Thank you so much Prof Wolf, it's so comforting to have someone so intelligent speak up for those of us who are seriously struggling and are blamed for the circumstances that are beyond our control. This country makes me sick. Thank you 🙏🏼
Well said! Someone trained by the elites at Harvard, Stanford and Yale truly speaking up for the working classes. Imagine that! I have absolutely zero question, if Richard Wolff were head of economics for the next administration we'd be well on the way to a transformation that would improve the lives of 320-million Americans.
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Prof. Wolff, thank you for spreading so much knowledge & information on issues that are important to all of us; housing, homelessness, our economy & income.
I recently read 'We The Elites 'by Robert Ovetz because of a recommendation by Prof Wolff from this channel. It's actually a pretty good book written in language which everyone can understand. The historical context is of imperative importance to understand what the U.S. political economy actually is.
I find this guy pretty difficult to listen to. So maybe I'll get his book and read it at my own pace. I usually understand Prof. Wolff quite well, so thank you for relaying info about this guy's writing style!
So true about homelessness. Wealthy people have all of the same problems with mental illness and substance abuse. They simply have the resources available to address their problems. Poor people don’t have that luxury, and their problems are made even worse due to endless harassment from the suburban communities surrounding them, via police and churches, etc.
Thank you Professor Wolff for having Robert Ovtitz on with his critiques on our framers of the Constitution from the beginning and how it was set up. Articulate insights Mr. Ovitz has given. Thank you both.
Wow...did I just learn a lot from this conversation...which truthfully I am embarrassed to admit I didn't already know. Thank you again, Richard Wolff, whom I have admirred for a long time from afar, and to Robert Ovetz whom I have just been introduced to today. Tremendous admiration to you both! Thank you!!!
Excellent interview, I am a great fan of Gore Vidal, he always said this country was founded by rich white wealthy men, FOR rich white wealthy men, the country they wanted was a nirvana for the small percentage of the wealthy, it was never built for us
END OF THE DOLLAR? Or what awaits those at the bottom of the banking pyramids. This is an analytical article from Asian and Arab analytical services. At the state level, analysts from different countries recommend getting rid of assets in dollars, but what? And why? April 2023 will decide the fate of the dollar and banks in the US, you have a maximum week left. The dollar-based banking system is starting to crumble, with major US banks failing this month, and a number of banks in Europe, as well as dozens of smaller banks in the US, were clearly in trouble. Since the US dollar is not backed by anything (not backed by a gold guarantor), it is not protected by anything other than verbal guarantees from the US government and the Federal Reserve System. 1) And what does it lead to? - most US banks are a pyramid that rests on the money of depositors, in the event of a bank failure, only those who insure deposits will receive money (and it’s not a fact if the government pays this money, but this is also a problem) and those who withdraw first until the cash runs out or they will give the go-ahead to transfer to another bank (but there is a percentage for the transfer) Read what a financial pyramid is and the collapse of a financial pyramid. 2) Guaranteeing the issuance of deposits and keeping the state of banks from bankruptcy - turning on the printing press (injecting cash) If the state asks the federal reserve system to turn on the press to print more billions to guarantee the return of deposits and maintain the stability of the bank, then the public debt of US residents will increase or be inflation of the dollar, which means a decrease in the purchasing power for this money, for example, those goods that cost $ 100 will cost 200 or even 1000. 3) Why world banks are collapsing along with US banks - because they are tied to the dollar, this is the euro, this is the British pound, the Canadian dollar, the Australian dollar. They are all tied to the value of dollars, and that is, if the US financial system collapses, then these countries are pulled along. What to do? - 1) withdraw money first until deposits are frozen, because in this financial pyramid the amount of money is limited and not enough for everyone, because deposits are used and gradually spent by banks, and when the constant influx of new money ends, there will be a shortage of funds in the bank. The top of the bank (the pyramids will never wait and take risks, they will be the first to take their money from the bank as soon as they realize that the bank is collapsing), those who have insured their money with the state can give the money or can not compensate for the full amount of the connection with various excuses. What is the result? - those who managed to stay with the money, those who did not have time to withdraw money will lose their deposits (as Biden said - deposits are always risks, sometimes you earn on them, sometimes you lose) and the bank will become bankrupt. -2) wait for it to print money and pour billions into the bank. Yes, it is possible, but not certain. What is the result? - an increase in the public debt of citizens and inflation of the dollar is possible (after all, printing billions of unsecured pieces of paper will lead to a cheaper dollar, you can see for yourself that the purchasing power of a certain amount decreases every time a new batch of dollars is printed). - but there is a high probability that you will not wait and then you will lose deposits. -3) to do nothing and not to worry - happiness is not in money (well, you will lose your deposits, but inflation will be a little later) Well, what can I say - not long left, some analysts say - that in the first days of April a serious recession will begin in the US financial system. Some believe that from mid-April. But everyone agrees that it is necessary to get rid of the dollar, since soon its value will be cheaper than the paper on which it is printed. It is better to buy precious metals or appliances, electronics and real estate. Popcorn bought and looking forward to))!!
it was very enlightning!. l liked the way he explained things simple and clear!. great video dear prf i see subscribtions are going up that's great news for all of us!.
I wish I had been taught that! For about 50 of my 74 years I believed otherwise. I drank the patriotic "koolaid" because it seemed to make good "democratic" sense!
@@pipster1891 I graduated with a history degree recently and it’s very widely recognized that America was founded in order to serve the interests of the capitalist class.
@@ryanosterman2651 Yup this whole shooting match was intended to be a stable platform the conducting of business. Can't say it's turned out too well... greedy people don't make good citizens.
I am so impressed at the reality of what you are saying. I never looked at our constitution this way at all. You make so much sense. So much food for thought. The one thing I worked in was real-estate and property management. One of the best things I saw was rent control. It did help people be able to have a roof.
You 2 are my HEROES. Thank you for your time and knowledge and willingness to share with all! Much gratitude ❣️ Knowledge is power and information is exercise!!! Staying fit is fun
So much for lemonade stands, grass cutting, snow shoveling, and paper routes. Or golf caddying... At age 12, Edison's first job was selling newspapers, vegetables, snacks, and candy on the local railroad. He then decided to begin writing his very own newspaper called "The Weekly Herald", which he published and sold to passengers on the trains. It was the first ever newspaper to be printed and sold on a moving train. At age 14, he learned to be a telegraph operator. He was interested in the equipment he used in this job, and was always studying and experimenting ways to improve it. The experience he gained from this job lead him to produce his first patented invention in 1868. He subsequently quit telegraphy to become a full-time inventor.
