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  • Jesus Christ. Yes, the children of millionaires are the proletariat. They are the oppressed, they are the ones who need cushy govt. jobs.

    The children of the elite and intellectuals are always the ones most likely to believe in marxism. That couldn't possibly because they have no actual work experience, and that they are totally isolated from the consequences of their mistakes.

    No, there's no relationship.

    Fuck 'em.

  • "There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money so I can get the fuck away from people". If you can't beat em, join em.

  • Besides, Mankiw's textbooks and his class—go ahead, look up the course evaluations as well as the textbook's reviews on Amazon—are completely unbiased. He grants exposure to each facet of economic understanding and leaves politics outside the classroom. Can the same be said for the rest of Harvard's genius professors? Hardly. How many walkouts have you heard of in Harvard's notoriously liberal sociology department?

  • Not that I disagree with this bunch, but the only reason this is happening is because Mankiw advised Bush and Romney. Had he been one of Obama's pals, these people surely wouldn't be staging a "walk out".

  • These faggots should be shot. 

  • Privilege, sweet privilege. These fools will be digging in their heels at their six-figure jobs in no time. Let's call them the Harvard Hypocrites!

  • Just give all of them a nice big FAIL. They can learn about the difference between getting an education and political activism.

  • bunch of idiots, they should drop out if they know so much. Why did they sign up for that class then if they dont like the teacher? lol.

  • THE REVOLUTION IS NOW!

  • Thanks guys, you're changing the world future!

  • Thanks guys, you're changing the world future!

  • The 1% protesting the .01% 

  • Drones.

  • these students really are pathetic. they couldn't even get the entire class to do it. they are having no impact whatsoever and not making any waves of any kind.

  • @doodaboogie I agree on you that these students do not have enough impact yet. But that doesn't make them pathetic. It makes the other guys that didn't follow them pathetic. Slaves of comformity, unable to accept that a crisis is upon America and change has to come somehow. But I'm glad that this has started. This reminds me of Ron Paul's origins in politics. Nobody listened to him. Yet look at him now...you see... regular people tend to open their eyes way too late. These guys are exceptional. 

  • The problem is that Mankiw is a Keynesian who's concerned about inequality.

    I support OWS protests completely, but these kids chose the wrong target.

  • @Tanny0103 Well that's just logical. I mean, how can you expect your country to save itself from a 14 trillion debt with China and an inminent crisis when even its "intellectual elite" is unable to think critically and see what's truly wrong with America? Probably you belong to America's wealthiest 0.1% and thus you are unable that something is terribly wrong with the rest of the people in you country but well... who cares right? Let's just save our own asses ;) Go #OccupyWallStreet.

  • Keep it up!

  • There are two branches of economics. Positive economics, which studies cause and effect, and are based on facts and deep analysis. Then you have normative economics, which expresses value statments, such as "healthcare should be government run to provide free healthcare for all."

    I wonder which branch these "students" had a problem with... I'm not suprised with them, the left always want to have everyone else indocrinated in vodoo economics, and if you disagree you hate the poor, obviously.

  • 脫褲子放屁...

  • If these students actually cared they would withdraw from the course. You don't like the teacher? fine don't take the course. Sadly these students have been brought up to think that all opinions are equally valid. That's not the case, you are the student he is the teacher now sit down shut up and open a book.

  • @normativeRandroid Spoken like a true robot who doesn't question things nearly enough.

  • @kainedamo Students should always have questions, but within the context of the classroom. Students shouldn't be dictating to the person their learning from as if they have all the answers. Students are there to learn from the teacher's greater context of knowledge. You may not agree w/ everything but that doesn't mean you get to dictate the syllabus.

  • That people's mic thing is disturbing.

  • 好棒唷!加油~

  • Those students are reacting to a newer and growing form of human consciousness that is blowing in the wind. The old economic assumptions which often involve viewing other human beings as exploitable commodities less important than profits are reflective of a particular stage of human consciousness that will recede while having its better features integrated with the newer form of economics.

  • @2indulgent "The old economic assumptions which often involve viewing other human beings as exploitable commodities "

    That is not how the economics profession works. Try cracking open an actual economics book that wasn't written 150 years ago by an obscure, grandiose hack and you might learn a thing or two.

  • Walking out of a class to protest against the professor is as stupid as buying a lot of products and torching them in public to protest against the manufacturer. You already paid the price and the manufacturer is happy to not worry about the warranty and service. You paid the tuition (the cost is equivalent to buying a mid-sized car per semester) anyway, Mankiw gets paid anyway, and he is happy answering less stupid questions in class.

  • @AsumaHung It's symbolic, designed to get a message across.

  • I love it. GO OCCUPY!

  • Why do they all turn into zombies and repeat anything said by a speaker?? It's creepy.

