Why do people vote for Trump? | Footnotes with Michael Sandel

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Political philosopher Michael Sandel explains how rising globalisation in an increasingly meritocratic led to a populist backlash and the election of Trump. Tyranny of Merit is available to buy now: amzn.to/3kmx2Ii
Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the polarized politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality. Sandel highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success - more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.
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@rickrose5377 2 года назад

Always one of my favorite professors.

@lawngreenlyp 3 года назад

I am from HK. This book is introduced by a quite famous HK RU-vidr. I am surprised as I have never had such thinking of our world. I hope the new US government will continue concern about the benefits of grass roots. Not only the rich or cleverer deserve to live a descent life.

@benjaminr8961 3 года назад

He is proposing communism. Which is what mainland China has.

@GordonPoon 2 года назад

The Biden Administration is corrupt and against the grassroots.

@maxheadrom3088 11 месяцев назад

You'll like this interview by TV Ontario's The Agenda where Prof. Sandel talks more about his points.

@trupteshtandale498 3 года назад

Great Teacher❤️

@benjaminr8961 3 года назад

Liar*

@melissasaint3283 3 года назад

A lot of this has its roots in Calvinist thought in early European settlers to America. But one of the worst things about the "go to college, work hard and you will rise" messages is that it was drilled into high school kids for about thirty straight years, and many took the advice. (They had to, frankly, because after the fall of the Berlin Wall in particular, blue collar jobs that paid a good living wage, not to mention a pension, mostly went away) Unfortunately, many did just this, even when college costs in the US spun up impossibly out of reach for most families, and young people got their degrees and graduated, with enormous debt, straight into the great recession.... And the same miserable right-wing-radio listening older people who told them "if you don't go to college, you won't have anything!" Now tell them they are idiots "brainwashed by the left" for having gone to college I stead of trade school. 😑

@ChuckN516 Год назад

I admire RU-vid and Google because the scheme of benefit sharing which allows everyone in all the corners around the world to share the fortune that Google presents to the world. You don't need to participate in universities, but you just need to find some interesting ideas and make videos out of them, and you start to earn money. Now youtubers cannot blame anyone but themselves if they could not be successful. I think this new benefit sharing idea is new and only available in the Internet age.

@hotmeish 3 года назад

Disagree because most universities are sponsored n funded to preach scale of standardisation of human knowledge.

@EVEPRAY 3 года назад

That´s what the europeans have told america for decades. Glad somebody said something finally!

@benjaminr8961 3 года назад

He is proposing communism you tard.

@hotmeish 3 года назад

Research work are done by universities not by general public ...

@jaysgamingcorner8539 5 месяцев назад

This is a spectacular commentary of the class/cultural rebellion that has been happening here since 2016. Trump didn't create the anger and resentment, he uses what was already building to his advantage. Kind of like a surfer riding a huge wave, the surfer doesn't make the wave that he/she rides on.

@MrMjwoodford 3 года назад

We are well past the point of believing we live in a meritocratic society. Sandel's critique is dated.

@benjaminr8961 3 года назад

No, "we" are not. His critique is stupid not dated.

@ChickenVeggi 3 года назад

@@benjaminr8961 His critique is not dated. Todays American elite truly do believe they deserve more because they are rich and look down on the working and middle class Americans. While the people already know this fact, the elites live in their own bubble and doesn't understand why people are angry. Michael Sandel's messege is directed toward those elite (Rich, Academic and Media elites)

@TesterAnimal1 2 года назад

We are not past that. Just look at the global irrationalist movement. The climate deniers, the anti vaxers, the flat earthers, the 911 deniers, the people who scream about “elites” while consistently voting for representatives of the super rich. These people think they are healthy, fed and safe simply because they are themselves. Not because we stand on the achievements of generations of hard won education. They deny facts because they are safe. It’s a big game to them. This is the very definition of decadence.

@austenj4539 3 года назад

This author reminds me of my favourite Greek philosopher - 'Mediocrities'

@johncotter2008 2 года назад

TRUMP 2024

@lmn6440 3 года назад

Donald Trump was doing quite well for working class Americans before covid. He reduced taxes for the working classes and the economy was going strong. What America doesn't need is another actor who has learned how to pander to working class people only to continue to over regulate markets which increases the cost of living for working class Americans but doesn't affect the middle class or wealthy.

@lmn6440 3 года назад

@Glen Towler like Sheldon Adelson? Certainly he did that as well

@markyuto6820 2 года назад

@Glen Towler Another one with tds.

@markyuto6820 2 года назад

@Glen Towler NOPE

@jayh9529 3 года назад

Why would you vote for joe biden he cant make a decision or talk for himself

@markbirkeland5643 3 года назад

Because a vote for Trump would be shooting yourself in the head just to forget what fools 35% of Americans {Republican diehards} are. He lied and Americans died. Tax cuts for the Richest, poverty for the rest. People who can't see the forest for the trees. If Donald couldn't dazzle people with brilliance He baffled them with bullshit.

@epic6434 7 месяцев назад

You think Joe would know how to tame a bunch of wild animal's? 😂 no pun intended I was entertained by the people too but Joe seems more like a team player and I'm sure he could make more sense to a foreign leader who speaks another language than he could the American people now I'm not saying Americans are idiots I'm just saying no one gets a sit down conversation in the modern way of saying you know what I mean or if not feel free to say what you think it's American.

@user-bs4uu4eu9q 3 месяца назад

Better than a cheating arrogant person who LITERALLY tried to over throw the government 🤨

@VijayKumarVinjamur27 3 года назад

In my opinion , It is an interesting argument that meritocratic hubris is leading to a greater divide and resentment. But instead of addressing that issue, if you focus on resentment in "non college" people then you may be messing up basics of merit and excellence and promoting mediocricity.

@epic6434 7 месяцев назад

Yeah merit badges are passed around like trophies everyone gets one just for participating 😂

@oleandra3759 3 года назад

That’s part of it and the thing that’s really galling is that many aren’t really very bright. They’re arrogant and yet ignorant that they completely lack critical thinking skills. Doubt it? Lol, you can watch this very professor’s lecturers on RU-vid- his students (Harvard Students) give very little challenge to the concepts and philosophies presented. They simply accept it and absorb it with all the intellectual prowess of a sea sponge. He prepared a talk on a particular subject for a class at Oxford. The students were, quite frankly pathetic. They’re involvement in the discussion was something, I would put on par with middle school students. I guess that’s what you get with the bubble wrap generation. When I was a child and especially into my teen years my father argued against any topic on which I took a stand. At the time, I thought, this ornery contrarian hates me! I thank him with all my heart.

@epic6434 7 месяцев назад

Maybe because they agreed the man makes sense and with all do respect you were challenged by your father on your intelligence and that sounds hard to swallow as you explained I would have not been patient enough to listen but hey what can you say about his views yourself? You didn't really chop down a cherry tree as if there were any to chop up huh? 😅 You did have a good comment.