Free to Choose Part 5: Created Equal Featuring Milton Friedman

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Komentáře • 916

  • @jeffdkillman
    @jeffdkillman Před 4 lety +233

    When Sowell puts down the intellectual hammer Friedman sits there with the look of a proud father.

    • @trevorlambert4921
      @trevorlambert4921 Před 3 lety +28

      Sowell, in my mind, is a better debater than Friedman. Friedman is very smart, and a brilliant economist and right about many things, I just think Sowell articulates his positions better and is a better philosopher

    • @paulburket
      @paulburket Před 3 lety +5

      Except that when Sowell left the Chicago he was still a Marxist in spite of being taught by Friedman. Haha

    • @jeffdkillman
      @jeffdkillman Před 3 lety +32

      @@paulburket Actually, while Sowell was still attending the University of Chicago he took a summer job with the department of labor. It was during this experience that he became aware of the self interest inherent in government institutions. When he took the job he was a Marxist & by the end of the summer he was the Sowell we know a love.

    • @jeremiahsams2848
      @jeremiahsams2848 Před 3 lety +1

      The master then knew he was surpass by the pupil 🤣🤣🤣.

    • @Baamthe25th
      @Baamthe25th Před rokem +1

      ​@@trevorlambert4921 Sowell is better at hitting hard with the fact, etc. But Friedman ends up being more influential by being so nice.
      The way Sowell argues isn't for a back and forth, it's more for an explaination/interview ? He's a bit too confrontational to really get people on his side, it's more demonstration for people who are already on this side getting more and more facts

  • @simetric6551
    @simetric6551 Před 5 lety +86

    And 38 years later Chile is the richest and first developed country in Latin America. Milton Fridman: I rest my case .

    • @tsuba14
      @tsuba14 Před 3 lety +2

      true, but I hope that isn't an endorsement of the military junta... as opposed to the economic policies themselves. but hardly a difference to the disappeared

    • @SamvedIyer
      @SamvedIyer Před 3 lety +17

      @@tsuba14 It is not. Friedman expressly said that he did not condone absence of political freedom, which nonetheless did not dilute the fact that people in Chile were freer than those in communist countries.

    • @cloudedjourney
      @cloudedjourney Před rokem +1

      I remember being blown away crossing the border from Bolivia to Chile. Night and day difference.

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      @@cloudedjourney Pinochet murdered the leaders of the trade unions and made profits safe for American companies in Chile. He was a creature of the US CIA and Nixon. His regime tortured over 35,000 people.

  • @drunkdonutboy
    @drunkdonutboy Před 8 lety +277

    "Like most people I have never SEEN a pollster" LOL

    • @astalavisitor
      @astalavisitor Před 7 lety +2

      i m not native speaker. please explain me the joke xD

    • @matthewkingsbury1894
      @matthewkingsbury1894 Před 7 lety +27

      He's basically saying that most people are never called by people who conduct polls. At the time, a huge portion of Americans had phones, which is how polls were conducted. He's questioning the validity of the sampling done by those conducting the polls.

    • @astalavisitor
      @astalavisitor Před 7 lety +2

      ah hahahah.

    • @rayanemabrouki3524
      @rayanemabrouki3524 Před 5 lety +4

      he's savage af, love him

    • @crippleized
      @crippleized Před 5 lety

      Dude that's so funny

  • @techguy2870
    @techguy2870 Před 7 lety +289

    Much of what makes Sowell's opinions so impressive to me is that he's not from one level of society, socially or economically. A black man born in the south, raised in Harlem, and then on to ivy league college. His views come from seeing society from different levels and ethnicity.

    • @CocoXLarge
      @CocoXLarge Před 7 lety +40

      Isn't that what intelligence is, to see opposing ideas and integrate them logically into your own neural pathways if they're sound?

    • @mayainverse9429
      @mayainverse9429 Před 7 lety +14

      yep. he also went to school with professors who was on the opposite side and they got along perfectly fine. can't say that for schools nowadays.

    • @johnwiseman17
      @johnwiseman17 Před 7 lety +10

      And, he put himself through school!

    • @Aaronlcyrus
      @Aaronlcyrus Před 7 lety +5

      A man who refuses to listen will never learn. Anyone intelligent will love for someone to be able to change their opinions. If they can do so with a more sound argument than you've been able to realize, then you'll have learned. If not, it will help you understand your own point of view, and why you disagree with theirs.

    • @dg1431
      @dg1431 Před 6 lety +5

      He's also like a thousand years old now so has a ton of life experience.

  • @Julia-cb8wm
    @Julia-cb8wm Před 5 lety +87

    “What party is asking for equality of results?” damn if they could have only seen the future.

  • @MiguelSanchez-gu3nt
    @MiguelSanchez-gu3nt Před 7 lety +134

    This program is the shit. Finally people talking about real stuff that matters rather than yelling or insulting people to score political points.

