Absolutely. Nothing has changed since the times of the pharaohs. The social engineers have done a good job of convincing us of the illusion of freeDOM but we’re still slaves and we’re being steered every step of the way.
@ramonbril I realized this in school as I was being told to go to college and get a good job as it was the key to my future wealth and freedom. Only to look around and see another form of slavery. One where anyone who isn't an owner is a slave to the system in some way. Then the elites gaslight the masses trying to convince you through media that you too can one day be one of them if you only work hard enough while they kick you in the teeth. I wasn't buying then and I'm not buying now. We don't need the elites, they're leeches that bring nothing to the table except their ability to use people for their own ends. We must come together if we're to put an end to a thousand years of tyranny.
@@ramonbril I realized this around 25 years ago while I was working in a car factory. I told my coworkers, why don´t they put a sign over the entrance: Work sets you free, like at the work camps during the second WW. They looked at me like I was the crazy one and I explained, that a workers salary is just enough to pay for necessities and safe to buy a house, work 30 years to pay it of etc. They leave us with just enough to survive. The whole thing is a scam. And as a factory worker, I was even in the top 20 percent of the country in terms of earnings. I don´t understand why the other 80 percent keep voting for these devils.
@@ramonbril That is what I notiiced too during the beer bug time when people got the shot and another and another without thinking. People are so preoccupied with survival and bombarded with negative so called news to keep them in a state of hypnosis and unable to think logically. Stress can change the thinking and make it impossible to think rationally. I wish I had a solution or something I could do.
Very informative. I became nomadic years ago after living in my van, my heart wasn’t set in a location in California that I wanted to move into/rent. I had a house I sold after I quit my job. I paid off all my debts, got rid of my vehicles and had a super power , NO STUDENT LOANS. I also left for my mental health and even though I sometimes miss the comfort of having a place and a garage, I’ve been traveling the world, making new friends, and being able to work on my mental health. Currently in Japan, have lived in Thailand, currently home base in Mexico, and been in and out of various countries. I have been able to see how other people live and even though no country is perfect, it has allowed me to learn about what I like, I don’t like, willing to put up with and be adaptable. I have also a solid network of friends, it takes a bit more work to hang out with them but I’m doing my best I can to hold on and see this brave new world for what it is. And I’m still doing what I like to do, so I take every small win I can. Thanks again, your videos have really allowed me to grow as a person , be honest about myself and be able to walk away from people that are contrary to my core values.
I have so many questions. The past week I've panned a couple of countries on Google Maps. One of them Mexico. Curious, does Mexican authorities *eye* people that have American vehicle plates? Can Americans get Mexican plates. Those were my thoughts as I panned the map.
@@25sigmaa the better you blend in the better. Mexico is one country I avoid driving. I’ve gone on road trips with my cousins there so I leave the driving to the locals or to people who know the roads. If you do drive, do it only in the day time, and it’s not a place to take “detours” and check things out unless you specifically know where you are going. I’m not saying all of Mexico is dangerous, I’ve just read to many unfortunate stories of people going to the wrong place or being stopped at night. Just be smart and don’t look like you have anything of value.
To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, counted, TAXED, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, reformed, corrected, punished, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)
@@professorchaos9 On the contrary, the trend is to make mortgage higher than renting, so that everyone rents and houses/apartments become unaffordable.
“Wherever there is great property, there is also great inequality. For one very rich man, there are at least 500 of the poor. The affluence of the few, supposes the indigence of the many” Adam Smith
Do you buy products & goods, rent or have a mortgage, then you are still supporting your corporate overlords. There is no escaping their reach & influence. You must go off grid, stop using tech of every kind then maybe you will escape the hold corporations have over you.
Prof. Vaknin, in the US we are hindered from moving also because our medical coverage comes from our employer. We would be freer to move if we didn’t have to consider the possibility of a gap in medical coverage. (Even if you move and have a new job right away, there is usually a waiting period of 30-90days to become eligible for the new medical coverage.) Also, our medical coverage usually limits us to use providers with the state, if not the county. This tethers is geographically. Thank you for this insightful lecture. I follow you every day.
Do you have a medical condition that requires going to the doctor every month? If you learn about how to take care of your body and implement eating right with exercise then you can just buy a basic healthcare plan. I have done that for 40 years and have not worked for anyone since 1981.
For real, unless you have a pre-existing condition, health insurance is a complete and utter waste. The whole concept has never made enough sense to me to justify that added expense
Us health care did not include pre existing conditions before the ACA/obamacare. Any gap in coverage meant if you got a diagnosis of cancer - it is pre existing and not covered. Rules in the aca are being eliminated so the pre existing clause could go anytime too. Health insurance is a racket in the US
An incredible talk Sam, these are important words that people need to be hearing. This future we are building for ourselves is not a world I want to live in.
Professor, you should DEFINITELY write a book about this. Many people will buy it! I know I would. This is such a Great subject and it is awesome to see your analytical skills being applied to it!
Bruh... don't hype him up for something that's almost certain to not be true... almost NO ONE would buy his book! And not because it'd be a bad or uninteresting book... but just because of numbers/statistics: the overwhelming majority of Authors SELL LESS THAN 5,000 book copies. Even if he assumed pure profit, that would mean he doesn't even pull $100k from his book... IF... its even successful!
Can you please use your brain. People don’t even listen to others .This is going to happen no matter what. The only solution is for yourself only if you find a way to survive.
This might be the most important video Dr. Vaknin has ever published. Wow! Explains it all perfectly. We are heading to real-life Hunger Games, and the masses are voting for it.
I NEVER KNOWINGLY VOLUNTEERED. IT WAS NOT AN IN-GOOD-FAITH AGREEMENT. I WAS EDUCATED/ BRAINWASHED/FUNNELED INTO THE BILLIONAIRE CENTRAL-BANK SYSTEM...AS WAS EVERYONE.
Amazing speech. So many new concepts you introduced. Stuff like this scares the ones partaking in the mayhem. You are turning on the light in the kitchen at 2am and watching all the roaches run for cover.
The master slave dichotomy started by the Roman’s is alive and well. The slaves do not know they are slaves or they would revolt. If they had known they were slaves, I could have saved a thousand more. Harriet Tubman
i knew this at age 16. back then i made a promise to not bring any children into this bad stage play. i thought id be able to live my life before i would see how bad things are getting. i was wrong...
I beat you. I was 8 when I made that promise to myself although granted I was dragged up on a series of UK Army Camps and never regretted it for one second
Thought the same . I’ve done the impossible to make a living last 10 years . Now I see everything destroyed due inflation. Rigged game. I literally thinking to move outside the city and live in the forest. I mean , is that or work 12h/day for nothing.
I've been arguing post-Reagan that the dramatic decrease in inflation was a policy choice to protect asset holdings of the wealthy at the expense of the middle class
This is what happens when you have an actor as the president. Other countries has followed this idea and there are muppets everywhere, strings attached.
Tomorow I am learning for public finance test in university, and listening to this as I am studying seems to turbo charge my knowledge in the field, now I understand the definition of lobbying which is described as rent-seeking, thank you prof. Vaknin.
