It's Everybody's Business (1954)

It's Everybody's Business (1954)
Courtesy: Preligner Archives

[@JEUndisputed]

Its crazy how this is still relevent 70 years later

[@alexc2826]

It’s amazing how this film is so relevant in 2020

[@GIGATHEBOT]

i mean yeah, many economic principles are quite constant.

[@mikesilva3868]

@@GIGATHEBOT 🙃

[@g.j]

Psychologically humans have never changed.

[@kaliyuga1476]

It has to be the worst take on history

[@jacksonray3596]

@@kaliyuga1476 ?

[@k.suneelkumar3805]

Animation is the best way to express the feelings no doubt.

[@christopher7952]

True

[@mchagnon7]

The fifties was a magical time. Just a few pulls of a lever and you've got the most advanced product on the market. I wish I could run an oversimplified fifties cartoon factory.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

We all do!

[@kimobrien.]

I don't think it was as great as described. The cold war was being waged against descent at home and abroad in the Korean 'police action.' Nuclear war was considered much more possible if not inevitable.

[@markdemell3717]

I do not want Magic , I want truth .This is just programming people to keep them down.Wake up ,the hard times are going to hit sooner than one thinks!!!

[@dennisbeers]

@@kimobrien. You wouldn't know! Capitalism always works!!

[@kimobrien.]

@@dennisbeers Ya well tell that to 29 million without jobs, the small businessmen ruined in the pandemic and the people protesting police brutality. If was working all that well Trump wouldn't have to campaign against socialism and Biden would need to keep saying he isn't a socialist.

[@orangefuzzz]

Absolutely gorgeous visual!

[@Eszra]

+orangefuzzz I learn more from these old films then what they show on TV now a days. Thank god I got in to watching documentaries early.

[@orangefuzzz]

+Eszra Same here. It's always best to go back to the original QUALITY stuff for inspiration. Totally agree!

[@Leftistattheparty]

@@Eszra This isn't education though. It's just propaganda.

[@SteveCarras]

Music by Eugene Poddany, who got brief credit on WB cartoons of early 1950s, and Les baxter, who a few years later made a big instrumnetal hit in 1956 out of "Poor People of Paris:", among my top five faovirte recordings. Director is George Gordon who did a few oddball MGM cartoons like one with a stork and those two with a mule as a human.

[@MrJoowoneeno]

I remember catching this on a channel called U68 in the NYC area in the early/mid 80s.

[@gatorbyte5254]

17:21 “the more our government provides the more taxes it’s forced to collect” TRUTH!

[@BrianDRoberts]

More like, the more our Government borrows from a private bank, the more taxes that private bank can levy on us. People need to remember, all the money used for these government services are provided by a bank that is not Federal, has no Reserves, and can put you in jail with their own private police force called the IRS.

[@wstevenbrown]

Forced? More like gets

[@BMWE90HQ]

What services are they providing? I see nothing!

[@elizabethbutler3766]

What happens when a business becomes so rich it owns all the little companies and makes it impossible for everyone else

[@GIGATHEBOT]

even if that happens you have to compete with foreign markets

[@victor77777771]

It is call Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon.

[@kelpermoon23]

then we split up the monopoly. also there will always be small areas the large companies cant enter.

[@angr3819]

​@@kelpermoon23But the bankers, their royal relatives and politician family members etc control the money, resources and permits. Also social credits on the way. Do you wonder how it would work for the slaves in 15 minute smart internment camps?

[@angr3819]

​@@victor77777771look up Blackrock etc.

[@melchristian3638]

Merry Christmas to everybody

[@Pablo123456x]

And merry Christmas to you too

[@HenriFaust]

If this was published by the government today, it would cause a shitstorm of truly epic proportions.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

This was made by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a private entity.

[@RadioForYahweh]

@@OldsVistaCruiser "private"? Just like the IRS is "private" right? Lol. They are all in the same as government and the government over sees them. Why does the IRS handle our money but no one has or can create another revenue service like this one? It is private after all right? Elon and Jeff have proven anyone with the money and deed to Satan's house, can create their own "NASA" so what is it we aren't getting 🤔

[@mikesilva3868]

@@RadioForYahweh 😊

[@Brutus-co9dt]

@@RadioForYahweh what are u talking about?

