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They should have let you showcase Soviet ships. It would be so much more ideologically alligned. I mean, this sponsorship never answered the most important question about the game for us: Do they have Potemkin?
A former East German academic said "we desperately wanted to be as rich as the USA but no one realised that in order to have that sort of wealth ten other countries had to be desperately poor".
Are we talking about the same USA? Because, like, most of the wealth of the USA (which is massive, just extremely concentrated) is a result of the USA being the world's no. 1 bully, which has been built on the back of it being the only "developed" country whose industry wasn't in shambles post-WWII, and who made sure to use that to their advantage by subjugating significant part of the world, taking over other empires the countries of the West had, and (mostly successfully) attempting to destroy any opposition to its reign. I wouldn't exactly posit that that was easy - and that's just the last 80ish years, let's not even get into the various genocides, slavery, segregation, and all of the rest of the USA's sources of wealth and power.
@@user-jq4bc7py8c I would argue that it has mostly to do with favorable geographic and good governance than slavery or anything else. While I dont support their militaristic policies, I must admit their economic model is the most successful that we have known of.
Ireland is SO economically free that I've spent 5 months of every 9 month lease I sign looking for a new place and only just find it by the skin of my teeth each time, in one case having to sleep on a friend's couch for a week between leases. I've lived in 5 houses since September 2019 (even though I spent 15 months out of the country), all of them are unregistered rentals with illegal prices, I have been threatened with illegal evictions in 2 of these houses, had my deposit stolen twice, and another landlord threaten to steal it in February. Apple and Facebook have built company housing and neither of them pay company tax. There is a burger place on every corner. I am free.
Ireland is literally the country with the most growth (actual growth not only those inflated figures from 2 years ago) due to an adoption of a free market. From a rural and barely european backwater in the 1980s to one of the richest countries in europe within 40 years. What happened in the meantime was a policy change from isolationism and agrarianism to a free market. Sure house prices are through the roof , but it is not necesseraly a free market that is to blame for that. Zoning laws especially in dublin are horrible. City councils veto new development.
@faidonc Ireland is not one of the richest European countries.it has AVERGE inflation adjusted wages for the EU. Also, it wasn't a backwater the 80s, it was a middle income county, so the improvement is waaay exaggerated
Arguably protectionist policy is a part of the Free Market, at least in neo-liberal theory. And so is state intervention in the form of welfare and bailouts for huge companies.
@@miketheant1107But if you are talking about a Libertarian Free Market, then protectionism is not part of it. Neo-liberal Theory is the least Laissez-faire Free Market. If a Free Market has state intervention it is not a Free Market, merely a Capitalist Market.
@@miketheant1107 Because they actually follow a Free Market system, aka Laissez-faire. Neo-liberal Theory is barely a Free Market. Thus shouldn't be used as a primary example. Also I should clarify, I'm talking about Right-Libertarianism. Who actually do take themselves seriously. Look at, "Getting Libertarianism Right"
The part of these indexes that makes it clear they’re bunk is they always rank Singapore, about the most heavy-handedly statist capitalism imaginable, high. So blatant that government intervention is fine for them as long as it serves the bourgeoisie.
I live in Singapore and state capitalism does not serve only the bourgeoisie, but also provides low-income welfare. But I suppose this ranking was made as an excuse for the state of the USA to tax everyone high.
@@haharmageddontv6581Marx's theory of alienation posits this idea that when you start becoming the cog in an assembly line of a global capitalist enterprise creating a standardized product. You lose your own creative input. And your identity. But creative jobs. Like making videogames, art or music. Is still pretty cool. Which is probably correlated with how alot of artists tend to lean left wing.
@@user-di8zo1dn1z "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as in was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners." - Lenin
It's because they are not white enough (literally the main reason for Brasil having arround 45-50% of their population being white is because the government believed that to be the reason Brasil was so underdeveloped)
The number of people I know that are genuinely like this is crazy It's just like that Joe Rogan clip: "Why does it lie" People need media literacy, it's insane
@@Bolognabeefcommunism is when commune sets up burger joint for the community but only sometimes unless lots of people like burgers and are willing to come in to flip some to keep it running.
10:46 Ireland should be red on that map. People tend to forget that we are one of the world's longest colonised country's, 700 years. And that we were genocided and used as a lumber mill and cow farm for the empire
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 drpk is basically americna scarecorow to stay in region.they like it exists to efnmroce their meddlign on korea and japan cause of muh rocketman...
i feel like the dprk being on there is justified tho considering they got all those labor camps and a government that controls every move and if you dont do everything perfectly you get sent to the labor camps
Yeah all the countries that did not roll over and die for colonialism are so economically restrictive. How dare they protect-I mean imprison their people against western exploita-totally fair mutual cooperation.
And not even that. Some of the countries in green have tons of regulations (specially the European countries), like workers' regulations, enviromental protection laws and those kind of things.
Given that Ireland is right at the top of the list, yeah it's freedom for the most powerful countries, while our country faces an ever worsening housing and job crisis
As a Singaporean, seeing Singapore top the list of economic freedom is hilarious. Officially our civil service is tiny, but that’s not counting our 2 conglomerates owned by the government, and like 50 statutory boards. Together with the business they generate, easily half of our workforce is paid with government money in some way or another. Simple statistics like 80% of our housing being public, both “news” media owned by the government, an easy majority of shopping malls owned by the government, yeah it’s like state capture but amazingly well executed to keep the populace happy. We’re just 3 Chaebols in a trench coat lol (btw the former CEO now chairperson of one of the 2 conglomerates is the wife of the third prime minister, who is in turn son of the first prime minister😂)
"Economic freedom" makes sense as a measurement for a certain class of people regarding how much exploitation they can get away with. For the rest of us, I guess the authors are hoping we'll see the word "freedom" and assume bigger numbers = more freedom = better.
The "N/A" countries form an interesting pattern. Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya -- these are the countries I know for a fact the "free world" has ****ed with in the recent past or is ****ing with at this very moment. Don't know much about sub-Saharan Africa, makes me wanna check what happened in Somalia and South Sudan recently and how much of it is thanks to the "free world".
South Sudan became a country after a rebellion against the Sudanese government... at the same time there was a drought, which resulted in a famine. You can pretty much guess how ef'ed that country is w/o any other issues being brought up.
Aren't we supporting Ukraine? Probably for some ulterior motive, however. Libya got ****ed over after giving up their nukes. The same thing that would have happened to the DPRK if they did it too.
Somalia collapsed in large part because foreign aid to Said Barre dried up by the end of the Cold war, so if anything western imperialism was propping up the state. Beyond that ever since the failed nationalist expansionist war of 1977 against Ethiopia the state exercised greater internal repression to survive which led to the creation of several guerrilla groups based on tribal lines, which would eventually do the actual work of toppling down the state. Not everything is the west's fault, neocolonial countries have their own internal dynamics and power struggles that must be understood on their own rather than wrestle all agency away from them and place it in the hands of western imperialists, believing that every bad thing that happens in poor countries is because of imperialism is the leftist version of the "noble savage" myth
@@idonnow2 You are right. Not enough people blame the problems of the Middle East on secular ideologies (Baathism, communism, racist nationalism), Wahabism/Salafism, and Saudi Arabia and the UAE and other allies of the West, only on the West itself.
@@luizffortesyou actually threaten global capitalism = you die The nordics don’t threaten the US economic world order, so they’re economically “”free””
@@basedandredpille nope,they didnt liked them at primarily because of commmunism,but russian emprie was hated even befoe communism.Westerrs fear slavic power.If not for russia/uss world would be unde rtoal westenr contol owing to patheitic resistance rest f world offered unlike rusians who kicked huge western amries ass numerous times
@BipolarBear-tc5oe braindead take. Socialism doesn't have anything to do with giving up personal property, which is personal belongings. What's taken away is private property, which is means of production. The capital shouldn't be allowed to accumulate in the hands of a person to passively generate wealth.
