Why Is Everything Turning Into Uber? Second Thought 2022-09-30 | We're all familiar with the gig economy - jobs that don't classify you as an employee, tell you you can "be your own boss," and take advantage of your precarious financial position. Why is this kind of "employment" growing so quickly? Is there anything we can do to stop it?Why Is Everything Turning Into Uber? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Uber 90k - 25k differenceslate.com/business/2014/10/uber-driver-salary-the-ride-sharing-company-says-its-drivers-make-great-money-but-its-math-just-doesnt-add-up.html Uber monthly averagesridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make Uber and overexhaustionslate.com/technology/2018/03/uber-may-have-imposed-12-hour-driving-limits-but-its-still-pushing-drivers-in-other-troubling-ways.html Unions and independent contractorsnatlawreview.com/article/goodbye-ny-no-union-uber-drivers-now Uber, Lyft and California’s Prop 22theverge.com/2020/11/4/21549760/uber-lyft-prop-22-win-vote-app-message-notificationsUber and Lyft’s lobbyistss27147.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Uber-State-Interference-How-Transportation-Network-Companies-Buy-Bully-Bamboozle-Their-Way-to-Deregulation.pdfnelp.org/publication/uber-state-interference Uber in the UK and 40-50% downtimetaxi-point.co.uk/post/james-farrar-interview-how-has-the-uber-supreme-court-decision-impacted-the-taxi-and-phv-industry Uber’s push for more full-time driversqz.com/2013562/uber-wants-more-full-time-workers-as-it-faces-a-driver-shortage 70% of Ryanair pilots are independent contractorseurocockpit.be/news/ryanair-pilots-seek-improved-employment-conditions Uber for nursingjacobin.com/2022/01/nurses-travel-apps-uber-flexibility-lean-production 53% of people aged 18-24 who work in the gig economy do so as their primary income sourceallworknow.com/10-impressive-gig-economy-statistics-the-rise-of-a-new-workforcehttp://www.edisonresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gig-Economy-2018-Marketplace-Edison-Research-Poll-FINAL.pdfPrinceton study - 94% net growth in employment is in alternative workhttps://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01zs25xb933/3/603.pdf Uber and Macrontheguardian.com/news/2022/jul/12/emmanuel-macron-proud-of-supporting-ubers-lobbying-drive-in-francetheguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign The gig economy jacobin.com/2016/07/uber-drivers-app-ridesharing-taxis-sharing-economy jacobin.com/2022/06/britain-rail-workers-strike-trade-union-hatred-establishment jacobin.com/2019/05/uber-ipo-profitability-value-labor-costs http://www.cpreview.org/blog/2018/12/ride-sharing-and-neoliberalism-ubers-exploitation-of-immigrant-taxi-drivershttps://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/05/21/uber-the-neoliberal-state/ youtu.be/0kKaNfzOXRA jacobin.com/2022/02/uber-gig-worker-portable-benefits-flexible-ontario-doug-ford journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0170840616686129 youtube.com/watch?v=ZH4TPf4DwR8 https://www.scielo.br/j/rk/a/fpsw66xmmHwvTYV7PWJnprt/?lang=en&format=pdf Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Green Energy Is Cheaper…So Why Aren’t We Using It? Second Thought 2023-06-16 | Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/secondthoughtCheck out our most recent Deprogram episode on Nebula: nebula.tv/thedeprogram/episode-82-tankie-discourseSolar energy is cheaper and more abundant than fossil fuels...so why aren't we making the switch?Why Cheap Solar Won't Save Us – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday!Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanCitations and Further Reading:The importance of profit, not price, in renewable energytandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957 The price of solar over timeourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplusHow solar got cheapyoutu.be/sUvaYycoWqI Solar deployment and investment stalling/decliningiea.org/news/global-solar-pv-market-set-for-spectacular-growth-over-next-5-years iea.org/articles/energy-transitions-indicators Shell’s conditionsreports.shell.com/annual-report/2019/servicepages/downloads/files/shell_annual_report_2019.pdf spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/060419-shell-sees-signficant-potential-in-electricity-but-investing-with-care youtu.be/VZEAgKZUNuU?t=345 Returns on wind and solar investmenttandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957 How much fossil giants put into renewablessciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621001420 Solar and wind used for fossil extractionbloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/chevron-is-installing-solar-panels-to-produce-oil-more-cheaply Asset management firms aren’t sustainablecapitalaspower.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220200_baines_hager_from_passive_owners_to_planet_savers.pdf Under capitalism production “is always initiated on the basis of prospective profit.”Shaikh, A., 2016. Capitalism: competition, conflict, crises. Oxford: Oxford University PressRenewables have increasingly narrow marginscoalition.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Coalition-for-Action/Publication/Coalition-for-Action_Scaling-up-RE-Investment_2018.pdftandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957 Fossil Capital, Andreas Malmversobooks.com/en-gb/products/135-fossil-capital https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~moyer/GEOS24705/Readings/From_water_to_steam.pdf Exploitation, violence in rare earth mineral miningyoutu.be/XCECoZBZ5aU Where money goes in renewableshttps://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/20/2/3/95047/Shadows-of-Divestment-The-Complications-of tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957 Capitalists hate competitionblairfix.github.io/capital_as_power/accumulation-and-sabotage.html “Hole in the ground surrounded by guns”economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/02/26/radically-progressive-degrowth-reducing-resource-use-by-eliminating-inequality economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/03/30/the-voldemort-index Scarcity and oil prices economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/12/03/as-we-exhaust-our-oil-it-will-get-cheaper-but-less-affordable Watch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
How Capitalism Causes Loneliness Second Thought 2023-06-02 | Study after study confirms that we're all lonelier and more depressed than ever. Why is that? The root cause goes deeper than you might think.How Capitalism Causes Loneliness – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Links to mental health support (that aren’t 988)warmline.org (from a list compiled by NPR @ npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/11/1116769071/social-media-posts-warn-people-not-to-call-988-heres-what-you-need-to-know)callblackline.com/aboutfaqkivagroups.carrd.co antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oaklandantipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-sacpeersupportspace.org/daily-gatherings projectlets.org/crisis-support samaritansnyc.orgtranslifeline.org/hotlinewildfloweralliance.org/online-support-groups Alienationyoutu.be/gPRxxN4Kh30 marxists.org/glossary/terms/a/l.htm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation Main news clipyoutu.be/ImEz971DLgY Loneliness studysciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235282732200310X hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf Burnout www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/burnout-survey.html#:~:text=The%20findings%20indicate%20that%2077%20percent%20of%20respondents%20say%20they%20have%20experienced%20employee%20burnout%20at%20their%20current%20job%2C%20with%20more%20than%20half%20citing%20more%20than%20one%20occurrence. forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/04/13/for-many-workers-burnout-is-worse-than-during-the-pandemic edition.cnn.com/2023/04/13/health/nurse-burnout-post-pandemic/index.html nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-finds-burnout-epidemic-working-women-two-years-pandemic-rcna25883 cnbc.com/2022/11/22/teachers-are-in-the-midst-of-a-burnout-crisis-it-became-intolerable.html Workers and return to officecnbc.com/2022/04/28/64percent-of-workers-would-consider-quitting-if-asked-to-return-to-office-full-time.html mckinsey.com/industries/real-estate/our-insights/americans-are-embracing-flexible-work-and-they-want-more-of-it Wealth and zip codeopportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/atlas_slides.pdf Social media and mental health study quotedncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9915628 Neoliberal thoughtneweconomics.org/2020/10/this-is-your-brain-on-neoliberalismredalyc.org/journal/1531/153162923019/html Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
