In all this game, the devil is losing and at the end will be accused of everything because GOD don’t want any rivals. Conclusion: live at the full in the freedom of GOD (praying in a right form, following the INSTRUCTIONS in the Bible - keeping the 10 commandments - including keeping the Saturday as the 7th day etc.) instead of in the incapacity and limited power of devil because he is just a temporary puppet. Jesus Christ is our savior and our hope!
Strap together 10 countries in Europe with 500,000 slaves each and you get 5 million. Same as in India or China. Let's have a look at per capita slavery you little shit
I would say there are about 300 million slaves in America and about 6 billion on The Planet. Money=Slavery. Money took every one of you human beings away from The Love of God. All of you humans have Evil inside your hearts and minds. It was planted there by The Creators of Money. It is the Mark of The Beast. Revelations 2011 :o)
I have worked in a farm in Norway i didnt get payd to work in the evning the employer used me like a kind of slave i had so much enough from him i left his farm
If you cite slavery as extreme capitalism, you're simply mistaken. A fundamental aspect of capitalism and libertarianism in general is that the individual owns themself, and no one has a right to control them unless they affect the property of others. Slavery is the antithesis of libertarianism and capitalism. If anything, slavery results from having no government to protect rights, or an authoritarian state (communism, fascism, ect.).
@lucius215 THATS NOT CAPITALISM,,,,WELL ITS NOT FREE MARKET CAPITALISM,,,WHAT YOURE DESCRIBING IS CORPORATISM ITS MORPHING INTO FACISM QUICKLY,,,WE MUST ACT AND GET RID OF THE FED ASAP
@candiceevans1 well, Lets use your word, How would you suggest we reverse this Morphing? Its not like they will let us lol..Unless, we Pull The green beautifull On em. something similar anyway
@lucius215 As if this over generalization has any ground, even if one has debt, there is never a circumstance in which they can become a slave in any system of capitalism which adheres to it's own principles. Although such a black-and-white argument as the one you presented really doesn't merit much of a response.
He mentions iceland and greenland with no records of slavery, I do remember a commentary by Lanier Phillips about 1942 or at least prior to, that blacks at the time were not allowed to step foot on Icelandic soil. I would assume if this were the law that other races at the time were also being excluded, but it's only an assumption. If they were exclusionary about "outsiders" could that have been a contributor to the reason for no slavery data? Just a thought.
Very interesting talk and it sounds like he is doing a very good work but rational intellect alone is not what will free people, nor having the rule of law in civil government. People's motives and desires must be ruled by law, a standard of justice outside of self. As long as some are ruled in their heart by selfish desires then they will find a way to oppress others.
Capitalism is organized abuse. People need resources, not money. Money is just an invention to share resources. We need a way to think out of the box, we cannot be blind. Capitalism is not working. To tell the truth, investments, profit, interest rates, are all constructions in the hands of few people controlling the distribution. The mass counts always as a reaction, Never as a cause. We need to go back and take our world.
@funicula83: In a Capitalist society, no individual may initiate force against anyone. It was the agrarian south in the U.S. that practiced the old feudal-slave system of Europe. It was the Capitalist industrial north that wiped it out. A country's freedom corresponds to the degree its government model departs from socialism. State-controlled capitalism (fascism and socialism) has never worked yet it is always Laissez-faire that gets the blame for their abuses,
Capitalism is not working in these slave countries because it has never been tried. The real failure in these nations is the failure of government. These countries don't have strong legal systems, secure property rights, and efficient government to protect its citizens from these human rights abuses. At the core of capitalism is voluntary cooperation and free exchange. When that happens, these African nations can emulate the success of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan during the post war period.
Slavery in America is called the War on Drugs. First they created fear of Blacks and Hispanics on drugs raping white women. Then white America passes laws against drugs and prosecutes predominantly Black and Hispanics at first. When you are in prison you either work or you go to the hole. So we got Slavery again in the United States. In Louisiana they even pick cotton.
In the UK it's often illegal immigrants who have been smuggled in by criminal organisations, thinking they have a legitimate job waiting for them when they get here they end up in a brothel.
@TheRationalizer Uh huh...also 20,000 Africans that have been smuggled in by white bastards from places with conflict that work as domestic workers in London
in addition to the 3rd world slavery, some modern slavery can be seen in:
permitting prisoners (working class) enough to furnish their cell (house) with self-satisfying pleasures (electricity, cell phones, tv, internet, cars, clothes) they will no longer seek to leave the cell. so, it is encouraged upon them to keep them that way. 2 birds one stone.
@xjustamem0ryx No, get lost. If you people actually cared about the plight of slaves you'd stop trying to dumb down the word "slavery" to include every person in the world who isn't working in their dream job.
If you wish to go off and start a charity trying to get 100% of the global population into highly paid, interesting, easy and low stress jobs then go ahead. More power to you. But to the people who are literally chained up, whipped and worked to death you're all colossal douchbags.
how is the price dropping noble? wtf? the cheaper a human being is, from slaveowners point of view as an investment, the easier is to be replaced and therefore there is no really need to be taken care for them at all.
how is the price dropping noble? wtf? the cheaper a human being is, from slaveowners point of view as an investment, the easier is to be replaced and therefore there is no really need to be taken care for them at all.
well slaves are used to destroy the environment .. the slaves who are destroying the forest and native environment .... WHO do they work for ... an african Company .. an asian Company .. and who does the deals with these Companys .. Americans .. Europeans .. Russions!!!! because of us stuff like this even happens!!
If the government gave everyone in America a 2 week paid vacation from their job to go fight slavery, it would be over. Use my income tax money for something other than a fucking bomb.
@melpuzon: Production drives the slave owner. If you want to use slavery as a springboard for your socialistic views, then I contend that the only difference between capitalism and socialism is a slave having one master or many.
@melpuzon Inhumanity and greed are not synonymous with the capitalist system.
At the moment the two alternatives are: a) the government makes all the decisions about what people can buy or sell (communism) and b) people freely choose for themselves what they'll buy or sell (capitalism). There is of course no pure form of either because there are still some things, like infrastructure, defence and health care, which the government controls even in the most capitalist countries.
@TravisMorien Humans in capitalist societies invariably put profits over people. Theoretically capitalism may work, but in reality, it clearly does not.
95+% of the population will always be at the bottom, working for slave wages and having their time owned by the top 1%, who earn 95+% of all the wealth and therefore enjoy all the true freedom!
There is not a non-capitalist government that I 'd suggest we model. The solution requires us to evolve from haves and have nots... to just haves.
"The solution requires us to evolve from haves and have nots... to just haves." With a practical and detailed plan like that, how can your utopia possibly fail to happen!
Ok, Sarcasm aside, by any objective measure the quality of life of even the poorest people in capitalist countries has improved vastly over time. It wasn't too long ago that people would have ten kids and lose most of them to epidemics, small kids would do heavy laboring. Cars? TVs? Cell phones? Running water> As if!
@TravisMorien The improvements came as a result of observing cause & effect, then making changes. Observing here now, most see room for further social engineering. We've progressed, but haven't yet arrived. We're far from fulfilling our potential. One can't reasonably expect to find detailed Utopian plans in comment boxes. Such plans however & their resulting manifestations begin with single ideas that without, would have us on a perceptively flat planet minus cars, tvs, phones & running water.