@@turboheadcrab666 I know right, it shouldnt be controlled by the ones who can use it more efficiently, it should be controlled by a collective of self interested bureaucrats. You people do not understand that your very comfortable lifestyle wouldnt be possible in a planned economy.
do ppl not realise that previous colonisation left a lot of foreign countries in famine, civil war, in debt to corporate corruption despite having such rich resources 😭. Ghana is just one of many examples. People gotta just pick up a book istg. Great vid as always hakim
Its convenient for the global north to ignore that their previous and ongoing colonization and neo colonization attempts have damaged the rest of the world
@@Mastercane98 yeah because there isn't a high demand for oil ATM. Looks like someone hasn't heard of the transformation process. And did you not read anything else? Civil war? Famine? Corruption? Or did that one bit about abundant resources piss you off too much
@@kindabent3275 I love your baseless assumptions, keep them coming, I beg you. My dissertation, back in the day, was about the circular economy. The irony of it all is quite amusing.
@@Mastercane98 But debt traps by rich countries and too much foreign intervention by countries like the USA and Not letting true democracy develop in countries like Pakistan which is the country i live in has never allowed us to develop and the British nearly took 10 trillion dollars from the indian subcontinent which still effects us today and yeah they didnt allow any local industry to flourish during their rule
Excellent video Hakim. It's maddening living within the imperial core and knowing that it's built on the overexploitation of the colonized world. Thanks for bringing it to the fore.
“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.” - iosif dzhugashvili
As a citizen of Antarctica 🇦🇶 I can confirm, our native penguins have yet to recover from the long years of Murican occupation… 😔 (Probably just an editing error, at least if you’re referring to the video’s Global North/South map)
0:47 Wait, Spain is amongst the countries with the most "economic freedom" in 2023? 😂 Since 2018 we have a (moderate) leftist Government formed by a coalition between the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Worker's Party, think of the Dems but with a bit of spine) and various leftist groups (first under the coalition Unidas Podemos - United We Can, later under the coalition Sumar - Sum), under the leadership of Pedro Sánchez (PSOE), also known as 'Perrosanxe' (a meme that came from mispronouncing his name, "Perro" is Spanish for "dog"). Even though this Government has been critizised by the Spanish left as moderate (and rightfully so), they still have: * Raised the minimum wage (as per proposal by the Ministress of Labour and current VP Yolanda Díaz) from 670€/month to 940€/month, and then further up to 1080€/month. * Established controls over housing prices. * Increased controls and regulations regarding the quality of consumer goods (specially during the tenure of the communist Alberto Garzón as Minister of Consumer Goods between 2019 and 2023). * Established a so-called "Iberian exemption" controlling the prices on the energy sector (the name comes from the fact that both Spain and Portugal adopted this measure during an EU summit on energy prices), which has kept the prices lower than in the rest of the EU. * Increased worker protection (though insufficiently) with the 2022 Labour Reform Act (which partially derogates an early reform made by the PP - our equivalent to the GOP). * Established further legislation for cases of sexual assault and agression. * Raised workers' pensions. * Recognised Palestine jointly with Norway and Ireland (and gotten into a small diplomatic conflict with the Sionist Colonial Entity as a consequence, but it was worth it, and we should have done even more). And those guys are telling that Spain is a beacon of what they call "economic freedom" even though our Government did all of that and is being critizised by their Spanish equivalents (FAES, led by former Spanish President and full time dipshit José María Aznar) for doing that? What a freaking joke!
Obvio que sigue estando alto en la lista. Primero porque es parte del bloque imperialista de la UE y de la OTAN, porque los capitales siguen siendo libres de explotar la mano de obra (tanto nativa como extranjera, siendo siempre la extranjera más explotada) y porque España es un estado inserto en el sistema imperialista mundial donde las grandes compañias españolas se benefician de exportar capital a paises de america latina para explotar su fuerza de trabajo y recursos naturales.
@@braiscoellovences9987 Ya, la cosa es que es de chiste: las mismas organizaciones propagandísticas neoliberales a nivel interno nos tachan de "dictadura comunista" y luego a nivel externo nos ponen alto como "país libre". Aunque España dentro del sistema imperialista mundial es más el lacayo/mayordomo de los intereses yankis que otra cosa (con esos beneficios siendo las migajas que obtenemos de hacer muchísimo trabajo sucio para los yankis).
I think the answer is more simple: when these organizations talk about "economic freedom", they mean economic freedom for the bourgeoisie instead of you or me, let alone those in the global south. It is also like this with the Freedom House Democracy Index where it just so happens that enemies of the US rank lower than US allies without any kind of consistent set of criteria, especially since anyone in a global north country allied to the US or the US itself can name plenty of relatively recent examples of serious infringements of things like press freedom, like that 'antisemitism' act in the US or how countries like Australia severely repressed the public during covid even when evidence showed such measures were at best unnecessary.
As an estonian its heart warming that anyone at least knows where it is. And to agree with you, Estonia is pretty high on that "freedom" raitings coz we have pretty much zero workers rights protection, most of economic growth is from absorbing capital import from scandinavia and post-ussr "social package" with good education, housing and stuff. But even this haven't help overcome 9 quarters long economic downturn 😂
@@kasparkannel3108 kui oleksid uurinud küsikust süvitsi, siis teaksid, et kõik langused ei ole tingitud mingist ühest asjast, vaid süsteemsest turumajanduse tsüklilisest iseloomust. Sõda ainult kiirendas protsesse, mis olid ka enne seda käimas.
12:12 - Another relevant book on the topic I would highly recommend reading is "The Divide: A Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions" by Jason Hickel. It was actually personally approved by Ha-Joon Chang. One of my favourite passages from the book I personally highlighted: "In the Western imagination, Africa is stereotyped as a continent plagued by corrupt dictators, with the supposition being that Africans are perhaps too "primitive" to appreciate the virtues of Western-style democracy. But the truth is that ever since the end of colonialism, Africans have been actively prevented from establishing democracies. The legacy of strongman rule in Africa is largely a Western invention, not an indigenous proclivity. Western powers have thwarted countless attempts at real independence, which casts a rather ironic light on the West's historical image as a beacon of democracy and popular sovereignty. If you ever try to suggest that poor countries are poor because they have been disadvantaged by an imbalanced global economy, someone is almost certain to respond by pointing the finger at corruption instead. ...For anyone that isn't aware of the history of colonialism, unequal treaties, structural adjustment and trade rules, this seems as good an explanation as any. ...It is important that we expand our conception of corruption to include illicit outflows, anonymous companies, secrecy jurisdictions... ...And yet the mainstream definition of corruption does not encompass them... ...Instead, the corruption narrative diverts our attention away from these exogenous problems and places the burden of blame on developing countries themselves."
The map also just does not follow its own logic, as it puts countries like in Scandinavia and the US in the same category, even though Those countries have much more "state intervention", safety nets, subsidies, etc. It is clearly an imperialist act of a vulgar "The west versus the east" image, as the color blocking very transparently gives away on its own, or the global north versus the global south, and other cold-war era western superiority nonsense
Yet another excellent video by comrade Hakim. I am always absolutely amazed how you manage to condense points arrived at through complex analysis, whose presentation requires nuance, in such a short video without essentially misrepresenting anything. Thanks for your work.
In the next version they will use 'Freedom from International Metric System' as a source for freedom. The 'wtf is a killometa' country on top as always.
