1) It is private choice on how you want to redistribute the charges regarding the baby. Thus no state intervention (or only in order to equalize the choice set between men and women).
2) Men and women have different roles. It also impacts the psychology of the baby!! This is not only a question for an economist but for a psychologist also.
Norway recently withdrew all the funding to so called "gender studies" in scientific research much due to a documentary "hjernevask" (Brainwash) shown on National Tv NRK. It shines the light on how feminism do not hold up to science when faced with biology and psychology.
sweden still keeps up the gender fascism.
The show has English subtitles and should be seen and spread by anybody antifeminist and interested in the present nordic situation.
Oh yes, they tell us how fair everything is in my country too. They tell us that while our young people destroy each other on the streets, economically drafted into some unwinnable war.
Can someone explain how a black man can actually DEFEND the party that is sabotaging our economy for the sole purpose of removing the president because he is BLACK? How can you be a black republican when the GOP is overrun with KKK, Tea Party and White Nationalists? This guy is 100% mentally ill. That's the motherfucking truth.
@carbineautomatic You're dumb. Democrats are institutionalizing segregation and rely on the Race card. The Tea Party was destroyed by the media, the KKK was a joke, and white nationalists are a minority. Martin Luther King, Jr. was even a Republican.
@Badtreewater Nobody actually is responsible for their actions. We're all just pin-balls bouncing around, trading numeric values with other pin-balls, any changes to our trajectory come from our hard-coded nature. Pretty scary huh!
@Badtreewater no liberals complain of being victimized not expecting anything in return...liberal complaints and liberal policy are 2 different things..conservatives and totalitarians really just want to oppress without question. if they have a problem with policy they should fight the policy and stop training each other to smite average people and spread hatred
@thomaserossi well you as a conservative dont believe in freedom because you say all liberal complaints deserve to be dictated by conservative policy with no medium no gray area everything is egotistically black and white. obama is not a good president but when he called to gather a grey area conservatives bickered and pointed fingers and became the party of no they will accept nothing but their own ideology for the poor they are no better than liberal politicians
Sowell might be correct IF his hypothesis was accurate. In reality, women with tha exact same makeup as their male counterparts in education/experience/seniority have NOT traditionally been accorded financial parity with men. Childbirth/child-rearing are misnomers re: gender pay disparities. He is talking variances NOT disparities. By his dichotomy, men also would undoubtedly suffer in pay 'variance' when re-entering tha workforce. That said, his childbirth analogy is unfortunately off tha mark.
thats ONE variable, there is also interest, hours worked,regional market ect ect, Face it the wage gap is a bogus lie used by feminists to justify demonizing men and advancing women, and keep feminists employed. feminism in north America is now nothing more than a ideology of female supremacy
@hujo9000 With all due respect each variable U mentioned has ZERO 2 do with gender pay 'disparity'. In instances where women have PROVEN superior in skillset & qualifications they've still NOT been accorded equal pay. U may be correct about today's feminist movement yet I would submit tha movement's original intent was along tha same lines as was tha necessity 4 a Civil Rights movement. Where it suffered however was its lack of vision. Plus men R as they ALWAYS have been... tha dominant populus.
@MRrhythmsNflows What you say makes very little since most pay-scales are set, you could be an incompetent plumber or a brilliant plumber, but they are paid the same. The absolute truth is women are not being paid less than men in the same positions. If women are not enrolling in fields that pay higher, it has everything to do with interest and nothing to do with male discrimination.
@hujo9000 And wtf is the domanant populous you mean that 1% of elitists that run things and make problems? That one percent that feminists like to conflate with all men in general? Yeah the elite dont care about skin color or sex, they just care about making money and not getting caught, and feminism's generalizations and manipulation of statistics helps them do that, its harder to go after all men, real easy to destroy 1%
@hujo9000 Oh, so it's a feminist conspiracy 2 undermine all men - gotcha. Look... I don't know if Ur a misogynist, ignorant or just willing 2 accept Sowell's assertions verbatim but in any event I'm not going 2 engage further in mindless banter over subject matter clearly quantifiable by its overwhelming evidence. Discriminatory practices (gender-related and otherwise) have persisted thru-out history (and continues today). Suggesting otherwise is simply naive - but whatever... believe as U will.
@MRrhythmsNflows You believe that based on your feminist indoctrination not because of evidence. "Men are oppressors, women are oppressed" these are not facts but a feminist mantra. So good luck with blind faith. Feminism has never been more powerful or so entrenched in our government it divides people creates hate and wastes taxes. When people like sowell begin to question, it lessens their power, its just time they got out of power.
@vikingsownpackers Have you ever heard the term "black don't crack" black skinned people age more slowly on the exterior due the the melanin levels in their skin...
I disagree here. I have seen many instances of men getting larger starting salaries and continuing up the ladder against women who never "left" the workplace to have children. In two instances, my sister in law was supposed to receive a promotion. She works at ABC and has been there 27 years. The first time, she was passed up by a man whom she had trained and who had less seniority, the second time, they brought an outsider in. Men still control the workplace - always have, always will...
A lot of these stupid libbie laws that "protect" women in the work place are based on the assumption that women are weaker than men in many areas in life.
To them, I say screw you. I don't need your leg up. I don't need your laws which DISCOURAGE the employment of women due to the fear of law suits.
If I want kids, it's my business and I can negotiate with my employer when it comes to leave or termination. I'm not STUPID!
Holy SHIT this is the first time I've heard of this man. Why isn't HE the first black president?! An intelligent black man with the individual pride to try and earn respect based on his contributions as a professional and not his skin color...
He talks about it like all the men and women involved in this are still married. The FACT is there are more single mothers with no participation from the fathers (or very little) than there are single fathers with the same problem. There are more single women who have primary custody than male fathers and there are plenty of single women with children that have had ABSOLUTELY NO man involved with the children.
Yes. This does boil down to women's choices... their choices IN MEN! (not kids)
@piwacket33 Your claims infer that the fathers never attempt to have involvement in their child's life. However, you ignore our judicial system and the bias that they show. More often than not, a court will side with the mother in cases involving the custody of a child. It is also far more common for a mother to collect child support from the father that is not allowed to help raise their own child.
@Blockygraphics Sowell is an economist and has a column and has written books. That is enough influence. He is not a religious leader like Sharpton and Jackson. Most economists while known are not household names in the major media. Certainly, Milton Friedman wasn't one. Economits can't penetrate the blogosphere and mass media like a religious leader, actor, or politician can.
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and that is why we will keep women down....becuz we want everything and less for them...so guys remember..hitting women is ok..i wont hold you accountable and stealing from them is fine..they need protection..i dont no many women who live alone for this reason
The problem with his assertion is that women would have to make that choice while men wouldn't - the disparity comes from the backlash women get from the corporate world for having babies. I understand his argument but he is forgetting that crucial connection - corporate america punishes women who want families but award men who have them. This is were the greatest need is.
Huh? He's simply saying that women's productivity will necessarily go down for the approximate 9 months of pregnancy. And when you couple this with an industry that evolves rapidly you get significant disparities between men and women. The Free Market simply reflects the underlying natural reality. Don't look at this as a bad thing. I'm a male and I'm extremely grateful for this function women provide for society.
The reason women remain the primary caregivers, in practical reality among the blue-collar majority, is simple. Men. Earn. More.
Not because they are favoured, but because they are more willing. The breadth of jobs that women are willing to perform, pales in comparison. Especially with physical discomfort and risk factored in. Aggregate result is that men remain mostly breadwinners, women gravitate to making homes.
"Women who were never married earned more than men who were never married"
This is a very cogent point, and the reply: Never married women are winners, and ever married men are losers, deserves a lot of attention. We need to stop gendering money, because women earn as much as we want... admittedly, I don't enjoy women's service industry privilege, but I see it. I live it. And I look forward to the fact that the existence of my tits will translate into a tip instead of a piteous stare.
