Noam Chomsky on Corporations

[@calliope1055]

"You pay for the privellege of having your mind destroyed" - this sentence basically sums up everything that's wrong with commercials, now more than ever

[@khurramqasir6815]

If you have realized none of his videos thru this channel have any adds.

[@nolives]

You spelled news wrong?

[@philipmarkedwards]

High school destroyed my mind.

[@bastooo3]

corporatism is the wrong thing itself, advertising is one major tool of it

[@kzr_1613]

Not only the commercials, the entire system we live in

[@robertroselle5073]

Listen and learn. He has an uncanny ability to reduce seemingly complex concepts to utter simplicity! one of my favorite thinkers!

[@mercoid]

like he viewing the whole filthy apparatus through an x-ray machine. incredible.

[@nolove-gg9ul]

???????,??????

[@landonbrawe6865]

The true test of knowledge is being able to teach others that's how you know he understands these concepts

[@gferraro100]

If a corporation was a living person, it would be classified as a psychopath. Limited liability, has no social contract, borderless. Profits at all costs.

[@growingstruggle5493]

Corpus means body in latin, guess that explains that

[@pappapaps]

@@growingstruggle5493 Haha no it doesn't.

[@gregorysagegreene]

In other words, Gekko was wrong. - "[Psychopathy] is good." 🙄 Again, this guy givea a revealing fresh take on things. 👍

[@RenatusChristoph]

Bingo!

[@michaelutech4786]

This man is still alive. Somebody close by, please bring him a cake, flowers, a good book, a smile or whatever he might enjoy.

[@acetate909]

I've always looked up to Chomsky, read several of his books and he's greatly informed my world view. But recently he's lost the plot. In this video he speaks to the evil of corporations and how their greedy practices are dangerous for society and brings up their tactics of lying and how cognitive capture of the public lead to great harm in the pursuit of profit. So why then did Chomsky totally buy into the pharmaceutical criminality and suggest that anyone who didn't get the jab should be shunned from society and forced to fend for themselves after being fired and ostracized? This after it was public knowledge that the shots didn't prevent transmission or even prevent infection, on top of all the serious health concerns that have been substantiated, even by the pharmaceutical companies own research? This massive blind spot seems almost inconceivable.

[@michaelutech4786]

@@acetate909 The degree of corruption in pharma world surprised me. I mean that literally. I knew of corruption, but I also worked as an IT freelancer (clinical trials) in the pharma industry and thus had some insight in how they work. If that level of insight did not prepare me for the incompetence or maliciousness we saw (one as bad as the other), I can hardly expect people who probably have less insight to get it right. If these vaccines had lived up to the expectations based on "scientific evaluations", Chomsky's view seems to be perfectly supportable. This is a complex topic with loads of facets. I'm not sure if YT comments is a good platform to discuss this. My problem here is that I'm a science geek. I still believe in science, but the scientific community failed us, about as badly as politics or free markets. The older I get the more I feel like we live in a cold civil war and I'm on the loosing side.

[@janmandeville2512]

Greatest mind contemporary to my lifetime of72 yrs. when I began my sincere attempt to seek education.

[@nadeemhussain7381]

This guy is a legend!

[@balathayaparanthayaparan6188]