It has always baffled me how biased that map is, like some of the worst dictatorships have better scores than, as you said, US adversaries. It is just a made up index that starts from the conclusion and works it way up to get the results it wants.
I felt the pain in his voice when Hakim said "the heroes of D-Day"... Sure, there were heroes in the D-Day, but they pale in comparison to the heroes fighting the Nazis in the East front
Eh they where both incredibly bloody and it wasn’t for ussr and there horrible fuckjng tactics it wouldn’t have been as bad so I wouldn’t call them hero’s more like lucky
@@eeeertoo2597 that’s not even remotely true d day was successful because of 2 big reason one the Allie’s tricked the the nazis into believing they would be attacking else where and 2 the nazis where incredibly incompetent allowing the Allie’s to trick them
@@eeeertoo2597In fact the Brits attempted a landing in 1942 (Dieppe raid), and it was a bloody failure (though they managed to get their hands on important German Intel)
I think most people who see these kind of maps have actually no clue what "economic freedom" rly means. To them its just sounds good or "free" xD what a world edit: I mean what even are 'too many' safety nets and subsidies haha Props to the editor too💪
Not to mention that to this day this the global north still heavily subsides their own economy to the detriment of the global south. Us southerners need to take inspo from thailand and prohibit raw resource export. Only value added from now on. Could you imagine what would happen to europe if india and brazil only exported transformed food items? Or if the congo imposed a similar "only smelted ore" policy?
"Freedom" is a grand word, but under the banner of Free Trade the most predatory wars were conducted: under the banner of "free labour," the toilers were robbed.
It is hilarious that Australia is somehow a "super economically free, more so than the land of freedom itself" when living here is being under an intense nanny state that has prohibitions on pretty much economic activity you can imagine (as long as you're not in the owning class). We have an even more intense nanny state for pretty much any non-economic behaviour, seriously, I used to live in China and the gov't over there impacted my day to day life *far* less than the Aus gov does.
People say "the global north exploits the global south". Count Australia out. Born and raise as a purebred Aussie in the settler-colonial nation state, I can assure you we ain't over-exploited like other countries I've visited are. Australia, being a useful tool of America, really looks more like Florida or Michigan for the most part
Heard “Fraser Institute” and sure enough, it’s the same one headquartered in my home city. Be a terrible shame if its namesake river were to wash the whole lot out to sea >:)
Economic freedom maps aren’t really meant to show an average persons quality of life. The maps rate with consideration to financial sector development and the size of the economy. “Financial freedom” is only possible with a developed financial system that facilitates, or attempts to facilitate, a free market.
That's might be true but you forgot to add context and ideological bagage behind those stats. Politicians, expert, and institutions used those statistics not in its objective sense- They use it to in the other way. Global north countries to the global south "The reason we're more devoloped because we have more economic freedom and better institutions" . That's the context it's being used, it's to tell others to adopt said policies and allow said institutions to econ freedom.
When in reality that's only an half truth (not the whole story). Those global south countries doe impliment policies most of the times against their own wills ( loans with/strings attach & other forms of coercions). It's hard for a country to develop when historically and actively being exploited.
Look at the institutions and expert that use this stats always advocate pro business, pro market policies , and privatization laws- That's their ideology and most of the times they're (their organisation and other wealthy people like them) the one making profiting of it.
The countries on top of this index are nowhere near the countries with the highest exploitation of workers, environmental or society. Quite the contrary. Take Switzerland for example: excels in workers safety, labor rights, is quite environmentally friendly and has one of the best society (very low crime rates, high wealth, low inequality, low homeless, very peaceful country, low poverty rate, great infrastructure, great healthcare, etc)
@@asamanthinketh1937 This is like saying Trashtopia is the tidiest country in the world because they pushed all their Trash over the border. Okay, so the exploitation happens elsewhere. It doesn't go away just because you can't see it!
@@DeoMachinanow you are moving the goal post compared to your initial comment. I took a country which has one of the highest economic freedom and is pretty contrary to what you said. Now, we can debate the ideology as a whole but I am afraid, socialist countries have not really a good track record it terms of working conditions, exploitation of environment and also the wuslity of life is generally lower than countries with high economic freedom. Either way, I think you are on the wrong side
@@asamanthinketh1937 Check the usernames lol Also I don't actually think you believe that, are you honestly trying to tell me you'd have preferred to live in Batista's Cuba rather than Castro's? In Tsarist Russia over the Soviet Union? Did pre-revolution China look so great compared with Mao's China? What about Chile or Argentina? Come to think of it, how come all of the poorest nations with the worst quality of life have very little economic regulation?
@@DeoMachina Your comparisons are flawed as they involve different time periods. Better comparisons involve contemporaneous regions with similar backgrounds but different systems: 1. East vs. West Germany: Post-WWII, West Germany’s capitalist economy led to higher living standards and freedoms compared to East Germany’s socialist regime, which faced economic struggles and repression. 2. North vs. South Korea: North Korea’s centrally planned economy and strict controls result in chronic hardships, while South Korea’s market economy has achieved significant economic growth and higher living standards. 3. Hong Kong vs. Mainland China: Hong Kong’s capitalist economy fostered a global financial hub with high living standards, in contrast to mainland China’s state-controlled economy, which has faced challenges despite growth. These direct comparisons more accurately reflect the impact of economic systems on quality of life.
3:04 no? When I hear "economic freedom" I immediately think laissez-faire, low taxes for corporations and other stuff which makes investing into the country more attractive
I’m unironically so glad you’re getting sponsorships. It gives me hope that these views are becoming more mainstream. You know that makes the heritage foundation cope hard as shit
The American Empire is in decline and reacts to this with ever more violence. I'm less worried about the plunderers persisting and more worried about them going out with a bang instead of a whimper.
Somewhat related but you should do a video on the origin of Somali pirates. The global north causing enviromental degradation that lead to piracy as a means of survival. As a bonus you could make a super smooth segway into world of warships.
😂 it's kind of funny I'm Somali and this video made me think of back home. I think Somalia is a unique economic case study since in living memory we've went from classic fascism to Marxist-Leninist based scientific socialism to anarcho-capitalism to Sharia based socialism and now have open crony capitalism. 😂 Somalis being nomadic pastoralist and mercantile people means they've got this innate independent nature that can appear libertarian-esque (hence the anarcho-capitalism) since business continues despite collapse/rejection of the state and its institutions. However Somalis desire to be personally Sovereign is only trumped by Islam hence the only true institutions that would have moral legitimacy to the public would have to be Islamic in their essence. Hence the success in establishing law and order by the Islamic Courts union in 2006 before the CIA said not on our watch. Then you have the scientific socialism which whilst it had oversight by the Soviet Union and adapted to Islamic socialist concepts like communal projects, charity and more imho actually rested on Somali ethnofacism. Since somalis are an ethnically homogeneous people that are STRICTLY patrilineal clan based that along with long history of race based enslavement of neighbouring people combined with concepts of the purity of ancestral somali lands, language and dna... it's a weird cross section of lebersaum/manifest destiny, yamato-damashii and a islamic frontierism.
1 of 2: *This is how you always need to vote:* We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including AOC, all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. Vote in every single election- at all levels. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either. You can always _write-in_ an anti-authoritarian person if no candidates for a position fit that bill. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies. Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.
Reform is ineffective. Following this strategy will just result in laws that prohibit write-ins. Sad reality is that revolution will be the only thing that frees the people from the exploitation of the wealthy. Hopefully it is bloodless, but we already know it will not be as the wealthy won’t give up their position without a fight.
@@Kittystag if by people you mean billonaires then yes... the other rest that are not people with 60% of poverty are scavenging the crumbs of the free market
@@koopacabras4545 Argentinian are poor because they are against the free market, your country is one of the few to levy duties on exports. Your previous governments were totally inept.
