Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule - Don't Romanticize Socialism - June 10, 2016 (HBO)
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In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher helps millennials make the distinction between socialism and "Santa-ism."
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Wow, I've never seen Bill this out of touch.
It's called shilling for Hillary who he's supported all along.
I've never seen him so spot-on.
Yeah I bet he went and voted for her on Tuesday. It's kind of sad really but Bill has been going to the right of years now.
You mad bro? Pay your own bills.
dpeagles nah I'd rather you do it bitch.
When Bill was a kid you could have a high school education and be able to pay for all your shit, Its not like that anymore...
That's exactly his problem. You can't just be a dumbass and walk into a good, secure job with only a diploma anymore like in the 70's. And things like free *PUBLIC* college pay for themselves with more skilled workers entering better jobs and contributing back to the economy. And since when is he not for universal healthcare?? What a cynical asshole he's become.
Don't you know, they are just trying to force you to join the military and risk your life for that education. They need to keep that never-ending supply of future corpses.
@IMrFresno559I Very well put, saved me the trouble of having to write the same damned thing. Bloody kids these days think manual labour is a fuckin disease or something and would rather piss away their life learning how to be a gender queer activist or marxist shill only to realize there aren't actually that many jobs in feminist dance therapy out there... UGH!
Yea, because you worked in a factory with horrible conditions that led half of the male population to die even before they were old enough to get SS. Oh, and women didn't work either. Is that the world you want to go back to? Sounds like you want to "Make America Great Again."
+Allison Shorecross News flash: nobody goes to college to study, they go to fuck. So, free college is like a federally sponsored orgy. Good times!😉
This is one of the most incredibly polarizing of these segments ever!
3:57 That one guy who screams out “yeah!” when Bill says pornstars should get paid. 😂
Single-issue voter.
@@Powerhaus88 bruh why, what have they done to you?
@@Jhaw-np1pr nothing, that’s why he’s so mad!
@@zakwojnar4714 HAHA 😂😂💀 Good one!
He's a porn rights activist 😂
This is literally a 180° turn from what Bill had been saying for the past few years. I'm honestly really confused.
It's not. It's a refinement. And he's right. The same problems that exist for millennials in America exist in Denmark(I know).
And is the youth of America really ready to pay 50% in taxes when it's their turn to pay the rent. I doubt it.
Bill still doesn't understand the difference between socialism and social democracy. Social democracy is still capitalist but with a large welfare state but there is still private ownership of the means of production, and a class system. Socialism can come in many forms but if workers don't own and control the means of production it's not socialism.
charlescox86
Of course he knows. What material in this video makes you doubt that?
+nikosvault when he says it's about free shit or that it's social security. I'm a socialist. Socialism is about the workers and that we in the working class should own the means of production and control the workplace democratically.
+Sublimination Clearly you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what socialism is.. McDonalds is a corporation which is why the company would not last under socialism. Under socialism starting small businesses are the norm and thus mom and pop shops are generally how people go about businesses.. nice try though..
Sometimes Bill confuses me. This segment made me sick to my stomach. Millennials are living with their parents because they have to. Things are way more expensive than when Mr. Maher was college age.
+Hello exactly. Could it be that milenials don't have the full time jobs, with decent pay and benefits enjoyed by the babyboomers. Could it be that they are saddled with outrageous student debts
Most baby boomers that I know left home with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. It was the Woodstock generation. They weren't as concerned with material things like people are today. I think that made it easier in part, because you only had to afford the basics.
like a house? Even rent is so much more than it was back than but the wages are the same.
Agree. Most baby boomers I know (from the UK) went to college for free, were able to afford a modest family home as soon as they graduated, experienced a unprecedented economic boom, created a huge housing and credit bubble, then got divorced 15 years later, knowingly putting their 2.4 children at an economic and social disadvantage. They are honestly the most selfish and instant-gratification-seeking generation the planet has probably ever seen.
I think he is bashing the mind set that comes with living with your parrents at your 30s, rather than living with your parrents at your 30s. When people can't move away from their family, it's hard to learn and get use to some things, like paying the heat bill etc, but it doesn't mean it's their own fault.
"Socialism is Communism's gay cousin." That's a fantastic quote.
As a young person myself I must say that my generation equates hard with impossible and as such tends to assume that things were easier for those who came before us. Because working construction to pay for college and then also doing school work sounds hard, it must not have happened in the past.
the USA has plenty of social programs. That is socialism, just not 100%. It's a mixed economy. Most Americans think they have a pure capitalistic economy. Nothing is further from the truth. Cops, teachers, fireman, military.... all run and funded by the gov't. There is your so called evil socialism. Extending it into health care and education is not an expense by more like an investment in the country's future. Thats how most developed countries see it. Having students graduate from college in massive debt is the dumbest thing a country could do.
It only shows that a lot of Americans, including Bill Maher, doesn't understand what Socialism is and how it differs from Communism. The Soviet Union was Socialist, not Communist, and Denmark is Capitalist, nost Socialist.
Not really
Wow, just read this as he mentioned it.
There's no inconsistency here. All he's saying is moderation: not too much Capitalism, not too much Socialism.
Yea but moderation always ends up continuing to benefit the rich and continues to screw the not so rich paycheck to paycheck struggler eventually making them near to poor some joining the existing poor becoming homeless losing everything by suffering the rich people's greed and mediocrity stunts or gimmicks anyway.
Is that what he’s saying? Listen again, Einstein.
@@johnayers2483 That is the clear central message of his monologue. There is no grey area here.
I agree with you. We have socialist programs already in America. Some of these are the things that people complain about the most (law enforcement, immigration system, etc.). People want to hold up Scandinavian countries like they are totally socialist, but really, they are not… They tried to socialize many more things in the 70s/80s. Some of these worked, some didn’t and were privatized. These countries have LARGE free market components in their system. Shoot, places like Denmark and Sweden don’t even have federally mandated minimum wages. They are just different.
A lot of times, there aren’t so much solutions, as merely trade offs.
That’s like saying not too much health. Just some health and some cancer. Socialism just fights for more
Bill is misrepresenting Bernie's proposals, and I think he knows it
Bernie is promising goodies for votes. There's nothing misrepresented about it.
Millenials would sell their own mother for a scrap of welfare from the government.
Michael P And you couldn't deny it. Bad job.
+Michael P tuition and health care should be paid for on your behalf, by people other than just you- Bernie sanders. Is that not a fair statement?
Bill Maher is just showing his true colors.
Brexit biatches
It honestly would have been more appropriate for Bill to say, "The only time [Millenials] have ever had to crouch under their desk was because of a school shooter."
Also, just because he paid for his music back in the day doesn't mean he wouldn't have gotten it for free had there been the option back then, same x10000 for porn. He also acts like porn actors don't get paid for making videos, only amateurs do it for free.
