Dr. Wolff is a sane and sober voice in the midst of insanity. In my 60s now, I remember being a decided captialist (at least by name) in my 30s. The older I get, the less tolerant I am of systems that leave behind vast swaths of humanity while enabling a very few to fly into space and toss candy at each other in zero g. I mean seriously... what the fuck kind of world do we live in that has people starving and dying of preventable disease while others are playing space cowboy? How does this not collectively nauseate and enrage us? I have no idea.
It's sad to see so many people into worshipping or sympathizing with guys like Elon Musk. What exactly could they admire in a guy they'd literally have to kick away if they actually aimed at becoming like him themselves.
Well, as far as maniacal billionaire do-nothings go, he's certainly not one of the worst. He's got sensible opinions here and there -- obviously not on every issue though.
To have anything remotely approaching that much money is disgusting. It ought not be allowed, because capitalism is literally killing us. We mock people who hoard cats or newspapers, but then pretend there is something different about people who hoard wealth. it is every bit as pathological and far more dangerous. Truly, truly revolting.
@@RCAVDH he found partners, because banks wouldn't lend him that amount of money. Tesla is too volatile stock to use it as collateral, someone compare it to crypto currency. He already have locked pretty sizeable chunk of his shares as a collateral for his personal loans. Tesla went from 1050$ to below 900$ in a matter of days, there is no sane person that will feel confidence.
The point about the fight for free speech being based off the amount of money a billionaire is willing to throw at it is so great it's unreal. A wonderful analysis as always, Mr Wolff.
Apparently the new Twitter will still have a complex fee structure for certain users of Twitter and maybe even new "features" with a new set of fee structures. "Free" speech now costs anywhere with a far reach (to wit, Super Bowl commercials). In the modern world of the Internet, your speech only has reach if you pay up big time.
We will have to pay for twitter and special twitter? People dont even pay to read the news or watch porn - why would they pay to see memes and one liners? Where is this from? Buzzfeed?
@@alloomis1635 Instead of blaming the people, or despise a large percentage, realize they are at worst victims of propaganda and indoctrination. That is why it's so important for people who really care to reach out and befriend those we disagree with, and that should be done along class lines, that means everyone in the working class, if they are gun nut libertarians, Trump supporters, Liberals, whatever. There is a major effort right now in the media, especially in the MSNBC vs Fox News paradigm of dividing the people and making us hate each other, encouraging division, this is why the establishment LOVES focusing on the "culture war" and likes to ignore class. It's a deliberate measured divide and conqueror strategy.
The issue is that no one should be able to accumulate 44 billion dollars. It's sad that people don't have a 99 percent tax rate around their first 100 million.
well said. and I agree completely. this world is nothing but a game for these technocratic oligarch elites and us "low life's" always end up the biggest losers.
Always respect your opinion Professor. I do struggle with how in democracies people tend to agree to be led by unsensible choices. It makes one feel at a loss in this world.
Propaganda works , this is your answer, people have limited time and knowledge especially those who have to work long hours everyday to survive. Starting life in a poor underfunded education system makes this easier for those making the propaganda.
@@michaelandrews4783 indeed. But I wish to go deeper than that. There is some sort of entropy generator in the heads of people it seems. Why do humans do this? Disrespect and hurt others, force their own notions and beliefs upon others. It is utterly unpleasant and unbecoming. The more I observe, the more things stop making sense. I was in a book shop this week. I love books and am a voracious reader. But so many newspapers everyday, so many books, so much information, output of so much thought processes, we are addicted to thinking and producing text and nowadays also videos and movies etc. What is this? Are we very busy going nowhere? There are in absolute numbers more people living in extreme poverty than any point earlier in human history. Apologies for my summary, but perhaps you or anyone has some tips. Thousands of years have gone by, we are not making any true progress in my view. It is just cosmetic and superficial. Putin and the west are now playing chicken with nukes, and we and our children must watch passively while our lives and our children are at risk. How distasteful. Mysterious.
You got it all wrong Wolff. The issue is not that "free speech" is controlled by whoever has the most money, it's that those platforms are protected under section 230 from potential liabilities relating to the content. That means they're not suppose to act like publishers. Newspapers don't have that protection, so they have to be careful to avoid difamation lawsuits say. So if those running platforms which are protected by section 230 act like publishers, the section should not apply to them. Government is not supporting the purpose of section 230.
Clever how the rich have made you believe anything that threatens their obscene wealth and power is "leftist" a simplistic and basically meaningless propaganda term, By most other countries standards the democrats are a right wing party, and republicans far right this is why nothing changes in the USA.
