Wolff Responds: Elon Musk's Billionaire BS

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @nicolasm400
    @nicolasm400 3 года назад +547

    Billionaires are made from hard work... other people's hard work.

    • @JohnT.4321
      @JohnT.4321 3 года назад +40

      @Buzzard Not only trickery but well thought out exploitation of workers and political lobbying.

    • @JohnT.4321
      @JohnT.4321 3 года назад +16

      @Buzzard Glad to meet you. You spoke the truth but greed was already there within capitalism from the beginning. In regards to the prosperity gospel there was a time, before Billy Graham, that a social gospel was taught. But even that was not enough considering the Bible also justified a ruling class and to exploit workers and having humans as property for the rich.
      Today, under capitalism, a worker has to sell his commodity of labor power to an employer. This is a step up from chattel slavery which is rightly called wage slavery. The employer has the worker to sign a contract that benefits the employer. But not so much for the employee. But you already knew that and of course they use Christianity to justify the exploitation.

    • @kayakMike1000
      @kayakMike1000 3 года назад +3

      So don't be so easy to trick.

    • @icemike1
      @icemike1 3 года назад +6

      I'm serious what does hardwork mean because it doesn't equat to wealth or is synonymous

    • @cybertrk
      @cybertrk 3 года назад +1

      It’s the coordination of hard work leading to greater quality of living for all… but you’re too selfish to understand gratitude for your current quality of living

  • @MarioTrujillo-pk9lx
    @MarioTrujillo-pk9lx 19 дней назад +44

    Thank you we the people need to hear this again and again and again. We the people not we the corrupt corporations

  • @BobSmith-ew5oi
    @BobSmith-ew5oi 18 дней назад +23

    If they paid there fair share the country would not be in such a mess.

  • @Ashdad99
    @Ashdad99 3 года назад +139

    It always amazes me that so many Americans see these billionaires as superstars or even gods. We blame our neighbors and countrymen for our problems. People need to wake up and march into the streets in the millions to say thats enough. We have the power but are unaware that we possess it.

    • @_____capt.out-there___4287
      @_____capt.out-there___4287 2 года назад

      the foes are not in the streets, so occupying them is target practice for the rent a police like Kent State University murdering children whose perps never saw a frown from the governors of power there.

    • @petesong7146
      @petesong7146 18 дней назад

      South Koreans took to the streets to force President Yoon to rescind Martial Law. Half of America is suffering in silence the exploitation by the rich or enamored by their obscene wealth.

    • @juhanleemet
      @juhanleemet 15 дней назад

      they have convinced most people that they are just temporarily embarrassed billionaires themselves, as per the American dream

    • @jojolouis
      @jojolouis 14 дней назад +1

      They have Murdoch!

  • @angie6649
    @angie6649 22 дня назад +27

    Every time I watch your videos, I think, I can;t love you more, Professor. I love your INTEGRITY, your TRUTHFULNESS.

    • @donnlayne8775
      @donnlayne8775 20 дней назад

      Then you believe the government makes good use of your money?

    • @kmrerk
      @kmrerk 18 дней назад

      Use your mind. Think for yourself. Don't assume to speak for anyone else.@@donnlayne8775

    • @jojolouis
      @jojolouis 14 дней назад

      @@donnlayne8775 Of course it could do a LOT better at present ! So the task is to vote for people who will help the government improve that use. It's not to vote for people who will only help the super rich (who couldn't care less about improving people living standards) to be even richer.

  • @gertrudewest4535
    @gertrudewest4535 3 года назад +120

    Good for you, finally calling these psychopaths out - rip off artist! Haven’t heard that in years.

  • @kevchard5214
    @kevchard5214 3 года назад +94

    What Elon doesn't say is when he said humanity he means the rich and if you are one of the kiss asses you can become a slave on mars for these people.

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад +3

      Funny he seems to despise most other billionaires.

    • @magz875
      @magz875 3 года назад +4

      Even if you kiss their ass they will surely dump you, albeit, with a small sum of money for you kissing efforts as they rocket upwards.

    • @johnburns8660
      @johnburns8660 3 года назад +4

      Mars would be a great place for Libertopia. Amazon could deliver all the shit they need. Eventually they could subcontract to some enterprising side hustlers who sold one of their kidneys to get their own little rocket ships.

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад +2

      You literally just described Earth 😂

    • @kevchard5214
      @kevchard5214 3 года назад

      @@magz875 Very true!

  • @Newton14alan
    @Newton14alan 3 года назад +245

    Imagine that, during your Thanksgiving Dinner (if you're lucky enough to HAVE one), Elon was invited to sit at your table. The food is passed around, and Musk takes the whole turkey, and puts it on his plate. He, then, does the same thing with all the other dishes, leaving half a teaspoon of mashed potatoes to be divided up amongst everyone ELSE. There ya go! Enjoy your meal!
    Thank you, Professor, for all you do to spread The Truth. You are much loved.

    • @ReparationsForImperialism
      @ReparationsForImperialism 3 года назад +15

      In this analogy, the amerikan workers get some mashed potatoes, whereas the people who made the mashed potatoes are the global victims of amerikan imperialism, and they are the turkey in this analogy.

    • @Newton14alan
      @Newton14alan 3 года назад +3

      @@ReparationsForImperialism -- Well said!

    • @yt.damian
      @yt.damian 3 года назад +7

      Imagine that, during your Thanksgiving Dinner you all sat around and instead of working for your income, spending that income on food, cooking that food you decided to make up fairy tales about someone who has more than you. Maybe thats why you only have a half a teaspoon of mashed potatoes to divide up amongst yourselves.
      Some people will always be attracted by the politics of envy.

