Thomas Sowell - The effects of the welfare state

[@louisgibbs3659]

Yes man like Thomas dropping the truth bombs. More people need to watch him, especially black people who side with these policies thinking it benefits them.

[@billingtonmarc25]

I love this man.

[@insight1025]

True, this guy is really on point.

[@danielwebb2648]

used to be a commie he says until he worked for the government for a summer indeed a impressive man

[@bernlin2000]

Incredibly intelligent, well-reasoned, not afraid of breaking through the status-quo thinking process. Yeah...he's as close as we get to a genius in America, a real intellectual (most tend to talk out of their asses).

[@insight1025]

Chris Ducat Hahah, being observant is genius to you. Wow! this is basically obvious, it's a shame that such low intellect still can be seen as something grand in the day and age where most humans can't figure out why they do what they do from day to day.

[@insight1025]

@DanielWebb I can be, sometimes. But seriously I like this guy too, but it's just uncommon for me to see this as something not understood already, That is what I meant allow me to clarify. This is like a beginning step in social dynamics.

[@jefhamil1]

i would really like to see this guy with sam harris

[@happs784]

My dad always said money that is given will never give tha satisfaction of money that is earned.. my dad said that to me wen i was only 6yrs old.. bt at n early age my father was putting tha seeds of bein a true man

[@stevedoetsch]

Clips like this are so are helpful in understanding the counter arguments, thanks so much!

[@gear16]

Why don't people like him run for president.

[@Scias]

Ben Shapiro 2020

[@rolefko4189]

we need good people in politics, good people don't go into politic, we are fucked.

[@MikeSmith-dp7iz]

Great discussion

[@perrinwa]

the interviewer seems to be having his world rocked and turned upside down.

[@CyndicateBlack]

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!

[@PhilJonesIII]

An excellent example of cherry picking facts. No reference to demographic shift, population change, employment rate changes. Just quote figures with the bland assumption that A always causes B.

[@52gt]

You are an idiot. You explain why his neighborhood was safe but is not now.

[@oldgoody1]

Feel free to unpack what you mean.

[@robertknight8074]

love the stranger things music

[@bernlin2000]

5:28 Hehe...that's the gasp of decades of frustration, watching bad politics and "good intensions" drown millions of Americans into culture wars and violence. Very frustrating.

[@EvilSanta482]

You know they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[@CyndicateBlack]

ONE GUY THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN INFRONT OF THE CAMERA

[@yongamer]

This is hillarious.

[@tobiashansen488]

lol the narrator is really fighting with the red pill

[@tobiashansen488]

Graph Guy yes the red pill is a symbol of the truth

[@tobiashansen488]

Graph Guy the blue pill is a symbol of being unawake and under control of something greater

[@igodinoel]

Laxative to drop da bombs.

[@angrybird7324]

Welfare state allowed women who were victims of violence or bad treatment to leave the man. In 1960 the women were stuck with the men because they couldn't afford to leave. That's why there are alot more divorced people in 2016 than in 1960 because women were enslaved to their husband and stuck. When a person talk about a subject and completly ignore a vital part of the subject, it's same as flat out lying.

[@nvandthekids1942]

So are you saying that most black women were in abusive relationships, and thats why after 30 years of the welfare state that the single parent household in the black community went from 22% to 75%?

[@michaelmccarty1327]

What connection does this channel have with 1791l?

[@syth406]

Michael McCarty None. Coincidence. This channel is older.

[@michaelmccarty1327]

syth406 Thanks. Maybe this one inspired 1791l?

[@syth406]

Michael McCarty Very plausible.

[@wew2005]

I love Thomas Sowell and his theories, but it doesn't seem that he has taken into account, in this instance, the effect that drugs have had on black communities. Before the 60's, there was some marijuana usage, but the crack/cocaine/heroin epidemic had yet to come onto the scene. The transformation he references in the 30 years from the 60's to the 90's occurred as a direct result of these harder drugs tearing apart lower and middle class families, especially in the urban communities. I think we can blame that as much as or more than welfare policies. Thoughts?

[@MorphingReality]

It certainly had an impact. Crack came around because Coke was too expensive because it was illegal so government strikes again :p

[@dalvinvarnado1429]

Sowell had only 9 minutes in this video. Drugs didn't destroy Detroit or the steel industry. Dem's policy of minimum wages hurt blacks. Hurts people with low skills. Read some of Sowell's in depth works. Watch a You Tube video by Sowell's friend Walter Williams " The State Against Blacks". Full documentary is 55 minutes.

[@murimurimrui]

Okay, how do you explain the pre-1900s? Where every drug under the sun was legal, but we had no issue with them nor their users since said users were able to be part of society (a functional drug user) to pay for their drug use. It was only after the stigmatization of drugs that said users of drugs had to turn to crime to fuel their addiction. Think Mark! Though, legalizing all drugs now will require society to get rid of the free medicare programs (which is fueled by tax payers). I'm not paying somebody's treatment for drug use with my own money.

[@thebackrow678]

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[@patrickdodds7162]

Correlation is not causation. It's not proven in this video EXACTLY how the welfare state has done what has been claimed. One could point out INCOME INEQUALITY as a reason--how can a black family (or anyone) subsist on Walmart wages? Or mass incarceration of black men for drug possession, thus breaking up countless families.

[@Cpt_Guirk]

+ Patrick Dodds It is pretty simple. Welfare takes the place of the working father. Woman have children out of wedlock to collect welfare. Possessing drugs is illegal so if you get caught you go to jail so be responsible if you have children and don't do it. It's not hard to understand. If you work at Wal*Mart at an entry level position then you should wait to start a family. Build up your skill set to get a better paying job. It's really not hard to understand.

[@Weeki5]

You can't collect welfare with a man in the home. And the number of black 2 parent families have declined since welfare implementation from around 90%--slightly greater than whites--in the 1920's and 1930's to around 30% today. Now that may not sound like direct proof of causation, but those are some astounding numbers. And when in effect, the gov't pays the poor woman to NOT be married, that's quite an incentive. I agree that your drug point also has validity.

[@fate241]

wow. good points

[@patrickdodds7162]

Weeki5 So what's the solution? Eliminate public services and trust jobs at Walmart, Burger King, ect. will balance things out? Can someone working 80-90 hours a week at Walmart (since manufacturing has pretty much gone the wayside in this country) to have a rented room and a constant diet of Top Ramen have the time and resources to develop new skills at a tech college (which will lead to at least $100,000 of student debt--since there's no FAFSA in this public service free paradise). And then hope to Christ that job won't be replaced by a robot or an app. Give it up: there's no Libertarian utopia ANYWHERE in the world. It doesn't work.

[@fate241]

Anything is possible if you really put work and effort in it. But I think location has a big impact as well. In extreme liberal states are definitely hard to make a real living.