Woke Capitalism Just COLLAPSED. Here’s Why. | Aaron Bastani Meets Brett Christophers

[@abelmolina3835]

At the end of the day it's quite simple: Billionaires prefer fascism to raising the wages of normal people.

[@roscojenkins7451]

Oligarchy is a stones throw from fascism... Literally one step removed

[@MrDodgedollar]

1) Normal people can become Billionaires 2) Their political attitudes vary like the rest of the population. Grow up will you

[@roscojenkins7451]

@MrDodgedollar your 1) is completely wrong. Anybody can become a millionaire with hard work, determination, and mostly luck. Hard work and determination won't make you a millionaire without luck as the final key... To become a billionaire you MUST exploit the poor in one way or another. That is an absolute fact. Can you tell me of a billionaire today that was born into abject poverty? No you can't because the vast majority in that club were born into it received substantial handouts from their parents or were multimillionaires long enough to get the right connections to figure out how to exploit the poor. An Example is Jay Z and Beyonce... Both became millionaires through hard work, determination and mostly luck. Don't believe me? Ask how the other ladies in destiny's child are doing. Ask how other NY rappers are doing... They used their millions to create clothing brands which exploited poor people in other countries using literal sweat shops. Even Jeff Bezos was given millions to start his small business Amazon. He didn't just get a bank loan. He was gifted it from his parents. And he became a billionaire by exploiting the poor.

[@JimboJimbo-i4i]

@@roscojenkins7451ironically monopolies and Oligarchs are the businesses reducing the prices, it’s the smaller businesses that aren’t as efficient which end up hiking prices to stay alive

[@anderson.soredna]

Exactly!

[@andybrice2711]

I think a large part of these investors ratcheting up in the past few years was the pandemic. They were like _"Let's go, boys! It's the Disaster Capitalism opportunity of our lifetimes."_

[@PeppermintPatties]

💯

[@Perspectiveon]

Absolutely. BlackRock like all major US asset management firms are vultures whose sole interest is extraction of Wealth for US elites. Disaster Capitalists 101. Stay away from them if you possibly can.

[@Perspectiveon]

Absolutely. BlackRock like all major US asset management firms are vultures whose sole interest is extraction of Wealth for US elites. Disaster Capitalists 101. Stay away from them if you possibly can.

[@Perspectiveon]

Absolutely. BlackRock like all major US asset management firms are vultures whose sole interest is extraction of Wealth benefitting the selected few. Disaster Capitalists 101. Stay away from them if you possibly can.

[@jakcasey2048]

I think your take sort of proves what they talk about with regards to the left only being able to form critiques from the perspective of content creators / journalists / humanities. Your argument hinges on a psychologisation of the motivations of "investors" (basically a soft ad hominem), rather than any critical understanding based on the mechanisms of capitalism - because the experience isn't there. It's sort of an emergency for the left in my opinion.

[@Motbilder]

Labour isn't center left. It's not even centrist. It's what used to be called moderate rightwing. So why would Labour reason differently than any other rightwing party when it comes to business?

[@andc154]

Could not agree more. For me, expecting anything other than what we are seeing Is somewhat foolish. It’s not about party politics. It’s about systematic corruption.

[@lynth]

Note that the biggest enemies aren't capitalists but "sOcIaLiStS" punching left and opposing Marxist-Leninist revolution. They are the ones preventing a revolutionary class consciousness to develop. They are the ones strengthening the rise of fascism without any opposition developing alongside it. The greatest betrayal to the working class was always the complicity of self-proclaimed "leftists" in counterrevolution. Chris Owens, Novara Media, etc. are part of the anti-socialist vanguard and people working with them or supporting them need to get that through their head. Their content in opposition to the reaction is good and valuable, but their anti-socialist attitude is not. Social democracy is a traitorous movement serving capital. It always did throughout all of history and its rhetoric is deceptive.

[@PaulZeeX]

I think I agree, although many modern "centrist" parties in 'the West' appear to be using a mix of conservative and moderate right-wing language and principles. I think it's difficult to tell if the result is an unintended byproduct due to lack of knowledge and skill, or a carefully honed result constructed as intended. Are those that claim to be modern centrists misappropriating language and form with focused intent, lacking in deep understanding and care, or something else?