[@RadioForYahweh]

@@Brutus-co9dt I'm not answering that, its very clear what time talking about and whom I was responding to. Google is free

[@shirleymae30]

Two key steps in this cartoon were not heeded, which are a large part of the problems we are now facing here in the USA. #1 is at 15:20-15:37, and #2 is at 17:09-17:26

[@derlinclair3652]

The narrator,s voice sounds like it,s probably that of the late actor McDonald Carrey,who was on the NBC soap opera"The Days of Our Days".,God bless his dear memory.

[@bozsongz3652]

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives.

[@ingriddubbel8468]

It is. It was stated in the opening credits.

[@joe59788]

Thanks for the upload.

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

how the mighty have fallen

[@juantoledo5248]

Is it okay that I still find this to be super relevant and informative?

[@Leftistattheparty]

It's propaganda so It has a definite bias. It's very capitalistic and wants to eliminate the government so that big business can rule over you.

[@jenniferneal7829]

This was a really great film!! 🇺🇸

[@zxvision]

It's crazy how this cartoon explains complicated business while adding creativity and fun 😂

[@bengrogan1992]

And now our standard of living has fallen since this video has been made how do we restore it ?

[@GIGATHEBOT]

it has not, you are using a computer right now, and have ready access to food.

[@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991]

No it hasn't at all it's gone up if you want something to complain about complain about the mega corporations not rising pay to match inflation

[@Persnicketychichi]

Get involved in politics at a local level. City council usually meets once a month to decide what they want for their city, and hardly anyone shows up to these meetings to keep these people in check. It starts local.

[@kameradendogo9729]

Remember, in the video Jonathan went and changed jobs (started his own business) when he couldn’t get a raise/higher pay for his current job. If people today aren’t doing this as much, then wages won’t increase as much because the businesses don’t have a reason to. (Also vote Libertarian)

[@radthadd]

@@kameradendogo9729 no on that last part

[@AnimeLover930]

wish it was all there but liked it

[@nigzn789]

I had a nostalgia with this kind of cartoon during childhood..

[@peterconde7959]

12:32 We have come full circle, I'm afraid...

[@1krani]

Inflation and artificial regulatory costs will do that. It's not that wages went down, it's that prices keep going up. 90% of the time it's the govt that drives them up, often indirectly.

[@mikew8486]

Not “propaganda” however! This is what our country needs to return to!!!!

[@martlettoo]

Yeah, the conservatives should watch it and remember that they can't force their cultish religious beliefs on everyone

[@christopher7952]

True

[@adolfohermida6493]

12:33 It is supposed that these cartoons were made to convince that capitalisms works, and indeed, it works! More profits and better wages. But in southamerica the capitalism works as more profits for the owner and wages offered as a "if you like it, welcome! and if it not, the door is over there" More than 40 hours a week for the same wage

[@gaskan666]

The people that run the US goverment should have a hard look at this film, they seem to have forgoten what its all about.

[@mikecharlie6741]

gaskan666 it’s 50s. I’m coke was coke back in those days

[@gnuPirate]

The corporate controlled govt. know how it's supposed to be. They aren't making a mistake. It's an active attempt to destroy freedoms and independence and intellect of the population -- and they've been working on it since before this cartoon -- and this cartoon has a good chunk of lies too.

[@austinrich9398]

God Bless America!

[@e.tezani3877]

one of my faves

[@thomasbinninger1355]

The one voice over sounded like herb vigran.

[@FrontSeatDriver]

Right to own property? Nope. Right to lease property. The government owns it. See what happens when you stop paying your taxes.

[@wilhelmvonlaer5699]

But, you see, you don't need to raise taxes to provide more services. You can just borrow the money you need and then drive up inflation!

[@robin2012ism]

We're broken now.

[@blackdragon6]

Since the 80's actually

[@seaofmadness2622]

I learn so much watching these educational shows way more than reading a book!

[@markdemell3717]

This was programming . They have been programming humanity since the Garden of Eden. You better wake up and find courage. Halleluyah,So be it.

[@markdemell3717]

@@TheJauqline Hahahaha I go outside every day in nature and speak to my Creator and I do not wear that silly mask either ,only for shopping.Judge not lest ye be judged ! Have a great day ,I have to go on my two hour hike now .

[@markdemell3717]

@@TheJauqline Have a nice vaccine ,.