@J GALT lol, of course you would use edison, the man who got rich not stealing other peoples work and not paying them for it. Its like they ordered an ignorant libertarian kit and you were what they built.
@@janelliot5643 That would seem to be measured in unconstitutional "fiat dollars"... so the arithmetic becomes a problem...for the following reason. In 1968, there was ONE billionaire and it wasn't a U.S. one. Since then the price of gold has suffered 5000% inflation...so every billion is worth $200,000. in 68 dollars. The richest man at the moment is worth 168 billion...or in 68 dollars...33, 600,000. Howard Hughes has 350 million in 68...so the lesson of the arithmetic is... things are not what they seem...nor are they going to get any better. Michael Hudson has explained the history, sans the "unconstitutional part".
Great idea at the end and I have thought that for decades. One of the premises within the US political parties is that private capital is to be left to those who are entrepreneurs, and not to go after the profit making. If businesses start being created under a democratic process brought on by the labor that produces the goods and services that creates those profits, the only response to stop would be outright fascism (we already operate under that in way already). They always talk about free enterprise, until that freedom goes from the few to the masses
There is no free enterprise in capitalism as companies seek to maximize profits by becoming a monopoly in its market. Buying the government is the first phase in maximizing profits by lowering taxes, watering down anti-trust laws and creating legislation (regulations) to bar entry into their particular market. The free market is a lie, just like supply-side economics.
I'm old enough to remember the center/right JFK warning Americans ,presumably including his fellow upper crusties that "those who oppose non-violent revolution,make violent revolution "inevitable."I also recall Nixon's ironic "opening with China and a subsequent probative interview with its erudite foreign minister Cho en Lai .He was asked for his opinion of the Bourg or French Revolution,which ended Feudalism in that country.He replied cryptically,"its too soon to tell."
I live in Canton, thank you so much for highlighting this story. I feel for my neighbors that work at the mill and have for many years. It is quite the strange situation, job hunter signs all over the roads. Who knows what will happen come June, when (allegedly) it will all come to an end.
Most everything said about the US Constitution in this video is true with no major exceptions. However, the US Constitution was not meant to be a democracy in the sense of majority rule or in the sense of "economic democracy". Indeed it was designed on purpose to make passage of new laws exceedingly difficult, and an amendment even more difficult than that. Why ?? The primary issue that the founders were grappling with was the tendency of the government to become authoritarian and dictatorial. The businesses and activities of the colonists had been severely hamstrung by the King and a passion arose among the colonists sufficient to risk their lives in revolution against the King. After this mortal battle, the last thing the "founding fathers" wanted was the constitution to lead to new tyranny -- whether that be tyranny by the chief executive or by the legislature or by the courts. With the immediate addition of first 10 amendments, the new republic became a bastion of personal and economic freedom for property owners and for the unprecedented agency of the individual (white) citizen. The freedom and agency afforded the American citizen enabled the USA to grow into the most inventive and prosperous nation on the Earth. By 1950, the USA had become an empire that virtually ruled the planet. Its unchecked power has enabled the USA to tyrannize the planet while singing the virtues of "freedom". It is immediately after WW2 that the USA became the victim of its own success. It is a law of world history that empires rise and invariably fall. As of today, the US empire is in its declining years - by 2030 it will be over and probably sooner. Jefferson in his lifetime understood revolution would become necessary again, there is no final solution for the contradiction between government and those being governed. The time for a new American revolution is here, BUT let's not throw the baby out with the bath water !! I cannot conceive that internal warfare can produce the needed revolution. The Civil War failed to bring African Americans out of slavery, instead slavery has taken on new forms possibly as pernicious to the human spirit as the traditional form. It is time for Americans to wake up to the changing world, to be aware of the rapidly rising BRICS nations that with its allies will represent 80% of the earth's population. We must wake up, get to work, and compete on the world stage like everyone else. White privilege is just about over my friends. ( 😭😭 ) .
"Economic majority" is a good phrase. Waiting for a democratic uprising sounds hopeless though. Most Americans just can't be bothered; they've lulled us into complacency.
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@@jgalt308 A lot of dissident sites are being targeted by annoying bots... that is what this comment is. That would be the establishment trying to control the comment section. Kind of a spam attack.
@@blogintonblakley2708 The comment is nonsensical...but then most comments are... as they are mostly #me too and aligned with the cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias of the site they are posted to.
WARNING!!!!!! we have heard from the "willfully ignorant, functionally illiterates" so described, who insisted on confirming the description, while having no relevant response or argument to what has been written. I believe the question was "what knowledge?" Guess no one can cite any...and this video has been completely "destroyed" elsewhere on this page.
Richard Wolff really should have on Christian Parenti to discuss his take on "Federalist Number Ten" he basically shows how, even pre-constitution, this is how the system is set up.
I have often joked to myself that a full blown revolution is the only way to get real change. But this man is serious and seeing all the pieces laid out so plainly is unnerving. Knowing that historically to see a revolution come full circle takes generations and a lot of death.
Adam Smith wrote Wealth of the Nations which states that the wealthy minority should be the responsible citizens of the nations merchants and land owners and the elite
Very interesting Interview for a long time, in line with that what I was thinking all along. Most applicable to Democratic society Really you need a deep recession or indeed a Revolution to instigate massive changes or reforms in that society, So I surmise what Prof Wolff had been advocating on this channel will not happen unless the above occurs. Slow and steady reforms in this society will only get you that far, slow uneventful progress.
This was brilliant, short but substantial, lecture of the hard truth about the fundamental causes of all troubles in this Country's history all the way to our very troubled times.
Such a great segment. I learned a lot. It reminded me of hearing about the Chileans who are in the process of entirely rewriting their constitution. I kind of hope we take that option and go beyond our constitution.