@LIVEETERNALLOVE Capitalism is working brilliantly. No system is going to solve all problems overnight, but the track record of lifting people from poverty to affluence is unmatched.
That's why we shouldn't be in any hurry to implement revolutionary new systems. We need to learn from the failures of the past (including the lessons of communism that having committees work out production quotas doesn't work as well as letting individuals work out supply and demand) and do a lot of research.
@TravisMorien Humans in capitalist societies invariably put profits over people. Theoretically capitalism may work, but in reality, it clearly does not.
95+% of the population will always be at the bottom, working for slave wages and having their time owned by the top 1%, who earn 95+% of all the wealth and therefore enjoy all the true freedom!
There is not a non-capitalist government that I 'd suggest we model. The solution requires us to evolve from haves and have nots... to just haves.
If you have a National Insurance Number or Social Insurance Number or if you have been registered at birth, you are owned and therefore you are a slave. Our govenments are using us as collatoral to the banks to pay of the governments debts.
Wow, excellent post. The goals that he stated are feasible, but I fear that too many people are in the dark about what is going on. If the issue of contemporary slavery was publicized as much as some other things in the media, it could easily be eradicated. I know that where I am from, very few even know of such things occurring in modern society. I believe if we who have the power to help were more vocal about it, and were more cognizant of it, it can most certainly be eradicated.
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wither or not we 'buy' things from china is not an issue.. if China has slaves, then thats THEIR issue. An issue for THEIR people to solve.
You fagy liberals REALLY need to stay out of peoples business.. always thinking you know whats best. Maybe the chinese already are working on this? every think about that. Im sure they are assholes.
Why dont you focus on Americans instead. Damn queers.
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... before some dumb braindead liberal troll says 'yeah but china only has slaves because we buy stuff' Let me correct them.. because really, what these naive fools always say is so predictable.
America isnt the only trade partner of China. China trades with the entire world. I know you queers live in the American media bubble land where you think everything revolves around America. Well, it doesn't. Infact the only thing that keeps America relevant is its millitary..
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Heres a TIP. Since China is the new 'economic dragon' with 10%GDP growth every year. Why dont you take your little 'feel good' concert over there. Since they're showing RED on your cutsie little map.
These liberals are fucking amazing. China has millions of slaves. yet, its our fault, not theres. What an idiot.
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im sure this homosexual moonbat would have NO hesitation merging the entire 3rd world with us, sending us into an economic dark age, and completely unbalance the fabric of society which is already hanging by a thread.
Globalization is a menace and is destroying the West. We can barely maintain our own system. And this idiot wants us to nanny the globe?
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now freak out and call me every name in the book you tards.... fact is, life is unfair and the universe if ruthless. All the laws and rules int he world wont stop it. We can try of course.. but never at the expense of our own survival.
If you think 11billion will end slavery then youre a sucker.
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i propose a national fundraiser for victims of the Sun. Too many comets are unjustly sucked into its gravitational pull. Just think of all the comets that could have been saved for scientific research.
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Guess what you moonbat, academic, nerdy, disney world, delusional, fairy tale believing, utopia queers... the UNIVERSE IS AN UNFAIR PLACE
Its so easy for you to 'attend' your little yuppie university rally and clap eachother with talk and feel good slogans. Im sure youll get donations from other yuppies who will use it as a tax right off so they feel good about themselves and their wealth.
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oh yes.. the overly used, very tired accusation about 'those evil consumers who buy things'
these academic nerds have no idea what they're talking about. bunch of pseudo-intellectuals who have zero real world experience. And if you dare challenge their emotionalistic hysteria then you're 'hitler'. lol so ridiculous.
this guy gave you some facts about slavery and then ended with a guilt trip... end result? absolutely nothing
What does he propose? world wide welfare provided from the West?
Ah yes, the human race. We run faster and faster just to stay in place. If we slow down to enjoy life a little, the economic treadmill will roll us off into economic oblivion. And whose to blame for the increasing speed of the race? It is the fools running faster to stay in place!
Part of me feels like he presented the problem without really getting to how a person can actually do something about it. But, I think that might have been the point; more to create awareness than to activate the public to this cause. I fell informed more than inspired, or that I can do something about it :(
@dragonstorm83 - Perhaps you missed it, but on the screen near the end of his talk, he gave a web address where you can go to learn more about what you can do to help the fight: "endslaverynow" with the usual dotcom after it.
Why tack on the crappy environmental propaganda at the end of this otherwise powerful video? I'm deeply moved by the discussion of worldwide slavery and how to solve it, and then I have to listen to some empty-headed nitwits who know nothing about climatology? It seriously detracts from the speaker's message.
@JohnJ2427: Are you referring to the Stockholm commercial? I didn't notice anything in his talk itself about climate change... do you judge shows on the telly based off what adverts air in commercial breaks as well? That seems a tad silly. : )
Fair enough, but this presentation isn't about that. economic problems in america are more the product of our complex society with banks, loans, stock, investors, bills, taxes, and so on. Kevin Bales is getting at real, brutal, and violent slavery where its just the slave and the master. Just saying that you should be careful when complaining about hard times in america when its clear that these people have it much worse.
Wow. This Talk really does pack a punch, I'll admit, My Jaw did drop whilst watching the news segment at 06:47 to 08:13 Thank goodness it was a spoof.
It is Talks like this that make me love the work of TED. Thank you so much for expanding my horizons
It's videos like these that get my mind moving and begin to wonder just what I can do to contribute to this massive cause. It seems easy to just watch and understand the message, but other than that, what stimulus can I use to put myself into action. The messages I understand are extremely powerful, but I can't seem to really empathize it. May it be because I haven't experienced this first hand, so I don't truly understand it? Sorry if I'm getting too deep, just got my mind wandering a bit.
@matoxewu Hear, hear! Low pay, not enough hours, and a 'competitive job market' force many into homelessness, or living in awful conditions, in bad neighborhoods. Even with a full time job, one cannot support themselves at the current mandated 'minimum' wage, which is around 40-50% of what the true living wage is. The sad part is companies use the minimum legal wage as a yard-stick for new employees, rather than paying people what they need, to survive. The whole while, a CEO racks up millions.
@D0g63rt Real living wage in America. Works out to around $1400-2000/month in most major metro's. Some parts of the country, however, try to get away with paying as little as $3.65 per hour. I was offered this exact wage in Savannah, Georgia, two years ago, and I spat in the guy's face. That's insulting, especially to be expected to work for that wage in a stock-room position that does NOT net tips, period. At that wage, to support oneself @$1400/mo, you would have to work 100 hours + per week.
@JohnJ2427 Work your entire adult life for mere peanuts, despite pouring every ounce of heart, soul, and muscle you have into whatever job you have... Then see how you feel when someone offers you a third-world wage in return for your efforts, while they collect $60k/year on average from sitting and making these offers. He deserved it, and I have no regrets.
@BasherCoon Here's the thing though: nobody is forced to work for minimum wage. You can get sufficient education even through the basic public school system to get more than the minimum wage.
intelligence also is not the limiting factor, there are many well paying manual occupations.
If however you don't have much education AND you aren't willing to work hard in a trade then why should you be paid much? Pay is proportional to the value you create, not just how hard you work.
@TravisMorien Public schooling leads to a high school diploma, which are a dime a dozen. In today's job market, college educations are wanted for those applying for service industry positions. I've slaved, I've busted my -ass- in trade labor, and for $9/hr. Oh, the trade? The team I was on was building, on average, 4 fiberglass housing units per day. They sold for between $40 and $80 THOUSAND apiece.
