Thomas Sowell's greatest insight | Konstantin Kisin
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- In this clip, John and Konstantin Kisin discuss Thomas Sowell's idea that there are no solutions, only trade-offs. Kisin makes the case that we should not expect perfect solutions to things such as climate change and the NHS, as they are in that sense 'eternal problems'.
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Konstantin Kisin is a writer, social commentator, co-host of TRIGGERnometry and comedian. He is a regular on British and American TV and radio shows including Question Time, Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, Daily Politics, LBC Cross Question, Tucker Carlson, the Megyn Kelly Show and many others.
Konstantin has written for publications including the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Tablet Magazine, Quillette, Standpoint as well as his first book, An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West.
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The first rule of economics is there isn't enough to go around. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics. -Sowell
1.5 billion Africans, half can’t do basic algebra
Bryan Utility-To be fair neither can Americans.
@@bryanutility9609 I know an awful lot of people who have no algebraic skills and have been profoundly successful and productive. There's no merit to your comment.
@@empoweryou1 I DISAGREE - I FIND IT FULL OF IRONY GIVEN THE CURRENT ATMOSPHERE OF SCREAMING FOR REPARATIONS -- AND THE FACT THAT WE'VE GLEEFULLY SUBSIDIZED THEIR RABBIT LIKE BREEDING HABITS FOR ~60 YEARS & HAVE NOTHING AT ALL TO SHOW FOR IT -- AND I SINCERELY DOUBT THE ACCURACY OF THE FIRST PART OF YOUR STATEMENT --
@@bryanutility9609 I flunked Algebra 6 times, because it made no sense to me to PRACTICE something like that, when half of it (factoring) was largely guesswork, and I couldn't see any practical application for it.
Well, I'm 73 now, worked in many MANY different fields, from factories to executive positions, as well as years of running my own businesses. There was, of course, math involved in just about all these things. including surveying, which I briefly did, which used trigonometry, an actually USEFUL branch of Mathematics. It's just incredibly lucky that I have NEVER encountered an algebra problem in my life. I'm sure I'm unique in that respect...right?
"Nothing more dangerous than the ignorance of the intelligent" my favourite quote by Thomas Sowell
Yes. Sowell is the perfect example of this.
"Nothing more dangerous than the jellyness of the uneducated"
Also my favourite quote
@@simonrunswick5730
No.
YOU are!
@@simonrunswick5730 Where did you get anointed ?
@@orkneyancestor2059 Lol nice reference haha
The world would be a better place, if everyone would read Thomas Sowell.
He's only read by conservatives. No one else would waste their time with his steadfastly conservative views supported by inane 'historical' evidence.
hahahahhahahaha
@@dannysullivan3951 Pick up one of his books rather than spamming everyone's comments. It would be time better spent.
And Konstantin Kisin
It's not enough to read Sowell. People need to understand him and follow his advice. We all heard about "don't steal", and yet... so many do.
I remember the street interview, during lockdowns, with a British granny where she said she would rather risk death than not see her family in her last few years left.
This will remain the biggest question that authoritarians cannot answer. Roughly 10-20% of the population are not interested in a life without their own choices. You can try to eliminate them but you simply confirm you are a monster in doing so, becoming worse than whatever they represent.
@@Xplora213 this is why public schools don't teach children to be successful but to be compliant
Yes. Exactly. At the point the cure become worse than the disease the line should be respected!!!
@@Xplora213 That isn't a bug, that is a feature. They want to identify and draw out the people who think they know better. They certainly aren't worried about being seen as the baddies, if they can get away with it. They want to use fear. Governments, no mater how good, are the monopoly on violence.
Our true purpose here on earth is to seek the Divine................Falun Gong
"At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'" - Thomas Sowell
Sowell is great but we rarely seem to talk about class these days but focus it all on race and gender .
@@brianmeen2158 Yup, gotta focus on class.
A shortage of teachers means you cannot select for desirable teacher traits. This means teachers get yet less respect, and the profession gets becomes yet less attractive, exacerbating the problem. Vicious spiral.