🌎 As long as people continue to see themselves as separate from everything else, they lend themselves to being completely enslaved. Success depends on how well we relate to everything around us. Joy comes from that bliss of connectedness. I believe that unarmed truth and love will have the final word in reality. To love; you should have good heart. I am a good person until I see a person better than my standard of goodness. Being good is the progress towards a worthy cause. Love is God. Whoever lives in love, lives forever. How selfish it is to try to keep something forever? Love is all about nourishing, nurturing, sharing and expanding the love within you for all. The principle to which we adhere to is that we have kindness of love at heart for the whole of mankind. As long as there is the unnecessary differences within us; we can not live peacefully so we have to eliminate all the unnecessary differences among us so we can love all. People abilities may vary but not there true love. If we love a person/ God for a reason then we love the reason but not the person. No reason is the reason to love the person because true love never fails. So do not compare or measure the true love as first or the last but love all truly. If you love people truly then you can understand people. If you don't love then you don't understand people at all. People are controlled by system why? The Cyclical Consumption is the current economy all over the World. It is making the scarcity problems of the earth finite resources to deteriorate day by day. Current Monetary System is legalised theft. Real money is Gold and Silver. Scarcity gives the money more value. Real money won't lose it's value. When Governments stay away from Gold & Silver then very easy to transfer the wealth / resources to upper class the Rich (Corporatocracy) Elite. When the Governments are printing out more new fiat currency with reserve banks, our old currency is losing its purchasing power everyday. They are printing millions of currency everyday. All governments and laws are existing right now to transfer wealth to upper class the rich elite. The USA Government & other Governments are in many countries, bailed the investment banks & financial institutions in 2008 against the majority of the people. There is no democracy in any countries. Because of the Money System based on profits motive only above all else even humans lives and well-being. So, we do not have freedom to protect our values with the money so on. The violence, bankruptcy & all the negativities are build into the Monetary System of our society. All are owned (including ourselves) by Reserve Bank. Which is private cartel the corporation. So, in legal system, we are legally considered as chattel the properties. They make money in the capital markets with our birth certificates. They do not consider us as Humans. That's the truth. We are at the invisible war with the Elites (Corporatocracies). We have to fight for our Freedom. Resource Based Economy is the Solution. We have to declare the earth resources as the heritage of all the people of this world. So everyone has access to it. Please have your research about zeitgeist movement then you know the truth more. Truth About Health/Drugs Industry Because Of It Your Life At High Risk The drug industry is a 1/2 trillion dollars a year worldwide conglomerate. Almost 300 billions dollars just in North America. That is really big business. What would happen if everyone were well? There is no money in health. You see, good health makes a lot of sense but it doesn't make a lot of dollars. Because everything they do is toxic. Every drug they use, prescription drugs, all drugs are liver toxic, bar none. If you've had amalgam fillings put in your mouth by dentists. It is highly toxic. There's cancer because most of the chemos are themselves carcinogens. To view the tumor as the cancer and we know the tumor is not the cancer. The cancer industry is 200 billions dollars a year. The more work they get, the more profit there is. You have to dismantle; If the truth ever came out about what we would need to do. 30% of people of females in America are at risk of getting, will get cancer of the breast. The ones that are already dead have been grossly mistreated by the medical profession and by the government that supposedly is supposed to encourage free research and development of all possibilities. Why would medical doctors who studied medicine and practice medicine and are heavily funded by pharmaceutical companies why would they go and look into vitamins? That they never had the answer orthomolecular. And as more and more of our population start taking their health into their own hands, there's going to be even more and more of changes. It can't go on the way it is. The system is failing apart. We must make nutrition the primary prevention strategy for the population. You are what you eat. You are everything that you have ever done to yourself. The choices you make directly affect the outcome of your life. - (Food Matters Documentary in Netflix)

[@Tim_Climie]

@@balathayaparanthayaparan6188 Money should represent unanimous result, or failing that individual effort. Scarcity is not a good measure, unless you're cynical enough to believe that individual effort is scarce. Gold and silver were only ever valuable because of the trade that went into procuring it. Nowadays there's a different mindset, and that's the individual's ability to pay interest on debt. Should debt be universal and unanimous? That's what's unanimously undecided.

[@Davemac1116]

I love the man's integrity and clarity.

[@MyTube4Utoo]

*"Basically running the world."* The marriage of corporations and government, equals Fascism, and Mussolini said Fascism should more accurately be called "Corporatism." They basically make their own laws, and always have their hands out for their 'Corporate Welfare.' There was an interesting twenty year study done, I believe by Yale University. It showed that corporations got laws they wanted passed, and unfavorable, potential laws stopped, sixty percent of the time, and 'We the People' usually had about a zero percent chance of getting what we wanted. Noam is one of the brightest, most informed minds on the planet, and has such an amazing gift for communicating that information to us mere mortals. When we lose Noam Chomsky, we'll be losing a brilliant, honest, and outspoken man. My friend's son is a post-grad student, and when I mentioned Noam Chomsky, he had no clue who I was talking about. I'm sure he can find his schools 'Safe Space,' however. I'm not encouraged by the next generation, overall.

