Economic Update: Social & Labor Movements Claim Real Victories

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[S13 E40] Social & Labor Movements Claim Real Victories
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"Update on Nobel Prize in economics to Harvard Prof. Claudia Goldin; comment on Maine/Halloween shootings, global financial secrecy index and President Biden's pursuit of money for war. Major segments on (i) UAW strike victories at Ford, GM and Stellantis, and (ii) abortion access victory in France."
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[@user-le3vb1ck8m]

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[@jgalt308]

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[@andreah6379]

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[@kevinschmidt2210]

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[@shainfarah3433]

Thank you Dr. Wolff: In united states we need to be educated about workers power of being united against capitalism. To understand what social programs are and what socialism is. To understand what power general strikes have. To learn the relationship of Ruling class and working class in United states and entire world. To understand why unemployment means and how ruling class created it to enslave workers.

[@JP-fb8ni]

Absolutely, these elements are crucial for any society to understand if we are to make significant progress towards a fairer, more equal world. Understanding worker solidarity is also vital, because it underscores the need for collective bargaining, which can directly influence wages, working conditions, and labour laws, helping workers protect their rights. It's also critical for people to learn about social programmes and socialism, as they both play an essential role in wealth distribution, challenging capitalist norms of private ownership (not to be mistaken for personal ownership). The power of general strikes also lies in our ability to demonstrate mass dissatisfaction with the existing system, disrupting economic productivity, and so, pushing for political change. Indeed, in order for people to fully appreciate their agency within these social dynamics, it's paramount to understand the relationships between the ruling (the capitalists) and working classes (i.e. anyone who works for a living). These relationships, often exploitative, lay the groundwork for societal hierarchies that permeate many aspects of our lives, including our political and economic system. I would further articulate that unemployment isn't an unavoidable flaw in the system; instead, it's systematically perpetuated by those who stand to benefit the most - the ruling class. In a society where workers depend on their wages to survive, the threat of unemployment creates fear and desperation, allowing employers to lower wages and worsen working conditions. Therefore, knowledge is key; it empowers workers to band together and stand up against the oppressive mechanisms of capitalism. Read theory Shain. Start with the easy stuff and don't dive in head first. Educate, agitate, organise.

[@DerekSpeareDSD]

Collective Action is OUR Super Power!

[@bbbanks6912]

Chenowith's work on social movements. When 3.5% of population, unify, demonstrate consistently - they win their objective. Fortunately, we are headed in that direction because of consistent economic inequity.

[@meiriversofborg]

End of the first half so dystopian i just had to laugh 😭😭😭

[@hoc5005]

That was a good news on achievement for automobiles workers thank you for all of you are doing great

[@piku5637]

Time to push for (GL)UBI, strong unions everywhere and co-ops.

[@WanderingExistence]

UBI has to be paired with a land value taxation or else all additional Universal Basic Income will be assumed by land rents. "The rent of land, therefore, considered as the price paid for the use of the land, is naturally a monopoly price. It is not at all proportioned to what the landlord may have laid out upon the improvement of the land, or to what he can afford to take; but to what the farmer can afford to give." - Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter XI "Of the Rent of Land"

[@theageofgoddess]

@@WanderingExistence 💯

[@Retalak]

Do you want to be completely reliant and controlled by the bourgeoisie? Because that's what you'll get by simply slapping UBI onto an inherently unequal economic system. The only equalizing factor in a capitalist system is the ability for workers to withhold their labor. Solve automation with a UBI and you will be creating a peasantry the likes of which the world has never seen. People's standard of living will be entirely dependent on how generous the bourgeoisie are feeling, and I can tell you they did not get where they are by being generous. We need worker ownership of the means of production.

[@xoxo_kiyla]

@@Retalak Totally agree, the idea of UBI feels very dystopian to me, lol. I don't want a stipend every month I want to afford a comfortable with my salary.

[@WanderingExistence]

@@xoxo_kiyla Alaska does a UBI because as a resident they own the oil in their state and they get money from selling the oil. No one created the oil, so it should be shared among the community.

[@scottdavis3571]

We need to organize and democratize to win the game. Unionize and demand your share!

[@arnoldturner7382]

Good morning sir, from Houston,TX

[@nabilfares555]

Not talking about the genocide in Ghaza at this time is inexcusable for one who claims to be a socialist. Such an influential voice staying silent in the face of genocide is being complicit to it.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Whether it was SAG-AFTA, The UAW, or The March for Peace seeing Social & Labor movements on the raise is encouraging.

