I'm from Bangladesh. The garment worker condition mentioned both in here and in the documentary is factually correct. My brother and I went to 'Rana Plaza' after the incident to volunteer with fire & rescue workers. We collected money, food and medicine from our neighborhood and brought there. We pulled out dead bodies even after a week. We had a traumatic experience, it was really a disaster. The garment syndicate is part of the deep state of Bangladesh that controls a big part of politics, economy and labor class jobs. After the incident, our garment industry lost a big part of foreign clients which affected the economy very bad. People are now well aware about the situation, working condition is being improved yet its not enough. The monopoly over jobs and wages still exists. I have been following this channels for last many years, learning about economics and socialism and other things. Many thanks Dr. Wolff for teaching us important knowledge for free. Keep up the good work, much appreciated!
Americans who romanticize Capitalism, and want to return it to its most raw, unbridled form, need to come to your country and see it for themselves. There are places here, in America, where Capital has been unleashed upon the People, but these areas are kept hidden from the public. Most notably is Southern West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky … where the People were pushed off of their land, forced to work in the coal mines, with little or no protections, where many of them died, and the government there is completely owned by the coal companies. While their land is destroyed, blasted away by mountaintop removal, and huge impoundments of toxic sludge are built, which could give way at any moment and kill masses of people (and this HAS happened in the past, but many are unaware of it), and those who do fight back and take on the coal company, are marginalized, beat up, assassinated, etc. The same thing has happened in Puerto Rico, with the creation of an export economy, based on sugar production.
@@itzenormous US have did it's best to stop communism/socialism from spreading leading to mass awareness. They even overthrown democratically elected socialists in Latin America and replaced them with dictators. Therefore Marx was right. Only coops and reforms won't work at all. We need to overthrow this system first and replace it with another and create environment in which coops will flourish, leading to communism. However revolutions in past didn't went well, mostly because people weren't aware for what sake it's all going on, which gave golden opportunity for bureaucrats and fascists to take over, creating bad image of socialism and giving capitalist excuse to brainwash people
I worked years ago in the fashion industry sweatshops in the US. The conditions were really awful. As bad as employers could get away with. Conditions were much worse at one time. Before the Unions began to organize. So they just relocated the jobs to third world countries where they didn't have to worry about Unions. I shudder to think what these people are going threw in those countries. To an extent I've been there. I remember getting seriously injured one time threw no fault of my own. Then losing my job because I went to the doctor to get the serious rip sewed up instead of continuing to work like the owner demanded that I do. Such things and much worse always have been common unless a plant is unionized.
This is the same message the contemporary enlightenment teachings and messages are saying about humanity, and now those same truths are spilling over into the political language of Dr Wolff and this cool lady!! The truth is shining light on the dysfunction so that it can be seen and no longer denied....Thank you!! I’m still outraged!!
When America went from a manufacturing economy where people could own their jobs. To a service economy where everyone worked in servitude and the job owned the person. That's when slavery won in America. I saw it happen in my lifetime.
And then there are Americans who have actually read Marx, and met those who have lived in these supposedly socialist workers paradises(Soviet Union). I will admit I get a little Pavlovian when it comes to a rib eye steak, but when it comes to my politics, I do my homework. Not buying what Marxists are selling.
@@bluewater454 Funny the way you phrase that: "I'm not _buying_ what Marxists are selling"...No, in all likelihood, you're not. You're buying what capitalists are selling, though! By the way, what exactly are Marxists selling? I'm not sure Marxian propaganda is driven by the same... motives as Bayer or Nike, corporate media like FOX and CNN, or neoliberal politicians in Washington beholden to the interests of lobbyists for multinational corporations..
@BLAIR M Schirmer Haha, I guess I've seen some evidence of the latter. But the first point about propaganda in the mass.corporate media is absolutely undeniable. It's been unimaginably successful, on many fronts, for many decades now.
Dionysus It would seem that marxists are selling the idea that that capitalism is this inherently evil economic system, where the very idea of working for someone, or hiring someone to work for you is "exploitation". It is selling the idea that it can create a workers utopia where everyone is equal and there is no shortage of anything. I have heard some amazing claims about what a communist society would look like. It sounds more like a religion than an economic system. Not buying it. Capitalism certainly has it's flaws, and marxists have given us nothing in the past hundred years that isn't 10 times worse. I will wait for something better.
I suspect that the reason that Americans haven't taken to the street yet is because the people in American have not yet reached a "critical mass" of suffering and anger. If things keep getting worse, there will eventually be an explosion. One thing that might help is, instead of trying to form unions for people in certain types of jobs, start a union for people that are unemployed and under-employed.
