The non partisan economy

[tallslenderguy]

Posting two videos (Warren Buffet and Richard Wolff)  that may bore some to tears, but i believe have a great deal to do with the political structure in the US (the world?), and that is the oft power behind governments: money.  Two older and very experienced guys i follow. The one pressing question i'm left with is: what kind of moisturizer does Richard Wolff use?  i think he's 83? And his skin looks amazing.  And Warren Buffet is in his 90's, him too?

But seriously, i find both of these guys extremely informative. 

Edited Saturday at 07:46 PM by tallslenderguy

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[tobetrained]

@tallslenderguy those are AI videos, which is why those aging beauties look like beauties. I'm not saying the content is AI, necessarily -- just AI content-farms. Here's Wolff's direct site to see difference:

[think before following links] https://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate

In his latest, he talks about Capitalism as class warfare. And he points out its failure to society, which every "system" has. I wish there was more solution generation vs. problem identification in the commentary.

It gets to our prior convo in "Independent" thread, in part. When are we -- the consumer -- also responsible for buying the products with the cheaper prices as opposed to American-made higher-priced items? Or, worse yet, when are we responsible for buying foreign-made sweatshop products sold by mass retailers?

As employers chase their profits, when do we -- as individuals -- just say "no mas."

Consider what AI will do to our society. And then see this retailer, an article I read this past week -- expecting to cut two-thirds of its workforce who already imports crap made overseas (a UK example):

[think before following links] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98n28k9nz1o

When will people "protest" by no longer buying? No mas.

We incentivize companies everyday into making these profit-based decisions which hurt us -- by chasing the cheapest prices. For myself, if we supported domestic businesses -- esp. small businesses -- at the inevitable higher prices, all those profits would be turned back to wages paid to domestic workers, and that 'de-consolidation' would also mean fewer extremely wealthy people.

That's a better solution -- not that there is only one solution -- to endless fights between a bloated government's tax system being fought with the bloated amount of super wealthy elites. And, in this last point, it's the 'average person' pocketing the wealth transfer and not either the government or super wealthy.

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21 hours ago, tallslenderguy said:

Posting two videos (Warren Buffet and Richard Wolff)  that may bore some to tears

And, if I may quadruple-down on my point. Take your comment here. Why should you feel the need to rationalize what you want to talk about? 

For those that don't want to see it, they can say "no mas." They can choose to view other things. They can choose to post things they want to discuss. They can ignore what they don't want to see.

It's too easy to just complain without action. That complacency is another issue in a free society. I think, in a round-about way, I'm here getting back to your comment about participation in that other referenced thread.

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11 hours ago, tobetrained said:

@tallslenderguy those are AI videos, which is why those aging beauties look like beauties. I'm not saying the content is AI, necessarily -- just AI content-farms. Here's Wolff's direct site to see difference:

[think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate

 

thanks tobetrained. i went to the link and here is a video of Richard Wolff from his site.

[think before following links] https://www.democracyatwork.info/global_capitalism_affordability_why_so_much_costs_too_much_and_what_to_do_about_it

[tobetrained]

I'm will watch the video to comment more rationally. But in the first two minutes I'm pulling my hair out! 😃

Can I ask, re: non partisan economy, Wolff is a stated Marxist... the modern translator of socialist and then communist thinking. What are your thoughts on that being not partisan? I might get there in the video, but it's my going-in concern.

But here's the specific issue: he talks about the lefty issue of incarceration. I'm not getting into here whether (or not) it's a problem. Let's stipulate it is. But he then goes on a partisan attack of DOGE.

The Federal prison and Federally-run immigration systems, at the start of 2025, were about 250k people. State and local prisons were 1.75 million.

[think before following links] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2025.html

These are the problems that get over-simplified for a quick political score. Both sides do it for sure.

A fair question to him, but NOT you @tallslenderguy, what does DOGE have to do with our state and local prison systems? He's not an idiot... he's knows this very well, it's intentional manipulation. Like our election system, or education system, etc., we want decentralization.