[@DougGrinbergs]

16:58 good news: UAW. 19:40 strategic organization in a relatively short time; 20:47 new generation militant leadership since March 21:45 new contact timed to coincide with May Day 22:34 Fain urged other unions worldwide to do likewise 25:43 France social movement for abortion access 26:13 Macron, Parliament putting women's right to abortion (on-demand and free) in Constitution early next year

[@chuckleaf8027]

yeah... How are those 95 thousand dollar pickups selling???

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@chuckleaf8027 Stop blaming union workers for the decisions of upper management. Union workers only manufacture vehicles. They do not design them. Duh!

[@chuckleaf8027]

So the ridiculous price of trucks won't affect them? Auto sales are in big trouble, especially since interest rates are way. up. What happens when tChrysler and Chevy can't pay the higher wages??? Are you going to blame their "greed" like a normal stupid, commie piece of crap??? @@kevinschmidt2210

[@ruialmeida-iq7hr]

FREE PALESTINE

[@bluewater454]

Free Palestine from what?

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@bluewater454 From ongoing Israeli genocide, apartheid and land theft. Your willful ignorance proves you have blood on your hands.

[@Retalak]

​@bluewater454 Occupation? Colonialism? Ethnic cleansing? Genocide? Zionism in general?

[@ruialmeida-iq7hr]

@@bluewater454 ISRAEL OCCUPATION

[@ruialmeida-iq7hr]

@@Retalak ALL OF THAT + NETANYAHU AND AND ALL THE SCUM WHO ALLOWS THOSE WAR CRIMES

[@jillfryer6699]

It is obvious that access to Credit without a good enough wage to manage it would be an absolute curse and no blessing at all. The nerve of the Harvard woman prof. The gall. Won!

[@andrzejkopalnia]

Criminally underappreciated series, thanks to all comrades involved! ✊❤

[@moranmike36]

Some good news..Thank you

[@annohalloran6020]

Peace is good for me and thee

[@soularddave2]

MAY DAY: the international WORKERS holiday (all workers).

[@theageofgoddess]

Thank you 🙏

[@martinz9]

Why politicians r handing taxpayers' money to e military industrial complexes, while e young in e USA will b bearing e debts?

[@LightlyEarthy]

Exceedingly subtle & brilliant & courageous!

[@georgecitizen7405]

Thank you

[@anhedonic-voting]

Thank you 🌎 ✊️ 🗽 🌹

[@Maskmen007]

Sir, before hearing Honour to you from Bangladesh.

[@OneLovePeace]

Thank you!

[@jen4730]

Howdy from British Columbia

[@scottandcoke1342]

I wash myself with a rag on a stick

[@amydalzell5801]

The question isn't the percentage of women on boards of directors, but the validity of the boards themselves. The exclusion of women may be a matter of survival for them (and their system of control).

[@andyjblosser]

Excellent work, Prof Wolff! Especially the bit about the financial secrecy index. You and your team manage to find info not seen elsewhere.

[@sizzla123]

Great episode. We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it. ~Friedrich Engels

[@chuckleaf8027]

How did Chavez's daughter become a billionaire??? (you commies crack me up..)

[@sizzla123]

@@chuckleaf8027 LMAO Who are you?

[@chuckleaf8027]

Im here on a mission of mercy I'm here from Mitch and Murray. If you want to work here, sell... get them to sign on the line that is dotted. What, you think they came in here to get out of the rain? They're begging for you to take their money. Can you take it? Are you man enough to take it??? COFFEE IS FOR CLOSERS!!!!!!!!@@sizzla123

[@peternyc]

@@chuckleaf8027 You are the guy who tells the captain of the Titanic, "Faster, faster!" Good luck navigating life, Einstein.

[@sizzla123]

@@chuckleaf8027 LOL

[@whygohome172]

The FAMILY WAGE should be paid to single moms that don't get child support! Can you imagine raising children in this economy WITH NO HELP? It's the reason so many children are neglected and go to bed hungry every night.

[@tschoong3897]

But then, the French has equality, fraternity and liberty in their constitution unlike many other countries!

[@kevinschmidt2210]

The French also had their 'National Razor,' unlike many other countries.

