Thom Hartmann: The Hidden History of Monopolies
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system--but we’ve broken the hold of behemoths like these before, author Thom Hartmann says, and we can do it again.
In this livestreamed presentation, Hartmann shares how he believes monopolies threaten our systems and economy, and the damage that they have done to so many industries and individuals, pulling from his new book The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream. He explores America’s long history of trust busting, taking us from the birth of the nation as a revolt against monopoly, to the largely successful efforts of both Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and other like-minded leaders to restrain corporations’ monopolistic urges, to the massive changes in the rules of business starting during the Reagan years. Join Hartmann as he explores the current challenges we face, and what common sense measures we might engage in to retake control from monopolists.
Thom Hartmann is a progressive nationally and internationally syndicated talk show host and bestselling author of 24 books, including The Hidden History of the War on Voting and The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment, which he has previously discussed at Town Hall. Before his radio program, Hartmann was an entrepreneur and humanitarian for nearly three decades.
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Educating people, some who aren’t interested in changing, is a full time job, educating is a art, your a great artist, thank you Thom
Wow, I never knew what a totally brilliant writer Thom Hartmann is ... I have read his book on Oligarchy and now into the Monopoly book ... such articulate and organized and well written ... absolutely beautiful! Thank you for your great work Thom Hartmann.
If he writes like he talks then just his cognitive bias.
He's " PROFESSOR X"!! 😆...FOR ALL US ADHD- POSITIVE " MUTANTS"!!- in many ways!! It's an ADHD' ERS " BIBLE"==" THE EDISON GENE: (ADHD-- Understanding the Gift of the HUNTER CHILD)- Thom (- Prof. Xavier!) Hartman!!
I just read them all over the last week and I am spreading the word about them on all the major news outlets using the comments. I have always known these things to be true but could never quite put my finger on the winds and house. This man has saved my life and quite possibly save the lives of our countrymen
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Books are good ... his show sucks.
He is too smart to have 1 minute chats with people on the phone and always agree with them and then move on before any real depth or discussion happens ... also, in his chat the mods delete people like they are Nazi commanders or something. I am done with Hartmann. Thankful for his good books, but no more Leftist Lite hypocrisy for me.
@@Uncommon5en5e Hear, hear.
Sir Thom.
Brilliant guy.
Fascinating mind & memory.
Thanks for this post.
All the best in the new year, 2021.
A guest faculty member at Goddard College in Vermont, he also synthesized the "Younger/Older Culture model" for describing the underpinnings - and possible solutions - to the world's ecological and socio-political crises, suggesting that many of our problems are grounded in cultural "stories" which go back thousands of years.
Leonardo DiCaprio was inspired by Thom's book "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" to make the movie "The 11th Hour" (in which Thom appears), and a series of environmental videos narrated by Hartmann and DiCaprio, available at Green World Rising.
Talkers Magazine named Thom Hartmann as the most important progressive talk show host in America for the past decade, and for three of the past five years the #1 most important progressive host, in their "Heavy Hundred" ranking. His radio show is syndicated on for-profit radio stations nationwide by WYD Media, on non-profit and community stations nationwide by Pacifica, across the entire North American continent on SiriusXM Satellite radio, on cable systems nationwide by Cable Radio Network (CRN) and Free Speech TV, on its own RUclips channel, via subscription podcasts, worldwide through the US American Forces Network, and through the Thom Hartmann App in the App Store. The radio show is also simulcast as TV in realtime into nearly 60 million US and Canadian homes by the Free Speech TV Network on Dish Network, DirectTV, and cable TV systems nationwide.
@@johnorosz7477 like his buddy Joe, if he ran the country he would run it into the ground.
Dr. Hartmann is a great thinker and author. Did you know“sir” or “dame” are honorifics reserved for people knighted by a monarch, which he isn’t, and we don’t have? The founders thought it was so important they ruled that anyone who was a “Sir” could not be president, without giving up their allegiance to whatever crown gave it.
This was a great presentation and discussion! Thank you so much for sharing!
For about 15 years now I have been calling the screw job we Americans are getting with higher prices and terrible service a PRIVATE TAX ... and Thom is the only one I have ever heard describe it in the same way! This is all money that should have been going to the government or staying in our pockets but ends up in Oligarch's overseas hidden bank accounts. Thom for President!
Hahaha redtape & sales tax increase 30 yrs that socialism policy
AMEN!!
Yes! And if I understand correctly, a bunch goes overseas (China) for manufacturing. I’ve been saying the thing about how you take any exit off any highway and it’s all the same businesses all over the country. So true. Yes Thom for Prez!!