+Red Hunteur leeches*. Damn leech can't even properly spell
dank
believe it or not, some people bought music back then and don't steal it today, even when it's easier now....porn on the other hand, that shit is expensive and just like music pre-p2p: if you rip people off, they will find a way to bootleg it and not even feel bad about it.
+nmeunier well, it's not exactly like recording off the radio, because 1) the song earned some money when it was played and 2) you usually kept that cassette and didn't distribute copies to thousands of other people, especially in places that used traffic to generate ad revenues for someone else....
And once again the comment section proves that we need a 'Explaining Jokes to Idiots'-section every week.
Pretty sure we did not miss the part where he was calling my generation entitled and wanting everything for free when his generation was handed the greatest country on Earth by his parents and they managed to bankrupt it.
@@PaulRizzo504 You're an adult, hopefully adult enough to be able to realise two/both things can be true at once. I am of this generation and liberal as they come, but I also recognise that participating in our economy to survive means bringing something to the table. I want my government to meet me halfway and make it easier, and to have safety nets to catch me when I fall. But I do also want to accrue wealth while living in a true meritocracy, where effort is rewarded proportionately and expertise recognised fairly. You don't get that in a society that seeks to profit off the efforts of people while not rewarding them. I know what the utopia is; I can imagine it and I think it'd be wonderful. But I'm realistic enough to know it'll never happen, so stop trying to push the dream and instead work to make the change you wish to see.
yes just you and bill maher are the smart people
Millennials and Gen Z can’t own anything without going into massive debt for it. Bill talks like someone from a bygone era where you could actually afford things like a home, education, healthcare. He’s better than this. I’m disappointed in this segment.
Ignorant millennials don’t realize that it’s a joke and actually think some of the garbage that Bill spews has some basis in reality. The very fact that people cheered when they heard Bernie Sanders name tells you where their very ignorant mindset is at. And we all know what a disaster and useless Bernie Sanders has been as he’s done nothing but milk the Gov system and enjoyed the very capitalistic system we have for his own personal gain.
When he said *gofundme*, he then said exactly what I thought in my head.
Bill is honestly turning into a nut job, he really has lost his mind
hes been like this for awhile. hes just another lefty nutjob now.
Is Bill actually writing this crap?
+David Curry I don't know, I used to watch him because he was actually funny but now he's just pretty annoying
im too used to getting shit for free? this, coming from the multimillionaire comedy host who has nothing but fun all day and gets paid more in 1 week then i do in 3 years? hmm...
Let's take a look of the cost of living compared to the living wage when Bill was 20. Hmmmm. Interesting.
The douche is trying to out-douche Dennis Miller and doing a great job.
Mad much?
he worked his way up and earned that, you really believe he was born a wealthy comedian? People like him so they paid for him. That's how it works. I'm from this generation and we have been coddled just a bit. I wanted Sanders for the sake of real change, but working hard is a virtue. Toiling for nothing is the problem.
***** what is it that makes me a bitch? Because i dont agree with everything maher says? U gotta do better then that, little one
Five minutes of one liners.... LOVING this.
BTW, notice how, post Pandemic, watching these "older" videos just look.... Weird??
I agree, people on the 20s should be living on their own, paying their own relative insurance. But unfortunately the economic situation in your country prevents a lot of people from doing that as easily as it used to be
Yea couldn’t be a systemic problem.
Yes, but the government isn’t the solution.
And yet the line to get into this country remains infinitely long. I love being an American and wouldn’t trade it for any other country. I don’t know where you’re from but if you spent any significant time here and talked to those Americans who support socialism you’ll find the majority of them have made poor life decisions along the way to put themselves in the mind frame that socialism would work. They take no responsibility or agency for themselves and their choices so they gravitate toward attacking rich people and advocating government handouts. I’m not nor never have been rich by American standards but I don’t blame capitalism. I blame myself for not maximizing my talents and competency. Our government is not and should not be responsible for taking care of me outside of protecting me from foreign and domestic enemies. The most important word in our constitution imo is capitalized in this passage:
“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”
Your happiness and well being are ultimately your responsibility, not the government’s.
@@billyroof8879 the long lines are because of the vested american dream and hollywood. It's gonna dry up soon. America is on the fast course to becoming a third world country
It's still obtainable. Just the work is hard. And each generation away from true hardships has got weaker and weaker. And then turned inward for help. But eventually the worked become worked over. And a new reset. Lowers the bar for all.
So condescending. This isn't about wanting free shit. This is about people paying taxes and wanting those taxes to pay for healthcare and education rather than for wars and tax breaks for the rich. People understand that, as Bernie said many times, there's been a redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the top for a few decades now, and he is trying to change that back to how it was. Baby boomers are the ones who had it good. Remember when education was free, when one salary was enough to raise a family? They benefitted from all this, so why wouldn't you want that for everyone? Bill has become so out of touch lately.
And all this coming from a Baby Boomer - the generation that had wealth basically thrust upon them, and who now refuse to share any of it with either younger or older generations. In my country, Baby Boomers had free university education, cheap housing, abundant jobs, all delivered by their parents who had to go and fight a war to guarantee it. Of course, that ended when the Baby Boomers became taxpayers... And now their wealth gets stashed away in property and concessionally taxed retirement funds, while their kids pay through the nose for education and private health care and will never be able to afford to buy a house.
Go to CC and it's debt-free. Sign up with the ACA and you will get healthcare. (Note: this applies only to the working class and middle class, not the wealthy)
you fucking nailed it, this REALLY pissed me off and it makes bill sound fucking stupid. free stuff LOL. does bill realize that the porn industry is doing amazing and the problem isnt ppl watching free video it is the people at the top are using the performers and paying them shit just like everywhere else like mcdonalds and walmart?! music industry is STILL making billions, porn is making billions, bill is fuckin clueless here and it shows. i dont want FREE STUFF i want fucking equality and economic justice, social justice, environmental justice. this country is SO unfair right now i went to college i graduated and im shit out of luck right now living with parents not bc i WANT FREE STUFF but bc i CANT DO ANYTHING ELSE.
Yea you said it better than me.
I wrote my comment before I read yours.
As son as he said free I started writing.
WTF bill.
J. Double U
Unless you are wealthy then you get tax credits that will cover your a large part (or even sometimes all) of the premiums. And plenty of the marketplace plans are designed for poorer people with very very very low out-of-pocket maximums for the year. And all of this is if you don't get insurance from your employer, which most people do. If you don't, you most likely fall into the category of getting tax credits.
I too live in a state that will not expand Medicaid. You and I can both thank our Republican governors for that. Perhaps if people got off CZcams and Twitter and got more involved in politics more states would get their Medicaid funding.
The ACA-model has worked in MA and in other countries like Australia and New Zealand. No reason why it won't work here. The GOP is just resisting it absurdly. Would you prefer to use Switzerland's model?
So wait, hasn't Bill also spoken for free college and healthcare? I mean, he's gone from talking about how Bernie's Socialism is fine and now it seems he's against it?
