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Picture a perfect society. What does it look like? - Joseph Lacey

Dig into political philosopher John Rawls’ classic thought experiment about what principles we need to design a fair society.
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A group of strangers have gathered to design a just society. To ensure none of them rig the system, they’ve been placed under a veil of ignorance. Under this veil, they’re blind to information about age, sex, profession, wealth, religion, and so on. Can they build a fair society where everyone has the resources they need? Joseph Lacey details John Rawls' classic thought experiment.
Lesson by Joseph Lacey, directed by Eoin Duffy.
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  • @TEDEd
    @TEDEd3 ай бұрын

    Healthy democracies rely on informed citizens. Unpack more democratic principles and jumpstart your own engagement at ed.ted.com/democracy-lab

  • @johnbraithwaite863

    @johnbraithwaite863

    3 ай бұрын

    Name one.

  • @boxhunter9742

    @boxhunter9742

    3 ай бұрын

    too good to be true I don't buy it

  • @Plusimurfriend

    @Plusimurfriend

    3 ай бұрын

    a naive manchild made this video

  • @DieNibelungenliad

    @DieNibelungenliad

    3 ай бұрын

    Wrong. Healthy democracy should rely on giving people choice. Forced education is not choice

  • @dsoul1305

    @dsoul1305

    3 ай бұрын

    "Healthy nations" is an oxymoron. Only the top classes thinks it can exist such thing. They are nonetheless unable to target the reasons of why classes exist in the first place.

  • @EcomCarl
    @EcomCarl3 ай бұрын

    the vision for a just society under the veil of ignorance is a compelling reminder of the importance of fairness in our foundational structures. It challenges us to consider how policies might be shaped if we prioritized the well-being of the least advantaged from the start. 👍

  • @EoinDuffyAnimation
    @EoinDuffyAnimation3 ай бұрын

    🎉🙌 So proud to have worked on this! Glad to have to out there :)

  • @Gordy-io8sb

    @Gordy-io8sb

    3 ай бұрын

    Yeah, uh did you know they made a video directly contradicting this one? They denounced the idea of a utopia in "How to recognize a dystopia". You're working with a bunch of hypocrites.

  • @ThrashRats

    @ThrashRats

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Gordy-io8sb its funny, because if you cared to even watch the video rather than read the titles you'd know the Dystopia video is about literally dystopias and their presence in books affected the past, whilst this one talks on an author's theory on a better government system. That's without saying that Ted-Ed is more of a video-based forum article. Of course there's a checking, but each writer decides the focus of their own work. That's what the names by the side of the titles are for. I don't always agree with their videos, but they are good content.

  • @tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp

    @tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks for making an animation so attention grabbing that I had to turn it off the second time through so I could focus on the words.

  • @Astro_Rohan

    @Astro_Rohan

    3 ай бұрын

    How does one into animating for Ted-Ed?

  • @maths_nerd

    @maths_nerd

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@Gordy-io8sbSo what? They are simply conveying the idea of the author. Are you trying to say that a teacher should not teach his students about Communism because he taught Capitalism last week?

  • @pingidjit
    @pingidjit3 ай бұрын

    I definitely agree on a limit of campaign spending and donations. I also think there should not be a minimum wage but a maximum wage. That maximum wage being % based on the wages of all employees within the company. If a CEO wants themselves and upper management to earn more, than all their employees have to earn more. It would encourage a stronger work environment, decrease stress, and promote innovation. Politicians would not be able to earn more than the average wage of all the people they govern. Encouraging them to make policies that benefit their citizens health, education, capabilities, etc in order to be higher wage earners. This would also make it more likely that people that want to help others would be politicans rather than the power and money hungry folks.

  • @elvis1745

    @elvis1745

    3 ай бұрын

    and ban lobbying

  • @foy5051

    @foy5051

    3 ай бұрын

    Maximum wage is a new one for me, but it somewhat makes sense if we also include managing certain fringe/side benefits, like shares in a company

  • @RespectLoveUnityPeace

    @RespectLoveUnityPeace

    3 ай бұрын

    I’ve been arguing for a maximum wage since the 80s when trickle-down economics began increasing the wealth gap to the worst in history. No single person should own $100 billion…

  • @BicBoi1984

    @BicBoi1984

    3 ай бұрын

    You don't understand how the economy works lol

  • @pingidjit

    @pingidjit

    3 ай бұрын

    @@BicBoi1984 The 'economy' as the term is used today is a made up system by humans. It doesn't exist. The reality is that people are the economy. The workforce makes up the economy. Ever notice that when people have less money and less employment that is when the economy tanks? People are the economy. Give them stability in work and money and they will keep the economy strong and stable in return. Its truly that simple. If you think otherwise you are likely misled by those who wanted to keep their slaves whose 'teachings' have infested into capitalist doctrine.

