George Carlin: how does our economic system work?

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From George Orwell's "1984": "(...) From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared. If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. ... But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction - indeed, in some sense was the destruction - of a hierarchical society. ... the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would... already have disappeared. If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. ... But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. ... Ignorance is Strength (...)"

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[greenhornet299]

This man is the Mark Twain of his age....

[wseabuck]

The manifesto of the 99%...this is pure gospel.

[scottblanks]

I get no sound of this and multiple other Carlin videos on YouTube.

[echobiz]

What the controllers don't know makes people wealthy every year, but most people are like the controllers; they just don't know. Education is what we get when we listen, read, study, work, and exert energy doing things that teach. A college degree is not an education, it is a piece of paper. The truth is, the controllers would lose if the people understood more than they do as when citizens are armed with wealth and know how, the controllers can't hang on to their control.

[imax1971]

Mr. Carlin was a fool of gigantic proportions...

[andrayathevampire]

blessing mr Carlin

[TheGazi1972]

A Legend. RIP George. The truth, as always.

[kassarin]

My right ear is deaf.

[acercomputersruleyou]

@MegaSensimilla but if you consider a monopoly, the owners are in a position to streamline the organization to its max while simultaneously rising the price to the consumer. not sure, if that's along the same lines or not?

[blazefury2010]

@ThomasHawkwood Apparently you're too stupid to understand my earlier reply to you. It isn't a contradiction if they are lobbying to trick people into thinking they need to lobby to get what they want. When in reality they really don't need to lobby. Do you not understand what "smoke screen" means that I wrote earlier? I guess not.