[@Bisquick]

For anyone interested, here is the study I think you're referring to (and maybe we're even thinking of 2 _different_ studies that arrived at the same conclusion): scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

[@garr6448]

Escape the Matrix he has influenced the mind that will carry his message after death.

[@kx7500]

Fascism is more complicated than that IMO

[@owfan4134]

Your friends son is probably waiting for someone to teach him. If there’s anything Noam has taught me, it’s that despite all the horrors allied against us, we are not powerless. You have the power to organize your community and reach out to others, and have an obligation to at least try- especially with those in the academic community (political class). People aren’t stupid, despite how pessimistic and ignorant they may seem. If you fall into the trap of becoming a true believer, it’s only because you gave up on them due to giving up on yourself. They need you. We need you. Most importantly, *you^ need you. It’s been four years, have you made any progress?

[@Thrillkilled]

The next generation is a direct result of the world the prior generations created. Remember that.

[@Alexander-mw1ek]

This is the most energetic that I've ever seen Chomsky

[@SangiovanniOmar]

Sole Substance he is older now. Speaks softer.

[@lukethomeret-duran5273]

Coperations have found a way to convince people that taxes and regulations on the rich and mega-coperations are limitations on everyone and cause the problems of the average person. Its amazing how powerful propaganda cam be.

[@Spock_Rogers]

It's amazing how much hate and fear can motivate people to act against their own best interests.

[@cordeea7880]

I hang on to his every word!

[@abside30glu]

"For sure all of us pay for the priviledge of having our minds even denyed" ! And it is just a single sentence.. !

[@wadesmith666]

I could listen to his reasoning all day. What a giant of a human being, cuts right to the pith

[@billbrasky8525]

Chomsky is one of the last living voices of reason and clarity.

[@gregorysagegreene]

Sometimes his intellect cuts the continuum like a knife!

[@MrSwiftyGaming1]

I get what you are saying but it sounds a bit too overdramatic. Reason and clarity are always around us, we just need to develop the discipline to get to them as chomsky did and many others. We have power too and we better stand up and use it responsibly.

[@gregorysagegreene]

This is a totally fresh view on Corporatism. Makes Friedman look like a flunky. I'm already eminently familiar with renting my entire existence, I knew that, but I was unaware of original conservatism!

[@Spock_Rogers]

Friedman was a corporate and private power (billionaires) shill. He did a great deal of harm teaching people that greed (poor character) is good.

[@sankalparora8146]

He says this in front of the world. God damn it, he is one god damn courageous individual. These corporates could literally kill him for saying all this.

[@jameshadfield5624]

Genuine Genius with a ❤️. it seems there aren't many. the Very intelligent mostly get corrupted by Greed.

[@trinitytwo14992]

Time to get rid of corporations

[@KylahEide]

i typed of greed on KZbin and for some reason this popped up

[@jmichaelhall7433]

...I suppose that we find comfort in the belly of the beast.

[@jusayenso8186]

Ok....another great video we street smart people know to find. But what do we all do about this overwhelming evidence to start making a change?......any answers out there?

[@mazxbv]

just keep going to work and do nothing

[@ryanmathis7161]

Modern Monetary Theory

[@Nebuchadnezzar89]

We effect change and win with numbers. We out-number the 'elite' that is why they always try to divide. Don't fall for it. Organize! Mr. Chomsky hints at this throughout his countless speeches. Start local use the internet to connect and expand.

[@neomcdoom]

Organize

[@urgencepc4563]

Hey he stole my sweater.

[@dada210]

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is cooperating with it.” - MLK “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” - Frederick Douglass "Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense" - Noam Chomsky “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” ― Howard Zinn "In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy." - Noam Chomsky "A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized." - Noam Chomsky "Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control." - Noam Chomsky "Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist, that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level. [...] Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I am opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy." - Noam Chomsky "Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense" - Noam Chomsky *“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke *Though I'll slightly modify it to: “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men and good women to do nothing” "The superior man does what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable" - Confucius

[@rachelleroberthon2917]

I wish I could consult Professor Chomsky on the ongoing outsourcing tactics utilizing our investments in standard social security, public education, and accountability currently outsourced for global socialization on our tax dollars across generations. Law is now AI. Public accountability is at an all time low without recourse. Very frustrating and sad to see.

