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  • Human Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are part of the Laws of Nature. These Rights apply to all life and social systems throughout the world. Too often those in power are ignorant of, or ignore the forces of Nature resulting in misery. Education of these Rights is the proper course of action, starting with the proof outlined in: watch?v=tdNYVZQYJqI

  • @Mike10four, I agree with you, a resource-based economy is the ONLY way that scientists (Jaque Fresco, the Venus Project, for example) have found to create resource abundance for every single person alive. There are HUGE misconceptions that we don't have enough to go around for everyone. When in reality it is the few hoard much at the expense of the many. Much of the time without realizing or not intending to do so. The monetary paradigm does not account at all for human rights and needs at all.

  • "Create a law, start a business" is an old saying up on the hill and in corporate jerk-off rooms (excuse me, board rooms)

    Captialism, democracy, communism, patriotism, marxism, socialism, any of the "isms" we use to organize society, not ONE has any tenant or anything that accounts for the fact that humans need certain things. And monetary incentive is not one of them.it hs been shown on several occaisons that the pressures of today are causing more mental illness than in any other recorded era.

  • Essentially, the entire global economy suffers from a value system disorder. There is no justification for a child dying every 5 seconds because of MONEY instead of lack of food. We have the technology -(hell, with the resouces wasted in World War 2 and in the Iraq/Afghanistan wars we are in we could have fed and clothed and rebuilt the world over 2x)-to do some AMAZING things. We can actually fax entire 3d objects, or create them using special intelligent plastics.

  • I could go on and on and on, obviously. But within 50 years, when we have implants in our heads that allows us to have access to all the history and sciences of mankind, when we are all able to be fully analytical and IF we get past the age of information, and move into the Age of Reason, we will see an amazing, incredible world. If this stuff happens I could easily see generation Y

  • @hoboboxerjoe You say “generation Y” I say “A” for A has the answer. A, we can do this. A, we can save the world. A, we can become rich. A, this could only happen via our unalienable Rights (A, see my channel video). You say “generation Y,” I say generation “A” for we have the Answer, it is A!!! Disclaimer, I’m not Canadian.

  • 9:30...: "human right has a value of its own"

  • stop measuring and start doing, unless you only want to measure forever to which you have no effect on what you are measuring. instead be a tool of change for your passions.

  • Very interesting. Of course, the whole issue on democraty is a good estimation at best, because those kind of things are hard to mesure, as human rights are. For instance, Polity IV states that Canada is an extremely stable state, and democraty ratings are 10 everywhere. That's what the numbers show, because over here the game is different, with deep questionning of the government care for representativity, various accusations of corruptions. But those are not considered. And it'd be hard to....

  • interesting stuff, thanks!

  • The issue of whether the world is more peaceful today than in the past was posed. I haven't found anything like this video directly addressing this issue (i.e. rational and factual). Maybe I just haven't found it yet on the gapminder site, but I don't see indicators for war death statistics & property damage. This video came the closest to addressing the issue. Is the world more peaceful, and if so, does it correlate with Military Spending?

  • The united states scoring 10/10 on democracy is just plain Wrong.

    The US is a global empire, having the highest ratio of incarcerated population in the world!

    The world's most active army, active colonialism, both economically and militarily.

    It is the country where the son of Mr. president becomes president himself, even though he got less votes than his competition. Where you have the "patriot act" which looks more like fascism than democracy.. MSM slaves

    Am very disappointed from Gapfinder.

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  • The combination of inflation and government-mandated price-fixing, together with the "disappearance" of basic commodities from supermarket shelves, led to the rise of black markets in rice, beans, sugar, and flour. The Allende government announced it would default on debts owed to international creditors and foreign governments.

    This was not Nixon but the result of an expansive government spending.

  • By 1972, the Chilean escudo had an inflation rate of 140%. The average Real GDP contracted between 1971 and 1973 at an annual rate of 5.6% ("negative growth"); and the government's fiscal deficit soared while foreign reserves declined [Flores, 1997: source requires title/publisher].

  • the author fails to note that Its economic freedom that counts, not political freedom, that has shown a positive colleration with economic growth.

  • In Sweden, economic freedoms are considered right wing. Just as any discussion about racial matters is considered right wing and nazi. Thus they conclude that since both are right wing they must both be nazi.

    To talk about economic freedom in Sweden is almost as bad as wearing a swastika and shouting the SH words. And you might get beaten by leftist thugs as a result of both.

    I blame 80 years of socialist programming in state run schools...