That extra difference you'll make is what he's paying for 'the show'. It's a fair trade in his eyes. I don't see how this is a "ha ha" moment for women. If you're willing to sell your body, most men are willing to buy. This isn't outsmarting men, simply free trade.
Women who put off having chldren until age 26 tend to have more time for careers. If you're 22, and raising a child alone, it's harder to put in long hours to get your career going.
I also know a lot of men and women with high-paying careers who choose not to have kids.
I know a lot of women who have important jobs in education, management, etc. Look at the nummber of women who are lawyers, high-school principals, police officers, etc.
Some jobs are (de-facto) segregated by gender. I worked at a top brokerage house where the broker, traders, and analysts were all men. The compliance dept was all women.
When I think of all the charlatans and demagogues who comprise a distressingly high number of the black chattering class, it makes me sad to think that Sowell is at the twilight of his years. I'm sure if he were a more high profile figure, he could talk sense into so many young black intellectuals. As it stands, the lefties who control the educations system won't allow it. Yeah, read cornell west or that dyson character and see how far that gets you. Sad.
Mr. Sowell has a very good following, most of which exists on the right. This does not debunk him or degrade his contributions but it explains where you can find most of his work being quoted. Ironically most mainstream right wingers don't quote him, which I find fascinating since he obviously is knowledgeable enough to write scholarly books and make compelling arguments that get liberal-minded individuals like myself contemplating his views.
You're not his only admirer on the left. I think Steven Pinker is fairly liberal, and he surveys approvingly much of Sowell's work (mainly, from A Conflict of Visions) in The Blank Slate. And I was surprised recently to see David Mamet describe Sowell as "America's greatest living philosopher." Any liberal who wants to understand real conservative thought, and not some leftish caricature, would do well to read Sowell.
Steven Pinker isn't really much of a liberal, but I agree with you. I would consider myself a leftist, but Thomas Sowell but I still appreciate Thomas Sowell's work.
That's because many "conservatives" don't care to delve into complex issues because that would cut into their precious Sean Hannity time. And this is coming from an individual who identifies with the right-wing. I get my education from Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Charles Krauthammer, Thomas Jefferson, and Ayn Rand.
@periechontology So you're saying you haven't read her novels where she discusses her philosophy, but she's a philosophical amateur. lol
I'm not a phil major, nor am I an objectivist, but I do read a fair bit of philosophy for fun/study.
I find her method of discussing philosophy is far different from what people typically see. It's sort of.. practical philosophy. Her novels best lay out her positions. Plus, they're a decent read.
Maybe read a novel and then make up your mind. Cheers.
@bigalisme She can only insinuate her Philosophy (if by "Philosophy" we mean to refer to the formal academic discipline ) in a novel. I was talking about her actual attempts at academic Philosophy.
@periechontology Oh god, if by that you're right. You gotta give her a little credit. Her expertise lie in writing, not academic philosophy. I don't know if she ever went to post-secondary for philosophy.
But I think people refer to objectivism as a philosophy in the same way that Raymond Smullyan refers to Taoism as a philosophy.
She wasn't much of an academic, but that's not to say that makes her work any less worthy of attention, nor does it mean it isn't philosophical in nature.
@seans10 Wow, you've a great capacity for sounding like you're giving praise when actually you are deliver an insult. What you're saying is so racist and obnoxious that I think that Mr. Sowell would not think so highly of you! (at least I hope he wouldn't)
@seans10 You only agree with Thomas Sowell because he espouses everything that is misguided and irrational in Republican ideologies. The man is wholly misguided in his viewpoints (particularly welfare) and is just another "black/white" man that white people tend to feel comfortable with. If he were to engage Cornell West in a debate, he would be eaten alive - end of story.
@ezekielthemack Welfare? In 2005 $440 billion was spent on 2.2 welfare recipients. That's $220,000 per recipient. Not even 10% of the money spent ends up in the hands of the people it was intended for. The average charity has 15% overhead. End welfare and let charities take care of the problem. Much more efficient.
Even better- stop inflation, end govt regulation, interferences & dumbass social programs & that by itself ought to stimulate job growth- thus giving poor people Jobs. A job is far more beneficial, socially mentally physically economically etc than any charity or subsidy
@megagagnon1 Why don't they end "corporate welfare" and boot these guys out without their parachutes? Your statement wasn't intellectual - quite stupid in fact. Don't forget the CEO of Goodwill makes 300K a year. And what overhead do they have? Selling donated goods? Save the rap, I'm not buying it.
@GeminiNightOwl I'm in favor of ending corporate welfare - and all other welfare (sorry, bubba, if i was in charge i'd cut you off). I just demonstrated that the government has 90% overhead when it comes to welfare, and private charities average 15%. What difference does it make if the CEO's of charities make hundreds of thousands? The real point is that if a private charity gets caught in a scandel, people will stop giving to it. They can't do that with the government. No accountability there.
@megagagnon1 Private charities did not create Social Security, welfare, etc. My question is why should private charities be responsible to provide welfare for citizens? Do citizens pay taxes to charity? Do they give 4 months of their paycheck to charity? Well, perhaps some do. Your argument is moot. I am not a welfare recipient, You should think about it before you slam people - because you might need it someday. Of course the governnment never takes responsibility for what it does.
And every economicist to debate Milton Friedman was eaten alive doesn't mean Milton's views on the Monertary supply were right.
You need to argue against a point he said. Then back it up with evidence. Everything he has said here is correct even Betsey stevenson (Now Chief Economist of the Department of Labor) She has noted this correct assumption INFACT Women are now making 8% more than men if they childless. This goes completely with what he says. Argue point not person.
Indeed throughout all of the ways he explained his argument was brilliant
his argument on the money supply seems Well wrong, although obviously inflation can be BAD and yet when inflation was at points we'd never seen before (1980 ) was around 13% now arguably. And yet it was the following of milton friedmann's policies on money supply THAT LEAD to the recession of the 1980 now arguably this stopped stagflation etc and arguably inflation had few neg effects. 2 words more evidence
@ezekielthemack - Spoken like a true fascist. Hate anyone and everyone who disagrees for no other reason then they disagree. Attack them and threaten them because they disagree. Attack them without a shred of evidence. Hate and dismiss them without a shred of evidence. It's clear that you're a Liberal. It's so blatantly obvious one needs to look no further then your diction.
BTW, Cornell West is a know-nothing token. He hasn't produced a single bit of scholarly work in over 20 years.
@seans10 Does anyone know of a younger version of Sowell? Walter Williams is a couple years younger, but I don't think that really counts. Whoever it is doesn't necessarily have to be black. Just someone who shares the same ideas.
He's right about many things, but he isn't right about the 5 year break from technology causing a problem. If you learned how to program in 1990, using windows 3.1 and C programming language, and then you took a 5 year or 10 year break, you could pick up pretty quickly because programming is programming. The myth that somehow programmers need to be constantly learning new programming skills is false. Programming is programming. People are obsessed with technology instead of computing theory.
Goodness!! You know exactly what im talking about. I like your last phrase on your comment!! Yeah I gotta tell ya, those girls especially the lead singer was sexy!!!
These women seen in the video and everywhere drive us nuts!!! Sadly it makes us believe that income inequality is true, but i am sure you know how that works...
I'm an educated black man and I get much more racist comments like that from other black people, comments that aren't driven by experience but out of some closed-in view of the world. ... some caucasians do it with skin color but many more blacks do it because they have this racist and outdated view of 'all' black people and when someone doesn't agree with that they're an 'uncle tom'. screw you i'm successful!! and I'm in that place that my ancestors fought for me to be!
What you're witnessing is the Left's core ideology in action which is totalitarian. The Black Panther Fist is a communist salute to revolution. All collectivist ideologies (socialism, fascism, communism) believe that morals are concensus. This means that if you're not part of their group you're immoral - hated. They also believe in fallacy of group rights (gay rights, minority rights, etc). This leads to the privledging of differences.
