Why are people hoarding toilet paper? | Hans Hacker | TEDxUAMonticello
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- In the midst of the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, many grocery shelves are empty because of mass hoarding and panic buying. In this enlightening talk, political scientist Dr. Hacker explains that the problem is not incivility, but our social perspective. In this crisis, "winner take all" means taking all the toilet paper and supplies and leaving none for your neighbor. Framing the problem as types of games, he advocates abandoning the zero-sum mentality and adopting a collective attitude. Dr. Hans J. Hacker is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Arkansas State University where he teaches constitutional law and civil rights jurisprudence. His research has been the basis for two columns in the New York Times, and a segment on CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow. His publications include Seasonal Effective Disorder: Clerk Training and the Success of Supreme Court certiorari Petitions (with William D. Blake and Shon R. Hopwood, Law & Society Review,2015), The Brooding Spirit of the Law (with William D. Blake, Justice Systems Journal, 2010), The Culture of Conservative Christian Litigation (Roman and Littlefield, 2005), and various articles and publications in the areas of constitutional law, law and society and public administration. Dr. Hacker’s current research focuses on innovative teaching techniques in undergraduate public law curricula, and the contrasting values of American Pragmatism and modern rights doctrines. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Bro, that's my dad! im so proud.
that’s epic
Cool dad!
Aww hi Dad!!
Sophie I’m proud of your dad too!!
(Sophie -> from the Greek for wisdom/ knowledge)
Good for you, and him. Best to both of you. Take care, stay safe......and leave a roll for the rest of us. 😎
This whole crisis feels like a massive human experiment which we are failing.
@Lance Hewison
OMG!!! I said the same thing to a few people. That would be so cruel. I know for fact they are gathering data as to what sells & what doesn't in a crisis. 🤔
Haven't you come across Event 201
Yeah an experiment by the Chinese
Chinese were expoeting like crazy - are thet really gonna crash the economy
Yes - this does feel like an experiment. But I think we are failing as human beings but we are behaving exactly as the "experimenters" believed we would.
He speaks to an empty auditorium. In a way, that enhances his main point.
Dude's isolated AF!
A lady in the line next to me at a 99Cents store, gave me her package of toilet paper, when she saw that I walked over to the tp display and it was empty. She said she didn't want to be a horder. Human kindness, given freely to a stranger.
It's really hard to speak to no audience. Well done.
I was actually surprised that the the entire auditorium was empty. Then again, social distancing. I applaud the team for the effort just to educate us online viewers.
BEAUTIFULLY SAID! People we must realize we are a COLLECTIVE and without others...we simply don't exist in life as we know it. Give it up for people like this man speaking to an audience of empty chairs for the common interest if humanity as a collective. This was awesome!!!!!
Because most of the western world has not yet discovered the wonders of washing their assess off with water.
I don't have a bidet but have used soap and water for years and years. You can wet toilet paper and still use it.
Yep
I supposed that is much more common amongst societies that treat their rivers etc. as toilets...
@@NadaVerse nah people have plumbing and water treatment but not paper. it's more like metal forks vs. disposable chopsticks. one way you waste trees the other you don't
@@NadaVerse japan? nah bro
I'll be honest. I bought some toilet paper in anticipation of what was coming. I bought ONE 18 roll pack people.... ONE. I bought it 2 weeks sooner than I normally would have... but it was only ONE. Ok guys?
I also bought 2 bottles of hand sanitizer and left some on the shelf. This was more than I usually buy, but I bought just two. I didn't rent a freaking U-haul, get my brother to help me, and buy out all grocery stores (and non-grocery stores that carry it) in half my state (like a certain someone did recently).
When you run out, you will have wished you had bought more.
@@fernarias That's the mindset that lead to this catastraphie
Perditus Thornatus2 Then you should divide what remaining toilet paper you have left between every American and mail it ASAP.
@@FieryFighter What led to this catastrophe is communism and a biological weapon.
