“Ultimately, saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.” ― Edward Snowden
You could spend $90,000 a day EVERY day, 365days a year for 30 YEARS straight and you still would not have spent $1bn. Being a billionaire is just hoarding and greed, no person needs billions while others starve.
True, it's why we need to return to true capitalism and liberty and prevent government from growing ever again. It's never happened before but there must be a way, and it likely involves in waking the masses up to the damage from cronyism and rekindling their principles of individual values.
@@SamRFi Concentration of power just makes bribery easier. Lots of people with a little power are harder to bribe than a handful of officials in a small government.
He was comrade Joe here . He gives the impression sometimes that he thinks collectivism will not lead to authoritarianism but of course it always does.
It sounds like you already have your mind made up. Listen to the man. He gives extreme detail explaining his position. Don’t try to interpret the meaning of a two word name without listening to the explanation.
I'm not sure what you mean. Competition by its very nature is to eliminate the competition. Patents and non-competes might sound reasonable at first glance, but the main objective is to eliminate competition. Companies tend to become monopolies because of the nature of competition and therefore anti-trust laws have to be made to make sure that companies don't really compete to that extent. Although I must admit, anti-trust laws are typically not followed through on most of the time in court rulings. 🤷♂️
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” - Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (ca 410 BCE)
@@Synochra I don't think anyone have answer for that. First and foremost he was a historian. A person that was very fixated about writing each and every one day at the time of Peloponnesian War. He's cogitation was very strick and scientists alike. He wanted to passa lesson from past so future changers of the world would act differently. But at the same time he thought that people should be brave enough as wise. But he was very libertarian. He thought that it would be good idea that government would had military control, seek economic prosperity rather then bother and corrupt political views or ethics. Good quote from great mind. I must admit how influencing martial arts or scouting was. It makes you want to be pro active about stuff at same time it levels you out in normal day life. As I personally don't think we should approach matters with physical power. I belive that he would see this world far more differently. We musk seek wisdoms of the past but not fixate on it. Learn the lessons and move on. Adapt improve. If we would do as he taught we would be far wiser then him.
This video is largely strawman arguments. The problem with pure capitalism (which doesn't exist in America) is that without regulations and taxation the owners of companies are not only prone to corruption but parasitically take far too big a cut of pie. The problem with pure socialism is centrally planned economies are a terrible way to produce wealth. Everyone (except select members of the state) are equally poor and it also takes excessive amount of force to maintain. Mixed economies try to address some of the failings of both systems. We have publicly funded high schools and health care for kids whose parents can't afford it. We have regulatory bodies that set building codes, food safety, drug testing, and other standards. Likewise, we still leave a wealth carrot dangling for those that put in more effort and have talent to succeed. That right mix is certainly debatable but anyone who claims America is one system or the other, or should only be one system or the other, has no clue what they are talking about.
So much misinformation If you need the government to save you from dangerous food why then don't you need the government to save you from exploding batteries
My brother and I have worked for Whole foods. (supervisor/supporting role). It's funny to listen to these ideals. The stores do not live up to this mans vision. But most of this "conscious-leadership" is for the executive level leadership for store management the story unfolds differently.
@@gbitdot More of a numbers situation; It has a retail type attitude. They don't have any meaningful way to communicate with the front line workers. So imagine you start seeing a ineffective policy as a department manager. There is no way for that manager to communicate that up the chain and subsequently they will be held "accountable" for that policies failure. This is hyper specific but this idea of "rules for thee and not for me" plagues the mid/higher levels of leadership. Hope this anecdote is helpful.
@@allenhooper8532 Not surprised. I am a fan of people like Mackey, but I do see that they are detached from reality on the ground - just like - not probably as much but - the elites/intellectual class - as they complain against. Cheers.
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well, he speaks the facts. the so called intelligent people in universities are jelous that even an average person can actually become much richer and much more successful than some PhD professor that thinks too highly of himself/herself. socialists want a utopia that actually DOES have a hierarchy. the people on top will of course be the "intellectuals". the smart people that know everything, apparently. social engineering at it's finest. extremely hypocritical as well. never mind the fact that we as humans have our own personal desires and dreams. everyone should be "equal". not equality of opportunity but equity. fuck that!
@@moderndayentertainment5812 a crime against human nature (40 a week is just dumb as fuck (no time too eat properly take sunshine,, educate themselves do things properly) im activist so it means (i have something important to say but the system is too,,, corrupted or stupid or busy looking/ playing into the industry funded studies$$ fuck animal agg (etc
I agree with you. I am so tired of hearing people misuse the terms socialism, fascism, communism, democracy, republic, and capitalism. You don't even have to be a political science buff, it takes all of a few minutes to an hour or two to read up the basics of these ideologies. It annoys me when people call anything of welfarism (or social-safety net) as socialism or communism, or when people call worker co-ops communism, even though they are not. If people are going to fling terminology around, use it correctly!
The main problem is that safety nets get abused. The real dialogue no one has is that A. Safety nets are extremely important and B. We can have these and also install safeguards to keep them from being abused. They'd enrich society because it would allow people who are temporarily or permanently disabled or injured to continue putting money into the economy. Thats where people get it twisted.
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@Christian Lopez Yes he is wrong. Clearly he has an incentive to say he is a great smarty big boi. Its like asking a serial killer if the death penalty should exist...
@Christian Lopez Everyone is biased is a true statement. It is not a fallacy. Zack never said this CEO was wrong. He just said he highly doubts he is unbiased. He would be wrong to say you should not listen to him because he is biased, which he did not do. The fallacy is in the misuse of bias to justify ones point. If you dont think the guy is biased, i got a bridge to sell you...
@Christian Lopez His arguements were litterally: 'Academics hate capitalism because they're useless in a true market society' (Wrong, because they're educated enough to know capitalism is terrible, flawed and exploitative, ALSO AS IF A CEO ISN'T USELESS IN A FUCKING TRUE MARKET SOCIETY LMAOO.) 'Its nature for animals to hoard stuff (food) therefore socialism doesn't work' (First of a literal appeal to nature LUL) 'Government bodies can't innervate' (Despite all great leap innovations that take decades to develop like space travel, the fucking internet, scientific discoveries happen because the people working there are able to do so because they don't have slimey pigs like Mackey focused on short term profit and appealing to shareholders.) He is a capitalist pig spreading cringe neo-liberal/neo-con dogma.
Funny how people like him like to claim greed is a natural thing and everyone is prone to it, like we weren't supposed to get a grip on our urges whenever it imposes misery on others.
It’s entirely natural. There is a level of greediness in everyone no matter what their station in life is. The problem is that often people equate success with greed. They shouldn’t. There are incredibly greedy people out there who are not successful at attaining wealth or social status. It doesn’t mean they aren’t greedy - they are just not successful.
@@cashcleaner Psychopaths also believe everyone is bad, so why try to be good? You could punish greed of course, like murder. Exercised anger is punishable, but somehow exercised greed can't be? It may be natural but it shouldn't be unpunished. All you say are, you are greedy, so is everybody else, so why change anything?
@@BaskenmannZwei That’s often true too. Many people who are overly suspicious or paranoid of others have that mindset because they themselves have no moral qualm over cheating or lying or stealing themselves. It’s transference and projection.
US Pharma Chemical company sending Chemicals to Mexico cartel that is a plan to wipe out the vets elderly people with disablities not Addicts. Same thing happened in the alcohol prohabition. It makes it more available to all Addicts and cheaper. This is just wiping out the broken ppl. Because they have been denied meds..
yeah it's an american company with a blanket ban against any pins / logos / etc. can't expect them to know about the cultural significance of the poppy here in canada. it's good that they changed it after receiving backlash.
@@johnnyprencipe696 yes you can expect any company to be educated on the country they’re expanding to and profiting from. Remembrance day/week and the poppy go hand in hand.
Well, to be honest, I think the "intellectuals" has referring to are the ones that think they have all the answers to a topic they have no actual real world experience in.
I don't think they all are though. Lumping people all together like that is dangerous. It's quite similar to lumping all capitalists as greedy and all socialists as incompetent.
They get millions from the taxpayers ... they love big government so they can donate to each other ... just search how much money Warren , Obama and other politicians get for a speech ... th-cam.com/video/m5I-Vs_l9Fs/w-d-xo.html
As someone who has been in academia for 15 years, he's not wrong. Professors generally have an inflated view of self along with a chip on their shoulder. The smugness and negativity towards society bleeds down to the students.
Nobody gives a shit about the professors. They are just going to college to get credentialed since our economy almost forces us to if we want any hope of getting a good paying job. You worked in academia for 15 years and never learned that 🤦♂️
@@fcos9704 Academia for Engineers and other ACTUAL skills is worth it, everything else is a waste. When most student are going for Liberal Arts degrees, it's safe to say that they don't really know shyt.
Suppose one grants that "professors generally have an inflated view of self along with a chip on their shoulder." This is irrelevant ad hominem reasoning that ignores their arguments and attacks their character, motivations, etc. Consider this: 1. Professor Bob says 2+2=4 2. However, professor Bob has an inflated view of himself with a chip on his shoulder and cannot be trusted. 3. Therefore, 2+2 does not equal 4. See how that does not follow. Attack the argument, not the person.
This guy has honestly the most braindead take ever "durr I've used an economic model to assign value to individuals and so the people in control of the economic model are worth more in the system they control therefore they must inherently be better." Ya and Asian/Japanese people tend to be the Best Sumo Fighters and Americans make the best Basketball players it's almost like when you control all of the drivers for success and value in a system you control the outcome.
@@daretalley8182 I hope nobody takes you seriously. You literally cannot entertain the opposing view point when you frame things in these ridiculous emotive dichotomies. Its a low IQ idea.
@@FatsFalafel and you believe socialism will correct this? You don't believe that those who are already in power will benefit from introducing socialism?
I had a professor in college, who once went off on a rant, on how professors like him are not paid enough. He had three Masters degrees (non-STEM), so definitely in a capitalist society even your tittles come second, is all about what you’re able to provide the economy.