    • @TheAurgelmir
      @TheAurgelmir Před 7 lety +22

      "Finally"
      The sad irony of that statement :(

    • @mayainverse9429
      @mayainverse9429 Před 7 lety +4

      you realize this happened many decades ago right? and the left has significantly more pull now than it did back then.

    • @jasonsmith-by3ji
      @jasonsmith-by3ji Před 7 lety +3

      Much to the regret of any who love liberty.

    • @cedricrubingisa2943
      @cedricrubingisa2943 Před 7 lety

      Does anybody know the name of the song with the violin?

    • @liberphilosophus7481
      @liberphilosophus7481 Před 7 lety +5

      Actually, that British guy seemed awfully modern. Kept throwing insults at and berated Milton on various petty statements or misunderstanding.

  • @BenTheHenAgain
    @BenTheHenAgain Před 8 lety +109

    "I think that the internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government."
    Amazing how Incredibly prescient a man Milton was.

    • @vicenteyanez671
      @vicenteyanez671 Před 6 lety +1

      freddo 1614 well its pretty easy to disagree. Politics have a great deal to do with economy, and just think about it Trump would have never won if internet didnt exist. The influence of internet is undeniable.

    • @TobyHonest420
      @TobyHonest420 Před 4 lety +2

      That's the opposite of prescient, the internet greatly expanded the power and control held by governments.

    • @islander376
      @islander376 Před 3 lety

      John Anthony that’s a perfectly fine argument to make, but I’m not sure the actual outcome has been less government control. The government now has entire institutions dedicated to using the internet to surveil each and every American.

  • @AJKeio
    @AJKeio Před 3 lety +18

    43:00 Gotta love Sowell for not allowing this woman speak for an entire race of people with whom she shares no identity. We need more people like him these days.

  • @Tenebrousable
    @Tenebrousable Před 8 lety +66

    That calm smile of Friedman says to me "ok you don't hear me, I know you will not hear me. Your children or grandchildren will, because of your cases inability to aany good for decades"

    • @ClintonFD
      @ClintonFD Před 8 lety +12

      +Tenebrousable He stays completely calm because he knows that he is right.

    • @TexKimball
      @TexKimball Před 8 lety +3

      Spot on, that's literally me right now.

    • @C_R_O_M________
      @C_R_O_M________ Před 8 lety +3

      That's exactly right. Couldn't phrase it better (really).

    • @tylerceremello8554
      @tylerceremello8554 Před 7 lety +3

      yes!

  • @BarbaraJoanneBJ
    @BarbaraJoanneBJ Před 9 lety +87

    Man I wouldn't want Dr Sowell angry at me, but I do love his righteousness.

    • @adams1458
      @adams1458 Před 9 lety +1

      BarbaraJoanneBJ Lol, you couldn't argue your way out of it. hahah

    • @happybird4942
      @happybird4942 Před 9 lety +12

      BarbaraJoanneBJ That's the University of Chicago's school of Economics for ya. Sowell once described economics there like a "full contact sport".

    • @dragonestea
      @dragonestea Před 9 lety +13

      BarbaraJoanneBJ I'm honestly not sure whether being in a debate with him or with Friedman would be worse. I've never seen either of them lose.

    • @MrSilverfish12
      @MrSilverfish12 Před 8 lety +2

      I just hate how Peter Jay or the Host kept talking over Freidman. But Melton is smart and keeps calm. The lady though should not have been allowed on to the panel.

    • @ACDC7369
      @ACDC7369 Před 5 lety +2

      @@dragonestea Imagine being in a debate against both of them, like in this video!!!

  • @Jazza0Mic0Fazza
    @Jazza0Mic0Fazza Před 6 lety +46

    Tom Sowell opened my eyes to the issue with this discussion. They were talking across paths. The difference between the hope or effort toward equality versus the best process or system to reach equality. What the other speakers were arguing is that government intervention is necessary to achieve equality because they hope for it to happen whereas Friedman and Sowell were showing which system best achieves this equality. Equality and freedom are a byproduct of free market capitalism.

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      Everywhere that workers have come to state power the capitalist nations have launched invasions and trade blockades. Starting with the Paris commune and then the Soviet Union. Korea, Vietnam and Cuba. Not to even mention the countries they invaded because they didn't like the policy of the government towards Western or American Big business. Millions slaughtered on the orders of the US CIA. In Iran, Indonesia, Korea and Vietnam.

  • @gcgrabodan
    @gcgrabodan Před 4 lety +19

    Hearing Friedman discuss with that woman makes me understand why Thomas Sowell wrote books about the unconstraint vision of the annointed.

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      Sowell is one of the anointed he has so much criticism for. Just like everyone else without wealth of his generation he got government money. In his case GI Bill money to pay for school.

