Capitalism Hits Home: The United Nation World Happiness Report

[S07 E09] "The UN World Happiness Report": Where Does America Stand and How Do We Raise Our Satisfaction With Our Lives?
The United States has lost its position in the top 10 happiest nations? We have lost on every marker of life satisfaction. How do we regain our joy and hope?
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[@thecatsbackyard4833]

I really appreciate how these videos make us feel seen.

[@jgalt308]

Seen as WHAT?

[@thecatsbackyard4833]

@@jgalt308 As a multitude of suffering people who haven't gone unnoticed. Who've poured our collective efforts into someone else's pockets.

[@jgalt308]

@@thecatsbackyard4833 Why did you do that?

[@thecatsbackyard4833]

@@jgalt308 For the same reasons as anyone else. Survival and purpose.

[@jgalt308]

@@thecatsbackyard4833 I hate to break this to you but in this universe on this planet, for every form of life, SURVIVAL IS PURPOSE!!! Now what????

[@Pallasathena-hv4kp]

If people/the workers aren’t treated like human beings, how can they be expected to act? Having to urinate in a bottle doesn’t sound like a humane solution for what all people must do multiple times a day. We see the lashing out of violence and anger every day. Power for the people.

[@tiamarie1226]

I answered NO to every question at the beginning about the happiest nation.

[@jimlaregina]

Me, too.

[@Skyhawk656]

America has long since passed the golden age of capitalism. Welcome to the American Nightmare.

[@jgalt308]

@@Skyhawk656 Thank FDR!!!!

[@patricialongo5870]

At least she gave the mainstream a list of things we need so they can crush them. Housing, healthcare, safety... Get em, boys! Success!

[@Ace1000ks19751982]

People must take back what was taken. The people united will never be defeated!

[@jgalt308]

What was taken? By whom ? When?

[@Ace1000ks19751982]

@@jgalt308 ur mom

[@jgalt308]

@@Ace1000ks19751982 an overwhelming factual rebuttal to every question. How can anyone actually dispute the level of intelligence exhibited here?

[@Ace1000ks19751982]

@@jgalt308 I don't argue with trolls.

[@jgalt308]

@@Ace1000ks19751982 Because you have no argument. ( leaving you with be quiet and go away. )

[@SwirlingDervish536]

thank you dear Thank you dear Harriet.😊

[@robincrowflies]

My sister-in-law died last month. She drank herself to death after she retired. Another death of despair in Florida, United States of America.

[@jillfryer6699]

Violence - two attacks in Sydney Australia last weekend. One looked like a person who could never find a place to belong (whether this should be ticked off as a mental health issue I do not know) and had got to the end of his capacity to continue and sought death by police. Deaths occurred till one young looking police woman did the only thing left. The other attack was the stabbing, by a teenage boy, of the Archbishop of the Assyrian Church, who appears to be a man of saintly forbearance and forgiveness. When the police arrived at the already crowded church they were attacked by a crowd outside. Not doing well for happiness here either.Its hard to tell when so many locked themselves away years ago now and stayed there.

[@Pallasathena-hv4kp]

Thank you 🙏

[@user-dc4wh9xy3g]

Obrigado Dra. Harriet Fraad. Seus videos nos motivam a pesquisar sobre o tema e permear em várias áreas do conhecimento.

[@mjsdc8072]

Always excellent commentary and insight.

[@davidluckens3479]

Thank you for your presentation-Dr Fraad.

[@craigwilson1144]

Good topic Harriet. The only counterveiling force that has effectively reigned in power and priviledge and redistributed national wealth among the working class has been through solidarity, organized labor and militant unionization. Our permanent war economy serves the interests of oligarhical predatory capitalism, not democracy. What exploited citizens everywhere are contending with is the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few. We can have democracy or the great concentration of wealth in the hands of a few but we can't have both. This international confliagration will require the most massive organizational shift in the struggle between labor and capital since the New Deal, the French or Bolshevic revolution. If the working class can't or won't unite human civilization will be subjected to a boot stomping on our faces in perpetuity.

[@Celis.C]

A house divided cannot stand; a people divided cannot revolt. It's important for US citizens to understand that they do not live in a democracy. If they did, they'd be able to: - Vote _directly_ for a party member of any party that actually represents them (instead for a proxy who can disregard the majority vote) - Be able to choose between a good variety of parties who all have a meaningful chance of making it into the government - Be able to vote at a booth within 5-15 minutes of travel time (where feasible) and cast said vote within 5-15 minutes. - Have a government that's there to represent the will of the people, even the ones who didn't vote for a majority party - Have a meaningful say in politics and economics both - Cast their vote after careful and educated consideration with the future in mind, rather than based on an emotional response to topical issues. - Have ample sources to educate themselves on the political system Note that even the EU lacks in various parts of points the above. This is not an exhaustive list. The very notion of 'democracy' has been bastardized, and people globally - but the US in particular - have become democratically illiterate. This, I believe, will be a key action for any future system that intends to build itself around the intended notion of democracy.