    • @yt.damian
      @yt.damian 3 года назад +2

      @@JohnSmith-mc2zz Imagine that, during your Thanksgiving Dinner you all sat around and counted up all the food collected from the farm. You wrote it down in your little notebook as you have done every year since your grandfather started the practice. You notice that you always have enough food, There is always Turkey and mash and other vegetables. Some years you have a little more and other years a little less. You have also been keeping track of the production from the whole valley. You notice that one farm has increased his output so much that he is producing more than all the other farm put together. It seems they stopped growing some types pf food and started growing many other types of things and they are using many new methods that the other farms are not. They didnt steal your turkey or your other foods. They increased the output of the whole area. You have options here. Keep going as you are. Adopt some new practices and increase output. Take the produce from the highly successful farm and share it around so no one else has to work their farms. Be careful - not all options are equal.

    • @yoguimasterof69
      @yoguimasterof69 3 года назад

      your analogy is really stupid

  • @gm9559
    @gm9559 21 день назад +20

    The rich are destroying humanity.

  • @degraz7396
    @degraz7396 3 года назад +67

    I wish more people fully comprehend these words 'We are suckers to allow these hustlers to get away with what they are doing'

    • @blue46gt
      @blue46gt 3 года назад +3

      We are suckers to allow the government and the politicians to get away with what they are doing.

  • @BarefootBard
    @BarefootBard 3 года назад +45

    Musk (and Bezos and the rest) don't "own" that money. It is not their money. You can't make billions unless you appropriate common resources for yourself, use strong-arm tactics to advantage yourself in every exchange, suck up the life force -- the time, energy and talent -- of others to create profits for you. Musk is not brilliant; he's weirdly sociopathic. Bezos isn't a marketing genius; he's the entirely enabled epitome of greed. "Wealth' is a commons, and whenever an elite group take over the commons for themselves they are stealing it from everyone else. We've been sold a bill of goods by rich people. Continuing to buy into it impoverishes almost everyone and is destroying our world.

    • @clup3136
      @clup3136 3 года назад +1

      Read "Modern principles of Economics" by Tyler cowen & alex tabarrok

    • @nothinghere1996
      @nothinghere1996 16 дней назад

      agreed. Musk and Bezos are both heads off of the same red uk dragon.

    • @Brownkrait
      @Brownkrait 15 дней назад

      Hands up for Barefootbard

  • @outlawbillionairez9780
    @outlawbillionairez9780 3 года назад +79

    3 and 4 year olds understand when one kid hoards the toys, other kids do without. American workers can't process this simple equation as adults. It takes a village (of poor) to make a wealthy person.

    • @geraldmeehan8942
      @geraldmeehan8942 3 года назад +1

      Take Musks wealth and divide by the median accumulated wealth worldwide and see exactly how many it takes

    • @outlawbillionairez9780
      @outlawbillionairez9780 3 года назад +4

      @@geraldmeehan8942 well, it starts with the 118,000 employees, the very first victims, and goes from there.

    • @KleineJoop
      @KleineJoop 3 года назад +3

      To be honest it's the same everywhere, if i didn't know Mr Wolff and similar people and their knowledge i wouldn't know either. Gut feeling that something is wrong yes, but most people don't have the time to learn about all this, let alone find videos like this.

    • @clup3136
      @clup3136 3 года назад +1

      Read "Modern principles of Economics" by Tyler cowen & alex tabarrok

  • @youngdrosenumbaone8371
    @youngdrosenumbaone8371 3 года назад +153

    WOW. It is refreshing to hear this out loud. I thought I was going crazy. I am surrounded by debate lords who proceed to defend Musk and his BS. Worshipping the richest man in the world... nothing can go wrong with that

    • @DonDeering
      @DonDeering 3 года назад +5

      Tune in to Black Power Media, Caleb Maupin, Richard Medhurst, and Grayzone for more truth (those are RUclips channels). Those are a few of my favorite current events channels. They're pretty different from each other, covering different topics, but they all appear to be honest (I first thought, "they are all honest," but that can't be proven).

    • @blue46gt
      @blue46gt 3 года назад +1

      The government is richer than Elon, so maybe you should put the government at the top of your "do not worship" list, and stop calling for more taxes to be paid to it. The government is going to spend it on drone strikes against innocent people anyway.

    • @mario9318
      @mario9318 3 года назад +4

      @@blue46gt Dude, the same billionaires are the ones who lobby and highjack the electoral system and that prevent us form being able to elect another kind of government that would expend budget in a wiser manner. Grow up.

    • @mario9318
      @mario9318 3 года назад +1

      @@digdugdigdugThere are many things to save us from, ecological disasters resource scarcity, technological submission, alienation from reality metaverses and so on, i'm not sure which are we talking about now. Anyway i don't see how a democratic society can be single minded, a dictatorship can.

    • @DonDeering
      @DonDeering 3 года назад

      @@blue46gt They are going to use most of it on weapons, a horrific plan. Most of the people of the world (and most of the other countries) want peace; it's only a faction within the U.S. ruling class that wants the 800+ military bases and endless wars.
      But the government is a committee that was established by property-owning white men to manage the affairs of society on their behalf. That's what the government does, oversees society to benefit the oligarchy. A child owning a toy or an adult owning a home and a car and all the stuff that goes with working for a living (if you're lucky) isn't the kind of "property owning" the government represents. It represents the uber-rich and powerful people; they make sure of that. They buy whatever they need, including good press.
      I can't stand all the poverty, hunger, homelessness, war and brutal racial oppression that I see. It's not necessary, the U.S. is being dragged down by the runaway oligarchs. If the multiracial working class and all the people who support ending the wars (and the war budget), Medicare 4 All, high-quality public education to the highest levels, can pull ourselves together we might change the course the U.S. is on. The constant wars, sanctions, coups, rigged elections that people in the U.S. government orchestrate to enrich powerful private interests is one of the greatest problems facing humanity.
      Was it Elon Musk who said, "We can coup anyone we want to."? He didn't have a private army. He was referring to the U.S. military.

