Capitalism Hits Home: Inflation & Manufactured Poverty

[@irelandishsac13]

Thank you Dr. Fraad❤ I was born in 62 and gave up on the American dream a long time ago. I was born into poverty.

[@patriciahuyler4605]

Listening to Dr. Fraad is like having a very compassionate friend who talks about your secret shame and the hurt you feel every day. Some bad times I've played her over and over because it's not just what she says, which is straight on intellectually, it's the feeling of being understood. She also has the best voice since my Aunt Dorothy. She's just wonderful in every way. Thank you so much, Dr. Fraad.

[@alandoane9168]

Hear hear!

[@cheri238]

Dr. Fraad is an example of a woman who has a heart connection to enormous issues in our country .

[@petestanton1945]

I think she's a licensed family therapist, w a lot of experience obviously.

[@cheri238]

@@petestanton1945 I know her credibility well.

[@antimattv]

That humiliation Doctor Fraad mentioned is compounded by the ideology (even among kids) that poorness is YOUR fault. It's a sick way of organizing culture and society. We desperately need to change.

[@bigdog44pc]

The elites are such sadist.

[@jillfryer6699]

Such empathy combined with such political sharpness and idealism is very rare and we are honored to have her.

[@bigdog44pc]

It sounds like we have taxation without representation, and no Freedom of Choice when it comes to electing our politicians

[@alandoane9168]

You are correct sir.

[@cheri238]

💯 correct

[@Ace1000ks19751982]

We have a choice, we need to vote for a 3rd party, because the Democrat and Republican parties are bought.

[@bigdog44pc]

@@Ace1000ks19751982 what we need is ranked-choice voting.

[@TheGeorgeous]

Thank you for your service

[@MeikaiX]

The only service that should be thanked for in our era.

[@devincreislerstudios]

I work everyday and have nothing to show for it but lots of credit card debt.

[@MeikaiX]

It sucks how people can contribute so much to society and still get treated like garbage.

[@antimattv]

I'm glad that you've found your way into D@W. I'd like to believe that socialist concepts contain the seeds of change.

[@dorian7215]

I’m in the same boat. Seems like I’m barely treading water.

[@alandoane9168]

Thank you so much for your brilliant analysis of life under capitalism, Dr. Fraad. You have a wonderful way of making all the gaslighting and oppression comprehensible and provide the insight and strength to resist them.

[@frostydei5012]

I've got neurodegenerative epilepsy. Just paying for my meds in Idaho cost hundreds of dollars. My son was a toddler. The local bus drivers memorized my stops so they could help me remember where I worked after seizures. I survived working two jobs because I was surrounded by attentive, compassionate, and protective working class people. Colleagues, clinicians, bosses, bus drivers, etc. They were overwhelmed, overworked, and underpaid. But they each researched first aid protocol for seizures. After awhile the team could communicate and spring into action without saying a word or alerting customers. They were so perceptive. Eventually they knew I was glitching before I even felt it. I typically realize that I'm short circuiting because i hear myself speak a disordered sentence or sudden vertigo like airplane turbulence. Exceptionally gifted, intelligent, thoughtful people. But America subjugated and impoverished them instead of cultivating their talents or providing means for upward mobility. Let's replace "in god we trust". A new slogan: "Deaths of despair and relentless destruction of human potential." The authentically heroic individuals I've met lived in poverty. True altruistic generosity seems to die in rich people.

[@jonathanash4280]

Here in the UK we are never far behind the USA and what Dr Fraad says applies to the UK and Europe all the same. These all very important issues that should be kept firmly in the public eye and not submerged by the mainstream media.

[@cnj420]

Big fan of this work, keep at it Dr. Fraad.

[@georgegates526]

Dr. Fraad, you hit the nail on the head!!

[@leylo9766]

I love how your in tuned with all the problems surrounding everyday people.❤❤❤❤❤

[@LeslieOakland]

Thanks!

[@zombiehampster1397]

Making money and consumerism seems to be the pinacle of US life and we wonder why our society is fractured, lack of empathy is rampant, and the social contract is in tatters. I don't know how people can be so callous about one another.