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Thomas Sowell = Another self-hating Uncle Tom. For all his erudition, Sowell needs to understand most Republicans are racist and think him of as nothing but a black ape with a fancy vocabulary. Poor, poor Thomas Sowell: so educated and yet so dumb, dumb, dumb.
jujuman2003 = the pinnacle of insightful youtube commentary. wow, you must be Caucasian or something. You're brilliant words obviously far outshine the ape-like understanding Thomas Sowell has of the world.
Thank you, Mr. Sowell for pointing out what should be obvious to everybody. The fact is, due to all the factors you mentioned, if the mind-numbingly simplistic comparison of men and women with the same job titles' salaries were the same, it would indicate severe discrimination against men. Until women average the same hours, the same continuous employment, and less time off, then obviously it's only fair that men will average more. Common sense really isn't common at all.
Walter Block just got in a lot of trouble describing what Sowell is saying. It's like there are 10 good professors of economics in the world and they all have the same theory on this topic.
Sowell is always compelling. Mamet was right about him. And just finished reading Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate, and Pinker devotes a great many pages to (approvingly) analyzing human history and behavior via Sowell's Tragic vs. Utopian vision. I used to be very left. I still consider myself liberal, but if any other liberals want to truly understand the conservative ideology, rather than its caricature, read Sowell or at least Pinker's treatment of his ideas.
Some feminists aren't willing even to consider the possibility that income differences aren't entirely due to discrimination. So what's the solution? More government control and intervention. Can't everyone agree that everything the government touches instantly turns better?
You all want to know why women make less? Nature and choice.
Women are naturally less assertive and aggressive than men. 98% of male workers have asked for promotions and wage increases against only 40% of women.
Women also tend to gravitate towards liberal arts and humanities while men go for business and science, which is generally more lucritive.
Also, many women CHOOSE to leave the work force to marry and have kids.
That may be true, you also have to consider why women CHOOSE to go into liberal arts and humanities rather than business and science, in which case you'll find that sexist bias does exist in the way professors and society condition women to chose those roles. So the issue is not simply whether there is sexist bias in general, but what kind of sexist bias exists and what kind doesn't.
You might really like "Why Men Earn More 1 - The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap" here on youtube, as well as "The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell interview". They both explain this phenomenon in great detail and salient precision.
It's amazing to me that certain people (you) find no problem in making sweeping, unsubstantiated assertions about millions of people (racism, discrimination) and yet, when confronted with actual data and analysis, you all of a sudden go into academic mode and dismiss it as the "quantitative paradigm."
The "quantitative paradigm"? He's not argiung that salaries aren't unequal; he's arguing that, on the aggregate, there are many factors that can explain pay differences, not just "discrimination." If companies could pay qualified women cheaper salaries to do the same jobs as men, what would be the incentive to hire any men at all?
"When you correct for all the various factors, such as the number of hours worked, the continuous employment vs. taking a few years out to have children and so on; you take all that into account the differences (in income) between men and women become quite trivial." Actually, he IS saying that there's no difference between the salaries of men and women, because the statistic saying that women only earn 76% of what men do fails to take pertinent information into account.
He is just delusional. Get out of the quantitative paradigm already. Masculinist bias anyone? Any female identified academic will tell you from lived experience that wages are still grossly unequal, women are concentrated in low paying, part time positions and the number of tenured men vs. tenured women at ANY UNIVERSITY is still gigantically disproportionate. Ironic that he pretends to myth bust and yet reproduces more mythologies about gender "equity" in allocation of pay and employment.
$ is an arbitrary symbol of the value we have on labors. Whether those labors be intellectual or physical. If you are representing poor people in court who have been poisoned by a large corporation, chances are good that the corporation will win w/ their male attorneys. It's less about justice and more about being male and having lots of $. Sowell here justifies the existing power structure more than just about anyone I know. Think about it, nearly all of his arguments support wealthy men.
Well so your saying the statistics that Sowell uses is bad? Because if thats so have you researched the statistics that he uses and what source he got it from compared to yours? Based on the volume of women that do the jobs you list and other fields? And the volume of men that work completely compared to the women and the money they make? If you think about it $ is not that arbitrary. It has been used forever as a medium of exchange.
By the amount of the $ it gives people an idea of the importance of the object wheather animate or not. If a corporation does have more money for a lawyer then so be it. Can you give me an example of a time where the corporation was unjust? It has nothing to do with the lawyer was male or female, because im sure there are some female corporate attorneys.And also is the case is based off of money im sure there has been many corrupt women attorneys as men.
And my sociology teacher even told me about studies of poor people that got thousands of dollars and just spend it all in one year and are back out on the streets. I believe wheather poor or rich corporations were all in the same boat for corruption. and if there is injustice in the courts with corporation who says there has not been any on the poor people side. Like the peopl that try to sue Mc Donals for their obesity lol.
What existing power are you talking about that Sowell defends? Well if you read sowells books he support the wealthy people that once lived in rags. People that were willing to take the risks that other people wouldent be willing to do. And quite frankley its noones busniess to say if they should have the money they do or not. And he supports all the realms of society from poor to rich to middle class. You just have to know how an economist thinks.
Economist compare things wheather good or bad. And they just dont look at the results of one single person but society as a whole. The big picture! And to say that he or any economists is a "apologist" is stupid. Because one of the ideologies that Sowell uses - from Adam Smith- even warns people about busniessmen and there corrupt nature in Wealth of Nations. Which was one of the fathers of Laizze-Faire economics.
If you truly were to look at Adam Smith's messages, you would recognize that the US is a terrible capitalist nation. We are a nation of debtors more than anything. How much debt does the average American have? China, on the other hand, produces far more goods than we do. Remember what Smith wrote in the "Wealth of Nations". A country's wealth should be measured by what it produces. We consume far more than we produce. It's a shame. You live in a consumers Republic. Why is the largest capitalist
That's the "big picture" that you and Uncle Tom Sowell don't look at. When your political power is isolated at the ballot box and the marketplace as a consumer of goods and services, how can you say that you are free? You're not. Wake the fuck up. The largest capitalist nation in history, the US, has the largest trade deficit in history to Communist China. Do you need to be smacked in the face? That is why I call Sowell Uncle Tom. It's not racist to slander one idiot. I say nothing about race.
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Racism is generalizations about a particular group. I am criticizing an individual named Uncle Tom Sowell because he justifies racist and sexist beliefs and practices. People with racist, sexist, and/or classist prejudices are absolved of their guilt because of Sowell. """As long as well known black
intellectuals espouse neoconservative views about racial equality and the problems
of the black poor, most white Americans will hesitate to characterize
As long as race pimping sexist fools like shumich run around spouting off marxist idiocy about race/class/gender without any statistics to back them up, while calling black men who think and educate themselves Uncle Tom we can plan on a lifetime of hip-hopocracy and slapping hos up.
"Race pimping" words used by Uncle Tom Sowell equivalent to the "pot calling the kettle black". If that doesn't reek of hypocrisy I don't know what does. Sowell is the master of spinning statistics brother. No one does it as well as he does. His laissez-faire capitalist ideals demand an underclass of urban poverty whether it be white, black, or purple. There's just not enough room at the top for everybody. The American just isn't as big as he assumes. The American Dream is long dead. Face it.
Racist shumich calling an educated man racist insults once again. Did you know that Thomas Sowell was a Marxist like you? That is until he actually worked for the government welfare system in Porto Rico, came up with a solution to the problems of helping the poor, and the bureaucracy in power would not instill changes because it would have meant an end to much of the power and wealth bureaucracies make by pimping the poor. Bureaucracies are greedy and power hungry too.
Racism consists of generalizations about a particular group of people. Calling Sowell and Uncle Tom is an observation I have of one individual being racist to his own people. Uncle Tom here is a neoconservative who took the potentially liberating elements of Marxism and used them to justify tyranny. Uncle Tom Sowell's observations of Puerto Rico cannot be generalized to Rust Belt cities like Chicago, Newark, Detroit, and Philadelphia. Places where poverty benefits the rich. Read Manning Marable.
i think your using racism quite loosely; just because Sowell, like many others, doesn't believe in entitlement programs doesn't mean he's being racist. I was wondering how poverty benefits the rich
It's not necessarily Sowell's stance on "entitlement programs" that I am taking issue with. What I have observed with Sowell is his ability to minimize the lingering economic effects of racism on urban, poor blacks. Read through my comments below for more on this.