  • @alphacause
    @alphacause 3 года назад +137

    Elon Musk wants to get to Mars as quickly as possible because he is afraid of all the pitchforked hordes which will be coming after him, and his billionaire ilk, in the coming decades.

    • @Bovice..YT-handles-are-fn-dumb
      @Bovice..YT-handles-are-fn-dumb 3 года назад +12

      They tell us they wana make Mars awesome to live on.. The reality is probably something more like, a dystopian prison planet, cultivated by slave labor, for it's first few hundred years.

    • @justinmcneil659
      @justinmcneil659 3 года назад +3

      Hopefully it's a lot sooner than decades

    • @Monkeybongoes
      @Monkeybongoes 3 года назад +4

      If he gets to Mars he'll wish he stayed here. Pitchforked hordes would be better than the hellish life Mars would provide.

    • @bobbalmer177
      @bobbalmer177 3 года назад +2

      Years*

    • @petestanton1945
      @petestanton1945 3 года назад +2

      BLM had portable guillotines & a rap song 2 go w 'em : D

  • @henriettealkhouri7432
    @henriettealkhouri7432 3 года назад +66

    It is not only billionaire's money ,it is the huge sums that are being spent on the MIC(military industrial complex) that is breaking America's back, but there is no one with a back bone to tackle both issues.

    • @VultCult
      @VultCult 3 года назад +7

      Yes, and I would add multi-national corporations in every other business sector - IT, Insurance, Media, Food Production, Drugs, etc., along with weapons (MIC) corporations.

    • @ReparationsForImperialism
      @ReparationsForImperialism 3 года назад +10

      Amerika is only able to loot the world because of its economic terrorism backed by its military terrorism. If amerika divested in its military, there'd be socialist revolutions all throughout LatAm, Africa, SE Asia, and thus the plug that produces the wealth of the amerikan empire would be pulled.

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад +1

      I said the same thing and got pilloried bc people just want to hate billionaires without actually seeking a solution. The left is a cult just like the right and they're too brainwashed to see it.

    • @sivi9741
      @sivi9741 3 года назад +3

      Eisenhower predict this and warn American 70 years ago !
      Americans are to dumb to care and now they suffer from it .
      But of course , Instead blaming themselves they always try to find a new enemy to explain their debacle …

    • @marygard4608
      @marygard4608 3 года назад +1

      I think it's the US' unfair tax policies that allow people to do business here but send profits upstairs. American business is getting a dose of cold reality . Americans are not going to work at these s--tty jobs for next to nothing anymore, and their own anti-immigrant policies have left them unable to find workers.

  • @henriettealkhouri7432
    @henriettealkhouri7432 3 года назад +61

    If only America had many wolff to defend the world against its excesses, and help the natives to stand up for them selves against the likes of V.Nuland, H.Clinton, Sinema and war mongers where they Democrats or Republicans.

    • @RKZX2
      @RKZX2 3 года назад +2

      check out Michael Hudson. he's another economist just like Wolff.

    • @TaiFerret
      @TaiFerret 3 года назад +1

      @RicharDWolff▫️ What are you trying to do, impostor?

    • @JohnT.4321
      @JohnT.4321 3 года назад

      @@RKZX2 Also check out Professor Paul Cockshott's YT channel. He is also a Marxist economist like Wolff and a computer scientist.

    • @KleineJoop
      @KleineJoop 3 года назад +2

      We (the people) used to protest, revolt, revolution. Wolff is just the teacher, the people have to act, that's the only thing that historically has worked. That's what people in the US need to do, but to be honest; everywhere.

    • @paulespinosa5195
      @paulespinosa5195 3 года назад

      @@TaiFerret I feel it's create conversation to help bring on change,,,free energy now

  • @anneliu3816
    @anneliu3816 3 года назад +19

    Truly love your knowledge, courage and humanity, Prof. Richard Wolff. Hopefully, more and more people will see the world clearly.

  • @daveking-sandbox9263
    @daveking-sandbox9263 20 дней назад +11

    The GOP, the party of the billionaire's values!

  • @Robert-to9zv
    @Robert-to9zv 23 дня назад +21

    I'm for Elon Musk having a one-way ticket to Mars or even Jupiter.

    • @arthurdunger4223
      @arthurdunger4223 11 дней назад +2

      take trump, putin and oong with him. good luck and riddance to them all

    • @JamesMata-v7y
      @JamesMata-v7y 7 дней назад +1

      😅 yes

  • @francosoliman103
    @francosoliman103 18 дней назад +9

    Musk is an absolute DISGRACE.

  • @zac9399
    @zac9399 3 года назад +241

    Musk wants to send us to Mars to do to us what his daddy did to the folks mining emeralds for him, but on a planetary scale

    • @barquerojuancarlos7253
      @barquerojuancarlos7253 3 года назад +12

      It's not necessary even to go back into the slavers his family history : "Elon Musk : Slave Driver Supreme" Isles of the Left (April 23, 2018)

    • @SofaKingShit
      @SofaKingShit 3 года назад +20

      Yeah wierd how a guy who spent his formative years as a wealthy and priveleged minority under apartheid now treats his workers and the world they live in as mere commodities to be exploited. Must be some sort whacky coincidence.

    • @JohnT.4321
      @JohnT.4321 3 года назад +8

      @@SofaKingShit Labor power is a commodity its just that workers need to realize that. Once that is realized then they would organize for a system change to stop the exploitation. It takes labor to put together materials to create a product or machinery. The materials won't make themselves. That is why Marx wrote that labor creates a surplus value which is realized as profits. Anyone can go to the Marxist Internet Archive and look up Marx's "Capital" with the chapter on the Commodity.

    • @cosmicdiasporapoems2916
      @cosmicdiasporapoems2916 3 года назад +4

      Very good observation.

