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In this clip, John and Konstantin Kisin discuss Thomas Sowell's idea that there are no solutions, only trade-offs. Kisin makes the case that we should not expect perfect solutions to things such as climate change and the NHS, as they are in that sense 'eternal problems'.
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Konstantin Kisin is a writer, social commentator, co-host of TRIGGERnometry and comedian. He is a regular on British and American TV and radio shows including Question Time, Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, Daily Politics, LBC Cross Question, Tucker Carlson, the Megyn Kelly Show and many others.
Konstantin has written for publications including the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Tablet Magazine, Quillette, Standpoint as well as his first book, An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West.
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@82fdny97 Год назад

The first rule of economics is there isn't enough to go around. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics. -Sowell

@bryanutility9609 Год назад

1.5 billion Africans, half can’t do basic algebra

@S.M.E.A.C Год назад

Bryan Utility-To be fair neither can Americans.

@empoweryou1 Год назад

@@bryanutility9609 I know an awful lot of people who have no algebraic skills and have been profoundly successful and productive. There's no merit to your comment.

@jimnagel5611 Год назад

@@empoweryou1 I DISAGREE - I FIND IT FULL OF IRONY GIVEN THE CURRENT ATMOSPHERE OF SCREAMING FOR REPARATIONS -- AND THE FACT THAT WE'VE GLEEFULLY SUBSIDIZED THEIR RABBIT LIKE BREEDING HABITS FOR ~60 YEARS & HAVE NOTHING AT ALL TO SHOW FOR IT -- AND I SINCERELY DOUBT THE ACCURACY OF THE FIRST PART OF YOUR STATEMENT --

@TheRealDrJoey Год назад

@@bryanutility9609 I flunked Algebra 6 times, because it made no sense to me to PRACTICE something like that, when half of it (factoring) was largely guesswork, and I couldn't see any practical application for it. Well, I'm 73 now, worked in many MANY different fields, from factories to executive positions, as well as years of running my own businesses. There was, of course, math involved in just about all these things. including surveying, which I briefly did, which used trigonometry, an actually USEFUL branch of Mathematics. It's just incredibly lucky that I have NEVER encountered an algebra problem in my life. I'm sure I'm unique in that respect...right?

@j.hmarvelous2231 Год назад

Thomas Sowell is an American legend and treasure. His books will outlive us and parents should buy their kids one of his books. I own 5 ✊🏾

@muxion Год назад

Me too and eventually all of them

@j.hmarvelous2231 Год назад

@@muxion 👍🏽✊🏾

@briangilley5960 9 месяцев назад

Which Sowell books are in your top 3?

@ovidiudrobota2182 Год назад

Sowell's notion that these issues are "eternal problems" encapsulates the complexity inherent in addressing them. It's essential to recognize that in our quest for progress, we must navigate a landscape of trade-offs. No solution will come without its drawbacks or unintended consequences. When it comes to climate change, for instance, we must weigh the economic implications, technological feasibility, and impact on various industries. Similarly, in the case of healthcare, balancing accessibility, affordability, and quality of care presents a perpetual challenge. This understanding urges us to approach these issues with humility and a willingness to explore a range of options. It reminds us to engage in open and nuanced discussions, seeking compromise and finding common ground. Instead of striving for an elusive perfect solution, we can work towards sustainable improvements that minimize negative consequences while maximizing positive outcomes. While it can be frustrating to grapple with the complexity of eternal problems, it is through this process of trade-offs and thoughtful consideration that we inch closer to meaningful change. By acknowledging the limitations and inherent challenges, we can make more informed decisions, implement incremental reforms, and continuously adapt as new information emerges. Let us embrace the wisdom of Sowell's idea and recognize that progress lies not in the pursuit of unattainable perfection but in our ability to navigate the intricate web of trade-offs and find practical, workable solutions.

@sheffieldzamo7444 Год назад

The COVID response was governments managing a single risk, and that risk wasn't that lots of people might die from COVID. The risk was that if they weren't seen to do everything within their power, then they would lose power. And doing everything they could meant a power grab that was simply irresistible. Politicians have never served the people... they want to rule them.

@jamesrodgers3132 Год назад

Except that the "risk" was engineered and exaggerated, and the "management" was scripted years in advance.

@mikewhitfield2994 Год назад

Spot-on.

@richardthompson6366 Год назад

The entirety of the world's Covid response was to remove Trump from power, increasing control over the population was the secondary goal.

@SoloRenegade Год назад

@@jamesrodgers3132 exactly right. Fauci funded the virus, and predicted Trump would face a pandemic

@HondoTrailside Год назад

That is an interesting theory but I don't think it explains why they manufactures the, risk, or the fear of the risk. The risk only needs to be addressed if it exists, or is seen to exist. Your theory doesn't explain why they manufactured the risk in the first place. Manufactured can mean anything from creating the virus and distributing it as a bioweapon, to the response to the accidental release.

@hrthrhs Год назад

"There's no solutions, only trade-offs" Exactly right. Every decision we make has pros and cons.

@JulesFox Год назад

This is a great conversation- thank you for posting important call-outs on our modern society. Great conversation, with considered thought and listening.

