Why are billionaires bad for society? | Big Questions with Bernie Sanders
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- Senator Bernie Sanders joins us at Penguin to answer some Big Questions on why billionaires are bad for society, has the media changed politics, has politics become less progressive, and whether the Supreme Court should be elected. Order your copy of 'IT'S OKAY TO BE ANGRY ABOUT CAPITALISM' here: bit.ly/3mmp9cf
It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontrolled greed, and rigged against ordinary people. Where a handful of oligarchs have never had it so good, with more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes, and the vast majority struggle to survive. Where a decent standard of living for all seems like an impossible dream.
How can we accept an economic order that allows three billionaires to control more wealth than the bottom half of our society? How can we accept a political system that allows the super-rich to buy elections and politicians? How can we accept an energy system that rewards the fossil fuel corporations causing the climate crisis? How can we let it happen any longer? We must demand fundamental economic and political change. This is where the path forward begins.
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism presents a vision of what would be possible if the political revolution took place. If we would finally recognize that economic rights are human rights, and work to create a society that provides them. This isn't some utopian fantasy; this is democracy as we should know it. Is it really too much to ask?
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America should be renovating real estate and filling up abandoned buildings and creating better housing areas for everyone. This would reduce the crime rate in America enormously!
What’s stopping you?
Please never stop talking what you think important
I appreciate his message
Can't you see he been blowing smoke for decades? He's a millionaire. Owns multiple homes, never worked a day in his life. Socialism is great for YOU though.
We'll either learn the easy way, or the hard way. It should-a been BERNIE. (period)
That’s just because you’re naive and ignorant. Like all Leftists.
@@BobMinelliDon’t worry Trump will fix Biden and Bernie’s screw ups in 2024.
We need you Bernie 🤍
Hi, my name is Senator Bernie Sanders.
💖
Loved the video , hate the thumbnail. Some channels are above the clickbait images…
💙 BERNIE 🌟 🇺🇸 👏
Had trouble responding. Maybe it's my lousy phone service. Sorry I blamed you tube. I'm patanpid.
My brother Gracchus
Always here for #MyPresidentBernieSanders
I commend Penguin for creating and sharing these videos with important intellectuals, economists, poiticians etc. Very well done.
Why is it everytime time I hear Bernie I think of Laughter by the Reckless Deerhunters
Sanders Turner 2024
No commi
What a dream ticket.
go Bernie
I love Bernie, the president that USA or any other country, for that matter, needs.
Didn’t Bernie have a problem with the millionaires, too, until suddenly he became a millionaire?
Suddenly, after he wrote a book.
Disingenuous. A few million does not have anywhere near the buying power and influence of several billion.
@@M-_-O So you're quick to deflect and suddenly say "it's (D)ifferent" when it's your side doing it? Typical Leftist.
I saw a lady today in Tennessee where her and her son were thrown out of their house she owned for 60 years. I deliver pizza. She gave me a 80 cent tip all she had. I nearly cried over the deal awfully sad. Like bernie said there is something awfullyvwrong with our country.
Oh dear. That's awful. What's wrong with not just USA but the entire world is capitalism, at least in it's current form. It's the greatest threat to mankind.
@@DipayanPyne94 I agree 100 percent
@@robertpolnicky7702 there is nothing wrong. Stop asking for other people money.”Working class”. Everything is work. Everyone works
That's not entirely true. That oversimplified. Government has to meet the needs of the people. Or all throughout history it has been overthrown if it didn't. A government should not create roadblocks to making money and our government does where corporations use campaign money to destroy competition. Or vertical integration. The American revolution was a direct result of the British government failing to meet the needs of the people. I think you need to study a little don't you.
Romanian Hustler, not every work is paid properly. Ultra rich people work nothing like Labourers, Engineers, Nurses etc. The owner class hardly does any work. It keeps exploiting the working class in multiple ways.
How someone so educated and thinking out of the box be so self cantered. All these American corporations spread modern feudalism across the whole globe.
He’s never Had. A. Job.
Here's what actually happened when America had those Eisenhower taxes that Bernie likes.
"Myself, I had a hard time believing that wealthy people in the 1950s had a different attitude toward the taxman than wealthy people do today. And guess what? I was right. The rich and their well-paid accountants worked just as hard to lower their tax bills as the rich do today - harder, in fact, because failing to do so was incredibly costly. They bridled just as much at what they viewed as confiscatory taxes. And they found - or created - enough loopholes that, according to the Congressional Research Service, the top 0.01% in the 1950s paid not 90% but closer to 45% of their income in taxes."
From:
How a 91% rate sparked the golden age of tax avoidance in 1950s Hollywood
Los Angeles Times
What's your actual point? It kinda seems like you're implying we should let rich people horde obscene amounts of wealth just because it might be hard to get it back from them. They didn't earn it, they don't need it. End of story.
@@blobymcblobface
The point is that Bernie and others like him seem to romanticize about the Eisenhower era taxes. They leave out the details on how those taxes actually played out.