[@kennethmarshall306]

@@Motbilder They are following the same economic ideology as the Conservatives

[@Ahobakayaro]

​@@PaulZeeXなにゆっとんねん🥱

[@thepoliticalgardner]

The fact we are now paying for the lifestyles of US Elities and to feed rheir greed is just disgusting.

[@FraserBailey-jm5yz]

A very good and wide ranging conversation. Of course, I don't agree with everything, but Aaron continues to be pretty much the only person on the left worth listening to.

[@Benjamin.Jamin.]

ESG was the "deal" that capital made after the 08 crisis. The whole identity thing was to divert from class politics. Now they don't even need to offer that.

[@andybrice2711]

I’ve heard accounts that Occupy Wall Street started out with some strong economic ideas. And then just got invaded by New Left identity politics and fizzled out.

[@johnmoorefilm]

🎯

[@jackjordan5833]

Truth nuke

[@3v0lve_Music]

Nailed it!

[@matheus.bueno47]

When occupy Wall Street happened, they became desperate. Now with what happened with the Healthcare CEO and the identity politics having a falling out, they will try to find the next thing.

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

When you hear people talk about delivering abstract concepts like 'growth' ask: for whom ?

[@nazirvania9365]

Shareholders!!

[@sichambers9011]

I mean this is the real point. Something that is completely obscured, wilfully by the media - the interests of capital and of labour are in conflict.

[@Hiphopoptimus-GG]

Yep, the US has growth and the average person there thinks the economy is bad, so its clearly not the lack of growth thats the problem its the ecdonomy of the average workers shrinking year on year

[@odetocycling]

Always an excellent guest. Scary just how much of the UK's assets are being spaffed by these companies and our incompetatnt governments

[@TheSpoovy]

Is there anything left in Britain to sell? Have we sold the air yet? Maybe "investors" can buy it for a few mil, that should stave off the baliffs for another day. What could go wrong?

[@megm.c4026]

Way kinder to blackrock than I would be. Great convo, thanks.

[@roscojenkins7451]

Hot the nail on the head when he said black rock doesn't actually produce anything

[@Madaboutmada]

As a public service transportation planner in the US I can ABSOLUTELY confirm that consultants are a populated with a lot of fake it till you make it "experts". They are unaccountable and generate a lot of garbage which will ultimately be have to fixed... but always at a cost. Not all are incompetent, but a majority are. It's a drain of time and energy constantly correcting and cleaning up their messes.

[@kennethmarshall306]

@@Madaboutmada the trouble is, when top management call in the consultants everyone else is afraid to speak up in case they’re seen as unwilling to change

[@johnmoorefilm]

❤Big-up to Brent Christophers. He has a calm , fearless intelligence and he’s determined to lucidly explain how we are fucked!

[@samuelnewitt6978]

I've come to the conclusion that all Starmer is after is some well-paid directorship he hasn't realised yet he's not qualified for

[@susiebrig4722]

Always thought he wants to go way of Mandelson and Blair and biding time as PM getting to know powerful and wealthy preparing himself for a lucrative job, when he ceases to be PM.

[@oafee1053]

Keir Starmer is going to destroy working people. I dont have the words for how my deep my contempt for him is

[@MCDONALD6969]

Socialism doesn't work

[@alansmith4655]

They're terrified of taxing the mega rich.

[@MCDONALD6969]

@alansmith4655 why should the rich pay for the state??

[@denism8494]

@@MCDONALD6969 They have been the main beneficiaries of the state, for their entire lives in most cases. It's time for things to change.

[@samfourness4737]

Because they wouldn’t exist without it. Wealth cap is the only way out of this

[@JSmith19858]

Norway's rising living standards and EVs aren't being paid for directly by oil and gas money. It's being paid for by the proceeds of the investments they made with their oil and gas money decades ago. Had Thatcher not given it away and instead made long term investment they same way Norway did, we would be £9k-10k a year better off each.

[@intelligenceofacertainkind]

Norway is a tiny country. Its entire population is smaller than that of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. I agree with what you are saying but just that Norway is a very different country than the UK.