Not in America, man. You don't make what you're worth. Not while capitalists are in charge.
@TravisMorien As far as intelligence, I've worked in machine design, mechanical and electrical assembly, machine configuration, milling, drafting and design, marketing, animal care, veterinary science, computer tech...the list goes on and on, and despite my work history it's still VERY difficult to find a job paying well enough to live on, without a college diploma. The system is fixed to enslave those whose parents couldn't afford to send them to school, and who can't qualify for student aid.
why can't TED, with all its resources, get accurate subtitles? Shit, I would volunteer to do the transcription! This is just disrespectful to deaf people.
Bales seems to tote the "Jeffery Sachs" style of development spending, which hasn't proven itself through its decades of use. 10.8Billion is a nice number, getting that sum of money to the people who need it is a task that has never been done before, and we've dumped trillions into aid through the last 20 years.
Unfortunately I don't think that simply dumping money into aid is sufficient. A lot of the aid is tied to military spending, a great deal has strings attached that actually lessens the receiving country's ability to feed and educate their own people. What we need to be talking about is educating ourselves about the companies that create the goods we take for granted. As we consume smarter - discerning what goods are adding to the problem we will reduce the market for slaves.
oh come on, sure IBM sold to the Nazi's unintentionally, but there's no reason to hold a grudge against a company that changes like any other company.
@310sucks "I think the USA has proven that several decades of slavery can help greatly in nation building."
That's highly questionable. Economically, a free man is more valuable. He's more productive, and his higher earnings mean he can be a consumer, which helps other people. This talk in fact made that very point, that freeing people creates economic dividends for society as a whole (but not to the slave owner).
His description sounds so utopian in respects. Theres just too much missing from this. He leaves the impression, all you have to do is take them out of slavery, put them in school, surround them with police, and, abracadabra, a civilization apears. He did define slavery as something other than what the Socialists call it, but, these days, I wouldn't leave anything to chance assumptions about the commonality of definitions.
@RichardRoy2 oh i get it u got scared cause that sounds socialist? OMFG! "He leaves the impression, all you have to do is take them out of slavery, put them in school, surround them with police, and, abracadabra, a civilization apears." yes actually thats the fundamental part of a good prosperous civilization, education, order and human rights. Why every stupid republican is now posting on youtube like idiots? you guys have nothing else to do?
I believe, that the work done by free men comes cheaper in the end than the work performed by slaves. Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
Combat the idea of industrial civilization and all that it implies in relation to the way it handles natural resources.
The idea that such an illusory thing as "money" is the only means through which you can get food, clothing and shelter is an insult to the abundance of nature. Get off your knees, humans.
The concept that one has to "beg" another human being for a "job" is INSANE.
Abolish the venus-project as well. We don't need any more technocratic craziness. We need to truly, deeply and fully reconnect to nature itself - to fully understand how it works and it's principles - our connection to it beyond just the physical. To do this we have to let go of the technocrac/zy instead of "transforming" it to another centralized machine-state.
@Beatnuk Umm Beatnuk science is a reconnect with nature itself, its understand and applying natural proccesses. How do you suggest we feed a population of 7 billion and rising without science? Because thats all TVP is, the application of science to society for human concern. Explain to me how this is a bad thing?
Science is NOT a reconnection to nature, it is a way of ASSESSING nature - however it does so from a very limited point of view, it's ability to perceive reality has been manipulated too greatly. Therefore, it seeks still to maintain the primitive technocracy which does not exist in Unison with nature but UPON nature. Centralized super-states managed by ROBOTS and with a global resource-based economy. It's the same monster in prettier clothes. Read the Ringing Cedars of Russia.
So what do you suggest then? How do we eliminate poverty, war, and give everyone in the world a high standard of living without implementing the idea's of The Venus Project? This should be good.
@Beatnuk I agree that we should reconnect with nature BUT there is no way you can reconnect with nature when you are ditry tired sick and struggling to survive and if you whant to get rid of Science that is whats gonna happen. Do you think that people lived happier or more connected to nature before they started using tools?
I do not advocate "abolishing science" - science is a valid tool for assessing the physical world, but there is something missing, and that is humanity's direct link with nature itself through the complexity of our consciousness. When I say we need to connect to nature that goes way beyond just "living off the land"...
It has to do with awakening certain parts of our intelligence which is laying dormant within us. This technocratic slave-ship we call civilization is a result of us becoming disconnected from it - and the system itself thrives on us being disconnected. Our ancient ancestors 10,000 years ago were way more advanced in both abilities and intelligence than we pride ourselves to be. We cannot grasp any solution until we re-awaken our own guidance-system that nature has provided for us.
As for the solution to this whole mess - I say we take ONE step at a time, that we put our trust in nature's abundance and move towards it calmly - and that you check out the book-series the Ringing Cedars of Russia! because THEY will certainly explain much better than I can in some restrictive comments on Youtube.
@Beatnuk I see what you mean and I think we will get to that point in a few hundred years but only with great development in science. Unfortunately this development is slowed down grately by the competition system.
@HayteStreet Have you thought about how people might be motivated to do all the nasty, dirty and dangerous jobs if they weren't being paid?
I can see lots of people volunteering to do all the really nice jobs for free. But what about toilet cleaning and rubbish removal, laboring etc.
Pleasure, greed and fear are all effective motivational systems. Capitalism works on greed, communism works on fear (work or be punished). Pleasure works for fun jobs, but who finds unblocking sewers fun?
People like doing things that help others. Look at volunteerism. And with out money, someone else would find it fun to come up with a way where we dont need human labor for toilet cleaning and rubbish removal, laboring etc. And the people that choose do anything left over will be loved by everyone for their effort.
@mrkurt13 The current system already provides an incentive to come up with ways of making jobs less laborious, nasty and dangerous. We're limited not by lack of financial incentive, but by lack of technology.
The current state of the art robot for housework is the Roomba vacuum cleaner. (LOL!)
We are nowhere near the point where every person can be issued with a free robot that can do all cleaning, ironing and gardening. That's not money's fault, we just don't have the tech.
@TravisMorien In a resource based economy we will automate 95% of the jobs, so people WON'T do all the dirty nasty dangerous jobs. Machines will. Besides machine automation is much more productive and efficient then human labor, which is why industry has been pursueing it over the past century.
I answered your question so now let me ask you one in return. How will problems that you can't make a profit from solving such as homelessness, war, and pollution get solved in a monetary system?
@HayteStreet Pollution is easy to solve in a monetary system. Take for instance carbon credits and fines for polluting. Make it hideously expensive to pollute, and corporations won't pollute.
Homelessness has various causes, including for instance mental illness and drug addiction, problems which are not caused by the economic system and therefore will not go away if we ban money.
War, again, is not caused by the monetary system. Even primitive tribes who don't know about money have wars.
So who really cares? Most of these 'modern day slavery' rants are not based on real facts. All I care about is my own country and I really don't care at all about some 3rd world sewer.
@chairde Who really cares? You should, use a mobile phone? A rare earth element in that phone almost certainly came from Congo. Have anything made in China? It might well have been shipped past Somalia. Do I need to fill in the details for you on that one? Those "3rd world sewers" have a nasty habit of causing problems to us "1st world countries". Prevention is better than cure.
