@@patchybeardopinions9340 nah, he was kind of a fraud. He always claimed to have all these engineering plans but it was just pictures and dreams. I liked listening to him and Peter back in the early 2000s. Still say they were on the right track. Glad he's still talking about this stuff.
@@patchybeardopinions9340 Jacques and Bucky Fuller were the engineers and designers. Peter's role in this whole thing is as an excellent communicator and advocate.
Yeah Zeitgeist: The Movie is mostly just to make people aware of the issues of the world. But Zeitgeist: Addendum in my opinion delivers a lot more solutions.
@@Evitable yes i have both videos need to watch them again funny how current events changes the tone of these videos every time you watch i’ve noticed that happen a couple times already
Peter Joseph was the man that got me thinking about 'systems' and 'structures' in socio-economics. Incredibly sharp and articulate. Good luck to him. Also everyone should check out his "revolution now" podcast on Spotify if you haven't already
Same. The combination of Systems Thinking, Structuralism, and Socioeconomics has completely changed the way I think about and understand life... and I owe it all to both Peter and Jacque. It's been almost 10 years since they both graced my life and, because of them, I found a love for activism and education. Just last year, after years of teaching at traditional academic schools, I decided to start my own school that aligns to the entire TZM and TVP train of thought. My students and I just celebrated Peter's birthday on the 4th; I had them watch the Interreflections trailer and made it clear to them all that I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for PJ.
This was absolutely the most interesting conversation I have had the pleasure to listen to in quite a long time. Three years after the fact, and it is bang on relevant!
Peter Joseph is making another movie too. I hope he gets on lex Friedman or joe rogan to get more attention. Peter sees the nightmare that out competition based economy creates
@@privateprivate1865 Yeah, I can't see him doing Rogan after the last time he was on there. I seem to remember that there was some friction there although I really thought that they would see eye to eye on almost all things ahead of the podcast.
Between Jeremy Rifkin, Buckminster Fuller, Jacque Fresco and Peter Joseph, there's a plethora of REAL WEALTH to be made...for everyone. I feel committed to understanding zero marginal cost and a resource-based economy, and applying myself towards these ideals. Technology and science, NOT politics, will help us win on planet Earth.
Have you also heard of Michael Tellinger with Ubuntu Contributionism and One Small Town strategy? Very along the lines of what Peter and those others talk about in going post-scarcity, localized and efficient, giving the power back to the people in the community, step by step. Very cool because it's a ready to go IT platform model that can be adapted to any town along with the cooperatives and collaborative projects that are already going on there, and just help support them even more.
I like the host, he listens actively and is permanently on the same train like Peter, and Peter himself is always talking right out of my head, it is very calming to know that atleast there is someone there who has the possibility to talk to many people, I can only do that very limited and need to live with that people begin to avoid me because they say I'm negative because I never talk about bullshit like soccer, but about problems, causes and solutions, but they think they are positive because they ignore and deny, destroy their ill minds even more with alcohol, drugs, mindless consumption, sex, media, yoga and all other kinds of addictions and brain damaging tools.
In the future ppl will be amazed just how enlightened Peter was for the age he lived in. The holistic system approach he represent is the most practical - and in the same time deep - way to think about the human condition, unfortunatelly almost completelly absent from most of the political discussion. Basicaly he talks about the really important things with the utmost clarity.
Watching him struggle to not say "get rid of money" Because people won't listen once that is said. So sad that people have such a hard time thinking outside monetary terms.
Great interview! Peter Joseph is my Yoda. He helped me navigate through the value system disorder in this country, its origin and possible solutions and positive approaches and most importantly, gave me hope that there is a better way right within our reach.
But why say "on the left"? Realistically, it's that divisive thinking that got us to where we are today. Both sides have merit to their views and also massive flaws. We shouldn't focus in terms of left or right but more in terms of what is useful, environmentally compatible, and ultimately elevates us all.
*No1: Don't Only Hope On Government's Responds On security Matter's And Economy growth, No2: As An Individual You Should Be Safeguarded And Also Look For Different Self Business And Trade Not Only Waiting on Betterment of Stock market activities, No3: Most Important Always Save The Little You Can And Think Of What To Do With It When It Become Good For Capital, Because Government Have Failed Us In Aspect Of Security, Economics Activities And Other Trading Systems*
Yes sure Bitcoin trade is great unlike the stock market and other financial market Bitcoin has no centralized location since it operates 24hour's in different parts of the world
Currently the rich stay rich by spending like the poor and investing while the poor stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich
When per capita you're the biggest releaser of C02, the home of climate change denial and the global hegemon then actually yes, America does have the ability to fuck up the world and has consistently done so (including two total economic collapses both resulting in Fascist uprisings). I don't like this fact. I don't like that Americans have their head up their arses a lot, but it's still a fact.
You're right. The US (and other world nations) do utilize capitalism to self wealth, to less developed nations promising stability and growth in a new world. The real objective is the open access to these country's cheap labor and resources without the costly invasion or war. So really, it is about humanity. Capitalism is anti-humanity with the US at the helm.
I live in switzerland and we have universal health care. Yes you have to pay for it, but if you can't pay you still have the right for health care. We also have student funding where the students pay back a fraction of it. This has nothing to do with socialism or communism or marxism or whatever. It's just a system that helps people who don't have the money for education and thus creates more fairness in society. I agree with peter that it is naiv to say that everyone gets what they work for. This is absolutely not the case. Compare switzerland to africa - Its also about luck and not "everybody gets what they earn". This is an oversimplified and false statement of people who don't know what privilege is i think and i live in a privileged society.
Wow. This guy is basically summing up everything I have been thinking for the last couple of years! Chomsky, Chris Hedges, William Barber and Rick Wolff all roller into one! Not sure about his solutions. I haven't heard this stuff before. Maybe worth finding out more. AFAIK if we don't push back hard on capitalism then we are screwed.
Due to the time constraint of this interview he didn't have enough time to go into depth about solutions, but I'd encourage you to check out solutions proposed by the zeitgeist movement to see the full scope of what he was alluding to here. Its a very comprehensive approach to organizing society and the cool thing is that it avoids being conflated with ideologies like socialism because it is simply a train of thought stemming from the idea of applying the scientific method to social concerns.