America was founded by wealthy, well-heeled, well-educated aristocrats. In spite of superficial "cosmetic" differences over the intervening 247 years, little has changed. 330 million American lives are still being controlled and manipulated by those same aristocratic forces. In street vernacular, "money talks and bullshit walks". In other words wealth is the ultimate determining factor in our national decision-making, and all of the other seemingly noble-sounding rhetoric is just so much hot air. Look around you and ask yourself if that is not the case.
In other words, if San Francisco wants to pay reparations, fine. If another government body, city/town/county, fine. States and the federal government are barred by the 14th amendment from paying reparations for slavery.
What makes your guest's third proposed solution particularly exciting is that we actually have the required technology to democratize the economy already, most of us in our pockets. I'd love to hear Prof. Wolf's thoughts on the potential intersection between a reddit-style direct democracy and cryptocurrency projects with a self-governance dimension.
I asked chat GPT to “Discuss the statement that the USA is an anocracy.” And the answer is enlightening! According to Chat GPT, the USA is an Anocracy debunking USA claims that it is the greatest democracy since sliced bread and everyone should be converted to the US form of democracy.
Yes, the papermill in Canton NC is going to have far more effects than just the families of the workers getting laid off there, it goes deep into the surrounding counties and further, watch the video about it in here at Blue Ridge Rails, he di an outstanding piece on this.
About the papermill in Canton, at one time part of Champion Pulp and Paper then Blue Ridge Paper Products and prior to closing my company in 2010 they paid us to make small rolls of paper (9" wide 50#) from larger rolls of paper (63.5" wide 4000#) for the fluted HOT DOG trays served at ballgames etc. The mill is quite old and given the packaging industry is VERY competitive, companies with limited product mixes and and whom lack vertical integration may not survive this slowdown. IIRC it was last going to be shuttered 10-15 years ago when the employees bought the company. Running a virgin papermill is a HUGE operation which is incredibly difficult to plan for long term, ESPECIALLY if you do not own the land from which the timber is harvested and are required to purchase pulp wood on the open market. Improper Commodity price increase clauses can financially break a company. One of their biggest products is poly coated milk/juice carton stock as well as poly coated paperboards for take out drink cups. The problem with this material (poly coated paper) is it costs about 50% more to manufacture and the value of "reject" material is 95% less than the same paper with no poly coating. Additionally there is only one place in the US which can remove the plastic from the paper so it can be recycled.
Mr. Wolff after listening to your perfect reasoning, it makes me want to put a gun to my head. The problems facing us in America are so immense I feel there Is no hope. And there is no hope. We would have to throw out the baby with the bath water at this stage. Corruption, malfeasance, immorality, theft, cheating has become the norm in America. We, the people are divided so we are incapable of organizing and fighting it. Going this current route, America won’t see another new century.
Anyone who even suggests changing the US Constitution or Bill of Rights should be given a minimum mandatory prison sentence of at least 20 years. If you dont like our laws, leave our country.
Does it make sense to lower taxes when the rich will just deduct it away leaving middle and lower-income people to pay the tax? Does it make more sense to remove deductions?
X-Files Vampires (greed) who suck the joy out of life have joined the zombies who eat the futures of their children. Zombie Apocalypse is here and happening now.
This interview just makes me thinks about how we need to be better about political reform. So many leftists eschew representative democracy but don’t seem to be working towards a workable alternative on a state level. I think we need to make every state legislature unicameral, have every tie decision decided by referendum, implement approval voting, and get rid of primaries.
We need to abolish the U.S. senate and downgrade states to provinces. States rights were a bad idea from the start. It sucks that there is no movement for a truly representative one person one vote democracy in this country. If you and I vote in a given election, our votes should count the same. If you and I have representation in a given body, we should have equal representation. Our constitution violates both of these principles but no one seems to care about that because we’ve been brainwashed by constitutional propaganda since elementary school. Conservatives cynically push it on us and centrist libs buy it hook line and sinker. They believe we live in an actual democracy. Meanwhile the radical left - to the extent it exists - are too far up their ass about being radical and wanting to “smash the state” that they won’t deign to advocate for an actual democracy.
Wow! Blatant racism against historical leaders who had lighter coloured skin. So disgusting. I use to hold the utmost respect for Richard. I now understand why the majority of people don't support his political agenda.
The noble ideals and implicit, all-inclusive benign intentions of democracy have been flipped on its head for 5 decades. It has happened so subtly and insidiously that too many loyal Americans are unable to detect the stench of its demise. The intentional decimation of our national system of education resulting in blanket intellectual naiveté, coupled with an existential level of economic anxiety makes people more "bullshitable". As a result, our two-party electoral process is little more than "theater", our economy is a Ponzi scheme, and our military budget sucks the very "lifeblood" out of many more other life-enhancing pursuits. Almost everything that America does is so wrong-headed that I feel we have all joined Alice at the Tea Party.
@@rogersmith7396 I'm planning to plant vegetables in grow bags and will share the surplus. That's something practical and simple to do. If a lot of people did it a lot of people would be materially helped. If few people do it a few people will be helped.
If the rates of income tax and capital gains tax of the US, as you have highlighted as proposed by Biden ,then those rates will be higher than India's which your earlier President -Trump- had termed as the Maharajas of taxation! You have usurped India's place laughed at by Trump. Professor, your critiques are very illuminating .Thanks.
In a nation that uses democracy to elect its leaders, you shouldn't be able to engage in democracy, if you don't know the difference between democracy and Democracy.
So, how does the push for Article V, which is six states away from happening, by the far right theoaucracy fit into this concept of system change. How can we stop it? Appreciate hearing from your guest about a democratic option that pushes from the bottom to the top, the people option.
It's the difference between democracy and Democracy. You don't live in a Democracy, where MAJORITY rules, and the minority has no rights. You live in a Republic that uses democracy to elect its representatives in government, and those elections are decided by PLURALITY, not majority.
What law or which Article of the Constitution gives the US Supreme Court the ability to say a law is unconstitutional? If I remember correctly the court gave themselves that ability.
Our economic system is like that Urkel meme where he's in the hot air balloon. The current government only has one response to trouble, and that's to pull the blast valve.