@BertFicuselastica We are not the policemen of the world. We can learn to adapt our technology so that we don't have to deal with these sewers. Much like we did with doing away with the need for natural rubber during WWII. By the way these situations exist because of need for 'cheap' technology and cheap labor. Remember all of those American companies who moved their operations to China some years ago. Well we caused these problems.
First of all we have to admit that we are the cause of the problems. We caused these problems by our need for cheap labor and resources. If we try to police these countries we will only make matters worse. Make things here in our country and use technology to solve problems and these slave markets will wither away.
@dvdragon guvment tell you what to eat, pay, live, fight, believe. But it does telling you this "if you dont wanna become a bum in the streets, you should do whatever i tell you to do if you want a job, a loan, get maried.." and people eat this BS everyday
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In all this game, the devil is losing and at the end will be accused of everything because GOD don’t want any rivals. Conclusion: live at the full in the freedom of GOD (praying in a right form, following the INSTRUCTIONS in the Bible - keeping the 10 commandments - including keeping the Saturday as the 7th day etc.) instead of in the incapacity and limited power of devil because he is just a temporary puppet. Jesus Christ is our savior and our hope!
diptdipt 2 weeks ago
Strap together 10 countries in Europe with 500,000 slaves each and you get 5 million. Same as in India or China. Let's have a look at per capita slavery you little shit
crudhousefull 3 weeks ago
Great TED talk - I used this video in a recent blog post about bonded labour slavery at brick kilns on Nextstarfish
NextStarfish 1 month ago
I would say there are about 300 million slaves in America and about 6 billion on The Planet. Money=Slavery. Money took every one of you human beings away from The Love of God. All of you humans have Evil inside your hearts and minds. It was planted there by The Creators of Money. It is the Mark of The Beast. Revelations 2011 :o)
futbolangel02 4 months ago
@futbolangel02 What about the 1000 other Christians such as yourself :-) J/k
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australia?????
wazfrmoz 6 months ago
I have worked in a farm in Norway i didnt get payd to work in the evning the employer used me like a kind of slave i had so much enough from him i left his farm
mlkworld 10 months ago
The Zeitgeist Movement!
TheBigKiller 10 months ago
35.000 views!?
Oh, come on... that is really unfair.
DeepAbsentia 11 months ago
Make a difference. You're not in the world to provide fertilizer for a graveyard. Be someone's hero. Make a difference.
The1whoDied4me 1 year ago
This guy has done so much, its incredible. P.S he is such good speaker!!
aristotelian21 1 year ago 2
If you cite slavery as extreme capitalism, you're simply mistaken. A fundamental aspect of capitalism and libertarianism in general is that the individual owns themself, and no one has a right to control them unless they affect the property of others. Slavery is the antithesis of libertarianism and capitalism. If anything, slavery results from having no government to protect rights, or an authoritarian state (communism, fascism, ect.).
Nonoyawns 1 year ago
@Nonoyawns i dont see how you own yourself in capitalism. your in Debt the second you leave the womb.
lucius215 1 year ago
@lucius215 THATS NOT CAPITALISM,,,,WELL ITS NOT FREE MARKET CAPITALISM,,,WHAT YOURE DESCRIBING IS CORPORATISM ITS MORPHING INTO FACISM QUICKLY,,,WE MUST ACT AND GET RID OF THE FED ASAP
candiceevans1 1 year ago
@candiceevans1 well, Lets use your word, How would you suggest we reverse this Morphing? Its not like they will let us lol..Unless, we Pull The green beautifull On em. something similar anyway
lucius215 1 year ago
@lucius215 As if this over generalization has any ground, even if one has debt, there is never a circumstance in which they can become a slave in any system of capitalism which adheres to it's own principles. Although such a black-and-white argument as the one you presented really doesn't merit much of a response.
Nonoyawns 1 year ago
@Nonoyawns. /yawn.
'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
lucius215 1 year ago
He forgot to mention about existing monarchies on this world. Quite superficial way of approaching this subject.
misiobear77 1 year ago
ah this is very saddening.. very disheartening
maroonvelvetgirl 1 year ago
OMG this is mind blowing! My country is in the orange sign and i know nothing about it
maroonvelvetgirl 1 year ago
This is classic American writing. Tell me guys, do you see slavery anywhere?
heartlessvietboy 1 year ago
great talk.
i've seen though other estimates that the number of child slaves/child laborers is more like 240 million.
maybe different criteria?
planktonicorganism 1 year ago
He mentions iceland and greenland with no records of slavery, I do remember a commentary by Lanier Phillips about 1942 or at least prior to, that blacks at the time were not allowed to step foot on Icelandic soil. I would assume if this were the law that other races at the time were also being excluded, but it's only an assumption. If they were exclusionary about "outsiders" could that have been a contributor to the reason for no slavery data? Just a thought.
MrXstacey 1 year ago
Very interesting talk and it sounds like he is doing a very good work but rational intellect alone is not what will free people, nor having the rule of law in civil government. People's motives and desires must be ruled by law, a standard of justice outside of self. As long as some are ruled in their heart by selfish desires then they will find a way to oppress others.
brazosdedios 1 year ago
funicula83 1 year ago 16
@funicula83: In a Capitalist society, no individual may initiate force against anyone. It was the agrarian south in the U.S. that practiced the old feudal-slave system of Europe. It was the Capitalist industrial north that wiped it out. A country's freedom corresponds to the degree its government model departs from socialism. State-controlled capitalism (fascism and socialism) has never worked yet it is always Laissez-faire that gets the blame for their abuses,
SCRYER1973 1 year ago
@funicula83 Yeah, what has capitalism ever done for us besides create more prosperity in the world than any time before it's invention? Hm...
Paulmarti 11 months ago
Capitalism is not working in these slave countries because it has never been tried. The real failure in these nations is the failure of government. These countries don't have strong legal systems, secure property rights, and efficient government to protect its citizens from these human rights abuses. At the core of capitalism is voluntary cooperation and free exchange. When that happens, these African nations can emulate the success of Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan during the post war period.
LogicalFlawDetector 6 months ago
did he say how many slaves in USA right now??
princeofexcess 4 months ago
it looks like a spin, hiding the mass slavery caused by the big companies like IBM.
meshanimcom 1 year ago
I hate this fucking stuff.
Rochford95 1 year ago
Slavery in America is called the War on Drugs. First they created fear of Blacks and Hispanics on drugs raping white women. Then white America passes laws against drugs and prosecutes predominantly Black and Hispanics at first. When you are in prison you either work or you go to the hole. So we got Slavery again in the United States. In Louisiana they even pick cotton.
vpaczkowski 1 year ago 12
@vpaczkowski White america? Aren't white people a minority?
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RichGriese 1 year ago
wait a minute... did he say that there are slaves in the USA? is there any more information I can find out about thins? where are they?
RichGriese 1 year ago
@RichGriese, look for more information on sex slavery, and you'll get a better idea of where.
nothersheep 1 year ago
@RichGriese
In the UK it's often illegal immigrants who have been smuggled in by criminal organisations, thinking they have a legitimate job waiting for them when they get here they end up in a brothel.