The Myth Of Capitalist Peace Second Thought 2023-05-19 | Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/secondthoughtCheck out our most recent First Thought episode: nebula.tv/videos/firstthought-climate-chaos-turkish-elections-go-to-runoff-us-missile-defense-system-destroyedProponents of capitalism and global free trade claim that they've solved war - that trade has become a more appealing and less expensive option than international conflict. Is this really the case? Has free trade solved war?How Free Trade "Solves" War – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Capitalism, imperialism, liberalism and warmarxists.org/history/etol/newspape/themilitant/1942/v06n07/lenin.htm https://psi424.cankaya.edu.tr/uploads/files/Brewer,%20Marxist_Theories_of_Imperialism.pdf https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-02043794/file/War%20and%20capitalism.%20.pdf marxist.com/first-world-war-a-marxist-analysis-of-the-great-slaughter/introduction.htm blairfix.github.io/capital_as_power/differential-accumulation-past-and-future.html books.google.com/books?id=3GvnDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover youtu.be/yZjuINjdUN8 youtu.be/QTXdAVXG2K8 Graph, oil profits and wars bnarchives.yorku.ca/203/1/20060400_nb_new_imperialism_or_new_capitalism.pdf Bilateralism, multilateralism, and wardoi.org/10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00492.x Free trade and violencemronline.org/2022/09/26/free-market-genocides countercurrents.org/parenti260507.htm How Europe Underdeveloped Africabooks.google.com/books?id=SXDnDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover NAFTAjacobin.com/2017/08/nafta-trans-pacific-partnership-trump-free-trade nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/24/what-weve-learned-from-nafta epi.org/blog/naftas-impact-workers Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
The Truth About Recessions Second Thought 2023-05-05 | Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Be well informed. Download the free Ground News app at https://ground.news/secondthoughtWhy Do Recessions Happen? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Why capitalism seems inescapable youtu.be/PaASqPnpq5Y Economic planningyoutu.be/xuBrGaVhjcI GDP + recessions graphfred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP 2008 stats investopedia.com/news/10-years-later-lessons-financial-crisis Recessions’ negative effects bis.org/publ/work910.pdf ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4930372 http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/345/bmj.e5142.full.pdf bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-2720-y Degrowthbooks.google.com/books?id=mstzEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/files/2022/11/What-does-degrowth-mean-A-few-points-of-clarification.pdf proteanmag.com/2023/01/15/degrowth-is-anti-capitalistsd-commission.org.uk/data/files/publications/prosperity_without_growth_report.pdf resilience.org/stories/2022-03-07/degrowth-is-not-recession-nor-is-it-austerity Marxist theory of crisesyoutu.be/WvGIdRJfGho marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialistvoice/marx19.html How capitalists profit from crisis (graphs) and inflationblogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2014/05/15/profit-from-crisis-why-capitalists-do-not-want-recovery-and-what-that-means-for-america bnarchives.yorku.ca/414/2/nb_20141000_can_capitalists_afford_recovery_recasp.pdf economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/11/24/the-truth-about-inflation Corporate landlordsnytimes.com/2020/03/04/magazine/wall-street-landlords.html JPMorgan Chase stock goes up during 2008ft.com/content/45710c36-5429-11dd-aa78-000077b07658 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Youre Not Immune To Propaganda Second Thought 2023-04-21 | Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Be well informed. Download the free Ground News app at https://ground.news/secondthoughtIt's very common in the West, especially in the US, for people to assume that propaganda doesn't really exist in our society. Sure, those other countries brainwash their citizens, but not us! No, all our media is completely unbiased. Let's explore the idea of propaganda, and how exactly it functions in neoliberal capitalism.You're Not Immune To Propaganda – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations And Further Reading:Neoliberal subjectification and controlhttps://lchc.ucsd.edu/cogn_150/Readings/brown.pdf ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP23-Mirowski.pdf veletsianos.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/problem-with-flexible-learning-Preprint.pdf jacobin.com/2014/06/bulletproof-neoliberalism ephemerajournal.org/contribution/becoming-neoliberal-subject newintrigue.com/2020/06/29/the-philosophy-of-byung-chul-han teoriapoliticaseminariohome.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/the-rise-of-neoliberal-feminism-rottenberg-c..pdf Bernays’ propagandawww.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Bernays_Propaganda_in_english_.pdf Britannica’s propagandabritannica.com/topic/propaganda More on propagandakeimena11.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/noam-chomsky-media-control.pdf Iraqpewresearch.org/politics/2023/03/14/a-look-back-at-how-fear-and-false-beliefs-bolstered-u-s-public-support-for-war-in-iraqnytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-iraqis-us-says-hussein-intensifies-quest-for-bomb-parts.html nytimes.com/2002/09/18/world/threats-responses-inspections-verification-difficult-best-say-experts-maybe.html nytimes.com/2002/11/10/world/threats-responses-military-war-plan-for-iraq-calls-for-big-force-quick-strikes.htmlnytimes.com/2003/04/21/world/aftereffects-prohibited-weapons-illicit-arms-kept-till-eve-war-iraqi-scientist.htmlwashingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2004/06/20/3/38f7a537-46e0-43b0-90bd-d231d6cd0a9a/#:~:text=%22Iraq%20is%20open%20for%20business%2C%22%20L.%20Paul%20Bremer%2C%20administrator%20of%20the%20U.S.%2Dled%20occupation%2C%20declared%20optimistically%20in%20May%202003 Guatemalaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta tweb.archive.org/web/20120822190236/http://imerrill.umd.edu/johnkirch/files/2010/03/Covering-a-Coup-John-Kirch.pdf Macronnouvelobs.com/economie/20150107.OBS9413/macron-il-faut-des-jeunes-francais-qui-aient-envie-de-devenir-milliardaires.html https://www.lesechos.fr/2015/01/emmanuel-macron-il-faut-des-jeunes-francais-qui-aient-envie-de-devenir-milliardaires-241247 youtu.be/roJpZftZvFE https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2018/09/17/je-traverse-la-rue-je-vous-en-trouve-en-une-petite-phrase-emmanuel-macron-expose-sa-vision-du-travail_5356365_823448.html https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Assurance-chomage-saison-II-controles-renforces-baisse-des-indemnites-et-guerre-sociale-au Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Work Is Getting Worse Second Thought 2023-04-07 | Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/secondthoughtCheck out our most recent First Thought episode: nebula.tv/videos/firstthought-brutality-in-palestines-holiest-site-trump-pleads-not-guilty-as-macron-and-zelensky-travel Most of us grow up with the ingrained notion that life for every successive generation is better than the last. That truism no longer seems to be the case. Why is everything seeming to go downhill? And why is work specifically getting so much worse?Why Work Is Getting Worse – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday!Citations and Further Reading:docs.google.com/document/d/1tGBxRxOlpwNO9EWIy8ySsrD0xaiLuEZ66MJgHk0EcrM/edit?usp=sharing Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanBusiness Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
First Thought Teaser | Were Starting A News Show! Second Thought 2023-04-01 | So many people asked where to find reliable news that we decided to do it ourselves. Watch the non-vertical version of this fun little video (as it was intended) on my Twitter - twitter.com/_SecondThought and subscribe to First Thought here: youtube.com/@firstthoughtnewsFirst Thought Teaser – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSmusic by Sam Kužel - samkuzel.comNew video every Friday!Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