[@kaliyuga1476]

This is propaganda mate, you learning the worst part

[@Tricorvus]

John Sutherland of Sutherland Lumber fame? My dad worked for Sutherland Lumber from 1939 to 1984. Same guy?

[@yosefdemby8792]

No.

[@Persnicketychichi]

Someone send this to AOC and Bernie

[@dknelson]

The giant door AND fur storage? I actually wouldn’t mind having one of those Permafreeze refrigerators.

[@giulio6932]

1:38 look how is easy to rub on those words

[@latrellsutton9814]

Xavier Smith thanks Xavier!

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

It represents how easy a government can take them away.

[@mikesilva3868]

Love this cartoon 🤗

[@somenamesomefam2611]

Cartoon: WORKERS NEEDED Reality: JOB NEEDED

[@minhazrahman4275]

Where's corruption and illegal Monopoly

[@Charles-hy6gp]

In the CIA

[@angr3819]

Blackrock etc. Bankers, their royal relatives and politician family members etc. The BIS.

[@psychedelicpython]

My husband lost his job at Itronix over night to China. I'm sorry to say that that's where a lot of America's jobs have gone and the people in China are making a profit off of the American dollar.

[@mikecharlie6741]

Bella Bella I’m sorry for that. Every coin has two sides. Everything comes from China. If they stop the trade, all the prices on products will sky rocket and our lives won’t be the same anymore.

[@alexG106]

@@mikecharlie6741 LOL "sorry your husband lost his means of surviving and making a decent living, but if we stop trading with the genocidal communists we won't have cheap plastic goods anymore."

[@jeffcarroll1990shock]

​@@alexG106genocidal communists? Is that what you really think is happening over there?

[@LilNinjaMatt]

here from timcast

[@l.m.p.t.8645]

Great way of life

[@victoriarudolph6453]

Where are the cute drawing of the slave ships? They showed an enterprising Native American. (never mind that he was half naked)

[@lydiaaa5628]

Henry Emrich Actually some Europeans DID capture and enslave Africans. They did the same to natives in North and South America too. Expert historians and scholars have written about this many times already. Try getting your information from peer reviewed journals and primary sources before heading to wikipedia

[@joyleon7559]

AWSSOME saw this at school

[@honedrazorblade]

But the native American got the short end of the stick. Theirs is a sad life.

[@darkmage07070777]

Simplistic, and some parts are woefully outdated or irrelevant to today's standards. But the central message is still strong, and there are plenty of good points to it to still be worth watching today.

[@The_Ballo]

The best part of this cartoon is it correctly identifies savings (deferred consumption) as the key to wealth. Keynesians live in a fantasy land where consumption drives production. The worst part is where it suggests that government based research is somehow productive. We're living in the nightmare of everything the USDA has done

[@Will-ve7rk]

Other research has helped a lot such as research done by NASA. There are bound to be some ill advised research projects.

[@RadioForYahweh]

@@Will-ve7rk Sorry but if you get this reply I would love for you to clarify this. Because that statement sounds very wrong to me. What research has helped that NASA has done? Also let's look at how much time, energy, and money we gained as in an investment in the 60 plus years here. For a species who nasa, the government and the science community like to keep telling us is millions of years old and a few hundred thousand years upright walking homosapiens, I find it odd that we haven't evolved much in the last 2000 years. Nor have we gone anywhere productive in humanity as a whole in the last 200 or 60. So I guess my question is, how? What? When? How? Haha. NASA is a waste of time and space LITERALLY. All that time and energy we could be spending here living in unison and harmony, feeding each other, loving each other, we spend on COMPETITION! EXPLORATION! CONQUERING! We are more than conquerors.

[@Copeandseethe822]

@@RadioForYahweh I mean. We're really not. Our standard of living is in direct relation to how we exploit smaller nations and steal their resources. It's not a pretty reality. And we're far from the only nation guilty of it. But it's the world we live in.

[@Leftistattheparty]

@@RadioForYahweh How is NASA about Conquest?

[@Leftistattheparty]

... Most research that we use is government based through either the university or pentagon systems. The internet itself was created entirely through DARPA and started as ARPAnet. Fiber optic cabling, jet technologies, most medicines, GPS, etc, all are government-created. Paid for by the taxpayer and then handed over to private businesses so they can make a profit. I ask why the private businesses charge people for the tech when we already paid for it.