    • @ecoandrei328
      @ecoandrei328 3 года назад +5

      Dude, the mining operations his family owned are pure fairy tale! Look it up.

  • @abolishnato
    @abolishnato 3 года назад +17

    Wolff is undefeated

  • @kristine8338
    @kristine8338 22 дня назад +10

    The earth is beautiful. Cherish it. 🐣

  • @maryortiz5298
    @maryortiz5298 4 дня назад +1

    Thanks!

  • @rcmrcm3370
    @rcmrcm3370 3 года назад +72

    I was so happy to see "The Squad" go full kayfabe when they voted en masse to reject the “Elon Musk Trillionaire Act.” A nice bit of theater. l loved how "Nancy Moma Bear Pelosi" gave them the signal to vote No after she confirmed she had 15 GOP votes up her sleeve, and they were waiting for her signal before they committed. God, will the showboating never end?

    • @biscuit2075
      @biscuit2075 3 года назад +18

      Until moneys out of politics no meaning never

    • @geraldmeehan8942
      @geraldmeehan8942 3 года назад +5

      The social infrastructure bill in grave danger at this point

    • @oldfan1963
      @oldfan1963 3 года назад +27

      Showboating won't end until Americans can vote for an alternative to the Rep/Dem single-party option.

    • @JohnT.4321
      @JohnT.4321 3 года назад +10

      @@oldfan1963 I agree 100 percent.

    • @Monkeybongoes
      @Monkeybongoes 3 года назад +10

      @@oldfan1963 Correct. Problem is, how do we get a viable alternative without rank choice voting, which Rep & Dems will never allow. Then there is the problem of media bias against alternatives.

  • @aintdatsnipes177
    @aintdatsnipes177 3 года назад +38

    Half of the $1.2 Tril infrastructure bill (after DC takes there cut off the top) will go to pay for massively marked up "Charging Stations" for $76k Tesla's. EM rakes in a $100 billion a year (thanks to the Fed), Tesla is a (LOL) trillion dollar company, but some how they have to have taxpayers pay for there overpriced "Charging Station", and what's EM's cut?

    • @-LightningRod-
      @-LightningRod- 3 года назад +2

      bullshit dude plenty of ways to attack Elon Musk without making shit up dude.

    • @kevinmackfurniture
      @kevinmackfurniture 3 года назад +5

      @@-LightningRod- where's YOUR facts !?.. calling 🐂💩 is easy without facts.

    • @-LightningRod-
      @-LightningRod- 3 года назад +1

      @@kevinmackfurniture
      Excuse Me? 500 BILLION Dollars for charging stations dude?
      just Shut The Fuck Up

    • @kevinmackfurniture
      @kevinmackfurniture 3 года назад +6

      @@-LightningRod- If you don't believe it, prove it is incorrect. You cannot, so Also speculation. If charging stations are expected to be in every town and city in all 50 States...$500 billion seems low. An average gas station, built from scratch is well into the 3 million dollar range. A level 2 home electric charging station runs about $10,000-$13,000 dollars per. One Outlet in your garage. Now multiple that by say 16 plugs, the land, buildings, construction and electrical cost, taxes, licensing, and regulatory fees... Easily in the multi million dollar range. Now multiple that by say...5000 stations per state. More in major metropolitan areas.
      Your "I don't believe it, get fucked" answer, seems pretty naive and ignorant right about now....but have at it Hoss. Wallow in your righteous indignation and false sense of superiority.

    • @-LightningRod-
      @-LightningRod- 3 года назад +1

      @@kevinmackfurniture
      Well, ...i am an Industrial Construction Electrician 309A Red Seal, so be careful what nonsense you spew at Me in My particular field of Expertise buddy, secondly "Prove me incorrect"? Prove you are even alive buddy, dont prole to Me stupid or Foolish arguments

  • @araucaria5173
    @araucaria5173 3 года назад +12

    Thankyou Prof Wolff for your very wise words .

  • @freakalmighty2533
    @freakalmighty2533 2 года назад +4

    I've followed many of Professor Wolff's lectures and interviews (on youtube). They are always enriching, insightful, useful and presented succinctly and lucidly. I always have to come back to this channel though, because the sarcasm in these videos makes me laugh like a child.

  • @AxiomBlurr
    @AxiomBlurr 3 года назад +18

  • @luvzfrance24
    @luvzfrance24 3 года назад +60

    I don't understand the appeal to go to Mars. It takes over a year to get there and the planet is extremely radioactive. If people are complaining about UV exposure on Earth then no human has any business going to Mars.

    • @rcmrcm3370
      @rcmrcm3370 3 года назад +10

      He's a sick man, people don't want facts that make their life style wrong.

    • @inhisservice8862
      @inhisservice8862 3 года назад +4

      It's not about Mars. Or the moon, for that matter. It's about getting off the planet.
      Bill Gates has bought up 100,000s of thousands of acres of farmland, also.
      These two things are connected. These jerks know something the rest of us don't: that there is major disaster ahead.
      They have the money to prepare. The rest of us are S.O.L.
      That is what their bullshit is about.

    • @kevichiking3563
      @kevichiking3563 3 года назад +7

      It's so dumb and won't happen any time soon.

    • @tevbuff
      @tevbuff 3 года назад +10

      I agree too many problems on Earth to be thinking about going to Mars.

    • @phoenix.
      @phoenix. 3 года назад +2

      Me either. I think person needs to be delusional and/or deranged, unable to find meanjng and happines in their life.

  • @marygard4608
    @marygard4608 3 года назад +18

    Again, thanks Prof. Wolff, for all your hard work.

  • @julietfontaine4707
    @julietfontaine4707 17 дней назад +2

    Thank you Mr Wolff! I feel a part of your class and learn so much

  • @oldfan1963
    @oldfan1963 3 года назад +18

    6:05 - The "hustlers" are also in congress.