You're right, they'll have to work harder to close loopholes. If we get tired of taxing them we could also just forcibly divest them of their money. It's kinda sad that these people have such obscene amounts of wealth that they need to be treated like Smaug the dragon but here we are. That's what happens when a bunch of stuff is treated by our ideology as being worth more than life itself.
President Bernie Sanders. I will support this man for everything.
Ok commi
You’re a fool, then
He's just like the rest of them. For decades he was against millionaires and billionaires until he became one. Now he just rails against billionaires. He's just fine being a millionaire while others suffer. That's socialism in a nutshell. But He's fighting for you!!😂
@@romanianhustler3309you have no idea what you are talking about
Socialism is not communism. How many times do we have to go over this with the people who refuse to do minimum research on different types of economies? So irritating and frankly, it’s keeping us back. Sure thing though. Capitalism is working juuuust famously. Dumb ass.
Thank you for always being a Public Servant Sen. Sanders!
How do public servants that have never had a real job become multimillionaires?
And once he became a millionaire, he switched to multimillionaire and billionaires as the problem. Then he realized he may be a multimillionaire soon and dropped that from his speeches. NOW it's only billionaires who are the problem. Effin commies are delusional
@@anticrust4181 that’s what happens when you write a book that people buy.
Mier bude len nebude dlho trvať
What we need is for Bernie Sanders to run as third party independent candidate for President. We are already angry about capitalism and are ready to vote for Bernie in 2024. Common Bernie we the people need you.
It went from Millionaires and Billionaires to just Billionaires since Bernie started becoming a millionaire.
You don’t know the difference between a million and a billion. 1000 millions in 1 billion. This just shows the ruling class is winning their fight against an educated public. Keep simping against your best interest lol
cause inflation
I saw yesterday at the bookstore his book .
Bernie 2024
According to Sen. Bernie Sanders's latest annual financial disclosures, the Vermont Independent earned $170,000 in book royalties in 2022 for his recently-published best-selling book, "It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism." That's almost as much as the $174,000 salary that senators and House members collect each year. Coupled with another $170,000 royalties payment from publisher Penguin Random House in 2020, Sanders has so far made $340,000 from the book.
Meaning he is fighting against his own self interest. Isn't that more credible than if he had fought for the rich and wealthys interest? I don't care how rich Bernie Sanders may be. It's what he is fighting for that counts. He wants to change the system.
That's not bad. He put in work. Let's get one thing clear Bernie isn't saying you can't be rich but there needs to be a cap on that. If someone wrote a book and got $350,000 from that's awesome. It becomes a problem when you have $350,000,000.
I think bare minimum the Supreme Court Justices should have to take a test, like if I have to take a psychological test to see how honest I am for a minimum wage job...so should they
😂😂😂
I appreciate what he's saying, but he's not actually giving any legitimate solutions. He's explaining the problems and that they're wrong, but what strategic planning does he actually have?
A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved. You guys have to organize politically and take on the corporations. Haves vs have-nots must play out politically. His other book outlines it.
He’s done more than most to take actual action in the senate toward making real and effective change for all of us. A short video on CZcams isn’t enough to outline all of it but if you actually spent time in researching what he’s proposed and relentlessly tried to get done over the years, you wouldn’t nlhave had to ask that question. I don’t know. Maybe get the book he’s talking ABOUT and see?
… and less than 5000 views, while tik-tok can get millions of views for a single video on STUPID, SILLY stuff.
IT'S BEEN GREAT TO KNOW YA BERNIE .
WHEN YOOU DIE , I'M ALL ALONE.....
Bernie sanders: do as I say, not as I do
You’re kidding, right? He’d love for you to make more money and be better off. I guarantee he’s done and is doing more to combat what ails us than you. What are you doing? Please tell us, because you can easily look up his voting record in the senate if you like. Just the past few years alone, and he hasn’t given up on you. He isn’t working to keep you from being more profitable. He’s working against those who DO work to keep you from being so. Billions of dollars isn’t millions. The difference is staggering. Please just start by understanding the difference.
American version of Duterte
The same reason why millionaires are, how many homes do you have Bernie?
Two.
This is why education is under attack. Thinking that a million dollars is anywhere near the power of a billion dollars is how they keep simps voting against their best interests.
He has quite a lot of money himself 🙊
And despite it, he still spends a majority of his own life fighting to better your life. Not the same as those with massive amounts of money who are okay with repressing the rest of society in order to continue making more money they couldn’t spend in more than multiple lifetimes. You guys really can’t figure it out, can you?
@LuminaireLRP and most billionaires have companies, which give people jobs and produce things and services we all use daily, which better our lives. Thinking politicians with high positions in government are there selfishly to better the lives of others is simply naïve.
@@Frenchie1116 I didn’t say politicians, plural, did I? The motivation is on record, through action, and how they treat and speak to and of others. As well as how they work with them. It’s a combination of things and with Bernie, it’s a long list over many years. We all know most politicians are corrupt. If you think most billionaires priority is to better our lives, then YOU are the naive one. The proof is in the exact same combination things. Give me a break.
@LuminaireLRP I didn't say billionaires aren't in it for the money, I simply disagree with Bernie on that topic.
