@@MiamiPush2theLimit yes but they intertwine the price for Health care ,Hospital ,Doctors , pharmaceutical etc set the prices of Health insurance ,I understand , just like prices of sports tickets ,hotdogs and beer is high cause they have to pay the Athletes
“If you let us export all of our good paying jobs to the third world, we’ll be able to sell everything here super cheap and it’ll help the middle class.” Strange how now cars cost more than double and our automobile jobs are gone. No more bailouts for these companies. If they want a bailout, let them get it from the counties that took this jobs! Our country has been gutted, and only for the advantage of our oligarchs.
Mike Pearson (former CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals) was once heard to say during a TV interview "I'm in the business of shareholder profit not patient health". Fortunately shortly afterwards he was forced to resign over some shady practices that were uncovered. But this is the mentality of most of the people at the top of big business. Pay workers as little as you can get away with, and charge consumers what you think they will bear.
When I was a kid there was no such thing as Amazon, Walmart or Target. There was Bradlees, Caldor, Woolworth, D&L, KMart, Aimes, Sears, JCPenney...and the list goes on. There was competition out there, and that kept prices from going too high.
People often think corporations will create more jobs. In reality, corporations tend to create the minimum number of jobs required. Frequently, they cut jobs and, without proper regulations, may reduce quality-adding one less screw or including a cheaper, potentially toxic ingredient. They don't care if the product harms you 10 years down the line, as long as it brings them profit now. After all, that's the essence of the game they play.
The thing that kills me most is that this crap is capitalism about as much as Stalin's USSR was communism. Actually, sometimes less so. The system we are working with is not a free market, and it is not even actually capitalism. It is cronyism and opportunism. It's a break down in the basic fabric of society when you have such a massive scale of people coming up with loopholes for bribary. It's actually worse than a society where people just expect bribes are a part of the dynamic and accept it, because at least that's honest. There is nothing honest, open, or forthright about our current power dynamics. And the craziest thing after the whole CEO incident was the realization that the GOP tapped into the working class discontent on their side of the righ-left divide in order to get a populist elected, and yet appear completely oblivious to how much a desire to see it all burn was why they won, and I am going to be incredibly interested to see exactly how that backfires for them.
🚗 Car insurance... 🏠Home insurance .... are reluctant towards paying out for legit claims, yeah? After we fix Healthcare, we should fix those kinds of insurance too. Too many selfish psychos in charge.
USA 1950's: CEO's made 20 times the salary of the average worker USA 2018: CEO's made 270 times the salary of the average worker Source: The New Corporation, 2022
year : - 4025; place: garden of eden; average worker gets all benefits he needs in abundance forever; excellent working conditions with a light workload; it just went downhill from there because of feminism ;)
1:00 it isn’t Universities and Colleges making people hate corporations, it’s their behaviour. I’m a trades guy and corporate behaviour is just as insufferable as before people are just starting to smell the smoke
Capitalism is a soulless machine, and while the human face of a corporation may feel, corporations only respond to regulation, not emotional appeals or any sense of justice. And they'll buy the regulators, whenever possible. Mr. Rogers isn't cut out for this.
Like no one would ever realize how depraved and unfair the system is unless they hear about it from a college professor. Keep telling yourselves that. History is coming.
People forget, Martha Stewart went to jail for insider trading. Congress should be banned or have a cap for money made . They make the rules, they know what the stock market will do to favor them.
“They” have to keep us at odds with each other. If we were all smart enough to unite, the corporations would be in danger of not “maximizing their shareholder value” and executive compensation. If we didn’t fall for wedge issues and hucksters promising that “only they” can fix our issues, we would gain great power.
All of this and many many other videos boil down to one thing; Americans voting against their own interests. They think the Republican party has them in mind. THEY DON'T CARE AT ALL ABOUT YOU!
I think we need to have warning labels when there are interviews or footage of Mr. Rogers, because I always cry, because he is so missed in my life.. We are seeing, in real time, the wealthy bleeding this country to death for money.. Why does anyone need $400 billion? It's not like they use even a small portion of that money. Give them a participation award.. 30% tax for earning of $500k to $1million. 40% tax for $1 million to $50 million. 60% for $50 million to $500 million, 75% for $500 million to $999,999,999. Anything over that 100%.. I have no issue with wealth, as long as there is no poverty..
Because nothing is "free" perhaps? When you say "free" you mean paid for by others. There is nothing "free" in this world. Whilst America has problems with its healthcare systems, nationalizing the healthcare system, and taxing its citizens in excess of 50% is not the correct way of fixing the problems in the healthcare system.
A toxic blend of greed and ideology. Oh, and masses of uneducated and easily manipulated simpletons who believe anything that's a net positive for society is **gasp** Socialism. And Socialism is bad. So very, very bad.
@@Cline3911 Lmao! ...Wait, do you genuinely think that's how much it costs in taxes, versus how much the current system costs? 😂 Hey OP, found the answer to your question, it's because half the country + median voters actually believe what this guy just said.
