Psychologically, homo sapiens are a miserable bunch. We are inherently dissatisfied, and were it not so, we'd still be living in caves. Consequently, I don't think it's that capitalism makes us miserable; rather it's that capitalism exploits our unhappiness. It offers us relief from our misery, at a price - the opportunity to better one's circumstances through work, and the opportunity to buy things we think will make us happy. Invariably, the things we buy don't make us happy for long. The novelty soon wears off, and we revert to being miserable - and seeking relief via new novelties. Recognising that happiness is a matter of positive contrasts; as opposed to some illusory end state we might achieve if we just accumulate enough stuff - is consistent with ideas of work/life balance, sustainable patterns of consumption, good governance and corporate responsibility.

Of course. But how do we do this while the world is ruled by psychopathic despots and warlords? We may have to fight for the world we want. Including by violent means. Because they are fighting for theirs, with horrific, unflinching violence on a grotesque scale.

This is what fresh air sounds like

This was heavily cool. I wish it were a more common thing.

We need too hear more from this lady

Anti-capitalists enjoying the fruits of capitalism who would never move to a socialist country :)

meditation cured my depression

I dont agree with everything she says, but I love listening to her. Shes very intelligent and has certainly boosted by knowledge of economics, which im now studying.

Brilliant. About competition and cooperation

Idiots

Grace needs to get herself onto Lex Fridman's or Chris Williamson's shows. Her voice needs to be heard much more widely. The way she weaves some of her presentations reminds me of James Burke's Connections style. Deeply engaging and informative.

It doesn't make millionaires miserable.

Capitalism is competitive and has to be for consumers. If I do a bad job and someone does better, well I have to improve.

Capitalism - bad, Green Capitalism - good Green Capitalism built on enslaved africans mining minerals for wind turbines - amazingly good. How many supporting this ponzi scam aka green capitalism?

Capitalism is a hoarding sickness.

Capitalism hasn’t worked out very well with property has it, all it’s done is made people homeless

Dit gaat nooit gebeuren. Onze huidige nationale identiteit is gebouwd op een fundering van de "Gouden Eeuw" en "Nederlandse nijverheid en samenwerking". "Zie je? We waren altijd al kapitalisten! Wij hebben het uitgevonden!" is voor veel mensen een sterk genoeg argument voor de status quo. "Onze sterke werkethiek maakte van ons kleine kikkerlandje een wereldmacht" heb ik wel eens voorbij horen komen in onze staatspropaganda, stel je voor dat je dat als Afrikaanse Surinamer moet aanhoren. Als we mensen de waarheid gaan vertellen worden al onze oude binnensteden monumenten voor racisme, kolonialisme, genocide, klassenstrijd en slavernij. Ik denk niet dat de mensen die momenteel de macht hebben die doos van pandora geopend willen hebben. Dit lijntje trekt namelijk helemaal tot de rotte kern van onze organisatie van de samenlevingen en haar instituten.

I think it did, in 2008.

Oh, I thought this was going to be standup comedy. Disappointed.

Growth is nonsense sold by the religious cultists.

This is performance art, not serious analysis.

Forwards and upwards to our unity as a world culture. Endless growth on a finite planet is over.

Jeugdzorg is dol op huiselijk geweld. Want het levert geld op! Elk gezin met een gewelddadige vader is een goudmijn! Want dan plaatsen de rechters en kinderbescherming graag de kinderen uit huis om vervolgens de gewelddadige vader omgang en gezag te geven. De Nederlandse rechters, jeugdzorg en Kinderbescherming haten het Verdrag van Istanbul, want zij willen niet huiselijk geweld en kinderbescherming voorkomen, aangezien dat minder geld oplevert. Om baangarantie te garanderen beschermen Nederlandse rechters, jeugdzorg en Kinderbescherming graag de plegers van het geweld! All about the money, toch?!

