In Conversation with Mark Blyth: George Bernard Shaw - Theater, Economics and Social Justice

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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2024

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  • @kleptomaniagta5362
    @kleptomaniagta5362 5 лет назад +40

    “I think a public investment in a good microphone could have a positive impact on the effective demand for this type of conference...”
    -Keynes

    • @nutsackmania
      @nutsackmania 5 лет назад +6

      friedman argued it was the signal level into the encoder, not the microphone

    • @bkolumban
      @bkolumban 2 года назад +2

      OR, you could just up the volume on your device.

  • @strongforce79
    @strongforce79 8 лет назад +61

    Mark is such an awesome speaker. Mark has the ability to make the complex and transform it in a way that makes sense to those that it should make sense to, and I thank you guys for giving him a platform to spread his message.

    • @matthewmalpeli
      @matthewmalpeli 7 лет назад +7

      He is a gifted educator and a "no shit sherlock" master of what should have been obvious long before the GFC. The best thing about him though is he talks plain truth that's relatively easy to comprehend to the kind of power that pathologically lies and acts like it's unaware of the deceit it's selling. He's like the Dr Jordan Peterson of economics, without the cult like, unquestioning devotion of his followers, or the massive patreon capital accumulation from Christian prosperity evangelicals that crave academic respectability where it absolutely doesn't belong.
      That he's found an audience by claiming your freedom is under threat from transgender activists, whom you've got to say are probably suffering from a kind of post traumatic stress disorder from being the living embodiment of everything the Christian right's psychopathy gets hyper about, is 100% a slippery slope fallacy going to war against a traumatised minority that makes up little more than 0.1% of the population. Meanwhile, the top 0.1% of income earners are taking in all the new income generated globally and a clueless fake billionaire has 19 aircraft carriers, the nuclear codes, and a million triggers that could easily devolve into a global stupid of armageddon proportions, and no one wants to take it seriously.
      The "I'm alright jack, go fuck yourself" ethos of "what's mine is mine" selfish psychopathy is going to be the end of us. If not nukes, it'll be climate change, and it'll be the right that makes this probable, rather than merely possible.

    • @ConsciousnessisRough
      @ConsciousnessisRough 5 лет назад +1

      Peterson is a fraud and Mark would shudder at being compared to such a dishonest academic.

  • @aundriamarshall3187
    @aundriamarshall3187 6 лет назад +11

    i could listen to Mark Blyth all day. absolutely brilliant

  • @roc7880
    @roc7880 4 года назад +9

    I loved the statement: I paid last year more in taxes than what the state paid to educate me! The best argument for public investment instead of the "dependency" mantra

  • @made_of_paper
    @made_of_paper 8 лет назад +65

    Mark Blyth is the Robin Williams of Macroeconomics.

  •  7 лет назад +17

    Best line in the whole thing "Putting all that aside. How was the play Mrs Lincoln?"

  • @paintspaceworld2361
    @paintspaceworld2361 5 лет назад +7

    ‘Where’s your equity share? You didn’t get it’ - classic Blythy!

  • @mabli2
    @mabli2 8 лет назад +122

    Felt Institute, is it possible to turn up the volume of this video?

    • @billiamc1969
      @billiamc1969 8 лет назад +15

      Horrible audio...

    • @caseybv74
      @caseybv74 7 лет назад +1

      I had to put in some good earphones, worked well.

    • @mattd8725
      @mattd8725 7 лет назад +8

      My amp is turned up so high that when windows beeps it blows out my ear drums.

    • @andreinla
      @andreinla 7 лет назад +11

      I love this talk and find it frustrating that it is practically inaudible. Doesn't seem that the Fels staff is interested in posting a version with improved sound, so I put the time and created one myself. Here's the link of this same talk with fixed sound: ruclips.net/video/Wu5tOTcrlwQ/видео.html

    • @ttrons2
      @ttrons2 6 лет назад +1

      I always turn the basic computer volume from the default half mark to full and use whatever program is being used for the playing. The volume is fine on my pc

  • @qince15
    @qince15 5 лет назад +4

    A great talk...the only downside is the inaudibility of those asking questions or engaging Blyth with comments...

  • @troytice8354
    @troytice8354 7 лет назад +2

    Really enlightening talk. This guy is a great speaker!

  • @hrmIwonder
    @hrmIwonder 8 лет назад +3

    Wow, just wow. That was an incredibly interesting talk by Mark Blyth.