  • @rickbruner
    @rickbruner Před 9 lety +435

    Have any of you Friedman critics ever been poor or lived in a poor area? I have. A great many of my neighbors did CHOOSE to live in poverty. One was given a scholarship to a top state school and pissed it away by not applying herself. Then she retreated to unhealthy habits. From time to time, she would attempt reentry into the job market but at the first sign of difficulty, she would blame the system and do something to sabotage the opportunity. Much of what keeps people in poverty is in their own heart and soul.
    Your claim that in a free market "power consolidates in the hands of the rich which puts them in a much stronger bargaining position to dictate slave wages to the workers" is an old Marxist saw and largely false. Take the Marxian poster child for "slave wages" - Wal Mart. Are you aware that in North Dakota entry level Wal Mart employees make $17 an hour? That's nearly 2.5 times the federal minimum wage. Is that because North Dakota Wal Mart slave masters are kind and philanthropic just as those in other states are greedy and uncaring? No. It's because in a free market, supply and demand dictate wages, not some fictional evil capitalist archetype created in the minds of over educated, ivory tower, Marxist egg heads.
    Finally, if capitalism has been so bad for America, why do immigrants still rush to our shores from all those places that in your mind are supposedly more "equal"? The answer is because as imperfect as capitalism is, it still offers far more opportunity and creates more middle class wealth than any centralized system ever has.

    • @bastiatintheandes4958
      @bastiatintheandes4958 Před 9 lety +43

      Marshall Duncan Simply brilliant. Greetings from a brand new socialist disaster called Ecuador.

    • @luyolomify
      @luyolomify Před 9 lety

      Would you kindly explain how this is possible, Sir?

    • @AmravindeSchurbap
      @AmravindeSchurbap Před 9 lety +2

      Marshall Duncan, the problem with the "privileged" societies is that those who are in control utilize all the means in existence to secure the wealth and prosperity of their own family and friends. Having said this, I also admit that NEPOTISM is also present in some of the corrupted socialist cultures. Mr. Milton talked like a broken record to proclaim the advantages of the Capitalist system during the Cold War; his "job" was to demoralized the Russians. He only repeated a mantra through the superficiality of an argument that was backed up by many corporations during that era.

    • @rickbruner
      @rickbruner Před 9 lety +39

      Amravín de Schur You obviously haven't read Capitalism and Freedom. I'd hardly call Friedman's copious economic analyses contained therein "superficial". And I haven't seen a shred of evidence showing Friedman was a corporate pawn. To the contrary, Friedman bashed corporate greed almost as much as he bashed government corruption. You seem extremely naive about what he actually said. Please provide your source if you're going to make such an ad hominem attack on his character. As to your own analysis, you're putting the cart before the horse. How did "privileged" societies get that way in the first place (if by "privileged" societies, you mean societies like the U.S.)? Through capitalism! So now you want to get rid of capitalism and switch to what? Monarchy? Dictatorship? Theocracy? I.e. countries where 10% of the people (who are affiliated with the government) are "privileged" and the other 90% are impoverished with no rights? Or perhaps some fairyland utopia in your own mind? Yes, human nature is fixed and certain men will attempt to exploit capitalism as they will any system. But it is thus far the lesser of the organizational evils.

    • @AmravindeSchurbap
      @AmravindeSchurbap Před 9 lety

      Sweden, Norway, Finland or The Netherlands show a much healthier system than that thing you are trying to glorify.

  • @leascaart
    @leascaart Před 7 lety +34

    Thomas Sowell is freaking BRILLIANT!! I never heard of Thomas Sowell untill I saw these4 series. Thank God for TS.

    • @MrDanielfff777
      @MrDanielfff777 Před 3 lety +2

      I hope you have checked out more of his stuff since then

    • @rickiandavis
      @rickiandavis Před 2 lety

      pick up a buncha his books, even audio on utoob

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      @@rickiandavis Sowell sits to the right of even MLK. Supporting cold war liberals who favored Victory in Vietnam. He did nothing during the civil rights movement despite his age but sit in a professors chair and critcise others.

  • @indigo0086
    @indigo0086 Před 8 lety +66

    Thomas Sowell: YOU DID DAMMIT!
    damn.

    • @ManPursueExcellence
      @ManPursueExcellence Před 7 lety +23

      Sowell doesn't fuck around. It is nice to see him in his younger years, although he is 49 or 50 here, get riled up.
      God bless Thomas Sowell and may he give us a few more books.

    • @nateo200
      @nateo200 Před 6 lety +4

      He isn't afraid to throw an intellectual punch that is for sure!!

    • @SamvedIyer
      @SamvedIyer Před 3 lety +4

      @@ManPursueExcellence He turned 90 a few months ago, and was available for an interview the day after that on Charter Schools. Sharp as ever.

    • @ManPursueExcellence
      @ManPursueExcellence Před 3 lety +4

      @@SamvedIyer
      Thank you for bringing me back to something I said 3 years ago 😆.