Sowell another Conservative fool who thinks ignoring America's problems solves them. Total insanity.
I know of four students who left their degree course in social science protesting that they were been told what to think. I know one of these young ladies. There is still hope.
As Sowell's mentor Milton Friedman once said: "Nirvana is not for this world. There is no paradise."
Sadly, they take that to mean we should not attempt to improve...fill in the blank. An accurate summation of conservative 'policy'.
@@dannysullivan3951 wrong
@Baddonkey you should change your prefix to "dumb"
@@dannysullivan3951Milton Friedman was a proponent of UBI before it was cool, was pro drug legalisation, him and his fellow scholars solved the paradox and provided the solution to stagflation, he never called himself a conservative. He just rejected progressive policy ideas that contradicted his core beliefs in liberty.
@@woobilicious. Agreed. I have a certain admiration for the man, certainly very bright. He did call himself a libertarian, which is basically a belief in an individualist fairyland. Anything to do with the common good, say keeping air or water clean, or would be taken care of, in his thinking, by the market. That’s an idea that has a long track record of failure. He’s anti-union, anti FDA, anti-almost every federal dept with the exception of defense. Park service-gone. There’s a reason libertarians don’t get elected to run the country.
Thomas Sowell is a Godsend. His books should be compulsory reading in schools and college. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Instead compulsory reading is LBGTQ blah blah blah degenerate indoctrination.
Here it is a solution , a very efficient and simple one too.
Should be compulsory reading........ maybe he would not agree with that statement.
That's not what governments want. The last thing any "democratic" government wants is open minded critical thinkers. They want consumers and obedient drones.
Wholly agree mate - well said!
Doctor Sowell is a national treasure. It's nice to see him getting a bit of the recognition he deserves.
Shame that he promoted the exp. Jab.
@@iseenochains-oops7863 even he can be subverted by lies that change the data. That's how they did it. When you secretly change the data, you make it harder.
@@iseenochains-oops7863 Are you that partisan? 😂😂
He getting recognition in conservative circles for a reason genuis. He's not regarded as an economics intellectual by his community for that same reason
@Daniel BF If you say so, but I see it as common sense.
Sowell changed me in 2007. He was hidden from me since the 70s
For me it wasn't until Obama's second term that Sowell's words sunk in. I started reading more of his books, and his analysis of "The Anointed" blew my mind. So many things that were mysterious to me before suddenly became clear, almost self explanatory. And since 2015 this has kept me sane, depressed but sane.
The unambomber manifesto is a good read as well. A lot of what he talked about all those years ago is really unfolding in front our eyes, really enlightening stuff.
@@geoffhart Be a little sad but do not be depressed.
@@hanklesacks I listened to the tedpill when I heard that the industrial revolution enabled the Idiocracy.
I've met two profoundly wise old men in my life, one said "All of life is a compromise" and the other said "Never trust a man who doesn't love kids and dogs". Both were right on the money.
I love kids and dogs. Especially when they change gender because I'm a nonce
I'm joking but see how close we are in letting them in.
My philosophy is, "get out of my way." I love my kids, but certainly not because they are kids. I love dogs, but hate owning them because they die so young.
I love neither kids nor dogs and I'm trustworthy.
@@SisypheanRoller So you say ,, thing is I don't trust you .
Actually John just nailed it
"A good government mirrors a good society"
So we need system change, clearly, because our governments of the world don't mirror a good socio-economic system.
Let's address the elephant in the room, work towards changing it. Monetary-market economics isn't sustainable. We can change that, step by step, then change how our society functions. As we've seen explained by Jacque Fresco, Buckminster Fuller, Michael Tellinger and Peter Joseph.
There is not one country today that has a good government. Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa
@@jeffforsythe9514 The fist step toward socialism is for the workers to win the battle of Democracy.
@@kimobrien. Reincarnation is real and the blessings that you have or do not have depend on how you behaved in your past life. Socialism is interfering with God's decision...............................Falun Dafa
@@jeffforsythe9514 When you come back from heaven or the dead let us know what it was like. Have you decided on a name for God yet or are you all still arguing on what to call someone who speaks only to one person at a time?