@@Knight-Bishop To be fair, it depends on where one might live. Most European countries have exorbitant tax rates, at their highest levels approaching 60%. There is a reason Paul Hewson and Gérard Depardieu have fled their respective countries, and implemented many differing tax avoidance schemes. Furthermore, the majority of Western European countries aren't paying for a national defense like the US does. Most Western European countries actually depend on the US for their national defense, and its been that way for decades now. Hell, Ukraine isn't a NATO member state and how many billions have gone to them recently? I'd rather see that money spent on Americans instead of a foreign country that has absolutely zero American interests. If the US decided to dissolve NATO and tell its member states "You're on your own now" and European countries had to actually pay for their national defense, you would see their nationalized healthcare disappear over night. I find it comical that austerity measures are taking place in many countries in Europe due to their unfettered illegal immigration problem. Yet they have "free" healthcare. Who would have thought that when you have all these "free" programs, that tons of people will show up (legal or not) and use these programs to the point of financial insolvency? Who knew?
@@Perfidion If socialism is so good, why has it been a complete failure everywhere its been implemented? I could give you a list of all the failed socialist and communist states, but don't feel as if I need to continue beating a dead horse. Socialism even failed in North America a couple hundred years before Marx ever wrote anything about it. Perhaps you might want to read about William Bradford and his tenure as governor of the Plymouth Colony. He came to the conclusion, and quickly, that the system of managing said colony, which could be described as socialism to the letter, almost lead to deaths of all the settlers. Decided to end said practice of socialism and the colony flourished. So much so, they paid back their Dutch benefactors early, completely pissing them off in the process, since these bankers couldn't charge the interest they had hoped, and starting what is known as "The Great Puritan Migration". Well that and the holiday of Thanksgiving. And depending on your family history, the Great Puritan Migration may be the reason you're an American, if you are American.
Luigi is not a murderer, he’s an avenger. They say there’s no excuse for vigilante justice but it is justice and what if that’s the only justice we are left with. Is there justice in the system or just us and the system? Most of us would choose a peaceful prosperous life if given the choice.
When an investor bought the company that makes insulin medication for diabetes, which is a lifesaving maintenance drug in short order he raised the price by 700%. When asked why he said "Capitalism, because I can." Showing not the slightest concern for those that need the drug to survive. This is greed, this is despicable & a serious lack of morals for one human to do to another.
No price will ever go down, they will charge whatever they think they van get away with charging you, its not about business, Its just about greed pure and simple.
The Corporate world is no longer being held in check by a Union. Now we are seeing a work force where taking a vacation is rewarded with three times the work load to make up for the loss time. Because one person does the job of two to three. That means NOTHING gets accomplished correctly and everything must be done twice as fast to catch up. What is the point of a vacation? Wage gaps increase while Inflation just grows. So Owners and Upper management make the flow adjustments, while the employees work extreme hours with zero support for the things we purchase. On the other end of the spectrum, you have the Socialism issues of supporting and rewarding single mothers for terrible decisions. The blatant racism of not treating people as they are not as they should be. If a group of individuals wish to dress, act and be a certain way, its not a race or sex issue. Its a class issue. If that group of individuals wishes to get away with not following the rules of society, then they should suffer the consequences. This creates the joke of left vs right arguments ignoring that truly we are all in the same boat. We all want to eat, live in a nice safe place and have a good person by our side. Instead we get poor people fighting under the delusion that left or right is better than the other.... Its all a joke....
I work at a community college, and took one of our ECON courses. Everything in the textbook was how great capitalism is. Even if they talked about other economic systems, it was how inferior they were to capitalism.
My brother-in-law's nephew teaches finance at a major state university. He has to constantly try to tamp down the greedy instincts of his students. Many of them don't want to learn or discuss ethics.😮😮😮😮
What I notice more and more is that EVERY business you go to is trying to gouge every penny they possibly can out of you. Never ending fees and taxes to drive up the final price. Even stores that are 100% self-serve, then you pay with a debit card, but they try to talk you into a 10-20% tip. For what??
It's disgusting that people worth thousands of millions of dollars can parade around as if they are something special, while homelessness soars and many, if not most, people are struggling week to week. The fact these people can look themselves in the mirror, then ask for MORE tax breaks is despicable. Trickle down doesn't work. Donating 0.5% of your vast fortune does shite too. It's the sheer greed that's mind boggling. Even worse, so many poorer people who will never, ever even be close to millionaires don't have a problem with billionaires existing. It's crazy cos when I grew up, the bad guys were often rich as hell and future dystopian worlds were run by mega corporations. When did we start to revere such rich people?
@@NZZN666 once the billionaires were made aware for mere dollars, they can buy public opinion but make it look naturally formed or grass roots It's called social media.
It's so interesting watching Fred Rogers testifying in front of Congress and talking about mental health. That was over 50 years ago. He was way ahead of his time in mentioning that. He was a good man.