[@dannywindham3295]

Thank you for what you do

[@TennesseeJed]

Pandora left hope in the box.

[@bernardheathaway9146]

I wish I could find a therapist with a Marxist background. I am so tired of hearing everything has to do about me, when I express how stressed or depressed I get trying just to survive in this system. Most of the times, I am doing just fine mentally, untill the huge bill comes and the small wage disappears...

[@isao5257]

"No private money is allowed in elections..., and they have many parties to choose from" that is lacking in this country and is the main reason why so many people are struggling. We really need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot by supporting the two parties having always favored the wealthy people and corporations for the last several decades.

[@earlviney5212]

And we call ourselves a Christian nation are you kidding me.

[@petestanton1945]

see also Chris Hedges; those are Christian Fascists

[@michaeldahill807]

probably the best 25 minutes of internet experience of my life.... it was refreshing to listen to a person who has achieved in life show compassion for those that haven't

[@stringbean4693]

Are you aware that there's only a handful of people like yourself left in this country called USA 🇺🇸 ? And even rarer who speak with empathy , compassion & truth as you ? I love listening to you Dr.Fraad

[@heathercole6750]

Great content. Thank you

[@cristinacamero3733]

I do agree with you Doctor however I think the point is not to make easier for those kids to buy those sneakers, but to teach them how consumerism is not a way of leaving. To make them understand what life is really about

[@janelliot5643]

You have lost the plot: you're living in the past. These kids are impoverished. They are not the ones who need to understand about consumerism. It's the sadistic obscenely wealthy who rule over us, THEY need to understand that their consumeristic GREED model isn't working any more and it's not going to work, ever again, because these children are impoverished, malnourished, and being forced into slums because of the greed of those greedy uber-rich

[@AliHassan-hb1bn]

Madam, why not talk about arrogance of capitalists who ruined our world by over consumption and over production. Over farming, over fishing, over logging, over mining, over grazing and over polution. Capitalists behaviour should be changed by war.

[@madjidmouas3519]

The problem is no one can believe any of this thanks to Hollywood!!! Brainwashing is hard to overcome, may be some genius psychologists should work on a way to undo it. As for myself, taoist meditation is all I know of, and it works wonders. One has to use any means at disposal to shake off the brain shackIes we've been submitted to since early age, don't we? What matters the most is : does the means serves us to grow as a human being.

[@antimattv]

It is one of the biggest barriers to progress. Elites are smart. They know that it saves time when we keep ourselves down.

[@maxshea1829]

Thanks for the heightism.

[@SithLordPrince]

This is why there is nothing wrong with poor working class Black people...especially Black working single mothers and their children.

[@MichaelSharpBLACKDRUMMIKE]

An interesting aspect to the significant portion of our population living under such dire circumstances can be its effect on the people who are actually doing well. The reason being they see the despair around them and fear it can happen in their life or to people they care about. This makes them angry and cynical refusing to acknowledge the people who are suffering in a compassionate way due to their own self-centered fear. Even billionaires live in fear. knowing everybody is after them and their money. Society would be doing them a favor if it put a cap on income so once you get to a certain level of income there's no incentive in being greedy. What's an individual "maxes out" on their income they could spend the rest of their life helping others achieve their own financial success.

[@Baraborn]

How does that feed the war machine?

[@thegrizzlyfamily1374]

Jesus Christ this is hard to watch. Truth to power. Dam.

[@chuckleaf8027]

Cure for insomnia...

[@boombot934]

Stop⛔🙅 the War on Drugs💉💊!

[@OldEarthWisdom]

I wonder what the world would be like if we stopped praising people with money and instead honored and respected well being? We don't even know what wellbeing is. I own only 13 pounds of "stuff" and a little dog and live soooooo well spending only $645 a month for everything... including rent!!! I know I probably spend less on food because I only eat a plant-based diet and i don't drink alcohol. I live in a beautiful city with 36 beaches and all renewable energy and all the water in cleaned before it goes into the ocean. Of course, I won't tell you where I live since I don't want people swarming our city but life is oh sooo beautiful.

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

It's interesting that Americans still insist that they are the greatest and most prosperous Nation on earth!

[@Shaddowkhan]

Damn, this was depressing.