Good you don't want empty credentialed people making lots of money just because of "credentials", that is called over-bureaucratization that leads to massive inefficiencies., corruption and shortages for the majority
The problem when everything is money focused you pay less attention to innovation. Take physics for example, not really making too much money at face value but the discoveries it provides will fuel future economies. Capitalism won’t benefit the scientists only the business owners. Another example of what I’m saying is Apple. Apples stock gained more from stock but backs than the invention of the iPod. Too much focus on money will also erode values Mx there’s more to like than the paper in your pocket.
He's giving the standard libertarian textbook answer which has valid points, but does not explain the problems of an empire where the upper class is a kind of modern intermarried aristocracy and controls both the state and the top corporations. You vote left, the upper class wins. You vote right, the upper class wins. You either get exploited by the gov or the corporations. The main reason why people still fall for socialism is not the waffling of the intellectuals. It's the horrible wages, the long working hours and how bad you get treated by those companies. Families like the Kochs have bought up libertarianism and kept it very basic and stuck in the 1960s. And the more families like the Kochs put money into this libertarianism, the less likely it becomes that libertarians actually win elections.
The problem is, all the Left wing normies think that some how-some way that they come up as their Commie leadership comes up which is NOT true.. at least in a capitalist/free market, people (normals) can always come up one step if you focus and work on progressing.. like if you are born poor, you can become middle class... if you were born middle class, then you have the background and resources to become wealthy.. if you are lucky enough to be born with wealth, you can become super wealthy...
'...why people still fall for socialism...'?! LoL! Western societies are more socialist than most, if not all, so called 'communist/socialist' countries. Social welfare, free education, free health (maybe not so much in the US), free/government assisted housing, government handouts, government bailouts...the list goes on. These are all socialist ideals not capitalist. Find any me any 'communist' country that spends a larger portion of its GDP on social welfare than so called 'capitalist' Western countries?! The UK for example spends almost half of its entire annual GDP on social welfare programs! FFS high school is not even free in China!
"Win-win-win" yeah right, tell that to minimum wage cashier at Walmart who has no rights or benefits to protect her/him. When shit hits the fan, us peasants are the ones taking consequences, not people like Jeff Bezos. They make money on our misery.
@@quinnkrause6489 theoretically yeah but in practice richer people have access to a plethora of legal benefits (patents, grants, bailouts) that your average layman does not have
@@Potato-lw3fe It depends if they can find a business willing to hire someone for a position that they will pay more. All it takes is looking at a job offerings site and you see all the requirements listed. This isn't necessarily because those positions are difficult but because the company only wants people who already have years of experience and qualifications. Also, "why not find a different job" is a bad excuse for a business owner not paying their workers well. People should be paid according to how successful the business is since the workers as a whole have contributed a lot to that business being successful in the first place. I think for you to understand this more clearly, there would have to be a law where business owners cannot hire people to work for them. Under those conditions no business would ever be anywhere close to being large like Walmart. I think those circumstances would make it more clear for you but i'm also probably overestimating you.
@@benjibenj7406 funny how you feel sooo smart. It’s really entertaining for everyone. (yOu hAvE nO iDeA bRo LmAo) really good argument. All animals are greedy. That’s an evolutionary prerequisite in order to survive. If anything, society made us less greedy because greed is more and more seen as a bad trait.
Not only that. He claims that greed is human nature and therefore we should build our society around it. Later in the video he claims that altruism is also human nature, but we can not build our society around it.
The economy can be flourishing and the vast majority of people doing extremely well and folks will still be on the bottom and folks will still be poor. Capitalism is a win win win system but it doesn't create a utopia. Capitalism creates the greatest opportunity for economic mobility, raises people out of poverty, and has creates the current period of unprecedented human prosperity. Its never going to be perfect.
@Gottfried Lieber Greed does live in all of us to a certain extent. It's decent society that doesnt embolden that nature. Capitalism isnt the problem. Its that we have allowed cronyism to creep in. Its that we turn the blind eye when corporations lobby the government to create unfair rules or to flat out subsidize them. Socialism or any Marxist style of government does nothing but bring everyone to same level of poverty with the exception of the ruling elite. Controlling equity must be done with violence because no wants to give up the things theyve worked their entire lives for. Most of the people that would suffer in marxist revolutions are middle and lower class people. The elite already have their place at the table. Marxism sounds great but the reality is that its just death and destruction, nothing more.
@Touhidul Islam Abir No, it's actually right. The top gets subsidized by the government while the poor are told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
So true, if we truly lived in a free market we wouldn’t have rewarded GE,Chrysler,all the investment banks & the list goes on. Then some ppl call social security,that we paid for,an entitlement. Looks like the federal govt had set aside 17 billion for Boeing “just in case” The system we fail if radical change isn’t. Both democrats and Republicans are responsible for this mess projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
So the gallons of milk discarded, the tons of food wasted, the play on profit over human life, none of these are arguments enough for why so many young people are disappointed in capitalism? Sometimes these talk show are just that. Talk shows.
@The Great Pumpkin Here comes the Red Pill. If you tax Walmart, they will raise prices and the poor will pay. If you tax Exxon they will raise prices and the poor will pay. If you tax the rubber industry, prices on tires will increase and the poor will pay. If you tax lumber, prices on homes will increase and the poor will pay. If you tax whole foods the poor will be priced out of healthy foods. If you tax landlords, they will raise prices and the poor will pay more for rent. If you tax property, many poor people will be forced out of owning a home, making them rent, at a higher rate, because the landlord will send his costs downstream. If you tax executive salaries they will be paid in stock options. If you tax stock options, you will hurt everyone's 401k. Especially the very poor. If you tax healthcare they will raise prices and the poor will pay. I gotta ask, why do you hate the poor so much? :P
@@kurtjohansson1265 first of all, if the situation gets really bad the government can always decide the maximum price for goods. Second, if Walmart raises the prices it gives an advantage to all its rivals (be regional or local, they probably would pay way less than an enormous company like Walmart). Honestly if I were Walmart in that situation I would lower the employee wages (like it's often done), but that's where unions come in and I know Walmart doesn't allow unions, but that could probably change pretty easily.
I'm confused on his perspective almost every government redistributes wealth the question is how much? Right? Otherwise there wouldn't be any government services
Local governments taxing commodities for things like fire departments and the like, helps the community as a whole. However, federal and state governments subsidizing expenses for certain groups, just drives up prices for people not receiving government subsidy. Sometimes to the point of even creating government monopolies because it's impossible for the market to compete. Even though it's usually done out of good faith, It's almost always just unnecessary burden on the economy that causes more problems that it solves.
@@ajax2.087 redistribution of wealth is bad. If you want to give your money to someone, then more power to you. Donations are great, but taking money from someone and giving it to someone else is morally wrong, and also bad for the economy. Not to mention poor people pay more in taxes than rich people, collectively, and get less benefit from them, collectively. Paying a tax on a candy bar is a different thing than paying income taxes just because the government thinks it can handle your money better than you can.
Lol of course he defends it. That isn't wrong though necessarily. If he's trying to help humanity that isn't any different than a socialist trying to help society. Just different modes of thought.
@@Robert-cd2ox non sequitur. The original statement was pointing out that the CEO is talking about greed while being a greedy person. The original statement was not complaining that the prices are too high or even suggesting that they actually purchase said products.
Of course Pharma and healthcare are particularly driven by profit - and rightly so. They should make profit. You only make profit by creating value and giving people want they want or need. Profit is a sign you are doing something right.
@@phunkracy If you know the history of why the insulin prices was able to be jacked in the first place, it was because of the huge barriers to entry in medicine posed by the FDA. Combined with the fact they literally stopped their competitor from being able to sell a similar product, in effect handing them a monopoly. Medicine as it currently stands is such a quagmire of misinformation combined with actual huge benefits that entangling all of the problems there would take a book.
That's not all of it though. I am all for a regulated free market enterprise, but society can't live nor thrive on a free market alone. Universal healthcare or M4All would be a great step in the right direction, but we have to consider things like how politics sucker up to lobbyists or disregard their constituents for their own interests.
Joe was either having a mental block understanding the difference between 'whole foods' the diet and 'whole foods' the store. Joe was being a little dim (perhaps deliberately to get a reaction) and it was a frustrating listen! I'm not even a vegetarian or plant based diet guy! John Mackey made his points very well.
Listened to the whole episode this morning and the plant-based, whole food diet part was a rough listen. Joe wouldn't let it go and you could tell John wanted to change the subject.
They're just jelly that they can't lobby the govt to deregulate pollution standards, to not have a minimum wage, to not prevent me from making my workers work constantly without even a bathroom break.
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If you rather live in a different time or place... The latter is an option, and depending on your choice can transport you to differing times in the past...
He literally said „maybe it’s not true during the time of Adam smith“ you idiot. Also, finding one example of where this is not true doesn’t debunk an argument
There are multiple accounts not to mention articles written about how and why they were used. Not going to do the research for you. But maybe be informed before you speak. Also I think joe Rogen does a great job checking people on their bs claims. Just like when this CEO was talking about a “Whole Foods” diet reversing heart problems. Sure eating a balanced diet I am sure helps but this guy is trying to sell it as a play on words using his companies name to try and drive up profits. Pretty easy to see that.
@@christopherflatum618 a whole food plant based diet does reduce heart disease. But calling your supermarket Aspirin doesn’t mean it’s gonna kill pain.
Well no, you can survive without a lot of things, money included. Whether that sort survival is healthy for both physical and mental health, that's the real question. 🤙AHAHA But yea I sorta agree, in this sorta society, money is incredibly important.
You can always live under a bridge asking people for money. No one forces them to work. You don't need money to survive. You need money to live comfortably. Cavemen survived with no money.
We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. ~ _Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle_
The problem that is difficult to justify is when the CEO is making the average employees annual salary in a day. Not sure why they should make 300x more than the average employee. Obviously someone is getting shorted. Or many people are. Just because they can pay crap THEY WILL!