    • @SamvedIyer
      @SamvedIyer Před 3 lety +4

      @@ManPursueExcellence Just saying. I am glad he is still in good health.

  • @nateo200
    @nateo200 Před 6 lety +57

    This content is pure gold. Oh, and I got so excited when I saw the camera pan from Friedman to Sowell! Freaking A-Team!

    • @MrDanielfff777
      @MrDanielfff777 Před 3 lety +1

      Fr!

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      @@MrDanielfff777When the crisis of 2008 hit the bosses though all that neoliberal theory in the ash can as they bailed themselves out with the Bush and Obama "No Banker Left Behind Policy."

  • @Mikelovision
    @Mikelovision Před 7 lety +22

    I love how this ended. They didn't stop the discussion. Instead, they just lowered the volume of the speakers and concluded this episode of the discussion. We need more programs like this today.

    • @damonstahl7757
      @damonstahl7757 Před 7 lety +8

      im just sad that i couldnt hear more discussion, milton finally just came out with it and said that freedom was his goal regardless of what the outcome was and i wanted to hear more of that discussion

  • @1337penguinman
    @1337penguinman Před 9 lety +99

    When dealing with any kind of government intervention we have to ask ourselves one important question. That question is "is this something important or urgent enough to be done at the point of a gun."

  • @lalayon08
    @lalayon08 Před 4 lety +12

    Anyone else find it ironic that so many of these intellectuals stated that no one is arguing for equality of outcome and completely flattening societies inequalities, and yet here we are at 2020?

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      Billionaries being even more idiotic than in the past. Sure we all need to get into a Musk electric rechargeable rocket and blast off to Mars after destroying earth.

  • @ManPursueExcellence
    @ManPursueExcellence Před 7 lety +13

    55:35 Friedman: "And I think the empirical evidence is OVERWHELMINGLY on this side."
    I love that line.

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      The empirical evidence shows that Lenin was correct when he wrote "Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism." The capitalist are unable to escape the greed for profits and the division into nation states whose world market competition leads to Imperialist war. In 1914 it was Britain and Germany today its the US and China.

  • @markwest8960
    @markwest8960 Před 7 lety +119

    Old white woman telling Thomas Sowell what is was like to be black..... lol! "Pollsters".....

  • @tull06
    @tull06 Před 8 lety +58

    I'm British and this politically correct striving for absolute equality has systematically ruined whatonce made Britiain and beacon for the world.

    • @beng4151
      @beng4151 Před 5 lety +12

      The US too. It's all about entitlement. We've moved from a beacon of the free world in the early 1900's to social justice warriors and socialized medicine. We are in a perpetual downslide.

    • @toddmaek5436
      @toddmaek5436 Před 3 lety +2

      When exactly was britain a becon of the world and what made it so?

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      @@toddmaek5436 It was a beacon of Imperialist tyranny.

  • @bsim4431
    @bsim4431 Před 7 lety +58

    41:30
    Thomas sowell is an intellectual Juggernaut!

    • @ManPursueExcellence
      @ManPursueExcellence Před 7 lety +4

      Great to see him here in his younger years, although he was about 50 here.

    • @joeiiiful
      @joeiiiful Před 4 lety +2

      Among the very best ever.

    • @trevorlambert4921
      @trevorlambert4921 Před 3 lety +1

      He didn't talk enough honestly

    • @petermadany2779
      @petermadany2779 Před 3 lety +1

      @@trevorlambert4921 Luckily he has written plenty of books and there are many video clips and long interviews of him on CZcams.

  • @johnwiseman17
    @johnwiseman17 Před 7 lety +27

    I love watching this debate from years ago about the plight of the people of Chile between Friedman and Francis Fox Piven. Fast forward from 1980 through to today, and Chile is often held up as a brilliant example of a nation whose economy has been oft heralded as a miracle story. The Chilean people are among the top per capita in terms of living standards.

    • @gandalfthegreen1827
      @gandalfthegreen1827 Před 5 lety +4

      There are several great example where Friedman comes out looking like a prophet. They tried to argue no political parties in the west were seeking increased equality of outcome through government policy. Ha!

  • @tbone35453
    @tbone35453 Před 7 lety +32

    Peter Jay, I have to say, is an impressive debater but had we revisited this discussion ten years later, he would have seen that the reforms of Nigel Lawson, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, had a huge positive effect on the income of people of ALL classes, including the working class. What did Lawson do? He cut taxes, including the top rate of tax, which went as high as 98% during the 70s.

  • @Earlylifecheck
    @Earlylifecheck Před 4 lety +6

    Anyone else rewatching this series during the coronavirus pandemic?

    • @timothygarycarolus1018
      @timothygarycarolus1018 Před 3 lety +1

      I only heard of Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams in the first month of lockdown, i.e. March 2020. Even though I have heard over Milton Friedman in high school, I haven't seen their interviews.
      I'm catching up

  • @virakthong8022
    @virakthong8022 Před 10 lety +17

    I love Dr : Thomas Sowell so much.