I've been saying this for a long time. "Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Powerful men are bad men".(people) - first Baron Acton The last sentence of this powerful quote is typically left out because of it's absolute truth. The more power a person gains, the more they are free to indulge themselves in their own whims, their own prejudices...justifications in their own minds are sufficient justifications for anything. They lose sight of the rights of others, secure in their own conclusions. Powerful people can't help but become bad people, unknowingly. They simply cannot see the harm that they do, obsessed with their own desires. -weezi-🙏💖🙏💜🌄
It's more than just that, there's also the undeniable fact that there is no one above them to police them. The necessity of the invention of an all loving and all just God makes sense, once you consider how inconvenient this truth is. The fact that we can now freely discuss this without any real negative personal consequences, is actually a function not of less power over us, but more power over us-- so much, that nothing we can possibly say, could ever have an effect.
@@timestampingarmy No, but that's precisely the brainrot that prevents any addressing of socioeconomic/fundamental problems(how and why the human species is mentally ill) and instead fixates on division and superficial problems. If I was a "white elite", saliva would be running from my mouth at the thought that most morons spend their time thinking about race.
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." Frank Herbert
I realized this around 25 years ago while I was working in a car factory. I told my coworkers, why don´t they put a sign over the entrance: Work sets you free, like at the work camps during the second WW. They looked at me like I was the crazy one and I explained, that a workers salary is just enough to pay for necessities and safe to buy a house, work 30 years to pay it of etc. They leave us with just enough to survive. The whole thing is a scam. And as a factory worker, I was even in the top 20 percent of the country in terms of earnings. I don´t understand why the other 80 percent keep voting for these devils.
@@AndAndmed I belief something like Germany had was very prosperious before it got destroyed in the eighties and ninetees. Strong rights and rules for workers closely monitored by the government. No limitless immigration, only people who were usefull for the economy. The big industries for the essentials were property of the state, like telekomunications (deutsche Telekom), energy, public transportation (Deutsche Bundesbahn) and postal service (DP) they employed huge amount of people with really good benefits and salaries and all was working like a well oiled machine till the government turned against their citizens with the European Union and before the EWG and privatised and sold the property of the citizens which generations had build and saved to hedge funds and private equity firms. Since than and together with limitless immigration of economic refugess with different values, morals and beliefs, the wages and rights for normal working class people went down and so did the standart of living and at the same time the crime rate went up. Basically the middle class got wiped out.
davecopp9356, that is the reason for pushing refugees welcome camps, protected by police in liepzig. I dont want them, you have no choice, you have to like them. Those at power are beyond reach and dont fear the consequences.
@@davecopp9356Argentina also owned the essentials, but the corruption was so big that to be able to get a phone at home at that time had waiting list of 40 years( I am from the 60's) The companies like railroad, phone, electricity, household gas supply, ect., were receiving money from the federal government but each one of their CEOs took that money for personal enrichment.
@@AndAndmed Interesting. I belief religion is needed to keep people from becoming degenerates and steal everything they can. Values, morals and culture and shaming and punishing people who steal or act harmful to the society needs to be put in place to protect and keep the system functioning. Thats how it was in Germany before the EWG and later EU was put into place and the german currency was taken away and they gave up the control of the country to the dictatorship of the EU which is basically run by the deep state of banksters who also run most of the other western countrys and have not the best interest for the voters in mind. Politicians are just the puppets and actors of these group. I can not even name them or my comment gets deleted which shows who is in charge.
I believe to be original is a calling we all have and want to both connect and disconnect with others in ways that shows our uniqueness as a value to the creation of something truly novel to contribute to the human experience. We are financial batteries for systems and we are an infinite supply to extracted from before they were born.
Corporations wiped out all small businesses by having freedom of ruling themselves through lobbying power. Not any other business entity has that luxury so they have to loose, by this new definition. 30 years ago the power of certain businesses were limited, to the point not to bankrupt others in the same industry, today such a thing doesn’t exist. Fare competition is gone prices are going up and up.
Psychopathy and narcissistic and other adjacent ways of being, are ideal and optimized methods for socioeconomic success. This also becomes a defense against reason, against negotiation, or even against combat, because good is at a fundamental disadvantage in battles with evil due to the access evil has to breaking rules which good cannot break. Simply consider it an endless game, ask yourself "Who wins in the end?" and this will only become more clear if one is perfectly committed to the truth no matter how unpleasant.
if the only thing that can happen is perpetual wealth consolidation, then it can only just return to european monarchs, the ones who started with the most and established most of the rules and got away with breaking the most rules.
From my experience with successful entrepreneurs, they are all very focussed on their success and can’t stop themselves from becoming richer and richer . They are ruthless . Their workers are generally not well paid and they rely on desperate workers that will take work at the given salary . The workers that stay are content to work under such conditions out of habit. Workers come and go but the prescribed wage is not changed . Usually hovering around minimum wage . I only saw wages increase because of the corona virus 🦠 pandemic where the borders were closed to immigrants.
Wow you're so right. I never made that distinct connection between covid's inflated wages with the temporary closed borders, meaning no undocumented workers or drastically less. That adds a whole new level of cynicism to when the politicians kept echoing the phrase 'we need to Thank our Frontline Workers for keeping the economy going' cause what they really meant was "keep them working cause we can't replace them with closed borders".
@@senglomein5766 I only got a pay increase as a truck driver when Indian students couldn’t come to Australia and many left to care for parents in India. My boss still drives a Bentley
@@JohnDorian-j7x I would stop the permit system . I would have another concrete plant , but the local council won’t approve. So it’s not true capitalism. So increase the minimum wages or reduce taxes on overtime
@@buddyrojek9417 I heard whispers recently of a bill in the oven; almost the antithesis to what your advocating for, which would provide businesses of all sizes, 3 employees --- 10,000 employees, a tax-write off per employee hired in said year, IF ONE stipulation is met....and that is, *you hire an immagrant as opposed to a citizen* . . . I beleive it was something around $9,500.00 in tax exemption per immigrant hired . . . whens that tsumani coming to mainland US?
"You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked." Quote from Revelation 3:17
😂😂😂😂 this man made me laugh and cry all at once. God bless you sir! Ive known most of this since i was young but to see and hear it put out so planley and clear was just equisite.
The central banks are monopolistic hence we do not live in a capitalistic society in the U.S. Money can be created immediately for the benefit of the Banks' cronies.
accurately, we live in feudalism and until rich people either dont exist or are actually able to be held responsible for harming others in a way that causes more harm than they gained from harming, we always will. you cant have rich people with no rules or no accountability without it being feudalism. in order for capitalism to actually happen, there'd have to be a global economic reset and everyone start with equal resources, then have all rules actually followed and no groups of people who were allowed to break the rules for thousands of years to build up huge advantages with.
I had being 20 year waiting for someone to fit with my fit with my thinking! Now I know that I´m not the only one that notice what it´is happening in the world.
Social services are failing in the US because our government gives the money to private organizations and hopes they take care of it. They are social safety boxes instead of a network, and due to inefficiency they are ineffective. Welfare worked better when the federal government oversaw it.