He got many solutions which fill the gaps Jacques Fresco didn't work out or not enough, the weak point of both is the point about the transition, where the solution, in my opinion, is the most logic one which needs to be done no matter if capitalism/monetary-/market-system will remain or if the world will completely change, I mean if I look into the world, especially now in this crisis, I see people that are completely done, burned out, physically and psychologically, they work without an end, holidays for a couple of weeks they spend with waiting till the horror of their everyday lives continues, in the same time there are billions of people that have no job, I'm not even talking about that they don't exist for the markets because they don't have enough or no money and so need to starve homeless between abandoned rotting houses and overfilled stores, but for me it is also very important to do my part for the society, except of some mentally ill people, no one feels comfortable with eating from a table they didn't fill or clean it up afterwards, and so it is pure logic to apply a basic income and share the work, I mean basic income is a must anyways if you want to share work, because then people wouldn't get enough money, but I think a basic income shouldn't be unconditional, I think this would ruin it all, like look and listen to the leftists, their dream is a world without work, they don't question the monetary system, all they want is having and doing all they want any time and someone else has to do the work, that's why there are even more libertarians in the Zeitgeist Movement than leftists, "there always will be some labor" is a nightmare of a sentence for leftists.
@@robbyrish13 yep, and to expand...we use peak science and engineering to replace the existing economic system and replace it with a machine and robot economy without money. The removal of money and budgets allows for the highest quality and performing parts and systems. The goal is to permanently end starvation, poverty and most crime, whilst also providing everything that everyone needs, and most of what they want.
@@WorldBeyondCapitalism I'm a subscriber to your channel and a big fan. Very great content- the piece you did titled "How Covid Is Exposing Capitalism' was exceptional. Keep up the great work! 👊
If you're interested in learning more I highly suggest his third zeitgeist movie ( ruclips.net/video/QwiL0wEl8gA/видео.html ), Especially at 1:30:10 although I do strongly suggest checking out the whole thing
His films are Idiotic imo. They're all emotional manipulation and innuendo in the place of facts. What little facts are presented ignore facts on the opposing side. The films are infotainment propaganda. If Fox news and Ancient Aliens had a baby his films would be it. They aren't serious documentaries. As long as you realize that going in they're fine. They're fun to watch if your in that kind of mood but like Fox or MSNBC people think his docs are serious news when really they're just one long editorial. An opinion piece dressed up with catchy music, flashy editing and an emotionally manipulative script masquerading as news.
Dj luminol You definitely never came further than the intro, that's a fact, watch the whole movies, the first one you can leave out, it really was overwhelming and confusing, but the other ones bring it on the point.
I'm so happy to see you interview Peter Joseph! I was first introduced to his work around '06/ '07. Always thought these concepts and The Venus Project so fascinating.
Bruh my history teacher said that the news is only focusing on what happened at the front of the capitol and not in the far far back which he said was peaceful. Well the most the people in the back back was kick some grass and yell nasty stuff. And many interviews showed that they were gonna go into the capital to and they thought what was going on in the capital was good. They already went far enough to go beyond the point then they were aloud to, and also there were some police back a little further than the front of capital and they got beat up by the rioters. The reason why the people in the back weren't acting as violent as the ones who were in the capitol was because they never even got the chance to get in there. A majority in the back also WANTED to go into the capital and get to the Congress Members. So my teacher doesn't know what he is talking about.
He says he’s a capitalist, but he’s philosophizing away in a way that reminds me of Karl Marx. Vertical farming is an amazing concept, but it’s gonna take decades to make that transition. Meanwhile, climate change is gonna kick in and it’s gonna hit the lower and middle class hard. Much food is being imported - in fact, most products that we buy are mostly produced very far away. We are extremely addicted to oil in a similar way a heroin addict is addicted to a chemical that will ultimately kill him. We know this is gonna happen and we can fantasize away, but the transition toward a more sustainable world is probably gonna get very ugly unless we get real about the climate calamity real soon.
Brilliant as usual David but I especially enjoyed your learned guest. People like him and David Stockman should be advising our leaders. They have the wisdom to see a broader picture. Thank-you David for your inestimable contribution to humanity.
I loved this interview, David. Thanks for doing it. Also, it's good that you delved into the causes of our problems and possible solutions to them as opposed to just doing videos about sensational headlines in the news.
Man, I really enjoyed that interview! Super informative! Hell, I even share a lot of these opinions, so it was nice to see them articilated and discussed!
6:54 crime: we determine what is a crime and what isn’t...Portugal decriminalized all drugs. Oregon just did the same. Canada legalized cannabis. The Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand has either decriminalized or legalized prostitution. We here in the United States need to end the criminalization of drugs and prostitution.
What they advocate for doesn't fit into the racket. Doesn't fit into industry. Doesn't make people money. Peter is also much too radical for the average American mind, unfortunately.
Wonderful stuff, I always recommend the book 'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy, many of these concepts were posited by Bellamy while he was writing in 1897.
Maybe I'll have to check that one out sometime. I'm busy reading 'Looking Forward' right now though by Kenneth S. Keyes Jr. and Jacque Fresco. Would recommend that one as well!
What if some group of people will start to create eco villages?intentional communities?open to everyone in the side of each city where is the need for it? Create one fully functioning community and bring it to global stage? Like for example charitable rock concert LIVE AID have done?
Zeitgeist was very conspiratorial and temporarily misled me as a teenager into 911 trutherism. Surprising to see David platform this guy without any confrontation on his history
This was what, 13-14 years ago? I don’t see how it’s relevant to bring up something from over a decade ago when Peter has since written books and directed films about more important stuff and has already addressed the 9/11 part of Zeitgeist.
Joseph still makes an academic objection to 9/11. And there is nothing wrong with disagreeing with the official story. He thinks critically. His history is one of impeccable integrity.
That was his first movie, he has moved way past that, and evolved into a more systemic/sociological approach. No one cares about 9/11 truth anymore, we are moving forward (title of his 3rd film). That being said, is it really out there to think they let it happen as a pretext for war? That would never happen, right? Except it has...almost every major war (except the Korean War where we were legitimately acting as a UN agent) we've been since the dawn of American imperialism has involved a sketchy/fabricated incident. The USS Maine randomly blowing up, the Lusitania had weapons on board - that's why the U-boat took it out, all the carriers happened to be at sea during Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin was complete bullshit, the babies being thrown out of incubators in the 1st Gulf War, bold face lie. There is a ton of sketchy shit with 9/11. Footnote 44 clearly shows they had eyes on those guys the second they came into the country. Yada, yada, yada they let it happen.
Wonderfully intelligent discussion. It’s so much more productive than the impotent outrage that’s been regurgitated ever since the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol. Just a reminder however to people who make their living talking: It’s familiar not fermiliar; It’s February not Febuary and its realtor not relator.
