Hey David, just wanted to say thanks for these extremely high-quality summaries and explanations! They are wonderful. Especially thankful for your lack of ads. Amazing work.
Note that you've divided the proportion of listeners by shedding light on his supposed racism, thus ensuring that the proportion of those who labor by listening is not a unity.
I always thought the division of labour was meant to represent the start of markets as people specialised in the production of particular products. Therefore, in your example of shoes, the cobbler is a prime example of the division of labour as they make shoes and that is their craft, but since they cannot eat the shoes they make, they trade shoes for food etc etc. Therefore, the division of labour is more akin to the break between 'traditional' or feudal society and 'early modern society' (around the 1400s in Eur). What you compare can be considered industrialisation, an extreme form of the division of labour that alienates the producer from their product in order to increase efficiency (anachronously you could call it Taylorism). Maybe I'm mistaken though, I haven't actually read Smith in a long time.
Within one minute of starting the summary, the narrator calls Smith a racist. Why? Just stick to the topic and leave the personal stuff out. Anyone listening to this summary is NOT interested in racism.
I also cannot believe that he began this discussion with that comment! So juvenile. Every single person on planet earth was a “racist” at that time. Oh… ok so he then reveals that he believes Smith is garbage and that Marx is where the truth lies. This guy is a clown. BTW, I don’t deny that Smiths economics are outdated.
Hey David, just wanted to say thanks for these extremely high-quality summaries and explanations! They are wonderful. Especially thankful for your lack of ads. Amazing work.
You're doing the lord's work. Thank you for this!
Thank you! I’ll be listening to all of your summaries before reading
40:47 produce that affords rent
43:05 war effects on corn
Coming back to this after a year!
you are the best
I can’t believe that it was mentioned in the first minute of discussing Adam Smith that he was racist.
Note that you've divided the proportion of listeners by shedding light on his supposed racism, thus ensuring that the proportion of those who labor by listening is not a unity.
Good.
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I always thought the division of labour was meant to represent the start of markets as people specialised in the production of particular products. Therefore, in your example of shoes, the cobbler is a prime example of the division of labour as they make shoes and that is their craft, but since they cannot eat the shoes they make, they trade shoes for food etc etc. Therefore, the division of labour is more akin to the break between 'traditional' or feudal society and 'early modern society' (around the 1400s in Eur). What you compare can be considered industrialisation, an extreme form of the division of labour that alienates the producer from their product in order to increase efficiency (anachronously you could call it Taylorism). Maybe I'm mistaken though, I haven't actually read Smith in a long time.
Hi! I am not sure if you have gone over this on your channel, but I would love to see what you think about Achille Mbembe's Necro-politics!
Will you do a video series on The Critique of Pure Reason?
You need to read Jennifer Pitts’s book. He was far from a racist
I believe as a black man that we should not consider a persons liking before actually understanding their views and information
This work is both underrated and overrated at the same time
truer words have never been commented
Within one minute of starting the summary, the narrator calls Smith a racist. Why? Just stick to the topic and leave the personal stuff out. Anyone listening to this summary is NOT interested in racism.
Yeah that really turned me off. He was just a man of his times, good or bad.
I also cannot believe that he began this discussion with that comment! So juvenile. Every single person on planet earth was a “racist” at that time.
Oh… ok so he then reveals that he believes Smith is garbage and that Marx is where the truth lies. This guy is a clown.
BTW, I don’t deny that Smiths economics are outdated.
Do Austrian economics next please.
Will you be doing the Austrians after Marx?
i think you should make it clear that these videos are not audiobooks.
A baker a butcher and a brewer walk into a bar..