The first rule of economics is there isn't enough to go around. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics. -Sowell

@bryanutility9609

11 ай бұрын

1.5 billion Africans, half can’t do basic algebra

@S.M.E.A.C

11 ай бұрын

Bryan Utility-To be fair neither can Americans.

@empoweryou1

11 ай бұрын

@@bryanutility9609 I know an awful lot of people who have no algebraic skills and have been profoundly successful and productive. There's no merit to your comment.

@jimnagel5611

11 ай бұрын

@@empoweryou1 I DISAGREE - I FIND IT FULL OF IRONY GIVEN THE CURRENT ATMOSPHERE OF SCREAMING FOR REPARATIONS -- AND THE FACT THAT WE'VE GLEEFULLY SUBSIDIZED THEIR RABBIT LIKE BREEDING HABITS FOR ~60 YEARS & HAVE NOTHING AT ALL TO SHOW FOR IT -- AND I SINCERELY DOUBT THE ACCURACY OF THE FIRST PART OF YOUR STATEMENT --

@TheRealDrJoey

11 ай бұрын

@@bryanutility9609 I flunked Algebra 6 times, because it made no sense to me to PRACTICE something like that, when half of it (factoring) was largely guesswork, and I couldn't see any practical application for it. Well, I'm 73 now, worked in many MANY different fields, from factories to executive positions, as well as years of running my own businesses. There was, of course, math involved in just about all these things. including surveying, which I briefly did, which used trigonometry, an actually USEFUL branch of Mathematics. It's just incredibly lucky that I have NEVER encountered an algebra problem in my life. I'm sure I'm unique in that respect...right?

"Nothing more dangerous than the ignorance of the intelligent" my favourite quote by Thomas Sowell

@simonrunswick5730

11 ай бұрын

Yes. Sowell is the perfect example of this.

@SisypheanRoller

11 ай бұрын

"Nothing more dangerous than the jellyness of the uneducated" Also my favourite quote

@eliasandrikopoulos

11 ай бұрын

@@simonrunswick5730 No. YOU are!

@orkneyancestor2059

11 ай бұрын

@@simonrunswick5730 Where did you get anointed ?

@IsraelCountryCube

11 ай бұрын

​@@orkneyancestor2059 Lol nice reference haha

Thomas Sowell is a Godsend. His books should be compulsory reading in schools and college. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

@kman-mi7su

11 ай бұрын

Instead compulsory reading is LBGTQ blah blah blah degenerate indoctrination.

@giovannamoro8564

11 ай бұрын

Here it is a solution , a very efficient and simple one too.

@peterney2402

11 ай бұрын

Should be compulsory reading........ maybe he would not agree with that statement.

@nimascolari1508

11 ай бұрын

That's not what governments want. The last thing any "democratic" government wants is open minded critical thinkers. They want consumers and obedient drones.

@ronaldbennett286

11 ай бұрын

Wholly agree mate - well said!

The world would be a better place, if everyone would read Thomas Sowell.

@dannysullivan3951

11 ай бұрын

He's only read by conservatives. No one else would waste their time with his steadfastly conservative views supported by inane 'historical' evidence.

@johndoedoe88

11 ай бұрын

hahahahhahahaha

@OccamsRazor393

11 ай бұрын

​@@dannysullivan3951 Pick up one of his books rather than spamming everyone's comments. It would be time better spent.

@MrBrynmair

11 ай бұрын

And Konstantin Kisin

@lukeearthcrawler896

11 ай бұрын

It's not enough to read Sowell. People need to understand him and follow his advice. We all heard about "don't steal", and yet... so many do.

I remember the street interview, during lockdowns, with a British granny where she said she would rather risk death than not see her family in her last few years left.

@Xplora213

11 ай бұрын

This will remain the biggest question that authoritarians cannot answer. Roughly 10-20% of the population are not interested in a life without their own choices. You can try to eliminate them but you simply confirm you are a monster in doing so, becoming worse than whatever they represent.

@stacypastry2440

11 ай бұрын

@@Xplora213 this is why public schools don't teach children to be successful but to be compliant

@mogznwaz

11 ай бұрын

Yes. Exactly. At the point the cure become worse than the disease the line should be respected!!!

@HondoTrailside

11 ай бұрын

@@Xplora213 That isn't a bug, that is a feature. They want to identify and draw out the people who think they know better. They certainly aren't worried about being seen as the baddies, if they can get away with it. They want to use fear. Governments, no mater how good, are the monopoly on violence.

@jeffforsythe9514

11 ай бұрын

Our true purpose here on earth is to seek the Divine................Falun Gong

As Sowell's mentor Milton Friedman once said: "Nirvana is not for this world. There is no paradise."