“If you think there’s a solution, then you’re part of the problem.” - George Carlin
Yes and they 'll do anything possible to shut you up .
But a successful, acceptable trade-off is generally seen as a solution
@hjones4922 I think Carlin probably was implying 'if you think YOUR solution is the magic pill, if your 'version' of xyz failed policy will magically work of we just give you a bunch of money you are the problem'
Oh for the love of God. IT'S A LONG CON GAME BY THE COMMUNIST GLOBALISTS. IF THEY SOLVE ANY OF THE "PROBLEMS" IN THEIR STATED AGENDA (UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development...17 goals), then they can't use them as levers of power to distract and divide while centralizing power in unelected officials and global agencies as they erase borders. If the U.S. doesn't secure our 2024 election with massive oversight to eliminate fraad, freedom will be gone for good. It's their last chance to seize power since we're onto them and our last chance at preserving freedom.
The cynic's national anthem
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure of wisdom and knowledge
Our true purpose here on earth is to seek the Divine................Falun Gong
No he is not, he is an INTERnational treasure of wisdom and knowledge.
@@sanderwissink5330 The Creator has given us true wisdom...........falun dafa
@@jeffforsythe9514 "Three to beam up Mr Scott" Capt James T Kirk, Starship Enterprise.
@@albertclarke2826 On might also collect the sayings of Chairmen Mao and put them next to Sowells and Jesus for moral fortitude.
This clip is like eating a home cooked meal, it felt real, heavy, healthy, hearty in its volume of truth.
Amen !
Our true purpose here on earth is to seek the Divine................Falun Gong
It’s unfortunate that we have only come to discover the wisdom Dr Thomas Sowell - spot on one of the best minds we have snd he’s still alive today
I came across him and Walter Williams only about 15 years ago and was devastated to see that both were very old (and we only have one of them left now).
Internet Libertarians and classical liberals like myself have known about them forever.
What about comparing Sowell's wisdom to that of some of the late greats like Jacque Fresco (who lived to 100), Buckminster Fuller and Carl Sagan?
Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa
@@coolioso808 Why stop their should a campaign to canonize a Christ like savior of capitalism who comes down from heaven like Sowell get underway before he becomes completely forgotten or despised like all the others?
It's one of the great ironies of our age that not a few comedians, KK included, speak more sense about public policy than the majority of politicians. Perhaps some of the politicians should try stand up? After all, they'll do less damage there.
Because Politicians need to get elected KK doesn't.
"Politicians should try stand up" so Zelensky?
He's a comedian?
@m a
Zelensky was actually the reverse - he went from comedy to politics
@@Noperare Zelensky is evil.
I’m pleased to see Kisin is catching on to Dr. Sowell.
It's about time he caught onto Professor Sowell
strokes cat
I discovered Thomas Sowell when I was trying to get my head arounf the BLM and George Floyyd debacle in 2020. He was like that first gasp of air when pulled to the surface after sinking under the water.
Sowell ever give credit to a liberal socialist or communist for anything positive? Or is t just his tribe of conservatives politicians that are responsible doing everything good?
@kimobrien. How're the liberal socialists and communists doing in the Soviet Union these days... oh wait! 😮
@@kimobrien.Given that Thomas Sowell cares more about facts than about feelings, I am going to trust those who chose to think for themselves rather than having the crowd think for them.
It's a continuous war between largely Libertarian NT Rationalists and Woke Progressive NF Idealist Leftists.. between evidence and professed _good intentions?!_
@@kimobrien.
AFAIK Sowell is a free market capitalist so why would he praise centralised government systems or communist utopias. Do communist and socialist pundits ever say anything positive about capitalism?
It isn't as much of a 'gotcha' as you think it is to ask a Sowell reader if Sowell has looked for the good in political systems that have resulted in tens of millions of deaths wherever they're seriously implemented.
You should read Sowell's books yourself to see if he says anything about the areas of politics that you're personally interested in.
