Conclusion Q&A A Cultural history of America

[@Ivan-y7e8p]

Can there be three conclusion videos ? 😊

[@nonfictionaddiction3946]

Haha 🤣 the image reminds of TECMO bowl.

[@_catra]

Thank you so much for answering my question about Newton🌹✨. I enjoy your lectures very much! I have listened to all of them and learned a lot of interesting things )

[@MistakenForBacon]

aay thanks for reading my comment!! that was unexpected and cool. you're right that the term modest is wrong! what i meant to express by it was some idea of living more existentially, with fewer, more authentic demands. i didnt mean to imply the rejection of striving or success or notoriety, but to limit oneself to the equality proposed by humanism- to not live as if above another's value. i DO believe all people are equal, its just that i also feel individuals try to disprove this often through acquisition, and the industry just preys upon it to motivate us. thats kinda where my negative associations to materialism come from, their use in delineating value .. though admittedly, i am a materialist still- we need some things.. even just to participate in community rituals we need stuff. i dont care for junk though... great lecture, i could listen to these all day!

[@Eviticus-Maximus]

Thank you for reading my comment! I’ll try not to say “just a welder” from now on.

[@AskthePoolman]

And I won’t say “just the pool man! “

[@roberth9814]

I had to double-check the per-capita GDPs between the Netherlands and Louisiana... It is shocking that citizens of the Netherlands have so much more than the average American and suffer so much less hardship than we do. Making more money doesn't solve the problem on its own. Deciding where the money goes is just as important, yet to say such things in America is verboten.

[@billduffe4472]

I define social democracy along a continuumin terms of how much political economic and social equality there is In the 40's 50s 60s and 70s America was much closerto social democracy and then gradually starting in the 70s America move dramatically towards elite domination plutocracy kleptocracy. During this period there was far less social democracy in the South and for women and minorities. But women and minorities were increasingly included during that period This is one of many examples that social democracy is possible in diverse countries

[@apchsiri1156]

What did the Mises school call 1948 to 1975 - The Great Levelling? Quite astonishing to think of how Rockefeller was the richest man in the world in the 1920s at maybe $1.3B and J. Paul Getty was the richest man in the world half a century later in the 1970s, worth maybe $1.4B. There were even decimillionaires on the earliest Forbes 400 lists in the early 1980s. Yoko Ono was on it with a net worth, I believe, of $90M. Today, there's a proposal for a new freeway cloverleaf where US-95 meets US-1 in Ormond Beach, Florida with a budget of $238M for a friggin' freeway exit.

[@J5L5M6]

Thanks a ton, fellas!

[@TomRauhe]

"Just a welder"?? Think of a world without welders. Now imagine a world without Google engineers. Also, I am the immodestly living well guy, I guess.

[@HelenBrown-s1j]

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[@jasperlocke2973]

Your point contradicts itself: if "axe murderers" can depreciate the intrinsic value of their own humanity, then you have introduced a differential between human lives. The evaluation of lives immediately follows from that. To rephrase your thought, the lives of people who do terrible things have dubious value and need to be stopped, even if they must die. Although you bring up aristocracy, that is not the angle I'm viewing this from, as I could just as easily conceive of an aristocrat's life having zero value as I could a peasant's. Finally, on the overvaluation of people who have contributed to the human species, I'll use this example: if the innovations of a minority of people have facilitated the births and averted the deaths of several millions , and if human life has intrinsic value, as you believe, then they have created more people, thus creating more value. Perhaps, I'm just a misanthrope, but I've never truly felt that human life, or my life for that matter, has intrinsic value. After all, where does it come from? From ourselves? Others? Both seem too infirm a foundation. I am recalcitrant to the idea that if I exist or someone else exists, then we are automatically bequeathed with value. Wes, because I think that you are a good person who has made the world better, even if it's but a sliver, I'm arguing with you, frankly, to be convinced I am wrong.