Why is it that it always the rich and powerful that leads the masses? Why is it that those who start wars are always sitting far away when the guns start firing ? Why is it when a country is brought into financial diifficulties ( caused by the ineptitude of those leaders ) the leaders continue to live their same lifestyle while the people suffer ? If this is what democracy is? then it is a sugar coated version of Tyrany, Monarchy, Autocracy,Tyrany
absolutely delusional to think everything can work out. You all realize we are 7 billion over our carrying capacity. As resources run out wars will escalate. Peace? Ya right.
Yes friend. The "lunatics" are indeed running the asylums. Cutest part of all? Us suckers. Still "fondly" believing that our votes actually matter. It does not.
This is another reason why people are opting out of parenthood. Why bring children into this uncertain world of environmental degradation, climate change, and corruption when human population growth is the cause of it all.
How is human growth the cause of corruption? The cause of corruption is the ability to be corrupted. That has absolutely nothing to do with population. If you want to have children, you as a parent, have some degree of regency over whether you can bring a positive light into the world, or refuse to educate them on the realities of the world and be sucked into the trap of a manipulated society. All we need globally is education and/or the capacity to educate ourselves to the reality we live in.
Yes. It is obvious even to a simple mind, that over population is the primary cause for every grief and suffering of this sad, sick world. Only an ignorant fool would say otherwise. The arrogance and delusional stupidity needed to argue against such a basic and simple point, is yet another confirmation of your obvious observation that is so blatantly evident across all of time. Yet there are such people, and it is such failures of self awareness that is driving us to inevitable extinction. So be it.
Where TF is my comment? The lunatic saying that population is irrelevant is still here, which is so blatantly ignorant and delusional, yet my comment erased !!?!
I think you are overlooking one important thing. I agree with everything you have said but you failed to mention one very important thing. There are evil people in this world who only care about themselves! All the cooperation and good will mean nothing when the person you are trying to cooperate with only wants to take control, dominate and destroy you! With that said, how do we as a world move forward?
Please say it again in front of a mirror, if u r an American. Many countries had wars, violent protests, color revolutions, regime changes, sanctions (to punish its ordinary people), spreading lies, misinformation and smearing campaigns to discredit others who wanted to make their decisions. Not to mention, hundreds of military bases abroad and battle groups to intimidate and threating others as if others dun deserve to have their own security concerns or anything about national security or rights to exert their way of life in their own countries. All US wanted is to mould others according to their image and only but proudly calling them as Freedom! Or be destroyed! Certainly a hypocrisy at the highest standard.
The one you are referring is the US itself. With only 4% of the world population who wish to control and dictate the rules of the world with its allies only. Even with that is still a small percentage of the world population. However, US thinks that it is Democracy and Freedom. And depriving others of their national security concerns p, except US with their hundreds of military bases located across the globe and their naval battle groups sailing so close to the other nations' backyards as their own. Other powerful nations must follow the great US's leadership shown in order to make US feeling much safer too.
we are in population overshoot energy/food shortages inflation are happening all the debt/credit is a sign the system is done for there is no more resources to keep growing the economy nuclear war or some virus will have to come to bring down the population
Good luck with that. History has proven that those who do are vilified as cowards, traitors, and criminals. Remember the ones who were imprisoned during the US invasion of Vietnam, Laos, et al in the 1960s?
I stopped voting 35 years ago, there is not one politician that represents what I stand for. As long as there are a billion people living in severe poverty, I have no faith in politics. There's enough to make the world a paradise for everybody, but nobody wants to see that politicians will never be willing to make it happen and I do not want to be accomplice to that.
you're certainly accomplice to the results though.. because even if that vote was directly thrown into the trash can, you as an individual would still be doing your best to promote your view.
By giving up on voting you and others like you have allowed evil to gain power and take control. Get involved voice your opinion, you might find out many share that view! Help to change the world. Running away and putting your head in the sand just makes everything worse!
@@lga9046 I can not change what's happening, if only the 8 billion would start to see that we are being trapped in a system that we created ourselves and that we should stop supporting it.
@@Carlins_Prophet Yes, but he is in South America dealing with the results of a stroke he suffered last summer, I believe. The man is well into his 90’s. I’m sure all his strength and resources are needed to deal with this. I miss his voice and his wisdom.
@@Carlins_Prophet In 2023, Chomsky suffered a massive stroke and was flown to a hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, to recuperate. He can no longer walk or communicate, making his return to public life improbable, but he continues to follow current events such as the Israel-Hamas war.
I want the anti-war party. I am so sick and tired of all these wars which are not worth fighting. 275 billion dollars to Ukraine? The government could have provides healthcare for all. So angry to our government!
Study Robert Sapolsky's research on baboons. That will never happen. Humans are a violent greedy abusive waring species. Tyranny and power wins in the end.
I won't say a sole sane voice - but one of very few sane voices we're currently hearing. Millennia of advancements have enabled us to go into space, see things on the outer edges of the universe, and communicate with one another instantaneously from one side of the world to the other... and look at us! Still fighting over territory, belief systems, resources. In that sense, we've hardly even crept out of the caves and into the light.