[@pappapaps]

Write him an email. He responds to everyone, usually within a day, it's quite remarkable. He just answered three questions I sent him on email, probably not more than a week ago. I can't grasp the intellectual tenacity this man has, truly something to aim for at the very least.

[@Justin-hb9wc]

Noam Chomsky is a political sage

[@MrFac183]

Preach!

[@generaljellyroll8737]

Sweat shops exist because of capitalism That is a example of capitalism encouraging bad behavior

[@foodparadise5792]

13:23 "share holder doesn't mean somebody has 5 dollar in mutual fund"

[@LionelCartwright]

This. THIS.

[@BOGOTAROCKSTAR]

There is nothing more anti-usa than reason and logic.

[@OneRadicalDreamer]

Corporations have the same right to go the way of the French monarchy

[@jefferyharrell5085]

Does anyone know what court case he's talking about near the end? That forces corporate board members to act solely for profits by law?

[@Macgonagle76]

In Australia, all proprietary corporations are assumed to exist to create profit unless they have a stated objective to the contrary.

[@layinlow77]

I'm reminded of this post i happened to see (i'm no expert). I also remember in the documentary 'The Corporation' there was the owner of the giant carpet company who said he legally couldn't change his business model (be more environmentally sustainable) if it wasn't for the fact that he also owned a majority of shares. www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2014/02/memo-to-harold-myerson-shareholder-wealth-maximization-is-a-norm-not-a-myth.html

[@ALittleLifeWithDriedTubers]

Dodge v. Ford is a rather famous example. Ford wanted to subsidize employee purchases of vehicles, Dodge, a shareholder, said that would decrease his profits. Court ruled in favour of Dodge.

[@clubx1000]

wow

[@alex.velasco]

Chomsky is the greatest American philosopher of the last 50 years.

[@wallywoodwally5877]

It's all going around in a circle to me - no beginning or end point.

[@tomato1040]

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[@deathdrive7032]

If you disliked this video, you're a bootlicker 😂

[@papaluskask999]

19 thumbs down obviously don't like the truth

[@stevekim1357]

'living person' ...well it is designed to not have a feeling...certainly a pocket for it to 'do' without consequence except more power of money. I guess it is a natural path to evil...unless the 'person' runs ethically and morally...fingers are crossed. Or heaven help us, humans.

[@renesimard1049]

Money has no race color. Bunch of greedy richs: corporations

[@leebmac]

No Lee…….., 3907; deactivate.

[@memtesin5918]

This is visually obvious but it's even more scary when you hear people telling homeless people to "get a job". They dont care why that person is unemployed and poor.

[@halse8280]

some says he is controlled opposition,but if so,it does not matter,what matter is what he is laying out. He says the same as trump,nafta is a horrible deal,it is actually the opposite of what free trade is on several areas.

[@TheJonnyEnglish]

Chomsky is nothing like trump

[@jamesriendeau7351]

Publicly traded corporations which anybody can buy stock in freely are actually a type of socially-owned business. Individual proprietorship is a far more tyrannical business model.

[@mathias4851]

Not if 1-2% owns those stocks. Its a very limited population that owns stock. 1-2% owns almost all riches in the world. That dictatorship not democracy

[@dada210]

"Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state" - James Jesus Angleton, June 10, 1992 (the Head of CIA Counter Intelligence 1954 to 1974) In the 100% Accurate and True words of Malcolm X - "Show me a Capitalist and I'll show you a Bloodsucker" "The superior man does what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable" - Confucius "Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense" - Noam Chomsky *“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke *Though I'll slightly modify it to: “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men and good women to do nothing” "The superior man does what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable" - Confucius

[@luciusartoriusdante]

He's pretty good in cherry-picking.

[@Spock_Rogers]

Is that all you got?

[@luciusartoriusdante]

@@Spock_Rogers well, this video doesn't do him justice. it lacks a lot of content which he aptly provides in his other speeches.

[@mitchl.7276]

@@Spock_Rogerslook what his drivel has resulted in. Violence and chaos caused by young students on campuses being fed this crap for years.

[@Zatzzo]

I actually agree with Chomsky but i would have one question: Let's say i'm a surgeon and i have a group of people assisting me. If i give them orders because i know what needs to be done, is that an example of totalitarianism?