@dannysullivan3951

11 ай бұрын

Sadly, they take that to mean we should not attempt to improve...fill in the blank. An accurate summation of conservative 'policy'.

@skidooshlayman12

11 ай бұрын

@@dannysullivan3951 wrong

@karrdashen9190

11 ай бұрын

​@Baddonkey you should change your prefix to "dumb"

@woobilicious.

11 ай бұрын

​@@dannysullivan3951Milton Friedman was a proponent of UBI before it was cool, was pro drug legalisation, him and his fellow scholars solved the paradox and provided the solution to stagflation, he never called himself a conservative. He just rejected progressive policy ideas that contradicted his core beliefs in liberty.

@dannysullivan3951

11 ай бұрын

@@woobilicious. Agreed. I have a certain admiration for the man, certainly very bright. He did call himself a libertarian, which is basically a belief in an individualist fairyland. Anything to do with the common good, say keeping air or water clean, or would be taken care of, in his thinking, by the market. That’s an idea that has a long track record of failure. He’s anti-union, anti FDA, anti-almost every federal dept with the exception of defense. Park service-gone. There’s a reason libertarians don’t get elected to run the country.

"At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'" - Thomas Sowell

@brianmeen2158

11 ай бұрын

Sowell is great but we rarely seem to talk about class these days but focus it all on race and gender .

@Larez121

11 ай бұрын

​@@brianmeen2158 Yup, gotta focus on class.

@AulisVaara

11 ай бұрын

A shortage of teachers means you cannot select for desirable teacher traits. This means teachers get yet less respect, and the profession gets becomes yet less attractive, exacerbating the problem. Vicious spiral.

@leonharrison800

11 ай бұрын

Sowell another Conservative fool who thinks ignoring America's problems solves them. Total insanity.

@outoforbit-

11 ай бұрын

I know of four students who left their degree course in social science protesting that they were been told what to think. I know one of these young ladies. There is still hope.

Doctor Sowell is a national treasure. It's nice to see him getting a bit of the recognition he deserves.

@iseenochains-oops7863

11 ай бұрын

Shame that he promoted the exp. Jab.

@ArgentWolf95

11 ай бұрын

@@iseenochains-oops7863 even he can be subverted by lies that change the data. That's how they did it. When you secretly change the data, you make it harder.

@danielbwest

11 ай бұрын

​@@iseenochains-oops7863 Are you that partisan? 😂😂

@danielbwest

11 ай бұрын

He getting recognition in conservative circles for a reason genuis. He's not regarded as an economics intellectual by his community for that same reason

@iseenochains-oops7863

11 ай бұрын

@Daniel BF If you say so, but I see it as common sense.

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure of wisdom and knowledge

@jeffforsythe9514

11 ай бұрын

Our true purpose here on earth is to seek the Divine................Falun Gong

@sanderwissink5330

11 ай бұрын

No he is not, he is an INTERnational treasure of wisdom and knowledge.

@jeffforsythe9514

11 ай бұрын

@@sanderwissink5330 The Creator has given us true wisdom...........falun dafa

@albertclarke2826

10 ай бұрын

@@jeffforsythe9514 "Three to beam up Mr Scott" Capt James T Kirk, Starship Enterprise.

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

@@albertclarke2826 On might also collect the sayings of Chairmen Mao and put them next to Sowells and Jesus for moral fortitude.

Sowell changed me in 2007. He was hidden from me since the 70s

@geoffhart

11 ай бұрын

For me it wasn't until Obama's second term that Sowell's words sunk in. I started reading more of his books, and his analysis of "The Anointed" blew my mind. So many things that were mysterious to me before suddenly became clear, almost self explanatory. And since 2015 this has kept me sane, depressed but sane.

@hanklesacks

11 ай бұрын

The unambomber manifesto is a good read as well. A lot of what he talked about all those years ago is really unfolding in front our eyes, really enlightening stuff.

@just-a-fella3212

11 ай бұрын

@@geoffhart Be a little sad but do not be depressed.

@skylinefever

4 ай бұрын

@@hanklesacks I listened to the tedpill when I heard that the industrial revolution enabled the Idiocracy.

Actually John just nailed it "A good government mirrors a good society"

@coolioso808

8 ай бұрын

So we need system change, clearly, because our governments of the world don't mirror a good socio-economic system. Let's address the elephant in the room, work towards changing it. Monetary-market economics isn't sustainable. We can change that, step by step, then change how our society functions. As we've seen explained by Jacque Fresco, Buckminster Fuller, Michael Tellinger and Peter Joseph.

