it’s a good video. it is a bit funny him saying america should be a meritocracy when he stands fully behind things its opposite - single payer healthcare, tuition free college, etc. i guess that’s a word that means different things to different people
i also like how he clips his roosevelt quote:
“a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power” could destroy american democracy
i know that was roosevelt’s point, but that quote could have ended in sooo many ways.
“a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power” could team up to fight crime and stop supervillains
i mean don’t we need dynastic wealth to get batman, the green arrow, professor x, iron man, and the black panther? ( actually this could be a very long list… hmmm. strange obsession comic book writers )
If Big Tech tells me that their localization hasn’t caught up to Hmong for dealing with misinformation, then I can kind of understand it. But, Spanish? You’ve got to be kidding me.
It seems like they’ve got their nose to the grindstone attempting to keep some shreds of their platform in whatever gets past the post. I don’t feel like they’ve given up.
the word begs the question: who decides what merits?
people should be afforded a decent place in society not because they’re “good” at something, but because people have intrinsic value
im less interested in people having equal access to healthcare so they can scramble to best each other in an more equal rat race, im more interested in dismantling the rat race
Oh, I agree completely. I think we should be trying to build a society based on positive freedom…where we try to give everyone the chance to do as many things with their life as possible. I’m just noting that even if you did want to try for a meritocracy, you still would need those kinds of things, because the alternative is plain old entrenched aristocracy.
yeah, that’s a good point. and maybe what people like reich or whomever believe on that front is besides the point right now.
any steps to improving people’s lives - even if it’s seen as leveling a playing field - well, that’s probably quite alright given ( like you say ) what the current alternative is
and he seems to be doing a good job of trying to get word out about how completely out of whack things are right now
Robert Reich isn’t a socialist, he was with Clinton. He just thinks that American capitalism no longer does what it was supposed to. If it ever did, it certainly doesn’t now.
I wouldn’t inherently lump Reich in with (neoliberal) Clinton just because he was an advisor. Reich is at the very least Dem-Soc and even then on the progressive side of that classification.