Professor Thomas Sowell is a hero.
That's my favorite quote of all time, and it sums up economics. Every parent quickly learns that children don't understand it: They say, "I want a toy!" and believe that it is only by the Whim of Mommy that they get the toy or not. One of the most important things to instill in children is the ability to budget.
But a successful, acceptable trade-off is generally seen as a solution
Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa
@@jeffforsythe9514 No the more import thing to learn is their is more where that came from.
@@kimobrien. We are here to seek the Divine and to return home, which is Heaven....................Falun Dafa
@@jeffforsythe9514 Have a good trip and don't forget to write.
Lots of Thomas Sowell videos on YT and all are worth listening to. He was highly respected because everything he says is based on painstaking research into all the facts.
You had me at based
And a tough early life.
The videos are amazing and a great resource, but you should read or listen to the audio version of Basic Economics
Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa
...and simple common sense
Thomas Sowell teachings should be taught in schools at a young age, and every student should know the name Thomas Sowell by the time they graduate high school. It should be required. Happy early birthday Mr Sowell. He will be a young 93 years old on June 30.
As long as his teachings are equally allowed along with Jacque Fresco, R. Buckminster Fuller, Carl Sagan, Michael Tellinger and Peter Joseph. Let young people evaluate a variety of texts and make up their own mind what makes sense.
And, at the age of 93, in January, Sowell will be releasing his next book.
I remember seeing and hearing Thomas Sowell on a Sunday lunchtime show in the early 70s when I must have been only 6 of 7 years old. I remember him clearly becaus even at that young age he struck me by his calm , reasonable voice and humour. Now I know him as one of the great thinkers and orators of our time and I think his influence is only now coming to its greatest heights and his reason and well researched arguments are exactly what we need . Like Dr Jordan Peterson he is deeply respected by those who have heard him speak .
I wonder, do you have any left leaning intellectuals you admire?
"We've lost the ability to have these conversations" - No we haven't, it's been taken away from those who disagree with the mainstream agenda.
Sharing Sowell's genius is always a good thing.
Always a huge pleasure to listen to intelligent conversations.
There is no left or right, there is only up or down...
My favorite part about Sowell is that he's been excommunicated for talking sense.
Sowell is the best kept secret in American history.
The public tell politicians "We'll punish you if you are realistic and tell us the truth". The politicians act accordingly.
My favorite quote from Sowell:
There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?
It’s not left via right anymore, the ruling elite love this bickering about “isms”. What exactly do you mean by left? Globalist rentier corporate powers are firmly in charge.
This fist defeat of Sowellian economics begins with the defeat of generalized notions. That resources are scarce. This a notion based upon nothing but the logical outcome of the profit systems inability to solve its own problems within the framework of capitalist market private profit and private ownership. The reality is there is and never has been a reason to believe we are running out of resources or not finding new ones and new ways to use or reuse old ones. The second is to talk about alternatives instead of use values. Alternative are A or B Use values are much more concrete and to the heart of the why of choice. The notion that trade and risk produce value in and of themselves. In fact these activities have a cost. .As John Locke said labor transforms nature. The cost of any product good or bad, worthless or valuable materialistic or abstraction is bound up in the labor time needed to produce it. That includes any time spent searching or thinking about how best to accomplish something. To follow Sowells thinking is to deny the material nature of the world and engage in simplistic anti historical views and notionism. Humankind are social animals who have used our hands to labor and were shaped by labor along with a voice box ears and a eyes to used for communication. Cooking to increase and speed digestion and fire After fulfilling our needs for food clothing and shelter we produce culture from which all science art and even religion develops. . .
Resources, products and services are scarce in the sense that there isn't infinite for everyone at all times. Everyone wants more for different reasons, to the point that there will be competition. What's "minimally acceptable", "excessive" or "essential" are all debatable to a number of merits and beliefs.
Use-value and demands are somewhat similar concepts and hard to pin-point. All debatable to a number of merits and beliefs.
