DN! Raj Patel on The Value of Nothing"

Raj Patel on The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy

Author and activist Raj Patel joins us to discuss his new book, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. Weve come to believe that the only way we can value things is by sticking them in a market, Patel says. The trouble is, as weve seen through this recession, that markets are a tremendously bad way of valuing things, tremendously fickle.

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[Oen713]

@jiujitsujana I dont speak Spanish friend. Could you try again? Or better yet send a vid explaining this. Id appreciate that.

[Oen713]

@jiujitsujana what part of rev is this?

[kulwick]

We do not operate in a free market system. If we did we would not be in the troubles we are in. We operate in a "Corporate Market System". The corporation is allowed to ride rough shod over the population. In exchange for protected from law suits and competition the corporation operates under rules and legislation handed down by the government. The corporation collects and helps control the population as well.

[ourearthhome]

What do you make of the ideology, the conceptual framework, that allows a relatively small percentage of our brothers and sisters, who "own" the earth, its land and natural resources, with the right to charge the rest of us for access to our own planet. These people did not make the earth or create its value but they get to charge us for what we make valuable and keep what they do not create. This ideology was the reason for privatization of the commons, not for efficiency but free lunch.

[forfuxsake33]

'THOXA TO THEO!'

[gqsmoothie]

Sounds like a book definitely worth reading.