@jeffforsythe9514

8 ай бұрын

There is not one country today that has a good government. Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

@@jeffforsythe9514 The fist step toward socialism is for the workers to win the battle of Democracy.

@jeffforsythe9514

4 ай бұрын

@@kimobrien. Reincarnation is real and the blessings that you have or do not have depend on how you behaved in your past life. Socialism is interfering with God's decision...............................Falun Dafa

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

@@jeffforsythe9514 When you come back from heaven or the dead let us know what it was like. Have you decided on a name for God yet or are you all still arguing on what to call someone who speaks only to one person at a time?

Lots of Thomas Sowell videos on YT and all are worth listening to. He was highly respected because everything he says is based on painstaking research into all the facts.

@Jono153

11 ай бұрын

You had me at based

@abazely2743

11 ай бұрын

And a tough early life.

@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069

9 ай бұрын

The videos are amazing and a great resource, but you should read or listen to the audio version of Basic Economics

@jeffforsythe9514

8 ай бұрын

Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa

@craigwillms61

8 ай бұрын

...and simple common sense

I discovered Thomas Sowell when I was trying to get my head arounf the BLM and George Floyyd debacle in 2020. He was like that first gasp of air when pulled to the surface after sinking under the water.

@kimobrien.

5 ай бұрын

Sowell ever give credit to a liberal socialist or communist for anything positive? Or is t just his tribe of conservatives politicians that are responsible doing everything good?

@a.williams1945

4 ай бұрын

​@kimobrien. How're the liberal socialists and communists doing in the Soviet Union these days... oh wait! 😮

@davidhunt313

3 ай бұрын

​@@kimobrien.Given that Thomas Sowell cares more about facts than about feelings, I am going to trust those who chose to think for themselves rather than having the crowd think for them. It's a continuous war between largely Libertarian NT Rationalists and Woke Progressive NF Idealist Leftists.. between evidence and professed _good intentions?!_

@dmoonmaster1653

2 ай бұрын

​@@kimobrien. AFAIK Sowell is a free market capitalist so why would he praise centralised government systems or communist utopias. Do communist and socialist pundits ever say anything positive about capitalism? It isn't as much of a 'gotcha' as you think it is to ask a Sowell reader if Sowell has looked for the good in political systems that have resulted in tens of millions of deaths wherever they're seriously implemented. You should read Sowell's books yourself to see if he says anything about the areas of politics that you're personally interested in.

It’s unfortunate that we have only come to discover the wisdom Dr Thomas Sowell - spot on one of the best minds we have snd he’s still alive today

@tozmom615

11 ай бұрын

I came across him and Walter Williams only about 15 years ago and was devastated to see that both were very old (and we only have one of them left now).

@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069

9 ай бұрын

Internet Libertarians and classical liberals like myself have known about them forever.

@coolioso808

8 ай бұрын

What about comparing Sowell's wisdom to that of some of the late greats like Jacque Fresco (who lived to 100), Buckminster Fuller and Carl Sagan?

@jeffforsythe9514

8 ай бұрын

Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

@@coolioso808 Why stop their should a campaign to canonize a Christ like savior of capitalism who comes down from heaven like Sowell get underway before he becomes completely forgotten or despised like all the others?

Thomas Sowell teachings should be taught in schools at a young age, and every student should know the name Thomas Sowell by the time they graduate high school. It should be required. Happy early birthday Mr Sowell. He will be a young 93 years old on June 30.

@coolioso808

8 ай бұрын

As long as his teachings are equally allowed along with Jacque Fresco, R. Buckminster Fuller, Carl Sagan, Michael Tellinger and Peter Joseph. Let young people evaluate a variety of texts and make up their own mind what makes sense.

@tonycatman

8 ай бұрын

And, at the age of 93, in January, Sowell will be releasing his next book.

I've met two profoundly wise old men in my life, one said "All of life is a compromise" and the other said "Never trust a man who doesn't love kids and dogs". Both were right on the money.

@seasonedbeefs

11 ай бұрын

I love kids and dogs. Especially when they change gender because I'm a nonce

@seasonedbeefs

11 ай бұрын

I'm joking but see how close we are in letting them in.

@Doing_Time

11 ай бұрын

My philosophy is, "get out of my way." I love my kids, but certainly not because they are kids. I love dogs, but hate owning them because they die so young.

@SisypheanRoller

11 ай бұрын

I love neither kids nor dogs and I'm trustworthy.

@luciusesox1luckysox570

11 ай бұрын

@@SisypheanRoller So you say ,, thing is I don't trust you .

This clip is like eating a home cooked meal, it felt real, heavy, healthy, hearty in its volume of truth.