I agree with his opinion on inequality 1000%. Inequality is the root cause of nearly all of our problems. It's just that right wingers often misattribute the cause of their anger to Mexicans, Democrats, Communism, feminists, atheists, government or whatever.
I dunno why I stumbled on this video but reading the comments on the video is Red Flag City with the overly sycophantic praise. Is this guy running some kind of cult?
Funny I was just thinking the other day, where is Peter Joseph? I think it could be argued that there is a line that can be drawn starting from the first Zeitgeist documentary and ending at the trump presidency, qanon, and current situation.
you are one of the only people in the main independent online news that platforms peter. if more would do this it could trigger people to start moving this way.
Hahaha! Reminds me of how Joe Rogan pointed out the absence of "um" when he spoke. After around 10 years, listening to Peter is therapeutic to me, especially as my life experience continually confirms his entire train of thought.
He is often under slept and/or a bit under the weather, it seems. But he raised some big important points for our times. I'm always inspired by his thoughts.
He always does it when he gets carried away from the relevant things, like talking about history, I think honesty is very important to him and since history is also just a belief, which we may be able to explain rationally, but still don't know for a fact, because we simply didn't live back then, and so when he talks about things he doesn't know for a fact, he does "um", but aslong he is talking about now, about given facts, then he can speak like a waterfall.
All the idealists exempt themselves from reality. That's their first mistake. Their job can be summarized as "complaining" and knowing that they're "right" but having no plan to actually get from A to B.
Are you both for the World Economic Forum project known as The Great Reset? Much of what you are saying Peter seems to agree with wsws . org. They thoroughly discuss many topics you discuss. You, Peter still seem to have care for The Venus Project. thevenusproject . org Resource Based Economy. Thank you gentlemen.
A little help here, please, at 18:27: "to have deficiency means to be able to make money. For people to be insecure means they're more likely to go out and buy something". Does this mean that actors in the current systems make their money through inefficiency, where an efficient system would provide products for 'free'? And, if people were secure, they would not need to go out and buy something?
Yes, this system is incredibly inefficient, and profits are made from problems. I'll give you a specific example and zoomed out phenomenon. I was a tax preparer most of my working life. Tax preparation exist because of a complicated tax code. It's ridiculous because most countries you just fill out a single sheet of paper and mail it in. If you solve the problem by simplifying the tax code then that profession goes bye, bye. Not only that, but also the ancillary industries, like tax software. In fact the reason the tax code remains complicated is lobbying efforts by Intuit, which develops the software. Many people think lobbiest just bribe politicans for votes in their favor. Of course that happens, but in reality their real power chips are JOBS, the people they employ. A Senator isn't going to be down with a policy that creates that kind of job loss. This applies to pretty much every sector in the economy. Another phenomenon you see is something called planned obsolescence. If I made an everlasting light bulb, the demand would dry up once everyone buys their initial set of bulbs, there would be no need for repeat purchases and those profit and jobs would cease. You may think, well that's just a theory, an everlasting light bulb doesn't exist. However, it does in fact exist, just Google Centennial light. It has obviously been suppressed in order to keep making profit off burnt out light bulbs. In terms of insecurity causing consumption, that's a product of advertising. Manipulating people via psychological tricks to make them believe they need a certain brand/product to make them feel good about themselves. How else do you explain people paying triple digits for a T-shirt because it has a logo on it? In post scarcity society there would be no need for private ownership because everything would be so efficient. Think how many parked cars there are in a day that could be picking up and dropping people off if they were autonomous. Why does everyone on the block need a lawn mower when it's used an hour a week. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a community chest, where you borrow it for your job and then return it like a library book for the next person? These are simplistic examples to make a point. If you follow the train of thought you could scale this up for pretty much everything, with the exception of some hi tech and heavy, heavy duty equipment.
PJ is literally the only person taking such a systemic view of human behavior and the evolution of trade. If you haven't checked out The New Human Rights Movement then get to it. Free lecture on RUclips.
Wonderful interview, have been a huge fan of Zeitgeist trilogy for several years now and try and share it with anyone who will listen. The extremely blind world view and unrealized utter confusion about a great many things in general most Americans seem to have unfortunately doesn’t seem to be the best place to do this but I think what must happen to really facilitate a substantial movement in the direction you are talking about and advocate for is somewhere on earth a good real sizable(possibly few hundred thousand people or more)working example or prototype of those concepts so that people can actually see the benefits of that type resource based society first hand. The transition from one to the other is ultimately going to require some monetary investment in the beginning at the very least because that is under the current system what gets things done however inefficient they may be what this means is that some of those with great wealth will have to be convinced and agree to invest in the movement the only problem clearly is that in essence they would be investing that wealth to eventually eliminate that they enjoy that wealthy status in society and why would they do this and who would be willing to do it? My knowledge is very limited when it comes to how one would go about colonizing another planet but I what little I do think I understand the conceptual model of resource based society is one that in many ways could fit easily into how societal structure would be most efficient and best structured for such a colonization and if this is so then I would think Elon Musk would have interest in helping to create the model on earth in my opinion that is necessary to spark real change as a prototype for societal structure for his dream of Mars human colonization someday. It’s seems a bit obvious so it’s quite possible this idea has already been proposed or discussed but because I have not specifically heard of any thing along these lines I thought I might suggest some type of effort in collaboration of Mr. Joseph’s(and/or the Venus Project’s)ideas and Mr. Musks monetary resources and also his dreams regarding Mars…
humans have lived like this for not just 35 year but for all of history. It seems humanity is unable to get to equality because of the bloodlines. Someones blood can, according to "sacred rules" be from kings or great leaders or whatever. Even though you do not have kings per se, you still have "royalty" with powerful familys with the right bloodline. How can you overcome this? Not even the french revolution managed to get rid of this but only partly succeded. The enlightenment in the west was a revelation to humanity but now has to be defended fiersly because of the bloodline familys hoarding of recourses. At the same time far to many intellectuals talk the talk but dont walk the walk. They write of the poor and the homeless but where is the resullts. Where is this change?
While it can be viewed as campy hyperbole from the middle of the last century, Fredrick Pohl's speculative short story "The Midas Plague" is worth a mention here in reference to societal abundance and automation. It's a quick read. [Oh, that's right; RUclipsrs prefer not to read. 😄 ]
he was totally wrong about the African kings who sold their own people, it is totally wrong, people were literally kidnapped, this is the reason why there were wars.
