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same here

That one comment caught me as well.

This is why I’m a socialist

So beautiful how you support your nieces and nephews

@@Sobermama927 Thank you. I am childless myself and approaching an age that having my own is not advisable. But I see my nieces and nephews as my own children and I think all children are valuable as future members of society.,I also hope to break the cycle of disfunction and give the knowledge I wish I knew earlier in life. Sometimes it is hard to "be mean" and break their heart saying "no" when they ask for Hot Topic things and remind them that one $60 shirt is the cost of a week's worth of groceries, a whole outfit at Wal-Mart, or a weeks worth of clothes from Goodwill.

Now we just need more people like you 😉👍🏻

Based. This is the way. You are an example of how we should all live. Live strong, my friend. Don't let the liberal doctrine beat you down.

Shall we all run around with plant or animal skins as clothes and eat veggies and hunter/gather again? People will moving to space in the next thousand years if we keep up our tech society and do not destroy ourselves with nukes

@@laurab9518 It's not necessary to revert to being cavemen. Leading a simple live in an advanced civilization seems to make the most sense here. Less time working to fulfil basic needs and feed consumption would mean people could focus on more spiritual aspects, like meditation. Mental health would greatly increase with less stress from the daily "grind" we're all forced to do to simply meet our needs. As the mind and body heal, people would be less driven to dissatisfaction, and less likely to have "sick souls".

Laura; nobody is talking about being so extreme ! I’ve reduced my consumption considerably and still have everything I NEED vs everything I want Your comment is quite hyperbolic

The problem is convincing people they should be satisfied with just as much as they need, and no more. This suits you fine. It won't necessarily suit everyone. @@cris471

Very well summarized!

The same can be seen on a smaller scale; employees are growing a company, since they actually make the products a company produces - not the employers who own it. Or in society, it's mostly the larger lower classes serving the smaller higher classes. It's just how hierarchic groups work, from bottom upwards through the ranks or classes. Even in the army, the low ranking soldiers doing the actual fighting in freezing weather conditions, while some posh Ruperts are cozy and dry residing within their HQ.

What an awful take, just an absolutely ignorant take that ignores any and all reality. In the last 60 years, you've seen the GDPs of rich nations go up by quite a bit, sure. Germany by 19 times, the UK by 43 times, the US by 52 times, France by 47 times. Meanwhile India has went up by 85 times, Japan by 112 times, China by 295 times, and South Korea by 452 times. Of the fastest raising GDPs today? 8 of the top 10 are in the "Poor southern hemisphere". These poor nations aren't rapidly industrializing because the west are big bullies that are forcing them to do it, they're doing it because it's the fastest way for them to raise their standard of living. EDIT: Oh, and it's doubly funny that Al Jazeera of all places is saying this as they're ran out of a nation in the middle of nowhere with absolutely nothing going for them that only became one of the highest GDP per capitas in the world by selling products to the rich western world.

@@moonmelons what an awfully immature take. The global south have the largest increases in GDP precisely because of where they were starting. Kind of like how my kid had the fastest rising income in our family this year since he finished university last year and got a job. Further, the global south hasn’t had any choice but to participate in this model.

@@nicolajane7389 They were just starting? These countries didn't just start existing 60 years ago, they've had civilizations for thousands of years. Unless you mean to say they just started following the lead of the rich west and trying to implement the tactics that the west used and go figure, it's working. I don't know how you'd call that "being exploited by the West".

But the biggest issue nobody wants to address is the fact that the citizens in the developing countries want what the west has, given thier population, should they get that then we now have way more people on a continent that will be contributing to crass consumerism. They will just by shear numbers bury the planet in pollution faster than west. We can’t say anything about controlling the population that’s going to want goods and the impact on the planet because that would be racist.

Try substituting with cash or cash equivalents.

I just learn to accept and use their gifts to me. Also, the style mindset is also fueling capitalism. Just wear clothes for function.

Just wrap it up and give it back to them next year.

