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Dear Americans take some notes from *western* European countries introduce free Education, Healthcare, and loan with lower interest rates for a higher tax
Well actually most former SSR nations PREFERRED living under the USSR rather than todays nations, Khrushchev-Gorby years that is, nowadays they cant afford any thing, housing food medicare they are just pirated by all the rich oligarchs in the USSR days everything was cheep or just free there weren't people selling drugs, people actually didnt even lock their doors when they left their homes because everyone knew eachother and lived along now they are living under a rich mafia controlled nation not to mention that most of the countries are still under a dictatorship
This is the 1st of your videos I've watched. I'm 62, lived through the Thatcher years so know the history. This video is a breath of fresh air after decades of listening to the wealthy telling me, and now my son, that we really too expensive to employ so work cheaper, work harder. Bless you kid your generation have a lot to rebuild.
I'm 61 and live in the US. I hear the same thing from my son as you hear from your's. Him and his friends, all in their late 20's, believe all the BS about poor people causing their own problems because they are lazy and stupid. It's just crazy what has happened in the US.
I heard a quote about 10 years ago that stayed with me..."if you were to die tomorrow, the posting to fill your position would be published before your obituary"
In chile there was several cases of this happening last year, public healthcare response mails arriving days post mortem of people who needed it. You know how it is ending here, pure fire on the streets, enough is enough
actually a neat song about chilean uprising says "Today I shall die on the streets or in a queue list", referring to the youths engaging with police since october
I know, right? Second Thought has gotten increasingly more political since this coronavirus pandemic. (sigh) Well, he can only make so many videos about the biggest flaws with the bad way American governors run things. Some of them even feel like different versions of the same video four times. What makes Why the United States Can't Handle Crises a different topic from Why Capitalism Can't Handle Climate Change? What makes America's Looming Housing Crisis a different topic from America's Looming Eviction Crisis? I hope Second Thought will return to his usual content when this video is three years old, because this pandemic and the buzz that it gave unregulated capitalism can only last so long. September 1, 2021, 7:23pm
@@mawcha it's hilarious when right wingers actually say that in a debate. if you even slightly recognize any realistic discrimination to a group based on race, talking about it as a real issue means you're actually racist. it's laughable
If you have time to watch youtube videos and comment on said videos. While not starving or dying of dehydration. You probably live in a pretty great country.
@@Shari466 Maybe I don't have one but you could say that about anyone doing or saying anything you or I don't like. Besides I just want to point out the relatively easy lives pretty much everyone in this comment section has.
"The workers are expected to have 3 months of expenses saved up or risk being lectured by the rich on financial responsibility. But a couple of weeks of bad business, and now giant corporations led by multimillionaires are crying for help." Geez i need a momment.
It's seriously disgusting, I don't see how a human could become such a parasite that they would do anything not to lose a little money when they are billionaires. I mean they and their whole families are set for life, why isn't that enough?
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinback my favourite one
@@bekzod3322 Do you know, that socialism is good for country....... Pride will kill America, simple as that! Why dont they bail out people and not Companies, if school is mandatory than it should be completly free, Health care, also free. Many countrys have those thing for free, and they dont have to be so affraid!! Those LANDLORDS that rants on internet are the same as FLAT - Earthers rant!! I hope for the change, REAL CHANGE, people should think of word change, look up in dictionary, and firmly go towards that WORD in all aspects of life! Doesn't it goes, We the people?? For the people? People have whole power in their hands, but their minds have been indoctrinated vice versa, if people stop with all their jobs, the country will stop in its tracks. It is time to bail out the people.
Biznis Man Yeah, but our government is so stuck up with getting profits that they don’t give a shit about individuals, they don’t care about schooling or healthcare or other basic human needs. I don’t entirely agree with the whole “Socialism is the only true way” that some preach, but there is definitely some things to be learned. America may claim to be a Democracy, but that’s only true at the town and maybe state level. The Federal government isn’t a Democracy. It’s an Oligarchy. A rich few try to further their own interests by getting themselves involved with government. And their ivory towers are so fucking high that they physically cannot see the class below them. That’s the issue, the government doesn’t serve the people. It serves the companies, the corporations, itself, and not the people. America is the perfect example of late-stage capitalism. The corporations are so big, the government is too concerned with serving them rather than serving the people. Occasionally a few scraps will be thrown, a few dollars will be given, but then they turn around and give the corporations a feast, and give them multi million - sometimes billion - dollar bailouts. We need a return to the original American way, where the people were cared for. Where the people actually had power. Thank you for coming to my TED-Talk.
@@tonikaycheney7120 america is far from a truedemocracy especialy with the gerrymandering and that u can basicly only vote for right wing authoterian/conservative partys there r no other choices.
@@MortyrSC2 I know, but isn't this just a logical result of the the-winner-takes-it-all approach? If radical parties or even just those with a specific agenda have no chance on winning anything, isn't it logical that the only parties existing neglect everything in favor of the largest voter group, the middle aged white blindly patriotic salaryman? This is one of the reasons why the U.S. is sometimes regarded as un-democratic, since these are basically the only people in that country who really have a vote that counts, everyone else is blatantly un-represented. In a multi-party system, even if "your" party doesn't get in power, they may still sit in parliaments, be a valuable partner for reaching majorities there or just inform the public about what is actually debated on. It's not a surprise that those countries getting the best ratings in terms of democracy are those with proportional option.
It's so sad how this channel constantly predicts the future, because it's always obvious that this is what happens, and I don't see it changing anytime soon.
Think of it this way, many communist groups are gaining more land and power in the third world and I’m almost certain this pandemic has made many more class conscious and critical of the dogshit system that they’ve been convinced to believe is the only solution, that universal healthcare is too expensive and that anything even remotely social democratic is the second coming of Hitlerite Socialism, whatever that even means. The left is (slowly) gaining more influence. And socialists are too not just social democrats although many modern social democrats in my opinion are socialists in waiting after talking to them and realising they just hadn’t had socialism explained well enough and someone who cared to answer questions.
How about handing them to Isis, along with an Imax camera and the instructions: use your choice of execution, whatever you want, but please get some juicy closeups...we'll spring for the popcorn.
If I could I would Hang those Senators off a street lamp on Wall Street and then shoot holes in them as I laughed and watched their blood drip down onto the road.
They had access to private briefings and information we didn't and acted on it. Insider trading. And it is illegal. But the justice system doesn't belong to us, it belongs to them.
@@parispc you are already in europe greece will probably have an end to it's economy problems some time in the future - macedonian in the northern part
"The workers are expected to have 3 months of expenses saved up or risk being lectured by the rich on financial responsibility. But a couple of weeks of bad business, and now giant corporations led by multimillionaires are crying for help." I had to stop and let that one sink in for a second. We're not crazy - we're being gaslighted by the rich and powerful.
I have a friend that told me he couldnt take "shelter in place" cause he needed the money. He said he was poor ;but he goes every day to McD for lunch. Yes. I really think he is poor.
You know millionaires have years of savings? It's their companies which don't. Because companies cannot afford the luxury of savings, they gotta always stay competitive, otherwise they'll be kicked out by better companies which invested all their savings on R&D or bringing more investors.
@@thedeathofcreepers Look up "most beatufull countries in Europe" and take a pick, you Will be better of anyway and you can then move live and work in Any of your chosing because we have that kind of freedom Here, not this pew pew freedom (still tho you can get Guns within reason i own few my self in most restrictive Country of EU if it comes to that) Maybe try Poland first, its Real mixed bag if it comes to cultures of Europe, try Gdańsk/Gdyna/Sopot (really they are one city) if you would like to live over least sea like sea that is still a sea, (for Best housing prices look up smaller cities around, Rumia if you want to visit me lmao) if you live in metropoly like NY Warsaw is Best bet or Kraków if you would like to have Mountains nearby or zakopane if you want to live in Mountains, go to Hel if you live on an Island, thats difrences in vertical line on map, more West, more like Western countries, closer to East closer to gulag comrade, oh also North East corner you have Mazury top noch spot for your 2 weeks mandatory paid vacation, thousands lakes and rivers in amazing forests, if you dont like to get vacation this year no problem you can stack it next year and have a month off work, minimum wage is enought to live rent and Save some, its not great overall but is enought (also i doubt that you would have trouble finding job that paid double that with being native English speaker, especially in summer in tourist locations So most bigger cities) langue is probably only part that suck, native people cant speak it correctly half of the Time nevermind you, but Any Young folk Will speak english
@Sukan As a guy who lived in a Socialist country, I agree with you. In capitalism, nothing is shared with the poor. In socialism, there is nothing to share. Everyone is equally poor.
@Sukan Because many people see Socialism as a cure to capitalism. In reality, we don't need both. What we need is Capitalism with a bit of government control over the big corporations. I'm from India and we were a Socialist country until 1991. When the British left India in 1947, we chose Socialism and captured private companies and made them into public companies. But after the soviet union collapsed, we opened our markets and done an Economic liberalization in 1991. And then the county started to grow. India achieved and created a lot more jobs from the 20 year period from 2000 to 2020 than the 44 years socialist period from 1947 to 1991. But I lived in a communist-ruled state in India (State of Kerala) and here, and private ownership is seen as evil. As a result, most companies left my state and it resulted in huge unemployment. And all the public companies are just white elephants who do not make any profits but still function by eating the tax money. So people left the state to look for jobs in other capitalist countries, especially in the middle east. And we became a consumer state without any production which lives by expat money stent from other countries. So if COVID hit our state, there is no big problem. Nothing changes here If COIVD hits the middle eastern countries, then we are doomed.
@Sukan Well no one is saying that socialism is the cure, but there are certain things we can borrow and make capitalism better. There is no universal law saying that capitalism should be the way it is. Things can be changed, systems have to be flexible.
@TTNTT3 I dont know what kind of image of Kerala are you trying to paint, but I'm also from state of Kerala and I feel you are just seeing one side of the issue. Kerala is worldwide regarded as a great model despite the fact that we have fewer production houses. Our service sector is one of the strongest. Our standard of living is comparable to that of first world countries. Why do you think people from other states come to work in Kerala for daily wages ? The standard of living back in their states are too low which forces them to leave their homes and come to Kerala. And to say socialism destroyed india would be diametrically opposite of what happened. Different times require different measures and that's exactly what happened. If we stepped into a capitalistic democracy straightaway after getting independence, india wouldn't have been where it is today.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." John Steinbeck (Edit: Don't go in the replies, it is truly a civil war down there)
That is right. Half of the working class are willing to trade their dignity in for a %1 percent chance of being part of the rich club... Only to live a grim existence.
Nearly 3 years later, and the assertion in the introduction that “I’ll probably return to my normal content next week” has never been more hilariously wrong. And I’m so glad it is! Your channel has become a great introduction to socialism and socialist ideas, and truly one of the pillars of the Left on RUclips. Great job, comrade, keep it up!
I agree! I was just watching a video of Rep. Occasio-Cortez in (a successful) attempt to call out many greedy Congress-members on this stuff, as she questioned several members of campaign advocacy groups who confirmed, that if she wanted to “be very bad,” there would be no law preventing her from taking campaign money from fossil fuel companies, then proposing & working to pass legislation that would help these companies immensely improve their bottom line, all while purchasing tons of their stock so that she could reap the rewards.
Jan Clements Exactly why a corporate-bought politician like Nancy Pelosi refers to social democratic, social welfare programs like the GND as “the Green New Dream” and refuses to even allow universal healthcare bills to go to the Democrat-controlled House floor for a vote, while getting shallow applause from laymen ignorant of the fact that we live in a corporatocracy. The fact that these corporatists are bought and owned has obvious influence on their ‘ideology’ and view of acceptable discourse/acceptable corruption.
none are suppose to. If they want to keep the object they must turn it over to someone else to control it while they are in office. trump breaks this law also.
The perfect analogy is that the two parties are just like good cop, bad cop. They trick you into thinking that they are in opposition to each other when in fact, they work for the same boss, and have the same shared goals.
Of course. When in doubt follow the money trail. Both parties are backed by the elite. Whoever wins, the elite wins. The losers are the middle income and poor.
It seems that social systems like Despotism, Feudalism, Moneyism, Socialism, Labourism, Communism, etc. are just different form of centralism or pyramidism. Sadly humans can no longer turn back the clock or slow/stop the clock since the late Prof Sagan calculated that humans has progressed pass the Тип 0.7 stage. If Dr Kaku projections are correct, humans will face greater hardships & dangers as it progress towards a Тип 1 civilization. Unfortunately the clock is ticking & the late Prof Hawkings projected humans has only ≈ 1 to 10 thousand years left to reach Тип 1 or face certain extinction/apocalypse. Perhaps the common people will need someone like V, Batman, Zorro or Robin Hood to “Flatten Capitalism” or “Flatten the Pyramid” & replace it with a society that's more forcus on building a Тип 1 civilization. May the deaths & sufferings of the innocents be merciful. 🙏
@Tucson Jim - Sadly foul mouth maniacs with limited imaginations are likely to be a threat to human progress towards a Тип 1 civilization. Your negative behaviour is Not unexpected & it serves to confirm what the late Prof Hawking had observed. Unfortunately there are no test for such maniacs yet otherwise it will be good to “invite” them for some “mouth cleaning lessons”. As the wise said: 君子能亦好，不能亦好；小人能亦醜，不能亦醜。君子能則寬容易直以開道人，不能則恭敬繜絀以畏事人；小人能則倨傲僻違以驕溢人，不能則妒嫉怨誹以傾覆人。故曰：君子能則人榮學焉，不能則人樂告之；小人能則人賤學焉，不能則人羞告之。是君子小人之分也。 May the sufferings of the innocents be limited 🙏
@@RonGibbons i will say one difference I've noticed. Democrats be trying to sell what sounds right to the people with very little guarantee. Republicans be getting to believe in stuff that doesn't even make sense in their favor cause of "traditions, and norms", and play on people's fear of change
March 2020 Second Thought Viewers: "WTF is this political bs?" ST: "It's ok, I'll be back to my usual content next week" Also ST: Becomes one of the best political channels out there.
@@massetozacarias5693 It's incredibly interesting that you've declined to further clarify why you "disagree with his socialist takes." I think you actually don't. I think you agree wholeheartedly and your mind can't process that truth.
@@jarrodong4430 i live in canada and have visited multiple 3rd world countries and often go to the US. i can tell u the US is more similar to a corrupt 3rd world country then a developed one if u look at its people and level of education and poverty
America is like a first-world country because it is the seat of so much capital and power. America is like a third-world country because the extreme wealth disparity gives a small number of entities overwhelming control over markets and politics.
America the laughingstock of the global community. We have the geography, we have the resources, we have the infrastructure, we have the gdp. We could theoretically be the happiest country on earth.
I wouldn't say we have the infrastructure since there are millions of americans without high speed internet and shit public transport in most large cities.
It’s like if Jeff Bezoz had a kid, handed them everything they ever wanted, inherited all of his stuff (including his money), and then blew it all on a new candle company that was being run by that Nigerian prince that needs our credit card info
@@ifkensen_3304 And guess what Americans can thank the Koch brothers and monopolies for that shit too. Honestly if peaceful changes can't happen, you guys need some French spirit...
@@ARandomSpacethe first thing on his home page of his channel is “here is the radical content you crave” ps. There’s no right answer in politics, just do what you think is right
@Tucson Jim i live in germany and boy I can tell you I don't need to pay $1000 for an ambulance almost everyone here has a health insurance the minimum wage is higher the education is better (and free) and germany was prepared way better for the coronavirus than america. The only reason why people come to the US is because the US always portray themselves as the best country in the world when in reality they are plagued with so many basic issues.
@Tucson Jim "socialist hellholes" you do get that there is a difference between a mix of capitalism and socialism right? Some things are regulated by the state here to ensure that you dont get exploited but thats not communism.
Bernie was the only chance for democrats to win in 2020. Biden will win the popular vote but he will lose. Edit: :/ I’m not doubting Biden as much as I was previously. Trump is doing so bad in every poll even fox polls lmfao. Ahahah then Biden won 🥳
@@MrHistory269 Correct, Biden can win, but then it is back to what is normal in US. Bernie could make change, he loved Denmark. So you could have had Social Democracy. With Free health Care for all. In Denmark they also have: 1 year Paid Maternity leave. Free Education even University(College) 7 weeks paid Vacation etc Video: People in Denmark Are Much Happier Than People in the United States. Here’s Why. ruclips.net/video/YKuRiigagkU/видео.html
I'm not flat, stop asking I know, it’s unfortunate. I was hoping there would actually be some change in the right direction. Instead it’s the same old Demopublican partnership operating on corruption, with some theatre out front to keep the populous fighting and divided.
And people eat it up. I see posts constantly talking about getting to upper middle class and so on. Everyone in the middle class is just working poor and need to fight for themselves.
There are distinctions within the working population that have proved to be useful in political analysis. For example, Marxism used to split this class into the proletariat (the people who are forced to work for the owners [the "bourgeoisie"] to not starve to death) and the "petite bourgeoisie" (people who own small means of production (bar, fuel station, shops,...) and can't live without working, unlike the bourgeoisie). The distinction is important because the petite bourgeoisie doesn't have much to gain from fighting the bourgeoisie, and it certainly has a lot to lose in political instability or collectivization, in opposition with the proletariat that has pretty much nothing to lose anyway. It was for example the case of the Kulaks in USSR. Consequently, not all the working population has the same political interests. Plus nowadays, additional distinctions could be added within the working population using technical/education level. There are many people who don't own any mean of production ( => they're a part of the proletariat class), but own rare technical skills that give them a lot of power over employers, which allows them to receive more than decent salaries. This subcategory of the proletariat gains a lot from the current situation, and would maybe not want things to change. I won't talk too much about this, but the owning class could also be divided into the people who own the means of production, and the people who only own money that allows them to gain more money using the financial markets. Their respective interests can also be contradictory in many cases. Additionally, a political analysis can't only take economic interest into account. People are guided by many values, and these can differ within the working population. Especially people from different regions and different education levels usually have a different cultural background and different political views.