@@michaelandrews4783 lol so what your saying is the usa is more right leaning than the reast of country's? Funny how there the most right and there also the most prosperous. What a coincidence
@@michaelandrews4783 you realize rich is a relative term. Most of Africa would consider you rich mike. The fact that you have an internet connection and the time to comment proves my point. The fact that you are probably sitting in an air conditioned room with food in your belly and weed yo smoke also proves my point. Mike you are very very rich compared to most humans throughout history why haven't you donated your wealth to someone who needs it more than you?
Capitalism and democracy...capitalism and democracy...go together like family and a vasectomy...this, I tell you brother, you can't get one when you have the other...
Ok, then why not advocate for intellectual property abolition? Those laws monopolize the code/algorithms in all websites. If you want free speech, we can’t have monopolies in the algorithms. You’re missing a very important issue here. What say you, Prof. Wolff?
@@MrAndiworks I know exactly how capitalism works. You’re lacking essential knowledge to make any claims about IP. Be a responsible person, do your research, then you can make claims. You’re wasting my time now. I don’t want to talk to you. Good luck.
@@alexanderboulton2123 what Jeremy means by that is that socialist always want everybody else's stuff to become universal, not their own. A perfect example was during the occupy Wall Street protest, when The Daily Show interviewed people there who were avowed socialists who thought everything should be communal, and one of them had a nice new iPad and was asked if other people could use it and the person suddenly became a real big fan of private property rights and didn't want anybody else touching their new toy.
Why would you not want to use it even more after Elon bought it? He bought it specifically because it was censorious and he wanted it to be a free and open exchange of ideas much like Hyde Park. You can't say that you don't want to use it just because a billionaire owns it because RUclips is also owned by billionaires.
Wolff specifically condemns the education he got and that its only use to him has been to wave his degrees when his marxist leanings get him in trouble. Just go to the library. Or google.
It _IS_ gross, and I agree open alternatives to these platforms are needed. We need to expand "public infrastructure" into the online world, and as Prof. Wolff alluded to, we also need to develop a democratic system for managing these platforms, to set boundaries & prevent abuse. These platforms -- _all_ of them -- could be so much better if they were designed _for us_ instead of being designed to make money for their owners.
@@jeremyrangel8138 All the democratically run platforms have failed to win a larger base of users. Might be something to do with the initial capital for advertisements that billionaires have and ordinary people don't.
@@lewleo999 Okay? So the market has spoken. People prefer the Twitters and Facebooks of the world, despite all of the "censorship." The solution to the problem isn't "we'll just have the government steal these platforms from their owners."
If Richard would've paid even the slightest bit of attention, he would've realize that Elon musk was buying it to create a digital Hyde Park. They both want the same thing; free, and open idea exchange. There is zero chance of socialist wherever praise a capitalist for anything though, even if they have the same end goal.
I chuckle when I see anyone try to make that vanilla flan in a human suit look like a “badass”. Little neck beard, aviator glasses. But see, that’s why chuds love him. He does nothing. He’s not a real engineer. He didn’t invent anything. He’s not even measurably, you know, good at anything. He gets to exist for being a character. That’s what a lot of these simpy younger men want. To just get paid to exist. (It’s even taught in business school-the thing you really wanna do is come up with an idea that entitles you to royalties or being bought out and retiring to invest that capital and coast off of it.) And that’s fine, I think people should have the right to exist fed clothed and unmolested. But it speaks to a profound weakness and fear of reality that so many see this guy as some kind of paragon of, well, anything. I sort of get a daddy issues vibe from Musk simps. Like they want so bad for him to be the Tony Stark to their Peter Parker (even though most of these people are double that age and are well beyond needing that sort of propping up from a father figure, but the man -children do love their movies), and help them achieve their happy ending. They want a big wise hand to descend from the heavens and save them. It ain’t coming. It never has and never will. Grow your skill sets, and help along the people you have around you. Not the people you WANT to have around you, mind, but those who are there. That’s all you got. Work with that, or work with nothing. That’s how you get through this. That’s how you live to tomorrow so you can have a hope of a damn to shape it. This whole great man theory and the associated hero worship hamstrings this potential in a lot of people, in my experience and observation. Maybe, and this is just my opinion, more boys should learn that their fathers aren’t special. They aren’t possessed of any special qualities or knowledge. In fact, daddy’s probably weak, scared and stupid just like the rest of the souls that inhabit this rock. He can’t really be faulted for that, but is certainly not an object of worship. And neither is anyone else. They’re a watery sack full of bacteria and feces that occasionally dapples in elocution. Fallible. Terminable. Hero worship is a big problem with men, in general. They use it as a substitute for themselves actually becoming materially better themselves. And we all suffer for it. Get off twitter, if you use it. Put that time somewhere else. Go pick up a skill, and pour your heart into it. I’m not saying “bootstraps” to this issue-quite the contrary, the mass of systems and relations interlocking them is mostly if not entirely at fault for people’s declining standards of living and security. However, engaging this system on its own terms is a waste of time. Tweeting doesn’t do anything. Maybe give it a rest. I already feel sick from typing this instead of doing something else, so I’m gonna go do that.