@@Mastercane98 Ok so tariffs on exports NOT cool Tariffs on import = COOL. You are wrong, Indonesia for example prohibited the export of some metals, in their raw material form. And it worked out for them, corporations were forced to install processing factories. The issue is not that exports are taxed, is that its poorly implemented. You can still oppose the western idea of "free market" and have it your own way.
Reminds me of the Cato Institute index of freedom for American states, where the ability to marry your first cousin is counted as an important personal liberty worth many points.
Dude, when you talked about debt I remembered something my teachers told me in high school... I live in Brasil, and to be an independent country, the government loaned some money with England to pay Portugal for our freedom... the deal was made in 1822... We paid that debt in 2008. It was almost 200 years. I can't even imagine when the newer "liberated" countries will pay off their colonizers...
God we love you comrade Hakim. It pains us so to hear you have to do video game commercial mid video but we understands and we fast forward to continue enjoying your wonderful content
You need to ask whose freedom, and you will understand the map. Regular ppl assume it’s freedom for people, or at least any random person who wants to do business. This map is not about that. It’s for big capitalist owners of equities to evaluate which countries will give them the most freedom to do whatever the hell they want.
As a mexican, we definitely have more political freedom than the USA could ever have. For starters, there’s more than one political party, and their ideological differences are MUCH more pronounced than in the US’ “democratic vs republican” system. We actually get to choose our senators! And yes, that means we choose our city majors too. There is no “electoral vote” b*s and the counting is made public. In localized elections, political parties are usually merely segue-ways for candidates to get in touch with their supporters and parties don’t fully represent the ideology of each candidate (unlike the US) which leads to a more varied approach to politics. For all the criticism I have to mexican politics (corruption, impunity and manufactured consent, which are also present in the US), the US’ system pales in comparison 😂.
I wish i knew more people like Hakim irl, but in an ex-socialist country brainwashed into believing socialism/communism is a worse punishment than going to hell, people who still believe in the principles of socialism/communism and oppose democracy in its current form are hard to come by
I have a google document from 2 years ago of me creating a script for my first youtube video ever where i talk about why the index is a lie. Well. I think i just got motivated again haha
You could've made your life a lot easier by simplifying it down to just "The Heritage Foundation funds it" and anyone with a brain would understand its trash
No it's true it's not nonsense. People in the west in capitalist countries get the basic human right to choose where their money goes and what is done with that money, it's why you have to pay for healthcare in the US.
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I’m taking a long shot here but I’d like to see your reaction to the song Monster by Steppenwolf. It’s still relevant and a solid critique of the USA.
It's funny how an MMO warship game is willing to sponsor you of all people. Not bad, just funny.
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54 sources? i will never get to this realm of reading
They should have let you showcase Soviet ships. It would be so much more ideologically alligned. I mean, this sponsorship never answered the most important question about the game for us: Do they have Potemkin?
A former East German academic said "we desperately wanted to be as rich as the USA but no one realised that in order to have that sort of wealth ten other countries had to be desperately poor".
lol no.usa is not that rich and is quite achviable.china is goig to do it and there are coutnries richer than usa.
Me, someone from Spain: "Wait, you get to be wealthy?"
Are we talking about the same USA? Because, like, most of the wealth of the USA (which is massive, just extremely concentrated) is a result of the USA being the world's no. 1 bully, which has been built on the back of it being the only "developed" country whose industry wasn't in shambles post-WWII, and who made sure to use that to their advantage by subjugating significant part of the world, taking over other empires the countries of the West had, and (mostly successfully) attempting to destroy any opposition to its reign. I wouldn't exactly posit that that was easy - and that's just the last 80ish years, let's not even get into the various genocides, slavery, segregation, and all of the rest of the USA's sources of wealth and power.
Wait, we're wealthy?
@@user-jq4bc7py8c I would argue that it has mostly to do with favorable geographic and good governance than slavery or anything else. While I dont support their militaristic policies, I must admit their economic model is the most successful that we have known of.
Ireland is SO economically free that I've spent 5 months of every 9 month lease I sign looking for a new place and only just find it by the skin of my teeth each time, in one case having to sleep on a friend's couch for a week between leases. I've lived in 5 houses since September 2019 (even though I spent 15 months out of the country), all of them are unregistered rentals with illegal prices, I have been threatened with illegal evictions in 2 of these houses, had my deposit stolen twice, and another landlord threaten to steal it in February. Apple and Facebook have built company housing and neither of them pay company tax. There is a burger place on every corner. I am free.
sounds pretty free to me... for the feudal lords... sorry, autocorrect is correcting landlord.
what you descibred seem like freeom for liberataian ilk especially part of apple and facebnookj not payting taxes.
Ireland is literally the country with the most growth (actual growth not only those inflated figures from 2 years ago) due to an adoption of a free market. From a rural and barely european backwater in the 1980s to one of the richest countries in europe within 40 years. What happened in the meantime was a policy change from isolationism and agrarianism to a free market. Sure house prices are through the roof , but it is not necesseraly a free market that is to blame for that. Zoning laws especially in dublin are horrible. City councils veto new development.
@faidonc Ireland is not one of the richest European countries.it has AVERGE inflation adjusted wages for the EU. Also, it wasn't a backwater the 80s, it was a middle income county, so the improvement is waaay exaggerated
Skin of your teeth ?
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The first world developed through protectionist policies, not free market. We saw how the US is treating Chinese EVs and other products.
Arguably protectionist policy is a part of the Free Market, at least in neo-liberal theory. And so is state intervention in the form of welfare and bailouts for huge companies.
@@miketheant1107But if you are talking about a Libertarian Free Market, then protectionism is not part of it.
Neo-liberal Theory is the least Laissez-faire Free Market. If a Free Market has state intervention it is not a Free Market, merely a Capitalist Market.
"Free market" for whom? The business class, especially at home. And no one else.
@@isimperialist libertarianism isn't taken seriously even by libertarians themselves, why should I take it seriously?
@@miketheant1107 Because they actually follow a Free Market system, aka Laissez-faire. Neo-liberal Theory is barely a Free Market. Thus shouldn't be used as a primary example. Also I should clarify, I'm talking about Right-Libertarianism. Who actually do take themselves seriously. Look at, "Getting Libertarianism Right"
The part of these indexes that makes it clear they’re bunk is they always rank Singapore, about the most heavy-handedly statist capitalism imaginable, high. So blatant that government intervention is fine for them as long as it serves the bourgeoisie.
I live in Singapore and state capitalism does not serve only the bourgeoisie, but also provides low-income welfare. But I suppose this ranking was made as an excuse for the state of the USA to tax everyone high.
66% of singapores population lived in slums before they libarated their markets
@@LTADriver978 which is something that the conservative think tanks that made this map would hate the moment they actually looked into things
As a Singaporean I second this, 100%
Same here in the UAE.
I lost my shit during that abrupt transition from neoliberal propaganda to World of Warships.
That was only a commercial...............
Hakim is a master of doing sponsorship transitions that are so bad they make me laugh
A communist allowing capitalist ads??? 🤯🤯🤯
It's not a bad game, you can play as communist countries
@@haharmageddontv6581Marx's theory of alienation posits this idea that when you start becoming the cog in an assembly line of a global capitalist enterprise creating a standardized product. You lose your own creative input. And your identity. But creative jobs. Like making videogames, art or music. Is still pretty cool. Which is probably correlated with how alot of artists tend to lean left wing.
There's a big red country that is not giving the imperial core the freedom to exploit it and is experiencing high growth as a result. Learn from this.
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You mean China? The country that allows foreign corporations to exploit their workers?