Lenin and others had some scathing reviews on the USA's form of "democracy", so the view that the political structure was anti-labor, anti-democratic and straight up dictatorial in parts (like the economy) isn't necessarily a new idea. We have a proliferation of conservatives in our system by result of our form of governance favoring them. Also, this is why all meaningful progress made in the USA's history was started illegally and brutally (workers rights, women's rights, ending slavery, civil rights, etc). There is simply no way to make any real progress legally in the USA. Remember that before condemning "radical" movements that get labeled "terrorist organizations" (that label gives the Federal government the ability to forego even internal human rights to deal with the group ... Thanks PATRIOT Act!).
I'll have to remind my son, that he's not going to whatever colleges you teach. The President of the United States is the only position in the Federal government that requires a majority of the votes to be elected. The rest are decided, mostly, by plurality, not the majority. Ranked Choice Voting state laws have changed that in some states.
Still, the themes of the war of independence and the founders own sentiments can be used to dispute the existing order. I use those themes in my own channel. The colonies fought a war of independence from the world’s richest man and his pet corporation, it was a war against plutocracy (regardless of the result leading to a different kind). The right is adept at expropriating left wing words and ideas. Those who oppose the right should and must return the favor and can act in kind.
Isn't it there to provide stability but able to be changed, like constitutions all over the planet for organisations from boy scouts to counties to international bodies?
29:07 "we need ... during the next mass uprising to be able to recreate a direct democratic governance system from below by taking over and running the economic sytem democratically" so 1. unite unto a "we" 2. seize the next mass uprising 3. create a democratic economic system 4. create a direct democratic governance system i am not sure which of those 4 points is the hardest to master, probably already the 1st because the division into infighting factions exists not by chance but by design (divide & conquer), add to that the lack of proper education. the 2nd might be doable though the deep state will be having everywhere its agents directing, monitoring & undermining it at every step. the 3rd might be the second hardest cause the pressure had to be extreme io to break the brainwashed complacency with the capitalist system. if those first 3 points were actually successfully mastered, the last would be just a matter of some brainstorming & caution.
Instead of blaming the US Constitution for the current poverty in the country, why don't you cut "defense" spending by 500 billion US dollars per year so that the poorest 20% of the American families would have an extra income of 2,000 per month? There would be no homeless anywhere in the country!
Another sad Appalachia story. A town completely supported by a corporate overlord who uses the population up (with quite frankly, a horrible job, you used to have to hold your nose while just driving on I-40 between Asheville and Waynesville from the stench of that factory, I drove that stretch many times) and follows the money outside of our borders and just up and leaves it’s used-up and exhausted population up shiite creek…unreal what the ultra wealthy usery class is allowed to do and what it is ALLOWED to just leave in its wake. North Carolina has been used up and spit out, but was chosen by the next batch of overlords to come in and gentrify the communities, paying nonunion wages, and charging exhorbotant rents in formerly ‘undesirable’ areas. They are a sick, SICK class and we are stuck being their ‘willing’ (I would debate that) slave class, once again, only without the free room and board that the plantation class claimed to ‘provide’ to attempt to make slavery desirable.
Thank you so much Prof Wolf, it's so comforting to have someone so intelligent speak up for those of us who are seriously struggling and are blamed for the circumstances that are beyond our control. This country makes me sick. Thank you 🙏🏼
Well said! Someone trained by the elites at Harvard, Stanford and Yale truly speaking up for the working classes. Imagine that! I have absolutely zero question, if Richard Wolff were head of economics for the next administration we'd be well on the way to a transformation that would improve the lives of 320-million Americans.
@@MikBak1814 he also teaches classes for prisons to give the incarcerated an opportunity to educate themselves.
@@_audacity2722 What, exactly, is your point with this comment? I'm totally lost. I have zero criticism for Wolff. None. Did I miss something?
@@MikBak1814 Sorry... I misread the tone of your comment and got defensive
if this country make you sick? move!
I wish there were more podcasts like this. No gossip no nonsense no propaganda no religious or “patriotic” bullsh* just facts and truth.
If you don't have a bumper sticker you ain't a "patriot".
@YTCensors Well I thought that measured paranoia.
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Prof. Wolff, thank you for spreading so much knowledge & information on issues that are important to all of us; housing, homelessness, our economy & income.
I recently read 'We The Elites 'by Robert Ovetz because of a recommendation by Prof Wolff from this channel. It's actually a pretty good book written in language which everyone can understand. The historical context is of imperative importance to understand what the U.S. political economy actually is.
I find this guy pretty difficult to listen to. So maybe I'll get his book and read it at my own pace.
I usually understand Prof. Wolff quite well, so thank you for relaying info about this guy's writing style!
So true about homelessness. Wealthy people have all of the same problems with mental illness and substance abuse. They simply have the resources available to address their problems. Poor people don’t have that luxury, and their problems are made even worse due to endless harassment from the suburban communities surrounding them, via police and churches, etc.
Thank you Professor Wolff for having Robert Ovtitz on with his critiques on our framers of the Constitution from the beginning and how it was set up. Articulate insights Mr. Ovitz has given. Thank you both.
Wow...did I just learn a lot from this conversation...which truthfully I am embarrassed to admit I didn't already know. Thank you again, Richard Wolff, whom I have admirred for a long time from afar, and to Robert Ovetz whom I have just been introduced to today. Tremendous admiration to you both! Thank you!!!
Excellent interview, I am a great fan of Gore Vidal, he always said this country was founded by rich white wealthy men, FOR rich white wealthy men, the country they wanted was a nirvana for the small percentage of the wealthy, it was never built for us
They just needed average Joes to overthrow the Monarchy so they could make even more money.
@@TheBigGSN5 A basic study of history shows it was 100% founded for rich, white, wealthy men... whether or not you think that's the issue today.
@@trtnec You are right, but indeed it is not the issue today and focusing on it further delays progress. I'm hoping that was @TheBigGSN5's point.
Gore Vidal's books and debates are legendary. 🦋
END OF THE DOLLAR? Or what awaits those at the bottom of the banking pyramids.
This is an analytical article from Asian and Arab analytical services. At the state level, analysts from different countries recommend getting rid of assets in dollars, but what? And why?
April 2023 will decide the fate of the dollar and banks in the US, you have a maximum week left.
The dollar-based banking system is starting to crumble, with major US banks failing this month, and a number of banks in Europe, as well as dozens of smaller banks in the US, were clearly in trouble.
