"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for life" ~ Confucius
Our instincts tells us to blame those greedy corporations, rather they are what makes america the land of opportunity and the ideals of free market. The real blame is that America is not a free market for the past 30 years because of government's socialist economic "stimulus", Corporatism, and artificially low interest rates that causes inflation among many other.
@2011rosarot saying that all greedy people are unhappy is like saying all poor people are happy... it just depends on how you live, how you want to live, and the kind of person you are
@miskittt We don't know that Mother Theresa is in heaven. It is very likely that God understands economics, and if He does, He will reward those who "teach men how to fish" rather than strapping them to the dependency of handouts.
Stossel says Greed is Good-defined as self interest-for the wealthy if so Greed-self interest- is good for other people the 99%. LITTLE FLAW IN STOSSEL STATEMENT GREED IS GOOD DEFINED AS SELF INTEREST THEN IT'S GOOD FOR EVERYONE NOT JUST WEALTHY!!!!!
EXACTLY. what's so good about suffering? stop buying into these stupid myths that greed is evil and suffering makes you a bitter... oops I mean better... person. If that's how you want to spend your time, go hard. but stop judging others that prefer a life of ease. Ahhhh
@theAbeElement Thank you! I would like to see those who slander free-market businesses spend just three days (1%) a year in the harsh brutality of nature with nothing made by the free market, including health care. Let's be honest; we all want to live comfortable lives. It is time we look at socialism as it is: stealing from those who work.
Oh, wow.....this documentary is so superficial and beside the point. Of course, there is nothing wrong with being rich (not all rich people are greedy), but there is a lot wrong with being greedy. Greedy people are greedy because they are chronically unhappy and dissatisfied. They are NOT happy. They know neither gratefulness nor contentment. They always want more and more and more and more.....Very sad. Greed is basically the same as addiction.
@2011rosarot Lol did you even watch the documentry? It has shown plenty of happy greedy people. Greedy people being unhappy is a myth some are happy some arn't just like the rest of us.
@666or999, most people in this world just pretend to be happy. In fact, greed is an expression of unhappiness. You don't need to believe me, though. :)
how could such a smart man do something so stupid as to give money to the UN. The UN is the most corrupt organization on the planet. I would not give the UN a bucket of warm piss.
Ted Turner was behaving like a douche, it's clear he has alterior motives for his donations (tax write offs + funding covert depopulation programs with his donations).
He couldn't even articulate himself, I sincerely did not expect to see him be so defensive and argumentative to the calm John Stossel.
Ted Turner just doesn't believe in what he claims, it should be obvious
This is a biased show trying to justify unchecked capitalism and greed. Capitalism existed ever since humans started barter system or trading with each other. Why is that this show only has conservative ideological economists on the show ? It looks like John Stossel wants to justify himself, that his personal greed is good and he is worth the millions of dollars the he takes home. Human greed is destroying our nature and ecosystem. Thousands of species have become extinct due to humans.
@gabsave "This is a biased show trying to justify unchecked capitalism and greed. Capitalism existed ever since humans started barter system or trading with each other." I dont see your point , are you saying we should go back to the barter system to keep capitalism in check?"Human greed is destroying nature ..ecosystem. Thousands of species have become extinct .." What these silly leftie greenies overlook is that humans are PART of the ecosystem!Then logically whatever we do is not inorganic!
Capitalism is not the opposite of socialism. Where is the line of separation between greed and reasonable profit. The reason why profit works is; money attracts talent like honey attracts bees. Earning lots of money gives a better quality of life for oneself and family, that is what drives people. This desire to have a better quality of life. Don't equate that desire with desire for money. Money is only worth what the seller is willing to sell his product for and supply vs demand.
@malcandcookies that would be because you did not view it with an open mind. To be honest i have come to expect that from the far left. i have watched Moor's films and looked into the facts he claims. Most are false. i have looked into the facts in stossel's and most are true. i used to be a democrat. I have grown past the blind heart. Most on the left just have ideas and dont back them up with fact. Most right wing have facts that build great ideas.
When we talk about money we need to know that most all banks are controlled by the Rothchilds. If we want to keep this greed game going on we are going to have to kick some of these families who control the money off the board. End the FED. Come out with Free Energy get rid of income tax and death tax. There are so many ways that the rich oppress us and control us. Its one big club and you and i are not in it. They roll out the red carpet for each other always taking care of whos in the club.
"You can teach a man to fish all you want; if he never tasted the fish or got a fish, he will never be inspired. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with giving first"
I would also add that merely teaching a man to fish will have little long term value, unless they see the ongoing benefit to them self and/or others close to them.
I agree with the whole "it is better to teach a man to fish" analogy, but the Mother Teresa and Michael Milkin comparison is stretching it a bit too far. IMO, the end result does NOT always justifies the means, for example if 10,000 people get screwed or cheated out of their life savings so that 100,000 other people can benefit, it is tradeoff that should not be done. Capitalism with a conscience, as Richard Branson describes himself, is the way to go
Note on your stock footage of African children who can't help themselves or work for themselves - I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the harms of foreign aid. Programs that work teach people capitalism to help themselves, their families, and their communities-i.e. grassroots, organic, unpredictible, messy programs, not top-down, utopian programs like the UN. This who theory doesn't just apply to America, it works in countries around the world, especially if you focus on the micro level.
@shamgar001 Definitely! There is definitely a culture of poverty/welfare that exists in this country. The lack of positive successful models leaves many kids to idolize the nearly impossible to attain positions in life like pro athlete or music star. The question is how can that cycle be broken when it is so ingrained.
@xtremejohnny... Of course there are isolated cases where there are exceptions, but holding that upo as the rule is completely nearsighted. For every one Ben Carson there are thousands of people that will not make it out, it is about the socialization of the poor and the lack of opportunity, and positive models. Your type of oversimplification is dangerous and a bit naive
@isulax22 I would like to add culture is a problem too. Rich people often become rich because they learned financial discipline and work ethic and many poor people don't ever learn. I've heard it said that being broke is a state of being and being poor is a state of mind. Then when all of the poor people live together they reinforce the poor mindset and teach it to their children. It's not always their fault; they never knew another way, and public policy ensures that they never do.
ted turner is giving away his PERSONAL wealth....not funds he would use to reinvest in his business to create more jobs there is a difference..money he'd spend on himself
@fuckoff187 No, Warren invests both in his company, and privately. But instead of giving away money now, he could make more, and then give away far more when he dies. It's looking at a long term instead of the immediate short term, something that traders/investors like Buffet are good at.