@jaype9353 3 месяца назад

I’ve read quite a few Thomas Sowell books. And one of my favorite quotes is also “There are no solutions only trade offs!”

@mamdhata1614 5 месяцев назад

"Politics is the art of managing contradictions" former PM of India I K Gujral

@stumac869 Год назад

Unfortunately many politicians choose the options based on what they believe will be a vote winner and not what's necessarily best for the country.

@mrhassell 4 месяца назад

In a world of solutions, to say there are none, is a sign of ambiguity and this exact attitude, leads to far worse outcomes, than working toward "any" ideal, even a bad one.

@ripvanwinkle2002 Год назад

the problem i face with this obvious fact is when you present it to those people calmly, rationally.. the first response is " maybe YOUVE given up trying to find a solution but I HAVENT!" and off they go back into their fantasy.. how do you deal with people like that? i mean without violence, re education camps, or drugs..

@dominicmeehan8322 Год назад

Whatever your thoughts or leanings? Isn't it so refreshing to hear two grown adults having a mature conversation?

@alistermain6710 Год назад

Is that an Anderson tartan tie? Nice. 😄

@pinchebruha405 Год назад

Sociology Student here, learned early on that the answer to the Worlds problems is Birth control and education. Poverty can be greatly reduced for any family if they control births for two generations, the Educated commit less chaos….but ideology begets ideology The backlash is where we are now because of Ideologies …Thompson’Cycle of Civilization!

@hareth3911 Год назад

There are solutions but they are complicated and composites, there are no one magical solution to big problems.

@PoppiesAndPride 8 месяцев назад

THANK YOUKONSTANTIN SOWELL IS A TREASURE AND SO ARE YOU VOTE REFORM

@gregorde Год назад

I knew exactly what it was going to be. It's the master key to life.

@nelly365 Год назад

As soon as I hear solve climate change that's enough for me. If you haven't worked out it's a lie I'm not interested

@Horton.1114 3 месяца назад

Thomas Sowell is the smartest person in the room

@mccaboy Год назад

No easy answers. Yet the electorate is unable to process complexity and nuance

@tommyrq180 Год назад

How do we calibrate our policy, Kisin asks rhetorically? We calibrate our policy mostly based on wishful thinking punctuated by hysteria. Not science. Not some sort of “rational” calculation. But wishful thinking that tries to ignore the potential for tragedy, punctuated by hysteria when tragedy inevitably occurs. It’s the human condition. I worked for over four decades in the nuclear weapons business, both as an operator and a strategist. It’s what we do there, and for other high consequence contingencies. Wish it were different, but my job was always to nudge “up” the wishful thinkers during non-tragedy situations, and nudge “down” the hysterical policymakers when things went south. As usual, Sowell gets it. 🇺🇸

@Inspired2Teach Год назад

The benefit of Freedom is that, even though mistakes are made, there is a greater chance of solutions to be developed. Government, even if it were to be composed completely of genius level people, simply can never have enough intellectual capital, imagination, and experience to solve all of the problems that need to be solved by businesses, professions, trades or even regular people every day. Freedom allows the emergence of the "better mousetrap": usually from the most unlikely source. Freedom also allows the discontinuation and discarding of the worthless.

@davidkennedy6184 8 месяцев назад

I completely agree with the concept of trad-offs and pretty much everything the great Thomas Sowell says. I am sorry to say, though, that the trad-off to improve the NHS is to give less money to the rich.

@apastasauce5905 Месяц назад

There are no solutions only trade offs

@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069 Год назад

“However, as far back as 1971, American single women who worked continuously from high school through their 30s earned slightly more than single men of the same description. Even though women as a group earned substantially less than men as a group.” ~ Thomas Sowell

@jhljhl6964 Год назад

Chosing the lesser of two evils.

@Light-Shift Год назад

Yes there are solutions.

@AlaGoose09 9 месяцев назад

What I find ironic is that the founders of America had all these conversations and found the answers to all these questions. I challenge each one of you to read the Federalist Papers.

@darbyheavey406 8 месяцев назад

Single issue pressure groups have a lot to do with this dynamic.

@Myu305 4 месяца назад

Economics is the study of human choice under scarcity and that involves opportunity costs

@jeanmckessock1677 Месяц назад

What is the study of creating plenty?

@joshuaallen7171 Год назад

Healthcare is an eternal problem (or it will be until we create immortal people). But the NHS isn't an eternal problem, because it used to work a lot better than it does now. Which means it isn't doomed to be bad, and we can fix it. Saying everything is an 'eternal problem' shouldn't be an excuse for not trying to improve or fix things. What if someone in the past had said 'slavery is an eternal problem' and no-one had tried to end that?

@pauleddy5146 Год назад

99.9% of problems just need time. There are no solutions that MAN can devise. Only God has the answeres. Good government know to stay out of minor issues and only weigh in on those that can not be solved, over time, at the local levels. Good government should not be seen in dailty life. Period.