Sure some leaders sold their people into slavery but many were losers in tribal wars and the winners simply sold them into slavery. It actually makes sense. Why try to kill them or waste resources in trying to control them when you can make them an asset. It's immoral, but cultures did it all over the world throughout human history.
@@mattbinkowski2095 those who sold their people had no choice if not they were being killed, I remind you that the first slaves were captured on the African coasts this is how the first European penetrations in Africa began, it is not not a story of logic, it is facts that are produced. I think you should review the story again, there have been a lot of massacres whether in africa or in slave ships because of resistance. the slave trade was between Europeans, the French for example who held part of the land and people traded slaves with the Spaniards, the Germans and others. but the notion that African kings were selling their people is very false and very unrepresentative.
Economic equality. . . how? That isn't something you can GIVE. My experience has been that there are many people who simply have no interest in bettering themselves or their family. They are raised to have no ambition other than to work a dead end job and suffer through the week in order to drink or drug their weekends away, then look for someone to blame for their situation. They have no interest in education; educating themselves in order to qualify for higher paying jobs/careers. I don't believe it has as much to do with oppression as with lack of drive, curiosity, interest in working to better their lot. I was raised poor in the south. I never once thought I was oppressed. I wanted to succeed and I did so. I went to college (working full time and on scholarships and loans, no one provided the funds), became employable and employed. I eventually had a career in aerospace. I do agree that some have circumstances that put more pressure on them, but I don't believe you can excuse what happened at our capitol as 'economic oppression'.
I share Peter's concerns with Government incompetence. However, their incompetence is precisely the reason why I am completely standoff-ish in giving them any more of our hard earned currency for them to squander and is out of the question. At least, until their incompetence is proven otherwise. UBI is a beautiful concept in theory, in practice? With the funds under the with-out-of-doubt incompetent government's control no less? I'm highly skeptical to say the least. In fact, we'd be rewarding bad management by offering them even more power. We need real systemic changes from within, at the very root of fiscal & monetary policy. Let alone the macro economics of the cause and effect that the Central Banks, as well as the vehicle of Fractional Reserve Lending mechanisms have their hands in and need to be uprooted as a whole. Until then, I do not think throwing more currency at social or economic issues will solve social or economic dilemmas. In fact, when you add time to the equation, throwing more currency at issues in general, quite literally inflate our issues. At best, we'd be kicking the can down the road. Unfortunately, I don't have solutions but, I don't believe destroying our currency through inflating the overall currency supply by creating new currency (at interest) everytime we run into an issue, is sustainable. We're all going to be in for a rude awakening if we keep on headed down the path we're on. I would be focusing on acquiring anything that's a store of value because in the imediate (next couple of years or so), we're about to witness the greatest wealth transfer in history. *My thoughts are purely based on that the current system as we known it, will continue to hobble along until it's dying breath. I don't see any intrinsic systemic changes or reforms in favor of the little guy, anytime soon.
Peter Joseph is a very underrated modern philosopher. Really glad to see him on the show.
Be great to have a debate with Peter Joseph and Thomas Sowell
He’s a Marxist.
Peter has a beautiful mind. He's so far ahead of his time.
He is the voice for humanity, even if most people will never see it
He took everything from Jacque Fresco and ran with it. Dude’s a fraud.
@@patchybeardopinions9340 stupidest comment I've read in years 😅
@@patchybeardopinions9340 nah, he was kind of a fraud. He always claimed to have all these engineering plans but it was just pictures and dreams. I liked listening to him and Peter back in the early 2000s. Still say they were on the right track. Glad he's still talking about this stuff.
@@patchybeardopinions9340 Jacques and Bucky Fuller were the engineers and designers. Peter's role in this whole thing is as an excellent communicator and advocate.
Damn. This guy is smart and one of the most intelligent articulate individuals I've ever heard speak unscripted.
yes he is
watch Zeitgeist the Movie
he’s brilliant
Much watch Zeitgeist: Addendum as well
Yeah Zeitgeist: The Movie is mostly just to make people aware of the issues of the world. But Zeitgeist: Addendum in my opinion delivers a lot more solutions.
@@Evitable
yes
i have both videos
need to watch them again
funny how current events changes the tone of these videos every time you watch
i’ve noticed that happen a couple times already
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; That makes it sound like you should get out more or better still explore socialism.
Peter Joseph was the man that got me thinking about 'systems' and 'structures' in socio-economics. Incredibly sharp and articulate.
Good luck to him.
Also everyone should check out his "revolution now" podcast on Spotify if you haven't already
Same. The combination of Systems Thinking, Structuralism, and Socioeconomics has completely changed the way I think about and understand life... and I owe it all to both Peter and Jacque. It's been almost 10 years since they both graced my life and, because of them, I found a love for activism and education. Just last year, after years of teaching at traditional academic schools, I decided to start my own school that aligns to the entire TZM and TVP train of thought. My students and I just celebrated Peter's birthday on the 4th; I had them watch the Interreflections trailer and made it clear to them all that I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for PJ.
Favorite "smart" podcast ever.
It's on RUclips as well "Revolution Now" is the channel.
Peter Joseph, has become a voice to be heard.
Peter Joseph has done more to focus my social conscience than any member of my family, my friends, my educators or my politicians.
Peter Joseph is an absolute LEGEND 🙌🏻
This was absolutely the most interesting conversation I have had the pleasure to listen to in quite a long time. Three years after the fact, and it is bang on relevant!
Peter Joseph is making another movie too.
I hope he gets on lex Friedman or joe rogan to get more attention.
Peter sees the nightmare that out competition based economy creates
@@privateprivate1865 Yeah, I can't see him doing Rogan after the last time he was on there. I seem to remember that there was some friction there although I really thought that they would see eye to eye on almost all things ahead of the podcast.
Absolutely great interview!! I found myself saying “yes, right” out loud to him every few minutes haha
Between Jeremy Rifkin, Buckminster Fuller, Jacque Fresco and Peter Joseph, there's a plethora of REAL WEALTH to be made...for everyone. I feel committed to understanding zero marginal cost and a resource-based economy, and applying myself towards these ideals. Technology and science, NOT politics, will help us win on planet Earth.
Have you also heard of Michael Tellinger with Ubuntu Contributionism and One Small Town strategy? Very along the lines of what Peter and those others talk about in going post-scarcity, localized and efficient, giving the power back to the people in the community, step by step.
Very cool because it's a ready to go IT platform model that can be adapted to any town along with the cooperatives and collaborative projects that are already going on there, and just help support them even more.