Perditus Thornatus2 you did well
Stop hoarding TP people!!! just wait few months because the way they are printing money there will be plenty TP to go around.
lol
🤣
This. LOL
@@briarrose29 what plan? I had two cases when people started to hoard. Do you planned to have no tp for half a year?
They're always printing money. No, it won't become TP. You'd be much better off buying rubles for that purpose.
To build a fortress to protect my hand sanitiser.
OMG - this is the funniest thing I've heard in ages. Kudos!
Of toilet paper
Fear. That's it, nothing else. People just begin running around with no idea where they are going. If you ever been in even a small earthquake people just start running with no where to go.
@C T I don't think the hoarders see it that way.
The hoarders actually just think for themselves and their family
@C T At the root of all disconnection IS fear.
The same thing happens when I spray fire ant mounds with ant killer. It's kind of like watching MSDNC... they attack everything angrily... except themselves, of course. Which I guess is one way you can tell the Democrats and MSM are largely from the same nest.
@@iloveamerica1966 I am not a democrat so I can see the following: both the Leadership of both parties are Millionaires so both are looking out for their people. It is no happenstance that neither believe everyone deserves medical care nor proper education. Neither believe the general population should have access to the American dream. Living wages, home, and a decent life style. No matter if you work two or three jobs, rent or mortgage are unattainable. Go Team!
I had to smile at Leroy Jenkins. At least he got his chiken.
I hope their can be a follow-up to this talk. He identified what the problem was (bad actors) and explained why we are producing/becoming them as a society (affluence to individualism to self-isolation/silo-ing/disconnection). But he did not provide his thoughts on how does a society shift over to feeling apart of a collective game. This is arguably the most crucial piece of the puzzle.
I agree, I would appreciate hearing more from him.
@C T Except that, there are still a few who don't get it... There are some stories about teens/college students partying together on the beach for spring break...
That’s what it feels like - like being at a dinner party and everyone is knocking each other over grabbing the last dessert but there’s a whole cake in the kitchen.
where's the cake? where's the kitchen?
@@orangewarm1 Well, it's more like a few people are grabbing ALL the desserts, many more than they could need or want, and people who were in the other room helping with the coffee came out to find no desserts, no sugar, no plates, no flour, no bread, nothing! Better yet, make that the main course, and the rest were left to starve. Thanks a lot, greedy people!
What?
Plot twist. There’s no kitchen or other dessert.
@@nocollarcrypto8851 There we are!
“And I, am speaking to a room of empty chairs” got me off guard and I’m dead
Lol I just listened to that line, headed straight for the comments
Actxve what’s with that random comma after I
stancexpunks because he paused
I too was totally shocked when he said that.
yep, social distancing
After this lecture, the professor went to the bathroom and there was not one square to spare.
😅🤣😂♥️
Can you spare a square? No, I can't spare a square...
:D
Great talk and amazing it wasn’t obvious he was speaking to an empty room. We are here though-thank you from the world.
FYI: there is some info left out about the chap that was punching the airline seat of the woman in front of him. She reclined her seat during mealtime, he asked her to wait until he finished his food - she waited five minutes and then reclined fully, spilling his food an drink all over him. He was over 6 feet tall and had a seat at the rear bulkhead that didn’t recline. I’m not taking sides, but y’all should know the facts.
Ah. Thanks for putting this out here.
Indeed. Thank you. So, writing the talk was like trying to hit a moving target. I was editing it up until the night before. And, it’s hard to memorize all the changes in a few hours. I forgot part and left out my entire point about that story! Just forgot it. The airline is the bad actor because it created the context in which both people behave badly, by jamming as many people into each flight as possible to maximize profits. I wish I had known what you’ve added to the story because it actually illustrates the point! Zero sum games hide the bad actor! Thank you for your comment.
@@TheHackHJ Yep, even though this point was missed, I understood what you're trying to put forth. Hope that's the way with everyone else. A very good talk nevertheless.
@@TheHackHJ One more thing, there is a comment on here my Markus A. That's a very valid question and I want to know the answer. Could you please take a look at that?