FACTS: A species of Pine Tree in California is almost 5000 years old - A single organism! A species of jelly fish, Turritopsis dohrnii, is considered immortal! Viruses, so compacted and simplified, stand a chance of being around forever in our infinite universe (i.e., space chemistry). Tube worms feeding off methane have the BEST chance of surviving this 6th Mass extinction! Western economies REQUIRE 3 - 4 percent inflation to remain healthy. MORE risks too much inflation. LESS risks deflation. Deflation is a capitalist country KILLER. Japan has experienced deflation for 30 years. The ONLY reason they are not a failed state is because the Japanese culture is not based on consumerism, as in the west, especially the US. Japan enjoys a 50 percent savings rate during post-WW2 era while the US suffers from a NEGATIVE savings rate across the board. The incoming Trump admin ALREADY added $7Trillion to the national debt and is expecting to add another $15 Trillion in nat'l debt! (In 2000, Clinton left office with a BUDGET SURPLUS and we all got federal TAX REFUNDS soon AFTER Bush Jr. took over - BUSH's name was on the checks so Americans FAILED to connect the dots,as usual). Bush Jr. oversaw the GREAT RECESSION and Trump stands to do FAR, FAR WORSE this time around. After Bush Jr's FAILED presidency, we had the chance to restructure the financial system that only few wanted, including Bernie Sanders. Instead of using bailout money to RESET the entire finance system (as you seem to suggest might be possible but don't mention 'how'), Bush (then Obama continued) to bail out the BANKS who then lobbied for Citizens United which DOOMED the US democracy and the global economy is still threatened more than ever, today. In the '70's, Jimmy Carter attempted to restructure global dependence on fossil fuels and GM even created the first electric car, the EV1. When the WEALTHY ELITE (top 0.1 percent) saw their wealth at risk, they KILLED the EV1 and GM DESTROYED EACH VEHICLE despite the amazing success of their 1970's program! The wealthy elite installed Reagan by rigging the election against Carter and Reagan KILLED the middle class and demolished the unions (roughly 18 percent of work force went below 7 percent unionized work force - killing the trend before it reached critical mass and ensured a middle class that would drive economic growth for 'eternity', as you seem to suggest. MORAL: We are crabs in a barrel - As soon as ONE crab almost makes it out of the barrel to the promised land, other crabs will reach up and drag the wining crab BACK DOWN into the barrel. FREUD might call it the 'death drive'. You might call it BRAINWASHING. I call it 'stupid is as stupid IS! Stupid IS as stupid DESERVES! In the '70's, YOUR parents and grandparents SPIT on us and kicked us for trying to save old growth trees. When global temps avg 110 degrees F, photosynthesis will BREAK DOWN and NOTHING will grow. The arctic permafrost is MELTING and there's enough METHANE stored in the Aleutian (underwater) glaciers to raise global temps another 5 percent (estimated) - IT"S ALREADY HAPPENING, as recent reports show equatorial marshlands are now entering a 1000-year cycle of emissions rather than acting as a carbon sink. The arctic, too, is now officially in this latter category. Today, YOUR kids spit on Great Thunberg for demanding we take responsibility! Generation X FAILED to take the ball we gave them in the '60's and '70's, and GenZ can't survive without a cell phone! How could they possibly survive on Mars? Elon Musk lies about colonizing other planets KNOWING THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN. Rather, the wealthy elite intend to MINE the moon and Mars and asteroids for precious metals using autonomous systems, a feat they will accomplish (perhaps!) by exhausting VERY LAST REMAINING AMOUNT of earth's resources to develop A.i. and Quantum Computers - BUT THEY"RE TOO LATE! In the '70's we put SAVE THE WHALES stickers on our cars and were laughed at but we really meant SAVE THE HUMANS! Humans are driving the 6th MAJOR extinction and Mother earth is about to kick us off her planet! Not even jellyfish are expected to survive, over the next 10,000 years (But the tube worms that thrive on methane will LOVE the new world order!) ASHES to ASHES, dust to dust - You can't dig a bunker deep enough to outrun mother nature. Take heart knowing we return to the stars where we were ALL born anyways!

Does everyone have to have a frickin' tattoo?

We zijn vandaag een jaar verder. Onze samenleving is verder ontspoord. We hebben nog steeds geen regering, zes maand na de verkiezing. Ook in Frankrijk, Duitsland, Nederland is de situatie uitzichtloos, politiek gezien. We sporen elke dag naar Brussel vanuit Gent. De schrijnende miserie, drugs, krankzinnigheid, uitzichtloosheid, dakloosheid. ... waar zijn we mee bezig? Mensen sterven gewoon op straat. Inderdaad. Akkoord, niemand durft, kan of voelt er nog iets voor om het klimaatprobleem nog maar te benoemen. Straks binnen een week of twee drie legt Donald Trump de eed af, (dat klinkt bijna als een sarcastische grap, als je die man die plechtige eed ziet afleggen, maar bon, het is de realiteit. Dat terzijde. ). In Syrië is deze week Assad gevallen. Wat bedoel ik, internationaal zowel als bij ons is zoveel gaande. De wolligheid van de ecologisten, het lijkt bijna op zich een aberratie voor sommigen. Jammer genoeg, wat er ook gebeurt. De rekening volgt. Hoe langer we wachten, hoe meer deze gepeperd zal zijn. Gelukkig Nieuwjaar iedereen. ❤

So what should we replace it with?