As for "how poverty benefits the rich", I would like to call your attention to how cheap sweatshop labor is in SouthEast Asian countries. The rich benefit from this cheap labor tremendously. Domestic poverty also produces cheap labor.
What the hell are you talking about? What are these "false premises" you speak of? Marxism can't be a "success" or a "failure" unless you make the meaning of it into something it is not. Which is something that capitalist propaganda and Fox News has done to fools like you for years.
Did you ever actually read anything by Karl Marx? Seriously, did you? I'll bet you didn't. You just repeat what those in power have told you your whole life.
Yeah, I tried to struggle through Marx's boring ramblings in The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, but didn't finish either and don't give one flying shit about it. Surprisingly, there wasn't much diligent research in either to back their claims. They also didn't really say much about how the end result was supposed to work, just implying that it somehow would magically fall into place. The bottom line for me was this: what works and what doesn't?
What works and what doesn't? We can all look around and see which system works the best in providing for everyone's needs: ie free market capitalism is the stand-alone winner by a long shot. Maybe you're too young to remember how communism was an abysmal failure in the former Soviet Union and how there were constant shortages of food and other necesseties, and how many people tried to escape to freedom. The iron curtain was about keeping people in.
1) It is private choice on how you want to redistribute the charges regarding the baby. Thus no state intervention (or only in order to equalize the choice set between men and women).
2) Men and women have different roles. It also impacts the psychology of the baby!! This is not only a question for an economist but for a psychologist also.
MrLecam21 6 days ago
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Norway recently withdrew all the funding to so called "gender studies" in scientific research much due to a documentary "hjernevask" (Brainwash) shown on National Tv NRK. It shines the light on how feminism do not hold up to science when faced with biology and psychology.
sweden still keeps up the gender fascism.
The show has English subtitles and should be seen and spread by anybody antifeminist and interested in the present nordic situation.
Just search " hjernevask english " on youtube.
crangdaniel 1 week ago
watch?v=0yCAlSVq_GY
erik4727 1 week ago
Modern feminism is an utter disgrace to the ideal of free citizenship
ws81086n 1 month ago 2
we are practicing the equal rights of both gender! no limitation , no boundaries..Let us be ourselves
happinesson 1 month ago
成功的人又自吹自擂
lysol5555 1 month ago
women were never oppressed in the US. they were sheltered, like children.
if anything oppresses women now, it's victimology aka feminism. it encourages women to shed accountability and blame a phantom oppressor.
UltraProle21 1 month ago 3
Oh yes, they tell us how fair everything is in my country too. They tell us that while our young people destroy each other on the streets, economically drafted into some unwinnable war.
MunkiZee 2 months ago
For more feminist myths exposed, check out 'Tom Martin suing LSE's Gender Institute for teaching sexism' video.
sexismBusters 2 months ago 5
Feminism is an evil which will turn on its advocates.
Panvert22 2 months ago
Can someone explain how a black man can actually DEFEND the party that is sabotaging our economy for the sole purpose of removing the president because he is BLACK? How can you be a black republican when the GOP is overrun with KKK, Tea Party and White Nationalists? This guy is 100% mentally ill. That's the motherfucking truth.
carbineautomatic 3 months ago
@carbineautomatic SMH.
gshooting 3 months ago
@carbineautomatic You're dumb. Democrats are institutionalizing segregation and rely on the Race card. The Tea Party was destroyed by the media, the KKK was a joke, and white nationalists are a minority. Martin Luther King, Jr. was even a Republican.
MrTreantHugger 3 months ago
@carbineautomatic lol, you're funny.
ndzapruder 2 months ago
sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me.
1019079 4 months ago
Could it be quite possible the women are inferior ?
mba2ceo 5 months ago
@mba2ceo are you joking? i hope you are.
gochello 2 months ago
@gochello ... the truth is the truth ... Fact is Women are inferior ... either by culture or gender U choose. We can argue about the reason.
mba2ceo 2 months ago
Hack.
0scottweise18 6 months ago
Liberals need the populace to feel Victimized, because if they weren't, then they'd have to take responsibility for their own actions.
Why take control of your own life and it's outcome, when you can just blame your short comings on your skin color, sexuality, or gender.
Badtreewater 7 months ago 12
@Badtreewater /watch?v=EZKsX49UScg
NobodyImportant2008 6 months ago
@Badtreewater Nobody actually is responsible for their actions. We're all just pin-balls bouncing around, trading numeric values with other pin-balls, any changes to our trajectory come from our hard-coded nature. Pretty scary huh!
carbineautomatic 3 months ago
@Badtreewater shut up
utlongyhorn 1 month ago
@Badtreewater no liberals complain of being victimized not expecting anything in return...liberal complaints and liberal policy are 2 different things..conservatives and totalitarians really just want to oppress without question. if they have a problem with policy they should fight the policy and stop training each other to smite average people and spread hatred
hapz3000 1 month ago
@hapz3000 - Wrong. Liberal complaints create Liberal policies.
thomaserossi 1 day ago
@thomaserossi well you as a conservative dont believe in freedom because you say all liberal complaints deserve to be dictated by conservative policy with no medium no gray area everything is egotistically black and white. obama is not a good president but when he called to gather a grey area conservatives bickered and pointed fingers and became the party of no they will accept nothing but their own ideology for the poor they are no better than liberal politicians
hapz3000 1 day ago
Sowell might be correct IF his hypothesis was accurate. In reality, women with tha exact same makeup as their male counterparts in education/experience/seniority have NOT traditionally been accorded financial parity with men. Childbirth/child-rearing are misnomers re: gender pay disparities. He is talking variances NOT disparities. By his dichotomy, men also would undoubtedly suffer in pay 'variance' when re-entering tha workforce. That said, his childbirth analogy is unfortunately off tha mark.
MRrhythmsNflows 7 months ago
@MRrhythmsNflows
thats ONE variable, there is also interest, hours worked,regional market ect ect, Face it the wage gap is a bogus lie used by feminists to justify demonizing men and advancing women, and keep feminists employed. feminism in north America is now nothing more than a ideology of female supremacy
hujo9000 7 months ago 4
@hujo9000 With all due respect each variable U mentioned has ZERO 2 do with gender pay 'disparity'. In instances where women have PROVEN superior in skillset & qualifications they've still NOT been accorded equal pay. U may be correct about today's feminist movement yet I would submit tha movement's original intent was along tha same lines as was tha necessity 4 a Civil Rights movement. Where it suffered however was its lack of vision. Plus men R as they ALWAYS have been... tha dominant populus.
MRrhythmsNflows 7 months ago
@MRrhythmsNflows What you say makes very little since most pay-scales are set, you could be an incompetent plumber or a brilliant plumber, but they are paid the same. The absolute truth is women are not being paid less than men in the same positions. If women are not enrolling in fields that pay higher, it has everything to do with interest and nothing to do with male discrimination.
hujo9000 7 months ago 3
@hujo9000 And wtf is the domanant populous you mean that 1% of elitists that run things and make problems? That one percent that feminists like to conflate with all men in general? Yeah the elite dont care about skin color or sex, they just care about making money and not getting caught, and feminism's generalizations and manipulation of statistics helps them do that, its harder to go after all men, real easy to destroy 1%
hujo9000 7 months ago
@hujo9000 Oh, so it's a feminist conspiracy 2 undermine all men - gotcha. Look... I don't know if Ur a misogynist, ignorant or just willing 2 accept Sowell's assertions verbatim but in any event I'm not going 2 engage further in mindless banter over subject matter clearly quantifiable by its overwhelming evidence. Discriminatory practices (gender-related and otherwise) have persisted thru-out history (and continues today). Suggesting otherwise is simply naive - but whatever... believe as U will.