  • @einhornisaman2973
    @einhornisaman2973 Před 7 lety +17

    Pretty funny how Milton Friedman educates Peter Jay about economics of his own country.

  • @OfficialCptAJones
    @OfficialCptAJones Před 13 lety +8

    That was amazing... it ended on a really epic note as well...
    "My God is 'Freedom'"

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      His good is capitalism markets and gold.

  • @shadowblaster124
    @shadowblaster124 Před 8 lety +29

    This was a fascinating debate, especially given today's political climate. To think the same topics are going through the same debate today, as they were in 1980!

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      After launching a political murder and torture campaign. Supported by Washington. Including a car bombing right in Washington DC itself that killed an American citizen.

  • @stephenoni2019
    @stephenoni2019 Před 7 lety +12

    Milton and Thomas👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @beng4151
    @beng4151 Před 8 lety +113

    Peasants lost their land because of the free enterprise system? How is she a professor???

    • @NikhilVandanapu
      @NikhilVandanapu Před 7 lety +15

      Ben G she's one of those morons that caused my country to be impoverished. effing Fabian socialists

    • @vlaw7103
      @vlaw7103 Před 4 lety

      Nepotism.

    • @markheimiller2082
      @markheimiller2082 Před 4 lety +5

      Typical Leftist "professor", makes up totally backwards and inaccurate history as she yells at someone else repeatedly.

    • @joeiiiful
      @joeiiiful Před 4 lety +1

      A Leftist needs no facts, all that is necessary is for her to assert it.

    • @abdelrahmanwael2551
      @abdelrahmanwael2551 Před 4 lety

      Peasants lost their land cause they died from the black death

  • @LIETUVIS10STUDIO1
    @LIETUVIS10STUDIO1 Před 4 lety +3

    William Sowell is such a breath of fresh air in these "discussions". He talks properly about the outcome of processes initiated VS goals. Sowell seems to puts it as: if you put a process in place with these goals in mind, you end up with these negative outcomes. It doesn't mean your goal is bad neccessarily - but the process it sets in motion is bad.

  • @matthewrichardson828
    @matthewrichardson828 Před 9 lety +35

    I'm google-ing "Marlene Dietrich legs"

  • @5un5hine73
    @5un5hine73 Před 3 lety +2

    I am a simple man I see Sowell or Friedman and i click and absorb

  • @joshdavis6704
    @joshdavis6704 Před 8 lety +20

    Don't agree with Peter Jay, but I do appreciate him challenging Milton in an intellectually honest way.

  • @1trife90
    @1trife90 Před 4 lety +15

    Remember when you could have ideas and debate them without being called racist, classist, or an Uncle Toms? I would engage in politics and socioeconomics if this is how the conversations went.

  • @Flabernat
    @Flabernat Před 7 lety +9

    55:26 ...Absolutely brilliant! Man, we could really use another Dr Milton Friedman these days...

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      Sorry but he singing the wrong tune about non intervention by the capitalist state. The bosses will need the state all that much more as the long retreat by labor has ended. .

  • @son12509
    @son12509 Před 4 lety +4

    Lol if only these fools could've looked forward to today. Milton is timeless.

  • @Thaddeuslovesmusic
    @Thaddeuslovesmusic Před 5 lety +8

    Who ever was taught by that woman got a bad deal

  • @Joe45-91
    @Joe45-91 Před 11 lety +3

    This series is possibly the most important documentary ever made. Every high school should show this doc in class.

  • @mutdogg21
    @mutdogg21 Před 11 lety +4

    Such a good series, I can't get enough.

  • @LynnTharp1971
    @LynnTharp1971 Před 8 lety +2

    Choices. Thank God we're free enough to make our own choices.

    • @kidsloveit2
      @kidsloveit2 Před 2 lety

      Your comment was written 6 years ago. What do you think now?

  • @beng4151
    @beng4151 Před 8 lety +46

    People who own property are a threat to other people? Does this woman live in reality???

  • @beng4151
    @beng4151 Před 5 lety +18

    "Just a small loss of freedom." Thanks, british guy. Just let the government peck away at your freedom. Oh, that's how it's happened throughout history? Interesting.

  • @scottm8579
    @scottm8579 Před 7 lety +10

    53:35 Give me your measures then! .. lol I love that so much

  • @DeusDevoid
    @DeusDevoid Před 8 lety +37

    The british dude is suffering from a case of pure NaCl

    • @m.browne2548
      @m.browne2548 Před 4 lety +2

      Well yeah he doesn't even know labour advocated Keynesian economics to the world before this.
      He has no self awareness at all

  • @gspeedceo
    @gspeedceo Před 11 lety +2

    One of the things I love about this dialogue is that the participants (unlike some with inferior ability and thought making certain comments here) are able to present and defend their position with deep thought, logical assertion, historical and contemporary perspective, and factual deliniation, but most importantly without retreating to name calling, demonization, and disrespect.