I was just listening to history videos about how World War One started. All the leaders back then were insane. And several, King George, Kaiser Willhelm, and the Russian Tsar were cousins or related by marriage. The whole Serbia and Austria Hungery thing was complete madness. Failed leadership, misunderstandings, leaders on fishing trips, and mistakes cost all nations millions of lives. Hard to believe. Madness.
Given that the Pentagon hasn't really "won" a war since WWII It is past time we reevaluate it's relevance vis a vis the percentage of the budget that is devoted to it.
The interests of the business community are often at odds with society's interests. Yet, the business community dominates government. How can the business community not destroy the society it is situated in? It's like a leech on your leg, or fungus on a tree.
Ownership , is stronger than life , the need to own is a concept that goes way beyond protecting each other from exploitation and living by law , into an insanity and sickness that makes a greed and power attractive to the leadership that is rising to the top in todays world.
If individuals in the US do not heed the advice of economists like Mr. Richard Wolff, they may face negative consequences. The most notable action by President Trump was the threat of imposing 100% tariffs on certain countries - a move that could potentially destabilize the US economy. To promote global welfare, consider alternatives to the US dollar.
Thanks Mr. Wolf for always speaking the truth regardless of the subject or situation. Man and the oligarchs thirst for power and lack of care or concern for the people will be our downfall.
What nearly every human has forgotten after being born is that we are are infinite souls experiencing life lessons on this 3rd dimensional reality. Throughout each life times we make our reality more difficult by adding veils upon veils of human traps , and this distorts our true being , an infinite loving SOUL.
I rarely seem to agree with this guy but I think the analysis in this case makes a lot of sense. Then I wondered about economic prosperity. I found a source online shat listed avg income by country and USA was 6th at about $82k per person. China was a little below the middle with average wages of about $13k dollar equivalent. There were only about,33 countries with wages above $30k US equivalent. I couldn't get a count of the ones below $30k but roughly double the number of countries or about 60 countries below $30k. There were several countries with less than $1k average annual income. Until we can level the economic prosperity by a couple deviations or better, we are dealing with a world that has a large group of very desperate people. If we focus on economic prosperity vs dominance, we would be offering hope to the people who need to know it will get better soon. Whether the USA is dominant or China takes over, the people in Egypt and other African nations earning $5500 or less per year...... probably do not care. They are just looking for a better quality of life.
You do not factor in the cost of living these countries. The US has one of the highest cost of living and what would be a good income in other countries, a worker would starve to death on in the USA. A lot of this high cost is the result of policies that have been instituted to shrink the middle class and shift the wealth to the .1%.
@@TacticalMayoother empires have fallen in the past without an apocalypse. I guess the childlike mentality (US being so young in comparison to previous countries that had empires) may be the cause. Much like a childish tantrum.
Psychopaths may look extraordinarily sane, psychologically stable (unnaturally calm in fact) to the cluster B BLIND many, yet they are the pure evil *addition* of TRUE madness. The greater influence they have....the greater harm will be done. Remember that someone told you !
Not just these two wars. There are 56 ongoing conflicts, which is the highest number since World War II. 92 countries are involved in conflicts outside their borders.
Things really are simple. We either embrace a one world mentality where the entire world evolves together, or we embrace imperialism where all countries struggle to be the dominant country. As a race, we have been doing the latter for the past 500yrs. We have been through many wars. Our technology has advance, but our humanity has always lacked behind our technological advancement. Wars and invasions are inevitable when that happens. The more technological country takes advantage or takes over the weaker. We need to advance as a race, not just technological, but also our humanity. Imperialism is one of those things that will get you somewhere, but quickly push you back to the dark ages if you are not careful. We need to stop being imperialistic, and be more humanitarian and socialistic.
The people in all the small countries need to realise that the standard of living is much better in large countries, they need to put their differences aside and Unite as one larger country, much like the East African Federation is trying to do. The aim in the next 5-10 years should be to reduce the amount of countries in the world to about 20 and none by the end of the century. Humans can achieve so much more working together than we ever could while in conflict. How much stronger would a 4 nation Africa be? Or a 3 nation South America. One country in Central America. 2 middle eastern countries. 5 asian nation, 3 European countries. Lines on a map have held humanity back for too long. We can travel anywhere in the world in less then 24hrs. It’s time to erase the lines, they are obsolete.
@@TacticalMayothey are pointlessly repositioning to mitigate the incoming adverse effects of climate change. They have all already lost the war. Nature won already.
As a Marxist, he has undermined U.S. education from the inside all his life, and now that he is past his "use by date" he begs for money to keep doing it. Humans don't do precise...but it's easy to say, isn't it?
“The snow would just melt, the green Ukrainian grass would grow again and weave its carpet over the earth . . . The gorgeous sunrises would come again . . . The air would shimmer with heat above the fields and no more traces of blood would remain. Blood is cheap on those red fields and no one would redeem it.” ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The White Guard
@philhubb5885 You know all of them personally, eh? Nothing occurred that made the land go to Ukraine? Your cool with it when dictators just, accidentally, leave their military squatting places while people die by the tens of thousands. The same dictators that are so good at showing restraint?