@@TheHackHJ How exactly is the airline the bad actor? At one point in time the seats were larger. People wanted cheaper and cheaper tickets. New budget airlines came out and offered less of everything, including space for a lower price. People bought that. Airlines still offer business and first class seating for those that want to pay more not to be treated like chattel. When enough people play the zero sum game and buy the lower ticket, you get the conditions that lead to that fight. The airlines that played the collective game went out of business. There are many bad actors that lead to those conditions. The airline simply had to react or go out of business. Thinking that it is always the business fault is dissociative behavior.
But you didn't adress the main question: Why TOILET PAPER out of all things? It's not like all the canned food is disappearing first? WHY TOILET PAPER? I feel like I'm talking CRAZY PILLS HERE! Is nobody else noticing how weird it is? TOILET PAPER? You're adressing why people are hording in general, which is more understandable. But TOILET PAPER? Compared to food it's the least necessary purchase in a pandemic! It makes no sense. Why is nobody answering this question? I'm so angry...
Pretty sure people thought that most toilet paper comes from China and hat it would run out since china wasn't making any? Then it just spread over the world
Because the idea of cleanliness has gotten through, a lot more people are wiping their asses
Waw. This is actually a brilliant question to ask. Dang it, I totally couldn't see it this way and now I'm interested!
I don't know either but it seems to be comfort and control. As people losing both, including what they were able to do, TP is the only thing and comfort they don't want to run out of. I still don't get why they need 5 years worth of supplies but it's TP on sale for the foreseeable future which I'm not against.
My guess is it started with one person going nuts and buying all the toilet paper. Then everyone else panicked and started doing the same. Others have also mentioned we've been told to avoid going out for weeks so people are going to need a lot more than they did previously. Whereas I spent most of my day at work, I would have been using their toilet paper most of the time. Now I'm home all day so I'm using my own supply. What is strange though is most of the food supply has gone back to normal but kleenex, paper towels, and toilet paper are still 100% gone. lol
Great and very illuminating talk! Hopefully a lot of people watch this and realize that the bad actors are trying to get us to fight among ourselves instead of fixing the source of our problems, them.
This is what a Leader looks like. Take notes.
This is the best time to give TED Talks if you are an introvert
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It’s so eerie hearing no applause after these Ted Talks are over...
I own a moderate house values around 240, 000until some kids toilet papered it the other night taxman came by and now it's worth 850,000
You should have posted your house on the market
For the amount of toilet paper being hoarded, this video should have waaaaay more views.
The ONLY reason I was FORCED to go to the store was due to all the panic buying people did.
Heath Ledger Joker was correct. Our civility is a sham. Once the "system" breaks down, it's every man for themself.
ALT3REDB3AST These so called “civilized people,” when the chips are down, they’ll eat each other.
We have the Virus and didn’t need any extra toilet paper. (Didn’t buy extra btw). We did get soup and dried beans! Thankful because we are on day 10 of our lockdown, can’t go out. We are posting daily up dates. Stay in, stay safe and think about helping others!!! This is a great opportunity to reset!!!!
Love your neighbor..
Scarier than buying up all the TP it the fact that the guns stores in my town have sold all of the guns. Yipes!
Indeed. I have no issue with responsible gun ownership, but people buying up weapons out of panic thinking that they're going to be Rambo if some looter breaks in do make me worry.
To many dystopian stories and fear mongering added to a lack of critical thinking. Now we see many competing for a Darwin award at the cost of other's lives. Stay in, stay well and flatten the curve. 👍💕
@@randomstuff-qu7sh getting tired of hearing the word panic. A 3 month supply of food and water is not hoarding, and buying a weapon after the police have said they're not going to answer 9-1-1 calls, it's just good common sense boss.
@@katiehettinger7857 you use some fancy words and phrases there girl, but... well my comment is for you too.
@@randomstuff-qu7sh - So uhh, don't go breaking in to Rambo's place.. Problem solved. No need to worry.
your not talking to a empty room,your talking to the world
People in a state of fear default to base emotions/actions: buying stuff. It’s how they’ve been trained. Worker/consumers or ideologues of any kind are linear thinkers.