Don’t forget powerful private lobbies pushed & bribed politicians to privatise cheaper govt services like utilities and healthcare back in the 1970s promising the citizens “to be competitive & make things cheaper”. The exact opposite happened because big players either buy their competitors up to monopolize their industry or they get caught making agreements to engage in price fixing. Then they pretend the citizens are ripping off the citizen to slash services further or raise prices higher. The public has mostly been brainwashed to believe this corporate propaganda. We live in a 247 bullhorn propaganda slave debt farm with only economic violence as the fence from escaping.
The problem is they buy things for a dollar and sell it to their own people for 20 dollars. It's been going on for 30 years. If they had to sell it to other countries it wouldn't happen. It's disgusting how you can buy something for nothing and make a fortune out of it by selling to your own people. That's where it all stems from.
Surely it's humanity's 21st birthday and we can collectively agree to ditch people ruling over us in the myriad forms that takes. So much stolen from our common wealth. We CAN have a more beautiful world than this one.
In your view, socialism takes two forms, 1)The state takes from the poor to give it to the rich through rents or 2)the state takes from the rich to give it to the poor through social programs. Would this not result in a sort of class warfare between the rich and the poor for control of the state? Is class warfare real and obserbable.
UK is a good example, every class stays separately. Someone posh normally doesn't come into contact with the working class. I am middle class living in a part of town where middle class are living. One can pick up which class one belongs usually quick. I never believed this before moved to the UK. I have friends throughout society and don't make a difference. Everyone is the same in the end.
@@samvakninGood sir, I would have called you a shameless lunatic just a decade ago, but having lived through at least this portion of the worst capitalist economy in world history since the great depression, I now agree with you.
The "iron law of oligarchy" states that all forms of organization, regardless of how democratic they may be at the start, will eventually and inevitably develop oligarchic tendencies, thus making true democracy practically and theoretically impossible, especially in large groups and complex organizations
Interesting that a labour shortage ended feudalism and the upcoming abundant humanoid robots run by AI will bring feudalism back for the great pleasure of the neo feuds.
@@delocon You're talking about humanoids obviously because robots have been around for decades now. Well, humanoids are already here. They are already useful even though not yet as smart and dextrous as a human because they are much cheaper and less troublesome. You'll start seeing them in Amazon warehouses in less than two years.
@@halnineooo136 Yeah you don't know that, that's just a prediction. There are loads, upon loads, upon loads of liability, programming, safety, cost and infrastructure needs that have to be met. Even that commercial dog robot Boston Dynamics released has to be recharged for four hours every 90 minutes. Amazon workers are easily replaceable, and not going anywhere for at least a decade.
At least 1000 years ago you knew who was oppressing you. You mostly knew who or where they lived. Now its so hidden, it feels better but is just as oppressive
Great lecture Prof Vaknin. There's a lot to digest here but thank you for this very detailed big picture breakdown of where we find ourselves today. Now I have to go hunt down some books to chase the details for myself 😂 P.S. was that your phone ringing for calls and pinging with notifications?
Lectures like this are a big necessity nowadays. I have fallen as many within the contemporary illusions of having a life similar to the earlier generations. Our matters are safety, sanity and preserving our communities the much we can. There is a big invisible wave already shaking the entire earth. There will be no drastic changes and no alarms most probably, but is good to se well prepared people like you giving the warning.
This was a fantastic talk. The big picture perspective explains everything. I'm going to listen several times to memorize it and do further learning. Thank you so much for sharing, i greatly appreciate it.
An elaboration is needed: how do you prove that it is not the private sector that has coopoted the state? It seems obvious to me that this is the way it is. We see the various congresses doing the bidding of the donor class, shaping laws and foreign and economic policies, the richest people are oligarchs, not heads of state. Wars are started for the interests of coorporations ability to extract resources. Or is it perhaps that this dichotomy between state/coorporations is false, and the two have merged to one?
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." Frank Herbert
If we had a truly market driven capitalist society, the too big to fail banks and corporations would have collapsed in 2008-2009 and after some period of instability, new smaller enterprises likely would have emerged and grown. The problem is inequality and the stifling of opportunity for those who are not on top. However, we prop up the massive at the expense of the small, which is not a natural system. It would at least make sense for society to prop up the small at the expense of the large, providing opportunity to the masses and not those who hoard all of societies wealth.
I work for myself. I prioritise almost anything over work, because I try to earn just enough to live a comfortable life. If you want to be rich, you are already mentally/emotionally deficient (it may not be your fault of course). The fact that rich people exist is the reason people are poor. The government is the enemy of the people (or at least the puppet of the enemy). I have no desire to give the government my money as it refuses to work for real people. It serves the parasite class (rich). Anarcho syndicalist ultra-democracy is the way forward. No leaders - ever!
Excellent as always, professor. I cannot reconcile, in light of this understanding, the view that the stadt would want to save and elevate the plebs via a mandatory untested free health program as we've seen recently. Reducing the pop would reduce the supply side inflation we are cuttently seeing. Thank you sincerely.
Eye opener,as expected.This is really hard subject to swallow as individual,who has children.So how do you prepare the children resilience to this kind of environment,if you are not ritch?
I would teach them from small on that can achieve all what they want and don't be a naysayer. I grew up with parents who had limited beliefs . And sadly it has affected me in my childhood. But later I have read books that even wealth , money is energy but most of the poor don't believe in wonders and quantum physics and creativity. So although my parents were not poor but their beliefs was. The mindset is important. But ultimatly the rich don't want us to become one of them and the system as designend by purpose like it is.
Perhaps, it is life itself which is a 0 sum game, since the living benefit from the death of some others, not all, but some, just like in capitalism, so it may be that capitalism is a zero sum game because life itself is fundamentally the ultimate zero sum game, and everything in life can't escape it. We should say "war" not "game" to be more accurate because if a so-called "game" can cause you damage worse than death, then how is this a "game" really? Also, perhaps to be more accurate it would not be a socialist system with a capitalist face, but rather a satanic system with a lying face.
Thank you for sharing the wonderful lecture!! I would love to hear more from you on this subject. Narcissism videos are still healing, but emotionally exhausting 😂. Probably time we heal from the political narcissist.
No, you are just slaves to the money - that´s all you need to know and then try to understand that to solve the problem. But you are all so clever, you can´t see that and keep on using it.
@@coolorphans I do not agree. I have prooven otherwise over the past 30+ years. All I have achieved inmy life I achieved without using money. Most I have achieved was achieved in the past 15 years or so when I actually was able to live without money after creating the basic requirements for this. Your argument only holds true for as long as all stay in the misbelieve that money is a requirement. Money has nothing to do with future values as long as the things produced are usefull and remain so. Money is a means of deception that is only good for making others believe that you have done something useful for society. 1. it makes every crime possible, because if you have money, you can't see where it comes from. He may have earned it honestly, but there will always be people who quickly realise that it is easier to get it by doing nothing or cheating. Be it selling their own daughter, or weapons or drugs or stolen goods. 2. the movement of money within the banking system alone ensures that people who can do nothing but trade money can get hold of it. All the great wars of modern times have been fought with money. The disadvantages clearly outweigh the advantages. But people believe otherwise and therefore they remain slaves to money. Rich people are just a side effect of the use of money. And Rich people are only there because the non rich people keep using money that eventually drips in their pockets (of the rich that is). Just because non rich people work and sell their work for money to rich people that sytem works.
