Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Didn't Putin Call for Regime Change in America?" video.

@ryanosterman2651 I'm not an economist. I'm an engineer whose been looking for a means to beat clowns with economics degrees with the same club they have been using on the rest of us. I've watched a lot of Mark Blyth because he uses similar techniques to the system analysis I was taught in aerospace. He's mentioned Michal Kelecki's 1944 paper "Political Aspects of Full Employment" a lot and its free to download. Right now I have a full reading list. My basic hatred of Freidman was his narcissistic and destructive "greed is good" but me real hatred was the way he disparaged so many of the great minds of history who's motivation was understanding, knowledge and making the world a better place. The only person I have seen more full of his own sense of puritanical importance than Friedman is Trump.
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@ryanosterman2651 Good points and to add to it - at its core is are the concepts of Milton Friedman's "Greed is good" hypothesis that was the foundation behind Reaganomics and Thatcherism. There's an amazing interview of Freidman by Phil Donahue that can be found on YT. There's 2 things I noted. 1) Was the complete self importance and arrogance of Freidman. Watch it without sound and pay attention to his body language. The arrogance and dismissiveness is beyond absurd. 2) He made this astounding claim that "Greed drives innovation." I'm an engineer and that's utterly ridiculous. 3 of the worlds most important inventors and without whom the modern world would NOT exist were not driven by greed but by a desire to make the world a better place:\ Nikola Tesla - famous for his work in electricity and who Edison and Marconi cheated and lied about. Jacques de Vaucanson - whose V-Bed Lathe made the Industrial Revolution possible. Carl Edvard Johansson - whose Gauge Blocks enabled modern manufacturing to exist. NONE of them did it out of greed and NONE were Oligarchs. Neoliberalism is based on a litany of lies, garbage and false premises. Its just taken us 40+ years to work out how damaging it really is. The real question isn't how bad it is. The real question is how do we get past it so we can start fixing the planet, while we can.
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@brucehitchcock3869 Do you know what Iran, Chile, Guatemala, Indonesia and Iraq all have in common? They all had democratically elected governments overthrown with the support of America. Yeah even Saddam Hussein operated a democracy and won elections. Sure they were corrupt but he was an elected head of state that America handed over for execution. Allende's mistake was that he told the CIA to go away and Chile would do what they wanted to do with their natural resources. And Chile has the best copper resources in the world. Several of the worlds leading engineering companies have major offices in Santiago to support that industry. I'm an engineer and after oil, gas and iron the next most important resource for building the world as you know it is COPPER. Think about how many devices you own with copper in them? Every electrical device you own has copper. Then there's the water and gas piping. Then there's all the other uses in alloys - brass, bronze, etc. If you control the worlds best copper resources you control the worlds economy. Allende's mistake was not realising how ruthless the world he lived in really is.
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