  • @anthonycroisier80
    @anthonycroisier803 ай бұрын

    Apart from the quality content, we often praise the relentless creativity of TEDed's illustrations, but let's all appreciate for a moment how well thought is the sound design of these videos! The attention for such details shows how the creators are dedicated to their work! Thank you, TEDed Team, for your awesome work!🙌

  • @john_hunter_
    @john_hunter_3 ай бұрын

    He's trying to merge 2 opposing concepts. He wants individual will, but at the same time he wants everyone to agree to the same system. This can be done but it requires a system where you raise the next generation to conform to the same system. So their individual will is in agreement with everyone else's.

  • @mashupotato_

    @mashupotato_

    3 ай бұрын

    Yea, that's why Nozick comes into the picture and says: The welfare state cannot dictate what I want to do with my life -- it cannot tax me for the sake of the poor.

  • @john_hunter_

    @john_hunter_

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@mashupotato_ People like Nozick are the ones raised with narcissistic & self serving desires. Their actions hurt communities. The most successful communities are the ones that cooperate to survive. If Nozick was raised with good moral values, he would willingly help the poor without being forced to.

  • @syasyaishavingfun

    @syasyaishavingfun

    Ай бұрын

    Aren't every society like this anyway? We conform to each other? People will point at Japan and Korea for their high level of conformity, but even USA with the perceived low level of conformity actually conform in specific ways.

  • @baukepoelsma

    @baukepoelsma

    25 күн бұрын

    ​@@john_hunter_ Exactly, the erosion of communities and values like selflessness, empathy and preparedness to help are some of the most detrimental developments for society and the individuals within

  • @Pontius_Pilate1
    @Pontius_Pilate13 ай бұрын

    I’m waiting on the ‘how to build a dystopia’ sequel

  • @leeqimin

    @leeqimin

    3 ай бұрын

    They did a dystopia video a few years ago!

  • @Pontius_Pilate1

    @Pontius_Pilate1

    3 ай бұрын

    I’m looking for more a tutorial, you know?

  • @DREMajed

    @DREMajed

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@leeqiminlink?

  • @vageeshdevanathan

    @vageeshdevanathan

    3 ай бұрын

    Read Heidegger

  • @nettsm

    @nettsm

    3 ай бұрын

    Just read history

  • @kishanpandya5919
    @kishanpandya59193 ай бұрын

    I had to watch it twice. Second time just to focus on the audio. The graphics are simply phenomenal!

  • @shanynidam8943

    @shanynidam8943

    3 ай бұрын

    I'm aiming for 3, this kind of debates make me want to think about more and more "what ifs" and that is also fun. Maybe 4🤓

  • @marc_frank

    @marc_frank

    3 ай бұрын

    i found them useless pretty, but useless

  • @hetzarrow6957

    @hetzarrow6957

    3 ай бұрын

    Always...

  • @TheAlgeriano9

    @TheAlgeriano9

    3 ай бұрын

    Prophet Muhammad's rule created the perfect society in early Islam era.

  • @fishtrick1_

    @fishtrick1_

    3 ай бұрын

    Um no it didn’t

  • @Sunflowersarepretty
    @Sunflowersarepretty3 ай бұрын

    Free education or at least good quality and cheaper education along with cheaper medical care would be my version of Utopia in this world. I know places in the west have it but its not everywhere. Either the quality of education and health care is sub par or they're expensive.

  • @ThrashRats

    @ThrashRats

    3 ай бұрын

    The problem with free services is they allow pathways to corruption, as an example here in South America, we've got the free services, but they are perfect excuses for money to disappear into whilst our schools are falling apart. Without proper ways to fight corruption you end up with a bloated system that burns through millions each year to still give the bare minimum help, just like here where if you look to use the free medical system you'll be on a waitlist for at least a month.

  • @SandyTaylor-tv6fc

    @SandyTaylor-tv6fc

    3 ай бұрын

    Without free education a society always becomes a plutocracy (ruled by the rich) because the rich have unaccountable power over the education system because it's run for profit

  • @DieNibelungenliad

    @DieNibelungenliad

    3 ай бұрын

    A good student can learn in a bad school. A bad student can't learn in a good school

  • @dsoul1305

    @dsoul1305

    3 ай бұрын

    South America's corruption problems are majorly attached to foreigner interests in continuying the corruption to hinder development. There are countless historical examples of countries trying to fix their issues and receiving outside intervention. A just society allows for true competition, in inside and outside markets.

