This Is How Power REALLY Works | Aaron Bastani Meets Grace Blakeley 

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Bang on, bro.

Well didn't Grace write for The Spectator and James O'Brien The Daily Mail at one point?

These people are too forgiving. Saying 'oh, they mean well, but its a mess' is bullshit. The capitalists are motivated by selfishness, greed, sadism and antipathy towards everyone. The world will begin to improve when their depredations end in their execution for crimes against humanity. Start at the wealthiest and work down until all the most avaricious are eliminated. If it isn't done, they will keep coming back to poison the world and everything in it for their own pleasure.

You nailed it. You hit the nail on the head. When the lower class were losing their jobs nobody cared back in the 70s 80s.

needs to be destroyed? Or needs to be reformed?

destroyed and rebuilt if necessary, reformed where possible, and all at the same time. Tough thing to pull of if we promote radical individualism. If we indoctrinate a generation of Capitalist leaning Marxists our grand children or great grandchildren maybe could.

Due to corporate power over nations in their ability to inflict economic hardship on a country via international Court of settlements, the system needs to be abolished. The other part is the debt based economies which continously erode any wealth created by individuals, and this goes back to central banking.

@@timbodedidleo > Or needs to be reformed? Replaced.

@@rabbitcreativereplaced with a RBE.

the middle class do all the work ? wow, delusion to the max.

there's no middle class. It's elite owners of almost everything vs everyone else.@@Fuji_62

onya mate

@@Fuji_62 Way to miss the point. The wealthy do near to nothing for themselves.

Very Very True

People have got to stop blaming everything on the system. If these in-depth conversations, which is shorter than most night-time entertainment runs (back to back shows), gets the same viewership and therefore advertisement dollars, they would be on every channel. Joe Rogan, the biggest podcaster, pales in comparison to Game of Thrones.

And these long-form conversations don't change anything

​@tuckerbugeater " the journey of a thousand miles starts with one step".

Not by accident. By design

You'll find plenty of rich historic content in the history channel covering this, try "why communism fails"

maybe it'll work, this time :)

they block your awareness

Actually, to paraphrase Ms Blakely, the system contains an insidious, seductive co-opting element, designed to bring in enough people into the fold to keep on replicating and immortalizing it. In the US it manifests via privileged "membership" in corporate C-suites and politics... Make that Faustian bargain and screw the planet and the impoverished peasants to enrich the 1%. Be well. @@dogstick12

exactly, these people only talks about it. "feel good" presentations. posturing

We need to get it through to the workers’ heavily propagandized minds that they are not “middle class” they are working class.

I was told that's an alt right conspiracy theory, careful.

"Barrier to entry" is the econ 101 term

Or pay to play.

ESG leads to communism; the “hidden hand”. It’s hard to wrap ones head around that, but if one extrapolates the signs are evident.

Thousands a night, to stay where the 3 day seminars are held?😂...an acquaintance was a legal transcript typist ( don't know if they still exist?), but some cases, were endless actions over a point of law, forever, and ever...

Peeps... 👀

Well stated. 👍

Concisely nailed!

True but is that the whole picture. Are we here because we are greedy, or do we want true change that really change this world into a another where the system has at its core that no one is left behind, being on the outside, with a planet that does not get more and more destroyed. I have also travelled and I found the majority are not greedy. The problem humans are facing is we have not yet come up with a system that keep the sociopaths and the greedy out of power

Mondragon Corporation seems to be doing well as a Socialist experiment. Maybe you can add to your travel reflections the thought that just because an idea was done badly at one position in space and time doesn’t mean it doesn't have great utility elsewhere.

Saying human nature is greedy aligns you with the types in power that rule that way against everyone below them.

And the plastic carrots are clogging our waterways

we full of micro-plastics now ( even in the air)

@@firstlast-pt5pp stick is real !

@@mbolton - no need for sticks really - "suck up and kick down"

@@amillar7joy I’m

That's what discourages me from advocating for revolution. In the long run evolution is more successful than revolution.

I think you're also quite close to the oven aren't you?

It's Autumn here, 18:20 in the evening and it's hotter in my house right now than every single hottest day of each year in the '80s and '90s. The world is definitely on fire.

Australia over taxed country don't move here

@@SammiCPC79I’m in Melbourne and it’s pretty cold

The world is FUKD not on 🔥!