[@unboxrealestate]

This is why I love the 1950s, the last decade when people had common sense.

[@manavchauhan2783]

What’s the name of song at 1:47?

[@christopher7952]

Wish in 2023,federal government would follow the facts in this film instead of being dictatorship

[@mikesilva3868]

😊😊❤😊

[@wstevenbrown]

40 hour week?! What nonsense.

[@Oldcarnut63]

Taxes that's what has ruined N.Y.S. people never learn.

[@paulazemeckis7835]

Did the guy who did the Jetsons do this?

[@user-bw6bk3pr3z]

Bài cuối bấm mi thứ nhưng đâu có đánh vô hai đâu đó đâu phải kh ạ

[@proud2bpagan]

'It drew ppl from all across the globe'..to which the Native Americans said 'Well,there goes the neighborhood!'

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Imaging seeing that animated in this look!

[@arsewell]

I'm sure the people that were here before them said the same thing.

[@akariced456]

Ahh, the common good.

[@rapman5363]

Efficient and Government are two words that do not go together no matter how it sounds.🤷‍♂️

[@stellarsky1]

If they only knew what deregulation will do in 2007-2008

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It did a lot!

[@tommy07robs]

zh11147. Since you asked. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/82639. Basically Banks were allowed to invest in to very dangerous industries they previously couldn't

[@mikeashe9859]

since that article conveniently numbers them it makes it easy: 1. failure of government policy, not deregulation 2.bubble was created by government regulation, they denied it until it caused a crash 3. it says "deregulation" but it was not, it was simply not regulated. lack of regulation + government policies which created a bubble caused the severity of the crash but the crash itself is still at the feet of the government policies which created the bubble in the first place. "CDO"s and other financial products which bundle and sell mortgages is not a bad thing unless coupled with harmful government policies which make mortgages dangerous. 4.Conjecture, no factual statement or analysis. Also risky CDO's didn't create the bubble, didn't make it burst, they made a bunch of investors get fucked over by the bubble bursting by putting the mortgages in the hands of investors rather than the banks. 5. absolute BS, there were regulations making banks lend to riskier borrowers, this author is stating pure conjecture as fact. He says things like "the toxic stew of financial deregulation" without ever mentioning a single specific regulation in the entire article. Closing paragraph: "Mitigating these harms and preventing the worst now depends on active and interventionist government" That's what caused the bubble and the crisis. Government policy forcing lending to lower credit people, government policies screwing around with housing supply(zoning, 'open space', etc... laws), government control over housing prices(rent control). All these policies and more stacking up over decades led to the housing bubble. "a government stimulus plan" Of course "stimulus plan" meaning government spending to create jobs in the short term, not adjusting economic and monetary policy to stimulate business growth, start-up and expansion or encourage foreign investment. Filthy commie bastards. " aggressive efforts to force lenders to adjust mortgage terms" Aggressive efforts to nullify contract law and set the country legally back by about 500 years. FANTASTIC! "aggressive efforts to force lenders to... let people stay in their homes." Aggressive efforts to nullify property rights and set the country back legally by centuries again. Filthy. Commie. Bastards. "Preventing financial panics of the kind now underway require new standards of transparency and regulation for high finance." This author doesn't understand the first thing about government policy or about the regulatory environment of the financial industry. This entire article is pure sophistry and rhetoric. Talks about the "investor class" but doesn't even realize it's them who most want and need transparency in the financial market, they base their entire investing strategy around the available information and do everything they can to obtain as much information as possible, the important part of this: *investors and banks created non-governmental self regulatory organizations to create greater transparency, regulation and ethical practices than government has ever attempted to enforce*, banks and investors regulate their own industry on a greater level than any other industry without the need for government to step in. Your statement: "Basically Banks were allowed to invest in to very dangerous industries they previously couldn't" 1. not true 2. not stated by your linked source

[@The_Ballo]

The cartoon (shockingly) correctly identifies the source of wealth: deferred grtification or savings. The Keynesians running our current monetary policy and spendthrift governmental policies don't believe in savings. Were we to adopt the cartoon's suggestion, we would save more and spend less. Clearly this isn't what happened in 2008

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

You mean bail outs and monopolies which are anti-competition?

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

I think the education this offers now should be understood now.

[@kaliyuga1476]

Its pure propaganda

[@kameradendogo9729]

It isn’t propaganda, it’s a informational cartoon how the economy is supposed to work.