@ronaldmcdonald3965 Год назад

I've thought the same things about "Trade Offs" for decades. I've spend 40 years in the high tech business Design, Prototype, Mfg, sell, implement. My Pet Peeve are people who say, "But why can't I do this" They are not thinking about trade offs. Or those who say "This should be". These are really lazy people who don't want to understand and issue, understand the trade-offs, and make a balanced decision.

@bobtoner9820 Год назад

Do they want to solve problems or do they want power and all the perks that goes with it ?

@shd_samurai9676 Год назад

I'm pretty sure there's a solution... a final solution, if you will.

@alexshaykevich509 Год назад

Tradeoffs often include other people's greed. This whole argument smacks of appeal to futility. We have lots of examples, from the banning of CFCs to the FDA not allowing thalidamide into the US, where the tradeoffs were not so very complex. Corporate profits may have taken a short term hit, the end.

@JonM-ts7os Год назад

Wise.

@richardcox3574 8 месяцев назад

There is a really good trade off available to everyone - everyone needs to convert to Conservative thinking and policies.

@scatton61 Год назад

"Nothing more dangerous than the ignorance of the intelligent" my favourite quote by Thomas Sowell

@simonrunswick5730 Год назад

Yes. Sowell is the perfect example of this.

@SisypheanRoller Год назад

"Nothing more dangerous than the jellyness of the uneducated" Also my favourite quote

@eliasandrikopoulos Год назад

@@simonrunswick5730 No. YOU are!

@orkneyancestor2059 Год назад

@@simonrunswick5730 Where did you get anointed ?

@IsraelCountryCube Год назад

@@orkneyancestor2059 Lol nice reference haha

@OccamsRazor393 Год назад

The world would be a better place, if everyone would read Thomas Sowell.

@dannysullivan3951 Год назад

He's only read by conservatives. No one else would waste their time with his steadfastly conservative views supported by inane 'historical' evidence.

@johndoedoe88 Год назад

hahahahhahahaha

@OccamsRazor393 Год назад

@@dannysullivan3951 Pick up one of his books rather than spamming everyone's comments. It would be time better spent.

@MrBrynmair Год назад

And Konstantin Kisin

@lukeearthcrawler896 Год назад

It's not enough to read Sowell. People need to understand him and follow his advice. We all heard about "don't steal", and yet... so many do.

@liberty-matrix Год назад

"At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'" - Thomas Sowell

@brianmeen2158 Год назад

Sowell is great but we rarely seem to talk about class these days but focus it all on race and gender .

@Larez121 Год назад

@@brianmeen2158 Yup, gotta focus on class.

@AulisVaara Год назад

A shortage of teachers means you cannot select for desirable teacher traits. This means teachers get yet less respect, and the profession gets becomes yet less attractive, exacerbating the problem. Vicious spiral.

@leonharrison800 Год назад

Sowell another Conservative fool who thinks ignoring America's problems solves them. Total insanity.

@outoforbit- Год назад

I know of four students who left their degree course in social science protesting that they were been told what to think. I know one of these young ladies. There is still hope.

@real_john_doe Год назад

As Sowell's mentor Milton Friedman once said: "Nirvana is not for this world. There is no paradise."

@dannysullivan3951 Год назад

Sadly, they take that to mean we should not attempt to improve...fill in the blank. An accurate summation of conservative 'policy'.

@skidooshlayman12 Год назад

@@dannysullivan3951 wrong

@karrdashen9190 Год назад

@Baddonkey you should change your prefix to "dumb"

@woobilicious. Год назад

@@dannysullivan3951Milton Friedman was a proponent of UBI before it was cool, was pro drug legalisation, him and his fellow scholars solved the paradox and provided the solution to stagflation, he never called himself a conservative. He just rejected progressive policy ideas that contradicted his core beliefs in liberty.

@dannysullivan3951 Год назад

@@woobilicious. Agreed. I have a certain admiration for the man, certainly very bright. He did call himself a libertarian, which is basically a belief in an individualist fairyland. Anything to do with the common good, say keeping air or water clean, or would be taken care of, in his thinking, by the market. That’s an idea that has a long track record of failure. He’s anti-union, anti FDA, anti-almost every federal dept with the exception of defense. Park service-gone. There’s a reason libertarians don’t get elected to run the country.

@thelamington8195 Год назад

Thomas Sowell is a Godsend. His books should be compulsory reading in schools and college. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

@kman-mi7su Год назад

Instead compulsory reading is LBGTQ blah blah blah degenerate indoctrination.

@giovannamoro8564 Год назад

Here it is a solution , a very efficient and simple one too.

@peterney2402 Год назад

Should be compulsory reading........ maybe he would not agree with that statement.

@nimascolari1508 Год назад

That's not what governments want. The last thing any "democratic" government wants is open minded critical thinkers. They want consumers and obedient drones.

@ronaldbennett286 Год назад

Wholly agree mate - well said!

@stacypastry2440 Год назад

I remember the street interview, during lockdowns, with a British granny where she said she would rather risk death than not see her family in her last few years left.

@Xplora213 Год назад

This will remain the biggest question that authoritarians cannot answer. Roughly 10-20% of the population are not interested in a life without their own choices. You can try to eliminate them but you simply confirm you are a monster in doing so, becoming worse than whatever they represent.