This pandemic has highlighted for me what a greedy , selfish species we are ,how ultimately the only way we will beat this is thinking of others when we buy food, and only get what we need for a week say, my hope is the greedy people will realise like the decent amongst us, collaboration wins the day.
Wearing a mask is for the benefit of others. It is so obvious now what % of the population is selfish and unwilling to help others, just a little bit. Just look around when you go out.
Leaning your chair back is never cool 😎
It was the two people in the plane lacked the skills and patience to negotiate a mutually solution. Perhaps they where both distraught and out come of their mutual
we are disconnected from ourself thats why we are disconnected from others
Good job the internet was invented then.
You mean disconnected from how much toilet paper we use...
Speak for yourself. I happen to be connected to me.😂
@@stacyjaye6350 thats why you speak like that coz you are sooo connected to yourself.
We are disconnected from each other that's why we are hoarding toilet paper?
I finally learned where the whole LEEERRROOOYYY JEEEEENNNKIIIINNNSSS thing comes from.
Watch the video on it. I was laughing even when rewatching it
@@linegrunt55 Sounds like a waste of time to me.
The only people who could possibly down vote this are probably hoarding toilet paper.
I down voted it because it plays into the idea that if I go to a store right now and buy a month’s worth of toilet paper for my family of 5 I will be demonized as a hoarder when in fact we always buy toilet paper a month at a time. The only people who could possibly like this are probably regretting not being more prepared for hard times.
@@nocollarcrypto8851 good for you. my theory is also that it is not so much people hoarding it's just that everyone bought at the same time. And yeah, I have three month supply of food and water laid in. Not worried about toilet paper though. I was in the Army for 8 years lol that was often a luxury. I'm like figure it out people hahaha.☮️💖 Staying home in Tulsa, Oklahoma🇺🇲👢
@@nocollarcrypto8851 I do not believe the intent was to somehow demonize you for purchasing the supply you need as you normally do. Over the last four years I have also amassed a good supply of necessities such as food and toiletries and cleaning supplies simply because such is my habit. I try to keep a minimum of 3 to 5 weeks worth of frozen or canned foods simply because it is my habit to make sure that for whatever reason I may be unable to resupply (a fine example is the current crisis), I will be fine for at least a month. Of course, I grew up pretty poor and my mother was an ex-military wife with PX privileges and five children. We went to the base for PX shopping once a month and got everything we needed to not starve for at least 30 days. She bought half gallon cartons of whole milk and put them in the "deep" freezer to keep them from spoiling before the end of the month. All my siblings learned how to not go hungry and to plan and to be frugal from her and our situation. It is still my habit over 50 years later.
I know Dr Hacker well as I consider him to be one of my two very best friends. I know his intent was not to demonize anyone, but to simply offer an explanation from the social science perspective of the current situation. He surely was not trying to point a finger or pass judgement on any particular person, and certainly not without knowing the individual circumstance that anyone is facing. Just trying to explain an anomaly we can all see in the social fabric that binds us all as one group of humans trying to keep the whole group going and supporting that fabric and those humans as a whole group. Of course, he said it far more eloquently than I, but that is why he gets those "big bucks" they so generously lavish upon professors in public universities (can you hear the sarcasm in that last statement? I wish there was a sarcasm font!) I am quite certain he did not intend to offer any slight to you personally or otherwise contribute to any demonizing of anyone, except for maybe those zero sum game players we all know and even then not individually, particularly, or otherwise personally identifiable! [For more on my love and use of the Oxford comma please see O'Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy, No. 16-1901 (1st Cir. 2017)] :-)
I don’t think either of you watched the video.
@@nocollarcrypto8851 There is no toilet paper shortage. If people continued buying toilet paper as they normally do as you say you are then every one would have plenty of toilet paper. 100,000,000 people or more (mostly white people) panicked and went way outside of there normal purchasing. Even if every American had bought 3 or 4 times as much TP as normal we should have plenty. There are millions of irrational freaks out there.