@@Shapes_Quality_Control That isn't true. If I go to the casino with a large amount of money I am probably risking much more than he did and if I do win it is probably less payout than what the ceo of whole foods has acquired. He took less risk and gained more in comparison to that scenario, therefore your statement is false. He made a choice to invest time and money in something. The choice he made of what to do is key, not the risk. Many things have low risk and high reward, you have to find them though. Also, your statement is wrong regardless if you define risk with respect to money or time. I think it is interesting to ask why him and not someone else though? If you picture your available choices as doors, you have the doors currently available to you and also doors that could become available to you if you work on it. What is out of people's control is the doors they start with and the amount of work it takes to get doors they don't currently have. John Mackey's father was a CEO. The door of "creating whole foods" only becomes available after a variety of factors have been met . That door was more easily found by John Mackey because of his parents and so on (Just like the children of highly educated parents are more likely to get highly educated in comparison to children whose parents are not highly educated; it's called breaking the cycle for a reason). Now personally, although I believe life isn't fair in the short term due to evil, I do believe that despite that, life is still fair over the long term due to reasons not to be discussed here
Its like watching a monkey doing tricks lol. Of course a CEO is gonna be on the side of capitalism making 75 million dollars lol. If he was paid 75 thousand dollars he would probably be complaining about how shady big businesses really are.
@@jessingtons-6589 capitalist are the same ones being bailed out nonstop. They put down socialism but are more than welcome to be a benefactor of it constantly
There’s different levels of smart just like there’s levels of drugs. A mechanic can be smart & doctor can be smart but they differ & have different importance & outcome. Drugs that help you heal are great. Then there are drugs that destroy lives. Dig deeper.
and he totally didnt dissapoint! i bet this clowns a closet pedo and is so ashamed of his self inside. he doesnt belong in america being so ignorant about honest reality.
Capitalism encourages innovation with the goal of creating value. All other economic systems have a tendency to remain stagnant with little chance of improvement.
@@mr12aT Yes, he is using a weird mix of neoclassical and austrian arguments, while at the same time making the RIDICULOS argument that academics hate capitalism. Umm what about Locke, Ricardo, Mathus, Marshall, Hayek, Keynes, Friedman, Solow, Samuelson, I mean I could go al day naming academics that love capitalism but there really is no point.
@@davide9598 I wish Joe also had a sociologist on too. The guy is just using oligarchic talking points. “Capitalism is a win, win win”. You know when a billionaire says that you can assume everything else he said is full of shit.
Y’all amped up on this one, but I’m surprised JR hasn’t uploaded the one where he lit his ass up on the Dieting and sugar industry. Those are the comments I want to read
As a physics student who did well at school and is planning to get a PhD in physics, I don’t give a flying fuck if any of my old classmates get better payment than me. All I care for is that one kid who had to work extra hours after school to support his family while I had the privilege of studying and then resting in my bedroom watching TH-cam videos.
@@Joefest99 what do you mean? Are you asking why a high school student with studies and a social life didn’t sacrifice them for another person he barely knew? What’s the point of this question? The burden shouldn’t fall on high schoolers to help poor people you dimwit. There should be government funding for that.
It's easy for Americans to have this discussion. Half of them don't even own a passport, and have never even traveled outside the U.S. Let alone actually live in a socialist country.
I’m not a fan of socialism, but show me why I should have loyalty to rich business owners and shareholders. I’ve been laid off 4 times in my life and I get paid less than I did 10 years ago for SKILLED WORK. there are tens of millions like me. I’ve met them. Why should I stay loyal to people who obviously don’t care about me?
@@MisterCovek I’ve been around the world and have burned through two 10 yr passports. But I have been reading history. I’m not a socialist but capitalism seems to remind me of feudalism with more people involved. We fought wars and had multiple revolutions over feudalism. Have you read the bulk of human history?
The difference is that he is talking about what he's actually done. The "intellectual" he describes talks about the hypothetical "ifs" or what they've read or saw, not what they've DONE!
This guy thinks he has the world figured out by saying all intellectuals are super smart at school and that's all they know and they don't make any money so they hate the world but the frat Bros who do somewhat good in college make all the money bro. LOL what a f****** clown
I like how he talks about people "always making things a binary decision. Evil VS Good..." etc. Then goes on to talk about how it is just "capitalism VS communism". Instead of people simply saying "capitalism isn't working for our world and isn't sustainable, and we can do much better than that." I would suggest looking into "The Zeitgeist Movement" for much better concepts on these ideas.
I would say Michael Parenti cuz he can bring him to the foreign policies that effect the capitalism socialism debate. But hey having Richard Wolff there yoohhooooo.
Y’all misunderstood joe. He isn’t saying his definition of smart is a blanket term, he was saying that the world doesn’t see smart as his strict definition: doing good in school. Only he is projecting that those that do well at school think only they are smart, which is just not true. It’s common sense that many smart people don’t just stay in school, and may end up with different career paths. No intellectual thinks bill gates isn’t smart because he didn’t complete college.
"the employees are winning because they have jobs an opportunities to grow and they do that voluntarily they're not forced" We all go to work voluntarily it's not because we need money.
@@dickenstom exactly that's why this guy is actually smart because everything he's saying is true and then people just want a society with everything is given to them for free. I get paid for my time and labor. I base how hard I work on the salary I get. if I don't like it I move on, that's what it means to be free
@@jjgaming9860 sadly this common sense is dying as we enter a dark era. Guess we will have to run the experiment one more time hopefully 300,000,000 arn't butchered this go around
@@dickenstom if people would just be a little more self-reliant and do things the right way like don't go in debt out of high school don't have kids out of wedlock they will be able to save a lot more money than they realize. I know so many younger people that took that stimulus check and blew it, instead of saving it and reinvesting it in themselves dumb dumb dumb
I believe there is value from utilizing some socialist policies, but capitalism is an excellent incentive system for success. That cannot be understated. Whereas pure socialism has never proven to be successful.
Bernie and AOC ruined the term. Socialism is the people through government owning the means of production. Basically all businesses and services. What you are talking about is Social Welfare. Use the fruits of Capitalism to help the people as a whole.
Aykroyd has a great line in Ghostbusters: "You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."
@@Divided_Highway No, its people who know their true value. An it's a typical response from people like you who don't see value in people who do real work.
@@willflynn9881 your statement is a little ambiguous. But what I’m getting at simply is you’re not gonna work if you THINK you should be making more money. Hey, that’s fine that’s your choice. That’s why it’s not exploitation of labor. The wage is a reflection of the worth of the employee.
@@hammurabii.3173 A billion? Pfff. 1000 dollars to 1,000,000 people. There goes your billion. It ain t shit, you solved nothing. That is kind of you, but not very smart.
I wish I knew what to say to convince conservatives that capitalism needs to be regulated. Look at this man, and realize his thought system represents the vast majority of CEO's and Bankers. You don't like Communism? You don't like socialism? Fine! The government doesn't need to nationalize these private companies, but why for the love of God do you refuse to have them regulated?!?!? Why do you insist on letting them get away with everything the want?!?!?!
Kings were overthrown because someone else wanted to rule. Since people hate democracy (real democracy, not the phony kinds like aristocracies and republics) we have to choose which rich people to rule use. Will it be the ones sitting in congress or the ones sitting behind a corporate desk? I suppose the power of choice between these two is in our hands...
True. I’d argue however that capitalism is the best economic system we have so far, albeit not perfect. Socialism has never worked and never will work, however studies of capitalism show that the poverty rates under capitalistic societies are lower than that of socialist societies. Socialism stifles competition and incentive to innovate. It also pushes for equality of outcome while robbing others of equality of opportunity. Venezuela is the perfect example of how socialism always fails, as it was once the strongest economy in South America through capitalism and now it’s a warzone full of violence and poverty because of socialism.
hes speaking facts. all my universitry professors are left wing nutjobs. Universities will hate you and give you worse marks for being conservative. The "intellectuals" (aka marxists with a degree in gender studies) hate capitalism.
@@kickdawson Precisely how do marxist professors benefit from capitalist society? If you watch the video they are literally talking about how they are undervalued by capitalist society.
@@aliencheerios6011 it’s not all of them, it’s only the profs in the field that pertains to sociology. For most other prof none of them has such strong political views.
Lost me when he said humans will never be perfect. Millions of years from now we’ll have no idea what we as a race will be capable of. The steps we take today can help and provide an advantage not only for our own family lines but for all of the people we love and they people they love, etc...
The chance of us surviving as a species for millions of years are extremely slim, 99.x% of all mammals that have ever existed are extinct. Remember that we already have gone through several extinction events and barely made it.
Seems close minded, we have gotten so far in such a short amount of time. We could definitely get so much further, we have an incredible amount of time. We gotta use our resources on the right things, which we don't right now. Way too much spending on the wrong things
“Ultimately, saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.”
― Edward Snowden
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You could spend $90,000 a day EVERY day, 365days a year for 30 YEARS straight and you still would not have spent $1bn. Being a billionaire is just hoarding and greed, no person needs billions while others starve.
@@AK-el3we how many people get to eat and live in a home because of that billionaire employing thousands ?
@@AK-el3we we've actually nearly eradicated world hunger. most starvation that happens these days is due to political instability.
@@SonOftheBattleCry not very intelligent, are you?
"This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
True, it's why we need to return to true capitalism and liberty and prevent government from growing ever again. It's never happened before but there must be a way, and it likely involves in waking the masses up to the damage from cronyism and rekindling their principles of individual values.
@@SamRFi Concentration of power just makes bribery easier. Lots of people with a little power are harder to bribe than a handful of officials in a small government.
The rich love socialism!
@@jdavis7993 Well said. Sounds like an advocacy for direct democracy?
Actually it’s socialism for the rich and very poor and rugged individualism for everyone else
Sometimes he's Comrade Joe and other times Don't tread on me Rogan.
Hes a personality chameleon.
He molds to whoever hes with
He was comrade Joe here . He gives the impression sometimes that he thinks collectivism will not lead to authoritarianism but of course it always does.
Being a capitalist doesn't make you a conservative it makes you intelligent.