MRrhythmsNflows 7 months ago
@MRrhythmsNflows You believe that based on your feminist indoctrination not because of evidence. "Men are oppressors, women are oppressed" these are not facts but a feminist mantra. So good luck with blind faith. Feminism has never been more powerful or so entrenched in our government it divides people creates hate and wastes taxes. When people like sowell begin to question, it lessens their power, its just time they got out of power.
hujo9000 7 months ago 18
@hujo9000 I could not agree with you more - and I am a woman....
mgj51chapman 1 month ago
@MRrhythmsNflows "The" is not spelled "T-H-A", if you ever want to be taken seriously you should be able to spell simple words.
adamamida 5 months ago
Thomas Sowell is like a young amateur gangster Rap singer who goes around rapping his song to be a nuiance to anyone and everyone.
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I'm young and Black. Me and my boys are gonna take the white house back from socialism on leftie crack! whose with me!?
"Basic Economics" For the citizenry should be mandatory (or rather WIDELY advertised)
can't let the people not know.
Ravengaurd6 8 months ago
I'm young and Black. Me and my boys are gonna take the white house back from socialism on leftie crack! whose with me!?
"Basic Economics" For the citizenry should be mandatory (or rather WIDELY advertised)
can let the people not know.
Ravengaurd6 8 months ago
thomas sowell doesn't age.
vikingsownpackers 9 months ago
@vikingsownpackers Have you ever heard the term "black don't crack" black skinned people age more slowly on the exterior due the the melanin levels in their skin...
mxzyspitlik 8 months ago
lol whenever I see the "fora.tv the world is thinking" thing i think....yeah, its thinking, not usually about anything important though.
Porojukaha 9 months ago
I disagree here. I have seen many instances of men getting larger starting salaries and continuing up the ladder against women who never "left" the workplace to have children. In two instances, my sister in law was supposed to receive a promotion. She works at ABC and has been there 27 years. The first time, she was passed up by a man whom she had trained and who had less seniority, the second time, they brought an outsider in. Men still control the workplace - always have, always will...
GeminiNightOwl 1 year ago
@GeminiNightOwl You're confusing anecdotal evidence with statistical evidence.
jamo387 10 months ago
this is the logic all feminist really NEED to hear
themaniusedtob 1 year ago 2
Warren Farrell wrote a great book on the subject, "Why Men Earn More".
Check it out on Amazon.com
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this guy is full of shit. where in in the hell does the extreme right find negros like sowell, thomas, and keyes.
alexalot23 1 year ago
@alexalot23 Go ahead and try to refute him. He's so full of shit, it must be easy, right? Learn some things, you ignoramus.
paradoxGFX 1 year ago
@alexalot23 what did he say that was incorrect?
halladaylover 1 year ago
@alexalot23 One shouldn't identify a man by his race over his logic. And I assure you, Thomas Sowell is an extremely logical man...
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akikohannri 1 year ago
A true, contributing intellectual.
pureaggression 1 year ago
A lot of these stupid libbie laws that "protect" women in the work place are based on the assumption that women are weaker than men in many areas in life.
To them, I say screw you. I don't need your leg up. I don't need your laws which DISCOURAGE the employment of women due to the fear of law suits.
If I want kids, it's my business and I can negotiate with my employer when it comes to leave or termination. I'm not STUPID!
bigalisme 1 year ago
the interviewer is pretty annoying (quote unquote. question. exclamation. question. quote. unquote. i'm quoting you.)
wegreenall 1 year ago
@wegreenall
You seem pretty annoying to me.
D0g63rt 1 year ago
Why couldn't this be our second "black president"?
TeslaThoughtOfThis 1 year ago
Holy SHIT this is the first time I've heard of this man. Why isn't HE the first black president?! An intelligent black man with the individual pride to try and earn respect based on his contributions as a professional and not his skin color...
I applaud you sir. May you live forever.
LibertyAtYourService 1 year ago
He talks about it like all the men and women involved in this are still married. The FACT is there are more single mothers with no participation from the fathers (or very little) than there are single fathers with the same problem. There are more single women who have primary custody than male fathers and there are plenty of single women with children that have had ABSOLUTELY NO man involved with the children.
Yes. This does boil down to women's choices... their choices IN MEN! (not kids)
piwacket33 1 year ago
@piwacket33 Your claims infer that the fathers never attempt to have involvement in their child's life. However, you ignore our judicial system and the bias that they show. More often than not, a court will side with the mother in cases involving the custody of a child. It is also far more common for a mother to collect child support from the father that is not allowed to help raise their own child.
madehero2007 1 year ago
@Blockygraphics Sowell is an economist and has a column and has written books. That is enough influence. He is not a religious leader like Sharpton and Jackson. Most economists while known are not household names in the major media. Certainly, Milton Friedman wasn't one. Economits can't penetrate the blogosphere and mass media like a religious leader, actor, or politician can.
MultiSmartass1 1 year ago
Sarah Palin will Destroy you !
LOL
Lucem2 1 year ago
Should the gov regulate the structure of the family????? Are you kidding me???? Wow that is Orwelian!
coolerdoncooper 1 year ago
He hit the nail on the head. His book "Economic Facts and Fallacies" is a very good read.
JoshLucas5 1 year ago 5
great book
fdny9682 1 year ago
Thanks I was sitting here trying to think of the title. I need to check it out.
DandDskeeto 1 year ago
Also check out "Freakanomics", even thought it is not by Thomas Sowell. It is interesting as well.
JoshLucas5 1 year ago
Will do thanks
DandDskeeto 1 year ago
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and that is why we will keep women down....becuz we want everything and less for them...so guys remember..hitting women is ok..i wont hold you accountable and stealing from them is fine..they need protection..i dont no many women who live alone for this reason
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CIAagent11 2 years ago
The problem with his assertion is that women would have to make that choice while men wouldn't - the disparity comes from the backlash women get from the corporate world for having babies. I understand his argument but he is forgetting that crucial connection - corporate america punishes women who want families but award men who have them. This is were the greatest need is.
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shaicapone 2 years ago 2
@shaicapone
Huh? He's simply saying that women's productivity will necessarily go down for the approximate 9 months of pregnancy. And when you couple this with an industry that evolves rapidly you get significant disparities between men and women. The Free Market simply reflects the underlying natural reality. Don't look at this as a bad thing. I'm a male and I'm extremely grateful for this function women provide for society.
SuaveSavant 2 years ago
This is only touching upon narrow variables.
The reason women remain the primary caregivers, in practical reality among the blue-collar majority, is simple. Men. Earn. More.
Not because they are favoured, but because they are more willing. The breadth of jobs that women are willing to perform, pales in comparison. Especially with physical discomfort and risk factored in. Aggregate result is that men remain mostly breadwinners, women gravitate to making homes.
"Punishes" is pure cop-out.
Hzqi 2 years ago 4
look we all know women are full of shit and allergic to facts. this is proved all the time at manhood101 dot c o m
westmeat 2 years ago
"Women who were never married earned more than men who were never married"
This is a very cogent point, and the reply: Never married women are winners, and ever married men are losers, deserves a lot of attention. We need to stop gendering money, because women earn as much as we want... admittedly, I don't enjoy women's service industry privilege, but I see it. I live it. And I look forward to the fact that the existence of my tits will translate into a tip instead of a piteous stare.
nitzwalsh86 2 years ago 5
@nitzwalsh86
That extra difference you'll make is what he's paying for 'the show'. It's a fair trade in his eyes. I don't see how this is a "ha ha" moment for women. If you're willing to sell your body, most men are willing to buy. This isn't outsmarting men, simply free trade.
SuaveSavant 2 years ago 3
Women who put off having chldren until age 26 tend to have more time for careers. If you're 22, and raising a child alone, it's harder to put in long hours to get your career going.
I also know a lot of men and women with high-paying careers who choose not to have kids.