  • @leftistgamer909
    @leftistgamer909 3 года назад +106

    Elon Musk is rich because Americans keep allowing themselves to think he is a real-life Tony Stark.

    • @petestanton1945
      @petestanton1945 3 года назад +3

      Ya then it turns out jetpack man over LAX was a balloon drone : D

    • @collybeans586
      @collybeans586 3 года назад +3

      True

    • @pedroual
      @pedroual 3 года назад +2

      True and we all know that Tony Stark is a jerk at best.

    • @randybest9187
      @randybest9187 3 года назад +2

      Everything is fake, phony and false these days. There is no financial or moral grounding.

    • @BobDorn
      @BobDorn 3 года назад +1

      sort of

  • @itzenormous
    @itzenormous 3 года назад +8

    The American People (and the People of the World) are going to be left with a profound decision:
    Do we want to build a world of prosperity, and a better future for our children? OR Do we wish to keep working, and keep our children working themselves to the bone, in order to enrich Capital?
    It really does boil down to that!!

  • @dawna1214
    @dawna1214 3 года назад +5

    Thank you for your commentary 🙏🏿 I really appreciate you Professor Wolf...We really need you!

  • @bobbalmer177
    @bobbalmer177 3 года назад +35

    Saw your Q&A from while back. Watching old videos, incredible. Good work 🇺🇸⚖️

  • @terryolsson4145
    @terryolsson4145 10 дней назад +1

    Wow! It is reassuring to hear someone reveal the dirty truth about the criminal and unjust distribution of wealth in the world vs the poor or middle class. Stuff we all think about but just grin and bare it. Someone out there is rooting for us. Thank you. Maybe one day soon it will all come crashing down in our favor.

  • @bobmarshall3700
    @bobmarshall3700 3 года назад +17

    Mr Musk is increasingly becoming a pain in the backside day by day. I hope he does get to Mars and stays there!

  • @monicaabreu8854
    @monicaabreu8854 15 дней назад +1

    Thank You Professor Richard Wolff !
    Unbelievable and Sad !

  • @randybest9187
    @randybest9187 3 года назад +26

    Dear Professor: This is one of your best videos!

  • @Tom-Travels
    @Tom-Travels 3 года назад +21

    I can't wait to work in a Mars colony mining water.

    • @ladymorwendaebrethil-feani4031
      @ladymorwendaebrethil-feani4031 3 года назад +2

      It's going to be Blade Runner in real life. But I still have hope that he decides to go there and ends up fried in space by solar radiation.

    • @JohnT.4321
      @JohnT.4321 3 года назад +2

      @@ladymorwendaebrethil-feani4031 I seen a documentary on the effects radiation in space has on the human body. Within six months beyond the Van Allen Belt, the radiation would cause brain damage. That is why the ISS operates on this side of the Van Allen belt because it offers much more protection from radiation. On Earth we are much more protected not only with the Van Allen belt but with the Earth's magnetic field and the ozone layer. Mars offers no protection. By the time astronauts arrive after a year in space, they all would be unable to think rationally to land on Mars.

    • @SofaKingShit
      @SofaKingShit 3 года назад +2

      Someone will probably eventually start cooking meth.

    • @davidpretiz4439
      @davidpretiz4439 3 года назад

      I love your attitude

  • @markpeters7466
    @markpeters7466 3 года назад +13

    Richard Wolff. Great videos. Keep giving us the truth.

  • @marlenaforbes-reidy9876
    @marlenaforbes-reidy9876 15 дней назад +1

    Well explained in absolute detail thank you Professor Wolff 🙏❤️

  • @leothor7128
    @leothor7128 3 года назад +2

    Thanks for the Spanish subtitles, Doctor. my english is very bad, but still i don't miss his videos.

  • @lawrenceiley7686
    @lawrenceiley7686 3 года назад +9

    Billionaires are a policy failure.

  • @joolzvega7298
    @joolzvega7298 3 года назад +36

    We spend triple his wealth every year on the military. Maybe we should stop doing that.

    • @americanoligarchy8825
      @americanoligarchy8825 3 года назад +16

      Maybe we should stop allowing billionaires to exist and stop obscene military spending?

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад +1

      If you take away billionaires stock holdings (which most often is their wealth) what should happen to the company? Nationalize everything? How deeply have you actually thought about this?

    • @americanoligarchy8825
      @americanoligarchy8825 3 года назад +8

      @@joolzvega7298 apparently deeper than you if you think the only option is nationalizing them lol.

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад +2

      @@americanoligarchy8825 yet you have no answer...

    • @americanoligarchy8825
      @americanoligarchy8825 3 года назад +6

      @@joolzvega7298 get your own answers buddy!
      Why get your answers from a random person in comments? Wouldn't it be more beneficial for you to figure it out yourself?
      Here ill give you a little hint where to start.
      Pick your favorite search engine and type in "ways to run a business without robbing the majority to make one guy rich"
      Report back on what you learned!

  • @chrisbayridge23
    @chrisbayridge23 3 года назад +7

    I hope Elon takes all his billionaire friends to Mars right before it gets hit by a 20 mile wide comet

  • @MadScientistMikeOfficial
    @MadScientistMikeOfficial 3 года назад +14

    You're the best Professor Wolff, thanks for all you do

  • @anhedonic-voting
    @anhedonic-voting 3 года назад +2

    Thank you🌎✊️🌹🗽

  • @VernonNickersonSCHOOLCOACH
    @VernonNickersonSCHOOLCOACH 3 года назад +4

    00:05:00 I had no knowledge of the history of taxation in the US. Thank you Dr. Wolff.

  • @zehrajafri9252
    @zehrajafri9252 3 года назад +3

    Some kill people for profit others for childlike dreams.