I think that the only thing this overlooked was the fact that the opportunity to obtain the skills to become rich are not evenly distributed. The rich and the poor tend to stay that way. This isn't because the poor don't work as hard, it's because their access to the tools needed to learn how to succeed is much lower relative to the rich. We fund the bulk of our public schools on property taxes that create poor schools and rich schools, And guess what happens next...
@isulax22 Not true at all plenty of people have come out of poverty stricken areas and became successful. Look at Ben Carson, he was raised in a single parent home in the slums of Detroit and through hard work and determination to improve himself became one of the most successful neurosurgeons in the country. No one in this country has to stay poor, we have the opportunity to become anything through hardwork and determination
What pushes a great Businessman to fund election campaign or senator or...in order to represent his interests. That certainly does not make customer to be more better off.
Is there any ceo who really appreciates the competitor company and who would not liked to have monopoly of his product? That does not make world a better place, yet every company dreams about it or if its powerful enough has it!
It's not that da deeds of Theresa had no value, it's just that the practical impact was measurably less than mikin's. But that's on one scale. Theresa obviously impacted the hearts of ppl more, another scale.
I hate how people always try to drag Mother Teresa into these things. I agree with most of the points made in this video and think that entrepreneurship and capitalism are the way to go. However, to try to compare Mother Teresa to this Michael Milkin guy is a false comparison. Mother Teresa did a lot of good where Milken's dollars did not reach. Selflessly giving of ourselves has considerable value as well.
@phil8888 There is no such thing as selflessly giving of oneself. In almost every case personal and selfish motives drive all giving. Even the person that jumps in the water to save a stranger is fulfilling the personal need not to suffer through watching someone die. If they live, most will say that they could not stand to watch the stranger die before their eyes. Look at the true motivation in each situation and you find it is aways personally selfish.
You can teach a man to fish all you want; if he never tasted the fish or got a fish, he will never be inspired. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with giving first.
@cwood4ever Yes. Although I have heard from someone who works for Fox that many Fox News employees are in fact Democrats. Case in point: they bitch about George Soros and the TSA all day(as they should), but not once has anybody mentioned that Soros co-owns the company that contracted the machinery- Rapiscan. It's a comic farce.
@physicalgenius fool silence!!!! all news is biased no matter what station you listen to in any country. You only hate Fox because they disagree with you. Youre a fucking tard. Go away and learn on your own.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, give a man the means to catch his own fish and he'll shout "Shit! Where'd the government put all the fish?!?"
@rock3tcat they are both good choices and should both be employ. Some people need all the help they can get to survive, much more to be competitive labor.
Billion to the UN? Great now NWO has more funding, the UN is a joke they give all their cash to Klepnocrats in Africa who take fine trips to Paris while their people starve.
It's not the amount of money. it's the willingness to do harm that diferentiates greed from honorable ambition. It's the Ayn Rand attitude versus the Dr. Michael Maccoby's postive narcissist. charity that creates educzational opprotunities and providng medical care for the poor. Milliken better than Mother Theresa? Sad, sad, sad. Bankrupt ideology.
Euuh, even jesus is not "charitable" because he doesn't help your a moment and its over you got what you wanted. Nah its more like i'll help you something profitable to everyone not just you. All Theresa did was just feel pain cure some people then become an icone even the theresas after didn't make anything "profitable" to everyone in fact I think she could use her popularity to create shool there or hire the best teacher to help get the means to get out of slums. she didn't
TJ Rogers thinks he "deserves" it. He's right that he's created jobs via his company (Cypress semiconductors), but he will continue to accumulate money and yachts because he "deserves" it.
Watching Stossel's documentary seen in night of the subprime crisis, we can draw some new conclusions. Greed is good to an extent. When you're selling complex derivatives that no one understands, you're stealing, and this needs to be outlawed. I hate to say it but some market regulation is necessary.
I'd rather borrow from the Mafia than the Fed, the Mafia is more forgiving. Getting beat up by Lefty and Butch is a lot less worse than the IRS taking everything I have. The IRS is the collection arm of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. The federal taxes you don't have to pay (legally) are to pay the interest on the national debt. Congress mortgaged America's homes and busineses to the FRB as collateral on the loans for all the wars and cost of runnung the Federal Government. END THE FED
@gibbersome - "selling complex derivatives that no one understands..." Ok, maybe, yes. But TJ Rogers UNDERSTANDS what he sells. I don't care if he buys 10 Yachts a week. I won't me worse off, will it....
The key is to be ok with people making lots of money if they deserve it, BUT also to be ok with giving them some hefty taxes because they can afford it, and a lot of people don't have enough to eat.
@Bimmyjond LOL, they can starve, or eat the children they seem so ready to produce. You deserve NOTHING in this world, you earn EVERYTHING; including compassion if others feel you merit it.
Ted Turner is a racist. He is a strong supporter of eugenics and population control of minorities. Same as the UN and the progressives. That is why they spend billions for abortion clinics in the inner cities rather than building hospitals and health clinics.
@kyowakokunobenkai - that's not racism, that's simply to hate humans...and now I can imagine into what kind of UN-programs his money is flowing into....
Turner gave a billion to the black hole that is the United Nations, That wont help anything but prop up more wars between conflicting country's with no economys.
On this, I must agree with Turner ... both creating jobs/industry and giving some of your earned wealth away are good things ... there is room and a need for both. Thank you for posting!
I'm all for, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." I'm also all for being our brothers keeper especially in times of crisis. Peace.
@Uuuurk - Do-Gooders don't wanna hear that. It's not because they want to help, no, they want to make themselves look better than others....you can't reason with them...
@ClaudiaMontana8 - well, instead of giving the billion to the UN, I'd have tried to set up a business and employ people. I bet that would have had a far more "developing" effect.
Shouldn't we always refer to them as "banana Republicans," not Republicans?
Who else but "banana Republicans" could support unlimited executive power, family dynasties (Duvaliers, Bushes), secret renditions to torture chambers, mercenary armies, 100-year wars, warrantless wiretaps, McCarthyite witch hunts, and the end of habeas corpus?
You'd have to want to live in a banana republic.
Forget the elephant, Republicans, here comes the chaquita!
@glenbeckbites You need to learn that jeering at your opposition is not offering a good argument. It's a garbage practice. Now, by your own criteria we're more correct than you. You have Stalin, Mao, Guevara, Castro, Mugabe, Pol Pot. Bobby Kennedy's the one who did those warrantless wiretaps. And if you want a family dynasty, look to the Kennedys. Oh, and the Duvaliers were leftists. So now that you know something real, I expect you to convert immediately.
