Democracy and Capitalism has failed young people | Konstantin Kisin
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- John speaks with Konstantin about the inability of young people to own a home, start a family and be responsible independent citizens into their retirement.
Raised in the Soviet Union, Konstantin is not persuaded by leftist visions of utopia, and exhorts reasonable people to speak out against the 'woke mob'. He also argues that multiculturalism should be rebranded as multi-ethnic societies with a 'monoculture', uniting everyone from different backgrounds.
Konstantin Kisin is a writer, social commentator, comedian, and co-host of the free speech podcast Triggernometry. He is a regular on British and American TV and radio shows including Question Time, Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, Daily Politics, LBC Cross Question, Tucker Carlson, the Megyn Kelly Show, and many others.
Konstantin has written for publications including the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Tablet Magazine, Quillette, and Standpoint as well as his first book, An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West. More recently, he spoke at the inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference in London, England.
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The title is wrong: oligarchy and statism failed young people.
🎯 Never heard of happy people living under totalitarian rule. Capitalism has to be made to work: eg. the rich need to pay their taxes, rule of law applying equally and affordable to EVERYONE. Opportunity and equality has never co-existed; but capitalism did it better than communism.
💯. And corporatocracy.
Yes. Corporate Totalitarianism and the Surveillance State (i.e. Stasi, Gestapo: Five Eyes, CIA) controlling policy and ignoring Rule Of Law.
Australia needs to join the Multipolar revolution now, and drop the US and UK 100% immediately if they can't deal with their Mafia/Monopolism problem.
Iran, China and Russia could be supportive allies, yet Pompeo and Clinton et al want us to hate them because they are not corrupt.
@@hittitecharioteer Just like communism, real capitalism has never been tried. It is a pipe dream...unless...
The primary problem is a spiritual one. People bristle at the mention of Jesus Christ. Well, now they’re not liking their Godless society.
We have neither capitalism nor democracy, so how did it fail,people if we don’t have it.
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Government's don't meddle this much in true capitalism.
In true capitalism big corporations would have to abide by the same rules as small business, there aren't tax loopholes/breaks that are only available to big business/corporations and the wealthy, in true capitalism there is an even playing field.
exactly. just because a car breaks down doesnt mean that walking everywhere is a better option. Best option is to fix the car.
Its problematic. Because everyone uses the word capitalism in a different way
@@tobiastobias2419 you know the big problem is that people don’t know the definitions,of words anymore, they just have an emotional sense of what it means to them. This causes the big failure in communication
Being a right wing, Chicago school of economics fan, I admit this is the type of argument the communists use to explain the USSR's failure.
Late stage Usury.
Young people can't even buy a house.
We are also living through Immigration Austerity. Our wages are suppressed and our housing and public services are overwhelmed.
If materialism is one's god, then I can easily see why younger people are depressed, discouraged, & feel like giving up....they see that they have no reason to live, no purpose in life. Maybe they don't believe in God because they hang their values & ambitions on materialistic things & they don't believe a "loving" or benevolent being is giving them what they want, or more likely, what they demand. Maybe they are so used to not having to work hard for the smallest of things that they have, that they are unable to appreciate the simpler, less expensive, less impressive (to them & their friends) things in life. Humans are having greater challenges in communicating effectively with other human beings, so "things" (i.e., i-Phones, 6-figure salaries, computers, electrical or hybrid vehicles, a Starbucks at every corner, latest fashions, & pretty soon...artificial intelligence in human-like bodies) become more of a priority than God & other human beings.
In Holland the houses are 500,000 euro each
Renting is 1900 a month (if you can even find a place anyway)
I dont understand why people accept this situation. Why are they sheep ?
The problem is that we are more marxist than democratic. The government subsidizes industries it likes and penalizes industries it disapproves of. The government punishes productivity, creativity and entreprenuership through heavy regulation and progressive income tax structures. The top 10% of earners pay about 40% of the total tax burden. On spite of spending billions on welfare, we have a higher percentage of poverty stricken than we did before Johnson's Great Society and its war on poverty began. We have socialized retirement in Social Security, socialized education, over 80 welfare type programs, corporate handouts, corporate tax incentives, graduated income taxes and a uniparty of aristocrats and political dynasties running the show. We hacen't been either democratic or capitalist for quite some time.
None of this has anything to do with democracy or capitalism.
I've watched this happen over the last 60 years. It's been fascinating to see it happen but... The people who knew that their government was inimical and couldn't be believed or trusted are now the ones who are most statist. A friend of mine calls it Stockholm Syndrome - we've been captured by the criminals and have to support them to stay alive. It has to have been doublethink from the very beginning. Somehow that was already the normal way to think by the 1960s. I don't think Orwell was really writing about Germany or the USSR. I think he was writing about Western "democracies" at the time in a veiled manner.