Peter is on a higher level. He won’t be really appreciated until 50yrs after his death.
it took me less than 7 years to wake up to his delusional pipe dream. will you wake up too?
This is the type of content that youtube should recommend.
It can't, because that would advocate for the destruction of what makes it run. RUclips, or any business for that matter, isn't logical or moral.
I like the host, he listens actively and is permanently on the same train like Peter, and Peter himself is always talking right out of my head, it is very calming to know that atleast there is someone there who has the possibility to talk to many people, I can only do that very limited and need to live with that people begin to avoid me because they say I'm negative because I never talk about bullshit like soccer, but about problems, causes and solutions, but they think they are positive because they ignore and deny, destroy their ill minds even more with alcohol, drugs, mindless consumption, sex, media, yoga and all other kinds of addictions and brain damaging tools.
Thank you for having Peter on!!
Much appreciated.
In the future ppl will be amazed just how enlightened Peter was for the age he lived in. The holistic system approach he represent is the most practical - and in the same time deep - way to think about the human condition, unfortunatelly almost completelly absent from most of the political discussion. Basicaly he talks about the really important things with the utmost clarity.
Watching him struggle to not say "get rid of money"
Because people won't listen once that is said.
So sad that people have such a hard time thinking outside monetary terms.
yeah, super hard to imagine, especially when his brainlet ideas are 100% supported and perpetuated by the monetary system.
Peter Joseph is a genius visionary. Great interview.
Great interview! Peter Joseph is my Yoda. He helped me navigate through the value system disorder in this country, its origin and possible solutions and positive approaches and most importantly, gave me hope that there is a better way right within our reach.
I love this man!!! If only we could make these ideas MAINSTREAM 😭😤
Thanks for having Peter on. He's lowkey the single most important thought leader on the left
But why say "on the left"? Realistically, it's that divisive thinking that got us to where we are today. Both sides have merit to their views and also massive flaws. We shouldn't focus in terms of left or right but more in terms of what is useful, environmentally compatible, and ultimately elevates us all.
You aren't paying attention if you still use words like, "the left".
*No1: Don't Only Hope On Government's Responds On security Matter's And Economy growth,
No2: As An Individual You Should Be Safeguarded And Also Look For Different Self Business And Trade Not Only Waiting on Betterment of Stock market activities,
No3: Most Important Always Save The Little You Can And Think Of What To Do With It When It Become Good For Capital,
Because Government Have Failed Us In Aspect Of Security, Economics Activities And Other Trading Systems*
Yes sure Bitcoin trade is great unlike the stock market and other financial market Bitcoin has no centralized location since it operates 24hour's in different parts of the world
Currently the rich stay rich by spending like the poor and investing while the poor stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich
Wise words that's just the fact and also what is happening day by day
I'm just so Lucky to have Dr Benjamin as my investor he really understand all methods of Bitcion
We get to see people remain poor due to ignorance and selfishness
I loved his documentary Zeitgeist, series.
Future of humanity? The universe doesn’t revolve around the US!
When per capita you're the biggest releaser of C02, the home of climate change denial and the global hegemon then actually yes, America does have the ability to fuck up the world and has consistently done so (including two total economic collapses both resulting in Fascist uprisings). I don't like this fact. I don't like that Americans have their head up their arses a lot, but it's still a fact.
You're right. The US (and other world nations) do utilize capitalism to self wealth, to less developed nations promising stability and growth in a new world. The real objective is the open access to these country's cheap labor and resources without the costly invasion or war. So really, it is about humanity. Capitalism is anti-humanity with the US at the helm.
@@taranullius9221 Where did you get that information? Also, CO2 is not a pollutant and climate change is a hoax.
Love Peter Joseph's perspective and great to see you speaking with him David. Would love to see a multi series of interviews between you two!
quality PJ content. he reminds me i'm not crazy, but actually pretty sane
That was amazing, insightful, and deep. Well done!
Peter Joseph has sure done his homework!
This attempted coup looks like what happens when a Tom Clancy movie and a Mel Brooks movie have a baby.
Ouch!
Did you say Mel Brooks or Mo Brooks?
@@homespuncovers89 I mean whatever had a deep knowledge of the Schwartz.
Great comment. LOL
The Hunt for Men in Tights?
HOW did I not notice this interview. I love Peter Joseph and I enjoy watching TDPS. I blame work
I live in switzerland and we have universal health care. Yes you have to pay for it, but if you can't pay you still have the right for health care. We also have student funding where the students pay back a fraction of it. This has nothing to do with socialism or communism or marxism or whatever. It's just a system that helps people who don't have the money for education and thus creates more fairness in society. I agree with peter that it is naiv to say that everyone gets what they work for. This is absolutely not the case. Compare switzerland to africa - Its also about luck and not "everybody gets what they earn". This is an oversimplified and false statement of people who don't know what privilege is i think and i live in a privileged society.
Wow. This guy is basically summing up everything I have been thinking for the last couple of years!
Chomsky, Chris Hedges, William Barber and Rick Wolff all roller into one!
Not sure about his solutions. I haven't heard this stuff before. Maybe worth finding out more. AFAIK if we don't push back hard on capitalism then we are screwed.
Due to the time constraint of this interview he didn't have enough time to go into depth about solutions, but I'd encourage you to check out solutions proposed by the zeitgeist movement to see the full scope of what he was alluding to here.
Its a very comprehensive approach to organizing society and the cool thing is that it avoids being conflated with ideologies like socialism because it is simply a train of thought stemming from the idea of applying the scientific method to social concerns.
He got many solutions which fill the gaps Jacques Fresco didn't work out or not enough, the weak point of both is the point about the transition, where the solution, in my opinion, is the most logic one which needs to be done no matter if capitalism/monetary-/market-system will remain or if the world will completely change, I mean if I look into the world, especially now in this crisis, I see people that are completely done, burned out, physically and psychologically, they work without an end, holidays for a couple of weeks they spend with waiting till the horror of their everyday lives continues, in the same time there are billions of people that have no job, I'm not even talking about that they don't exist for the markets because they don't have enough or no money and so need to starve homeless between abandoned rotting houses and overfilled stores, but for me it is also very important to do my part for the society, except of some mentally ill people, no one feels comfortable with eating from a table they didn't fill or clean it up afterwards, and so it is pure logic to apply a basic income and share the work, I mean basic income is a must anyways if you want to share work, because then people wouldn't get enough money, but I think a basic income shouldn't be unconditional, I think this would ruin it all, like look and listen to the leftists, their dream is a world without work, they don't question the monetary system, all they want is having and doing all they want any time and someone else has to do the work, that's why there are even more libertarians in the Zeitgeist Movement than leftists, "there always will be some labor" is a nightmare of a sentence for leftists.
