como a quem o professor polidamente se refere. De outra parte, eu gostaria de viver para ver ao menos o pluripartidarismo aqui nos EUA. Já ajudaria um pouco.
It is more like how capitalism distribute irresponsibility and unaccountability?
No, that would be the government...or haven't you been paying attention.
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Question, What socialist country or company did you buy your graphics program from?
😂🤣😂🤣😂 there nothing funnier than seeing someone displaying willful ignorance and thinking others don't see through it. 😂🤣😂🤣😂
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Comments for the algorithm
U said its started from 100 years buts in actually its continued from Ancient Era, its not new, as usal super analysis
Once again Professor Wolff enlightens us with his brilliant analysis.🧐
Trust me, you're still in the dark.
Said the silly troll.
In the dark, like how he failed to mention the forced labor of children in communist societies, vs volunteer labor in capitalist societies? Seems like a lack of context from our professor.
Muricans : temporarily embarrassed millionaires
Idiotic talking point
@@ExPwner says the idiotic talker
@@yogikarlnope says the person who actually read Steinbeck’s actual writing on the topic which was mocking communists for their delusions and not capitalists.
“Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew - at least they claimed to be Communists - couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."
If there is an idiot in this conversation it’s you bud.
my my...
Employer and employee sounds so equalish
Great but now we work into old age
Some do because they dont know what else to do with themselves.
@@jillfryer6699 I have to stand my ground unions have driven the cost we want we want so price goes up so now the next group wants more and on and on the price of everything go's up it seems to me that we are living on fake money 💰.
Yeah, I hear the hunter/gatherer retirement plan was the bees knees.
Hunter/gatherer tribes took care of the whole tribe, including their elderly.
@@ronstephen-wy4ib And you acquired this knowledge from what source?
Who are your favorite hunter/gatherer authors?
😮
No one ever mentions that capitalism gives people PTSD. Erich Fromm eluded to capitalism/ mental illness authoritarianism and or capitalism. One must groom and prime their children to participate and conform to a capitalist economy. Especially middle class progressives who once rebelled participate in commodifying their children by sending them to universities and competing for slots in those schools. There’s little to no room for self expression, self exploration, time to relax and thrive. Why doesn’t Richard Wolff ever talk about this or yourself ? This is a highly abhorrent system. There’s no community to fall back on. Not to mention it encourages very toxic people like narcissists and sociopaths to show their true colors with no shame. Which makes any hope of community, family, extended family absolutely impossible.
🤣 because it doesn’t
@@ExPwner that’s your subjective opinion.
Shorpy - old photographs site dedicated to boy - greaser of mine rails.
What about the one trillion debt of USA federal government every 100 days from incoming taxes ?.
CEO's are authoritarian economically not socially
Bleeds over, honestly. Gated communities, for example.
You don't need to be authoritarian socially if you only socialize with your own class. That's why you don't see CEOs swilling beers with construction workers down at the local tavern. They'd rather have champagne at the country club.
Wrong. There is nothing authoritarian about a CEO.
@@ExPwner That's a ridiculous statement.
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