@kayleneemery8217

11 ай бұрын

Amen !

@jeffforsythe9514

11 ай бұрын

Our true purpose here on earth is to seek the Divine................Falun Gong

"We've lost the ability to have these conversations" - No we haven't, it's been taken away from those who disagree with the mainstream agenda.

“If you think there’s a solution, then you’re part of the problem.” - George Carlin

@giovannamoro8564

11 ай бұрын

Yes and they 'll do anything possible to shut you up .

@hjones4922

10 ай бұрын

But a successful, acceptable trade-off is generally seen as a solution

@orphanedhanyou

10 ай бұрын

​@hjones4922 I think Carlin probably was implying 'if you think YOUR solution is the magic pill, if your 'version' of xyz failed policy will magically work of we just give you a bunch of money you are the problem'

@aljirou29

9 ай бұрын

Oh for the love of God. IT'S A LONG CON GAME BY THE COMMUNIST GLOBALISTS. IF THEY SOLVE ANY OF THE "PROBLEMS" IN THEIR STATED AGENDA (UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development...17 goals), then they can't use them as levers of power to distract and divide while centralizing power in unelected officials and global agencies as they erase borders. If the U.S. doesn't secure our 2024 election with massive oversight to eliminate fraad, freedom will be gone for good. It's their last chance to seize power since we're onto them and our last chance at preserving freedom.

@ante5544

8 ай бұрын

The cynic's national anthem

I’m pleased to see Kisin is catching on to Dr. Sowell.

@hillaryfleming6962

11 ай бұрын

It's about time he caught onto Professor Sowell

@breasonable4343

7 ай бұрын

strokes cat

Professor Thomas Sowell is a hero.

I remember seeing and hearing Thomas Sowell on a Sunday lunchtime show in the early 70s when I must have been only 6 of 7 years old. I remember him clearly becaus even at that young age he struck me by his calm , reasonable voice and humour. Now I know him as one of the great thinkers and orators of our time and I think his influence is only now coming to its greatest heights and his reason and well researched arguments are exactly what we need . Like Dr Jordan Peterson he is deeply respected by those who have heard him speak .

@danielbwest

11 ай бұрын

I wonder, do you have any left leaning intellectuals you admire?

It's one of the great ironies of our age that not a few comedians, KK included, speak more sense about public policy than the majority of politicians. Perhaps some of the politicians should try stand up? After all, they'll do less damage there.

@macca2342

11 ай бұрын

Because Politicians need to get elected KK doesn't.

@Noperare

11 ай бұрын

"Politicians should try stand up" so Zelensky?

@thecurrentmoment

11 ай бұрын

He's a comedian?

@thecurrentmoment

11 ай бұрын

@m a Zelensky was actually the reverse - he went from comedy to politics

@lullaby218

11 ай бұрын

@@Noperare Zelensky is evil.

That's my favorite quote of all time, and it sums up economics. Every parent quickly learns that children don't understand it: They say, "I want a toy!" and believe that it is only by the Whim of Mommy that they get the toy or not. One of the most important things to instill in children is the ability to budget.

@hjones4922

10 ай бұрын

But a successful, acceptable trade-off is generally seen as a solution

@jeffforsythe9514

8 ай бұрын

Our blessings come from Heaven and we get exactly what we deserve depending on how we behaved in previous lifetimes, it is called karma. falun dafa

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

@@jeffforsythe9514 No the more import thing to learn is their is more where that came from.

@jeffforsythe9514

4 ай бұрын

@@kimobrien. We are here to seek the Divine and to return home, which is Heaven....................Falun Dafa

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

@@jeffforsythe9514 Have a good trip and don't forget to write.

Sharing Sowell's genius is always a good thing.

My favorite quote from Sowell: There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?

@rettro6578

8 ай бұрын

It’s not left via right anymore, the ruling elite love this bickering about “isms”. What exactly do you mean by left? Globalist rentier corporate powers are firmly in charge.

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

This fist defeat of Sowellian economics begins with the defeat of generalized notions. That resources are scarce. This a notion based upon nothing but the logical outcome of the profit systems inability to solve its own problems within the framework of capitalist market private profit and private ownership. The reality is there is and never has been a reason to believe we are running out of resources or not finding new ones and new ways to use or reuse old ones. The second is to talk about alternatives instead of use values. Alternative are A or B Use values are much more concrete and to the heart of the why of choice. The notion that trade and risk produce value in and of themselves. In fact these activities have a cost. .As John Locke said labor transforms nature. The cost of any product good or bad, worthless or valuable materialistic or abstraction is bound up in the labor time needed to produce it. That includes any time spent searching or thinking about how best to accomplish something. To follow Sowells thinking is to deny the material nature of the world and engage in simplistic anti historical views and notionism. Humankind are social animals who have used our hands to labor and were shaped by labor along with a voice box ears and a eyes to used for communication. Cooking to increase and speed digestion and fire After fulfilling our needs for food clothing and shelter we produce culture from which all science art and even religion develops. . .