I cannot focus on the long run when I should be retiring in 4years, you see l've got good companies in my portfolio and a good amount invested, but my profit has been stalling, does it mean this recession/ unstable market doesn't provide any calculated risk opportunities to make profit?

There are tons of strategies to make tongue wetting profit especially in a down market, but such sophisticated trades can only be carried out by proper market experts

I completely agree, I have been consistent with my profit regardless of the market conditions, I got into the market early 2019 and the constant downtrends and losses discouraged me so I sold off, got back in Dec 2020 this time with guidance from an investment adviser that was recommended by a popular economist on a popular forum, long story short, its been years now and I've gained over $850k following guidance from my investment adviser.

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That's why I like Thanksgiving better. It's about getting together with family and just spending time together and eating together. Of course over eating and wasting food is bad, but it doesn't have to be that way. However they just had to ruin it with Black Friday, and Thanksgiving day sales...

Yes, I know some who go shopping before the table is even cleared. Did they just give thanks for their blessings? Do they even know how to find that space of contentedness?

It's original meaning is the celebration of Mithra's birth. Those who feel no connection to his divinity should not celebrate it, as their presence and contribution is Ahriman like.

I can unfortunately relate Emily, I am being pressed to engage again 😢

We all think after WW2, colonization was abandoned. Think again! Think WB/IMF/G7...

I think it’s more than her background. Maybe she has a hoarding problem/ADHD. I was born in a household like her. I hoard stuff when I’m bored or stress. Sometimes I buy things right away sometimes I fixate on a thing I do tons of research before I buy that thing but it doesn’t even mean I really need it. This pandemic really affected my mental state and I’ve been hoarding and buying things I don’t usually buy before. Meanwhile my other siblings have better financial management skills than me since we were young.

@@whitepouch0904 : It's interesting that you mention adhd, because she has adhd as well.

That's not about as much as a background of an individual, but the systemic propaganda of capitalism. The only meaning in life the capitalist system offers us is "make money and consume". If you don't have money - "take credit and consume". Because that's the only way capitalism can grow - by increasing consumption. But capitalism has inherent contradiction: the drive to cut costs, and the labor cost is a part of that. Hence, when they gradually reduce work payment, workers won't be able to consume as much. The widespread consumer credit is a temporal band-aid solution to the lack of work payment. The capitalist system is unsustainable at this point. The next global debt crisis is looming.

We got a Shark Apex vacuum, the other one was about done, 13 years old. 245 online vs 400 at home depot. Our only cyber Monday purchase. Took the old one to best buy for recycling.

The question of climate change is what kind of food will your family put on the table in 20 to 30 years? What will the weather be like? Where I live there have been such drastic changes in weather conditions in just my relatively short lifetime. We used to have 4 seasons, now there's basically 2, summer and winter with more extreme wind, hails, droughts and high summer temperatures. We are talking about our quality of life NOW, not some abstract distant philosophical future.

@sandponicsthis is such rubbish. If the temperatures don’t go down at night which is happening in many parts of the world, plants DIE

Our system is a suicide-machine. We need to awaken to the reality of it.

I wonder about Qatar's state of consumerism esp. so with the football world cup that is ongoing in it.

Sister u should check ur makeup 💄 then u talk about climate change. If u truly believe what u say then u should follow first

Destroy capitalism

Consumerism leads to suffering at almost every level.

It doesnt matter, it is everything you do in your daily life, every breath you take within a capitalistic system will end up in harm for the planet. You whole way of life has to change, it doesnt matter if you keep your clothes for 10 years.

@@woozah8624 You are wrong. It matters. Every action matters. That's how cultural change happens

I really appreciate your action. Keep it up

Now we just need the entire western society to do the same.

So Qatar will give away its wealth ?