We gotta go from Victim to Victor mindset Deano. Start buying houses, fixing them up and renting em out. that's one way to take back control. HNY

Democracy by representation is crap. It doesn't work because politicians can do a 180 from what they promised in the electoral process.

Except the Revolution is eroded by divide and conquer through practices like Immigration and most Revolutionaries have their heads buried in their phone or RU-vid.

Great bangers, sorry

Grace has been about for ages and written and spoken about these issues a lot. Check her books out.

Is it

sorry why - top bangers@@papa_notroach

@@mdaniels6311 nothing like a socialist selling books😂😂😂😂

and Grace would be either in that 1% or very near to it. Private schools, Oxford, a nonsense masters degree, mummy & daddy bailing her out when she’s been a bit naughty. Those nonsense ‘think tank’ jobs she referred to. Surfing for a few months doing a bit of writing. None of that is real life. She wasn’t doing shifts in McDonald’s and going back to a mouldy flat was she? let’s not be naive, she’s from a very privileged background.

@@jfro5867 exactly, none of her ideas were built up from difficult, even tortuous existence on the breadline. Her talk today was more marketing, ideas borne largely from textbooks and essentially attempting to explain to us mere "country bumpkins" that, how things are and how they work for middle class Barnes and Islington, is good for all of us. But failing to point out the need typically, e.g for a BBC salary of £300k, to achieve that kind of lifestyle today. People cannot afford to pay for ESG etc, on a family income of £30k, yet her new kind of, "old boy network" expects us to.

@@fractionaldebtisfraud2187 yea 100%. Don’t think the cost of living crisis has caused Grace many sleepless nights tbh and moving in the circles she does I doubt very much she has a clue what it’s like just scraping by, never has.

@@jfro5867 That's the only background you can have and maintain her simple world view.

Were they ever taken to a theatre to watch "Death of a Salesman"? Arthur Miller was onto debunking the "American Dream" way back in 1959!

The reason selling is so challenging is because humans have free will. They have the power to say no. Would you want it any other way? Try saying no to the government.

@@ronbridges3933 One enters government service (or the C-suite) to get the peasants to say "yes." Whereas once in government/ (C-suite) one "acquires," and basks in, the privilege of saying, "no." The ultimate class-stratified behavior... Be well.

Well she said it herself. She was in college when this light bulb went off! You mean while professors were brainwashing you is when your light bulb went off!

Millenials were bio credit for their narcissistic boomer parents.

A small percentage of the population are psychopaths, they rise to the top and dominate any hierarchy. Billionaires = Psychopaths

That is what the Russian peasants thought as they were killing the farm owners.

Have you studied the results from France?

The problem is that politicians approve the rules intended to govern us. The rules are meant to give us just enough to be content and the debates are set on issues that distract us from what is actually going on.

Yep, just remember that the problem is the representative part, not the democratic part. Direct democracy has lead to a lot less atrocities than any form of representation.

You got this Drew

​@@bramvanduijn8086no please explain when and where ? Context is everything

where would you be?

Still on planet earth like now...

what's the answer Vdub?

Totally agree. Solidarity from afar, comrade!

​@@keithparker1346I think speaking style comes down to personal preference so I don't think you're saying anything outrageous. I think Grace is a good speaker though.

Bang-on my fellow Indian brother from another mother!

Mature? lol

@@keithparker1346 Aaron is very good as well . Michael and Ash are very good , specially Ash on many specific issues . Aaron what I feel is sometimes too good , and sometimes feels like he is in a different world , but when he speaks in hyperbole , and expresses the outrage the people feel , he is extremely good ..

She ignores inflationary monetary policy which perpetuates the ‘loser’ class. This is why those with unskilled jobs remain poor indefinitely.

no

If you don't find one, consider starting the movement within. It's far less disappointing to see one revolutionize oneself... when it happens, the community comes to them. The way I've been doing this is by studying political and philosophical thoughts from all angles, learning to communicate with people of all positions and focus on my health and state of mind. Think of how different the world would be if everyone did this instead of fighting and complaining. We could just build and cultivate our way out.

except you wont. nobody will

@@JAndrioli We may not save the world but at least we are still living life with a sense of purpose that our industrial and economic masters have tried to take away. Every time somebody tells me it's not possible I'm reminded of just how important it is for my mental health as well as for others because that conflict reawakens my will to fight for life.

she needs to slow down, it;s hard to catch what she is saying much of the time.

