Robert Reich in Los Angeles on Income Inequality

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  • čas přidán 13. 03. 2018
  • Robert Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and former Secretary of Labor, discussed the state of income inequality, the Trump presidency, the new steel and aluminum tariffs and the promising future of today's high school and college students.

Komentáře • 102

  • @carolgates5297
    @carolgates5297 Před 3 lety +4

    Thanks to the man who speaks with optimism

  • @davidfaubion1720
    @davidfaubion1720 Před 5 lety +16

    Robert Reich now there is a sense of humor, history and the now.

  • @sa-iw4dr
    @sa-iw4dr Před 4 lety +13

    Love Robert's humor; informative goes good with learning. We need to put this man back in the Jump Seat!

  • @leealexander3507
    @leealexander3507 Před 3 lety +7

    Since I started using Facebook and Twitter once in awhile I've learned how terribly under educated so many people in our country are. We need to do something about that. We especially need civics and foreign policy classes from elementary school through college. Both need to be required courses.

  • @troubledsole9104
    @troubledsole9104 Před 5 lety +13

    We need more Reichs talking to us.

  • @garystracener8319
    @garystracener8319 Před 2 lety

    Your time working
    For us and admired
    You. Thank you!

  • @mallory5872
    @mallory5872 Před 6 lety +29

    If everybody had healthcare we'd be more productive.

    • @fluxcapacitor1621
      @fluxcapacitor1621 Před 5 lety +3

      Tying healthcare to employment with a large company discourages entrepreneurs.

    • @hitreset0291
      @hitreset0291 Před 5 lety +4

      Correct...I live in Australia and recently I had an accident which involved emergency room, stitches, several attendants, nurses doctors etc.
      All up it cost me $12 for the script of penicillin.
      MediCare for All???
      What do you think?
      As an, and from a, ex-US serviceman...get your shit together America before it's too late.

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 Před rokem

      Will you pay for it

    • @fritzforsthoefel8031
      @fritzforsthoefel8031 Před 9 měsíci

      But yet you won't send half your income to pay for it just add it to the debt our children will have to pay for

  • @AlexisMorton
    @AlexisMorton Před 5 lety +15

    That question toward the end about a generation being co-opted by the seduction of money is one that needs to be addressed. The desire for money and the ability to be seduced by it is bred by a system that does not offer alternatives. It is a systemic problem that I'd like to hear Robert Reich address at some point.

  • @williambunting803
    @williambunting803 Před 4 lety +5

    To plagiarise the words of another great person, in just on a month from now my father will be 100 years old,.....and he were still alive he would have been delighted by this talk, every bit as much as I was. Thank you, Robert.

  • @zehrajafri9252
    @zehrajafri9252 Před 2 lety

    Great job as alway's. Keep the truth alive for humanity and the planet and to wake up humanity. ❤ ❤ ❤

  • @brandymadison4290
    @brandymadison4290 Před 3 lety +4

    I don't feel much in the way of hope yet and I'm wondering what we teens can do to help make the system more equitable for everybody. My teachers aren't much help -- I started to talk about this video with my history teacher and all he said was, "Oh. That Commie." There's a lot of resistance to overcome.

  • @leealexander3507
    @leealexander3507 Před 3 lety +4

    We need to break up the monopolies and start enforcing anti-trust laws.

  • @steppenwolf3252
    @steppenwolf3252 Před 4 lety +15

    I remember our 1960's generation selling out too. I thought we were evolving and had such high hopes. I couldn't believe they elected some dumb actor who didn't care about love, peace and ideals. Trickle down...and I wondered what happened to us too.I honestly thought we were evolving. I watched Reaganomics take us down to hell.

  • @joesonjoel4610
    @joesonjoel4610 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you Robert...

  • @leealexander3507
    @leealexander3507 Před 4 lety +2

    We need another FDR type President but he needs to be more inclusive. Unfortunately the new deal left a lot of Americans out, mostly POC but farmers and a few other groups. There was also the internment of Japanese Americans during the war.

  • @davidfaubion1720
    @davidfaubion1720 Před 5 lety +15

    "You don't know what you've got til its gone, they paved Paradise put up a parking lot." Joni Mitchell

    • @troubledsole9104
      @troubledsole9104 Před 5 lety +1

      John Dwyer “And they charged all the people a dollar and a half to see 'em...”