I found that very ironic too! I was also disappointed that it wasn’t acknowledged that Al Jazeera’s journalism is subsidized by the government of Quatar from fossil fuel revenues…

And the presenter has probably 30 pairs of shoes, fly business twice a month and have her hair done at a 5 star salon. I don't pay attention to these virtue signaling anymore

@@carlosgomez-ct6ki will Europe return all the wealth stolen via colonialism, slavery and the pillaging of the Earth?

@@last_samurai6690 keep that in mind when you starve to death.

The worst part of it all is that we are the majority, and could easily get rid of the parasites. This reality is depressing.

The important ones are the 'useless stuff' and 'never use stuff'. People only buy useless stuff because they were tricked by marketing. It is consumers being lied to by marketing that's the problem, not capitalism. Capitalism should make products that can solve problems for consumers. Consumer should vote with their wallets as to which companies should go bust for failing to produce a good enough product. You need capitalism to keep supplying useful products but you don't need the marketing to brainwash consumers into buying useless stuff. People need some stuff to get on in their daily lives. They just don't need all of the excess stuff that is marketed at them.

@@longdang2681 I dont think it is right to place all the blame on the consumer instead of multi billion dollar companies with manipulative monopolized markets

@Long Dang capitalism makes corporations for exponential growth which drives the advertising and then the consumers to buy useless

​@@Ravenousyouth I'm not putting all of the blame on the consumer. I'm saying that in a real free market companies are allowed to go bust. Anti uncompetitive company actions by consumers are allowed. In the market we have, companies are allowed to brainwash and miss-sell consumers via lies and miss-marketing. The companies that have uncompetitive products need to go bust, and the lies and miss-marketing needs to stop. Why else would consumers pay for stuff that they can't use? Consumers are being tricked and lied to? There are companies that correctly advertise their product to those that need the products. And then there are tobacco companies that target smoking at children. Consumers should be able to vote out toxic companies via their wallet. Currently this is not the case. The way marketing is allowed to exist needs to be changed. Only then can consumers have the data to make decent choices.

​@@utkarshverma7 Advertising(broadcasting that you have a product to sell) is broadly OK. Marketing useless products to consumer via lies and miss-selling needs to go the way of the dodo. We still need capitalism to produce products that we need for our everyday lives. What we don't want is the toxic companies and marketing that is constantly trying to sell us useless stuff.

Yes. 😢

We need “planned economies”, an understanding of dialectical materialism & historical materialism, and equality. So in other words, we need communism to save the world. And the will.

Then stop working and then making money, you will stop the consumption by your own and then lets see what happens...

@@erick2214 The point of this video was that personal habits do very little in the end. The producers of our lifestyle tell us to modify our consumption while giving us the same tools of our demise. Change only happens when WE change. Not as single people. You should watch this video, it covers this and think about it.

That is how capitalism functions... they keep making harmful or useless things, creating useless jobs, all for a made up currency. Profits get syphoned upwards and labor is exploited. It's a system of theft, destruction and slavery.

@@chihirostargazer6573 so I+D IT industry, nano industry and robotics are useless ?

@@chihirostargazer6573 I can give you one trip to Cuba or Venezuela if you are interested in knowing about Capitalism, private property and Liberty

I wish they would have acknowledged the contribution of the government of Qatar in funding Al Jazeera and how much of that countries revenue is from fossil fuels. Overall though this was decent journalism.

@@dougpatterson7494 It does raise some interesting questions and possibilities. For example, if the type of economic system changes advocated in this piece were to be implemented, that would negatively affect the need for fossil fuels and therefore the ongoing revenue of Qatar over the next several decades. On the other hand, maybe they recognized there's not an unlimited amount of oil to be produced, at least not nearly as profitably as it had been up until the last few decades. And in order to facilitate at least some kind of ongoing profitability and their oil production operations, a reduction in the demand would help facilitate that. Just a couple ideas off the top of my head..

Story of stuff is a great start to the wild world of consumerism. This doco delves a bit deeper. It’s a great follow up

It doesn't matter, you have endangered the planet...with your teddy bear, don't you see??.... 🙂

@@alinucalinuc4124 if thats your take from this video then i recommend you watch it again.