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"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as in was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners." - Lenin
@@phyrath5but burger
@@phyrath5 so true now give me all your wheat Slav- I mean comrade
“BUT THE FREEDOM MAP SAYS SO!” I get that so much.
It's just s weak point. It's not worth arguing over, because only people who don't know what they are talking about, would cite it.
*Libertarian pointing to a map with age of consent laws*
@isimperialist it's the conservative version of liberals citing snopes
@@PinkoJack Yep
You are the communist shorts creator I stumble upon sometime
I feel your pain, I see the comments on your shorts, average capitalist arguments.
"Too many safety nets" lmao
One is too many for these assholes.
So weird that the formerly colonized countries are less developed. Must be too much government intervention or something
Fun fact: in the third world we have almost 0 government
It's because they are not white enough (literally the main reason for Brasil having arround 45-50% of their population being white is because the government believed that to be the reason Brasil was so underdeveloped)
Yes, foreign government intervention you mean lol
Why did those places get colonised in the first place, you are using very one dimensional thinking.
@@douglastakle8242 lmao tf
Help, I imagined a burger and now I have nothing to lose but my chains!
Gave you a sub the other day!
your presence here I smell it a future feature in a certain podcast
@@jamesjohnson2394 I can only apologise haha
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Poland b like
People be like "it says freedom tho?!" and subsequently cease using their brains
Freedom to NOT use their brains.................
The number of people I know that are genuinely like this is crazy
It's just like that Joe Rogan clip: "Why does it lie"
People need media literacy, it's insane
yeah freedom to starve
"Terrorist?"
"Dictator?!?"
Brain.exe has stopped working.
It's like they think words hold more value than facts.
@@caiooliveira4964"aaaahhh it's all lies and propaganda"
Freedom is when burger and rent till you die
And communism is when?
@@Bolognabeef Sadly no burger but tasty kolbasa in the apartment you are not renting.
@@Bolognabeef communism is nothing because the entrenched global powers will never allow it to be. It's like putting a baby bird in a snakes nest.
@@Bolognabeef Communism is when burger is not for profit but for society.
@@Bolognabeefcommunism is when commune sets up burger joint for the community but only sometimes unless lots of people like burgers and are willing to come in to flip some to keep it running.
10:46 Ireland should be red on that map. People tend to forget that we are one of the world's longest colonised country's, 700 years. And that we were genocided and used as a lumber mill and cow farm for the empire
or maybe the label of the map should be changed to "corporate influence on the government" or something
Yeah. The Irish government just sucks up to multinational corporations and that gets Ireland high up.
Damn
Also many eastern european and south korea should be in red
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@@jonrabinovitch3565Holy cow ur saying this from Israel? Amazing.
The doublespeak in the title “Economic Freedom Map” is wild. Thank you for educating me today
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From now on, people will refer to the era before this day as PPF (pre pointy fingers).
He's evolving
@@aGentlemanFromDelaware soon his mouth will move
,,It has to be pointy!" said General Admiral Aladeen... I mean Hakim
@mareknovotny5441 "If it isn't pointy, then its point _less_ " - generalissimo Hakim
Guys, as a person who studies at the American Eagle Burger Institute, hakim is correct
Hakim has achieved economic freedom, not through based and engaging videos, but by the godly hand of World of Warships.
Given his content, World of Tanks would be better suited as a sponsor: there are a lot of cool Soviet tanks in that game.
The fact that the DPRK, Cuba and Venezuela ranked the lowest in the list should tell you everything
I didn't see the DPRK on the list but I assumed it to be there since it's one of the staunchest resistors of exploitive colonialism.
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 drpk is basically americna scarecorow to stay in region.they like it exists to efnmroce their meddlign on korea and japan cause of muh rocketman...
i feel like the dprk being on there is justified tho considering they got all those labor camps and a government that controls every move and if you dont do everything perfectly you get sent to the labor camps
Yeah all the countries that did not roll over and die for colonialism are so economically restrictive. How dare they protect-I mean imprison their people against western exploita-totally fair mutual cooperation.
It makes sense that socialist nations don't have much economic freedom from a neoliberal point of view,
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Experiencing liberal economic freedom in my parents' basement‼️‼️‼️😀
@@OmoriSupportsPalestine_143 LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM🗣🗣🗣🗣‼️‼️🦅🦅🦅🦅
Lemme guess, freedom for big US corporations amirite?
That use the government as a tool to further their gains. Aka Corporatism.
And not even that. Some of the countries in green have tons of regulations (specially the European countries), like workers' regulations, enviromental protection laws and those kind of things.
Given that Ireland is right at the top of the list, yeah it's freedom for the most powerful countries, while our country faces an ever worsening housing and job crisis
@@podemosurss8316 I did notice that..
"Freedom" is really code word for subordinate countries under imperialism.
As a Singaporean, seeing Singapore top the list of economic freedom is hilarious. Officially our civil service is tiny, but that’s not counting our 2 conglomerates owned by the government, and like 50 statutory boards. Together with the business they generate, easily half of our workforce is paid with government money in some way or another. Simple statistics like 80% of our housing being public, both “news” media owned by the government, an easy majority of shopping malls owned by the government, yeah it’s like state capture but amazingly well executed to keep the populace happy. We’re just 3 Chaebols in a trench coat lol (btw the former CEO now chairperson of one of the 2 conglomerates is the wife of the third prime minister, who is in turn son of the first prime minister😂)
And South Korea too hahaha. South Korea is like Chaebols on top of smaller Chaebols lmao. Samsung is basically the president of South Korea lol.
Capitalism is soyjak, socialism is gigachad
Real theory og
Well boys we did it, communism has been achieved
- Karl Marx
I read Das Kapital and this is all it said, the rest of the pages were completely blank
Humanity can never work together. We dislike each other too much lmao
it was about time Hakim covered the map of the "international community"
"Economic freedom" makes sense as a measurement for a certain class of people regarding how much exploitation they can get away with. For the rest of us, I guess the authors are hoping we'll see the word "freedom" and assume bigger numbers = more freedom = better.
The "N/A" countries form an interesting pattern. Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya -- these are the countries I know for a fact the "free world" has ****ed with in the recent past or is ****ing with at this very moment. Don't know much about sub-Saharan Africa, makes me wanna check what happened in Somalia and South Sudan recently and how much of it is thanks to the "free world".
South Sudan became a country after a rebellion against the Sudanese government... at the same time there was a drought, which resulted in a famine. You can pretty much guess how ef'ed that country is w/o any other issues being brought up.
Aren't we supporting Ukraine? Probably for some ulterior motive, however. Libya got ****ed over after giving up their nukes. The same thing that would have happened to the DPRK if they did it too.
@@aralornwolf3140 Maybe someone _is_ controlling the weather....
Somalia collapsed in large part because foreign aid to Said Barre dried up by the end of the Cold war, so if anything western imperialism was propping up the state. Beyond that ever since the failed nationalist expansionist war of 1977 against Ethiopia the state exercised greater internal repression to survive which led to the creation of several guerrilla groups based on tribal lines, which would eventually do the actual work of toppling down the state.
Not everything is the west's fault, neocolonial countries have their own internal dynamics and power struggles that must be understood on their own rather than wrestle all agency away from them and place it in the hands of western imperialists, believing that every bad thing that happens in poor countries is because of imperialism is the leftist version of the "noble savage" myth
@@idonnow2
You are right. Not enough people blame the problems of the Middle East on secular ideologies (Baathism, communism, racist nationalism), Wahabism/Salafism, and Saudi Arabia and the UAE and other allies of the West, only on the West itself.
So this map is a measure of how unchecked the rich are
Funny that the scandinavian countries aren't red even though liberal-conservatives call them socialist.