You are all people making a huge mistake. See, it is not about capitalism or communism. Because any of these systems could work IF ONLY the goverment actually had such purpose. But the real government's purpose IS NOT making YOUR life better, but exploiting you and draining resources from you. It can do it through capitalism, it can do it through socialism. So this debate is just a destraction from the real problem - that you are just a slave of your government. Regardless of economical system, ideology, culture or land.
exactly... and regardless if a capitalist or socialist or any framework - the same corruption exists. sadly, today, this is happening exponentially, and from all attack vectors.
Hi Prof. Sam, you mentioned the US has low social mobility, suggesting 'your birth is your destiny.' Could you please consider making a video or sharing your thoughts on determinism versus free will. I think your ideas on this would be very interesting from an economic perspective but also a behavioural psychology perspective as well! Thank you
It's a shame I didn't understand the world I live in until it was too late. My life was hijacked by poverty mindset, I was told if I worked hard it would pay off. That was a lie. Generations of slaves.
In a world with an increasing number of billionaires. And the gap between Rich and poor increasing tremendously. There's definitely something wrong with the world. If you still believe in democracy at least in America. We can replace the current leaders with people who are more empathetic and sensitive to the common man or woman. There was a time in the United States when a man or a woman could work a job. Have a spouse, own a car, buy a house and raise a kid. On a single income. Over the past few decades, leaders in business and politics have rigged the system to give them the primary share of the profits. There was a time when a corporation was concerned with maintaining a relationship with its stakeholders. Those stakeholders were the owners of the business, stockholders. The community the business was in. It's employees. And the general welfare. In the last 30 years or so, the primary focus of a corporation was to increase shareholder value. That's it. That's the driving force. So short-term decisions are made for the highest profit. Cutting costs and laying off employees will make your stock price rise. And the common man has been losing ever since. While business income has increased dramatically over that time, wages have stayed flat. That can be fixed. Legislatively if you have leaders with the guts to do what's best for the country and the people. Good luck with the revolution
I think that small golden era you were talking about in the US happened once, it last like less than twenty years and will probably never happen again. It was mainly an economic boom caused by WW2 where by the end of said war the US had over night become an economic, if not the only economic super power on the planet and the entire war industry had created insane amounts of factory jobs for American families.
I’ve been poor, rich, but never stupid. The greatest wealth is being respected by the least among us. The clown from academia has never been respected by anyone. ❤
Many think the answer is unions. Yet unions are just another bureaucracy. Once the elite investor class starts seeing a slight dip in profits, the union becomes irrelevant. I worked for a company that recognized a union. Then, the company sold to a competitor and closed up shop. Sounds familiar to many.
Greed isn't something only the wealthy possess. I've seen greedy poor people. I have roomates that leave dishes in the sink essentially stealing other peoples time that have to clean up after them while they scroll the internet and watch movies. I could say this guy is greedy by being the only one talking in the class when everyone else has thoughts and ideas that should equally be shared. Greed isn't just an economic thing.
@@theotormon yeah but that doesnt apply here. Our entire economic system is a rigged carnival game, which is forced upon all of us from birth. You can "escape" and build your own self-sustaining homestead given the stars align accordingly and you seize that narrow window of opportunity to makre it feasible for the long-run. But as hard as it now, its getting harder everyday as our leaders tighten regulations and make more natural things illegal---- it for our safety dont ya know? So are you suggesting that Iwe all should look inward and "just do better, be better" and then big brother just fades away stage left? and as they exit, they remove all systems of control and regulation and surveillance? Im free because I say I'm free during yoga meditation?? Take responsibility for yourself, absolutely, but never blame yourself for the actions of others'.
Been saying this my entire life. Slavery never ended, it just changed form and got a great sales ptich.
Absolutely. Nothing has changed since the times of the pharaohs. The social engineers have done a good job of convincing us of the illusion of freeDOM but we’re still slaves and we’re being steered every step of the way.
@ramonbril I realized this in school as I was being told to go to college and get a good job as it was the key to my future wealth and freedom. Only to look around and see another form of slavery. One where anyone who isn't an owner is a slave to the system in some way. Then the elites gaslight the masses trying to convince you through media that you too can one day be one of them if you only work hard enough while they kick you in the teeth. I wasn't buying then and I'm not buying now. We don't need the elites, they're leeches that bring nothing to the table except their ability to use people for their own ends. We must come together if we're to put an end to a thousand years of tyranny.
@@ramonbril I realized this around 25 years ago while I was working in a car factory. I told my coworkers, why don´t they put a sign over the entrance: Work sets you free, like at the work camps during the second WW. They looked at me like I was the crazy one and I explained, that a workers salary is just enough to pay for necessities and safe to buy a house, work 30 years to pay it of etc. They leave us with just enough to survive. The whole thing is a scam. And as a factory worker, I was even in the top 20 percent of the country in terms of earnings. I don´t understand why the other 80 percent keep voting for these devils.
Just likr when the wall fell and unleashed communism over the world the 14th amendment made everyone slaves...not just one class/color.
@@ramonbril That is what I notiiced too during the beer bug time when people got the shot and another and another without thinking. People are so preoccupied with survival and bombarded with negative so called news to keep them in a state of hypnosis and unable to think logically. Stress can change the thinking and make it impossible to think rationally. I wish I had a solution or something I could do.
Very informative. I became nomadic years ago after living in my van, my heart wasn’t set in a location in California that I wanted to move into/rent. I had a house I sold after I quit my job. I paid off all my debts, got rid of my vehicles and had a super power , NO STUDENT LOANS. I also left for my mental health and even though I sometimes miss the comfort of having a place and a garage, I’ve been traveling the world, making new friends, and being able to work on my mental health. Currently in Japan, have lived in Thailand, currently home base in Mexico, and been in and out of various countries. I have been able to see how other people live and even though no country is perfect, it has allowed me to learn about what I like, I don’t like, willing to put up with and be adaptable. I have also a solid network of friends, it takes a bit more work to hang out with them but I’m doing my best I can to hold on and see this brave new world for what it is. And I’m still doing what I like to do, so I take every small win I can.
Thanks again, your videos have really allowed me to grow as a person , be honest about myself and be able to walk away from people that are contrary to my core values.
I have so many questions. The past week I've panned a couple of countries on Google Maps. One of them Mexico. Curious, does Mexican authorities *eye* people that have American vehicle plates? Can Americans get Mexican plates. Those were my thoughts as I panned the map.
@@25sigmaa the better you blend in the better. Mexico is one country I avoid driving. I’ve gone on road trips with my cousins there so I leave the driving to the locals or to people who know the roads. If you do drive, do it only in the day time, and it’s not a place to take “detours” and check things out unless you specifically know where you are going. I’m not saying all of Mexico is dangerous, I’ve just read to many unfortunate stories of people going to the wrong place or being stopped at night. Just be smart and don’t look like you have anything of value.
To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, counted,
TAXED, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished,
prevented, reformed, corrected, punished, commanded, by creatures who have neither
the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)
@@professorchaos9 Pay off your debts for sure and decide if you want to be stuck to one place…
@@professorchaos9 On the contrary, the trend is to make mortgage higher than renting, so that everyone rents and houses/apartments become unaffordable.