He's not opposed the policies in themselves-he's opposed to people advocating for them without being willing to pay much into them from their own salaries: www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/4/14/11421744/bernie-sanders-tax-revolution
Chimfish ah. Thanks for the clarification
The writers saw an opportunity for more lame jokes.
Because... the people want others to pay for them to live. A thousand dollar tax isn't going to pay for everyone's college tuition AND give everyone free health care. The IRS collected $18.7 Trillion from the US tax payers since Obama was elected AND we borrowed an additional $8.5 Trillion, yet we still have NO free healthcare and NO free college. The more you give, the more they want.
"Oh no! Someone disagrees with me online! Better sperg out and copypaste the same shit a dozen times!
I’m late to the party here, did I just see Tom morello sit there quietly while bill bashed socialism? 😂
Guests don’t interrupt that part of the show.
@@LollygaggingRabbit Norm MacDonald commented on how ridiculous that concept is, how his guests are supposed to just sit there quietly while he gives a monologue full of half-truths and strawman arguments.
@@saddad6333 I did always find it to be dumb. It makes a lot more sense on a show without guest stars.
Though it's my favorite part of the show. He usually nails it. There are a few, though, that he's way off base.
A lecture on socialism from a guy who has proven dozens of times he knows nothing about socialism. This guy thought Tom Morello was a liberal, for Christ sake.
Is Tom Morello a conservative?
Basically he's saying socialism is great as long as it doesn't affect him.
He's part of the millionaire class so he doesn't want his taxes going up. Fuck him.
I'm Danish, and I'm stuck in a delayed flight to Lisbon for a month long payed naked vacation.
LOL, Lithuania here. Even we have maternal leave... universal healthcare ... Jesus.
transgresija Hi, I am your neighbour (from Poland) and we also have free higher education. Some Lithuanians study in Poland because of that (on courses lectured in English or in Polish if they are Poles from Lithuania).
Canada here, getting hot feet from the country that is on fire below us. Oh. Ya we have universal healthcare too. America must be a terrible place to live.
Some of those countries have better social programs in part because the U.S. has been paying for their military defense for decades. Trump is fixing that. I do know Poland has paid its fair share for NATO though. I love Poland and its people, great culture. I don’t know much about Lithuania, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it’s cool. Canada, though, has to get its act together before it totally loses everything that made it great. I meet Canadians and I’ve been up there (Toronto and Montreal) several times for business, and they seemed like a solid lot of people, which is why I don’t understand how Justin Trudeau ever got elected. You guys have to vote him out in this upcoming election. He’s the most pathetic excuse for a “man” in the history of XY chromosome combinations. Worthless, stupid, weak, authoritarian, passive aggressive hypocrite. He’s not consistent with my conception of Canadian men. You guys need to vote in one of your many men who still has testicles.
Is the universal health care in your countries any good? In my country we also have universal health care but the waiting lines are gigantic. Even to see a doctor you may have to wait a whole day, and you may go back home without seeing one. If you need a surgery it may take years before your time comes and some people become inoperable due to the worsening of their condition and sometimes they just die. Hope it's good where you guys live, because where I live it's no dream come true.
bottom line is, universal health care is affordable except in the US because the privatized system has driven prices through the highest roof. As it stands now, they would have to cut military and increase taxes to pay for their inflated crappy health care system. Not sure their economy could take that at this late stage of the game. They have really screwed themselves out of ever getting universal health care. Many, many countries have UHC.
Before Bill mocks young people living at home, he should look into how easy it is for a person trying to pay back college loans to purchase or rent since real estate prices are bloated due to "investors" flipping properties.
So? govt can give more public benefits lots of loan were cut this year, healthcare should be free but that doesn't mean you want a socialist state with a one party dictatorship.
Was this Bill Maher or Bill Oreilly ?!
Bill, maybe you shouldn't criticize Millennials for wanting free stuff when it was YOUR generation that kept voting for Democrats to get social programs and then Republicans to get tax cuts. FREE STUFF? What do you think got us into all this debt? You guys CREATED the modern concept of getting things without paying for them!
And why is it that free college is crazy entitlement, while social security and medicare are pillars of society and the natural order of the world?
do you know that 90% of second generation of Chinese immigrants in US have college degree and higher?Their parents came to Country without money, most of them even without English, so how those people could get education and other people don't? Maybe there is nothing wrong with the system?
Why should a worker that has no need for college subsidize college for others? Why should that worker subsidize people who, on average, will make more than him/her?
Because the worker relies on engineers, sewage workers, electricians and public workers to construct and maintain the facility he works. & the employer who trained the worker, also went to college.. Its about an investment in a competent society and efficient workforce.
+DelvisW "Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of the social order.
We have discovered as a species that it is useful to have an educated population. You do not need to be a student or have a child who is a student to benefit from public education. Every second of every day of your life, you benefit from public education.
So let me explain why I like to pay taxes for schools, even though I don't personally have a kid in school: It's because I don't like living in a country with a bunch of stupid people."
-John Green
Tom Morello be like: Ah crap, he’s talking about me, isn’t he?
glad to see an almost 4 year old video still gets current comments
The socialist tards who charge $300 a ticket to their shows? They must appreciate capitalism a bit more than their lyrics would indicate.
Mr. Morello is a decent musician. Politically, he's the definition of a "useful idiot"...
@@negativeindustrial 300 for RTG and RATM is a decent deal actually
The "socialist" who sold tickets, albums, posters, and t-shirts like an capitalist...
Bill maher has become the only guy on the left that people on the right have any sort of respect for.
That’s because he isn’t on the left
@@fredl.7696 exactly lol
Sorry Bill, while you do make a few tiny points your overall message is off. Baby Boomers could get good jobs without having college degrees and college in the 50s, 60s and 70s was almost free for those who did go. There was a manufacturing base that has been since shipped overseas. And now even more jobs are being replaced by automation. Baby Boomers screwed their own children and now are living off Social Security that the millenials may never ever see. The good news for millenials is that lots of things today are incredibly cheap, like porn, gadgets and food.. Still necessities like housing, transportation and healthcare have skyrocketed.
Government interference is the reason for skyrocketing costs of health care and college since the sixties. More interference isn't going to solve the problem.
+Kaddywompous NO it is not. The facts easily belie that claim. The cost of health care is dramatically less in countries with Universal Health Care. In fact, about 50 percent what it is in the US. Free enterprise in health care is a total failure for consumers. But to a small degree I agree. In the sense that government actually protects both the Insurance industry and big Pharma from real competition.
+Kaddywompous rubbish. the us high health care costs are a result of market failure, not Government interference
You sound like a Trump supporter.
And a Bernie supporter. So now that Bernie's out, who do you support?
Now that Bernie's probably not getting the nomination, Bill takes a hard right into Clintonville.
Bill turned 60 and instantly turned into a crotchety old geezer.
Great user name, btw!
Bill lit up his entire supply and got high on the bandwagon today. It's the only way an intelligent liberal could rationalize this bullshit.
He never turned to Hillary he supported the Democratic nomination.