[@JSmith19858]

​@@intelligenceofacertainkind making long term investments has nothing to do with the size of the country. Had our oil and gas money been invested in the same way, for the benefit of all of us, we would be that much better off. It has nothing to do with the size of the country

[@AndrewWoods-sm9vx]

@@JSmith19858 nobody feels better off in the uk simply because of population growth - its plain and simple - the average immigrant to this country is a net taker, so the rest of the population has to make good.

[@gregoryjames165]

Yes, a pitiful waste. However, one needs to consider Norway's oil fields were larger than Britain's, with only a fifteen of the population of Britain benefitting from it.

[@JSmith19858]

@AndrewWoods-sm9vx what has that got to do with investing oil and gas money 40 years ago?

[@fashionlab7]

Unwoke capitalism collapsed too! We use the same financial system and light touch government focused on everything except the basics.

[@santerisatama5409]

Unwoke classic investment capitalism is alive in China, Russia etc. BRICS and associates.

[@santerisatama5409]

Neoliberalism is not really capitalism in the classical sense, but financial feodalism rentier system.

[@3v0lve_Music]

It's bigger than Blackrock. If you look at the top five shareholder list of any market leader in any industry, you'll invariably find Blackrock, State Street and Vanguard within the top five. When you add up their combined shares they'll also either hold the majority of shares or they'll be second only to the company founders. They move in unison as a defacto monopoly, all using Blackrock's Aladdin AI trading system.. and they are consolidating every facet of human existence, from mining and raw materials to tech to weapons to nuclear defence to pretty much anything else you can think of.

[@harticus300]

The natural conclusion of capitalism 🤷‍♂️ I really don't know what else people expected.

[@Fdzzaigl]

We need to GTFO Blackrock, Vanguard and other private equity managers in Europe in general. Like are we really just not looking at what is happening in the US, or do we have some utter naive view that it could never happen here (it already is)?

[@andc154]

Regulators failed the public but not their paymasters. It’s not incompetence, it’s corruption!

[@andc154]

Wealth inequality is now completely out of control! It started to substantially increase in 2010 and continued to do so until 2020. At which point we witnessed the biggest wealth shift in history. What we are seeing now is just the inevitable fall out. Remember, things have literally never being better for the super rich. They can’t see what the problem is!

[@kennethmarshall306]

@@andc154 In fact inequality and its harmful effects has been rising since 1979

[@greeneyedcat10110]

An actual good channel.

[@niningsetia4213]

Nobody support that partner Full of crap 😂

[@Nebulorum]

I now want a debate between Brett and Gary (from Gary economics).

[@tonycook953]

Ideology trumped economics because the winner had to be subservience to Capital rather than accountability to the Proletariat.

[@wesleysmith4206]

If Labour bow down to corporations and don't bother helping working people and funding national services then Deform will get in and wer'e cooked

[@3v0lve_Music]

Reform say enough of the right things about the Davos set to get voters on side, but their policy of market deregulation and being hands off on business, hoping the supposedly free market will correct itself just gives them the kind of free reign that's got us here. Starmer is a lost cause when it comes to this, he's far too enamoured with them and his cosy secret meetings with Larry Fink are a massive red flag.

[@AndrewWoods-sm9vx]

at least population growth would be under control- might then see a rise in living standards

[@bramvanduijn8086]

@AndrewWoods-sm9vx You really believe that? Why would they solve migration when that is what got them the votes? I don't know if you've seen the kind of people that run the party, but they're all selfish scammers.

[@keef920]

You’ll end up like how we ended up in the states. The “left-leaning” (read: less neoliberal) Democratic Party bow down to the corpos despite everyone saying how living standards have dropped and the US ended up electing Trump and his Project 2025 cronies

[@coopsnz1]

Labor screw franchise owners that arent corporation . Marxist have always screwed over middle class & upper class in private sector

[@scooble]

Token gestures often do more harm than good as they often delegitimise the very cause that they're supposedly advocating for. See pinkwashing and greeneashing

[@ksw8514]

Or pandering to right-wing "populists" by adopting their framing.