@@robbyrish13 yep, and to expand...we use peak science and engineering to replace the existing economic system and replace it with a machine and robot economy without money.
The removal of money and budgets allows for the highest quality and performing parts and systems.
The goal is to permanently end starvation, poverty and most crime, whilst also providing everything that everyone needs, and most of what they want.
@@WorldBeyondCapitalism I'm a subscriber to your channel and a big fan. Very great content- the piece you did titled "How Covid Is Exposing Capitalism' was exceptional. Keep up the great work! 👊
guy makes some good points
If you're interested in learning more I highly suggest his third zeitgeist movie ( ruclips.net/video/QwiL0wEl8gA/видео.html ), Especially at 1:30:10 although I do strongly suggest checking out the whole thing
His films are Idiotic imo. They're all emotional manipulation and innuendo in the place of facts. What little facts are presented ignore facts on the opposing side. The films are infotainment propaganda. If Fox news and Ancient Aliens had a baby his films would be it. They aren't serious documentaries. As long as you realize that going in they're fine. They're fun to watch if your in that kind of mood but like Fox or MSNBC people think his docs are serious news when really they're just one long editorial. An opinion piece dressed up with catchy music, flashy editing and an emotionally manipulative script masquerading as news.
@@djluminol and what do u suggest mr dj, what informative pieces aren’t saturated with emotive and opinionated takes
Dj luminol You definitely never came further than the intro, that's a fact, watch the whole movies, the first one you can leave out, it really was overwhelming and confusing, but the other ones bring it on the point.
I like the Zeitgeist speaker. He has a great vision and ideas for how to reform and reintegrate people into a polite as well as well-working society.
I'm so happy to see you interview Peter Joseph! I was first introduced to his work around '06/ '07. Always thought these concepts and The Venus Project so fascinating.
Everything Peter says is awesome, glad there are people like your in the world! Blessed love Peter thanks for all the great work! 🙏
That was an insightful interview. It had my head thinking about some stuff for some time
You should check out The Zeitgeist Movement, the organization Peter started.
You could say these are "high level ideas!"
Bruh my history teacher said that the news is only focusing on what happened at the front of the capitol and not in the far far back which he said was peaceful. Well the most the people in the back back was kick some grass and yell nasty stuff. And many interviews showed that they were gonna go into the capital to and they thought what was going on in the capital was good. They already went far enough to go beyond the point then they were aloud to, and also there were some police back a little further than the front of capital and they got beat up by the rioters. The reason why the people in the back weren't acting as violent as the ones who were in the capitol was because they never even got the chance to get in there. A majority in the back also WANTED to go into the capital and get to the Congress Members. So my teacher doesn't know what he is talking about.
I am disappointed in this teacher.
@@mommyworth13 me to. But my old civics teacher hates trump so that's good.
So your teacher is a typical Trumper. We have a majority of these even in our higher learning institutions here in Red TX.
@@valeriepurcell5229 Well I think he doesn't really like either candidates but he just likes trump better.
But a vast majority was Peaceful....... Sounds alot like what the left was saying this summer.
He says he’s a capitalist, but he’s philosophizing away in a way that reminds me of Karl Marx. Vertical farming is an amazing concept, but it’s gonna take decades to make that transition. Meanwhile, climate change is gonna kick in and it’s gonna hit the lower and middle class hard. Much food is being imported - in fact, most products that we buy are mostly produced very far away. We are extremely addicted to oil in a similar way a heroin addict is addicted to a chemical that will ultimately kill him. We know this is gonna happen and we can fantasize away, but the transition toward a more sustainable world is probably gonna get very ugly unless we get real about the climate calamity real soon.
@MD Dee Haha what? Have you not been following the news or looked out your window for that matter?
@mR Mossley Ha, you're the first one to say something about it. Congrats!
Great to run into Peter again. 💪
I've been wondering where he was. He's been quiet. Peter is an awesome human.
Revolution Now!
It's his podcast. Been doing for a few months now. Also, intereflections film. He's making culture in decline season 2 as well
@@paulgrant4689 👌😎
He's a young Chris Hedges without the absolute gloom that Chris paints.
I remember this guy
Hand down the best John Cusack performance in years
Brilliant as usual David but I especially enjoyed your learned guest.
People like him and David Stockman should be advising our leaders.
They have the wisdom to see a broader picture.
Thank-you David for your inestimable contribution to humanity.
Peter Joseph is a true visionary in our world today. I cannot understand how he doesn't have a much larger following
I loved this interview, David. Thanks for doing it. Also, it's good that you delved into the causes of our problems and possible solutions to them as opposed to just doing videos about sensational headlines in the news.
Yass!!👌
Man, I really enjoyed that interview! Super informative!
Hell, I even share a lot of these opinions, so it was nice to see them articilated and discussed!
You should check out The Zeitgeist Movement
Fascinating interview
Peter is describing TRUE human freedom. It’ll happen eventually.
Peter is a beast
I agree 100% with what he says about inequality being the prime reason for Trumpism and where we have arrived.
So on point! Great interview!
`Why' is the only real source of power, without it you are powerless.”
- The Merovingian
This is AWESOME!! Love this guy.
Love you David, just wanted to know what you thought about the recent story of trump stealing statues and items from the whitehouse?
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Not very common to have a interviewer that actually gets everything Peter talks about. Thanks a lot for having Peter on!
What an amazing interview.
6:54 crime: we determine what is a crime and what isn’t...Portugal decriminalized all drugs. Oregon just did the same. Canada legalized cannabis. The Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand has either decriminalized or legalized prostitution.
We here in the United States need to end the criminalization of drugs and prostitution.
Thanks so much David for interviewing Peter!! I wish more people would at the very least consider his point of view.
the only reasonable voice out there
Great interview. I highly recommend Peter’s new film Interreflections. Also, consider supporting Peter on Patreon if you can afford it.
I guess someone should perhaps update the category tags it has on imdb which at the moment is "Fantasy" and "Scifi"...
God, let that guy start in politics! I would follow him all the way!
Be the change yourself 😉
Resource based economy YES PLEASE!!❤❤
Blessings
Why isn't someone like Peter or David a presidential candidate?
What they advocate for doesn't fit into the racket. Doesn't fit into industry. Doesn't make people money. Peter is also much too radical for the average American mind, unfortunately.