One has to wonder why you are so defensive that you downvote a video and then respond to a comment. If you are just buying the same amount of toilet paper you always buy it wasn't about you at all. The fact that you take offense and act like it is offensive that someone encourages cooperation over selfishness it really says something about you.
thank you for an enlightening talk. Your audience is much more than the seats in front of you. Be safe!
I applaud Hans with both of my hands silently waving. Bravo!
😌well spoken Hans Sensei what a way to turn those eyes 👁️👁️ inward! Standing ovation, applause!!
This man put into words what I've believed for a long time. There is a small cadre of psychopaths who know how to divide us in a way that we're all competing against one another, while worshipping the people who are actually destructive. People have to open their eyes and see who's really the problem, so that those people no longer derive power from us all.
Well said! On a second note, it took me 8 mins to notice the red books where an X
My "easy" explanation (as this happend to some degree everywhere around the world) was people buy things they were told to have stocked at home for any kind of system breakdown.(And as we have lots of strange people who even buy the shops empty if there's a long weekend or a holiday, just as if the shops close for weeks this was just the same) With toilet paper specifically my guess was: if there's a shortage of food, the authorities will try to avoid starving and feed the people (at least in my country this would be the case) but nobody expects them to provide toilet paper... Or the shorter one: maybe they mistook the symptoms of a flu with the symptoms of stomach flu...
The airline IS the bad actor. So are shopping centers with tiny parking places that their customers and their customers' Insurance companies are paying out loads of money in deductibles and repair claims because the merchants want to pack a few more cars into the lot.
I almost got upset when I didn't hear anyone clap. HAHA
I have seen the cold shoulder of inhumanity and sometimes it was mine.
Plo8monster
Well put, and so true for each of us.
But, we can offer a (figurative, for now) warm handshake instead of the cold shoulder going forward.
I love that in apocalypse movies, when the survivor is running past stacks of money lying on the street. A massive reserve of money is only useful when you have someone to lord it over or when you can punish people for having less than you. I still don't see how having toilet paper can be considered a survival strategy. It is indicative of people that their priorities are all messed up, convenience over substance.
Revamp how we deal with resources. The financial system does not work for anyone but a small group. We must declare Earth's resources common heritage of all humanity and move to a resource based economy. When you research how current systems work and how broken they are you either want to see change or stop playing because it won't happen in your lifetime.
There are many reasons we use money as a medium of exchange instead of bartering. It's more efficient, easier to calculate, and easier to transfer directly for what we want. It's not always possible to trade a bushel of lemons for a roll of toilet paper. Maybe the guy with toilet paper doesn't want lemons. Maybe the guy who wants lemons doesn't have toilet paper to sell.
The "bad actor" and scarce resources modes of thinking as presented make for a much clearer, logical, critical thinking approach to conflict.
Furthermore, I believe that it's important to have a small local community mindset and attachment. Meet the neighbours and build up the greater community on top of that. In Christchurch, New Zealand where I am, the city council has allowed a BBQ subsidy for those planning small or large neighbourhood get-togethers. Wonderful to see the government encouraging the value of tight community at the low level.
I would love to live in a community like that. Here in the United States, its dog eat dog type of living. Unless you have family around, (which I do not have) you are isolated. I don't know why the US is like this. I am sure there are some communities that are not, but most are.
Unfortunately, advertising to a large degree encourages competing with, and being better than your neighbor. Whether it's having a better lawn, a nicer house, a cooler vacation, a bigger TV, a better body, a nicer car, a higher credit score, you must must must beat your neighbor.
Because they don't know how to use the 3 sea shells.
Boo
He describes in wonderful detail what our enemies are attempting to exploit through social media in order to further harm and tear apart our country from the inside.
''we are coming for you. (Fear us.)''
I like him already.
Now I understand the psychology behind the social behavior right now. It is very disturbing to see so many empty shelves, and older people get no chance of stocking stuffs. It is sad, indeed, to realize that we live in a society where people unconsciously play zero sum game.