"The cost of any product good or bad, worthless or valuable materialistic or abstraction is bound up in the labor time needed to produce it." Nops. Demand, including personal preference, and scarcity determine value/price.@@kimobrien.
@@kimobrien. "The cost of any product good or bad, worthless or valuable materialistic or abstraction is bound up in the labor time needed to produce it." Suppose you produce a painting but no one wants to buy it. What is the value of the labor time needed to produce that painting?
@@quintrankid8045 It still cost you in labor time to make it just as Ben Shapiro's mud pies do. Whither you can get any exchange value for it depends on the market. What is the cost of labor time but the cost of the laborer who must reproduce his labor power for the next pay period. If i come to work and the mill is broke down it still cost me to show up and wait around while management decides what to do. Just because your mill broke down doesn't change the fact that I have to eat, drink and sleep. Those are the laborers costs. How skilled the painter is determines how fast he can produce paintings along with his ability to work in general.
Thomas Sowell is becoming more & more influential by the minute!! Read his works!
I've taught my son's this same thing in the sense that there is no perfect situation. That there are pros and cons in ever situation in life, work and relationships and all you can do is decide which pros and cons you are willing to live with because your going to live with a set of them no matter what lol there's no getting out of it.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. Yes, that is a very insightful comment. Thomas Sowell is often quite brilliant.
But a successful, acceptable trade-off is generally seen as a solution
@@hjones4922 Yes, that should always be the aim, but some people are too inflexible.
@@OJB42 the inflexibility benefits the ruling elite transnational corporate class. Do you honestly think the masses elect politicians? No, they are pre-selected and primaries in USA are corrupted and engineered. Money talks.
@@OJB42 If economics was just trade off than were did the modern world come from?
@@kimobrien. A series of trade-offs. No one is following a pure political or economic ideology.
Your contributions are wonderful Mr. Anderson. Thank you.
Vital point and well made . Thank you both with love and blessings from Sydney Australia .
There will be no solutions until everyone can decide, and agree, on what the problems are.
That's why there'll never be solutions...
there are a lot of great thinkers I've come across over the last few years. Tom S, to me, is the greatest.
Sowell is one of the greatest living intellectuals of our time. Huge respect & salute to him!
You also love being told what you want to hear.
Thomas Sowell is an American legend and treasure. His books will outlive us and parents should buy their kids one of his books. I own 5 ✊🏾
Me too and eventually all of them
@@muxion 👍🏽✊🏾
Which Sowell books are in your top 3?
I've watched a lot of Dr. Sowell's videos and aways highly esteemed him. But when he said that my jaw just dropped. The simplest truth. Nothing in this fallen world will be solved until eternity. It is still our task to do our best for the most good and any small progress we can make to that end has to be carefully negotiated. And it is heartbreaking to think that, with the current climate of progressive thought, that ship may have sailed.
Konstantin is 100% my favorite speaker. He has the best ideas and explains things so well.
Such a shame people are only now discovering Thomas Sowell. Such a great, wise man. His books should be compulsory reading in every high school.
If you really read and respected his work, you'd understand he doesn't support compulsory things most of the time.
@@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069 EXACTLY!!!
@@pneron2032 Right he supports thing like child labor because of the early opportunity it provides to become another Bill Gates and the unfairness of life.
There is a distinction between a problem which has a solution and a dilemma that doesn't. The vast majority of social issues are in the dilemma category.
This is utterly fantastic! This should have been viewed millions more times!
In a mad world Thomas Sowell is a voice of sanity and coming in a close second is his disciple Konstantin Kissin.
Right now, we are "kicking the can down the road" on several fronts, as we are unwilling to face the consequences of any policies that could be helpful in the long run. We are doing all we can to keep the current, increasingly fragile, system functioning with no hope of mitigating the impact that will happen when it eventually collapses. Every year we keep this up makes the ultimate collapse consequences WORSE.
Yep, we just do things and implement policies and don’t even contemplate the possible problems that might arise. Then after we observe the problems that have came out if said policy changes - we just shrug our shoulders and make other absurd policy changes .. rinse and repeat
For the past thirty years I have felt that each succeeding year was worse than the last.
