Economic Crisis: Causes and Solutions by Alan Watts

[@ShakinJamacian]

It is almost hilariously painful that Watts' really highlights how fucking stupid we are with concepts like money. Yet many people believe it to be real.

[@newyoda]

There is a small minority of people with a large majority of the wealth. If we all worked together, the world population can live in abundance. Greed is the downfall of abundance for the many.

[@blijferbij4743]

We gave Steve Jobs our money, he gave us iPhones. We wanted iPhones rather than our money. It was a fair trade. Wealth is not only measured in an amount of money, it's also, exactly, the abundance, in this case, the iPhones.

[@andrewbeadle1517]

Outstanding and outstandingly simple

[@jamierichard3129]

Divine Love to All! Help spread Love into lives around you and thus begin the journey of a Global Unification, Humanity has to stand together to help heal and restore the earth to it's original (Natural Healthy) state. Let us all Unite!!!

[@GerrySkeptic]

wanting things that are not even beautiful , so true. Well i have changed, i want health and i want love, nothing else matters.

[@damiencross5110]

Even health doesn't matter. The illusion of health is that it will last forever. It's like trying to hold onto beauty or trying to prevent a river from flowing. Just realize that the "deterioration" of health is part of the natural process.

[@GerrySkeptic]

I can see your point and agree in the long term, but in the short term , life is a lot more fun when you are fit and healthy.

[@damiencross5110]

gerryboy3699 Yea. I just think life sucks either way lol.

[@a.Bader97]

Damien Cross “Were they created by nothing, or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the Heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have no firm belief” Chapter 52 verses 35-36

[@markkennedy255]

Wow that's so true! Great job on the video!

[@79danmat]

Like your films really do. Thank you.

[@dfgatorfan]

I'd like this video 1000 times if I could.

[@Greed0Vasily]

"We are physiologically back in the 17th century, and technically in the 20th."

[@imnotfunny21]

Beautiful.

[@cheezbag]

Anyone know who the asian man is at 2:05-2:10 and the historical background?

[@Youtoober22]

I do not, however I know the man before him is Ron Paul and the man after is Ben Bernanke, so perhaps he is associated with an Asian Central bank or a politican critical of central banks.

[@machsix123]

He's probably Japanese with his bowing.

[@hughgriffith1298]

Sometimes i question some aspects of technology in terms of if we are really happier with the advent of some technological applications.

[@deltaxcd]

Happiness is constant and defined genetically, you can't change amount of long term happiness in any way.

[@DigGil3]

It's not the things we build that make us worse. We were already wrong when we think about doing something wrong. The same with technology of any kind. In the future, some day, people will look at the wrong things we've done with machines and the nefarious machines we build today and probably take something useful and positive out of it. Maybe by recycling those machine or repurpose them.

[@whistlercrenshaw3736]

Let's not let paper control us, make us destroy each other and the environment for it

[@whistlercrenshaw3736]

Let's make a better world without dollars and coins to control us

[@dingdong6593]

money isnt the root of evil

[@dingdong6593]

+Mr. Bane 909 money is the root of all evil. the love of money is. if you earn money by providing a service then it can't be evil. anyone one thanks money is evil are the scariest ppl around.

[@dingdong6593]

+Mr. Bane 909 I've never said I was tough at all. I don't why you went on a tangent about politicians and war. I am Anarch capitalist I don't believe in the state if we had no government he wouldn't have all the problems we have now

[@TopReviews-wc5vn]

+ding dong "anarch capitalism" is like diving naked in the water withouth getting wet... It works only in alternative universe of wich I have no knowledge. In the world I live, states are methods for managing money, they are societal creations similar to how money is a societal creation. Management of money is the purpose of all states. States manage money, they manage all the problems of social dysfunction arising from money, it is all about scarcity. Money is a method for governing social interactions thus logically and inevitably the state is the consequence of social behaviour mediated via the governing nature of money. States will always arise from monetary interactions when monetary interactions become sufficiently complex.

[@Youtoober22]

It's all in the game though, right?

[@kvnkeating]

Observations salient but limited to the surface, attribution to "psychological" misunderstands of credit etc. For actual deep analysis read Volume I of "Capital" by Marx.

