Capitalism and the American Dream Are a Myth, According to Denise Hearn | Op-Ed | NowThis 

GREAT QUOTE BROTHER! 🙏🏽

George carlin was best comedian of all time. Comedian /philosopher really

Carlin was not a comedian. We never should have laughed, we should have acted.

Wow

A quote from a man who was living the American dream.

Abolish 2 party coke vs pepsi distorted misrepresentation.

Divide and conquer.

*CORRECTAMUNDO* I'm hoping in years to come people will realize it's not about Democrat vs Republican anymore until both parties f - off.

@Jonny Karr I hope you're talking about systemic racism which is designed to keep us at each other's throats.

yip. it's a pure distraction from the real issues

They though he was joking.

HE WAS SATANIST AND RAISED DEVIL HORNS MANY TIMES, HE WAS HIGH RANKED FREEMASON, HENCE HE WAS TOLD OF WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON.

That's why the Illuminati let him say it. They figured he's a comedian so no one will take him seriously but like Dave Chappelle he was a philosopher for his time.

@@The_Notorious_N.O.E. KINDLY RESEARCH ABOUT 'CONTROLLED OPPOSITION', IT MEANS THAT THE PERSON IN POWER OR 13 SATANIC FAMILIES IN POWER FUND ALL SIDES OF ALL ARGUMENTS, BATTLES ETC. DAVE WAS REPLACED BY CLONE LONG TIME BACK. WAKE UP WITHOUT HERO WORSHIPPING

X Y yo, the Illuminati ain’t real bro. You’re corporate overlords are staring at you in the face, no need to dig deeper to find something that ain’t there.

Not necessarily the RICH but the "powerful", "influential" people ALONE will have EVERYTHING, the majority the normal people HAVE to depend on the alms given by the party(sic), NOT the govt..

And the GOP never stops fear mongering about godless socialism, communists, and minorities. They capitalize on fear and loathing.

Poor ppl started socialism

@mike york the poor choose to spend unwisely. Their choice

Privatize wins, socialize losses.

Im in between and i know. And try to teach others.

Actually, George Carlin who passed away, said all of these things. He was boomer age or maybe older, but he was eerily accurate. You can find his videos on RU-vid.

unnecessarily dividing comment.

Us Gen. X ers are always getting screwed from the mix...lol. jk

The moment this Rosemary's Baby white woman Denise Heam praised neo-liberal centrist Amy "I wish I can staple diploma under everyone's chair" Klobuchar, you know the establishment knows which way the wind blows and is elaborately camouflaging their message.

@Semper fidelis Semper Paratus we don't need 200, we just need to stop monopoly of one party in the Senate and/or Congress.

@Semper fidelis Semper Paratus I would rather have 200 parties to choose from than just 2.

Team red v team blue is just distraction , an illusion of choice they're both owned by the same corporations , same all over the Anglosphere .

Then vote based on who's best for the job instead of voting political parties. If you don't like your choices, speak up or become a politician yourself

Automatic runoff voting would make 3rd party candidates much more viable in the USA. Basically, just allow voters to have a first and second choice. This would not, however, prevent lobbyists from making our democracy into a joke. It would be better than what we have though, in my opinion.

Do not worry to much for us old man Larry (with kind respect). Our generation is not so blind yet it sometimes looks for the truth in the mist of too abondant information. It appears clear for a lot that globalization transformed companies and economies in a big Monopoly. Also rich are not so noble these days. Actually the game is now just to big to fit in US alone and huge companies must also fight international to generate growth. You probably noticed the friction with China, Europe, etc.. I am from France but know America pretty well for living in SC for 5 years at a time foreigners were not ennemies of American jobs). The situation is clear also to us in France but every attempts against some big corporation was qualified as socialism. I am still young and ready to point this politicaly, the only problem is to fight this monopoly without revolutions and wars. The last time we had to do this in France was 1789 by cutting a king's head. Only now it is not a single head but more like mythological 9 heads hydra. This Is the tricky problem.

@@Christopher-k7f Why don't you revise and edit that comment, (and check your spelling), so that it is in some manner comprehensible?

@@Alex_Mitchell actually quite comprehensible even with the approximate spelling, the author is not a native speaker.

@@MrPhilEU Hardly.

Agreed but even after watching this vid. honestly, who's willing to pick -up the reigns of human life. Yes we are poor [peons] and no one is willing. I have a booming voice.... But no one has wanted to hear it....