WW2 gave it a big boost. Democracy and capitalism was not efficient enough to fight total war so it was abandoned by the rulers but the façade was kept. It partly explains why they have to keep us in a state of perpetual war. That's Orwellian too.
No, the UK is not marxist/communist hahaha
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You see. Under communism there wouldnt be this big housing problems (the communists managed to give people a house). But there would offcourse be other problems
(and im not a communist at all)
The problem is crony capitalism. The US subsidizes the pharma most (I hope I recall right), following by oil and coal and then the food processing.
The neoliberal world of Reagan and Thatcher created the soil of "corporate elite socialism".
"Democracy and Capitalism?" Um, try _socialism_ and heavy-handed bureaucracy that stifles innovation and sets us on a path toward managed expectations rather than true ambition. That prioritizes "sacrificing for the greater good" rather than standing upon principle for what's right and just.
Working hard consistently does not give you security to raise a family. Hard work gets you nowhere.
I worked hard for 37 years, and I just retired a year ago at age 57. I started my career at the age of 22, and while Single, bought a house and built-up two Pensions. I am now enjoying the fruits of my labor and everyday is a Saturday, so to speak. I focused on Retirement at a young age and I knew by example from those around me, that my hard work and dedication would eventually pay-off. And by the way, I started my career at the bottom of the"Totem-pole", and ended my career as the Boss.😊
@@markcarrell8053 Wow thanks single boomer, sounds you like you had it real tough
With all due respect working hard isn't enough anymore, wages have not kept up with inflation.
Banks have lent too much money inflating the housing market and making debt slaves either by having a mortgage or paying someone else's as a renter.
Criminal.
@@markcarrell8053 when you were young were you going out for $5 coffees, eating takeout at least once a week, buying the latest tech, a brand new car, did you buy a brand new furniture package to go in your house. Etc?
We don’t so much as have Capitalism/democracy as Corporatocracy. Governments serve large multinational corporations rather than the people. I would love to own my own house though…that may be materialistic but having one’s own space in the world is important.
They're both are at the service of the rulers. The rulers are not elected and do not run corporations.
Corruption in our system is the Problem !
Communism is not the Answer !
They system uses your family against you . By doin this they force both leaders of the family to go in a different direction. Everything is so expensive, low salary, jobs moved overseas, immigration overload, pay to immigrants etc.
No it hasn't. Their parents voting habits caused the trouble.
You're assuming that pollies are elected and not selected.
We need more Assanges in government, fewer ompeos and Clintons in govt; and more Francesca Albaneses rather than Anthony Albaneses.
Simply not enough thumbs up on this amazing insight.
This is an amazing short discussion on the nihilism of young people, the toxic thought processes going on of which our vaunted intellectual US media personnel have no idea.
Almost total corruption and crime in the business of politics, and indifference in voters killed young people’s hope.
The voters are happy as long as they get a cut of the loot.
Trace it all the way back to government spending on failed policy like social security
That's about the time it started, yes, but it was only possible because the electorate allowed direct taxation by the government before then. That was probably the biggest error.
Young people want to be taken care of. That's it. Personal responsibility is too much for them.
The rulers want to be able to take care of them and mold them in any way they desire so their aims coincide.
@@neilreynolds3858 another area where we failed yes
The lack of capitalism, which is free, no manipulated, unsubsidized markets, voluntary trade, and property rights is the problem. Every single experiment in free markets vs socialism clearly demonstrates how freedom with accountability, the right to choose and trade, is the only way to create real prosperity.
What experiment? There has never been "real" socialism nor "real" capitalism tried anywhere at any time.
@@neilreynolds3858 it doesn't have to be 100% free or socialist to have measurable effects.
So when is John Anderson going to run again for office ? As young people are struggling to pay off homes and don’t have the capacity to pay for a political campaign or have the time to raise money to run for a political campaign just an observation
"If you work hard"...........well, thats the problem then.
Maybe a change of consumer based economy.
Maybe we need a different form of economy.
No I do not have the answer.
The answer is for the size, power and scope of government to shrink. We have repeatedly seen that the government's elitist experts are horrible at making good decisions and running an economy, yet we have the democrats calling for yet more government economy killing regulations and taxes. If electric cars and solar panels can't make it without government subsidies, then they don't belong in the marketplace.