[@3v0lve_Music]

There's also the huge amount of third world exploitation that they're happy to engage in to push green tech on us. Solar panels for all, constructed by Uyghurs in Chinese concentration camps, built from cobalt mined by Congolese children in illegal artisinal mines run by Glencore...fantastic. Maybe in a few decades there will be another case for reparations, only it'll be every single one of us that's genuinely complicit, then what do we do?

[@777jones]

But nobody cares about the cause.

[@ivanidlehand9651]

Because being rich means you can afford to be ignorant. Shits really like that. It’s sad people and critical thinking are complete strangers if not forever enemies.

[@blindbrad4719]

My heart weeps for the children of next year.

[@Nieosoba]

You can really hear from this that there is no left in UK. Nobody just some hollow out Labour which was never a great party and not much more. I don't think anyone is putting much hope in UK left

[@stephen_pfrimmer]

Welcome back Brett. Thank you. And thank you Aaron (develop "superimperialism hypothesis"). Consider asking Gary back. And Ingrid and Angus.

[@mjc01]

So good. So fucking depressing.

[@peterellicott58]

This is what I like about this channel: it's of the left but it puts questions that counter the mainstream narrative 👍

[@Jard-z4i]

Same 👍

[@Muzikman127]

That's what the left is supposed to do

[@Muzikman127]

Channels like this can help demonstrate that there is actually a massive difference between the left and establishment liberalism (as represented currently by visionless voids of sneering nothingness like Starmer). Glad you're watching & keeping an open mind anyway :)

[@3v0lve_Music]

There are still some of us that are traditionally on the left that aren't so polarised that we don't realise there's still some common ground and areas of crossover with the right. We might disagree on solutions but at this point, just identifying the problem is enough.

[@roscojenkins7451]

Because mainstream media is by definition not left

[@Pinstripe0451]

De-Carbonization under Capitalist logic was never really going to work.

[@RogueDonut87]

From the US, studied engineering, and I would definitely be put in the lefty bucket. On oil for example, can we completely stop using it, absolutely not. But can we stop burning it for fuel and heating, absolutely. We need engineers everywhere these days.

[@rockonmadonna]

True, using natural gas produces about 25% less CO2 than using oil, but burning wood (“biomass” uninformed liberals promote) is actually worse, not to mention that we need our trees to use the CO2 and give us O2!

[@FraserBailey-jm5yz]

This guy talked quite a lot of sense until the end, when he praised Miliband's department. Miliband will do more damage to this country than anyone ever. We almost had a blackout a couple of days ago during the cold spell, and we are about to run out of gas. Our industry pays four times what US industry pays for energy, and domestic customers pay four times more. We have lost 200,000 jobs in industry since 2010. The whole thing is insane.

[@karenrock3864]

Fossil fuel use is killing us. We are in the sixth mass extinction. We are now fighting to minimise the billions of human deaths and animal extinction which we, the survivors anyway,will witness

[@locuris]

I was a software developer for JPMC and now I'm at a medium scale-up and the culture was much better at JPMC - everyone was aware they were working for a big faceless company but also you could leave personalities at the door, you went in, did the job, went home, got paid. In the scale up it's rife with politics, ass kissing, and self-promotion. Also - this scale up just signed a partnership deal with Blackrock 😅

[@timharris6652]

Is one of the reasons so much public land was sold at a loss that land ownership itself is so intentionally difficult to investigate?

[@reckoner-nash]

This older guy starts stammering whenever he is going to say something conclusive or implicit about BlackRock, he tends to stay ambiguous and general. I think he knows more than he is telling, I can feel him getting uncomfortable.

[@akirakasinata-fk8qy]

Renewables didn't give a great return, but LA just burnt down... Great investment that was!

[@mrnice7570]

La smart 28....

[@clivebroadhead4381]

How will BlackRock ensure the NHS builds the new hospitals under Labour that were promised by Johnson

[@aroadtorome7683]

A humble offering for the almighty algorithm.

[@Rhymosophy]

The country is up the spout. The Tories have left us with nowt after Boris and Brexit. And if there's some way to fix it Starmer will 'Rule it out.'

[@parallaxview2143]

Jolly good. Well done, Sir.