  • @awuma
    @awuma 7 лет назад +31

    01:02:10 Yes! Finally a discussion of the fact that Communism scared the West into concessions to the working class. The end of Communism as a potentially viable system removed the most effective deterrent to exploitation and disabled opposition to the transformation which began around 1980. Of course, I'm not denying that Leninist Communism was terrible.

    • @matthewmalpeli
      @matthewmalpeli 7 лет назад +7

      Workers need to realise they are in an abusive relationship with capital. It ticks all the boxes. Capital is jealous and possessive of you. It tries to control you by being very bossy and demanding. It tries to isolate you (just take a look around your office. Are you in an enclosed cubical cut off from human contact but vulnerable to a come-from-behind random inspection attack from a suiperior?). Capital is violent on a scale that communism never was or could be (roughly 20 million deaths each year from relatively inexpensive problems (fresh water access, malnutrition, vaccinations. Problems that aren't solved because there's not a buck to be made in solving them and lots to be lost by solving them). Capitalism pressures people into submitting to sexual activities they are not comfortable with. It blames its victims for the abuse it dishes out. Its history of relationships gone sour is well documented. It take s a little bit of truth about its enemies and exaggerates them out of all proportions, spreading it to anyone who'll listen (many of whom exhibit Stockholm Syndrome behaviours).
      Capital keeps track of your time, intruding repeatedly on your need for personal space. It demands you keep feeding it while it monopolises your time and attention in inane, unimportant busy work to keep you from examining its effects on you and your local community. It controls all your finances and forces you to account for what you spend. Capital is involved with 7 billion other partners, each valued according to what it can take from each.
      Remember, this relationship cannot be changed from one side. By staying, you are condoning and enabling the abuse - and helping capitalism stay sick. If capitalism is unwilling to get help, the only safe course of action is to totally remove yourself from the situation.

    • @alanjenkins1508
      @alanjenkins1508 7 лет назад

      Capital is just savings. Without savings you have to investment and with no investment you have no future.

    • @matthewmalpeli
      @matthewmalpeli 7 лет назад

      alan jenkins Capital is just a means of control. That is all.

    • @matthewmalpeli
      @matthewmalpeli 7 лет назад

      alan jenkins Furthermore, capital is not savings. Capital is debt, someone else's debt issued by a bank when they loan money. That's how capital is created in the economy. That's why the level of debt MUST go up in a growth economy. If it goes down the money supply shrinks.

    • @monkeywage
      @monkeywage 7 лет назад +4

      It's not helpful by applying anthropomorphic qualities to capital. Listen to what Dr. Blyth said in this lecture. Capital (in this lecture, corporations) is not a person. It doesn't care. It exists to maximize profit. It's not out to do harm, it just doesn't care while pursuing its interest. As it should. That is its job and main purpose. Blaming capital for this is like blaming lions for eating zebras. What is wrong is when the park rangers started shooting the zebras to feed and make the lions grew fat and have an easier time. The park rangers are supposed to keep the balance to make sure the lions are fed but the zebras also thrive. Right now we have a bunch of super fat lions and a small herd of skinny zebras because the lions are giving the fattened park rangers extra meat from the zebras. The ecosystem won't be able to keep this up.
      The problem with communism is thinking there is an alternative to this nature. That capital can be replaced. It can't. Because any capital that is not solely geared with purpose to maximize profits will fail against the ones that do. It's like making a race car that also must carry multiple people in comfort. It will always loose against a single seat race car designed for speed. So we designed an overseeing body to make sure the race car does not plow into a crowd of us. That body is the one failing. Communism cannot work in an environment of competition. It could only work if it is applied globally and willingly. And that is impossible unless there is no longer a need for finite resources (like, say, in Star Trek's society, which lacks nothing so much that they don't even have a currency).

  • @lopasrokas231
    @lopasrokas231 8 лет назад +11

    I enjoy watching the lecture, but it was hard to understand. It would be better if you Add more volume. Thanks.

    • @andreinla
      @andreinla 7 лет назад

      Here's the link of this same talk with fixed sound: ruclips.net/video/Wu5tOTcrlwQ/видео.html

  • @andreinla
    @andreinla 7 лет назад +2

    Here's a version of the same talk with fixed sound: ruclips.net/video/Wu5tOTcrlwQ/видео.html
    I wanted to share this with my friends but the audio levels are so low that I doubt anyone would be willing to sit through the content. I fixed the sound and re-uploaded the talk so that people can actually hear it. Hope this helps.