Regardless of what one's opinion is on billionaires, surely they have the right to purchase a privately owned company, HydePark was a gift to loyal public from the British monarchy.
They don't have "the right" at all. They can, barring limitations by governments, purchase all they want but they don't have "the right" to do so. Let's not throw that terminology around recklessly.
If you think free speech means being able to insult others based on race, ethnicity, gender or many other factors, or spread false information that can cost lives then your version of free speech needs to be deleted from human history.
Most people are really not for free speech. They are for decentralized censorship. Which means they want censorship decentralized to the lowest level such as the individual. Im not sure you noticed, but people will give a lecture about free speech on YT and immediately after the speech if you disagree with them they will ban you. People are KooKoo
Can someone tell me whether or not Wolff agrees with Noam Chomsky's idea of free speech (namely, that believing in free speech means that you believe in free speech even for speech that you think is vile and repugnant)? I've watched many of Wolff's videos, and never heard him talk at length about the concept of free speech.
His analysis made absolutely no sense, because Elon musk bought Twitter in order to make it a free an open exchange of ideas just like Hyde Park. Disliking something you agree with simply because the owner has a lot of money is absurd.
Non-related but I wonder if Wolff has thought about politics. Well, that wouldn't work. He speaks too plainly, logically, and honestly. The American voter would never believe it. Give them lies, that's what they want.
So let the capitalist build some thing and then steal it? Yep. Definitely found a Marxist. You only get to do that once because after that, nobody else will ever innovate anything.
Prof. Wolff, why do you never speak about how the federal reserve was created, and that it has private owners? Have you seen the documentary "Moneymasters" 1996
@@louiscypher2673 I haven't seen the video where he talks about the private ownership of the federal reserve, but also, he said its government that will raise interest rates, which is not the same as federal reserve. so why not say it how itis if he knows.
Things have indeed changed over the last 50 years. My Alma Mater once enjoyed "The Freedom Tree", where anyone could speak about anything, anytime. Now, the tree is gone. And, all talk has be speeches, that have be submitted to and cleared by The Administration; no spontaneous discussions are permitted. UPD will be called, if certain persons object.
@@Tetragrammaton22 No this concept doesn’t apply. We’re complaining about billionaires owning media companies all of a sudden when they have always owned them. I don’t care if Jeff Bezos owns WaPo. Certainly don’t want the government owning media
I very much agree, internet platforms are a public good and should be run democratically by the users. But they are not. The world is not how we would like it to be. So we are left with a billionaire buying a piece of our virtual world from other billionaires. And it is to be seen if it is a change for the better or for worse or any at all. I actually like Elon Musk and consider him the only decent and sincere billionaire I know of. Still I would not want him to have such power over people. But that goes to all billionaires and all people in power. I like Elon, however I think he is very naive when it comes to politics and he still doesn't now what he has gotten himself into. It was just a question of time and now we will see how it plays out.
Except free speech has nothing to do with democracy. 51% gets the say over the other 49? It is a protected right with very narrow limitations. Like everyone has the right to be a racist and say just that, but they cannot tell people to commit violence against that race because their right to live is above the right of speech. People have the right to their opinions good or bad and the rest of us should be smart enough to sort that out. Twitter should abide to the 1st amendment, not a vote.
Oh, no, don't platform Russell Brand. He might get some stuff right, but in many very important matters he's just an ignorant tool, unknowingly parroting Russian propaganda, or right wing talking points.
X-Files Censorship Light and truth (love) cause vampires (greed) great pain and suffering. That's why the words compassion, understanding, society (socialism), community (communism), "care for all" and "green new deal" cause the capitalist counting corpses that rule US such misery. But the words sanction, starve, torture, murder and bomb are encouraged. Because these ugly words suck the joy out of humans with their ignorance (hate). The hostile evangelical vampires (greed) are inhumane because they are not human. The capitalist counting corpses commit crimes against humanity because they are not human. Vampires (greed) who suck the joy out of life have joined the zombies who eat the futures of their children. Zombie Apocalypse is here and happening now.
@@dragonwest5844 I haven't given the time to Brand's videos ever since he started collabing with people who I inherently disagree with that prop up flawed baseless weak ideas with the likes of Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson as an example. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they steam roll all over Brand to get him to agree to their nonsense. Based on the video titles on some videos, it seems like he's pushing some flawed thinking but I can't be bothered to give his stuff any watch time or let alone a single additional view.
@@dragonwest5844 He's largely gone down the right-wing rabbit hole. A lot of video topics that are very eye catching, draw a lot of views and therefore money.
@@Tetragrammaton22 He recently had people like Chris Hedges, Yanis Varoufakis, Matt Taibi etc. on his show. He is definitely not right wing even though I agree that sometimes I disagree strongly with him like him uncritically bashing China instead of a more balanced take. Just because he occasionally has a right wing person on his podcast doesn't make him right wing.