I mostly agree with you, but our FED government doesn't need our money - it is the only legal source of every dollar that's ever been spent or saved. WE need THEM to spend money into existence for us to have any. Remember, the public sector's red ink is the private sector's black ink.
@@RuinDweller
How the system works and the Fed and all that are a mystery. I know lots of people who think they understand it all, but not really sure they do, and it doesn't matter when the majority of the people are in the dark about it and just let happen whatever the bankers and oligarchs want. It's not the government or the system that is the problem - it is the corruption of it and the corrupt people in it. That's my take on it. Any system can work, and even improve in the hands of well-meaning people.
Thanks for keeping this available.
I'm fascinated with Thom's grasp of American history, especially his contemporaneous accounts & observations within his own life. His narrative resonates with me because I come from the same place and time, although I'm 3 years older. Michigan had a very distinct culture then because it still had a leftover economy from its massive role in arming the Allies in World War 2. Unions were strong but slowly waning after the 50's there, and the economy was based on some of the most advanced technology with a strong presence in Engineering and Manufacturing, a rich technocracy. GM was the biggest, richest company in the world, my dad was a foreman in their Grand Rapids Plant. Growing up there was a fairly sophisticated experience.
When Thom mentioned Route 66, I immediately related to his description! Both the show and the actual highway, I adored! I wouldn't miss the adventures on road trips in a Corvette on TV, and revered Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica. Wow, *California!* One day... In 1961, my mom & dad planned a trip to California to check out the job situation to alleviate the pains of recession in Michigan. Also, my sisters had moved to LA two years earlier, so they had to visit them too. I begged them repeatedly to take me out of school to join them, and they relented. I was very excited! So we went on a magnificent road trip down *Route 66!* It was as Thom describes it, a journey thru Americana in its westward development of monopolies encroaching on lands from a previous century in the beautiful American West, glorious scenery spotted with genuine Indian hogans and crafts stands. Wow! Some real nostalgia of times that were a-changin', making history in America on Route 66. In 1962, our new home was in what became Silicon Valley!
Big government kills private sector = less jobs private sector
SIMKiNETICS: Your story is a very interesting jump back into history. Thank you for sharing that.
TO THE EDITORS: Is this channel being censored? If not, what happened to the first response to this article? Thanks for responding.
Thom Hartmann records the kind of history that scares the hell out of bigots and billionaires!
I'm buying Thom's books. Thanks for this!
Propaganda and cognitive bias filled. If the book is filled with what he speaks.
No thanks. I have my own mind to think with and make decisions with.
God gives this to us if we choose it.
@@cammontreuil7509 Good luck with that.
WoW... I had to take a short break from watching this video to say this. I'm just 13 minutes into the video and I have already learned more in those thirteen minutes than I've learned or heard in the last, let's say, 30-40 years... and I'm only talking about things I thought I knew! These days only Thom Hartmann manages to truly surprise me with anything! So before I proceed with watching the rest of the video (my second video with Thom Hartmann, in two days, on this channel!:), first I subscribed to this channel finally :) and second, after this video, time for me to search and and start buying Thom's books! THANK YOU !
You sir are so correct. I'm glad Thom Has stepped up against the forces with his "Hidden History of..." Series. I have started my list of his books to get from the library.
US citizens think we're so advanced. It's laughable. I lived in Italy a few years ago, traveled extensively throughout Western Europe. The costs of so many things are greatly cheaper, plus they don't pay directly for healthcare, which gives its citizens longer & healthier lives than we have in the US. I had a spacious condominium for $600, $15 monthly for unlimited cell service, can't remember cost of Internet (which was fabulous, never went down), but it was cheap. Gasoline costs are higher, but autos are much smaller and economical. My home energy costs were cheap, too. There are so many choices for all services... no monopolies. WAKE UP, PEOPLE! AS THOM SAYS, WE'RE BEING MASSIVELY RIPPED OFF!
When I buy shoes for my kids I’m forced to lay out an extra 8% in sales tax. Why then do the billions of dollars traded DAILY not taxed as sales?
Fantastic info
I briefly spoke to Thom at a book signing. I asked him what he thought of ranked-choice voting. His answer was that it is the only thing that will save our system.
As a subject it shouldn't be that complicated, but perhaps it's just above the level of 'obvious' that would make people realize how much more the pay and how much less they get when systems of (near or true) monopoly begin to dominate the economy.