TheRationalizer 1 year ago
@TheRationalizer Uh huh...also 20,000 Africans that have been smuggled in by white bastards from places with conflict that work as domestic workers in London
crudhousefull 3 weeks ago
in addition to the 3rd world slavery, some modern slavery can be seen in:
permitting prisoners (working class) enough to furnish their cell (house) with self-satisfying pleasures (electricity, cell phones, tv, internet, cars, clothes) they will no longer seek to leave the cell. so, it is encouraged upon them to keep them that way. 2 birds one stone.
xjustamem0ryx 1 year ago
@xjustamem0ryx No, get lost. If you people actually cared about the plight of slaves you'd stop trying to dumb down the word "slavery" to include every person in the world who isn't working in their dream job.
If you wish to go off and start a charity trying to get 100% of the global population into highly paid, interesting, easy and low stress jobs then go ahead. More power to you. But to the people who are literally chained up, whipped and worked to death you're all colossal douchbags.
TravisMorien 1 year ago
@TravisMorien
wasn't meant to sidestep importance. it was just to throw another form of slavery on the pile albeit more abstract.
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how is the price dropping noble? wtf? the cheaper a human being is, from slaveowners point of view as an investment, the easier is to be replaced and therefore there is no really need to be taken care for them at all.
BGSoccerMagic 1 year ago
how is the price dropping noble? wtf? the cheaper a human being is, from slaveowners point of view as an investment, the easier is to be replaced and therefore there is no really need to be taken care for them at all.
BGSoccerMagic 1 year ago
great video and a great cause
nuttster99 1 year ago
well slaves are used to destroy the environment .. the slaves who are destroying the forest and native environment .... WHO do they work for ... an african Company .. an asian Company .. and who does the deals with these Companys .. Americans .. Europeans .. Russions!!!! because of us stuff like this even happens!!
christinschenn 1 year ago
Is paying someone in a sweat shop below a living wage standard any different than slavery?
Like sure in slavery you make no money, but how is making less than a living wage any different? Either way you end up screwed.
loucious22 1 year ago
@loucious22 Yes, it's different.
You can leave a sweat shop without getting whipped to death. You are not considered to be chattel.
"Slavery" is too nasty a business for it to be acceptable for people to abuse the term by applying it to paid jobs, even shit ones.
TravisMorien 1 year ago
shocking
thepodcastrevoew 1 year ago
energy crisis, global warming, modern slavery , a generation of materialism ==> source of these problems = capitalism!
shaneho78 1 year ago
Define socialism.
melpuzon 1 year ago
What is the purpose of production?
melpuzon 1 year ago
If the government gave everyone in America a 2 week paid vacation from their job to go fight slavery, it would be over. Use my income tax money for something other than a fucking bomb.
Contradiction11 1 year ago
Isn't it capitalism that motivates the slave owner?
melpuzon 1 year ago
@melpuzon: Production drives the slave owner. If you want to use slavery as a springboard for your socialistic views, then I contend that the only difference between capitalism and socialism is a slave having one master or many.
BlueRonin44 1 year ago
@melpuzon Inhumanity and greed are not synonymous with the capitalist system.
At the moment the two alternatives are: a) the government makes all the decisions about what people can buy or sell (communism) and b) people freely choose for themselves what they'll buy or sell (capitalism). There is of course no pure form of either because there are still some things, like infrastructure, defence and health care, which the government controls even in the most capitalist countries.
TravisMorien 1 year ago
@TravisMorien Humans in capitalist societies invariably put profits over people. Theoretically capitalism may work, but in reality, it clearly does not.
95+% of the population will always be at the bottom, working for slave wages and having their time owned by the top 1%, who earn 95+% of all the wealth and therefore enjoy all the true freedom!
There is not a non-capitalist government that I 'd suggest we model. The solution requires us to evolve from haves and have nots... to just haves.
LIVEETERNALLOVE 1 year ago
"The solution requires us to evolve from haves and have nots... to just haves." With a practical and detailed plan like that, how can your utopia possibly fail to happen!
Ok, Sarcasm aside, by any objective measure the quality of life of even the poorest people in capitalist countries has improved vastly over time. It wasn't too long ago that people would have ten kids and lose most of them to epidemics, small kids would do heavy laboring. Cars? TVs? Cell phones? Running water> As if!
TravisMorien 1 year ago
@TravisMorien The improvements came as a result of observing cause & effect, then making changes. Observing here now, most see room for further social engineering. We've progressed, but haven't yet arrived. We're far from fulfilling our potential. One can't reasonably expect to find detailed Utopian plans in comment boxes. Such plans however & their resulting manifestations begin with single ideas that without, would have us on a perceptively flat planet minus cars, tvs, phones & running water.
LIVEETERNALLOVE 1 year ago
@LIVEETERNALLOVE Capitalism is working brilliantly. No system is going to solve all problems overnight, but the track record of lifting people from poverty to affluence is unmatched.
That's why we shouldn't be in any hurry to implement revolutionary new systems. We need to learn from the failures of the past (including the lessons of communism that having committees work out production quotas doesn't work as well as letting individuals work out supply and demand) and do a lot of research.
TravisMorien 1 year ago
@TravisMorien Humans in capitalist societies invariably put profits over people. Theoretically capitalism may work, but in reality, it clearly does not.
95+% of the population will always be at the bottom, working for slave wages and having their time owned by the top 1%, who earn 95+% of all the wealth and therefore enjoy all the true freedom!
There is not a non-capitalist government that I 'd suggest we model. The solution requires us to evolve from haves and have nots... to just haves.
LIVEETERNALLOVE 1 year ago
can't have global freedom & capitalism at the same time
LIVEETERNALLOVE 1 year ago
@LIVEETERNALLOVE Why not? Do non-capitalist governments really shine out as a beacon of freedom?
TravisMorien 1 year ago
Child slavery is still legal in Haiti.
TheVigilante2000 1 year ago
try to copy Steve Jobs is wrong you know?
MarcioYTchannel 1 year ago
the way he says he says what killls me.
32hoopsdude 1 year ago
If you have a National Insurance Number or Social Insurance Number or if you have been registered at birth, you are owned and therefore you are a slave. Our govenments are using us as collatoral to the banks to pay of the governments debts.
Fight4Privacy 1 year ago
1:13 he says 2 and shows 3 fingers :D a few secound again :D
stevieknust 1 year ago
FREEEEEDOMMMMMM!!
mathmexican4234 1 year ago
are we real free !! ( you have answered)
wassimsson 1 year ago
5 to 10 bucks? Where can I get in on this?
MobiusCoin 1 year ago
So why hasn't Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, etc etc done this? They're supposed to be such great philanthropists etc..
Get it Done.
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Trigunflame 1 year ago
inspirational......
bqrius 1 year ago
this is how it works. just fine
seomoz 1 year ago
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wer will sich einen 20th Century Fox Logo/ Intro erstellen ?? Einfach auf meinen kanal gehen
WacomBambooGusti 1 year ago
Anyone here looking for slaves? I got em by the dozen, send me a message for more info! Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you!
DanHipp 1 year ago
@DanHipp
what a brainfarth your comment is ...
urbanmammoth 1 year ago
want a job?
seomoz 1 year ago
Wow, excellent post. The goals that he stated are feasible, but I fear that too many people are in the dark about what is going on. If the issue of contemporary slavery was publicized as much as some other things in the media, it could easily be eradicated. I know that where I am from, very few even know of such things occurring in modern society. I believe if we who have the power to help were more vocal about it, and were more cognizant of it, it can most certainly be eradicated.
jairod88 1 year ago
@Sublety00
thousands have awoke, possibly millions.
but we need more.
we need to bring this mainstream.
any ideas how?