  • @ThrashRats

    @ThrashRats

    3 ай бұрын

    @dsoul1305 As a South American. Peruvian, to be precise. I completely disagree. The closest thing to direct outsider intervention have been two cases. Operacion Condor that tried to counterract the international plan of multiple communist parties on overtalinf their countries goverments. And how the ONU have constantly tried to safeguard members of Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA. Terrorist groups that were horrible in this country.

  • @SciMinute
    @SciMinute3 ай бұрын

    It’s artistic in one sense and philosophical in another!

  • @rajeshkumar-ws7bx

    @rajeshkumar-ws7bx

    3 ай бұрын

    And dead end in the sense of reality

  • @EEE-1409
    @EEE-14093 ай бұрын

    I love these videos so much. The illustrations make it so easy to understand and fascinating topics are always explored! Well done!!

  • @rajeshkumar-ws7bx

    @rajeshkumar-ws7bx

    3 ай бұрын

    The illustrations is just color shapes floating around the screen....what's so understanding in that

  • @EEE-1409

    @EEE-1409

    3 ай бұрын

    @@rajeshkumar-ws7bx I'm a visual person. It does help. And the shapes are supposed to represent all the different types of people in the world

  • @VerticalFries
    @VerticalFries3 ай бұрын

    Great video, and the animation is also remarkable

  • @Ignorance-is-a-tool
    @Ignorance-is-a-tool3 ай бұрын

    Ted is always so captivating with its animations and explainations, loved the vid!

  • @JPBVideo
    @JPBVideo3 ай бұрын

    Rawls dismissed certain solutions as being based on unrealistic expectations but then sets up an entire thought experiment based on the unrealistic expectations of people not knowing their own history or background.

  • @Rikri

    @Rikri

    3 ай бұрын

    To be fair, some of the ideals are easier to strive towards than those proposed by something like Marxism, which I would imagine was what he meant.

  • @marcusmoonstein242

    @marcusmoonstein242

    3 ай бұрын

    I think Rawls was aware that our own self-interests heavily skews what we see as "just" or fair, and his entire theory was meant to make us conscious of this often unconscious bias. We are meant to imagine what we would believe if we weren't aware of our individual circumstances, and justify those beliefs with rational arguments based on the premise of our ignorance.

  • @bandiharshith2678
    @bandiharshith26783 ай бұрын

    The Animation is outstanding! But I don't get how is it related to the subject.

  • @bandiharshith2678

    @bandiharshith2678

    3 ай бұрын

    @@BachmaiNguyen-INTJ19 Gotcha!

  • @Dude-xb3xh
    @Dude-xb3xh3 ай бұрын

    I mean utopia is impossible even the etymology of the very word says that but if it existed it needs a balance of altruism and independence

  • @DoShiAcademy
    @DoShiAcademy3 ай бұрын

    I really love the simplicity of this animation

  • @freshavocadew
    @freshavocadew3 ай бұрын

    4:40 excellent animation

  • @Puppeteer_in_the_Void
    @Puppeteer_in_the_Void3 ай бұрын

    This in combination with my world history class made me think of something interesting. We might be as far from the peak of idealogical progress as we are from the peak of scientific proogress

  • @user-oh9me1sx7l
    @user-oh9me1sx7l3 ай бұрын

    Your videos truly helpful ❤

  • @owain_rj
    @owain_rj3 ай бұрын

    Why does it need to be framed as the natural solution theoretically unbiased people would come to? It’s just his opinion on how he thinks society should be organised. Making assumptions about the behaviour of “unbiased people” is impossible as any real person is thinking from a biased perspective.

  • @mrkartoffel7418

    @mrkartoffel7418

    3 ай бұрын

    Well I think the point is he’s trying to look at it if he had no bias.

  • @SATS600
    @SATS6003 ай бұрын

    Thing is, if just the mere thought of doing something better than others drives someone then inequality and many other problems will prevail, we may make food available to everyone but if things like taste matter then someone will have to be marginalized. I think inequality is bad only if the next generation gets severely unprivileged as sometimes it is these hardships that make us learn new things and with time those who were rich earlier, will find their coming generation not prevail. So the society kinda becomes a pendulum between different sets of people.

  • @higztv1166
    @higztv11663 ай бұрын

    cool shapes

  • @michealwestfall8544
    @michealwestfall85443 ай бұрын

    Building from the ground up is easy but changing existing structures is hard. People don't want to be told that they're not special, and the 10 years they spent growing 1 million dollars to 2 million dollars wasn't hard and most people could do it if they started with 1 million dollars and it wasn't hard work that got them there.

  • @Cybernaut551
    @Cybernaut5513 ай бұрын

    Brilliant storytelling.