@stacypastry2440 Год назад

@@Xplora213 this is why public schools don't teach children to be successful but to be compliant

@mogznwaz Год назад

Yes. Exactly. At the point the cure become worse than the disease the line should be respected!!!

@HondoTrailside Год назад

@@Xplora213 That isn't a bug, that is a feature. They want to identify and draw out the people who think they know better. They certainly aren't worried about being seen as the baddies, if they can get away with it. They want to use fear. Governments, no mater how good, are the monopoly on violence.

@jeffforsythe9514 Год назад

Our true purpose here on earth is to seek the Divine................Falun Gong

@Put-that-down Год назад

“If you think there’s a solution, then you’re part of the problem.” - George Carlin

@giovannamoro8564 Год назад

Yes and they 'll do anything possible to shut you up .

@hjones4922 Год назад

But a successful, acceptable trade-off is generally seen as a solution

@orphanedhanyou Год назад

@hjones4922 I think Carlin probably was implying 'if you think YOUR solution is the magic pill, if your 'version' of xyz failed policy will magically work of we just give you a bunch of money you are the problem'

@aljirou29 Год назад

Oh for the love of God. IT'S A LONG CON GAME BY THE COMMUNIST GLOBALISTS. IF THEY SOLVE ANY OF THE "PROBLEMS" IN THEIR STATED AGENDA (UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development...17 goals), then they can't use them as levers of power to distract and divide while centralizing power in unelected officials and global agencies as they erase borders. If the U.S. doesn't secure our 2024 election with massive oversight to eliminate fraad, freedom will be gone for good. It's their last chance to seize power since we're onto them and our last chance at preserving freedom.

@ante5544 Год назад

The cynic's national anthem

@82fdny97 Год назад

Sowell changed me in 2007. He was hidden from me since the 70s

@geoffhart Год назад

For me it wasn't until Obama's second term that Sowell's words sunk in. I started reading more of his books, and his analysis of "The Anointed" blew my mind. So many things that were mysterious to me before suddenly became clear, almost self explanatory. And since 2015 this has kept me sane, depressed but sane.

@hanklesacks Год назад

The unambomber manifesto is a good read as well. A lot of what he talked about all those years ago is really unfolding in front our eyes, really enlightening stuff.

@JBplumbing12 Год назад

@@geoffhart Be a little sad but do not be depressed.

@skylinefever 9 месяцев назад

@@hanklesacks I listened to the tedpill when I heard that the industrial revolution enabled the Idiocracy.

@andresgreene4913 Год назад

Doctor Sowell is a national treasure. It's nice to see him getting a bit of the recognition he deserves.

@iseenochains-oops7863 Год назад

Shame that he promoted the exp. Jab.

@ArgentWolf95 Год назад

@@iseenochains-oops7863 even he can be subverted by lies that change the data. That's how they did it. When you secretly change the data, you make it harder.

@danielbwest Год назад

@@iseenochains-oops7863 Are you that partisan? 😂😂

@danielbwest Год назад

He getting recognition in conservative circles for a reason genuis. He's not regarded as an economics intellectual by his community for that same reason

@iseenochains-oops7863 Год назад

@Daniel BF If you say so, but I see it as common sense.

@bobomac8330 Год назад

Actually John just nailed it "A good government mirrors a good society"

@coolioso808 Год назад

So we need system change, clearly, because our governments of the world don't mirror a good socio-economic system. Let's address the elephant in the room, work towards changing it. Monetary-market economics isn't sustainable. We can change that, step by step, then change how our society functions. As we've seen explained by Jacque Fresco, Buckminster Fuller, Michael Tellinger and Peter Joseph.

@jeffforsythe9514 Год назад

There is not one country today that has a good government. Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

@@jeffforsythe9514 The fist step toward socialism is for the workers to win the battle of Democracy.

@jeffforsythe9514 9 месяцев назад

@@kimobrien. Reincarnation is real and the blessings that you have or do not have depend on how you behaved in your past life. Socialism is interfering with God's decision...............................Falun Dafa

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

@@jeffforsythe9514 When you come back from heaven or the dead let us know what it was like. Have you decided on a name for God yet or are you all still arguing on what to call someone who speaks only to one person at a time?

@davidegral7152 Год назад

"We've lost the ability to have these conversations" - No we haven't, it's been taken away from those who disagree with the mainstream agenda.

@ScottPittman-jc7ph Месяц назад

"We've lost the COURAGE to have these conversations"

@cachinnation448 Год назад

I discovered Thomas Sowell when I was trying to get my head arounf the BLM and George Floyyd debacle in 2020. He was like that first gasp of air when pulled to the surface after sinking under the water.

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

Sowell ever give credit to a liberal socialist or communist for anything positive? Or is t just his tribe of conservatives politicians that are responsible doing everything good?

