Noam Chomsky Explodes Neoliberal Myths

[@OwenJonesTalks]

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[@cheroso1000]

Garbage

[@arcarsenal1380]

Chomsky's analysis on point as always. A true living legend.

[@JayeshPatel-ek5ou]

I liked Owens interview technique for this one. Ask concise questions then listen for a while as a man with a century worth of paying attention to the world tells you what he's found out.

[@cheroso1000]

The nice thing is that Chonsky is a man with zero relevance in the economic field but people love to see him lying about stuff and about people with lots of accomplishments such as nobel prize laureates (Friedman) and elected presidents (Reagan) or successful prime ministers (Thatcher). It's the history of liberalism all along, failed people, talking about failed ideas, to a failed audience. Pure garbage.

[@riekicordon2516]

@@cheroso1000 you're here. So, are you a "failed audience" 😂

[@gondolf153]

"The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” ― Bill Hicks

[@xCorvus7x]

Damn, if only.

[@gondolf153]

@And so No. Everyone

[@alfvideos1]

Great interview! I would like to see Owen interview Zizek next.

[@bigt1429]

I am well read on the works of Friedman, and I have found myself agreeing with a great deal of the content. It is vital, though, to hear the counterpoints and criticisms, and who better to provide such a clinical and accessible evaluation than Noam Chomsky? Thanks Owen. From Noam to Peter Hitchens, your channel offers a wide range of conflicting and stimulating debate. Keep it up!

[@petermanuel5043]

I love the guy but KZbin speed controls are definitely your friend here.

[@rachelatwood9555]

gettin old ain't easy...

[@liamraine1]

Be patient, the man is a genius.

[@ailsadkailsadk7913]

I LOVE YOU Noam chomsky🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶

[@Marenqo]

Rarely is the word "legend" more appropriate than in this case of Chomsky

[@murrumbidgeekid]

Noam Chomsky was 93 and 11 days old at the time this was posted. What an excellent way to use you life force.

[@Fenster21]

There are two sides to wage stagnation since the 1970s. Stagnating working wages AND dramatically increased productivity. Chomsky is saying the neoliberal empowering of corporations led to regulatory capture, but only then goes into how regulatory capture was used to increase productivity and elides how it was used to stagnate wages. Corporations are making more money than ever and workers are capturing a shrinking slice of it. Why? The decline in the labor movement? But how was the labor movement crushed? Outsourcing, immigration, and financial speculation. Manufacturing hasn’t declined, it’s just moved elsewhere.

[@stidesheaven1972]

Well said. Chomsky can't bring himself to admit this reality, more's the pity. And because he does this, hordes of young leftists will continue to indulge their utopian delusions.

[@harleywykes4971]

I always wanted to know what Father Christmas’s political positions were

[@pseudonayme7717]

Only a true anarchist could say "I'm gonna give pressies to every kid in the world once a year every year, forever!"😋

[@clairestark9024]

It's hard to calculate what an unmitigated disaster this was. I doubt even conservatives are really happy with this

[@themanwhosoldtheworld5350]

Conservatives nowadays are just the corporates and their aspirants who'll use any traditional conservative talking points to promote their own interests.

[@mariamzivzivadze7190]

Chomsky ❤

[@huss4realz]

Chomsky growing that Santa beard 🤣

[@ronitdebnath]

His criticism of Neoliberalism is on point. But let's not forget, this was a guy who couldn't foresee Venezuela's fall.

[@cubeh8331]

Can you not use the buzzfeed-esque headlines please?

[@jaydenmckay2758]

Hey, if it gets the message out...

[@MrBlooDeck]

I'm guessing the KZbin algorithm likes these kinds of headlines and bumps the videos into more peoples recommendations.

[@MrBlooDeck]

@multijoe Now THAT is some SEO right there

[@jeff-lk5yj]

Interview with lowkey?

[@lvl99paint]

I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

[@BeeBeard]

Maybe George Monbiot should listen to Chomsky more and not come out with daft analogies like "house-trained capitalism" and "War lord Capitalism" Chomsky may be hard to listen to sometimes, bit he doesn't treat his audience like children.

[@petermanuel5043]

He sounds 30 years younger when you watch it on twice the speed.