Why?

Yes, for sure, the Coronavirus exposed it to the average American.

Who needs anti-trust laws and legislation when the FED is picking winners by giving billions away to the oligarchy thereby concentrating the wealth exponentially.

Exactly, they profit off of the same capitalism. They just want your vote. 🤣

We,poor people outnumber them a GAZILLION TO 1 we should probably fight back 2 companies for all beer only 4 airlines PURE evil GREED

Of course they won't when they profit from these businesses ripping us off. Our government is obviously corporate controlled, and the reason why I support a revolution.

Yes, because they too follow the greed incentive from this broken economic system of crapitalism.

They are part of the problem because they're bought and paid for.

yes and we need other system

@@themaniac2448 do u mean u would like Democratic socialism + capitalism like Scandinavian countries? Like they have socialism in health care and other stuff but at the same time have a capitalist economy. I would prefer that way. But just my opinion.

MR merperls me definitely yes

There are components to salvage... things which are positive. But we have to change our view of what the past meant

@@francisdavis1271 what did the past mean?

youre right about marx prediction. thou i think its a myth because the ruling class have foisted the argument capitalism is the best and only economic system avaliable to humans and most have bought the lie (myth)

These kind of news channels love to blame it on the symptoms of capitalism for the US failing economy but never directly accuse capitalism itself for working as it was designed to work

Former citizen from a communist country says life was devastatingly hard Conan: well actually. . .

@@peakhelliw1509 Survivorship bias, the majority of people from the former soviet states said life was better under socialism and Russians till this day would welcome it's return too showing the clear superiority of socialism over capitalism decades after it's been illegally dismantled, yeltsin himself had a popularity of 5% - 7% amongst soviets and the majority (especially in the soviet states like Kazakhstan and Ukraine) voted to preserve the Union but were not listened to

@@velcranoxofficials9970 it was the best system to them because it was the only system that they had, the reason why some people enjoyed communism was because they were part of the Communist party or knew people that were part of the Communist party and basically enjoyed all of the perks that came with it, when you're friends with an elitist or part of an elitist party then yeah, you're going to love it. The fact that you think communism is the best really blows my mind I don't think any of you people on here know how capitalism actually works. Look at Mao zedong's Great leap Forward look at Stalin's track record I mean he even executed people within his own party I'm guessing you just believe that the gulags are just make believe like Holocaust deniers think that concentration camps are make believe.

They don't realise there were never good times of pure capitalism. Slavery is a Hallmark of capitalism. That includes sweat shops and child labour. The reason why the west have a better standard of living for the average Joe is due to socialist policies. The policies that capitalists fought against and would love to take away. That's why they are always attacking china, while america infrastructure falls apart.

How well I know! I have a choice between two totally crappy ISPs. They overcharge and deliver very mediocre services.

A monopoly

@@mara8456 AT&T verizon?

@@youtubebystander9294 Century Link and Cox.

I noticed this long ago in the trucking industry.. decades ago a man could buy a truck and then buy a home, support his family and send his kids to college. Now its so over regulated, taxed etc he can barely scrape by whereas the giant companies get reduced rates and perks especially for fuel and dominate.

@@migaloo364 Exactly. How is it possible that the minimum wage in the US is stilll as low as it was in the 80s???

Haha yes . If we were to encounter indians again as we are now. We'd still do the same thing! Without a doubt. Only difference would be drone strikes.

Be factual. I was a teenager in the 80s. I remember exactly what it was. It was $3.35 per hour. It’s not $3.35 per hour now

@@wcg19891 You have to adjust to the inflation rate and if you do you will see that in fact you can buy less today than what you could back then.

@@marcusalkemade5994 because no one is willing to work hard. Me-llenials ain't worth $5.00/hr. If you want it you have to work for it. What someone else has, has nothing to do with you.

@C. Caner Telimenli Right... Because the wealthy people definitely prioritize helping the public. That's why they wanted to have more wealth than everyone else... Wait... Something's fishy here...

It's a hard concept for peopke to get. It requires holistic systems perspective and social evolution awareness.

Capitalism without competition is corporatism. Democracy in corporatism is a plutocracy.

@@SubjectiveObserver Obviously people who accumulate more wealth than hundreds of average citizens will make in a lifetime have the interests of the common man at heart! Oh, & they _love_ competition, not being totally dominant in their chosen market, kicking away the ladder for any potential up-and-comers. The free market regulates itself... like a man with a bottomless stomach at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

meh

all the countries you wish the US were like are higher on the capitalism index than the US. What we are experiencing is NOT capitalism

Karl Marx the king of communism

Ahh yes just like most communist countries.