Bill saying new normal definitely has a different context in 2020 🤪
If universal education and health care are financed trough rising taxes, then its not really for free is it?
In my country we do have universal education and healthcare but it is sh*t compared to what private companies offer.
A couple of months ago my girlfriend went to a public hospital with acute abdominal pain. We waited there for 8 hours and we had no idea how longer we would have to wait.
Recently she got a new job and is paying private health insurance. We went to the hospital and in 15 minutes she was in. She made several exams. Very fast, very good.
Now guess what. She still has to pay taxes that fund the shitty universal healthcare, so now she has to pay twice. Sounds nice, doesn't it?
It's not. I grew up in a country which works like that, and that make quite a few things easier. The one complaint everyone has though is stuff like "why did we have tax money for big company saving/ migrants/ dumb infrastructure projects but the police is severely lacking funds in their fight against paedophilia, human trafficking, the roads here haven't been repaired in years and 50 years ago everyone could get one pair of glasses for free per year and today starting from 18, you have to pay them yourself!" That is the complaints I hear. I got the impression that in the US, most people complain about similar things. Without free hospitals and universities.
Rather have taxes go up for health care for life than for death paying for war and weapons.
That's the problem in this country that shouldn't be out of all countries that you have to be wealthy to afford healthcare to anything here in the US. to live, if not die.
They always seem to forget Generation X
just google forgotten generation and see what comes out ;-)
When you put that little effort into the name for entire generation, you get what you get.
@@Malt454 The term Gen X was first used by a Greatest Generation writer to describe early Boomers. In 1965 it was used to once again describe teenagers who were actually early Boomers. It was finally associated with our generation in 1991 by a novel. The novel had nothing at all to do with the description of forces shaping a generation. It was about a social class of people who weren't interested in the Boomer's capitalist consumption narrative. Our generation was not even defined until the mid-90s, when the oldest of Gen X were turning 30. Your coddled generation had a name before you were born.
@Curiouser11 I'm on board with calling a lot of people under 30 or 40 stupid. Too many of them are
@@deer105- None of that shows that anyone put a lot of effort into the name. The people I grew up with just worked for what they got instead of protesting "the capitalist consumption narrative" and then complaining how they missed out and everybody forgot about them.
This is Bills worst new rule in a long time. Totally mocking and not understanding what he is talking about.
+DaveCreator
Join the military. Start a business. Don't just sit at home feeling sorry for yourself eating Chipotle and watching Netflix.
He's _always_ mocking and _frequently_ not understanding what he's talking about. You're just complaining about it now, because it insults something you probably hold as dear.
He is right!!!
Funny coming from the guy who grew up in the era of free college
College was never free, but it was affordable.
I do not think that the current young adults are getting a good deal at all. It is simply false that we had it easy. We had to work and grow just like every generation. It does not get any easier as you get older. You still have to perform if you wish to succeed and have a good life.
I am for free college. I think it would do us some good. Too many young people forgo buying their first house because of student loan debt. No good can come from that.
Bill Maher is a comedian. He is paid to put a spin on things to make us laugh.
I say, lighten up.
FYI, Maher went to Cornell before the Ivies mandated free tuition to lower income students. He's gone on record saying that he had to pay his way through school--most poignantly by drug dealing.
Joe Tullius wrong.
www.nytimes.com/1982/12/28/science/california-weighs-end-of-free-college-education.html
Though, it wouldn't have been if your generation footed the bill and passed it on to the next generation as the generations before you did.
College became expensive because they bent over backwards to Millenials' demands.
The college campus of today look like resorts rather than schools. It's government backed loans that have driven up the costs. Stupid kids getting stupid degrees that never will be able to pay back the cost. Your luxury dorm, gym, swimming pool, and departments packed with left wing radicals teaching subjects with zero career potential or real world value are why your school costs so much. You go to school to fuck, drink, and take feminism classes and want the working class to pay for it GET FUCKED.
There needs to be a hybrid system. Pure any system will always have a weakness. Take the best of each system with some safeguards in place.
You(and most of the world) exactly have that. No country in the world ever was purely Capitalist economy. Pure Capitalism is denoted as "Laisez fare Capitalism" It means zero help from Government and zero public sector services. Needless to say no economist ever propose such system.
But there are limits. Today's young generation have a very twisted view of what "Government" is. Tell you one thing what Government is not: It's not your sugar daddy. Government doesn't create wealth (under Capitalism) it's individual people who does it. And when Government gives you anything, it has to take away from someone else who produced it for himself. That's exactly what tax is. And think of Socialism is where your tax is 100%. Everyone works for the Government, it then takes away all wealth and redistribute it equally amongst everyone. Needless to say politicians always interferes and keeps more wealth for themselves and their families. But the biggest problem with Socialism is that, when people's fortune doesn't directly depend on his own hardwork rather everyone's collective work, everybody stops giving a shit about work. Everyone thinks that let everyone work hard, I do the resting. Since there's no immediate consequence of that negligence, it becomes the norm and that translates to poor economic conditions.
You can’t have a hybrid system of socialism and capitalism. Socialism is an economic system where the workers own the means of production, either directly through direct democratic control of the workplace or indirectly through elected in representatives. Basically, socialism requires workplace democracy instead of private ownership. This is directly opposed to capitalism, as private ownership is at the center of the capitalist mode of production. The idea that socialism is just government programs and that having these programs is either socialism or a socialist/capitalist hybrid is incorrect. A Scandinavian style social democracy is still capitalist.
There's nothing wrong with the system we have except all the excessive regulations everywhere. Most of the "failings of capitalism" stems from government intervention. Government is a necessary evil, but evil nonetheless and needs more limits than a capitalist system does.
@@thinkbank8709 no socialist system takes 100%. You are confusing it with communism, typical. In fact most socialist-capitalist countries have taxes just 5-10% higher than US while providing much more. US spends too much on the military thus diverting funds that could be used for education and healthcare, both sorely needing higher accessibility. US pretends that it spends this amount on military because of NATO and world safety. Yeah, we’ve just seen it in Afghanistan how that worked out...... 20 years of wasted money. So US is in fact a “Socialist” country (taxes are relatively high), only difference is that it spends most of its money on the military.
so what bernie advocates for?
Generation Z is gonna have to fix everything
Fuck that I'm gunna go off the grid lmao.
Yes, the Zombies will attack. When they don't get what they want, they'll take it by force and blame it on others.
What a naive thing to say. Every generation has it's problems and all generations must deal with each others consequences. Pitting generations against one another is silly tribalism and easy scapegoating.
Technically if you follow the strauss-howe generational theory it's more than likely that millenials will end up fixing everything, only once they reach that boomer age where they basically control the country's economy.
thanks for that, mate...
Saying "free stuff" = no credibility.