  • @Conservative1001BG It's called the people's mic. It originated on Wall St as a response to not being allowed to use any sound amplification equipment, such as a megaphone. It's a useful technique to make sure that everyone is heard when they speak, even the soft spoken, without necessitating the use of this equipment. Most schools have similar restrictions that limit the use of sound amplification equipment during certain hours.

  • I hear an echo... i hope it helps those who can't hear the message.

  • Wow, the fact that people are actually complaining about this shows how tentative the conservative position is. If you guys really had strength you wouldn't care at all.

  • @muyo613

    its amazing. I would've expected more support from the youtube people. Then again, their favorite form of entertaining relates to videos of cats and or babies.

  • Very Douchey

  • Google Ludwig von Mises for a scientific approach to Economics.

    Everything else serves politicians and not the people they are supposed to represent.

  • How much money is it to go to Harvard? Anyways, these students are complete idiots and spoiled brats.

  • @Conservative1001BG They're not idiots they're principled. Something thats missing in the current elite of society. And you don't get into Harvard by being an idiot. Idiots go to Yale, cough.. George Bush.. cough.

  • @SpacedFiction If they believe that giving people free school will lead to a better society they are wrong. Nothing is free, and eventually you run out of all the other people money.

  • @polevaultrockstr Well school is free here in Scotland and education is not the same as other "entitlements", it's an investment in the youth of the future. A very worthwhile investment that can lead to a better society.

  • @SpacedFiction Obviously a more educated public is a good thing. Is getting that by holding a gun to people head and threatening them with jail if they don't pay up so you can have your school? Sorry it will never be ok to force people to give you money, how about we get to a point where we all realize it is an issue and give the money out of the goodness of our hearts and not because we have to. BTW if someone has a "right" to go to school free just becasue they are a citizen how is that not

  • an entitlement? An entitlement is a guarantee of access to benefits based on established rights or by legislation. A "right" is itself an entitlement associated with a moral or social principle, such that an "entitlement" is a provision made in accordance with legal framework of a society.Typically, entitlements are laws based on concepts of "rights" which are themselves based in concepts of social equality or enfranchisement. seems to me like this is the EXACT definition of the word.

  • Outstanding. Now take credit for Dubya

  • Good action!

  • why did they leave? specific reason..?

  • @EmceeSpawn cause they're idiots

  • The cult of liberalism. Mind-numbed robots, or as Lenin used to call them - "useful idiots."

  • These students are such idiots.

  • money well spent

  • These students are morons.

  • @ddstar I believe I have to disagree with you. These students are incredibly brave and are doing what's right to raise awareness in this country. In case you haven't realized, America's economic crisis starts in the economy lessons in Universities, where students are given a class on how everything we are doing on economics these days is correct. Is it? How is that supposed to develop critical thinking? This is HARVARD, and these students are receivin lessons on how to keep fucking the world up

  • What an idiot on 1:07. "Not a constructive way to voice their criticism". How then? Send a letter to Larry Summers and ask him to save USA from the mess he made? These are desperate times, think about the rest of your country, you guys are in a CRISIS now. It's too late to be nice. If a change won't come from Mr. Obama (our dearest Wall Street Puppet) then it has to come from the people. Go Occupy Wall Street. Greetings from an american living in Chile.

  • @ddstar Yes. Harvard students are morons.

  • @ddstar Thumbed your dumb ass down, CUNTservative abortion that got away.

  • @jfkjrlover Oh no!!! Please don't thumb me down!! What will I ever DOOO!?!

  • @ddstar What you should do is die or change your ideology.

  • I wonder if these students realize that tuition is so high because if government subsidies. If you ended every Gov, subsidy tomorrow cost would drop by more then one third. Also her is a stat that is staggering. Over the over the past 15 years, k-12 student enrollment has gone up 13% while employment of Teachers, Staff and Administrator has gone up over 90%. Who benefited? It wasn't the students. Their test scores are flat or falling. Almost a 40% increase in spending with no good results.

  • They complain about high student debt why are they not protesting the universities charging them the fees after all the tuition rates for colleges have risen at twice the rate of inflation for pretty much my life time no can't do that blame greedy banks for loaning them the cash blame the companies that will hire you allowing you to pay off the debt hell just blame the rich that's pretty popular oh and don't forget the Jews that is to sorry the "Zionist" Jews wink wink

  • WTF class you just walked out of cost money. teacher just gets paid and you walk out lol.

  • boner

    

  • Doesn't protesting the high cost of education (mostly due to gov't guaranteed loans) make a little more sense than protesting voluntary debt? If you can only afford a civic, don't buy a fucking Cadillac if you don't want to deal with the debt. See, was that hard?