[@tamsinemily]

Brett Christopher’s first downstream has been my most rewatched! i had so many more questions after watching it ♥️

[@AustralianLeprechaun]

Australia is still approving giant coal mines that will operate out to 2073.

[@kp6215]

Asking the “REAL” questions 😊

[@HughWP6683]

I hope when starmer tries to become a business consultant they tell him "sorry we don't hire the children of tool makers"

[@EamonCoyle]

I knew I had watched Brett before and my memory of it was definitely a good one !!

[@noneofyourbiz112]

"I don't know where DOGE could possibly cut" Are you effing kidding me???

[@o0lama0o]

That was a very nice chat. Felt very friendly :)

[@shirihotep3741]

Always worth to Brett Christophers!

[@kennethmarshall306]

What makes you think that lawyers don’t run businesses? Legal firms are businesses delivering legal services. Indeed, I seem to remember that Starmer did run his own legal business before becoming director of public prosecutions

[@MargaretDeakin-d6m]

This gives me hope. There are probably thousands of politically left professionals that would help build the UK after this neoliberal failure of privaisation.And, of course professionals from all political persuasions should be welcome to build a UK that serves everyone. Consultants and reports cost too much money, money we do not have.Why wont our government create small groups of experts to employ their workers, and begin small projects? Cut out all those layers we cannot afford, and do not produce anything. Hope is sadly lacking in the UK after 14 years of austerity, and what looks like more austerity to follow. Small funded projects, EG cooperative house building, could give hope and offer a template to use all over the UK. Surely the corporatie building companies cannot control government and stop such pragmatic projects?

[@zf1615]

Technical note- Could you please high-pass the sound at say 40-50hz for these in future? Whenever they lean on/touch the table there is an unnerving thud which is distracting. It's never present on Novara live but always present on Downstream. The sound is otherwise great on this I think. Edit: just in case "thud" gives the wrong message, it's very low pitch, can only hear it on headphones or big bass bins

[@Muzikman127]

At least they're not one mic hard panned to each ear this time 😅

[@ConnieFWill]

socialist audio has come a long way if these are the complaints we're getting now

[@RogueDonut87]

This is my drug of choice! Speaking the truth on the financial realities we live in.

[@FraserBailey-jm5yz]

I wrote about ESG a lot for various companies. Of course, t knew it was all nonsense. i always called it BSG.

[@alistairrobinson3865]

Working in private sector finance/manufacturing , we are under massive pressure, so cooperate as a survival mechanism, there is no time to debate and have arguments about everything, pragmatism takes over, would be great fun to go into academia and actually theorize intentionally about stuff!

[@anesu846]

The generation that grew up on the internet is starting to be affected by all this stuff. That’s why we care!

[@JimboJimbo-i4i]

It’s not difficult to understand why the PM is speaking to BlackRock… They are the largest Asset Manager in the world, whilst they don’t decide what to invest in themselves (their client’s do), they can market products to clients. The UK needs investment money, badly. The reason the FTSE has an atrocious multiple is because there simply isn’t demand for the shares. That in turn makes it unattractive for anyone to list on creating a doomed loop. You can grow via increased tax.

[@Amazology]

Black Rock is more a Wealth Pump innit ?

[@ghoey4118]

Land values increasing in value was eminently predictable. What’s the old adage… ‘Buy land ‘cos they’re not making any more of it’

[@anderson.soredna]

Essential debates! We have to translate them into Portuguese / Brazil!

[@eamonnosullivan5412]

Novara media rocks !

[@georgelionon9050]

The main issue with ESG was not necessarily that people stopped caring if their investments was good or bad, it just wasnt accurate like at all, Tesla was for long on top of ESG for long, and Musk in turned financed Bitcoin power usage with it (no I dont want to argue BTC in principle, but no it really is not ESG). There are countless of other examples that slapped the ESG label onto them, that intuitively shouldnt have it, and others that didnt should.

[@Floortile]

Capitalism is the best bed follow of democracy and personal freedom. The trouble is, it has lost its way with business activity devoted solely to making money from money, rather than wealth creation, via productivity, for the betterment of society as a whole. Trouble, therefore, is undoubtedly brewing - and it’s a frightening, uncertain, prospect.