  • @seilaoquemvc2
    @seilaoquemvc2Ай бұрын

    the actual objective of the society would be to provide basic needs for EVERYONE as rights.... the society needs to be organized in a way which, at the very least, EVERY SINGLE PERSON, has enough food, a house, unrestricted access to healthcare, once this very basic dignity principle is attained, then we can start thinking what is the ideal model....

  • @jessicanolanbowers1
    @jessicanolanbowers13 ай бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @Agnal_the_writer_and_poet
    @Agnal_the_writer_and_poet3 ай бұрын

    It would be great if you make a video on the little prince

  • @XRaym
    @XRaym3 ай бұрын

    The creativity behind these animations is outstanding!!

  • @beyond-the-equation
    @beyond-the-equation3 ай бұрын

    Wow, this video really got me thinking about what a utopian society would be like! I love exploring thought-provoking topics like this on my channel too. Maybe I should make a video sharing my vision of a perfect world and invite my viewers to join the discussion!

  • @clementlettuce
    @clementlettuce3 ай бұрын

    beautiful art

  • @quangminh9873
    @quangminh98733 ай бұрын

    *Hmm yes, perfect video to watch during dinner*

  • @Lemon-ej4pn
    @Lemon-ej4pn3 ай бұрын

    God i love love love the animation!

  • @rishikakrishna
    @rishikakrishna3 ай бұрын

    EXACTLY

  • @user-js5nv4pw4r
    @user-js5nv4pw4r3 ай бұрын

    Yeah this sounds good in theory, but what about in practice

  • @funkydiscogod

    @funkydiscogod

    3 ай бұрын

    Hundreds of millions have died in pursuit of utopia.

  • @oscarcorona3857

    @oscarcorona3857

    3 ай бұрын

    I would highly recommend picking up Theory of justice. Rawls goes into a lot more detail about pragmatic aspects of his theory. His theory came out of his experiences in WW2 in japan so I think he takes into account human nature a lot more than most other political philosophers

  • @steelcladCompliant

    @steelcladCompliant

    3 ай бұрын

    It practice it deviates from standard capitalism just enough, that the CIA orchestrates a coup in the offending nation

  • @matttt60

    @matttt60

    3 ай бұрын

    @@oscarcorona3857 I dont believe in anything as "human nature" humans behave badly in our society because we live in a terrible system that made them act like that. In most isolate societies, collaboration and empathy are the standard

  • @Muhammet-Kuruoglu

    @Muhammet-Kuruoglu

    Ай бұрын

    @@matttt60 The standard is also lying, deceit and corruption in these societies. The circumstances just promote the good or bad in people.

  • @quotes612
    @quotes6123 ай бұрын

    I love the animation

  • @flickeringtorch
    @flickeringtorch3 ай бұрын

    Hey TED-ED, I thought you might like to know that whenever the narrator says "watch THIS video", the video card doesn't show up on the screen the way it used to. Why is that?

  • @redpointrana
    @redpointrana3 ай бұрын

    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free." ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • @jayl5032

    @jayl5032

    3 ай бұрын

    So damn true.

  • @aron1606

    @aron1606

    16 күн бұрын

    I don't think I understand this. How can they not be free if they are equal? 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • @Squalidarity
    @Squalidarity3 ай бұрын

    What’s striking about Rawls’ proposal is the unspoken assumption that social inequality and injustice, rather than resulting from and being maintained by political systems, are instead natural and inevitable. For instance, he proposes that the architects would provide generous welfare and unemployment benefits to keep anyone from falling through the cracks. But those programs are only necessary because our society ties the ability to get the necessities of life to employment, and uses that as a means to coerce people into doing menial, exhausting, or even dangerous labor. Would a just society recreate such exploitation? Evidently, for Rawls, the answer is yes, despite the fact that this directly contradicts the goal of granting everyone the bare minimum needed to live and pursue their own goals. It’s like he _wants_ to say “society should be organized on the understanding that everyone will try to provide for others in whatever way they can to the best of their ability, and will be provided for in turn, even if they may need more or less than someone else” but then chickens out cause he doesn’t want to say the C word lol.

  • @Rikri

    @Rikri

    3 ай бұрын

    While I would agree, I think the issue with that last idea is that it's a bit unrealistic to strive for in the current state of society.

  • @Squalidarity

    @Squalidarity

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Rikri I would counter that if you allow your political horizons and practice to be defined by the ruling ontology, by what is “realistic” within the current system, you’ll never succeed at changing anything.

  • @Rikri

    @Rikri

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Squalidarity I mean yes, if you had full control over the political system then I'd be on board with that; but that's only really going to happen if a revolution happens I think

  • @syasyaishavingfun

    @syasyaishavingfun

    Ай бұрын

    Dangerous labour is important I don't understand why are you against it? More people are killed by cows than sharks but if no one take care of the cows how are we gonna eat beef? Higher incidence of cancer arise from pesticides in agriculture, solvent in manufacturing, all those airborne particles in construction etc. The important thing is not to deride these jobs, its to offer enough compensation for them reducing their life span. That's why unions are important, or else these rich people will make people die early with nothing to show.