Japan is trying to buy US Steel. For $15 Billion dollars. Hey Elon, you really want to do something to help the US and its steel workers, buy it. You're worth over $420 Billion dollars.
There's an awful lot of videos out there with Bill Burr in the title but featuring very little Burr and way too much of some anonymous jagoff giving us his opinion.
That's your complaint? Corporate greed is fucking this country, which Bill Burr criticizes, but your whinge is that Bill Burr was not in it enough? That's your takeaway? Weirdo.
@@LeoLynch-yg7vo perhaps the point was that this is titled like it *is* a clip without commentary and then you watch the video and it's not what the title would lead you to expect.
2:34 100% truth. Income inequality is from greed. Take greed out of the equation, and we look inward towards ourselves. Gardening, growing our own crops is where the biggest change can take root. 😊
Thats what happen when you scream USA ! USA ! USA ! for 50 years whitout looking how the rest of the world live, and still think they are in tne same snitzhole or worst when in fact, its the USA the greatest snitzhole in occident.
@@no_one_worth_knowing Its not GOP they are chanting though. You guys are brought up on a steady diet of American exceptionalism and forced patriotism, and the only way to sell this garbage is to make sure no one knows any better.
What would happen if we all called congress demanding at least single payer health insurance? What would happen if just 50% of us left Facebook and Twitter and quit shopping on Amazon? They got their wealth from us after all. We haven't got a lot of power left, but we still can force change by banding together.
Most people won't rise up because most people won't choose danger over safety. The question now becomes how unsafe does a person have to feel before they do something to overthrow the established order. Whatever the answer to that question is I am certain that we are getting closer to it everyday. Anybody else remember the third Christopher Nolan Batman movie with Bane? While there is satisfaction to be had in watching the scene where the ultra wealthy dragged out of their homes to be thrown in jail or worse, it needs to be pointed out that the terrible conditions of wealth inequality depicted in that movie is what allowed a psychopath like Bane to take over the city and run it as a ruthless dictatorship with the ultimate goal of destroying everybody both rich and poor alike. My point is that there is a storm coming if things don't change and keep getting worse but that storm is going to destroy both the rich and the poor, the innocent and the guilty.
Getting rid of lobbying would go a long way as well. Lobbying favors the wealthy corporations because they have a special door into politics and legislation that your average American does not have.
"On a recent edition of his Monday Morning Podcast..." can i believe my eyes here, that you couldn't be bothered explicitly linking to the video that you're piggybacking off?
this is blatant plagiarism. cobbling together other creator's content with a few sentences. would have taken an hour at most and now you can monetise it. the hypocrisy, given the subject of the content, is astounding.
I had a horrible issue getting COBRA pay treatments and nearly lost my leg. Since when does losing insurance during a policy change default your diagnosis to pre-existing and not qualifying? Two year wait was forced to bring it to court only got awarded partial coverage for what I was paying into.
Yes, yes, yes! A very rough ride for H1-B, tariffs and general 2025 protocol. I can tell you that out here in our "petite ville" of northern Maine, close to the "frontiere" of Quebec, we have many prognosticators and 17th century French mystics who're saying the same thing. So, here goes a report from the hinterlands: Well, someone has to click the buttons to make sure all our bounty makes it to our local big boxes. So, no progressive reform because any attempt at reform has been as sloppy as a DQ Snowcone slowly melting away in the southern Georgia heat. There have been so many proclamations by Trump over the past few weeks that even somone indifferent as myself has to put down the adderall dispenser, 12 pack of discount Bacardi winecoolers, and hot chicken fat herbal infused elixir for my sciatica flare ups and turn on the old black and white Sony with rabbit ears to tune in to the Trumpian style political hoedown. I had a very vivid dream last night where I was dressed in a one piece tight spandex leotard with an oversized nightshirt with the heads of Sam Walton and Ronald Reagan emblazoned on the front. I was in Panama standing near the Panama Canal on what was a seemingly beautiful tropical day, when suddenly, I heard the sound of metal on metal and gears grinding to a halt. I looked up to see one of our big ships struggling to make it through that old shipping lane. Big style crates were falling from the deck of the ship into the water and many locals were diving in to rescue our Chinese goodies from water damage. The ship started to spit out an orange colored oil slick. Eventually, the entire crew jumped ship, cocktail waitresses and all, except for our 3 Magi-America's Patriarch, Lord Elon and Dr. Oz. My heart stopped at the sight of the three screaming, "Save our ship, save our ship!" Luckily, my sciatica flare ups weren't so severe due to being in a tropical locale, and so, I quickly pulled out my limited edition mini-Tesla rocket from my knock-off Bournbrook rucksack, lit the fuse with the burning end of my Winchester cigarette and up, up and away I went! Yes, I was a hero as I rescued our 3 Magi from that sinking ship. On the way down, I gently hummed Brahm's "Lullaby" into their sweet little ear drums.
It's about wealth, income, and political inequality, and it's time to build an open-source and decentralized global platform for digital democracy, and constitute ourselves as a global collective democracy, based on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter.