But they are white europeans.
@@luizffortes USSR was white european at large but no love for it from westerners.
@@luizffortesyou actually threaten global capitalism = you die
The nordics don’t threaten the US economic world order, so they’re economically “”free””
@@himpim642they didn't like that the USSR treated non-white europeans equally to white europeans
@@basedandredpille
nope,they didnt liked them at primarily because of commmunism,but russian emprie was hated even befoe communism.Westerrs fear slavic power.If not for russia/uss world would be unde rtoal westenr contol owing to patheitic resistance rest f world offered unlike rusians who kicked huge western amries ass numerous times
as an irish person, i have zero economic freedom. i work 2 jobs and have no money after bills and no time to myself.
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Give 90 percent of your money to those who need it more than you do, and then go live in a commune.
@BipolarBear-tc5oe braindead take. Socialism doesn't have anything to do with giving up personal property, which is personal belongings. What's taken away is private property, which is means of production. The capital shouldn't be allowed to accumulate in the hands of a person to passively generate wealth.
@@turboheadcrab666 I know right, it shouldnt be controlled by the ones who can use it more efficiently, it should be controlled by a collective of self interested bureaucrats. You people do not understand that your very comfortable lifestyle wouldnt be possible in a planned economy.
@@Mastercane98 Go live in Africa. See how good the the ones who 'use capital most efficiently' do in those countries.
@@turboheadcrab666 Not everyone is smart and hardworking, so not everyone deserves the same wealth. Equality of outcome is oppressive.
do ppl not realise that previous colonisation left a lot of foreign countries in famine, civil war, in debt to corporate corruption despite having such rich resources 😭. Ghana is just one of many examples. People gotta just pick up a book istg. Great vid as always hakim
Having raw materials is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition to be successful.
Its convenient for the global north to ignore that their previous and ongoing colonization and neo colonization attempts have damaged the rest of the world
@@Mastercane98 yeah because there isn't a high demand for oil ATM. Looks like someone hasn't heard of the transformation process. And did you not read anything else? Civil war? Famine? Corruption? Or did that one bit about abundant resources piss you off too much
@@kindabent3275 I love your baseless assumptions, keep them coming, I beg you. My dissertation, back in the day, was about the circular economy. The irony of it all is quite amusing.
@@Mastercane98 But debt traps by rich countries and too much foreign intervention by countries like the USA and Not letting true democracy develop in countries like Pakistan which is the country i live in has never allowed us to develop and the British nearly took 10 trillion dollars from the indian subcontinent which still effects us today and yeah they didnt allow any local industry to flourish during their rule
Excellent video Hakim. It's maddening living within the imperial core and knowing that it's built on the overexploitation of the colonized world. Thanks for bringing it to the fore.
“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.” - iosif dzhugashvili
What country came the closest to abolish exploitation in your opinion?
wait Antarctica is "mostly" frozen landmass covered in an average of 1.6 Km of ice, how has it been colonized in a similar way to Haiti or the Congo?
Has it?
As a citizen of Antarctica 🇦🇶 I can confirm, our native penguins have yet to recover from the long years of Murican occupation… 😔
(Probably just an editing error, at least if you’re referring to the video’s Global North/South map)
0:47 Wait, Spain is amongst the countries with the most "economic freedom" in 2023? 😂
Since 2018 we have a (moderate) leftist Government formed by a coalition between the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Worker's Party, think of the Dems but with a bit of spine) and various leftist groups (first under the coalition Unidas Podemos - United We Can, later under the coalition Sumar - Sum), under the leadership of Pedro Sánchez (PSOE), also known as 'Perrosanxe' (a meme that came from mispronouncing his name, "Perro" is Spanish for "dog"). Even though this Government has been critizised by the Spanish left as moderate (and rightfully so), they still have:
* Raised the minimum wage (as per proposal by the Ministress of Labour and current VP Yolanda Díaz) from 670€/month to 940€/month, and then further up to 1080€/month.
* Established controls over housing prices.
* Increased controls and regulations regarding the quality of consumer goods (specially during the tenure of the communist Alberto Garzón as Minister of Consumer Goods between 2019 and 2023).
* Established a so-called "Iberian exemption" controlling the prices on the energy sector (the name comes from the fact that both Spain and Portugal adopted this measure during an EU summit on energy prices), which has kept the prices lower than in the rest of the EU.
* Increased worker protection (though insufficiently) with the 2022 Labour Reform Act (which partially derogates an early reform made by the PP - our equivalent to the GOP).
* Established further legislation for cases of sexual assault and agression.
* Raised workers' pensions.
* Recognised Palestine jointly with Norway and Ireland (and gotten into a small diplomatic conflict with the Sionist Colonial Entity as a consequence, but it was worth it, and we should have done even more).
And those guys are telling that Spain is a beacon of what they call "economic freedom" even though our Government did all of that and is being critizised by their Spanish equivalents (FAES, led by former Spanish President and full time dipshit José María Aznar) for doing that? What a freaking joke!
Economic freedom is entirely made up, it’s just a map that says “boo! Big China scary and no freedom >:( “
Obvio que sigue estando alto en la lista. Primero porque es parte del bloque imperialista de la UE y de la OTAN, porque los capitales siguen siendo libres de explotar la mano de obra (tanto nativa como extranjera, siendo siempre la extranjera más explotada) y porque España es un estado inserto en el sistema imperialista mundial donde las grandes compañias españolas se benefician de exportar capital a paises de america latina para explotar su fuerza de trabajo y recursos naturales.
@@braiscoellovences9987 Ya, la cosa es que es de chiste: las mismas organizaciones propagandísticas neoliberales a nivel interno nos tachan de "dictadura comunista" y luego a nivel externo nos ponen alto como "país libre". Aunque España dentro del sistema imperialista mundial es más el lacayo/mayordomo de los intereses yankis que otra cosa (con esos beneficios siendo las migajas que obtenemos de hacer muchísimo trabajo sucio para los yankis).
@@braiscoellovences9987Ya, la cosa es que esa misma gente después va llamando "comunista" a nuestro Gobierno 😂
Love that the Imperial periphery map had Antarctica colored in too, those poor scientists.
It's protected from exploitation by UN charters and international agreements so yeah very little freedom, only science.
I think the answer is more simple: when these organizations talk about "economic freedom", they mean economic freedom for the bourgeoisie instead of you or me, let alone those in the global south. It is also like this with the Freedom House Democracy Index where it just so happens that enemies of the US rank lower than US allies without any kind of consistent set of criteria, especially since anyone in a global north country allied to the US or the US itself can name plenty of relatively recent examples of serious infringements of things like press freedom, like that 'antisemitism' act in the US or how countries like Australia severely repressed the public during covid even when evidence showed such measures were at best unnecessary.
What countries have the highest economic freedom for you then?
As an estonian its heart warming that anyone at least knows where it is. And to agree with you, Estonia is pretty high on that "freedom" raitings coz we have pretty much zero workers rights protection, most of economic growth is from absorbing capital import from scandinavia and post-ussr "social package" with good education, housing and stuff. But even this haven't help overcome 9 quarters long economic downturn 😂
Eestlasena peaksid sa teadma, et viimased paar aastat majanduslandust on põhiliselt tingitud ukraina sõjast tulenevatest šokkidest
@@kasparkannel3108 kui oleksid uurinud küsikust süvitsi, siis teaksid, et kõik langused ei ole tingitud mingist ühest asjast, vaid süsteemsest turumajanduse tsüklilisest iseloomust. Sõda ainult kiirendas protsesse, mis olid ka enne seda käimas.
This is a map for Heritage Foundation funders -- it's basically a "here be child slaves" map
yet another banger from Mr. Hakim!