  • @RidireOiche
    @RidireOiche3 ай бұрын

    Here me out... we make a fleet of the ship from Wall-E, enough for everybody and live there. Perfectly equal society. Or and this is probably more realistic, we end the practice of trickle down economics, apply rubber banding to wealth, close all tax loopholes, and end the normalising of workarounds with insanely high fines that divide wealth of the fraudsters to a high fraction if they try to cheat the system.

  • @RadhakrishnanSrinathan
    @RadhakrishnanSrinathan3 ай бұрын

    For every like I'll study for 1 hour

  • @szabi_da_noob

    @szabi_da_noob

    3 ай бұрын

    20 hours

  • @sineadpurcell3134

    @sineadpurcell3134

    3 ай бұрын

    Ya won’t be studying for long!

  • @AngelicNoodlee

    @AngelicNoodlee

    3 ай бұрын

    Haha

  • @Lets_Get_Creating

    @Lets_Get_Creating

    3 ай бұрын

    53 hours

  • @renzcruzmabalatan2225

    @renzcruzmabalatan2225

    3 ай бұрын

    PLEASE DO NOT PRESSURE YOURSELF. DO NOT GET MOTIVATED BY THIS. STUDY AS IF IT IS YOU BREATHING NATURALLY. STUDYING ARROGANTLY WILL GET OUR BRAINS TO NOWHERE AND ENJOY EVERY PLANCK OF IT.

  • @paige_netting
    @paige_netting3 ай бұрын

    if i had to design a society i would panic and dump us into the maze runner series

  • @user-wz5ep2zp4x
    @user-wz5ep2zp4x3 ай бұрын

    Good😊

  • @wolfVFV
    @wolfVFV3 ай бұрын

    My main problem with this thought experiment are the architects If you do not know anything about yourself what opinions do you have? Arent your opinions you make based on your past experiences? F.e. sexism/racism towards you And if you remove the past experiences then what is left? What opinion can someone have with no past?

  • @Elizabeth_the_Loaf
    @Elizabeth_the_Loaf3 ай бұрын

    Great video! The simplistic shape artstyle with the light sound effects makes this very entertaining to watch.

  • @Based_Gigachad_001

    @Based_Gigachad_001

    3 ай бұрын

    You only had 4 minutes to watch this.

  • @rajeshkumar-ws7bx

    @rajeshkumar-ws7bx

    3 ай бұрын

    With people dozing off on colours and shapes ... people sell fiction and get away with it

  • @Based_Gigachad_001

    @Based_Gigachad_001

    3 ай бұрын

    @@rajeshkumar-ws7bx Huh?

  • @Elizabeth_the_Loaf

    @Elizabeth_the_Loaf

    3 ай бұрын

    @My_pfp_beats_all_dog_breeds. I had to stop watching a third of the way in and come back, but I could see the artstyle and hear the sound immediately.

  • @XxW12ARDx0x7IONxX
    @XxW12ARDx0x7IONxX3 ай бұрын

    It already exists. Just as life is perfect "despite" death.

  • @XxW12ARDx0x7IONxX

    @XxW12ARDx0x7IONxX

    3 ай бұрын

    All these theories about a perfect society is like dating an AI... What seems perfect is actually something else

  • @teehee4096

    @teehee4096

    3 ай бұрын

    Agreed, though we could use some improvements.

  • @cru3her608
    @cru3her6083 ай бұрын

    there's only 1 possible way to make a perfect society, the people need to be moral! without morality it's impossible to have a good society.

  • @Nuhemio
    @Nuhemio3 ай бұрын

    Pioneering thought-experiment.

  • @modas2664
    @modas26643 ай бұрын

    Is this animation done with Adobe after effect?

  • @user-xo4rz4tz6n
    @user-xo4rz4tz6n3 ай бұрын

    Great thanks for these contents❤ But I've a question why am I not catching the deep meanig surely I have fascination for the videos of ted ed

  • @user-cm8di3eb2t
    @user-cm8di3eb2t2 ай бұрын

    My utopia would be where everyone helps each other, no need for compensation. Those who have homes shelter the homeless, those who have food share with those hungry, those with knowledge give it freely, those who need help are given help, and people are judged not for what they have, but who they are: kind, soft spoken, confident, intelligent. When a member of this ideal society faces difficulty, everyone else would help them find a solution. Disagreements would be resolved verbally, by understanding each others viewpoints, sympathizing, and cooperating. Whddya think? Any possible problems?