@dougm4160 sky daddy? Any money you have in your pocket says in God we trust on it. The Americans voted and all your brain dead narratives were thrown tf out finally.
Unions came under attack during Reagan's administration (air traffic controllers), using that as an indicator there are now less than 5% US workers unionized. It i down from 20% in the 90's. Wage disparity is an indicator of how healthy an economy is performing. States are now a third world country by that indicator. Hard to watch.
I want our schools funded and our communities funded! Barriers to entry are a real thing. We need art and sports programs. Money is a mere tool and that is all. It is not a punisher.
The corporations and the excessive greed of their shareholders and executives are to blame for this. The government is as well because the corporations pay to get them elected, and do little to reign them in. Luigi was not taking revenge against United Health Care for screwing up his back. But he is expressing his frustration for the entire system where the rich keep changing the rules so they keep getting richer. You have to admit he did all the right stuff to become a folk hero. Assassins and silencers are popular in the movies. I've seen a dozens of movies with assassins who are the main character lately. Cool, huh?
I call Bs on the education remarks. It’s easier to target the educated because that’s what every fascist regime does because those are people who question the status quo. Government doesn’t want you to question the status quo. "The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market." ~ Robert Stempel
@@t.l.c7481 it's much easier to trick the uneducated, as evidenced by whatever inspired this asinine opinion. I'd put my last 5 dollars that you don't wash your hands when you piss.
Yeah. I eat local & small producer meats. No big brands, no chain restaurants. So much better its not even a contest. I may have no healthcare, but I eat small producer, wild caught, and local as much as possible.
@timn4481 If you need to be treated for anything serious, don't stay in the u.s.: go where you will not lose your home& livliehood. I would travel to my familys home& be treated for free. Plane tickets are less than copays for serious conditions. And I grew up on the farm. They give me the vegetables.
Health INSURANCE is not health CARE.
EXACTLY
Exactly
Corruption just like government and corporations
So true - and these guys are educated?
@@MiamiPush2theLimit yes but they intertwine the price for Health care ,Hospital ,Doctors , pharmaceutical etc set the prices of Health insurance ,I understand , just like prices of sports tickets ,hotdogs and beer is high cause they have to pay the Athletes
This is an up and down battle. Left and right is a mirage.
100%
Finally. People are waking up. I've said this for years.
@@SabaHaq-z5o
the DNC is as complicit as the RNC
“If you let us export all of our good paying jobs to the third world, we’ll be able to sell everything here super cheap and it’ll help the middle class.”
Strange how now cars cost more than double and our automobile jobs are gone. No more bailouts for these companies. If they want a bailout, let them get it from the counties that took this jobs!
Our country has been gutted, and only for the advantage of our oligarchs.
US politicians: Insider trading for me, but not for thee...
Citizens United, the speech and debate clause and qualified Immunity Need to go.
Mr. Rogers was the best thing that ever happened to children's television...
I owe him a lot, myself...
It’s misguided to think that the institutions that caused poverty and extreme wealth inequality will be the same system that can correct it.
Mike Pearson (former CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals) was once heard to say during a TV interview "I'm in the business of shareholder profit not patient health". Fortunately shortly afterwards he was forced to resign over some shady practices that were uncovered. But this is the mentality of most of the people at the top of big business. Pay workers as little as you can get away with, and charge consumers what you think they will bear.
DOWN WITH THE CORPO STATE - SEPARATION OF CORPORATION AND STATE NOW
🙌🙌🙌
When I was a kid there was no such thing as Amazon, Walmart or Target. There was Bradlees, Caldor, Woolworth, D&L, KMart, Aimes, Sears, JCPenney...and the list goes on. There was competition out there, and that kept prices from going too high.
Its wild that right/left wing media is trying to play everyone against eachother but both sides are alligned in this one thing.
Thank you Mr. Roger’s for your thoughtful and spot-on insights.
Bill burr is the best comic, period. ❤❤❤
People often think corporations will create more jobs. In reality, corporations tend to create the minimum number of jobs required. Frequently, they cut jobs and, without proper regulations, may reduce quality-adding one less screw or including a cheaper, potentially toxic ingredient. They don't care if the product harms you 10 years down the line, as long as it brings them profit now. After all, that's the essence of the game they play.
The thing that kills me most is that this crap is capitalism about as much as Stalin's USSR was communism. Actually, sometimes less so. The system we are working with is not a free market, and it is not even actually capitalism. It is cronyism and opportunism. It's a break down in the basic fabric of society when you have such a massive scale of people coming up with loopholes for bribary. It's actually worse than a society where people just expect bribes are a part of the dynamic and accept it, because at least that's honest. There is nothing honest, open, or forthright about our current power dynamics. And the craziest thing after the whole CEO incident was the realization that the GOP tapped into the working class discontent on their side of the righ-left divide in order to get a populist elected, and yet appear completely oblivious to how much a desire to see it all burn was why they won, and I am going to be incredibly interested to see exactly how that backfires for them.