[@carlushudson1535]

Good afternoon. A privilege to be part of this engaging discussion.

[@jgalt308]

It's not a discussion.

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@jgalt308 Certainly not your ridiculous comments anyway.

[@jgalt308]

@@kevinschmidt2210 Still proving you can't read...and getting applauded for it. Another #M2/CB/CD/WI/FI and still dismissed.

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@jgalt308 You're still a dysfunctional Ayn Rand ChatGPT bot that is perpetually wrong. Hilarious that you create a discussion to disprove a discussion is not a discussion. Irony much?

[@kamran-kc4ow]

Drar Richard i would like to know your opinions about the war between Israel and Hammas .

[@sizzla123]

Some call it "insider trading"

[@whatsupcoolbrother]

Another banger

[@mustafagur1952]

Best Regards from İzmir/Türkiye to All labour Powers of the Planet... Lets Come together more Close to break the Chains!... ❤❤❤

[@mjleger]

It would be worse without the union, without a doubt, but compare this report on the UAW "stand up" strike ( which cost nothing to the manufacturers ) to the reporting of the WSWS: "UAW executives spout lies about Stellantis sellout deal" (November 2, 2023), etc.

[@DerekFullerWhoIsGovt]

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@sl-lz3dw]

Enjoyed Prof Wolff's update, as always. Thank you, by the way, for the bump up in volume. I enjoy listening as I am cooking and getting ready to go to work. I was able to hear and understand clearly.

[@shea542]

🎉🎉🎉

[@user-le3be9hf5u]

This comment is the far most significance Dr. Wolff has ever made this year, as far as I'm concerned! Thanks a lot, Dr? I really hope that we must a scholar like him in Japan.

[@stevenmedge3479]

Thanks as always

[@Owl350]

The employer should give the employees an electric bicycle !

[@Minimalmath]

Learning so much from your channel, thanks for all the hard work y'all do!

[@josephyoung6749]

great program!!

[@edwardfranco5127]

Professor what happens when nation say no problem give us Wyoming in California to settle a debt. Would that be an act of War or will they simply tell the people of the States you got to move. The way they're doing in Gaza what happens then professor when countries demand their money.

[@OPTHolisticServices]

💗🍃

[@bettyjaneantanavicius9800]

These shooters were on antidepressants, ssris.

[@cesarcalderonvalles]

Thanks

[@NoThatRyan]

These new labor victories alhavr been really inspiring. Thanks for remiinding us to take a minute to celebrate them, professor. It's really necessary, especially with all of the other difficulties in the world.

[@bettyjaneantanavicius9800]

COrruption is rife in the USA, the American way...

[@gloriajuarez7219]

MEXICO's COLLEAGUES IS FREE !!!

[@bluewater454]

The wage gap is a myth that has already been debunked. When you stop using the one dimensional equation of comparing the difference in wages without factoring in the differences in hours worked, work experience and so on, men and women get equal pay for equal work done.

[@thekaxmax]

not true. The studies that describe the effect around the world take that into account.

[@bluewater454]

@@thekaxmax Since I have no influence(and therefore zero interest) in how women “around the world” are payed in comparison to men, your point is irrelevant to my original statement here. Moving the goalposts in the argument is not going to do your credibility any favors.

[@thekaxmax]

@@bluewater454 That's _exactly_ what you mentioned. The wage gap is both real and widespread. You moving the goalposts and then accusing me of doing so is facile.

[@bluewater454]

@@thekaxmax Sorry, since I never mentioned anything pertaining to a worldwide phenomenon, I didn’t move anything in this discussion. But if you needed clarification then I will simply spell it out and say that I am referring to the wage gap in the United States. I have no knowledge of how this plays out in other countries.

[@pudsla9427]

@@bluewater454 When they say around the world it clearly goes without saying that they also mean the United States, just like how it went without saying in your original comment. And yes, the studies conducted in the United States as well as around the world take those factors into account and still find that the wage gap indeed exists. Instead of actually focusing on the substance of the thing that person said, you focused on something meaningless and then refuted something that nobody mentioned. In other words, moving the goalposts. You "have no knowledge of how this plays out in other countries" as well as this one

[@breft3416]

Great stuff, as always!

[@jamesgalbraith1742]

Humans are sick😢

[@mustafagur1952]

Teşekkürler.

