Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Big Think" channel.

  1. ​ @Panosky  I actually went to college in America. I proverbially love 90% of America and Americans. Its that other 10% that does all the damage. If you think these problems - social, economic, energy and development are not interlinked then you really need to take a step back. These issues might be more obvious in some countries than others but they're all there to some extent. We can hate globalisation all we like but its our reality. So all these sorts of things are interlinked because our societies are interlinked. Its a bit like those cooking competitions where they all get the same 2 or 3 ingredients and told to cook something. Yeah the dishes might be different but the ingredients aren't so there's commonality. I'm an engineer who's been looking into economics because I got so tired of clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects. One of the things I have found is that we are all running some variation of American free market economics. Its a bit like all our computers and laptops. Think of it like this. Each of us has our own customised PC/Laptop with our own selection of apps but underneath it is the same basic Microsoft operating system. Similarly we might not have the exact same economic issues but we all have similar economic issues because underneath it is the same set of basic principals. Most notably the entire world as issues with wealth inequality. Its closely followed by the energy crisis which has ALMOST NOTHING to do with the war in Ukraine and an awful lot to do with economics.
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  2. ​ @Panosky  Most amazing of all this stuff (study) I have done is that it all centers around a handful of universities and some unbelievably narrow minded thinking. We've all heard about Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge,... etc but the place we all need to look at is the University of Chicago. First off, one of its original founding financiers was John D. Rockefeller and there is no secret he believed in the idea that the "Government should not do anything except public security, national security and the punishment of criminals." Especially he believed that the state should not regulate business in any way. Out of UC came, people like James Oscar McKinsey who was professor of accounting at the UC and founded McKinsey Group. Then there's Chicago School Economics from people like Hayek and Freidman. There's also Neoconservatism that once loose gave us the Iraq Invasion. A couple of years ago UC graduate and tech billionaire Barre Seid gave a company worth $1.6 Billion USD to the Federalist Society who then sold that company and as a non-profit organisation paid ZERO tax and now have $1.6 Billion to bribe senators with and get even more radical judges appointed to federal courts and the supreme court. Most recently current UC Professor of Politics John Mearsheimer said the world should back off and let Vladimir Putin have what he wants. That would mean around 20 nations with a combined population of around 270 million people being handed over to a maniac and they'd have no say in it. Yes the University of Chicago that was funded by the most psychotic robber baron in history is quietly sending America back to the 19th century so the current robber barons can build the America they wanted back then.
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  3. For starters THIS IS NOT SIMPLY AN AMERICAN ISSUE. I'm Australian we have the same issue and if you look around the world this is the same across the entire developed world. I think that just as valid a question is: WHY do American's always think that their issues are only their issues? Other than the fact we live in a globalised society, America has been shoving its economics, business practices, technologies and cultural values down the throat of the rest of the planet for decades. So why do Americans always phrase these discussions as only pertinent to America?
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