[@nickfiggis6396]

You’re missing Monbiot’s point. He’s an anti capitalist but he’s saying we’re caught in the cross fire between the two warring factions within capitalism. Definitely room for that within Chomsky’s wider point here. Incidentally Chomsky has said he reads Monibiot’s work with interest. Maybe watch the “judean people’s front” sketch to see where you’re tripping up here.

[@BeeBeard]

@@petermanuel5043 I only listen to Chomsky at 1.5x speed

[@hehwhwh727]

I don't see the problem with those terms in the context of the article.

[@jacobmacdonagh4070]

The fact that you think what we are living in now is neoliberal is crazy, we are so far from a free market. Cronyism and govt control of private businesses is not free market. If govt raise the barriers of entry to a market and give preference to big companies of course these big companies are going to become disproportionately powerful but this is an issue of not enough freedom, not too much freedom

[@davidjones500]

Hence why the title of the video itself refers to 'Neoliberal myths'. There is no such thing as a 'Free Market'. 'Deregulation' is itself a form of regulation by the state.

[@jacobmacdonagh4070]

@@davidjones500 oh sorry that wasn’t the original title of the video but whatever you want to call it, let’s just say a free market system, is not a myth. A free market system is an economy that only intervenes to stop the use of force and the violation of people’s’ right to live free of coercion, the govt are the only ones who stop that from happening, free markets are not granted by government they are taken away by government. The premise they are assuming is that since Reagan and Thatcher we have been living in a free market which could not be further from the truth, all the failures that they are talking about come from govt intervention in the free market

[@kimshaw-williams]

Bloody hell Jacob!!!! can't you see that is because the corporations are controlling the governments through lobbying??!!! None so blind as those who refuse to see....!

[@JoseWhon]

Father Christmas looks knackered.

[@dylanlarge11]

Noam is 92

[@BeeBeard]

So would you with the weight of the world on your shoulders 🤯

[@HakWilliams]

Yeah he does

[@sirin9850]

is there anyone that looks older than Noam Chomsky

[@adamwatson6916]

Its simple owen . It's the type of politics your beloved E.U advocates

[@Bunjee77]

A little overly pessimistic

[@DoggfatherUK]

If you think this has a Happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

[@mantistoboggan1503]

Man why can't people just let him rest, poor dude just go have a nap yknow

[@javalam7769]

Don't be afraid of the truth,Mantis.

[@heatherwilson1771]

He's doing what he loves and setting an exemplary record of a clear voice amoungst tyranny - what are doing in life, napping too much?

[@RiyadhElalami]

He is as productive as ever. You would wish to be doing what he is doing at any age. He just published a very important book, that you should read. Teaches multiple courses at the university of Nevada, one of which is public. Has done tons of interviews in the past year. Responds to every single email he gets. It doesn't get more humble than this.

[@lauramartin5579]

@@RiyadhElalami He does all that and then ill informed trolls follow him around - why? To try to dismantle any of this mans points would take some huge intellect, sadly lacking in these comments. Sad really

[@mannatuu]

well there is no danger of Owen becoming a revolutionary. You should interview that other apologist Chris Hedges. Wow the 3 of you ...what an awesome force of ''describers''.

[@xdgamesCoUk]

It is true to say that there are just individuals looking out for their own self interests. I can't stand it when I hear stupid slogans like "we are in this together", I am not on your side, whatever it is we are "in" I am not with you. I care primarily about my family, myself, and my close friends, I don't really care about you. Sure if I hear that a bunch of people were harmed or killed I think "oh how terrible" then after a second or so I have forgotten about it and carry on about my business. I would hate to live in a world where I am responsible for some strangers life. Your problems are your problems, help yourself. Of course if you run your own business it's only responsibilities will be whatever you the owner decide they are, it's your company, other people have no business dictating to you what you should do with stuff you own.

[@albertoc9253]

What a pity reaching such an old age with so little understanding of how the world works

[@RiyadhElalami]

Such a pity for you to not respect your elders, those who spent their lives reading and shaping their opinion. Who has written more than 100books and read tens of thousands. You need to read more.

[@hehwhwh727]

Enlighten us, oh wise one.

[@RiyadhElalami]

@@hehwhwh727 haha

[@lauramartin5579]

Who?You?

[@albertoc9253]

He's a great example of how you can read and write a lot and still ignore the most basic facts about human behavior. Sad