“Wherever there is great property, there is also great inequality. For one very rich man, there are at least 500 of the poor. The affluence of the few, supposes the indigence of the many” Adam Smith
Yep. Quit working for corporations and work only for myself now. Only work with good healthy mindful people. live much more simply.
Sounds like corporation gave you skills so now you can work for yourself
Do you buy products & goods, rent or have a mortgage, then you are still supporting your corporate overlords. There is no escaping their reach & influence. You must go off grid, stop using tech of every kind then maybe you will escape the hold corporations have over you.
@@andriyka17 Corporations destroy your skills and talent actually.
@@andriyka17 And? He paid for it dearly.
That argument proves too much.
Amen. Exit their system and their filthy lucre
Prof. Vaknin, in the US we are hindered from moving also because our medical coverage comes from our employer. We would be freer to move if we didn’t have to consider the possibility of a gap in medical coverage. (Even if you move and have a new job right away, there is usually a waiting period of 30-90days to become eligible for the new medical coverage.) Also, our medical coverage usually limits us to use providers with the state, if not the county. This tethers is geographically.
Thank you for this insightful lecture. I follow you every day.
American health care is nothing but $ transfer to insurance companies and top tier medical institutions.
Do you have a medical condition that requires going to the doctor every month? If you learn about how to take care of your body and implement eating right with exercise then you can just buy a basic healthcare plan. I have done that for 40 years and have not worked for anyone since 1981.
I’m European and I don’t have a medical coverage. I just don’t go to the doctor period.
For real, unless you have a pre-existing condition, health insurance is a complete and utter waste. The whole concept has never made enough sense to me to justify that added expense
Us health care did not include pre existing conditions before the ACA/obamacare. Any gap in coverage meant if you got a diagnosis of cancer - it is pre existing and not covered. Rules in the aca are being eliminated so the pre existing clause could go anytime too. Health insurance is a racket in the US
An incredible talk Sam, these are important words that people need to be hearing.
This future we are building for ourselves is not a world I want to live in.
Professor, you should DEFINITELY write a book about this.
Many people will buy it! I know I would.
This is such a Great subject and it is awesome to see your analytical skills being applied to it!
He should give it for free otherwise it's 100% capitalistic solution
Bruh... don't hype him up for something that's almost certain to not be true... almost NO ONE would buy his book! And not because it'd be a bad or uninteresting book... but just because of numbers/statistics: the overwhelming majority of Authors SELL LESS THAN 5,000 book copies. Even if he assumed pure profit, that would mean he doesn't even pull $100k from his book... IF... its even successful!
100%
People don't read books nowadays I'd rather have him put an audiobook
Can you please use your brain. People don’t even listen to others .This is going to happen no matter what. The only solution is for yourself only if you find a way to survive.
This might be the most important video Dr. Vaknin has ever published. Wow! Explains it all perfectly. We are heading to real-life Hunger Games, and the masses are voting for it.
Since I had 14-16 I perceived what he’s saying. Many of us too , the problem is that the majority don’t. So we’re trapped.
He keeps dropping these awesome jokes and the audience is so uptight
They didn't even look interested. Maybe they are the sheeple he was on about. I was loving every second of this.
@@chrishart8548 Me too.
some even left thru the presentation
@@goldmine4955 they don't like the truth or facts
Gee it's almost as if it's a hellworld where laughter is inappropriate or stifled, and not a fucking sitcom.
So eye opening. Would love more lectures like this. Thank you for your work! You are a treasure!
Slavery was never abolished, it just became voluntary - me.
I NEVER KNOWINGLY VOLUNTEERED. IT WAS NOT AN IN-GOOD-FAITH AGREEMENT. I WAS EDUCATED/ BRAINWASHED/FUNNELED INTO THE BILLIONAIRE CENTRAL-BANK SYSTEM...AS WAS EVERYONE.
Absolutely true. Rich people are ruling this planet earth and we are their slaves 😢
Amazing speech. So many new concepts you introduced. Stuff like this scares the ones partaking in the mayhem. You are turning on the light in the kitchen at 2am and watching all the roaches run for cover.
The master slave dichotomy started by the Roman’s is alive and well. The slaves do not know they are slaves or they would revolt. If they had known they were slaves, I could have saved a thousand more. Harriet Tubman
Facts!!!
"Started by the Roman's" , come on man?
It's as old as mankind itself. Even certain species of animals enslave each other.
Arabs, African, Europeans, Asians, etc. are all guilty of practicing slavery at one time or another.
Master/Slave dichotomies were not by any means started by the Romans.
This man is spitting absolute fire jokes and not a single chuckle. The west has truly fallen.
i knew this at age 16. back then i made a promise to not bring any children into this bad stage play. i thought id be able to live my life before i would see how bad things are getting. i was wrong...
Are there any problems that are unsolvable?
That’s very honest
We were all wrong, but at least we are mortal, meaning we die in the end so at least all this will at least end one day.
I beat you. I was 8 when I made that promise to myself although granted I was dragged up on a series of UK Army Camps and never regretted it for one second
Thought the same . I’ve done the impossible to make a living last 10 years . Now I see everything destroyed due inflation. Rigged game. I literally thinking to move outside the city and live in the forest. I mean , is that or work 12h/day for nothing.
I've been arguing post-Reagan that the dramatic decrease in inflation was a policy choice to protect asset holdings of the wealthy at the expense of the middle class
This is what happens when you have an actor as the president. Other countries has followed this idea and there are muppets everywhere, strings attached.
people were warned but they bought reagan's bs and bush's treasonous actions. They are buying the same bs with trump right now.
Tomorow I am learning for public finance test in university, and listening to this as I am studying seems to turbo charge my knowledge in the field, now I understand the definition of lobbying which is described as rent-seeking, thank you prof. Vaknin.
Ever read any Michael Hudson books?
The rich feel safe when they walk outside. That is the issue
this is the issue.
Period
Truth
"Someone made more money then me, they should fear for their safety!" lol. define "the rich"
Why we need the police?! You will appear rich to someone. Drop your evil criminal mind.
I've been saying this for a long time.
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Powerful men are bad men".(people)
- first Baron Acton
The last sentence of this powerful quote is typically left out because of it's absolute truth.
The more power a person gains, the more they are free to indulge themselves in their own whims, their own prejudices...justifications in their own minds are sufficient justifications for anything. They lose sight of the rights of others, secure in their own conclusions.
Powerful people can't help but become bad people, unknowingly.
They simply cannot see the harm that they do, obsessed with their own desires.
-weezi-🙏💖🙏💜🌄
Perfect example: George Soros. This sick monster wants to remake the world according to his misfiring brain synapses.
It's more than just that, there's also the undeniable fact that there is no one above them to police them. The necessity of the invention of an all loving and all just God makes sense, once you consider how inconvenient this truth is. The fact that we can now freely discuss this without any real negative personal consequences, is actually a function not of less power over us, but more power over us-- so much, that nothing we can possibly say, could ever have an effect.
Could it be more about white race supremacy and less about corporations?