How Companies Plan The Economy Second Thought 2023-03-24 | Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 30% off your subscription by visiting https://ground.news/secondthoughtWe've been told all our lives that competition, free markets, and ruthless business practices are the best way to run an economy. If that's the case...why do all major corporations operate as planned economies? And how can we follow that example to build a nationwide planned economy?How Companies Plan The Economy – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Booksbooks.google.com/books?id=0OhOEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover books.google.com/books?id=IcCGDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover books.google.com/books?id=VBC3AgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover https://proyectoballena.cck.gob.ar/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Arboleda-Goberar-la-utopi%CC%81a-Capi%CC%81tulo-1-Caja-Negra.pdf Economic planning & related topicsscholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:tBc_RigrTdgJ:scholar.google.com scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:qmeirGf7lKIJ:scholar.google.com http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/ar/libros/cuba/if/marx/documentos/22/Economic%20planning....pdf http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/Harnecker-participatory-planning.pdf cominsitu.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/bernes-planning.pdf youtu.be/ME1hVozRIcA transferics.com/2016/10/23/the-economic-calculation-problem youtu.be/_OslQ6TnijA doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1812222 archive.org/details/anarchistcollect0000unse https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429 doi.org/10.6094/behemoth.2021.14.2.1061 socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5869 http://alternativniekonomiky.fss.muni.cz/data/publikace/Johanisova-and-Frankova-Chapter-49-Eco-social-enterprises-final-1-.pdf Walmart badfortune.com/company/walmart/fortune500 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Walmart businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-walmart-mcdonalds-food-stamps-medicaid-minimum-wage-2020-11 motherjones.com/politics/2003/03/against-Walmart hbr.org/2006/12/the-high-cost-of-low-wages huffpost.com/entry/walmart-overtime-labor-department-settlement_n_1470543 laborrights.org/in-the-news/investigation-claims-Walmart-suppliers-use-child-labour-0 nytimes.com/2004/01/13/us/in-house-audit-says-Walmart-violated-labor-laws.html cbsnews.com/news/walmart-patents-audio-surveillance-technology-to-record-customers-and-employees businessinsider.com/walmart-is-facing-a-class-action-over-its-alleged-use-of-surveillance-cameras-and-clearview-ais-facial-recognition-database-2022-9 winsightgrocerybusiness.com/retailers/ftc-hits-walmart-3-million-greenwashing-penalty en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_family Walmart collaborative planning8thandwalton.com/blog/cpfr corporate.walmart.com/esgreport/social/people-in-supply-chains#:~:text=Walmart's%20supply%20chain%20consists%20of,whom%20have%20their%20own%20suppliers Searsyoutu.be/t6zEe-vhhQIversobooks.com/blogs/4385-failing-to-plan-how-ayn-rand-destroyed-sears Declassified Chile documentsintelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94chile.pdf Cybersyn - A Documentaryyoutu.be/RJLA2_Ho7X0 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
How Corporate Greed Destroyed East Palestine Second Thought 2023-03-11 | Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: go.nebula.tv/secondthoughtWatch this video ad free: nebula.tv/videos/secondthought-how-corporate-greed-destroyed-east-palestineOn February 3rd, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying tens of thousands of gallons of toxic vinyl chloride derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio. This event, while not unique in the least, is a striking example of how corporate negligence causes environmental an humanitarian disasters. In the weeks since the crash, several other trains have derailed, including at least one more of Norfolk Southern's. Why is this such a common problem? What has led to the US having over 1,000 derailments per year, and why isn't anything being done about it? We flew out to East Palestine to speak to residents and take a look at the issue. How Corporate Greed Destroyed East Palestine – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday (or Saturday in this case)!Help the residents of East Palestine recover: gofund.me/76a575f7Citations and Further Reading:The list was too long for YouTube's description box, so here's a Google Doc with all the citations - docs.google.com/document/d/1bimOg3m2Z9MeIoXfl6tFxmD-_MuLH1ZunQEGSVqEKAA/edit?usp=sharing Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
On The Ground In East Palestine, Ohio | #shorts Second Thought 2023-03-07 | Full video coming this Friday, March 10th! We Went To East Palestine, Ohio | #shorts – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday!Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
American Fascism And The Groomer Panic | #shorts Second Thought 2023-03-03 | Full video here: youtu.be/frZHD6aITcg#shorts | American Fascism And The Groomer Panic – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSWe've seen a number of moral panics over the decades, and this one is no different. Come learn how the same old tropes are being recycled to animate this latest strain of American fascism.American Fascism And The Groomer Panic – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday!
American Fascism And The Groomer Panic Second Thought 2023-02-24 | Get Nebula using my link for just 30 bucks a year: go.nebula.tv/secondthoughtWatch my exclusive series on the history and resurgence of fascism: nebula.tv/thenewfword We've seen a number of moral panics over the decades, and this one is no different. Come learn how the same old tropes are being recycled to animate this latest strain of American fascism.American Fascism And The Groomer Panic – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every other Friday!Citations and Further Reading:About the current groomer/”gender ideology” moral panicyoutu.be/9c6shP-NcfE youtu.be/VBKtLGBVbvM scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3816964-the-gops-misguided-woke-police mediamatters.org/fox-news/save-children-again-absurd-intensifying-right-wing-panic-lgbtq-people-are-grooming-minors xtramagazine.com/power/politics/grooming-narratives-return-anti-lgbtq2s-campaigns-219791 nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/the-long-sordid-history-of-the-gay-conspiracy-theory.html adl.org/resources/blog/what-grooming-truth-behind-dangerous-bigoted-lie-targeting-lgbtq-community Nazism, fascism and LGBTQ persecutionjstor.org/stable/3704553 houstonpress.com/news/how-transphobia-helps-fascists-take-power-11956136 theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2021/oct/23/judith-butler-gender-ideology-backlashen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_Nazi_Germany Prolification of anti-trans billswashingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/14/anti-trans-bills Anti-LGBTQ violence in 2022acleddata.com/2022/11/23/update-fact-sheet-anti-lgbt-mobilization-in-the-united-states Hateful rhetoric and the incidence of hate crimespapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3149103 Gender-affirming care statisticshrc.org/press-releases/gender-affirming-care-setting-the-record-straight-as-extremist-politicians-in-texas-and-other-states-continue-doubling-down-on-attacking-trans-youth Boston Children’s Hospitalbostonglobe.com/2022/12/03/metro/boston-childrens-faced-months-death-threats-hate-mail-heres-how-staff-are-coping Molestation statisticslgbpsychology.org/html/facts_molestation.html splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2011/10-anti-gay-myths-debunked Moral panicsyoutu.be/4fU8ajTzYro Left-handednessjuliaserano.medium.com/transgender-agendas-social-contagion-peer-pressure-and-prevalence-c3694d11ed24 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Is Capitalism Really Human Nature? Second Thought 2023-02-17 | Offset your carbon footprint with Wren! Be one of the first 100 people to sign up using this link, and get your first month absolutely free: http://wren.co/start/secondthoughtThese days, at least in the West, there seems to be a consensus that capitalism is just "the way things are." Everyone from capitalist economists to your dentist to your weird uncle is firmly convinced that humans are just hard-wired for capitalism. Let's explore that idea. Hope you enjoy!Is Capitalism Really Human Nature? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading: Yugopnik Videoyoutu.be/3k7_wE0GhVM Andrewism Videoyoutu.be/zZSLFlAbycE Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Yearswarwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/statesofdamage/syllabus201516/graeber-debt_the_first_5000_years.pdf Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
