The video is FUNNY.

Great sift.

@enoch

Thanks!

On another note - I think this video is pretty silly. Corporations are making more money due to market forces. Globalization, competing labor costs, automation, etc.

Bill Moyers is ready to talk about the American Worker who has been cheated and robbed? His solution is to basically spread the money around? Take from the greedy corporations and give to their poor workers?

American Manufacturing jobs earn five times on average what a Mexican Manufacturing jobs does and almost 30 times what the average Chinese job pays. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ichcc.pdf

Additionally, I would postulate that the standard of living is better in the USA than in either of those countries.

How are American's benefiting? Well, we have incredibly low prices as Consumers for all sorts of goods.

That said a lot of Americans are being left behind and when I look forward I really wonder what is going to happen with continued automation. How many truck drivers/delivery drivers will we need when trucks can drive themselves? What happens when food prep can be automated? These are just a few examples among many.

@Trancecoach @enoch

Enoch's questions:

1. People should be producing something if they are getting paid for it - whether that is a good, service, etc. If someone else pays them to create or perform they are owed exactly what they have been promised to be compensated.

2. Enoch I think you are misunderstanding what a free market is. A free market is not a marketplace without regulations. A free market is not anarchy - there are still rules. Instead a free market is a market without a centralized or directing authority. To clarify a free market is one in which government policy does not set pricing.

3. You don't believe or disbelieve in democracy. It isn't a religion, it is a form of government. There is nothing inherently wrong with regulations. The devil is in the details. Regulations can be good or bad for a marketplace.

4. Enoch, I think that is a gross oversimplification of why corporate profits have been as high as they are. Many things have led to large corporate profits including globalization, expanding markets, etc. Yes, here in the USA corporations exercise influence on government, but its only one part of the bigger picture.

5. Completely incorrect. A free market has nothing to do with the existence of copyrights or patents.

6. Democracy is a form of government. A Free Market is a type of market structure. You could have a dictatorship and a free market. A monarch and a free market. A republic and a free market. A Theocracy and a free market.

Furthermore you could have a "Free Market" for automobiles but a "regulated" or "controlled" market for electricity within one country.

For example:

In the USA I would argue automobiles operate in a "Free Market". Yes there are certain standards the government sets (safety, fuel efficiency, etc) but the pricing is determined by the automakers. You can argue about the restrictions. Do they go far enough? Do they go too far? etc.

Conversely, most electric companies prices are regulated by the government and they are required to provide services to certain areas.

Lastly, a free market does not mean the market operates without laws. Copyright and patent law being just a small part of those laws.

I hope this clarifies some of these questions for you.


Best,

Kgrr

No offense taken.

Best,

Kgrr

@VoodooV

I don't worship service members and I'm not really a fan of McCain. Having been or being in the military is not a trump card. That said to call McCain a "traitor" or having committed "treason" is more than out of line and in bad taste.

That said I do not hop on the bandwagon every time someone else bashes someone even if I don't care for the person they are bashing.

I don't really care for videos like this because I don't learn anything. There is no discourse, no information, no civility, and finally - no point.

I'm sorry you can have you differences of opinion and you can voice them, but to say John McCain is guilty of treason is absurd.

Does he often advocate military engagement? Yes.

But is that treason? No.

John McCain is a real veteran. Someone who has seen combat, been injured, and spent four years as a Prisoner of War (POW). I think he loves this country. I don't always agree with him on policy issues, but I believe that.

The speaker in this video is a joke and is bordering on being a tin foil wearing nut job.

I respect McCain for letting him speak his mind.

*happy

Pat Robertson is an idiot... so give him more air time?

@shatterdose

I completely agree with you. Per usual this is TYT and similar news agencies having a slow day and finding a way to get their viewers mouths frothing.

They take the same video clips they use in half their reports, splice in some commentary, and rack up the views.

I somehow doubt most American's know much about Iran other than that its name is similar to Iraq.

I was talking with the salesman in Nordstrom's yesterday and I was talking about world war 2. He asked if that was the one with Hitler or if that was WWI.

*sigh*

Yawn. This was reported as early as November of 2012. It gets on reddit a week ago and now you care?

Apple has a patent for this. They have LOTS of patents.

When they decide to actually include this in their hardware...you can choose to not buy it or protest it.

I hate TYT and all their ilk. It's alarmist non-substantive reporting. I would love to see real journalism outside of the mainstream garbage take off, but this isn't it.