I was shocked when I watched this and one of your other videos. I’m 35, I feel less and less secure as an American today. Your rundown of all the crisis we’ve witnessed in our lifetimes in astonishing. I grew up thinking if you worked hard, told the truth, spent money wisely you’d have the American dream. After seeing firsthand how sickness and injury has been monetized, how a union job I had didn’t offer paid leave to its workers, I could type for hours. I was always a person who saw the glass half full, I do still have hope. Fixing these problems will take time. We all must study the candidates we vote for, never miss a chance to vote, but inform yourself about who the candidates are. That’s the most important action we can all take that will do the most good. Keep informing us!
Yes, we should study our candidates and demonetize sickness and injuries. If you really want to have the American dream, work hard start your own business. Saying that it is human nature to be selfish and greedy and not care about other people is a terrible excuse to justify humans being inhumane and abusing their power, and not regulating them with any sort of consequence or monetary price. For starters, carbon emissions must be taxed! September 2, 2021, 4:44pm
I feel you fellow worker. I grew up with the same ideas but I now see America as morally bankrupt and there is no bankruptcy worse than moral. imo A lot of people still believe in the above but I think it is just because they haven't yet experienced the rising water.
@Exploding Builds I think it failed. Not sure, but $600 or $0 it's all fails. At least Congress agreed that getting a $10 million budget for gender studies in Pakistan.
Meanwhile as a paramedic with a degree, I make $10 an hour, with no health insurance! Where does that $5,000 go? My boss.. most US ambulance companies are FOR profit!
Wow wtf? This is the kind of shit that makes me say fuck the world! How the hell is this acceptable in any way, shape, or form? It makes me genuinely sad to hear this 😥
this makes me angry I work for the NHS I am proud to work for them as well I really don't get the American mindset everything is for profit its disgusting!!!!
After serving in our military my son went to school on the GI bill and got a degree in IT. He now works for in insurance company in their IT department and can't afford insurance 😒
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 Workers uniting in the US fail yet other nations do it and it works. It more about your people than it does about the systems.
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 California has a state with one of the highest average wages, and best support for renewable energy. they are doing fine
The american media (and Hollywood) has been making a terrific job passing a distorted image of what life in the US really is like. Ask any Tom, Dick and Harry anywhere in the world, and most will tell you the US is the land of milk and honey, where people are all rich, and have all the freedoms you desire. But the truth is a bit different. They won´t show you skid row, with tent cities stretching to the horizon. Nor will it show the drug use, and thousands of opiate overdoses. It won´t show the poverty stricken shanty towns and dilapidated social housing projects. It won´t show the gangs, the police shootings, the school shootings, and the millions withering away in prison, doing slave labor. It won´t show the lobbies bribing their way in Washington, the political parties stealing elections, and robbing non aligned candidates from equal media exposure. It won´t show the corruption and speculation of Wall Street, the unemployment, and the many millions of people without health care. They won´t show the thousands of dollars charged for an ambulance ride, or a simple tooth extraction. It won´t show the disastrous state of american Education, with kids coming out of college not knowing shit about anything. And it won´t show the tinfoil hat buffoonery, with all the flat earthers, anti-vaxx, anti 5G and reptilian stupidity! How the fuck did it got so bad?? America used to be awesome. Now it is a cesspool. What was once milk and honey is now piss and vinegar. But try telling that to any american...
That is the definition of corporatism, not capitalism. The government needs to stop benefiting specific corporations with kick-backs and tax rebates. US capitalism is arguably in shambles, and without competition in many sectors.
@@Biden_is_demented vinegar have good use it gotta be something else lol .we are fucked i tell you right now I just wanna do the things I love doin be around the people I love enjoy life as best as I can I really don't see no reason to fight we work our fingers to the bone and still have nothing to show
@Christopher Rod Wages are indeed smaller, but so is the cost of living. It boggles my mind that you guys pay 1500 rent for a POS apartment, while here we pay 400 for an apartment, and 600euros for a villa with swimming pool! A friend of mine immigrated to Canada a few years ago, thinking the higher wages would mean a better life. She was wrong. For many months she couldn´t even afford a phone, and she still has no TV! The cost of living is down right stupid!!
That's old news. It's the same in old monarchys, diktatorships, communism and capitalism. There's always someone who has more who wants more than you have.
magnusm4 yeah and it shouldn’t be that way, just like how we lock up criminals for commiting their crimes we should lock/ not allow people to want more than others through unfairness and neglect... if we were to create a truly equal and fair system then I say it’s ok for someone to earn their wealth but it’s clearly not like that anymore...
..i think people in USA feed of of turmoil and greed (either fighting it or doing it)..like a supermarket being flooded with people because they think the food is running out, fighting for stuff ..it's like that in the ENTIRE country but on a massive scale...except the 'people' ARE the groceries and it's the entities in control that are doing the fighting...the USA really IS an INTERESTING experiment in capitalist democracy..the fighting over the cookie jar however may destroy the whole thing.
@Stellvia Hoenheim but the richest persons on USA are protestants and the pastors from the Mega Churches are very accepting of the idea the country is run by rich white protestant men who follow the gospel by the letter. If you want to blame a minority, that is the price to accept nazists, like the ones who were "redirected" to form CIA or to improve NSA.
@Stellvia Hoenheim Strange how according to your logic countries where there are larger Jewish populations don't have this issue, clearly you are ignorant and anti-semitic.
Being a landlord IS a job. I was one. I also took on the property management aspect of it- I didn't "outsource" it. As a landlord, I believed (and still do) that your renters ought to be taken care of; all the utilities are to be in good working order for example. Why are you people (ignorant socialists) so against making profit? Why is making extra money for yourself so demonized? You socialist loons want to be taken seriously? Stop pretending everything will magically be provided for all of us at no cost as long as we give everything else up and "share all the things".
@@SPQR7117 dude, that doesn't mean you buy everything and act like a dictator and manipulate Market. Remember french revolution ? Both king and queen was executed by the revolutionaries. Don't spark another revolution here and do same with you.
Anyone else remember when the propaganda was tight and all you heard about America was how great it was? I guess this is the price of worshipping capitalism, you become a consumer and not a citizen.
@@ralfbelov7760 go to 1980's Burkina faso (a rapidly improving nation before the coup, which was an anti-socialist one) and watch this guy's latest video. totalitarianism led to those above (not burkina faso) nations' poo=verty. also, north korea is a monarchic communist nation, and Venezuela has one of the worst dictators in the world, you lopsided triangle
I spent 6 months in the US recently. All of my American friends tried to figure out ways for me to stay there and get a citizenship, and it was hard for them to understand that I am happy being an EU citizen, and want to go home to my "free" healthcare, "free" higher education, slightly more taxes Central-East European home country. Editorial: So, since way too many people are hung up on this question, let me clarify: I mentioned the education and the healthcare AND the higher taxes because I UNDERSTAND, that the healthcare and the education are payed from the money from the taxes. So to all those geniuses, who are pointing out to me, that nothing is free: Thank you, I'm aware. The price is in the tax. Fun fact, you know what's not in the tax? The profit of the healthcare industry.
@White Devil Correct; we pay taxes. And we pay _something_ , in general. But this "something" is different in different countries. It's 8 dollars in Australia, vs 2000 dollars in the US, for example, as the video said.
The thing about the government paying for college? The citizens who go to college are going to go work better paying jobs, and pay more taxes. Germany handily recoups what it spends for some of its people to go to university.
@@BAAWAKnight Free, as in you pay 0 money, they're not. But they are _extremely_ good value! _Really, really_ good value, believe me. I've lived both in the US and Europe and I know.
Our people will not revolt until they have nothing else left to lose... we will either face austerity or hyper inflation in 2021 because government won't tax the rich.... jan 16 2021
@@jordanfreeman8076 i am so sorry for you 😢 - we (Denmark) have lost a bit more then a quarter pr. million citizen compared to US 😧 (1376,83 vs 382,41 pr. million) - We had a public Lock Down (none essentials like Schools Museums etc.) right away (effect of 16th of march) and an urge to do the same in the private market. Measurements was put in place and my workplace reopened the 6th of April, working at a preschool/Kindergarten. This has been the only constant of none essentials open all the time (with an urge to stay home often, but open) - schools up to grade 5th has been open much of the time as well - so the youngest, have had as close to a normal year as possible (not even close to normal, but the closest we could). If at one point, you (USA-Americans) consider something new I hope you would consider the Nordic model (in a way that suits US citizens) - Ours (Iceland, Finland, Norway Sweden and Denmark) are not all alike and yet similar enough to call it "The nordic model". We (Denmark) did/do purchase debt, but we are able to afford it.* * Within the regulations of EU (max 60% debt measured by GDP) - we had 33% debt and was expected to have a debt at 47% at new years - 2019 we had a surplus of 3,7% - so it will take some years to get back, but we are not close to the limit of 60%. It is not "cheep" but we do not have to fundamentally change either, as our taxes give a surplus. Compared to the 2008 crisis - our dept in 2012-2015 was about at the same height 46%-44% before we where able to decline from 44% debt in 2015 to 33% in the beginning of 2020 - I am thankful that we financially are well placed in both debt (5th place with 4 nations having lesser debt in EU) and income (1st =) Within the Nordics handeling Covid - Iceland did best (85 pr. M) but i have no clue about their Economics. Norway did good too (107 pr. M) Financially Well, he is our middle east but with a Nordic model (red: oil =) - Findland also did quite good (125 pr. M) but financially the one of us that are worst off (deficit in 2019 + high debt) - And then we have Sweden - they did a US model to Covid (1200 pr. M) which makes me sorrowful - financially they are okay (8th in income with 0,5 % and 6th in debt with 37% - 2019 numbers)
I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of watching your videos - i am insanely impressed! I’m from the UK and your channel is educating me on US politics so much. Keep up the good work mate! 💖
Best quote I’ve heard: “If capitalism is so great, why does it need to be bailed out by socialism every 10 years?” This is my new favourite video of yours.
Socialism does not exist without capitalism. Because of this, you have to be very careful about how you implement socialistic policies. You do not want to uproot the capitalist system. You must redirect it.
The thing I dont understand is, you can tell working class americans how thing are run abroad in germany etc. but they will keep insisting that america is the greatest and will dismiss your thoughts without listening. Sad!
Deep down, I am American will tell you that most people know America isn’t great but refuse to admit it to foreigners because people in charge equated American pride with dignity
And perhaps with fear. Some people build their believes their ideology to idea that US is the gratest country. If they lose that idea then they have to face the flaws of their ideology.
And in the mean time german politics try to adjust to american standards every year. Wonder what is worse: Being in a shit show, or desperately trying to get into it?
@@xellos5262 German politicians are indeed far from great, still better than American in most instances. In Germany the plan is to raise the minimal wage next year to about 10.40€ an hour compared to the 9.20€ since 2019 (although Corona may intervene). Every two years the minimal wage is required by law to be reexamined to accompany our changing GDP. There're still shit like too expansive public transport, rising right wing terrorism and the afd, not taxing international mega corps cough Google and Amazon, insufficient medical coverage etc. As a German I could only fight to keep the country on the rail towards more like nordic countries in welfare aspects and less like America :|
I'm from Germany and I'm really sorry for all you you guys living in the US. In the past days I had pretty similar thoughts and I'm so glad you're sharing them with a wide range of people. Thank you for that and keep going!
I'm from Germany too. I can't imagine living in a country without public healthcare and where you have to take loans just to afford your education. It's just baffling that a wealthy country like the US does this little to support their citizens! Hopefully many people will watch this video and realize the problem.
Germany is not a good example of how a society should work, ordoliberalism is shit. They are mercantilists, they have a corrupted moral, provided they have one, they are fanatical labor deflation exporters and they are allowed to do so because they can use the EU Latin countries as a shield. Germany, without the €uro and the EU, will choke in tariffs and its unemployment rate will skyrocket.
Your efficiency kills beauty, harmony, creativity, pluralism, progress, democracy and in the end the will to live, persons are not just tools, gears or numbers.
I have found ground zero of your socialist content! Awesome! I am going back through all of it. I enjoy your content so much, as well as the podcast you, Yugopnik and Hakim have. Thanks for all you do.
I went looking for the ground zero because I had apparently watched some of Second Thought’s video from before either of had become communists and I wanted to see what made things change. Coincidentally, the change for both of us was around the same time, which I think says quite a bit about the events of 2020.
I can only speak from my experience: I really owe everything to my country. Austria paid my education and even paid me to study. It provided health care when I needed it badly. Thats why I gladly pay my taxes. I really dont get the Americans who are against Bernie Sanders. By demanding from large corporations like Amazon and Co to pay taxes, he could have restored true capitalism. There is no true competition, If corporations do not play according to the same rules.
Obligatory apologies for my English. Yeah man. I'm from a 'third world' country in South East Asia. Even with all our faults, at least we have affordable healthcare, where minimum wage workers and the most vulnerable people in the society will not have to worry about bankruptcy when they need medical attention. My mother was admitted to a public hospital for a heart attack, and discharged after 3 days with guaranteed future appointments with specialists. Her medical bill was 0 dollars and I am very grateful for that. Of course her bills will be paid for by taxpayers' money, in which a large chunk of them will come from huge corporations. This is, like you said, playing according to the same rules where everyone pays their fair share of taxes and will be guaranteed a safety net by the government when they desperately need one. In America, this concept is will be mocked as filthy communism. Tax cuts and tax returns are fine, but tax inequalities are not. It is not even common sense when people are going bankrupt from huge co pays while Amazon can get away with paying no taxes and providing no benefits to their workers.
@@zharifmuhammad5585 I always have to laugh when Americans compare Denmark to Venezuela. TV shows like Breaking Bad would not be possible here. The European Walter White would simply get his treatment paid and the rest of the show would be a boring European drama^^ I don't say that everything is perfect here in Europe. We too have tax havens like Ireland, Luxemburg, and the Netherlands which create the same problem. But I think COVID 19 ist a good thing, at least in the sense that now countries think about taxing Google and the rest who avoided paying taxes.
Many people are not. However, the powerful, even if they are moderates in our political landscape, have fought very hard to characterize him as radical or dangerous.
@@stevencooke6451 I think to some degree, Sanders is also to blame. He incorrectly uses the term socialism. Socialism sounds as if this is some centrally planned communism, but in my country, physicians are not forced to do business with the universal health insurance. They can either accept the offer or not. That's a free market. And we too have private insurance, although I don't know many people who have it.
@@skaterpunk420 don't just get rid of money-in politics... after its removed start throwing everyone who enabled the corrupt system in jail for life whether they be politicians, corporate executive, lobbyist etc
Absolutely true, when money buys you a voice the system can no longer be called democratic. A truly democratic nation values all its citizens voices equally, right now the higher your capital worth the closer you are to the government, and what is worse people accept that as just the way the system works. People have been brainwashed into believing that receiving their basic human rights is 'socialism' and therefore something to be afraid of.
Смотря твои видео мне кажется, что в Америке тоже есть настоящие коммунисты-социалисты-марксисты а не только SJW и социал-демократы, что скатываются в оппортунизм и защиту капитализма, но капитализма помягче. Многие в России всё ещё грезят "американской мечтой", будто каждый может быть богатым. Сказывается то, что мы ещё не достаточно пожили при капитализме и мы до сих пор имеем "рудименты" социализма вроде бесплатной медицины, но потихоньку эти "рудименты" капитализм забирает назад. У нас в стране тысячами закрывают производства, школы, больницы, при это строят тысячами храмы. В 2021 году число храмов в России превысило число школ. Появились безработные и бездомные. Цены на всё постоянно растут, не поспевая за ростом зарплат, тогда как при социализме было обратное - цены никогда не менялись а зарплаты росли. Watching your videos, it seems to me that in America there are also real communist-socialist-Marxists, and not only SJW and social democrats, who are slipping into opportunism and defense of capitalism, but capitalism is softer. Many in Russia still dream of the "American Dream" that everyone can be rich. The effect is that we have not yet lived enough under capitalism and we still have "rudiments" of socialism like free medicine, but capitalism is slowly taking these "rudiments" back. In our country, thousands of industries, schools, hospitals are being closed, while thousands of churches are being built. In 2021, the number of churches in Russia exceeded the number of schools. There were unemployed and homeless people. Prices for everything are constantly growing, not keeping up with the growth of wages, while under socialism it was the opposite - prices never changed and wages increased.
Тевирп из 2024 Ковид убил 800 000 одних только россиян, и там ещё не все штаммы отлетали Но про него все забыли, потому что ведётся альтернативно разнообразная деятельность военного типа. Храмы теперь строят даже не христианские, а, например, патриотическую церковь войны, где вместо святых - царский, советский и РФский солдат. Религиозный национализм™. Со школами и больницами можно ещё пережить ситуацию, но в домах начинают кончаться трубы.
He isn't "disgusted with both parties" he's going on an anti capitalist rant that is opposed to my beliefs and my future goals, this guy literally tore my childhood up and put it in the incinerator, to say he offended me is an understatement, suffice to say i will never watch his videos again
An ambulance you can take a cab if you have to.. what about paying for surgery you absolutely need!??! I have an american friend who existed with a bad back from an accident for twenty years before he moved back here and got the surgery for free!!! Its INSANE!!! Its probably why opioids and cocaine are so popular in he USA.. pain relief...physical and mental.
@@bnfgh123 Glad you said that cuz i can teach the young something i didnt know before my brother died of a heart attack. It can take hours to kill you!! He was feeling himself lose consciousness and regain for twelve hours!! He was young healthy so had no idea either heart attacks were often not sudden, otherwise he'd be alive. If you feel dizzy, tired, nauseaous, sweaty and weak...it could very well be heart attack. He thought it was food poisoning or some sort of virus but looking back he/we should have known by his agitation / sense of worry it wasn't typical and rush him asap. Now you guys know, maybe I csn save a life down the road. He was healthy up to that day.
@@doperagu8471 I would have made fun of you guys but feel really sorry for you. But regarding economy mixed economy is the way to go. Education, health should be free
@@a_angry_bunny well if everyone moved to the country they would still move to the most comfortable places there and inevitably become cities or at least big groups of people, so shouldn't everyone everywhere be able to live comfortably? I'm not saying that we must pay the same everywhere like things obviously will be more expensive in cities, but they should at least be able to afford comfortable lives especially if they're making more than the minimum wage.