I'm postulating an assumption that I believe is contrary to the prevailing popular notion which is that they're just very nice, morally superior people so we ought to shower them with our unworthy supplicance as frequently as possible.
You seem to agree with my point of view, so perhaps you're one of the enlightened few ;)
Ok....LOL John is lookin young there . Maybe he should do a show up to date ....like about Bernie Madeoff and what all the junk bonds and etc did to our financal crash .Yeah ,,,, greed run amuck . What about all of our homeless and umemplyment at the highest rate in 25 years ? And what about all the greed with credit cards and Wall street ? JOHN how about an undate ?????
Junk bonds had nothing to do with our financial crash. And his show doesn't promote what Madoff thought of as greed.
Unemployment? You say unemployment is high, who do you think will give those people jobs? Businessmen, who are looking to make a profit.
And think about what the best way is to solve the homelessness problem. Charity? No, jobs. Jobs from big corporations and small businesses alike is the best way to alleviate suffering.
You don't seem to realize what the free market is. For the most part is just blind amoral greed. People doing whatever they legally can do to increase their profits, no matter what the cost in life, health, or property to others. When there were no regulations, no laws, people took slaves, killed competitors, razed villages. You give people complete freedom to make money and gain power however they wish and they will do horrible things as history has shown.
"War is the job of the STATE... which is supposed to be non-profit."
War is profit from and fueled by the marketplace. No more so than in the current unnecessary war the US started.
"And the medical industry is underseige by the same people that bring us War... our government. But it is for all of those lovey dovey reasons."
Lovey dovey reasons like forcing them to stop breaking their contracts with people because they had a yeast infection a decade ago or had dental surgery in their teens?
WAR is the most profitable business ever. And you can't forget medicine.
And the 'cyclical consumption' mechanism which is evident in all manufacturing industries? Do some deeper research and then reevaluate capitalism and it's 'benefit' towards mankind.
"What competition is in your body? Suppose your brain said 'I'm the most important organ' and your liver said
'No I am, and I want to go-a free enterprise system' - You'd rot away in a month if every organ in your body went out itself"
War is the job of the STATE... which is supposed to be non-profit. For the benefit of our nation and all that lovey dovey stuff. And the medical industry is underseige by the same people that bring us War... our government. But it is for all of those lovey dovey reasons. The reason you are alive is because the sum of your body parts does knows that their own greed works to benefit themself... That is why it is incorporated into one body. And that is why you are most important to you, and me, me.
He didn't talk about corporations swaying the government but if we got the government out of business and actually had a free market economy there would be no politician to bribe. Then the economy would flourish and we all would be better off.
When you create a job you create an opportunity for a worker to make money...
never have contributed to the economy at all were it not for an initial act of pure charity that gave them the leg up they needed to initially make that contribution. And what about the simple fact that without an act of charity (be it education, the care provided by family, etc...), nobody would be able to provide any services or products. I doubt that there is a single productive person walking the earth whom was never freely given anything in their lifetime.
Outsourcing is providing oppurtunities to those people whom mother theresa was helping. A leg up if you will. You are absolutely right about swaying lawmakers. That is why we should not have any. We can all agree on pretty simple laws of society. Why do we need more? To change policy, because of another failed policy? As far as that education, caring family all that community stuff. When you make money you spend it in the general vicinity of you. Presumably since it is yours right???
"You are absolutely right about swaying lawmakers. That is why we should not have any."
If it isn't lawmakers, it's noblemen, or it's monarchs, or it's militias. As long as society exists and has existed, people have always paid other people have and always will pay other people to get away with the things they would not otherwise be able to do. Atleast with regulation, people can't do some of the more reprehensible things, like kill competitors, create slave labor, etc...
Well actually come to think of it, a lot of that money that you earn actually isn't spent in the general vicinity of you. But you don't really notice too much cause it is taken right out of you paychecks. Its called taxes. It is spent on War and education and a lot of charity. And also on grants. Grants that go to research and development for more power. Not more power over their own lives (money) power over your life... lawmaking.
Having more power over your own life (money) will help you to give to your family and community a leg up. Together taking care of our own lives helps to take care of others. Only when we cooperate voluntarily... ie the marketplace.
Very compelling. But he doesn't explore outsourcing at all. Nothing is mentioned about the practice of corporate entities monetarily swaying the lawmaking process to destroy the possibility of fair market competition. And in the same vain to stop competing technology that is superior in efficiency or affordability. Nothing is mentioned about the fact that when there is limited or no oversight of a capitalistic entity, it often results in disaster. And nothing about the many people who may
Mother Theresa is actually a horrible choice to put up as a [paragon of a philanthropist. Just search for the holier than though episode of penn and teller BS.
If you don't have half an hour to kill a summary is basically that Mother T kept people suffering even though she could've helped them because she thought their suffering brought her closer to God. Kind of disturbing if you think about it.
Yeah I was just thinking about that. Mother Teresa spent the money donated to her campaigning against contraceptives and abortion, not helping the poor!
Yeah but you could just as easily make him fish for you and for every 100 fish he catches you give him one. And you get to sell the other 99 for a huge profit.
Um dude, the fact that he made his money makes him a somebody.
Paris Hilton is a nobody without her money, The Kardashians are nobody without their money, Nick Hogan is a nobody without his money, but Ted Turner MADE his money becasue he was a smart buisnessman.
That's like saying Hannibal was a nobody without his military victories.
Turner is a powerful voice in public opinion, and the reality is that we have to refute his beliefs on a broad scale to wake people up.
Even if you took every penny away from Ted Turner, and even if you could magically turn him into an anonymous pauper, he's rise to the top again. He's a very talented (if misguided) man.
Sometimes helping someone else is better than making jobs simply BECAUSE it is harder to help someone else on a PERSONAL level (not talking about giving away money). People learn and grow by doing harder things.
I think Stossel has some valid points, but I think there is also a place for charity and helping others in this world. But when I say charity, I mean pure love and concern for another person so that you help them personally. I have not decided if there is a place for the large money-wasing "charities" that we have today. Some times you have to give a man a fish because he's starving now. Then while he eats the fish you've given him, teach him to catch his own.
the value system they are pushing in this video is enlightened egoism, which states that it is more beneficial to the individual to help others in helping them selves. the only problem is that once there is a choice between harming others or helping ones self the choice for the egoist is obvious. therein is the problem. self interest is fine just so long as your are not out ONLY for your self.