  • @DearProfessorRF
    @DearProfessorRF 3 года назад +7

    Gandhi called this kind of economic/business approach that benefits a few at the expense of most “economic violence.”

    • @nealtauss1715
      @nealtauss1715 3 года назад

      ... you confuse Elon with Exxon.... some of Elon's line workers are Tesla stock millionaires.... who will pay taxes on their liquidated stock fortunes at time of execution.... like them Elon only realizes wealth with stock he SELLS.... from self-owned companies that ARE tracking to HEAL this Planet and PERHAPS.... others.... he pays his taxes at +50%.... to a Gov't that deflects +50% to 'Defense' initiatives such as 'gain of function' experimentations resulting in misplannedemics which YOU think can be remediated through FURTHER Financing.... when in MOST likelihood ALL that is sure to occur in THAT literally SICK strategem is Perpetual Plannedemic @ Perpetual Profit AND.... @ Financial FASCISM.... how that works as Socialism or Communism or Democracy is beyond my capacity for comprehension.... your work generally informs understanding.... but in this case you have stepped into a hole.... requiring FURTHER research and rethinking.... Elon is building ECOnomically DISTRIBUTVE Earth Systems TOWARD.... Mars Systems.... seek further and SEE.... the money that is needed to educate the PovertyProne is on Wall Street.... requiring ONLY a Transaction Tax of 25cents per trade to unleash more than enough funding flow.... they WON'T miss it.... while IF we could confiscate Elon's executive funding capability we would STILL fall short of need.... THAT money's on Wall Street @ TRILLIONS of Trades per Day.... Tax THAT.

  • @jessicamai7783
    @jessicamai7783 3 года назад +1

    How do we even fight them? People have been protesting for decades. I was listening to an activist in the 70’s fighting for the same issues.The corruption & wealth gap only got worse.
    I don’t think anything will change even if they pay it. The politicians will give it to the monopolies & military.

  • @argtv1007
    @argtv1007 3 года назад +3

    Came across this Poem, I thought I should share.
    "The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people's door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy... but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone."

  • @maryortiz5298
    @maryortiz5298 4 дня назад

    It is great I encounter you by chance. The way you explain the truths and economy is so well understood.

  • @mehdi1330
    @mehdi1330 3 года назад +8

    Don't we all love professor Richard Wolf?

  • @donaldleejc
    @donaldleejc 19 дней назад

    Thanks for this, always find your reports enjoyable 👍

  • @pietroaretino6390
    @pietroaretino6390 3 года назад +7

    We can't even successfully manage to live on a planet that literally hosts us, with our own native environment and eco-system. I'm sure Mars will work out much better.

  • @kazlouyahor_5946
    @kazlouyahor_5946 3 года назад +2

    big thanks

  • @TheRealBatCave
    @TheRealBatCave 3 года назад +5

    Didn't he offer the UN the 38 billion they said they needed, if they showed everyone how and where it was spent....and the UN declined that offer??

    • @NN-ul4oy
      @NN-ul4oy 3 года назад +1

      So??!
      Now you consider Musk as an philanthropist??!
      And that Musk has to keep his money since people don't want it??!

    • @pieface8032
      @pieface8032 12 дней назад

      Musk will be the only big alligator in the swamp soon. His wealth has gone up by a third since this video and I'd predict he'll be the first trillionaire before the end of the trump presidency.

  • @janemokoena636
    @janemokoena636 2 года назад +1

    I love, love the facial expressions of Sir. Wolff when he says " get us all to mars"😂😂
    No one is getting to mars, that's bull.. we were born on earth, and definitely gonna die on earth

  • @davecaraballo
    @davecaraballo 3 года назад +5

    They already take ours to give corporate welfare it's time for that to stop and help the working and poor.

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy Год назад

      The USA needs a truly left-wing government.

  • @jazzsocietyofecuador
    @jazzsocietyofecuador 3 года назад +2

    "Wealth corrupts and absolute wealth corrupts absolutely." -Jim Gala

    • @jazzsocietyofecuador
      @jazzsocietyofecuador 3 года назад +2

      @RicharDWolff▫️ As far as I can determine, the comment above with the WhatsApp # buried between hearts is not from Prof. Richard D. Wolff, and is a scam to sell crypto currencies.

  • @ryanchampion9696
    @ryanchampion9696 3 года назад +18

    Love the hat. Way to go after that fraud.

    • @davidhanks9241
      @davidhanks9241 3 года назад

      Well until he sales some stock he won't be nor should he be taxed.. confiscating wealth never has worked and the dumbest person on Earth is better at managing their money then the Government

  • @Support_Ad_Blocker
    @Support_Ad_Blocker 23 дня назад +5

    Elon Huckster is the consummate grifter.

  • @mottscottison6943
    @mottscottison6943 3 года назад +9

    He even cited Cao Zhi's Seven Step Verse in Twitter as if somehow taxing billionaires is equal to humanity killing each other. What a joker.

  • @collybeans586
    @collybeans586 3 года назад

    Its horrible how much of this kind of treatment people will take. No one has a clue it seems.

  • @alicecoppers8980
    @alicecoppers8980 3 года назад +7

    is Elon going be on that first flight? send him soon...there is no return flight

  • @stevenr5149
    @stevenr5149 3 года назад +1

    Thank you Richard.

  • @StaticCollapse
    @StaticCollapse 3 года назад +10

    Elon Musk, the biggest ripoff artist... I mean 😂😂

  • @incognito3620
    @incognito3620 13 дней назад

    “We the people” became “us and them “.

  • @HxH2011DRA
    @HxH2011DRA 3 года назад +3

    Never forget "We'll coup whoever we want!"

  • @intiaboats
    @intiaboats 18 дней назад +1

    (Voice dripping with sarcasm...) LOL Brilliant!