'Cause the ones who tell the lies are the solemnest to swear And the ones who load the dice always say the toss is fair And the ones who deal the cards are the ones who take the tricks With their hands over their hearts While we play the game they fix And the ones who speak the words always say it is the last And no answer will be heard to the question no one asks
America is both a 1st and 3rd world country, go to rich areas and you'll have a good time, go to any rural or poor urban area and see how screwed we are.
@@singhanmolpreet5935 Literal city states.... with a minimalist franction of the population, and almost completely covered in city... Two of which, sit along one of the most profitable trade routes on the planet.
Well, as an european i must admit i keep watching this videos with the delightful thinking that USA is so broken while at the same time i ignore the same problems in my country.
@@tomi9562 my brother was in Italy and got his passport and wallet stolen. He was able to live there while until we were able to help. That was the moment I understood how things should be.
Only if you don't know what the American dream is. The real American Dream that is, not the Hollywood propaganda of "the American dream" the actual American dream is very simple: Be independent, self-reliant and own a bit of property. that's literally all the American dream is, at the time of the founding owning property was a really big deal.
I live in a small country in central Europe, that is part of the EU. Watching what is happening in the U.S. is just making me sad. Our country is by no means fully communist or socialist - we have free markets, capital structures and rich people, but we add some reasonable social welfare policies to the mix - free healthcare (mandatory insurance), free education, state guaranteed pensions and so on. I often complain about how the politicians are corrupt, how we lack behind the western Europe, but boy I am so happy that I live here given the current situation. The government responded surprisingly fast, we had < 10 confirmed cases when things started to happen - many shops and restaurants have to be closed, all international airports are nonoperational, public transport is limited, worker protection measures are quite heavily implemented, people are wearing face masks everywhere (if they can't buy one, the make it at home) etc. This might have economic consequences but at least it shows that even politicians and some "owners of capital" are at least partly considering the health of others. The results (after roughly a month after the first case): as of today only 728 total cases (out of which 23 have already recovered) and 2 dead.
if you are talking about Slovakia than people should know that part of the reason for that may be that regardless of covid-19 there is a high unemployment rate already, and the population is generally much older so they couldn't get away with doing nothing. the place has it's own problems too. Having said that i am happy and optimistic about their response, I don't feel like i need to worry too much about my grandparents.
Daniela Elliott pretty much your whole comment is wrong. Yes, there is a higher unemployment rate and a higher average age. BUT: the unemployment rate is 1.7% higher than in the US. And the average age is 3 years older (all numbers before the crisis). You are writing like Slovakia is an underdeveloped country. It is not. It has pretty much everything that the US is asking for. More workers rights, affordable healthcare and a affordable university’s. The average cost for a medical degree is 8.500$ per year in Slovakia. In the US the average is 70.000$ per YEAR. And the Slovakian universities are good and respected around the globe. The country is everything the US workers want, minus the „weak“ economy.
Yeah. Things are a bit fucked over here. And by a bit I mean god save us because Satan has dominion over this nation and the plebeians and fallen Angels have been silenced. Things get worse and worse the more conditions you have too. With my depression and add and host of other illnesses, it's a wonder I am alive at this moment. Mostly due to not being able to afford proper care and/or medicine that is literally life saving.
They're not that bad. Hes exaggerating a lot. Life is worse in the UK. The UK is so fucked themselves they cant even help their overseas territories, we've been left to defend for ourselves and we've done an excellent job so far despite 0 help from mainland. I seriously hope after this my people realise we are good enough to break off from the UK. And btw want to thank you guys for all the cases you've brought here, you've sent the virus to us, but you refuse to help. But to make matters worse, the US isnt actually completely fucked over, and they're actually helping us to the extent they can. Disgusting excuse for a country that has territories the UK is.
@@toboterxp8155 Gott sei Dank haben wir noch etwas Sozialistisches im System.Das rettet gerade meiner Freundin das Leben,wir wären sonst nie imstande gewesen eine Behandlung für Corona zu bezahlen
If you are wondering why's wrong with America these days, why so much violence, hate, anger. I think the real problem is CAPITALISM. In a society where the wealthy control the power and media, it's inevitable for they will seek a system that would perpetuate their status, where the rich stays rich and the poor remain poor. Looking at the microscopic(individual) level, you might find few success stories where the poor, through hard work and ingenuity became the rich. But on the macro level, the rich stayed rich and the poor remained poor for generations. If you think to yourself that owning a big house and a nice car makes you an "upper-middle-class", that's just naive. Middle-class was an invented idea to make people feel better about themselves, in the end, it's still part of the working-class, people who exchange their labor and time for money. In such system, poor white feel their opportunity has been taken away by immigrants, poor black feels the lasting oppression of racism. The Healthcare system is a perpetual nightmare because it puts profits before people. The defense spending is out of proportion because the military-industrial complex constantly looking for enemies. The education system burdens students with a ridiculous amount of student loans because universities run like businesses. Gun control becomes a chronic discussion because NRA needs to take a stance on some "freedom/profit" issue. All while those are happening, there are endless entertainment, sports, and "breaking news" to keep us all distracted. It's really a wonderful country to be a wealthy person, and I really hope I'll become one despite all the odds, LOL
@@jamielamarche2276 as a soviet citizen i felt this shift on myself. The second capitalism entered my country, people became hostile and selfish. We used to help and care for each other, live in relative peace, it ended in bloodshed.
I came across this video by accident - I'm glad I did - because this is so so true of rampant capitalism and the consequences. The thing is, the video maker would be labelled a socialist by those powers he highlights here. Because they are scared of real analysis like this - I salute you Second Thought and I've subscribed.
Casey lawton It’s a sales pitch that is very much true that has already done enough damage that future generations will live a whole different world that’s dying but the solution isn’t really to throw our capitalism but get the good things from all sides of the spectrum and make a system that benefits humanity and build a foundation based on science and powered by the people and etc.
@@frankgranados1755what he's talking is social democracy capitalism with strong regulations and a strong social safety net to ensure people don't fall deep into poverty and to keep government corruption at a minimum get it right.
@@Checkmate07351 indeed, works great for us in Scandinavia. And it isnt just the human thing to do, the moral thing to do, its actually also the economically advantageous thing to do - if ur able to look past quarterly profits and exec bonuses. We're actually ranked more capitalist than the US (the last I saw, we were no. 5, the US was no. 18), more economic freedom, better place to start a business etc, basically everything Americans claim is the American Dream. We're also every single year in the top 3 countries for most happy, least corrupt and all that. Yet most Americans think, we're socialists like Venezuela.... We're not a perfect society, that doesnt exist. But we know, we're not perfect, and we keep working on it. And its a helluva lot better than the so-called "best country in the world". FYI, Americans, ur the only 1s, who think that.
It is impossible to comprehend from a Dutch perspective that the citizens of the US don't have the same rights as the other first world nations. I hope for you all in the US that this crisis will bring some change.
As a Canadian looking south is often time just saddening. I fully expect no change in the US and business as usual soon after this is all said and done.
Ireland has a long working relationship with the US and many people go there to get work experience in the hope of returning to Ireland with a good job or skillset. The one big fear apart from gun based crime is the total lack of public healthcare and the very high cost of private healthcare. The experience of many is that if you are childless and healthy the US is better economically than Ireland. However if you have children education and childcare are very expensive and covering the cost of any health problem is ridiculously expensive. Many fundraising set-ups have had to be done by the Irish American community to cover the health care and repatriation costs of Irish citizens who were unfortunate enough to get injured or fall ill while uninsured on visits to the US. For many people the highest cost of a US trip is not the airfare or the accommodation but the insurance needed to be fully covered for health and injury risks in the US.
@@miranda8636 It is, but it's not free: Your health care pays for it. However, everyone has to have one by law and the money is directly taken from your monthly paycheck. If you lose your job, the government will cover for you however, with the money other citizens pay (within certain limits and with a lot of rulings, it's not free money). It is not a flawless system, but it is a good one, imho. Americans have been indoctrinated to frown upon money being taken from their paychecks thou, being force fed information on how "unfree" that makes them. I pity the hardliners among them, all they do is fight the fight of the rich guys for them, unknowingly. Even our rightmost party would never dare to disrupt the safe healtcare system (Thou Germany is very left by nature as we have had certain "problems" with the rigth side of things in the past).
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." Henry Ford
“And just because he’s human, a man would like a little bite to eat! He wants no bull and a lot of talk that brings no bread and meat.” These lyrics resonate with us just as they did all those decades ago. (Song of the Worker’s United Front)
„Und weil der Mensch ein Mensch ist, drum braucht er was zum essen, bitte sehr! Es macht ihn ein Geschwätz nicht satt, das schafft kein Essen her!“ - Original german version of the Einheitsfrontlied.
In every crisis like this where everyone hides but “the essential workers” a beautiful colorful ice sculpture appears celebrating and amplifying their bravery and injustice they face. When it passes the heat of normalcy melts the sculpture and all is forgotten.
“Thinking about how my whole childhood in the US I was told socialism inevitably led to mass death, secret police, voter suppression, food and supply shortages, massive lines, antisemitism, disease, lack of health care, job loss, oppression, etc. But wouldn’t you know it” - Mara Wilson, 2020
@@Tristan-ps1yl Not by percentage. Of course they will by quantity. What was that figure? Something like the top 1% of people having more wealth than the bottom 90% combined? That's a staggering gap. Of course they'd personally pay more quantity wise, even with lower numbers, but their businesses don't pay that money. Look at this: mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ And then tell me they can't afford to pay more taxes.
@@BAAWAKnight Ok. Move to Somalia then. You're using public infrastructure just posting on the internet. If you drive somewhere, or get on a public bus, you're using public infrastructure. If you use electricity, tapwater, a sidewalk, listen to the radio...guess what. You said you were an anarchist. To build a government-free society is going to take a TON of willing cooperation with other people. There will be more asked of you than a mere cut of your paycheck, not less.
Wtf this video actually articulated a thorough understanding of the world in terms of government, economics, history, and social classes instead of that usual bs spewed by Democrats and Republicans. You’ve just earned a subscriber.
No he didn't. He'c comparing a 1.5 trillion liquidity injection into short term lending to stabilize the rate of short term loans that are all paid off in a number of days, to "why can't we pay for universal healthcare where we give away free services." There is nothing wrong with a system that has decided to use short term liquidity injections in short term lending markets, nor is there anything wrong with a government that has decided to tax and spend on major programs, but they are not remotely the same kind of government behavior, and nearly all the facts that have been leveled at the audience are intentionally misframed to be as conducive as possible to tricking the audience into feeling that the socialist policies suggested are "no brainers." They are decisions about cost and benefit. There are costs, and there are benefits. This is not to say that the costs are not worth the benefits, in some cases they seem to be, and there are many countries that spend money on healthcare and have very happy citizens, which is not to say that they are single payer in their model, most aren't, but they are typically partially funded through government spending and they are typically universal, and they are less associated with medical bankruptcy, but that's not to say one bit that single payer or predominantly government organized healthcare is a better deal. Taxes are spoken of in a particularly dishonest way here. The bottom 50% pays a higher rate than the top 1%, yes this is true. It's also true that the bottom 50% don't have a meaningful tax liability, as they spend money into the federal IRS in a proportion which is smaller than the money that the federal government spends directly on them (on average as evaluated by cohorts, some people may be luckier than others, but in large numbers those round out and this holds true). The bottom have a negative tax contribution. They pay tax, but they get more in services and spending from the government than they pay, so they might pay 30% of their income through a combination of income and payroll, but then the government spends equal to 40% on them. This spending can be massively wasteful, so it can be a very bad deal, but the government isn't getting money from those people. It's losing money. This is not a problem, but to mention the tax rate implies that there is some raw deal going on, and there isn't in terms of the money being collected from them or the return they get from that which is collected. Nearly all the money is coming from the very wealthy. We might be able to take more from them, and that's a matter of hot debate, with good points made on both sides, but to imply that they aren't paying their fair share, when the government basically only makes money off the top 30% is a bit ridiculous. I don't think the government should be doing it differently, but that is what is happening. Complaining about payroll tax is complaining that social security exists, that it's a retirement fund that no level of failure, irresponsibility or error in the market can ever erode or destroy, and that it's progressive paying out more for lower earning and lower tax paying citizens than for higher paying ones. This is a service to working people that prevents them from having the autonomy to completely ruin their financial picture for retirement, and the government stepped in to create such a system because people needed something to prevent retirees from being rendered destitute, and there as a lot of discomfort watching such tragedies. When that's the nature of taxation, why the fuck does someone talk about it like Bezos or Buffet aren't paying their fair share? They are paying enormous taxes. Those billionaries pay for all the military spending. You don't contribute enough, likely, on average, (assuming you're a regular joe) to cover the costs of your social security payments, your medicare and if you bought a house, the tax breaks that come with that. You aren't contributing. You're just being forced by the government into some insurance schemes that are, full disclosure, very stable, but also returning investment at a rate that would be considered a grand failure at a good investment firm. There is only one way the government impoverishes you, and that's by being bad at spending money on your behalf, it's not because they aren't spending as much as they took, no they are spending more than they took, they are just spending it like blind cunts.
@@markallen6433 All that Mumbo Jumbo and you still don't understand the difference between fiat currency and money. You Merry-Cans are crazy. Crazy in the head.
Actually, he is talk rubbish. He give an example of a drug that Merry-Cans are paying $2000 and Australians are only paying $8. which is a bunch of BS. he has no understanding how the system actually works in Australia.
I'm Gen Z and honestly feel like society is becoming more of a dystopia every year. I remember on new years thinking "whats going to go wrong in 2020" didnt take long to find out!
Millenial here. There's no hope left. The country is full of dumbasses and thinking is "out". They are all a bunch of murderers and I hope corona virus takes care of the problem for us. They voted for this and everyone needs to remember that their trumpian neighbors want them to die for CEOs.
It is time to implement POSITIVE CHANGE - ending the EXTORTION of workers and the modern day slavery. Because we are in Solidarity with all who are marginalized or victimized. United we can face economic crisis, climate change, COVID-19 and bigotry. Reach out to your fellow citizens. To democrats, independents and republicans, to the depressed, the resigned, the dreamers and the activists. Take their fear, inform them and help them understand. Be patient and be concise. Help them unite and put in THE WORK to form a united movement. We can and should organize a GENERAL STRIKE. Even in and absolutely because of COVID-19. Because in this strike you have to demand that your Government stands up for you, protects you and supports you. If they wont, we have to show them our power, by putting the entire country to halt. Then you need to start to create "dual power structures." That means power-structures outside the US Government. Unions, Movements, etc. We are a global movement! We are a peaceful revolution! #GeneralStrike #itistime
I am so happy i'm subscribed to you. Not enough people on youtube are talking about this, and you just made an amazingly informative video on the topic. THANK YOU!!!
Mainstream media doesn't talk about this and it their job to inform people not talk about corona, plane crash, or mass shooting for hour straight to a point where their a broken record
People on RUclips aren't talking about it because it gets demonetized. He isn't going to make a cent off this. RUclips (google) is using its power to discourage discussion.
Many talk about this, you just have to look in the right places. I would recommend PhilosophyTube, BadMouseProductions, Vaush and Richard Wolff if you want to know more about how capitalism is a force of destruction for the human race.
I am glad you never went back to your old content, while scientific discovery and education of the masses are important. Our current economical and political state are in dire need of reform and I’m glad you are getting the word out.
@@TheReasonableSkepticist yes but capitalism can not maintain. The game is set on a mode right now that will shatter 6 million looking for government assistance do you think this wont have consequences.
It's not a American thing. There are 3.4 Billion people living in Poverty today. www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/10/17/nearly-half-the-world-lives-on-less-than-550-a-day Thats the entire world population of 1970. When your over populated with 7.8 billion and always growing , not everyone gets a chair when the music stops.
Andy Potanin same! people love to cite non-adjusted numbers and it’s hard to find data on this stuff that’s actually adjusted for inflation so you can get the full picture
Yes, it is absolutely clear that this economic crisis begun. And I am very sure that we are not expecting a recession like 2008 as well, but a great depression, because the same problems that led to 2008 are still there, only that we have accumulated an even bigger mountain of toxic banker's mess, inflated the debt-bubble to giant proportions and could expect even a debt crisis. And THEN we are adding a worldwide pandemic on top of it! There is even a small chance that we will experience a "modern day dark age" - if we screw up horrendously. Entire financial sectors are likely to fall away. Many of us will lose our jobs. Some of us will lose our homes. How can you protect yourselves? Try to become independent and minimize your risk of financial disaster. How do we become independent? - Plant your own food in your own backyard. Being able to feed yourselves is by far the most important thing, and believe me, it will be a relevant question! - Even if you do not have your own garden, join with others, with neighbors, with friends, with parents, with enemies! You can ask your governo, mayor or a university for land as well. - If nothing helps, then annex a wild meadow or a park. Put a sign in front of it, explaining that it is an "urban community garden", that it needs community care and that it should help. - Build strong communities. Resources can be shared. Not everyone needs a car, not everyone needs a lawn mower, not everyone needs a kindergarten place when it matters, as long as you share with people who have the solution to your problem. - If you are in debt, try to get away from it quickly! Just sell the car again. Debts can get you into very uncomfortable situations very quickly. - No big expenses, no luxuries, no nonsense. Concentrate on what you need! - Invest in useful material. In tools, in resources that make your life easier, even when the world around you is getting harder. - Invest in skills, in abilities. Skills make you independent. You can use them for yourself or you can offer your skills as currency in exchange with others. - Start repairing items again instead of buying new ones. - Have fun! :) - Buy some board games or something. You don't want to be dependent on booze to have a good time, otherwise it gets uncomfortable. - Bonds are worth nothing. If you have some, then quickly hot potatoes with it! - Meditate every day and try to become good people. I'm sorry but desperate circumstances require desperate measures. - Remember also, there can be a lot of inflation I think we are still very far away from that and it may not be a problem. BUT remember that when the first signs of hyperinflation appear, you should convert some of your money into Bitcoin as soon as possible to prevent the loss of value of your money. - Times of misery and poverty are the times when fascists are strongest! Promise me that we will prevent a fascist uprising! I beg you! Talk to your fellow humans, face them with empathy, patience but also honesty and ambition! Give them your hand even if it makes you uncomfortable and they behave badly. Try to do everything in your power to prevent that we will meet these people later with torches and weapons on the street If they can they will start to divide the people into those who are allowed to survive and those who will be disposed of under a new fascist regime. - And last but not least, remember that if the financial crisis is indeed there now, it is not just because of a virus, it is ultimately the natural result of neoliberal mismanagement in this late phase of capitalism. In order to respond adequately to the problems of this world, these policies must end. If politics is not able to react to COVID-19, to the financial crisis and especially to the REALLY existence-threatening crisis - the CLIMATE CHANGE - then we have to consider this government as extremist and use a peaceful revolution to replace it. A General Strike would be a fantastic tool to gain real ground. So Remember: Don't panic! (＝⌒▽⌒＝) Keep your hearts up and join the struggle, my friends.