Since the US dollar is not backed by anything (not backed by a gold guarantor), it is not protected by anything other than verbal guarantees from the US government and the Federal Reserve System.
1) And what does it lead to? - most US banks are a pyramid that rests on the money of depositors, in the event of a bank failure, only those who insure deposits will receive money (and it’s not a fact if the government pays this money, but this is also a problem) and those who withdraw first until the cash runs out or they will give the go-ahead to transfer to another bank (but there is a percentage for the transfer) Read what a financial pyramid is and the collapse of a financial pyramid.
2) Guaranteeing the issuance of deposits and keeping the state of banks from bankruptcy - turning on the printing press (injecting cash) If the state asks the federal reserve system to turn on the press to print more billions to guarantee the return of deposits and maintain the stability of the bank, then the public debt of US residents will increase or be inflation of the dollar, which means a decrease in the purchasing power for this money, for example, those goods that cost $ 100 will cost 200 or even 1000.
3) Why world banks are collapsing along with US banks - because they are tied to the dollar, this is the euro, this is the British pound, the Canadian dollar, the Australian dollar. They are all tied to the value of dollars, and that is, if the US financial system collapses, then these countries are pulled along.
What to do?
- 1) withdraw money first until deposits are frozen, because in this financial pyramid the amount of money is limited and not enough for everyone, because deposits are used and gradually spent by banks, and when the constant influx of new money ends, there will be a shortage of funds in the bank. The top of the bank (the pyramids will never wait and take risks, they will be the first to take their money from the bank as soon as they realize that the bank is collapsing), those who have insured their money with the state can give the money or can not compensate for the full amount of the connection with various excuses. What is the result? - those who managed to stay with the money, those who did not have time to withdraw money will lose their deposits (as Biden said - deposits are always risks, sometimes you earn on them, sometimes you lose) and the bank will become bankrupt.
-2) wait for it to print money and pour billions into the bank. Yes, it is possible, but not certain. What is the result? - an increase in the public debt of citizens and inflation of the dollar is possible (after all, printing billions of unsecured pieces of paper will lead to a cheaper dollar, you can see for yourself that the purchasing power of a certain amount decreases every time a new batch of dollars is printed). - but there is a high probability that you will not wait and then you will lose deposits.
-3) to do nothing and not to worry - happiness is not in money (well, you will lose your deposits, but inflation will be a little later)
Well, what can I say - not long left, some analysts say - that in the first days of April a serious recession will begin in the US financial system. Some believe that from mid-April.
But everyone agrees that it is necessary to get rid of the dollar, since soon its value will be cheaper than the paper on which it is printed. It is better to buy precious metals or appliances, electronics and real estate.
Popcorn bought and looking forward to))!!
I have been following for many years now. Everything you have said professor has always has come to fruition!!!
Thanks!
it was very enlightning!. l liked the way he explained things simple and clear!. great video dear prf i see subscribtions are going up that's great news for all of us!.
One of the first things my history professor taught me was that America was founded for bourgeois interests rather than everyone.
He was right
I wish I had been taught that! For about 50 of my 74 years I believed otherwise. I drank the patriotic "koolaid" because it seemed to make good "democratic" sense!
He wouldn't be a professor now.
@@pipster1891 I graduated with a history degree recently and it’s very widely recognized that America was founded in order to serve the interests of the capitalist class.
@@ryanosterman2651 Yup this whole shooting match was intended to be a stable platform the conducting of business.
Can't say it's turned out too well... greedy people don't make good citizens.
I am so impressed at the reality of what you are saying. I never looked at our constitution this way at all. You make so much sense. So much food for thought. The one thing I worked in was real-estate and property management. One of the best things I saw was rent control. It did help people be able to have a roof.
Hvala.
Education is essential! We need volunteer education🎓 specialists to enlighten the masses😊
Volunteer education. Huh. The entire democratic takeover of education has ruined the entire idea.
@@jordankimball2104 yah, how dare they teach that blacks are humans too.
@@jordankimball2104 Democratic takeover? People always joining the show at the intermission.
@@jordankimball2104
Not democratic but FOR PROFIT !
See that people are leaving education and the colleges of education are 1/2 of their capacity!
Our colleges have been corrupted at our elite colleges ans others from their bounties of foundations contributing with money to keep the staus quo.
Thanks for showing what you're teaching our kids. You make it sound so pretty.
You 2 are my HEROES. Thank you for your time and knowledge and willingness to share with all! Much gratitude ❣️ Knowledge is power and information is exercise!!! Staying fit is fun
The dollar store in my town has a big sign on the door that reads "We now hire 15 year olds." And I live in a plantation state, of course.
Murica!
So much for lemonade stands, grass cutting, snow shoveling, and paper routes.
Or golf caddying...
At age 12, Edison's first job was selling newspapers, vegetables, snacks, and candy on the local railroad. He then decided to begin writing his very own newspaper called "The Weekly Herald", which he published and sold to passengers on the trains. It was the first ever newspaper to be printed and sold on a moving train.
At age 14, he learned to be a telegraph operator. He was interested in the equipment he used in this job, and was always studying and experimenting ways to improve it. The experience he gained from this job lead him to produce his first patented invention in 1868. He subsequently quit telegraphy to become a full-time inventor.
@J GALT lol, of course you would use edison, the man who got rich not stealing other peoples work and not paying them for it.
Its like they ordered an ignorant libertarian kit and you were what they built.
What’s wrong with a 15 year old working ? I worked when I was 15 in the 70s.
Wow, great interview. Now I want to read this book by Ovetz
Great stuff! Teaching the arithmetic of the situation is a lesson in itself.
What arithmetic?
@@jgalt308 the champagne glass distribution of wealth, basically, and I'm not talking about but new fluted design of champagne glasses
@YTCensors why are you hostile and what makes you think you're so special? It's not over anyone's head
@@janelliot5643 That would seem to be measured in unconstitutional "fiat dollars"...
so the arithmetic becomes a problem...for the following reason.
In 1968, there was ONE billionaire and it wasn't a U.S. one. Since then the price of
gold has suffered 5000% inflation...so every billion is worth $200,000. in 68 dollars.
The richest man at the moment is worth 168 billion...or in 68 dollars...33, 600,000.