@a.williams1945 9 месяцев назад

@kimobrien. How're the liberal socialists and communists doing in the Soviet Union these days... oh wait! 😮

@davidhunt313 8 месяцев назад

@@kimobrien.Given that Thomas Sowell cares more about facts than about feelings, I am going to trust those who chose to think for themselves rather than having the crowd think for them. It's a continuous war between largely Libertarian NT Rationalists and Woke Progressive NF Idealist Leftists.. between evidence and professed _good intentions?!_

@dmoonmaster1653 7 месяцев назад

@@kimobrien. AFAIK Sowell is a free market capitalist so why would he praise centralised government systems or communist utopias. Do communist and socialist pundits ever say anything positive about capitalism? It isn't as much of a 'gotcha' as you think it is to ask a Sowell reader if Sowell has looked for the good in political systems that have resulted in tens of millions of deaths wherever they're seriously implemented. You should read Sowell's books yourself to see if he says anything about the areas of politics that you're personally interested in.

@fisk7aal Месяц назад

@@dmoonmaster1653 Marx acknowldged that capitalism is very good at generating wealth.

@MrAlittle5150 Год назад

Thomas Sowell teachings should be taught in schools at a young age, and every student should know the name Thomas Sowell by the time they graduate high school. It should be required. Happy early birthday Mr Sowell. He will be a young 93 years old on June 30.

@coolioso808 Год назад

As long as his teachings are equally allowed along with Jacque Fresco, R. Buckminster Fuller, Carl Sagan, Michael Tellinger and Peter Joseph. Let young people evaluate a variety of texts and make up their own mind what makes sense.

@tonycatman Год назад

And, at the age of 93, in January, Sowell will be releasing his next book.

@shelleyharrop1419 25 дней назад

Why aren't they

@toddbeamer6131 Год назад

Lots of Thomas Sowell videos on YT and all are worth listening to. He was highly respected because everything he says is based on painstaking research into all the facts.

@Jono153 Год назад

You had me at based

@abazely2743 Год назад

And a tough early life.

@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069 Год назад

The videos are amazing and a great resource, but you should read or listen to the audio version of Basic Economics

@jeffforsythe9514 Год назад

Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa

@craigwillms61 Год назад

...and simple common sense

@martinbrecknock3900 Год назад

It's one of the great ironies of our age that not a few comedians, KK included, speak more sense about public policy than the majority of politicians. Perhaps some of the politicians should try stand up? After all, they'll do less damage there.

@macca2342 Год назад

Because Politicians need to get elected KK doesn't.

@Noperare Год назад

"Politicians should try stand up" so Zelensky?

@thecurrentmoment Год назад

He's a comedian?

@thecurrentmoment Год назад

@m a Zelensky was actually the reverse - he went from comedy to politics

@lullaby218 Год назад

@@Noperare Zelensky is evil.

@UNCHART3DGAMING Год назад

It’s unfortunate that we have only come to discover the wisdom Dr Thomas Sowell - spot on one of the best minds we have snd he’s still alive today

@tozmom615 Год назад

I came across him and Walter Williams only about 15 years ago and was devastated to see that both were very old (and we only have one of them left now).

@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069 Год назад

Internet Libertarians and classical liberals like myself have known about them forever.

@coolioso808 Год назад

What about comparing Sowell's wisdom to that of some of the late greats like Jacque Fresco (who lived to 100), Buckminster Fuller and Carl Sagan?

@jeffforsythe9514 Год назад

Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

@@coolioso808 Why stop their should a campaign to canonize a Christ like savior of capitalism who comes down from heaven like Sowell get underway before he becomes completely forgotten or despised like all the others?

@JohnWilliams-iw6oq Год назад

I've met two profoundly wise old men in my life, one said "All of life is a compromise" and the other said "Never trust a man who doesn't love kids and dogs". Both were right on the money.

@seasonedbeefs Год назад

I love kids and dogs. Especially when they change gender because I'm a nonce

@seasonedbeefs Год назад

I'm joking but see how close we are in letting them in.

@Doing_Time Год назад

My philosophy is, "get out of my way." I love my kids, but certainly not because they are kids. I love dogs, but hate owning them because they die so young.

@SisypheanRoller Год назад

I love neither kids nor dogs and I'm trustworthy.

@luciusesox1luckysox570 Год назад

@@SisypheanRoller So you say ,, thing is I don't trust you .

@fawzialnazer2465 Год назад

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure of wisdom and knowledge

@jeffforsythe9514 Год назад

Our true purpose here on earth is to seek the Divine................Falun Gong

@sanderwissink5330 Год назад

No he is not, he is an INTERnational treasure of wisdom and knowledge.

@jeffforsythe9514 Год назад

@@sanderwissink5330 The Creator has given us true wisdom...........falun dafa

@albertclarke2826 Год назад

@@jeffforsythe9514 "Three to beam up Mr Scott" Capt James T Kirk, Starship Enterprise.

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

@@albertclarke2826 On might also collect the sayings of Chairmen Mao and put them next to Sowells and Jesus for moral fortitude.

@Elassyahmed Год назад

My favorite quote from Sowell: There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?

@rettro6578 Год назад

It’s not left via right anymore, the ruling elite love this bickering about “isms”. What exactly do you mean by left? Globalist rentier corporate powers are firmly in charge.