  • @d8d810
    @d8d810 Před 9 lety +13

    "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
    Created equal stands for the start, not the end. That means not equal out-come.
    As you can see the quote is one sentence, the 'created equal' stands for 'right' that can't be taken away.

  • @joshdavis6704
    @joshdavis6704 Před 8 lety +3

    Wow.. That casino reference, so simple, yet so brilliant!

  • @surfnerd07
    @surfnerd07 Před 12 lety +3

    Thomas Sowell is amazing. I'm guessing that Frances Fox Piven didn't leave in a cheerful mood after being philosophically destroyed to the applause of the spectators.

  • @illyashodrick
    @illyashodrick Před 9 lety +17

    Thomas Sowell : Miltons Bulldog.

    • @moivinpippick4882
      @moivinpippick4882 Před 8 lety +10

      +John Smith Thomas Sowell : Sowell's Bulldog

    • @MrSilverfish12
      @MrSilverfish12 Před 8 lety +3

      I wouldnt say he's a bulldog. I would say they are Batman and Robin. :)

    • @trande6136
      @trande6136 Před 7 lety +4

      Holy minimum wage, FriedMan!

  • @tartredarrow
    @tartredarrow Před 11 lety +4

    I love the sparring Sowell did. He's absolutely right.

  • @dantesdiscoinfernolol
    @dantesdiscoinfernolol Před 6 lety +5

    43:00
    Sowell: OMAE WA...WO NO SHINDERU!
    Piven: NANI?!?
    What even did I just type?
    I shouldn't be allowed to mix memes with economics...

  • @MrGman543
    @MrGman543 Před 12 lety +2

    thomas sowell and milton freedman are my 2 favorite people ever in the world of politics.

  • @xealit
    @xealit Před 6 lety +1

    Freedom: the final frontier. Freedom of human beings, of individuals to pursue their own values, to live their lives, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

  • @dantesdiscoinfernolol
    @dantesdiscoinfernolol Před 6 lety +3

    Ok, but seriously, I cannot get over Thomas Sowell's body language.
    His exasperated shrugs are hilarious.

  • @DJ7223
    @DJ7223 Před 8 lety +28

    She never answered the question.

  • @kathyarmstrong8001
    @kathyarmstrong8001 Před 7 lety +2

    I adore Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell.

  • @rvp1073
    @rvp1073 Před 2 lety +2

    “Tilting at windmills” “nobody takes that position” well here we are in 2021 and the VP of USA is saying just that (equality of outcome)!!!

  • @DarkConception2909
    @DarkConception2909 Před 9 lety +7

    Props to the oil guy.

  • @smacky1966
    @smacky1966 Před 4 lety +3

    Since this series was produced. South Korea, and many other Asian countries have pulled their masses out of the gutters and into first world prosperity through the free market. And chili is the only prosperous country in South American and the most equal again through the free market.

  • @rod_lampard
    @rod_lampard Před 6 lety +2

    St. Augustine: 'The primary motive for obedience should be love of justice rather than fear of punishment.' (Essential Sermons) [relates to 24:49]

  • @BinaryPrime
    @BinaryPrime Před 7 lety +5

    Sowell and Friedman do a lot of good for themselves by just remaining calm while they speak; because the more emotional, loud, and belligerent their counterparts become, the more docile, collected and credible they appear in contrast. I always notice that the leftists are always more angrily finger-pointing than their opposition.

  • @countrycorner9337
    @countrycorner9337 Před 5 lety +3

    Imagine having the powerhouses of Friedman and Sowell at the same time. We need the next generation of these people

    • @bradsteraz
      @bradsteraz Před 3 lety

      How many Tom Sowells or for that matter, Barack Obamas have been among the 54 million abortions since Roe? Or Steve Jobs?

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. Před 8 měsíci

      @@bradsteraz The ruling class though away the neoliberal mask with the crisis of 2008. All that talk of how capitalism could work without intervention went out the window.

  • @djbrosh
    @djbrosh Před 6 lety +5

    The debate continues... only now we grunt and scream at one another, and teach the public to do the same.

  • @mrbeancounter90
    @mrbeancounter90 Před 6 lety +2

    Just to point out that Peter Jay is defending the policies of his father in law, the Prime Minister James Callaghan. So he would say that.
    This was filmed in 1980 shortly after Thatcher has kicked Callaghan out of No 10 Downing Street.

  • @johnbedell2376
    @johnbedell2376 Před rokem +1

    2022 - who's watching this timeless truth?

  • @jwestonmoss
    @jwestonmoss Před 8 lety +11

    The point he makes about how people resent the inheritance of money and not the inheritance of talents....
    You know, if it were possible to confiscate talents and redistribute them, I bet people would....