Indeed it's pretty darn simple; methinks the problem is many people have an even more simplistic view of the economy that gets in the way of seeing that. Lots of people seem to think about it as if it were all small-scale local businesses. The traditional narrative says that, e.g: if the only store in town were ripping off their customers, an enterprising person would open another shop charging fair prices, forcing the original one to lower their prices or go out of business. They fall for it because the internal logic does make sense and is a neat and tidy argument...they just don't consider that it's an incomplete model that ignores things like the economy of scale, initial investment cost, &c. that make it completely unrealistic. Especially in today's globalized, automated world.
@@FarnhamJ07 You are exactly correct, the model taught in classical economics is deeply, deeply flawed. It states as given (assumptions) that everyone has perfect information, and markets always tend towards equilibrium (perfect competition the opposite of monopoly). It boggled my mind as an undergraduate student to learn that you would just "assume" everything is great about capitalism in the model ... because if you don't it becomes obvious how just how ugly it gets... which is the actual vs theoretical.
@@DanMacCheeseburger Yeah. The first thing evil greed does is redefine the playing field and rules.
@@mtn1793 Yes it does, and ironically, the existence of 'evil greed' is also tossed out of the classical economic model as an assumption. It stuns me that I so often hear the use of the word 'successful' when reading of Billionaires acquiring mega-yachts and building rockets so they can take a day trip to space. Redefinition indeed.
another great Hartmann book.
We ARE Being TRACKED !
Thom sure knows his stuff-a breath of truth in a sea of lies.
Brilliant!
Thanks 😊
$150 for my internet in Chicago, $99 for my cell service.
Just curious, how come no one ever talks about the effect the trillion dollars worth of financial "remittances" to other countries that leave our country every year through banks like Wells Fargo have on our economy? I mean isn't that as bad as WalMart sending money to China?
Move...Mega City MaDness..
I'm an expat in Sweden and pay 30 bucks a month for 5 gigabit
Monopolies
First of all, thanks for broached the subject of monopolies.
Here are my remarks, in addition to your thoughts.
There has been a massive transfer over the past 10 years of wealth from employees in sectors under
competition to employees in public sectors (police, firefighters, army, education, health)
Productivity in goods is increasing and will increase, but wages will not.
Productivity in services will increase in competitive sectors but not in the public sector.
What are the 10 monopolies sectors?
the cities,towns,the states,the supplier of water, gas and electricity,
the body that collects your waste (solid and liquid),Security,health ,education that allows entry into monopoly sectors
My point is that the industrial sector has succeeded in bringing productivity by applying
ingenious production methods.There are no big gains to be expected for the next 50 years, the labor has been widely done.
We cannot say the same for the publics services (municipal, government, police, firefighters,teachers, army ...)
Time to privatize the municipal services, by setting up a competition (several fire departments, police, ...)
Putting competition in monopoly services is the source of prosperity for the next 100 years.
an opinion ?
here are two links to animate the arguments
ruclips.net/video/dy0HTfCcgS4/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/5rLNT0EHaSA/видео.html
You forgot about the greatest monopoly of all, which is the private central banking systems.
@@stevenberge4238 You lower the level of exchange through the intervention of a socialist ideologist. Do you know AR, WGS, MF, FH, FB?When a Wise Man Points to the Moon, The Fool Looks at the Finder ( banking system)I remind you that thanks to the banking system and its efficiency you have the lowest interest rates since Jesus Christ!
@@fern8580 Have you ever wondered what interest rates we would charge ourselves if the central bank was public? I wonder if we would crash the economy so we would have to borrow money from ourselves so we could pay ourselves interest. See below for more.
Always, follow the money!
The Boston Tea Party: a million dollar act of vandalism... ain't it COOL??
Wow very thought provoking stuff great job
Many of the activities of the last two years l believe are strongly associated with monopolistic practices. And the politicians are still dancing
I my Mom and stepfather, mother 8 months pregnant with my younger sister drove from Ohio to Hermosa Beach Calif. on Rt 66 in moms brand new 60 baby blue W/t white leather seats convertible caddy. We watched the Kennedy/ Nixon debate on the motel TV at the Sea Sprite Motel on the Strand..
The East India Company was formed by Queen Elizabeth 1st (The Virgin Queen) in 1600 some 2019 years before Victoria became Queen and so it was in fact George 3rd who was King When Washington became President and he was king during the War of Independence and the Seven Years War when he sent troops to protect American towns which were being attacked from Canada by the French and their Indian allies. Americans tend to overlook that detail and its costs to Britain protecting American livelihoods.
oops 219 years not 2019 lol.
Sure , Washington was really just a British seditionist .
Best Interests in Protection ..