That's a really good point
🚗 Car insurance... 🏠Home insurance .... are reluctant towards paying out for legit claims, yeah? After we fix Healthcare, we should fix those kinds of insurance too.
Too many selfish psychos in charge.
USA 1950's: CEO's made 20 times the salary of the average worker
USA 2018: CEO's made 270 times the salary of the average worker
Source: The New Corporation, 2022
Then there tawt face Musk, who is still pushing for the $50B Bonus (not pay, Bonus): which is 100,000 time the average PA USA salary (as at $50k)
year : - 4025; place: garden of eden; average worker gets all benefits he needs in abundance forever; excellent working conditions with a light workload; it just went downhill from there because of feminism ;)
Yes! THIS:
".. the people will rise up against income inequality, which has been the problem since the 70s.."
BRAVO Ms. Glazer!! ❤U!
1:00 it isn’t Universities and Colleges making people hate corporations, it’s their behaviour. I’m a trades guy and corporate behaviour is just as insufferable as before people are just starting to smell the smoke
More Mr. Rogers is needed in the world. RIP Mr. Rogers
God bless his soul
Capitalism is a soulless machine, and while the human face of a corporation may feel, corporations only respond to regulation, not emotional appeals or any sense of justice. And they'll buy the regulators, whenever possible. Mr. Rogers isn't cut out for this.
Like no one would ever realize how depraved and unfair the system is unless they hear about it from a college professor. Keep telling yourselves that. History is coming.
I've always loved Bill Burr. The man just keeps growing in my eyes. I love this man
Mr Roger's was ahead of his time. He was a compassionate and empathetic human being and he had to work with greedy CEO'S, lacking integrity.
Not everyone says well-regulated capitalism is evil. Unregulated capitalism is.
American politicians should NOT be allowed to trade stocks. It's criminal!
we're all losers. I'm totally fed up
And then they ask why people are not having kids
Every single person needs to be more like Mr Rogers
I like Burr because he cuts through the BS of both sides (left and right) whenever he notices it.
Its no about left or right, Red or blue. ITS ABOUT THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS!!!
Now it's about the WOKE and the MAGA - WE GOT THIS
Damn right! This is a class war! The "Woke is dead" dude wants you to really, really pay attention to the culture wars, though!
The only "health" Brian Thompson cares about is the health of his wallet.
We just elected a president who is filling his Cabinet with Billionaires! DUH!😮😮😮😮
People forget, Martha Stewart went to jail for insider trading. Congress should be banned or have a cap for money made . They make the rules, they know what the stock market will do to favor them.
“They” have to keep us at odds with each other. If we were all smart enough to unite, the corporations would be in danger of not “maximizing their shareholder value” and executive compensation. If we didn’t fall for wedge issues and hucksters promising that “only they” can fix our issues, we would gain great power.
All of this and many many other videos boil down to one thing;
Americans voting against their own interests. They think the Republican party has them in mind.
THEY DON'T CARE AT ALL ABOUT YOU!
I think we need to have warning labels when there are interviews or footage of Mr. Rogers, because I always cry, because he is so missed in my life..
We are seeing, in real time, the wealthy bleeding this country to death for money.. Why does anyone need $400 billion? It's not like they use even a small portion of that money. Give them a participation award.. 30% tax for earning of $500k to $1million. 40% tax for $1 million to $50 million. 60% for $50 million to $500 million, 75% for $500 million to $999,999,999. Anything over that 100%.. I have no issue with wealth, as long as there is no poverty..
I will never understand why the so called wealthiest nation on the planet is allergic to a free national healthcare program…
Because nothing is "free" perhaps? When you say "free" you mean paid for by others. There is nothing "free" in this world. Whilst America has problems with its healthcare systems, nationalizing the healthcare system, and taxing its citizens in excess of 50% is not the correct way of fixing the problems in the healthcare system.
A toxic blend of greed and ideology. Oh, and masses of uneducated and easily manipulated simpletons who believe anything that's a net positive for society is **gasp** Socialism. And Socialism is bad. So very, very bad.
@@Cline3911 Lmao!
...Wait, do you genuinely think that's how much it costs in taxes, versus how much the current system costs? 😂
Hey OP, found the answer to your question, it's because half the country + median voters actually believe what this guy just said.
@@Knight-Bishop To be fair, it depends on where one might live. Most European countries have exorbitant tax rates, at their highest levels approaching 60%. There is a reason Paul Hewson and Gérard Depardieu have fled their respective countries, and implemented many differing tax avoidance schemes. Furthermore, the majority of Western European countries aren't paying for a national defense like the US does. Most Western European countries actually depend on the US for their national defense, and its been that way for decades now. Hell, Ukraine isn't a NATO member state and how many billions have gone to them recently? I'd rather see that money spent on Americans instead of a foreign country that has absolutely zero American interests. If the US decided to dissolve NATO and tell its member states "You're on your own now" and European countries had to actually pay for their national defense, you would see their nationalized healthcare disappear over night. I find it comical that austerity measures are taking place in many countries in Europe due to their unfettered illegal immigration problem. Yet they have "free" healthcare.