One of the issues is our implementation of Democracy. Democracy is sold as purely selfish institution. Each person votes in their own self-interest only. The problem with this is that societies are built on families, which, by design, are selfless institutions where parents consistently sacrifice their own self-interest for the needs of their children. Instead, we have promoted radical individualism which, if it thinks about children at all, considers children only in terms of their utility to parents. The way we implement democracy (i.e. 1 person 1 vote) promotes this selfishness, because individuals have no incentive to vote in the best interest of the next generation, only in their own best interest.
I'm not going to suggest any specific solution, but I'd point to the Latter-day Saints and their Family Proclamation which states, "We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the FAMILY [not the individual] as the fundamental unit of society."
Modern economics uses metrics such as inflation, but inflation normally excludes housing or only factors in a small part of it. I suspect if you increase the inflation basket to include the real cost of housing the inflation value would be significantly higher. In simple terms having cheaper TV’s, phones and computers does not compensate for much more expensive housing.
Building new cities or building satellite cities linked to existing cities by affordable high speed rail may mitigate this situation, but it’s a solution no-one has any interest in. This could be because its expensive or it could be it would depress the cost of housing in established cities. I don’t know the answer but it certainly does represent a lack of vision by our political elites.
They have a vision but it doesn't include making our lives less stressful.
Real capitalism has never been tried before
Well, since we really don't have either democracy or capitalism in the West, how do you figure?
, in the United States, there has been a solid demarkation line of large scale loss of good paying jobs, across all ages of workers, since our " 9/11/01 " ( very questionable), society shaking event. Older workers were hit hard with being put out of their jobs, and college age younger men and women found themselves "all dressed up, but no place to go," jobwise. My Granddaughters generation have found that none of the young men in their lives have been able to get jobs that can support a wife and family. Many of the Gen Xers that I see, have made out bettervin the long-run than the college graduates. Our society failed to lookout for them or, care about their futures. Srart electing leaders that have declared, in public! That they are going to remain loyal to you, your families, your communities.
We haven't had capitalism for a while.
Between the mass immigration housing crisis and the welfare state, the future of young Australians who work for a living was sold down the river.
No country has ever had pure capitalism. Rulers always want to be able to control the results of any transaction.
Much as I love all your content John, I would love it if you covered the Cass Report into youth gender services in the UK. It talks about the complete lack of good scientific evidence for the practice of the medicalisation of so-called “trans” children and has led to the UK NHS ceasing proscribing puberty blockers to children, which have many terrible side effects including sterility.
And pay tax for the less affected.
"The deal is, if you work hard..."! Trouble is there are far too many who do not work at all, they use all sorts of reasons, mental illness, its too hard, its unfair blah blah blah. These are the types of people who are saying capitalism does not work.
Housing as described is one way, better wages where Gov has capitulated with big business to import and drive down tge wahes. There should be NO MORE IMMIGRANTION until those on the dole are working. Even then, it should be brought back to 70-80,000 per year maximum with a referendum to increase, or not!
im not so sure it harder for this gen really
They think it's harder because they're miseducated and they're miseducated by design. I've got a book of mortality tables for 1911 in the US. You wouldn't believe what people died from in what was by comparison with most of the world a healthy country. Forget about owning a home and spend your life thinking about what you were going to eat that day and why little Johnny was coughing all the time.
@neilreynolds3858 there was actually a common saying sort of regarding this: if you can see 16 then you'll see 60
capitalism ≠ government
In a sea of victimhood and mediocrity there are more opportunities today for savvy young people than ever.
Apparently Kisin doesn't listen to himself. He starts of by saying that once you have a child you become interested in the future of society, then he complains about people who worry about climate change. Then they move on to the real estate market. The real estate market is one of the most "private enterprise" markets in any country. It is strictly supply and demand. People who want to sell their houses ask a price, and if no one buys, they lower the price. The reason prices are high is because people are buying. Then these free market promoters say the government should be bulding houses. My response to that is simply that if prices are so high, why is not the market building more houses? In any case, almost nothing in this video makes any sense. It is just self-contradiction piled on self-contradiction.
Yeah, right, no level of government regulates housing...
@@neilreynolds3858 Of course they regulate housing. Cities and municipalities have zoning laws, and if you're a homeowner, you're happy they do. Prevents someone from building an all night bar next door. Provinces have building codes, as does the federal government. Again, this is a protection for the homeowner. What they don't do, is regulate the price people ask or offer for residences. If anything, cities and municipalities want more housing, not less. More housing increases their tax base without necessarily increasing their costs. But in the end, the buying and selling of private residences is a private agreement between the buyer and the seller. The prices that are paid are a reflection of the supply and demand.
Nonsense. Democracy and Capitalism haven't failed. What would it be like without democracy and capitalism? Far worse than what we have now.
If you can't see the structural failure, you have not been paying attention.