In the history of the world there has never been a population in any country anywhere that held for a majority the opinion their country should go to war. It's always exclusively a handful of "leaders" who don't care how many of their people they have to sacrifice if only they have a chance to get more power. It wasn't Napoleon losing his life in the battle field, it was the French soldiers.
If you inserted the last supply of oil,instead ,(France now has no oil left on its soil,etc, the us has more holes on its land than the rest of the world combined
I agree with almost everything Richard say. However, I think it's time to stop referring to leading countries, dominant countries great countries etc. It's individuals that make the difference good or bad. It's individuals that set the examples for better or for worse. It's individuals that can be good or bad leaders. It's not about race, or the country they lead. For decades the west has bad individuals leading and/or in positions of power.
Individualism is certainly valuable, but you might want to cultivate a sociological imagination to help you understand the position of Marxists like Dr. Wolff. You don't have to believe it, but there are many argument out there as to the value of such thinking over atomized individualism. See the sociologist C. Wright Mills.
@@SomeCajunDude I think you are missing my point. To suggest I don't have a sociological imagination from one comment I've made, suggests that you may want to cultivate more logic before leaping to conclusions.
@@BAROMETERONE I stand by my claim (which speaks directly to the inadequacy of individualistic framing) based on your comments, the only metric of you I possess. It is illogical to act offended over a minor suggestion drawn from a single data point. Acting offended rather than engaging the ideas suggests you are unfamiliar with Mills' work on the sociological imagination. But, please, I am amenable to a robust defense of my position if you are interested in doing the same for yours.
Claim: You have not cultivated a sociological imagination. Data pt 1: You said, " It's individuals that make the difference good or bad." If you think this, you have not cultivated a sociological imagination. Data pt 2: You said, "It's individuals that can be good or bad leaders." If you think this, you have not cultivated a sociological imagination. Data pt 3: You said, "It's not about race, or the country they lead." If you think this, you have not cultivated a sociological imagination. Warrant: A sociological imagination allows you to see individuals as neither good nor bad, but as material actors who are shaped by their environments. Counter-argument and rebuttal: No individual is fully determined by their environment in the end and possess the ability to change. However, the ability to change is also culturally specific and historically mutable. Qualifier: This is based on one conversation. If you have counter-evidence all you need do is lay it out logically, logic guy. I suggest the Toulmin model. Im sure you know it.
All people want to do is talk. No action. This is the cage we've been placed in. We can say what we want and complain while those with the means to act on their plans will continue doing so.
Using the logic of nuclear threat avoidance logic, the US *CAN* invade any country that they want as long as it's not another nuclear power because other countries will and cannot hold them responsible since they have nukes. China CAN take Taiwan and the Philippines. North Korea CAN take South Korea and Japan. Russia CAN take Ukraine and Poland and the Baltic and Turkey. Do you see how useless the entire idea of nuclear threat avoidance is? Because any country that can make that threat can use that logic to say why nobody should stop them in their actions, whether it's taking neighboring countries or demanding things that the people living in those countries don't want to give. The only way to stop nuclear states from taking over every other countries in the world and then going to WW III is to make sure that there is repercussions for starting hot wars. The US did invade Iraq. Russia did invade Georgia. Both got away with it with barely a slap to the wrist, and that emboldened other countries to take more and more hostile actions. People should be applauding the decision to escalate what is happening in Ukraine because *it still isn't a nuclear war yet*. And it won't as long as nuclear powers such as US, UK, France, and China are watching the situation and saying "Ok, you all had your wars, now go home and stop this or else." And do you know why? Because Ukraine is not the bottom line of *any* of those countries, so they have very little interest in taking the final step. Nor is it, contrary to popular propaganda, Russia's bottom line either - because Russia's bottom line is always going to be Putin and the FSB. As long as they're fine, they're not going to risk their own lives either.
Cool it professor Wolff! We are beginning to realise our oneness. Get together with francis Fukuyama. Together you can realise a new level of understanding
I was listening to what you had to say until you chimed in concerning China as the next global empire. It resonates with the concept that if someone says it enough it must be true. You ignore that their economy is in a shambles, their neighbors hate them, their people hate their government, they are dictators and those dictators have made completely stupid decisions. If anything the Chinese have come and gone as a nation unless their democratic cousins (Taiwanese) take the reigns of power and make a decent nation of the mainland. Communists as global dictators - you either are lazy or one yourself.
Wow, you are very incorrect. You may need to do a little background research before you assert such things. Where in gods name did you get the idea of the Chinese economy is in shambles? Hardly
"The US must become a leader in multi-lateral government!" he says, as the most uni-lateral administration prepares to take power. Yeah, good luck with that.
We are involving our country and economy in the insanity and egotistical maniacs who believe in violence and stupid wars over issues that could easily be settled through honest negotiations based on love, mutual respect and true goal for peace.
@ 0:40 Every single war since the beginning of time has been fought over real estate (using religion as a scapegoat) and resources (using the idea of "freedom" as a scapegoat.) So yes, I believe people are willing to jeopardize everything over that. Are you kidding me? It's a tale as old as time.