Perhaps Elon will revolutionize Twitter and name it Musky... Free speech on Musky Musky: ...a note that can be described as earthy, woody, animalistic, and intoxicating is hard to miss. It's one of those fragrance base notes that smells like your skin but better and lasts for an oddly long time. A message on Musky lasts forever...
the conclusion to draw is, when you live in a plutocracy, money is power. but anyone who thinks 'democracy at work' is a useful concept is living in a glass tower. democracy in the nation is possible, but only if you know what democracy is. california would be an excellent examplar of democracy, the state holds regular referenda, has an effective initiative function, and can recall errant state officers. only weakness is, its not a nation and their democracy is purely administrative. the national politicians can over-ride as they wish. the notion that workers in a company have democracy is a nonsense. they have no power, and 'democracy' is a greek phrase meaning, 'citizens decide.' they 'decide,' because they have the power of decision. '-cracy' refers to that power. 'demos' is the citizens, not the workers. there is a reason the confederation of helvetia maintained democracy while all around were some kind of elite rule: the swiss 'army' was a militia, the citizens in arms. the ultimate power was dispersed to the citizen-soldier. if you want to vote, you had to fight. academics hate to examine the ultimate reality of rule. they like to think talking decides, when in reality, the gun decides. politicians know better, so they have a professional army they can buy, and hope to control.
Prof Wolff has another recent video "What US Media Covers Up About French Election". In this video he describes what an awful job the main stream media does in reporting or as he states "lack of reporting" the news. How hypocritical can this guy get with back to back video's, one vilifying how bad the main stream media is and another proclaiming just the opposite, that free speech will be challenged with Musk taking over Twitter. Which is it Prof Wolff ? You can't have it both ways.
Dr. Wolff is a sane and sober voice in the midst of insanity. In my 60s now, I remember being a decided captialist (at least by name) in my 30s. The older I get, the less tolerant I am of systems that leave behind vast swaths of humanity while enabling a very few to fly into space and toss candy at each other in zero g. I mean seriously... what the fuck kind of world do we live in that has people starving and dying of preventable disease while others are playing space cowboy? How does this not collectively nauseate and enrage us? I have no idea.
The reality is kept hidden. The distractions prevaile. The police are ever vigilant.
Ukraine takes were sussy but everything else about him is incredibly based
That space cowboy is embarrassing Boeing and NASA right now.
@@DeaconG1959 LOL. Just another hyped up stunt that Musk is a master of. How's that 'Hyperloop' going?
@@DeaconG1959 what is he doing?? 🤨 I thought the engineers were the ones who built the rockets
It's sad to see so many people into worshipping or sympathizing with guys like Elon Musk. What exactly could they admire in a guy they'd literally have to kick away if they actually aimed at becoming like him themselves.
Musk says he is a free speech absolutist. So presumably, that means all speech will be allowed on twitter including hate speech.
I think the fans of free speech are happy
Well, as far as maniacal billionaire do-nothings go, he's certainly not one of the worst. He's got sensible opinions here and there -- obviously not on every issue though.
@@nochepatada elon is only guaranteeing his own speech. but he may let you use his tool.
@@alloomis1635 how profound
It should be illegal for one person to drop $44 Billion in cash for anything.
To have anything remotely approaching that much money is disgusting. It ought not be allowed, because capitalism is literally killing us. We mock people who hoard cats or newspapers, but then pretend there is something different about people who hoard wealth. it is every bit as pathological and far more dangerous. Truly, truly revolting.
He borrowed half.
@@RCAVDH he found partners, because banks wouldn't lend him that amount of money. Tesla is too volatile stock to use it as collateral, someone compare it to crypto currency. He already have locked pretty sizeable chunk of his shares as a collateral for his personal loans. Tesla went from 1050$ to below 900$ in a matter of days, there is no sane person that will feel confidence.
It should be illegal for one person to have that much and to spare.
@Account NumberEight He didn't get that money from "wages."
I had to take a screenshot of Wolff talking about Brand talking about Musk. It's so ... beautiful.
I am a fan of both Wolff and Brand
The point about the fight for free speech being based off the amount of money a billionaire is willing to throw at it is so great it's unreal. A wonderful analysis as always, Mr Wolff.
Could you please give me an example of a Marxist state that’s had a higher level of free speech than a Western capitalist state?
Apparently the new Twitter will still have a complex fee structure for certain users of Twitter and maybe even new "features" with a new set of fee structures. "Free" speech now costs anywhere with a far reach (to wit, Super Bowl commercials). In the modern world of the Internet, your speech only has reach if you pay up big time.
That is a very bad take Twitter is a unprofitable company and he’s trying to add a pay structure to grow the profit of the website when he owns it.
