Noam Chomsky - Class War (Part 4)

The Attack on Working People (1998).

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[baseballnolie34]

I think the short answer is no, but I can't think of the mechanism. The obvious answer would be to say "yes" but that's the same argument made against unions, worker's rights, safety regulation, etc - all of which made society immensely more livable for the vast majority of its inhabitants - so frankly it seems wrong. Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' would probably come into play and raise all boats, assuming it was also paired with his calls for democracy and strongly progressive taxation.

[donkey69donkey69]

love ya noam.

[beradification]

Reading the decline and fall of the roman empire is a lot like reading chomsky and the newspapers today

[matthewschark]

It's sad that Bieber's "Baby" has 343 MILLION views when Chomsky gets 8500. "Ice Cream Paint Job" gets 11 MILLION views. Chomsky, 8500. Chris Brown's "With You": 105 MILLION. Chomsky: 8500. Just an observation...

[zoobly3]

@Kingarthur305 Your so right, human rights are not practical. I really hope they dramatically accelerate the erosion of civil liberties in addition to resources fundamental to human life. Now THAT'S what I call practicality! Nothing makes champagne tastes sweeter than knowing that the guy who delivered it is now homeless and quenching his thirst with raw sewage. Soon we'll have alarm clocks that burn poor people with a lit Cuban cigar, making them scream on the hour. Harumph!

[SIMKINETICS]

Calling the gangster & bankster system we have is a lie. For a glimpse of true Free Market economics, read about Adam Smith in Wikipedia; Smith's seminal socio-economic paradigm addresses many of Chomsky's complaints, and is far more equitable for labor. And yes, we need to make this video go viral somehow. Chomsky and/or his acolytes (us) need to refine the message & add some appeal, credibility & marketing brilliance to it. Our country is at stake! Heavy lifting!

[arzoyan]

The evolution of recent human history has been dominated by minority control over the majority, the rulers have come up with nessesary illusion for compliance and servitude of the many, Science and technology has created a world of plenty, but the market mechanism is about artificial scarcity to perpetuate poverty and exploitation in a modality of war,enviornmental destructions,animal cruelty and so on . The new paradigm is sharing the Earth for our collective needs and wellbeing

[PavedStones]

@Kingarthur305 it's not practical to be angry at the way our wages are being cut down since 30 years while all the public money goes to the banks and companies that have been raping us all along? What's practical then? Just watching our corporations reintroducing child labor and slave labor in China and Indonesia and just sit back and wait for that to come home too, that's more practical?

[PavedStones]

@AldinTheMad 1st world workers live off the riches of the poor? Explain...

[theseanze]

In physics, the term "work" only applies when energy is transferred by force over distance, ie when something gets moved (further). In a "business-run society," people can make a living doing institutionally approved, but meaningless work.

A culture that puts money at the center of the world never truly gets the public good that services advertise. Sisyphus is doing noble work until you realize it's just his job, which means getting the boulder to the destination would defeat the purpose.

[brandnutopian]

It's as if Americans have perverted the words of Thoreau:

The brain that governs best, governs least.

[brandnutopian]

An obvious point of clarification as Woodrow Wilson was president during WWI.