Let me express my opinion! Stop censoring my freedom of speech! I'm calling the secret service on you, these comments are proof you're committing treason against my constitutional human rights! "STFU" is considered hate speech, hope you're ready to meet your next 15 years worth of dates in the prison showers, you fucking Nazi! Game over!
Humans doing what they do best, destroy everything beautiful and consume all resources. Humans say what numbers are good and sustainable for animal populations, but refuse to set hard limits on themselves.
I was in a tech store a few weeks ago replacing my laptop that broke after 8 years of use. While I waited for staff to grab my new laptop from the back another member of staff noticed my iphone 5 in my hand and offered an upgrade. I told him thanks but it still works and I don't replace things until I actually need to. He looked at me like I'm crazy, looked at his colleague and they tried not to laugh. They were polite in the end but those expressions suggested I'm the weird one.
They really get a kick out of me when I go to the AT&T store with my GF to get accessories for her phone, I still use an LG "burner phone" from 12 years ago, it makes calls & sends & receives texts & NOBODY can hack or trace it, what more could you want in a phone? I paid $9.99 for the phone & it costs me about $120 a year for airtime.
@@MrJpierre1000 I'm using a cheap Huawei phone ($100) because it does all I need ... send and receive calls and texts. Oh yeah, it does more, but ... I don't even need THOSE things.
Bill Maher makes a very good point. Public companies and the stock market feeds into the culture of greed, even though the companies are already very profitable, even if they are past their peak. But investors want something for nothing; they want a big and quick return on their investment. We need a new institution for public companies that better rewards long term growth instead of short term quarterly growth. With public companies, many investors don't see $621 billion in profit, they see a couple of cents increase in their share price, and that is the problem. Public loans, which are basically what bonds are, may be a much better alternative for raising capital than public ownership.
+Anthony Tillman I agree. I was fired multiple times because of unrealistic "sales goals." I was growing my customer base in a more realistic way; through reliability and integrity. Corporate policy decided that this was not the way they did business.
Very interesting Dead Parroting, perhaps there can even be a sub-bubble there in some way. Just how much can firms push hard for short term gains until everything collapses. short term gains/instant gratification is like crack. Actually, I think they are both defined the same way lol. Back to being serious, They are becoming or have become the next sub-prime, the next "mover and shaker" factor. But let me ask you this, let me ask everyone on youtube - We saw the housing bubble, we saw the Great Depression, we can probably see another stock market crash with how things are going... cant we as a nation, as rational people, as fathers/mothers/sons/daughters/etc. admit for once that capitalism like any other political ISM is not perfect? The US has done a fine job in demonizing other forms and putting a halo over capitalism.
+ Josho4096 the next recession, assuming the last one every ended lmao, may be caused by the easy credit being given for cars. We have all heard the commercial: "need a car..... No credit, no problem". John Oliver did an excellent piece on this issue.
Oh yeah, if you've ever worked in retail, you've come across this. The annual expectation is last year, plus 5%. It's ridiculous, cause it's been the standard since at least 2000, when I got out of the Navy. In Navy, the standards are set, and that's it. Did you pass regs this year? Yes? Well, they're going to be pretty much the same next year, and the year after as well. There's just no possible way to maintain infinite growth. If you tried that with your lungs, they would sieze and/or rupture. Businesses have to expand as well as retract for an honestly healthy economy.
@@tsdt4ever - Correct. The truth is that stupid has no political bias - people need to stop accepting shit from people just because they are in the same political camp. If you see genuine stupid....call it out no matter where it is.
Warren Buffett's company also owes millions in back taxes he'll never be forced to pay. When he gets around to actually paying taxes then he can talk, until then he and the rest of the economically challenged liberals can kindly shut the fuck up
Meghan Hagstrom Intersting point of view. Liberals are economically challenged... Can you then explain way the statistics show that a majority of subsidized income households vote republican then? Or maybe you are just referring to the minority of the Liberal voters that are economically challenged?
Belly laughs. They're good for my mental health. :)) All I need to do is go to TH-cam, Bill Maher, New rules and you faithfully serve them up. THANK YOU!!
I certainly hope people continue to pile on Wells Fargo. I remember them getting in trouble for trying to foreclose on Soldiers in 93. Money is not the root of all evil, Bankers are...
In today's America where the rich always need to get richer whether that is in finance, sports, or power, this is so refreshing to watch. Thank you once again Bill.
They are doing this to Public Education as well. More gains, more growth, evaluate teachers and students growth constantly using testing and only those results are counted.