[@theleadsheetspecialist1434]

Aaron! Can you interview dave fishwick? Please he has his building society in a very poor town up north but he is serving his community!!!

[@robertskeen1427]

Blackstone - Blackrock?? Sound like something we need to call Jason Bourne about .

[@bobbresnahan8397]

Do the Black Rocks add a single iota of social value to the economy?

[@frankshailes3205]

Trickle down?

[@R2ndome]

Ooo. I started to think he sounds a bit too centrist for my mind. Then he defended consultancy. Then he wouldn't denounce th privatisation of infrastructure outright. Then, he said BRIDISH!!? I gave it a chance, I still can't stomach these educated liberals desperate to prove they th ones clever nuff to jus tweak capitalism and it's gunna b alright. I don't like him.

[@jimpaddy79]

I don’t think he really did any of those things.

[@clivebroadhead4381]

The Government of Singapore made it law for all land to be sold to the state at the 1973 prices. It was then sold for a profit at the current market price.

[@jimpaddy79]

When did that happen?

[@neilroden3440]

And again…..water in Scotland was not privatized!

[@JoseCarlosBataliniBatalini]

If you are not in the financial market space right now, you are making a huge mistake. I understand that it could be due to ignorance, but if you want to make your money work for you...prevent inflation

[@SandraGoldxix]

Thanks for continuing updates I'd rather trade the crypto market as it's more profitable. I make a good amount of money per week even though I barely trade for myself.

[@HansenKyle]

You trade also?, I

[@JoshuaW-j9m]

No I don't trade on my own anymore, I always required help and assistance

[@JoshuaW-j9m]

From my personal financial advisor

[@HansenKyle]

This sounds so good and I would like to be a party to this, Is there any way I can speak with him directly because I need him to trade for me so that I can get my property back

[@coRnflEks]

Inequality and financial pressure if felt here in Norway too, which no doubt is the driving force of why the "everyone else is doing it" excuse got started several years ago regarding fossil fuel extraction. I've encountered it regularly since, and found that it was spreading throughout the population. Only a few weeks ago, I heard it from a local cafeteria worker, and concluded it is now a commonly accepted excuse in Norway. I've always tried to counter it, but of course, people generally don't listen to the individual, only what they percieve society wants, and you always pay a social cost for the attempt. It's really sad to see, as I think this is a hugely detrimental to Norway's reputation and integrity. We should indeed be the ones spearheading the green transition.

[@kyrrekjlnerandersen13]

Det er bare å legge ned Norge, vi har solgt oss allerede.

[@MaryMclare-sp6vx]

Companies are doing all the harm green capital and the general public get the blame and why are Britain giving money to other countries to help with their green problems ?

[@PaulZeeX]

22:41 Brett's point about "Moralising left critique" is a reasonable heuristic in-so-far-as the generalisation that the type of people that happen to work in the corporate sector (or any given corporation) aren't inherently bad: however, at 23:20 Brett's creating a falsifiable counter-generalisation about corporate collegial attitude (as he caveats: based on his own experience) that doesn't hold up as a general rule against ample evidence to the contrary. Having worked closely on a number of joint projects with the organisation specifically named, as well as with and for other similar management consulting firms, and also extensively in education including the tertiary sector, my experience is that in all cases, cooperation and solidarity is typically either a direct by-product of - or a causal factor that creates - the immediate cultural environment. Ultimately, culture and the values and beliefs that people working together both claim to aspire to and actively demonstrate in their work are deeply contextual. I've worked in cases where a team, division, location-specific office, region, national or global organisation has positive values that are strongly held and acted on: however in both corporate and education in each of those working constructs listed, I've worked in the toxic opposite where negative beliefs are held that effect the resulting. All critique can embody aspects of truth that can be useful as fallible heuristics to help us make assessments about the right ways to act: as long s you realise these are heuristics and not fundamental laws or absolute truths. Because the collective actions of an organisation are a result of the combined culture, beliefs and values of those individual working for an organisation, the ultimate positive or negative balance of the effects of those acts are an emergent property. So while I agree it's unreasonable to make generalisations about the beliefs and motivations of *all* individuals within collective structures, it's reasonable to make generalised heuristic claims about the actions of an industry, sector or even an organisation if contributing contextual factors support that.