Bravo mr. Wolff! People must understand what capitalism is, unfortunately too many people doesn't. I consider profit to be a measurment unit of evil, and capitalist regime should not be fixed but abolished forever! :)
DV Most Marxists I communicate with "doesnt" understand what capitalism is. You only know what you have heard from your socialist teachers. Can you even give me a credible definition of free market capitalism?
@@juniorgod321 : Are you telling that workers in capitalism work for profit? They don't. They work for a salary, profit gets their boss - owner of a company. In socialism profit is devided among employees and improvement in society.
@@bluewater454 Actually I live now under capitalist regime, so I see the practice, and capitalism creates so much poverty for society that it is unthinkable. Mr. Wolff are doing good thing by criticizing capitalism and showing people how wrong that system is (how is based on fraud and generate fraud). I can also ask you do you know any difference (types) in socialist or comunist economy system, but not to know basic and general difference between capitalism and socialism is really too much. Mr. Wolff rightly shows how much citizens are deceived by plutocrats, and instead of defensive stand, they should open their eyes and change system that is killing them. "Any capitalism" is wrong. If capitalist introduce some 'mild' form of it, or even an economy form that is actually taken from socialism they like to give it a new name... but never they will accept humanism or equality. Inequality gives chance to the robbers....gives them power and wealth.
@@DV-dt9sq According to the dictionary, profit means "a financial gain". If a salary is not a financial gain, what do you think it is? And also, under the current system, there isn't anything that stops you from forming a company where the profit would be shared with your employees, so why don't you do that? Even people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos started their companies in their garages!
When I hear Richard D. Wolf I always get inspired but the thing is when u have a conversation with a friend a close friend... Oh man oooooh man. They are like... I can't care and I don't care. What you do then?
You cannot wake someone who wishes to continue sleeping. They aren't ready yet. Continue educating yourself so that when they are ready, you will be there to guide them towards a positive direction.
I feel that pain comrade, but like cup said continue to self educate until you can teach your friends. And never stop looking for comrades around you to organize with.
A historical note, legislative regulation of child labor gained no traction until the plight of child labor was argued as a violation of animal cruelty laws in court and upheld.
What she is saying about the distraction and laziness is so true. It's harsh to hear but like a bitter medicine it's necessary for taking control. Of course we are lazy, we're constantly exploited but we have to do better. It's okay to admit we have been manipulated and that we have been studied to find the most effective ways to do so. Our country is the hub of capitalism and we are indoctrinated vigorously from infancy. As always Prof. Wolff is speaking observable facts about the system at large. I'm just glad someone added the powerful aspect of psychological manipulation and subjugation to the mix because it's very powerful. The less you think you are effected the more likely you are under the spell, it's our biochemistry being used.
She talks a good game, but her viewpoint is of a rich person looking with sympathy at poor people rather than a poor person looking at the world and wondering how to survive. I doubt she has to worry about how to pay the rent, much less purchase an ethically sourced wardrobe. Most of us don't have the leisure time to make our own garments or the money to source fabric from somewhere that treats its workers well, which means it will be more expensive. For instance, I have one pair of jeans to wear. That's it. One pair. If I tear them or ruin them, I have to wear an old pair of sweat pants until l can get to Walmart to buy a replacement pair, which is the only place I can afford to buy them. I'm not out shopping like a maniac. I appreciate that she cares, and it's obvious that conditions are horrendous where most clothes are made, but it sure would be nice if the person talking about this was more in tune with the real world USA. It may not look like it to her, but parts of the US are rapidly descending into 3rd world conditions.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I am afraid that Mr. Wolff forget that there is very simple way to solve major capitalism problems- WAR. With current president I would not exclude this solution.
When I was young it was a superstition that you didn't spend money on New Years Day because then you would be spending money every day for the rest of the year. No one went shopping on that day.
This will make no difference to the sociopaths who rise to the top. They have learned how to manipulate people's brain chemistry through false praise and true fear.
I hope I'm still alive to see it happen. BTW Some of us aren't lazy...we simply are required to work so many hours, we haven't the time or energy to keep apprised of the situations. My wife is concerned this knowledge just makes me angry when I do find the time to get informed, but still, have no time or ability to do anything about it. At the same time, We have corporate tools at work telling people overtime is a privilege.
Wolff tends to forget that the education system also damages children for life AND it usually doesn't prepare anyone for anything. Many skills today like in art or programming can only be self-taught anyway. In many other cases people learn the ropes on site once employed. Mandatory schooling only gets in the way in these cases. Children should have access to work, at least to be able to observe and learn from working adults if nothing else. The real problem is exploitation and the callous disregard of the needs of others, not some kind of empty BS legalistic notion of child labor. Otherwise they should also ban children from washing their own used dishes at home.