Now that all the carriers stopped letting you get a free or heavily discounted upgrade every 2 years, I'm keeping my current phone until it stops working. Buying a new $700 phone every year that's 95% the same as the last model is just crazy.
Hell, I just bought a apparently mint condition Note 4 off a website for just over 200. I've had a Note 2 for 3 years. And it still works well, its just that technology for me after a few years sometimes just DIES, and I'm getting ahead of the curve.
still using my note 3 until the screen breaks or something interesting is actually released. Got it for a dollar with two year contract now they want you to pay 25 bucks extra a month for 24 months or something crazy to upgrade.
Snaggle Toothed sadly there's snobby people that do care, they look at what you have then think highly of them self because they have the newest model. Talk about ego problems!
I've still got a Samsung Galaxy s3 and I'm not getting a new one til the apps stop working or unless it makes it so I can alter my files through another app.
I agree with you 100%. I have a Nexus 6 and I'm not buying another phone until this the breaks or becomes unusable. I remember the good old days when all a cellphone could do was make phone calls so all of this extra distracting shit is gravy.
i'm an Apple shareholder and the stock price drives me crazy because investors have unrealistic expectations. Apple shouldn't have to revolutionize the world every year to achieve a fair valuation.
djancak No, not "infinite returns." They expect SOME returns. If the company doesn't grow valuation, the investor literally makes no money aside from tiny dividends, which some companys don't even give.
small dividends are fine. thats how healthy business works. Expecting massive returns each year is damaging to the economy and to apple as a whole. They put the company in accelerated/hyper growth and then need the dividends to constantly rise in order to sustain this hyper growth. Eventually, it will fail. these companies rise and fall quickly. If just a few businesses did this, it wouldnt be an issue, but this has become the norm for not only retail, but now mortgage companies and banks. if you cant see the danger in this bubble economy, you are going to be quite surprised when it crumbles.
You can't have a system predicated on the notion of an infinite growth paradigm on a planet with finite resourses. it's insane, and we need to shift our thinking and change our value system.
I wonder if Apple would release a new iPhone, with the one from the previous year, saying it's the new iPhone. If the changes are incremental, would people buying the new iPhone would know the difference other than what Apple tells them? Chances are, no.
That and also any of those credit card readers that would be plugged in the headphone jack are useless with an iPhone 7, meaning people gotta start using Apple Pay
Are you serious? Complaining that Apple has released 1 phone a year historically (2/yr for last 3 years and 3 this year - to offer users choice) when its competitors release dozens of phones (or more) a year? If you don't want the 7 then don't get it - get the 6S. Apple still sells it, and even lowered its price by $100 this month.
Correction: Liz Warren didn't put a stop to it at Fargo. She merely gave the CEO a lecture afterwards. Nobody gets prosecuted. Nobody gets fired. The fine is merely a percentage of their profits, and they get to keep what they pilfered.
This is what I think the main flaw of capitalism is. Capitalism promotes growth and development, even when it is really not necessary. Capitalism worked for the West before when we were expanding and there were still things to overcome. But now it really isn't that necessary. We can back down on it a little, and start creating safety nets for the poor and disenfranchised.
This excellent commentary illustrates that being overly obsessed with materialism, especially as a means to bolster ones status, is the very hallmark of a weak mind. It is no wonder that people who are so preoccupied with such trivialities would, in turn, be blind enough to allow terrible candidates like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton be the front runners in the 2016 Presidential race.
Apple fans aren't nerds. iOS is designed for non tech savvy people. it's the simplest most dull operating system in the business. iOS works great but it is not at all nerdy. Linux is nerdy.
The iPad was a Jobs project, he announced iCloud at his last WWDC keynote, Siri was already around (iOS 5, with Siri integrated into the system, came out a couple of weeks after he died), the iPad Mini was in the pipeline at the time, and the rumors about what would become Apple Watch only surfaced a couple of months later...it's only in the last year or so that they've finally moved beyond what they were starting to do when Jobs was alive, and even that's mostly because they bought Beats.
Lisa: "STOP! It's the same doll. She still represents all the same awful stereotypes she did before. All they did was put a stupid new hat on her." Smithers: "But she's got a new hat. I WANT IT. I WANT IT. I WANT IT."