Dr.Hakim
Oh hey, it’s the “US/NATO countries good, global south bad, no further explanation needed” map again
So this is an index on howExploitative companies can be and not how "MUH FREE MARKET" is really shown?
Interesting...
12:12 - Another relevant book on the topic I would highly recommend reading is "The Divide: A Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions" by Jason Hickel. It was actually personally approved by Ha-Joon Chang.
One of my favourite passages from the book I personally highlighted:
"In the Western imagination, Africa is stereotyped as a continent plagued by corrupt dictators, with the supposition being that Africans are perhaps too "primitive" to appreciate the virtues of Western-style democracy. But the truth is that ever since the end of colonialism, Africans have been actively prevented from establishing democracies. The legacy of strongman rule in Africa is largely a Western invention, not an indigenous proclivity. Western powers have thwarted countless attempts at real independence, which casts a rather ironic light on the West's historical image as a beacon of democracy and popular sovereignty.
If you ever try to suggest that poor countries are poor because they have been disadvantaged by an imbalanced global economy, someone is almost certain to respond by pointing the finger at corruption instead. ...For anyone that isn't aware of the history of colonialism, unequal treaties, structural adjustment and trade rules, this seems as good an explanation as any.
...It is important that we expand our conception of corruption to include illicit outflows, anonymous companies, secrecy jurisdictions... ...And yet the mainstream definition of corruption does not encompass them... ...Instead, the corruption narrative diverts our attention away from these exogenous problems and places the burden of blame on developing countries themselves."
The map also just does not follow its own logic, as it puts countries like in Scandinavia and the US in the same category, even though Those countries have much more "state intervention", safety nets, subsidies, etc.
It is clearly an imperialist act of a vulgar "The west versus the east" image, as the color blocking very transparently gives away on its own, or the global north versus the global south, and other cold-war era western superiority nonsense
Yet another excellent video by comrade Hakim. I am always absolutely amazed how you manage to condense points arrived at through complex analysis, whose presentation requires nuance, in such a short video without essentially misrepresenting anything. Thanks for your work.
In the next version they will use 'Freedom from International Metric System' as a source for freedom. The 'wtf is a killometa' country on top as always.
It has always baffled me how biased that map is, like some of the worst dictatorships have better scores than, as you said, US adversaries.
It is just a made up index that starts from the conclusion and works it way up to get the results it wants.
I felt the pain in his voice when Hakim said "the heroes of D-Day"...
Sure, there were heroes in the D-Day, but they pale in comparison to the heroes fighting the Nazis in the East front
Eh they where both incredibly bloody and it wasn’t for ussr and there horrible fuckjng tactics it wouldn’t have been as bad so I wouldn’t call them hero’s more like lucky
@@notamurderer6226The only reason the D Day invasion was successful is because the Soviets had killed and destroyed so many German units lol
@@eeeertoo2597 that’s not even remotely true d day was successful because of 2 big reason one the Allie’s tricked the the nazis into believing they would be attacking else where and 2 the nazis where incredibly incompetent allowing the Allie’s to trick them
Still they fought bravely. For one war in which the US stood on the right side of History, we gotta give them credit.
@@eeeertoo2597In fact the Brits attempted a landing in 1942 (Dieppe raid), and it was a bloody failure (though they managed to get their hands on important German Intel)
I think most people who see these kind of maps have actually no clue what "economic freedom" rly means. To them its just sounds good or "free" xD what a world
edit: I mean what even are 'too many' safety nets and subsidies haha
Props to the editor too💪
"Economic freedom in the US" and then Musk asks government to overtax imported EVs.
School is almost over (for my school) and a new hakim video? Best day ever!
Not to mention that to this day this the global north still heavily subsides their own economy to the detriment of the global south. Us southerners need to take inspo from thailand and prohibit raw resource export. Only value added from now on. Could you imagine what would happen to europe if india and brazil only exported transformed food items? Or if the congo imposed a similar "only smelted ore" policy?
"Freedom" is a grand word, but under the banner of Free Trade the most predatory wars were conducted: under the banner of "free labour," the toilers were robbed.
The 26 county state of Ireland is apparently the most free country. A neo-colony at the wims of Western Imperialists!
Another week, another banger from Hakim!
It is hilarious that Australia is somehow a "super economically free, more so than the land of freedom itself" when living here is being under an intense nanny state that has prohibitions on pretty much economic activity you can imagine (as long as you're not in the owning class).
We have an even more intense nanny state for pretty much any non-economic behaviour, seriously, I used to live in China and the gov't over there impacted my day to day life *far* less than the Aus gov does.
4K views in an hour, bro fell off. Nah but jk sudruh Hakim, love you guys so much. Shoutout to you from former CSSR!
Have nothing but respect for you hakim. Keep this up bro
The DPRK having 2.9 economic freedom shows that it is a based country
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Starting to become an apologist for countries you couldn't last a day in just so you can be a communist I see.
People say "the global north exploits the global south". Count Australia out. Born and raise as a purebred Aussie in the settler-colonial nation state, I can assure you we ain't over-exploited like other countries I've visited are. Australia, being a useful tool of America, really looks more like Florida or Michigan for the most part
Australia is part of the global north. Those terms do not refer to geography
Tanks Comrade ❤️
Tanks where? Budapest?
Heard “Fraser Institute” and sure enough, it’s the same one headquartered in my home city. Be a terrible shame if its namesake river were to wash the whole lot out to sea >:)
Man i want to find some rightists having a meltdown in this comment section
Economic freedom maps aren’t really meant to show an average persons quality of life. The maps rate with consideration to financial sector development and the size of the economy. “Financial freedom” is only possible with a developed financial system that facilitates, or attempts to facilitate, a free market.
That's might be true but you forgot to add context and ideological bagage behind those stats. Politicians, expert, and institutions used those statistics not in its objective sense- They use it to in the other way. Global north countries to the global south "The reason we're more devoloped because we have more economic freedom and better institutions" . That's the context it's being used, it's to tell others to adopt said policies and allow said institutions to econ freedom.
When in reality that's only an half truth (not the whole story). Those global south countries doe impliment policies most of the times against their own wills ( loans with/strings attach & other forms of coercions). It's hard for a country to develop when historically and actively being exploited.
Look at the institutions and expert that use this stats always advocate pro business, pro market policies , and privatization laws- That's their ideology and most of the times they're (their organisation and other wealthy people like them) the one making profiting of it.
Average neoliberal attitude of separating society in “the economy” and everything else, as though they weren’t inexorably combined.
Economic freedom = ability to exploit workers, the environments, and society.
The countries on top of this index are nowhere near the countries with the highest exploitation of workers, environmental or society. Quite the contrary.
Take Switzerland for example: excels in workers safety, labor rights, is quite environmentally friendly and has one of the best society (very low crime rates, high wealth, low inequality, low homeless, very peaceful country, low poverty rate, great infrastructure, great healthcare, etc)
@@asamanthinketh1937 This is like saying Trashtopia is the tidiest country in the world because they pushed all their Trash over the border.
Okay, so the exploitation happens elsewhere. It doesn't go away just because you can't see it!
@@DeoMachinanow you are moving the goal post compared to your initial comment. I took a country which has one of the highest economic freedom and is pretty contrary to what you said.
Now, we can debate the ideology as a whole but I am afraid, socialist countries have not really a good track record it terms of working conditions, exploitation of environment and also the wuslity of life is generally lower than countries with high economic freedom.
Either way, I think you are on the wrong side
@@asamanthinketh1937 Check the usernames lol
Also I don't actually think you believe that, are you honestly trying to tell me you'd have preferred to live in Batista's Cuba rather than Castro's? In Tsarist Russia over the Soviet Union?