I grew up in a small town that had 2 hardware stores and 2 lumberyards with owners who knew you and your family - they have long gone - a really neat tradition gone by the wayside. Now you have to drive 30 minutes or longer for a big box home depot or similar store with autonomous clerks/cashiers.

ACE

*bourgeois dictatorship (capitalism)

@@zisaanmalik No, not really. It's exactly what @SPQR said.

@@Evan490BC those are essentially the same things however bourgeois dictatorship is a more accurate description of the current system.

@@zisaanmalik Actually, many economists in recent years have confirmed that the US has essentially become an oligarchy.

USA, the nation with the greatest amount of wealth and the strongest army in the world has been in a turmoil and a complete mess when it came to dealing with the pandemic. It is horrible, absolutely horrible: how could Vietnam and Cuba deal with COVID 19 better than US? I just dont understand it. It bogs my mind

wasnt lennins imperialism more bout the phase of capitalism when it enters the highest stage of finance capitalism driving imperialism ?

malcolm freeman aye

Marx and lenin are both jews

All of these political and most of nonpolitical ideologies connect as particular facets Capitalism is the power source.

Well said.

Ae Norist you’re the only person in the comment section who gets it.

Actual problem is the scam economic theory /system , ideology. It's veiled right wing socialism - fascism aka -corporatism corporate welfare- socialism for a minority , the rich,and taxation slavery capitalism for the rest.

Wen was antitrust a tenet of capitalism 😂

@Eyre Borne That's defeatist.

so you want govt control?

@@peakhelliw1509 when did I say that?

Couldn’t be more right. Just watching the movie the big short exposes you to reckless borrowing and gambling on the market with investment money that banks and brokers have been indulged in

Exactly!

That's like justifying only having 2-6 football teams in the entire U.S. because the losers were dismantled and no longer exist. Sports always do it right, because there is permanent competition. Capitalism as it stands, is not that way.

Devils Advocate sports are games. Not a great model for the economy.

@@erifkind Sooo, it's more prevalent to have a renewable economy in games than it is in society? What's your point?

Devils Advocate you wouldn’t understand. Oh wait, of course you would. You’re a troll.

@@erifkind That's a great excuse for not being able to articulate your opinions on why healthy game competition isn't a good analogy for in regards to keeping healthy competition in a capitalist society.

how are we in a fascist state? I don't see any secret police knocking down my door for voicing my opinion.

@@peakhelliw1509 the media is more leftist and they block a lot of right wing material so we do kind of live in a fascist state

This is such a primitive and wrong assumption of America. The world is very complicated with a lot of intricate processes and you think that you can describe USA in only 3 words? USA is not perfect, but it is not far-right extremist either

Your statement implies labour tax to high but makes no comment really on wealth and capital and profit taxes as it could either be ok or to low. A better way to put it is the low taxes on wealth and capital compared to labour as they are probably at their lowest in oecd countries atm along with interest rates

lol yeah I thought this was gonna take a blow at how capitalism doesn't work. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this person wants to restore capitalism to its fullest potential

In a way, it points out how easily unregulated capitalism can eat itself. I see your original point, and it's an interesting twist. Capitalism does have its benefits, but it requires proper regulation to prevent companies from completely wiping out any competition. The decline in startups is a huge warning sign, and I hope the US can successfully roll back years of deregulation and create an actually favourable economic environment for smaller businesses to grow and have a fighting chance.

I think that some liberal democratic elites might be finally figuring out that they made a mistake by dumping Keynesian economics theory and going with Big business and uncle Miltys Chicago boys neoliberalism /libertarian economics scam . Regulated /progressively taxed capitalism, and public control of government /commons " democratic socialism", is better than corporate welfare and socialism for the rich - aka democratic fascism.

This is exactly how capitalism works though. If we didn't import low wage third worlders by the millions our salaries would've risen with the CEOs and upper execs and automation would've helped us all. Keep arguing over the irrelevant topics though like "the real meaning of capitalism" though. That's exactly what they want you/us to do. We argue and they'll keep importing low IQ people and our wages will keep slipping. Merica

@@jondoe4828 "If we didn't import low wage 3rd worlders our salaries would have rose to CEO salaries " ? That is how capitalism works ?