***** Thank you. It's a fun geezer question to ask at the electronics store, though, just for the salesperson's reaction and response. ;-)) During my 71 years, I've made each technological stereo leap and have about 20K ablums, from 78 shellac to flash drives that hold the equivalent of two vinyl tons. Having done that, I can't bring myself to enter the contrived marketing race for a "new and improved" phone. My land line and answering machine works just fine to filter out Bozos and boiler room calls.
the reason for this economy on steroids is to be found in the manipulated monetary policy that is used to create artificial inflation instead of its natural scope of a worth-keeper, in other words the primary goal of money should be the store of value, instead nowadays central banks look out for growth at any price.. central banks create artificial inflation by lowering interest rates to almost 0 and its through this inflation that the top 1% gets favorized, wealth its absorbed from the lower classes and is effectively taken out of the economy and transferred to financial paradises.. its pretty simple, but 99,9% people dont get it. its a shame
We've got to stop this nonsense at the level of our own everyday behavior; you can't let businesses tell you that you need a bigger car, candy bars to take a break, or which day of the year to buy your wife flowers. If you walk into the grocery store with a list that says to buy one jar of jam and you leave with 5 because there was a 'sale', you're part of the problem. You don't need to have more types of every item to the point that you have to buy/run a second fridge, and, in the era of using computers to do logistics, there's practically no such thing as a 'sale'. Those are fake; it's called high-low pricing and it's a necessary trick because CEO's who try to respect their customers' intelligence by not using high-low pricing will kill sales numbers and get fired (see Ron Johnson's tenure at J.C. Penney)
I have an Android phone that was built in 2013. It's the first and only smart phone I've owned. I have no plans nor desire to get another one until this one dies. Don't know why anyone would; that's just something I can't understand at all.
I think there is a FIVE BLADE razor on the market. When I saw that, I thought to myself, "How many damn blades does a person need? If it doesn't come off after three blades, then just do another swipe. If it still doesn't come off, then that area isn't whiskers. It's your face!"
Actually: growth *is* the problem. Because it ruins our planet! - humanity and it's capacities are big enough; rather reverse that trend, and re-shrink to a healthy, less cancerous size, so nature has a chance again to replenish itself!
PyrrhoVonHyperborea there is *no* problem with growth. We need it to advance technologically and become a Type 2 civilization, in order to get closer to answering the ultimate questions. The problem is we are unable to control the rate of growth of the different fields of technology based on our current capitalistic scheme. Not to mention that it only generates output to mostly useless products rather than focussing on world changing ones. We are wasting way too much resources per product created. Essentially, I'm afraid it is too late for this planet. We only have two options now: make the best of our remaining resources to establish an extraterrestrial colony, or watch as humanity perishes from its own excesses.
If I’m going to pay the equivalent of a car down payment, it would be nice of Apple to build it in the US. I know that would mean they might only make $400 in profit as opposed to $800, but I’d care more and not feel ripped off every few years.
I always felt the same about cars. Do we need to have a new model every year? How much different are newer models? How many cars are actually recycled? It just seems like a waste. Then what happens to the manufacturing jobs?
The big problem with focus on short term growth is that it hinders long term growth and real innovation. Because innovating and creating new technology can take a long time. Computers and the internet didn't just magically appear out of nowhere. It took decades of research into semiconductors before people were able to build the first PC. Heck, when the field of quantum mechanics was in its infancy, people had no idea that it could even have practical applications. If people had only been focused on short term profit, universities, governments, and businesses would have never funded research. And we wouldn't have computers or MRI's or cell phones or GPS, etc.
Just ordered my new safety razor yesterday. Old one with butterfly close wouldn't stay closed any more, which I wonder if that's the case for most butterfly razors.
Best segment in a while, well done and funny (especially the Keanu part). Simplifying needs to be harnessed by more Americans before we turn into the Walmart Dead, whoops, I meant Walking Dead who who won't be walking much longer and will need a Rascal to get around the consumer amusement park known as Walmart.
The hells a 'Rascal'? You use it without explaining as if it's as popular as McDonald's or something when quite obviously it is not. So please, moving forward, refrain from doing so. It does not make you look cool.
***** ??? So you don't know how to look something up when you don't know what it is, or you just came here to argue about something pointless and get your jollies?
Google it idiot. I only went so far as to say idiot because well, you are. Google is your friend buddy. Unless you think you are entitled to people telling you everything without you having to have any little doubt about what he or she said. Grow up buddy.
Christian Sch. I advocate all sorts of 'odd' practices that will help turn back the clock and promote optimal health, so me with my shirt off unfortunately had to happen to help lure people to what I have to say. I'll have a new updated one soon, shirt will still be off though.
I hear that bill. I still have my LG G3 and it works just fine. It also has a removable battery, expandable storage and a mini jack. These features should be considered by all to be mandatory features unless you like swapping out your phone for a refurb every time the battery goes bad, or having to depend on a cloud you have no control over for extra storage, or replacing lost dongles for $8 that cost 50 cents to make. When I think iPhone and Galaxy the term that comes to mind now is "Suckers".