AustralianPyro 1 year ago
I mocked the gods of learning by trapping myself in a room and I've come to realize "'I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of
this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and
deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but
death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were
no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity,
your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together
with the earthly globe.'"
7DavidKim 1 year ago
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wither or not we 'buy' things from china is not an issue.. if China has slaves, then thats THEIR issue. An issue for THEIR people to solve.
You fagy liberals REALLY need to stay out of peoples business.. always thinking you know whats best. Maybe the chinese already are working on this? every think about that. Im sure they are assholes.
Why dont you focus on Americans instead. Damn queers.
wwintelligencer 1 year ago
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... before some dumb braindead liberal troll says 'yeah but china only has slaves because we buy stuff' Let me correct them.. because really, what these naive fools always say is so predictable.
America isnt the only trade partner of China. China trades with the entire world. I know you queers live in the American media bubble land where you think everything revolves around America. Well, it doesn't. Infact the only thing that keeps America relevant is its millitary..
wwintelligencer 1 year ago
so true.
musmendds 1 year ago
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Heres a TIP. Since China is the new 'economic dragon' with 10%GDP growth every year. Why dont you take your little 'feel good' concert over there. Since they're showing RED on your cutsie little map.
These liberals are fucking amazing. China has millions of slaves. yet, its our fault, not theres. What an idiot.
wwintelligencer 1 year ago
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America is 12trillion in debt. Bankrupt. Half of Europe is bankrupt. Citizen debt is way past GDP.
Nice stage queer. But you'll need more then lights and graphics to get my vote
wwintelligencer 1 year ago
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im sure this homosexual moonbat would have NO hesitation merging the entire 3rd world with us, sending us into an economic dark age, and completely unbalance the fabric of society which is already hanging by a thread.
Globalization is a menace and is destroying the West. We can barely maintain our own system. And this idiot wants us to nanny the globe?
wwintelligencer 1 year ago
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now freak out and call me every name in the book you tards.... fact is, life is unfair and the universe if ruthless. All the laws and rules int he world wont stop it. We can try of course.. but never at the expense of our own survival.
If you think 11billion will end slavery then youre a sucker.
wwintelligencer 1 year ago
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i propose a national fundraiser for victims of the Sun. Too many comets are unjustly sucked into its gravitational pull. Just think of all the comets that could have been saved for scientific research.
wwintelligencer 1 year ago
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Guess what you moonbat, academic, nerdy, disney world, delusional, fairy tale believing, utopia queers... the UNIVERSE IS AN UNFAIR PLACE
Its so easy for you to 'attend' your little yuppie university rally and clap eachother with talk and feel good slogans. Im sure youll get donations from other yuppies who will use it as a tax right off so they feel good about themselves and their wealth.
wwintelligencer 1 year ago
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oh yes.. the overly used, very tired accusation about 'those evil consumers who buy things'
these academic nerds have no idea what they're talking about. bunch of pseudo-intellectuals who have zero real world experience. And if you dare challenge their emotionalistic hysteria then you're 'hitler'. lol so ridiculous.
this guy gave you some facts about slavery and then ended with a guilt trip... end result? absolutely nothing
What does he propose? world wide welfare provided from the West?
wwintelligencer 1 year ago
Ah yes, the human race. We run faster and faster just to stay in place. If we slow down to enjoy life a little, the economic treadmill will roll us off into economic oblivion. And whose to blame for the increasing speed of the race? It is the fools running faster to stay in place!
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kriskakani 1 year ago
13:33
about 5 weeks of the 2010 US military budget
aSheeple 1 year ago
Part of me feels like he presented the problem without really getting to how a person can actually do something about it. But, I think that might have been the point; more to create awareness than to activate the public to this cause. I fell informed more than inspired, or that I can do something about it :(
dragonstorm83 1 year ago
@dragonstorm83 - Perhaps you missed it, but on the screen near the end of his talk, he gave a web address where you can go to learn more about what you can do to help the fight: "endslaverynow" with the usual dotcom after it.
kevintype 1 year ago
Why tack on the crappy environmental propaganda at the end of this otherwise powerful video? I'm deeply moved by the discussion of worldwide slavery and how to solve it, and then I have to listen to some empty-headed nitwits who know nothing about climatology? It seriously detracts from the speaker's message.
JohnJ2427 1 year ago
@JohnJ2427: Are you referring to the Stockholm commercial? I didn't notice anything in his talk itself about climate change... do you judge shows on the telly based off what adverts air in commercial breaks as well? That seems a tad silly. : )
midare 1 year ago
holy shit
LemonLimeLaughter 1 year ago
Fair enough, but this presentation isn't about that. economic problems in america are more the product of our complex society with banks, loans, stock, investors, bills, taxes, and so on. Kevin Bales is getting at real, brutal, and violent slavery where its just the slave and the master. Just saying that you should be careful when complaining about hard times in america when its clear that these people have it much worse.
Devinvollmer 1 year ago
minimum wage in America is slavery.
arian50 1 year ago
@arian50 Absolutely.
thecheesburgler 1 year ago
Wow. This Talk really does pack a punch, I'll admit, My Jaw did drop whilst watching the news segment at 06:47 to 08:13 Thank goodness it was a spoof.
It is Talks like this that make me love the work of TED. Thank you so much for expanding my horizons
theyounghistorian77 1 year ago
This is one of the best talks I've seen so far on this channel.
aaaaaaaaooooooo 1 year ago
True capitalism creates freedom, socialism creates slaves.
hydin1 1 year ago
this sounds homologous to being Shang-hied.
AcanLord 1 year ago
It's videos like these that get my mind moving and begin to wonder just what I can do to contribute to this massive cause. It seems easy to just watch and understand the message, but other than that, what stimulus can I use to put myself into action. The messages I understand are extremely powerful, but I can't seem to really empathize it. May it be because I haven't experienced this first hand, so I don't truly understand it? Sorry if I'm getting too deep, just got my mind wandering a bit.
iunno 1 year ago
most americans are economic slaves thanks to bills and low pay
matoxewu 1 year ago
@matoxewu Hear, hear! Low pay, not enough hours, and a 'competitive job market' force many into homelessness, or living in awful conditions, in bad neighborhoods. Even with a full time job, one cannot support themselves at the current mandated 'minimum' wage, which is around 40-50% of what the true living wage is. The sad part is companies use the minimum legal wage as a yard-stick for new employees, rather than paying people what they need, to survive. The whole while, a CEO racks up millions.
BasherCoon 1 year ago
Are you talking about the real living wage in America or in another part of the world?
D0g63rt 1 year ago
@D0g63rt Real living wage in America. Works out to around $1400-2000/month in most major metro's. Some parts of the country, however, try to get away with paying as little as $3.65 per hour. I was offered this exact wage in Savannah, Georgia, two years ago, and I spat in the guy's face. That's insulting, especially to be expected to work for that wage in a stock-room position that does NOT net tips, period. At that wage, to support oneself @$1400/mo, you would have to work 100 hours + per week.
BasherCoon 1 year ago
You spit in the guy's face?
You have serious issues, dude.
JohnJ2427 1 year ago
@JohnJ2427 Work your entire adult life for mere peanuts, despite pouring every ounce of heart, soul, and muscle you have into whatever job you have... Then see how you feel when someone offers you a third-world wage in return for your efforts, while they collect $60k/year on average from sitting and making these offers. He deserved it, and I have no regrets.