Howard Hughes has 350 million in 68...so the lesson of the arithmetic is...
things are not what they seem...nor are they going to get any better.
Michael Hudson has explained the history, sans the "unconstitutional part".
Great idea at the end and I have thought that for decades. One of the premises within the US political parties is that private capital is to be left to those who are entrepreneurs, and not to go after the profit making. If businesses start being created under a democratic process brought on by the labor that produces the goods and services that creates those profits, the only response to stop would be outright fascism (we already operate under that in way already). They always talk about free enterprise, until that freedom goes from the few to the masses
There is no free enterprise in capitalism as companies seek to maximize profits by becoming a monopoly in its market. Buying the government is the first phase in maximizing profits by lowering taxes, watering down anti-trust laws and creating legislation (regulations) to bar entry into their particular market. The free market is a lie, just like supply-side economics.
Bless you Professor Wolff ❤️
I'm old enough to remember the center/right JFK warning Americans ,presumably including his fellow upper crusties that "those who oppose non-violent revolution,make violent revolution "inevitable."I also recall Nixon's ironic "opening with China and a subsequent probative interview with its erudite foreign minister Cho en Lai .He was asked for his opinion of the Bourg or French Revolution,which ended Feudalism in that country.He replied cryptically,"its too soon to tell."
Definitely will want to check this book out.
I live in Canton, thank you so much for highlighting this story. I feel for my neighbors that work at the mill and have for many years. It is quite the strange situation, job hunter signs all over the roads. Who knows what will happen come June, when (allegedly) it will all come to an end.
Rich people do not want change, unless it makes them richer.
Good morning🌞 everyone👍 friends!
Most everything said about the US Constitution in this video is true with no major exceptions. However, the US Constitution was not meant to be a democracy in the sense of majority rule or in the sense of "economic democracy". Indeed it was designed on purpose to make passage of new laws exceedingly difficult, and an amendment even more difficult than that. Why ??
The primary issue that the founders were grappling with was the tendency of the government to become authoritarian and dictatorial. The businesses and activities of the colonists had been severely hamstrung by the King and a passion arose among the colonists sufficient to risk their lives in revolution against the King. After this mortal battle, the last thing the "founding fathers" wanted was the constitution to lead to new tyranny -- whether that be tyranny by the chief executive or by the legislature or by the courts.
With the immediate addition of first 10 amendments, the new republic became a bastion of personal and economic freedom for property owners and for the unprecedented agency of the individual (white) citizen. The freedom and agency afforded the American citizen enabled the USA to grow into the most inventive and prosperous nation on the Earth. By 1950, the USA had become an empire that virtually ruled the planet. Its unchecked power has enabled the USA to tyrannize the planet while singing the virtues of "freedom".
It is immediately after WW2 that the USA became the victim of its own success. It is a law of world history that empires rise and invariably fall. As of today, the US empire is in its declining years - by 2030 it will be over and probably sooner.
Jefferson in his lifetime understood revolution would become necessary again, there is no final solution for the contradiction between government and those being governed. The time for a new American revolution is here, BUT let's not throw the baby out with the bath water !!
I cannot conceive that internal warfare can produce the needed revolution. The Civil War failed to bring African Americans out of slavery, instead slavery has taken on new forms possibly as pernicious to the human spirit as the traditional form.
It is time for Americans to wake up to the changing world, to be aware of the rapidly rising BRICS nations that with its allies will represent 80% of the earth's population. We must wake up, get to work, and compete on the world stage like everyone else. White privilege is just about over my friends.
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"Economic majority" is a good phrase.
Waiting for a democratic uprising sounds hopeless though. Most Americans just can't be bothered; they've lulled us into complacency.
Companies who exploit children's labor should face immediate expropriation and it's leaders imprisoned for a minimum of 20 years.
Agreed
And then we have the "two" party system, which further restricts the possibility of substantive change.
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Buying the book for sure. Near everything said I can agree with
You are so right. Our country could fix all these things but greed rules. Thanks for great information.
Going to have buy this book. Thanks…
Take my hat off with the Professor and his guests to deliver this knowledge to all of us to be able to deal with our every day life . I’ll share it with my friends as soon they’re done . 👍🏻✌🏻🙏👏👋🏻😁❤️. How about hitting that 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. . . . .
What knowledge?
@@jgalt308 A lot of dissident sites are being targeted by annoying bots... that is what this comment is. That would be the establishment trying to control the comment section. Kind of a spam attack.
@@blogintonblakley2708 The comment is nonsensical...but then most comments are...
as they are mostly #me too and aligned with the cognitive dissonance and
confirmation bias of the site they are posted to.
@J GALT Did you go to lemming school, or did they just install your brain without any drivers or updates?
WARNING!!!!!! we have heard from the "willfully ignorant, functionally illiterates" so described,
who insisted on confirming the description, while having no relevant response
or argument to what has been written.
I believe the question was "what knowledge?"
Guess no one can cite any...and this video has been completely "destroyed" elsewhere
on this page.
Great interview! ✊
Richard Wolff really should have on Christian Parenti to discuss his take on "Federalist Number Ten" he basically shows how, even pre-constitution, this is how the system is set up.
Yanis Varifalkus will blow them away. Maybe Michael Hudson.
I saw him on Katie's channel too
I have often joked to myself that a full blown revolution is the only way to get real change. But this man is serious and seeing all the pieces laid out so plainly is unnerving. Knowing that historically to see a revolution come full circle takes generations and a lot of death.
Adam Smith wrote Wealth of the Nations which states that the wealthy minority should be the responsible citizens of the nations merchants and land owners and the elite
Very interesting Interview for a long time, in line with that what I was thinking all along.
Most applicable to Democratic society Really you need a deep recession or indeed a Revolution to instigate massive changes or reforms in that society, So I surmise what Prof Wolff had been advocating on this channel will not happen unless the above occurs. Slow and steady reforms in this society will only get you that far, slow uneventful progress.
THE GENERAL PUBLIC NEEDS, THIS EDUCATION, AS THEY OFTEN HAVE NO CLUE?
Good interview
❤ this from we the elites!!
This was brilliant, short but substantial, lecture of the hard truth about the fundamental causes of all troubles in this Country's history all the way to our very troubled times.