[@Rockyzach88]

I'm a "left wing engineer". We're listening and learning. The cat is out of the bag.

[@clivebroadhead4381]

In a democracy the freehold of land should become owned by the state. This can be achieved by a change in the law.

[@begrackled]

At this point, Starmer's a Tory. Either that or he is impossibly clueless. Probably both.

[@grodesby3422]

Note that Musk has been having private discussions with Cummings, so he may be going in prepared.

[@frankshailes3205]

Cummings desperate to ride the latest gravy train? Figures.

[@SteveFraserVideo]

I was in Saltcoats recently and I'm sure it was colder than the day before

[@DrHarryLime-k4m]

Partly because Governments need consultants to "unpack" anything. Lost the art of management

[@nickfiggis6396]

Please get Gabor Mate on.

[@bobbresnahan8397]

McKenzie said that there would be 600,000 cell phones by 2000, Tesla, the most innovative company that I know of, doesn't use consultants.

[@peterstevenson1812]

awkward bro-try-hard moment when he asks about the wife's opinion about him not earning as much as he used to do. Maybe she earns her own money and it's much more than he used to? or... Weird on so many levels.

[@alancornes8916]

The U.K. has been running deficits for 300 years. There will never be any growth without a deficit. Please get up to speed with MMT (including your guest) Otherwise you will continue to completely misunderstand what is really going on in the economy.

[@jrton1366]

15:00 this is a very strange argument. He seems to be arguing that we shouldn’t be granting drilling licenses because they won’t be profitable? Surely that is for BP and Shell to decide?

[@kyrrekjlnerandersen13]

Trains in Norway are not in a good condition, infrastructure is lagging...

[@TheLucanicLord]

1:14:39 If they aren't prepared to take the risk then why should they be entitled to the rewards?

[@Dave183]

The key to wealth is productivity.

[@kyrrekjlnerandersen13]

Which needs low cost energy

[@bigbadborders]

China is the largest producer of renewable energy and they just opened 9 new coal plants.

[@PeterZeeke]

OMG, this is the whole theme of the last season of Industry

[@neilroden3440]

And again…..the Scottish govt can raise income tax and has !

[@Travel_addict_81]

I don’t understand how you could be so clueless to say that Starmer doesn’t know what Blackrock does.

[@kp6215]

Buddhists take the “ middle path” government with business for community as in Russia China .

[@iainharris6201]

One fundamental problem is net zero is built on very poor science and as a result the real data life data is not playing ball. Some of the recent catastrophic projections , eg ice free Arctic already look ridiculous. If we look back well beyond the oft quoted q 180 year timescale we see temperature was far higher and well before msn appeared. Therefore to build a philosophy on such shaky foundations is courting long term ridicule by the masses. Furthermore as currently enacted in the U.K., it will/ is leading in to the impoverishment of the poorest in society. That does the left no favours and I believe that is rapidly becoming visible to many.

[@kp6215]

Please help fund Independant channel the need is serious for Aaron and women’s voices !

[@RossTallo]

Biggest companies lobby governments though

[@Muzikman127]

What is the word “though” doing here?

[@Rockyzach88]

Academics are still helping humanity with knowledge. It's okay to have multiple mechanisms in which you can embrace that endeavor, including individualist fervor, but the greater institution and the scientific method serves to wrangle that in. I do believe the scientific institution needs improving but this relaxation demonstration where industry is more morally correct is hilarious.

[@greeneyedcat10110]

Because you gotta keep giving people bread and circuses to keep the pony show goin'

[@thepoliticalgardner]

Blackrock has majority shares in the tech bros. How does this work as they have majority shareholdings in multiple corporation across a majority of the majour markets including a full monopoly in payments

[@peterwhimster]

ESG doesn't result in higher returns. ESG is impossible to measure.

[@johnkeller2952]

I'm baffled by the inability to answer the question of what a left-wing engineer looks like. AN ENGINEER BOOM THERE YOU GO