You're off the mark. Self interest is great as long as you proceed without coercion or dishonesty. The most greedy man on earth will do more good in the world than the most selfless thief, so long as he stays within the constrains of honest capitalism.
Selfless acts are great, but what often passes for selflessness (read: government programs) is really merely the false kindness of giving a beggar the shirt of of someone else's back. At gunpoint.
I'm not off the mark at all. the distinction is between self interest as in what one has a right to and what does not harm others. selfishness is simply being out for ones self at the expense of others. a selfish per
"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for life" ~ Confucius
Our instincts tells us to blame those greedy corporations, rather they are what makes america the land of opportunity and the ideals of free market. The real blame is that America is not a free market for the past 30 years because of government's socialist economic "stimulus", Corporatism, and artificially low interest rates that causes inflation among many other.
thequickster9 1 week ago
@2011rosarot saying that all greedy people are unhappy is like saying all poor people are happy... it just depends on how you live, how you want to live, and the kind of person you are
kewl1123 2 weeks ago in playlist j stossel greed
Mother Theresa is in heaven and where will Milken be???
miskittt 1 month ago
@miskittt We don't know that Mother Theresa is in heaven. It is very likely that God understands economics, and if He does, He will reward those who "teach men how to fish" rather than strapping them to the dependency of handouts.
runr100 2 weeks ago
Creating a job that pays less than a living wage helps the greedy owner of the company and no one else.
miskittt 1 month ago
T.J. Rodgers was one of those kids that got beat up a lot as a kid.
1963danno 1 month ago
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Stossel says Greed is Good-defined as self interest-for the wealthy if so Greed-self interest- is good for other people the 99%. LITTLE FLAW IN STOSSEL STATEMENT GREED IS GOOD DEFINED AS SELF INTEREST THEN IT'S GOOD FOR EVERYONE NOT JUST WEALTHY!!!!!
FireflyMalcolm 1 month ago
1% what the fuck?????
1963danno 1 month ago
EXACTLY. what's so good about suffering? stop buying into these stupid myths that greed is evil and suffering makes you a bitter... oops I mean better... person. If that's how you want to spend your time, go hard. but stop judging others that prefer a life of ease. Ahhhh
theAbeElement 2 months ago
@theAbeElement Thank you! I would like to see those who slander free-market businesses spend just three days (1%) a year in the harsh brutality of nature with nothing made by the free market, including health care. Let's be honest; we all want to live comfortable lives. It is time we look at socialism as it is: stealing from those who work.
runr100 2 weeks ago
thank you for sharing this video
NB4L 2 months ago
Oh, wow.....this documentary is so superficial and beside the point. Of course, there is nothing wrong with being rich (not all rich people are greedy), but there is a lot wrong with being greedy. Greedy people are greedy because they are chronically unhappy and dissatisfied. They are NOT happy. They know neither gratefulness nor contentment. They always want more and more and more and more.....Very sad. Greed is basically the same as addiction.
2011rosarot 4 months ago
@2011rosarot Lol did you even watch the documentry? It has shown plenty of happy greedy people. Greedy people being unhappy is a myth some are happy some arn't just like the rest of us.
666or999 4 months ago 2
@666or999, most people in this world just pretend to be happy. In fact, greed is an expression of unhappiness. You don't need to believe me, though. :)
2011rosarot 4 months ago
diva moment 5:10
arivas713 5 months ago
greed is good
jovelnom 5 months ago
how could such a smart man do something so stupid as to give money to the UN. The UN is the most corrupt organization on the planet. I would not give the UN a bucket of warm piss.
kurthanson2005 5 months ago 2
americans just dont get it.....
flipballaz93 6 months ago
Ted Turner was behaving like a douche, it's clear he has alterior motives for his donations (tax write offs + funding covert depopulation programs with his donations).
He couldn't even articulate himself, I sincerely did not expect to see him be so defensive and argumentative to the calm John Stossel.
Ted Turner just doesn't believe in what he claims, it should be obvious
EriPages 6 months ago
You know someone's wrong when they have to walk away ion shame.
iluvpoliticzz 6 months ago
This is a biased show trying to justify unchecked capitalism and greed. Capitalism existed ever since humans started barter system or trading with each other. Why is that this show only has conservative ideological economists on the show ? It looks like John Stossel wants to justify himself, that his personal greed is good and he is worth the millions of dollars the he takes home. Human greed is destroying our nature and ecosystem. Thousands of species have become extinct due to humans.
gabsave 7 months ago
@gabsave "This is a biased show trying to justify unchecked capitalism and greed. Capitalism existed ever since humans started barter system or trading with each other." I dont see your point , are you saying we should go back to the barter system to keep capitalism in check?"Human greed is destroying nature ..ecosystem. Thousands of species have become extinct .." What these silly leftie greenies overlook is that humans are PART of the ecosystem!Then logically whatever we do is not inorganic!
ShishirYerramilli 6 months ago
@gabsave I'll drink to that
1963danno 1 month ago
Capitalism is not the opposite of socialism. Where is the line of separation between greed and reasonable profit. The reason why profit works is; money attracts talent like honey attracts bees. Earning lots of money gives a better quality of life for oneself and family, that is what drives people. This desire to have a better quality of life. Don't equate that desire with desire for money. Money is only worth what the seller is willing to sell his product for and supply vs demand.
gabsave 7 months ago
I just watched this whole series and I'm still a Socialist. Bite me
malcandcookies 7 months ago
@malcandcookies that would be because you did not view it with an open mind. To be honest i have come to expect that from the far left. i have watched Moor's films and looked into the facts he claims. Most are false. i have looked into the facts in stossel's and most are true. i used to be a democrat. I have grown past the blind heart. Most on the left just have ideas and dont back them up with fact. Most right wing have facts that build great ideas.
beefsupreme7414 6 months ago
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"Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you will feed him for a lifetime."
jpzxcvbnm 8 months ago
When we talk about money we need to know that most all banks are controlled by the Rothchilds. If we want to keep this greed game going on we are going to have to kick some of these families who control the money off the board. End the FED. Come out with Free Energy get rid of income tax and death tax. There are so many ways that the rich oppress us and control us. Its one big club and you and i are not in it. They roll out the red carpet for each other always taking care of whos in the club.
casinohijack 8 months ago
mother teresa was a disgusting masochistic woman who worshiped suffering and is a prime example of how stupid and blind the masses can be
Berelore 8 months ago 5
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"You can teach a man to fish all you want; if he never tasted the fish or got a fish, he will never be inspired. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with giving first"
I would also add that merely teaching a man to fish will have little long term value, unless they see the ongoing benefit to them self and/or others close to them.