The war's supposed to happen in the Middle East. So the Bible says the third and final third World War supposed to begin in the Middle East. Nocadamas said that and a few scholars well, white scholars anyway, said that whether was true, not, we don't know only time will tell.
The accompanying visual track is often distracting and irrelevant to what Mr. Wolff is saying. What is the point? I would much rather wartch Mr. Wolff be on camera delivering his message.
![Understanding Marxism: Q&A with Richard D. Wolff [June 2019]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/eU-AkeOyiOQ/mqdefault.jpg)
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Greed rules over everything today.
It's because the whole globe went finance, everything is money, even the air we breath 😢
@@Aroncare , breath?
Always has.
@@oneiljunior9837 breathe - yes - but his point is right on.
@@twitwit99 No it hasn't, money is only roughly 5,000 years old.
Agree Richard.This world can be a fantastic place if it wasn't for so many lunatics in charge.
Why is it that it always the rich and powerful that leads the masses? Why is it that those who start wars are always sitting far away when the guns start firing ? Why is it when a country is brought into financial diifficulties ( caused by the ineptitude of those leaders ) the leaders continue to live their same lifestyle while the people suffer ? If this is what democracy is? then it is a sugar coated version of Tyrany, Monarchy, Autocracy,Tyrany
absolutely delusional to think everything can work out. You all realize we are 7 billion over our carrying capacity. As resources run out wars will escalate. Peace? Ya right.
Right on the spot, Mr.wolff. Thank you.
Pure madness.
Richard Wolff, one of the only sane voices in a world dominated by MadMen & MadWomen.
When you leave your parents house you might think differently!
Yes friend. The "lunatics" are indeed running the asylums. Cutest part of all? Us suckers. Still "fondly" believing that our votes actually matter. It does not.
No he's not
@@meanasscobra Left my parents house ages ago, Dr. Wolff makes sense.
@@TacticalMayo Yes, he is. "We have to deal with the problems, not play the blame game." That's the sanest thing I've heard someone say lately.
Yes
However it’s a Genocide by Israel. It’s not Palestinians not being willing to share.
People like to pretend that history started with Hamas "attack". Everything Israel did to Palestinians before that is forgotten.
October 7, 2023.
@@andrewgreen815 1948
@@andrewgreen815 1948. Look up the word NAKBA
@@8BitNaptime 1916 Sykes Picot agreement.
This is another reason why people are opting out of parenthood. Why bring children into this uncertain world of environmental degradation, climate change, and corruption when human population growth is the cause of it all.
Climate Change is a scam.
How is human growth the cause of corruption? The cause of corruption is the ability to be corrupted. That has absolutely nothing to do with population. If you want to have children, you as a parent, have some degree of regency over whether you can bring a positive light into the world, or refuse to educate them on the realities of the world and be sucked into the trap of a manipulated society. All we need globally is education and/or the capacity to educate ourselves to the reality we live in.
Yes. It is obvious even to a simple mind, that over population is the primary cause for every grief and suffering of this sad, sick world.
Only an ignorant fool would say otherwise.
The arrogance and delusional stupidity needed to argue against such a basic and simple point, is yet another confirmation of your obvious observation that is so blatantly evident across all of time.
Yet there are such people, and it is such failures of self awareness that is driving us to inevitable extinction. So be it.
Where TF is my comment?
The lunatic saying that population is irrelevant is still here, which is so blatantly ignorant and delusional, yet my comment erased !!?!
@@2bNotI don't see your comment either. but I can't see this one for some reason. also, I agree with your assessment of the previous commenter.
The us has 780 military bases around the world. WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU PEOPLE 🤔
nothin
@@mikemiller659 nothing? Wow! Watch your neck not to strangle the bloodflow to your brain, Brandon.
I see different figures up to over 2000. It's insane, the USA should p-off with their braindead presidents..
That it's the only power able to project across the world effectively.
@@sastrugi4471 like a bully
I think you are overlooking one important thing. I agree with everything you have said but you failed to mention one very important thing. There are evil people in this world who only care about themselves!
All the cooperation and good will mean nothing when the person you are trying to cooperate with only wants to take control, dominate and destroy you!
With that said, how do we as a world move forward?
675 Well stated !
Maybe we have to move backwards ,
in a very radical way... !
See the Short Scifi story Last Stand .
Please say it again in front of a mirror, if u r an American. Many countries had wars, violent protests, color revolutions, regime changes, sanctions (to punish its ordinary people), spreading lies, misinformation and smearing campaigns to discredit others who wanted to make their decisions. Not to mention, hundreds of military bases abroad and battle groups to intimidate and threating others as if others dun deserve to have their own security concerns or anything about national security or rights to exert their way of life in their own countries. All US wanted is to mould others according to their image and only but proudly calling them as Freedom! Or be destroyed! Certainly a hypocrisy at the highest standard.
Greed
It’s all caused by greed.
Evil psychopaths are crazy.