This is strange, I'm from a third world country and I thought we had it taught, I've never heard of debt for going to university, in my country schools are free university actually pay you every 3 months with free food and rooms and for everyone with back degree, all hospitals are free and all prescription drugs you pay 12%. We do struggle with imported stuff (cars, equipments,...) . US is wealthy but not the people.
"Third World Country" is subjective and its something that these parasites label anything that its not USA, but as you have seen with this pandemic, and most of the points mentioned in this video, the US might be considered* first world country but only to the parasites, the rest of the population lives just to get by, i have family in what is considered "third world" but i assure you that they are better off financially than 90% of people that live here in the US with no debt, and dont have to live from paycheck to paycheck. What we have in the US is just appearance, a fake reality that we are at the top of everyone, and everyone is below us, be thankful that you are free in your country, with no student debt loans of the worry that you might end up homeless the moment you are without a job
what do you mean turns on you? he literally criticizes everyone all the time other than libertarians but democrats republicans hell even "trumpiens" he even on air directly criticized trump himself for being a "warhawk" on numerous occasions IE missile launches into Syria,The Iranian stuff that kicked off 2020 ETC. and if you think its just trump when it comes to republicans you would be so wrong the amount of times he criticized seniors for "ponying up to china" or "double standard on farmers" ETC. I mean you probably would realize this if you do research yourself rather than blindly believe news corporations trying to harm there RIVALS IE fox news MSNBC CNN really anything other than there own news company. why does fox keep him on I HAVE NO CLUE I guess bottom line since he does rake in the money for them since he has the "accent of the common man" I guess.
@@Newbmann Trump is a warhawk who has surrounded himself with Neocons. Just wait until he's reelected, look out Iran, Russia , Venzuela, etc. , and that's WWlll.
@@georgedgeorge26 what else did you expect every modern american politician is say for Gabard. I mean at the very least he managed to deescalate a number of crisis IE north Korea, Khomeini assassination ETC even if he is also partially the cause of quite a few them. Im not defending him Im just saying Hilary Clinton literally ran on war with Russia well not directly but still she ran on having no fly zones over Syria which Russia said would be considered american interference in Russian affairs even before she supported it.
This is probably the most honest video on the state of capitalism in the USA. If the richest country in the world has some of the worst worker rights, something is horribly wrong
It's capitalism. Capitalism is horribly wrong. Exploitation is not a bug, it's the core concept. Maximising the profits means minimising the compensation you give to your workers, so the people with all the money will Always use their power to make the labour of the people working for them, the people making all the stuff they profit off, cheaper.They'll dodge taxes, avoid or lobby against environmental regulations, public health regulations, workers rights, anything that costs them money. They'll comodify things we need to live, things that are or should be human rights, jack up the prices, artificially restrict the supply, buy up all the affordable housing and rent it out at barely affordable prices whatever they can do to profit off something that people Need. They will continue to do this, and fuck people over as much as they possibly can, and extract every drop of wealth they can from the workers and the planet, regardless of consequences until they run out of things to exploit or destabilise everything so badly they, like every empire before them, lose the ability to support their own growth, shatter or collapse inwards. This isn't a "Greedy people exploiting the system" problem it's a "The system is set up to reward greed" problem. We can't wait for it to be Profitable to deal with climate change. It will be too late.
America is the world's free for all. Just look at its history. This isn't an honest video though as narrator is biased and implying socialism as an only antidote.
@@infoprod7731 The problem is the disparity in power regarding ownership. Where owners of capital always eventually win through accumulation. Then they bring instability into the economy with rentier and monopolist tactics which create inflation for capital and deflation for labor. Leading to an unsustainable economic situation. Every economy of any style needs to focus on maximizing value added transactions. Which is seen at the same time as increasing income equality. If it doesn't it fails and stagnates from the inefficiency of horded wealth producing no new utility while it starves the of the rest of the economy the ability to consume.
I salute you for for posting something that is out of the scope of this channel. It's extremely important for the American people to wake up and to be alarmed by the corrupt politicians and politics in the US. As a European we are not only shocked by the struggle most working Americans have to endure, but also appalled that the US is counted as a developed country. Rise up fellow Americans!
Some parts of America are indeed developed world. At the same time the life expectancy in some parts of West Virginia is the same as Ethiopia. This is a fact.
@@skysthelimitvideos When compared to Europe, USA doesn't feel like a developed nation... Many developing nations have better healthcare and lower prices than the US.
Bernie’s Progressive revolution he’s started welcomes you in open arms. We are ready to transform America and end this 2 party political capitalist bullshit.
Capitalism is evil through and through brothers n sisters comrades, every war ever fought bar few, if any, has always been about trade n commerce, redrawing maps land grabs FFS, even in my country we fought the Brits out in the war of independence up to 1921, we were fighting capitalist bastards!!!!!!!!
Socialism would help - but then you'd realize it starts to fail and its authoritarian behavior becomes obvious that it limits peoples rights. The problem is with the US is you have a bipartisaned, government, and population who cannot agree on a single thing.
The subtle anger in your voice towards the end of the video is powerfully haunting. I hope everyone in America is feeling equally as enraged so major reform can finally come.
Well I learned that these socialist communities are emotionally unstable and incapable of seeing the implications of creating a socialist state. If all it takes is a relatively minor situations like this to make people start shouting anti-capitalist sentiment then where screwed. Dont sell your rights my guy, especially now. Consider the implications and how this will temporarily benefit us but in the long run make it worse for everyone not just a select few.
To start with, I'll say that I'm totally on-board with the message. I'll also that being a landlord actually *can be* a job, if you do it right. My father and I don't hire anyone to do any level of work on our properties that we can do ourselves. We do carpentry, roofing, plumbing, basic electrical, flooring, painting inside and out, all lawn care and yardwork, in addition to countless other tasks for more than a dozen houses by ourselves without a crew. That's two people working six hours a day, five or six days a week. That's a job. The first thing we did when our state announced a shutdown was call around to our renters and determine who among them was going to be affected and couldn't make rent. We've cut rent for multiple tenants and are going to forgive months' worth of rent for several more. We'll also be shouldering utility bills for the duration as a matter of course. It's deeply disappointing that many landlords are not handling the coronavirus outbreak with common human decency, but I'm proud to say that our tenants will receive at least the basic courtesy of not being kicked out on the streets or have to deal with their water/power/AC not working. I am a landlord, and a worker, and I support workers' rights.
@@jillfizzard1018 thats what any good landlord would do, yet second thought is just going around saying every landlord and real estate investor is a dick without a second thought
If i were a real estate investor i'd do the same, letting tenants stay and pay a lower rent since they have to stay home as opposed to working, also second thought literally mocked every real estate investor how are u not pissed? even if you do support workers rights its clear second thought and the other trolls here don't hold you in very high regard
You are great really, and I don't mean anything offence but you just proved the point that landlord is not a job by listing all the real jobs you have and do instead of hiring people to do those jobs. (carpenter, plumber, landscaping, painter, etc.)
It’s a real shame that if you put this video out 3 months ago when the economy was booming, a sizeable proportion of people would disagree with you. Exceptional video 👍🏽
The economy was not booming at any point in the last 40 years. The only thing that was booming was the stock market, while the working class languished in their poverty wages.
@@Jugganaut05 Because I disagree with the much of the author's utopian views and his naivete, and his complete disregard of history...I am a sociopath? Wow...bit strong don't you think. I looked up the definition....seems way over the top for a general statement like you just made. Just say they are wrong...or say they are dum dums lol...but sociopath?
@@johnrr6 I took an international econ. class and also about the social structure and I can tell you that he is very right. There are some key points and him taking up the "Unfair Model" would probably have been ideal. But overall he is without a doubt right. I gotta admit, it is weird, it is like a flat earther keep forcing the notion that the earth is flat. But honestly do tell me, where is he wrong?
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I love this content. More please!
Thanks for making this video comrade
Dear Americans take some notes from *western* European countries introduce free Education, Healthcare, and loan with lower interest rates for a higher tax
As i always say a country will be only successful if it has a balance of capitalism and socialism and should not go for extremes
Well actually most former SSR nations PREFERRED living under the USSR rather than todays nations, Khrushchev-Gorby years that is, nowadays they cant afford any thing, housing food medicare they are just pirated by all the rich oligarchs in the USSR days everything was cheep or just free there weren't people selling drugs, people actually didnt even lock their doors when they left their homes because everyone knew eachother and lived along now they are living under a rich mafia controlled nation not to mention that most of the countries are still under a dictatorship
“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Correction, its one man greed.
@@chillaxo9863 false af
OmerHawary, That is Beautiful! I love it! Very, very true! From a working class American
@@cheehonglim9151
Correction, its man's greed
@William Kiene oh yeah sure because a communist government that controls everything wouldn't be too big?
This is the 1st of your videos I've watched. I'm 62, lived through the Thatcher years so know the history. This video is a breath of fresh air after decades of listening to the wealthy telling me, and now my son, that we really too expensive to employ so work cheaper, work harder. Bless you kid your generation have a lot to rebuild.
@@dedium5236 b-but we are communists, according to the brain damaged crazy people
I'm 61 and live in the US. I hear the same thing from my son as you hear from your's. Him and his friends, all in their late 20's, believe all the BS about poor people causing their own problems because they are lazy and stupid. It's just crazy what has happened in the US.
@@Sol-su2mi I'm actually a communist
@Ronnie Greene but will be reborn
Ronnie Greene America really hates socialism , literally meaning for the people 😅
I heard a quote about 10 years ago that stayed with me..."if you were to die tomorrow, the posting to fill your position would be published before your obituary"
Got to love that efficiency
That is so true
In chile there was several cases of this happening last year, public healthcare response mails arriving days post mortem of people who needed it. You know how it is ending here, pure fire on the streets, enough is enough
actually a neat song about chilean uprising says "Today I shall die on the streets or in a queue list", referring to the youths engaging with police since october
my father used to say - don't work yourself to death over any company. They will say nice things about you at your funeral only.
"I'll probably be back to my usual content next week"
*one year later:*
I know, right? Second Thought has gotten increasingly more political since this coronavirus pandemic. (sigh) Well, he can only make so many videos about the biggest flaws with the bad way American governors run things. Some of them even feel like different versions of the same video four times. What makes Why the United States Can't Handle Crises a different topic from Why Capitalism Can't Handle Climate Change? What makes America's Looming Housing Crisis a different topic from America's Looming Eviction Crisis? I hope Second Thought will return to his usual content when this video is three years old, because this pandemic and the buzz that it gave unregulated capitalism can only last so long. September 1, 2021, 7:23pm
I originally found this channel after the channel had its political shift. This statement seems insane to me
@@Adamkalb1 well, how long do you think covid will last?
@@Eryna_ If most goes well, and every person still alive gets their vaccines, no longer than three years for sure. September 17, 2021, 10:31am
He became a real comrade!
“This country has socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Democrats and progressives are the real racists
: leaves chat :
b1bbs g0t h4nds that has absolutely nothing connected to the quote you hick
@@b1bbscraz3y did the quote hurt your pea brain.
@@b1bbscraz3y well, Democrats are actually not very much different from the Republicans. They both are neoliberals. US need an actual socialist party.
@@mawcha it's hilarious when right wingers actually say that in a debate. if you even slightly recognize any realistic discrimination to a group based on race, talking about it as a real issue means you're actually racist. it's laughable
Anyone remember the part in the constitution where we the people are expected to overthrow the government when it stops serving us? I think it’s time.
This.
Based
It's time
Seize the means of production comrades
FBI has entered chat
"Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make" -Lord Farquad (and the billionaires of America)
What "billionares" and how are they sacrificing you?
Reimu Daze Forcing us to work because the gov. wont give us benefits to stay home
Some of you may die, but some of my slaves will die to, so we are in the same boat :P
@@zereimu maybe its because they want everyone who works hard to make "their" profits to go back to work in the middle of a pandemic 🤔🤔🤔
He was a profound thinker in his day.
After living 67 years in this country I am still waiting for proof this is the greatest country on earth.
If you have time to watch youtube videos and comment on said videos. While not starving or dying of dehydration. You probably live in a pretty great country.
@@anderhagea553 I'd say if you have time to read comments that are from 11 months ago, you need to get a life.
@@Shari466 Maybe I don't have one but you could say that about anyone doing or saying anything you or I don't like.
Besides I just want to point out the relatively easy lives pretty much everyone in this comment section has.
Try baby steps
How about USA stops bring a shithole country?
WORD
"The workers are expected to have 3 months of expenses saved up or risk being lectured by the rich on financial responsibility. But a couple of weeks of bad business, and now giant corporations led by multimillionaires are crying for help." Geez i need a momment.
Yea that was a really good sentence
It's seriously disgusting, I don't see how a human could become such a parasite that they would do anything not to lose a little money when they are billionaires. I mean they and their whole families are set for life, why isn't that enough?
tells you how they failed themselves
We need some guillotines
Very good point
"They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." -- George Carlin
That was back then.
Now it's more like in a coma than just asleep - and not have the money for the medics to wake you up from it.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” - John Steinback
my favourite one
@@bekzod3322 Do you know, that socialism is good for country....... Pride will kill America, simple as that! Why dont they bail out people and not Companies, if school is mandatory than it should be completly free, Health care, also free. Many countrys have those thing for free, and they dont have to be so affraid!! Those LANDLORDS that rants on internet are the same as FLAT - Earthers rant!! I hope for the change, REAL CHANGE, people should think of word change, look up in dictionary, and firmly go towards that WORD in all aspects of life! Doesn't it goes, We the people?? For the people? People have whole power in their hands, but their minds have been indoctrinated vice versa, if people stop with all their jobs, the country will stop in its tracks. It is time to bail out the people.
Biznis Man Yeah, but our government is so stuck up with getting profits that they don’t give a shit about individuals, they don’t care about schooling or healthcare or other basic human needs. I don’t entirely agree with the whole “Socialism is the only true way” that some preach, but there is definitely some things to be learned.
America may claim to be a Democracy, but that’s only true at the town and maybe state level. The Federal government isn’t a Democracy. It’s an Oligarchy. A rich few try to further their own interests by getting themselves involved with government. And their ivory towers are so fucking high that they physically cannot see the class below them. That’s the issue, the government doesn’t serve the people. It serves the companies, the corporations, itself, and not the people.
America is the perfect example of late-stage capitalism. The corporations are so big, the government is too concerned with serving them rather than serving the people. Occasionally a few scraps will be thrown, a few dollars will be given, but then they turn around and give the corporations a feast, and give them multi million - sometimes billion - dollar bailouts.
We need a return to the original American way, where the people were cared for.
Where the people actually had power.
Thank you for coming to my TED-Talk.
@@tonikaycheney7120 america is far from a truedemocracy especialy with the gerrymandering and that u can basicly only vote for right wing authoterian/conservative partys there r no other choices.
"Im disgusted with both major political parties" could not have said it better my self
then you should go one step further: being disgusted with the two-party system
@@terawatt1 It's actually even worse than that. Both parties are aligned in their economic agendas. United States is basically a one-party state.
@@MortyrSC2 I know, but isn't this just a logical result of the the-winner-takes-it-all approach? If radical parties or even just those with a specific agenda have no chance on winning anything, isn't it logical that the only parties existing neglect everything in favor of the largest voter group, the middle aged white blindly patriotic salaryman?
This is one of the reasons why the U.S. is sometimes regarded as un-democratic, since these are basically the only people in that country who really have a vote that counts, everyone else is blatantly un-represented.
In a multi-party system, even if "your" party doesn't get in power, they may still sit in parliaments, be a valuable partner for reaching majorities there or just inform the public about what is actually debated on. It's not a surprise that those countries getting the best ratings in terms of democracy are those with proportional option.
I'm at the point where I'm offended when Republicans call Democrats radical leftists. like, don't lump those neolibs in with us lol
@@terawatt1 same differance
It's so sad how this channel constantly predicts the future, because it's always obvious that this is what happens, and I don't see it changing anytime soon.
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
We're on a treadmill of an never ending cycle.
The cycle ends when we destroy the ruling class and the system that gives them power.
Think of it this way, many communist groups are gaining more land and power in the third world and I’m almost certain this pandemic has made many more class conscious and critical of the dogshit system that they’ve been convinced to believe is the only solution, that universal healthcare is too expensive and that anything even remotely social democratic is the second coming of Hitlerite Socialism, whatever that even means.
The left is (slowly) gaining more influence. And socialists are too not just social democrats although many modern social democrats in my opinion are socialists in waiting after talking to them and realising they just hadn’t had socialism explained well enough and someone who cared to answer questions.
I can say the bible shown more truth and prediction of the future.
@@LdyVder now y is that u think?
The senators that traded stock with insider information should go to jail
the problem is, it's not even remotely illegal
How about handing them to Isis, along with an Imax camera and the instructions: use your choice of execution, whatever you want, but please get some juicy closeups...we'll spring for the popcorn.
We should make them help nurses on the frontline of this virus.
If I could I would Hang those Senators off a street lamp on Wall Street and then shoot holes in them as I laughed and watched their blood drip down onto the road.