@@lostcat9lives322 I know exactly what you mean, but most people simply aren't interested in reading 500 page books, and besides, there are many different kinds of knowledge. Just compare the answers of Wolff and Katz and you'll immediately understand the difference. That being said, knowledge should always be accessible to anyone who is interested.
I'm in Nepal, and we have a fusion of feudal, socialist and capitalist society happening all at once - you should come study! Child (and other low-cost labor) has been institutionalized for centuries, not just through the decades of capitalism. Labor is exported as a commodity, which is really disturbing to see. The international development complex helps create worker co-ops, but only to a point where they might compete with capitalist endeavors. The Nepali Stock Market is beloved. The middle class is on the move, after decades of civil war and unrest. I would love to hear what Dr. Wolff has to say about this situation.
*Here is a question that popped into my addled brain* as I listened to this story about workers who were fired and then arrested for protesting in Bangladesh; The factory owners were apparently evil bastards for firing 500 workers, but then the government also acted evil as they arrested people in their homes who were even "suspected" of being involved in the subsequent protests. So I guess the question is this - If stories like this somehow prove that all capitalists are evil, do stories like this also prove that all government is evil?
A government in a capitalist society would inevitably become rotten due to corporations involvement. Governments receive large donations from corporations to push certain policies. My point is, all governments *in a capitalist society* are most likely evil to some extent, but a non-evil government may exist outside of capitalism.
Governments should not be obeyed, simply by virtue of them being governments, they must prove their legitimacy. It's a case by case basis, but when you place the power of governmental control in the hands of corporations it is NEVER a good thing. We have that in the United States; the corporate sector's self interest is realized by the politicians, who the support the group of wealthy and corrupt elites that fund their bank account. Capital, in many respects, inevitably leads to greed and the chase for commodity. It's a system in which, monopolies rise, economic oppression is rampant and you're entire existence becomes wraught with back breaking labor. This consquently gives you less and less time to protest these conditions and educate yourself, which is obviously favored by the economic elite. They love the poorly educated. Luckily, evolution or revolution is also inevitable in systems like this, I prefer to evolve from it, but revolution seems very plausible in this increasingly flawed capitalist system... Anecdotally, and by looking at the polling data, across the board, it seems we've reached a turning point in our civilization. Stand up for you freedom, because the very fact that we have a ruling/owner class, clearly shows we don't have much of it left...
D V Then why do Marxists always support more taxes, more regulation and more dependence on the government - even in capitalist societies? All of these policies give the government more money, more power and more control over people's lives. You should be supporting smaller government in a capitalist society.
The thing I've never understood I how the corporation has grown out of control. As I understand it, when the corporation was first introduced, you had to EARN the privilege of having an LLC or corporation, and that it only lasted 5 years, at which point your corporation came under review to determine if your corporation was good for society, or at least not damaging it, in order to get renewed. In my eyes, the problem with capitalism is the the LLC protects individuals from facing responsibility for their actions. The owner is protected by the corporation, and to me that's bullshit, and allows these business owners to practice unethical business because all they have to worry about is their LLC being sued. Their own money is always safe. Just look at 2008. If those CEOs had to pay out of pocket to help bail out those "too big to fail" banks, instead of getting $30,000,000 bonuses, I think they would have thought twice before they did what they did. If you strip away the corporation, or at least bring back the threat of stripping away the LLC protection, wouldn't that solve much of these problems? If huge international corporations had to face Congress, or even a vote from the people, and smaller LLCs would face city council, or again, a vote from the people. Do you think this would work to at least help things? I am not a socialist, but I'm very critical of capitalism, so that makes it very difficult for me to find an established ideology that I can get behind.
Why don't people take to the streets? Cost benefit analysis and trust. First they have in the past to little effect. Iraq War gatherings/ protests we're no match for Manufacturing Consent. Heard of Occupy Wallstreet lately?! Second, if direct action is taken one is criminalized and one's future is put at risk. Who wants to take that risk for nothing? These types of protests only succeed to the degree that the state security apparatus tolerates them due to sympathy. The USA state under Obama actively undermined Occupy Wallstreet with state (local, state, and federal) security apparati in order to secure re election in 2012. Wallstreet rewarded Obama. A populist Obama is not; he was DLC/New Democratic establishment to the core. How else did Clintonistas still control the party 8 years later?
I I’ve being immune to fashion self presentation. I do love information though spend allot of time on the school of TH-cam! Been lucky and learned how to filter bullshit.
Sad part is I simply can not afford to take time off and join a rally... money is so damn tight when $8 trip to town has to be planned. Food for the week, water we don’t have running water currently. I wish we would march! I’d sacrifice and walk out on capitalism!