100% agree and I've always thought this myself, I actually shave with a double edged razor, the style from the 1950s and it works better and causes less razor burn.
Still use Samsung S7, and didn't even buy when it was released. My electronics, apart from the LED TV are all made some 10 years go, basically got them for free and it sounds terrific..
infinite growth is pointless, infinite innovation should be the goal
Infinite innovation released incrementally for maximum profit should be the goal.
Various Curious why should maximum profit be the goal? why even include that in your comment?
***** yes but the problem highlighted in this video (and our economy) is people producing simply for the sake of producing.
***** how specifically does a new iPhone every year reduce poverty?
Reducing poverty increases growth, not the other way around. Fix poverty first, and then growth will follow.
God damit!!!! I love bill because he has commonsense. why is it so uncommon?
common sense and Hillary Clinton do not go hand in hand
+Adam Haynes
Oh, shut the fuck up. You should have outgrown asinine remarks like that when you started middle school.
how about you stfu and let other express their opinion? it must be hard for you as a paid hillary troll.
Let me express my opinion!
Stop censoring my freedom of speech!
I'm calling the secret service on you, these comments are proof you're committing treason against my constitutional human rights!
"STFU" is considered hate speech, hope you're ready to meet your next 15 years worth of dates in the prison showers, you fucking Nazi!
Game over!
Wow Americans i guess?
Uncontrolled growth is THE defining characteristic of cancer, I've always said...
and a ding dong
Now think of math
eventually cancer grows so it destroys the system that supports it's growth,
this is what we are doing to the planet because of infinite growth
Humans doing what they do best, destroy everything beautiful and consume all resources. Humans say what numbers are good and sustainable for animal populations, but refuse to set hard limits on themselves.
WAY TO GO! Finally someone who is speaking the truth!!! Love it every word! :))
”we are buying things we dont need to impress people we dont like”
Rutger Bregman
With Money we don’t have. Basically
I was in a tech store a few weeks ago replacing my laptop that broke after 8 years of use. While I waited for staff to grab my new laptop from the back another member of staff noticed my iphone 5 in my hand and offered an upgrade. I told him thanks but it still works and I don't replace things until I actually need to. He looked at me like I'm crazy, looked at his colleague and they tried not to laugh. They were polite in the end but those expressions suggested I'm the weird one.
not to mention people will line up for a new phone
Why did you get an iphone 5 they are so much money.
It's 2019 and I'm still using a Samsung Gravity, why, because it still works!
They really get a kick out of me when I go to the AT&T store with my GF to get accessories for her phone, I still use an LG "burner phone" from 12 years ago, it makes calls & sends & receives texts & NOBODY can hack or trace it, what more could you want in a phone? I paid $9.99 for the phone & it costs me about $120 a year for airtime.
@@MrJpierre1000 I'm using a cheap Huawei phone ($100) because it does all I need ... send and receive calls and texts. Oh yeah, it does more, but ... I don't even need THOSE things.
Common sense is why I love this guy. Plus he has perhaps the best writers among the shows I've watched.
Bill is merely the delivery device for the product.
But boy does he do it with Supreme artistry.
Bill Maher makes a very good point. Public companies and the stock market feeds into the culture of greed, even though the companies are already very profitable, even if they are past their peak. But investors want something for nothing; they want a big and quick return on their investment. We need a new institution for public companies that better rewards long term growth instead of short term quarterly growth. With public companies, many investors don't see $621 billion in profit, they see a couple of cents increase in their share price, and that is the problem. Public loans, which are basically what bonds are, may be a much better alternative for raising capital than public ownership.
+Anthony Tillman I agree. I was fired multiple times because of unrealistic "sales goals." I was growing my customer base in a more realistic way; through reliability and integrity. Corporate policy decided that this was not the way they did business.
Very interesting Dead Parroting, perhaps there can even be a sub-bubble there in some way. Just how much can firms push hard for short term gains until everything collapses. short term gains/instant gratification is like crack. Actually, I think they are both defined the same way lol. Back to being serious, They are becoming or have become the next sub-prime, the next "mover and shaker" factor. But let me ask you this, let me ask everyone on youtube - We saw the housing bubble, we saw the Great Depression, we can probably see another stock market crash with how things are going... cant we as a nation, as rational people, as fathers/mothers/sons/daughters/etc. admit for once that capitalism like any other political ISM is not perfect? The US has done a fine job in demonizing other forms and putting a halo over capitalism.