They had access to private briefings and information we didn't and acted on it. Insider trading. And it is illegal.
But the justice system doesn't belong to us, it belongs to them.
As a child I always dreamed of living in America, as an adult, I am extremely grateful that I don't.
@@parispc you are already in europe greece will probably have an end to it's economy problems some time in the future
- macedonian in the northern part
My brother left the United States and went to Canada, It was for a job but still. After one day he wants to live there.
@Sarah Van Munsteren élève actually Europe has banned citizens of the United States from entering, as they should
@@mwara2444 you mean travel ban not permanent ban lol
Reginald Jones come up to Canada buddy pretty sweet here
"The workers are expected to have 3 months of expenses saved up or risk being lectured by the rich on financial responsibility. But a couple of weeks of bad business, and now giant corporations led by multimillionaires are crying for help." I had to stop and let that one sink in for a second. We're not crazy - we're being gaslighted by the rich and powerful.
And? You going to sit on your ass or are you going to do something about it?
I have a friend that told me he couldnt take "shelter in place" cause he needed the money. He said he was poor ;but he goes every day to McD for lunch. Yes. I really think he is poor.
@@clodiamandes7153 mcds is for poor people....
No, they’re just hypocrites. Everyone should have savings enough to cover a catastrophe.
You know millionaires have years of savings? It's their companies which don't. Because companies cannot afford the luxury of savings, they gotta always stay competitive, otherwise they'll be kicked out by better companies which invested all their savings on R&D or bringing more investors.
I don’t even know anymore. Just a teen here, but man, leaving America becomes more and more appealing.
I just turned 18 a couple months ago, and I'm really considering immigrating to Europe once I finish college
@@pngdotjpeg good luck. Unless you want to denounce your citizenship you’ll likely have to pay a shit ton in taxes
I’m thinking anywhere in the EU
no, capitalism is global, don't leave your home, change it
@@evanblalock9744 and? where’s the problem?
As each year passes I am more and more grateful that I don't live in America.
Same
My mom promised me to go visit NYC when I graduate. At the moment, I'm unsure whether I still want to do this...
Aisha Tarver Where did you move too. I might need some ideas.
@@thedeathofcreepers Look up "most beatufull countries in Europe" and take a pick, you Will be better of anyway and you can then move live and work in Any of your chosing because we have that kind of freedom Here, not this pew pew freedom (still tho you can get Guns within reason i own few my self in most restrictive Country of EU if it comes to that)
Maybe try Poland first, its Real mixed bag if it comes to cultures of Europe, try Gdańsk/Gdyna/Sopot (really they are one city) if you would like to live over least sea like sea that is still a sea, (for Best housing prices look up smaller cities around, Rumia if you want to visit me lmao) if you live in metropoly like NY Warsaw is Best bet or Kraków if you would like to have Mountains nearby or zakopane if you want to live in Mountains, go to Hel if you live on an Island, thats difrences in vertical line on map, more West, more like Western countries, closer to East closer to gulag comrade, oh also North East corner you have Mazury top noch spot for your 2 weeks mandatory paid vacation, thousands lakes and rivers in amazing forests, if you dont like to get vacation this year no problem you can stack it next year and have a month off work, minimum wage is enought to live rent and Save some, its not great overall but is enought (also i doubt that you would have trouble finding job that paid double that with being native English speaker, especially in summer in tourist locations So most bigger cities) langue is probably only part that suck, native people cant speak it correctly half of the Time nevermind you, but Any Young folk Will speak english
sneek snek it’s hard seeing the country you love that you were taught was great your whole childhood crumble down and self destruct
“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi.
@Sukan As a guy who lived in a Socialist country, I agree with you. In capitalism, nothing is shared with the poor. In socialism, there is nothing to share. Everyone is equally poor.
@Sukan Because many people see Socialism as a cure to capitalism. In reality, we don't need both. What we need is Capitalism with a bit of government control over the big corporations. I'm from India and we were a Socialist country until 1991. When the British left India in 1947, we chose Socialism and captured private companies and made them into public companies. But after the soviet union collapsed, we opened our markets and done an Economic liberalization in 1991. And then the county started to grow. India achieved and created a lot more jobs from the 20 year period from 2000 to 2020 than the 44 years socialist period from 1947 to 1991. But I lived in a communist-ruled state in India (State of Kerala) and here, and private ownership is seen as evil. As a result, most companies left my state and it resulted in huge unemployment. And all the public companies are just white elephants who do not make any profits but still function by eating the tax money. So people left the state to look for jobs in other capitalist countries, especially in the middle east. And we became a consumer state without any production which lives by expat money stent from other countries. So if COVID hit our state, there is no big problem. Nothing changes here If COIVD hits the middle eastern countries, then we are doomed.
@Sukan Well no one is saying that socialism is the cure, but there are certain things we can borrow and make capitalism better. There is no universal law saying that capitalism should be the way it is. Things can be changed, systems have to be flexible.
@TTNTT3 I dont know what kind of image of Kerala are you trying to paint, but I'm also from state of Kerala and I feel you are just seeing one side of the issue. Kerala is worldwide regarded as a great model despite the fact that we have fewer production houses. Our service sector is one of the strongest. Our standard of living is comparable to that of first world countries. Why do you think people from other states come to work in Kerala for daily wages ? The standard of living back in their states are too low which forces them to leave their homes and come to Kerala. And to say socialism destroyed india would be diametrically opposite of what happened. Different times require different measures and that's exactly what happened. If we stepped into a capitalistic democracy straightaway after getting independence, india wouldn't have been where it is today.
For others here, I would suggest you read about Kerala model that was heavily praised by different economic organisations
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
John Steinbeck
(Edit: Don't go in the replies, it is truly a civil war down there)
That is right. Half of the working class are willing to trade their dignity in for a %1 percent chance of being part of the rich club... Only to live a grim existence.
Wow great point! I'm moving to Canada if they'll let me in. I probably wouldn't if I were Canada.
Dr. Edward Boss I don’t know. Maybe you should actually ask the poor who moved from Poland or other ex-USSR nations why they’re not fans of socialism.
@@BOSSDONMAN you have no idea what you're talking about.
Misattributed quote, actually Ronald Wright from "A Short History of Progress," 2004.
Nearly 3 years later, and the assertion in the introduction that “I’ll probably return to my normal content next week” has never been more hilariously wrong. And I’m so glad it is! Your channel has become a great introduction to socialism and socialist ideas, and truly one of the pillars of the Left on RUclips. Great job, comrade, keep it up!
He just became another source of the cancerous growth infecting our society.
Exactly. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Government reps. should not own stocks. How is it not a conflict of interest.
I agree! I was just watching a video of Rep. Occasio-Cortez in (a successful) attempt to call out many greedy Congress-members on this stuff, as she questioned several members of campaign advocacy groups who confirmed, that if she wanted to “be very bad,” there would be no law preventing her from taking campaign money from fossil fuel companies, then proposing & working to pass legislation that would help these companies immensely improve their bottom line, all while purchasing tons of their stock so that she could reap the rewards.
Jan Clements Exactly why a corporate-bought politician like Nancy Pelosi refers to social democratic, social welfare programs like the GND as “the Green New Dream” and refuses to even allow universal healthcare bills to go to the Democrat-controlled House floor for a vote, while getting shallow applause from laymen ignorant of the fact that we live in a corporatocracy. The fact that these corporatists are bought and owned has obvious influence on their ‘ideology’ and view of acceptable discourse/acceptable corruption.
@@goose4362 '"I'll be the bad guy," Ocasio-Cortez says on campaign finance'
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none are suppose to. If they want to keep the object they must turn it over to someone else to control it while they are in office. trump breaks this law also.
@@docan5248 the moment our president is also the president of a Corporation, that is a problem.
The perfect analogy is that the two parties are just like good cop, bad cop. They trick you into thinking that they are in opposition to each other when in fact, they work for the same boss, and have the same shared goals.
Oh damn that is a good analogy, I think I’m going to use that one
Of course. When in doubt follow the money trail. Both parties are backed by the elite. Whoever wins, the elite wins. The losers are the middle income and poor.
The important ones are also members of the literally the same club(s).
It seems that social systems like Despotism, Feudalism, Moneyism, Socialism, Labourism, Communism, etc. are just different form of centralism or pyramidism.
Sadly humans can no longer turn back the clock or slow/stop the clock since the late Prof Sagan calculated that humans has progressed pass the Тип 0.7 stage. If Dr Kaku projections are correct, humans will face greater hardships & dangers as it progress towards a Тип 1 civilization. Unfortunately the clock is ticking & the late Prof Hawkings projected humans has only ≈ 1 to 10 thousand years left to reach Тип 1 or face certain extinction/apocalypse.
Perhaps the common people will need someone like V, Batman, Zorro or Robin Hood to “Flatten Capitalism” or “Flatten the Pyramid” & replace it with a society that's more forcus on building a Тип 1 civilization.
May the deaths & sufferings of the innocents be merciful. 🙏
@Tucson Jim - Sadly foul mouth maniacs with limited imaginations are likely to be a threat to human progress towards a Тип 1 civilization. Your negative behaviour is Not unexpected & it serves to confirm what the late Prof Hawking had observed.
Unfortunately there are no test for such maniacs yet otherwise it will be good to “invite” them for some “mouth cleaning lessons”.
As the wise said:
君子能亦好，不能亦好；小人能亦醜，不能亦醜。君子能則寬容易直以開道人，不能則恭敬繜絀以畏事人；小人能則倨傲僻違以驕溢人，不能則妒嫉怨誹以傾覆人。故曰：君子能則人榮學焉，不能則人樂告之；小人能則人賤學焉，不能則人羞告之。是君子小人之分也。
May the sufferings of the innocents be limited 🙏
It's not Red vs Blue, it's the 1% vs You. The recent events just spotlight the problem.
It's just 1 million people infected. Let's wait until it's +10 milions.
nope.... the 1% has indoctrinated minions, on the right
Asher you’re acting like it’s not on the left either. Look at what they did to keep Bernie out
@@RonGibbons i will say one difference I've noticed. Democrats be trying to sell what sounds right to the people with very little guarantee. Republicans be getting to believe in stuff that doesn't even make sense in their favor cause of "traditions, and norms", and play on people's fear of change
Did you know that Sen. Richard Burr is a descendant of Aaron Burr's brother?
The more ya know ;)
March 2020 Second Thought Viewers: "WTF is this political bs?"
ST: "It's ok, I'll be back to my usual content next week"
Also ST: Becomes one of the best political channels out there.
I dont want to get political
One pandemic later: so yeah I'm a socialist suck it if you don't like it
@@ernstthalmann4306 i like his takes it just i disagree with his socialist takes
@@massetozacarias5693 why?
You mean Jt
@@massetozacarias5693 It's incredibly interesting that you've declined to further clarify why you "disagree with his socialist takes." I think you actually don't. I think you agree wholeheartedly and your mind can't process that truth.
someone once said "America is a third world country with a Gucci belt."
@@syncj838 "someone once said"
I lived in America and a 3rd world country not even close
@@jarrodong4430 i live in canada and have visited multiple 3rd world countries and often go to the US. i can tell u the US is more similar to a corrupt 3rd world country then a developed one if u look at its people and level of education and poverty
America is like a first-world country because it is the seat of so much capital and power. America is like a third-world country because the extreme wealth disparity gives a small number of entities overwhelming control over markets and politics.
Yes I did see someone on Twitter say such a thing.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." Frederick Douglass, former slave.
True
Dam straight
America the laughingstock of the global community. We have the geography, we have the resources, we have the infrastructure, we have the gdp. We could theoretically be the happiest country on earth.
I wouldn't say we have the infrastructure since there are millions of americans without high speed internet and shit public transport in most large cities.
It’s like if Jeff Bezoz had a kid, handed them everything they ever wanted, inherited all of his stuff (including his money), and then blew it all on a new candle company that was being run by that Nigerian prince that needs our credit card info
Benjamin Yablonski WTF 😂 I never laughed so hard
@@nuggetbomber5977 Ayy my man, that's a good one
@@ifkensen_3304 And guess what Americans can thank the Koch brothers and monopolies for that shit too. Honestly if peaceful changes can't happen, you guys need some French spirit...
Watching you get radicalized over the course of 2020 is my favorite arc of this season
I wouldn't call it radicalizing, I'd call it having common sense and facts.
@@ARandomSpace fair point
I did the same lol
KHARAKTEH DEYELOBMEN
@@ARandomSpacethe first thing on his home page of his channel is “here is the radical content you crave” ps. There’s no right answer in politics, just do what you think is right
“People woke up from the American dream” - the sole survivor
Oh no, not on May
"The American Dream is dead!"--Donald Trump
The entire world unraveled
@Tucson Jim i live in germany and boy I can tell you I don't need to pay $1000 for an ambulance almost everyone here has a health insurance the minimum wage is higher the education is better (and free) and germany was prepared way better for the coronavirus than america. The only reason why people come to the US is because the US always portray themselves as the best country in the world when in reality they are plagued with so many basic issues.
@Tucson Jim "socialist hellholes" you do get that there is a difference between a mix of capitalism and socialism right? Some things are regulated by the state here to ensure that you dont get exploited but thats not communism.
Suddenly folks realize Bernie didn’t sound so crazy.
you have to realize, that Bernie has the job to give up halfways and leads you to a candidate for capitalism.
@@kaisteinert574 It is better to say, he was the best candidate, but was dropped by the Democrats, and especially by Warren.
Bernie was the only chance for democrats to win in 2020. Biden will win the popular vote but he will lose.
Edit: :/ I’m not doubting Biden as much as I was previously. Trump is doing so bad in every poll even fox polls lmfao.
Ahahah then Biden won 🥳
@@MrHistory269
Correct, Biden can win, but then it is back to
what is normal in US.
Bernie could make change, he loved Denmark. So you could have had Social Democracy. With Free health Care for all.
In Denmark they also have:
1 year Paid Maternity leave.
Free Education even University(College)
7 weeks paid Vacation etc
Video:
People in Denmark Are Much Happier Than People in the United States. Here’s Why.
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I'm not flat, stop asking I know, it’s unfortunate. I was hoping there would actually be some change in the right direction. Instead it’s the same old Demopublican partnership operating on corruption, with some theatre out front to keep the populous fighting and divided.
"The notion of the middle class is largely a construct to divide the working population." This is so important to understand
Based and comradepilled
And people eat it up. I see posts constantly talking about getting to upper middle class and so on. Everyone in the middle class is just working poor and need to fight for themselves.
@@angry-white-men Middle class goes up to $186,000. If that's working poor, then they are living outside of their means.
There are distinctions within the working population that have proved to be useful in political analysis.
For example, Marxism used to split this class into the proletariat (the people who are forced to work for the owners [the "bourgeoisie"] to not starve to death) and the "petite bourgeoisie" (people who own small means of production (bar, fuel station, shops,...) and can't live without working, unlike the bourgeoisie). The distinction is important because the petite bourgeoisie doesn't have much to gain from fighting the bourgeoisie, and it certainly has a lot to lose in political instability or collectivization, in opposition with the proletariat that has pretty much nothing to lose anyway. It was for example the case of the Kulaks in USSR. Consequently, not all the working population has the same political interests.
Plus nowadays, additional distinctions could be added within the working population using technical/education level. There are many people who don't own any mean of production ( => they're a part of the proletariat class), but own rare technical skills that give them a lot of power over employers, which allows them to receive more than decent salaries. This subcategory of the proletariat gains a lot from the current situation, and would maybe not want things to change.
I won't talk too much about this, but the owning class could also be divided into the people who own the means of production, and the people who only own money that allows them to gain more money using the financial markets. Their respective interests can also be contradictory in many cases.
Additionally, a political analysis can't only take economic interest into account. People are guided by many values, and these can differ within the working population. Especially people from different regions and different education levels usually have a different cultural background and different political views.
I was shocked when I watched this and one of your other videos. I’m 35, I feel less and less secure as an American today. Your rundown of all the crisis we’ve witnessed in our lifetimes in astonishing. I grew up thinking if you worked hard, told the truth, spent money wisely you’d have the American dream. After seeing firsthand how sickness and injury has been monetized, how a union job I had didn’t offer paid leave to its workers, I could type for hours. I was always a person who saw the glass half full, I do still have hope. Fixing these problems will take time. We all must study the candidates we vote for, never miss a chance to vote, but inform yourself about who the candidates are. That’s the most important action we can all take that will do the most good. Keep informing us!
Not only vote but agitate, educate, and organize your region if you can!
Yes, we should study our candidates and demonetize sickness and injuries. If you really want to have the American dream, work hard start your own business. Saying that it is human nature to be selfish and greedy and not care about other people is a terrible excuse to justify humans being inhumane and abusing their power, and not regulating them with any sort of consequence or monetary price. For starters, carbon emissions must be taxed! September 2, 2021, 4:44pm
I feel you fellow worker. I grew up with the same ideas but I now see America as morally bankrupt and there is no bankruptcy worse than moral. imo
A lot of people still believe in the above but I think it is just because they haven't yet experienced the rising water.
Voting will never be enough. There's no profit motive in letting you vote your way to freedom.
Go to Nordic country
Watching this in December after over 300k dead and a $600 slap in the face.
@Exploding Builds I think it failed. Not sure, but $600 or $0 it's all fails. At least Congress agreed that getting a $10 million budget for gender studies in Pakistan.
2 Months later and we have 451K deaths and 26.6M cases
Damn America is great at breaking records
This fucking blows
not even enough to cover my mortgage payment for a month lol at least i work in IT so i can work from home
@D H Triggered much?
Meanwhile as a paramedic with a degree, I make $10 an hour, with no health insurance! Where does that $5,000 go? My boss.. most US ambulance companies are FOR profit!
Wow wtf? This is the kind of shit that makes me say fuck the world! How the hell is this acceptable in any way, shape, or form? It makes me genuinely sad to hear this 😥
this makes me angry I work for the NHS I am proud to work for them as well I really don't get the American mindset everything is for profit its disgusting!!!!