[@Mayonaisa502]

@@kameradendogo9729 yes, shame this cartoon shows how "its supossed to work" not how it really works

[@kameradendogo9729]

@@Mayonaisa502 it also gives the how it might not work if it’s warnings are not heeded, such as in the part about giving the government too much power/responsibilities

[@Mayonaisa502]

@@kameradendogo9729 you forgot private enterprise influencing goverment and owners not paying workers enough for them to LIVE alone and still save 🫤

[@noahmccullough7948]

Hi mr o connel

[@thepdc3372]

true story

[@jaymorpheus11]

5:42 wal-mart right there.

[@markdemell3717]

Wake up and smell the false covid ,they are planning on starving us.

[@jaymorpheus11]

mark demell let me tell you something!!! I was abducted by ufos last night because I ate too dam much... they want to just stuff our asses FAT🤢, just to prepare us for those dam PROBES up our fat butts!!! Theres NO justice!!!🤯🤯🤯

[@only257]

@@jaymorpheus11 this sounds like fire in the sky movie from 1993 🤣

[@jennymartinez4051]

5:42

[@jennymartinez4051]

.....

[@burgertime8982]

1000th like!

[@namewithheldnamewithheld2725]

1954=2021.😕

[@CPR2839]

Id like to order one Permafreeze please.

[@concreteman03]

No raise? I quit ‼️

[@fezzamanezza8415]

I love america. The greatest country on earth. You can argue somewhere like Denmark is better. But it wouldnt exist without the USA being to biggest protector of a freedom. From Australian allies

[@radthadd]

true

[@bunniesbunniesbunnie]

heads up, this is why you are suffering finacially. and that sucks.

[@mikesilva3868]

💛

[@Slip-Art_S14]

@11:23 😂

[@martlettoo]

It's neat how they never mention slavery

[@joyleon7559]

Miss null/ mrs kowaski nulls class switched to there saw it

[@LadyCoyKoi]

I would love to see a documentary that shows us how and where we humans will systematically dismantle the systems that don't benefit our species as a whole. We have millions of people starving, homeless and dying unnaturally, while we have the technology and resources to feed, house and care for everyone equally... it is all due to profits being made out of the pain, misery and suffering of other people, not the lack of technology and resources. Fuck, just in the US we waste over billions of editable food each year, thousands of buildings vacant then destroyed due to market failures, and let us not look at the billions of human lives dying due to war profiteering and other industries. Yet our economy hasn't changed much since the 1950s, just that there are more wage and debt slaves now than before and our money is worthless paper to wipe ones own ass with.

[@earth9564]

Juci Shockwave There's an old saying: Captialism is the worst economic system, except for all the other ones. In the end corruption will claim every system. Captialism, socialism, etc. It just taks varying ammounts of time for it to seep in. All we can do is try to get by for ourselves and our familys. Still, never hurts to donate to a local shelter when we can afford to.

[@Penny_Pincher_Outdoors]

"we have the technology and resources to feed, house and care for everyone equally"? So I agree with some of your points but why should everyone be treated "equally"? If I'm not putting out the same effort as you then it isn't fair that I get the same results. I will agree that we should have no homeless and no starving within our borders (and the world eventually) but to use terms like "equally" is a dangerous concept unless you are referring to equality of opportunity and not equality of outcome in the name of "fairness". To give this "fairness" to everyone you will have to take it from some to give to others................how fair is that? How about you, like me and everyone I know, GIVE your OWN money to the needy........if Americans were more charitable we would have no need of welfare.

[@heidiembrey4917]

Here you go Juci A documentary that shows us how and where we humans will systematically dismantle the systems that don't benefit our species as a whole. Bill Mollison In Grave Danger of Falling Food - KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4PcYXmOmZJkh6M

[@heidiembrey4917]

Ed, how much effort did you put out as an infant? Why should anyone have given you anything?

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

The things that work best work best for the longest. I think, Reading the wealth of nations I think inspired me about economics. By the way was Orson Wells the voice of this?

[@kaliyuga1476]

Cringe

[@heidiembrey4917]

If these things were ever true, they aren't true any more.

[@jadedavis822]

👍

[@ethnicsovereignty2369]

11:23 not if you're bezos

[@RocknRollDina]

its crazy America such amazing promise but actively excluded black people who have been there since its inception. That has changed, but my my we have come a long way as a country.