Capitalism will be replaced. Say what you want. The few it benefits gain more power. Eventually, the working class' position becomes untenable. Immigration, student loans, and inheritance are, IMHO problems. Immigration, more people to compete for jobs. Student loans are disgusting and predatory. The people with them will vote socialist. Inheritance needs ONLY the fist $150K tax free. You did not earn it. It is not yours. Go make your own money. Anyone can do it. Right?? One really has to think about what an absurd system we have in the U.S. The military need to be decreased by 60%. We can rely on the nuke deterrent. Russia does. By the way. Where are all of theses jobs????
Ms. Katz has it wrong Love is not a dopamine rush, a dopamine rush being associated with addictions and love is no an addiction! The ' happiness molecule' for Love is serotonin, and is long lasting and is experience with one gives of one self to another, or in helping those less fortunate then ourselves. Serotonin is long lasting while dopamine is not.
The True Cost WIKIPEDIA: The True Cost is a 2015 documentary film directed by Andrew Morgan that focuses on fast fashion. It discusses several aspects of the garment industry from production-mainly exploring the life of low-wage workers in developing countries-to its after-effects such as river and soil pollution, pesticide contamination, disease and death. NETFLIX: YUP!
This woman is either lying or blind. It doesn't matter if the product last 15 minutes or 15 years. The crack high of buying occurs at the point of purchase and has nothing to do with how long a product will last
* Long Live Professor Wolff. He always educates us, but he has never been better at exposing the evils of Capitalism than here. Inspired by this video, I propose THE SMOKESTACK as the true branding emblem of Capitalism. If Capitalism is to have its own flag which properly exemplifies capitalist hypocrisy, there MUST be a smokestack on it. A smokestack suppresses the notion of 'True Cost' -- Let It Blow Over Onto SOMEBODY ELSE !
You've got it completely backwards. Those "job creators" are actually completely dependent on the people they employ in order to make profits. Without their workers they would be unable to produce a single widget.
Lol, Pepe. It was an ironic statement. However I think you are underestimating the power and efforts of upper class in minimizing dependency on working class to create profits. It's not just direct automation , but also software like resource management that cuts high skilled work into small pieces that can be done with unskilled labor, outsourced or automated. Pretty soon "job creators" will be creating jobs for robots, not humans.
They are trying to curtail free speech, big time. Saw hearings in congress about "hate speech." I believe white "supremacists," "Nazis," "communists," "socialists," "LGBTQ," "Globalists," etc, all have a right to their platforms and websites. It's dangerous when you have the government wanting to regulate "hate speech." "Hate," is a VERY, VERY subjective term/ idea. Like in Europe if you disagree with the explanation of the "Holocaust," you can be fined and or imprisoned. The open discussions and free speech keep us united, and somewhat civil. It's the 1st amendment for a reason. Nobody said you have to like everyone's view.
Education is conservative? LIAR! I left education because it is so liberal. Being pro-life, believing in the dichotomy of sex, and that marriage is between a man and a woman, are not opinions tolerated in the education system.
@@GetReal77 Sounds like you've been watching too much Brother Nathaniel...Lemme guess, Karl Marx was a Zionist agent of the Rothschild's and Marxism is designed to enslave humanity under Zionist/Jewish control???
According to the program "The Men Who Built America" Andrew Carnegie had to work as a child to support his mother. He became a successful businessman/industrialist under his mentor Thomas Scott. America needs a strong mentor system of education!
The men who built america are not named in history books. The Carnegie types all have violently revised histories that make them other than the pirates they really were
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I'm from Bangladesh. The garment worker condition mentioned both in here and in the documentary is factually correct. My brother and I went to 'Rana Plaza' after the incident to volunteer with fire & rescue workers. We collected money, food and medicine from our neighborhood and brought there. We pulled out dead bodies even after a week. We had a traumatic experience, it was really a disaster.
The garment syndicate is part of the deep state of Bangladesh that controls a big part of politics, economy and labor class jobs. After the incident, our garment industry lost a big part of foreign clients which affected the economy very bad. People are now well aware about the situation, working condition is being improved yet its not enough. The monopoly over jobs and wages still exists.
I have been following this channels for last many years, learning about economics and socialism and other things. Many thanks Dr. Wolff for teaching us important knowledge for free. Keep up the good work, much appreciated!
Americans who romanticize Capitalism, and want to return it to its most raw, unbridled form, need to come to your country and see it for themselves. There are places here, in America, where Capital has been unleashed upon the People, but these areas are kept hidden from the public. Most notably is Southern West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky … where the People were pushed off of their land, forced to work in the coal mines, with little or no protections, where many of them died, and the government there is completely owned by the coal companies. While their land is destroyed, blasted away by mountaintop removal, and huge impoundments of toxic sludge are built, which could give way at any moment and kill masses of people (and this HAS happened in the past, but many are unaware of it), and those who do fight back and take on the coal company, are marginalized, beat up, assassinated, etc. The same thing has happened in Puerto Rico, with the creation of an export economy, based on sugar production.