  • @marygard4608
    @marygard4608 3 года назад +7

    I would happily forgo Mr. Musk's tax dollars if uses the money to take him and his ilk to Mars, and if he and his ilk never return.

    • @jessmore9870
      @jessmore9870 3 года назад

      You starry-eyed optimist, you!😊

    • @Nothing-ns7tf
      @Nothing-ns7tf 3 года назад

      Anyone that is lucky enough to survive the journey to will surely not make it back !!!

  • @RichardBaran
    @RichardBaran 3 года назад +2

    Truth!

  • @oldsesalt8496
    @oldsesalt8496 3 года назад +4

    Musk will get us to Mars? Did anyone call shotgun?

    • @tuneboyz5634
      @tuneboyz5634 3 года назад +1

      by "us" he is referring to rich people

    • @TimothyKwong-z4y
      @TimothyKwong-z4y 22 дня назад

      Trump.....🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @dianemitchell1717
      @dianemitchell1717 20 дней назад

      I just realized, after watching “Don’t Look UP” for the third time, the psychopathic money hungry character in the movie was modeled after Elon Musk.

  • @patriciaanndemello4652
    @patriciaanndemello4652 3 года назад +1

    As a single woman who has no tax write offs, I pay 28% in taxes. I've paid that rate in all kinds of jobs I've held. It's ridiculous. I think billionaires can pay the same rate as myself.

    • @everythingmatters6308
      @everythingmatters6308 2 года назад

      @@davidh4129 There's always that one jerk in the comments section. If I had raised you I would feel like a failure.

    • @everythingmatters6308
      @everythingmatters6308 2 года назад

      @@davidh4129 I am dependent on the government for nothing. You are a small person to kick those who are down. You contaminate rather than contribute. You parents failed miserably.

  • @user-wl2xl5hm7k
    @user-wl2xl5hm7k 3 года назад +6

    Professor Wolff, can you please research & advocate for full intellectual property (IP) abolition? This is the most important activist aim for working class people! A just economy (& most leftist projects) has very little chance without first abolishing IP. IP is the most severe & oppressive tool of the rich & powerful.
    Please see the work of Stephan Kinsella, Michele Boldrin, & David K. Levine. These are the best experts on intellectual property in the world. Everyone who cares about seriously improving things for humanity needs to know what IP abolition is about.

    • @user-wl2xl5hm7k
      @user-wl2xl5hm7k 3 года назад +2

      IP laws make no sense from either left or right politics. The ‘property’ in intellectual property is a false term used for propaganda purposes. Intellectual property is not property in any sense. It’s monopoly. IP actually stifles innovation & creativity. IP also is the main component of cultural control, propaganda, and advertising. And IP seriously screws up our economy & stacks it for the rich & powerful more than any other tool (especially IP with digital tech and the internet). IP abolition is the most important aim to liberate artists, programmers, inventors, etc. and make them all better off financially

    • @user-wl2xl5hm7k
      @user-wl2xl5hm7k 3 года назад +2

      All 4 types of IP must be fully abolished ASAP: patents, copyright, trademarks & trade secrets

    • @user-wl2xl5hm7k
      @user-wl2xl5hm7k 3 года назад +4

      The 2008 economics book ‘Against Intellectual Monopoly’ and the 2001 essay ‘Against Intellectual Property’ are both as important as Marx’s ‘Capital’! Each has nearly flawless argumentation. All leftists need to read both (free online). If you can’t read them now, then write down both titles so you can tell others so they can read them.

    • @user-wl2xl5hm7k
      @user-wl2xl5hm7k 3 года назад +2

      And Uniquenameosaurus has two excellent and entertaining videos from April 2021 about IP abolition.

    • @user-wl2xl5hm7k
      @user-wl2xl5hm7k 3 года назад +2

      NOTICE: To the extent I have any copyright in the comments in this thread, I relinquish those rights to the public domain according to the CC0 license-Signed, /s/ PN.
      ->Before we abolish IP, everyone use the CC0 license for all types of works (including software) when you’re not in need of money or there if there are no buyers for your copyright-monopoly. Also, as the author you can always ask for donations with crowdfunding even if you no longer have the copyright-monopoly.

  • @stevej3483
    @stevej3483 3 года назад +1

    thank you and amen

  • @infinitebombdog
    @infinitebombdog 3 года назад +3

    I was #434 on Patreon 😊

  • @zzzzzaaaa9999
    @zzzzzaaaa9999 3 года назад +1

    If only politicians listened to prof. Wolff :(

  • @darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832
    @darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832 3 года назад +8

    The hat is still on.

  • @rongeorge574
    @rongeorge574 20 дней назад

    No, Maximum Efficiency means only automatic taxes, no filling out of any forms, like sales tax, real estate tax. People should be taxed only when they consume, not for merely having money

  • @DavidWilliams-DSW558
    @DavidWilliams-DSW558 3 года назад +8

    I hope he manages to get a certain 30% of the population to the most inhospitable areas of Mars, such as Trump and his supporters, Boris Johnson and his consorts, Jair Bolsonaro et al.

    • @antifazisbonifaz6964
      @antifazisbonifaz6964 3 года назад

      🙂👌👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

    • @antifazisbonifaz6964
      @antifazisbonifaz6964 3 года назад +1

      I hope the same also. The earth would be a much better place without them 🙂👌👍👍

  • @patrickwilson2650
    @patrickwilson2650 15 дней назад +1

    We don't need to go to the moon or mars. Use the money to fix this country

  • @outlawbillionairez9780
    @outlawbillionairez9780 3 года назад +9

    Elon.. "no labor laws on Mars? No one claiming to own it? No environmental laws? Let the planetary imperialism begin!!"

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад

      Elon has stated that direct democracy would be the ideal governance system for Mars.

    • @JohnT.4321
      @JohnT.4321 3 года назад +3

      Only problem with Mars imperialism is that there are no natives to enslave or kill.