BasherCoon 1 year ago
@BasherCoon Here's the thing though: nobody is forced to work for minimum wage. You can get sufficient education even through the basic public school system to get more than the minimum wage.
intelligence also is not the limiting factor, there are many well paying manual occupations.
If however you don't have much education AND you aren't willing to work hard in a trade then why should you be paid much? Pay is proportional to the value you create, not just how hard you work.
TravisMorien 1 year ago
@TravisMorien Public schooling leads to a high school diploma, which are a dime a dozen. In today's job market, college educations are wanted for those applying for service industry positions. I've slaved, I've busted my -ass- in trade labor, and for $9/hr. Oh, the trade? The team I was on was building, on average, 4 fiberglass housing units per day. They sold for between $40 and $80 THOUSAND apiece.
Not in America, man. You don't make what you're worth. Not while capitalists are in charge.
BasherCoon 1 year ago
@TravisMorien As far as intelligence, I've worked in machine design, mechanical and electrical assembly, machine configuration, milling, drafting and design, marketing, animal care, veterinary science, computer tech...the list goes on and on, and despite my work history it's still VERY difficult to find a job paying well enough to live on, without a college diploma. The system is fixed to enslave those whose parents couldn't afford to send them to school, and who can't qualify for student aid.
BasherCoon 1 year ago
why can't TED, with all its resources, get accurate subtitles? Shit, I would volunteer to do the transcription! This is just disrespectful to deaf people.
infinitum17 1 year ago 2
The CC is through youtube.
Howboutthinking 1 year ago
Great, important message. Thanks
Isaacthompson 1 year ago
waw i didnt know that there is slavery ;O
luddomatic 1 year ago
Bales seems to tote the "Jeffery Sachs" style of development spending, which hasn't proven itself through its decades of use. 10.8Billion is a nice number, getting that sum of money to the people who need it is a task that has never been done before, and we've dumped trillions into aid through the last 20 years.
jameswaheard 1 year ago
Unfortunately I don't think that simply dumping money into aid is sufficient. A lot of the aid is tied to military spending, a great deal has strings attached that actually lessens the receiving country's ability to feed and educate their own people. What we need to be talking about is educating ourselves about the companies that create the goods we take for granted. As we consume smarter - discerning what goods are adding to the problem we will reduce the market for slaves.
celticphrog 1 year ago
lol, this guy totally said *hlip instead of whip like how Stewie says kool hlip. lol
fireflyuphigh 1 year ago
are we truly free?
CarrieRulesTheBlock 1 year ago
Good message, nice to hear!
jahrleriksen 1 year ago
ironic how this is funded by IBM.
IBM: bringing computing world speed, to systematic genocide!
google IBM and the holocaust.
AustralianPyro 1 year ago
oh come on, sure IBM sold to the Nazi's unintentionally, but there's no reason to hold a grudge against a company that changes like any other company.
TheBerkeleyBear 1 year ago
now, geothermal power!
as powerfull as nuclear, but no where near as dangerous.
possible side effects may include:
increase in living conditions
increase in feasability of electric cars
massive reduction in CO2 emmissions
broke oil barrens
a dramatic increase in the egos of liberals and do gooders.
AustralianPyro 1 year ago
I think the USA has proven that several decades of slavery can help greatly in nation building. Leave these poor slave masters alone you hypocrites.
310sucks 1 year ago
@310sucks "I think the USA has proven that several decades of slavery can help greatly in nation building."
That's highly questionable. Economically, a free man is more valuable. He's more productive, and his higher earnings mean he can be a consumer, which helps other people. This talk in fact made that very point, that freeing people creates economic dividends for society as a whole (but not to the slave owner).
TravisMorien 1 year ago
Poor children! :'''( Stop bringing the children into that sad existence.
okcupidvitame 1 year ago
I'm glad he added the last words
cause poor people are forcing themselves to do hard dangerous work they dont like just to subsist HERE
notice they are all literally asking to be slaves (at first)
back in the day all people had a way of living their heritage the Slavers would have the catch them
we live in the Slaver designed world where the slaves are handing themselves over or starving to death
sad
Zoidborg1 1 year ago
Are we truly free people????
myselfrfael 1 year ago
according to his definition of slavery, if someone forces you to work WITH pay then its not slavery ...
sucktdeep 1 year ago
No law no life.
austpom333 1 year ago
what the fuck..... There are no slaves in India... this this ridiculous....And 5,00,000 in USA.. Show me where they are!!!
ravishethwala 1 year ago
"If we can't use our intellectual power, are we truly free?"
Most people I converse with miss this opinion. They base their values on greed and pride, not rationality of opinion.
I wish to find more people that would think with "intellect" by logical understanding and reasoning...
XaneCrazy 1 year ago
His description sounds so utopian in respects. Theres just too much missing from this. He leaves the impression, all you have to do is take them out of slavery, put them in school, surround them with police, and, abracadabra, a civilization apears. He did define slavery as something other than what the Socialists call it, but, these days, I wouldn't leave anything to chance assumptions about the commonality of definitions.
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@RichardRoy2 oh i get it u got scared cause that sounds socialist? OMFG! "He leaves the impression, all you have to do is take them out of slavery, put them in school, surround them with police, and, abracadabra, a civilization apears." yes actually thats the fundamental part of a good prosperous civilization, education, order and human rights. Why every stupid republican is now posting on youtube like idiots? you guys have nothing else to do?
stjester 1 year ago
Adam smith the father of economic.
From the experience of all ages and nations,
I believe, that the work done by free men comes cheaper in the end than the work performed by slaves. Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
economic should teach it everywhere.
tenisplayer 1 year ago
Made in China = Wage slavery
Prison Inmate work = Wage slavery
"Wage slavery" is "modern slavery"
rest that he is talking about is JUST slavery
That mid video is just repulsive, and spoof or not, you loose your job and they hire some1 that will work for less
Why dont America invade one of those slave owning countrys and free them ? Instead of chasing cave men
$10.8 B - And the G10 keeps spending trilions on war - doesnt that make you proud to be a human
koneye 1 year ago
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Made in China = Wage slavery
Prison Inmate work = Wage slavery
"Wage slavery" is "modern slavery"
rest that he is talking about is JUST slavery
That mid video is just repulsive, and spoof or not, you loose your job and they hire some1 that will work for less
Why dont America invade one of those slave owning countrys and free them ? Instead of chasing cave men
$10.8 B - And the G10 keeps spending trilions on war - doesnt that make you proud to be a human
koneye 1 year ago
Made in China = Wage slavery
Prison Inmate work = Wage slavery
"Wage slavery" is "modern slavery"
rest that he is talking about is JUST slavery
That mid video is just repulsive, and spoof or not, you loose your job and they hire some1 that will work for less
Why dont America invade one of those slave owning countrys and free them ? Instead of chasing cave men
$10.8 B - And the G10 keeps spending trilions on war - doesnt that make you proud to be a human
koneye 1 year ago
How to combat modern slavery?
Combat the monetary system, then.
Combat the idea of "governments" and "laws".
Combat the idea of industrial civilization and all that it implies in relation to the way it handles natural resources.
The idea that such an illusory thing as "money" is the only means through which you can get food, clothing and shelter is an insult to the abundance of nature. Get off your knees, humans.
The concept that one has to "beg" another human being for a "job" is INSANE.