[@kx7500]

No, they consent to that relationship. The problem is hierarchies of coercion not necessarily a chain of command. Can’t have an army of 100% atomized privates can we?

[@Zatzzo]

@@kx7500 People working for a "totalitarian" company (according to Chomsky) also consent to that relationship.

[@kx7500]

@@Zatzzo You should learn the difference between a chain of command and actual coercion or slavery.

[@Zatzzo]

@@kx7500 please tell me.

[@kx7500]

@@Zatzzo A non authoritarian chain of command is mutualist. The people "below" are typically for example, closer to the front lines directly focused on what's happening in front of them. They then rely on someone who organizes them from a broader perspective, and they also rely on the people below them to do their job properly, and then those managers or whatever have a tier above them who organize those managers, etc etc until you get the most broad view of the system necessary. All the people below continuously give consent to those organizing and representing them and vice versa. It's not a hierarchy of cercion or domination, but of scale with proportionate responsibility taken for how much power you hold. Same with a surgeon, only it's a different dynamic in the sense they they more closely serve the surgeon because you can't have like 4 people poking at the patient while one organizes them all, it's much more focused. Same for example, an athlete or formula racer. Everyone organizes to support one figure who is their catalyst, but they need to all do their job including that catalyst most of all. In an authoritarian system even if say the surgeon, general, formula racer, or whatever is incompetent, other people organizing to support them don't have the ability to have their say in the dynamic making it less efficient and harder for everyone to cooperate towards a shared goal.

[@CiroGalli]

I have listened and read Chomsky for years now, and I keep hearing say "corporations this corporations that", but 2 things come to mind now. (1) He hasn't as of today mentioned the name of one single corporation. And (2) he never feels the need to sustain his claims with evidence. He just makes claims and is expected to be believed at face value.

[@TheJonnyEnglish]

Lol why does that matter. And evidence? It’s fundamental fact, he’s literally just sitting what they are

[@michaelsmith8665]

Completely false. The evidence is in his footnotes. There's a whole second book in the footnotes. See "The Chomsky Reader." And what would be the point of mentioning an individual corporation by name when the problem is the system of corporate power?

[@colindorrans9495]

I don't think he needs to.

[@jamesmyers8619]

IBM, Toshiba, Siemens he mentions in the first section about corporate alliances. To discuss that probably did require an example to be named, which he did.

[@justdev8965]

I wonder does Chomsky not eat corporate vegetables? Does he not have a laptop, a phone? Does he not use a car, a train, a bus? Who the hell does he think makes these things?

[@bigpapsi]

Thats such a whack argument

[@jeffn1384]

Awful sound quality. Unlistenable.

[@Spock_Rogers]

I've listened to this many times. It's worth putting up with a little annoyance. The message should be told to Americans, who are so heavily propagandized that many of the ones who claim to be on the left spout right-wing propaganda without thinking or realizing they have taken the corporate position.

[@Diegoflyboy]

BIG Corporations don't murder huge populations... big Governments do and have..

[@joebolduc2472]

S Wagner, ever heard of the west East Indies company

[@RoyalKnightVIII]

@@joebolduc2472 or the Banana Republics, the blood on the hands of Chiquita Banana CEOs is enough to flood the world.

[@Diegoflyboy]

@@RoyalKnightVIII We can find atrocities in any culture. So whats your point? Cannibalism, Tribal wars, Shrinking heads, murdering Monarchs, Government genocide of its citizens, stoning guillotines, scalping heads, driving people off cliffs or tearing beating hearts out of a human for the Gods. We can also find Greatness aswell. You just want to target peoples in the US because the West is your revolutionary target, but they aren't buying it they tolerated you for awhile now they are not.

[@richardmcgowan7344]

Ever hear of the united fruit company?

[@PhantomLordOG]

Of course they do. They also fund it like many did during ww2 for the Nazis. Even after Pearl Harbor. American corporations and even chase bank.

[@mathias4851]

Imagine defending corporation, a slave defending his master. Chomsky may you be with us for many years

[@TysonGorai]

Saddam would never let this happen.

[@commiezombie2477]

Communism KILLS. Stop labeling effective advertising some type of conspiracy. 😂😂😂