How Capitalism Destroys Feminism Second Thought 2023-02-10 | You all probably remember the girlboss phenomenon of the last decade. Neoliberal individualism infested the west's once-emancipatory feminist theory and praxis and turned it into a hollow, performative act by upper class white women. What's the deal? Let's talk a bit about neoliberal "girlboss" feminism.How Capitalism Destroys Feminism – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Booksplutobooks.com/9780745341125/a-decolonial-feminism https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/4064118/mod_resource/content/0/Nancy%20Fraser%20Fortunes%20of%20Feminism%20From%20Womens%20Liberation%20to%20Identity%20Politics%20to%20Anti-Capitalism.pdf books.google.com/books?id=Haa_AAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover dialecticalartist.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/witch-hunting-past-and-present-and-the-fear-of-the-power-of-women-100-notes-100-thoughts-by-silvia-federici-z-lib.org_.pdf legalform.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/davis-women-race-class.pdf Articlesteoriapoliticaseminariohome.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/the-rise-of-neoliberal-feminism-rottenberg-c..pdf doi.org/10.1177/1464700119842555 openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/15641/3 dissentmagazine.org/article/kicking-back-not-leaning-in thenation.com/article/society/qa-nancy-fraser gen.medium.com/the-end-of-the-girlboss-is-nigh-4591dec34ed8 https://cosmonaut.blog/2018/12/04/on-women-as-a-class-materialist-feminism-and-mass-struggle/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1367549407075898 plutobooks.com/blog/white-women-feminism-and-its-repression-of-slavery vox.com/22466574/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss-meaning Podcastopen.spotify.com/episode/2I6OeCq1nPmdzX0XidEqbM?si=a574db882ea04e3c Videosyoutu.be/NBRG66rJHVc youtu.be/WzAyLV5XpCQ Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Do We Really Live Under Capitalism? Second Thought 2023-02-03 | One of the most common objections to critiques of capitalism is "we don't have real capitalism, we have corporatism" or "crony capitalism" or even "techno-feudalism." These claims are often well-intentioned, but they miss the point. Let's talk about capitalism, corporatism, and cronyism.Do We Really Live Under Capitalism?– Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Two definitions of corporatismsciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/corporatism jstor.org/stable/20630041 Wikipedia crony capitalismen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism Meta and Google mergers & acquisitionsen.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet Wal-Martcorporate.walmart.com/about/history http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/04/walmart_employees_on_food_stamps_their_wages_aren_t_enough_to_get_by.html On the necessity of the state for capitalismhttps://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/157973/1/bna-259_20090522_nb_casp_full_indexed.pdf Monopolies in free market systemsmarxist.com/monopoly-capitalism.htm Libertarian utopiasjstor.org/stable/10.5325/utopianstudies.23.1.0238 Other videos on the same topic youtu.be/luB9VUsXRs8 youtu.be/ggID6X4S9r0 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Is American Patriotism So Weird? Second Thought 2023-01-27 | To anyone outside the US, our particular brand of patriotism is very strange. Why is the average American so violently attached to symbols like the American flag? Why is our version of patriotism so dogmatically opposed to actually improving our country? Let's take a look.Why Is American Patriotism So Weird? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Glenn Loury interviewbrownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2023-01-09/conservative-voice-glenn-loury-and-poet-ravi-shankar Anti-communist immigration actsen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1918 On American patriotism, nationalism, etc.youtu.be/FIXRsu2-uGo https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2016/SOC757/um/61816961/Benedict_Anderson_Imagined_Communities.pdf jacobin.com/2021/04/john-judis-the-socialist-awakening-review-socialist-left-internationalism-nationalism jacobin.com/2020/05/keir-starmer-uk-labour-party-patriotism-britain-royal-family youtu.be/f5HyKELG46M theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-nationalism-and-the-national-question socialist.net/left-patriotism-an-opportunist-disorder.htm reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/qjr21g/communist_american_patriotism/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/p/pl/promise-li-building-self-determination-without-nationalism.pdf books.google.com/books?id=8hnzDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover washingtonmonthly.com/2018/07/15/how-the-right-wing-convinces-itself-that-liberals-are-evil jacobin.com/2019/03/greg-grandin-end-of-the-myth Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Should We Move To A 4-Day Work Week? Second Thought 2023-01-20 | Our mindset surrounding work is stuck in the 20th century. With massive improvements in technology and productivity in the last few decades, it's time to reassess what work could look like. Is it time to move to a four day workweek? If you enjoy my content and you'd like to help support the channel, please consider becoming a patron on Patreon! All patrons get early access to every video, plus access to our patrons-only Discord server! patreon.com/secondthought Links to Orgs and Union Info:IWW: iww.orgCPUSA: cpusa.org PSL: pslweb.orgDSA: dsausa.orgShould We Move To A 4-Day Work Week? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Productivity-Pay Gap:epi.org/productivity-pay-gapFord’s Five-Day Workweek: morningbrew.com/sidekick/stories/history-five-day-work-week Productivity Stats:apollotechnical.com/employee-productivity-statistics Andrew Barnes on his 4-day workweek: tedxauckland.com/talks/the-four-day-week US and Ireland Trials:shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/pages/report-us-ireland-4-day-workweek-pilot-huge-success.aspx 4-Day Workweek Whitepaper: static1.squarespace.com/static/60b956cbe7bf6f2efd86b04e/t/60c3d8519bc93c7da4823124/1623447637957/Four-Day%2BWeek%2BWhite%2BPaper%2BFebruary%2B2019%2Bfinal.pdfCommuting Stats:getjerry.com/newsroom/how-american-commute-has-changed-over-past-50-yearsFollow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Social Democracy Isnt Good Enough Second Thought 2023-01-13 | One of the major stumbling blocks for new lefties is getting stuck in the "why can't we just have social democracy?" phase. On the surface, the Nordic Model looks pretty good - social safety nets, great public services, better workers' rights...so what's the problem? Let's talk about social democracy's critical failure, and why socialism is the better option.If you enjoy my content, please consider supporting the channel on Patreon! Every patron, regardless of donation amount, gets early access to every video, plus access to our patrons-only Discord server! patreon.com/secondthought Why Social Democracy Isn't Good Enough – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:How capitalism robs the Global Southyoutu.be/35Ax-psPZ1gyoutu.be/DtziEZAR1Qk Social Democracyjacobin.com/2018/08/democratic-socialism-social-democracy-nordic-countries youtu.be/4lDZaKjfs4E en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godesberg_Program youtu.be/dxI3MzhvCdQ books.google.com/books?id=_00SKFEabywC&printsec=frontcover jacobin.com/2018/09/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-stakeholder jacobin.com/2017/11/german-social-democratic-party-second-international-culture mronline.org/2022/07/18/scandinavia-and-imperialism http://tidewaterdsa.com/concealed-imperialism-the-true-face-of-social-democracy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy jacobin.com/2018/07/democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders-social-democracy-alexandria-ocasio-cortez jacobin.com/2016/06/social-democracy-polanyi-great-transformation-welfare-state jacobin.com/2017/08/democratic-socialism-judis-new-republic-social-democracy-capitalism jacobin.com/2018/07/socialism-democrats-alexandria-ocasio-cortez en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model H&Mhttps://www.renewablematter.eu/articles/article/unsustainable-fashion-h-and-m-is-being-sued-for-greenwashingindependent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/21-workers-die-in-fire-at-h-m-factory-1914292.html business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/hm-fails-to-make-fire-and-building-safety-repairs-in-bangladesh reuters.com/article/us-workers-garment-abuse-idUSKCN1M41GR The involuntary/automatic alliance of the state with capitalists http://acdc2007.free.fr/block420.pdf Capital strikesdsausa.org/democratic-left/closing_the_exit_for_capital http://www.peterfrase.com/2011/09/the-rights-favorite-strike jacobin.com/2016/02/gude-third-way-clinton-new-deal-reagan-democratic-party François Mitterand and the austerity turnnytimes.com/1986/06/29/business/searching-for-a-safe-harbor-when-investment-capital-goes-on-strike.