“The only time millennials had to crouch under a desk was to go down on a teacher” 😂
The guy from RATM is not happy. xD
I kinda agree with Bill Maher here but I have to ask, what's worse? The millennials that think they're entitled to free stuff for free from rich corporations or rich corporations that think they're entitled to free or barely paid labor from poor millennials? If CEOs (most of whom are baby boomers) actually paid employees a fair wage we wouldn't have to ask for free stuff.
Far too many Americans act like free college and free healthcare is ludicrous, yet many countries offer these services for free. Please explain why feeling entitled to healthcare is bad.
I wasn't referring to free college and free healthcare. I was more agreeing with Bill about the whiny teens you see on the internet who constantly complain about having to pay for DLC on a game or bitch about youtubers and other entertainers that they don't even pay to watch.
That being said, I do think free healthcare should be a universal right for all US citizens because it's a moral issue that decides whether people live or die. However, we are going to have to accept that we'll have to pay higher taxes for it and I'm fine with that.
On the other hand, I'm not fine with paying higher taxes for someone else's liberal studies degree. It is true that education is important for a nations prosperity and while College tuition in the US is unnaturally high, I've seen too many students take that education for granted. Why is it fair for a majority of Americans, who never had the chance or even wanted to go to college, to pay for someone else's kid to go to a four year party camp? I'm fine with the government investing in R&D and sponsoring STEM and Medical students, but anything beyond that isn't likely to improve the overall quality of life in America so we shouldn't have to waste money on it.
because nobody owes you shit in life, bud
Tell that to the banks who get bailouts from the usa
He's so right on socialism 😂 my dad spits the word out like it's satan and I'm just like 'eh'
Im from argentina and know a LOT of people from venezuela, it IS satan.
We have brainwashed people voting, guess who paid to brainwash them.
Imagine if a system were put in place where we didn't raise taxes, but instead cut government funding to everything that did not get a majority of both parties to agree on the spending, and required full transparency of where the money went. We are already taxed quite a bit, the problem is where the money is going is frequently a mystery, and when we do know where it is being sent half the people don't want it to go there, and frequently it is an outrageous inefficiency.
Your real problem isn’t inefficiency, but wealthy vested interests funnelling money into their own pockets. Hence the secrecy.
I don’t know what the solution to all the corruption and theft is because it happens just as much in the private sphere as it does in the public. Shrinking the government will just move the problem, not fix it.
@@ian1352 very true. Their is no true solution that will not cause more misery than it's worth. What caused economic success and lead to the age of enlightenment in Europe was the colossal death toll of the plague, the age of exploration was fueled by the agricultural and economic wealth extracted from the Americas, often through barbarous means. The staggering wealth the USA had in the 50s was bought through the apocalyptic damage done to the world's industrial system and devastion of the workforce, save for America. Good times only seem to be possible when purchased at a previous generations immense suffering. By it's nature, a functional society will lead to the problems we see today.
The problem with government spending is bloat.
Every department across the government gets an annual budget. In order to get more money next year they burn through their budgets in September and October buying up things they don’t need.
So when it comes time to set next year’s budget they all say “add 5% to last year’s budget.”
That’s on top of the COLA raise they get every year.
Notice how the budget keeps increasing but taxes don’t?
That’s part of the problem with our inflation right now (aside from the larger more obvious causes).
How about no more budgetary increases unless you can prove that you actually need it?
Didn’t spend all of last year’s budget? Ok. Minus that percent from what you started with.
Watch how fast the budget shrinks.
@@dr.floridamanphd "Didn’t spend all of last year’s budget? Ok. Minus that percent from what you started with. "
Bruh that's exactly how it works and WHY people feel the need to pad. How about the opposite: you can NOT spend the budget and not get an increase OR a decrease, so people don't feel the need to blow through it.
It also isn't secretive. Nearly all government spending is a matter of public record. You can look it up yourself if you want to see where your money goes. The reason you don't do it is because it's fucking boring.
I know we have a lot of people who came to this country running from socialism, never heard of people running from capitalism.
What about all our of our foreign wars for oil? I think a lot of people ran from our bombs and bullets.
@@dirtearth Like the shit Biden's administration is doing.
@@STL-sl7zv you realize fossil fuels are gone really soon one way or the other right? The only way for our children in their old age and our grandchildren to avoid this suffering you speak of is to embrace other forms of energy.
@@STL-sl7zv if we rebuild our economy around an alternative energy people can live the same lifestyle as they're used to now you could substitute other things for oil. The reason you heard it all your life is because it's been true all your life they're talking about soon in the scope of humanity not soon in the scope of your life personally.
@@MN-ug9me the only wars I'm aware of are the two started by George Dubya.
We see what you're doing Bill. We know. Don't think we can't see through it.
THE REST OF THE WORLD HAS UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE BILL....Not Santa-ism
It's impossible. Shillary said so.
And we know we can believe whatever she says..........NOT!
Not true and socialized healthcare is a total mess
Uh no. And most don't even have single-payer. Switzerland is entirely privatized, more so than the US even. The Swiss government provides NO healthcare to its citizens. Everyone has to have private health insurance.
Santa hates Americans because they don't know the defenition of socialism.
Yay, let's argue on the internet! What could possibly go wrong?
Being conservative/libertarian leaning millennial, there should be no reason for me to like Bill Maher but I find myself watching his videos and being both entertained but also contemplative about his points. I disagree with a lot of what he or his guests say but I also am surprised with how much resonates with me and with how much it helps me see things from multiple perspectives.
I would love to be able to afford living on $9.50 an hour working full time! Let me just call up my 5 roomates and tell them I'm going to live on my own!
blame this an all parties, it's called inflating the money supply...both parties love to blow $$$
People live on $2 a day
@@Leatherface42O i can do it easy.
Breakfast is two eggs... $0.25, 8 oz milk $0.10.... an orange.... $0.15. And toast $0.10...
So $0.60 for breakfast leaves $1.40.
It's all about portions, thrift and self reliance.
BasementMinions I’m a gem xer. I had a full time job, a part time weekend job, went to college and had my own car and apartment. Fucking lazy, whining millennials don’t know how to work their way up.
Sounds like you need to find another job...
_"You young whipper snappers! Back in MY day..!"_
Bill Maher has officially passed the relevancy threshold on social issues.
Nah, he is very relevant. He is just telling the truth and it hurts your precious ears that mommy and daddy used to protect.
You are talking about the Marx-Leninist socialism. Socialism itself as most see it doesn't have to be centrally planned; it just means worker's control of production.
Kyle Spangenberg Obamacare is socialism and it was a disaster. It's the reason the economy never recovered because it basically makes it too expensive for companies to pay people full time benefits
Premiums are skyrocketing, millions are still uninsured and our quality of healthcare has gone down. Work two part time jobs? Enjoy them taking another 100-200 out of your paycheck for that shit healthcare.
Sooner we get Trump in the white house, sooner we can get that piece of shit bill repealed that was only passed with executive order.
Start undoing the damage and legacy of the failure that was Obama.