The one you are referring is the US itself. With only 4% of the world population who wish to control and dictate the rules of the world with its allies only. Even with that is still a small percentage of the world population. However, US thinks that it is Democracy and Freedom. And depriving others of their national security concerns p, except US with their hundreds of military bases located across the globe and their naval battle groups sailing so close to the other nations' backyards as their own. Other powerful nations must follow the great US's leadership shown in order to make US feeling much safer too.
As citizens we should just refuse to have our sons and daughters conscripted for war.
we are in population overshoot energy/food shortages inflation are happening all the debt/credit is a sign the system is done for there is no more resources to keep growing the economy nuclear war or some virus will have to come to bring down the population
They don't need to use people anymore.
Agreed with both comments.
I agree, but that isn't in force currently. We are all volunteer in all branches of the US Military...
Good luck with that. History has proven that those who do are vilified as cowards, traitors, and criminals. Remember the ones who were imprisoned during the US invasion of Vietnam, Laos, et al in the 1960s?
I stopped voting 35 years ago, there is not one politician that represents what I stand for. As long as there are a billion people living in severe poverty, I have no faith in politics. There's enough to make the world a paradise for everybody, but nobody wants to see that politicians will never be willing to make it happen and I do not want to be accomplice to that.
So right, we the people are tax slaves in a fiat currency plantation.
you're certainly accomplice to the results though.. because even if that vote was directly thrown into the trash can, you as an individual would still be doing your best to promote your view.
By giving up on voting you and others like you have allowed evil to gain power and take control. Get involved voice your opinion, you might find out many share that view! Help to change the world. Running away and putting your head in the sand just makes everything worse!
Ben het met je eens🎉
@@lga9046 I can not change what's happening, if only the 8 billion would start to see that we are being trapped in a system that we created ourselves and that we should stop supporting it.
Thank you for your positive outlook. The self destructive spiral needs to be checked
The fight is not over real estate. It is over dominance. Dominance allows exploitation.
Exploitation is Power.
We may not have Noam Chomsky-John Pilger-Gore Vidal with us anymore. But we have economists like Mr. Richard Wolff, indeed.
Supper thanks.
We may not have Noem Chomsky with us anymore but actually we do.
@@Carlins_Prophet Yes, but he is in South America dealing with the results of a stroke he suffered last summer, I believe. The man is well into his 90’s. I’m sure all his strength and resources are needed to deal with this. I miss his voice and his wisdom.
@@Carlins_Prophet In 2023, Chomsky suffered a massive stroke and was flown to a hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, to recuperate. He can no longer walk or communicate, making his return to public life improbable, but he continues to follow current events such as the Israel-Hamas war.
@@thespartan8476I love Chomsky but wow how ironic
I want the anti-war party. I am so sick and tired of all these wars which are not worth fighting. 275 billion dollars to Ukraine? The government could have provides healthcare for all. So angry to our government!
Half the population doesn't even want poor kids to get free lunch, get real!! 😂😂
No, they would not have provided that to you. It would go into the pockets of the ultra wealthy
Russian health care ain't all that.
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Study Robert Sapolsky's research on baboons. That will never happen. Humans are a violent greedy abusive waring species. Tyranny and power wins in the end.
@@marcusharman have you been to Russia ?? US healthcare is almost non existant,,, it aint all that..
Greed and Egos will destroys us all.
we have fought over real estate for centuries
Millenia...Even animals fight over real estate.
oh ok amazing analysis
The residents of Washington DC, London, Paris, Berlin better pack up and leave for some places as far away as is possible.
There is no such safe place on this planet!
7236 Well stated !
Spacex , unfortunately U or i aren't invited,
@@BrianMarcus-nz7cs I wouldn't be caught anywhere near SpaceX wait til they launch a person, talk about a short life span........
@@dongreenlee675 🥂👍
In other times this would be called "common sense" it stands out today because it's not so "common" anymore, let's pray that changes soon!
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is not a board dispute
No, it's about a nation being allowed to survive or not.
@@TroelsNybo1st And the national honor of the United States.
The USA also invaded Libya, Panama, Somalia, Cuba, Laos, Cambodia, and Yugoslavia.
I won't say a sole sane voice - but one of very few sane voices we're currently hearing. Millennia of advancements have enabled us to go into space, see things on the outer edges of the universe, and communicate with one another instantaneously from one side of the world to the other... and look at us! Still fighting over territory, belief systems, resources. In that sense, we've hardly even crept out of the caves and into the light.
I stopped caring a long time ago. There is no hope for these lunatic so-called leaders. Why do we need them anyway. I don't.
I was just listening to history videos about how World War One started. All the leaders back then were insane. And several, King George, Kaiser Willhelm, and the Russian Tsar were cousins or related by marriage. The whole Serbia and Austria Hungery thing was complete madness. Failed leadership, misunderstandings, leaders on fishing trips, and mistakes cost all nations millions of lives. Hard to believe. Madness.
Something tells me Trump’s admin will NOT:
- Come up with a better plan.
- Achieve a multilateral government.
What would give you that indication? Stop paying attention. And good luck having a reasonable conversation with anybody about this.
@@SuperDflower Did you even watch the video? The fact you have to ask already tells me everything about you I need to know.