  • @rickb3650
    @rickb3650 2 года назад

    For anyone that's wondering about 10:00 in, the play he is referencing is GBS, Mrs. Warren's profession.

  • @scottmialltablet
    @scottmialltablet 7 лет назад +13

    53:11 - 53:39 - Damn.
    DAMN.
    Damn. A month before the election and he's pretty much explaining why Trump ended up winning.
    Damn.

  • @profc9916
    @profc9916 2 года назад

    I know it's three years on, and I am sure this has been said a million times already - any chance of upping the volume?

  • @ShakinJamacian
    @ShakinJamacian 8 лет назад +1

    Man, Blyth is a pretty swell dude.
    I was worried he was going to double down on the economic "head" but at the start, but how quick he pops that hole.
    A man with his finger on the pulse.

    •  7 лет назад

      What the fuck are you attempting to say?

  • @lesleyegg
    @lesleyegg 7 лет назад +1

    It's long but very informative and I would have asked something about the absence of the nation state in Blyth's examples from the American economy. What can the government do to get Capital back under control? and why has it not done those things?

  • @nikzanzev2402
    @nikzanzev2402 8 лет назад +58

    Mark Blyth seems like a swell fellow to have a pint with...

    • @Cromper
      @Cromper 8 лет назад +2

      He would talk about nothing but himself.

    • @dcodework2421
      @dcodework2421 8 лет назад +9

      Who cares if its this fun

    • @snugglethorn
      @snugglethorn 8 лет назад +12

      I've NEVER seen him do that...Economics, yes...Himself, no

    • @drawnsequence
      @drawnsequence 8 лет назад +10

      He used to be a practicing comedian. If you learn anything doing that, it's how to make entertaining conversation.

    • @snugglethorn
      @snugglethorn 8 лет назад

      yep!

  • @rickobrien1583
    @rickobrien1583 8 лет назад +8

    Felt Institute might want to buy a mic for the audience.

    • @kamalnoor5611
      @kamalnoor5611 7 лет назад +1

      Rick O'Brien they don't have much quid

    • @lesleyegg
      @lesleyegg 7 лет назад

      many

    • @MrBoreray
      @MrBoreray 5 лет назад

      @@kamalnoor5611 - 'They've got a few quid' is an understatement for 'They're absolutely loaded'(financially well-off)

  • @justinyeh5150
    @justinyeh5150 3 года назад +3

    35:00 Uber really did cut the pay of their workers. California passed prop 22 so Uber can pay their drivers less than a minimum wage and Uber, lyft and other gig econ companies spent $200MILLION on an ad campaign to get it passed

  • @retter2critical
    @retter2critical 8 лет назад +8

    Gawd, Mark Blyth is fun ...

  • @Beery1962
    @Beery1962 7 лет назад +1

    It's nice to see all the speakers, but it would be even nicer if we could actually hear them too. Honestly, how difficult can it be to check sound levels before posting a video to RUclips?

  • @rfmckean
    @rfmckean 7 лет назад +1

    very good sum up: power = accepted narrative

  • @LowescC
    @LowescC 5 лет назад +1

    thanks for dressing up, Mark

  • @eamonnca1
    @eamonnca1 6 лет назад

    Would be nice to hear the questions

  • @lynnwood7205
    @lynnwood7205 2 года назад +1

    The volume is too low.

  • @thomaskearney5974
    @thomaskearney5974 6 лет назад

    it would be nice if letures also had a mic for the audience asking questions. Light bulb?

  • @angeliquem.j.simard8437
    @angeliquem.j.simard8437 8 лет назад

    Can you repost with better audio at a reasonable volume? Thank you none the less.

  • @TundrasIgloo
    @TundrasIgloo 7 лет назад +1

    I don't know if I'm going deaf or my system is just old, but I can't hear a word....

  • @keevee09
    @keevee09 8 лет назад +1

    Fresh air dialogue. Two thumbs up.

  • @quartkneek3670
    @quartkneek3670 7 лет назад +1

    If you can't boost the audio in post-production, invest in better equipment before you attempt this type of project.

  • @megafr8nk
    @megafr8nk 7 лет назад

    i was really interested in this, but the low volume makes it unwatchable :(

  • @moip4928
    @moip4928 2 года назад

    The volume is so damn low

  • @vidfreak56
    @vidfreak56 6 лет назад

    Whered he get the 2% effective tax rate from?