To a social democrat, but not to a socialist. Socialism is inherently anti-capitalist. Workers' cooperatives(a form of worker's control) are very real, and they exist allover the world. Government bureaucracy can be kept in check by a truly democratic system to make sure it will not a go astray.
Hate to break it to you, but the last 8 years have definitely showed us how full of shit people like you are.
So please take your lies and fuck back off to fantasy land. Some of us don't have time for that nonsensical bullshit.
This video took a turn that I wasn't prepared for... Bill is hilarious😂
Yeah, “go fund yourself” is a cut above his usual punnery.
I laughed way too hard at this
Bill O'Reilly wrote the script?
I didn't know HBO carried The O'Reilly Factor
+Matthew Steele you're embarassing yourself.
You're the little bitch insulting people online
Lol!!!! See what I'm saying!!!
That is a weird way to spell "George W. Bush"
EVERYONE voted for Obama you dumb fuck. Well, I didn't but that doesn't matter. The point is that he's not talking truth. There was pirating way before millennials came around. There was also low cost higher education. I am barely considered a millennial and I've never received aid. I work for everything I get and I can assure you there are far more millennials contributing to the economy than any other generation at this point. It's unfortunate that Bill wants to make these claims. Just "falling in line" I suppose.
So many dislikes?
So many 25-30 yo virgins living with their parents in the basement were so butthurt about this video.
and you're probably one of them
Bill would make a great conservative.
Andrew Bailey I think he is making a fair point. I am a believer in socialism to a point but of course it means higher taxes. It is also odd that post Graduation you would take it for granted that mum still pays the bills. Fair enough the cost of housing is unreasonably high but most gen xers lived in a lot of shitty sharehouses. It is also a matter of equity that artists are paid for their services if you beleive in socialism you believe in paying people
Just because we have a stupid two-party electoral system, we don't have to pigeonhole everyone into left or right. Bill has a combination of political views which are difficult to categorize. Just like most people.
Bill would make a great *libertarian*
Bill is a moderate
Public education is in everyone's best interest. A more educated population can achieve more, that's why we have k-12. Unfortunately, that's not enough anymore. College courses are a must-have for pretty much anyone wanting employment after automation nixes low-level jobs. In my mind, it makes perfect sense to make college as free as high school. A person should come out of the American education system with the skills and knowledge required to survive. This way, we can cut poverty, boost innovation, and future-proof the economy.
Hey look, a dinosaur that doesn't know he's going extinct!
I'm sure this comment ruined his evening.
Hey look, a commie who has no fucking clue!
Hehe. That's just what the dinosaurs said about the mammals. You primitives hold back human progress but at least you're entertaining...
Everyone always got music for free. It's called radio!
I'm a millennial, I'm 17, and I agree, our economic system does need to change. America doesn't operate under real capitalism, we operate under a crony capitalism / corporatist system, and the solution isn't to further fuse the private industry with the state, but to cut it off completely. People always point to Scandinavian countries but forget that we and Germany pay massive amounts of their defense budget (us giving foreign aid is another huge, and separate problem), and people travel to the US for healthcare. Canada has as many MRI machines as Minnesota.
Also I assume when he talked about war with capitalism I'm assuming he's talking about the military companies (weapon manufactures) benefiting from us being constantly at war. I'd rather have our military industry controlled by people, than by the state. We are a young country, with, not much precedent go off, and people look at ww2 Germany, the Soviet union, Cambodia, etc and say "oh that can't happen here." It can and it will if we keep giving power to the state.
I've been to Cuba, and not as a tourist in Havana, the small farming towns where socialism wrecked the people there. When talking to people, they said the most profitable job was being a waiter in Havana, because Europeans tip the most and since basically everything is state owned, and everyone gets payed the same, the tip amount is large enough to make a difference. Cuba also exports alot of doctors worldwide, they surprisingly have a decent medical education system (even though their technology sucks) and Cuban doctors working in other countries have NINETY PERCENT of their paycheck from their host country taken by the Cuban government.
I guess I just dont trust the state to really do anything.
You aren't a millennial if you are only 17 or 18. You're gen z
That's why I'm a left anarchist, left statists are idiots...
@Richard Reed Sounds like you need to get another job then. Also, most people got duped into thinking we NEED college, and college took advantage of that by jacking up the price thanks to government subsidies. Now you have a useless degree that you owe massive amounts of debt on. The ROI for college is not what it used to be.
As said again and again... free college and universal health care for not so much more taxes can be observed right now in Europe. It's a reality.
Why not pay for it directly? Why force me to pay for what you want?
@@mouwersor@mouwersor because not everyone is rich and not everyone can afford a good medical system. We should not think only in ourselves. I live in Brazil, here people with diabetes can have insuline for free, while in the US they don't and it costs A LOT. How the richest country in the world can't even afford good Healthcare for free for its citizens?
This is why it's sooo hard to love Maher. He speaks so much truth, highlights so many issues, and generally makes great points. He's the voice of so many that isn't heard usually on mainstream media. And then all of a sudden he talks shit like he is in this video. It's like how he's such a science lover but is so against GMOs and even vaccines. He has so much potential to make this an amazing show week and week out and he keeps messing it up with stupid opinions. You almost feel like it's not even his own opinion because he's so different when it comes to 95% of what he talks about.
It was like The Twilight Zone. He has championed Bernie for years and all of a sudden changes his tune. Truly bizarre. I'd sell my ticket to see him next month but none of my millennial friends can afford it!
It's called being a human being and having a range of opinions that may contradict to yours. Welcome to the real world, not everyone agrees with every single fucking thing you think is correct.
Thank God he doesn't have too many stupid opinions. Too many of those people already on TV
+dazza2151 He contradicted himself! You clearly don't watch the show.
Why is this a stupid opinion. Why wasn't it a stupid opinion when he bashed Capitalism a few weeks back? Could it be because you are a socialist? Since you are one, can you tell me how socialists can justify initiation of force and still live with themselves?
I’m a millennial and my parents came from communist Romania so idk I always had the inside scoop on how those systems play out in the long run. #GoFundYourself
@Anurag Chakraborty one that doesn't slaughter its own people is a good start, that does disqualify communism.
@@robinheinemann1740 the first few modern republics were incompetent human rights disasters as well. What type of society do you live in?
@@anthonykrejci9515 Republic? For here that would have been the Weimarer Republic then. And yes I would take those "incompetent human rights desasters" over the shit they had in Cambodia, thank you very much.
@@robinheinemann1740 talking more about the worst excesses of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. Anytime society tries to drastically change/improve the potential for a chaotic power vacuum opens, and these vacuums are usually filled by the worst of us, not the best. The fact remains that every single Marxist state was Marxist in name only, they were swiftly turned into hard right totalitarian dictatorships. Not too different from Napoleon seizing control of the 1st French Republic
@@robinheinemann1740 or hitler taking over the Wiemar Republic….
Socialism is different from social democracy.
Thank you. It is so difficult for people to understand this.