I agree he's not like most politicians and his intent might be different. Still, he's become rich during his career in politics
Also, the problem isn’t even as much the billionaires themselves but the fact that so many of them are enabled to dictate our lives and wages with inequitable results because of a broken economic system which society STILL supports. So many said corrupt politicians hand out subsidies, bail outs, and tax cuts to them like it’s candy. Please. Show me the last time Bernie wasn’t fighting that and even took part in passing legislation that did such without before trying to amend to make it better? It’s clear as day if you follow the records.
A guy who has spent all his life in politics yet somehow owns several houses. He’s a grifter.
He lives in Vermont, house 1.
He works in DC, house 2 (really an apartment).
Holiday cabin his wife got when her parents died, house 3.
Not that crazy, he's been in politics for years, not to mention the fact he's a best selling author, of course he'd have money
He owns three homes that is not outrages. He guy has a net worth of 3million I can respect that. He could be richer but he found a comfortable life that he earned but not willing to sell out for more and leave the common person behind.
@SWITCH I was about to say the samething, you beat me to it.
Jealous of others success
Workers build there infrastructure and companies. They took the profits.
Pharos of Egypt had similar levels of inequality.
@@Pyasa.shaitan yes it is called capitalism. If you hate it go to North Korea
Success? Yeah by exploiting millions of workers in 3rd world countries and damaging the ecosystem of the Earth because of profit greed. Open your fking eyes, sheep!
He’s talking about himself right? He might not be for the world economic forum but he has the same thinking and goals …What do they believe-too many people in the world? Anti gas, anti cattle, anti farmland, anti chicken/ poultry, farming, humans and animals causing too much Co2 ( which is a lie from hell) …..this man is not for the common good of humanity He’s a millionaire himself and a socialist.
He is a millionaire not a centi billionaire
Workers build there infrastructure and companies. They took the profits.
Pharos of Egypt had similar levels of inequality. Outsource jobs and destroy communities and family
Give $30 trillion to wallst and $1 trillion military on top if that let corporations jack up the prices.
Are stupid or what?
Lol
You know Karl Marx predicted the Great Reset, not as MUH SOCIALISM but as the run-up to worker's revolution?
In his unpublished work of 1845 titled The German Ideology, Marx said the following was an essential precursor to worldwide working class revolution:
This “alienation” (to use a term which will be comprehensible to the philosophers) can, of course, only be abolished given two practical premises. *For it to become an “intolerable” power, i.e. a power against which men make a revolution, it must necessarily have rendered the great mass of humanity “propertyless,”* and produced, at the same time, the contradiction of an existing world of wealth and culture, both of which conditions presuppose a great increase in productive power, a high degree of its development. And, on the other hand, this development of productive forces (which itself implies the actual empirical existence of men in their world-historical, instead of local, being) is an absolutely necessary practical premise because without it want is merely made general, and with destitution the struggle for necessities and all the old filthy business would necessarily be reproduced; and furthermore, because only with this universal development of productive forces is a universal intercourse between men established, which produces in all nations simultaneously the phenomenon of the “propertyless” mass (universal competition), makes each nation dependent on the revolutions of the others, and finally has put world-historical, empirically universal individuals in place of local ones. Without this, (1) communism could only exist as a local event; (2) the forces of intercourse themselves could not have developed as universal, hence intolerable powers: they would have remained home-bred conditions surrounded by superstition; and (3) each extension of intercourse would abolish local communism. Empirically, communism is only possible as the act of the dominant peoples “all at once” and simultaneously, which presupposes the universal development of productive forces and the world intercourse bound up with communism. Moreover, the mass of propertyless workers - the utterly precarious position of labour - power on a mass scale cut off from capital or from even a limited satisfaction and, therefore, no longer merely temporarily deprived of work itself as a secure source of life - presupposes the world market through competition. The proletariat can thus only exist world-historically, just as communism, its activity, can only have a “world-historical” existence. World-historical existence of individuals means existence of individuals which is directly linked up with world history.
Compare to the World Economic Forum's slogan "Own Nothing, Be Happy". It is capitalism which makes people propertyless, and then they make the capitalist class propertyless in turn, and this produces socialism.
I think you might have managed to get every single current conspiracy buzzword into those 3 run-on sentences.
@@purplegorilla9592 i thing you should go and take 35 more boosters. Climatard. Climate is allways changing. Get a life and stop listening to cnn
professional useless person rails about those who have produced things. 🤙 rock on
No. He complains about AND takes action against people who have so much money they use it to buy out elections and legislation but who have no idea how the rest of us live. Those who ruin the rest of our lives doing that and supporting it through voting for tax cuts and subsidies for the rich to get more votes. His problem is not with production and he’s never ever said that. Think harder.
Literally the first words out of his mouth are factually wrong.
That’s an opinion you’re welcome to but the word “literally” isn’t appropriate here.
@@LuminaireLRP one person’s property cannot be someone else’s human right.
Is what the Confederacy said
Say ‘health care’ is a human right is absurd.
Lol fuck those poors right? Just because we can build a better world doesn't mean we should if it's on my dime. I don't believe in "human rights". Personally I believe objects and resources have rights but slaves I mean people don't