@@timestampingarmy No, but that's precisely the brainrot that prevents any addressing of socioeconomic/fundamental problems(how and why the human species is mentally ill) and instead fixates on division and superficial problems. If I was a "white elite", saliva would be running from my mouth at the thought that most morons spend their time thinking about race.
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." Frank Herbert
I realized this around 25 years ago while I was working in a car factory. I told my coworkers, why don´t they put a sign over the entrance: Work sets you free, like at the work camps during the second WW. They looked at me like I was the crazy one and I explained, that a workers salary is just enough to pay for necessities and safe to buy a house, work 30 years to pay it of etc. They leave us with just enough to survive. The whole thing is a scam. And as a factory worker, I was even in the top 20 percent of the country in terms of earnings. I don´t understand why the other 80 percent keep voting for these devils.
Whats the solution? Because universal income from the government and no need to work for it destroyed the economy of Argentina....BADLY
@@AndAndmed I belief something like Germany had was very prosperious before it got destroyed in the eighties and ninetees. Strong rights and rules for workers closely monitored by the government. No limitless immigration, only people who were usefull for the economy. The big industries for the essentials were property of the state, like telekomunications (deutsche Telekom), energy, public transportation (Deutsche Bundesbahn) and postal service (DP) they employed huge amount of people with really good benefits and salaries and all was working like a well oiled machine till the government turned against their citizens with the European Union and before the EWG and privatised and sold the property of the citizens which generations had build and saved to hedge funds and private equity firms. Since than and together with limitless immigration of economic refugess with different values, morals and beliefs, the wages and rights for normal working class people went down and so did the standart of living and at the same time the crime rate went up. Basically the middle class got wiped out.
davecopp9356, that is the reason for pushing refugees welcome camps, protected by police in liepzig.
I dont want them, you have no choice, you have to like them. Those at power are beyond reach and dont fear the consequences.
@@davecopp9356Argentina also owned the essentials, but the corruption was so big that to be able to get a phone at home at that time had waiting list of 40 years( I am from the 60's)
The companies like railroad, phone, electricity, household gas supply, ect., were receiving money from the federal government but each one of their CEOs took that money for personal enrichment.
@@AndAndmed Interesting. I belief religion is needed to keep people from becoming degenerates and steal everything they can. Values, morals and culture and shaming and punishing people who steal or act harmful to the society needs to be put in place to protect and keep the system functioning. Thats how it was in Germany before the EWG and later EU was put into place and the german currency was taken away and they gave up the control of the country to the dictatorship of the EU which is basically run by the deep state of banksters who also run most of the other western countrys and have not the best interest for the voters in mind. Politicians are just the puppets and actors of these group. I can not even name them or my comment gets deleted which shows who is in charge.
I believe to be original is a calling we all have and want to both connect and disconnect with others in ways that shows our uniqueness as a value to the creation of something truly novel to contribute to the human experience. We are financial batteries for systems and we are an infinite supply to extracted from before they were born.
Corporations wiped out all small businesses by having freedom of ruling themselves through lobbying power. Not any other business entity has that luxury so they have to loose, by this new definition. 30 years ago the power of certain businesses were limited, to the point not to bankrupt others in the same industry, today such a thing doesn’t exist. Fare competition is gone prices are going up and up.
No matter what outside form a government takes the nature of power stays the same.
Psychopathy and narcissistic and other adjacent ways of being, are ideal and optimized methods for socioeconomic success. This also becomes a defense against reason, against negotiation, or even against combat, because good is at a fundamental disadvantage in battles with evil due to the access evil has to breaking rules which good cannot break. Simply consider it an endless game, ask yourself "Who wins in the end?" and this will only become more clear if one is perfectly committed to the truth no matter how unpleasant.
The solution is to exclude Narcissists and Psychopaths from positions of power.
Very true. Well said.
100% true. Most people in power have personality disorders and low empathy or no empathy at all
Good has accces to growth
if the only thing that can happen is perpetual wealth consolidation, then it can only just return to european monarchs, the ones who started with the most and established most of the rules and got away with breaking the most rules.
From my experience with successful entrepreneurs, they are all very focussed on their success and can’t stop themselves from becoming richer and richer . They are ruthless . Their workers are generally not well paid and they rely on desperate workers that will take work at the given salary . The workers that stay are content to work under such conditions out of habit. Workers come and go but the prescribed wage is not changed . Usually hovering around minimum wage . I only saw wages increase because of the corona virus 🦠 pandemic where the borders were closed to immigrants.
Wow you're so right. I never made that distinct connection between covid's inflated wages with the temporary closed borders, meaning no undocumented workers or drastically less. That adds a whole new level of cynicism to when the politicians kept echoing the phrase 'we need to Thank our Frontline Workers for keeping the economy going' cause what they really meant was "keep them working cause we can't replace them with closed borders".
@@senglomein5766 I only got a pay increase as a truck driver when Indian students couldn’t come to Australia and many left to care for parents in India. My boss still drives a Bentley
Well then why don't they/you become an entrepreneur if they're/you're so unsatisfied with the situation? What alternative do you suggest?
@@JohnDorian-j7x I would stop the permit system . I would have another concrete plant , but the local council won’t approve. So it’s not true capitalism. So increase the minimum wages or reduce taxes on overtime
@@buddyrojek9417 I heard whispers recently of a bill in the oven; almost the antithesis to what your advocating for, which would provide businesses of all sizes, 3 employees --- 10,000 employees, a tax-write off per employee hired in said year, IF ONE stipulation is met....and that is, *you hire an immagrant as opposed to a citizen* . . . I beleive it was something around $9,500.00 in tax exemption per immigrant hired . . .
whens that tsumani coming to mainland US?
Brilliant Dr Vaknin! I have always loved your economic analyses… please do more!
Been fortunate to have created my own employment for my entire life but getting exploited by others is certainly destructive.
"You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked."
Quote from Revelation 3:17
😂😂😂😂 this man made me laugh and cry all at once. God bless you sir! Ive known most of this since i was young but to see and hear it put out so planley and clear was just equisite.
The central banks are monopolistic hence we do not live in a capitalistic society in the U.S. Money can be created immediately for the benefit of the Banks' cronies.
Search my vakninmusings TH-cam channel for "bank"
Ever heard of “the money trust”?
accurately, we live in feudalism and until rich people either dont exist or are actually able to be held responsible for harming others in a way that causes more harm than they gained from harming, we always will. you cant have rich people with no rules or no accountability without it being feudalism. in order for capitalism to actually happen, there'd have to be a global economic reset and everyone start with equal resources, then have all rules actually followed and no groups of people who were allowed to break the rules for thousands of years to build up huge advantages with.
Finally someone said it, Bravo 👏🏻
🙌Get in , Always a joy to here Prof Vaknin ❤
I had being 20 year waiting for someone to fit with my fit with my thinking! Now I know that I´m not the only one that notice what it´is happening in the world.
Social services are failing in the US because our government gives the money to private organizations and hopes they take care of it. They are social safety boxes instead of a network, and due to inefficiency they are ineffective. Welfare worked better when the federal government oversaw it.