Perhaps the rise of BRICS will offer an alternative.

@@kiwitrainguybrics will NOT be an alternative.

@@Dub105it will be, there is no option. hopefully the world can be more balanced and fair then… our current system is corrupt to the core

with a very pretty face 🎶

Amazing Grace?

She has. She had an article in the New Statesman aged 14. That’s the boundless confidence and industry connections a private education buys you

She looks so fresh and beautiful and her brain is joining all the dots. She's doing something right!

​@@james2450 She did not - she had a LETTER published in the New Statesman at the age of 14. But then twisting language (aka outright lies) better supports the lame point you were trying to make.

@@helenswan705surfing!

Have you come up with any "methoda"

There are many possible solutions out there if you look for them. Many are new ways to structure society that have never been tried, some are older ideas that also have not been tried. If you look in your heart your own ideas about solutions (or evolutions) will become clear to you.

@@simon_doesI like that.

@@lisakenton2392 As has been stated Mondragon Corporation is not only successful, but viable to be repeated... I believe Yannis Varoufakis would approve.

@@lisakenton2392 Yes for Scotland it means independence. No more selfish feudalistic government . No more anti democratic inherited privileged power base. The people in Scotland are sovereign and can dismiss their rulers, be they political or Royalty. It's time to show the rest of the UKs how it is done. It's not going to be easy but we are getting there.

Sorry about you’re current situation. It’s disgraceful that someone has to prove how sick they are even though they have signed off by a tribunal with a judge and consultant. The future is very bleak for the disabled.

John. Can you upskill? Plenty of opportunities out there, mobile or not. Even create ur own niche. If one can think and type, too many other humans in similar situations have demonstrated the way. Good luck bro. You can pull a rabbit outta the hat.

John. What we focus on, we get amigo. Change your mindset to abundance and start working out how to buy and rent cheap houses.

hope things work out for you

And a Marxist at the same time

Haha :D I see your point, but I doubt you're right. If the middle class actually starts revolting, things are going to change. A society can bear exploiting the bottom 50% and can cope with their anger (although it shouldn't), but it can't to have the middle class against it

A little late lol. But what does it say in your opinion?

Aaron is 48.

he's in his late thirties@@LCOF

The house is on fire. An absolutely brilliant interview. No debating happened though, they agreed on almost all issues. Next time the immigration challenges should be thrashed out because there has been an enormous lifetime of lag time in empire. I too had a chortle at some of the familiar references they made such as Andrew Tate, Blair, Trump and Tucker Carlson, Oxbridge.. Listening to you all has become my glad compulsion better than having a smoke. Grace is also a brilliant singer. Am going to watch all of this for understanding more of Marx. I enjoy the waffle because it just keeps making more and more sense in this globally isolated world that is

It's been obvious since the dawn of time

“You Can’t Win” By Jack Black 1926

Colonial subjects have been saying it for centuries

the working class? where are they now?

IMHO they both are virtue signalling

@@DavidAKZwhat is VS Dave?

@@TheBlueskyson Virtue signalling is the popular modern habit of indicating that one has virtue merely by expressing disgust or favour for certain political ideas or cultural happenings.

Ah, got it. A new twist on a thousand year old behaviour.....ty amigo

They had David Wengrow on.

​@@amylou7991 He talked about history, anthropology, and archeology. He is not an expert on political theory. Someone like Ruth Kinna would focus on anarchism, its characteristics and place in the socialist movement. I am sure you understood that's what I meant.

Taxation theft it enriches poltical class. Move where government less greedy southern Europe

4 bed home water views £1.5 . In Sydney Australia you looking at 5 milion dollars in Bondi Beach or £3.2 milion pounds

imagine a fool like grace trying to run marxist professional sports teams. what a joke.

@@ronaldreagan-ik6hz How on Earth are professional sports teams relevant...?

Bloodlines. Far moreso than Secret Societies. SS provides folly. Bloodlines set the 'Rules'.

She did a great job 😊

🙄🙄🙄

@@davidbouchard8963 are you 4 years old.