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@@itzenormous US have did it's best to stop communism/socialism from spreading leading to mass awareness. They even overthrown democratically elected socialists in Latin America and replaced them with dictators. Therefore Marx was right. Only coops and reforms won't work at all. We need to overthrow this system first and replace it with another and create environment in which coops will flourish, leading to communism. However revolutions in past didn't went well, mostly because people weren't aware for what sake it's all going on, which gave golden opportunity for bureaucrats and fascists to take over, creating bad image of socialism and giving capitalist excuse to brainwash people
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I worked years ago in the fashion industry sweatshops in the US. The conditions were really awful. As bad as employers could get away with. Conditions were much worse at one time. Before the Unions began to organize. So they just relocated the jobs to third world countries where they didn't have to worry about Unions. I shudder to think what these people are going threw in those countries. To an extent I've been there.
I remember getting seriously injured one time threw no fault of my own. Then losing my job because I went to the doctor to get the serious rip sewed up instead of continuing to work like the owner demanded that I do. Such things and much worse always have been common unless a plant is unionized.
This is the same message the contemporary enlightenment teachings and messages are saying about humanity, and now those same truths are spilling over into the political language of Dr Wolff and this cool lady!! The truth is shining light on the dysfunction so that it can be seen and no longer denied....Thank you!! I’m still outraged!!
Thank you all for the intelligent conversation, great points made like always from prof.Wolff. great video. Best wishes to you all
All people of all countries unite on 1 May!! ;) It would be fantastic!!
Here! Here! the elite will be SHarting in their silk undergarments.
I love to see Prof. Wolff ON without hesitation!
When America went from a manufacturing economy where people could own their jobs. To a service economy where everyone worked in servitude and the job owned the person. That's when slavery won in America. I saw it happen in my lifetime.
Americans are very Pavlovian about other economic systems, and it's very sad & frustrating that so many don't see it.
Yes. So, so very conditioned many are.
And then there are Americans who have actually read Marx, and met those who have lived in these supposedly socialist workers paradises(Soviet Union). I will admit I get a little Pavlovian when it comes to a rib eye steak, but when it comes to my politics, I do my homework. Not buying what Marxists are selling.
@@bluewater454 Funny the way you phrase that: "I'm not _buying_ what Marxists are selling"...No, in all likelihood, you're not. You're buying what capitalists are selling, though!
By the way, what exactly are Marxists selling? I'm not sure Marxian propaganda is driven by the same... motives as Bayer or Nike, corporate media like FOX and CNN, or neoliberal politicians in Washington beholden to the interests of lobbyists for multinational corporations..
@BLAIR M Schirmer Haha, I guess I've seen some evidence of the latter. But the first point about propaganda in the mass.corporate media is absolutely undeniable. It's been unimaginably successful, on many fronts, for many decades now.
Dionysus
It would seem that marxists are selling the idea that that capitalism is this inherently evil economic system, where the very idea of working for someone, or hiring someone to work for you is "exploitation". It is selling the idea that it can create a workers utopia where everyone is equal and there is no shortage of anything. I have heard some amazing claims about what a communist society would look like. It sounds more like a religion than an economic system. Not buying it.
Capitalism certainly has it's flaws, and marxists have given us nothing in the past hundred years that isn't 10 times worse. I will wait for something better.
I suspect that the reason that Americans haven't taken to the street yet is because the people in American have not yet reached a "critical mass" of suffering and anger. If things keep getting worse, there will eventually be an explosion.
One thing that might help is, instead of trying to form unions for people in certain types of jobs, start a union for people that are unemployed and under-employed.
Bravo mr. Wolff! People must understand what capitalism is, unfortunately too many people doesn't. I consider profit to be a measurment unit of evil, and capitalist regime should not be fixed but abolished forever! :)
And how would you make people work or invent new things without a profit motive?
DV
Most Marxists I communicate with "doesnt" understand what capitalism is. You only know what you have heard from your socialist teachers. Can you even give me a credible definition of free market capitalism?
@@juniorgod321 : Are you telling that workers in capitalism work for profit? They don't. They work for a salary, profit gets their boss - owner of a company. In socialism profit is devided among employees and improvement in society.
@@bluewater454 Actually I live now under capitalist regime, so I see the practice, and capitalism creates so much poverty for society that it is unthinkable. Mr. Wolff are doing good thing by criticizing capitalism and showing people how wrong that system is (how is based on fraud and generate fraud). I can also ask you do you know any difference (types) in socialist or comunist economy system, but not to know basic and general difference between capitalism and socialism is really too much. Mr. Wolff rightly shows how much citizens are deceived by plutocrats, and instead of defensive stand, they should open their eyes and change system that is killing them. "Any capitalism" is wrong. If capitalist introduce some 'mild' form of it, or even an economy form that is actually taken from socialism they like to give it a new name... but never they will accept humanism or equality. Inequality gives chance to the robbers....gives them power and wealth.
