Interview - Barbara Ehrenreich - The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Loading...
Link to this comment:
Top Comments
All Comments (16)
-
@kiya97 -- Yes, it is humiliating to have to depend on a tiny minority of owners for our livelihood. Let's dispossess them and become co-owners. This could take the form of cooperatives, with everyone working in a business sharing in its ownership and management. Or the whole community could take the means of production under democratic control.
-
@colibri1 We are not a nation of rational thinkers. We were brought up on the nonsense fantasy that everyone can be rich if they "just work hard" and that hard work is the most desirable trait a person can have.
-
@LatinoParaSiempre You have to fit in and when your wages go to certain point, you are swapped out for a less expensive and younger model.
-
This, is solid.
-
So how do you fit in? Act snide and conceited to everyone but your boss?
-
Great video. To me the lesson (that does not seem to be emphasized by Mrs. Ehrenreich) is that we have to become business owners. We need to start to replace the big corporate machines that treating us all like trash.
1 year ago 2
-
@JackBlair2 --- Eherenreich has been explaining how Hayek and the repubs were wrong for 20 years. Then Bush and the repubs got in power and DEMONSTRATED how that brain dead ideology breaks everything. The best part is the repubs haven't learned anything from getting fired from all branches of government. I'm looking forward to their next hilarious adventure in crashing and burning. They are "learn proof".
-
@JackBlair2 Well, Hayek sounds like a moron to me.
-
Why should the employer pay someone if they leave their work station? They're being paid for their product - their work at their station - and if they don't deliver that, shouldn't they be fired?
If they're be "degraded", can't they leave their job?
-
your average american sucks ass
- 52:18An Evening with Barbara Ehrenreichby dominicanpenguins6,287 views
- 5:25MSNBCs Rachel Maddow: Author Barbara Ehrenreich...by FiredoglakeTV1,400 views
- 9:44Bill Moyer's Journal - Rising Inequality in Ame...by boydd182618,752 views
- 0:31Working Class - Trailerby Telestrekoza16,218 views
- 10:02Author Barbara Ehrenreich on her new book "Brig...by mediagrrl97,754 views
- 29:30Interview - George Galloway - Mr. Galloway Goes...by talkingsticktv2,818 views
- 9:52Theocracy Watch: Dominion Theology (1/5)by TrueIntentions21,036 views
- 9:53Michael Jordan 's Wisdom (Rare Interviews)by TheLightyearBUZZ335,670 views
- 5:37Barbara Ehrenreich: Is Capitalism Dead?by videonation8,556 views
- 57:37The Coming Collapse of the Middle Classby UCtelevision721,175 views
- 9:59Barbara Ehrenreich - This Land is Their Landby pdxjustice2,843 views
- 3:15George Carlin ~ The American Dreamby wutdaflek2,777,350 views
- 51:16Interview - Heather Rogers - The Hidden Life of...by talkingsticktv3,961 views
- 10:00Barbara Ehrenreich: Bright-Sided, Oct. 22, 2009by pdxjustice309 views
- 10:23RSA Animate - Smile or Dieby theRSAorg1,376,121 views
- 6:19Nickel and Dimed Book Reviewby tetsubo57808 views
- 5:50Americans rise up against Wall Streetby RTAmerica17,943 views
- 9:48AMERICAN DREAM INTERVIEWSby runner4747444 views
- 5:48Enough with the Pink Bears and Positive Thinking!by wnycradio1,016 views
- 27:57Interview - David Neiwert - How Hate Talk Radic...by talkingsticktv6,898 views
this women is speaking truth....this corporate system is a farce...your skills aren't important it's whether you fit in or not.
punkenduro, must be terrible to be the first...with nothing to say?
LatinoParaSiempre 2 years ago 8
thanks for posting - i have a video of ms. ehrenreich speaking at the forum on inequality in NYC, with bill moyers and bob franklin, about 5 years ago. she worked undercover for walmart - just unbelievable what kind of working conditions employees are forced to work in - would you believe having to wear depends, so as not to leave your "work station" unattended? you can't be more degraded than that.
Jpom22 2 years ago 3