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад

      Direct democracy is not imperialism. You realize Space X is a direct competitor to the military industrial complex and they refuse to make weapons of war, right?

    • @outlawbillionairez9780
      @outlawbillionairez9780 3 года назад +1

      @@joolzvega7298 business insider, last month, " Space X keeps winning military contracts! Thrre Pentagon contracts worth hundreds of millions."

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад

      @@outlawbillionairez9780 for rocket launches, not weapons of war. Any rocket company needs government contracts to survive. Did you even read the article?

  • @supercommie
    @supercommie 2 года назад

    He grew up in South Africa, a place of extreme income and wealth inequality. You could see how he would conclude that this situation is good and natural state for human societies to be in.

  • @judymanning2538
    @judymanning2538 3 года назад +5

    ❤❤ for the algorithm ❤❤

  • @billymunn4639
    @billymunn4639 10 дней назад

    Weird that it now doesn't seem far fethched that saying this stuff could become illegal some time. First mocked, then criticized, then they need put a stop to it.

  • @henriettealkhouri7432
    @henriettealkhouri7432 3 года назад +3

    I think it is a good idea for all the billionaires in the world to packed and bundled into this space ship with one way ticket and while they are there, their respective governments should take over their assets and start building a better world for all of us. I do wonder if God will tolerate all these billionaires living next to him?.

    • @rcmrcm3370
      @rcmrcm3370 3 года назад +1

      "The Marching Morons" but we won't need so many space ships...

    • @garrethoien6666
      @garrethoien6666 2 года назад

      So you would support a government which forcibly exiles a class of its population and then confiscates their wealth? That has been done a few times in the last 100 years, quite infamous events actually. Never turned out well for anyone involved. Maybe take a look at history and then have a long think about who you want to be if your ideas were to become reality.

  • @kellychartrand5532
    @kellychartrand5532 3 года назад

    Paying tax is a privilege. It means you are making a decent living and paying for the infrastructure to make your life better.

  • @Micya33
    @Micya33 3 года назад +4

    Hello, Mr. Richard. I'm from China. I like your point of view very much. I'd like to share my views with you. Thank you
    People in the comment area draw different conclusions according to their different assets. for instance:
    1. China has no people's vote, and the government has great power. The government can manage the capitalists and prevent them from monopolizing the market and squeezing the people. The key to China's rapid development is strong government decision-making
    2. The United States seeks benefits from the abnormal means of war, establishes the dollar system and reaps people all over the world. Under this premise, the people will not be very disgusted with the development of capitalism, but after the decline of the economic development rate of the United States, the disadvantages of capitalism have also been exposed, which is very fatal. Capital knows no borders, and people are just slaves to capital.
    3. Why should China combine socialism with capitalism? Answer: because of the existence of the United States. If China wants to develop its economy, it must use capitalism. If the whole world is socialist, the supervision system in this world will be more developed, corrupt officials and capitalists will change, and capitalists will give back to society.
    When people take it for granted that they should not rely on the capital of their parents and the previous generation, the world will be beautiful
    The working people all over the world are the greatest. Long live the working class

    • @clup3136
      @clup3136 3 года назад

      Read "Modern principles of Economics" by Tyler cowen & alex tabarrok

  • @Brinjal-yu1vi
    @Brinjal-yu1vi 17 дней назад

    So Right.❤❤❤❤❤

  • @yammy1688
    @yammy1688 3 года назад +6

    As much as I admire professor, he is off the mark here. The goal is interplanetary humanity, and sustainability. That is all. The March of technology is speeding up, and Elon and his companies are on the forefront.
    One need only to look at how he lives day to day to understand he cares not for personal wealth. But capital is the vehicle for getting things done in this insane world, and he is a very very motivated human.

    • @kmrerk
      @kmrerk 18 дней назад +1

      This sort of childish hero-worship is what keeps us on the bottom, and the Billionaire class on top.

  • @geralddavino8221
    @geralddavino8221 3 года назад

    It’s time to reduce congressional perks by petition. If petition is ignored, both parties show their colors. The rich can subsidize their minions. THAT movement will energize and unite America.

  • @michaelthelastwarrior
    @michaelthelastwarrior 3 года назад +3

    Why transform this country when one can transform Mars😵‍💫

  • @xanbex8324
    @xanbex8324 3 года назад

    John Prine " Some people arn't human. some people arn't kind"

  • @skapunkoialternativeliving6522
    @skapunkoialternativeliving6522 3 года назад +8

    I say instead of trying to go to other planets.. I think she would take care of this planet first. How about that🤔🤔

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад +1

      Tesla's mission statement is to accelerate the adoption on sustainable energy...

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад +1

      Actually it's happening way faster than you realize.

    • @skapunkoialternativeliving6522
      @skapunkoialternativeliving6522 3 года назад +2

      @@joolzvega7298 that is so true

    • @kdvinson5638
      @kdvinson5638 3 года назад

      @@joolzvega7298 do you really believe that everyone driving expensive, planned obsolescence, unmaintainable, luxury cars to carry the kids and groceries home is the way?

    • @joolzvega7298
      @joolzvega7298 3 года назад

      @@kdvinson5638 you just got everything wrong lmfao. Keep supporting the fossil fuel industry and thinking you're progressive. Tesla makes the best selling car in Europe of any kind, not elite at all. Very low to no maintenance required and last over half a million miles. The rest of the industry make their profits off planned obsolescence and constant repairs. Tesla is working towards releasing a $25k car in the next couple years. They almost went out of business scaling up the model 3 so it would have been impossible for them to make cheaper cars at that point. In a few years you will see. They're not perfect but I truly believe they're trying to do good and doing far better than most in an imperfect world.

  • @SnowyOwlPrepper
    @SnowyOwlPrepper 3 года назад +1

    Great words.