It makes some people miserable. Under socialism everyone is equally miserable.

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This lady is amazing!! She is so concise and to the point, I will absolutely by buying this book!

Worker owned markets, aka economic democracy is the future

Conniving corporate-freeloader class capitalism is a scourge on society. Worker owned markets are the future. Econmic democracy

what have we got that machines and AI does not, and what is capitalism if not a machine, a soul destroying paint by numbers life

Dutch sounds absolutely HORRENDOUS

Any society that requires that government initiate FORCE to redistribute resources from those who produce to those who do not produce is immoral. The initiation of FORCE is always wrong, regardless of motives.

No, authoritarianism and oligopoly make us miserable. Capitalism, socialism, communism and such are all pretty irrelevant to citizen prosperity. The economic models are all subject to greed and centralized power favoring an elite few while stealing from the general citizens. Pushing for a genuinely representative benevolent government is the solution to citizen prosperity. THEN, that government can choose the mix of economics that provide the best benefit for the citizens. The best form of government structure humanity has found to create and maintain a citizen government is a democratically elected representative government with lots of citizen participation. Capitalism, socialism, communism all function better for the citizens with democratically elected representative government. Capitalism, socialism, communism all fail the citizens under dictators, monarchs, fascists, oligarchs, corpratists, and religious doctrine. So we need to focus the conversation toward better citizen representation and stop talking about irrelevant and impossible economic models. All three of those economic models are propagandized to create a false loyalty to any one of them. The missapplication of those models into industries they do not match is how pockets of influence, wealth and corruption are created by the greedy elite. Government run bakeries are as stupid as for-profit electricity grids. A mixed economy run by an intelligent government that represents the citizens is the obvious solution so lets stop talking about anything but that please.

I'll take capitalism over any form of socialism any day but thanks anyway.

""Why don't we have a public, decentralized, democratic financial system that would allow ordinary people to prioritize the kinds of things they want to see and the kind of society they want to live in? Why not have a democratic, global Green New Deal that would empower communities across the country to have a say in how we achieve goals like Net Zero? We should build out our democratic systems and institutions so they are not just limited to small, infrequent elections that happen once every few years. Instead, democracy should be woven into the fabric of our society. That, I argue, is how we truly address the challenge of taking back control. Thank you very much." - Grace Blakely. I am in full agreement with this direction of governance.

She is exceptionally intelligent and remarkably articulate; my compliments. Fantastic episode! Thank you so much for this!

The closest we were to free market capitalism was late 19, early 20th century. It is not coincidence in those years most things we use today were invented. Telegraph, TV,Cars, Planes etc, everything else we use today such as facebook, youtube are modifications of those inventions. Grace Blakeley idolises people like Lenin which is dangerous, she falls under the same category as Lenin did, educated, privileged people who think they know better what is good for ordinary people. She might have good intentions, but when these people get into power, the story is always the same, Mao, Pol Pot, Lenin to name a few.

I had a thought today about how much pain we’re all going to experience under neoliberal capitalism in the years to come. The desire for endless growth is going to lay waste to economies because these dominant multi-national corporations have simultaneously eroded wages while increasing prices. A market economy cannot function when a majority of the populace has no expendable income.

13:56 Ik zou deze vraag als presentatrice niet op je showreel zetten. Mijn God... Maar top dat jullie Grace Blakeley hebben binnengehaald, geweldige gast! 👍

Don't fall for this bullshit! All systems can work but man is not able to do the right thing so it's us! Not some system or religion. Mankind generally lacks the ability to be fair and kind and it will ruin any system!

This woman talks 100% truth and sense. Pleasure listening to her😊

i lived in socialim, i lived in capitalism, you believe me - socialism is better.

Greed is the primary cause of this, can we educate corporates & government's? May be MORE POWER to GRACE 👍❤️

Will she give up all her book sales income and live like a janitor

... i love it ...

Capitalism only works for the richest few. For everyone else, it is an apocalyptic dystopia. There is no such thing as a free market.