@@BlackGriffin195 A friend of mine said exactly the same to me several years ago and I must say that I agree with the both of you.
Sowell is the Man.
For those not yet familiar with him, I’d also recommend getting to know the ideas of Milton Friedman.
Together they are the two greatest minds of the last 60 years.
Also:
Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher
The Breakdown of Nations by Leopold Kohr
Tools for Conviviality and
DESCHOOLING SOCIETY +++ by IVAN ILLICH
@Faz A I’ll be sure to check those out. Thank you.
And Walter Williams (Thomas Sowell's best friend and a fellow economist).
@@faza553 all added! Thanks.
@@jonlocke1624 is that Walter "E" Williams??
I fought this idea when I first read it in Conflict of Visions. Sowell introduced the idea that the constrained do not believe in solutions. I thought, "What? That's ridiculous." Then I kept reading. :) I love it when folks first come across this idea. You can see the light bulb go off. Total shock. Makes my brain happy.
What the constraint?
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Ben Franklin
I love the words of Konstantin and Thomas sowell. Such level thinkers. Wish Konstantin was running for pm in the uk. We need more clear thinkers like him
Mr. Kisin; May I say, I am so glad so hear somebody talking and showing the same thought processes and mindset as I myself have! In my surrounding, no one ever agrees with me, mostly not even a bit. Discussions seems to be more about status and winning then information exchange. Of course, you are way more developed and more knowledgeable and better in expressing it into a coherent whole as I ever can, but your logic works the same as mine and therefor I am glad to come across interviews with you. So thank you because you are like a teacher to me! And of course, Mr. Anderson who makes this all possible every time!🙏
"There's no solutions, only trade-offs" Exactly right. Every decision we make has pros and cons.
*_Liberty is always dangerous,.. but Liberty is also always the safest thing we have!?_*
Aaah, three of my favourites. Sowell (So well!) Kisin and Anderson. Three wise men.
This is a great conversation- thank you for posting important call-outs on our modern society. Great conversation, with considered thought and listening.
Kisin gets smarter every day
Too smart for today's snowflakes !
I too have been greatly influenced by Thomas Sowell. To my mind the ideas expressed here are the very essence of conservative philosophy. We always need to be careful that we don’t throw the baby out with the bath water
"There are no solutions. Only tradeoffs." - Thomas Sowell
weak minded sophistry. don't hire that guy as your plumber 😆
@@breasonable4343 Certanly not as a plumber. Maybe as an economist or a politician.
@@anon2034 Because we certainly don't need "solutions" and diligence from either of those.
@@breasonable4343 What do you need? What do you propose?
I heard Thomas Sowell say this and it changed my view of the world too! It is so true now!!
Love the trade off quote. So many people do so much damage because they’re pursuing a utopian outcome of their desired state. Wrapped up in fantasy and unwilling to face reality. Thanks guys for this vid!
If only trade offs were possible and we were not creating a surplus starting with agriculture than we would still be living like hunter gatherers. That is just one of the professors attempts at mystifying economics by waving his hands and inserting popular but untrue notions. Like the accuracy and assurance of price signals.when bosses see sales declining with profits falling the begin halting investment in expanding production realizing they have overproduced for markets that can sell more goods at a profit they go to driving up the price of speculation in contracts and fictitious capital until the market gets so out of wack with the law of value it collapses causing an ever widening economic crisis as workers get fired and can no long buy back the goods and pay the housing costs for the products they produced to buy back from the market.
Why is everyone afraid....you cant speak because someone may get upset. What a sad state of affairs that this is our reality.
and yet still here you are speaking, and so is he. Hmmm.....inconvenient?
So brilliant. Konstantin is a real thinker. He condensed down the issue to it's essence.
I thank you for getting to the truth behind life's curtain.
The COVID response was governments managing a single risk, and that risk wasn't that lots of people might die from COVID. The risk was that if they weren't seen to do everything within their power, then they would lose power. And doing everything they could meant a power grab that was simply irresistible. Politicians have never served the people... they want to rule them.