+ Josho4096 the next recession, assuming the last one every ended lmao, may be caused by the easy credit being given for cars. We have all heard the commercial: "need a car..... No credit, no problem". John Oliver did an excellent piece on this issue.
The way I put it is that the real problem are those shareholders today who treat the stock market as if it were a casino.
Oh yeah, if you've ever worked in retail, you've come across this. The annual expectation is last year, plus 5%. It's ridiculous, cause it's been the standard since at least 2000, when I got out of the Navy. In Navy, the standards are set, and that's it. Did you pass regs this year? Yes? Well, they're going to be pretty much the same next year, and the year after as well. There's just no possible way to maintain infinite growth. If you tried that with your lungs, they would sieze and/or rupture. Businesses have to expand as well as retract for an honestly healthy economy.
Well I sure wouldn't want you on MY sales team, debbie downer!
Sounds like Old Navy is cool place to work at.
Extremely well put!
Lord I hope that was a joke lol
lol. If you think raises in corporate america equal the increased sales you're expected to achieve, I have a bridge to sell you.
This guy is a genius. I wish we had a stewart, Oliver , Maher or Colbert in this country😔
"Someone who believes in infinite growth on a finite planet, is either a fool or an economist."
We need to try and be foolish THEN. Future societies.
There are a lot of Republicans who are both foolish and economists.
@@redrock1963 and a lot of Democrats in the same boat.
@@tsdt4ever - Correct. The truth is that stupid has no political bias - people need to stop accepting shit from people just because they are in the same political camp. If you see genuine stupid....call it out no matter where it is.
@@gayleclanton3311 I think you've achieved it. Congrats.
+1 for that Pokemon Go joke.
That one was brilliant
The amount of people talking only about the example (apple) and not about the real issue bill brought up is staggering.
Warren Buffett argues against the quarterly-report as an inhibitor of real financial-growth. You know, one of the richest guys in the U.S.
Well anyone can see that quarterly-report only promotes short term thinking.
At least he does it
Warren Buffett's company also owes millions in back taxes he'll never be forced to pay. When he gets around to actually paying taxes then he can talk, until then he and the rest of the economically challenged liberals can kindly shut the fuck up
Meghan Hagstrom Intersting point of view. Liberals are economically challenged... Can you then explain way the statistics show that a majority of subsidized income households vote republican then? Or maybe you are just referring to the minority of the Liberal voters that are economically challenged?
"economically challenged"
>Looks at California
I don't get it.
Belly laughs. They're good for my mental health. :)) All I need to do is go to TH-cam, Bill Maher, New rules and you faithfully serve them up. THANK YOU!!
can't wait to watch this on my new phone
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🤣Bill Maher is the best! And that woman’s laugh in this episode is contagious🤣 Love that!
Real Time with Bill Maher is my favorite show! Any time I need to smile, he never fails to provide a balm to my sarcastic nature.
Having worked in tech I began saying this in 1998. I'm glad it's not just me and a few other people with no sizeable audience saying this now.
I certainly hope people continue to pile on Wells Fargo. I remember them getting in trouble for trying to foreclose on Soldiers in 93.
Money is not the root of all evil, Bankers are...
No greed
Good Segment.
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Hey! Bill looked like he was prepared for this segment! Way to go, Bill! Yay for professionalism!
In today's America where the rich always need to get richer whether that is in finance, sports, or power, this is so refreshing to watch. Thank you once again Bill.
So true Bill...so true..
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Bill Killed it on this one!
They are doing this to Public Education as well. More gains, more growth, evaluate teachers and students growth constantly using testing and only those results are counted.
Cry me a river!
Superb. The consumer treadmill exposed. Very funny and sad. Corporate and Wall St. greed.
this was gold...I needed it to start my Saturday laughing
Now that all the carriers stopped letting you get a free or heavily discounted upgrade every 2 years, I'm keeping my current phone until it stops working. Buying a new $700 phone every year that's 95% the same as the last model is just crazy.
Hell, I just bought a apparently mint condition Note 4 off a website for just over 200. I've had a Note 2 for 3 years. And it still works well, its just that technology for me after a few years sometimes just DIES, and I'm getting ahead of the curve.
still using my note 3 until the screen breaks or something interesting is actually released. Got it for a dollar with two year contract now they want you to pay 25 bucks extra a month for 24 months or something crazy to upgrade.
Snaggle Toothed sadly there's snobby people that do care, they look at what you have then think highly of them self because they have the newest model. Talk about ego problems!
I've still got a Samsung Galaxy s3 and I'm not getting a new one til the apps stop working or unless it makes it so I can alter my files through another app.