If you’re a paramedic you should be getting paid $30/hour. You save people’s lives FFS. This is outrageous
After serving in our military my son went to school on the GI bill and got a degree in IT. He now works for in insurance company in their IT department and can't afford insurance 😒
Yeah, thats because your boss cares more about money than your life
"They know the price of everything but the value of nothing"
-Oscar Wilde
workers of the world UNITE ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊✊🏻✊🏼
Ok dude, That's exactly what California said, Aaaaaaaand it's now a shithole...
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 what?
Why are you liking the boots of these capitalist parasites
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 Workers uniting in the US fail yet other nations do it and it works. It more about your people than it does about the systems.
@@hainleysimpson1507 Laughs in Mao's China and the bolshevik revolution.
@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 California has a state with one of the highest average wages, and best support for renewable energy. they are doing fine
"Privatize the profits, socialize the losses."
True state of affairs
The american media (and Hollywood) has been making a terrific job passing a distorted image of what life in the US really is like. Ask any Tom, Dick and Harry anywhere in the world, and most will tell you the US is the land of milk and honey, where people are all rich, and have all the freedoms you desire. But the truth is a bit different.
They won´t show you skid row, with tent cities stretching to the horizon. Nor will it show the drug use, and thousands of opiate overdoses. It won´t show the poverty stricken shanty towns and dilapidated social housing projects. It won´t show the gangs, the police shootings, the school shootings, and the millions withering away in prison, doing slave labor.
It won´t show the lobbies bribing their way in Washington, the political parties stealing elections, and robbing non aligned candidates from equal media exposure. It won´t show the corruption and speculation of Wall Street, the unemployment, and the many millions of people without health care. They won´t show the thousands of dollars charged for an ambulance ride, or a simple tooth extraction. It won´t show the disastrous state of american Education, with kids coming out of college not knowing shit about anything. And it won´t show the tinfoil hat buffoonery, with all the flat earthers, anti-vaxx, anti 5G and reptilian stupidity!
How the fuck did it got so bad?? America used to be awesome. Now it is a cesspool. What was once milk and honey is now piss and vinegar. But try telling that to any american...
That is the definition of corporatism, not capitalism. The government needs to stop benefiting specific corporations with kick-backs and tax rebates. US capitalism is arguably in shambles, and without competition in many sectors.
@@Biden_is_demented vinegar have good use it gotta be something else lol .we are fucked i tell you right now I just wanna do the things I love doin be around the people I love enjoy life as best as I can I really don't see no reason to fight we work our fingers to the bone and still have nothing to show
@Christopher Rod Wages are indeed smaller, but so is the cost of living. It boggles my mind that you guys pay 1500 rent for a POS apartment, while here we pay 400 for an apartment, and 600euros for a villa with swimming pool!
A friend of mine immigrated to Canada a few years ago, thinking the higher wages would mean a better life. She was wrong. For many months she couldn´t even afford a phone, and she still has no TV! The cost of living is down right stupid!!
“The parasites at the top” eye opening perspective.
That's old news. It's the same in old monarchys, diktatorships, communism and capitalism. There's always someone who has more who wants more than you have.
ain't this that shit bong was trying to tell us
magnusm4 yeah and it shouldn’t be that way, just like how we lock up criminals for commiting their crimes we should lock/ not allow people to want more than others through unfairness and neglect... if we were to create a truly equal and fair system then I say it’s ok for someone to earn their wealth but it’s clearly not like that anymore...
Sorry to say but the US is just sliding into the hunger games more and more
..i think people in USA feed of of turmoil and greed (either fighting it or doing it)..like a supermarket being flooded with people because they think the food is running out, fighting for stuff ..it's like that in the ENTIRE country but on a massive scale...except the 'people' ARE the groceries and it's the entities in control that are doing the fighting...the USA really IS an INTERESTING experiment in capitalist democracy..the fighting over the cookie jar however may destroy the whole thing.
And to the Purge
Wasn't the hunger games base on an alternative time line USA? Maybe the writer mess up and it wasn't an alternative time line but a future one
@Stellvia Hoenheim but the richest persons on USA are protestants and the pastors from the Mega Churches are very accepting of the idea the country is run by rich white protestant men who follow the gospel by the letter.
If you want to blame a minority, that is the price to accept nazists, like the ones who were "redirected" to form CIA or to improve NSA.
@Stellvia Hoenheim Strange how according to your logic countries where there are larger Jewish populations don't have this issue, clearly you are ignorant and anti-semitic.
Being a landlord is not a job.
Correct! It is borderline feudalism.
PS: I'm a landlord.
Thanks for admitting it. I feel the same about my investment in stocks…
Self aware landlord 🤔
What if you redistributed your profits back to your tenants for the memes?
Being a landlord IS a job. I was one. I also took on the property management aspect of it- I didn't "outsource" it. As a landlord, I believed (and still do) that your renters ought to be taken care of; all the utilities are to be in good working order for example. Why are you people (ignorant socialists) so against making profit? Why is making extra money for yourself so demonized? You socialist loons want to be taken seriously? Stop pretending everything will magically be provided for all of us at no cost as long as we give everything else up and "share all the things".
@@SPQR7117 dude, that doesn't mean you buy everything and act like a dictator and manipulate Market. Remember french revolution ? Both king and queen was executed by the revolutionaries. Don't spark another revolution here and do same with you.
Anyone else remember when the propaganda was tight and all you heard about America was how great it was?
I guess this is the price of worshipping capitalism, you become a consumer and not a citizen.
Well in socialism is nothing to consume thats true.
@Derrick C. Ndu 👏👏👏
@@ralfbelov7760 try again
@@QuikVidGuy Well. Go to venezuela or north korea if you dont agree with that.
@@ralfbelov7760 go to 1980's Burkina faso (a rapidly improving nation before the coup, which was an anti-socialist one) and watch this guy's latest video. totalitarianism led to those above (not burkina faso) nations' poo=verty. also, north korea is a monarchic communist nation, and Venezuela has one of the worst dictators in the world, you lopsided triangle
I spent 6 months in the US recently. All of my American friends tried to figure out ways for me to stay there and get a citizenship, and it was hard for them to understand that I am happy being an EU citizen, and want to go home to my "free" healthcare, "free" higher education, slightly more taxes Central-East European home country.
Editorial: So, since way too many people are hung up on this question, let me clarify: I mentioned the education and the healthcare AND the higher taxes because I UNDERSTAND, that the healthcare and the education are payed from the money from the taxes. So to all those geniuses, who are pointing out to me, that nothing is free: Thank you, I'm aware. The price is in the tax.
Fun fact, you know what's not in the tax? The profit of the healthcare industry.
@White Devil Correct; we pay taxes. And we pay _something_ , in general. But this "something" is different in different countries. It's 8 dollars in Australia, vs 2000 dollars in the US, for example, as the video said.
The thing about the government paying for college? The citizens who go to college are going to go work better paying jobs, and pay more taxes.
Germany handily recoups what it spends for some of its people to go to university.
@@BAAWAKnight Free, as in you pay 0 money, they're not. But they are _extremely_ good value! _Really, really_ good value, believe me. I've lived both in the US and Europe and I know.
@@BAAWAKnight Your arguments are so pointless and stupid and you can't even see it. It's really pathetic.
@@BAAWAKnight nothing is free but it have to FAIR idiot
Watching this in December 2020, it only gets worse
Our people will not revolt until they have nothing else left to lose... we will either face austerity or hyper inflation in 2021 because government won't tax the rich.... jan 16 2021
January and it’s still a problem
February 2nd... 454,213 dead... and counting.
@@jordanfreeman8076 i am so sorry for you 😢 - we (Denmark) have lost a bit more then a quarter pr. million citizen compared to US 😧 (1376,83 vs 382,41 pr. million) - We had a public Lock Down (none essentials like Schools Museums etc.) right away (effect of 16th of march) and an urge to do the same in the private market. Measurements was put in place and my workplace reopened the 6th of April, working at a preschool/Kindergarten. This has been the only constant of none essentials open all the time (with an urge to stay home often, but open) - schools up to grade 5th has been open much of the time as well - so the youngest, have had as close to a normal year as possible (not even close to normal, but the closest we could).
If at one point, you (USA-Americans) consider something new I hope you would consider the Nordic model (in a way that suits US citizens) - Ours (Iceland, Finland, Norway Sweden and Denmark) are not all alike and yet similar enough to call it "The nordic model". We (Denmark) did/do purchase debt, but we are able to afford it.*
* Within the regulations of EU (max 60% debt measured by GDP) - we had 33% debt and was expected to have a debt at 47% at new years - 2019 we had a surplus of 3,7% - so it will take some years to get back, but we are not close to the limit of 60%. It is not "cheep" but we do not have to fundamentally change either, as our taxes give a surplus. Compared to the 2008 crisis - our dept in 2012-2015 was about at the same height 46%-44% before we where able to decline from 44% debt in 2015 to 33% in the beginning of 2020 - I am thankful that we financially are well placed in both debt (5th place with 4 nations having lesser debt in EU) and income (1st =)
Within the Nordics handeling Covid - Iceland did best (85 pr. M) but i have no clue about their Economics. Norway did good too (107 pr. M) Financially Well, he is our middle east but with a Nordic model (red: oil =) - Findland also did quite good (125 pr. M) but financially the one of us that are worst off (deficit in 2019 + high debt) - And then we have Sweden - they did a US model to Covid (1200 pr. M) which makes me sorrowful - financially they are okay (8th in income with 0,5 % and 6th in debt with 37% - 2019 numbers)
February 2021 yep it got worse...
I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of watching your videos - i am insanely impressed! I’m from the UK and your channel is educating me on US politics so much.
Keep up the good work mate! 💖
He is lying.
@@fransliszt sources xo
@@justcallmefflower6677 It's just leftwing propaganda filled with half truths.
@@fransliszt tell your sources, then.
i wouldn't say that hes right but hes nowhere near wrong either
Best quote I’ve heard: “If capitalism is so great, why does it need to be bailed out by socialism every 10 years?”
This is my new favourite video of yours.
Socialism does not exist without capitalism. Because of this, you have to be very careful about how you implement socialistic policies. You do not want to uproot the capitalist system. You must redirect it.
@@Foodude no
This isn't capitalism, it's socialism with capitalism features, Taiwan is a true capitalist country and it's doing fine.
@@bryanshealy1260 Graduated from Facebook university did we?
If socialisms so great, why do you all still live in America?
The thing I dont understand is, you can tell working class americans how thing are run abroad in germany etc. but they will keep insisting that america is the greatest and will dismiss your thoughts without listening. Sad!
Deep down, I am American will tell you that most people know America isn’t great but refuse to admit it to foreigners because people in charge equated American pride with dignity
And perhaps with fear. Some people build their believes their ideology to idea that US is the gratest country. If they lose that idea then they have to face the flaws of their ideology.
@@rikuvakevainen6157 they have to realise then
And in the mean time german politics try to adjust to american standards every year. Wonder what is worse: Being in a shit show, or desperately trying to get into it?
@@xellos5262 German politicians are indeed far from great, still better than American in most instances. In Germany the plan is to raise the minimal wage next year to about 10.40€ an hour compared to the 9.20€ since 2019 (although Corona may intervene). Every two years the minimal wage is required by law to be reexamined to accompany our changing GDP.
There're still shit like too expansive public transport, rising right wing terrorism and the afd, not taxing international mega corps cough Google and Amazon, insufficient medical coverage etc. As a German I could only fight to keep the country on the rail towards more like nordic countries in welfare aspects and less like America :|
I'm from Germany and I'm really sorry for all you you guys living in the US. In the past days I had pretty similar thoughts and I'm so glad you're sharing them with a wide range of people. Thank you for that and keep going!
The sad thing is so many Americans who were indoctrinated into thinking America is the greatest country in the world don’t want to change anything
I'm from Germany too. I can't imagine living in a country without public healthcare and where you have to take loans just to afford your education. It's just baffling that a wealthy country like the US does this little to support their citizens! Hopefully many people will watch this video and realize the problem.
@@lordkekz4 I always knew about the problem. I'm definitely jealous af of the countries with public heath care and education.
Germany is not a good example of how a society should work, ordoliberalism is shit. They are mercantilists, they have a corrupted moral, provided they have one, they are fanatical labor deflation exporters and they are allowed to do so because they can use the EU Latin countries as a shield. Germany, without the €uro and the EU, will choke in tariffs and its unemployment rate will skyrocket.
Your efficiency kills beauty, harmony, creativity, pluralism, progress, democracy and in the end the will to live, persons are not just tools, gears or numbers.
I have found ground zero of your socialist content! Awesome! I am going back through all of it. I enjoy your content so much, as well as the podcast you, Yugopnik and Hakim have. Thanks for all you do.
I went looking for the ground zero because I had apparently watched some of Second Thought’s video from before either of had become communists and I wanted to see what made things change. Coincidentally, the change for both of us was around the same time, which I think says quite a bit about the events of 2020.
@@sanguillotineTypical for authoritarians to take advantage of disasters to justify their capture of power.
I can only speak from my experience: I really owe everything to my country. Austria paid my education and even paid me to study. It provided health care when I needed it badly.
Thats why I gladly pay my taxes. I really dont get the Americans who are against Bernie Sanders. By demanding from large corporations like Amazon and Co to pay taxes, he could have restored true capitalism. There is no true competition, If corporations do not play according to the same rules.
Obligatory apologies for my English.
Yeah man. I'm from a 'third world' country in South East Asia. Even with all our faults, at least we have affordable healthcare, where minimum wage workers and the most vulnerable people in the society will not have to worry about bankruptcy when they need medical attention.
My mother was admitted to a public hospital for a heart attack, and discharged after 3 days with guaranteed future appointments with specialists. Her medical bill was 0 dollars and I am very grateful for that.
Of course her bills will be paid for by taxpayers' money, in which a large chunk of them will come from huge corporations. This is, like you said, playing according to the same rules where everyone pays their fair share of taxes and will be guaranteed a safety net by the government when they desperately need one. In America, this concept is will be mocked as filthy communism.
Tax cuts and tax returns are fine, but tax inequalities are not. It is not even common sense when people are going bankrupt from huge co pays while Amazon can get away with paying no taxes and providing no benefits to their workers.
@@zharifmuhammad5585 I always have to laugh when Americans compare Denmark to Venezuela. TV shows like Breaking Bad would not be possible here. The European Walter White would simply get his treatment paid and the rest of the show would be a boring European drama^^
I don't say that everything is perfect here in Europe. We too have tax havens like Ireland, Luxemburg, and the Netherlands which create the same problem. But I think COVID 19 ist a good thing, at least in the sense that now countries think about taxing Google and the rest who avoided paying taxes.
Good and mind your business
Many people are not. However, the powerful, even if they are moderates in our political landscape, have fought very hard to characterize him as radical or dangerous.
@@stevencooke6451 I think to some degree, Sanders is also to blame. He incorrectly uses the term socialism. Socialism sounds as if this is some centrally planned communism, but in my country, physicians are not forced to do business with the universal health insurance. They can either accept the offer or not. That's a free market. And we too have private insurance, although I don't know many people who have it.
Literally, every single issue is caused by Lobbying yet no one wants to do anything about it.
there are lobbyists for the lobbying industry and they got a big bailout from one of the covid bills passed by congress
Wolf-pac.com
its because even if some one legit gets close they offer a lot money or death for compliance
@@skaterpunk420 don't just get rid of money-in politics... after its removed start throwing everyone who enabled the corrupt system in jail for life whether they be politicians, corporate executive, lobbyist etc
True true
When Capitalism and big business can buy the government, that is when democracy has fallen apart.
This is already the case in the US!
I don't remember the last time US actually acted democratically in this world
@@ram__ghanem They're not even acting democratically at home.
Democracy dies with applause my friend
Absolutely true, when money buys you a voice the system can no longer be called democratic. A truly democratic nation values all its citizens voices equally, right now the higher your capital worth the closer you are to the government, and what is worse people accept that as just the way the system works. People have been brainwashed into believing that receiving their basic human rights is 'socialism' and therefore something to be afraid of.
Смотря твои видео мне кажется, что в Америке тоже есть настоящие коммунисты-социалисты-марксисты а не только SJW и социал-демократы, что скатываются в оппортунизм и защиту капитализма, но капитализма помягче.
Многие в России всё ещё грезят "американской мечтой", будто каждый может быть богатым. Сказывается то, что мы ещё не достаточно пожили при капитализме и мы до сих пор имеем "рудименты" социализма вроде бесплатной медицины, но потихоньку эти "рудименты" капитализм забирает назад. У нас в стране тысячами закрывают производства, школы, больницы, при это строят тысячами храмы. В 2021 году число храмов в России превысило число школ. Появились безработные и бездомные. Цены на всё постоянно растут, не поспевая за ростом зарплат, тогда как при социализме было обратное - цены никогда не менялись а зарплаты росли.
Watching your videos, it seems to me that in America there are also real communist-socialist-Marxists, and not only SJW and social democrats, who are slipping into opportunism and defense of capitalism, but capitalism is softer.
Many in Russia still dream of the "American Dream" that everyone can be rich. The effect is that we have not yet lived enough under capitalism and we still have "rudiments" of socialism like free medicine, but capitalism is slowly taking these "rudiments" back. In our country, thousands of industries, schools, hospitals are being closed, while thousands of churches are being built. In 2021, the number of churches in Russia exceeded the number of schools. There were unemployed and homeless people. Prices for everything are constantly growing, not keeping up with the growth of wages, while under socialism it was the opposite - prices never changed and wages increased.
Тевирп из 2024
Ковид убил 800 000 одних только россиян, и там ещё не все штаммы отлетали
Но про него все забыли, потому что ведётся альтернативно разнообразная деятельность военного типа.
Храмы теперь строят даже не христианские, а, например, патриотическую церковь войны, где вместо святых - царский, советский и РФский солдат. Религиозный национализм™.
Со школами и больницами можно ещё пережить ситуацию, но в домах начинают кончаться трубы.
"...disgusted with both major parties...." You have my attention.
HECK YEAH BOY
Everyone should be
"The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them"
He isn't "disgusted with both parties" he's going on an anti capitalist rant that is opposed to my beliefs and my future goals, this guy literally tore my childhood up and put it in the incinerator, to say he offended me is an understatement, suffice to say i will never watch his videos again
@@Victor-dx2ew right say ahain where he's wrong? quote stg from the video snd say where he's wrong
Having to pay for an ambulance sounds like some kind of nightmare to me.