CCRider100 9 months ago
I agree with the whole "it is better to teach a man to fish" analogy, but the Mother Teresa and Michael Milkin comparison is stretching it a bit too far. IMO, the end result does NOT always justifies the means, for example if 10,000 people get screwed or cheated out of their life savings so that 100,000 other people can benefit, it is tradeoff that should not be done. Capitalism with a conscience, as Richard Branson describes himself, is the way to go
CCRider100 9 months ago
@CCRider100 took the words right out of my mouth amigo
clayvision 6 months ago
Note on your stock footage of African children who can't help themselves or work for themselves - I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the harms of foreign aid. Programs that work teach people capitalism to help themselves, their families, and their communities-i.e. grassroots, organic, unpredictible, messy programs, not top-down, utopian programs like the UN. This who theory doesn't just apply to America, it works in countries around the world, especially if you focus on the micro level.
k8thetoubab 9 months ago
@shamgar001 Definitely! There is definitely a culture of poverty/welfare that exists in this country. The lack of positive successful models leaves many kids to idolize the nearly impossible to attain positions in life like pro athlete or music star. The question is how can that cycle be broken when it is so ingrained.
isulax22 9 months ago
@xtremejohnny... Of course there are isolated cases where there are exceptions, but holding that upo as the rule is completely nearsighted. For every one Ben Carson there are thousands of people that will not make it out, it is about the socialization of the poor and the lack of opportunity, and positive models. Your type of oversimplification is dangerous and a bit naive
isulax22 10 months ago
@isulax22 I would like to add culture is a problem too. Rich people often become rich because they learned financial discipline and work ethic and many poor people don't ever learn. I've heard it said that being broke is a state of being and being poor is a state of mind. Then when all of the poor people live together they reinforce the poor mindset and teach it to their children. It's not always their fault; they never knew another way, and public policy ensures that they never do.
shamgar001 9 months ago
mine as well just shoot that money out into space
packerfan748 10 months ago
Giving money to the UN is to flush that money down the toilet.
sleedolfine15 10 months ago
ted turner is giving away his PERSONAL wealth....not funds he would use to reinvest in his business to create more jobs there is a difference..money he'd spend on himself
fuckoff187 11 months ago
@fuckoff187 No, Warren invests both in his company, and privately. But instead of giving away money now, he could make more, and then give away far more when he dies. It's looking at a long term instead of the immediate short term, something that traders/investors like Buffet are good at.
HKUser92 11 months ago
I think that the only thing this overlooked was the fact that the opportunity to obtain the skills to become rich are not evenly distributed. The rich and the poor tend to stay that way. This isn't because the poor don't work as hard, it's because their access to the tools needed to learn how to succeed is much lower relative to the rich. We fund the bulk of our public schools on property taxes that create poor schools and rich schools, And guess what happens next...
isulax22 1 year ago
@isulax22 Not true at all plenty of people have come out of poverty stricken areas and became successful. Look at Ben Carson, he was raised in a single parent home in the slums of Detroit and through hard work and determination to improve himself became one of the most successful neurosurgeons in the country. No one in this country has to stay poor, we have the opportunity to become anything through hardwork and determination
xtremejohnny69 10 months ago
What pushes a great Businessman to fund election campaign or senator or...in order to represent his interests. That certainly does not make customer to be more better off.
Is there any ceo who really appreciates the competitor company and who would not liked to have monopoly of his product? That does not make world a better place, yet every company dreams about it or if its powerful enough has it!
mareksozols 1 year ago
i prefer teaching a man how to fish then giving a man a fish
lord86maverick 1 year ago
lol yeah right Mother theresa did nothing. lol this I refuse
phantomsuccour 1 year ago
It's not that da deeds of Theresa had no value, it's just that the practical impact was measurably less than mikin's. But that's on one scale. Theresa obviously impacted the hearts of ppl more, another scale.
tatsumakisempyukaku 1 year ago
I hate how people always try to drag Mother Teresa into these things. I agree with most of the points made in this video and think that entrepreneurship and capitalism are the way to go. However, to try to compare Mother Teresa to this Michael Milkin guy is a false comparison. Mother Teresa did a lot of good where Milken's dollars did not reach. Selflessly giving of ourselves has considerable value as well.
phil8888 1 year ago
@phil8888 There is no such thing as selflessly giving of oneself. In almost every case personal and selfish motives drive all giving. Even the person that jumps in the water to save a stranger is fulfilling the personal need not to suffer through watching someone die. If they live, most will say that they could not stand to watch the stranger die before their eyes. Look at the true motivation in each situation and you find it is aways personally selfish.
higgme1ster 10 months ago
@phil8888
Mother Teresa was simply trying to fulfill her own desire to help other people. Not very selfless.
TheShaniqua1992 8 months ago
doesn't having large corporations destroy small businesses in turn make less jobs?
sanatrus 1 year ago
@sanatrus How can that be? Larger corporations hire more people than small businesses!
Averagebum2 1 year ago
Ted Turner = proof even retarded imbeciles can make their fortunes in America.
RatkoUSA 1 year ago 2
@RatkoUSA I'm moving to the USA. You have convinced me. Thanks!
Averagebum2 1 year ago
@Averagebum2 haha,lol
hayden50 1 year ago
Industrial Society And Its Future
GO
HardBodyNyC 1 year ago
this guy is an idiot and so biast . .
megaporkchop 1 year ago
@megaporkchop don't you mean biased?
nmbr1cub 1 year ago
@nmbr1cub yes, and?
megaporkchop 1 year ago
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@RationalBullets Marxists can't handle freedom
AroundSun 1 year ago
john stossel is gay so his mustache and appearance is more important than other human being.
his types of fools are creating another hitler 2 shut them up.
waffiki 1 year ago
@waffiki Yea because corporations are hitler, not the governments that support them, right? Douche
AroundSun 1 year ago
You can teach a man to fish all you want; if he never tasted the fish or got a fish, he will never be inspired. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with giving first.
kuvtsisnyiamkoj 1 year ago
I wish that Fox News would replace that neocon O'Reilly with this great man during primetime. I would literally tune in every day.
physicalgenius 1 year ago 58
@physicalgenius orielly isnt even a conservative. Hes actually really liberal.
cwood4ever 1 year ago
@cwood4ever He's an authoritarian jackass.
physicalgenius 1 year ago
@physicalgenius ummm that has nothing to do with what i was talking about sooooooooooooooooooooooooo fuck off I guess.
cwood4ever 1 year ago
@cwood4ever You really are daft.