Who's we? What choices? lol? You can just chose to not participate and buy bowls and own them for 50 years. Why is it that most people don't just make this apparently rational decision? Maybe there's a fundamental fallacy and tradeoff by changing this behavior which is more sinister than the status quouo?

We equals all human beings, and choices meaning personal choices we all make. Simply life is choice and as life goes on over time we make lots of choices. If we are the ones making choices then we must be the one to take responsibility for those choices.

@Jane Jenkins I feel like we DO have the power to change it. We must act for ourselves. I see production as the bigger system that seams to rule over us, but don’t we ask more from production? Don’t we as a people need production? And aren’t we some of us working in production? Humans need to see everyone as themselves before any kind of change can happen. If we speak of people and people this and people that. We have to see we are the people we speak about. The change does start with the individual.

Pale brown Moses went down to Egpyt Land to let somebody's people go... keep him out of Florida, know you end there

@@dominicmoreno4662 Yes religion and bigotry do go hand in hand in the US...

@@steveparker8065 All religions are basically the Same. How did we ever expect lack of Reality would produce progress?

@@Diana1000Smiles Agreed, I like some of the basic teachings of religion. But don't believe in any omnipotent magical man in the sky. Reality is truth when we allow ourselves to be misled we live in a false reality.

Sorry, obedient, well-trained consumers are not likely to ever snap out of the delusions sold to them through neuromarketing. And, dividing populations politically is used to keep them from having any real control over how things work, as has been the way since before Machiavelli. Would be nice if people could see how cult indoctrination techniques are used to make them so obedient.

Great question. We know now few if any of them will ever relinquish an iota of their power, without a fight. This is not good, as they proceed each day to consolidate that power ever-further. We are all in for a bumpy ride as this "way of life" unravels in he face of undeniable realities and limits to this delusional, growth-oriented model...what's required for life on this planet to have a chance is a modest, sustainable, resource-based-economy managed rationally and intelligently. This means mass sacrifice and cooperation, which I'm not sure we're capable of.

Revolution. Or in other words, we wait until things are so bad that the war between classes kills us all.

@@adamrosendahl8090 That would be a plausible option, but it's honestly a bit extreme, even for when things have gotten really bad (but it's a very realistic scenario nonetheless). I've scratched my head a bit on this one and I can't quite yet put my finger on a more plausible approach that doesn't tap into the primal instinct for survival. Is there even such an option at all?

Ignore the haters. If it does the job, why replace it?

Ericsson 301i 2001 Battery is NiMH so still holding charge fine. No WiFi! Recycle bin Cabot9 circa 2015 for WiFi access. No sim! On second replacement lipo battery. Original OEM lasted from 2015.

I get you, I only stopped using a 2010 S1 Galaxy (hand me down) because the mobile phone towers were upgraded and it stopped working :p My 2011 Macbook air is still great 11 years on (new battery, new charging circuit). Shout out to ifixit...

My smartphone is 10 yrs old and still has the original battery which still has 4+ hours of talk time...

Congratulations. You are not being mocked by me.

Yes. Buddhism teaches that desire or craving is something that keeps people attached to Samsara yet, in the West, desire is encouraged by those who work in marketing. People consume things in order to make them happy, but it tends not to work. They have been conned.

Abolishing capitalism is like tearing down a power dam and starting from scratch again! It's more efficient to transform civilization by using the existing engines and infrastructure to cause the changes needed...

We are producing more and more sustainable products while millions of people get richer and less poorer...but other kind of systems couldnt demostrarte that kind of possibility. Look at socialism un Aral sea or Mao stepforward doctrine with 17 milion of deaths in countryside

You are absolutely right, capitalism only generates misery but there is never a lack of defenders of capitalism who defend their own slavery.

people are stupid if the system MAKES them stupid. a system designed by privileged rich educated dudes like berneys to STAY RICH.