Disassociated by virtue and as a result of their growing greed and fear of others asking them to share, be it the government, employees, family, friends or neighbors. Why people with less are happier. They're not afraid of loss because they have nothing to lose. But too much nothing (where more than 40% of Americans live) causes social strife.
lol I sketched some guy punching another guy in the face for toilet paper, there's inspiration everywhere
That's all fine and pretty straight forward, but I was hoping to find out _why toilet paper_ specifically?
People were stocking up on everything. TP is bulky. 3 months of TP takes up a lot of space, on store shelves, and in warehouses.
Most people use TP, but not everyone likes the same kinds of foods, so stores would've had a much larger supply foods, than TP.
It's no surprise that stores starting running out of TP, before they were running out of other things.
Butch Crassidy Thank you
@@ThoughtStimulator supermarkets should've started selling it by the sheet.
If you look at the list of symptoms of Coronavirus you will clearly see, right at the bottom, that in even mild cases, you are likely to develop at least one extra a-hole. This then makes the buying of extra toilet paper totally rational and completely understandable.
Wow, then there are double the usual number of a-holes in New York City... except for the infected ones that Mario Cuomo let go home to Long Island and Florida fast spreading the disease even further... because he was unwilling to issue a shelter in place order.
Brilliant and SO important. Courageous and spot-on. Thank you, Dr. Hacker!
can our next crisis be aliens?
Talk to the right person and it probably can.
Next crisis will be civil unrest and looting. It’s already started.
danger trebor
Just it has in the past.
Aliens would be more “civilized” than humans...✨👽✨
@@kaoruM33 Why?
A great video which explains what everyone already knows what they should be doing but doesn't give any practical ways of changing the selfishness of the many. Each individual has to change as a whole to make it work. As soon as one person breaks away as in the Leroy Jenkins scenario ( I've never heard of this so can only guess at what he's talking about ) it falls apart.
I'll relate how yesterday I was looking for a certain product that is in short supply and came across a similar product in another part of the store. This product is for infants. I picked it up and then thought to myself that it's more important for the people who really need this other than me and put it back but I can guarantee that the next person won't think like that and take it. Selfishness and social media needs to stop and community and self sufficiency needs to improve. Humanity is being tested and failing miserably.........
Your a good person and I am happy to hear your story. Some will listen and learn from your example. Thank you 👍💕
Altruistic, but, one could argue you are diminishing your self value... you feel you are not as important to keep healthy as somebody else's child.
While that may be true, there is an entire spectrum of self-worth/societal value. At the far end you may have the CEO of a hospital, or a doctor, or a nurse, who feel that purchasing that product for themself to keep them healthy helps 1000 or 10,000 people.
Why? We eat and poop everyday. Food + toilette paper = basic needs, so the thought of possibly not having enough makes people fearful.
I don't think you know what "basic needs" mean. TP is a luxury.
(unless you've lived a very privileged life)
In times like these, if people most fear that they run out of toilet paper in a house with running water, that is the definition of sociopathic first world problems 🙈
Great talk! I like to connect! It feels right to me. Not with anyone but selectively so it may turn into a friendship or not. I want to be treated well so I treat others well.
What kind of sociopath takes all the pie leaving only the thin slither for everyone else?
CEO's, Executives, Shareholders, Bankers... Need I go on?
I had a similar thought. Perhaps that just works to illustrate the point though. CEOs, Executives, politicians...these are all people who have made their way to positions of wealth and power and then leverage that to take even more wealth and power for themselves and their buddies. They know that wealth comes at the expense of faceless others but they don't care because they have no real connection to those others.
@@randomstuff-qu7sh The government doesn't shame and regulate them though do they. We lead by example. People are just acting in the way that the authorities sub-consciously tell them is acceptable... Nay rewardable.
Excellent. Thank you!
It gave me chills to not hear the applause at the end...
We’re all applauding you here at home!! Definitely one of the best TEDTalks I’ve seen. You are an excellent speaker, especially speaking to a auditorium of empty chairs- that truly takes talent. I hope to see more talks from you in the future :)
While you watched this, I was at Walmart getting all your TP!!11!!
I win!!1!!
:'(
It was you!