[@vassiliskalantzis1976]

Love you Harrier !!!!

[@tarmotyyri6733]

🇫🇮❤this channel as a country that has been ranked the happiest country in the world for seven years in a row & also thinks that the U.S. is a corrupt autocratic plutocracy of the ultra rich 1% & their corporations.

[@cev12]

I would like to hear the historical comparison. I've heard we're as bad off as the last Gilded Age today, but has it gotten worse?

[@theageofgoddess]

💯

[@JaneDoe-iz2jb]

Martin Luther King said we come to get our check!

[@user-sz1rk1jj8j]

❤

[@bernardheathaway9146]

❤❤

[@JaneDoe-iz2jb]

All this is Karma on America. We African Americans have been going through this for hundreds of years. We want our REPARATIONS!

[@shewolfee4247]

I truly believe that the corporations are to blame....they dont hire full time..they keep people paid just enough, that they can get public assistance!! They are so greedy .. that you have to pay for subscriptions, instead of purchasing products onece!! Insurance on everything you do and dont owe!! Just a few

[@bluewater454]

Happiness isn’t about money, or whether corporations are nice to you.

[@juniorprescod3678]

Capitalism gone mad a fantastic calypso by the Mighty Sparrow, spoķe about this decades ago.

[@richardthut7071]

That would take a very big finders lot of wait.Not much wonder there is so much negative.

[@Whazzar]

Where can I find the full report?

[@jgalt308]

Try using a search engine.

[@marcionphilologos5367]

IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT THE US IS DOING BADLY ON SOCIAL AND SUBJECTIVE VALUES FOR 50 YEARS. BUT MORE IMPORTANT IS THAT NATIONS LIKE IRAQ, RUSSIA, SAUDI ARABIA, ARE DOING MUCH BETTER ON THIS SOCIAL SCALE. WHY?????? THESE NATIONS HAVE TURNED AWAY FROM WESTERN CAPITALISM AND HAVE A PRIMITIVE, RELATIVE AUTARKIC, UNPRODUCTIVE ECONOMY, SUBSIDIZED BY EXPORT OF RAW MATERIALS (OFTEN OIL) TO THE INTENSIVE WESTERN ECONOMIES. THIS MEANS THAT THE ATTACK OF THE RICH US ON THESE NATIONS, SEEKING TO CONTROL THEIR ECONOMIES, IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

[@patricialongo5870]

Resistance gets you targeted.

[@jermainemyrn19]

Is the U.S. the worst of developed countries?

[@mrpunchyface774]

I clicked on this because I thought I’d see professor Richard Wolf. Everyone else on this channel sounds more and more like npr. Mr. Wolf is like Conner Mcdavid carrying the oilers on his back year in and year out

[@AJ-gc5mp]

Fitting username

[@Skyhawk656]

Wolf has hosted her on his show!

[@jgalt308]

@@Skyhawk656 It's called nepotism.

[@mrpunchyface774]

@@AJ-gc5mp he probably shouldn’t

[@mrpunchyface774]

@@AJ-gc5mp oh my bad. Apparently, I have a very punchable face so now I’m good at reciprocating lol

[@TomRivieremusic]

We have the system Capitalism.You need poor to feed the rich.So Who's accountable for this.....why it's "We the People" willfully steeped in unimaginable ignorance, wrapped in faux nationalism and silent acceptance, tempered by an apathetic disregard for humanity. Now you may choose to look the other way....but you can never say again that you didn't know.....

[@jgalt308]

Disregard for humanity is the rule, not the exception.

[@Jakob27101993]

Capitalism is better overall but not when you let it get out of control like it is atm. The cost of living crisis is out of control because rich people want to protect profits. Which is how recessions/depressions happen

[@jgalt308]

FDR and the gift of fiat that just keeps on giving. Capitalism is about producing things. Usury, debt, and credit systems controlled by the government began in 3000 BCE.

[@tanujSE]

Capitalism is all fine,some ups and down happens

[@jimlaregina]

Trump's bloodbath comment regards the automobile industry, not his chances of returning to office.