He is very clever, playing with people though psychology even before Sigmund floyed helped him.

Without the middle class spending, the rich cannot get richer..

These boom and bust cycles are caused by the federal reserve. Big Banks engage in risky investments because they know they are too big to fail and know they will get bailed out. I am not under how you thinking giving our corrupt and criminal US federal government more control of everything is a good idea.

Change will never happen , the society now is fixed , the only thing that will change us is a natural catastrophe or virus which destroy half of humanity or nuclear war.

Until Alexander is at the gates. At this rate you'll be welcoming your conquerors as liberators.

Some 1,700 of the world's leading scientists, including the majority of Nobel laureates in the sciences, issued this appeal in November 1992. Under the heading Population: "The earth is finite. Its ability to absorb wastes and destructive effluent is finite. Its ability to provide food and energy is finite. Its ability to provide for growing numbers of people is finite. And we are fast approaching many of the earth's limits." I've linked to that page so many times now that the UCS had to put up a disclaimer to assure people that's it not racist and that it's like totally only White consumers to blame, yet everyone knows where this glut of humanity is coming from and that they all desire to live and consume as Westerners. "By 2050, the share of the world population living in the currently less developed regions will have risen to 90 per cent." U.N. Population Division, "The world at six billion" And I've linked to that report so many times now that the U.N. has scrubbed it from their servers, but of course it's archived and I can provide the link if you like.

It is in the interests of the capitalist elite that there is ever more of us.... The more people running around consuming and producing the more excess they get to skim off. The only reason we have multi-billionaires now is because we have multiple billions of people. They don't even care what we make-and-take, just as long as we keep doing it. And they are the ones behind attempts to shame anyone who even speaks about this.

Production will consume us all.

The aim of production is consumption. What is Orwell's quote about war?

I swear every Christmas movie or story tries to sell this same theme, yet people still consume anyway

Degrowth! It is mentioned and elaborated (a bit) in the final part.

As you ancestors did during millenia with Life spans of 30 years

@@erick2214 that was median. There's evidence to suggest that those who survived childhood lived long, if strenuous lives.

@@eemoogee160 the problem is the topic itself the implications... I am from cuba and this country is the biggest ecological power you could ever imagined If you have enough money pay a visit to this country...not Habana but sant Cristi or Cienfuegos...then you Will understand the price of a non productive society...its not about money or poor people...its the social thinking that you are in debt with them because you have more than them

@@erick2214 I apologize that I do not truly understand the point you are trying to make. My point was that a larger population puts pressures on resources that inhibit our potential to have rich and healthy lives in many ways.

Maybe you should read what Elon Musk has to say about this or study some history of how civilizations come and go or better yet real economics, capitalism vs Communism (collapse of the USSR) and socialism (the life style of Cuba and Venezuela). Something this misleading, greenie fake propaganda pushes.

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Climate changes are our most important topic and, gee, how many "Leaders" are caring?

Pick up Jason Hickel's book on degrowth, been reading it and its a blast.

It has only accelerated since 1850 and is 1000x worse, but yes you are correct. Marx and Engels underestimated the power of capital.

Education and better lively hoods tend to reduce population growth. But they're not easy to archive in the exploitative economic atmosphere in the global south where the population is growing the firstest.

The population is going to peak in the next 40 years and then decline after that. In the developed world the average woman has one point six children or something like that.

Yes, population growth gas already peaked and will never be as high again. We have to wait for the population to actually peak as we are all living very long, even in poor nations. It will be a different ball game once it happens and the long slide begins.

Yes. That's the takeaway here.

Yep, cognitive dissonance is innate in many so called "socialists, liberals, environmentals, progressives etc" and how ever many other fun names they can come up witu themselves for their ego. Victimhood mentality means you aren't the victimizer, you're the victim of course! Development allowed the human population to expand, without development the population contracts. That is what it is, and humans will face that on our terms, or at random, or any where in between. We are lucky to live in such an interesting time of humanity.