  • @georgemonster2025
    @georgemonster2025 4 года назад

    I'd like to have watched but it's inaudible

  •  7 лет назад +1

    Brooklyn population 2.637 million (2015) Ireland around 5million, close but no cigar.

  • @roc7880
    @roc7880 4 года назад

    the rich entrepreneurs who are upset at the quality of public education should start after hours institutes/academies to teach what they want how they want, instead of pushing for charter schools. the most important reason is that you can attract kids who are curious about a subject and want to learn more than the rest of their colleagues without ruining the chances of an average student to learn something also in a public setting.

  • @wolftone6
    @wolftone6 7 лет назад

    volume higher please. Can't hear

  • @Risky_Boots999
    @Risky_Boots999 8 лет назад +4

    Is there a way to raise the volume?

    • @DriveIn8
      @DriveIn8 7 лет назад

      If you download and run VLC Player and then choose Media > Open Network Stream and then paste the address of this page in you can increase the volume to 200%.

    • @andreinla
      @andreinla 7 лет назад

      Here's the link of this same talk with fixed sound: ruclips.net/video/Wu5tOTcrlwQ/видео.html

  • @LarrikinMultimedia
    @LarrikinMultimedia 7 лет назад

    Hey Fels Institute what's the point of uploading a video with such low volume?

  • @Amiri2x
    @Amiri2x 8 лет назад +1

    why is the volume so low??

    • @nutsackmania
      @nutsackmania 5 лет назад +1

      because the levels were set too low

  • @pequodexpress
    @pequodexpress 6 лет назад

    11:28: The play also points out that formal schooling breeds labor market widgets and the presumed morality of becoming so.

  • @zofe
    @zofe 6 лет назад +1

    There's mother-load of Software in the Smartphone , which only the US has. Thus Nokia went from 35% to round zero, quickly.

    • @ReaderOfThreads
      @ReaderOfThreads 4 года назад

      Nokia had a touch screen prototype before the iPhone but they failed to realise the potential. Everything in the iPhone had existing technology.

  • @cruelpulse
    @cruelpulse 7 лет назад

    40:50 and everyone can be like Mark Blyth in this sense. Right? Wrong.

    • @nikzanzev2402
      @nikzanzev2402 7 лет назад +3

      But if enough people turn out like him, then they pay for the ones who do not become ivy league profs. Similar thing with immigrants, if you set up and equitable system, most of them pay for the initial help they got after a decade or so.
      And I'm not even touching upon the intangible effects of welfare. I think it was David Graeber who mentioned that during the big boom of rock n roll in England most of the now legendary bands were on welfare. They didn't care about survival, only cared for creating their music.
      How many Beethovens or Einsteins are wasting their lives working in some office doing some bullshit job like marketing instead of pushing us forward? How many potential Einsteins will never amount to anything because they have to bust their bodies 18 hours per day in Walmart jobs to scrape for survival?

  • @1873Winchester
    @1873Winchester 8 лет назад +1

    I dunno about swedish kitchens. The SIS (Svenska Industrins Standardiseringskommission) or swedish standard for kitchen circa 1950 was a big leap forward in terms of kitchen design and laid the foundations for modern kitchen design.

    • @danielneuwirth1843
      @danielneuwirth1843 8 лет назад +4

      No, that's not true. The modern kitchen Design is based on the Frankfurter Kitchen, this was invented by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1926.

    • @justanotherbaldbastard2193
      @justanotherbaldbastard2193 8 лет назад +2

      + Daniel Neuwirth
      Happy to say that this is one of those instances in which both claims seems to be true.
      A little search on wikipedia on fitted kitchens helped, but it confirmed my suspicion that the Frankfurter Kitchen was indeed the inspiration for the modern fitted kitchen but that what the SIS did was refine the idea to make it more user friendly.
      Both then are refinements of kitchens but one is a subsequent refinement of a refinement, and both laid the foundations for more subsequent refinements.

    • @justanotherbaldbastard2193
      @justanotherbaldbastard2193 8 лет назад

      + David Westernall Wow, what did Sweden ever do to you? Makes me think that whatever education you received have failed you, Swedish or otherwise, as some basic reading comprehension should have been applied but apparently wasn't. No one claimed that the SIS invented the kitchen, or even the modern kitchen, but what it did was make refinements on a previous design, like Ericsson with the telephone.
      Since I have no idea which country your from I can't slam it for being insignificant, but since all countries essentially have little impact upon the universe, consider yourself slammed, on a cosmic scale.