[@Tamales21]

MayDay 28!

[@janeenjohnson8039]

True about the violence

[@icemike1]

Man I did child labor in the 80s

[@joelvillarreal2802]

Richard wolf lider on information

[@merovingian688]

War is big business

[@reddoggie554]

In the United States women annually earn approximately seventy cents to the dollar compared to men. The explanation for this is not discrimination. It is personal choice. Women choose occupations that pay less and they work fewer hours than men. The solution is to mandate that women work in occupations predominated by men and that they work more hours. The next time I have my roof replaced I expect to see a couple of white women from the suburbs on the crew laboring for 12 hour days in 110 degree heat. Only then will we truly be equal.

[@thekaxmax]

nope. read the actual studies not the news reports.

[@reddoggie554]

@@thekaxmax Nope to what pal. You think women aren't paid seventy cents on the dollar compared to men?

[@bluewater454]

You are exactly right. When you look at the studies that take into consideration variables such as the types of work men and women do, the number of hours they both put in, work experience, ect., the pay gap becomes non existent.

[@thekaxmax]

@@reddoggie554 I'm disagreeing it's all personal choice. Note that women doctors often get paid less than male doctors, women CEOs often get paid less than male doctors, and so on. And this even happens to women who have chosen to be childless, so that's not a consideration for these. The situation exists, your stated reason for it is not correct.

[@thekaxmax]

@@bluewater454 Nope, that's the exact opposite of what I said. Go read the actual studies, not media talking-head dogma.

[@jamysmith7891]

The need for two incomes in a household and the continuing plight of single mothers among other social disorders seems to me like a 110% failure on the labor-woman’s rights front

[@thekaxmax]

it's a failure of those who profit by it. Activism is a reaction not an action.

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@thekaxmax Then what is an action, if not for activism?

[@andreah6379]

The labor movement, what there is of it in US today is extremely damaged by Raygunomics! Before 1980s, about 25% of working Americans were part of a union. Today, it's only about 6%. Today, we have a handful of greedy uber rich that have more assets & money than many millions of Americans. You want to talk about failures of working class, but what you need to focus on is the greed of billionaires that get tax cuts, tax break, tax payer subsidies that rightwing politicians love to hand out. War. Greedy Defense contractors have the poshest townhomes close to DC, where they can send multiple lobbyists to each & every DC politician to buy their favors & pass their bills to pay for more war. We can thank 5 reichwing sociopaths on SCOTUS for deciding in 2010, Citizens United, that, "Money is speech." Our problem isn't labor. It's the greedy billionaires & uber rich CEOs that pick our pockets clean.

[@zukeefloydjr3425]

He can talk about fbi psyop shooting but not bombings happening to kids in palestine

[@thekaxmax]

he's talking about America, that's why. This isn't general world news, he doesn't have enough time.

[@ruialmeida-iq7hr]

FREE PALESTINE FROM ISRAEL !

[@bluewater454]

Free leftists from ignorance.

[@bluewater454]

You lost me around min 13 discussing tax systems and how they equate to human rights abuses. Also, you weren’t clear on why the United States is #1 on this UK index list… for tax evasion or human rights abuses. …and how are those connected again?

[@thekaxmax]

most modern tax systems, by putting all the burden on the average taxpayer and letting corporations and the rich to get away with not paying tax (or effectively no tax), are human rights abuses in themselves. Esp since these systems also, and from the same reasons, privilege rentiers over the renters thereby compounding the problem.

[@bluewater454]

@@thekaxmax Since the top 1% of income earners in the United States pays 42% of the total federal tax burden, and the top 50% of wage earners pay over 97% of the federally tax burden, I fail to see how it is “abusive”. Your opinion seems to be based on ideology rather than reality. By your definition, Marxism is abusive to our intelligence. It makes otherwise intelligent people say completely stupid things.

[@TheBunnan]

Love your work mate, it's good to hear about the wins as much as the loses.

[@chuckleaf8027]

He doesn't work. he just spews nonsense that he didn;t research. He just "feels" stuff..like saying we're the most murderous country on the planet..which is completely false.

[@pdoyle17]

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[@irinabass1655]

You're totally wrong about Ukraine. The situation is not the same as in Vietnam, Irak and North Korea. Americans are helping, but they should be helping more instead of dancing around Putin and being scared to death of the inevitable Russia's collapse.