  • @earthling_parth
    @earthling_parth3 ай бұрын

    I like this idea.

  • @lynnboartsdye1943
    @lynnboartsdye19433 ай бұрын

    I think not being able to draw from your experiences to at least a small degree would feel a bit impossible for me to comprehend if I’m working with a group of strangers. On the one hand I also don’t want the system created to tip more power into one or more parties hands. I think regardless of how you set up this thought experiment there are things that our current system denies us that should be considered human rights. For example my utopia would include: Universal human rights/anti discrimination policy Free healthcare Accessibility for physically and mentally disabled Free Education both basic and higher Non negotiable free housing, food and water Walkable cities People should come over profit period, you’re not a bad person for wanting more than your basic needs. assuming you’re not wanting to commit murder or hurt other people for what you want.

  • @samuellarreal
    @samuellarrealАй бұрын

    let's goooo rawls!!!!

  • @jayl5032
    @jayl50323 ай бұрын

    Limits on governemental power and corporate power. That's all, really. The democratic market system can do pretty good if it's not bogged down by a million arbitrary gov/company rules and their simultaneous strangle hold on the economy.

  • @sumin3331
    @sumin33313 ай бұрын

    Thanks for useful infos!!

  • @Xob_Driesestig
    @Xob_Driesestig3 ай бұрын

    Correction: The veil of ignorance/original position was not created by Rawls, but by utilitarian philosopher Harsanyi, Rawls merely popularized it.

  • @antisocialbred
    @antisocialbred3 ай бұрын

    if this utopia depends on government regulation, how are we to expect that government officials will appropriately distribute wealth and opportunity? and how will we evaluate worthiness of wealth?

  • @danvikkilmire6075
    @danvikkilmire60753 ай бұрын

    Hmm, pretty vague

  • @funkydiscogod

    @funkydiscogod

    3 ай бұрын

    That's the point: the vaguer it is, the more difficult it is to argue against it.

  • @JuanRodrigez-vq9kv

    @JuanRodrigez-vq9kv

    3 ай бұрын

    I mean to me it's just social democracy, nothing really new in his theory

  • @antoniomonaco4582

    @antoniomonaco4582

    3 ай бұрын

    Its a five minutes video. Are you really complaining that it is vague? Go read the book then

  • @danvikkilmire6075

    @danvikkilmire6075

    3 ай бұрын

    @@antoniomonaco4582 k

  • @FiveChannelW
    @FiveChannelW3 ай бұрын

    It's an interesting thought, but because of our politicians and some people who really control our democracies, I think it's very difficult for us to come close to this ideology one day. 😢

  • @Andy_Hendrix_9842
    @Andy_Hendrix_98423 ай бұрын

    What a coincidence! I was just thinking about this...

  • @Puppeteer_in_the_Void
    @Puppeteer_in_the_Void3 ай бұрын

    I like the unique artstyle. I admire the brilliance it takes to give those shapes the meanings they have

  • @nathanwindom3978
    @nathanwindom39783 ай бұрын

    Nice motion graphics, yo!

  • @ThisWorldMakesMeSad
    @ThisWorldMakesMeSad2 ай бұрын

    If we were to be judged for anything in our existence, it's how we treated ourselves and others.

  • @entangledatoms7153
    @entangledatoms71533 ай бұрын

    It’d be great if something at least close to this could happen, but that’s not gonna happen. We at least start though, in which I’ll say: why don’t we decrease some of those profoundly high and needless budgets, and also let’s make our country look as good as Europe’s countries so we can look at beautiful things when we go outside. (I won’t lie, that’s actually a big leap for today’s U.S, so perhaps something a bit easier to change, like better political leaders)

  • @MrApw2011
    @MrApw20112 ай бұрын

    Equal exemptions/funding for housing, food, education, healthcare such that all of those are guaranteed at a basic level. Ambition takes care of the need for people to accomplish things and accumulate more than others or enough for their satisfaction and justice to deal with outliers. Otherwise, all the things we would have had when we were living on the plains and nomadic become equally distributed such that there's no such thing as homelessness, famine, or medical bills and ignorance.

  • @OutlawMaxV
    @OutlawMaxV3 ай бұрын

    His proposition solves nothing as it stills relies on government as we know it to be benevolent, but we all know far to well what happens when power accumulates in one entity

  • @bobafish7369
    @bobafish73693 ай бұрын

    This might be my favourite tedEd video now, the visuals??? The sounds?? The way everything's is explained?? It's just so clever!!

  • @deutschesmaedchen2851
    @deutschesmaedchen28513 ай бұрын

    This type of thought experiment was in a way shown in novels like 1984.