Great idea, but who's going to do it? The system is owned and controlled by big companies.

you right but wrong - capitalism is based on the private ownership of the means of production and the accumulation of capital by profit whereby capital directs production by the workers exploitation . Its because of that power that leads to inequalities and corporate domination and monopolies along with the govt help - but remember the corporates are influencing , manipulating and coercing the govt to make rules that benefit corporations

Teddy Roosevelt style

@@yugiohpokemon5285 directv and at&t

Yes, and that is the only way this system will ever change.

Yay! More money to evil monopolies

Right, but this speaker is discussing a real problem and reasonable solutions instead of recommending that women shove rocks up their business.

Repeel the so called anti trust law. It is stupid law. Know more about it.

Doesn’t matter how many regulations you tear down. Bigger companies have more capital and hence more power to crush small companies. They can pay more and attract top talent. So they can literally crush startups.

so you will left with poor people who only interst is free hand out and looter... yeah good luck with that.. the other country just waiting for usa to burn down in flame and get back their territory...

@@campkira That's right! And also the aliens are coming down to liquify us and turn us into their fuel. They'll be helped by intelligent monkey uprising led by zombie Bin Laden. NASA is lying to us about the moon landing and the shape of the earth so we won't find out any of this!! You and I have cracked it together! Cheers for us!

Capitalism will always incentivize monopolies, they are profitable.

@@ghostgunace It only is available to do so through big government.

@@kreculjkreculj no one can ever explain what big government is. The act of protecting citizens from predatory monopolies is big government? So the government shouldn't do that?

@@ELSHELL: It's just a big scary label thrown around to make sheeple worry, just like the word "socialism." Most people can't even remotely explain what socialism is.

You can't easily shake off 50 years of indoctrination...Americans are told from their crib about the merits of capitalism

Marx also created an idealistic system that ended up enslaving half the world under dictatorships. Also he didn't predict it, he was alive during the first wave of monopolies and crony capitalism in the late 1800s. Anti-Trust legislation in the early 1900s solved most of the issues he complained about, but Reagan came in and reversed it because "the free market corrects itself".

@@paulpierantozzi Karl marx cannot be blamed for the ideologies that were brought forward by leaders such as Lenin and Mao, Karl Marx ideas was that of a utopia that worked to abolish the class system and to improve the quality of life of the common man These ideas were manipulated to the advantage of the leaders in order to form the dictatorships you talk about, that's why there is a distinction between marxist, leninist and maoist communism. Marx was not a politician but a philosopher who saw that the capitalistic system needed reforms before it went out of hand and to that extent he was right

Melvin Mathew The key word here is “utopia”. His ideas have never worked in practice because they didn’t account for human nature. If you hand over all the power to the government it will become a dictatorship. Private property is the only way to ensure any freedom.

@@paulpierantozzi Several things: 1) Marx never advocated to give all power to the state. Communism is moneyless, classless, and stateless. Clearly, neither China nor the Sovjet Union fulfilled that. Engels had actually predicted a development like the Soviet Union, stating that a system in which the state takes power for itself is not communist in nature, and is instead a 'state capitalism', in which the state itself becomes the only and all-powerful capitalist. 2) A utopia can be fulfilled. It's only a utopia until it becomes real, and until that day the ideal can have a powerful effect on those striving for that better world. 3) Human nature is based on the circumstances. Extensive psychological experiments have shown the impact a human's upbringing, socialization, and their social and working environment have on their behavior. It is no surprise that humans tend to be egotistical and uncooperative -- capitalism is incentivizing just such a kind of behavior. The current system determines the current 'human nature'. However, at an underlying level, humans are a fundamentally social species. Cooperation is how we have gotten this far. 4) Freedom is always relative. In Capitalism, freedom is dependent on how much money you have. Sure, theoretically you have all kinds of freedom, but in reality, only the richest can afford to act on that. The more freedom of capital you hand to the richest, the more they will be able to restrict the freedom of the working class. Capitalism, in short, allows for the concentration of freedom in the hands of the few. Communism, on the other hand, was created to prevent exactly such a control by means of property. 5) Any kind of limit on capitalism as enforced by the state will only serve to prolong capitalism indefinitely. It prevents the system from tearing itself apart, but it doesn't address the fundamental issues and injustices that have led to the problem in the first place. As such, the state protects capitalism both from the working class and from itself. Preventing monopolies is not a solution. Ending capitalism is.