@bennymachado2201

4 ай бұрын

Resources, products and services are scarce in the sense that there isn't infinite for everyone at all times. Everyone wants more for different reasons, to the point that there will be competition. What's "minimally acceptable", "excessive" or "essential" are all debatable to a number of merits and beliefs. Use-value and demands are somewhat similar concepts and hard to pin-point. All debatable to a number of merits and beliefs. "The cost of any product good or bad, worthless or valuable materialistic or abstraction is bound up in the labor time needed to produce it." Nops. Demand, including personal preference, and scarcity determine value/price.@@kimobrien.

@quintrankid8045

4 ай бұрын

@@kimobrien. "The cost of any product good or bad, worthless or valuable materialistic or abstraction is bound up in the labor time needed to produce it." Suppose you produce a painting but no one wants to buy it. What is the value of the labor time needed to produce that painting?

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

@@quintrankid8045 It still cost you in labor time to make it just as Ben Shapiro's mud pies do. Whither you can get any exchange value for it depends on the market. What is the cost of labor time but the cost of the laborer who must reproduce his labor power for the next pay period. If i come to work and the mill is broke down it still cost me to show up and wait around while management decides what to do. Just because your mill broke down doesn't change the fact that I have to eat, drink and sleep. Those are the laborers costs. How skilled the painter is determines how fast he can produce paintings along with his ability to work in general.

Thomas Sowell is becoming more & more influential by the minute!! Read his works!

Your contributions are wonderful Mr. Anderson. Thank you.

Thomas Sowell is an American legend and treasure. His books will outlive us and parents should buy their kids one of his books. I own 5 ✊🏾

@muxion

11 ай бұрын

Me too and eventually all of them

@j.hmarvelous2231

11 ай бұрын

@@muxion 👍🏽✊🏾

@briangilley5960

4 ай бұрын

Which Sowell books are in your top 3?

There are no solutions, only trade-offs. Yes, that is a very insightful comment. Thomas Sowell is often quite brilliant.

@hjones4922

10 ай бұрын

But a successful, acceptable trade-off is generally seen as a solution

@OJB42

10 ай бұрын

@@hjones4922 Yes, that should always be the aim, but some people are too inflexible.

@rettro6578

8 ай бұрын

@@OJB42 the inflexibility benefits the ruling elite transnational corporate class. Do you honestly think the masses elect politicians? No, they are pre-selected and primaries in USA are corrupted and engineered. Money talks.

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

@@OJB42 If economics was just trade off than were did the modern world come from?

@OJB42

4 ай бұрын

@@kimobrien. A series of trade-offs. No one is following a pure political or economic ideology.

there are a lot of great thinkers I've come across over the last few years. Tom S, to me, is the greatest.

Sowell is one of the greatest living intellectuals of our time. Huge respect & salute to him!

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

You also love being told what you want to hear.

Sowell is the best kept secret in American history.

Always a huge pleasure to listen to intelligent conversations. There is no left or right, there is only up or down...

I've watched a lot of Dr. Sowell's videos and aways highly esteemed him. But when he said that my jaw just dropped. The simplest truth. Nothing in this fallen world will be solved until eternity. It is still our task to do our best for the most good and any small progress we can make to that end has to be carefully negotiated. And it is heartbreaking to think that, with the current climate of progressive thought, that ship may have sailed.

Konstantin is 100% my favorite speaker. He has the best ideas and explains things so well.

My favorite part about Sowell is that he's been excommunicated for talking sense.

Vital point and well made . Thank you both with love and blessings from Sydney Australia .

Sowell is the Man. For those not yet familiar with him, I’d also recommend getting to know the ideas of Milton Friedman. Together they are the two greatest minds of the last 60 years.

@faza553

11 ай бұрын

Also: Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher The Breakdown of Nations by Leopold Kohr Tools for Conviviality and DESCHOOLING SOCIETY +++ by IVAN ILLICH

@frankbarron1907

11 ай бұрын

@Faz A I’ll be sure to check those out. Thank you.

@jonlocke1624

11 ай бұрын

And Walter Williams (Thomas Sowell's best friend and a fellow economist).

@honeybunch6473

10 ай бұрын

​@@faza553 all added! Thanks.