    • @Hueglow
      @Hueglow Před 8 lety +1

      +jwestonmoss exactly

  • @williamg780
    @williamg780 Před 6 lety +3

    Today Chile is one of the more prosperous nations in South America. They aren't perfect, but with no natural resources, they're doing far better than Venezuela.

  • @volleyballfanatic808
    @volleyballfanatic808 Před 4 lety +2

    Wild that this debate is still going on and these issues are still prevalent in our conversations.

  • @macslim187
    @macslim187 Před 6 lety +2

    Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell are my heroes!

  • @psychic_beth
    @psychic_beth Před 6 lety +4

    43:00 Sowell absolutely roasted Piven there

  • @Mujangga
    @Mujangga Před 9 lety +12

    You stated it damit! Damit!

  • @MrDanielfff777
    @MrDanielfff777 Před 3 lety +1

    I love how they are talking about evidence

  • @tragicslip
    @tragicslip Před 6 lety +1

    and now they number many that demand absolute equality. one step, two steps, three steps, more.

  • @AndrewLngn
    @AndrewLngn Před 6 lety +3

    28:36, When frances piven argues that free people are a threat to the freedom of people, so a government needs to oppress them. WOW

  • @JonathanG94
    @JonathanG94 Před 10 lety +39

    Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Moore, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Melissa Harris-Perry, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Juan Williams, Piers Morgan and Alec Baldwin dislike this video.

    • @notoo063
      @notoo063 Před 7 lety +6

      You forgot Nancy Pelosi, Hillary and Bill (and his mistresses) Clinton and Bernie Sanders

  • @Jazza0Mic0Fazza
    @Jazza0Mic0Fazza Před 6 lety +1

    I cannot get enough of Thomas Sowell. Recently bought his book 'Intellectuals and Society' and cannot wait to read it. He's in my top 3 favourite economists

    • @petermadany2779
      @petermadany2779 Před 3 lety

      He is in my top 1 favorite economists. :-) I just finished Black and highly recommend it to everyone! If only it had been taught in high school for the past 15 years, we would have a far more enlightened electorate in America.

  • @tedkijeski339
    @tedkijeski339 Před 7 lety +1

    Delighted to see that Jimmie "J.J." Walker was in the audience that night.

  • @reinis.berzins
    @reinis.berzins Před 10 lety +8

    Friedman used a maximally simple and extreme example of 0% inequality for audience to better understand his point. However the British ambassador and the mediator were so proud to point at genius'es alleged error that they completely missed the point. I would satisfy their error appetite by replying that of course no politicians are claiming to achieve 0% inequality. Most often they avoid precise numbers, but they probably wouldn't object that I put in their mouths a wish to achieve at least 24% inequality (least Gini index that has been achieved by a real country - Denmark!). But that doesn't change the argument - should government intervene in order to achieve 0%, or 10%, or 24%, or whatever level of inequality?

  • @concernedcitizen6577
    @concernedcitizen6577 Před 10 lety +2

    I look at this video and I have no doubt in my mind why Peter Jay's marriage fell apart. He is totally in love with himself and his ideas.

  • @phocian
    @phocian Před 11 lety +2

    I totally agree with you. These debates are so raw, I love their passion. There is nothing like this on TV now. Everything now is so edited and so politically correct.

  • @vasniktel111
    @vasniktel111 Před 2 lety +1

    So relevant in 2021-2022.

  • @Siegetower
    @Siegetower Před 8 lety +25

    I wonder what happened to that entrepreneur with the oil soaking product.

    • @sarahc4409
      @sarahc4409 Před 8 lety +11

      +Siegetower Unfortunately, it didn't go anywhere. He was later killed by the husband of the woman he was sleeping with.

    • @Siegetower
      @Siegetower Před 8 lety +4

      junkb0x ! That's terrible. Can't go past human nature can we. I guess the invention went no-where, not patented or licensed for anyone to produce, parts of it locked in the brain of the deceased inventor.
      Thanks for replying,

    • @MrSilverfish12
      @MrSilverfish12 Před 8 lety

      +junkb0x ! Thats honestly a sad story. A great lesson to be learnt though.

    • @BIgBass255
      @BIgBass255 Před 7 lety +4

      I don't know what happened to him but the product was already on the market in the 70's and our company made a lot of money with it. we used to buy it by the semi truck load. we were in the oil recovery business using this very same product. this all took place before he made the video. desperate people do desperate things!

    • @Siegetower
      @Siegetower Před 7 lety +1

      BIgBass255 Good to know, thanks. Amazing that you found this video.

  • @debtpeon
    @debtpeon Před 7 lety +26

    Man, you can see the anger seething out from the Marxist Frances Fox Piven. That's why she brought up Chile.

    • @debtpeon
      @debtpeon Před 7 lety +16

      Tom Sowell wrecks the Commie Piven.