MondoBeno 2 years ago
I know a lot of women who have important jobs in education, management, etc. Look at the nummber of women who are lawyers, high-school principals, police officers, etc.
Some jobs are (de-facto) segregated by gender. I worked at a top brokerage house where the broker, traders, and analysts were all men. The compliance dept was all women.
MondoBeno 2 years ago
When I think of all the charlatans and demagogues who comprise a distressingly high number of the black chattering class, it makes me sad to think that Sowell is at the twilight of his years. I'm sure if he were a more high profile figure, he could talk sense into so many young black intellectuals. As it stands, the lefties who control the educations system won't allow it. Yeah, read cornell west or that dyson character and see how far that gets you. Sad.
seans10 2 years ago 74
well-said...but you can still cite his impressive body of work even after he's gone. plus, he looks in great health :)
conwict7 2 years ago
@seans10
Mr. Sowell has a very good following, most of which exists on the right. This does not debunk him or degrade his contributions but it explains where you can find most of his work being quoted. Ironically most mainstream right wingers don't quote him, which I find fascinating since he obviously is knowledgeable enough to write scholarly books and make compelling arguments that get liberal-minded individuals like myself contemplating his views.
shaicapone 2 years ago 2
You're not his only admirer on the left. I think Steven Pinker is fairly liberal, and he surveys approvingly much of Sowell's work (mainly, from A Conflict of Visions) in The Blank Slate. And I was surprised recently to see David Mamet describe Sowell as "America's greatest living philosopher." Any liberal who wants to understand real conservative thought, and not some leftish caricature, would do well to read Sowell.
seans10 2 years ago 4
Steven Pinker isn't really much of a liberal, but I agree with you. I would consider myself a leftist, but Thomas Sowell but I still appreciate Thomas Sowell's work.
LinT5292 2 years ago 4
@LinT5292
Steven Pinker considers himself neither a leftist nor rightist. He said he is more libertarian than authoritarian.
LogicalFlawDetector 6 months ago
That's because many "conservatives" don't care to delve into complex issues because that would cut into their precious Sean Hannity time. And this is coming from an individual who identifies with the right-wing. I get my education from Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Charles Krauthammer, Thomas Jefferson, and Ayn Rand.
vansfreek 2 years ago 7
@vansfreek Ayn Rand? heard she was a decent novelist, but her attempts at Philosophy are laughably amateurish
periechontology 1 year ago
@periechontology they are laughably amateurish to those who haven't bothered to read any of her books.
vansfreek 1 year ago
@vansfreek
No, they are laughably amateurish to anyone who has bothered to read any other philosophy books.
periechontology 1 year ago
@periechontology which i have done, so it sounds like you have a pretty strong opinion. by the way, you're wrong <---see, i have one too.
vansfreek 1 year ago
@periechontology So you're saying you haven't read her novels where she discusses her philosophy, but she's a philosophical amateur. lol
I'm not a phil major, nor am I an objectivist, but I do read a fair bit of philosophy for fun/study.
I find her method of discussing philosophy is far different from what people typically see. It's sort of.. practical philosophy. Her novels best lay out her positions. Plus, they're a decent read.
Maybe read a novel and then make up your mind. Cheers.
bigalisme 1 year ago
@bigalisme She can only insinuate her Philosophy (if by "Philosophy" we mean to refer to the formal academic discipline ) in a novel. I was talking about her actual attempts at academic Philosophy.
periechontology 1 year ago
@periechontology Oh god, if by that you're right. You gotta give her a little credit. Her expertise lie in writing, not academic philosophy. I don't know if she ever went to post-secondary for philosophy.
But I think people refer to objectivism as a philosophy in the same way that Raymond Smullyan refers to Taoism as a philosophy.
She wasn't much of an academic, but that's not to say that makes her work any less worthy of attention, nor does it mean it isn't philosophical in nature.
bigalisme 1 year ago
@periechontology Care to offer any substantial criticism of Rand's ideas?
Malbrojia 1 year ago
@periechontology Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology wasn't good enough?
jtropeano 1 year ago
@jtropeano
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periechontology 11 months ago
@seans10 Wow, you've a great capacity for sounding like you're giving praise when actually you are deliver an insult. What you're saying is so racist and obnoxious that I think that Mr. Sowell would not think so highly of you! (at least I hope he wouldn't)
piwacket33 1 year ago
@piwacket33 What exactly was so racist about hos comment?
HerrSchenkel 1 year ago
@seans10 You only agree with Thomas Sowell because he espouses everything that is misguided and irrational in Republican ideologies. The man is wholly misguided in his viewpoints (particularly welfare) and is just another "black/white" man that white people tend to feel comfortable with. If he were to engage Cornell West in a debate, he would be eaten alive - end of story.
ezekielthemack 1 year ago
@ezekielthemack Welfare? In 2005 $440 billion was spent on 2.2 welfare recipients. That's $220,000 per recipient. Not even 10% of the money spent ends up in the hands of the people it was intended for. The average charity has 15% overhead. End welfare and let charities take care of the problem. Much more efficient.
megagagnon1 1 year ago
@megagagnon1
Even better- stop inflation, end govt regulation, interferences & dumbass social programs & that by itself ought to stimulate job growth- thus giving poor people Jobs. A job is far more beneficial, socially mentally physically economically etc than any charity or subsidy
swu880 1 year ago
@megagagnon1 Why don't they end "corporate welfare" and boot these guys out without their parachutes? Your statement wasn't intellectual - quite stupid in fact. Don't forget the CEO of Goodwill makes 300K a year. And what overhead do they have? Selling donated goods? Save the rap, I'm not buying it.
GeminiNightOwl 1 year ago
@GeminiNightOwl I'm in favor of ending corporate welfare - and all other welfare (sorry, bubba, if i was in charge i'd cut you off). I just demonstrated that the government has 90% overhead when it comes to welfare, and private charities average 15%. What difference does it make if the CEO's of charities make hundreds of thousands? The real point is that if a private charity gets caught in a scandel, people will stop giving to it. They can't do that with the government. No accountability there.
megagagnon1 1 year ago
@megagagnon1 Private charities did not create Social Security, welfare, etc. My question is why should private charities be responsible to provide welfare for citizens? Do citizens pay taxes to charity? Do they give 4 months of their paycheck to charity? Well, perhaps some do. Your argument is moot. I am not a welfare recipient, You should think about it before you slam people - because you might need it someday. Of course the governnment never takes responsibility for what it does.
GeminiNightOwl 1 year ago
@GeminiNightOwl
Private charities are not RESPONSIBLE for anything, they act out of something called compassion which is distinct from responsibility.
periechontology 11 months ago 2
@ezekielthemack
And every economicist to debate Milton Friedman was eaten alive doesn't mean Milton's views on the Monertary supply were right.
You need to argue against a point he said. Then back it up with evidence. Everything he has said here is correct even Betsey stevenson (Now Chief Economist of the Department of Labor) She has noted this correct assumption INFACT Women are now making 8% more than men if they childless. This goes completely with what he says. Argue point not person.
Haza3666 1 year ago
@Haza3666 I'm curious, what you think about Milton Friedman after that comment.
jimbo525SE 1 year ago
@jimbo525SE
Indeed throughout all of the ways he explained his argument was brilliant
his argument on the money supply seems Well wrong, although obviously inflation can be BAD and yet when inflation was at points we'd never seen before (1980 ) was around 13% now arguably. And yet it was the following of milton friedmann's policies on money supply THAT LEAD to the recession of the 1980 now arguably this stopped stagflation etc and arguably inflation had few neg effects. 2 words more evidence
Haza3666 1 year ago
@ezekielthemack - Spoken like a true fascist. Hate anyone and everyone who disagrees for no other reason then they disagree. Attack them and threaten them because they disagree. Attack them without a shred of evidence. Hate and dismiss them without a shred of evidence. It's clear that you're a Liberal. It's so blatantly obvious one needs to look no further then your diction.