@honeybunch6473

10 ай бұрын

​@@jonlocke1624 is that Walter "E" Williams??

I love the words of Konstantin and Thomas sowell. Such level thinkers. Wish Konstantin was running for pm in the uk. We need more clear thinkers like him

I've taught my son's this same thing in the sense that there is no perfect situation. That there are pros and cons in ever situation in life, work and relationships and all you can do is decide which pros and cons you are willing to live with because your going to live with a set of them no matter what lol there's no getting out of it.

Mr. Kisin; May I say, I am so glad so hear somebody talking and showing the same thought processes and mindset as I myself have! In my surrounding, no one ever agrees with me, mostly not even a bit. Discussions seems to be more about status and winning then information exchange. Of course, you are way more developed and more knowledgeable and better in expressing it into a coherent whole as I ever can, but your logic works the same as mine and therefor I am glad to come across interviews with you. So thank you because you are like a teacher to me! And of course, Mr. Anderson who makes this all possible every time!🙏

Such a shame people are only now discovering Thomas Sowell. Such a great, wise man. His books should be compulsory reading in every high school.

@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069

9 ай бұрын

If you really read and respected his work, you'd understand he doesn't support compulsory things most of the time.

@pneron2032

8 ай бұрын

@@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069 EXACTLY!!!

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

@@pneron2032 Right he supports thing like child labor because of the early opportunity it provides to become another Bill Gates and the unfairness of life.

The public tell politicians "We'll punish you if you are realistic and tell us the truth". The politicians act accordingly.

Thomas Sowell is the greatest living American! Long may he live.

In a mad world Thomas Sowell is a voice of sanity and coming in a close second is his disciple Konstantin Kissin.

Thank you both for an intelligent conversation to listen to. 🙏

I too have been greatly influenced by Thomas Sowell. To my mind the ideas expressed here are the very essence of conservative philosophy. We always need to be careful that we don’t throw the baby out with the bath water

There will be no solutions until everyone can decide, and agree, on what the problems are.

@ralphtroan

10 ай бұрын

That's why there'll never be solutions...

Great point well made. I am sure this is discussed in John Stuart Mill's book, On Liberty.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Ben Franklin

I fought this idea when I first read it in Conflict of Visions. Sowell introduced the idea that the constrained do not believe in solutions. I thought, "What? That's ridiculous." Then I kept reading. :) I love it when folks first come across this idea. You can see the light bulb go off. Total shock. Makes my brain happy.

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

What the constraint?

There is a distinction between a problem which has a solution and a dilemma that doesn't. The vast majority of social issues are in the dilemma category.

This is utterly fantastic! This should have been viewed millions more times!

This is a great conversation- thank you for posting important call-outs on our modern society. Great conversation, with considered thought and listening.

Kisin gets smarter every day

@UniDeathRaven

11 ай бұрын

Too smart for today's snowflakes !

Sowell's insight about there being no solutions runs deeper than government policy. It's true in general. Every great innovation that claims to improve our life comes at a cost. Take something like vehicles as an example. It's no secret that cars have vastly improved our ability to travel great distances much faster and in relative comfort, but look at the downsides. Someone has to design and build all those vehicles. Someone has to supply the materials and resources. Roads have to be built and maintained, people have to go through the process of learning to drive and risk getting into traffic accidents. Vehicles themselves have to be maintained, traffic laws have to be instituted, etc. So, that's a whole host of new problems we have made for ourselves as a result of our need to get places faster and more comfortably. However we, collectively as a species, have decided that the tradeoff is worth it - and that's the point. It's about whether or not the cost of a "solution" is acceptable to us. Sometimes it's not.

I heard Thomas Sowell say this and it changed my view of the world too! It is so true now!!

A very well rounded, intelligent discussion. Seeing them talk about the complexities of attempting to believe there is a solution comes only, indefinitely, with trade-offs. I admired hearing them converse in such a topic that is often ignored to flat out denied. Quite excellent work done in this video

This one phrase, by the way, is what you learn when you actually struggle with nature. People who live in cities and work corporate jobs have no understanding of this, their lives are removed from nature so everything looks like can be win-win-win or lose-lose-lose to them. Famers know there is no perfect solution to their problems, only tradeoffs. Shipbuilders and sailors know there is no perfect boat for any condition or body of water, only tradeoffs. Bridge engineers know there is no perfect bridge for every span, only tradeoffs. Everyone who deals with actual nature knows there is no perfection, it does not exist... The best you can hope for is to maximize what is desired and deal with the negatives of your choice.