We will have to pay for twitter and special twitter? People dont even pay to read the news or watch porn - why would they pay to see memes and one liners? Where is this from? Buzzfeed?
funny how everyone hollering "Yay" free speech will mostly like pay for that free speech . Not very "Free"
We need a radical change in this country!
*world
Guillotine required
you might like democracy. but that requires citizen quality people. oligarchy does not raise such people.
@@alloomis1635 Instead of blaming the people, or despise a large percentage, realize they are at worst victims of propaganda and indoctrination. That is why it's so important for people who really care to reach out and befriend those we disagree with, and that should be done along class lines, that means everyone in the working class, if they are gun nut libertarians, Trump supporters, Liberals, whatever. There is a major effort right now in the media, especially in the MSNBC vs Fox News paradigm of dividing the people and making us hate each other, encouraging division, this is why the establishment LOVES focusing on the "culture war" and likes to ignore class. It's a deliberate measured divide and conqueror strategy.
The issue is that no one should be able to accumulate 44 billion dollars. It's sad that people don't have a 99 percent tax rate around their first 100 million.
Great job as alway's. Keep the truth alive for humanity and the planet and to wake up humanity. ❤ ❤
well said. and I agree completely. this world is nothing but a game for these technocratic oligarch elites and us "low life's" always end up the biggest losers.
Always respect your opinion Professor. I do struggle with how in democracies people tend to agree to be led by unsensible choices. It makes one feel at a loss in this world.
You know he’s a lying manipulative communist right? The Democracy stuff is a trick.
Propaganda works , this is your answer, people have limited time and knowledge especially those who have to work long hours everyday to survive. Starting life in a poor underfunded education system makes this easier for those making the propaganda.
@@michaelandrews4783 indeed. But I wish to go deeper than that. There is some sort of entropy generator in the heads of people it seems. Why do humans do this? Disrespect and hurt others, force their own notions and beliefs upon others. It is utterly unpleasant and unbecoming. The more I observe, the more things stop making sense. I was in a book shop this week. I love books and am a voracious reader. But so many newspapers everyday, so many books, so much information, output of so much thought processes, we are addicted to thinking and producing text and nowadays also videos and movies etc. What is this? Are we very busy going nowhere? There are in absolute numbers more people living in extreme poverty than any point earlier in human history. Apologies for my summary, but perhaps you or anyone has some tips. Thousands of years have gone by, we are not making any true progress in my view. It is just cosmetic and superficial. Putin and the west are now playing chicken with nukes, and we and our children must watch passively while our lives and our children are at risk. How distasteful. Mysterious.
You got it all wrong Wolff. The issue is not that "free speech" is controlled by whoever has the most money, it's that those platforms are protected under section 230 from potential liabilities relating to the content. That means they're not suppose to act like publishers. Newspapers don't have that protection, so they have to be careful to avoid difamation lawsuits say. So if those running platforms which are protected by section 230 act like publishers, the section should not apply to them. Government is not supporting the purpose of section 230.
This is why I support your work with Michael Hudson & Yanis
Happy you’re still making content! Your content is invaluable to leftist groups!
Its propaganda at best
Clever how the rich have made you believe anything that threatens their obscene wealth and power is "leftist" a simplistic and basically meaningless propaganda term, By most other countries standards the democrats are a right wing party, and republicans far right this is why nothing changes in the
USA.
Another lefty shill.
@@michaelandrews4783 lol so what your saying is the usa is more right leaning than the reast of country's? Funny how there the most right and there also the most prosperous. What a coincidence
@@michaelandrews4783 you realize rich is a relative term. Most of Africa would consider you rich mike. The fact that you have an internet connection and the time to comment proves my point. The fact that you are probably sitting in an air conditioned room with food in your belly and weed yo smoke also proves my point. Mike you are very very rich compared to most humans throughout history why haven't you donated your wealth to someone who needs it more than you?
Capitalism and democracy...capitalism and democracy...go together like family and a vasectomy...this, I tell you brother, you can't get one when you have the other...
Ok, then why not advocate for intellectual property abolition? Those laws monopolize the code/algorithms in all websites. If you want free speech, we can’t have monopolies in the algorithms. You’re missing a very important issue here. What say you, Prof. Wolff?
@@MrAndiworks You have no idea what you’re talking about. Do you even know how IP laws work? If so, you need to show you do:
@@MrAndiworks I know exactly how capitalism works. You’re lacking essential knowledge to make any claims about IP. Be a responsible person, do your research, then you can make claims.
You’re wasting my time now. I don’t want to talk to you. Good luck.
Those who worship money don't tell the truth, but lies are an illness that will destroy the liar, so let them be truthful in order to survive.
twitter and other social media should be nationalized.
Also fossil fuel, utilities, and most important of all: healthcare.
All of YOUR STUFF should be nationalized.