    •  7 лет назад

      Westernall is just a fucking failure from a failing WASP encampment. Yet another mass produced gullible cowardly racist dunce.

    • @ponchupeechu
      @ponchupeechu 7 лет назад

      Didn't know there was this many kitchen historians on an economics video... wow

  • @drakekoefoed1642
    @drakekoefoed1642 6 лет назад

    sound is unacceptable

  • @mused1019
    @mused1019 5 лет назад

    4:35 for interview begiining, but really gets moving from 8:10

  • @mariuscheek
    @mariuscheek 7 лет назад

    I really wanted to watch this, but do the volume thing, guys!!!! Unwatchable as it is.

  • @alloomis1635
    @alloomis1635 6 лет назад

    it is sad to see educated people treat political discussion as entertainment. but that is the consequence of living in an oligarchy- politics is a matter for 'them.'
    get democracy first, then talk about 'what should be done.'

  • @interactparty6629
    @interactparty6629 6 лет назад

    Everywhere there are corporates forming that used to be run as local governemnt, even the magistrates courts are corporates. The upshot of this is that statute laws and "civil requirements" are multiplying so that the non payment can be met with the sale of your assets. This is going to be a transference of your house and your business assets to these newly formed, over powerful corporations because there is nothing , absolutely nothing in place to stop them! buildings are being revalued for council tax with tenants and not owners, and in some cases as well as owners are unable to pay the council tax asked of them. The summons, which are BULK SIGNED, some 76,000 per day( just one magistrates court) for liability is accompanied by £125.00 costs order that cannot be justified which goes towards corporate profits and pension pots for the corporate owners. Not to mention that in many places actual law is disregarded The persons that cannot pay end up with corporate bailiffs arriving at the door for their goods, and in some cases your home is being lost. THIS IS TORY BRITAIN that does not comprehend that they cannot suck hard on those with no money to pay - it doesn't work! www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?387121-Council-Tax-Court-Costs-%e2%80%93-Liability-Order-Summons&s=3a6e2d97b1a9968c60d031003aafcda4
    Councils now work for their own profit pile as corporates, not for the public good but for the corporate purse! Check it out and you will see the problem. You voted for it, now suck it up!

  • @vicpso1
    @vicpso1 5 лет назад

    We pay a ton of taxes ...he means federal tax ...we pay state, local, property, school, sales, excise.... Gas... .. Etc...

  • @jasoncook9898
    @jasoncook9898 3 года назад +1

    My gawd, hand a microphone out please!!

  • @thecasualfront7432
    @thecasualfront7432 8 лет назад +1

    Oh shit I think iv gone deaf!

  • @metacarpitan
    @metacarpitan 6 лет назад

    How can they make money buy buying their own stocks? If anyone understands economy and could explaing to me I would be very thankful.

    • @seymourCT
      @seymourCT 6 лет назад +1

      metacarpitan buying your own stock creates that stock price to rise which is used to measure the value of the company...executive compensation is tied to the stock price :)

    • @MrBoreray
      @MrBoreray 5 лет назад

      Borrow money at almost 0% interest, stock price $50 a share,buy a million shares,this has a positive effect on stock price,market rate becomes $60,sell stock and make $10 million dollars,it's actually a form of insider trading by stock price manipulation.

  • @rabidbigdog
    @rabidbigdog 5 месяцев назад

    4:45 onwards.

  • @celestialteapot3310
    @celestialteapot3310 7 лет назад

    Another great video for lip readers

  • @HughSansom
    @HughSansom 8 лет назад +7

    Blyth is great. But the two Penn speakers? If Shaw were alive and forced to listen to them, he'd never stop throwing up. What is it about academics at prestigious institutions that leaves them convinced that every long-winded Ivy League blowhard should speak endlessly about nothing?

    • @justanotherbaldbastard2193
      @justanotherbaldbastard2193 8 лет назад +2

      Well, essentially that's what everyone else does, why should academics be any different? The only thing separating an academic from anyone else is a degree. Its not a separation between those who are interesting and those who are not.