BTW, Cornell West is a know-nothing token. He hasn't produced a single bit of scholarly work in over 20 years.
thomaserossi 1 year ago 3
@seans10 Does anyone know of a younger version of Sowell? Walter Williams is a couple years younger, but I don't think that really counts. Whoever it is doesn't necessarily have to be black. Just someone who shares the same ideas.
jimbo525SE 1 year ago
Thomas Sowell wise man. First time, I heard him, and I like it.
NWOSupporter2012 2 years ago 45
Check out his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals. Very readable, good scholarly work.
conwict7 2 years ago
conwict7:
Thanks. I will checkout that book. I read his book on economics, and it is a real winner.That title alone, is a classic.
NWOSupporter2012 2 years ago
He's right about many things, but he isn't right about the 5 year break from technology causing a problem. If you learned how to program in 1990, using windows 3.1 and C programming language, and then you took a 5 year or 10 year break, you could pick up pretty quickly because programming is programming. The myth that somehow programmers need to be constantly learning new programming skills is false. Programming is programming. People are obsessed with technology instead of computing theory.
SeeProfileForDetails 10 months ago
What he said is just COMMON SENSE!!! Why the heck would employers would pay differnetly by gender? Hello!!! WOMEN AND MEN ARE DIFFERENT NATURALLY!!
What should we do? Make the genders the same? Heck no!!! I want a beautiful girl!! They are sexy!!!
Cyrus992 2 years ago
I like girls with a lot of meat on 'em.
Entropy56 2 years ago
...especially the girls in you favorite video link called, "Rudenko - Everybody"
"Everybody's doin' it" Yeah baby! Don't we just want to bone them all!
Entropy56 2 years ago
Goodness!! You know exactly what im talking about. I like your last phrase on your comment!! Yeah I gotta tell ya, those girls especially the lead singer was sexy!!!
These women seen in the video and everywhere drive us nuts!!! Sadly it makes us believe that income inequality is true, but i am sure you know how that works...
Cyrus992 2 years ago
I'm sure these girls make more money than me so I'd expect a discout for her sex just to make it fair.
Entropy56 2 years ago
LOL, chubby chaser!
leonidas512 2 years ago
Thomas Sowell is GREAT!!
Wish we had him for president.
Bibo59 2 years ago 3
I'm an educated black man and I get much more racist comments like that from other black people, comments that aren't driven by experience but out of some closed-in view of the world. ... some caucasians do it with skin color but many more blacks do it because they have this racist and outdated view of 'all' black people and when someone doesn't agree with that they're an 'uncle tom'. screw you i'm successful!! and I'm in that place that my ancestors fought for me to be!
SilverJaiden 2 years ago 5
What you're witnessing is the Left's core ideology in action which is totalitarian. The Black Panther Fist is a communist salute to revolution. All collectivist ideologies (socialism, fascism, communism) believe that morals are concensus. This means that if you're not part of their group you're immoral - hated. They also believe in fallacy of group rights (gay rights, minority rights, etc). This leads to the privledging of differences.
Read
Hating Whitey
Black Rednecks & White Liberals
thomaserossi 2 years ago
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Thomas Sowell = Another self-hating Uncle Tom. For all his erudition, Sowell needs to understand most Republicans are racist and think him of as nothing but a black ape with a fancy vocabulary. Poor, poor Thomas Sowell: so educated and yet so dumb, dumb, dumb.
Jujuman2003 2 years ago
god how bloody bias can you be. that has to be the most ignorant and stupid comment i have ever heard
liber8me 2 years ago
And you are an ignorant biased asshat.
Your post speaks volumes about how your impaired brain works.
pretorious700 2 years ago
jujuman2003 = the pinnacle of insightful youtube commentary. wow, you must be Caucasian or something. You're brilliant words obviously far outshine the ape-like understanding Thomas Sowell has of the world.
...or maybe it would be more accurate to say,
jujuman2003 = complete deutsche bag
... but I don't know, just a thought.
mdhymas 2 years ago
Jujuman2003 is black. But through Leftist indoctrination you automatically assume he's white because only whites can be racist. Pathetic.
thomaserossi 2 years ago
Thank you, Mr. Sowell for pointing out what should be obvious to everybody. The fact is, due to all the factors you mentioned, if the mind-numbingly simplistic comparison of men and women with the same job titles' salaries were the same, it would indicate severe discrimination against men. Until women average the same hours, the same continuous employment, and less time off, then obviously it's only fair that men will average more. Common sense really isn't common at all.
MaximusRelaximus 2 years ago 3
Walter Block just got in a lot of trouble describing what Sowell is saying. It's like there are 10 good professors of economics in the world and they all have the same theory on this topic.
openyourmind678 2 years ago
Sowell is always compelling. Mamet was right about him. And just finished reading Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate, and Pinker devotes a great many pages to (approvingly) analyzing human history and behavior via Sowell's Tragic vs. Utopian vision. I used to be very left. I still consider myself liberal, but if any other liberals want to truly understand the conservative ideology, rather than its caricature, read Sowell or at least Pinker's treatment of his ideas.
seans10 2 years ago
Some feminists aren't willing even to consider the possibility that income differences aren't entirely due to discrimination. So what's the solution? More government control and intervention. Can't everyone agree that everything the government touches instantly turns better?
dachickenman 2 years ago
like what?
rob48912003 2 years ago
You all want to know why women make less? Nature and choice.
Women are naturally less assertive and aggressive than men. 98% of male workers have asked for promotions and wage increases against only 40% of women.
Women also tend to gravitate towards liberal arts and humanities while men go for business and science, which is generally more lucritive.
Also, many women CHOOSE to leave the work force to marry and have kids.
There is no sexist bias.
CrocodilusPontifex 2 years ago
That may be true, you also have to consider why women CHOOSE to go into liberal arts and humanities rather than business and science, in which case you'll find that sexist bias does exist in the way professors and society condition women to chose those roles. So the issue is not simply whether there is sexist bias in general, but what kind of sexist bias exists and what kind doesn't.
lxrlllxf 2 years ago
You might really like "Why Men Earn More 1 - The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap" here on youtube, as well as "The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell interview". They both explain this phenomenon in great detail and salient precision.
mattcg90 2 years ago
I agree, people just like to have something the whine about. Screw em.
hidethisnine 2 years ago
Are you a part of Al Bundy's "No MA'AM" or the "He Man Women Haters Club"?
shumich 2 years ago
Right. Thanks for the correction.
bob12285 2 years ago
It's amazing to me that certain people (you) find no problem in making sweeping, unsubstantiated assertions about millions of people (racism, discrimination) and yet, when confronted with actual data and analysis, you all of a sudden go into academic mode and dismiss it as the "quantitative paradigm."
bob12285 2 years ago 2
I have noticed that for years, well said.
hidethisnine 2 years ago
The "quantitative paradigm"? He's not argiung that salaries aren't unequal; he's arguing that, on the aggregate, there are many factors that can explain pay differences, not just "discrimination." If companies could pay qualified women cheaper salaries to do the same jobs as men, what would be the incentive to hire any men at all?
bob12285 2 years ago 3
"When you correct for all the various factors, such as the number of hours worked, the continuous employment vs. taking a few years out to have children and so on; you take all that into account the differences (in income) between men and women become quite trivial." Actually, he IS saying that there's no difference between the salaries of men and women, because the statistic saying that women only earn 76% of what men do fails to take pertinent information into account.
whitetigerx11 2 years ago 2
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He is just delusional. Get out of the quantitative paradigm already. Masculinist bias anyone? Any female identified academic will tell you from lived experience that wages are still grossly unequal, women are concentrated in low paying, part time positions and the number of tenured men vs. tenured women at ANY UNIVERSITY is still gigantically disproportionate. Ironic that he pretends to myth bust and yet reproduces more mythologies about gender "equity" in allocation of pay and employment.
