Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Democracy at Work: Curing Capitalism | Richard Wolff | Talks at Google" video.

  1. I don't really know if capitalism can be replaced ... it's like saying barter can be replaced, because capitalism is just abstracted or virtual barter. Or like saying language is just a means of communication, it can be replaced ... how? It is inherent in the game theoretical tit-for-tat relationships primates engage in. Some say our brains developed to do this ACCOUNTING. But, my point would be, since we do not live in a jungle, and in fact, do create our own jungles, that the wealthiest and powerful of us can create the world for the rest of us, and that world can be either forced on us by trickery or democratically constructed, descending from the basic tenets of our Constitutions and religions and moral codes. Unregulated capitalism leads to a despotism most often, and totally ignores the state of people born into the system that are dependent on the system to show them what life is about ... that cannot be solely and economic universe. Feudalism is Libertarianism is Capitalism is Facism with tweaked political, military and government factors that are unsustainable and do not serve any moral purpose. We are returning to feudalism, which the corporations as the fiefdoms and the plutocrats as the princes ... and without regulation they will surely have us all being peasants serving them. If you are interested take a look at Nancy MacLean's new book "Democracy In Chains". I would sum up the history of the world, like Marx, of class struggle, but maybe better as the search for a system of government that allows human behavior to work within the evolving constraints of morality and science. ?????
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  2. Wonderful lecture.
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  3. SH, what do you mean you stayed in an Israeli kibbutz? Seems a bit arrogant of your to call the people cookie-cutter when you sound such a cookie-cutter conservative. Quite a few people would love to be able to live in a place where they were assigned housing and a vehicle ... what is your agenda anyway?
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  4. I don't really know if capitalism can be replaced ... it's like saying barter can be replaced, because capitalism is just the consequences of abstracted or virtual barter. Or like saying language is just a means of communication, it can be replaced ... how? It is inherent in the game theoretical tit-for-tat relationships primates engage in. Some say our brains developed to do this social ACCOUNTING between people. But, since we do not live in a jungle anymore, and in fact, do create our own jungles, that the wealthiest and powerful of us can create the world for the rest of us, and that world can be either forced on us by trickery or democratically constructed, descending from the basic tenets of our Constitutions and religions and moral codes. Unregulated capitalism leads to a despotism most often, and totally ignores the state of people born into the system that are dependent on the system to show them what life is about ... that cannot be solely and economic universe. Feudalism is Libertarianism is Capitalism is Facism with tweaked political, military and government factors that are unsustainable and do not serve any moral purpose. We are returning to feudalism, which the corporations as the fiefdoms and the plutocrats as the princes ... and without regulation they will surely have us all being peasants serving them. If you are interested take a look at Nancy MacLean's new book "Democracy In Chains". I would sum up the history of the world, like Marx, of class struggle, but maybe better as the search for a system of government that allows human behavior to work within the evolving constraints of morality and science. ?????
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  5. 70% of Trump appointees come out of the Koch Brothers' political think tanks.
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