Feels like a very "early to mid 20s, heavily online" kind of take, tbh. By which I mean there are lots of young adults who spent their childhoods having adults be optimistic and positive towards...
Feels like a very "early to mid 20s, heavily online" kind of take, tbh.
By which I mean there are lots of young adults who spent their childhoods having adults be optimistic and positive towards them, because dumping all your anxieties about the world onto a child is frowned upon. Then at some point they start learning about the world and realizing there are problems, and because its the first time they are hearing about it they think its some revelation that the general public doesnt realize. So because of that, they think it is insightful and interesting to call out all the problems they see in the world.
This in itself is not a bad thing, but its a level of intellectual engagement that a lot of people seem to get trapped in and never rise above. Its kind of like when someone points out that pro wrestling is fake, and they think that makes them look smart and logical, but to other people it just comes across as immature. Its not untrue, its just also not very impressive that you figured it out, so you dont need to spend 30 minutes talking about it if you dont have anything else to add.
But fr this is just reddit economics distilled into video format
I wanted to see what Tildes thoughts were on this video. He brings up a lot of good points that I am sure most of us, including myself have spent a lot of time thinking about. The thing is, when...
I wanted to see what Tildes thoughts were on this video. He brings up a lot of good points that I am sure most of us, including myself have spent a lot of time thinking about.
The thing is, when confronted with these thoughts, I don't know where to go.
I do try to spend time using my money in ways I feel point us towards a better society, and contribute my abilities (such as programming) to projects for free that further agendas I believe in.
Tildes members tend to prefer super long reads rather than videos, and I would guess that a long video is the hardest type of content for this crowd to engage with, so, sorry that you didn't get a...
Tildes members tend to prefer super long reads rather than videos, and I would guess that a long video is the hardest type of content for this crowd to engage with, so, sorry that you didn't get a lot of engagement with this.
Many of the graphs and articles this YouTuber mentioned have themselves been posted here: situation is bad and getting worse, greed and market capture and a government that works for the rich will only make things even worse for the 99%.
It doesn't count as beating a dead horse if the horse is still alive
I skimmed through the transcript. This guy dropped out of community college twice and spent his life as a content creator, and now he's figured it allllll out and it's greed. A few thoughts:...
I skimmed through the transcript. This guy dropped out of community college twice and spent his life as a content creator, and now he's figured it allllll out and it's greed. A few thoughts:
Reality has many fundamental issues intersecting across many domains.
How do we value labor?
How do we increase taxes? Do we have sufficient state capacity?
How much can we increase taxes before it seriously hurts consumer spending or capital investment?
How do we increase state capacity in a way that is democratically compatible?
How do we increase welfare when institutional trust is low?
How do we increase institutional trust?
How do we distribute subsidies without creating inflation? (Too much money chasing too few goods/services problems.)
How do we increase production of goods/services without creating market distortions?
How do we balance increasing material prosperity with environmental degradation?
How do we get people to exchange some material prosperity for some reduction in environmental reduction? (in a democracy.)
etc. I can go on for a hundred hours. And I can't claim to know more than 0.01% of the map of human system problems.
We've evolved our current neoliberal system that aspires to allows people to self-organize their economic activities through their self-interests. For most of human history, economy was organized politically, not individually. It was through a history of institutional reforms—settled land acts, the legal invention of private property, etc. etc.—that made economic organization through self-interest actually viable did human prosperity explode. Until then, everyone was dirt poor and miserable.
Looming over his entire rant is his lack of acknowledge of how Americans had it relatively easy because the US enjoyed a period of industrial dominance after WW2 when the rest of the world was a smoldering ruin.
American companies moved manufacturing overseas because it was inevitable. This move has, yes, decimated American industrial towns. But it has: 1. reduced cost of living for many Americans and allowed them to enjoy an extremely high standard of living, and 2. all that investment and trade has helped the rest of the world industrialize and develop and lift billions of people out of extreme poverty. It has come at great environmental cost, yes, but it has also been a tremendous moral achievement.
Feels like a very "early to mid 20s, heavily online" kind of take, tbh.
By which I mean there are lots of young adults who spent their childhoods having adults be optimistic and positive towards them, because dumping all your anxieties about the world onto a child is frowned upon. Then at some point they start learning about the world and realizing there are problems, and because its the first time they are hearing about it they think its some revelation that the general public doesnt realize. So because of that, they think it is insightful and interesting to call out all the problems they see in the world.
This in itself is not a bad thing, but its a level of intellectual engagement that a lot of people seem to get trapped in and never rise above. Its kind of like when someone points out that pro wrestling is fake, and they think that makes them look smart and logical, but to other people it just comes across as immature. Its not untrue, its just also not very impressive that you figured it out, so you dont need to spend 30 minutes talking about it if you dont have anything else to add.
But fr this is just reddit economics distilled into video format
I wanted to see what Tildes thoughts were on this video. He brings up a lot of good points that I am sure most of us, including myself have spent a lot of time thinking about.
The thing is, when confronted with these thoughts, I don't know where to go.
I do try to spend time using my money in ways I feel point us towards a better society, and contribute my abilities (such as programming) to projects for free that further agendas I believe in.
What are you folk's thoughts?
Tildes members tend to prefer super long reads rather than videos, and I would guess that a long video is the hardest type of content for this crowd to engage with, so, sorry that you didn't get a lot of engagement with this.
Many of the graphs and articles this YouTuber mentioned have themselves been posted here: situation is bad and getting worse, greed and market capture and a government that works for the rich will only make things even worse for the 99%.
I do like that and will be stealing it
Your thoughts
I skimmed through the transcript. This guy dropped out of community college twice and spent his life as a content creator, and now he's figured it allllll out and it's greed. A few thoughts:
We've evolved our current neoliberal system that aspires to allows people to self-organize their economic activities through their self-interests. For most of human history, economy was organized politically, not individually. It was through a history of institutional reforms—settled land acts, the legal invention of private property, etc. etc.—that made economic organization through self-interest actually viable did human prosperity explode. Until then, everyone was dirt poor and miserable.
Looming over his entire rant is his lack of acknowledge of how Americans had it relatively easy because the US enjoyed a period of industrial dominance after WW2 when the rest of the world was a smoldering ruin.
American companies moved manufacturing overseas because it was inevitable. This move has, yes, decimated American industrial towns. But it has: 1. reduced cost of living for many Americans and allowed them to enjoy an extremely high standard of living, and 2. all that investment and trade has helped the rest of the world industrialize and develop and lift billions of people out of extreme poverty. It has come at great environmental cost, yes, but it has also been a tremendous moral achievement.