Right now, we are "kicking the can down the road" on several fronts, as we are unwilling to face the consequences of any policies that could be helpful in the long run. We are doing all we can to keep the current, increasingly fragile, system functioning with no hope of mitigating the impact that will happen when it eventually collapses. Every year we keep this up makes the ultimate collapse consequences WORSE.

@brianmeen2158

11 ай бұрын

Yep, we just do things and implement policies and don’t even contemplate the possible problems that might arise. Then after we observe the problems that have came out if said policy changes - we just shrug our shoulders and make other absurd policy changes .. rinse and repeat

@BlackGriffin195

11 ай бұрын

For the past thirty years I have felt that each succeeding year was worse than the last.

@davidhirst7227

26 күн бұрын

@@BlackGriffin195 A friend of mine said exactly the same to me several years ago and I must say that I agree with the both of you.

Great interview.

Thank you for elevating the discourse and talking sense. Clarity from two wise men.

*_Liberty is always dangerous,.. but Liberty is also always the safest thing we have!?_*

You can watch a video of Sowell that’s literally 50 years old and he’s saying the same things that he’s saying today. I’ve come to assume this is a big reason he doesn’t do interviews much. He’s been saying it all for years.

@davidr8467

2 ай бұрын

He just put out another book - at age 93. Still relevant.

!SERIOUSLY! !Well said!

So brilliant. Konstantin is a real thinker. He condensed down the issue to it's essence.

The COVID response was governments managing a single risk, and that risk wasn't that lots of people might die from COVID. The risk was that if they weren't seen to do everything within their power, then they would lose power. And doing everything they could meant a power grab that was simply irresistible. Politicians have never served the people... they want to rule them.

@jamesrodgers3132

11 ай бұрын

Except that the "risk" was engineered and exaggerated, and the "management" was scripted years in advance.

@mikewhitfield2994

11 ай бұрын

Spot-on.

@richardthompson6366

11 ай бұрын

The entirety of the world's Covid response was to remove Trump from power, increasing control over the population was the secondary goal.

@SoloRenegade

11 ай бұрын

@@jamesrodgers3132 exactly right. Fauci funded the virus, and predicted Trump would face a pandemic

@HondoTrailside

11 ай бұрын

That is an interesting theory but I don't think it explains why they manufactures the, risk, or the fear of the risk. The risk only needs to be addressed if it exists, or is seen to exist. Your theory doesn't explain why they manufactured the risk in the first place. Manufactured can mean anything from creating the virus and distributing it as a bioweapon, to the response to the accidental release.

Why is everyone afraid....you cant speak because someone may get upset. What a sad state of affairs that this is our reality.

@breasonable4343

7 ай бұрын

and yet still here you are speaking, and so is he. Hmmm.....inconvenient?

I thank you for getting to the truth behind life's curtain.

Aaah, three of my favourites. Sowell (So well!) Kisin and Anderson. Three wise men.

This is a useful video. I would say that there ARE simple solutions to simple problems, but certainly agree that complicated problems have to balance trade-offs. But regarding complex political problems, too often the compromises are poisoned by the Adversarial Method of Argument demanded by lawyers. Lawyers are required to advocate just ONE side of an argument, regardless of common sense, to "win" an argument. And they can "win" without common sense, evidence, or wisdom, IF they are using laws written by lawyer-legislators. Us non-lawyers can see our immediate goals, our long-term agendas, and anticipate the trade-offs to get to practical solutions that work in the material world (instead of a utopian-intentional fantasy).

Critical thinking (buzzword alert) was taught at the college I went to. We learned, indeed, how to do it. But just because we are able to critically think doesn't mean that we actually do it in our daily lives. Sowell actually thinks critically, but most of my classmates gave it up the day they graduated. Thank you Mr. Kisin.

The truth clearly and unemotionally expounded: a very rare treat nowadays.

Spot on Konstantin. Probably the greatest single sentence definition of our crazy world. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Paul.

I’ve read 10 or 11 Sowell books, he’s changed my life and the way I think. One of my hero’s!

Love the trade off quote. So many people do so much damage because they’re pursuing a utopian outcome of their desired state. Wrapped up in fantasy and unwilling to face reality. Thanks guys for this vid!

@kimobrien.

4 ай бұрын

If only trade offs were possible and we were not creating a surplus starting with agriculture than we would still be living like hunter gatherers. That is just one of the professors attempts at mystifying economics by waving his hands and inserting popular but untrue notions. Like the accuracy and assurance of price signals.when bosses see sales declining with profits falling the begin halting investment in expanding production realizing they have overproduced for markets that can sell more goods at a profit they go to driving up the price of speculation in contracts and fictitious capital until the market gets so out of wack with the law of value it collapses causing an ever widening economic crisis as workers get fired and can no long buy back the goods and pay the housing costs for the products they produced to buy back from the market.

self-determination is worth the cost to me, nothing else is...absolute minimum amount of government intrusion required to maintain equal property rights

One of my favorite quotes also!

refreshing to hear this in a way.