A patient of mine got charged $2k+ for ambulance.
An ambulance you can take a cab if you have to.. what about paying for surgery you absolutely need!??! I have an american friend who existed with a bad back from an accident for twenty years before he moved back here and got the surgery for free!!! Its INSANE!!! Its probably why opioids and cocaine are so popular in he USA.. pain relief...physical and mental.
@@overimagination2812 Not sure if a cab really does the trick when you have a heart attack.
@@bnfgh123 Glad you said that cuz i can teach the young something i didnt know before my brother died of a heart attack. It can take hours to kill you!! He was feeling himself lose consciousness and regain for twelve hours!! He was young healthy so had no idea either heart attacks were often not sudden, otherwise he'd be alive. If you feel dizzy, tired, nauseaous, sweaty and weak...it could very well be heart attack. He thought it was food poisoning or some sort of virus but looking back he/we should have known by his agitation / sense of worry it wasn't typical and rush him asap. Now you guys know, maybe I csn save a life down the road. He was healthy up to that day.
@@bnfgh123 well take a Uber lol. JK
This is why Bernie Sander’s message was so potent and powerful for me.
Yes! I will vote for Biden to hopefully remove Trump from the white house, but I really wish we were voting for Bernie 2020 instead 😥
@@doperagu8471 I would have made fun of you guys but feel really sorry for you. But regarding economy mixed economy is the way to go. Education, health should be free
@@ningthouningthoujam3373 we should definitely have a capitalist system with socialist safety nets to negate and minimize the downsides of capitalism.
@@saphired02 hello mixed economy
@saphired02 yup I wish America had a mixed economy
I live in a city that even though I make $22/h I can only afford to pay for a room. Everything in this video is 100% accurate.
I get paid $15 an hour and live comfortably. Perhaps the problem is that you live in a city and not because of capitalism.
@@a_angry_bunny yep let's all move to the country like angry bunny... do y'all think he'll welcome us or be a hypocrite? lol
@@dadnonlyd3
I don't understand the question. Who cares what other people think? You aren't moving for the benefit of others.
@@a_angry_bunny well if everyone moved to the country they would still move to the most comfortable places there and inevitably become cities or at least big groups of people, so shouldn't everyone everywhere be able to live comfortably?
I'm not saying that we must pay the same everywhere like things obviously will be more expensive in cities, but they should at least be able to afford comfortable lives especially if they're making more than the minimum wage.
Los Angeles?
"The system is rigged against those who do the work."
I am going to memorize this statement. Well said!
+
#Stagflatetaxlie. Look it up
'Cause the ones who tell the lies are the solemnest to swear
And the ones who load the dice
always say the toss is fair
And the ones who deal the cards are the ones who take the tricks
With their hands over their hearts
While we play the game they fix
And the ones who speak the words always say it is the last
And no answer will be heard
to the question no one asks
But the 1% do
This might just be one of the most important videos on this platform. Really, really well done.
America is both a 1st and 3rd world country, go to rich areas and you'll have a good time, go to any rural or poor urban area and see how screwed we are.
That's literally any country in the world
Id soon be in a rural area than the priciest, swankiest big city.
@@russell4658 i agree, the post makes no sense. Every where in the world has poor people in bad situations
@@russell4658 no, not countries like singapore, Monaco and brunei.
@@singhanmolpreet5935 Literal city states.... with a minimalist franction of the population, and almost completely covered in city...
Two of which, sit along one of the most profitable trade routes on the planet.
Well, as an european i must admit i keep watching this videos with the delightful thinking that USA is so broken while at the same time i ignore the same problems in my country.
But keep in mind thay we actually have social network, so that if you lose job you are still able to live
Let me guess... Spain?
@@tomi9562 my brother was in Italy and got his passport and wallet stolen. He was able to live there while until we were able to help. That was the moment I understood how things should be.
Fascism is on the rise all through Europe.
"It`s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep, to believe it."
George Carlin
some how this is so sad ...
That hits hard.
Big fan mr Orwell
Only if you don't know what the American dream is. The real American Dream that is, not the Hollywood propaganda of "the American dream" the actual American dream is very simple: Be independent, self-reliant and own a bit of property. that's literally all the American dream is, at the time of the founding owning property was a really big deal.
George Orwell he 💯
I live in a small country in central Europe, that is part of the EU. Watching what is happening in the U.S. is just making me sad. Our country is by no means fully communist or socialist - we have free markets, capital structures and rich people, but we add some reasonable social welfare policies to the mix - free healthcare (mandatory insurance), free education, state guaranteed pensions and so on. I often complain about how the politicians are corrupt, how we lack behind the western Europe, but boy I am so happy that I live here given the current situation.
The government responded surprisingly fast, we had < 10 confirmed cases when things started to happen - many shops and restaurants have to be closed, all international airports are nonoperational, public transport is limited, worker protection measures are quite heavily implemented, people are wearing face masks everywhere (if they can't buy one, the make it at home) etc. This might have economic consequences but at least it shows that even politicians and some "owners of capital" are at least partly considering the health of others. The results (after roughly a month after the first case): as of today only 728 total cases (out of which 23 have already recovered) and 2 dead.
Yeah I know, most European's think we're just joking when we say we dont have healthcare and how much our healthcare costs. It's barbaric.
Slovak gang!
if you are talking about Slovakia than people should know that part of the reason for that may be that regardless of covid-19 there is a high unemployment rate already, and the population is generally much older so they couldn't get away with doing nothing. the place has it's own problems too. Having said that i am happy and optimistic about their response, I don't feel like i need to worry too much about my grandparents.
Daniela Elliott pretty much your whole comment is wrong. Yes, there is a higher unemployment rate and a higher average age. BUT: the unemployment rate is 1.7% higher than in the US. And the average age is 3 years older (all numbers before the crisis). You are writing like Slovakia is an underdeveloped country. It is not. It has pretty much everything that the US is asking for. More workers rights, affordable healthcare and a affordable university’s. The average cost for a medical degree is 8.500$ per year in Slovakia. In the US the average is 70.000$ per YEAR. And the Slovakian universities are good and respected around the globe. The country is everything the US workers want, minus the „weak“ economy.
@@Jonas.N yeah you are right, i guess i misrepresented it, sorry for any offence
Bloody hell I didn't release how bad things were in America we've got our problems in Britain but I've never heard things that bad
Same here from germany. Decades of antagonizing socialism have made the US a horrible place to live.
Yeah. Things are a bit fucked over here. And by a bit I mean god save us because Satan has dominion over this nation and the plebeians and fallen Angels have been silenced.
Things get worse and worse the more conditions you have too. With my depression and add and host of other illnesses, it's a wonder I am alive at this moment. Mostly due to not being able to afford proper care and/or medicine that is literally life saving.
You should watch some videos by Chomsky, he's got explanations on what makes America this fucked up based on a mountain of empirical evidence.
They're not that bad. Hes exaggerating a lot. Life is worse in the UK. The UK is so fucked themselves they cant even help their overseas territories, we've been left to defend for ourselves and we've done an excellent job so far despite 0 help from mainland. I seriously hope after this my people realise we are good enough to break off from the UK. And btw want to thank you guys for all the cases you've brought here, you've sent the virus to us, but you refuse to help. But to make matters worse, the US isnt actually completely fucked over, and they're actually helping us to the extent they can. Disgusting excuse for a country that has territories the UK is.
@@toboterxp8155 Gott sei Dank haben wir noch etwas Sozialistisches im System.Das rettet gerade meiner Freundin das Leben,wir wären sonst nie imstande gewesen eine Behandlung für Corona zu bezahlen
If you are wondering why's wrong with America these days, why so much violence, hate, anger. I think the real problem is CAPITALISM.
In a society where the wealthy control the power and media, it's inevitable for they will seek a system that would perpetuate their status, where the rich stays rich and the poor remain poor. Looking at the microscopic(individual) level, you might find few success stories where the poor, through hard work and ingenuity became the rich. But on the macro level, the rich stayed rich and the poor remained poor for generations. If you think to yourself that owning a big house and a nice car makes you an "upper-middle-class", that's just naive. Middle-class was an invented idea to make people feel better about themselves, in the end, it's still part of the working-class, people who exchange their labor and time for money.
In such system, poor white feel their opportunity has been taken away by immigrants, poor black feels the lasting oppression of racism. The Healthcare system is a perpetual nightmare because it puts profits before people. The defense spending is out of proportion because the military-industrial complex constantly looking for enemies. The education system burdens students with a ridiculous amount of student loans because universities run like businesses. Gun control becomes a chronic discussion because NRA needs to take a stance on some "freedom/profit" issue. All while those are happening, there are endless entertainment, sports, and "breaking news" to keep us all distracted.
It's really a wonderful country to be a wealthy person, and I really hope I'll become one despite all the odds, LOL
troll
@@jamielamarche2276 just put something more cogent
Aa
@@jamielamarche2276 as a soviet citizen i felt this shift on myself. The second capitalism entered my country, people became hostile and selfish. We used to help and care for each other, live in relative peace, it ended in bloodshed.
I came across this video by accident - I'm glad I did - because this is so so true of rampant capitalism and the consequences. The thing is, the video maker would be labelled a socialist by those powers he highlights here. Because they are scared of real analysis like this - I salute you Second Thought and I've subscribed.
No socialism
Casey lawton It’s a sales pitch that is very much true that has already done enough damage that future generations will live a whole different world that’s dying but the solution isn’t really to throw our capitalism but get the good things from all sides of the spectrum and make a system that benefits humanity and build a foundation based on science and powered by the people and etc.
@@frankgranados1755what he's talking is social democracy capitalism with strong regulations and a strong social safety net to ensure people don't fall deep into poverty and to keep government corruption at a minimum get it right.
@@Checkmate07351 indeed, works great for us in Scandinavia. And it isnt just the human thing to do, the moral thing to do, its actually also the economically advantageous thing to do - if ur able to look past quarterly profits and exec bonuses. We're actually ranked more capitalist than the US (the last I saw, we were no. 5, the US was no. 18), more economic freedom, better place to start a business etc, basically everything Americans claim is the American Dream. We're also every single year in the top 3 countries for most happy, least corrupt and all that. Yet most Americans think, we're socialists like Venezuela....
We're not a perfect society, that doesnt exist. But we know, we're not perfect, and we keep working on it. And its a helluva lot better than the so-called "best country in the world". FYI, Americans, ur the only 1s, who think that.
Marc SVX2 it sounds good in theory, but it's not that easy!
It is impossible to comprehend from a Dutch perspective that the citizens of the US don't have the same rights as the other first world nations. I hope for you all in the US that this crisis will bring some change.
pretty much any but asian richest countries are showing we are no "first" world
Putting it plainly since I live in the US they do not care about your life you are there to be used and thrown away😭
As a Canadian looking south is often time just saddening. I fully expect no change in the US and business as usual soon after this is all said and done.
Nothing changes, it only gets worse.
We want revolution, voter Suppression in the Democratic primary only gets us closer.
I'm watching this 3 months after it came out. Nothing has changed. It's gotten worse. As an American, it just makes me sad.
Surprised that you thought a period of 3 months was enough to change this...
@@zaryabfarooq4432 you're right!!!!
It should've happen 3 DAYS after the first case and yet here we are.....
This video will probably be accurate for years. American issues are deep rooted and won't be fixed so quickly or easily.
@robert davis Found the copypasta.
Should make you Mad
All I can hear is Americans saying: "bUt MaH fREEEEdOM?!"
You are not even the freest country in the world, not even close.
Just like 1 million Iraqis that America freed from Saddam.
Its all about perspective.
I once heard a frase, I don't know were it's from: "the Best product of capitalism is a right leaning poor"
Good shit! Buy yes, it's because the right wing party's let you believe they are one of you
DAMN
@robert davis This is copypasta. If capitalism worked, you wouldn't need rhetoric to believe it.
'An ambulance ride in America will cost you...'
Me, an argentinian: cost? An ambulance ride? WHY? That's insane!
Here in mexico ambulances can get expensive.....but they won't get you broke
Ireland has a long working relationship with the US and many people go there to get work experience in the hope of returning to Ireland with a good job or skillset. The one big fear apart from gun based crime is the total lack of public healthcare and the very high cost of private healthcare. The experience of many is that if you are childless and healthy the US is better economically than Ireland. However if you have children education and childcare are very expensive and covering the cost of any health problem is ridiculously expensive. Many fundraising set-ups have had to be done by the Irish American community to cover the health care and repatriation costs of Irish citizens who were unfortunate enough to get injured or fall ill while uninsured on visits to the US. For many people the highest cost of a US trip is not the airfare or the accommodation but the insurance needed to be fully covered for health and injury risks in the US.
Same here in Germany, it's a no brainer to call an ambulance
@@miranda8636 It is, but it's not free: Your health care pays for it. However, everyone has to have one by law and the money is directly taken from your monthly paycheck. If you lose your job, the government will cover for you however, with the money other citizens pay (within certain limits and with a lot of rulings, it's not free money). It is not a flawless system, but it is a good one, imho. Americans have been indoctrinated to frown upon money being taken from their paychecks thou, being force fed information on how "unfree" that makes them. I pity the hardliners among them, all they do is fight the fight of the rich guys for them, unknowingly. Even our rightmost party would never dare to disrupt the safe healtcare system (Thou Germany is very left by nature as we have had certain "problems" with the rigth side of things in the past).
I still don't get that people actually pay for ambulances 😲
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Henry Ford
“And just because he’s human, a man would like a little bite to eat! He wants no bull and a lot of talk that brings no bread and meat.” These lyrics resonate with us just as they did all those decades ago. (Song of the Worker’s United Front)
„Und weil der Mensch ein Mensch ist, drum braucht er was zum essen, bitte sehr! Es macht ihn ein Geschwätz nicht satt, das schafft kein Essen her!“
- Original german version of the Einheitsfrontlied.
In every crisis like this where everyone hides but “the essential workers” a beautiful colorful ice sculpture appears celebrating and amplifying their bravery and injustice they face. When it passes the heat of normalcy melts the sculpture and all is forgotten.
I really like that simile!
@@GallowayJesse what are you trying to tell us? Are they supposed to be grateful just because they aren't working and risking their health for free?
Beautifully said
This is beautiful
can i burrow this and post on my FB page crediting you? your words are beautiful.
“Work is a honor”. told by the rich man, hoping to gain profit.....
work is an honor, just not under capitalism
“Thinking about how my whole childhood in the US I was told socialism inevitably led to mass death, secret police, voter suppression, food and supply shortages, massive lines, antisemitism, disease, lack of health care, job loss, oppression, etc. But wouldn’t you know it”
- Mara Wilson, 2020
It's April 2021. Amazon union vote failed. It's crazy. Same old capitalism back in power.
"There is enough for the need of everyone in this world, but not for the greed of everyone."
- some Indian dude
- Gandhi
Economics 101
"Poverty exists, not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich."
M.Gandhi
That dude is mahatma Gandhi, bruu
No mortgage relief, no rent relief, no basic income, BUT trillions of dollars for the Robber Barons who don't pay taxes.
The rich in America pay the vast majority of income taxes.
@@Tristan-ps1yl Not by percentage. Of course they will by quantity. What was that figure? Something like the top 1% of people having more wealth than the bottom 90% combined? That's a staggering gap. Of course they'd personally pay more quantity wise, even with lower numbers, but their businesses don't pay that money. Look at this: mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ And then tell me they can't afford to pay more taxes.
@@BAAWAKnight
Ok. Move to Somalia then.
You're using public infrastructure just posting on the internet. If you drive somewhere, or get on a public bus, you're using public infrastructure. If you use electricity, tapwater, a sidewalk, listen to the radio...guess what.
You said you were an anarchist. To build a government-free society is going to take a TON of willing cooperation with other people.
There will be more asked of you than a mere cut of your paycheck, not less.
@@BAAWAKnight taxation is used to protect capital investments
@@BAAWAKnight taxation without representation is theft
Wtf this video actually articulated a thorough understanding of the world in terms of government, economics, history, and social classes instead of that usual bs spewed by Democrats and Republicans. You’ve just earned a subscriber.
No he didn't.
He'c comparing a 1.5 trillion liquidity injection into short term lending to stabilize the rate of short term loans that are all paid off in a number of days, to "why can't we pay for universal healthcare where we give away free services."
There is nothing wrong with a system that has decided to use short term liquidity injections in short term lending markets, nor is there anything wrong with a government that has decided to tax and spend on major programs, but they are not remotely the same kind of government behavior, and nearly all the facts that have been leveled at the audience are intentionally misframed to be as conducive as possible to tricking the audience into feeling that the socialist policies suggested are "no brainers."
They are decisions about cost and benefit. There are costs, and there are benefits. This is not to say that the costs are not worth the benefits, in some cases they seem to be, and there are many countries that spend money on healthcare and have very happy citizens, which is not to say that they are single payer in their model, most aren't, but they are typically partially funded through government spending and they are typically universal, and they are less associated with medical bankruptcy, but that's not to say one bit that single payer or predominantly government organized healthcare is a better deal.
Taxes are spoken of in a particularly dishonest way here.