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand#First_term:_1981%E2%80%931988 newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2017/10/french-lessons-what-corbyn-can-learn-mitterrands-mistakes jacobin.com/2015/08/francois-mitterrand-socialist-party-common-program-communist-pcf-1981-elections-austerity The decline of Swedish social democracyforbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2016/12/21/sweden-heads-the-best-countries-for-business-for-2017/?sh=3fc8dce57ecd newleftreview.org/issues/ii113/articles/goran-therborn-twilight-of-swedish-social-democracy Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Theres No Such Thing As An Ethical Business Under Capitalism Second Thought 2023-01-06 | Check out the latest episode of my Nebula Original Series, The New F-Word! nebula.tv/videos/second-thought-how-fascism-survived-the-post-war-era Get access to Nebula completely free when you sign up for the CuriosityStream/Nebula bundle deal! Follow the link and use code "secondthought" at checkout! curiositystream.com/secondthought Why There's No Such Thing As An Ethical Business – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadasbooks.google.com/books?id=CrV8DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover Billionaire Philanthropyyoutu.be/i8w3qPwpzZA Nestletheguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-nations-nestle-running-water theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-fight-over-water-how-nestle-dries-up-us-creeks-to-sell-water-in-plastic-bottlesbusinessinsider.com/nestles-infant-formula-scandal-2012-6?r=US&IR=T theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/12/mars-nestle-and-hershey-to-face-landmark-child-slavery-lawsuit-in-us Nespressofairworldproject.org/b-corp-nespresso-human-rights theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/01/children-work-for-pittance-to-pick-coffee-beans-used-by-starbucks-and-nespresso https://reporterbrasil.org.br/2021/09/labour-inspectors-fine-leader-of-cooperative-that-supplies-coffee-to-nespresso-and-starbucks/ theguardian.com/food/2020/jul/14/nespresso-coffee-capsule-pods-branding-clooney-nestle-recycling-environment B-Corp websitebcorporation.net/en-us/certification Two headlines about fossil fuelsfinance.yahoo.com/news/oil-companies-seeing-record-profits-182731960.html france24.com/en/environment/20220404-emissions-must-peak-before-2025-for-liveable-future-un-report-says Salesforcesalesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-commits-1-5-million-app-to-address-homelessnessbusinessinsider.com/salesforce-san-francisco-homeless-hamilton-families-2018-5?r=US&IR=T cnbc.com/2020/08/25/salesforces-marc-benioff-claims-a-victory-for-stakeholder-capitalism.html nytimes.com/2020/09/22/business/business-roudtable-stakeholder-capitalism.html German moral self-licensing studydoi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227036 Brewdogtheguardian.com/business/2021/jun/10/brewdog-staff-craft-beer-firm-letter Ethics are a luxuryyoutu.be/wCl33v5969M Extrajacobin.com/2018/09/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-stakeholder jacobin.com/2022/04/corporation-promise-greenhouse-gas-emissions-sullivan-principles-south-africa-climate-change youtu.be/cmKZNPdWzq4 youtu.be/nWre6hPfswQ youtu.be/GtwDfHDX8zg Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Corporate America Hates Unions Second Thought 2022-12-30 | If you'd like to help make a difference this year, consider donating to one of the high-impact charities verified by GiveWell! Visit givewell.org and select "YouTube" and enter "Second Thought" at checkout to get your donation matched up to $100!Unions are having a bit of a moment right now - countless stores under brands like Amazon, Chipotle, REI, Starbucks, and many more are winning victories left and right, and corporate America is pulling out all the stops to crush them. Why is the US so antagonistic towards unions, and what can you expect to face when you try to unionize your workplace? Why Corporate America Hates Unions – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSCitations:IWW resourcesiww.orgiww.org/resources/pamphlets Union approval at a57-year high/10% union coverage today/20% union coverage in the 80snpr.org/2022/08/31/1120111276/labor-union-support-in-usUnion workers make 13% more epi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns Union workers make an extra $1.3M dollarsbusinessinsider.com/being-in-union-make-1-million-dollars-more-over-lifetime-2022-10?r=US&IR=T doi.org/10.1177/00197939221129261 Other unionization benefitsepi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns Unionized workplaces are safer and have fewer fatalitiesillinoisepi.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/ilepi-pmcr-unions-and-construction-health-and-safety-final.pdf https://www.forumat.net.br/at/sites/default/files/arq-paginas/does_right_to_work_imperil_right_to_health_ll.pdf The union threat effect pulls wages up for everyoneepi.org/publication/briefingpapers_bp143 Amazon puts workers in danger’s waytheguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/16/tornado-amazon-kentucky-candle-factory-workers-died twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1470513075489054720?s=20&t=_W3ie7fDZO4a2fzOufIoAg nytimes.com/2022/10/04/business/amazon-warehouse-suspended-workers.html nytimes.com/2021/12/12/technology/amazon-tornado-edwardsville.html Union busting is on the risenlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/election-petitions-up-53-board-continues-to-reduce-case-processing-time-in Employers spend $340M/y on union avoidance advisors, paid $350/h or $2.5k/depi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns Starbucks fires workers for organizingtheguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/25/starbucks-union-employees-fired sbworkersunited.org/press/starbucks-fires-over-15-union-leaders-in-buffalo-and-forces-out-countless-more youtu.be/AKnI_iMhjx8?t=178 Starbucks shuts down unionizing locationsedition.cnn.com/2022/11/22/business/starbucks-closure-union sbworkersunited.org/press/starbucks-closes-first-union-store-in-seattle-in-blatant-retaliation Violating the NLRA only costs employers backpay, no punitive damages or civil penaltiesepi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns Employers break the law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns, illegally fire workers in ⅕epi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns Starbucks withholds pay, benefits, perks from unionizing workersaxios.com/2022/08/26/starbucks-accused-withholding-benefits-union triblive.com/local/regional/nlrb-issues-complaint-of-starbucks-intimidating-workers-who-unionized Employers spy on their workers, use heatmaps to stop unionizingcbsnews.com/news/labor-board-official-takes-aim-at-workplace-spying newsweek.com/they-were-spying-us-amazon-walmart-use-surveillance-technology-bust-unions-1658603 Captive audience meetingscwad1.org/banning-captive-audience-meetings Constant anti-union propaganda at Boeinginthesetimes.com/article/boeing-workers-face-constant-barrage-of-misinformation-ahead-of-union-vote Common anti-union rhetoricunionbustingplaybook.com/#common-bluffs Union dues discouragement at Delta and Boeing (and amazon)pbs.twimg.com/media/D6KE3PBW0AA9Qhp?format=jpg&name=small twitter.com/chactivist/status/829877199419428864?s=20&t=pdXUY9PtdEUWQ-FYK3a4Eg Even more legal union busting strategiesepi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns/#:~:text=Deficiency%20in%20current%20labor%20law Strikebreaking origins of the American policejacobin.com/2020/06/police-united-states-strikebreaking-class-war Companies stall signing union contracts to get them decertifiedtime.com/6221176/worker-strikes-employers-unions Presidential strike-breakingjacobin.com/2022/12/joe-biden-democrats-railway-strike-breaking-blame
Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2023 Second Thought 2022-12-23 | Happy New Year! You've probably heard a lot of talk about socialism becoming more popular over the past few years. There's a reason for that! The capitalist system has shown itself to be incapable of solving the problems it creates, and more and more people are living a worse life than their parents or grandparents. What's going on here, and is socialism the way forward?Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2023 – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Check out The Deprogram!Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7tk1sTZDeE8p9lnxYLy4Ky Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deprogram/id1596666465 Google Podcasts: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xODkwMzQwLnJzcwPatreon: patreon.com/thedeprogramCitations and Further Reading:Ten richest double their wealth while bottom 99% of humanity’s fall/would still be richer than 99% of the world after 99.99% lossoxfam.org/en/press-releases/ten-richest-men-double-their-fortunes-pandemic-while-incomes-99-percent-humanity Nearly 100 million fall under $1.90/day during COVIDblogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/covid-19-leaves-legacy-rising-poverty-and-widening-inequality#:~:text=About%2097%20million%20more%20people,less%20than%20%245.50%20a%20day Bosses bet on workers getting COVIDbbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55009228 Layoffs during COVIDbls.gov/opub/ted/2021/temporary-layoffs-remain-high-following-unprecedented-surge-in-early-2020.htm#:~:text=Hover%20over%20chart%20to%20view,End%20of%20interactive%20chart.&text=In%20April%202020%2C%20the%20number,and%20efforts%20to%20contain%20itWhy Socialism? - Albert Einsteinmonthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism 45% of new created wealth goes to top 1%/CEOs make 350x what their workers do/Wages are lower than 50 years ago/half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck/$50T transfer of wealth from bottom 90% to top 1% since 1975theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/02/the-us-has-a-ruling-class-and-americans-must-stand-up-to-it Vacation days & paid time offcnbc.com/2018/07/05/heres-how-many-paid-vacation-days-the-typical-american-worker-gets-.html Maternity leavetheguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/maternity-leave-us-policy-worst-worlds-richest-countries Gender pay gappewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/25/gender-pay-gap-facts Legal & societal changes growing the gap between productivity and wagesepi.org/productivity-pay-gap Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Is US Media Becoming More Right-Wing? Second Thought 2022-12-16 | Something very interesting is happening to mainstream US media, and they're openly admitting it. Why is the news becoming more right-wing?Why Is US Media Becoming More Right-Wing? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:CNN clipstwitter.com/stevemorris__/status/1597677755638087680?s=46&t=PdHaZdwCi65cR_uqOGEdHQWhy rail workers are strikingtwitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1596955898832130048?cxt=HHwWgMDU_bm7w6ksAAAA CNN’s shift to the rightslate.com/business/2022/09/cnn-trump-harwood-stelter-licht.html theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/21/cnn-shifts-gears-from-partisanship-news-political-center vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/where-is-cnn-headed-harwood-stelter-licht foxnews.com/media/discovery-board-member-fox-cnn hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-discovery-has-bigger-problems-than-its-dc-search-1235221804 Variety poll on CNN’s shiftvariety.com/vip/survey-viewers-detect-centrist-shift-at-cnn-1235406284 Manufacturing Consentbooks.google.com/books?id=18IWX4hxHNUC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcoverbooks.google.com/books/about/Lapdogs.html?id=U9ztAAAAMAAJ Reactionary Democracybooks.google.com/books?id=yY2oDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover Twitter silences left-wing voicestheintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist CRT youtu.be/kZ4E0T6Gus8 twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1371541044592996352?lang=en Media monopolization in the UShttps://projects.iq.harvard.edu/futureofmedia/index-us-mainstream-media-ownership vox.com/recode/2022/9/21/23363242/media-landscape-owner-amazon-apple-netflix-comcast-warner-discovery-peter-kafka-column Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why You Dont Actually Own Anything Under Capitalism Second Thought 2022-12-09 | I'm very excited to announce that the first four episodes of my Original Series, The New F-Word, are available right now on Nebula! Get free access to the series, and much more, when you sign up for CuriosityStream! Visit curiositystream.com/secondthought Why You Don't Actually Own Anything Under Capitalism – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Personal vs. private propertyyoutube.com/watch?v=Krl_CUxW14Y Kindles, Keurigs, John Deere and ownershipbooks.google.com/books?id=1ztMDQAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover money.cnn.com/2015/02/03/technology/freedom-clip-keurig-hack66% homeownership ratecensus.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf Declining homeownership ratehttps://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic-research/resbull/2022/html/ecb.rb220126~4542d3cea0.en.html#:~:text=Decreasing%20homeownership%20rates&text=Among%20households%20headed%20up%20by,millennials%E2%80%9D%20born%20in%20the%201980s 60% of homeowners have a mortgageurban.org/urban-wire/mortgage-debt-has-peaked-why-has-share-homeowners-mortgage-fallen-13-year-low Millennials don’t want to own things/homestimdenning.medium.com/why-the-younger-generation-doesnt-want-to-own-stuff-8db2175b4c6 businessinsider.com/millennials-renting-homes-instead-of-buying-2019-7?r=US&IR=T Poverty and profit under capitalismyoutu.be/EKdQB58g89M youtu.be/SEGGvVinUao Trends in income/wealth inequalitypewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality Minimum wage should be over $20 by nowcbsnews.com/news/minimum-wage-26-dollars-economy-productivity HBO removes showsvariety.com/2022/tv/news/hbo-max-originals-removed-1235344286 Personal property, rent, capitalismbooks.google.com/books?id=ZFdoBAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover youtu.be/8_sdxUukjc0 https://jpia.princeton.edu/news/something-nothing-how-growing-rent-seeking-heart-americas-economic-troubles jacobin.com/2013/04/we-have-always-been-rentiers Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Its So Hard To Imagine Life After Capitalism Second Thought 2022-12-02 | Get your first month of Audible absolutely free and listen to the audiobook that inspired this episode, Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism." Visit audible.com/secondthought or text secondthought to 500-500There's a common expression, "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." When the current economic model is seen more as an immutable force of nature than a system created by humans in the recent past, it becomes much harder to imagine actually changing it into something better. Let's explore the idea of capitalist realism.Why It's So Hard To Imagine Life After Capitalism – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism and Communist Realismbooks.google.com/books?id=75YnlcDv6ToC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcoverhttp://k-punk.org/communist-realism libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher The Capitalist Gaze (and The Usual Suspects quote)jstor.org/stable/10.13110/discourse.35.1.0003 Tony Blair’s quotehttps://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/europe-et-international/activites-parlementaires-internationales/l-international-a-l-assemblee-nationale/receptions-dans-l-hemicycle-de-chefs-d-etat-et-de-gouvernement/folder/tony-blair Pete Buttigieg’s quotejacobin.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-free-market-hungry-baby-formula-capitalism Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolutionbooks.google.com/books?id=uDAaAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover Slavoj Zizek, The Relevance of the Communist Manifestobooks.google.com/books?id=psaKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover youtu.be/OpW2t_RFgQw Alain Badiou quotelacan.com/badiou-on-evil.htm More on capitalist realismsocialistproject.ca/2020/09/reading-capitalist-realism-ten-years-onyoutu.be/6Cb5XJH4NMI diadelics.medium.com/fishers-business-ontology-and-the-appeal-of-donald-trump-9054a00bf379 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Hearing Both Sides Is Dangerous Second Thought 2022-11-25 | How many times have you heard someone say "we need to hear both sides," or "we have to respect other opinions"? Probably a lot. But are all ideas really created equal, and should we go out of our way to provide a level playing field in the marketplace of ideas? Let's find out!Check out my podcast, The Deprogram! Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7tk1sTZDeE8p9lnxYLy4KyYouTube: youtube.com/@thedeprogram9999Why "Hearing Both Sides" Is Dangerous – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Polarization, picking a side, the marketplace of ideaschomsky.info/consent01 jacobin.com/2022/09/trump-maga-far-right-liberals-polarization jacobin.com/2019/09/polarization-divided-america-status-quo-pete-buttigieg versobooks.com/books/3173-reactionary-democracy mronline.org/2020/01/14/dont-buy-the-marketplace-of-ideas youtu.be/D1brFnb8Pp8 youtu.be/wCl33v5969M youtu.be/MAbab8aP4_A youtu.be/XyzFwHFN_BI Letter From Birmingham Jail - MLKhttps://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html Hate crime statisticssanctuaryforfamilies.org/femicide-epidemic edition.cnn.com/2021/08/30/us/fbi-report-hate-crimes-rose-2020/index.html Racial resentment drives Trump votersvox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study $900 million on climate change denialdoi.org/10.1007/s10584-013-1018-7 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why We Should Get Rid Of Intellectual Property Second Thought 2022-11-18 | You've probably heard the term "intellectual property" before. If not, it basically means you can lay claim to an idea and prevent anyone else from using it, building upon it, or even creating something similar. Why do we have these laws, and how deep does the problem go? How Intellectual Property Stifles Innovation – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Insulin costs less than $10 to producewusa9.com/article/news/verify/insulin-costs-about-10-to-make-but-retails-for-nearly-300-pharmaceutical-companies-eli-lilly-novo-nordisk-sanofi-pbms-insuli/65-73a3cafd-3340-45cd-8324-a5e3e1c78fa5 1 in 5 Americans ration their insulinnbcnews.com/health/health-news/insulin-prices-many-adults-diabetes-ration-insulin-study-finds-rcna52287 Insulin prices increase by 15-17% every yearcommonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/sep/not-so-sweet-insulin-affordability-over-time Insulin used to cost $20, now it costs $300wusa9.com/article/news/verify/insulin-costs-about-10-to-make-but-retails-for-nearly-300-pharmaceutical-companies-eli-lilly-novo-nordisk-sanofi-pbms-insuli/65-73a3cafd-3340-45cd-8324-a5e3e1c78fa5 Monthly insulin costs exceed $1000theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/28/bernie-sanders-americans-canada-insulin-bus-caravan 90% of the insulin market is controlled by 3 companieswusa9.com/article/news/verify/insulin-costs-about-10-to-make-but-retails-for-nearly-300-pharmaceutical-companies-eli-lilly-novo-nordisk-sanofi-pbms-insuli/65-73a3cafd-3340-45cd-8324-a5e3e1c78fa5 3 companies keep insulin out of the public domainvox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expensive COVID vaccine manufacturers hire 100 lobbyists to protect their monopoly theintercept.com/2021/04/23/covid-vaccine-ip-waiver-lobbying WTO waiver delaysoxfam.org/en/press-releases/nearly-30000-people-have-died-every-day-covid-19-wto-talks-vaccine-intellectual msf.org/lack-real-ip-waiver-covid-19-tools-disappointing-failure-people Oxfam, 1 death in a rich country, four in a poor country from COVIDoi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2022-03/Pandemic%20of%20greed-Oxfam%20media%20briefing-March2022.pdf COVID vaccine manufacturers benefitted from IP waiverstheintercept.com/2022/08/23/covid-vaccine-patents-moderna-big-pharma-section-1498 America was built on IP thefthistory.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-europe The US complains about IP theft todayft.com/content/1d13ab71-bffd-4d63-a0bf-9e9bdfc33c39 TRIPS benefits the Global Northbooks.google.com/books?id=oK1m0AW95c0C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover IP more profitable than traditional businesshttp://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2333844 Four Futures by Peter Frasebooks.google.com/books?id=ZFdoBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover Tech companies file thousands of patents a year and weaponize thembizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/07/27/top-of-the-list-patent-recipients.html nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html Collective funds ideareddit.com/r/socialism/comments/328izi/how_would_intellectual_property_work_in_aCrowdfunding ideayoutu.be/mnnYCJNhw7w Fraud prevention patent office ideayoutu.be/bUpaT_f0wic Socialism and intellectual propertysocialist.net/copyright-keeping-ideas-under-lock-and-key.htm jacobin.com/2013/09/locked-out jacobin.com/2013/09/degendering-value jacobin.com/2013/09/property-and-theft Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
How Capitalism Destroyed The Internet Second Thought 2022-11-11 | Get your first month of Audible completely free! visit audible.com/secondthought or text secondthought to 500-500, and check out the book that inspired this video - Ben Tarnoff's "Internet for the People"If you're here, you're on the internet. Few tools have become so essential to modern day life as the internet. It affects everything we do, from work, to school, to banking, to keeping in touch with friends and family. With something so important, obviously capitalism had to get involved and monetize it. So how did this happen? How did the internet go from a modern Library of Alexandria to just another strip mall?How Capitalism Destroyed The Internet – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Internet for the People (main video source)books.google.com/books?id=auhOEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover jacobin.com/2022/06/internet-privatization-profit-centralization-democracy jacobin.com/2016/08/internet-public-dns-privatization-icann-netflix youtu.be/g0euZ9iGGqI Internet usage statisticsdatareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-global-overview-report statista.com/statistics/262340/daily-time-spent-with-digital-media-according-to-us-consumsers Facebook and abortion forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/08/facebook-abortion-teen-dms/?sh=721bdeb5579c Amazon and the policetheintercept.com/2022/07/13/amazon-ring-camera-footage-police-ed-markey Twitter and the far rightsplcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/07/07/we-make-mistakes-twitters-embrace-extreme-far-right ⅓ of Americans don’t have broadbandberniesanders.com/issues/high-speed-internet-all American high cost of internettheverge.com/22177154/us-internet-speed-maps-competition-availability-fcc Google and Meta buying up internet infrastructurerestofworld.org/2022/google-meta-underwater-cables Meta mergers & acquisitionsen.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms Google (Alphabet) mergers and acquisitionsen.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet Amazon Web Servicescontino.io/insights/whos-using-aws Publicly owned internet networks mintpressnews.com/time-nationalize-internet/236099 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why The US Is Not A Democracy Second Thought 2022-11-04 | Get free access to Nebula with your CuriosityStream subscription and watch episode 3 of my original series, The New F-Word! curiositystream.com/secondthoughtPeople often assume that capitalism and democracy are synonyms, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Why is that? And what prevents the United States from being the democracy it claims to be?Why The US Is Not A Democracy – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Bar graph sourcelatana.com/democracy-perception-index-report-2022 twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1532236805143027713 Princeton studyhttps://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig Representative governmentbooks.google.com/books?id=GhAJ2x2coEoC&printsec=frontcover books.google.com/books?id=IFtGAQAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover James Madison quotebillofrightsinstitute.org/primary-sources/federalist-no-10 Liquid democracydoi.org/10.1111/jopp.12065Democracy at workbooks.google.com/books?id=Xpn1Vq4aNpMC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