Edward Bernays(Friend’s nephew) and the office of Public Relations coupled with Calvin were good spots to start for of all this.
peter joseph needs a more prominent voice among the left. ive been saying this for years. hes a genius.
I don't think he plays the left/right game.
@@axelfoley20 he doesn't but he's vehemently anti capitalist which is a left wing policy goal.
Wonderful stuff, I always recommend the book 'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy, many of these concepts were posited by Bellamy while he was writing in 1897.
Maybe I'll have to check that one out sometime. I'm busy reading 'Looking Forward' right now though by Kenneth S. Keyes Jr. and Jacque Fresco. Would recommend that one as well!
Yes!
What if some group of people will start to create eco villages?intentional communities?open to everyone in the side of each city where is the need for it? Create one fully functioning community and bring it to global stage? Like for example charitable rock concert LIVE AID have done?
David, I'm new to your show and very happy to see that you had Peter Joseph on!
Zeitgeist was very conspiratorial and temporarily misled me as a teenager into 911 trutherism. Surprising to see David platform this guy without any confrontation on his history
That was another Zeitgeist named group I think.
This was what, 13-14 years ago? I don’t see how it’s relevant to bring up something from over a decade ago when Peter has since written books and directed films about more important stuff and has already addressed the 9/11 part of Zeitgeist.
Joseph still makes an academic objection to 9/11. And there is nothing wrong with disagreeing with the official story. He thinks critically. His history is one of impeccable integrity.
That was his first movie, he has moved way past that, and evolved into a more systemic/sociological approach. No one cares about 9/11 truth anymore, we are moving forward (title of his 3rd film).
That being said, is it really out there to think they let it happen as a pretext for war? That would never happen, right? Except it has...almost every major war (except the Korean War where we were legitimately acting as a UN agent) we've been since the dawn of American imperialism has involved a sketchy/fabricated incident. The USS Maine randomly blowing up, the Lusitania had weapons on board - that's why the U-boat took it out, all the carriers happened to be at sea during Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin was complete bullshit, the babies being thrown out of incubators in the 1st Gulf War, bold face lie.
There is a ton of sketchy shit with 9/11. Footnote 44 clearly shows they had eyes on those guys the second they came into the country. Yada, yada, yada they let it happen.
Wonderfully intelligent discussion. It’s so much more productive than the impotent outrage that’s been regurgitated ever since the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol. Just a reminder however to people who make their living talking:
It’s familiar not fermiliar;
It’s February not Febuary and its realtor not relator.
I agree with his opinion on inequality 1000%. Inequality is the root cause of nearly all of our problems. It's just that right wingers often misattribute the cause of their anger to Mexicans, Democrats, Communism, feminists, atheists, government or whatever.
Woooo the king, has returned!! You’re the man Peter ! A nice surprise to see you on the Packman Show! Made my afternoon 😁👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I dunno why I stumbled on this video but reading the comments on the video is Red Flag City with the overly sycophantic praise. Is this guy running some kind of cult?
basically. he's a crypto-communist. communists are just quasi-cultists.
Funny I was just thinking the other day, where is Peter Joseph? I think it could be argued that there is a line that can be drawn starting from the first Zeitgeist documentary and ending at the trump presidency, qanon, and current situation.
you are one of the only people in the main independent online news that platforms peter. if more would do this it could trigger people to start moving this way.
Weird hearing Peter say words like "um" here. Maybe he was under slept. Still a god tier orator though.
Hahaha! Reminds me of how Joe Rogan pointed out the absence of "um" when he spoke. After around 10 years, listening to Peter is therapeutic to me, especially as my life experience continually confirms his entire train of thought.
He is often under slept and/or a bit under the weather, it seems. But he raised some big important points for our times. I'm always inspired by his thoughts.
He always does it when he gets carried away from the relevant things, like talking about history, I think honesty is very important to him and since history is also just a belief, which we may be able to explain rationally, but still don't know for a fact, because we simply didn't live back then, and so when he talks about things he doesn't know for a fact, he does "um", but aslong he is talking about now, about given facts, then he can speak like a waterfall.
All the idealists exempt themselves from reality. That's their first mistake. Their job can be summarized as "complaining" and knowing that they're "right" but having no plan to actually get from A to B.
Are you both for the World Economic Forum project known as The Great Reset? Much of what you are saying Peter seems to agree with wsws . org. They thoroughly discuss many topics you discuss. You, Peter still seem to have care for The Venus Project. thevenusproject . org Resource Based Economy. Thank you gentlemen.
A little help here, please, at 18:27: "to have deficiency means to be able to make money. For people to be insecure means they're more likely to go out and buy something".
Does this mean that actors in the current systems make their money through inefficiency, where an efficient system would provide products for 'free'? And, if people were secure, they would not need to go out and buy something?
Yes, this system is incredibly inefficient, and profits are made from problems. I'll give you a specific example and zoomed out phenomenon.
I was a tax preparer most of my working life. Tax preparation exist because of a complicated tax code. It's ridiculous because most countries you just fill out a single sheet of paper and mail it in. If you solve the problem by simplifying the tax code then that profession goes bye, bye. Not only that, but also the ancillary industries, like tax software. In fact the reason the tax code remains complicated is lobbying efforts by Intuit, which develops the software. Many people think lobbiest just bribe politicans for votes in their favor. Of course that happens, but in reality their real power chips are JOBS, the people they employ. A Senator isn't going to be down with a policy that creates that kind of job loss. This applies to pretty much every sector in the economy.
Another phenomenon you see is something called planned obsolescence. If I made an everlasting light bulb, the demand would dry up once everyone buys their initial set of bulbs, there would be no need for repeat purchases and those profit and jobs would cease. You may think, well that's just a theory, an everlasting light bulb doesn't exist. However, it does in fact exist, just Google Centennial light. It has obviously been suppressed in order to keep making profit off burnt out light bulbs.
In terms of insecurity causing consumption, that's a product of advertising. Manipulating people via psychological tricks to make them believe they need a certain brand/product to make them feel good about themselves. How else do you explain people paying triple digits for a T-shirt because it has a logo on it?
In post scarcity society there would be no need for private ownership because everything would be so efficient. Think how many parked cars there are in a day that could be picking up and dropping people off if they were autonomous. Why does everyone on the block need a lawn mower when it's used an hour a week. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a community chest, where you borrow it for your job and then return it like a library book for the next person? These are simplistic examples to make a point. If you follow the train of thought you could scale this up for pretty much everything, with the exception of some hi tech and heavy, heavy duty equipment.