I agree with you 100%. I have a Nexus 6 and I'm not buying another phone until this the breaks or becomes unusable. I remember the good old days when all a cellphone could do was make phone calls so all of this extra distracting shit is gravy.
This episode was really good. The panel was well-informed and I even liked the guest.
i'm an Apple shareholder and the stock price drives me crazy because investors have unrealistic expectations. Apple shouldn't have to revolutionize the world every year to achieve a fair valuation.
And stop avoiding tax.
Shareholders don't have "unrealistic expectations."
They expect share prices to go up, which is the only way they're going to make money.
djancak No, not "infinite returns."
They expect SOME returns.
If the company doesn't grow valuation, the investor literally makes no money aside from tiny dividends, which some companys don't even give.
small dividends are fine. thats how healthy business works. Expecting massive returns each year is damaging to the economy and to apple as a whole. They put the company in accelerated/hyper growth and then need the dividends to constantly rise in order to sustain this hyper growth. Eventually, it will fail. these companies rise and fall quickly. If just a few businesses did this, it wouldnt be an issue, but this has become the norm for not only retail, but now mortgage companies and banks. if you cant see the danger in this bubble economy, you are going to be quite surprised when it crumbles.
djancak
Okay. If the stock doesn't increase in value, how exactly does the investor make money?
Magic?
You don't know anything do you?
The last 3 seconds of his commentary where shockingly brilliant!
You can't have a system predicated on the notion of an infinite growth paradigm on a planet with finite resourses. it's insane, and we need to shift our thinking and change our value system.
The iPhone 7 is so similar to the 6s theres almost no point even releasing it
I wonder if Apple would release a new iPhone, with the one from the previous year, saying it's the new iPhone. If the changes are incremental, would people buying the new iPhone would know the difference other than what Apple tells them? Chances are, no.
The only point to getting a 7 is to get rid of that pesky auxiliary cord so you don't have to struggle with deciding on 3rd party headphones.
That and also any of those credit card readers that would be plugged in the headphone jack are useless with an iPhone 7, meaning people gotta start using Apple Pay
Pretty sure a substantial amount of users have a 6 or lower. Most probably
Are you serious?
Complaining that Apple has released 1 phone a year historically (2/yr for last 3 years and 3 this year - to offer users choice) when its competitors release dozens of phones (or more) a year?
If you don't want the 7 then don't get it - get the 6S. Apple still sells it, and even lowered its price by $100 this month.
Correction:
Liz Warren didn't put a stop to it at Fargo. She merely gave the CEO a lecture afterwards. Nobody gets prosecuted. Nobody gets fired. The fine is merely a percentage of their profits, and they get to keep what they pilfered.
I think this monologue is a timeless comment for our modern generations of greed and consumerism.
This is what I think the main flaw of capitalism is. Capitalism promotes growth and development, even when it is really not necessary. Capitalism worked for the West before when we were expanding and there were still things to overcome. But now it really isn't that necessary. We can back down on it a little, and start creating safety nets for the poor and disenfranchised.
Good point.
I agree with the overall point...but when there's competition you do need to constantly stay fresh.
This excellent commentary illustrates that being overly obsessed with materialism, especially as a means to bolster ones status, is the very hallmark of a weak mind. It is no wonder that people who are so preoccupied with such trivialities would, in turn, be blind enough to allow terrible candidates like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton be the front runners in the 2016 Presidential race.
Apple fans aren't nerds. iOS is designed for non tech savvy people. it's the simplest most dull operating system in the business. iOS works great but it is not at all nerdy. Linux is nerdy.
And Android is built on-top of Linux...Bazinga!
yes it is and?
22FIFA I take it that you don't watch The Big Bang Theory.
oh dude haha I do my bad. it's just that here on TH-cam I'm always on the defensive. I get it
22FIFA :P
Bill was on top of his game this segment!
apple died with steve jobs !
Died is kind of a strong word for a company that is still that large
Apple innovation died. There have been no good ideas since the Iphone.
The iPad was a Jobs project, he announced iCloud at his last WWDC keynote, Siri was already around (iOS 5, with Siri integrated into the system, came out a couple of weeks after he died), the iPad Mini was in the pipeline at the time, and the rumors about what would become Apple Watch only surfaced a couple of months later...it's only in the last year or so that they've finally moved beyond what they were starting to do when Jobs was alive, and even that's mostly because they bought Beats.
Cancer grows infinitely.
nope.....it eventually kills it's host and thus kills itsef
Lisa: "STOP! It's the same doll. She still represents all the same awful stereotypes she did before. All they did was put a stupid new hat on her."