It would’ve been interesting to hear a little more about his solutions.
Such a great segment. I learned a lot. It reminded me of hearing about the Chileans who are in the process of entirely rewriting their constitution. I kind of hope we take that option and go beyond our constitution.
And get shot!
Thank you Kim. The problem lies in the Constitution. Check out Professor Wolff's interview with Professor Orvitz on his latest Democracy At Work show.
America was founded by wealthy, well-heeled, well-educated aristocrats. In spite of superficial "cosmetic" differences over the intervening 247 years, little has changed. 330 million American lives are still being controlled and manipulated by those same aristocratic forces. In street vernacular, "money talks and bullshit walks". In other words wealth is the ultimate determining factor in our national decision-making, and all of the other seemingly noble-sounding rhetoric is just so much hot air. Look around you and ask yourself if that is not the case.
Hot air Everywhere.
In other words, if San Francisco wants to pay reparations, fine. If another government body, city/town/county, fine. States and the federal government are barred by the 14th amendment from paying reparations for slavery.
Thanks DaWg!!
I need to buy Prof Robert books
What makes your guest's third proposed solution particularly exciting is that we actually have the required technology to democratize the economy already, most of us in our pockets. I'd love to hear Prof. Wolf's thoughts on the potential intersection between a reddit-style direct democracy and cryptocurrency projects with a self-governance dimension.
Take crypto and turn it into labor vouchers.
I asked chat GPT to “Discuss the statement that the USA is an anocracy.” And the answer is enlightening! According to Chat GPT, the USA is an Anocracy debunking USA claims that it is the greatest democracy since sliced bread and everyone should be converted to the US form of democracy.
We can understand the grammar of English to Richard Wolff English you tube video. Thank you very much
Yes, the papermill in Canton NC is going to have far more effects than just the families of the workers getting laid off there, it goes deep into the surrounding counties and further, watch the video about it in here at Blue Ridge Rails, he di an outstanding piece on this.
About the papermill in Canton, at one time part of Champion Pulp and Paper then Blue Ridge Paper Products and prior to closing my company in 2010 they paid us to make small rolls of paper (9" wide 50#) from larger rolls of paper (63.5" wide 4000#) for the fluted HOT DOG trays served at ballgames etc.
The mill is quite old and given the packaging industry is VERY competitive, companies with limited product mixes and and whom lack vertical integration may not survive this slowdown. IIRC it was last going to be shuttered 10-15 years ago when the employees bought the company. Running a virgin papermill is a HUGE operation which is incredibly difficult to plan for long term, ESPECIALLY if you do not own the land from which the timber is harvested and are required to purchase pulp wood on the open market. Improper Commodity price increase clauses can financially break a company. One of their biggest products is poly coated milk/juice carton stock as well as poly coated paperboards for take out drink cups.
The problem with this material (poly coated paper) is it costs about 50% more to manufacture and the value of "reject" material is 95% less than the same paper with no poly coating.
Additionally there is only one place in the US which can remove the plastic from the paper so it can be recycled.
For homelessness issue... learn from Singapore & China.😊
Mr. Wolff after listening to your perfect reasoning, it makes me want to put a gun to my head. The problems facing us in America are so immense I feel there Is no hope. And there is no hope. We would have to throw out the baby with the bath water at this stage. Corruption, malfeasance, immorality, theft, cheating has become the norm in America. We, the people are divided so we are incapable of organizing and fighting it. Going this current route, America won’t see another new century.
Unfortunately I agree with you. Just not by gun. But I am guessing we are not alone. It is an overwhelming reality for many of us.
Anyone who even suggests changing the US Constitution or Bill of Rights should be given a minimum mandatory prison sentence of at least 20 years. If you dont like our laws, leave our country.
decentralize political government for divine free will unity
Does it make sense to lower taxes when the rich will just deduct it away leaving middle and lower-income people to pay the tax? Does it make more sense to remove deductions?
X-Files
Vampires (greed) who suck the joy out of life have joined the zombies who eat the futures of their children.
Zombie Apocalypse is here and happening now.
Diamantino Machado
I recomend a reading of Powell's Memorandum. And Elites is poor term. More accurate trerm is Ruling Capitalis Class.
I live @ 40+ miles from Canton, NC. You pronounce it funny.
This interview just makes me thinks about how we need to be better about political reform. So many leftists eschew representative democracy but don’t seem to be working towards a workable alternative on a state level.
I think we need to make every state legislature unicameral, have every tie decision decided by referendum, implement approval voting, and get rid of primaries.
We need to abolish the U.S. senate and downgrade states to provinces. States rights were a bad idea from the start.
It sucks that there is no movement for a truly representative one person one vote democracy in this country. If you and I vote in a given election, our votes should count the same. If you and I have representation in a given body, we should have equal representation. Our constitution violates both of these principles but no one seems to care about that because we’ve been brainwashed by constitutional propaganda since elementary school. Conservatives cynically push it on us and centrist libs buy it hook line and sinker. They believe we live in an actual democracy. Meanwhile the radical left - to the extent it exists - are too far up their ass about being radical and wanting to “smash the state” that they won’t deign to advocate for an actual democracy.
Please explain a concrete way of solving this problem
The constitution sucks, get rid of it.
11:00 when you criticizE the Right and the Left, HARD as you do, BRUTALLY, and of course you DO, it is obvious you want the overthrow of gov.
Wow! Blatant racism against historical leaders who had lighter coloured skin. So disgusting. I use to hold the utmost respect for Richard. I now understand why the majority of people don't support his political agenda.
OoOoOwOoOoO he insulted my identity politics!
@@ericpreston8877 But as soon as your color is insulted, you want those people cancelled, creep.
4:48 the Dodd, Frank bill, makes quantitative easing possible. They are able to do it without permission from Congress.
Capital gains is criminal capitalism. They are skimming off the top of others capital.
19:44 we live in capitalism. The problem, the rich people do not let us participate in the monetary system. Feudalism for them, capitalism for us.
Your guest makes clear the following statement: until common “services” are taken from parasites, nothing will change.