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

This fist defeat of Sowellian economics begins with the defeat of generalized notions. That resources are scarce. This a notion based upon nothing but the logical outcome of the profit systems inability to solve its own problems within the framework of capitalist market private profit and private ownership. The reality is there is and never has been a reason to believe we are running out of resources or not finding new ones and new ways to use or reuse old ones. The second is to talk about alternatives instead of use values. Alternative are A or B Use values are much more concrete and to the heart of the why of choice. The notion that trade and risk produce value in and of themselves. In fact these activities have a cost. .As John Locke said labor transforms nature. The cost of any product good or bad, worthless or valuable materialistic or abstraction is bound up in the labor time needed to produce it. That includes any time spent searching or thinking about how best to accomplish something. To follow Sowells thinking is to deny the material nature of the world and engage in simplistic anti historical views and notionism. Humankind are social animals who have used our hands to labor and were shaped by labor along with a voice box ears and a eyes to used for communication. Cooking to increase and speed digestion and fire After fulfilling our needs for food clothing and shelter we produce culture from which all science art and even religion develops. . .

@bennymachado2201 9 месяцев назад

Resources, products and services are scarce in the sense that there isn't infinite for everyone at all times. Everyone wants more for different reasons, to the point that there will be competition. What's "minimally acceptable", "excessive" or "essential" are all debatable to a number of merits and beliefs. Use-value and demands are somewhat similar concepts and hard to pin-point. All debatable to a number of merits and beliefs. "The cost of any product good or bad, worthless or valuable materialistic or abstraction is bound up in the labor time needed to produce it." Nops. Demand, including personal preference, and scarcity determine value/price.@@kimobrien.

@quintrankid8045 9 месяцев назад

@@kimobrien. "The cost of any product good or bad, worthless or valuable materialistic or abstraction is bound up in the labor time needed to produce it." Suppose you produce a painting but no one wants to buy it. What is the value of the labor time needed to produce that painting?

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

@@quintrankid8045 It still cost you in labor time to make it just as Ben Shapiro's mud pies do. Whither you can get any exchange value for it depends on the market. What is the cost of labor time but the cost of the laborer who must reproduce his labor power for the next pay period. If i come to work and the mill is broke down it still cost me to show up and wait around while management decides what to do. Just because your mill broke down doesn't change the fact that I have to eat, drink and sleep. Those are the laborers costs. How skilled the painter is determines how fast he can produce paintings along with his ability to work in general.

@johnbrown4568 Год назад

I’m pleased to see Kisin is catching on to Dr. Sowell.

@hillaryfleming6962 Год назад

It's about time he caught onto Professor Sowell

@breasonable4343 Год назад

strokes cat

@simplulo Год назад

That's my favorite quote of all time, and it sums up economics. Every parent quickly learns that children don't understand it: They say, "I want a toy!" and believe that it is only by the Whim of Mommy that they get the toy or not. One of the most important things to instill in children is the ability to budget.

@hjones4922 Год назад

But a successful, acceptable trade-off is generally seen as a solution

@jeffforsythe9514 Год назад

Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

@@jeffforsythe9514 No the more import thing to learn is their is more where that came from.

@jeffforsythe9514 9 месяцев назад

@@kimobrien. We are here to seek the Divine and to return home, which is Heaven....................Falun Dafa

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

@@jeffforsythe9514 Have a good trip and don't forget to write.

@erikarice6859 Год назад

This clip is like eating a home cooked meal, it felt real, heavy, healthy, hearty in its volume of truth.

@kayleneemery8217 Год назад

Amen !

@jeffforsythe9514 Год назад

Our true purpose here on earth is to seek the Divine................Falun Gong

@scuffmacgillicutty7509 Год назад

Sowell is the best kept secret in American history.

@archiebald4717 Год назад

Professor Thomas Sowell is a hero.

@saudade369 Год назад

I remember seeing and hearing Thomas Sowell on a Sunday lunchtime show in the early 70s when I must have been only 6 of 7 years old. I remember him clearly becaus even at that young age he struck me by his calm , reasonable voice and humour. Now I know him as one of the great thinkers and orators of our time and I think his influence is only now coming to its greatest heights and his reason and well researched arguments are exactly what we need . Like Dr Jordan Peterson he is deeply respected by those who have heard him speak .

@danielbwest Год назад

I wonder, do you have any left leaning intellectuals you admire?

@sandorfintor Год назад

Thomas Sowell is becoming more & more influential by the minute!! Read his works!

@kylekillgannon Год назад

My favorite part about Sowell is that he's been excommunicated for talking sense.

@SmileyEmoji42 Год назад

The public tell politicians "We'll punish you if you are realistic and tell us the truth". The politicians act accordingly.