This planet does not need humans!
Given that the Pentagon hasn't really "won" a war since WWII It is past time we reevaluate it's relevance vis a vis the percentage of the budget that is devoted to it.
Majority opinion means nothing when we lack the ability to organize en masse
Absolutely!
❤Mr. Wolff you are excellent. I can listen to you 24 hours a day. Thank you.
The interests of the business community are often at odds with society's interests. Yet, the business community dominates government. How can the business community not destroy the society it is situated in? It's like a leech on your leg, or fungus on a tree.
You destroy the business community? We don't need managers or owners, just each other.
Ownership , is stronger than life , the need to own is a concept that goes way beyond protecting each other from exploitation and living by law , into an insanity and sickness that makes a greed and power attractive to the leadership that is rising to the top in todays world.
It’s all about money and power!!!
If individuals in the US do not heed the advice of economists like Mr. Richard Wolff, they may face negative consequences. The most notable action by President Trump was the threat of imposing 100% tariffs on certain countries - a move that could potentially destabilize the US economy. To promote global welfare, consider alternatives to the US dollar.
It's over. This is going to happen.
@@TacticalMayo BRICS is more competitive
@thespartan8476 bricks is garbage. The only money in that whole thing is China nobody else. That's why the US doesn't freak out about it.
If leaders take us "there", it's too late to abandon them. Game over.
Oligarchy are winning, they won in France
France also has most media controlled by super-wealthy.
But still less than in USA
It’s definitely getting worse, way worse
I couldn't agree more with Richard!!!
Yeah, of course you would 🤣
These observations are obvious...
Unfortunately, the solutions are not.
Man is his own worst enemy.
Peace on earth.
Thanks Mr. Wolf for always speaking the truth regardless of the subject or situation. Man and the oligarchs thirst for power and lack of care or concern for the people will be our downfall.
All what Mr. Wolff stated I agree
Human overshoot has arrived and nothing will ever be the same.
Mymom told us kids in the 60s that China would be the next great empire
Keep believing that, we are owned by higher than china
Purely evil empire
Cretin@@Marcos-gj9qm
@@Marcos-gj9qm There's no such thing as "good" empire.
@@SomeCajunDude no kidding, knew that before my tenth year
Get rid of the VITO in the UN
I'm not American. I'm part of the world.
I'm American 🇺🇸
@@TacticalMayo cringe
Something strange happened in France this summer? Yeah, it's called 4 weeks of guaranteed paid holiday!
The problem is the breaking of international laws by security council members and their clients.
What nearly every human has forgotten after being born is that we are are infinite souls experiencing life lessons on this 3rd dimensional reality. Throughout each life times we make our reality more difficult by adding veils upon veils of human traps , and this distorts our true being , an infinite loving SOUL.
That's nonsense.
Soul was made up in the 18th century or so to establish means of discipline and self regulation. Humans transform just like any other object
Aaaaahhhhhn COMPROMISE!
I think that is what should be talked about much more rather than all of this division we are seeing
I rarely seem to agree with this guy but I think the analysis in this case makes a lot of sense. Then I wondered about economic prosperity. I found a source online shat listed avg income by country and USA was 6th at about $82k per person. China was a little below the middle with average wages of about $13k dollar equivalent. There were only about,33 countries with wages above $30k US equivalent. I couldn't get a count of the ones below $30k but roughly double the number of countries or about 60 countries below $30k. There were several countries with less than $1k average annual income. Until we can level the economic prosperity by a couple deviations or better, we are dealing with a world that has a large group of very desperate people. If we focus on economic prosperity vs dominance, we would be offering hope to the people who need to know it will get better soon. Whether the USA is dominant or China takes over, the people in Egypt and other African nations earning $5500 or less per year...... probably do not care. They are just looking for a better quality of life.
You do not factor in the cost of living these countries. The US has one of the highest cost of living and what would be a good income in other countries, a worker would starve to death on in the USA. A lot of this high cost is the result of policies that have been instituted to shrink the middle class and shift the wealth to the .1%.
Worldwide, there is less poverty today than ever before.
I promise you the reaction from the United States for taking their crown will be apocalyptic
@@TacticalMayoother empires have fallen in the past without an apocalypse. I guess the childlike mentality (US being so young in comparison to previous countries that had empires) may be the cause. Much like a childish tantrum.
@slygeebee7575 well I guarantee you that won't be the case this time. We will make sure of that.
Thank you Professor!
Psychopaths may look extraordinarily sane, psychologically stable (unnaturally calm in fact) to the cluster B BLIND many, yet they are the pure evil *addition* of TRUE madness.
The greater influence they have....the greater harm will be done.
Remember that someone told you !
Good point!
The voice of reason!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Trump said he will overtax any BRICS countries who tries to adopt a new international coin. Sorry mate, too late for that.
Really? Like Wolff, you need to learn what the words mean. ( and get a hearing aid )
Our politicians are totally insane.
Palestinians don' t have to share anything, their land was occupied
This channel should be called "LifeNOTworthliving" all one word to make it modern
Right on!