Love how Bill calls out the Rage Against the Machine guy on the reality that he got paid hard capitalist cash for his hypocritical ass music.
Yep, Zach de la Rocha is worth millions
Yep-and the list goes on: Patrisse Cullors, Shaun King, and even Bernie himself (net worth approx. $3 million). I don’t begrudge people who make money for their families but don’t spout that socialist b.s. while availing yourself to every benefit capitalism offers.
Tom Morello is such a hypocritical douchebag. The guy enjoys driving around in exotic supercars 😂
@@JohnSmith-ls3um Socialism isn’t a vow of poverty.
@@jeffmcleod3829 Let's apply the principals of socialism to education. Let's say you are in school, and you bust your ass for an entire semester and pull a 4.0 GPA. But there is this other student who just loves to party and hang out with friends and sometimes sleeps in and misses his classes. He ends up with a 1.0 GPA. Would you be fine with instead of giving you what you earned, that we instead gave you each a 2.5? The left used to push for equality of opportunity, and that's a great thing. Now they are pushing for equality of outcome, and that's a TERIBLE thing. this participation trophy generation and their sense of entitlement is going to be the end of the American way of life. You may think that's great, but I have been all over the world. 46 countries in all. There is not a single place on earth that I have ever been outside this country that I would rather live.
The government giving you stuff is not ‘getting things for free’. You pay for it either before or after through your taxes. I doubt many people want to live on social support for long. As soon as your basic needs are met, you start on the wants - which incentivises job seeking for that higher income, social status, fun stuff and even a house one day.
Thank you for pointing that out. Somehow I don't think most people have managed to make the intuitive leap. And I don't know why not, 'cause it's REALLY simple....
@@Xkrepta999 They do. What you don´t seem to get is, that taxes and welfare combined are a ideally mechanism of redistribution and thus helps the poor. Which is, what most young people want
I'm blown away by this comments section. When people my in my age range are called out for quickly pledging an allegiance to a worldview without objectively considering its flaws, we seem to lose our minds and throw Bill out with the trash. The Scandinavian countries you tout as bastions of socialism are mostly capitalistic. They are a MIX of capitalistic, free market principles and regulated, socialistic principles. That's Bill's whole point, that neither extreme is practical or good. But all you folks see and hear is someone disagreeing with you, and you just can't process that. What a shame.
Exactly! As a realist, I've been trying to point out to BOTH SIDES that the best systems (not perfect - there's no such thing) are not based on some iron-clad theory or ideology, but are based on a carefully thought out compromise that actually, you know, FUNCTIONS.
Here, the best aspects of of capitalism (innovation and enterprise) and socialism (solid infrastructure, universal education and health care) are cobbled together to make a functional society and economy, while the worst of capitalism (massive wealth inequality, crony corporatism and rent-seeking) and socialism (inefficiency, bloated bureaucracy) are kept to a minimum.
But in these loud, hyper-ideological times, trying to explain the to the Trumpers on the right and the Bernie Bros on the left seems pointless. Likely it will take another generation for America to work this out...
joe walter well stated. I don't know if rejecting extremism and living in a happy, functional compromise as you've described is even possible for us humans, but if it is, I sure hope it doesn't take until future generations to figure it out.
CANADA IS SOCIALIST.
Thanks. Too good!
As always, Bill is quite correct, quite ballsy and ... too wonderful!
A flash of brilliance from Bill Maher.
Tom Morello sitting over there like
“Bitch”
It took mere seconds for him to prove he doesn't understand capitalism
I'm just here for the angry BernieBot comments. Delicious.
You're just here using up oxygen and taking up space.
+RU Kiddingme yep
my mom has a high school diploma got a job at the energy company and worked there till she retired at the age of 55. I am now 35 and have had 27 jobs in my lifetime. Do you see the generation gap there.
Severely underrated comment
???? Why can't you hold a job?
@@cbailey2376 you don't get what he's saying. Corporations no longer aim to keep their employees for life. They will hire and fire and make you a contract worker 1099.
It sucks that were going to have to learn about socialism the hard way .
By having European standards of living, which are objectively higher?
@@everywherecat9824 No? I can't think of a country in Europe that is socialist, unless you include the nordic countries (which would be incorrect). Europe is not socialist.
@@Thegreatobjective they are all mixed socialist economies, and have a heavier socialist leaning than the US.
Every successful economy on the planet is mixed socialist.
@@everywherecat9824 I'm not completely against socialism, I'm against the notion that socialism is the future alternative to capitalism. We have socialism implemented in the U.S as well. I'm for many of the social programs set up here although many need extreme revisions. I was speaking to the people under the impression that capitalism is a failure and that we need to "give socialism a try".
Tyler Stone Bernie is a social democrat and in most of europe his postions would be viewed as slightly left of center. Higher taxes for the rich? We already have that here, medicare for all exists in every other developed nation, taxes used for higher education also exists in most developed nations too and would only be an expansion on education that we pay for fron pre k to12. You people make it seem as though we are trying to bring about the next Stalin. I mean obama even expanded on private health care (which was a republican counter to medicare for all) and the right called him a Socialist. Seriously you people sound like youre still in the reagan era.
Millennials were born approximately from 1981 to 1996.
Bill... the time that you grew up in was the exception to history and not the rule. You can't just leave high school, get a job in a factory, and live a middle class lifestyle anymore.
Nowadays if you want a solid middle class lifestyle you will probably have to go to college which is a lot more expensive than in your day.
I could go on but it is pretty obvious that the comparison he is making about "kids these days" to his own generation is fallacious.
Not to mention that a lot of us were graduating high school in the middle of a recession.
@@drewwiley7083 so I got that the reason why you disagree is because people are wasteful and lazy? I completely disagree. This country has triple the millionaires than it did when your grandparents grew up. With that concept in mind prices for things had to be relatively affordable for more people to afford the business to keep things going. That's become less and less the case. The disparity between the haves and the want to to haves has gotten pretty vast because a lot of basic necessities have sky rocketed in price. Financially It's become a better option for tons of under earning peoples, to actually eat out than to spend time cooking when they are already working multiple jobs at 80hrs a week. That as well as many other factors make it so It's just not the same world as it was before. Working and saving won't get you middle class. Investing in education moving to areas where you can make more money AND proper financial investing will just get you to middle class for only a portion of the people in this country. And just because your not middle class doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to afford things like health care and decent internet.
@@STL-sl7zv Your right, Im sure the kids today would freak if they had to pay 25% interest on student loans and mortgages in the early 80s.
I can promise you, you can get a great job straight out of highschool. The issue is kids don't want to do the work. They'd rather slave retail or wait tables than do an ounce of physical labor for the money and benefits. These days, and common sense, would be to learn a trade. I know plenty of kids very successful. The issue is laziness.
@MsUsagi513 well they're not getting out of those jobs and doing trade. Sooooo.......
Fuckin love you Bill. Even during those 10% of the times we don't happen to agree. One of the shows I can't miss every week. Thanks my brother. #makeitlegal
Same, he’s so dead on even though I disagree pretty often too.