[@bluewater454]

Wow. What an uplifting message. “Your country sucks because of Trump(I take a shot every time she mentions his name) and capitalism - so build connections, join a union” …and the socialist party 😄 If I were a leftist I’d be depressed too

[@micnorton9487]

Blueballs, why do you bother trolling this channel? You're obviously too dumb to understand the subject matter...

[@micnorton9487]

Blueballs WHY do you troll this channel?

[@timc1604]

😂nice straw argument. You put that in quotes, but she didn’t actually say that (or a paraphrase of that). She cited a UN report; it was not about about any particular political ideology. Even conservatives are unhappy, who say that Biden is destroying the country and inflation is his fault, so we need Trump because things were great under him 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@bluewater454]

@@timc1604 I wasn’t trying to create an exact paraphrase comrade, but Trump was the only one specifically mentioned in the context of why some people might not “feel safe”, and joining unions and a socialist party was definitely mentioned at the end. So, not so strawman after all.

[@micnorton9487]

@@bluewater454 Why don't you stop with the phony familiarity,, blueballs,, you're here to troll because you're too limited to understand the concepts.... You don't even bother to come up with the usual capitalist myths, "capitalism is the only system that allows for innovation",, "without capitalism there will be no incentive to competition",, "without the cutthroat capitalist Fable that I can get rich too I just feel like my balls are so blue I can't do anything except sit in gramas basement in my Cheeto stained underwear trolling socialists",, you know the drill....

[@anneclarke1598]

Dislike this video

[@lingling3644]

No matter how life sucks in the States, Americans won't resort to communism over capitalism because they don't know what communism is and they can't be bothered to learn. They think at least they have democracy, which triumphs over anything else and is worth sacrificing everything for. Even Prof Wolff's website is called Democracy at work rather than communism at work although Prof Wolff is very critical of capitalism. The point here is this : you can be as critical of capitalism as possible, but criticism of capitalism does not necessarily educate people about communism or provoke any interest in communism. People have a misconception that Scandinavian countries are socialist. No, they are capitalist with no intention to transition to communism. Their political system is geared up for capitalism, only the general public have a bigger share of the national economic outcome. However, political economy is about ownership of production means and then distribution of wealth. We look up to northern Europe at their distribution of wealth, which obviously is fairer and more generous than what we have in America. Yet, capitalism, socialism and communism are forms of political economy rather than just politics or economics. The problem is that we don't talk about political economy as much as politics and economics alone and sub topics like social security and sexual orientation. We need a much clearer vision of communism and no movement will lead us to anywhere unless we have this vision as a guiding star and ideological drive.

[@Betweoxwitegan]

Communism by definition can only come about through a revolution and a revolution is unlikely since the capitalist class disproportionately benefits from keeping the proletariats inline and undereducated in sociology and economics. I also don't blame people for not desiring communism, even myself someone who aligns with Marxist values doesn't necessarily believe communism is the most effective solution, people know that the system is inherently wrong but they don't know why and they don't know how to solve it, therefore we see a divergence amongst political classes, libertarians, social democrats, socialists, communists and conservatives/capitalists. Clearly there must be one optimal economic mode of production and political model but even people who have PHD's in economics and political science disagree on which is optimal.

[@jillfryer6699]

@@Betweoxwitegan it is unlikely there could be one model of all that to suit all societies and people everywhere. That sort of thinking is what aggravated the people in Eastern Europe and Russia so much and made it so easy to tempt them with the variety and opportunities said to be possible under capitalism, by late 1980s-1990s. The opening of the windows to the West did not have a healthy effect either. I'd like to know how the peoples of the former East and West Germany feel in comparison now. Over the last 20 years Russia, to the bloodthirsty rage of the West, (see Ukraine) has got itself back on track but its not by a reversion to the Soviet era Communism that was before. It should be possible, it should be the definition, for a functioning political economic social system to provide adequate opportunities for homes, health and social growth and opportunities for education and development which you'd think would be to the long term benefit of the system. I'd like to know how Russians rate themselves for happiness, social connections etc.

[@AJ-gc5mp]

@@jillfryer6699China for example has a mixed system - a private market sector exists there whereas there was none in USSR. Communists use the scientific method to figure out what works and what doesn’t 👍 China doing well now - low crime and are they happier?

[@Betweoxwitegan]

@@jillfryer6699 I somewhat disagree, I think there is a most efficient economic model which would be standardized and globalised, I don't see why for example communism could work in The USA but not Monaco, assuming communism is the most efficient economic model ofc. Different nations and cultures will react differently to the most efficient model which would decrease its efficiency in the short term and slow its adoption but nevertheless it will prevail.