Thanx a lot for your wise insights.All the best
I love this guy ❤🇿🇦
Not just these two wars. There are 56 ongoing conflicts, which is the highest number since World War II. 92 countries are involved in conflicts outside their borders.
Things really are simple. We either embrace a one world mentality where the entire world evolves together, or we embrace imperialism where all countries struggle to be the dominant country. As a race, we have been doing the latter for the past 500yrs. We have been through many wars. Our technology has advance, but our humanity has always lacked behind our technological advancement. Wars and invasions are inevitable when that happens. The more technological country takes advantage or takes over the weaker.
We need to advance as a race, not just technological, but also our humanity. Imperialism is one of those things that will get you somewhere, but quickly push you back to the dark ages if you are not careful. We need to stop being imperialistic, and be more humanitarian and socialistic.
Greed and power will never go away. Always has been and always will be. Animals have a better structure than humans.
No tankie. We will not embrace that. We will not embrace changing the global order or the rules or taking of the crown. We won't do that.
We? I'm no imperialist. Never owned land or means of producing. All I have are my hands. It's not people like you and me who are the problem
I luv this Guy no joke I salute you Sir
The people in all the small countries need to realise that the standard of living is much better in large countries, they need to put their differences aside and Unite as one larger country, much like the East African Federation is trying to do. The aim in the next 5-10 years should be to reduce the amount of countries in the world to about 20 and none by the end of the century. Humans can achieve so much more working together than we ever could while in conflict. How much stronger would a 4 nation Africa be? Or a 3 nation South America. One country in Central America. 2 middle eastern countries. 5 asian nation, 3 European countries. Lines on a map have held humanity back for too long. We can travel anywhere in the world in less then 24hrs. It’s time to erase the lines, they are obsolete.
what in the hell is the benefit of having such weapons if you are afraid to use them - otherwise pass them out so that everyone has equal footing .
WW3? I'm ok. I still have my 1950s school desk.
Duck and cover.
It already started
@@TacticalMayothey are pointlessly repositioning to mitigate the incoming adverse effects of climate change. They have all already lost the war. Nature won already.
Russia has been expanding its influence and territory since the end of WW2. Recently it invaded Chechnya twice, Georgia, Afghanistan, Czechoslovakia.
But we can not let our politicians loose face...right?
That happens with aging for most people.
Fear mongering on RUclips isn't productive, even if what you're saying is true. We need bold and precise action to save humanity.
As a Marxist, he has undermined U.S. education from the inside all his life, and now that he is past his "use by date" he begs for money to keep doing it.
Humans don't do precise...but it's easy to say, isn't it?
“The snow would just melt, the green Ukrainian grass would grow again and weave its carpet over the earth . . . The gorgeous sunrises would come again . . . The air would shimmer with heat above the fields and no more traces of blood would remain. Blood is cheap on those red fields and no one would redeem it.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The White Guard
And yet, in these most pivotal and crucially delicate times, who do we have at the helm from next January...??!! Oh jesus...
This is why narcissists should NEVER be allowed to rise into ANY position of power. EVER.
Such a grotesque waste of money.
Land and Trumps Tariffs will escalate war
Would like to know what Wolff thinks of Peter Zeihan's claim that China's demographics will bring it to its knees in short order.
thanks
I’m looking forward to it...peace is overrated.
WTF
Very catchy title. Scare them all, and they will watch your videos.
Great take. Let Putin have everything, 🤦
If by everything, you mean five, formerly Ukranian oblasts, filled with ethnic Russians, then yeah, everything.
@philhubb5885
You know all of them personally, eh? Nothing occurred that made the land go to Ukraine? Your cool with it when dictators just, accidentally, leave their military squatting places while people die by the tens of thousands. The same dictators that are so good at showing restraint?
In the history of the world there has never been a population in any country anywhere that held for a majority the opinion their country should go to war.
It's always exclusively a handful of "leaders" who don't care how many of their people they have to sacrifice if only they have a chance to get more power.
It wasn't Napoleon losing his life in the battle field, it was the French soldiers.
If you inserted the last supply of oil,instead ,(France now has no oil left on its soil,etc, the us has more holes on its land than the rest of the world combined
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Good as far as it goes, but doesn't go nearly far enough and we're running out of time: it's utterly divorced from ecological awareness.
I agree with almost everything Richard say. However, I think it's time to stop referring to leading countries, dominant countries great countries etc. It's individuals that make the difference good or bad. It's individuals that set the examples for better or for worse. It's individuals that can be good or bad leaders. It's not about race, or the country they lead. For decades the west has bad individuals leading and/or in positions of power.
Individualism is certainly valuable, but you might want to cultivate a sociological imagination to help you understand the position of Marxists like Dr. Wolff. You don't have to believe it, but there are many argument out there as to the value of such thinking over atomized individualism. See the sociologist C. Wright Mills.
@@SomeCajunDude I think you are missing my point. To suggest I don't have a sociological imagination from one comment I've made, suggests that you may want to cultivate more logic before leaping to conclusions.