@@DV-dt9sq According to the dictionary, profit means "a financial gain". If a salary is not a financial gain, what do you think it is?
And also, under the current system, there isn't anything that stops you from forming a company where the profit would be shared with your employees, so why don't you do that? Even people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos started their companies in their garages!
I wish that more people would listen to Profs Wolff and Katz. I wish that we would act on the streets as they encourage us to do.
Richard D. Wolff Nails It !
When I hear Richard D. Wolf I always get inspired but the thing is when u have a conversation with a friend a close friend... Oh man oooooh man. They are like... I can't care and I don't care. What you do then?
You cannot wake someone who wishes to continue sleeping. They aren't ready yet. Continue educating yourself so that when they are ready, you will be there to guide them towards a positive direction.
I feel that pain comrade, but like cup said continue to self educate until you can teach your friends. And never stop looking for comrades around you to organize with.
Rene Lacoste
What does Wolff inspire you to do?
@@bluewater454 skate on sexy Adidas while I shop non stop from Amazon. We kewl?
Rene Lacoste
How capitalist of you. Very kewl.
That was great. I loved the Q and A portion
Proffesor wolff always helps me open my eyes...
A historical note, legislative regulation of child labor gained no traction until the plight of child labor was argued as a violation of animal cruelty laws in court and upheld.
Yeah, I'm going to say what I'm thinking about it. Thanks Mr Wolff.
What she is saying about the distraction and laziness is so true. It's harsh to hear but like a bitter medicine it's necessary for taking control. Of course we are lazy, we're constantly exploited but we have to do better. It's okay to admit we have been manipulated and that we have been studied to find the most effective ways to do so. Our country is the hub of capitalism and we are indoctrinated vigorously from infancy. As always Prof. Wolff is speaking observable facts about the system at large. I'm just glad someone added the powerful aspect of psychological manipulation and subjugation to the mix because it's very powerful. The less you think you are effected the more likely you are under the spell, it's our biochemistry being used.
She talks a good game, but her viewpoint is of a rich person looking with sympathy at poor people rather than a poor person looking at the world and wondering how to survive. I doubt she has to worry about how to pay the rent, much less purchase an ethically sourced wardrobe. Most of us don't have the leisure time to make our own garments or the money to source fabric from somewhere that treats its workers well, which means it will be more expensive.
For instance, I have one pair of jeans to wear. That's it. One pair. If I tear them or ruin them, I have to wear an old pair of sweat pants until l can get to Walmart to buy a replacement pair, which is the only place I can afford to buy them. I'm not out shopping like a maniac. I appreciate that she cares, and it's obvious that conditions are horrendous where most clothes are made, but it sure would be nice if the person talking about this was more in tune with the real world USA. It may not look like it to her, but parts of the US are rapidly descending into 3rd world conditions.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Thank you. We need knowledge to try do something about what is happening here in Brasil.
Even if she made her clothes, the fabric was made by these workers.
I am afraid that Mr. Wolff forget that there is very simple way to solve major capitalism problems- WAR. With current president I would not exclude this solution.
Well take a look at the slavery index, misery index
America is going through a slow moving depression.
When I was young it was a superstition that you didn't spend money on New Years Day because then you would be spending money every day for the rest of the year. No one went shopping on that day.
The movie is on netflix. I don't think Professor Wolff mentioned this in his tweet about the movie and doing the Q&A
what movie is he talking about ?
Ignorance, dispassion, lack freedom. These are what hold we, Americans, from Revolution.
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This will make no difference to the sociopaths who rise to the top. They have learned how to manipulate people's brain chemistry through false praise and true fear.
I hope I'm still alive to see it happen. BTW Some of us aren't lazy...we simply are required to work so many hours, we haven't the time or energy to keep apprised of the situations. My wife is concerned this knowledge just makes me angry when I do find the time to get informed, but still, have no time or ability to do anything about it. At the same time, We have corporate tools at work telling people overtime is a privilege.
Thanks!
Wolff tends to forget that the education system also damages children for life AND it usually doesn't prepare anyone for anything. Many skills today like in art or programming can only be self-taught anyway. In many other cases people learn the ropes on site once employed. Mandatory schooling only gets in the way in these cases.
Children should have access to work, at least to be able to observe and learn from working adults if nothing else. The real problem is exploitation and the callous disregard of the needs of others, not some kind of empty BS legalistic notion of child labor. Otherwise they should also ban children from washing their own used dishes at home.