  • @rysiu1694
    @rysiu1694Ай бұрын

    It's more vaque than an average highscool essay

  • @opwave79
    @opwave793 ай бұрын

    Just hold a giant cookout once a week and everyone will come together, nosh on darn good food, have a couple laughs, and leave full and happy.

  • @estelasantos1917
    @estelasantos19173 ай бұрын

    the problem is that there is no material way to implement histoughts, it is idealism

  • @JuanRodrigez-vq9kv

    @JuanRodrigez-vq9kv

    3 ай бұрын

    Absolutely, he didn't want to account our different personal interest in his vision of a just society he didn't want an unbiased view of justice instead he didn't want to acknowledge his own

  • @toonwachi600
    @toonwachi6003 ай бұрын

    Please make the video "The rise and fall of the British Empire" please. 🇬🇧

  • @kibitz2327
    @kibitz23273 ай бұрын

    Democracy devolves into majority rule, need a centralized authority to protect any of these rules/rights.

  • @damie9412
    @damie94123 ай бұрын

    Nice

  • @dubsar
    @dubsar2 ай бұрын

    No humans. Just one intelligence, one entity, one being, one god.

  • @Toadey2012

    @Toadey2012

    Ай бұрын

    Howw

  • @jorgschaper4911
    @jorgschaper49113 ай бұрын

    (Profound statement)

  • @aliengeo
    @aliengeo3 ай бұрын

    I think the veil of ignorance is a nice idea for a thought experiment, but I don't think it accounts for the entire situation. For example, most of what people guess about my disabilities is wrong. The things they think would be helpful, what they imagine my experience to be like, etc. So why, under the veil of ignorance, would they be any better at it? It isn't as if they'd have more information, just ignorance of their own body state.

  • @marcusmoonstein242
    @marcusmoonstein2423 ай бұрын

    Probably the best theory of social fairness I've heard. I would argue for a welfare system that meets basic human needs at the bottom, but with no cap on income at the top. I would justify this with a progressive income tax system that taxed higher income people more and then used that tax revenue to finance the welfare system. According to Rawls increased wealth at the top is justifiable only if it benefits those at the bottom in some way, and that's exactly what a progressive income tax does.

  • @citrushypothesis
    @citrushypothesis3 ай бұрын

    The visuals are really cool, but quite distracting. I imagine the designer intended to use basic shapes and colors to abstractly tell the story, but this video could have benefitted from a more literal approach in some instances such as definitions of key points and illustrations of concepts to better visualize the information.

  • @falcychead8198
    @falcychead81983 ай бұрын

    I haven't the knowledge or wisdom to create a functional society, let alone a perfect one. I just want a society where reason and compassion are the norm rather than the exception. I just want a world where it's not "woke" to have a heart, and it's not weird and unsexy to use your brain. I think such a society would sort itself out.

  • @michalpicker6934
    @michalpicker69343 ай бұрын

    Gee, I just hope people would do this thing. And if they do, then, little by little, we'll have an actual utopian world.

  • @JoeyP946
    @JoeyP9463 ай бұрын

    I imagine myself as the only human left. Perfect society

  • @ryanandpeople9401
    @ryanandpeople94013 ай бұрын

    Does this have any applications? I sure think so but not one size fits all

  • @imperialpatriot6693
    @imperialpatriot66933 ай бұрын

    This just seems like Social Democracy with extra steps.

  • @FantasticOtto

    @FantasticOtto

    3 ай бұрын

    Or rather, Social Democracy done the way it's supposed to be done. But corruption.. ah.. finds a way.

  • @tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp
    @tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp3 ай бұрын

    2:40 so ultimately there are still offices and the majority is still the rule even if it's wrong. That's how your utopia ends.

  • @Mari_Selalu_Berbuat_Kebaikan
    @Mari_Selalu_Berbuat_Kebaikan2 ай бұрын

    Let's always do alot of good ❤️

  • @Dantick09
    @Dantick093 ай бұрын

    The perfect society is where I am at the top and command absolute power through fear

  • @OneAmongBillions
    @OneAmongBillions3 ай бұрын

    Rawls' ideas are beautiful.

  • @rajeshkumar-ws7bx
    @rajeshkumar-ws7bx3 ай бұрын

    A colony which gave up on past color, creed, boundary, existing hierarchy, to plunge into void to spread this colony

  • @HIFLY01
    @HIFLY013 ай бұрын

    Mono culture and way of living is the only way honestly. When everyone is the same with the same goals, no one will oppose it and try to change and cause problems. You cant mix people who want to do X their way with people who want to do Y the completely opposite way and expect there to not be conflict

  • @OneWayTicketToTheMoon

    @OneWayTicketToTheMoon

    3 ай бұрын

    We are all different and I wouldn't want to be the same as the next person. It would be a very boring world. Where no one could have ideas or use their imagination. A Stepford world.