physicalgenius 1 year ago
@physicalgenius im daft? ROFL fools
cwood4ever 1 year ago
@cwood4ever Yes. Although I have heard from someone who works for Fox that many Fox News employees are in fact Democrats. Case in point: they bitch about George Soros and the TSA all day(as they should), but not once has anybody mentioned that Soros co-owns the company that contracted the machinery- Rapiscan. It's a comic farce.
physicalgenius 1 year ago
@physicalgenius fool silence!!!! all news is biased no matter what station you listen to in any country. You only hate Fox because they disagree with you. Youre a fucking tard. Go away and learn on your own.
cwood4ever 1 year ago
@cwood4ever You are an obtuse dildo. I agree with Stossel and Napolitano. Gutfeld is a cool guy. But that's IT! YOU can go fuck off now scumbag.
physicalgenius 1 year ago
@physicalgenius Last time I sent you a message I said silence why are you replying. I won the argument. You lost
cwood4ever 1 year ago
@cwood4ever Oh please. I lost? You never even made an argument. You are puerile and imbecilic, nothing more.
physicalgenius 1 year ago
@physicalgenius Amen
Daniel44125 11 months ago
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@physicalgenius
You would be the only one
GnomesAmok 3 months ago
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, give a man the means to catch his own fish and he'll shout "Shit! Where'd the government put all the fish?!?"
bassmonster2 1 year ago
@bassmonster2 Thats funny
gkipling 1 year ago
The Emergence Of Greed /watch?v=CjJE2R4sNUU
theemergenceofgreed1 1 year ago
the UN doesnt need more money, they need better people
hint0122 1 year ago
Building a one million dollar factory and employing a hundred people is more philanthropic than just giving the one million to a hundred people.
rock3tcat 1 year ago 39
@rock3tcat I agree 100%
GreyMoose08 1 year ago
exactly.
hint0122 9 months ago
@rock3tcat they are both good choices and should both be employ. Some people need all the help they can get to survive, much more to be competitive labor.
rzxwm10 6 months ago
@rock3tcat Not if you pay shit wages
1963danno 1 month ago
greed rules!
Krupification 1 year ago
John Stossel is one of the few men who I would literally run up to and hug if I saw him walking around.
conspirator272727 1 year ago 5
Billion to the UN? Great now NWO has more funding, the UN is a joke they give all their cash to Klepnocrats in Africa who take fine trips to Paris while their people starve.
GunsOfThePhoenix 1 year ago
It's not the amount of money. it's the willingness to do harm that diferentiates greed from honorable ambition. It's the Ayn Rand attitude versus the Dr. Michael Maccoby's postive narcissist. charity that creates educzational opprotunities and providng medical care for the poor. Milliken better than Mother Theresa? Sad, sad, sad. Bankrupt ideology.
MarcellaMarrin 1 year ago
@MarcellaMarrin
Euuh, even jesus is not "charitable" because he doesn't help your a moment and its over you got what you wanted. Nah its more like i'll help you something profitable to everyone not just you. All Theresa did was just feel pain cure some people then become an icone even the theresas after didn't make anything "profitable" to everyone in fact I think she could use her popularity to create shool there or hire the best teacher to help get the means to get out of slums. she didn't
125gamabunta 1 year ago
The failure of Government is all around us.
Want Health care? Bring home our troops DemoRepublican war mongers
End the Fed and the inside 911 wars will end with them
Be a responsible American not accountable for Bigger Government war Mongers.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Wars is Greed
Allamericom 1 year ago
Stossel is a Philosopher.....
manoman0 1 year ago
TJ Rogers thinks he "deserves" it. He's right that he's created jobs via his company (Cypress semiconductors), but he will continue to accumulate money and yachts because he "deserves" it.
Watching Stossel's documentary seen in night of the subprime crisis, we can draw some new conclusions. Greed is good to an extent. When you're selling complex derivatives that no one understands, you're stealing, and this needs to be outlawed. I hate to say it but some market regulation is necessary.
gibbersome 1 year ago
@gibbersome
or maybe just end the fed so people will not have to go other places(sub prime) to get a higher interest rate then the fed rate of 1%
djtohkee 1 year ago
I'd rather borrow from the Mafia than the Fed, the Mafia is more forgiving. Getting beat up by Lefty and Butch is a lot less worse than the IRS taking everything I have. The IRS is the collection arm of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. The federal taxes you don't have to pay (legally) are to pay the interest on the national debt. Congress mortgaged America's homes and busineses to the FRB as collateral on the loans for all the wars and cost of runnung the Federal Government. END THE FED
kyowakokunobenkai 1 year ago
@gibbersome - "selling complex derivatives that no one understands..." Ok, maybe, yes. But TJ Rogers UNDERSTANDS what he sells. I don't care if he buys 10 Yachts a week. I won't me worse off, will it....
manoman0 1 year ago
How's that billion you gave to the UN working out for others, teddy? LOL!
lashkaretoiba 1 year ago
@lashkaretoiba - aahh...some fine jobs could be created at the UN....talking development? LOL
manoman0 1 year ago
If you really care about people and believe in charity then go capitalist. It is better to help the poor than to give to them.
DavidUmstattd 1 year ago
Give a billion to the U.N. that is a joke......
joe24fanIam 1 year ago 3
@joe24fanIam - an expensive one...
manoman0 1 year ago
The key is to be ok with people making lots of money if they deserve it, BUT also to be ok with giving them some hefty taxes because they can afford it, and a lot of people don't have enough to eat.
Bimmyjond 1 year ago
@Bimmyjond LOL, they can starve, or eat the children they seem so ready to produce. You deserve NOTHING in this world, you earn EVERYTHING; including compassion if others feel you merit it.
keymaker2112 1 year ago
Ted Turner is a racist. He is a strong supporter of eugenics and population control of minorities. Same as the UN and the progressives. That is why they spend billions for abortion clinics in the inner cities rather than building hospitals and health clinics.
kyowakokunobenkai 1 year ago
@kyowakokunobenkai - that's not racism, that's simply to hate humans...and now I can imagine into what kind of UN-programs his money is flowing into....
manoman0 1 year ago
What a hypocrite turner is.
xxashyy 2 years ago
@xxashyy Seriously. What the hell is he doing voting for Democrats? Sickening.
RealBloppy 2 years ago
Turner gave a billion to the black hole that is the United Nations, That wont help anything but prop up more wars between conflicting country's with no economys.
Bigturns33 2 years ago 5
If you were hungry & desparate - would you prefer someone to give you occasional handouts or give you a job?