  • @bigdefense77 I wonder if anyone realizes the effect of subsidy programs, in part, is to impose taxes on blue collar workers, who have not attended college, to pay for the tuition of future white-collar professionals. Why should the government subsidize future high earners at the expense of average working people?

  • Wait a second....so they are "protesting" the inequalities of our economic system? There isn't another economic model in existence that has given it's citizens more wealth per capita. Capitalism works better than ANY other model there is. I find it so ironic that these individuals are in support of installing an economic model such as socialism that in the past and currently in other countries has proven to be a failure and not provide anywhere near the wealth that the capitalist system provides

  • Hey guys, I just ran up ten grand on my credit card but I don't feel like paying for that shit. Let's just protest the debt I incurred through my own free will!!

  • well it touched a nerve hence all the comments. We shall agitate them all!

  • you guys are idiots, dont like the teachings dont sign up for the class and dont go to harvard, you guys are absolute morons and embody everything that is wrong with america today.

  • Haha a bunch of trust fund babies trying to stand up for economic equality. Give me a break

  • @spennels Why are they any less valid in their opinions than your own? You will get no break from your retarded demeanor.

  • Hahaha, what a joke. Harvard is full of dipshits with a holier than thou attitude that think this actually means anything. Hate to break it to you silver spoon assholes, all you did was disrupt a class, nothing more, nothing less. This will have absolutely zero impact. But you're on youtube, so you got that going for ya right. Go back to running around with brooms between your legs and pretending you are Harry Potter.

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  • OMG EDUCATED KIDS WHO MOST LIKELY COME FROM RICH FAMILIES ARE SHOWING SUPPORT FOR THE POOR AND THE WORKING CLASS?!?!?! WHAT SOCIALISTS.

    Get a grip.

  • @ctownlegend88 That is a bad assumption. Did you know if someone is accepted into Harvard and cannot afford to go there, Harvard allows them to attend for free? The University is purely run on higher education despite its ironically high tuition costs for families that can afford it.

  • So far everyone who has commented on this video doesn't seem to understand the purpose of OSW. Although I don't agree with the OSW movement, the purpose does make sense. It's not about "getting a job".

  • @Dukefrukem I believe the movement is "OWS", not "OSW"...but it is about demanding from those that have worked hard for what they have to give it to those that haven't and aren't willing to work hard for it - it's tried and failed communism.

  • @cordovamx Sorry for the typo. ANd no, you still haven't understood the point. That's not the message they are trying to convey.

  • @Dukefrukem So what is the message then?

  • You have to love how the socialists clap for themselves after they make their "statement". If they don't want their seat in their Harvard classroom, I know many who would take it.

  • That was stupid. For one, Keynesian economics isnt conservative at all. Both progressives and neocons make use of it (same beast, different parties), and it is a failed economic model. A conservative economic model follows more along the line of Austrian economics. Harvard is over rated, and the type of people they are letting in there shows the decline in our educational standards. A lot of the BS academia is a waste of time, specialize with a skill set and always learn via personal research.

  • I feel sorry for their parents...

  • WELL DONE! We are the 99%

    Greetings from France

  • @XVIIIProductions LOL...France....a pathetic country we don't need to emulate.

  • @jasonc32amg Haha haters, you'd just like to be as smart and have as class than us, fat ass rednecks! :D

  • @XVIIIProductions Please operationalize your definition of class. Enthrall me with your acumen Agent Starling.

  • @jasonc32amg In fact, I don't need to : you've just operationalized your brillant way to argue. So whatever my definition of the class, I'll be kind of better. Anyway, as an illustration I'm pretty sure that a french television would never place Beijin in Japan (or France in Spain) :

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  • @XVIIIProductions You'll be under Sharia law in 10 years. Enjoy it loser.

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  • @XVIIIProductions Don't pay any mind to American CUNTServatives. Brainwashed is what they are. They have absolutely no idea about how things really are; they only know what they hear from Fox and Rush Limbaugh. Most Americans have never been to France, but the ones who have tend to be liberal so remember even though there are many ignorant rednecks in the U.S., there are also many open-minded and educated people too. Greetings from someone who loves Western Europe.

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  • @jfkjrlover Thanks you, friend! I actually don't pay any attention to them, cause in France we may encounter exactly the same kind for cuntservative reactions. Like many people here, I love the part of America you're representing and the United States you're fighting for. Usually, US citizen I've met travelling around where nice and open minded people, and that counts more than all the jerks I'm able to argue with on youtube!

    Greetings from someone who also love the USA!

  • So Stupid. Wow, this is what the so called smartest college kids are protesting against. I bet half of their parents work at Wall Street to give their kids good educations.

    Get a job people and make money so you wont have to be dependent on the government to give you Obama money.

  • Give yourselves a pat on the back, guys. That'll show those capitalist pigs on Wall Street that Harvard students stand as one with the working man!

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