It's always refreshing to see a call out for greater ignorance. Trump sez "We Love The Poorly Educated!" They certainly do.
@@lostcat9lives322 I know exactly what you mean, but most people simply aren't interested in reading 500 page books, and besides, there are many different kinds of knowledge. Just compare the answers of Wolff and Katz and you'll immediately understand the difference. That being said, knowledge should always be accessible to anyone who is interested.
I shop for all my clothes at goodwill and used on ebay...
I'm in Nepal, and we have a fusion of feudal, socialist and capitalist society happening all at once - you should come study! Child (and other low-cost labor) has been institutionalized for centuries, not just through the decades of capitalism. Labor is exported as a commodity, which is really disturbing to see. The international development complex helps create worker co-ops, but only to a point where they might compete with capitalist endeavors. The Nepali Stock Market is beloved. The middle class is on the move, after decades of civil war and unrest. I would love to hear what Dr. Wolff has to say about this situation.
*Here is a question that popped into my addled brain* as I listened to this story about workers who were fired and then arrested for protesting in Bangladesh; The factory owners were apparently evil bastards for firing 500 workers, but then the government also acted evil as they arrested people in their homes who were even "suspected" of being involved in the subsequent protests. So I guess the question is this -
If stories like this somehow prove that all capitalists are evil, do stories like this also prove that all government is evil?
Yes, state capital governments for sure
A government in a capitalist society would inevitably become rotten due to corporations involvement. Governments receive large donations from corporations to push certain policies.
My point is, all governments *in a capitalist society* are most likely evil to some extent, but a non-evil government may exist outside of capitalism.
Governments should not be obeyed, simply by virtue of them being governments, they must prove their legitimacy. It's a case by case basis, but when you place the power of governmental control in the hands of corporations it is NEVER a good thing. We have that in the United States; the corporate sector's self interest is realized by the politicians, who the support the group of wealthy and corrupt elites that fund their bank account. Capital, in many respects, inevitably leads to greed and the chase for commodity. It's a system in which, monopolies rise, economic oppression is rampant and you're entire existence becomes wraught with back breaking labor. This consquently gives you less and less time to protest these conditions and educate yourself, which is obviously favored by the economic elite. They love the poorly educated. Luckily, evolution or revolution is also inevitable in systems like this, I prefer to evolve from it, but revolution seems very plausible in this increasingly flawed capitalist system... Anecdotally, and by looking at the polling data, across the board, it seems we've reached a turning point in our civilization. Stand up for you freedom, because the very fact that we have a ruling/owner class, clearly shows we don't have much of it left...
In capitalistic regime, yes! Government is there to make laws that support capitalist, not workers (population).
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Then why do Marxists always support more taxes, more regulation and more dependence on the government - even in capitalist societies? All of these policies give the government more money, more power and more control over people's lives. You should be supporting smaller government in a capitalist society.
Yes
has proff said how gvt could switch from capitalism to co-operative businesses ?
The thing I've never understood I how the corporation has grown out of control. As I understand it, when the corporation was first introduced, you had to EARN the privilege of having an LLC or corporation, and that it only lasted 5 years, at which point your corporation came under review to determine if your corporation was good for society, or at least not damaging it, in order to get renewed.
In my eyes, the problem with capitalism is the the LLC protects individuals from facing responsibility for their actions. The owner is protected by the corporation, and to me that's bullshit, and allows these business owners to practice unethical business because all they have to worry about is their LLC being sued. Their own money is always safe. Just look at 2008. If those CEOs had to pay out of pocket to help bail out those "too big to fail" banks, instead of getting $30,000,000 bonuses, I think they would have thought twice before they did what they did.
If you strip away the corporation, or at least bring back the threat of stripping away the LLC protection, wouldn't that solve much of these problems? If huge international corporations had to face Congress, or even a vote from the people, and smaller LLCs would face city council, or again, a vote from the people. Do you think this would work to at least help things? I am not a socialist, but I'm very critical of capitalism, so that makes it very difficult for me to find an established ideology that I can get behind.
Why don't people take to the streets? Cost benefit analysis and trust. First they have in the past to little effect. Iraq War gatherings/ protests we're no match for Manufacturing Consent. Heard of Occupy Wallstreet lately?! Second, if direct action is taken one is criminalized and one's future is put at risk. Who wants to take that risk for nothing? These types of protests only succeed to the degree that the state security apparatus tolerates them due to sympathy. The USA state under Obama actively undermined Occupy Wallstreet with state (local, state, and federal) security apparati in order to secure re election in 2012. Wallstreet rewarded Obama. A populist Obama is not; he was DLC/New Democratic establishment to the core. How else did Clintonistas still control the party 8 years later?