Did pre-revolution China look so great compared with Mao's China?
What about Chile or Argentina? Come to think of it, how come all of the poorest nations with the worst quality of life have very little economic regulation?
@@DeoMachina Your comparisons are flawed as they involve different time periods. Better comparisons involve contemporaneous regions with similar backgrounds but different systems:
1. East vs. West Germany: Post-WWII, West Germany’s capitalist economy led to higher living standards and freedoms compared to East Germany’s socialist regime, which faced economic struggles and repression.
2. North vs. South Korea: North Korea’s centrally planned economy and strict controls result in chronic hardships, while South Korea’s market economy has achieved significant economic growth and higher living standards.
3. Hong Kong vs. Mainland China: Hong Kong’s capitalist economy fostered a global financial hub with high living standards, in contrast to mainland China’s state-controlled economy, which has faced challenges despite growth.
These direct comparisons more accurately reflect the impact of economic systems on quality of life.
3:04 no? When I hear "economic freedom" I immediately think laissez-faire, low taxes for corporations and other stuff which makes investing into the country more attractive
Divest from the UAE for Sudan!
Yeah I looked into that it’s sad
I’m unironically so glad you’re getting sponsorships. It gives me hope that these views are becoming more mainstream. You know that makes the heritage foundation cope hard as shit
Excellent video. Thanks Hakim. I'll be sharing this one with friends, get them to interact with these topics more hopefully.
that transition at 16:34 was clean as hell, props to the editor
thank you 🫡
One wonders if the world will ever be free from the plunderers. Doesn't look great at the moment.
well time goes and balance changes...]
china rising is quite good for optimism.
The world is littered with the ruins of empires once thought to be everlasting
@@lottabee big facts
The American Empire is in decline and reacts to this with ever more violence. I'm less worried about the plunderers persisting and more worried about them going out with a bang instead of a whimper.
Brother Hakim's voice graces me this evening to lull me to sleep. Praise him.
Keep up the good work, bro.
This Heritage crap is all over my country.
Somewhat related but you should do a video on the origin of Somali pirates. The global north causing enviromental degradation that lead to piracy as a means of survival. As a bonus you could make a super smooth segway into world of warships.
😂 it's kind of funny I'm Somali and this video made me think of back home. I think Somalia is a unique economic case study since in living memory we've went from classic fascism to Marxist-Leninist based scientific socialism to anarcho-capitalism to Sharia based socialism and now have open crony capitalism. 😂
Somalis being nomadic pastoralist and mercantile people means they've got this innate independent nature that can appear libertarian-esque (hence the anarcho-capitalism) since business continues despite collapse/rejection of the state and its institutions.
However Somalis desire to be personally Sovereign is only trumped by Islam hence the only true institutions that would have moral legitimacy to the public would have to be Islamic in their essence. Hence the success in establishing law and order by the Islamic Courts union in 2006 before the CIA said not on our watch.
Then you have the scientific socialism which whilst it had oversight by the Soviet Union and adapted to Islamic socialist concepts like communal projects, charity and more imho actually rested on Somali ethnofacism. Since somalis are an ethnically homogeneous people that are STRICTLY patrilineal clan based that along with long history of race based enslavement of neighbouring people combined with concepts of the purity of ancestral somali lands, language and dna... it's a weird cross section of lebersaum/manifest destiny, yamato-damashii and a islamic frontierism.
@@shafsteryellow I would love to learn more about this if you have any book recommendations!
Freedom Eagle Burger Institute, a subsidiary of PragerU
Happy for Hakim to be getting that sponsorship! ❤
1 of 2: *This is how you always need to vote:*
We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including AOC, all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. Vote in every single election- at all levels.
For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide.
Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either.
You can always _write-in_ an anti-authoritarian person if no candidates for a position fit that bill. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies. Until our task is complete.
Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.
Reform is ineffective. Following this strategy will just result in laws that prohibit write-ins.
Sad reality is that revolution will be the only thing that frees the people from the exploitation of the wealthy. Hopefully it is bloodless, but we already know it will not be as the wealthy won’t give up their position without a fight.
Ireland is the greener of all... basically a tax haven... sadge this what Milei wants to do to my country, argentina :(
After all Argentina has been through at least millei wants to make some meaningful change and help the people
@@SirOreo_ by completely tanking the economy lolllll nice job milei
@@Kittystag if by people you mean billonaires then yes... the other rest that are not people with 60% of poverty are scavenging the crumbs of the free market
@@koopacabras4545 Argentinian are poor because they are against the free market, your country is one of the few to levy duties on exports. Your previous governments were totally inept.
@@Mastercane98 Ok so tariffs on exports NOT cool
Tariffs on import = COOL.
You are wrong, Indonesia for example prohibited the export of some metals, in their raw material form. And it worked out for them, corporations were forced to install processing factories. The issue is not that exports are taxed, is that its poorly implemented.
You can still oppose the western idea of "free market" and have it your own way.
Think tanks, Ngos, Corporations, State, all joined together is what fascists dreamt of
Reminds me of the Cato Institute index of freedom for American states, where the ability to marry your first cousin is counted as an important personal liberty worth many points.
4:00 Leftist RUclipsrs getting sponsors: "When you find yourself in water, you swim."
World of Warships: "Well, about that..."
Great phrase, ill be appropriating it...
Dude, when you talked about debt I remembered something my teachers told me in high school... I live in Brasil, and to be an independent country, the government loaned some money with England to pay Portugal for our freedom... the deal was made in 1822...
We paid that debt in 2008. It was almost 200 years.
I can't even imagine when the newer "liberated" countries will pay off their colonizers...
Isn't it kind lf obvious that an economic freedom index only displays how easy it is for big corporations increase capital?
Hakim came back cooking!!!!
I’ll take a safety net over the 0.001% chance of being rich.
So much free dumb in the US and UK 😢
God we love you comrade Hakim. It pains us so to hear you have to do video game commercial mid video but we understands and we fast forward to continue enjoying your wonderful content
Economic Freedom is when Mcdonald 🤑
You need to ask whose freedom, and you will understand the map. Regular ppl assume it’s freedom for people, or at least any random person who wants to do business. This map is not about that. It’s for big capitalist owners of equities to evaluate which countries will give them the most freedom to do whatever the hell they want.
Economic freedom = rich people's freedom
As a mexican, we definitely have more political freedom than the USA could ever have. For starters, there’s more than one political party, and their ideological differences are MUCH more pronounced than in the US’ “democratic vs republican” system. We actually get to choose our senators! And yes, that means we choose our city majors too. There is no “electoral vote” b*s and the counting is made public. In localized elections, political parties are usually merely segue-ways for candidates to get in touch with their supporters and parties don’t fully represent the ideology of each candidate (unlike the US) which leads to a more varied approach to politics. For all the criticism I have to mexican politics (corruption, impunity and manufactured consent, which are also present in the US), the US’ system pales in comparison 😂.
Basically, its a map of where its good to be mega rich
I wish i knew more people like Hakim irl, but in an ex-socialist country brainwashed into believing socialism/communism is a worse punishment than going to hell, people who still believe in the principles of socialism/communism and oppose democracy in its current form are hard to come by
Aayyy he got a Wargaming pronsor, didn't expect that..
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I have a google document from 2 years ago of me creating a script for my first youtube video ever where i talk about why the index is a lie. Well. I think i just got motivated again haha
You could've made your life a lot easier by simplifying it down to just "The Heritage Foundation funds it" and anyone with a brain would understand its trash
No it's true it's not nonsense. People in the west in capitalist countries get the basic human right to choose where their money goes and what is done with that money, it's why you have to pay for healthcare in the US.