The noble ideals and implicit, all-inclusive benign intentions of democracy have been flipped on its head for 5 decades. It has happened so subtly and insidiously that too many loyal Americans are unable to detect the stench of its demise. The intentional decimation of our national system of education resulting in blanket intellectual naiveté, coupled with an existential level of economic anxiety makes people more "bullshitable". As a result, our two-party electoral process is little more than "theater", our economy is a Ponzi scheme, and our military budget sucks the very "lifeblood" out of many more other life-enhancing pursuits. Almost everything that America does is so wrong-headed that I feel we have all joined Alice at the Tea Party.
Washington said a standing military is a danger to democracy. Most of the founders said religion was crap.
My opinion may not count much, Treefrog....but I AGREE!
I wonder if Americans have the gumption to save themselves from the consequences of these kinds of business practices.
Apparently not,
Nope. Not until they face death by starvation.
@@rogersmith7396 I'm planning to plant vegetables in grow bags and will share the surplus.
That's something practical and simple to do. If a lot of people did it a lot of people would be materially helped. If few people do it a few people will be helped.
@@hermenutic Growing pot might be more productive.
@@rogersmith7396 Free pot is always nice.
Not just "irrational".
Inhumane and barbaric would define the situation you are describing much better
If the rates of income tax and capital gains tax of the US, as you have highlighted as proposed by Biden ,then those rates will be higher than India's which your earlier President -Trump- had termed as the Maharajas of taxation! You have usurped India's place laughed at by Trump. Professor, your critiques are very illuminating .Thanks.
In a nation that uses democracy to elect its leaders, you shouldn't be able to engage in democracy, if you don't know the difference between democracy and Democracy.
So, how does the push for Article V, which is six states away from happening, by the far right theoaucracy fit into this concept of system change. How can we stop it? Appreciate hearing from your guest about a democratic option that pushes from the bottom to the top, the people option.
It's the difference between democracy and Democracy.
You don't live in a Democracy, where MAJORITY rules, and the minority has no rights. You live in a Republic that uses democracy to elect its representatives in government, and those elections are decided by PLURALITY, not majority.
Getting rid of the U.S. Senate might be a good first step. Nothing democracy about the Senate.
What law or which Article of the Constitution gives the US Supreme Court the ability to say a law is unconstitutional? If I remember correctly the court gave themselves that ability.
Thank you very much.verý useful lecture and wide explorerý explanation.
Prof Wolf explains things where the goats can understand, just like Garland Nixon.
Our economic system is like that Urkel meme where he's in the hot air balloon. The current government only has one response to trouble, and that's to pull the blast valve.
Lenin and others had some scathing reviews on the USA's form of "democracy", so the view that the political structure was anti-labor, anti-democratic and straight up dictatorial in parts (like the economy) isn't necessarily a new idea.
We have a proliferation of conservatives in our system by result of our form of governance favoring them. Also, this is why all meaningful progress made in the USA's history was started illegally and brutally (workers rights, women's rights, ending slavery, civil rights, etc). There is simply no way to make any real progress legally in the USA. Remember that before condemning "radical" movements that get labeled "terrorist organizations" (that label gives the Federal government the ability to forego even internal human rights to deal with the group ... Thanks PATRIOT Act!).
change will come....like it or not....revolt will come...
So we can't change it or get rid of it. Where's the book for that?
It's gone... and has been for 80 plus years...you need to get it back.
Is this why authoritarians and dictators come to power? (always the will of the people)
Also known as “the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.”
aka: Fascism
I'll have to remind my son, that he's not going to whatever colleges you teach. The President of the United States is the only position in the Federal government that requires a majority of the votes to be elected.
The rest are decided, mostly, by plurality, not the majority. Ranked Choice Voting state laws have changed that in some states.
Still, the themes of the war of independence and the founders own sentiments can be used to dispute the existing order. I use those themes in my own channel. The colonies fought a war of independence from the world’s richest man and his pet corporation, it was a war against plutocracy (regardless of the result leading to a different kind). The right is adept at expropriating left wing words and ideas. Those who oppose the right should and must return the favor and can act in kind.
Believing states should have equal representation but people shouldn’t is the worst symptom of America brain.
Isn't it there to provide stability but able to be changed, like constitutions all over the planet for organisations from boy scouts to counties to international bodies?
Actually it turned out that the constit obstacle builders were standing on the other side already 😮
WHAT ABOUT THE SEC, POWERS, ALLEGEDLY BEING REDUCED?
Great discussion!
29:07 "we need ... during the next mass uprising to be able to recreate a direct democratic governance system from below by taking over and running the economic sytem democratically"
so
1. unite unto a "we"
2. seize the next mass uprising
3. create a democratic economic system
4. create a direct democratic governance system
i am not sure which of those 4 points is the hardest to master, probably already the 1st because the division into infighting factions exists not by chance but by design (divide & conquer), add to that the lack of proper education. the 2nd might be doable though the deep state will be having everywhere its agents directing, monitoring & undermining it at every step. the 3rd might be the second hardest cause the pressure had to be extreme io to break the brainwashed complacency with the capitalist system. if those first 3 points were actually successfully mastered, the last would be just a matter of some brainstorming & caution.
Instead of blaming the US Constitution for the current poverty in the country, why don't you cut "defense" spending by 500 billion US dollars per year so that the poorest 20% of the American families would have an extra income of 2,000 per month? There would be no homeless anywhere in the country!
It’s absurd to consider any set of rules facilitates change. The most fundamental nature of a set of rules is to be a stationary framework.
so my message has no reflect here?
The population of Canton, NC was 4,418 people, in '21.
There are only 724 billionaires in the United States.
Another sad Appalachia story. A town completely supported by a corporate overlord who uses the population up (with quite frankly, a horrible job, you used to have to hold your nose while just driving on I-40 between Asheville and Waynesville from the stench of that factory, I drove that stretch many times) and follows the money outside of our borders and just up and leaves it’s used-up and exhausted population up shiite creek…unreal what the ultra wealthy usery class is allowed to do and what it is ALLOWED to just leave in its wake.
North Carolina has been used up and spit out, but was chosen by the next batch of overlords to come in and gentrify the communities, paying nonunion wages, and charging exhorbotant rents in formerly ‘undesirable’ areas.
They are a sick, SICK class and we are stuck being their ‘willing’ (I would debate that) slave class, once again, only without the free room and board that the plantation class claimed to ‘provide’ to attempt to make slavery desirable.