Smithers: "But she's got a new hat. I WANT IT. I WANT IT. I WANT IT."
The Simpsons is the best show on TV
The Simpsons is the best show on TV
Bill is back again He is there again Nailing someone's ass to the floor.This time its Apple..He is the best.
Where can i watch Full episodes?
hbo or kodi
I visited hbo official site,So what next?
Do we have to pay to watch his Full episodes?
I can only bring you to the water my friend.
hmmm...If you know any channels in TH-cam were i can get Full Episodes then please give me the link.
Kodi needs to work on uploading 1080p other than that it's great
I have yet to find a phone that will play any of my 8-tracks.
*****
Thank you. It's a fun geezer question to ask at the electronics store, though, just for the salesperson's reaction and response. ;-)) During my 71 years, I've made each technological stereo leap and have about 20K ablums, from 78 shellac to flash drives that hold the equivalent of two vinyl tons. Having done that, I can't bring myself to enter the contrived marketing race for a "new and improved" phone. My land line and answering machine works just fine to filter out Bozos and boiler room calls.
I still got my Note 3. Nothing wrong with it. I don't need a better camera, better display, and it to be any faster.
Me too.
I'm still on my Note 2..
My mom and my sister are both on a Note 2.
I can't believe you wrote that in public. Note 3? Really? I wouldn't be caught dead with tech that old!
A three year old phone is old? I am still using the phone I got in college back in 1997 an Ericson GA628.
the reason for this economy on steroids is to be found in the manipulated monetary policy that is used to create artificial inflation instead of its natural scope of a worth-keeper, in other words the primary goal of money should be the store of value, instead nowadays central banks look out for growth at any price.. central banks create artificial inflation by lowering interest rates to almost 0 and its through this inflation that the top 1% gets favorized, wealth its absorbed from the lower classes and is effectively taken out of the economy and transferred to financial paradises.. its pretty simple, but 99,9% people dont get it. its a shame
I stopped buying Apple products 7 years ago and will never go back.
Well Said! Respect
Uh oh. I can hear the Apple fanboys coming.
160 dislikes from 160 people that bought the iPhone 7.
I bought the iPhone 7 and I still liked it.
Any phone you can buy is supporting cheap labor.
or like weiners
No, from people who are sick of vomit- like Bill Maher
If you don't like him why are you watching? GTFO!
The needs of corporations are inversely related to the needs of a stable democracy.
We've got to stop this nonsense at the level of our own everyday behavior; you can't let businesses tell you that you need a bigger car, candy bars to take a break, or which day of the year to buy your wife flowers. If you walk into the grocery store with a list that says to buy one jar of jam and you leave with 5 because there was a 'sale', you're part of the problem. You don't need to have more types of every item to the point that you have to buy/run a second fridge, and, in the era of using computers to do logistics, there's practically no such thing as a 'sale'. Those are fake; it's called high-low pricing and it's a necessary trick because CEO's who try to respect their customers' intelligence by not using high-low pricing will kill sales numbers and get fired (see Ron Johnson's tenure at J.C. Penney)
Infinite growth paradigm put on blast.
I don’t know a lot about economics, but I think he is right that we should slow down.
NAILED IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!
I have an Android phone that was built in 2013. It's the first and only smart phone I've owned. I have no plans nor desire to get another one until this one dies. Don't know why anyone would; that's just something I can't understand at all.
I think there is a FIVE BLADE razor on the market. When I saw that, I thought to myself, "How many damn blades does a person need? If it doesn't come off after three blades, then just do another swipe. If it still doesn't come off, then that area isn't whiskers. It's your face!"
It's like the financial version of body dysmorphia, ain't it?
Holy shit. this is the truth in so many ways it's sad af ...
love it, well to the point
I'm salty because you called me out @ 1:10
Not cool Bill, NOT COOL!!!
nerds/geeks XD
There's no such thing as a millennial. It's just another made up category of people for America to oppose and be angry about.
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he has definitely got a point that applies to all phone makers really
Finally some one says it...and its Bill !!.... onya mate well said...
Watching this from my perfectly fine 3 year old phone as I walk my dog. 8 agree 100%. This phone changing is ridiculous.
Growth is not the problem, rate of growth is.
Actually: growth *is* the problem. Because it ruins our planet! - humanity and it's capacities are big enough; rather reverse that trend, and re-shrink to a healthy, less cancerous size, so nature has a chance again to replenish itself!