@@BAROMETERONE I stand by my claim (which speaks directly to the inadequacy of individualistic framing) based on your comments, the only metric of you I possess. It is illogical to act offended over a minor suggestion drawn from a single data point. Acting offended rather than engaging the ideas suggests you are unfamiliar with Mills' work on the sociological imagination. But, please, I am amenable to a robust defense of my position if you are interested in doing the same for yours.
Claim: You have not cultivated a sociological imagination.
Data pt 1: You said, " It's individuals that make the difference good or bad." If you think this, you have not cultivated a sociological imagination.
Data pt 2: You said, "It's individuals that can be good or bad leaders." If you think this, you have not cultivated a sociological imagination.
Data pt 3: You said, "It's not about race, or the country they lead." If you think this, you have not cultivated a sociological imagination.
Warrant: A sociological imagination allows you to see individuals as neither good nor bad, but as material actors who are shaped by their environments.
Counter-argument and rebuttal: No individual is fully determined by their environment in the end and possess the ability to change. However, the ability to change is also culturally specific and historically mutable.
Qualifier: This is based on one conversation.
If you have counter-evidence all you need do is lay it out logically, logic guy. I suggest the Toulmin model. Im sure you know it.
All people want to do is talk. No action. This is the cage we've been placed in. We can say what we want and complain while those with the means to act on their plans will continue doing so.
Using the logic of nuclear threat avoidance logic, the US *CAN* invade any country that they want as long as it's not another nuclear power because other countries will and cannot hold them responsible since they have nukes. China CAN take Taiwan and the Philippines. North Korea CAN take South Korea and Japan. Russia CAN take Ukraine and Poland and the Baltic and Turkey.
Do you see how useless the entire idea of nuclear threat avoidance is? Because any country that can make that threat can use that logic to say why nobody should stop them in their actions, whether it's taking neighboring countries or demanding things that the people living in those countries don't want to give. The only way to stop nuclear states from taking over every other countries in the world and then going to WW III is to make sure that there is repercussions for starting hot wars. The US did invade Iraq. Russia did invade Georgia. Both got away with it with barely a slap to the wrist, and that emboldened other countries to take more and more hostile actions.
People should be applauding the decision to escalate what is happening in Ukraine because *it still isn't a nuclear war yet*. And it won't as long as nuclear powers such as US, UK, France, and China are watching the situation and saying "Ok, you all had your wars, now go home and stop this or else." And do you know why? Because Ukraine is not the bottom line of *any* of those countries, so they have very little interest in taking the final step. Nor is it, contrary to popular propaganda, Russia's bottom line either - because Russia's bottom line is always going to be Putin and the FSB. As long as they're fine, they're not going to risk their own lives either.
Cool it professor Wolff! We are beginning to realise our oneness. Get together with francis Fukuyama. Together you can realise a new level of understanding
Perhaps The Competition Mind-set is The Issue 😮. ...No More Empires simply Do Good Business.. INTERNATIONALLY
is that Crazy Talk?😅
I was listening to what you had to say until you chimed in concerning China as the next global empire. It resonates with the concept that if someone says it enough it must be true. You ignore that their economy is in a shambles, their neighbors hate them, their people hate their government, they are dictators and those dictators have made completely stupid decisions. If anything the Chinese have come and gone as a nation unless their democratic cousins (Taiwanese) take the reigns of power and make a decent nation of the mainland. Communists as global dictators - you either are lazy or one yourself.
Wow, you are very incorrect. You may need to do a little background research before you assert such things. Where in gods name did you get the idea of the Chinese economy is in shambles? Hardly
"The US must become a leader in multi-lateral government!" he says, as the most uni-lateral administration prepares to take power. Yeah, good luck with that.
In exchange for Ukraine giving up it's nukes, the United States promised to aid them in case of invasion. Case closed.
We are involving our country and economy in the insanity and egotistical maniacs who believe in violence and stupid wars over issues that could easily be settled through honest negotiations based on love, mutual respect and true goal for peace.
when a rabid alligator comes to eat you, try to settle with it with love, mutual respect and all the other infantile babbling
@ 0:40 Every single war since the beginning of time has been fought over real estate (using religion as a scapegoat) and resources (using the idea of "freedom" as a scapegoat.) So yes, I believe people are willing to jeopardize everything over that. Are you kidding me? It's a tale as old as time.
The war's supposed to happen in the Middle East. So the Bible says the third and final third World War supposed to begin in the Middle East. Nocadamas said that and a few scholars well, white scholars anyway, said that whether was true, not, we don't know only time will tell.
if Blackrock has signed reconstruction agreements with Ukraine will Blackrock allow America not to defeat Russia
In Europe elections of countries borders elsewhere are not important. He's dead wrong on that point.
Eastern Europeans deleted hoomanity😮
GOD IS CALLING MANKIND TO HEAVEN.
Blueprint or Scramble ...
Scramble is more likely.
Royal Dutch Shell has studied this since the 1970s.
thx mate.
The accompanying visual track is often distracting and irrelevant to what Mr. Wolff is saying. What is the point? I would much rather wartch Mr. Wolff be on camera delivering his message.
greed rules the world.....eat the rich