The bottom 50% pays a higher rate than the top 1%, yes this is true. It's also true that the bottom 50% don't have a meaningful tax liability, as they spend money into the federal IRS in a proportion which is smaller than the money that the federal government spends directly on them (on average as evaluated by cohorts, some people may be luckier than others, but in large numbers those round out and this holds true). The bottom have a negative tax contribution. They pay tax, but they get more in services and spending from the government than they pay, so they might pay 30% of their income through a combination of income and payroll, but then the government spends equal to 40% on them. This spending can be massively wasteful, so it can be a very bad deal, but the government isn't getting money from those people. It's losing money. This is not a problem, but to mention the tax rate implies that there is some raw deal going on, and there isn't in terms of the money being collected from them or the return they get from that which is collected. Nearly all the money is coming from the very wealthy. We might be able to take more from them, and that's a matter of hot debate, with good points made on both sides, but to imply that they aren't paying their fair share, when the government basically only makes money off the top 30% is a bit ridiculous. I don't think the government should be doing it differently, but that is what is happening. Complaining about payroll tax is complaining that social security exists, that it's a retirement fund that no level of failure, irresponsibility or error in the market can ever erode or destroy, and that it's progressive paying out more for lower earning and lower tax paying citizens than for higher paying ones. This is a service to working people that prevents them from having the autonomy to completely ruin their financial picture for retirement, and the government stepped in to create such a system because people needed something to prevent retirees from being rendered destitute, and there as a lot of discomfort watching such tragedies. When that's the nature of taxation, why the fuck does someone talk about it like Bezos or Buffet aren't paying their fair share? They are paying enormous taxes. Those billionaries pay for all the military spending. You don't contribute enough, likely, on average, (assuming you're a regular joe) to cover the costs of your social security payments, your medicare and if you bought a house, the tax breaks that come with that. You aren't contributing. You're just being forced by the government into some insurance schemes that are, full disclosure, very stable, but also returning investment at a rate that would be considered a grand failure at a good investment firm.
There is only one way the government impoverishes you, and that's by being bad at spending money on your behalf, it's not because they aren't spending as much as they took, no they are spending more than they took, they are just spending it like blind cunts.
@@markallen6433 All that Mumbo Jumbo and you still don't understand the difference between fiat currency and money.
You Merry-Cans are crazy. Crazy in the head.
Actually, he is talk rubbish. He give an example of a drug that Merry-Cans are paying $2000 and Australians are only paying $8. which is a bunch of BS. he has no understanding how the system actually works in Australia.
@@throughput6674 please explain how that's even a criticism of what I said above.
Fact
I'm one of the oldest millennials and I am totally scared for the future, and my son's future...
I'm waiting for world revolution
so why did you decide to have children?
@@eswnl1 lol what a garbage take
I'm Gen Z and honestly feel like society is becoming more of a dystopia every year. I remember on new years thinking "whats going to go wrong in 2020" didnt take long to find out!
Millenial here. There's no hope left. The country is full of dumbasses and thinking is "out". They are all a bunch of murderers and I hope corona virus takes care of the problem for us. They voted for this and everyone needs to remember that their trumpian neighbors want them to die for CEOs.
It is possible that in the next twenty years, the movie Elysium may become prophetic.
The Cold War wasn't all that fun either and that lasted 45 years. This just started! C'mon, walk it off. Stop crying. Be a man.
It is time to implement POSITIVE CHANGE - ending the EXTORTION of workers and the modern day slavery.
Because we are in Solidarity with all who are marginalized or victimized. United we can face economic crisis, climate change, COVID-19 and bigotry.
Reach out to your fellow citizens. To democrats, independents and republicans, to the depressed, the resigned, the dreamers and the activists. Take their fear, inform them and help them understand. Be patient and be concise. Help them unite and put in THE WORK to form a united movement.
We can and should organize a GENERAL STRIKE. Even in and absolutely because of COVID-19. Because in this strike you have to demand that your Government stands up for you, protects you and supports you. If they wont, we have to show them our power, by putting the entire country to halt.
Then you need to start to create "dual power structures." That means power-structures outside the US Government. Unions, Movements, etc.
We are a global movement! We are a peaceful revolution!
#GeneralStrike #itistime
At first I thought life was tragedy.
Then I realized we're inside of some spoof comedy.
I am so happy i'm subscribed to you. Not enough people on youtube are talking about this, and you just made an amazingly informative video on the topic. THANK YOU!!!
the worst thing is that there's people like me who have no idea about what's happening
and nor do I know how to see and find this stuff on my own
Mainstream media doesn't talk about this and it their job to inform people not talk about corona, plane crash, or mass shooting for hour straight to a point where their a broken record
People on RUclips aren't talking about it because it gets demonetized. He isn't going to make a cent off this. RUclips (google) is using its power to discourage discussion.
Many talk about this, you just have to look in the right places. I would recommend PhilosophyTube, BadMouseProductions, Vaush and Richard Wolff if you want to know more about how capitalism is a force of destruction for the human race.
@@comradewildcat1770 what happened to badmouseproductions videos their all gone
The modern Democrat party makes FDR roll over in his grave.
And the modern Republican Party makes Teddy Roosevelt turn in his grave too.
Both are my favorite presidents
Theodore isn't Republican,he left the party in 1912
i’d say lincoln instead of teddy, but okay
what you guys need is to revive teddy
@@jesusmohammed3060 They're not turning in their graves, they're spinning like beyblades.
I am glad you never went back to your old content, while scientific discovery and education of the masses are important. Our current economical and political state are in dire need of reform and I’m glad you are getting the word out.
"Change is inevitable, progress is optional." We are in another defining moment of this country.
Toxic Neon Gas Nina Turner 2024🇺🇸
Yhea but socialism is a move backwards you dimwit.
Toxic Neon Gas it is economically unfeasable and morally evil.
@@TheReasonableSkepticist yes but capitalism can not maintain. The game is set on a mode right now that will shatter 6 million looking for government assistance do you think this wont have consequences.
It's not a American thing.
There are 3.4 Billion people living in Poverty today. www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/10/17/nearly-half-the-world-lives-on-less-than-550-a-day Thats the entire world population of 1970.
When your over populated with 7.8 billion and always growing , not everyone gets a chair when the music stops.
You had my attention at "all these numbers are adjusted for inflation"
Andy Potanin same! people love to cite non-adjusted numbers and it’s hard to find data on this stuff that’s actually adjusted for inflation so you can get the full picture
Yes, it is absolutely clear that this economic crisis begun. And I am very sure that we are not expecting a recession like 2008 as well, but a great depression, because the same problems that led to 2008 are still there, only that we have accumulated an even bigger mountain of toxic banker's mess, inflated the debt-bubble to giant proportions and could expect even a debt crisis. And THEN we are adding a worldwide pandemic on top of it! There is even a small chance that we will experience a "modern day dark age" - if we screw up horrendously.
Entire financial sectors are likely to fall away. Many of us will lose our jobs. Some of us will lose our homes.
How can you protect yourselves?
Try to become independent and minimize your risk of financial disaster.
How do we become independent?
- Plant your own food in your own backyard. Being able to feed yourselves is by far the most important thing, and believe me, it will be a relevant question!
- Even if you do not have your own garden, join with others, with neighbors, with friends, with parents, with enemies! You can ask your governo, mayor or a university for land as well.
- If nothing helps, then annex a wild meadow or a park. Put a sign in front of it, explaining that it is an "urban community garden", that it needs community care and that it should help.
- Build strong communities. Resources can be shared. Not everyone needs a car, not everyone needs a lawn mower, not everyone needs a kindergarten place when it matters, as long as you share with people who have the solution to your problem.
- If you are in debt, try to get away from it quickly! Just sell the car again. Debts can get you into very uncomfortable situations very quickly.
- No big expenses, no luxuries, no nonsense. Concentrate on what you need!
- Invest in useful material. In tools, in resources that make your life easier, even when the world around you is getting harder. - Invest in skills, in abilities. Skills make you independent. You can use them for yourself or you can offer your skills as currency in exchange with others.
- Start repairing items again instead of buying new ones.
- Have fun! :) - Buy some board games or something. You don't want to be dependent on booze to have a good time, otherwise it gets uncomfortable.
- Bonds are worth nothing. If you have some, then quickly hot potatoes with it!
- Meditate every day and try to become good people. I'm sorry but desperate circumstances require desperate measures.
- Remember also, there can be a lot of inflation I think we are still very far away from that and it may not be a problem. BUT remember that when the first signs of hyperinflation appear, you should convert some of your money into Bitcoin as soon as possible to prevent the loss of value of your money.
- Times of misery and poverty are the times when fascists are strongest! Promise me that we will prevent a fascist uprising! I beg you! Talk to your fellow humans, face them with empathy, patience but also honesty and ambition! Give them your hand even if it makes you uncomfortable and they behave badly. Try to do everything in your power to prevent that we will meet these people later with torches and weapons on the street If they can they will start to divide the people into those who are allowed to survive and those who will be disposed of under a new fascist regime.
- And last but not least, remember that if the financial crisis is indeed there now, it is not just because of a virus, it is ultimately the natural result of neoliberal mismanagement in this late phase of capitalism. In order to respond adequately to the problems of this world, these policies must end. If politics is not able to react to COVID-19, to the financial crisis and especially to the REALLY existence-threatening crisis - the CLIMATE CHANGE - then we have to consider this government as extremist and use a peaceful revolution to replace it. A General Strike would be a fantastic tool to gain real ground.
So Remember:
Don't panic! (＝⌒▽⌒＝)
Keep your hearts up and join the struggle, my friends.
This is strange, I'm from a third world country and I thought we had it taught, I've never heard of debt for going to university, in my country schools are free university actually pay you every 3 months with free food and rooms and for everyone with back degree, all hospitals are free and all prescription drugs you pay 12%. We do struggle with imported stuff (cars, equipments,...) .
US is wealthy but not the people.
Which third world country
Pretty much the same here in brazil
"Third World Country" is subjective and its something that these parasites label anything that its not USA, but as you have seen with this pandemic, and most of the points mentioned in this video, the US might be considered* first world country but only to the parasites, the rest of the population lives just to get by, i have family in what is considered "third world" but i assure you that they are better off financially than 90% of people that live here in the US with no debt, and dont have to live from paycheck to paycheck. What we have in the US is just appearance, a fake reality that we are at the top of everyone, and everyone is below us, be thankful that you are free in your country, with no student debt loans of the worry that you might end up homeless the moment you are without a job
How hard is it to get into University? Can anyone go? Are their caps?
@@troymakay796 algeria for sure
The fact that this has to be a debate in the first place is honestly disheartening
"you know you've done something appalling when Tucker Carlson turns on you..." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
what do you mean turns on you? he literally criticizes everyone all the time other than libertarians but democrats republicans hell even "trumpiens" he even on air directly criticized trump himself for being a "warhawk" on numerous occasions IE missile launches into Syria,The Iranian stuff that kicked off 2020 ETC. and if you think its just trump when it comes to republicans you would be so wrong the amount of times he criticized seniors for "ponying up to china" or "double standard on farmers" ETC.
I mean you probably would realize this if you do research yourself rather than blindly believe news corporations trying to harm there RIVALS IE fox news MSNBC CNN really anything other than there own news company.
why does fox keep him on I HAVE NO CLUE I guess bottom line since he does rake in the money for them since he has the "accent of the common man" I guess.
😂 just quoting the video my mann
Yeah his tone has changed over the last four years towards the GOP. I’m glad Fox News gives him that much leash
@@Newbmann Trump is a warhawk who has surrounded himself with Neocons. Just wait until he's reelected, look out Iran, Russia , Venzuela, etc. , and that's WWlll.
@@georgedgeorge26 what else did you expect every modern american politician is say for
Gabard. I mean at the very least he managed to deescalate a number of crisis IE north Korea, Khomeini assassination ETC even if he is also partially the cause of quite a few them.
Im not defending him Im just saying Hilary Clinton literally ran on war with Russia
well not directly but still she ran on having no fly zones over Syria which Russia said would be considered american interference in Russian affairs even before she supported it.
This is probably the most honest video on the state of capitalism in the USA. If the richest country in the world has some of the worst worker rights, something is horribly wrong
This is why capitalism should be more 'controlled', so people could move classes by their will
That’s the American way
It's capitalism.
Capitalism is horribly wrong.
Exploitation is not a bug, it's the core concept. Maximising the profits means minimising the compensation you give to your workers, so the people with all the money will Always use their power to make the labour of the people working for them, the people making all the stuff they profit off, cheaper.They'll dodge taxes, avoid or lobby against environmental regulations, public health regulations, workers rights, anything that costs them money. They'll comodify things we need to live, things that are or should be human rights, jack up the prices, artificially restrict the supply, buy up all the affordable housing and rent it out at barely affordable prices whatever they can do to profit off something that people Need. They will continue to do this, and fuck people over as much as they possibly can, and extract every drop of wealth they can from the workers and the planet, regardless of consequences until they run out of things to exploit or destabilise everything so badly they, like every empire before them, lose the ability to support their own growth, shatter or collapse inwards.
This isn't a "Greedy people exploiting the system" problem it's a "The system is set up to reward greed" problem. We can't wait for it to be Profitable to deal with climate change. It will be too late.
America is the world's free for all. Just look at its history.
This isn't an honest video though as narrator is biased and implying socialism as an only antidote.
@@infoprod7731 The problem is the disparity in power regarding ownership. Where owners of capital always eventually win through accumulation. Then they bring instability into the economy with rentier and monopolist tactics which create inflation for capital and deflation for labor. Leading to an unsustainable economic situation. Every economy of any style needs to focus on maximizing value added transactions. Which is seen at the same time as increasing income equality. If it doesn't it fails and stagnates from the inefficiency of horded wealth producing no new utility while it starves the of the rest of the economy the ability to consume.
I salute you for for posting something that is out of the scope of this channel. It's extremely important for the American people to wake up and to be alarmed by the corrupt politicians and politics in the US.
As a European we are not only shocked by the struggle most working Americans have to endure, but also appalled that the US is counted as a developed country. Rise up fellow Americans!
No.
@@skitzozpandaz5993 hahaha you again, pls stop 😂
Some parts of America are indeed developed world. At the same time the life expectancy in some parts of West Virginia is the same as Ethiopia. This is a fact.
@@skysthelimitvideos When compared to Europe, USA doesn't feel like a developed nation... Many developing nations have better healthcare and lower prices than the US.
when second thought began to go full marxist on us is a day to be remembered
I remember back in March, when COVID was projected to only last until mid to late summer.
Capitalism’s been winning too
I'm pretty sure they didn't actually think it'd be that short. They lied so that we'd be more willing to _start_ quarantining.
So did it disappeared because of heat?... /s
remember whe it was supposed to only last two weeks??
@@MonteKristof yep just like the flu /s /lh
yo I'm normally a pretty conservative guy, but you are so goddamn persuasive that now I am willing to take up arms in a marxist revolution
everyone has a little socialist in them, the issue is that it shouldn't be little
Please dont
that's okay, its dignity. Enough is enough no matter who you are on the spectrum
Bernie’s Progressive revolution he’s started welcomes you in open arms. We are ready to transform America and end this 2 party political capitalist bullshit.
too late
That's what I have been saying for years. Yet people still think socialism is the root of all evil
@Wesley H your'e a bigger idiot, do really think capitalism works, what a wanker?
@Wesley H homie i just want healthcare
@Movie Creator 1973 Chile? :|
Capitalism is evil through and through brothers n sisters comrades, every war ever fought bar few, if any, has always been about trade n commerce, redrawing maps land grabs FFS, even in my country we fought the Brits out in the war of independence up to 1921, we were fighting capitalist bastards!!!!!!!!
Socialism would help - but then you'd realize it starts to fail and its authoritarian behavior becomes obvious that it limits peoples rights.
The problem is with the US is you have a bipartisaned, government, and population who cannot agree on a single thing.
"I'll probably be back to my usual content next week."
Cut to 3 years later, and now this IS the usual content. Awesome!
The subtle anger in your voice towards the end of the video is powerfully haunting. I hope everyone in America is feeling equally as enraged so major reform can finally come.
That day will never come.
Well I learned that these socialist communities are emotionally unstable and incapable of seeing the implications of creating a socialist state. If all it takes is a relatively minor situations like this to make people start shouting anti-capitalist sentiment then where screwed. Dont sell your rights my guy, especially now. Consider the implications and how this will temporarily benefit us but in the long run make it worse for everyone not just a select few.
To start with, I'll say that I'm totally on-board with the message.
I'll also that being a landlord actually *can be* a job, if you do it right. My father and I don't hire anyone to do any level of work on our properties that we can do ourselves. We do carpentry, roofing, plumbing, basic electrical, flooring, painting inside and out, all lawn care and yardwork, in addition to countless other tasks for more than a dozen houses by ourselves without a crew. That's two people working six hours a day, five or six days a week. That's a job.
The first thing we did when our state announced a shutdown was call around to our renters and determine who among them was going to be affected and couldn't make rent. We've cut rent for multiple tenants and are going to forgive months' worth of rent for several more. We'll also be shouldering utility bills for the duration as a matter of course.
It's deeply disappointing that many landlords are not handling the coronavirus outbreak with common human decency, but I'm proud to say that our tenants will receive at least the basic courtesy of not being kicked out on the streets or have to deal with their water/power/AC not working.
I am a landlord, and a worker, and I support workers' rights.
You've got to be like the best landlord in town tbh
@@jillfizzard1018 thats what any good landlord would do, yet second thought is just going around saying every landlord and real estate investor is a dick without a second thought
If i were a real estate investor i'd do the same, letting tenants stay and pay a lower rent since they have to stay home as opposed to working, also second thought literally mocked every real estate investor how are u not pissed? even if you do support workers rights its clear second thought and the other trolls here don't hold you in very high regard
You are great really, and I don't mean anything offence but you just proved the point that landlord is not a job by listing all the real jobs you have and do instead of hiring people to do those jobs. (carpenter, plumber, landscaping, painter, etc.)
@@final_catalyst what?
It’s a real shame that if you put this video out 3 months ago when the economy was booming, a sizeable proportion of people would disagree with you. Exceptional video 👍🏽
Believe me there are plenty of sociopaths who still disagree
The economy was not booming at any point in the last 40 years.
The only thing that was booming was the stock market, while the working class languished in their poverty wages.
@@Jugganaut05 Because I disagree with the much of the author's utopian views and his naivete, and his complete disregard of history...I am a sociopath? Wow...bit strong don't you think. I looked up the definition....seems way over the top for a general statement like you just made. Just say they are wrong...or say they are dum dums lol...but sociopath?
@@johnrr6 I took an international econ. class and also about the social structure and I can tell you that he is very right. There are some key points and him taking up the "Unfair Model" would probably have been ideal. But overall he is without a doubt right. I gotta admit, it is weird, it is like a flat earther keep forcing the notion that the earth is flat.
But honestly do tell me, where is he wrong?
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