Who would have thought that when you have all these "free" programs, that tons of people will show up (legal or not) and use these programs to the point of financial insolvency? Who knew?
@@Perfidion If socialism is so good, why has it been a complete failure everywhere its been implemented? I could give you a list of all the failed socialist and communist states, but don't feel as if I need to continue beating a dead horse. Socialism even failed in North America a couple hundred years before Marx ever wrote anything about it. Perhaps you might want to read about William Bradford and his tenure as governor of the Plymouth Colony. He came to the conclusion, and quickly, that the system of managing said colony, which could be described as socialism to the letter, almost lead to deaths of all the settlers. Decided to end said practice of socialism and the colony flourished. So much so, they paid back their Dutch benefactors early, completely pissing them off in the process, since these bankers couldn't charge the interest they had hoped, and starting what is known as "The Great Puritan Migration". Well that and the holiday of Thanksgiving. And depending on your family history, the Great Puritan Migration may be the reason you're an American, if you are American.
CEOs don't help people at all!
CEOs come and go, and one just went.
Luigi is not a murderer, he’s an avenger. They say there’s no excuse for vigilante justice but it is justice and what if that’s the only justice we are left with. Is there justice in the system or just us and the system? Most of us would choose a peaceful prosperous life if given the choice.
Everyone should be made to watch Fred Rogers' 1969 Senate appeal to fund public broadcasting.
Free Luigi. Down with the 1%
When an investor bought the company that makes insulin medication for diabetes, which is a lifesaving maintenance drug in short order he raised the price by 700%. When asked why he said "Capitalism, because I can." Showing not the slightest concern for those that need the drug to survive. This is greed, this is despicable & a serious lack of morals for one human to do to another.
Wake up Americans
No price will ever go down, they will charge whatever they think they van get away with charging you, its not about business, Its just about greed pure and simple.
yup
The Corporate world is no longer being held in check by a Union. Now we are seeing a work force where taking a vacation is rewarded with three times the work load to make up for the loss time. Because one person does the job of two to three. That means NOTHING gets accomplished correctly and everything must be done twice as fast to catch up. What is the point of a vacation?
Wage gaps increase while Inflation just grows. So Owners and Upper management make the flow adjustments, while the employees work extreme hours with zero support for the things we purchase.
On the other end of the spectrum, you have the Socialism issues of supporting and rewarding single mothers for terrible decisions. The blatant racism of not treating people as they are not as they should be. If a group of individuals wish to dress, act and be a certain way, its not a race or sex issue. Its a class issue. If that group of individuals wishes to get away with not following the rules of society, then they should suffer the consequences.
This creates the joke of left vs right arguments ignoring that truly we are all in the same boat. We all want to eat, live in a nice safe place and have a good person by our side. Instead we get poor people fighting under the delusion that left or right is better than the other....
Its all a joke....
Well said
I am not an Ivy League graduate but i dont imagine theres a lot of anti capitalist sentiment to be had at harvard and yale.
Yeah it's really laughable they suggest such things.
I work at a community college, and took one of our ECON courses. Everything in the textbook was how great capitalism is. Even if they talked about other economic systems, it was how inferior they were to capitalism.
My brother-in-law's nephew teaches finance at a major state university. He has to constantly try to tamp down the greedy instincts of his students. Many of them don't want to learn or discuss ethics.😮😮😮😮
Its not indoctrination, its called being educated
What I notice more and more is that EVERY business you go to is trying to gouge every penny they possibly can out of you. Never ending fees and taxes to drive up the final price. Even stores that are 100% self-serve, then you pay with a debit card, but they try to talk you into a 10-20% tip. For what??
Those who make peaceful revolution Impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
It's disgusting that people worth thousands of millions of dollars can parade around as if they are something special, while homelessness soars and many, if not most, people are struggling week to week. The fact these people can look themselves in the mirror, then ask for MORE tax breaks is despicable. Trickle down doesn't work. Donating 0.5% of your vast fortune does shite too. It's the sheer greed that's mind boggling.
Even worse, so many poorer people who will never, ever even be close to millionaires don't have a problem with billionaires existing. It's crazy cos when I grew up, the bad guys were often rich as hell and future dystopian worlds were run by mega corporations. When did we start to revere such rich people?
@@NZZN666 once the billionaires were made aware for mere dollars, they can buy public opinion but make it look naturally formed or grass roots
It's called social media.
so it's legal for members of congress to do , but Martha Stewart went to prison for doing the same thing. make that make sense
Politician vs private citizen.
It's so interesting watching Fred Rogers testifying in front of Congress and talking about mental health. That was over 50 years ago. He was way ahead of his time in mentioning that. He was a good man.
Eat the rich!?!?
Thank you Rick for what you do. We need more like you!