He just pushes back politely but finds common ground when he has a guest; it creates a good conversation. It's just interviewing skills.
Conscious capitalism sounds like another type of sales pitch
Commenting on concious capitalism also sounds like a new sales pitch.
It's clean coal. Aka a load of bullshit.
It sounds like you already have your mind made up. Listen to the man. He gives extreme detail explaining his position. Don’t try to interpret the meaning of a two word name without listening to the explanation.
@@williammcgeown842 most get it done thinking people would say that being anti-capitalist is a load of BS.
Well you are wrong
The problem (and I love capitalism) is when those business owners pay politicians to put in rules that cut down competition and create oligarchs.
I'm not sure what you mean. Competition by its very nature is to eliminate the competition. Patents and non-competes might sound reasonable at first glance, but the main objective is to eliminate competition. Companies tend to become monopolies because of the nature of competition and therefore anti-trust laws have to be made to make sure that companies don't really compete to that extent. Although I must admit, anti-trust laws are typically not followed through on most of the time in court rulings. 🤷♂️
That’s criminal and has nothing to do with capitalism. Breaking the rules doesn’t mean that the rule is to blame
Socialist are the ones that put so much power in politicians hands
that's called bad and corrupt government, nothing to do with capitalism
that is not problem of capitalism
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” - Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (ca 410 BCE)
Fascinating
I wonder which polity or polities he observed as exemplary cases for his assertion. You think he had a specific polity in mind?
Niceeeeee
@@Synochra I don't think anyone have answer for that. First and foremost he was a historian. A person that was very fixated about writing each and every one day at the time of Peloponnesian War. He's cogitation was very strick and scientists alike. He wanted to passa lesson from past so future changers of the world would act differently. But at the same time he thought that people should be brave enough as wise. But he was very libertarian. He thought that it would be good idea that government would had military control, seek economic prosperity rather then bother and corrupt political views or ethics.
Good quote from great mind. I must admit how influencing martial arts or scouting was. It makes you want to be pro active about stuff at same time it levels you out in normal day life. As I personally don't think we should approach matters with physical power. I belive that he would see this world far more differently. We musk seek wisdoms of the past but not fixate on it. Learn the lessons and move on. Adapt improve. If we would do as he taught we would be far wiser then him.
This quote is always misattributed to Thucydides, but it was actually made by Sir William Francis Butler in 1889.
@@PDStorm170 source??
Joe: "Lobbyists have an undue influence on politics"
This guy: "Well no system is perfect"
A lack of accountability lol
Yea this guys in his own world. He's greedy and either uninformed or just plain stupid
@@terrycools6731 Nah he definitely knows what he's up to. He's against expanding workers' rights and stuff and condemns any critique of capitalism.
@@Cindy99765 Yeah, he is who I'd like to call, a sociopath... Lol
They just weren’t doing capitalism right!
This video is largely strawman arguments. The problem with pure capitalism (which doesn't exist in America) is that without regulations and taxation the owners of companies are not only prone to corruption but parasitically take far too big a cut of pie. The problem with pure socialism is centrally planned economies are a terrible way to produce wealth. Everyone (except select members of the state) are equally poor and it also takes excessive amount of force to maintain.
Mixed economies try to address some of the failings of both systems. We have publicly funded high schools and health care for kids whose parents can't afford it. We have regulatory bodies that set building codes, food safety, drug testing, and other standards. Likewise, we still leave a wealth carrot dangling for those that put in more effort and have talent to succeed. That right mix is certainly debatable but anyone who claims America is one system or the other, or should only be one system or the other, has no clue what they are talking about.
straight facts
This guy and Jack Ma prove that you don't have to be that smart to get rich
@@pleuratkamberi8043 bro this guy and every other ceo and billionaire is an example of that
This is true and important to know
So much misinformation
If you need the government to save you from dangerous food why then don't you need the government to save you from exploding batteries
Bruhh he steered away from Jeff Bezos immediately...Cuz Jeff owns him lol “Hole foods”
jeff bezos bought a whole newspaper that covered his marriage
WF was circling the drain until Amazon bailed them out.
Obama classified you a vegetable
@@tomwaitsmencse explain
@@tomwaitsmencse if I’m a vegetable Obama and Biden built you like the Monsanto seed you are
"You cannot convince a man of the truth so long as his salary depends on him NOT knowing the truth" - John Maynard Keynes
Keynes ain't got shit on my boys Hayek and Mises!
@@maxortengren1139 Damn straight! Keynesianism is pseudoscience
@@adammartinez8794
@@maxortengren1139 my economist is better than yours! everything needs to be equated to sports otherwise my tiny brain cant comprehend it!
@@falcr9995 and ooof looks like a butthurt Keynsian. Probably hurts from getting too much of that stimulus package if you know what I mean 😉😉!
Why doesn't Rogan interview Whole Foods' employees?
Because they are mostly useless... which is why they are basic replaceable employees.
My brother and I have worked for Whole foods. (supervisor/supporting role).
It's funny to listen to these ideals. The stores do not live up to this mans vision.
But most of this "conscious-leadership" is for the executive level leadership for store management the story unfolds differently.
go on.... interested in more to understand what you mean. Do you mean that the store supervisors are treated like machines or a number ?
@@gbitdot More of a numbers situation;
It has a retail type attitude. They don't have any meaningful way to communicate with the front line workers. So imagine you start seeing a ineffective policy as a department manager. There is no way for that manager to communicate that up the chain and subsequently they will be held "accountable" for that policies failure.
This is hyper specific but this idea of "rules for thee and not for me" plagues the mid/higher levels of leadership.
Hope this anecdote is helpful.
@@allenhooper8532 Not surprised. I am a fan of people like Mackey, but I do see that they are detached from reality on the ground - just like - not probably as much but - the elites/intellectual class - as they complain against. Cheers.
My mom was from the farm and is know as a Texas folk legend.(Chris miller,millerBell,braids,motherEarth.
Do you know why my mom,dad,brother and sister left the farm and moved to Austin.
I know more than EVERYONE on this page or podcast!
And if you don't think my mom is the real deal. Just look n2 the birth of me in Austin in 1984 and follow the rabbit hole from there.
@@allenhooper8532 good explanation
This man saying "they hate us cuz they ain't us" about the "intellectuals and socialists" is wild lol
They hate us cause they anus?
He's saying that capitalism punishes the intellectuals which includes socialists, which he admits is a flawed trait of capitalism.
I'm not a socialist because I'm only 8/10 intelligent and rather than be a 10/10 I laid pipe in college
well, he speaks the facts.
the so called intelligent people in universities are jelous that even an average person can actually become much richer and much more successful than some PhD professor that thinks too highly of himself/herself. socialists want a utopia that actually DOES have a hierarchy. the people on top will of course be the "intellectuals". the smart people that know everything, apparently.
social engineering at it's finest. extremely hypocritical as well. never mind the fact that we as humans have our own personal desires and dreams. everyone should be "equal".
not equality of opportunity but equity.
fuck that!
@@LevisH21
Evidence?
We bigfoots don't really care about the difference economic systems, it doesn't make much difference to us out here in the wilderness
Lol
same big bro
Geez😂😂
Speak for yourself, Commie.
Lmfao
I can say as someone who always did very well in school, my professors never inspired me to be entrepreneurial.
Uhhhh..... That's not their job.....
They’re literally working a 9-5 too how could they inspire you lol
@@moderndayentertainment5812 a crime against human nature (40 a week is just dumb as fuck (no time too eat properly take sunshine,, educate themselves do things properly)
im activist so it means (i have something important to say but the system is too,,, corrupted or stupid or busy looking/ playing into the industry funded studies$$ fuck animal agg (etc
You can have government safety nets, but that's not socialism.
I agree with you. I am so tired of hearing people misuse the terms socialism, fascism, communism, democracy, republic, and capitalism. You don't even have to be a political science buff, it takes all of a few minutes to an hour or two to read up the basics of these ideologies. It annoys me when people call anything of welfarism (or social-safety net) as socialism or communism, or when people call worker co-ops communism, even though they are not. If people are going to fling terminology around, use it correctly!
@RYAN SEAN REZANTO yeah it goes both ways and it’s really hurting our society’s ability to have debates and discussions
The main problem is that safety nets get abused. The real dialogue no one has is that A. Safety nets are extremely important and B. We can have these and also install safeguards to keep them from being abused. They'd enrich society because it would allow people who are temporarily or permanently disabled or injured to continue putting money into the economy. Thats where people get it twisted.
@Jew Tube Oh no... Not that freaking kid. Tell my wife I love her....Now, kill me. KILL ME! Now before I tell the teacher they forgot to pass out the homework! HURRY!
This is how it starts
This is how Hitler and Mussolini started
i highly doubt that the CEO of whole foods is unbiased when talking about capitalism vs socialism lol
As is everyone is biased
@Christian Lopez Yes he is wrong. Clearly he has an incentive to say he is a great smarty big boi. Its like asking a serial killer if the death penalty should exist...
@Christian Lopez He is arguing in bad faith and defending that position in itself is propping up fallacy.
@Christian Lopez Everyone is biased is a true statement. It is not a fallacy. Zack never said this CEO was wrong. He just said he highly doubts he is unbiased. He would be wrong to say you should not listen to him because he is biased, which he did not do. The fallacy is in the misuse of bias to justify ones point. If you dont think the guy is biased, i got a bridge to sell you...
@Christian Lopez His arguements were litterally:
'Academics hate capitalism because they're useless in a true market society' (Wrong, because they're educated enough to know capitalism is terrible, flawed and exploitative, ALSO AS IF A CEO ISN'T USELESS IN A FUCKING TRUE MARKET SOCIETY LMAOO.)
'Its nature for animals to hoard stuff (food) therefore socialism doesn't work' (First of a literal appeal to nature LUL)
'Government bodies can't innervate' (Despite all great leap innovations that take decades to develop like space travel, the fucking internet, scientific discoveries happen because the people working there are able to do so because they don't have slimey pigs like Mackey focused on short term profit and appealing to shareholders.)