@frededwards4904 Год назад

I too have been greatly influenced by Thomas Sowell. To my mind the ideas expressed here are the very essence of conservative philosophy. We always need to be careful that we don’t throw the baby out with the bath water

@jeremyrainman Год назад

This one phrase, by the way, is what you learn when you actually struggle with nature. People who live in cities and work corporate jobs have no understanding of this, their lives are removed from nature so everything looks like can be win-win-win or lose-lose-lose to them. Famers know there is no perfect solution to their problems, only tradeoffs. Shipbuilders and sailors know there is no perfect boat for any condition or body of water, only tradeoffs. Bridge engineers know there is no perfect bridge for every span, only tradeoffs. Everyone who deals with actual nature knows there is no perfection, it does not exist... The best you can hope for is to maximize what is desired and deal with the negatives of your choice.

@t.mitchellb2766 Год назад

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Ben Franklin

@gurgamous Год назад

there are a lot of great thinkers I've come across over the last few years. Tom S, to me, is the greatest.

@fiete9859 Год назад

What i see to be the main problem everywhere, personal relationships, friendships, family or public, social media, anywhere I see that we are unable to accept someone else stating an opinion and maybe facts that are opposite to ours. The biggest crime is such ignorance. I might just lose a good friend this week because I stated an opinion he disagrees with and attacks and slanders me for blindly. Cant we just talk bro ? you listen and i talk, i listen and you talk? We have lost that ability as a society.

@OJB42 Год назад

There are no solutions, only trade-offs. Yes, that is a very insightful comment. Thomas Sowell is often quite brilliant.

@hjones4922 Год назад

But a successful, acceptable trade-off is generally seen as a solution

@OJB42 Год назад

@@hjones4922 Yes, that should always be the aim, but some people are too inflexible.

@rettro6578 Год назад

@@OJB42 the inflexibility benefits the ruling elite transnational corporate class. Do you honestly think the masses elect politicians? No, they are pre-selected and primaries in USA are corrupted and engineered. Money talks.

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

@@OJB42 If economics was just trade off than were did the modern world come from?

@OJB42 9 месяцев назад

@@kimobrien. A series of trade-offs. No one is following a pure political or economic ideology.

@bboucharde Год назад

Sowell is one of the greatest living intellectuals of our time. Huge respect & salute to him!

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

You also love being told what you want to hear.

@grandlotus1 Год назад

Sharing Sowell's genius is always a good thing.

@kellykizer6718 Год назад

I've taught my son's this same thing in the sense that there is no perfect situation. That there are pros and cons in ever situation in life, work and relationships and all you can do is decide which pros and cons you are willing to live with because your going to live with a set of them no matter what lol there's no getting out of it.

@paulroyal2177 Год назад

This is a useful video. I would say that there ARE simple solutions to simple problems, but certainly agree that complicated problems have to balance trade-offs. But regarding complex political problems, too often the compromises are poisoned by the Adversarial Method of Argument demanded by lawyers. Lawyers are required to advocate just ONE side of an argument, regardless of common sense, to "win" an argument. And they can "win" without common sense, evidence, or wisdom, IF they are using laws written by lawyer-legislators. Us non-lawyers can see our immediate goals, our long-term agendas, and anticipate the trade-offs to get to practical solutions that work in the material world (instead of a utopian-intentional fantasy).

@daviddennington5144 Год назад

Thomas Sowell is the greatest living American! Long may he live.

@erikarice6859 Год назад

Kisin gets smarter every day

@UniDeathRaven Год назад

Too smart for today's snowflakes !

@darbyheavey406 Год назад

Too much magical thinking in public policy. Sowell is a pragmatic thinker.

@frankbarron1907 Год назад

Sowell is the Man. For those not yet familiar with him, I’d also recommend getting to know the ideas of Milton Friedman. Together they are the two greatest minds of the last 60 years.

@faza553 Год назад

Also: Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher The Breakdown of Nations by Leopold Kohr Tools for Conviviality and DESCHOOLING SOCIETY +++ by IVAN ILLICH

@frankbarron1907 Год назад

@Faz A I’ll be sure to check those out. Thank you.

@jonlocke1624 Год назад

And Walter Williams (Thomas Sowell's best friend and a fellow economist).

@honeybunch6473 Год назад

@@faza553 all added! Thanks.

@honeybunch6473 Год назад

@@jonlocke1624 is that Walter "E" Williams??

@dont_make_me_sing Год назад

Love the trade off quote. So many people do so much damage because they’re pursuing a utopian outcome of their desired state. Wrapped up in fantasy and unwilling to face reality. Thanks guys for this vid!

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

If only trade offs were possible and we were not creating a surplus starting with agriculture than we would still be living like hunter gatherers. That is just one of the professors attempts at mystifying economics by waving his hands and inserting popular but untrue notions. Like the accuracy and assurance of price signals.when bosses see sales declining with profits falling the begin halting investment in expanding production realizing they have overproduced for markets that can sell more goods at a profit they go to driving up the price of speculation in contracts and fictitious capital until the market gets so out of wack with the law of value it collapses causing an ever widening economic crisis as workers get fired and can no long buy back the goods and pay the housing costs for the products they produced to buy back from the market.

@tommore3263 Год назад

Your contributions are wonderful Mr. Anderson. Thank you.

