Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Adam Conover" channel.

  1. The Haitians are a conspicuously intelligent and hard working group -- comparale to East European Jews of the 1890s, selected by historical circumstance to be a high-potential group. This generation will be hard-working and poor. Their children will be struggling and on their way up. In their grandchildren's generations there going to be one whole lot of doctors, teachers, lawyers, scientists, and the occasional statsman.
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  2. "None" is a singular pronoun. It means "not one." "None of those things" is still singular, a singular noun phrase, even though it ends in an S. "None of those things characterises..." at 6:45. Not "characterise,." Sorry, And the idea that the political right starts with Burke is just plain silly. What on Earth does Corey Robin think the French revolutionaries were revolting against ?? Lemme guess: over in Brooklyn they think Plato was a guy who ran a Retreat in Manhattan? They believe in the importance of Ancient History. 1977. Ancient.
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  3. Luke, Well said -- on an important point. When a huge "market cap," the arithmetically calculated stock-market valuation, of a company evaporates, no, that isn't a measure of how much money people have lost. It's a measure of how much of some index people will now have to re-evaluate. If there are a thousand shares of a company with a stock price of $100 out there, the market cap at that moment is $100,000. If the price changes to $101 or $99, the market cap is now $101,000 or $99,000. Nobody has gained or lost any money, yet. If one person buys a share at the new price of $101, there are 999 shares out there whose ^price* has gone up a dollar -- but nobody has gained a dollar unless they can find smebody to buy from them at the new price.
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