Except that the "risk" was engineered and exaggerated, and the "management" was scripted years in advance.
Spot-on.
The entirety of the world's Covid response was to remove Trump from power, increasing control over the population was the secondary goal.
@@jamesrodgers3132 exactly right. Fauci funded the virus, and predicted Trump would face a pandemic
That is an interesting theory but I don't think it explains why they manufactures the, risk, or the fear of the risk. The risk only needs to be addressed if it exists, or is seen to exist. Your theory doesn't explain why they manufactured the risk in the first place. Manufactured can mean anything from creating the virus and distributing it as a bioweapon, to the response to the accidental release.
You can watch a video of Sowell that’s literally 50 years old and he’s saying the same things that he’s saying today. I’ve come to assume this is a big reason he doesn’t do interviews much. He’s been saying it all for years.
He just put out another book - at age 93. Still relevant.
It’s important to remember that during covid there was no conversation especially about who would die in each circumstance and if the cost that was suffered by all was worth it
Sowell's notion that these issues are "eternal problems" encapsulates the complexity inherent in addressing them. It's essential to recognize that in our quest for progress, we must navigate a landscape of trade-offs. No solution will come without its drawbacks or unintended consequences.
When it comes to climate change, for instance, we must weigh the economic implications, technological feasibility, and impact on various industries. Similarly, in the case of healthcare, balancing accessibility, affordability, and quality of care presents a perpetual challenge.
This understanding urges us to approach these issues with humility and a willingness to explore a range of options. It reminds us to engage in open and nuanced discussions, seeking compromise and finding common ground. Instead of striving for an elusive perfect solution, we can work towards sustainable improvements that minimize negative consequences while maximizing positive outcomes.
While it can be frustrating to grapple with the complexity of eternal problems, it is through this process of trade-offs and thoughtful consideration that we inch closer to meaningful change. By acknowledging the limitations and inherent challenges, we can make more informed decisions, implement incremental reforms, and continuously adapt as new information emerges.
Let us embrace the wisdom of Sowell's idea and recognize that progress lies not in the pursuit of unattainable perfection but in our ability to navigate the intricate web of trade-offs and find practical, workable solutions.
Critical thinking (buzzword alert) was taught at the college I went to. We learned, indeed, how to do it. But just because we are able to critically think doesn't mean that we actually do it in our daily lives. Sowell actually thinks critically, but most of my classmates gave it up the day they graduated. Thank you Mr. Kisin.
Sowell's insight about there being no solutions runs deeper than government policy. It's true in general. Every great innovation that claims to improve our life comes at a cost. Take something like vehicles as an example. It's no secret that cars have vastly improved our ability to travel great distances much faster and in relative comfort, but look at the downsides. Someone has to design and build all those vehicles. Someone has to supply the materials and resources. Roads have to be built and maintained, people have to go through the process of learning to drive and risk getting into traffic accidents. Vehicles themselves have to be maintained, traffic laws have to be instituted, etc.
So, that's a whole host of new problems we have made for ourselves as a result of our need to get places faster and more comfortably. However we, collectively as a species, have decided that the tradeoff is worth it - and that's the point. It's about whether or not the cost of a "solution" is acceptable to us. Sometimes it's not.
When u finally decided to open ur eyes, to only find endless darkness for u to deal with
Oh my , that hit home!
In Him was life, and that life was the light of men…
Absolutely YES!! Sowells quote needs to be in every classroom!
self-determination is worth the cost to me, nothing else is...absolute minimum amount of government intrusion required to maintain equal property rights
Thomas Sowell is absolutely brilliant. I understand history and the workings of this world better because of him.
Me too, since lockdowns of pandemic. Listening to Thomas Sowell will be may be reasons for backlash on the madness being pushed on the populace everywhere! This is Ne Sowell’s research and writings time to shine!!!
People comprehend it better when you say, "Every solution creates another problem".