Causemetic 2 years ago
so, what you're saying is, women can't do math, so we can just ignore the statistics and say there's wage discrimination?
sniperontheroof123 2 years ago
$ is an arbitrary symbol of the value we have on labors. Whether those labors be intellectual or physical. If you are representing poor people in court who have been poisoned by a large corporation, chances are good that the corporation will win w/ their male attorneys. It's less about justice and more about being male and having lots of $. Sowell here justifies the existing power structure more than just about anyone I know. Think about it, nearly all of his arguments support wealthy men.
shumich 3 years ago
Well so your saying the statistics that Sowell uses is bad? Because if thats so have you researched the statistics that he uses and what source he got it from compared to yours? Based on the volume of women that do the jobs you list and other fields? And the volume of men that work completely compared to the women and the money they make? If you think about it $ is not that arbitrary. It has been used forever as a medium of exchange.
meekeleeke33 3 years ago
By the amount of the $ it gives people an idea of the importance of the object wheather animate or not. If a corporation does have more money for a lawyer then so be it. Can you give me an example of a time where the corporation was unjust? It has nothing to do with the lawyer was male or female, because im sure there are some female corporate attorneys.And also is the case is based off of money im sure there has been many corrupt women attorneys as men.
meekeleeke33 3 years ago
And my sociology teacher even told me about studies of poor people that got thousands of dollars and just spend it all in one year and are back out on the streets. I believe wheather poor or rich corporations were all in the same boat for corruption. and if there is injustice in the courts with corporation who says there has not been any on the poor people side. Like the peopl that try to sue Mc Donals for their obesity lol.
meekeleeke33 3 years ago
What existing power are you talking about that Sowell defends? Well if you read sowells books he support the wealthy people that once lived in rags. People that were willing to take the risks that other people wouldent be willing to do. And quite frankley its noones busniess to say if they should have the money they do or not. And he supports all the realms of society from poor to rich to middle class. You just have to know how an economist thinks.
meekeleeke33 3 years ago
Economist compare things wheather good or bad. And they just dont look at the results of one single person but society as a whole. The big picture! And to say that he or any economists is a "apologist" is stupid. Because one of the ideologies that Sowell uses - from Adam Smith- even warns people about busniessmen and there corrupt nature in Wealth of Nations. Which was one of the fathers of Laizze-Faire economics.
meekeleeke33 3 years ago
If you truly were to look at Adam Smith's messages, you would recognize that the US is a terrible capitalist nation. We are a nation of debtors more than anything. How much debt does the average American have? China, on the other hand, produces far more goods than we do. Remember what Smith wrote in the "Wealth of Nations". A country's wealth should be measured by what it produces. We consume far more than we produce. It's a shame. You live in a consumers Republic. Why is the largest capitalist
shumich 3 years ago 3
That's the "big picture" that you and Uncle Tom Sowell don't look at. When your political power is isolated at the ballot box and the marketplace as a consumer of goods and services, how can you say that you are free? You're not. Wake the fuck up. The largest capitalist nation in history, the US, has the largest trade deficit in history to Communist China. Do you need to be smacked in the face? That is why I call Sowell Uncle Tom. It's not racist to slander one idiot. I say nothing about race.
shumich 3 years ago
you said nothing
elar4563 2 years ago
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What comment of mine are you replying to? Do you really believe uncle Tom Sowell's lies?
shumich 2 years ago
So instead of arguing based on facts, you resort to racist name calling?
Here's something interesting for you to think about:
When you call your opponent bad names, they win.
AlexJKirby 2 years ago
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Racism is generalizations about a particular group. I am criticizing an individual named Uncle Tom Sowell because he justifies racist and sexist beliefs and practices. People with racist, sexist, and/or classist prejudices are absolved of their guilt because of Sowell. """As long as well known black
intellectuals espouse neoconservative views about racial equality and the problems
of the black poor, most white Americans will hesitate to characterize
these views as racially Insensitive."""
shumich 2 years ago
As long as race pimping sexist fools like shumich run around spouting off marxist idiocy about race/class/gender without any statistics to back them up, while calling black men who think and educate themselves Uncle Tom we can plan on a lifetime of hip-hopocracy and slapping hos up.
FastingOnClowns 2 years ago 3
"Race pimping" words used by Uncle Tom Sowell equivalent to the "pot calling the kettle black". If that doesn't reek of hypocrisy I don't know what does. Sowell is the master of spinning statistics brother. No one does it as well as he does. His laissez-faire capitalist ideals demand an underclass of urban poverty whether it be white, black, or purple. There's just not enough room at the top for everybody. The American just isn't as big as he assumes. The American Dream is long dead. Face it.
shumich 2 years ago
Racist shumich calling an educated man racist insults once again. Did you know that Thomas Sowell was a Marxist like you? That is until he actually worked for the government welfare system in Porto Rico, came up with a solution to the problems of helping the poor, and the bureaucracy in power would not instill changes because it would have meant an end to much of the power and wealth bureaucracies make by pimping the poor. Bureaucracies are greedy and power hungry too.
FastingOnClowns 2 years ago
Racism consists of generalizations about a particular group of people. Calling Sowell and Uncle Tom is an observation I have of one individual being racist to his own people. Uncle Tom here is a neoconservative who took the potentially liberating elements of Marxism and used them to justify tyranny. Uncle Tom Sowell's observations of Puerto Rico cannot be generalized to Rust Belt cities like Chicago, Newark, Detroit, and Philadelphia. Places where poverty benefits the rich. Read Manning Marable.
shumich 2 years ago
i think your using racism quite loosely; just because Sowell, like many others, doesn't believe in entitlement programs doesn't mean he's being racist. I was wondering how poverty benefits the rich
rob48912003 2 years ago
It's not necessarily Sowell's stance on "entitlement programs" that I am taking issue with. What I have observed with Sowell is his ability to minimize the lingering economic effects of racism on urban, poor blacks. Read through my comments below for more on this.
As for "how poverty benefits the rich", I would like to call your attention to how cheap sweatshop labor is in SouthEast Asian countries. The rich benefit from this cheap labor tremendously. Domestic poverty also produces cheap labor.
shumich 2 years ago
Judging by your unlettered response I'd say you need to look at going to college. Complaining and marxism isn't working for you.
Alfrunk 2 years ago
By spotlighting
those black intellectuals who have advanced neoconservative ideas about
racial issues (affirmative action and the poverty of the black underclass), the media in the United States have enhanced the credibility of
neoconservatism in the eyes of the general public. As long as well known black
intellectuals espouse neoconservative views about racial equality and the prob-
lems of the black poor, most white Americans will hesitate to characterize
these views as racially Insensitive.
shumich 2 years ago
Right but do you understand the concept that people can move up in life? There are more than enough programs to help people who want it.
Alfrunk 2 years ago
Read Scratch Beginnings
GrandaddyMo17 2 years ago
Marxism is a failure. It has been thoroughly discredited, as would be expected, since it is based on false premises. Give it up!
puyen58 2 years ago
What the hell are you talking about? What are these "false premises" you speak of? Marxism can't be a "success" or a "failure" unless you make the meaning of it into something it is not. Which is something that capitalist propaganda and Fox News has done to fools like you for years.
Did you ever actually read anything by Karl Marx? Seriously, did you? I'll bet you didn't. You just repeat what those in power have told you your whole life.
shumich 2 years ago
shumich-
Yeah, I tried to struggle through Marx's boring ramblings in The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, but didn't finish either and don't give one flying shit about it. Surprisingly, there wasn't much diligent research in either to back their claims. They also didn't really say much about how the end result was supposed to work, just implying that it somehow would magically fall into place. The bottom line for me was this: what works and what doesn't?
puyen58 2 years ago
What works and what doesn't? We can all look around and see which system works the best in providing for everyone's needs: ie free market capitalism is the stand-alone winner by a long shot. Maybe you're too young to remember how communism was an abysmal failure in the former Soviet Union and how there were constant shortages of food and other necesseties, and how many people tried to escape to freedom. The iron curtain was about keeping people in.
puyen58 2 years ago