I I’ve being immune to fashion self presentation. I do love information though spend allot of time on the school of TH-cam! Been lucky and learned how to filter bullshit.
Sad part is I simply can not afford to take time off and join a rally... money is so damn tight when $8 trip to town has to be planned. Food for the week, water we don’t have running water currently. I wish we would march! I’d sacrifice and walk out on capitalism!
6:00 And that is why Bezos is so rich, playing on human chemical reactions.
Bezos make "his," money leeching off of the workers etc. Yes. I order from Amazon.
Capitalism will be replaced. Say what you want. The few it benefits gain more power. Eventually, the working class' position becomes untenable. Immigration, student loans, and inheritance are, IMHO problems. Immigration, more people to compete for jobs. Student loans are disgusting and predatory. The people with them will vote socialist. Inheritance needs ONLY the fist $150K tax free. You did not earn it. It is not yours. Go make your own money. Anyone can do it. Right?? One really has to think about what an absurd system we have in the U.S. The military need to be decreased by 60%. We can rely on the nuke deterrent. Russia does. By the way. Where are all of theses jobs????
Ms. Katz has it wrong Love is not a dopamine rush, a dopamine rush being associated with addictions and love is no an addiction!
The ' happiness molecule' for Love is serotonin, and is long lasting and is experience with one gives of one self to another, or in helping those less fortunate then ourselves. Serotonin is long lasting while dopamine is not.
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The True Cost
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The True Cost is a 2015 documentary film directed by Andrew Morgan that focuses on fast fashion. It discusses several aspects of the garment industry from production-mainly exploring the life of low-wage workers in developing countries-to its after-effects such as river and soil pollution, pesticide contamination, disease and death.
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YUP!
Privatise profits, socialise losses. Such is the mantra of capitalism and especially the neoliberal ideology currently in power in the West.
This woman is either lying or blind. It doesn't matter if the product last 15 minutes or 15 years. The crack high of buying occurs at the point of purchase and has nothing to do with how long a product will last
Who is your daddy and what does he do?...
These Dutch angles are out of control
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Long Live Professor Wolff. He always educates us, but he has never been better at exposing the evils of Capitalism than here. Inspired by this video, I propose THE SMOKESTACK as the true branding emblem of Capitalism. If Capitalism is to have its own flag which properly exemplifies capitalist hypocrisy, there MUST be a smokestack on it. A smokestack suppresses the notion of 'True Cost' -- Let It Blow Over Onto SOMEBODY ELSE !
The American educational system is such that critical thinking may cause you to fail a test.
Damn French. In America we bow to "job creators". You now, we can't survive without them.
That doesnt give them the excuse to treat workers less than dogs....workers are people not objects!!!
You've got it completely backwards. Those "job creators" are actually completely dependent on the people they employ in order to make profits. Without their workers they would be unable to produce a single widget.
Lol, Pepe. It was an ironic statement. However I think you are underestimating the power and efforts of upper class in minimizing dependency on working class to create profits. It's not just direct automation , but also software like resource management that cuts high skilled work into small pieces that can be done with unskilled labor, outsourced or automated. Pretty soon "job creators" will be creating jobs for robots, not humans.
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the goods are not the Good.
America reminds of that movie "Pleasantville.", where EVERYTHING is repressed!
They are trying to curtail free speech, big time. Saw hearings in congress about "hate speech." I believe white "supremacists," "Nazis," "communists," "socialists," "LGBTQ," "Globalists," etc, all have a right to their platforms and websites. It's dangerous when you have the government wanting to regulate "hate speech." "Hate," is a VERY, VERY subjective term/ idea. Like in Europe if you disagree with the explanation of the "Holocaust," you can be fined and or imprisoned. The open discussions and free speech keep us united, and somewhat civil. It's the 1st amendment for a reason. Nobody said you have to like everyone's view.
Education is conservative? LIAR! I left education because it is so liberal. Being pro-life, believing in the dichotomy of sex, and that marriage is between a man and a woman, are not opinions tolerated in the education system.
Capitalism is not the problem.
The Federal Reserve is.
Central banks are an outgrowth of the system. If central banks were abolished, the same contradictions of the system would remain....
@@GetReal77 Sounds like you've been watching too much Brother Nathaniel...Lemme guess, Karl Marx was a Zionist agent of the Rothschild's and Marxism is designed to enslave humanity under Zionist/Jewish control???
According to the program "The Men Who Built America" Andrew Carnegie had to work as a child to support his mother. He became a successful businessman/industrialist under his mentor Thomas Scott. America needs a strong mentor system of education!
The men who built america are not named in history books. The Carnegie types all have violently revised histories that make them other than the pirates they really were
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She's barking mad