“Compared to what, what hard evidence do you have, at what cost” is another great one
A profoundly important point. Politics and media are increasingly divorced from this reality. People are livid that not everything is perfect and convinced that they are not perfect for the simple reason that the nefarious "powers that be" are preventing it. This childish view of society is very dangerous.
We live in an increasingly juvenile society.
Spot on Konstantin. Probably the greatest single sentence definition of our crazy world. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Paul.
Iv'e never heard Full Metal Alchemist's philosophy explained so well.
Thomas Sowell is the greatest living American! Long may he live.
This is a useful video. I would say that there ARE simple solutions to simple problems, but certainly agree that complicated problems have to balance trade-offs. But regarding complex political problems, too often the compromises are poisoned by the Adversarial Method of Argument demanded by lawyers. Lawyers are required to advocate just ONE side of an argument, regardless of common sense, to "win" an argument. And they can "win" without common sense, evidence, or wisdom, IF they are using laws written by lawyer-legislators. Us non-lawyers can see our immediate goals, our long-term agendas, and anticipate the trade-offs to get to practical solutions that work in the material world (instead of a utopian-intentional fantasy).
Thank you for elevating the discourse and talking sense. Clarity from two wise men.
A very well rounded, intelligent discussion. Seeing them talk about the complexities of attempting to believe there is a solution comes only, indefinitely, with trade-offs.
I admired hearing them converse in such a topic that is often ignored to flat out denied.
Quite excellent work done in this video
Too much magical thinking in public policy. Sowell is a pragmatic thinker.
Every first year economics student understands this.
AOC doesn't
True, but then you have to buy in to the conservative mantra of do nothing.
No, they don't
wrong. realise where they aren't taught Marxian economics they are taught Keynesian economics, invariably.
People who study economics don't read Sowell, they hardly read anything but Keynesian economics. Aka left-wing, state run economics.
Great interview.
The truth clearly and unemotionally expounded: a very rare treat nowadays.
Tradeoffs. That is the key
This one phrase, by the way, is what you learn when you actually struggle with nature. People who live in cities and work corporate jobs have no understanding of this, their lives are removed from nature so everything looks like can be win-win-win or lose-lose-lose to them.
Famers know there is no perfect solution to their problems, only tradeoffs.
Shipbuilders and sailors know there is no perfect boat for any condition or body of water, only tradeoffs.
Bridge engineers know there is no perfect bridge for every span, only tradeoffs.
Everyone who deals with actual nature knows there is no perfection, it does not exist... The best you can hope for is to maximize what is desired and deal with the negatives of your choice.
It's a pity it took until he was in his 90s for Thomas Sowell to start getting the wider recognition he deserves. His work is utterly brilliant.
I’d only add another great Sowell quote.
The past 50 years can be easiest summed up as replacing what works with what feels good.
The problem is that the supposed 'solutions' are sold as SOLUTIONS and through ideological/political/partisan led parties and (less) thinking where to simply challenge them is then seen as a threat........Things would be different if their ego's had to courage to instead sell their 'solutions' as lesser-evils which all (including themselves) were open to critique and then improve upon without the same fragile ego's and ideological beliefs then being easily hurt when simply challenged.
What i see to be the main problem everywhere, personal relationships, friendships, family or public, social media, anywhere I see that we are unable to accept someone else stating an opinion and maybe facts that are opposite to ours. The biggest crime is such ignorance. I might just lose a good friend this week because I stated an opinion he disagrees with and attacks and slanders me for blindly. Cant we just talk bro ? you listen and i talk, i listen and you talk? We have lost that ability as a society.
Thank you both for an intelligent conversation to listen to. 🙏
This a really important debating platform with todays exceptional guest.
You cannot go wrong with Thomas Sowell... The most underrated 'thinker' ever... and the Democrats make sure no one knows him
Thomas Sowell = genius
The fact that he supported Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016 proves how smart this man is. Pure brilliance
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I believe every problem started out as a solution.
Culture is a major part of this. Much more important than anything related to public policy.
I could solve the NHS, just get rid of it and go back to what we had before