    • @Vanguard521
      @Vanguard521 Před 7 lety +13

      +Deadbeat Pennyless and of course Chile's economic freedom under Pinochet was something that University of Chicago students from Chile who were followers of Friedman played a considerable role in. She really wanted to dig it in against him in an area he was indirectly involved in. But of course Chile was better able to succeed once they had political freedom. Now they are the most prosperous country in South America. Vindication especially compared to Brazil and not to mention the autocratic Venezuela.He really had to emphasize he does not condone the junta. Of course he did visit in '75 with Pinochet. She did not specifically go there and I think the moderator was good to move on. Nevertheless Sowell and he are a great team in these.

    • @einhornisaman2973
      @einhornisaman2973 Před 7 lety +7

      It was astounding how she was unable to provide an alternative method than capitalism that would be more beneficial to society.

    • @timcarter6470
      @timcarter6470 Před 7 lety +8

      Just think, that old bitch was able to teach that horse sh!t in a University.

    • @peanutgallery7753
      @peanutgallery7753 Před 7 lety +3

      I cringe harder at her than at Jeremy Piven

  • @agiftedrighter3840
    @agiftedrighter3840 Před 8 lety +1

    Tom's reaction to Piven's rationale (53:04) is hilarious. "How did she get invited to this?"

  • @dmcac1
    @dmcac1 Před 3 lety

    I'm in love with this series

  • @deltabravo1371
    @deltabravo1371 Před 7 lety +23

    Why are socialist intellectuals always so angry?

    • @levaneristavi7371
      @levaneristavi7371 Před 7 lety +10

      cause they judge the world and reality based on their values and moral stands. they believe that through all the knowledge and education they have, they know what is good and best for anyone. their perspective is limited cause they cant accept the fact that something that such a morally high person, philosopher , art critic can be anyhow mistaken. they truly believe that they have ability to educate people of the world and show them the true path, and after taking over and creating a perfect state, these people will appreciate their new life.

    • @j.scottburgeson3928
      @j.scottburgeson3928 Před 7 lety +9

      Because their worldview is based on what Nietzsche called "ressentiment." They are a kind of priestly class of the weak who have figured out a way to enrich themselves by railing against the gifted, the bold, the brave and the strong. See Hillary Clinton for a prime example. Frances Fox Piven also likely influenced Obama:
      www.nationalreview.com/corner/303353/when-obama-met-piven-stanley-kurtz

    • @m.browne2548
      @m.browne2548 Před 4 lety

      Because socialism does not exist and they are not intellectuals.
      We are still waiting for a socialist theory on inflation, stagflation, price theory, etc.
      They say their stuff has nothing to do with Marx (who first coined socialism in the 1800s) wtf...
      so we are still today waiting for any theory.
      They are trying to claim any government funded social program is socialism.
      Absolute nonsense they can't claim that, there was programs in ancient Egypt 🤣
      They are masters of delusion.

  • @Wigggy
    @Wigggy Před 10 lety +18

    Lmao, Sowell at 52:20

    • @nrodaf06
      @nrodaf06 Před 10 lety

      43:13 - Woman Please!

  • @51MontyPython
    @51MontyPython Před 11 lety +1

    ... is the one that works best. I find this principle to be no accident of nature, but is precisely that way by design.

  • @DJ7223
    @DJ7223 Před 8 lety +1

    "Let me finish, because we let you finish". Petey, that's what we call hypocrisy.

  • @DZoomer75
    @DZoomer75 Před 7 lety +10

    jesus.... imagine if we had these debates/discussions today.... haha we might learn something!

  • @konberner170
    @konberner170 Před 8 lety +17

    Funny to see more common sense in this 1980 TV series than can be found in "modern times". Where are these kind of debates now? Perhaps it is as Charles Murray recently commented, that because the socialists know they can't win these debates, the new approach is to ignore the issues. I'd add also to dodge, attack, and obfuscate à la Alinsky, to paraphrase, "Power is not only what you have, it is also what you can fraudulently sell to others such that they think you have." So debates are not won only through what you actually win, but can also be claimed to be won by ignoring, dodging, attacking, and obfuscating in such a way as to make it seem like you won.

  • @SameBasicRiff
    @SameBasicRiff Před 11 lety +1

    where was this oil eater when we needed it? freemarket shit like that is amazing and what we need!

  • @jacksonwarren
    @jacksonwarren Před 12 lety +1

    Milton peeping in the window to watch the kids play at 11:25 LOLOL

  • @isayusufagac
    @isayusufagac Před 10 lety +26

    Peter Jay talks awful a lot thus he actually says nothing much of an important

  • @DJ7223
    @DJ7223 Před 8 lety +3

    He who gives up even a portion of his freedom for security will have neither freedom nor security.

  • @zlyons1191
    @zlyons1191 Před 11 lety +1

    They're both so brilliant

  • @Atreus21
    @Atreus21 Před 11 lety +2

    You know when you see Sowell and Freidman teamed up that there's an ass-kicking imminent.