    • @jessnellaf2401
      @jessnellaf2401 8 лет назад +2

      You have missed the forest by looking at the tree. The ''prestigious institutions'' validate (convince) ''academics'' through inflated status and wages that when they are speaking down every day with every lecture ''endlessly about nothing'' (long winded Ivy League blowhard) to the children of the elites who need to get their '' Ivy League'' ticket punched. Do you believe that suddenly, In front of an audience with mike in hand and video on they will deviate from that behavior that has been so reinforced and rewarded?

  • @lukejolley8354
    @lukejolley8354 5 лет назад

    These university people are sooo unwilling to have their views challenged

  • @pcuimac
    @pcuimac 8 лет назад

    Steve Jobs never said he was an inventor. He combined good available technologies into something better than what was available at the time. He was also not that much interested in profit for profits sake. He wanted to build good products and used profits to develop better products. Just shortly before he died the profits exploded and Apple had more profit than they could use for development.

    • @5ynthesizerpatel
      @5ynthesizerpatel 8 лет назад +11

      he was only speaking figuratively when he mentioned SJ he meant Apple in general - and the point he was making wasn't to criticize Apple.
      He what he was saying was this:
      1. The contemporary narrative from politicians is "Public Spending = terrible wasteful evil"
      If that's really true, then how come all it took was a canny entrepreneur with an eye for design to take those government funded technologies and turn it into something truly wonderful that has changed the world in terms of how we communicate
      2. If we (taxpayers) paid for the basic technologies that made it run, where's our stake in the equity?

    •  7 лет назад

      pcuimac
      That was a load of lies you fucking ignorant fanboi scumbag.

  • @mrzack888
    @mrzack888 5 лет назад

    volume toooo low. this is the real crime.

  • @kamranii
    @kamranii 8 лет назад +10

    Mr. Blyth, you seem to be preaching to the convert. You audience is your audience because they already sort of agree with you. Now, with your language and oratorical skills and, your what I understand to be an humble origin, you could really make a difference educating the plebs. You make a strong point for the left but the audience is the wrong one. They would all vote for Hillary in the end evenif Christ himself was the contender.

    • @matthewmalpeli
      @matthewmalpeli 7 лет назад +2

      "The plebs" as you call them, used to be known as the proletariat. They are in an abusive relationship with capital. Capital tells them that experts and intellectuals that try to break them up will lead to mass murder and the loss of their freedom, freedoms that they only have because capital has decided they're permissible. This is how it gets entire populations into a kind of Stockholm Syndrome effect. Convincing low cognitive people that leaving their abusive partner while providing no shelter for them is better than staying and suffering the abuse is hard enough. Try doing it when they're surrounded with imagery that makes them feel ugly and that everybody else is having a great time and the reason its not them is their fault. See how far it gets you.

    • @tomgjgj
      @tomgjgj 7 лет назад

      Well we all know how abusive relationships turn out. Eventually something gives.
      My only worry is that there are nukes now.

    • @matthewmalpeli
      @matthewmalpeli 7 лет назад +2

      Tom J And a super entitled rich kid who has 4am Twitter brain farts and no other relationships other than direct family, business associates, and banksters, who clearly has never negotiated a complex deal in his life, has the capacity to unleash Armageddon without needing to consult anyone first?
      Yeah, me too. Maybe we should have dismantled the military industrial complex when the Soviet Union fell. I know, taking rich kids toys away from them is a bridge too far.
      Best just to go back to your bullshit job and try not to think about it...

  • @salzen6283
    @salzen6283 4 года назад

    LOL@ I know your mother!
    🦝 🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝

  • @ThisOldHat
    @ThisOldHat 8 лет назад

    ~ @17:00 he calls the Trump win.

  • @leanderian
    @leanderian 8 лет назад

    LOL.None of them would have a clue who Pinky and Perky are.

  • @gazhollister1602
    @gazhollister1602 3 года назад

    L E G E N D

  • @user-xc5yo6rt5j
    @user-xc5yo6rt5j 7 лет назад +1

    Oh my god - that one person who starts clapping at 41:03. Urgh - CRINGE!