Corporatism is not captalism, and coerced collectivism is not Democracy.
@@pretorious700nailed it! good concise response. I will be using this on future discussions on these subjects.
@@pretorious700
What are you going to replace it with? Communism? Socialism? Sharia Law? Some other form of autocratic government? Nothing is perfect but I’ll stick with what we have until you come up with a better alternative. What is it!
Well, since we really don't have either democracy or capitalism in the West, how do you figure?
@@neilreynolds3858 It's the best we got. What are you going to replace it with and why aren't you running for office if you think you could?
Democracy and capitalism certainly hasn't failed Kisin - russians telling us its terrible while enjoying the benefits 🤷🏻
We the older Gen (Baby-Boomers)! “Australians” failed alright. We failed by implementing privatisation for short-term gain.
We also allowed our once technically brilliant and innovative manufacturing centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to virtually collapse. We never thought about not only producing Australian made goods (value-added) but more importantly “Australian-owned” goods to export to the world, long term. Companies like Holden should have remained an Australian brand from its inception in my opinion. Of course the young folk are disappointed and perhaps a little disillusioned. They want quality jobs where they can dig their heels in and create wealth, get married, have children and enjoy life. Imagine trying to get a 30-year home loan without stable long term employment?
We failed also by having no advantage being born Australian with respect to health care, housing, etc compared to someone who arrived in Australia today. Our our forefathers paid taxes and voted for Medicare etc for our people. Everything is stressed now our public infrastructure like roads all need overhauling, skills for housing etc why? I think it’s overwhelmingly caused by excessive immigration of late. Another point our kids shouldn’t have to compete for university and college placements against foreign people that should be a no brainer that Australian children are selected first because it’s their country of birth. It Should a birth right to expect a place in university if they wish to pursue an academic career.
Absolutely it’s not the fault of the foreign News coming to Australia. We are blessed that they do come to Australia and help our economy. I think it’s us the Australian who should be thinking about the consequences of our actions which respect to immigration before we go opening up the gates.
We need to come together as a country and a people like we used to we need to come together under the one umbrella just like when we won the Americas Cup! Those were the days 😎👍and nut out a positive solution. 😎✌️
Great channel👍thanks for sharing your videos ✌️
It’s a zero sum game. As government becomes stronger, the private sector becomes weaker. And then a weak private sector can’t deliver the things we expect from it.
An eight year old can draw this conclusion
Can people please listen to this? Current migration patterns will convert Europe 2008 into the Middle East, 2012. Maybe that's a good thing? Maybe Syria 2010 is the ideal?
It is if you're the ones who are the rulers.
You really are the PROPAGANDA QUEEN arent you.
"Climate catastrophe disaster nonsense" ??? Bro... c'mon now
Who did not see this coming? Democracy ALWAYS commits suicide, as we have been seeing for over 100 years in the US. Socrates spelled it out clearly, as did most great thinkers since, including the Founders of the USA, who warned against democracy and created a Republic ( in which, amoung other things, the rights of a minority are guarded). How many young AND old people even know this difference? Socrates was executed because the MAJORITY didn't like his ideas. Democracy is 3 wolves and 2 sheep voting on what's for lunch. It can only work if at least 70% or more of the population are: educated, capable of critical thinking, informed and moral. Good luck with THAT, especially in today's USA.
The USA has never known true capitalism, loosely defined as a free market with property rights. It came pretty close in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Under true Capitalism, government's ONLY legitimate role is to protect people's rights, by keeping a level playing field, and an objective set of laws to settle disputes. But as soon as the politicians became up for sale, it's game over. Today, if a business wants a competitive advantage, why bother to "build a better mouse trap"? Just buy the politicians to make laws in your favor (which would not be permitted in a Republic).
I'm always glad to be part of any enterprise that once again proves that the Greek philosophers were right. Their city-states destroyed themselves by constant warfare though which made them vulnerable to outside aggression. The Constitution was supposed to protect us from all this but it didn't.
Human beings are basically ungovernable. All forms of government head towards corruption. The difference in forms is how fast they get there which depends on how long the people put up with it. Usually, they put up with it as long as they get a cut of the loot. Right now, they're unhappy with the cut.
Do you want me to offer Australian families and thier children advice that will tranform the nation for generation to come. I been around for many years brough up in this country But I wont offer Australian family advice for free, you people have no love for my country and my people . Do you think my family care for Australia? Do you think I give a F... about Vietnamese ? It just a duty that I have stand with them, there are good and descend vietnamese, so I cant walk away from them , who have the gut to take on the bad guy? The founding father of Moden Vietnam. LET IT BE, LET IT BE. green and gold