He is a capitalist pig spreading cringe neo-liberal/neo-con dogma.
This guy just dropped a Michael Scott quote without irony.
Lmao Michael was ahead of the curve with the win-win-win mentality
It was a real philosophy long before The Office.
Michael Scott said alot of smart shit, he just said it out of context 99 percent of the time lol
@@coreymoore182 so true lmao. man was a out of context genius.
@@coreymoore182 why date an amateur when you can date a professional ?
Business owners are seen as greedy until you yourself become a business owner 😂
Very True
another version of this: "one should only argue with a vegetarian after he inherits a sausage factory"
Yep, everybody's a socialist until come into a little bit of money
@@shoyupacket5572 u missed the point.
@@shoyupacket5572 what are you talking about?
Funny how people like him like to claim greed is a natural thing and everyone is prone to it, like we weren't supposed to get a grip on our urges whenever it imposes misery on others.
It’s entirely natural. There is a level of greediness in everyone no matter what their station in life is.
The problem is that often people equate success with greed. They shouldn’t.
There are incredibly greedy people out there who are not successful at attaining wealth or social status. It doesn’t mean they aren’t greedy - they are just not successful.
@@cashcleaner Psychopaths also believe everyone is bad, so why try to be good? You could punish greed of course, like murder. Exercised anger is punishable, but somehow exercised greed can't be? It may be natural but it shouldn't be unpunished. All you say are, you are greedy, so is everybody else, so why change anything?
@@BaskenmannZwei That’s often true too.
Many people who are overly suspicious or paranoid of others have that mindset because they themselves have no moral qualm over cheating or lying or stealing themselves. It’s transference and projection.
3 minutes and joe successfully make a comment about drugs on a totally unrelated subject. He is getting better at this.
US Pharma Chemical company sending Chemicals to Mexico cartel that is a plan to wipe out the vets elderly people with disablities not Addicts. Same thing happened in the alcohol prohabition. It makes it more available to all Addicts and cheaper. This is just wiping out the broken ppl. Because they have been denied meds..
@@wytrose4602 0_o?
@@adamhenriksson6007 what they said is true and clearly emotionally charged.
@@ianthescientist8827 Yeah. I just love and respect the pivots.
@@adamhenriksson6007 I didn't catch the comment about drugs.
Maybe you're on drugs?
these guys banned employees from wearing the poppy on rememberance day in canada until receiving backlash
yeah it's an american company with a blanket ban against any pins / logos / etc. can't expect them to know about the cultural significance of the poppy here in canada. it's good that they changed it after receiving backlash.
@@johnnyprencipe696 yes you can expect any company to be educated on the country they’re expanding to and profiting from. Remembrance day/week and the poppy go hand in hand.
"intellectuals are the enemy of business"
Hmmm
they are the enemy of everything
Well, to be honest, I think the "intellectuals" has referring to are the ones that think they have all the answers to a topic they have no actual real world experience in.
I don't think they all are though. Lumping people all together like that is dangerous. It's quite similar to lumping all capitalists as greedy and all socialists as incompetent.
@@neetocracy yea...intellect...an enemy...to who idiots.
They get millions from the taxpayers ... they love big government so they can donate to each other ... just search how much money Warren , Obama and other politicians get for a speech ... th-cam.com/video/m5I-Vs_l9Fs/w-d-xo.html
As someone who has been in academia for 15 years, he's not wrong. Professors generally have an inflated view of self along with a chip on their shoulder. The smugness and negativity towards society bleeds down to the students.
Nobody gives a shit about the professors. They are just going to college to get credentialed since our economy almost forces us to if we want any hope of getting a good paying job. You worked in academia for 15 years and never learned that 🤦♂️
Like they say.. those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
@@sten260 A position in research in academia is usually accompanied with a position as a professor; so your take is not only wrong but also stupid.
@@fcos9704 Academia for Engineers and other ACTUAL skills is worth it, everything else is a waste.
When most student are going for Liberal Arts degrees, it's safe to say that they don't really know shyt.
Suppose one grants that "professors generally have an inflated view of self along with a chip on their shoulder." This is irrelevant ad hominem reasoning that ignores their arguments and attacks their character, motivations, etc. Consider this:
1. Professor Bob says 2+2=4
2. However, professor Bob has an inflated view of himself with a chip on his shoulder and cannot be trusted.
3. Therefore, 2+2 does not equal 4.
See how that does not follow. Attack the argument, not the person.
Maybe, just maybe, there’s legitimate reason to critique the business world outside of motivations from jealousy.
Yeah... His answer was really childish...
This guy has honestly the most braindead take ever "durr I've used an economic model to assign value to individuals and so the people in control of the economic model are worth more in the system they control therefore they must inherently be better." Ya and Asian/Japanese people tend to be the Best Sumo Fighters and Americans make the best Basketball players it's almost like when you control all of the drivers for success and value in a system you control the outcome.
Nah man, because you are not " street smarts" you are just " book smarts"
It seems like he’s just trying to protect his interests as businessman
Yeah, he’s got a horse in the race!
The CEO of Podcasts talking about capitalism with the CEO of Whole Foods.
Two men who were able to use the system and achieve greatness, why wouldn't they defend a system that's made them extremely successful?
@@UxCANxDOxIT podcasting is a pretty social idea. Capitalism and socialism is argument between love and fear
@@UxCANxDOxIT Because it has enabled those in power to horde unimaginable resources and developed the current US political model of "money = speech".
@@daretalley8182 I hope nobody takes you seriously. You literally cannot entertain the opposing view point when you frame things in these ridiculous emotive dichotomies. Its a low IQ idea.
@@FatsFalafel and you believe socialism will correct this? You don't believe that those who are already in power will benefit from introducing socialism?
I had a professor in college, who once went off on a rant, on how professors like him are not paid enough. He had three Masters degrees (non-STEM), so definitely in a capitalist society even your tittles come second, is all about what you’re able to provide the economy.
yes, *what you can provide!* Not what you can consume
Uni professors make 150 THOUSAND+
Good you don't want empty credentialed people making lots of money just because of "credentials", that is called over-bureaucratization that leads to massive inefficiencies., corruption and shortages for the majority
But like....did he expect the extra degrees to get him more pay ?
The problem when everything is money focused you pay less attention to innovation. Take physics for example, not really making too much money at face value but the discoveries it provides will fuel future economies. Capitalism won’t benefit the scientists only the business owners.
Another example of what I’m saying is Apple. Apples stock gained more from stock but backs than the invention of the iPod. Too much focus on money will also erode values Mx there’s more to like than the paper in your pocket.
He's giving the standard libertarian textbook answer which has valid points, but does not explain the problems of an empire where the upper class is a kind of modern intermarried aristocracy and controls both the state and the top corporations. You vote left, the upper class wins. You vote right, the upper class wins. You either get exploited by the gov or the corporations. The main reason why people still fall for socialism is not the waffling of the intellectuals. It's the horrible wages, the long working hours and how bad you get treated by those companies. Families like the Kochs have bought up libertarianism and kept it very basic and stuck in the 1960s. And the more families like the Kochs put money into this libertarianism, the less likely it becomes that libertarians actually win elections.
The rich sell socialism to the poor to keep them poor and dependent
The problem is, all the Left wing normies think that some how-some way that they come up as their Commie leadership comes up which is NOT true.. at least in a capitalist/free market, people (normals) can always come up one step if you focus and work on progressing.. like if you are born poor, you can become middle class... if you were born middle class, then you have the background and resources to become wealthy.. if you are lucky enough to be born with wealth, you can become super wealthy...
'...why people still fall for socialism...'?!
LoL!
Western societies are more socialist than most, if not all, so called 'communist/socialist' countries.
Social welfare, free education, free health (maybe not so much in the US), free/government assisted housing, government handouts, government bailouts...the list goes on. These are all socialist ideals not capitalist.
Find any me any 'communist' country that spends a larger portion of its GDP on social welfare than so called 'capitalist' Western countries?! The UK for example spends almost half of its entire annual GDP on social welfare programs!
FFS high school is not even free in China!
@@kamma44 You know what the fkk I mean homie... I am talking about POLITICAL Socialism .. not the penche fire dept and police..
Perhaps the problem is your faith in democracy.
joe “well that seems like a flawed perspective” rogan
good on him for calling the guy out.
@n1tothrust another way of saying something isn’t entirely correct is flawed
@n1tothrust you’re speaking with your ass attached to your mouth.
@n1tothrust he said intellectuals are jealous of billionaires because of their status lol what a joke
@n1tothrust you're broke and you want capitalism... You baboon
I'm always wary of anyone who is the hero of their own story.
I laughed out loud to this comment. There's truth in what you're saying.
They start to think they’re the main character sometimes
If the story is unsolicited, no doubt
oh my god you just made my day haha
He’s employing thousands of Americans, how many do you employ?
"Win-win-win" yeah right, tell that to minimum wage cashier at Walmart who has no rights or benefits to protect her/him. When shit hits the fan, us peasants are the ones taking consequences, not people like Jeff Bezos. They make money on our misery.
Uhhh excuse me sir. They have the same rights as the person who owns Walmart
@@quinnkrause6489 theoretically yeah but in practice richer people have access to a plethora of legal benefits (patents, grants, bailouts) that your average layman does not have
Wait up, let me get my violin out.
why does not minimum wage cashier at Walmart go and do something else that is more lucrative????
@@Potato-lw3fe It depends if they can find a business willing to hire someone for a position that they will pay more. All it takes is looking at a job offerings site and you see all the requirements listed. This isn't necessarily because those positions are difficult but because the company only wants people who already have years of experience and qualifications.
Also, "why not find a different job" is a bad excuse for a business owner not paying their workers well. People should be paid according to how successful the business is since the workers as a whole have contributed a lot to that business being successful in the first place. I think for you to understand this more clearly, there would have to be a law where business owners cannot hire people to work for them. Under those conditions no business would ever be anywhere close to being large like Walmart. I think those circumstances would make it more clear for you but i'm also probably overestimating you.