[@only257]

😈interesting

[@eFAB91]

Extraordinary. This film actually subtlety purports that the sacrifices we made during WWII to defeat the Nazis and the rest of the Axis powers, were part of some kind of evil government intervention, and that WWII, or any war in general, is not worth fighting if it means we are inconvenienced or it somehow hurts the bottom line. Well, if you believe all that... Fuck you. Not every war fought was 'worth it', as some would say. I'm not arguing that all wars are. But if there was any war that ever needed to be fought, it sure as hell was World War II. The human rights atrocities that were committed against innocent men, women, and children at the hands of Hitler should never be forgotten. Atrocities committed against human beings simply because they were of a different ethnicity, of a different religion, of a different sexual orientation, even of different political points of view! Tell me, what is the purpose of life, what is the purpose of us as a society, if we cannot band together in times of great need to stop the worst evils in our world? My God! And I'm not just talking about World War II. I rather have freedom, and the knowledge that others, even complete strangers, have equal freedom, even if it means I don't have a stupid fucking refrigerator with a Goddamn stick-figure arm for an ice-maker.

[@steveweinstein3222]

I got the feeling that it grudgingly acknowledged that WWII necessitated the controls.

[@brianevans1228]

19:54 1954

[@nonameentered1918]

interesting idea, if only it worked

[@GIGATHEBOT]

it did we just didn't listen

[@davidzapasnik9067]

At 17:00: "all of us should be willing to pay whatever taxes are necessary to enable efficient government to improve or expand any essential service." Sadly, there's no such thing as "efficient government". And what didn't used to be an "essential service" will become an "essential service" the moment politicians need to buy votes from unionized government employees.

[@rebeccarpwebb4132]

Stop buying until after Christmas . Just saying

[@PqV72MT4]

If the world actually worked this way it might be tolerable. But sadly the American dream is dead.

[@QueenShireen]

Freedom of worship, as long as it's Chritianity.

[@schylarvelez46]

Do you see any Muslim, Hindus, or Buddhists having any problems worshipping their religion in modern day America?

[@unitunitglue5143]

Your a whiner and lying to yourself & others.

[@radthadd]

That's a lie

[@Eszra]

If minimum wage was where it should be. People would be getting paid $22's an hour. Just think if right now you had that money, you could work a 9 to 5 job for 5 days and after taxes bring home over $700's, or around there anyway. Most people would say but if they did that prices would go up. True they might, but with people making more money then the price mark up soon the prices would drop. And even possible they wouldn't even change at all.

[@tommy07robs]

dcgc2012 Prices always go up regardless of what you're paid. They attempt to match inflation. With the exception of small businesses who raise prices based on what customers are paying and their supplies cost. if anything suppliers control the prices

[@Athalwolf13]

Minimum wage doesn't relly have any benefit. It sounds nice because hey, more money for everyone but where is that money supposed to come from? Either businesses will have less money so they either throw out people or outsource the job to a "cheaper" country or prices in general will rise. It could also increase inflation.

[@tommy07robs]

Athalwolf Min wage started because some workers that were skilled at their labor would work for ridiculously cheap prices like former slaves for instance. Businesses didn't have that much employment as it was so they couldn't beat the deal. They came with the min wage law so that they could better compete

[@Athalwolf13]

True, i suppose at least some minium baseline would be useful, but it shouldn't be the same minium wage for every job

[@anonco1907]

Prices have to go up because owners get less money, unless it allows more people to buy in that case price may drop at some places are raise at others depending on the increase of new customers.

[@caciopeia]

More quality 👇🏻 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKmcYqx8f7t7qrM

[@terieber]

1965, not 1954.

[@johnnyvalter940]

The title card that says it was adopted for Air Force use is labelled 1965, but the credits at the beginning of the cartoon has 1954 written in Roman numerals.

[@ul7185]

As Seen on The Bozo Show

[@gnuPirate]

Fantastic animation and cartoon -- I love this era. Shame about all the lies in it, though.

[@mr.wonderfulwisdomouswonde2991]

Even worse because of liars like you

[@wstevenbrown]

I don’t know that those are lies though, in the sense that most of North America actually believed it could continue indefinitely. No where else had a comparable infrastructure left so unscathed by the war. Globalization was more an obscure intellectual theory than a real threat to jobs.