A JOB OF COURSE!
imre1000 2 years ago 4
stossel kills it again. best 6 part series on da tubes.
jvittetoe 2 years ago 4
On this, I must agree with Turner ... both creating jobs/industry and giving some of your earned wealth away are good things ... there is room and a need for both. Thank you for posting!
ClaudiaMontana8 2 years ago
look up what james shikwati and other african economics have to say about giving away money before u decide its good and a need for it
Uuuurk 2 years ago
what is an african economic?
falseangelwingx 2 years ago 2
i meant a person who works whit economics...
aswell as most youtube users my mothers tounge is not english.
Uuuurk 2 years ago
I'm all for, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." I'm also all for being our brothers keeper especially in times of crisis. Peace.
ClaudiaMontana8 2 years ago 2
what i mean is look up aid critics who claim that africa is poor due to aid before u decide that its good.
Uuuuurk 2 years ago
@Uuuurk - Do-Gooders don't wanna hear that. It's not because they want to help, no, they want to make themselves look better than others....you can't reason with them...
manoman0 1 year ago
@ClaudiaMontana8 - well, instead of giving the billion to the UN, I'd have tried to set up a business and employ people. I bet that would have had a far more "developing" effect.
manoman0 1 year ago 3
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"Hello America!"
Shouldn't we always refer to them as "banana Republicans," not Republicans?
Who else but "banana Republicans" could support unlimited executive power, family dynasties (Duvaliers, Bushes), secret renditions to torture chambers, mercenary armies, 100-year wars, warrantless wiretaps, McCarthyite witch hunts, and the end of habeas corpus?
You'd have to want to live in a banana republic.
Forget the elephant, Republicans, here comes the chaquita!
Glen R. Beck,
"the real Beck"
glenbeckbites 2 years ago
@glenbeckbites You need to learn that jeering at your opposition is not offering a good argument. It's a garbage practice. Now, by your own criteria we're more correct than you. You have Stalin, Mao, Guevara, Castro, Mugabe, Pol Pot. Bobby Kennedy's the one who did those warrantless wiretaps. And if you want a family dynasty, look to the Kennedys. Oh, and the Duvaliers were leftists. So now that you know something real, I expect you to convert immediately.
blessedalcuin 1 year ago
The people who give away piles of money do it for selfish reasons.
Attention and the adulation of the masses to prop up his massive ego.
fomastephanovitch 2 years ago
and?
Ragnarokgn 2 years ago
I'm postulating an assumption that I believe is contrary to the prevailing popular notion which is that they're just very nice, morally superior people so we ought to shower them with our unworthy supplicance as frequently as possible.
You seem to agree with my point of view, so perhaps you're one of the enlightened few ;)
fomastephanovitch 2 years ago
I love you John! Keep up the fight for freedom
hermoda 2 years ago
Ok....LOL John is lookin young there . Maybe he should do a show up to date ....like about Bernie Madeoff and what all the junk bonds and etc did to our financal crash .Yeah ,,,, greed run amuck . What about all of our homeless and umemplyment at the highest rate in 25 years ? And what about all the greed with credit cards and Wall street ? JOHN how about an undate ?????
callmecarrieann 2 years ago
Junk bonds had nothing to do with our financial crash. And his show doesn't promote what Madoff thought of as greed.
Unemployment? You say unemployment is high, who do you think will give those people jobs? Businessmen, who are looking to make a profit.
And think about what the best way is to solve the homelessness problem. Charity? No, jobs. Jobs from big corporations and small businesses alike is the best way to alleviate suffering.
petepittsburgh 2 years ago 2
Ted ia actually funnier than he is portraed.
sclf 2 years ago
theoriginalanomaly
You don't seem to realize what the free market is. For the most part is just blind amoral greed. People doing whatever they legally can do to increase their profits, no matter what the cost in life, health, or property to others. When there were no regulations, no laws, people took slaves, killed competitors, razed villages. You give people complete freedom to make money and gain power however they wish and they will do horrible things as history has shown.
SumerianSentinel 2 years ago
"War is the job of the STATE... which is supposed to be non-profit."
War is profit from and fueled by the marketplace. No more so than in the current unnecessary war the US started.
"And the medical industry is underseige by the same people that bring us War... our government. But it is for all of those lovey dovey reasons."
Lovey dovey reasons like forcing them to stop breaking their contracts with people because they had a yeast infection a decade ago or had dental surgery in their teens?
SumerianSentinel 2 years ago
WAR is the most profitable business ever. And you can't forget medicine.
And the 'cyclical consumption' mechanism which is evident in all manufacturing industries? Do some deeper research and then reevaluate capitalism and it's 'benefit' towards mankind.
"What competition is in your body? Suppose your brain said 'I'm the most important organ' and your liver said
'No I am, and I want to go-a free enterprise system' - You'd rot away in a month if every organ in your body went out itself"
whacksteez 2 years ago
War is the job of the STATE... which is supposed to be non-profit. For the benefit of our nation and all that lovey dovey stuff. And the medical industry is underseige by the same people that bring us War... our government. But it is for all of those lovey dovey reasons. The reason you are alive is because the sum of your body parts does knows that their own greed works to benefit themself... That is why it is incorporated into one body. And that is why you are most important to you, and me, me.
theoriginalanomaly 2 years ago
What??
whacksteez 2 years ago
He didn't talk about corporations swaying the government but if we got the government out of business and actually had a free market economy there would be no politician to bribe. Then the economy would flourish and we all would be better off.
When you create a job you create an opportunity for a worker to make money...
Tukarama 2 years ago 4
could not agree more make all the money you want just dont use my government to make your job easier
smallgov 2 years ago
Stossel really puts it in a rational format. I love that objectivity. Its beyond just emotions.
trekkerperson 2 years ago
Ted Turner: founder of Communist News Network.
emonerd826 2 years ago
What's so communist about it?
ChristainPatriot01 2 years ago
2/2
never have contributed to the economy at all were it not for an initial act of pure charity that gave them the leg up they needed to initially make that contribution. And what about the simple fact that without an act of charity (be it education, the care provided by family, etc...), nobody would be able to provide any services or products. I doubt that there is a single productive person walking the earth whom was never freely given anything in their lifetime.
SumerianSentinel 2 years ago
Outsourcing is providing oppurtunities to those people whom mother theresa was helping. A leg up if you will. You are absolutely right about swaying lawmakers. That is why we should not have any. We can all agree on pretty simple laws of society. Why do we need more? To change policy, because of another failed policy? As far as that education, caring family all that community stuff. When you make money you spend it in the general vicinity of you. Presumably since it is yours right???
theoriginalanomaly 2 years ago
"You are absolutely right about swaying lawmakers. That is why we should not have any."