I havent got to that bit yet. Pls explain the initials.

I suspect a certain Mr Meadway will try and dissuade them, but one can be pleasantly surprised.

@@helenswan705 Sorry, MMT stands for modern monetary theory . Basically, it proposes that a sovereign country with its own currency can never run out of money and that the function of taxes is not to pay for government spending but to take money out of the economy to prevent inflation, give value to the currency in that you can only pay your taxes using it, and to reduce inequality and steer behaviour (e.g. taxes on cigarettes and alcohol ).

Some further discussion on EMT is critical too

hmmm. lets see. a socialist economist? wow. i cant think of a dumber combination. nowhere in the world are those two ideas successful.

@@ronaldreagan-ik6hz Considering your moniker…enough said.

Get some sleep. You need your strength to endure the revolution

Twofold big existence

@@nathanielguggenheim5522i third that

Same. A future leader!

And the way she handles environmental issues and takes on politicians with truth and youth is a joy to behold. ty Grace

And she’s a surfer…

Behind every Monopoly you will find Government maintaining it in one way or another.

Quote about the New Zealand Railways in the 1950s: Railways function in spite of administration not because of it. This could be applied to many other government run organisations.

Totally agree.

Nick. Best comment on you tube!

@@TheBlueskyson Thanks! ❤️ I hope this spreads!

I am very late to this, but I thought this was an overall good comment. I take small issue with left is for the poor & the right is for the middle class. I am finding it increasingly difficult to empathize with the current discourse on the right. I don't think the right has the middle class interest at heart.

​@@Rolo-gn1nk Thanks for thinking I left a good comment. It's nice for me to read it back, as I've since then shed my "leftist" political identity. Simply moving to an identity of "having my own thoughts on things". Neither the left nor the right has a healthy ideology, I think.

Richard Wolff is quality. I'm not surprised Peterson bottled out of a debate with him, Wolff would have run rings around him.

If you were American listening to the English talk, you would feel the opposite. The British are hilariously genteel, and constantly go on about what's 'right and proper'. It's just odd. It's very different living in a culture where being highly practical takes precedence over upright conduct and form of speech.

Though i love him, Wolff speaks like he's calling out bingo numbers, which is highly unpractical when the discussion is 1hr+ long. Grace here has a level controlled delivery and just seems to articulate her points a bit more. My adhdy brain abides @@austen8078

@@austen8078 Can I ask for an American opinion on Mick Lynch or Eddie Dempsey, in that context?

​@austen8078 I'm Canadian and I like Richard Wolf, but he is gruff and professorial, and not in a charming Howard Zinn kind of way (I recommend anyone listen or read Howard Zinn). I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Wolff either. Grace is wise far beyond her years and is very likeable, and properly radical. The accent is a bit posh, but eh man that's what the Brits are for

Because people like this talk crap.

agree Zab. Along with Russel Brand. ty

@@TheBlueskysonsure but not him

But a lot of their Technologies were developed by the public sector, Siri was a US Military project till the creators left and were picked up by Apple. Tesla was previously a company backed by US government dollars eventually bought out by Musk. All these private companies are able to do is CAPITALISE on Public funding.

imagine how professional sports would be if it was run by a marxist? LOL

Bingo! This is the only comment I've read here worth a shit.

'We all make the rules together' is definitely not Marxism, and clearly it isn't Socialism either with its central planning by an elite class.' It absolutely is socialism. You're thinking of state capitalism as practiced by Leninist regimes. 'Hierarchies, winners & losers, basically every inequity that you can imagine is built into every system and it's not possible to eradicate it.' There are many human societies that have been organised in a highly egalitarian fashion, including many hunter-gatherer tribes but also some of the earliest cities (e.g. the Indus Valley). Even today, you have the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities in Chiapas, Mexico. 'For sure, it's best to focus on ensuring equality of opportunity, reward based on competence and merit, and to strengthen the institutions that oversee the rules that are meant to ensure that we all play fair' Funny how 'equality of opportunity' remains an as-yet unfulfilled aspiration despite more than four centuries of capitalism. Curious how the institutions of which you speak still aren't doing a great job of ensuring that we all play fair despite having existed for so long.