Too much magical thinking in public policy. Sowell is a pragmatic thinker.

"There are no solutions. Only tradeoffs." - Thomas Sowell

@breasonable4343

7 ай бұрын

weak minded sophistry. don't hire that guy as your plumber 😆

@anon2034

7 ай бұрын

@@breasonable4343 Certanly not as a plumber. Maybe as an economist or a politician.

@breasonable4343

7 ай бұрын

​@@anon2034 Because we certainly don't need "solutions" and diligence from either of those.

@anon2034

7 ай бұрын

@@breasonable4343 What do you need? What do you propose?

I always enjoy listening to this guy

EXCELLENT !!!!!!! ❤

You cannot go wrong with Thomas Sowell... The most underrated 'thinker' ever... and the Democrats make sure no one knows him

We live in an increasingly juvenile society.

Culture is a major part of this. Much more important than anything related to public policy.

Hear him. Hear him. Well said sir. And well listened. Bravo. Enough said.

Thomas Sowell is absolutely brilliant. I understand history and the workings of this world better because of him.

@reginaford8575

11 ай бұрын

Me too, since lockdowns of pandemic. Listening to Thomas Sowell will be may be reasons for backlash on the madness being pushed on the populace everywhere! This is Ne Sowell’s research and writings time to shine!!!

A profoundly important point. Politics and media are increasingly divorced from this reality. People are livid that not everything is perfect and convinced that they are not perfect for the simple reason that the nefarious "powers that be" are preventing it. This childish view of society is very dangerous.

Well said

I’d only add another great Sowell quote. The past 50 years can be easiest summed up as replacing what works with what feels good.

What i see to be the main problem everywhere, personal relationships, friendships, family or public, social media, anywhere I see that we are unable to accept someone else stating an opinion and maybe facts that are opposite to ours. The biggest crime is such ignorance. I might just lose a good friend this week because I stated an opinion he disagrees with and attacks and slanders me for blindly. Cant we just talk bro ? you listen and i talk, i listen and you talk? We have lost that ability as a society.

Tradeoffs. That is the key

Wow! An incredible video.

This a really important debating platform with todays exceptional guest.

The problem is that the supposed 'solutions' are sold as SOLUTIONS and through ideological/political/partisan led parties and (less) thinking where to simply challenge them is then seen as a threat........Things would be different if their ego's had to courage to instead sell their 'solutions' as lesser-evils which all (including themselves) were open to critique and then improve upon without the same fragile ego's and ideological beliefs then being easily hurt when simply challenged.

Every first year economics student understands this.

@82fdny97

11 ай бұрын

AOC doesn't

@dannysullivan3951

11 ай бұрын

True, but then you have to buy in to the conservative mantra of do nothing.

@tuliosan9399

11 ай бұрын

No, they don't

@ayyleeuz4892

11 ай бұрын

wrong. realise where they aren't taught Marxian economics they are taught Keynesian economics, invariably.

@jakw97

11 ай бұрын

People who study economics don't read Sowell, they hardly read anything but Keynesian economics. Aka left-wing, state run economics.

Interesting, that's the one line from TS that has resonated with me too. I quote that often. I thought it was there are no solutions, there are only alternatives.

Sowell's notion that these issues are "eternal problems" encapsulates the complexity inherent in addressing them. It's essential to recognize that in our quest for progress, we must navigate a landscape of trade-offs. No solution will come without its drawbacks or unintended consequences. When it comes to climate change, for instance, we must weigh the economic implications, technological feasibility, and impact on various industries. Similarly, in the case of healthcare, balancing accessibility, affordability, and quality of care presents a perpetual challenge. This understanding urges us to approach these issues with humility and a willingness to explore a range of options. It reminds us to engage in open and nuanced discussions, seeking compromise and finding common ground. Instead of striving for an elusive perfect solution, we can work towards sustainable improvements that minimize negative consequences while maximizing positive outcomes. While it can be frustrating to grapple with the complexity of eternal problems, it is through this process of trade-offs and thoughtful consideration that we inch closer to meaningful change. By acknowledging the limitations and inherent challenges, we can make more informed decisions, implement incremental reforms, and continuously adapt as new information emerges. Let us embrace the wisdom of Sowell's idea and recognize that progress lies not in the pursuit of unattainable perfection but in our ability to navigate the intricate web of trade-offs and find practical, workable solutions.