So you're the reason Walmart started rationing toilet paper...
To paraphrase Forbes,
"He who dies with the most rolls, wins!"
:-/
Winner of the saddest, most isolated person award. A prize worth fighting tooth and nail for. I'm off to the shops for the 3rd time today.
@@markgreen6229 my strategy: find out what day the trucks come in at stores you go to. Also, I get up early, I'm always at the store when it opens. Good luck, stay safe.
@@stacyjaye6350 Thanks for the tip.
Bizarre seeing a TED talk with no applause at the end....
Very timely and motivating. Thank you so much!
people are hoarding resources this is a perfectly normal response to a threat of scarcity. Our brains understand that when chaos reigns civilizations get invaded or plagues happen our ancestors starved and died in mass. Today's modern economies have remedied that through modern ways of production and resupplying stores. Our brains were not developed in the modern era there still working on ancient hardware
Thanks for explaining the psychology behind this behavior in such an understandable way, at a time when we need some sanity! I feel like our society in general has been heading in this disassociated direction for a long time. It's not surprising that we are where we are now.
Buy paper goods on credit and then get laid off, very smart move.
At first I missed the 'off' and thought you were offering good, healthy advice.
Then I saw it and I realized you were being sarcastic. :(
Never seen such polite and quiet audiences
Why am I hoarding TP?
Simple.
Because all this unjustified fear mongering by gov't and Media is giving me a raging case of the shits!!
Dear TED professor, look this up: Toilet Tissue from The Carol Burnett Show.
Leaving a comment on here to check back later. Hope someone else drops a comment to remind me to watch this.
@@sensiblewheels did you watch it
@@brianna960 I just did! Thanks for the reminder:)
I was with Dr. Hacker until the last minute.
I take it that the “bad actors” are those individuals who are playing a zero sum game, yes?
And “We’re coming for you,” means what exactly? The “you” refers to the bad actors. The “We” is Dr. Hacker and those playing the collective game. But what does “coming for” mean? At the very least, it means identifying, but it implies inflicting punishment. What punishment?
Wtf happened to the audio halfway through? All the sibilance are cut out, makes him sound like he has a lisp. I've never heard this problem before lol
Raven okay so that wasn’t my WiFi
I thought I was going crazy. Nothing is wrong with people who have a lisp but it was just odd that halfway through that happened.
It’s like it was uploaded with a choppy connection so the first half was higher quality audio then the second half was reduced quality.
I think the audio guy fiddled with the EQ
lerrroy jenkins reference in a ted talk lololol
Disconnection is definitely an issue - any residential area bigger than a village or a small town is almost entirely loaded with disconnected individuals. We don't have the time, energy, or emotional capacity to adopt so many thousands of people into our mental "village circle" (this being who we talk to, who we care about, who we would check on or provide food for, who we might help move or build a house, who we would take into our house if they were evicted, etc). We've made do with some kinds of patchwork via societal codes like chivalry or government threat of fines/imprisonment, but in a time of crisis a lot of people will abandon those... where a village will come together in a crisis, a city will fall into disarray.
A house divided against itself falls....an old saying..🕊
Excellent!!! Outstanding!! Thank you very much!!!
There was a fistfight in a Woolworths in Australia between two or three women over toilet paper. So they sacrificed social distancing, putting themselves and others at risk, to get in each other’s faces and start throwing hands ...for toilet paper....Let that sink in.
The thing was to hord well before the rush, now when you que to get in to shop its foolish not to come out with a half full cart the more times you have to go shopping the bigger the risk.
On the nose. Those of who saw the way events were unfolding made plans, assessed the risk that supply lines might be affected and lay down provisions, which would be useful even if we were wrong. I googled where is toilet paper made, the answer Oregon. TP was low on my list. I regret the government at this time is self absorbed, unable to inform the people in a timely manner or make any preparations. Now we are in a sad game of catch-up. Many of my friends in the medical community are stepping up to bare the burden. Hope you and your family stay safe. 👍💕
Hats off to you Sir!
blame the education system, those people panicked and have no idea where their priorities should be. you dont see smart people panicking like that
Two thirds of our education comes from home
After seeing so many people hoarding toilet paper, I realize nothing can not be solved with toilet paper.