Don’t forget powerful private lobbies pushed & bribed politicians to privatise cheaper govt services like utilities and healthcare back in the 1970s promising the citizens “to be competitive & make things cheaper”. The exact opposite happened because big players either buy their competitors up to monopolize their industry or they get caught making agreements to engage in price fixing. Then they pretend the citizens are ripping off the citizen to slash services further or raise prices higher. The public has mostly been brainwashed to believe this corporate propaganda. We live in a 247 bullhorn propaganda slave debt farm with only economic violence as the fence from escaping.
The problem is they buy things for a dollar and sell it to their own people for 20 dollars.
It's been going on for 30 years.
If they had to sell it to other countries it wouldn't happen.
It's disgusting how you can buy something for nothing and make a fortune out of it by selling to your own people.
That's where it all stems from.
Everyone got their phones on loud mode….anyway great and very informative presentation, thanks for sharing! :)
Surely it's humanity's 21st birthday and we can collectively agree to ditch people ruling over us in the myriad forms that takes. So much stolen from our common wealth. We CAN have a more beautiful world than this one.
In your view, socialism takes two forms, 1)The state takes from the poor to give it to the rich through rents or 2)the state takes from the rich to give it to the poor through social programs. Would this not result in a sort of class warfare between the rich and the poor for control of the state? Is class warfare real and obserbable.
Class warfare is more alive now than at any time since 1917.
UK is a good example, every class stays separately. Someone posh normally doesn't come into contact with the working class. I am middle class living in a part of town where middle class are living. One can pick up which class one belongs usually quick. I never believed this before moved to the UK. I have friends throughout society and don't make a difference. Everyone is the same in the end.
@@samvaknin Absolutely 💯
@samvaknin please 🙏 write a book on this subject. I know you are busy. Or could you recommend books ?
@@samvakninGood sir, I would have called you a shameless lunatic just a decade ago, but having lived through at least this portion of the worst capitalist economy in world history since the great depression, I now agree with you.
The "iron law of oligarchy" states that all forms of organization, regardless of how democratic they may be at the start, will eventually and inevitably develop oligarchic tendencies, thus making true democracy practically and theoretically impossible, especially in large groups and complex organizations
Interesting that a labour shortage ended feudalism and the upcoming abundant humanoid robots run by AI will bring feudalism back for the great pleasure of the neo feuds.
The robots arn't coming. They are nowhere near ready.
@@delocon
You're talking about humanoids obviously because robots have been around for decades now.
Well, humanoids are already here. They are already useful even though not yet as smart and dextrous as a human because they are much cheaper and less troublesome. You'll start seeing them in Amazon warehouses in less than two years.
@@halnineooo136 Yeah you don't know that, that's just a prediction.
There are loads, upon loads, upon loads of liability, programming, safety, cost and infrastructure needs that have to be met. Even that commercial dog robot Boston Dynamics released has to be recharged for four hours every 90 minutes. Amazon workers are easily replaceable, and not going anywhere for at least a decade.
And who told you the robots were coming? Your television? C'mon man.
@@delocon
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst
Thank you so much Dear Sam
At least 1000 years ago you knew who was oppressing you. You mostly knew who or where they lived. Now its so hidden, it feels better but is just as oppressive
solution: stop charging interest on loans. you're welcome.
Great lecture Prof Vaknin. There's a lot to digest here but thank you for this very detailed big picture breakdown of where we find ourselves today. Now I have to go hunt down some books to chase the details for myself 😂
P.S. was that your phone ringing for calls and pinging with notifications?
He said he has no solution which is just as depressing as the speech.
Lectures like this are a big necessity nowadays. I have fallen as many within the contemporary illusions of having a life similar to the earlier generations. Our matters are safety, sanity and preserving our communities the much we can. There is a big invisible wave already shaking the entire earth. There will be no drastic changes and no alarms most probably, but is good to se well prepared people like you giving the warning.
Group together in mutual
support and living.
Much like the Amish, etc.
Born poor uneducated. Now I'm educated and poor.
Once we go into the digital currency digital ID system we are finished..thats the last straw. Resist ..resist ..resist
We're already there. All bills are digital. Plus cash is basically useless to the average person. It's all done electronically.
This was a fantastic talk. The big picture perspective explains everything. I'm going to listen several times to memorize it and do further learning. Thank you so much for sharing, i greatly appreciate it.
Great!
An elaboration is needed: how do you prove that it is not the private sector that has coopoted the state? It seems obvious to me that this is the way it is. We see the various congresses doing the bidding of the donor class, shaping laws and foreign and economic policies, the richest people are oligarchs, not heads of state. Wars are started for the interests of coorporations ability to extract resources. Or is it perhaps that this dichotomy between state/coorporations is false, and the two have merged to one?
www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Rent-Seeking-18015
For anyone interested, Yiannis Varoufakis' book on what he calls "Technofeudalism" is v.good
This is the greatest lecture of yours, you really should keep digging deeper into this topic.
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." Frank Herbert
They do coordinate through wef and the banks.
If we had a truly market driven capitalist society, the too big to fail banks and corporations would have collapsed in 2008-2009 and after some period of instability, new smaller enterprises likely would have emerged and grown. The problem is inequality and the stifling of opportunity for those who are not on top. However, we prop up the massive at the expense of the small, which is not a natural system. It would at least make sense for society to prop up the small at the expense of the large, providing opportunity to the masses and not those who hoard all of societies wealth.
great stuff ...
I work for myself. I prioritise almost anything over work, because I try to earn just enough to live a comfortable life. If you want to be rich, you are already mentally/emotionally deficient (it may not be your fault of course). The fact that rich people exist is the reason people are poor.
The government is the enemy of the people (or at least the puppet of the enemy). I have no desire to give the government my money as it refuses to work for real people. It serves the parasite class (rich). Anarcho syndicalist ultra-democracy is the way forward. No leaders - ever!
Excellent as always, professor. I cannot reconcile, in light of this understanding, the view that the stadt would want to save and elevate the plebs via a mandatory untested free health program as we've seen recently. Reducing the pop would reduce the supply side inflation we are cuttently seeing. Thank you sincerely.
Consumers drive growth-addicted capitalism. LIVE ones.
Estimated global population:
1000 BCE: 50 million
0 : 170 million
1800 CE : 1 Billion
2024 CE : 8,019,876,189
Thank you for sharing this 🪙
Yes . We have to stop working for corporations. Period and local help only. Stop going to goodwill. They make money out of our items .
I would very much like to see this scholar and professor Michael Hudson exchange their views, wouldn’t you also?
So simply & clearly explained, which makes it accessible to all. Thank you.
This is a little gem- defied my expectations
That was a fascinating lecture. Thank you Sam.
Interesting lecture! Thanks for putting this out for the world.
Eye opener,as expected.This is really hard subject to swallow as individual,who has children.So how do you prepare the children resilience to this kind of environment,if you are not ritch?
I would teach them from small on that can achieve all what they want and don't be a naysayer. I grew up with parents who had limited beliefs . And sadly it has affected me in my childhood. But later I have read books that even wealth , money is energy but most of the poor don't believe in wonders and quantum physics and creativity. So although my parents were not poor but their beliefs was. The mindset is important. But ultimatly the rich don't want us to become one of them and the system as designend by purpose like it is.