  • @HIFLY01

    @HIFLY01

    3 ай бұрын

    @@OneWayTicketToTheMoon thats what it takes to have a utopia tho

  • @hav0k450
    @hav0k4503 күн бұрын

    I believe that criticisms of these models are perfectly just, but premature in nature. I think that we need to work on implementing rudimentary versions of these models within working societies in order to prove that despite any even obvious shortcomings that exist here, they still massively positively outweigh the consequences of our current way of running society. Unfortunately, though, since we failed to put these policies in place before this abuse of power went as far as it has, anyone pushing for a change will be seen as an enemy to those who will ultimately make said choices. Uprising or advanced infiltration really seem like the only viable options at this point, both of which rely on our society to even have the time to rally or protest when trying to juggle 3 jobs to stay alive.

  • @kanishkachowdary4246
    @kanishkachowdary42463 ай бұрын

    That is not Martha Nussbaum. It is Amartya Sen. Martha Nussbaum carried Sen’s idea frwrd to include gender justice.

  • @cru3her608
    @cru3her6083 ай бұрын

    "Rely on government regulation to ensure a just distribution of property and wealth" this completely destroyes any possibility of this working!

  • @steelcladCompliant

    @steelcladCompliant

    3 ай бұрын

    Yeah because relying on the market to do that has been working wonders so far. Just vote a non-shite government that governs for the people instead of for corporations

  • @cru3her608

    @cru3her608

    3 ай бұрын

    @@steelcladCompliant it actually has worked perfectly. corporations are beholdent to you cuz they only have power as long as you give them your money, so you are the one whos really in power. the government is not beholdent to anyone. relying on the benevolence of a government is foolish. just look at any place in the world that has a big goverment.

  • @KuK137

    @KuK137

    3 ай бұрын

    Imagine being so indoctrinated by ultra rich (aka people who want to steal from everyone else so hate any kind of just system) that you turned your brain off and spouted flat earth grade nonsense. Bravo...

  • @steelcladCompliant

    @steelcladCompliant

    3 ай бұрын

    @@cru3her608 Bro was born yesterday 😂

  • @cru3her608

    @cru3her608

    3 ай бұрын

    @@steelcladCompliant tipycal all you can do is insult, cant actually give a logical answer

  • @icecreamtruckog3667
    @icecreamtruckog36673 ай бұрын

    I have to ask what is fair about a society where one can have a private airport and plane (John Travolta) and others can not afford to eat.

  • @smolblacquecat7148
    @smolblacquecat71483 ай бұрын

    The visuals and sfx feels like they belong in a video game!

  • @wesleydeng71
    @wesleydeng713 ай бұрын

    Better to allow the society to evolve on its own. If you try to "design" a society, disasters are bound to happen.

  • @guncolony
    @guncolony3 ай бұрын

    This is my critique of the idea: There is a drastic intrinsic inequality in human competence when it comes to elite fields like science. Giving the best people disproportionate resources seems to work! That's how we got to the moon. But because no private entity is allowed to be very rich under this society, only the government would be able to fund science. So we may still have a moon landing, but companies like TSMC and SpaceX simply would not exist in this world. Then you can insert any of the valid critiques of government-managed science (such as voters being short-sighted) and you end up with a system that is not maximally conducive to long-term innovation. And here's the kicker: due to exponential economic growth, at a long enough timespan innovation is realistically the only thing that matters for prosperity, since it far outstrips other factors like inequality. (This is unless growth plateaus, but we're centuries from that.) So it's likely that this government system will fall behind the living standards of some other system which allows private innovation, for everyone in the society, within a few hundred years. I can only think of two ways around this issue. The first is that you solve the issues with government-managed science. This would require you to make a government that is not fully democratic, in order to prioritize long-term science over other spending even if most voters are against it. The second is that you change how corporations work so that you allow them to get very wealthy - enough to fund scientific endeavors - but somehow disallow the wealth to be spent on individualistic pursuits. This is basically reinventing capitalism and requires a very high standard on transparency which is probably only possible with futuristic technology that, with one wrong turn, could be used to spy on everyone. Both of these fixes don't seem very realistic or ideal.

  • @user-er6tw5xr6w
    @user-er6tw5xr6w3 ай бұрын

    Is the whole video just an experiment to check if people can focus when there are colored shapes on the screen?

  • @ShadowOfThePit

    @ShadowOfThePit

    3 ай бұрын

    lmao

  • @Friendship1nmillion
    @Friendship1nmillion3 ай бұрын

    Change DOESN'T come JUST only from talking But from ACTION as well . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