@Max-ep5ir Год назад

Sowell's insight about there being no solutions runs deeper than government policy. It's true in general. Every great innovation that claims to improve our life comes at a cost. Take something like vehicles as an example. It's no secret that cars have vastly improved our ability to travel great distances much faster and in relative comfort, but look at the downsides. Someone has to design and build all those vehicles. Someone has to supply the materials and resources. Roads have to be built and maintained, people have to go through the process of learning to drive and risk getting into traffic accidents. Vehicles themselves have to be maintained, traffic laws have to be instituted, etc. So, that's a whole host of new problems we have made for ourselves as a result of our need to get places faster and more comfortably. However we, collectively as a species, have decided that the tradeoff is worth it - and that's the point. It's about whether or not the cost of a "solution" is acceptable to us. Sometimes it's not.

@Doing_Time Год назад

self-determination is worth the cost to me, nothing else is...absolute minimum amount of government intrusion required to maintain equal property rights

@jimjones-bk2is Год назад

There will be no solutions until everyone can decide, and agree, on what the problems are.

@ralphtroan Год назад

That's why there'll never be solutions...

@storeycris Год назад

Always a huge pleasure to listen to intelligent conversations. There is no left or right, there is only up or down...

@IvyMaeInReno Год назад

I've watched a lot of Dr. Sowell's videos and aways highly esteemed him. But when he said that my jaw just dropped. The simplest truth. Nothing in this fallen world will be solved until eternity. It is still our task to do our best for the most good and any small progress we can make to that end has to be carefully negotiated. And it is heartbreaking to think that, with the current climate of progressive thought, that ship may have sailed.

@Bookhermit Год назад

Right now, we are "kicking the can down the road" on several fronts, as we are unwilling to face the consequences of any policies that could be helpful in the long run. We are doing all we can to keep the current, increasingly fragile, system functioning with no hope of mitigating the impact that will happen when it eventually collapses. Every year we keep this up makes the ultimate collapse consequences WORSE.

@brianmeen2158 Год назад

Yep, we just do things and implement policies and don’t even contemplate the possible problems that might arise. Then after we observe the problems that have came out if said policy changes - we just shrug our shoulders and make other absurd policy changes .. rinse and repeat

@BlackGriffin195 Год назад

For the past thirty years I have felt that each succeeding year was worse than the last.

@davidhirst7227 5 месяцев назад

@@BlackGriffin195 A friend of mine said exactly the same to me several years ago and I must say that I agree with the both of you.

@maryhook9478 Год назад

In a mad world Thomas Sowell is a voice of sanity and coming in a close second is his disciple Konstantin Kissin.

@anon2034 Год назад

"There are no solutions. Only tradeoffs." - Thomas Sowell

@breasonable4343 Год назад

weak minded sophistry. don't hire that guy as your plumber 😆

@anon2034 Год назад

@@breasonable4343 Certanly not as a plumber. Maybe as an economist or a politician.

@breasonable4343 Год назад

@@anon2034 Because we certainly don't need "solutions" and diligence from either of those.

@anon2034 Год назад

@@breasonable4343 What do you need? What do you propose?

@pookatim Год назад

There is a distinction between a problem which has a solution and a dilemma that doesn't. The vast majority of social issues are in the dilemma category.

@nbarealtalker Год назад

You can watch a video of Sowell that’s literally 50 years old and he’s saying the same things that he’s saying today. I’ve come to assume this is a big reason he doesn’t do interviews much. He’s been saying it all for years.

@davidr8467 7 месяцев назад

He just put out another book - at age 93. Still relevant.

@icemancometh74 Год назад

A profoundly important point. Politics and media are increasingly divorced from this reality. People are livid that not everything is perfect and convinced that they are not perfect for the simple reason that the nefarious "powers that be" are preventing it. This childish view of society is very dangerous.

@joncarbone Год назад

Every policy come with opportunity cost.

@greenarrow219 Год назад

Why is everyone afraid....you cant speak because someone may get upset. What a sad state of affairs that this is our reality.

@breasonable4343 Год назад

and yet still here you are speaking, and so is he. Hmmm.....inconvenient?

@zeldaharris6876 Год назад

Such a shame people are only now discovering Thomas Sowell. Such a great, wise man. His books should be compulsory reading in every high school.

@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069 Год назад

If you really read and respected his work, you'd understand he doesn't support compulsory things most of the time.

@pneron2032 Год назад

@@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069 EXACTLY!!!

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

@@pneron2032 Right he supports thing like child labor because of the early opportunity it provides to become another Bill Gates and the unfairness of life.

@stracepipe Год назад

We live in an increasingly juvenile society.

@CusterSurvivors Год назад

I fought this idea when I first read it in Conflict of Visions. Sowell introduced the idea that the constrained do not believe in solutions. I thought, "What? That's ridiculous." Then I kept reading. :) I love it when folks first come across this idea. You can see the light bulb go off. Total shock. Makes my brain happy.

@kimobrien. 9 месяцев назад

What the constraint?

@Garthant 4 месяца назад

@kimobrien. It's one of the two "visions" in conflict. Basically the two fundamental political worldviews are the "Constrained" and "Unconstrained" visions according to Sowell.

@kayleneemery8217 Год назад

Vital point and well made . Thank you both with love and blessings from Sydney Australia .