@@CBT5777 Too late,my children are teenagers already.
Very good explained, thank you
Perhaps, it is life itself which is a 0 sum game, since the living benefit from the death of some others, not all, but some, just like in capitalism, so it may be that capitalism is a zero sum game because life itself is fundamentally the ultimate zero sum game, and everything in life can't escape it. We should say "war" not "game" to be more accurate because if a so-called "game" can cause you damage worse than death, then how is this a "game" really? Also, perhaps to be more accurate it would not be a socialist system with a capitalist face, but rather a satanic system with a lying face.
We need to build more jails for the poor people. They freedom is in jail where everything is free.
This is absolutely vital information. 👏👏👏 Thank you.
Becoming modern day peasants working for the rich Lords
Brilliant speech, yet horrifying truth. THANK YOU Mr Vaknin, your voice is worth more than gold in these times
Thank you for sharing the wonderful lecture!! I would love to hear more from you on this subject. Narcissism videos are still healing, but emotionally exhausting 😂. Probably time we heal from the political narcissist.
Great lecture doc!
You shouldn’t need a study to realize this…
Yeah people shouldn't make lectures and just should stay silent. Great idea.
@@coolorphans , Thanks for that Edmund Burke, you pathetic whiny little b****ch.
Professor Sam, thank you for sharing this talk. 🙏
Спасибо, профессор! Информативно, конкретно и понятно 🔥
No, you are just slaves to the money - that´s all you need to know and then try to understand that to solve the problem. But you are all so clever, you can´t see that and keep on using it.
If we don't have money, there will be no incentive to work since the idea of money is that your work can hold future value.
@@coolorphans I do not agree. I have prooven otherwise over the past 30+ years. All I have achieved inmy life I achieved without using money. Most I have achieved was achieved in the past 15 years or so when I actually was able to live without money after creating the basic requirements for this. Your argument only holds true for as long as all stay in the misbelieve that money is a requirement. Money has nothing to do with future values as long as the things produced are usefull and remain so.
Money is a means of deception that is only good for making others believe that you have done something useful for society. 1. it makes every crime possible, because if you have money, you can't see where it comes from. He may have earned it honestly, but there will always be people who quickly realise that it is easier to get it by doing nothing or cheating. Be it selling their own daughter, or weapons or drugs or stolen goods. 2. the movement of money within the banking system alone ensures that people who can do nothing but trade money can get hold of it. All the great wars of modern times have been fought with money. The disadvantages clearly outweigh the advantages.
But people believe otherwise and therefore they remain slaves to money. Rich people are just a side effect of the use of money. And Rich people are only there because the non rich people keep using money that eventually drips in their pockets (of the rich that is). Just because non rich people work and sell their work for money to rich people that sytem works.
Im trying to explain this to my boomer parents and my grandfather they can't grasp it
You are all people making a huge mistake. See, it is not about capitalism or communism. Because any of these systems could work IF ONLY the goverment actually had such purpose.
But the real government's purpose IS NOT making YOUR life better, but exploiting you and draining resources from you. It can do it through capitalism, it can do it through socialism. So this debate is just a destraction from the real problem - that you are just a slave of your government. Regardless of economical system, ideology, culture or land.
Every country is rich but financial mismanagement governs the level of inequality
exactly... and regardless if a capitalist or socialist or any framework - the same corruption exists. sadly, today, this is happening exponentially, and from all attack vectors.
Hi Prof. Sam, you mentioned the US has low social mobility, suggesting 'your birth is your destiny.' Could you please consider making a video or sharing your thoughts on determinism versus free will. I think your ideas on this would be very interesting from an economic perspective but also a behavioural psychology perspective as well! Thank you
Watch the videos on my vakninmusings TH-cam channel.
It's a shame I didn't understand the world I live in until it was too late. My life was hijacked by poverty mindset, I was told if I worked hard it would pay off. That was a lie. Generations of slaves.
Thank you, Prof. Sam Vaknin, for this educational and enlightening video.
In a world with an increasing number of billionaires. And the gap between Rich and poor increasing tremendously. There's definitely something wrong with the world. If you still believe in democracy at least in America. We can replace the current leaders with people who are more empathetic and sensitive to the common man or woman. There was a time in the United States when a man or a woman could work a job. Have a spouse, own a car, buy a house and raise a kid. On a single income. Over the past few decades, leaders in business and politics have rigged the system to give them the primary share of the profits. There was a time when a corporation was concerned with maintaining a relationship with its stakeholders. Those stakeholders were the owners of the business, stockholders. The community the business was in. It's employees. And the general welfare. In the last 30 years or so, the primary focus of a corporation was to increase shareholder value. That's it. That's the driving force. So short-term decisions are made for the highest profit. Cutting costs and laying off employees will make your stock price rise. And the common man has been losing ever since. While business income has increased dramatically over that time, wages have stayed flat. That can be fixed. Legislatively if you have leaders with the guts to do what's best for the country and the people. Good luck with the revolution
I think that small golden era you were talking about in the US happened once, it last like less than twenty years and will probably never happen again. It was mainly an economic boom caused by WW2 where by the end of said war the US had over night become an economic, if not the only economic super power on the planet and the entire war industry had created insane amounts of factory jobs for American families.
Brilliant lecture, thanks!
This was really excellent!
Thank you honoreble profesor.
100 percent true
I’ve been poor, rich, but never stupid. The greatest wealth is being respected by the least among us. The clown from academia has never been respected by anyone. ❤
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Ja, Bismarck! Otto! The germans avoided a revolution.
Only God can save the poor from the rich
The end of feudalism meant an end to that type of market. There is some more freedom in the market economy but we are all still mostly peasants
Many think the answer is unions. Yet unions are just another bureaucracy. Once the elite investor class starts seeing a slight dip in profits, the union becomes irrelevant. I worked for a company that recognized a union. Then, the company sold to a competitor and closed up shop. Sounds familiar to many.
thank you
Brilliant talk lots of light bulbs moments for me. Thank you
Thank you. You re telling the truth.❤❤❤
Greed isn't something only the wealthy possess. I've seen greedy poor people. I have roomates that leave dishes in the sink essentially stealing other peoples time that have to clean up after them while they scroll the internet and watch movies. I could say this guy is greedy by being the only one talking in the class when everyone else has thoughts and ideas that should equally be shared. Greed isn't just an economic thing.
People always want the problem to be "them" not "us."
I'd much rather deal with that than a greedy capitalist who lets people starve while flying their jet around
@@theotormon yeah but that doesnt apply here. Our entire economic system is a rigged carnival game, which is forced upon all of us from birth. You can "escape" and build your own self-sustaining homestead given the stars align accordingly and you seize that narrow window of opportunity to makre it feasible for the long-run. But as hard as it now, its getting harder everyday as our leaders tighten regulations and make more natural things illegal---- it for our safety dont ya know?
So are you suggesting that Iwe all should look inward and "just do better, be better" and then big brother just fades away stage left? and as they exit, they remove all systems of control and regulation and surveillance? Im free because I say I'm free during yoga meditation??
Take responsibility for yourself, absolutely, but never blame yourself for the actions of others'.
People not following your rules doesn't necessarily mean they're greedy.