I love this guy. He lifts the veil from this social construction.
Is a representative of capitalism, I laugh at David’s decision to monetize this invaluable information with the presence of ads
PJ is literally the only person taking such a systemic view of human behavior and the evolution of trade.
If you haven't checked out The New Human Rights Movement then get to it. Free lecture on RUclips.
Great interview. I need to check out interreflections soon.
I really didn't espect this interview... this is a nice surprise.
Great conversation. Understandable and informative.
Wonderful interview, have been a huge fan of Zeitgeist trilogy for several years now and try and share it with anyone who will listen. The extremely blind world view and unrealized utter confusion about a great many things in general most Americans seem to have unfortunately doesn’t seem to be the best place to do this but I think what must happen to really facilitate a substantial movement in the direction you are talking about and advocate for is somewhere on earth a good real sizable(possibly few hundred thousand people or more)working example or prototype of those concepts so that people can actually see the benefits of that type resource based society first hand. The transition from one to the other is ultimately going to require some monetary investment in the beginning at the very least because that is under the current system what gets things done however inefficient they may be what this means is that some of those with great wealth will have to be convinced and agree to invest in the movement the only problem clearly is that in essence they would be investing that wealth to eventually eliminate that they enjoy that wealthy status in society and why would they do this and who would be willing to do it? My knowledge is very limited when it comes to how one would go about colonizing another planet but I what little I do think I understand the conceptual model of resource based society is one that in many ways could fit easily into how societal structure would be most efficient and best structured for such a colonization and if this is so then I would think Elon Musk would have interest in helping to create the model on earth in my opinion that is necessary to spark real change as a prototype for societal structure for his dream of Mars human colonization someday. It’s seems a bit obvious so it’s quite possible this idea has already been proposed or discussed but because I have not specifically heard of any thing along these lines I thought I might suggest some type of effort in collaboration of Mr. Joseph’s(and/or the Venus Project’s)ideas and Mr. Musks monetary resources and also his dreams regarding Mars…
humans have lived like this for not just 35 year but for all of history. It seems humanity is unable to get to equality because of the bloodlines. Someones blood can, according to "sacred rules" be from kings or great leaders or whatever. Even though you do not have kings per se, you still have "royalty" with powerful familys with the right bloodline. How can you overcome this? Not even the french revolution managed to get rid of this but only partly succeded. The enlightenment in the west was a revelation to humanity but now has to be defended fiersly because of the bloodline familys hoarding of recourses. At the same time far to many intellectuals talk the talk but dont walk the walk. They write of the poor and the homeless but where is the resullts. Where is this change?
Yes, it dates to the time of pharaohs and the Noble Lie, by the philosophers. Religion and the myth of patriotism strengthened it.
....so where do we go from here folks?
I have no idea.
While it can be viewed as campy hyperbole from the middle of the last century, Fredrick Pohl's speculative short story "The Midas Plague" is worth a mention here in reference to societal abundance and automation. It's a quick read. [Oh, that's right; RUclipsrs prefer not to read. 😄 ]
It is weird that you get 'free' education up until 18 but you don't get 'free' food which is a more basic need.
The internet will be the downfall of civilisation. Personally I can’t wait 👍🏻
Agreed. Except I will miss pink Floyd videos.
@@terryboot7777 ...and easy recipes for Spam casserole! 😁
he was totally wrong about the African kings who sold their own people, it is totally wrong, people were literally kidnapped, this is the reason why there were wars.
Sure some leaders sold their people into slavery but many were losers in tribal wars and the winners simply sold them into slavery. It actually makes sense. Why try to kill them or waste resources in trying to control them when you can make them an asset. It's immoral, but cultures did it all over the world throughout human history.
@@mattbinkowski2095 those who sold their people had no choice if not they were being killed, I remind you that the first slaves were captured on the African coasts this is how the first European penetrations in Africa began, it is not not a story of logic, it is facts that are produced. I think you should review the story again, there have been a lot of massacres whether in africa or in slave ships because of resistance. the slave trade was between Europeans, the French for example who held part of the land and people traded slaves with the Spaniards, the Germans and others. but the notion that African kings were selling their people is very false and very unrepresentative.
Economic equality. . . how? That isn't something you can GIVE. My experience has been that there are many people who simply have no interest in bettering themselves or their family. They are raised to have no ambition other than to work a dead end job and suffer through the week in order to drink or drug their weekends away, then look for someone to blame for their situation. They have no interest in education; educating themselves in order to qualify for higher paying jobs/careers. I don't believe it has as much to do with oppression as with lack of drive, curiosity, interest in working to better their lot. I was raised poor in the south. I never once thought I was oppressed. I wanted to succeed and I did so. I went to college (working full time and on scholarships and loans, no one provided the funds), became employable and employed. I eventually had a career in aerospace. I do agree that some have circumstances that put more pressure on them, but I don't believe you can excuse what happened at our capitol as 'economic oppression'.
I share Peter's concerns with Government incompetence. However, their incompetence is precisely the reason why I am completely standoff-ish in giving them any more of our hard earned currency for them to squander and is out of the question. At least, until their incompetence is proven otherwise.
UBI is a beautiful concept in theory, in practice? With the funds under the with-out-of-doubt incompetent government's control no less? I'm highly skeptical to say the least. In fact, we'd be rewarding bad management by offering them even more power.
We need real systemic changes from within, at the very root of fiscal & monetary policy. Let alone the macro economics of the cause and effect that the Central Banks, as well as the vehicle of Fractional Reserve Lending mechanisms have their hands in and need to be uprooted as a whole.
Until then, I do not think throwing more currency at social or economic issues will solve social or economic dilemmas. In fact, when you add time to the equation, throwing more currency at issues in general, quite literally inflate our issues. At best, we'd be kicking the can down the road.
Unfortunately, I don't have solutions but, I don't believe destroying our currency through inflating the overall currency supply by creating new currency (at interest) everytime we run into an issue, is sustainable.
We're all going to be in for a rude awakening if we keep on headed down the path we're on. I would be focusing on acquiring anything that's a store of value because in the imediate (next couple of years or so), we're about to witness the greatest wealth transfer in history.
*My thoughts are purely based on that the current system as we known it, will continue to hobble along until it's dying breath. I don't see any intrinsic systemic changes or reforms in favor of the little guy, anytime soon.
This person seems to have good ideas. (Because I agree with them😄 )
Indeed. Excellent analysis. He takes the focus off Trump, the personality, and looks at broader trends.