[@user-gz4ve8mw9l]

Reality under capitalism always is, most especially in the USA.

[@kentauree]

There is very good reasons why greed is a sin. Just look hot it is destroying a great nation.

[@janelliot5643]

65% living on the edge, paycheck to paycheck!!! Everyone who unrstands statistical analysis - no, even simple RATIOS - must stop saying this is the richest country in the world. It's only the richest country in the world for the few, as Michael Parenti said years ago in DEMOCRACY FOR THE FEW, and now it is significantly worse

[@cesarcalderonvalles]

Set back after set back is si marginal :( Thank you very much.

[@barnabasracks2930]

Sounds like Modern Day Slavery to me. 🤔😳😥

[@ReginaJune]

3:06 poor women like me need birth control or a tubal ligation like me! Otherwise it’s child abuse mathmatically.

[@lets_discuss5352]

Isn't this the democracy and capitalism we've been trying to export and impose around the world, and in Iraq, Libya, etc, and invading those countries and destroying them? Is karma coming back to bite us?

[@Fatiha-b1r]

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[@818boy]

All this to satisfy shareholders!!!🤢🤢🤢🤮✌

[@AliHassan-hb1bn]

Society is like babagal or a parrot.

[@cev12]

Mostly agreed, but you lose me when you talk about kids needing status items to fit in. I get the culture and peer pressure, but that's the same as capitalism (stuff, things, money). I don't feel bad when people don't have status items; teach your kids different values.

[@Pyasa.shaitan]

8:25 Netherlands and Scandinavia don’t have tall people because the government takes care of the people. It’s simple because short men stopped having kids all together 😂

[@manivannansellathamby1926]

I prey to Jesus for American people and i am srilanka but i knows all world leaders and their families happy because they have money so enoup for century but very sorry to say that people are becoming beggars so our world leaders rich only physical life but spritual poor so why are going down our society because we drop biblical thing and prayers so turning to god and save world

[@AliHassan-hb1bn]

It is listen my lies or else. Hhhhh

[@gregorycampbell9386]

First

[@kevinschmidt2210]

You make your mother proud of your great achievement. Your participation trophy is in the mail.

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[@reddoggie554]

Poverty is manufactured by the state, not businessmen. California, the most socialist, progressive state in America has the nation's highest poverty rate. The best method to eliminate poverty is to get the government out of the way.

[@earlviney5212]

California is the richest state in the country. Mississippi a right to work capitalist red state is the poorest state in the US.

[@reddoggie554]

@@earlviney5212 You forgot to take your smart pills today EV. You have to adjust for the cost of living. California's cost of living is much higher than Mississippi. 20% of Californian's live beneath the state poverty line. The highest in the United States.

[@earlviney5212]

You are wrong. Mississippi is the poorest state in the country.

[@reddoggie554]

@@earlviney5212 Mississippi might be the poorest state overall. But fewer Mississippians live below the state poverty line than California. It cost more to live in California EV. Stop living in your magical mystery world and wake up. I welcome you to come to Los Angeles where 60,000 homeless live on the street. A state where one-third on the countries welfare recipients and two million illegals reside. You do no favor to yourself residing in the world of make-believe and self delusion.

[@petestanton1945]

No, you captured "the state" under FAKE democracy.

[@jmcampbell05]

Harriet-- With all due respect, why are these people living in an expensive city, why aren't both parents working, why were children had without adequate planning and support? Seems like a case of doing what one wants without anticipating (taking responsibility) for the consequences. Sorry, not sorry. People don't take enough reponsibility in our society.

[@pipster1891]

Many things are better elsewhere than in the US, it's true, but Americans on the left sometimes have a rose-tinted view. Things are getting worse in Europe. Good housing in Portugal? Lisbon has the most expensive rents compared to income in the whole of Europe. Social democracy in Scandinavia and elsewhere has been steadily chipped away over decades by neoliberals. Working hours are increasing. The gig economy is becoming the norm. Retirement ages are rising as average life expectancy is falling. Taxes on the wealthy are going down as taxes on workers and consumers are going up. European economies are worsened by being held to ransom by US power. There are many other examples.

[@TheCasheba]

Thanks!