Who cares? Things change, don't they? Dear old Georgie wouldn't let us print our own script, so we teamed up with the French & the Indians. We were a bunch of rag-tags and they were the Great British Army, conqueror of many, and we won. Bummer deal.
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Excellent
I am really confused. Other than the constant "WE" and "THEM" references, (I watched other videos too) saying that capitalism has nothing to do with monopolies or "oligopoly" or oligopolies, is very contradictory to me. Because as soon as limitations get set on free business and competition it can technically be called socialism. (Simply put, and I know nothing is simple, like "we and them".)
Only Bernie would take on the monopolies!!! And we've seen how the Democratic Party treats him!!!
Is it any wonder one of America's most venerated and historic social club [Yale's Skull 🏴☠️ Bones] adopted a pirate's standard as their brand?
With global reach, the monopolies have another lever: politicians, do what we say or we take more jobs overseas. Of course after awhile that’s less of a lever as the jobs are gone already, nothing more to plunder. It still works though: you want us to create jobs in your region? Play by our rules then. How the whole world became the 3rd world could be a next book.
It's so bad that nobody talks about the biggest monopoly on the planet. Those are the private central banking schemes that are the only entities on earth that can print all of most nations currencies. People buy the crap about the richest people being Besos, Gates, etc. Imagine the power to create all of a countries money. That money is free to them, and they charge interest on it. Now imagine how wealthy those central bank owners are. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. Only special invited people are allowed to buy the stock of the central banks! They should be nationalized and every citizen gets an equal share in the people's central bank. The increase or decrease of money supply could be tied to the increase or decrease in population.
How much has the cost of governments increased since 1966?
It's called economic rent. Free markets are supposed to be free of economic rents.
We are getting screwed and tattooed !!
Not getting paid please understand appreciate contact (getting CERTIFIED)
How I used to put, drive down any main street in the USA at night, and they all look the same. You'll see the same fast food chains, the same big box stores, the same gas station chains, same lodging choices, etc that we've all become familiar with through advertising.
I did not know that the president could tell the Justice dept to stop prosecuting anti trust laws.
Not Can...They DO!!!
While I appreciate your presentation, I think you might recheck the costs of the internet in France...no one I know there pays the small amount you are suggesting....double that is closer to the mark
As an entrepreneur, he's (Thom Hartman) founded several successful businesses which still are operating, and lived and worked with his wife, Louise, and their three (now adult) children on several continents. He was born and grew up in Michigan, and retains strong ties to the Midwest, although he and Louise have lived in New Hampshire, Vermont, Georgia, Germany, Washington DC, and Oregon.
@@johnorosz7477 Jeez , are you gonna publish that?
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Ranked choice voting and other policies must be implemented somehow
That's silly. Comcast cannot see every key stroke.
Dear Mr Hartmann I recommend that you read the Russian book Dunno on the Moon ("Neznayka na Lune", "Незнайка на Луне"). There is a story about how Dunno's (Незнайки) friend (named Donut "Пончик") created a salt business. Then oligarchs and monopolists appeared, who began dumping small businesses. Highly recommend. You will think that this book is leftist propaganda. Yes and no. It's just reality. Reality for Russia and for the whole world. Sad, sad reality.
We have been sold down the river by our politicians for the oligarchs benefit. What are we going to do about it? Sit around and talk about it? Do nothing? Put up with it forever? I'm waiting.
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only one monopo lies 1913 the fed all else bread circus smoke and mirrors
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Hartman is a great example of a person who has a massively myopic outlook which causes him to make biased judgements by being emotionally driven rather than being driven by the facts he ignores.
The example here is his view that totally ignores the biggest monopolies in the economy which is governments themselves where you have little or no choice to opt out of be it local, State or Federal government which taxes to get it's income.
It illustrates the underlying hypocrisy in stated beliefs which he portrays as fair and reasonably but in reality is just massive bias.
Rob, are you a Libertarian by chance?
@@scottgrohs5940 I don't know what you mean by Libertarian? Spell it out.
I also ask you what you believe in ? Rule by threat? Rule by democracy? Nepotism?.
Just what do you believe about human rights to self determination?
45:33 "Liberals can't be christians", Jesus was literally a socialist. He was also pro immigration, among other things... It should be "conservatives can't be Christians".
Against monopolies but he's a lap dog to the Military-Industrial-Media complex. Does not compute.
Mittens! Fucking Bain Capital
Need contact information have progressiveness to offer
Answer: “You can’t be a liberal Christian… like Jesus was”.
You show a young picture of him in the thumbnail? Fake news or catfishing?
Ha! That’s all you got?!
Thanks 😊