Okay. Point to a successful socialist administration anywhere that wasn't 'state capitalism as practiced by Leninist regimes' where the rules could be said to have been made 'us'. Careful now. Try to point to situations that might be considered a state or a nation. You say that there have been many egalitarian human societies but you are mistaken. Such appraisals deliberately close their eyes against obvious hierarchies that have to exist. In hunter gather societies the best hunters and warriors would have had their pick of food and mates. I would say that not enough evidence exists to conclude that the early Indus valley cities were organised on egalitarian principles, and if any evidence did exist, it would have been compiled and written by an educated elite. I would also suggest that you go spend some time in one of your rebel communities in Mexico, where you are sure to find that you are not part of the the hierarchy that makes the rules and no one is interested in even good ideas you might have to improve things. You can try that and then blog about it from your jail cell. I would say that it's funny how capitalism was the first system to bring is much closer to equality of opportunity that any system before in history. Think you can do better? Run for office and try to change things.

@@chrisherne6454 'Try to point to situations that might be considered a state or a nation.' Nation-states cannot be socialist. Nation-states are part of the global capitalist system. 'Such appraisals deliberately close their eyes against obvious hierarchies that have to exist.' No, you're starting from the presupposition that hierarchies have to exist. 'In hunter gather societies the best hunters and warriors would have had their pick of food and mates.' Not true of all hunter-gatherer societies. 'I would say that not enough evidence exists to conclude that the early Indus valley cities were organised on egalitarian principles, and if any evidence did exist, it would have been compiled and written by an educated elite.' Circular reasoning. 'I would also suggest that you go spend some time in one of your rebel communities in Mexico, where you are sure to find that you are not part of the the hierarchy that makes the rules and no one is interested in even good ideas you might have to improve things.' Again, you're the one shutting your eyes to the possibility of human societies being organised in an egalitarian fashion. 'You can try that and then blog about it from your jail cell.' They don't have jails in the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities. 'I would say that it's funny how capitalism was the first system to bring is much closer to equality of opportunity that any system before in history.' It might have brought us closer to 'equality of opportunity' than any other _class-based_ economic system in history, but that isn't really saying much. 'Think you can do better? Run for office and try to change things.' And end up becoming a functionary of the global capitalist system? No, thanks!

Trump was mad that he wasn't the one getting that money.

Ash uses social media to drive her hatred. She’s a stain on novara

Blame the parents?...

@@alexanderewing3779 ...oh they were reported to social services at length. Trust me.

@@alexanderewing3779 ...regardless, thanks for your comments. The parents attempt to blame shift on a regular basis. Its deeply toxic. Its reassuring to hear someone point out the obvious, as you just have.

@@krob2327 ...was Ash even in this episode?

Her 6th form education was comprehensive. That said, the state of state education is so dire in this country that I could see why her parents might have wanted her educated privately. Sad fact but its hard to get anywhere in this country without a private education (clash between ideals and pragmatism)

Very pertinent point. Her parents must have had case of the Diane Abbotts when it came to schooling hypocrisy.

It's called champagne socialism.

If she hadn't been privately schooled, she might not be here. She's better than other bourgeois and it's important to have people like her

But using an online dating metaphor to explain economics? Oh dear!

a socialist economist shows you the depths of stupidity today.

I’m not sure what you mean. It might be interesting to really look into that sort of thing. My impression is that much of the backlash against Thatcher was framed as anti wealth but was really protection for the powerful and connected.

The conqueror two-step. 1. Acquire power. 2. Enact laws/policies that _perpetuate_ one's power... Let's break down step 2. Buy political aspirants. Place them in power, have them enact policies that allow one to capture media and pay no taxes. This political system capture allows the 1% to indoctrinate the masses into _believing_ all policies get enacted for the mass benefit, hence getting the mass to defend said policies! Talk about _inverse totalitarianism_ ...

The US does not have a free market. You don't make money by selling a better mouse trap, companies make most their money from government. Find a business where you can just hang a shingle on your front door and go into business. What you will find is that there is a regulatory and institutional barriers to entry that allow only a small group to control the market. In no way is it free of competative.

And Starmer will do nearly everything imaginable to shield those conflicts of interest, I have no doubt whatsoever.

Yes, Aaron got the first two the wrong way round. It's always been: Profits, then providing goods or services and then, in distant third place, employees.