@@jeremyrangel8138 what u mean by that? 🤨
@@jeremyrangel8138 Agreed!
@@alexanderboulton2123 what Jeremy means by that is that socialist always want everybody else's stuff to become universal, not their own. A perfect example was during the occupy Wall Street protest, when The Daily Show interviewed people there who were avowed socialists who thought everything should be communal, and one of them had a nice new iPad and was asked if other people could use it and the person suddenly became a real big fan of private property rights and didn't want anybody else touching their new toy.
Didn't use Twitter before...Definitely not using it now. 😑
Why would you not want to use it even more after Elon bought it? He bought it specifically because it was censorious and he wanted it to be a free and open exchange of ideas much like Hyde Park. You can't say that you don't want to use it just because a billionaire owns it because RUclips is also owned by billionaires.
I only wish I could have attended Yale and Stanford for free to get this knowledge
Professor Wolff has actually said a few times that neither Yale nor the other Ivy League schools he attended taught or assigned Marx.
Wolff specifically condemns the education he got and that its only use to him has been to wave his degrees when his marxist leanings get him in trouble. Just go to the library. Or google.
It _IS_ gross, and I agree open alternatives to these platforms are needed. We need to expand "public infrastructure" into the online world, and as Prof. Wolff alluded to, we also need to develop a democratic system for managing these platforms, to set boundaries & prevent abuse. These platforms -- _all_ of them -- could be so much better if they were designed _for us_ instead of being designed to make money for their owners.
So what's stopping you from building your own social media platform? Then it can be set up however you'd like.
If only the government spent money actually improving our society 😔😔😔✋😪
@@jeremyrangel8138 "my own" social media platforms isn't really the idea here.
@@jeremyrangel8138 All the democratically run platforms have failed to win a larger base of users. Might be something to do with the initial capital for advertisements that billionaires have and ordinary people don't.
@@lewleo999 Okay? So the market has spoken. People prefer the Twitters and Facebooks of the world, despite all of the "censorship." The solution to the problem isn't "we'll just have the government steal these platforms from their owners."
I don’t use Twitter, just a load of bs
If Richard would've paid even the slightest bit of attention, he would've realize that Elon musk was buying it to create a digital Hyde Park. They both want the same thing; free, and open idea exchange. There is zero chance of socialist wherever praise a capitalist for anything though, even if they have the same end goal.
"Freedom of the press belongs to the guy who owns one."
I chuckle when I see anyone try to make that vanilla flan in a human suit look like a “badass”. Little neck beard, aviator glasses.
But see, that’s why chuds love him. He does nothing. He’s not a real engineer. He didn’t invent anything. He’s not even measurably, you know, good at anything. He gets to exist for being a character.
That’s what a lot of these simpy younger men want. To just get paid to exist. (It’s even taught in business school-the thing you really wanna do is come up with an idea that entitles you to royalties or being bought out and retiring to invest that capital and coast off of it.)
And that’s fine, I think people should have the right to exist fed clothed and unmolested. But it speaks to a profound weakness and fear of reality that so many see this guy as some kind of paragon of, well, anything.
I sort of get a daddy issues vibe from Musk simps. Like they want so bad for him to be the Tony Stark to their Peter Parker (even though most of these people are double that age and are well beyond needing that sort of propping up from a father figure, but the man
-children do love their movies), and help them achieve their happy ending. They want a big wise hand to descend from the heavens and save them.
It ain’t coming. It never has and never will. Grow your skill sets, and help along the people you have around you. Not the people you WANT to have around you, mind, but those who are there. That’s all you got. Work with that, or work with nothing. That’s how you get through this. That’s how you live to tomorrow so you can have a hope of a damn to shape it.
This whole great man theory and the associated hero worship hamstrings this potential in a lot of people, in my experience and observation.
Maybe, and this is just my opinion, more boys should learn that their fathers aren’t special. They aren’t possessed of any special qualities or knowledge. In fact, daddy’s probably weak, scared and stupid just like the rest of the souls that inhabit this rock. He can’t really be faulted for that, but is certainly not an object of worship. And neither is anyone else. They’re a watery sack full of bacteria and feces that occasionally dapples in elocution. Fallible. Terminable.
Hero worship is a big problem with men, in general. They use it as a substitute for themselves actually becoming materially better themselves. And we all suffer for it.
Get off twitter, if you use it. Put that time somewhere else. Go pick up a skill, and pour your heart into it. I’m not saying “bootstraps” to this issue-quite the contrary, the mass of systems and relations interlocking them is mostly if not entirely at fault for people’s declining standards of living and security. However, engaging this system on its own terms is a waste of time. Tweeting doesn’t do anything. Maybe give it a rest.
I already feel sick from typing this instead of doing something else, so I’m gonna go do that.