    • @hitreset0291
      @hitreset0291 Před 5 lety

      Great song...

  • @lestertm7944
    @lestertm7944 Před 2 lety

    A prolific scholar.

  • @davidfaubion1720
    @davidfaubion1720 Před 5 lety +4

    What would big money do if were excluded from politics and denied mega merger as an antitrust violation?

    • @davidfaubion1720
      @davidfaubion1720 Před 5 lety +2

      A living treasure, Robert Reich.

    • @davidfaubion1720
      @davidfaubion1720 Před 5 lety

      Big money would hide more of it from taxation, give more in philanthropy and let more of the dough sit and rot.

  • @SolidAir54321
    @SolidAir54321 Před 2 lety

    @6:46 The U.S. is like a game of musical chairs. Everyone gets an equal opportunity. But not everyone gets a chair.

  • @glennoropeza3545
    @glennoropeza3545 Před 5 lety +4

    Served under 4 presidents and a professor for the University of Berkeley, I'd say Robert Reich is more qualified as the 'smartguy' in the room!

  • @garystracener8319
    @garystracener8319 Před 2 lety

    Has there been some movement
    On the removal of
    Corprate influence?

  • @davidkaser7423
    @davidkaser7423 Před 4 lety +2

    If you create 1 billion jobs, not one of them is any good if the pay is shit, like it has been since 1964

  • @leealexander3507
    @leealexander3507 Před 3 lety +1

    If public servants are going to become lobbyist Bernie Sanders should finish his term then become a lobbyist for the lower and middle classes. With such a large number of us we could certainly fund a lobbyist of our own. It wouldn't have to be Bernie. I just can't think of anyone better for the job. Maybe Reverend Barbar or Dr. Cornell West.

  • @leealexander3507
    @leealexander3507 Před 4 lety +2

    Until we do something about our own country we have no business meddling in the affairs of other countries. Far too many Americans have slid into poverty with many living in 3rd world conditions. Our infrastructure is rated D-. The global oligarchy are hollowing the country out in their pursuit of profit at the expense of the country.

  • @donblack1571
    @donblack1571 Před 5 lety +3

    I’ve met folks from Massachusetts, many of them are about 5’ tall.

    • @homayounshirazi9550
      @homayounshirazi9550 Před 5 lety +1

      If you are taking a jab at Mr. Reich, he has a genetic skeletal issue that is responsible for his stature.

    • @alistairmackintosh9412
      @alistairmackintosh9412 Před 3 lety

      It's all the low ceilings in the old buildings...

  • @alisonmcrae1281
    @alisonmcrae1281 Před 3 lety +1

    This is two year's old and the elite wiped out the FDR candidate & here we see the idiocy of the current elite we are still in the new gilded age.

  • @mikestaihr5183
    @mikestaihr5183 Před 6 lety +8

    Towards the end when they were discussing participation and putting lives on the line they failed to acknowledge the sacrifices in the early 1900's of the striking workers that faced government machine guns fighting for the rights of labor... Just a thought....

    • @dancooper5714
      @dancooper5714 Před 6 lety +1

      but those machine guns were on behalf of the big business robber barons of the time.

    • @mikestaihr5183
      @mikestaihr5183 Před 6 lety +1

      Absolutely, coal, automobile, railroad, etc...... I just wanted to make sure that people understood that the 60's weren't the ultimate example of "participation".

    • @vincentfalsitta5332
      @vincentfalsitta5332 Před 5 lety

      We all know that who ever wins as president nothing will change. Both Democrats and Republicans used ileigle labore to bring down pay rates and take away all that the labore movement had won. Both parties have hurt our economy. Now there coming after our social security. Thay took away our health care from work places. But health care system is a right for all Americans. Not anymore we the people have to pay .and are not allowed to right that cost off on our taxes. Our mortgages we can't right off taxes the upkeep of our homes we can't right off taxes. So now both party's whent to fix what'. It's all broken. Bill Collins said thay want everything that we gained threw the labore laws back.
      The American workers are being over taxed because the 1 percent doesn't want to pay there fair share.