Japan is trying to buy US Steel. For $15 Billion dollars. Hey Elon, you really want to do something to help the US and its steel workers, buy it. You're worth over $420 Billion dollars.
The deal isn't happening. Biden is going to block it.
He cant... he's too busy hiring non-americans to work at his american subsidized corporations.
The GOP doesn’t like smart people. People that like to read and think hard.
There's an awful lot of videos out there with Bill Burr in the title but featuring very little Burr and way too much of some anonymous jagoff giving us his opinion.
That's your complaint? Corporate greed is fucking this country, which Bill Burr criticizes, but your whinge is that Bill Burr was not in it enough? That's your takeaway?
Weirdo.
Yeah narrative goofballs
There are Bill Burr clips all over the internet without commentary maybe you should watch some?
@@LeoLynch-yg7vo perhaps the point was that this is titled like it *is* a clip without commentary and then you watch the video and it's not what the title would lead you to expect.
How young was that Mr. Rogers? I recognized his voice cadence before his face.
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100% truth. Income inequality is from greed. Take greed out of the equation, and we look inward towards ourselves. Gardening, growing our own crops is where the biggest change can take root. 😊
Thats what happen when you scream USA ! USA ! USA ! for 50 years whitout looking how the rest of the world live, and still think they are in tne same snitzhole or worst when in fact, its the USA the greatest snitzhole in occident.
You keep saying USA when you mean GOP
@@no_one_worth_knowing Its not GOP they are chanting though. You guys are brought up on a steady diet of American exceptionalism and forced patriotism, and the only way to sell this garbage is to make sure no one knows any better.
"Income inequality"
...the end
What would happen if we all called congress demanding at least single payer health insurance? What would happen if just 50% of us left Facebook and Twitter and quit shopping on Amazon? They got their wealth from us after all. We haven't got a lot of power left, but we still can force change by banding together.
Most people won't rise up because most people won't choose danger over safety. The question now becomes how unsafe does a person have to feel before they do something to overthrow the established order. Whatever the answer to that question is I am certain that we are getting closer to it everyday.
Anybody else remember the third Christopher Nolan Batman movie with Bane? While there is satisfaction to be had in watching the scene where the ultra wealthy dragged out of their homes to be thrown in jail or worse, it needs to be pointed out that the terrible conditions of wealth inequality depicted in that movie is what allowed a psychopath like Bane to take over the city and run it as a ruthless dictatorship with the ultimate goal of destroying everybody both rich and poor alike.
My point is that there is a storm coming if things don't change and keep getting worse but that storm is going to destroy both the rich and the poor, the innocent and the guilty.
Even Corporate Democrats refuse to take a reasonable stand against Monopolies.
8.5trillion untaxed under "unrealized capital gains" Meanwhile we cannot afford healthcare xD
@@jaekae-u3k Employees working that get stock options should pay taxes on those as if it were a salary.
Our society is eating itself alive…
Getting rid of lobbying would go a long way as well. Lobbying favors the wealthy corporations because they have a special door into politics and legislation that your average American does not have.
Lobbying is just a way to make bribery legal, idk why we humor it, other than our mindless worship of money
lobbing is bribery
*Greedy Billionaires vs America*
This income inequality also existed during the Robber Baron era. Teddy Roosevelt stopped them.
Do we have a T.R these days though?
If the qualification for being a president is being a celebrity, why can't we get Burr in the White House?
Question did musk & trump break campaign finance law donating to trump since musk isn't an American citizen?
Man thank you. This is an A+ episode. Income inequality is the straw that is gonna break the camel's back publicly. It is about basic human rights.
"On a recent edition of his Monday Morning Podcast..."
can i believe my eyes here, that you couldn't be bothered explicitly linking to the video that you're piggybacking off?
this is blatant plagiarism.
cobbling together other creator's content with a few sentences.
would have taken an hour at most and now you can monetise it.
the hypocrisy, given the subject of the content, is astounding.
Thanks folks, please sharing your honesty..
How can fox news still even be around... man
Lawyers, corruption, and money
I had a horrible issue getting COBRA pay treatments and nearly lost my leg. Since when does losing insurance during a policy change default your diagnosis to pre-existing and not qualifying? Two year wait was forced to bring it to court only got awarded partial coverage for what I was paying into.
WTF Bill !! ..........Your Boston sensibilities are showing. Keep up dah good work man!!
Here’s to Mr Rodgers
Totally irrelevant if he had United. He recognized United as a good example.
Fools who think we need to care about our abusers.
To be honest, born in 1970, Fred Roger’s saved my life.
Please. We need an anti-Rogan
*****JUST HOW MANY THINGS ARE WE GONNA ALLOW POLITICIANS TO DO TO US?????*****
Yes, yes, yes! A very rough ride for H1-B, tariffs and general 2025 protocol. I can tell you that out here in our "petite ville" of northern Maine, close to the "frontiere" of Quebec, we have many prognosticators and 17th century French mystics who're saying the same thing. So, here goes a report from the hinterlands:
Well, someone has to click the buttons to make sure all our bounty makes it to our local big boxes. So, no progressive reform because any attempt at reform has been as sloppy as a DQ Snowcone slowly melting away in the southern Georgia heat.