[@kdkatz-ef2us]

A bit obvious. Are we all capitalists at heart?

[@RiSkyNick]

Propaganda that happens to be RIGHT!

[@Jr2728]

If it's right it's not propaganda

[@libertario93]

EL sueño americano que resultó ser una pesadilla

[@davidstrohl]

duPont propaganda.

[@islezeus]

Why wasn't the slave's free labour mentioned in this cartoon as how the American economy was developed?

[@Eszra]

+islezeus Well at the time there was still segregation, or rather it would be ending the same year as this cartoon. Also I don't it's a good idea to make children think they could get away with slaves as if it was a good thing. Did you here about this couple that was recently found keeping a man as a slave for 20 years. The didn't give him anything not even a bed to sleep on. There going to jail now. Personally I want to know why there's a French maid working in a Housewares company?

[@islezeus]

Eszra well, this informative toon should've presented all the facts upon which this country's wealth was built

[@Eszra]

islezeus True, but it was one part of wealth that once slavery was ended Wealth changed. Work the slaves once did was taken in by poor whites. That lead to a new wealth.

[@islezeus]

Eszra Thing is, those poor whites got PAID for their work. They were able to use that payment and build upon their wealth through entrepreneurship, etc. Slaves got nothing after slavery was abolished. They then faced institutional racism, from loans to upstart a business, to mortgage approvals, to educational loans, etc. This country and its wealth was only for a certain set of people and this cartoon reflects this American dream illusion.

[@Eszra]

islezeus Not all slaves had that issue. Many had kind owners, they were really out numbered by the not so kind owners. Many of the kind owners took care of their workers, treated them like people. Some even paid them. Again very few did. It's very sad what the former slaves had to go through. But lets also remember that there were less slaves up north then down south and this film appears to be placed in the north so they can get away with it in a sneaky way. I try not to late past racial mistakes destroy something that is pretty cute.

[@paulhundy2986]

No offence but not one black person, not even in the factory 😮

[@englishgrammar8383]

It seems to say 1965 at the start of this film, rather than 1954, is this film being shown here just a copy? Anyway this film, if it was made in 1954, is a lie. In 1954 tax rates were at their very highest in American history, America was more Socialist, in many ways, than the Soviet Union was. Today, in America, if you earn more than $450,000 you pay the top marginal income tax rate of 39% for any income above that. In comparison, adjusted for inflation, in 1954 you'd pay 75% income tax on income above that, which is nearly twice the income tax rate! In 1954 the top income tax rate was 91% almost three times higher than the top income tax rate today of only 39%. Corporation tax in 1954 was 52%, but today it's a much lower 35%, and yet still very few companies are forced to pay that amount. In 1954, the entry tax rate, the lowest tax band for income above zero was 20%, in comparison today it is half that at only 10%. In 1954 America's economy was growing three times faster than it is today, even though the world was a much more competitive place, with the main competitors to America, Europe and Japan, having a much younger and so more dynamically competitive populations. In 1954, America's population was half what it is today at 155 million, whereas Europe's and Japan's population size was about the same as it is today and so America was facing much larger competition. The only sizeable new competition today to America comes from Communist China, and its state enterprises, hardly a rallying call in favour of Capitalism. In 1954, the borders to immigration to America, thanks to the immigration Act of 1924, were firmly shut, so I also don't get the point of the reference to immigration in this film. In 1924 15% of Americans were foreign born, by 1954 that had declined to 6%. The truth is that in 1954 America was booming, with a protectionist-Socialist style economy, closed borders and double digit percent growth rates.

[@sy-en]

What do you mean? It was state controlled/regulated or just protectionist of domestic industries?

[@johnnyvalter940]

The title card that says it was adopted for Air Force use is labelled 1965, but the credits at the beginning of the cartoon has 1954 written in Roman numerals.

[@l337pwnage]

I think the only propaganda more cringe than american propaganda, was soviet propaganda

[@shabazz7776]

What about the business of slavery??

[@victor77777771]

That was the Dems favorite business back them and now.

[@thaderudy2906]

normalize tax evasion

[@JohnSmith-gz4fs]

And then watch as society collapses because the poor cant eat, because public education collapses, because roads break down. Because small farms die by lack of government subsidies. Because small towns die as the government is no longer able to force amtrak to service unprofitable routes.