  • @wesleymercer7496
    @wesleymercer7496 Před 6 lety +3

    Rex Tillerson was a conflict of interest, being The former CEO of ExxonMobil

    • @vincentfalsitta5332
      @vincentfalsitta5332 Před 5 lety

      I agree rex Tillerson will buy his way out of his mess. Big money always beats the system. JUSTICE systems have been broken. Our government has always worked for the richest people. Just like president Trump said that he could walk out on fifth Avenue and shoot someone and get away with it. And he is doing just that. Our government is broken. How is it where the banks have played Russian roulette with our financial system get away without going to prison for what thay have done .credit cards should not be away to support anyone's credit. If there is a sale at a store and we don't have the money it shouldn't be put on a credit card period.
      Thay have sceemed all of us into using credit cards.you don't have it you don't boy it.

  • @mallory5872
    @mallory5872 Před 6 lety +3

    I ate a lot of Hershey bars trying to win a mini Cooper.

  • @zehrajafri9252
    @zehrajafri9252 Před 2 lety

    The importance of good education is so necessary, can be seen from the wisdom professors impart on U tube etc. If these professors were in control of the world it would look so different. The crooks at the top should study under them. Instead their persecuted, lose jobs, their programs are cancelled, their countries and people are deprived of the knowledge they can bring to the masses.

  • @kampdavies
    @kampdavies Před rokem

    Are Lawyers living things?

  • @Pamela-tn1vf
    @Pamela-tn1vf Před rokem

    We are also being starved to death.

  • @johndavis8669
    @johndavis8669 Před 11 měsíci

    LA has a large homeless population. Due to the fact many can't afford a place to live. A minority are homeless due to being addicted to drugs.

  • @CartoonManWhoo
    @CartoonManWhoo Před 4 lety +1

    UBI is the only way to improve income inequality under capitalism! This is a problem that will never go away until $$$$ is abolished.

  • @PeggyJame
    @PeggyJame Před 4 lety +3

    The Great Wall of China was just a wall. They had their own airplanes and trains and the best medical system in the world. But we foreigners had to stand in line. And learn the Chinese languages

  • @wilhelmsarasalo3546
    @wilhelmsarasalo3546 Před 5 lety +2

    Oklahoma City? What is wrong with I-80?

  • @Pamela-tn1vf
    @Pamela-tn1vf Před rokem

    Funny haha

  • @zehrajafri9252
    @zehrajafri9252 Před 2 lety

    Hillary could have been more human and a supporter of justice. Sad.

  • @antonionalesnik4706
    @antonionalesnik4706 Před 5 měsíci

    This comes from the guy who earns between 30,000 to 100,000 for one hour to talk about wealth income inequality 😅

  • @PeggyJame
    @PeggyJame Před 4 lety +1

    To get insulin from Canada.

  • @roscocostco8586
    @roscocostco8586 Před 2 lety

    I never got a job from a poor man.

  • @clarestucki5151
    @clarestucki5151 Před 4 lety

    People are born into the world with massive inequality - inequality of talent, inequality of skill, inequality of ambition, etc. Why are people surprised and dismayed that all that natural inequality leads to inequality of income and wealth??

  • @tvdv3416
    @tvdv3416 Před 2 lety

    46:30
    The disdain in this man's voice and the spiteful nature of his question is appalling. He seems offended that Secretary Reich, man who observes and speaks to each successive generation one class year at time, would have the nerve to suggest that this generation was at as politically active as those of the 60's.
    He seems aware that in only a matter of a few years that his generation went from being very socially conscious to very selfish but, I don't really think he grasps the negative impact those that were on the college campuses in the 60's has had on this world.
    It's amazing to me that someone who is clearly very proud of what they did when they werebin their 20's so obviously has no time to listen to the young adults of today.

  • @robertwhite952
    @robertwhite952 Před 5 lety +2

    Had to stop watching when he mentioned that Berkley was the best in the world. The man is delusional. he is a good talker though.

  • @saidtweini1422
    @saidtweini1422 Před 2 lety

    Listening to Robert Reich is the equivalent of listening to a flat earther giving lectures on geography.

  • @svs8909
    @svs8909 Před 5 lety +1

    just another gov mouthpiece