Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "What’s Next For the U.S. Economy: Robert Shiller" video.

  1. Dear CNBC News Presenter and Mr Shiller, Thank you for a very well done interview; I'm sorry I don't see your name in the credits. May I criticize one thing? Do you realize that by putting in a video-mini-clip of everything somebody mentions, you are dumbing down the imaginations of young viewers in your country and around the world? What do I mean by this? Well, for example, if Mr Shiller mentions the great depression and you show a video mini-clip from The Great Depression of 1929, you remove the need for people to conjure up in their own minds the event or idea or problem. What's wrong with this? Nothing really, but what it does is shut off our minds. Who needs to imagine something if it's shown right in front of our eyes? Imagination is what's needed in our times, because our portable devices are eating up screen time showing us about everything that ever existed. This dumbs down our thinking process; we're getting spoon-fed the kinds of images YOU want us to see. Secondly, this downturn is going to turn out like all the rest Mr Shiller because of one thing: consumer capitalism. We will never see equality across the board in capitalism because it was not built to deliver wealth evenly across our societies. I'm not an economist, but we have to stop trying to get an economic system like capitalism to get us out of the rut we are in. We need a new system and that is the only way all of the social ills we are seeing will fade away. Yes; I know. But what system other than capitalism is there?
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