5 years later half the country is legal. Ah progress
@@matthewklahn3204 based brother
The secret is the proper mix between capitalism and socialism.
Not one of Bill's more thoughtful routines. So much to criticize here that I won't even attempt it. I'm 60 years old. I certainly didn't cause The Great Recession, but was hurt badly by it. (And to turn a phrase: what so great about this recession?) However, Millenials have gotten a raw deal, especially ones who options were already limited by not having parents in the top 10 -- 20%. The "sharing economy" represents the failure of unbridled capitalism, not the logical progression of our system.
My philosophy is make university free, but a challenge to get in to.
Free at whose expense?
I’m an xer. I can’t help but feel if things like education was free kids would actually be out of home earlier. I’m also from Australia so while our kids deal with some of the same issues they don’t need their parents insurance as they have health coverage. I agree on the Kickstarter, paying for music and go fund me thing though. I can’t conceive of not feeling cheap for doing this. But then I grew up before the “gig” economy so my boss always had to pay me a fair wage!
That's bold. I do not agree with most things, but I like the idea that he had the courage to say it.
Does Bill actually think people in their 20's WANT to live at home with their parents?
No but, if they do live with their parents, they want to blame their parents for it.
As a Gen Xer, and a history teacher with a mortgage, I think I might be able to bridge the gap between Bill and the millennials as he describes them. Baby Boomers came from a booming middle class. Financial security could be had with a high school diploma and hard work; and if you wanted college, it was very cheap. The maligned millennial is as inexperienced and hopeful as Boomers were in the 60s and 70s. They failed to float the Pentagon through love and positive vibes, but they made indelible changes to our society. One of their accomplishments was embracing Reaganomics which led to the deregulation of banking and the decline of the middle class. Democrats don't get to walk proud on this, because all the neo-liberalism of Clinton-Obama (and Clinton) amounts to the same economic policies, just with greater sensitivity towards civil rights. Why are these millennials still on their parents' bill? Maybe it is because there is no opportunity for them as there was for you. How can a young person today gain independence when you have to work 60hrs/wk just to clear the poverty limit? How can you grow economically when you have to borrow off your future earnings just to afford tuition?
There is plenty of opportunity it’s a matter of not liking them. The trades are seriously short of skilled tradesmen. Plumbers and electricians are invited for free apprenticeship with good pay to follow. Auto mechanics are needed by thousands of dealers and manufacturers have training programs. The US needs engineers like no tomorrow. PS: China reportedly graduates more engineers annually than we have in total.
And yet thousands of illegal immigrants pour into the US seeking, finding or creating opportunities. They are just hungry I guess.
Stop going to college
I work 24 hours a week and live very comfortably on my own. I work at a Wal-Mart for 21.50 an hour.
I remember in the early 90s working 80 plus hours a week and barely surviving.
@@pete3882 in the mid 90s I worked at a McDonald's in Washington state for minimum wage. I worked full time only and made plenty of money to live on.
This is prophetic
My three daughters don't know what communism is. My 17 year thinks it's sharing and caring. She can't understand why so many people would oppose that and calls me old and closed minded but she isn't earning a paycheck yet and when she does and I take what I want she'll learn. Yes, they are used to free stuff and help and we parents make their lives easier. Our schools have stopped teaching communism altogether
The problem with Communism is that power corrupts and humans are generally selfish.
I know if you ask a thousand people “what’s socialism”, you’ll get a thousand different answers, but I see it as a very small change from what the US has now. Everyone pays taxes, everyone gets protected by the police and military, the streets are cleaned for everyone, etc. You could call that socialism, but I see that as a capitalist country with taxation for necessary services. A small expansion is all that’s needed.
@Brett Where police are active at least, mostly, yes. It just doesn't seem so because the bad stuff is under a flashlight that get a lot of attention. And bad news gets more views than good news.
I don't think its a direction we need to take. Our governments mismanage enough as it is.
That’s not how socialism works, historically speaking. Soviet citizens paid no taxes cause their economy was closed and state owned. Honestly, most people have no fucking clue how socialism has actually operated, historically speaking. Socialism is not the utopia in your head, it’s a concrete system that was put in place in dozens of countries (of which about 2 remain in its original form?)
@@MexicanBandit It isn’t a concrete system. You’re referring to primarily totalitarian states, but in reality socialism can be many things.
That’s because there are many forms of socialism.
In my day, we stood in the bread line for more than 4 hours and we liked it!
...and that was for the day old bread!
Us in Central Europe have a lot of shit for free - education, quality healthcare (even though part is covered by your employer or by by you directly if you are self employed). And I see it as completely ok even though Im definitely not a socialist.
I'm a naked Danish person on a month long paid vacation. And loving it!
this topic is still relevant today
love his humor
Without the pauses for laughter, that rant would've been four seconds long
"full length feature"
heheheheh. Giggity.
Some shit should be free. Access to a good free education for instance. I can’t believe you’re debating the basics of human decency. Richest country in the world can’t afford to have their citizens educated and healthy? Bs.
My PS School taxes are over 700 a month. We have 124 for school districts on Long Island . Teachers unions have made living here this place unlivable. That not free education 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
It will never be free within THIS system. Also, no one wants free education from the government. For that to work, everything needs to be abolished. It's more complicated than you think.
Ain't no such thing as free
-need previous experience for a job
-has no previous experience straight out of college
-these 20 somethings still living with their parents!
logic, where art thou?
I'm 55 now and the same when I was 20 to something they say you need experience for a job and to pay school but either can't get that job to pay for school and to get the job experience or get the job but they don't keep you on the job long enough to pay school and get the job working experience enough and if you do have the in the job experience they either say its not enough experience or your experience is overqualified for the job and when you get the job no matter what level qualification or seniority that supposed to be secure BAM! they pull the we have to downsize due to the economy whether its bullshit or not out of their ass n trying to find another job is hard during an economy crisis when everyone is downsizing saying no where not hiring now where really downsizing looking to get rid of people because we can't afford to keep them.
police offficers,fire fighters, medicare.........SOCIALISM
Here we are Bill.
Lots of countries have free (or heavily subsidized) universities. It’s not “santa-ism”, it’s investing in your country’s future.
Except...in order to be able to go to those schools, you have to test into the programs. Want to be a businessman...you must do well on the entrance exam...otherwise you will be sent to trade school to become a plumber...your choice doesnt matter. That's why so many foreign students come to the U.S. to go to school...they are paying for the opportunity to do what they want in life...not what the government deems what they are capable of through strenuous end of highschool exams.
@@debd7631 speaking of foreign students coming here, only the students who come from countries similar to U.S. come here not students who get free education like Norway.
@@maymuunaabdi5785 not true...plenty of students even from Norway, the UK, France..etc. if they couldn't test into the school they wanted, they come here.
You mean other people investing in your future. How about YOU invest. We can talk about more affordable college but not “free”.