[@benwherlock9869]

It should be "The love of money is the root of most confusion" :)

[@orrbifold]

Where’s the part where there’s the analogy recessions are like running out of inches or any other unit of measure It’s not like there aren’t resources and people ready to work , it’s just that the numbers aren’t in the right place Keynesian to a point

[@georgesjc]

That's the Way it is, so sad

[@marjorieracette4610]

I know his telling a truth.

[@whistlercrenshaw3736]

Everybody listen

[@jaybefaulky4902]

One of two things.. we need to increase the global birth rate..or make a whole lot of people lose what they have in order to force them to rebuild... it is a simple thing..''building wealth'' is ALL based on growth so there is really only these two options (or both)..when you have maxed out on milking the populace and consumer based corporations leveraged to the hilt.. you HAVE to start over and/or grow the population FASTER (which takes a while to come into effect)...the natural thing is to let it collapse and 'start again' this money didn't disappear it went to the super rich and or redirected for geopolitical restructuring (war etc.) . the system will need a reset in order the keep extracting riches from the populace at the expected levels...the concept of money is becoming less tangible and more conceptual in nature unfortunately peoples productivity is directly connected to 'the concept of money' so ones productivity is given away and in return we receive our 'allocated cut' which is always way less than what the productivity is actually worth (unless you are part of the extraction team in which case the reverse is true).. .one thing for certain is there is MORE than enough productivity in the system for all to do very well..issue is the system is so darn good at redistributing and extracting riches with such extremely tight margins that the 'buffer safety zone' is too small to hide the affect of when the extraction levels exceed what the the general productivity can sustain..so there you go..we DO need a collapse for this system to be healthy..don't like it?.. too bad ..the system runs the system now and this is just part of the way it works most efficiently ..not much the rich can do either, EXCEPT give back in order to take it out again as the system requires in order to keep things circulating..this approach managed well could EASILY make the 'safety zone' big enough to be stable, although the extraction levels would stay at a lower rate, allowing the populace to build wealth and perhaps create an 'international economic buffer zone' which would now be sustainable..Unfortunately human greed is not yet ready to be laid to rest, let alone to be effectively organized to manage things in a fair and responsible way.

[@ColdWarWarriors]

Right, so I better give up my job to a robot!!

[@whistlercrenshaw3736]

Money is pure evil!

[@AUQUA123]

whistler crenshaw NO CONFUSING MONEY WITH WEALTH IS

[@sepehrkarimi1777]

+whistler crenshaw In therapy when a patient has disconnected her thinking with his experiences, the doctor attempts to reconnect the deeper meaning of the words she uses to define them by asking him to expand and refine her language and then reconnect them to the experience. What I suppose I am trying to say is, It is things like shareholding and dividends paid on stocks, and trading...pretty much any labourless effort in the form of speculation arbitrage and the kind that strangle the economy in the long wrong...the irony is they pose as instruments for growth but really they're tools for systematic cropping of money.. What I am trying to say is, the figure of speech money doesn't grow on trees is no longer true...it grows on binomial trees!

[@AUQUA123]

Money doesnt grow on trees cause we invented it.

[@PSNy2kUK]

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[@sageejumanjee]

wealthy games

[@royalrose82]

Makes cent$ to me, dammit...

[@whistlercrenshaw3736]

It must be burnt!

[@TruthSeekingElf]

CIA plant.

[@ValterStrangelove4419]

TruthSeekingElf What?

[@truthbetold3182]

Non-Sense. There should be no "minimum income". IF there were and I could either work or not work for the same money, than I would choose not work. You would have to be an idiot to work if you could get the same income and not work. I do agree there should be no taxes, though. That would go a long way toward solving our problems.

[@ValterStrangelove4419]

Truth Be Told I'm not even going to address the fact that you're conflating the minimum income with full scale communism. "You can say, "Oh, but it always creates more jobs, there will always be more jobs", Yes! But lots of them will be futile jobs. They will be jobs making every kind of flipperty and unnecessary contraption, and one will also at the same time have to beguile the public into feeling they need and what these things completely unnecessary things that aren't even beautiful." "Now people say, "That's not fair, where's the money going to come from? Who's going to pay for it?" The answer is the machine. The machine pays for it. Because the machine works for the manufacture and for the community." "Now you see that absolutely horrifies most people. They say, "All these wastrels, these people who are out out of a job because they are really lazy.", see, "Give them the money?" Yeah. Because otherwise the machines can't work. It comes to a blockage." ~ Alan Watts (from the video that you apparently didn't watch above your comment^^)