Well said. You even used punctuation, paragraphs, correct spelling, complete ideas. The thought and effort is appreciated
Get off Twitter lol you just wrote a novel on RUclips how is that any different?
Nice cap there Richard. Did you get that one in Donegal?
We don't need all of these to be free and open, just one.
Regardless of what one's opinion is on billionaires, surely they have the right to purchase a privately owned company, HydePark was a gift to loyal public from the British monarchy.
They don't have "the right" at all. They can, barring limitations by governments, purchase all they want but they don't have "the right" to do so. Let's not throw that terminology around recklessly.
@@Tetragrammaton22 Clearly you have an opinion on billionaires
@@jimbobcharles2782 I have a stronger opinion on using words properly.
I'm confused, I thought if I worked really hard and saved my money, I could buy whatever I wanted and do with it whatever I wanted?
Free speech means free to express one's opinion without repercussion.
If you think free speech means being able to insult others based on race, ethnicity, gender or many other factors, or spread false information that can cost lives then your version of free speech needs to be deleted from human history.
Most people are really not for free speech. They are for decentralized censorship. Which means they want censorship decentralized to the lowest level such as the individual. Im not sure you noticed, but people will give a lecture about free speech on YT and immediately after the speech if you disagree with them they will ban you. People are KooKoo
Can someone tell me whether or not Wolff agrees with Noam Chomsky's idea of free speech (namely, that believing in free speech means that you believe in free speech even for speech that you think is vile and repugnant)? I've watched many of Wolff's videos, and never heard him talk at length about the concept of free speech.
I would like to know the following: is printing money the vector of rising inflation?
Meet the new boss, same of the old boss - The Who
I mean I knew I hated Twitter for a reason.
Thank you, again, Professor Wolff for your cogent guidance and analysis. I share your work to my friends often. Keep up the great work. 👍🏻
His analysis made absolutely no sense, because Elon musk bought Twitter in order to make it a free an open exchange of ideas just like Hyde Park. Disliking something you agree with simply because the owner has a lot of money is absurd.
Non-related but I wonder if Wolff has thought about politics. Well, that wouldn't work. He speaks too plainly, logically, and honestly. The American voter would never believe it. Give them lies, that's what they want.
Hyde Park had the speakers stand
He will take it public again after he fixes the platform.
Yeahh, let's change Twitter into Co-op its a better way to go
So let the capitalist build some thing and then steal it? Yep. Definitely found a Marxist. You only get to do that once because after that, nobody else will ever innovate anything.
Prof. Wolff, why do you never speak about how the federal reserve was created, and that it has private owners? Have you seen the documentary "Moneymasters" 1996
He talks about the fed all the time, and why these concerns are irrelevant.
By the way, everyone knows what you’re driving at, boyo.
@@louiscypher2673 I haven't seen the video where he talks about the private ownership of the federal reserve, but also, he said its government that will raise interest rates, which is not the same as federal reserve. so why not say it how itis if he knows.
@@louiscypher2673 Privately owned central bank is of no concern to us? I doubt you are serious.
Correct because now requires servers using electricity and this is about male ego’s because I have never seen women be such children
Things have indeed changed over the last 50 years. My Alma Mater once enjoyed "The Freedom Tree", where anyone could speak about anything, anytime. Now, the tree is gone. And, all talk has be speeches, that have be submitted to and cleared by The Administration; no spontaneous discussions are permitted. UPD will be called, if certain persons object.
No fan of Musk, but the provate ownership model may be better than the wall st shareholder model. Either way, we need to nationalize social media.
Free Speech is enforced by the people, not billionaires.
I was going to watch this but you started by saying russel brand made an excellent point.
How about you stop complaining about conservatives *actually trying* to give these corporations accountability, instead of blaming it on capitalism?
You know you DO have the ability to simply.............not.........use..............twitter....?
All it is is an app.
Why is no one complaining about Jeff Bezos owning WaPo?
Are you presenting some kind of whataboutery argument? People talk about that from time to time but it's not as relevant now.
@@Tetragrammaton22 No this concept doesn’t apply. We’re complaining about billionaires owning media companies all of a sudden when they have always owned them. I don’t care if Jeff Bezos owns WaPo. Certainly don’t want the government owning media
It's hard to believe this guy is 80 YO
I very much agree, internet platforms are a public good and should be run democratically by the users.
But they are not. The world is not how we would like it to be. So we are left with a billionaire buying a piece of our virtual world from other billionaires. And it is to be seen if it is a change for the better or for worse or any at all.
I actually like Elon Musk and consider him the only decent and sincere billionaire I know of. Still I would not want him to have such power over people. But that goes to all billionaires and all people in power. I like Elon, however I think he is very naive when it comes to politics and he still doesn't now what he has gotten himself into. It was just a question of time and now we will see how it plays out.