The ted talk I need is how to tell your neighbor that he can't have the toilet paper that you bought.
That will not be hard to do considering the state of panic we are seeing. The Main Stream Media mind control has whipped this virus to a frenzy and people are denied the right of peaceful assembly by governments. We adults don't need entities like government to save us. They're not necessary in the private.
Virus is no good but how many die a year from medical mistakes alone. Tobacco, Cancer old age etc. This causing fear in the people is just wrong when stress makes the effects of the virus worse. Stress is a detriment under normal circumstances.
@@decoy2636 .... The media?... You mean the same media that spent 55 days minimizing this virus?...
You need to pay more attention.
@@Theggman83 yes the MSM I said it.
It had all the time in the world to have gotten here from China, on a slow boat. Much less all the Airline flights during that time.
Perhaps you might tell us how many new cases China had the last few days. I would be curious to know what the media is saying about that.
@@decoy2636 ..... I don't know what you're asking me for, go turn on your TV. China didn't stop COVID 19. Not at all. They are most obviously lying about their reduction in case totals and probably even their death count....
And the media dropped the ball on this. They didn't report on COVID 19 for 55 days!.... They most certainly aren't hyping it.
@@Theggman83 I don't watch the Tell-Lie-Vision of course anything the MSM puts out as news has to be treated as a lie. People in America can't trust the Media they have been lied to too many times.
You really are full of the Kool-Aid
Breaking News: a man's house caught fire and burned to the ground after his 4,000 rolls of toilet paper caught fire and he attempted to put it out with five gallon jugs of hand sanitizer.
I don’t take the whole pie but take all the pie I want. If others don’t get some it’s there problem. I’m not stocking up on toilet paper or sanitizer. When we cut the pie everyone is already full, today people are way over reacting and have gone crazy.
Over a month before the panic started I stocked up on months worth of food including about toilet paper. I have studied previous panic buying patterns and also what people crave for in a true SHTF situation greater than the current COVID-19 virus and that is not to downplay the seriousness of the virus. My thought pattern is if I do not have to check for toilet paper three times per week at the store and only have to go and stock back up on supplies once per month I am limiting my exposure to the virus and also reducing the risk of me spreading it to others in case I had already contracted it but was not showing symptoms yet.
Great talk - Thankyou, Sir!
I've yet to buy hand sanitizer or toilet paper or do any larger than normal buying since the COVID19 "crisis" began, and we did not have a big stock to begin with. I doubt we will run out and not be able to restock, and if we do, we can use what humanity used for TP for centuries before TP was created (leaves, scraps of paper, rags that got laundered, etc).
The camera is awful, you see basically none of the graphics.
Jiyukan We put them on screen when he shows them. Most talks, including TED talks, don’t have slides fully visible behind speakers.
They were running the camera from home.
tq Dr and really make me think especially in current situation.
What a speech!
There must be a lot of people taken up ballet dancing 😂
I think the TP focus has something to do with deuterostomes and the ouroboros of mortality. Thanks for the vid!
Just a small thinking.
The problem with teaching your own people to accept others is that no one ever thought about teaching those others to accept you. You were the villain trying to look nice. You still are that villain: you just changed your own people's culture.
The answer is this. Toilet paper and hand sanitizer are out of supply. No one hoarded. The supply just has not met demand for Americans to get a month supply of what was needed. Simple as that.
World: let's bring the world together to fight this pandemic!
Pandemic: Um... bad idea. (grin)
Some people do use an astonishingly large amount of TP. We have had guests use a whole roll per day and plug up the plumbing.
Not everyone can get away with only using a few sheets per day. In th last 5 years, I have ended up with a bunch of health problems that mean that my toilet paper requirements have gone from about 1/10 roll per day to 3/4 roll per day. This is completely outside of my control. I never would have understood that someone could need that much toilet roll if it wasn't for my recent experience.