"Intellectuals are the enemy of capitalism". Lmao he literally admits it
lol the actual smart people are the rich ones not the ones who think their paperwork makes them smart
@Nacht Aktiv and literally take there ideas and make money while paying them very little lol so whos the smart one
@@lukebennett576 Rich people aren't smart, theyre just the ones who exploit workers the most.
@Nacht Aktiv if you are rich you are smart , if dumbasses could exploit even dumber people for money than every body would be rich
@@lukebennett576 your comments gave me cancer.
"Mommy says the other kids only hate me because they're jealous"
So that doesn't happen?
Ever?
Just because it happens doesn’t mean that’s what is going on. It’s a watered down argument rooted in an egotistical worldview
The starving people are jealous of food... The poors are jealous of our billions... This man is an idiot
@Christian Lopez What a pile of nonsense you just wrote! You enjoy licking billionaire boots you poor?
"Bussinees is not all about greed..... all people are greedy."
some are not
@DaRoachDogg Jr. people are only greedy bec of society lmao. we are not born greedy
@DaRoachDogg Jr. you have no idea what sociology is do you bro lmao
@@benjibenj7406 funny how you feel sooo smart. It’s really entertaining for everyone. (yOu hAvE nO iDeA bRo LmAo) really good argument.
All animals are greedy. That’s an evolutionary prerequisite in order to survive.
If anything, society made us less greedy because greed is more and more seen as a bad trait.
John: win win win - customers are happy, employees are happy, investors are happy, traders are happy, everyone is happy
Joe: But what about the trees?
John: Well, all of the trees needed to be cut down for everyone to be happy.
Nicky Nox the phrase "everyone is happy" is an oxymoron. Just like The Good Old Days.
Tim Dillon should do fake business with this guy!
The fake business shit killed me. I want to try but I can’t make up the lies. I’m not a very good fake businessman :(
YES OR YES
Have you returned your tapes? Mr. Batemen.
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I wish it just become the joe rogan and Tim Dillon experience
"Socialism is a form of utopianism. Now let me explain how capitalism and business leads to everyone winning."
Brain gymnastics so he can sleep at night
@@williambjork2777
He sleeps just fine.
He wants you to be able to sleep at night thinking he didn't wrong you.
Not only that. He claims that greed is human nature and therefore we should build our society around it. Later in the video he claims that altruism is also human nature, but we can not build our society around it.
@Daniel Qruz I had to watch it 2-3 times, and probably will again. I could strongly sense some clever bullshit going on.
The economy can be flourishing and the vast majority of people doing extremely well and folks will still be on the bottom and folks will still be poor. Capitalism is a win win win system but it doesn't create a utopia. Capitalism creates the greatest opportunity for economic mobility, raises people out of poverty, and has creates the current period of unprecedented human prosperity. Its never going to be perfect.
Joe “comrade” Rogan
The elites break the law. The dollar isn’t even real money
@@actualideas8078 anarcho-epsteinism is the higher reality
Ahmad Auwad that might be coming
I smell simps.
If Joe didn’t play devil’s advocate then we’d never watch
How can this guy disagree when he has a huge massive fortune of 75M
Found the guy with $5.75 left in his checking account trying to tell other people how society works and how to spend money.
That he made from his own effort.
@Gottfried Lieber Greed does live in all of us to a certain extent. It's decent society that doesnt embolden that nature. Capitalism isnt the problem. Its that we have allowed cronyism to creep in. Its that we turn the blind eye when corporations lobby the government to create unfair rules or to flat out subsidize them.
Socialism or any Marxist style of government does nothing but bring everyone to same level of poverty with the exception of the ruling elite. Controlling equity must be done with violence because no wants to give up the things theyve worked their entire lives for. Most of the people that would suffer in marxist revolutions are middle and lower class people. The elite already have their place at the table. Marxism sounds great but the reality is that its just death and destruction, nothing more.
Capitalism for the bottom, socialism for the top.
@Touhidul Islam Abir No, it's actually right. The top gets subsidized by the government while the poor are told to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
@Tyler V Yup.
Similarly: privatized profits, socialized losses
So true, if we truly lived in a free market we wouldn’t have rewarded GE,Chrysler,all the investment banks & the list goes on. Then some ppl call social security,that we paid for,an entitlement. Looks like the federal govt had set aside 17 billion for Boeing “just in case” The system we fail if radical change isn’t. Both democrats and Republicans are responsible for this mess
projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
so you admit socialism is bad
Looking through the comment section I can tell someone shared this to Twitter and Reddit.
*r/politics has joined the chat*
For real lmao
I think it's more that people are seeing through the blanket bullshit that's been woven in front of their eyes.
@@mkg304 what might that blanket be?
@@aksjhdbaksjhdbNotASpam that sub is a democrat echo chamber
When you realize that both musk and bezos were born millionaires, this guy's disruption theory falls flat.
So the gallons of milk discarded, the tons of food wasted, the play on profit over human life, none of these are arguments enough for why so many young people are disappointed in capitalism? Sometimes these talk show are just that. Talk shows.
Despite all that discarding, capitalism has allowed us to produce far in excess. The alternative is struggling for a small amount of milk.
“Capitalism isn’t perfect” it sure doesn’t look bad where you are sitting.
It's perfect for people who enjoy exploiting workers.
where has socialism worked?
@The Great Pumpkin
Here comes the Red Pill.
If you tax Walmart, they will raise prices and the poor will pay.
If you tax Exxon they will raise prices and the poor will pay.
If you tax the rubber industry, prices on tires will increase and the poor will pay.
If you tax lumber, prices on homes will increase and the poor will pay.
If you tax whole foods the poor will be priced out of healthy foods.
If you tax landlords, they will raise prices and the poor will pay more for rent.
If you tax property, many poor people will be forced out of owning a home, making them rent, at a higher rate, because the landlord will send his costs downstream.
If you tax executive salaries they will be paid in stock options.
If you tax stock options, you will hurt everyone's 401k. Especially the very poor.
If you tax healthcare they will raise prices and the poor will pay.
I gotta ask, why do you hate the poor so much?
:P
@@kurtjohansson1265 first of all, if the situation gets really bad the government can always decide the maximum price for goods. Second, if Walmart raises the prices it gives an advantage to all its rivals (be regional or local, they probably would pay way less than an enormous company like Walmart). Honestly if I were Walmart in that situation I would lower the employee wages (like it's often done), but that's where unions come in and I know Walmart doesn't allow unions, but that could probably change pretty easily.
@@I_FUCKING_HATE_TH-cam thats the whole point though we need less government not more bs rrgulations for control only
I'm confused on his perspective almost every government redistributes wealth the question is how much? Right? Otherwise there wouldn't be any government services
exactamundo my friend
Local governments taxing commodities for things like fire departments and the like, helps the community as a whole. However, federal and state governments subsidizing expenses for certain groups, just drives up prices for people not receiving government subsidy. Sometimes to the point of even creating government monopolies because it's impossible for the market to compete. Even though it's usually done out of good faith, It's almost always just unnecessary burden on the economy that causes more problems that it solves.
@@dustin_thewind I get your point but he's making it look like any redistribution of wealth is bad when factually he's incorrect
Jaskaran Singh and if it does a whole lotta stuff, it’s communism
@@ajax2.087 redistribution of wealth is bad. If you want to give your money to someone, then more power to you. Donations are great, but taking money from someone and giving it to someone else is morally wrong, and also bad for the economy. Not to mention poor people pay more in taxes than rich people, collectively, and get less benefit from them, collectively. Paying a tax on a candy bar is a different thing than paying income taxes just because the government thinks it can handle your money better than you can.
"CEO Defends Capitalism"
Haha that gives the whole shit out doesn't it
Traitor!
Lol of course he defends it. That isn't wrong though necessarily. If he's trying to help humanity that isn't any different than a socialist trying to help society. Just different modes of thought.
Socialist pretends to be a human being
Name one socialist country that works.
the guy with the most over priced store is talking about greed lol
You didn't hear him man, it's called Conscious Capitalism now, so it's all good
@@dielawn87 There was a murderer who said they would be more conscious murderer. I said "Hey good on you man! Keep on doing your thing then!" 🤣
But nobody force you to buy His products
@@Robert-cd2ox non sequitur. The original statement was pointing out that the CEO is talking about greed while being a greedy person. The original statement was not complaining that the prices are too high or even suggesting that they actually purchase said products.
@@Hunterchuck Ok, then I understand. Im from Germany and im and I dont know the whole food prices.
Joe mentions lobbyists
This guy: the sad truth is humans are imperfect
is it true or not?
@@captnuggets1611 it's true but not a good defence for capitalism
@@cybervoid8442 it means we won’t find a much better system until we evolve.
@@WolfedOut
Our ancestors said the same thing about Fuedalism.
Amarendra Mishra - it also has nothing to do with capitalism and would also happen in socialism
This man is living in his own self-justifying world. I mean, to say the pharma & health care industry is not driven by greed and profit is false.
Which ironically government has a near monopoly in those industries... Yeah that's not Capitalism. Try again.
You know nothing of the health care industry. Stay in your lane, James.
Of course Pharma and healthcare are particularly driven by profit - and rightly so. They should make profit. You only make profit by creating value and giving people want they want or need. Profit is a sign you are doing something right.
@@JoinTheTemple lol yesss by jacking up prices of insulin and life saving drugs you create profit. lmao go back to school
@@phunkracy If you know the history of why the insulin prices was able to be jacked in the first place, it was because of the huge barriers to entry in medicine posed by the FDA. Combined with the fact they literally stopped their competitor from being able to sell a similar product, in effect handing them a monopoly.
Medicine as it currently stands is such a quagmire of misinformation combined with actual huge benefits that entangling all of the problems there would take a book.
We need M4All first, than we can have conscious capitalism.
then*
That's not all of it though. I am all for a regulated free market enterprise, but society can't live nor thrive on a free market alone. Universal healthcare or M4All would be a great step in the right direction, but we have to consider things like how politics sucker up to lobbyists or disregard their constituents for their own interests.