Except free speech has nothing to do with democracy. 51% gets the say over the other 49? It is a protected right with very narrow limitations. Like everyone has the right to be a racist and say just that, but they cannot tell people to commit violence against that race because their right to live is above the right of speech.
People have the right to their opinions good or bad and the rest of us should be smart enough to sort that out. Twitter should abide to the 1st amendment, not a vote.
So democracy with the little caveat that everyone must vote for a socialist party. The rest will be sent to Gulag?
Professor: What about the on going coup in the USA? Is the coup taking a second place?
I think Elon will make this extremely expensive platform ( free for all ) yup
So glad to hear my favorite RUclips voice talking about another of my favorites.
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Oh, no, don't platform Russell Brand. He might get some stuff right, but in many very important matters he's just an ignorant tool, unknowingly parroting Russian propaganda, or right wing talking points.
Agreed. He’s a pure opportunist and shouldn’t have a voice in meaningful discussions.
Good comment but you ruined it by parroting the term 'Russian propoganda'.
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Nice hat
" There is no greater misfortune than greed." - Lao Tzu You always have a choice.You can quit or boycott them.
You're the man Wolff
Cap on wealth now.
X-Files
Censorship
Light and truth (love) cause vampires (greed) great pain and suffering. That's why the words compassion, understanding, society (socialism), community (communism), "care for all" and "green new deal" cause the capitalist counting corpses that rule US such misery.
But the words sanction, starve, torture, murder and bomb are encouraged. Because these ugly words suck the joy out of humans with their ignorance (hate).
The hostile evangelical vampires (greed) are inhumane because they are not human. The capitalist counting corpses commit crimes against humanity because they are not human.
Vampires (greed) who suck the joy out of life have joined the zombies who eat the futures of their children.
Zombie Apocalypse is here and happening now.
Wolf makes so fast claims without any logic that i dont think he is smart anymore
COMRADES, SMASH THE LIKE BUTTON!
You lose.
great hat
Idk how I feel about you bolstering Russell brand
What are your problems with Russel Brand? I think he is definitely being a positive force overall.
@@dragonwest5844 I haven't given the time to Brand's videos ever since he started collabing with people who I inherently disagree with that prop up flawed baseless weak ideas with the likes of Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson as an example. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they steam roll all over Brand to get him to agree to their nonsense. Based on the video titles on some videos, it seems like he's pushing some flawed thinking but I can't be bothered to give his stuff any watch time or let alone a single additional view.
@@dragonwest5844 He's largely gone down the right-wing rabbit hole. A lot of video topics that are very eye catching, draw a lot of views and therefore money.
@@Tetragrammaton22 He recently had people like Chris Hedges, Yanis Varoufakis, Matt Taibi etc. on his show. He is definitely not right wing even though I agree that sometimes I disagree strongly with him like him uncritically bashing China instead of a more balanced take. Just because he occasionally has a right wing person on his podcast doesn't make him right wing.
@@dragonwest5844 His anti-vaccine conspiracy theory stuff is what makes him right wing. Or at least unhinged. But I still think he's just a grifter.
Take back the internet and nationalize every site that operates as the Public Commons.
Perhaps Elon will revolutionize Twitter and name it Musky...
Free speech on Musky
Musky: ...a note that can be described as earthy, woody, animalistic, and intoxicating is hard to miss. It's one of those fragrance base notes that smells like your skin but better and lasts for an oddly long time.
A message on Musky lasts forever...
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What is he complaining about billionaires or something?
the conclusion to draw is, when you live in a plutocracy, money is power.
but anyone who thinks 'democracy at work' is a useful concept is living in a glass tower.
democracy in the nation is possible, but only if you know what democracy is.
california would be an excellent examplar of democracy, the state holds regular referenda, has an effective initiative function, and can recall errant state officers. only weakness is, its not a nation and their democracy is purely administrative. the national politicians can over-ride as they wish.
the notion that workers in a company have democracy is a nonsense. they have no power, and 'democracy' is a greek phrase meaning, 'citizens decide.' they 'decide,' because they have the power of decision. '-cracy' refers to that power. 'demos' is the citizens, not the workers.
there is a reason the confederation of helvetia maintained democracy while all around were some kind of elite rule: the swiss 'army' was a militia, the citizens in arms. the ultimate power was dispersed to the citizen-soldier. if you want to vote, you had to fight.
academics hate to examine the ultimate reality of rule. they like to think talking decides, when in reality, the gun decides.
politicians know better, so they have a professional army they can buy, and hope to control.
“The Gatekeeper” needs billions.
Prof Wolff has another recent video "What US Media Covers Up About French Election". In this video he describes what an awful job the main stream media does in reporting or as he states "lack of reporting" the news. How hypocritical can this guy get with back to back video's, one vilifying how bad the main stream media is and another proclaiming just the opposite, that free speech will be challenged with Musk taking over Twitter. Which is it Prof Wolff ? You can't have it both ways.