​@@minamimoto2193 1) without money or class how do you determine who gets what in a society? How does one distribute resources? No matter how many times you want to run the simulation, communism will always end up with somebody distributing things to the people. Whoever that is has an enormous amount of power over the population and thus is doomed to be a dictator. 2) Communism is idealistic, in the real world it never works. Never has, never will. We had 100 years to find that out and none of the countries that tried it ended up successful. 3) Human nature is the same no matter where you go. If you live in a society that gives you everything you need but never promises to give you more if you are successful, nobody would ever try to be successful. You create a state where nobody works, nobody has incentive to take risks. This is why in a communist country technology is stagnant unless it is funded by the state. 4) You aren't entirely right on this one either. In capitalism money is earned by contributing to society. Providing a useful good or service. In return you are rewarded with the freedom to do what you want and to own your own property. When it works it works extremely well and it is why a capitalistic country always innovates faster than any other government structure. In communism everything is evenly distributed, thus everyone is poor except for those that do the distributing. In communism things never improve because no extra incentive is given to those who do better work than others. Therefore things only ever get worse. 5) This argument is such BS. Regulation of a capitalist economy is how we avoid it's shortcomings. For instance, clean water bills to prevent dumping chemicals in waterways. Of course is prolongs the system, that means the regulation is working if it prevents the collapse of society. I mean what is the alternative? Hand over all our land, property, and savings to the government? They already do a terrible job handling social security and welfare, why should I give them any more money?

How about we just have Capitalism?

we have nothing to lose but our chains

@@dragonore2009 A worker co-op is perfectly workable under a capitalist structure, depending on what you mean by "capitalism," anyway. The phrase refers merely to a corporation whose shares (claims to the corporation's profits) are allocated to employees on the basis of how much time they dedicate to working for it.

"Late stages"? More like Riga mortis.

Go create one

The issue presented in this video is that with so little competition for basic goods consumers often do not have a choice and thus prices can be set to whatever these companies want. A good example is comcast internet. In many cities there is no option between service providers so when you start experiencing back service or your prices go up for the exact same service (this happened to be several times) you cannot do anything about it but move to a different city. Internet is much cheaper in areas of the country where multiple ISPs are available.

No. Times like these just makes wanna get off the grid

more like your chances are 1 in a million but yea kinda

Meritocracy is an illusion. It is just a way to persuade the average citizen to get on the treadmill and work harder and harder without realizing any benefit.

The trick is to do what you were punished for doing in school... get someone to do the hard work for you.

hope so

Free market is left wing socialism eeh

Lol,You must be GOP Libertarian or Trump supporter .

@@vicoilsteems9764 what makes you think that?

I'm sorry, I just assumed, and I think you know why one should never assume.

I'm starting to think this really is a hoax. Of all the people I know and meet every day not one of them know anyone or of anyone who has died or been bed ridden with covid 19. And somehow casket sales are not on the rise, hundreds of pictures of empty hospitals. All they're doing is trying to slow down the economy. Too many people were making too much money

Heh everyone is brainwashed and they still believe in the mystical american dream and capitalism is the best fall like rome is inevitable

Right wing say he doesnt understand economics, firsts of all he was a economist second of all he doesnt understand basic, he understands advanced economics

@C. Caner Telimenli IT will NEVER work. Period.

she also looks distractingly like Gwyneth Paltrow's twin

No that's not right. In New Zealand there are a lot of small businesses and high wages.

Adrian Manzano wages must be lower though amirite??

@@stillmatic03 Yes, lower. Minimum monthly salary in Indonesia is between $200 - $300. But, houses here are stil affordable for most people. Because buying houses for speculation is not permitted. Indonesian government also give subsidy for low income housing, the price is as low as $8000.

@@ndorobei4391 that actually looks a lot like what happens here in brazil.. very low wages, but still very affordable houses, even in big cities..

No thx 3 world country the underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty misery corruption no security etc

I Lost $1500 trading with an unprofessional trader

@@aronfrasheri8961 sorry for your lost

Most people don't invest due to ignorance

People are scared of investing because of the high rate of scam in the business. There are scammers but real brokers are out there for investors

@@calliesimard1786 You are absolutely right but we also have lots of expert, real ones with certificate and firm IDS out there waiting for investors

Arunava chakraborty everyone being equal is communism

@@cecily552 nah that's the time u got failed

Arunava chakraborty ?