PyrrhoVonHyperborea there is *no* problem with growth. We need it to advance technologically and become a Type 2 civilization, in order to get closer to answering the ultimate questions. The problem is we are unable to control the rate of growth of the different fields of technology based on our current capitalistic scheme. Not to mention that it only generates output to mostly useless products rather than focussing on world changing ones. We are wasting way too much resources per product created. Essentially, I'm afraid it is too late for this planet. We only have two options now: make the best of our remaining resources to establish an extraterrestrial colony, or watch as humanity perishes from its own excesses.
On point once again!!! LOL
I could not agree with Bill more. All hail, my Motorola RAZR in hot pink, the greatest phone I ever had!
I love Bill, just hope he practices what he preaches. Great advice here.
Bang on the money!
you're the man ...
If I’m going to pay the equivalent of a car down payment, it would be nice of Apple to build it in the US. I know that would mean they might only make $400 in profit as opposed to $800, but I’d care more and not feel ripped off every few years.
A great piece mate!
I always felt the same about cars. Do we need to have a new model every year? How much different are newer models?
How many cars are actually recycled? It just seems like a waste. Then what happens to the manufacturing jobs?
This is a solid premise. Companies should stop making money, because it just feels bad.
The big problem with focus on short term growth is that it hinders long term growth and real innovation. Because innovating and creating new technology can take a long time. Computers and the internet didn't just magically appear out of nowhere. It took decades of research into semiconductors before people were able to build the first PC.
Heck, when the field of quantum mechanics was in its infancy, people had no idea that it could even have practical applications. If people had only been focused on short term profit, universities, governments, and businesses would have never funded research. And we wouldn't have computers or MRI's or cell phones or GPS, etc.
oh yeah because the greatest minds of our nation cannot comprehend both profit and danger.
It's like Oreo try to rebrand it self. Stop it, you are the greatest cookie already, you won.
I'm addicted to your videos 😁😂
Me at 0:45: Yeah! You tell 'em, Bill!
Me at 1:10: Wait! What? 1.8 lens on a cell phone cam! Must have!
Just ordered my new safety razor yesterday. Old one with butterfly close wouldn't stay closed any more, which I wonder if that's the case for most butterfly razors.
Brilliant!
George Carlin just called, he wants to know if the iPhone 7 can make pancakes.
I worked for wells Fargo for many many years. I could tell you a lot of things.
It would be better if you had reported it officially.
Been with them for years.
Always be a couple of years behind technology. You won't miss anything and your bank account will thank you in the future.
Freedom: you don't have to buy it.
What I like: technical evolution, no matter what it costs.
Best segment in a while, well done and funny (especially the Keanu part). Simplifying needs to be harnessed by more Americans before we turn into the Walmart Dead, whoops, I meant Walking Dead who who won't be walking much longer and will need a Rascal to get around the consumer amusement park known as Walmart.
The hells a 'Rascal'? You use it without explaining as if it's as popular as McDonald's or something when quite obviously it is not. So please, moving forward, refrain from doing so. It does not make you look cool.
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??? So you don't know how to look something up when you don't know what it is, or you just came here to argue about something pointless and get your jollies?
Google it idiot. I only went so far as to say idiot because well, you are. Google is your friend buddy. Unless you think you are entitled to people telling you everything without you having to have any little doubt about what he or she said. Grow up buddy.
Another dude on the internet with his fucking shirt off..! Fuck me Lol! At least this one is kinda funny.
Christian Sch.
I advocate all sorts of 'odd' practices that will help turn back the clock and promote optimal health, so me with my shirt off unfortunately had to happen to help lure people to what I have to say. I'll have a new updated one soon, shirt will still be off though.
fantastic. well done bill
Best one!
I hear that bill. I still have my LG G3 and it works just fine. It also has a removable battery, expandable storage and a mini jack. These features should be considered by all to be mandatory features unless you like swapping out your phone for a refurb every time the battery goes bad, or having to depend on a cloud you have no control over for extra storage, or replacing lost dongles for $8 that cost 50 cents to make. When I think iPhone and Galaxy the term that comes to mind now is "Suckers".
Fucking Bill bringing clarity and much needed conversations to the forefront.
100% agree and I've always thought this myself, I actually shave with a double edged razor, the style from the 1950s and it works better and causes less razor burn.
this went over ppls heads, the crowd didnt get it, this was great tho
Maybe most of them had the iPhone 7 and were feeling a bit salty lol
Still use Samsung S7, and didn't even buy when it was released. My electronics, apart from the LED TV are all made some 10 years go, basically got them for free and it sounds terrific..
Good one, Bill.
I don't know what I would do if this show ever got canceled ! :(
Amen!