This episode was a mess when they got to the vegan part. Joe just attacked him when they never disagreed.
Absolutely agree. Glad I’m not the only one
Joe was either having a mental block understanding the difference between 'whole foods' the diet and 'whole foods' the store.
Joe was being a little dim (perhaps deliberately to get a reaction) and it was a frustrating listen!
I'm not even a vegetarian or plant based diet guy! John Mackey made his points very well.
@@ar4732 yeah he was baiting him because Joe has painted vegans as crazy but he was the one acting crazy almost like a child
@@ar4732 haha, this was funny
Listened to the whole episode this morning and the plant-based, whole food diet part was a rough listen. Joe wouldn't let it go and you could tell John wanted to change the subject.
"Intellectuals are just Jelly" - Business man
They're just jelly that they can't lobby the govt to deregulate pollution standards, to not have a minimum wage, to not prevent me from making my workers work constantly without even a bathroom break.
@@cybervoid8442 AYO GET YOUR MONEY UP U GOTTA WORK 16 HOURS A DAY LIKE I DID TO GET THIS SHITTY HOUSE ON A MORTGAGE, I SAVED WHY CANT U. THANK U JEFF BEZOS U CHANGED MY LIFE ME N JEFF GOT OUR MONEY UP
Sound like a bunch of complainers.
@@cybervoid8442 sounds to me like you need to increase your skillset and find a better place to work
@@jeremyanderson7741 ah yes, so you're implying no one should work for Amazon. Is that correct?
Correct me if I am wrong, but it does not seem like we are living in a "win win win" society right about now.
The problem isn't necessarily capitalism though.
If you rather live in a different time or place... The latter is an option, and depending on your choice can transport you to differing times in the past...
@@ChrisM-dx8up it is we wouldn’t be greedy and fuck other countries completely just because of money and greed like african countries
Try Cuba for a year. Then come back and let us know if you're tires of the winning here
@@v4v819 So you're saying people should just be happy they have the scraps so others can continue to bank roll off them? Wow
"intellectuals have always been the enemy of capitalism"
Adam Smith: ??????
He literally said „maybe it’s not true during the time of Adam smith“ you idiot. Also, finding one example of where this is not true doesn’t debunk an argument
@@SomeoneGreenPlane after listening to this conversation I'm not sure he would know how to answer that lol
I love having CEOs telling me what is best and how it is, we definitely don't have different goals or ways of life or anything
You're not as interesting sorry.
THIS IS THE WORST ceo interview EVER!!!! LOL!
I wish you would have checked him on him using heat sensing equipment to figure out where his employees are gathering.
Joe Rogan asking a hard question? Disagreeing with them?
There are multiple accounts not to mention articles written about how and why they were used. Not going to do the research for you. But maybe be informed before you speak. Also I think joe Rogen does a great job checking people on their bs claims. Just like when this CEO was talking about a “Whole Foods” diet reversing heart problems. Sure eating a balanced diet I am sure helps but this guy is trying to sell it as a play on words using his companies name to try and drive up profits. Pretty easy to see that.
@@vinnym5607 lol
@@christopherflatum618 a whole food plant based diet does reduce heart disease. But calling your supermarket Aspirin doesn’t mean it’s gonna kill pain.
@@rickysoulless6534 Even if they were, that's within their rights given it's on their property.
I wish I could shake his hand for all the hippies he sold nine dollar carrots to
This comment rules
Hey man those aren’t just any carrots..
Cracked me up man
Lol
You are all asleep. This CEO is a criminal. That’s why he despises intellectuals
A masterclass in contradicting yourself over and over again, with confidence!
“Is that the flaw of capitalism or is that the flaw of government?”
Took the words right out of my mouth lol
Corruption has nothing to do with the economic system. It's about the moral and ethic of the individuals interacting.
Man who makes money selling typewriters thinks computers are bad for society.
Who makes money selling type writers except as souvenirs?
1, nobody sells typewriters. 2. Computers are kinda ruining the world. So...
I think you guys are missing OP's point :p
@@darkraft1020 completely
It goes both ways. Capitalism is good because he's rich, if he was poor it would be different.
"Work is voluntary, no one forces you to work" I highly disagree because at the end of the day you cannot survive without money you literally cant
Where you work what you do is voluntary ... Its easier to work for money then farm your own lands and chop your own fire wood.
Well no, you can survive without a lot of things, money included. Whether that sort survival is healthy for both physical and mental health, that's the real question. 🤙AHAHA
But yea I sorta agree, in this sorta society, money is incredibly important.
You can always live under a bridge asking people for money. No one forces them to work. You don't need money to survive. You need money to live comfortably. Cavemen survived with no money.
@clysses S you make a good point
Every animal since the beginning of time has had to work to survive. What makes you so special you shouldn't have to?
I would love to see this guy debate Noam Chomsky on this because he cuts out so much of the argument
We bigfoots don't really care about the difference economic systems, it doesn't make much difference to us out here in the wilderness
We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. ~ _Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle_
The problem that is difficult to justify is when the CEO is making the average employees annual salary in a day. Not sure why they should make 300x more than the average employee. Obviously someone is getting shorted. Or many people are. Just because they can pay crap THEY WILL!
Because he incurs more risk based on his investments. That’s why he earns more.
@@Shapes_Quality_Control That isn't true.
If I go to the casino with a large amount of money I am probably risking much more than he did and if I do win it is probably less payout than what the ceo of whole foods has acquired. He took less risk and gained more in comparison to that scenario, therefore your statement is false.
He made a choice to invest time and money in something. The choice he made of what to do is key, not the risk. Many things have low risk and high reward, you have to find them though. Also, your statement is wrong regardless if you define risk with respect to money or time.
I think it is interesting to ask why him and not someone else though? If you picture your available choices as doors, you have the doors currently available to you and also doors that could become available to you if you work on it. What is out of people's control is the doors they start with and the amount of work it takes to get doors they don't currently have. John Mackey's father was a CEO. The door of "creating whole foods" only becomes available after a variety of factors have been met . That door was more easily found by John Mackey because of his parents and so on (Just like the children of highly educated parents are more likely to get highly educated in comparison to children whose parents are not highly educated; it's called breaking the cycle for a reason).
Now personally, although I believe life isn't fair in the short term due to evil, I do believe that despite that, life is still fair over the long term due to reasons not to be discussed here
@@funnyman-wt7lx Ok so it’s late and I’ve had a long shift so it maybe that I’m too tired but I haven’t a fucking clue what you are trying to say.
Surprised Bezos allowed him to do this interview wow.
Its like watching a monkey doing tricks lol. Of course a CEO is gonna be on the side of capitalism making 75 million dollars lol. If he was paid 75 thousand dollars he would probably be complaining about how shady big businesses really are.
@@slothhouse236 I’m just saying from the perspective of the chance of him saying something wrong or controversial.
@@slothhouse236 I mean, there's no better option than capitalism.
@@jessingtons-6589 capitalist are the same ones being bailed out nonstop. They put down socialism but are more than welcome to be a benefactor of it constantly
@@johnwren3965 stop electing people who aren't capitalist then so those businesses go under like they are supposed in a true capitalists system.
Nobody:
Joe: “Smart is like drugs.”
I think he's just trying to play devils advocate, but yeah that was cringy
There’s different levels of smart just like there’s levels of drugs. A mechanic can be smart & doctor can be smart but they differ & have different importance & outcome. Drugs that help you heal are great. Then there are drugs that destroy lives. Dig deeper.
Capitalism = Garbage
@@native307 Capitalism =! Garbage
@@native307 Socialism == Garbage
"intellectuals are the enemy of the market" aah shit this is going to be good
and he totally didnt dissapoint! i bet this clowns a closet pedo and is so ashamed of his self inside. he doesnt belong in america being so ignorant about honest reality.
Two words. Labor Exploitation
Of course a CEO will defend capitalism, he is a boss under this system. Why would someone who benefits under this system trash it?
to appear on the side of the mistreated?
Morality?
He gives people jobs. History dictates socialism doesn’t work.
@@Iarlen it’s not moral to tell someone who’s doing better than you to give you their money because you got left behind
Capitalism encourages innovation with the goal of creating value. All other economic systems have a tendency to remain stagnant with little chance of improvement.
This guy talks about how academia has never liked business, but all he does is espousal neoclassical theory as if its gospel. Which one is it?
He is actually misrepresenting academia with a bunch of BS.
academia is captured by big business
@@mr12aT Yes, he is using a weird mix of neoclassical and austrian arguments, while at the same time making the RIDICULOS argument that academics hate capitalism. Umm what about Locke, Ricardo, Mathus, Marshall, Hayek, Keynes, Friedman, Solow, Samuelson, I mean I could go al day naming academics that love capitalism but there really is no point.
@@nicolasm400 yes, the awards that are given to academic are to those who parrot moneyed interest
@@davide9598 I wish Joe also had a sociologist on too. The guy is just using oligarchic talking points. “Capitalism is a win, win win”. You know when a billionaire says that you can assume everything else he said is full of shit.
Y’all amped up on this one, but I’m surprised JR hasn’t uploaded the one where he lit his ass up on the Dieting and sugar industry. Those are the comments I want to read
As a physics student who did well at school and is planning to get a PhD in physics, I don’t give a flying fuck if any of my old classmates get better payment than me. All I care for is that one kid who had to work extra hours after school to support his family while I had the privilege of studying and then resting in my bedroom watching TH-cam videos.
Then why didn’t you help him instead of watching TH-cam, if you care so much for him?
@@Joefest99 what do you mean? Are you asking why a high school student with studies and a social life didn’t sacrifice them for another person he barely knew? What’s the point of this question? The burden shouldn’t fall on high schoolers to help poor people you dimwit. There should be government funding for that.
@@Joefest99 god you people are insufferable.
@@Joefest99 bruh
best comment!
This guy probably doesn't have a problem with corporate socialism.
That's an insightful comment based on absolutely nothing.
What does that mean?
@@chrisfoxwell4128 right? How did 42 people even like this mans comment?
@@chrisfoxwell4128 Care to elaborate?