If it isn't lawmakers, it's noblemen, or it's monarchs, or it's militias. As long as society exists and has existed, people have always paid other people have and always will pay other people to get away with the things they would not otherwise be able to do. Atleast with regulation, people can't do some of the more reprehensible things, like kill competitors, create slave labor, etc...
SumerianSentinel 2 years ago
Well actually come to think of it, a lot of that money that you earn actually isn't spent in the general vicinity of you. But you don't really notice too much cause it is taken right out of you paychecks. Its called taxes. It is spent on War and education and a lot of charity. And also on grants. Grants that go to research and development for more power. Not more power over their own lives (money) power over your life... lawmaking.
theoriginalanomaly 2 years ago
Having more power over your own life (money) will help you to give to your family and community a leg up. Together taking care of our own lives helps to take care of others. Only when we cooperate voluntarily... ie the marketplace.
theoriginalanomaly 2 years ago
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Very compelling. But he doesn't explore outsourcing at all. Nothing is mentioned about the practice of corporate entities monetarily swaying the lawmaking process to destroy the possibility of fair market competition. And in the same vain to stop competing technology that is superior in efficiency or affordability. Nothing is mentioned about the fact that when there is limited or no oversight of a capitalistic entity, it often results in disaster. And nothing about the many people who may
SumerianSentinel 2 years ago
Only so much you can fit in one show... he does however cover "crony capitalism" in his new show (search "stossel crony capitalism").
Not sure what the problem is with outsourcing?
fleeced 2 years ago
If you create a job, you give yourself an opportunity to exploit someone...
twombonu 2 years ago
Berry Good!
corenothing 2 years ago
Or in the case of the current administration; liberal integrity =)
hanzo138 2 years ago
To some truth is propaganda I guess.
hanzo138 2 years ago
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Pure libertarian propaganda.
Tofu4Dinner 2 years ago
Are you selling libertarian propagandas? I'll take a dozen, please.
hapspir 2 years ago
it's testable, you're commie claims aren't
Averyofthemain 2 years ago
Mother Theresa is actually a horrible choice to put up as a [paragon of a philanthropist. Just search for the holier than though episode of penn and teller BS.
If you don't have half an hour to kill a summary is basically that Mother T kept people suffering even though she could've helped them because she thought their suffering brought her closer to God. Kind of disturbing if you think about it.
FatherTime89 2 years ago
Yeah I was just thinking about that. Mother Teresa spent the money donated to her campaigning against contraceptives and abortion, not helping the poor!
adeadlysniper 2 years ago
this is a smart guy: use money to create jobs;
smart boss.
special1740 2 years ago
Now all John has to do is take on gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy, pride, and lust.
I have to say though, I'm more motivated by sloth. I'd like to make enough to retire early and goof off a lot.
Guess I wouldn't be as good as the greedy guy.
FatherTime89 2 years ago 3
haha, a 1-hour special on why gluttony is good would be a brilliant way to spend a friday night
psycobetabuckdown 2 years ago
I like to create 1,000,000 Jobs.
Work for me guys, I will teach you how to fish.
$1 per hours.
pr0gm3r 2 years ago
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for life.
Pirate1014 2 years ago 26
more like... give a fish to a man he eats for a day. teach a man to fish and he gets fined for not having a license.
mindtriplx 2 years ago 5
lol its an old teaching used by various philosophical and historical figures, but I guess if one wants to create a specific example
Pirate1014 2 years ago
Yeah but you could just as easily make him fish for you and for every 100 fish he catches you give him one. And you get to sell the other 99 for a huge profit.
UltimoLatino 2 years ago 2
Nonsense... he would simply refuse and sell the 99 for profit himself.
fleeced 2 years ago
@Pirate1014 This proverb is so true.
aslynelf 1 year ago
Um dude, the fact that he made his money makes him a somebody.
Paris Hilton is a nobody without her money, The Kardashians are nobody without their money, Nick Hogan is a nobody without his money, but Ted Turner MADE his money becasue he was a smart buisnessman.
MrWolf316 2 years ago
Turner is funny as hell
JohnnyHalox 2 years ago
That's like saying Hannibal was a nobody without his military victories.
Turner is a powerful voice in public opinion, and the reality is that we have to refute his beliefs on a broad scale to wake people up.
Even if you took every penny away from Ted Turner, and even if you could magically turn him into an anonymous pauper, he's rise to the top again. He's a very talented (if misguided) man.
032125 2 years ago
John Stossel is a genius. He did the bait and switch to educate the ignorant.
scrateshooter 2 years ago 3
Also John Stossel on "The View" says he gives to charity, FYI.
TheRealBladeRunner 2 years ago
Both Warren Buffett and Bill Gates gave a lot of their money away in the end...
TheRealBladeRunner 2 years ago
Sometimes helping someone else is better than making jobs simply BECAUSE it is harder to help someone else on a PERSONAL level (not talking about giving away money). People learn and grow by doing harder things.
eddie12208 2 years ago
I think Stossel has some valid points, but I think there is also a place for charity and helping others in this world. But when I say charity, I mean pure love and concern for another person so that you help them personally. I have not decided if there is a place for the large money-wasing "charities" that we have today. Some times you have to give a man a fish because he's starving now. Then while he eats the fish you've given him, teach him to catch his own.
eddie12208 2 years ago
Ted Turner's behavior speaks volumes where his bogus charity work rings hollow.
thomaserossi 2 years ago
JOHN STOSSEL IS THE MAN!!!
patillac50 2 years ago 4
the value system they are pushing in this video is enlightened egoism, which states that it is more beneficial to the individual to help others in helping them selves. the only problem is that once there is a choice between harming others or helping ones self the choice for the egoist is obvious. therein is the problem. self interest is fine just so long as your are not out ONLY for your self.
ex0gen 2 years ago
You're off the mark. Self interest is great as long as you proceed without coercion or dishonesty. The most greedy man on earth will do more good in the world than the most selfless thief, so long as he stays within the constrains of honest capitalism.
Selfless acts are great, but what often passes for selflessness (read: government programs) is really merely the false kindness of giving a beggar the shirt of of someone else's back. At gunpoint.
032125 2 years ago
I'm not off the mark at all. the distinction is between self interest as in what one has a right to and what does not harm others. selfishness is simply being out for ones self at the expense of others. a selfish per