There have been so many proclamations by Trump over the past few weeks that even somone indifferent as myself has to put down the adderall dispenser, 12 pack of discount Bacardi winecoolers, and hot chicken fat herbal infused elixir for my sciatica flare ups and turn on the old black and white Sony with rabbit ears to tune in to the Trumpian style political hoedown.
I had a very vivid dream last night where I was dressed in a one piece tight spandex leotard with an oversized nightshirt with the heads of Sam Walton and Ronald Reagan emblazoned on the front. I was in Panama standing near the Panama Canal on what was a seemingly beautiful tropical day, when suddenly, I heard the sound of metal on metal and gears grinding to a halt. I looked up to see one of our big ships struggling to make it through that old shipping lane. Big style crates were falling from the deck of the ship into the water and many locals were diving in to rescue our Chinese goodies from water damage. The ship started to spit out an orange colored oil slick. Eventually, the entire crew jumped ship, cocktail waitresses and all, except for our 3 Magi-America's Patriarch, Lord Elon and Dr. Oz. My heart stopped at the sight of the three screaming, "Save our ship, save our ship!" Luckily, my sciatica flare ups weren't so severe due to being in a tropical locale, and so, I quickly pulled out my limited edition mini-Tesla rocket from my knock-off Bournbrook rucksack, lit the fuse with the burning end of my Winchester cigarette and up, up and away I went! Yes, I was a hero as I rescued our 3 Magi from that sinking ship. On the way down, I gently hummed Brahm's "Lullaby" into their sweet little ear drums.
Lovely, just lovely. I hope your sciatica is improving.
Mr Rogers was a great man, but things had changed before he died, you could see his fire leave his eyes.
Great video that says volumes about why we are in the mess we are in.
It's about wealth, income, and political inequality, and it's time to build an open-source and decentralized global platform for digital democracy, and constitute ourselves as a global collective democracy, based on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter.
Unjustified unlawful policing with no accountability.
Mr Rogers was a gift from God. I dare you to watch those shows and not tear up, from that man's genuinely beautiful soul.
Aaron?
A gift from his parents you mean. No sky daddy involved.
You know he was a war hero?
@@dougm4160jury still out on that one.
@dougm4160 sky daddy? Any money you have in your pocket says in God we trust on it. The Americans voted and all your brain dead narratives were thrown tf out finally.
Unions came under attack during Reagan's administration (air traffic controllers), using that as an indicator there are now less than 5% US workers unionized. It i down from 20% in the 90's. Wage disparity is an indicator of how healthy an economy is performing. States are now a third world country by that indicator. Hard to watch.
Regarding housing: VRBO and AirBNB have taken a huge slice of the housing inventory. When items are scarce, the price goes through the roof.
He is a freedom fighter.
I want our schools funded and our communities funded! Barriers to entry are a real thing. We need art and sports programs. Money is a mere tool and that is all. It is not a punisher.
The corporations and the excessive greed of their shareholders and executives are to blame for this. The government is as well because the corporations pay to get them elected, and do little to reign them in. Luigi was not taking revenge against United Health Care for screwing up his back. But he is expressing his frustration for the entire system where the rich keep changing the rules so they keep getting richer.
You have to admit he did all the right stuff to become a folk hero. Assassins and silencers are popular in the movies. I've seen a dozens of movies with assassins who are the main character lately. Cool, huh?
I appreciate you Rick.
They want RENTERS not home OWNERS!
Your cult leader has renters. Zip it.
America is gonna look it does in Bladerunner or 1984 sooner than later.
It’s pretty much over at this point. I sincerely don’t believe we can stop it.
John Stewart - Bill Burr 2028
I call Bs on the education remarks. It’s easier to target the educated because that’s what every fascist regime does because those are people who question the status quo. Government doesn’t want you to question the status quo.
"The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market." ~ Robert Stempel
We need to end the indoctrination of independent critical thinking 😂
@@t.l.c7481 it's much easier to trick the uneducated, as evidenced by whatever inspired this asinine opinion. I'd put my last 5 dollars that you don't wash your hands when you piss.
It just struck me Edward Norton is perfect to play Mr. Rogers in a biopic 😅
Yeah. I eat local & small producer meats. No big brands, no chain restaurants. So much better its not even a contest. I may have no healthcare, but I eat small producer, wild caught, and local as much as possible.
wth?...i bet you wont think of paying more for vegetables when your child cant get affordable treatment for a curable condition.
@timn4481 If you need to be treated for anything serious, don't stay in the u.s.: go where you will not lose your home& livliehood. I would travel to my familys home& be treated for free. Plane tickets are less than copays for serious conditions. And I grew up on the farm. They give me the vegetables.
@timn4481 And interestingly enough, my child has better healthcare than most of the country. I do not have any. Just me.