Corporations getting money and tax breaks and other bennies =/= socialism.
Its called cronyism.
I cannot believe that we are having this discussion in the United States. Incredible.
It's easy for Americans to have this discussion. Half of them don't even own a passport, and have never even traveled outside the U.S. Let alone actually live in a socialist country.
That’s what happens when you give Rockefeller planned and funded education to multiple generations.
I’m not a fan of socialism, but show me why I should have loyalty to rich business owners and shareholders. I’ve been laid off 4 times in my life and I get paid less than I did 10 years ago for SKILLED WORK. there are tens of millions like me. I’ve met them. Why should I stay loyal to people who obviously don’t care about me?
@@MisterCovek I’ve been around the world and have burned through two 10 yr passports. But I have been reading history. I’m not a socialist but capitalism seems to remind me of feudalism with more people involved. We fought wars and had multiple revolutions over feudalism. Have you read the bulk of human history?
are you aware of the distinct difference between socialism and communism? most americans dont have a clue
I'm glad that he was honest in stating that he felt that that was a flawed perspective.
he forgot to edit that out i presume
Turns out running a grocery store does not make someone intelligent.
this guy: “intellectuals have huge egos”
proceeds to praise himself for the entirety of the video
i couldn’t understand him with his head up his ass
The difference is that he is talking about what he's actually done. The "intellectual" he describes talks about the hypothetical "ifs" or what they've read or saw, not what they've DONE!
I didn't hear him praising himself. Watch it again.
Have you ever been in a college lecture?
This guy thinks he has the world figured out by saying all intellectuals are super smart at school and that's all they know and they don't make any money so they hate the world but the frat Bros who do somewhat good in college make all the money bro. LOL what a f****** clown
Remember...the government giving trillions of dollars to corporations isn't socialism. (sarcasm alert)
It’s not socialism it’s corporate welfare
That's not socialism 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
More like Fascism
I like how he talks about people "always making things a binary decision. Evil VS Good..." etc. Then goes on to talk about how it is just "capitalism VS communism".
Instead of people simply saying "capitalism isn't working for our world and isn't sustainable, and we can do much better than that."
I would suggest looking into "The Zeitgeist Movement" for much better concepts on these ideas.
'Conscious Capitalism' is like non-alcoholic beer, a misnomer at best.
Clean Coal
Joe “being smart is like drugs” Rogan
Lol you don't get it. Jokes on u.
Joe should just change his last name to "Drugs" at this point. Joe "rogan" Drugs
It's time for a invite to professor Richard Wolf. If you have so many questions about socialism and Marxism, he is the best person to talk about !
Agreed
I would say Michael Parenti cuz he can bring him to the foreign policies that effect the capitalism socialism debate.
But hey having Richard Wolff there yoohhooooo.
@@adrijan6510 Richard wolf is the man.
@@adrijan6510 michael parenti is a tankie applogist who writes off atrocities and corruption as bad press
Fuck that get slavoj zizek
"All Elon's businesses are succesful" Lay off the DMT Joe and check everyone of his companies that is not Tesla.
This guy seems like he has great ideas but cannot externalize it well. And I get it, Capitalism isn’t as sexy as socialism, but he can do better.
Owner of Whole Food: *defines what he meant by smart
Joe: See the problem is smart is such a blanket term
He's so goddamn dense sometimes. But he didnt go to school for that long anyways, so it makes sense
His definition of smart still was a good one.
Fuck the smart! Half of those kids are there in school out fear and do ok.
Took the words out of my mouth. The blood even describe different forms of intelligence .
Y’all misunderstood joe. He isn’t saying his definition of smart is a blanket term, he was saying that the world doesn’t see smart as his strict definition: doing good in school. Only he is projecting that those that do well at school think only they are smart, which is just not true. It’s common sense that many smart people don’t just stay in school, and may end up with different career paths. No intellectual thinks bill gates isn’t smart because he didn’t complete college.
"We are led by the least among us, and the least intelligent." - Terence McKenna
Damn Billionaires.
Exactly. That's why Biden won
@@lycanravage That's why most of them win
@@lycanravage Allegedly
@@lycanravage Sorry to break it to you my man, but McKenna was an anticapitalist
Annnnd this is showing us a little why Whole Foods got bought out by Amazon.
Because it was a good investment?
@@erc9468 is it profitable?
@@salaheddine1403 Bezos doesn’t care about short term profits. He built Amazon for a decade without profits.
@@erc9468
Geniuses don’t just have one idea or one business. Simpletons like you assume that’s his only avenue
@@newona4313
....and who said that?
The greatest trick in the book: making people believe the opposite of Socialism is Capitalism...
"the employees are winning because they have jobs an opportunities to grow and they do that voluntarily they're not forced"
We all go to work voluntarily it's not because we need money.
As opposed to a fantasy world where no one has to work and scarcity doesn’t exist?
@@dickenstom exactly that's why this guy is actually smart because everything he's saying is true and then people just want a society with everything is given to them for free. I get paid for my time and labor. I base how hard I work on the salary I get. if I don't like it I move on, that's what it means to be free
@@jjgaming9860 sadly this common sense is dying as we enter a dark era. Guess we will have to run the experiment one more time hopefully 300,000,000 arn't butchered this go around
@@dickenstom if people would just be a little more self-reliant and do things the right way like don't go in debt out of high school don't have kids out of wedlock they will be able to save a lot more money than they realize. I know so many younger people that took that stimulus check and blew it, instead of saving it and reinvesting it in themselves dumb dumb dumb
You idiot we live in a society where its either work or starve. What do you mean where working voluntarily?
"Poor people are resentful"
-Old rich CEO
He’s not wrong!
Maybe fair pay....
"I don't give a fuck about poor people." -me, not an old rich CEO.
yeah, he frames everything from his point of view.
@@jovy1218 but you're broke too.. Baboon
That title is like "Wolf defends the eating of Sheep"
I believe there is value from utilizing some socialist policies, but capitalism is an excellent incentive system for success. That cannot be understated. Whereas pure socialism has never proven to be successful.
Bernie and AOC ruined the term. Socialism is the people through government owning the means of production. Basically all businesses and services. What you are talking about is Social Welfare. Use the fruits of Capitalism to help the people as a whole.
Aykroyd has a great line in Ghostbusters: "You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."
And exploitation of labor to achieve those results
@@abuhnerkemper this is what people that don’t want to work say.
@@Divided_Highway No, its people who know their true value. An it's a typical response from people like you who don't see value in people who do real work.
@@willflynn9881 what is the value of a person with no skills?
@@willflynn9881 your statement is a little ambiguous. But what I’m getting at simply is you’re not gonna work if you THINK you should be making more money. Hey, that’s fine that’s your choice. That’s why it’s not exploitation of labor. The wage is a reflection of the worth of the employee.
“Billionaire wants to keep his money”
Yes. You can share your money if you want, I ll give you my bank account.
Spot on there tho HIS money
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@@hammurabii.3173 A billion? Pfff. 1000 dollars to 1,000,000 people. There goes your billion. It ain t shit, you solved nothing. That is kind of you, but not very smart.
@@hammurabii.3173 Should I give you my Bitcoin address? XD
I work at Whole Foods and my man is blessing us with an extra 300 this month
I assume you mean rice
I wish I knew what to say to convince conservatives that capitalism needs to be regulated. Look at this man, and realize his thought system represents the vast majority of CEO's and Bankers. You don't like Communism? You don't like socialism? Fine! The government doesn't need to nationalize these private companies, but why for the love of God do you refuse to have them regulated?!?!? Why do you insist on letting them get away with everything the want?!?!?!
Kings were overthrown because someone else wanted to rule. Since people hate democracy (real democracy, not the phony kinds like aristocracies and republics) we have to choose which rich people to rule use. Will it be the ones sitting in congress or the ones sitting behind a corporate desk? I suppose the power of choice between these two is in our hands...
Socialism, Capitalism, it doesn’t matter the system isn’t the problem, humans are, we’re built flawed or we’ve been corrupted for centuries
While that may sound profound, it sure isnt sophisticated.
@@RunningCordoroy that's the ultimate fucked em up😂
Okay but we need a system tho
@@RunningCordoroy wym?
True. I’d argue however that capitalism is the best economic system we have so far, albeit not perfect. Socialism has never worked and never will work, however studies of capitalism show that the poverty rates under capitalistic societies are lower than that of socialist societies. Socialism stifles competition and incentive to innovate. It also pushes for equality of outcome while robbing others of equality of opportunity. Venezuela is the perfect example of how socialism always fails, as it was once the strongest economy in South America through capitalism and now it’s a warzone full of violence and poverty because of socialism.
"...intellectuals have always been the enemy of business..." That was all I needed to hear. That is one hell of a Freudian slip bro
hes speaking facts. all my universitry professors are left wing nutjobs. Universities will hate you and give you worse marks for being conservative. The "intellectuals" (aka marxists with a degree in gender studies) hate capitalism.
@@jungxehuin9404 all while they benefit off a capitalist society.
@@kickdawson Precisely how do marxist professors benefit from capitalist society? If you watch the video they are literally talking about how they are undervalued by capitalist society.
@@jungxehuin9404 I know it's so messed up all the professors and high education reject conservative ideas
I have no idea why
@@aliencheerios6011 it’s not all of them, it’s only the profs in the field that pertains to sociology. For most other prof none of them has such strong political views.
A nod to history, ‘They ask for parlance, united we seek freedom’
Lost me when he said humans will never be perfect. Millions of years from now we’ll have no idea what we as a race will be capable of. The steps we take today can help and provide an advantage not only for our own family lines but for all of the people we love and they people they love, etc...
The chance of us surviving as a species for millions of years are extremely slim, 99.x% of all mammals that have ever existed are extinct. Remember that we already have gone through several extinction events and barely made it.
Seems close minded, we have gotten so far in such a short amount of time. We could definitely get so much further, we have an incredible amount of time. We gotta use our resources on the right things, which we don't right now. Way too much spending on the wrong things
It’s like you’ve never seen an episode of Star Trek before.