Beatnuk 1 year ago
@Beatnuk FYI your basically advocating TVP right here. lol.
HayteStreet 1 year ago
Abolish the monetary system, implement The Venus Project. Thats the only real answer to our problems.
HayteStreet 1 year ago
@HayteStreet
Abolish the venus-project as well. We don't need any more technocratic craziness. We need to truly, deeply and fully reconnect to nature itself - to fully understand how it works and it's principles - our connection to it beyond just the physical. To do this we have to let go of the technocrac/zy instead of "transforming" it to another centralized machine-state.
Beatnuk 1 year ago
@Beatnuk pls see venus project again all ur questions r answered there. In fact they r very specific on the ones u have. kk? thanks
stjester 1 year ago
@Beatnuk Umm Beatnuk science is a reconnect with nature itself, its understand and applying natural proccesses. How do you suggest we feed a population of 7 billion and rising without science? Because thats all TVP is, the application of science to society for human concern. Explain to me how this is a bad thing?
HayteStreet 1 year ago
@HayteStreet
Science is NOT a reconnection to nature, it is a way of ASSESSING nature - however it does so from a very limited point of view, it's ability to perceive reality has been manipulated too greatly. Therefore, it seeks still to maintain the primitive technocracy which does not exist in Unison with nature but UPON nature. Centralized super-states managed by ROBOTS and with a global resource-based economy. It's the same monster in prettier clothes. Read the Ringing Cedars of Russia.
Beatnuk 1 year ago
So what do you suggest then? How do we eliminate poverty, war, and give everyone in the world a high standard of living without implementing the idea's of The Venus Project? This should be good.
HayteStreet 1 year ago
@HayteStreet
"This should be good"
See, you've already disabled your freedom of thought.
You can read my reply to TAHK15, or read the Ringing Cedars of Russia - which I highly advice everyone do.
Beatnuk 1 year ago
@Beatnuk I agree that we should reconnect with nature BUT there is no way you can reconnect with nature when you are ditry tired sick and struggling to survive and if you whant to get rid of Science that is whats gonna happen. Do you think that people lived happier or more connected to nature before they started using tools?
TAHK15 1 year ago
@TAHK15 Right, (Part 1)
I do not advocate "abolishing science" - science is a valid tool for assessing the physical world, but there is something missing, and that is humanity's direct link with nature itself through the complexity of our consciousness. When I say we need to connect to nature that goes way beyond just "living off the land"...
Beatnuk 1 year ago
(Part 2)
It has to do with awakening certain parts of our intelligence which is laying dormant within us. This technocratic slave-ship we call civilization is a result of us becoming disconnected from it - and the system itself thrives on us being disconnected. Our ancient ancestors 10,000 years ago were way more advanced in both abilities and intelligence than we pride ourselves to be. We cannot grasp any solution until we re-awaken our own guidance-system that nature has provided for us.
Beatnuk 1 year ago
(Part 3)
As for the solution to this whole mess - I say we take ONE step at a time, that we put our trust in nature's abundance and move towards it calmly - and that you check out the book-series the Ringing Cedars of Russia! because THEY will certainly explain much better than I can in some restrictive comments on Youtube.
Peace.
Beatnuk 1 year ago
@Beatnuk I see what you mean and I think we will get to that point in a few hundred years but only with great development in science. Unfortunately this development is slowed down grately by the competition system.
TAHK15 1 year ago
@HayteStreet Have you thought about how people might be motivated to do all the nasty, dirty and dangerous jobs if they weren't being paid?
I can see lots of people volunteering to do all the really nice jobs for free. But what about toilet cleaning and rubbish removal, laboring etc.
Pleasure, greed and fear are all effective motivational systems. Capitalism works on greed, communism works on fear (work or be punished). Pleasure works for fun jobs, but who finds unblocking sewers fun?
TravisMorien 1 year ago
People like doing things that help others. Look at volunteerism. And with out money, someone else would find it fun to come up with a way where we dont need human labor for toilet cleaning and rubbish removal, laboring etc. And the people that choose do anything left over will be loved by everyone for their effort.
mrkurt13 1 year ago
@mrkurt13 The current system already provides an incentive to come up with ways of making jobs less laborious, nasty and dangerous. We're limited not by lack of financial incentive, but by lack of technology.
The current state of the art robot for housework is the Roomba vacuum cleaner. (LOL!)
We are nowhere near the point where every person can be issued with a free robot that can do all cleaning, ironing and gardening. That's not money's fault, we just don't have the tech.
TravisMorien 1 year ago
Not really true. Look into resource or Gift based economic systems vs our current monetary system.
I'm sure you've heard of ideas like the venus project. If not I have a play list in my uploads.
mrkurt13 1 year ago
@TravisMorien In a resource based economy we will automate 95% of the jobs, so people WON'T do all the dirty nasty dangerous jobs. Machines will. Besides machine automation is much more productive and efficient then human labor, which is why industry has been pursueing it over the past century.
I answered your question so now let me ask you one in return. How will problems that you can't make a profit from solving such as homelessness, war, and pollution get solved in a monetary system?
HayteStreet 1 year ago
@HayteStreet Pollution is easy to solve in a monetary system. Take for instance carbon credits and fines for polluting. Make it hideously expensive to pollute, and corporations won't pollute.
Homelessness has various causes, including for instance mental illness and drug addiction, problems which are not caused by the economic system and therefore will not go away if we ban money.
War, again, is not caused by the monetary system. Even primitive tribes who don't know about money have wars.
TravisMorien 1 year ago
So who really cares? Most of these 'modern day slavery' rants are not based on real facts. All I care about is my own country and I really don't care at all about some 3rd world sewer.
chairde 1 year ago
@chairde Who really cares? You should, use a mobile phone? A rare earth element in that phone almost certainly came from Congo. Have anything made in China? It might well have been shipped past Somalia. Do I need to fill in the details for you on that one? Those "3rd world sewers" have a nasty habit of causing problems to us "1st world countries". Prevention is better than cure.
BertFicuselastica 1 year ago
@BertFicuselastica We are not the policemen of the world. We can learn to adapt our technology so that we don't have to deal with these sewers. Much like we did with doing away with the need for natural rubber during WWII. By the way these situations exist because of need for 'cheap' technology and cheap labor. Remember all of those American companies who moved their operations to China some years ago. Well we caused these problems.
chairde 1 year ago
@chairde How very green of you. I do rather suspect a more sustainable world is a fairer one. How we get there of course is the trick.
BertFicuselastica 1 year ago
@BertFicuselastica
First of all we have to admit that we are the cause of the problems. We caused these problems by our need for cheap labor and resources. If we try to police these countries we will only make matters worse. Make things here in our country and use technology to solve problems and these slave markets will wither away.
chairde 1 year ago
Rule of law? I don't want no guvment telling me who I can hire.
/s
dvdragon 1 year ago
@dvdragon guvment tell you what to eat, pay, live, fight, believe. But it does telling you this "if you dont wanna become a bum in the streets, you should do whatever i tell you to do if you want a job, a loan, get maried.." and people eat this BS everyday
stjester 1 year ago
really excellent vid
shadling34 1 year ago
Like every great TED talk, it builds slowly to a devastating premise.
27 million...
kinsmed 1 year ago
things like this make me very emotional. it's such a wonderful thing to see that people who care actually exist
SheepRCool17 1 year ago