  • Democratic freedom means individuals have input on questions of policy. Surely you don't mean that has no impact.

  • Intriguing correlation. Thanks for the video.

  • It would be nice to have another video where you discuss how to calculate the historical income values. If you line up the monthly expenses of a 1900 century Swedish farmer and a modern African farmer, what does it mean that the two people are eqully rich? How do you define it? How do you get the numbers to calculate it? Is the statement even meaningful?

  • There's an adjustment for purchasing power.

    I know they make the adjustment to better compare different times. (so the decrease in the price of goods braught by the industrial revolution for example translates into an increase in real income, as it should.)

    However, I'm not sure that the correction is also made for geographic assymmetries in purchasing power.

  • I am happy to find you here on youtube. I remember the first time I saw your presentations on national TV.

    I will recommend you to people when opportunity is given.

  • I saw a politician discussing US involvement in Latin America in the 1980s. He cited GDP stats for Nicaragua, El Salvador, etc, noting the figures were higher now and therefore people were better off. Suffering caused by the various conflicts was ignored. We must be on guard against such rhetoric! I appreciate the clarity stats can deliver but acknowledging the 'blind spots' in data is essential. It's great to see a stats geek do just that; it brings a greater credibility to your work. BRAVO!

  • Hear, hear!

  • The Friedmanites ignored, for example, how Nixon and Kissinger (Yes, I mean Uncle Sam *sigh*) sabotaged the Chilean economy by ham-stringing civil society.

  • Although this is just leftist myth, this does counter my point: that it was the free market policies proposed by Friedman that led to Chilean prosperity. Thus, regardless of your leftist boogieman's alleged and prior political intervention, economic freedom led to economic prosperity.

  • "Economic freedom" ... under Pinochet ... you seem to have only a slight relationship with actualities.

    Also: it's rather sloppy to talk about causes and effects with no regard to the prevailing conditions i.e. Nixon vowing to and then setting out to crush the Chilean economy.

  • As for Nixon vows, I mean this is just left wing diatribe, and again this is irrelevant. By adhering to the free market policies of Friedman, the Chilean economy outpaced all other South American economies well into the nineties--well after Nixon and Kissinger left office.

  • Far from diatribe "I'll make it scream" is on tape ... again, dismissive of facts.

    And as for "long after", you again ignore how those pre-conditions played out and how they came to be. The Friedman requires such sloppy defense speaks to the core of that ideology.

  • Again, by adhering to the free market policies of Friedman, the Chilean economy outpaced all other South American economies well into the nineties--well after Nixon and Kissinger left office.

    And the pre-conditions of the Chilean economy was that it was one of the poorest in South America, before Nixon and Kissinger came to be.

  • "by adhering to" ... you apply a remedy regardless of symptom? I'm not dissing medicine, I'm dissing your sloppy rhetoric ... symptomatic of a fascistic/narcissistic generation. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

    "the pre-conditions of the Chilean economy was that it was one of the poorest in South America" ... typical fascist: bookend lies with truth. "Those GD South American's are over-throwing their government, again. Like niggers ... they just can't govern themselves."

  • I am sorry, I failed to realize that you are nuts.

  • a) you aren't sorry. You're merely dishonest. Proves my point. b) I'm not nuts. I just qualify for your dis-qualification campaign ... will you now disappear me?

    You don't have the balls to be a fascist. You're just a mindless clone. More's the loss to us.

    Again: swallow your tongue and die ... you're entirely pathological.

  • Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

  • Vacuous scholasticism relies on its zealots willingness to ignore actualities, and then speak as though disciples of science. You are merely a fascist. Merely that.

  • Given that I believe in political and economic freedom , I am far from being a fascist.I hold the individual supreme over the state.

    You know you have the rhetoric and beard styles of the Una-Bomber.

    Coo Coo, Coo Coo.

  • That's almost good to hear ... except in your case the words are empty.

    You start with ranting against the mythical "left", then move to "beard style" and Una-Bomber, and then move on again.

    You're evidently lacking even the slightest self-awareness ... which makes you dangerous.

    I'm guessing the only individual you hold supreme is your own precious self.

  • Yes.  Yes. I lack self awareness and I am morally bankrupt. The price I had to pay for economic literacy and a shave.

  • Beard / no beard is highly meaningful to you ... which means you're one big compulsive twitch.

    If we agreed on economic theory I'd say the same thing: you're a danger to civil society.

  • Very well said, thank you.

    So what can we do to help blue countries become green?

  • sorry, i meant blue to red...

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