  • @drakekoefoed1642
    @drakekoefoed1642 7 лет назад

    inaudible as half his are

  • @EmilNicolaiePerhinschi
    @EmilNicolaiePerhinschi 7 лет назад

    smart and likeable but misses the point more often than he hits it
    mistaking productivity with income per worker ... but that explains that countries with high taxes and high government subsidies for corporations also have high productivity because the money are just going round and round between accounts without actually producing much
    mistaking government welfare spending with helping the poor ... most government welfare spending goes to agencies and ngos and quangos service providers and their offices and salaries and shareholders, a lot less gets to those who need it. Maybe when he was a child things were different.
    socialized medicine: US health care is socialized too, only from the other end: the insurance companies own and thus are the government :) , it is private in the same sense the castles and land owned by Louis XIV were private.

    • @secularnevrosis
      @secularnevrosis 7 лет назад +1

      The point is that the money should go around in the economy of the population. The workers produce the things and services that we need and are consumed by the workers. That creates a stable economy. Leeching money out of that system and putting it into a system that doesn't actually produce physical things, now what does that lead to? We have built a system that is in all practicallity is severed from the real economy in terms of productivity and responsibillity, and still influence the returns of the workers productivity.

    •  7 лет назад +1

      Emil you're just a bit of a fucking dunce with a head full of bullshit. Fucktard.

    • @EmilNicolaiePerhinschi
      @EmilNicolaiePerhinschi 7 лет назад +1

      Seán, I surrender
      your arguments persuaded me to recant
      :))

  • @justinjameson8767
    @justinjameson8767 6 лет назад

    Scandinavian welfare is reasonable/logical/rational/thinkable compared-and-contrasted with nordic/teutonic so-called socialism which first-and-foremost has racial connotation's secondly nordic/teutonic encapsulates each-and-every political geography/jurisdiction of mainland/continental western europe mainland/continental central europe and mainland/continental northern europe and thirdly nordic/teutonic so-called socialism is not marxist/marxian socialist it's marxoid social democratic liberal/libertarian capitalism

  • @davidyoung
    @davidyoung 4 года назад

    Mark Blyth throws around the words 'racism' and 'racist' in his talks as if it's still the nineteen eighties and he's in an art college in Brent. It's wearing a bit thin.

  • @TheAtlantaMafia
    @TheAtlantaMafia 8 лет назад

    IF this guy was not so self-absorbed and obsessed with racism, then some of the rest of the discussion might be worth listening. However, he can't get out of his own way...

    • @5ynthesizerpatel
      @5ynthesizerpatel 8 лет назад +4

      Racism gets 2 serious mentions and 1 joke.
      once at around 16:55 where it's dismissed as having any meaningful relevance
      Once more at around 54:20 where it's just a throwaway joke
      Once again at around 1:04:20 where it's dismissed as having any meaningful relevance
      I've seen a few of Bylth's vids and that's pretty much his narrative - yes there is racism (like we didn't know that) but no it's not informative in terms of why populist movements are gaining traction
      Have you got any other time codes that show a self-absorbed obsession with racism or is this all in your head?

    • @TheAtlantaMafia
      @TheAtlantaMafia 8 лет назад

      I don't dispute you account of the times he points to racism. Not sure which videos you may have seen but I have seen a few on youtube and other places and he can't have a discussion without calling person racists that are outside the liberals. I'm not suggesting that he says it constantly but he can't have a conversation without labeling non-lefties as racists. I consider the race card as an overplayed item by lefties that have weak arguments.

    • @SpaceCowboy1218
      @SpaceCowboy1218 8 лет назад +5

      Leaving out race in a discussion about American Economics would be a silly proposition don't you think? Also, is it possible you're simply focusing on the times when race is mentioned rather than all the other moments when it's not. Also he's actually far more graceful to people who voted for Trump than most others who critique the system, he seems to believe and mentions it quite often, that there is a small racist component for those who elected Trump but he doesn't believe it be the driving factor.

    • @TheAtlantaMafia
      @TheAtlantaMafia 8 лет назад +1

      Liberals see everyone as some sort of group or victim class instead of seeing them as being Americans. That's why they have been losing elections since 2000. The only real exception to democrat losses was 0bama but that is just another example of democrats voting based on "race." The country needs to move on from racism but the left wants to roll around in it and make false claims and demonize people. The "racist" claim is now what liberals say when they are losing arguments. If you are liberal - don't do that because it reduces your credibility.

    • @SpaceCowboy1218
      @SpaceCowboy1218 8 лет назад +1

      TheAtlantaMafia​ Just ignore everything else that was said. Yup, he blamed it all on race! I think it would be silly to talk about American Economics without discussing race but you can choose to ignore race, that's on you. Have a Great day.