[@bluewater454]

Russias “inevitable collapse”? I don’t see that happening any time soon. They seem to be having their way in Ukraine.

[@jgalt308]

Sorry Professor, but ignoring "capitalism" is a far better alternative than inserting your ignorance, both historical and economic so that the word no longer has any relevance to the system you are intent on criticizing. BTW in regards to your claim of violence, in terms of population, mass shootings or killings the U.S. is nowhere near the top of the list. Finally, since you still have no idea what inflation is, or the role of "fiat" and its effects since 1934...your so-called "union victories" and its cola "plank" only worsens the general problem for "everyone else", but again ensures that whatever imagined gains you think have been achieved, the simple fact that "all cola's are deliberately set below the actual inflation rate"...provides a temporary respite whose duration and consequences will simply be a repetition of that of "fiat" itself...at a must faster rate. If you understand nothing else about inflation the following fact should be obvious. It favors debtors, in that one is paying one's debts with currency worth less than the currency that was borrowed...and it also follows that the largest debtors will benefit the most from this. Since at 33+trillion that would be the federal government...and it can print all the currency it needs...so that this will end any time soon is a foolish expectation. Of this, 33 trillion, only 7.5 trillion is foreign debt, with roughly almost 3 trillion owed to Japan and China...which is an inconsequential amount...while the rest, according to Magical Monetary Theory is "money???? owed to ourselves"...which is an interesting description, since "ourselves" includes the various "trust funds" of which Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, etc are primary...and between government and "the people" who "ourselves" turns out to be...should NOT be a mystery. Also FYI, banks do not provide financing for business start-ups...although they will provide loans against the "assets" held by "anyone"...although the concept of "risk" does not seem to be one you actually have a grasp of...given your co-op fantasy and your seeming inability to grasp why the funding for these "enterprises" is so difficult to secure.

[@tinoyb9294]

Who bailed out who in 2008?

[@jgalt308]

@@tinoyb9294 The government "fiat" printers bailed out the "fractional reserve fiat currency printers"? But if you have another explanation I'm sure you will tell us.

[@thekaxmax]

I can't find anything in this post that reflects history or the real world.

[@jgalt308]

@@thekaxmax The "willfully ignorant, functional illiterates" always seem to have that problem.

[@thekaxmax]

@@jgalt308 But but but that's a description of your whole post.

[@reddoggie554]

Who are you to deny an immigrant family the right to allow their teen-aged child the opportunity to work. California mandates that fast food chains pay employees a minimum wage of $20 per hour. Would you insist that teenagers not work and forbid the family this extra income?

[@thekaxmax]

are they a legal resident and therefore allowed to work and pay tax? No problem.

[@bluewater454]

@@thekaxmax Funny. I didn’t think the left cared about the legal status of immigrants.

[@andreah6379]

You missed the whole point of child labor laws in US. That you even want to put your child to work in an unsafe work environment is beyond insanity. That's what our child labor laws do: protect the child from dangerous machinery, and long mostly unpaid, underpaid slave labor. Your comment is incredibly blind.

[@reddoggie554]

@@andreah6379 It doesn't matter what you or I think Andy. It matters what families in low income brackets think. Who are you to tell a family that their teen-aged child can't go to work at Jack-in- the-Box? Do you think the parents are stupid? Don't you think the parents have a brain and can decide for themselves whether or not it is safe for their son or daughter to flip burgers and cook fries? Don't you think these parents can decide whether or not $20 per hour could help improve the families finances? The last thing these parents need is someone like you telling them how to make decisions and what is in the best interest for the family.

[@tjsmith5477]

The Great Socialist Professor who Made his Millions has a Capitalist! Socialism for Us Capitalism for him and his Family!

[@alexinfinite7142]

Good lord buddy get a job 🙄

[@soularddave2]

??

[@WanderingExistence]

What exactly do you mean by this? Wasn't Engles funded by his capitalist nepotism?

[@rakshithsridharan5078]

Go check Robert Owens, Engels, Etc who were Industrialists themselves but implemented Socialism

[@bluewater454]

The nut doesn’t fall far from the proverbial marxist tree. Marx and Engels both lived off the labor of others. They were both supported by capitalism.

[@zukeefloydjr3425]

👎

[@scowlistic]

Thank you for ending with some actual hope and optimism, we really need it. Strength in unity! 🦾🐺