How Capitalism Exploits Natural Disasters Second Thought 2022-10-28 | Episode three of my Nebula Original Series, The New F-Word, is live! Get free access to Nebula and watch the whole series when you sign up for CuriosityStream! curiositystream.com/secondthoughtWe all know hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires can be bad...but did you know that capitalist regimes LOVE natural disasters? Come enjoy this week's dose of "wow, they really are that evil" and learn about how capitalism exploits natural disasters. Hope you enjoy!New video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Hurricane Fionaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Fiona#Puerto_Rico theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/12/power-outages-puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona fema.gov/press-release/20210318/fema-public-assistance-funding-tops-3-billion-puerto-rico npr.org/2022/09/23/1124345084/impact-hurricane-fiona-puerto-rico Hurricane Ianapnews.com/article/hurricanes-ron-desantis-storms-florida-weather-a775186161b80f6ce706c03fa04fe978 ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/events foxweather.com/weather-news/by-the-numbers-hurricane-ian-catastrophic-damage washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/04/hurricane-ian-statistics-deaths-winds-surge theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/05/hurricane-ian-was-less-a-natural-disaster-than-a-human-made-one-we-must-stop-building-on-swamps “Natural disasters” and disaster capitalismyoutu.be/v2ZVx8QiEUg preventionweb.net/news/why-natural-disasters-arent-all-natural newyorker.com/books/under-review/why-hurricane-katrina-was-not-a-natural-disaster naomiklein.org/rise-disaster-capitalism books.google.com/books?id=cpmRBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover thenation.com/article/archive/rise-disaster-capitalism socialistrevolution.org/hurricane-ian-devastates-florida counterpunch.org/2022/10/07/how-cuba-is-dealing-with-the-devastation-of-hurricane-ian theintercept.com/2018/09/21/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-disaster-capitalism commondreams.org/news/2022/09/18/first-hit-privatization-puerto-rico-total-blackout-fiona-makes-landfall Hurricanes and climate changetime.com/6218075/hurricane-ian-climate-change-impactnytimes.com/2021/08/29/climate/climate-change-hurricanes.html Fossil fuel companies hid climate change science for decadestheguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/30/climate-crimes-oil-and-gas-environment Hurricane Katrinatheguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster books.google.com/books?id=pTvGAcSEn4gC&printsec=frontcover Real estate developments in Floridawashingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/09/12/the-cost-of-coastal-capitalism-how-greedy-developers-left-miami-ripe-for-destruction Violence during Katrinapropublica.org/article/post-katrina-white-vigilantes-shot-african-americans-with-impunity thenation.com/article/archive/blackwater-downtheguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster books.google.com/books?id=pTvGAcSEn4gC&printsec=frontcover FEMA moneybooks.google.com/books?id=pTvGAcSEn4gC&printsec=frontcover Courts back insurance companiesabcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=3442801&page=1 Republican Study Committee ideashttp://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/cases/katrina/Press/Nation/Nation%20Reconstruction%20Ideas.pdf theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster Privatization of Puerto Rico’s electricity, schools, and pro-business tax lawsvox.com/future-perfect/2022/10/10/23391700/puerto-rico-hurricane-recovery-colonialism-debt theintercept.com/2017/09/12/in-wake-of-hurricane-irma-vultures-eye-puerto-ricos-electric-grid-for-privatization youtu.be/pTiZtYaB3Zo theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/naomi-klein-interview-puerto-rico-the-battle-for-paradise Condoleezza Rice’s wordsc-span.org/video/?184974-1/secretary-state-nomination-hearing-day-1 Florida House Republicans vote against disaster relieftruthout.org/articles/every-single-florida-house-republican-voted-against-disaster-relief-funding Postcard company tells workers to come intwitter.com/jonahfurman/status/1574813494070878210 Florida real estate expected to go upforbes.com/sites/brandonkochkodin/2022/10/07/for-florida-real-estate-that-survived-hurricane-ian-a-price-bump-awaits/?sh=135d23e45bd4nytimes.com/2022/10/13/climate/florida-real-estate-hurricane-ian.html nytimes.com/2022/10/04/us/florida-hurricane-housing-crisis.html npr.org/2022/10/06/1127083845/hurricane-ian-florida-property-insurance Follow Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthought
How Capitalism Destroyed Russia Second Thought 2022-10-21 | If you're like me, you know way too many people who think Russia is communist, or that don't realize the USSR has been gone for three decades now. But even for those who do understand that Russia is is capitalist oligarchy, not many know the full story. Come learn about how the West subjected the former soviet countries to brutal free market shock therapy, and the disastrous consequences that followed.How Capitalism Destroyed Russia – Second ThoughtNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Booksbooks.google.com/books?id=G7pvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover books.google.com/books?id=VEh9geWgbjgC&printsec=frontcover books.google.com/books?id=WSsGEsBUsVcC&printsec=frontcover books.google.com/books?id=Eal2DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover Videosyoutu.be/v6euku8NhtY youtu.be/bKGdJop7L84 youtu.be/o8d6Vzi7zYg youtu.be/oF4QkLOP2jU Shock Therapyen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics) shortform.com/blog/russia-shock-therapy project-syndicate.org/commentary/1990s-shock-therapy-set-stage-for-russian-authoritarianism-by-katharina-pistor-2022-02 The USSR and The Russian Federationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin nplusonemag.com/issue-24/ukraine-supplement/states-of-shock Naomi Klein’s definition of shock doctrine/shock therapytheguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster Individual statistics, facts, and quotes:250% increase in price following privatizationbooks.google.com/books?id=G7pvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover56% increase in unemploymenthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7828901.stm 14.5% fall/ nearly 20% decline in industrial production/1,354% inflation/real incomes being cut in halfbooks.google.com/books?id=G7pvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover Decrease in health and education spendinghttps://www.greenleft.org.au/content/health-workers-teachers-challenge-yeltsin nytimes.com/2000/10/12/world/study-finds-poverty-deepening-in-former-communist-countries.html 12.8% increase in deathshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7828901.stm 6 year drop in life expectancy in Russia 1991-1994/1 year drop due to Covidlink.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41294-021-00169-w 85% under the poverty line/Yeltsin’s 35% “correction”youtu.be/bKGdJop7L84?t=693 Jeffrey Sachs’ “spontaneous market activity” quotebooks.google.com/books?id=G7pvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover The mafia’s origins in Yeltsin’s decreebooks.google.com/books?id=VEh9geWgbjgC&printsec=frontcover 47,000 then 90,000 privatized companies books.google.com/books?id=G7pvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover books.google.com/books?id=VEh9geWgbjgC&printsec=frontcover $20 vouchers and 14% of privatizations open to the publicbooks.google.com/books?id=VEh9geWgbjgC&printsec=frontcover Graphs of wealth and inequalityyoutu.be/bKGdJop7L84 Sachs quote about prioritizing speed during the privatization processhttps://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shleifer/files/privatizing_russia.pdf Sachs quote about not prioritizing speed during the privatization processhttp://www.acamedia.info/politics/ukraine/jeffrey_sachs/What_I_did_in_Russia.pdf Sachs quote about the urgency of privatization before people caught onbooks.google.com/books?id=G7pvDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover The IMF using its funds to push around economic reformsbooks.google.be/books?id=VEh9geWgbjgC&printsec=frontcoverThe centralization of power by Yeltsinnplusonemag.com/issue-24/ukraine-supplement/states-of-shock Favorable and extra press coverage for Yeltsinbelfercenter.org/publication/assessing-russias-democratic-presidential-electionYeltsin election riggingnplusonemag.com/issue-24/ukraine-supplement/states-of-shock Sachs quote about workers councilshttps://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/1990/06/1990b_bpea_lipton_sachs_summers.pdfFollow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Were The Nazis Socialist? Second Thought 2022-10-14 | Get your first month of Audible absolutely free! Visit audible.com/secondthought or text secondthought to 500-500Were The Nazis Socialist? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Leftist definitionsyoutu.be/vyl2DeKT-Vs Point-by-point debunkings of the “Nazis were socialists” argumentsyoutu.be/Yjz_sfRr8aU youtu.be/hUFvG4RpwJI General comments on the Nazis and socialismsnopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-party-1 vox.com/2019/3/27/18283879/nazism-socialism-hitler-gop-brooks-gohmert Nazi repression of the leften.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/nazi-persecution/political-opponents-and-trade-unionists en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist_mass_killings#Germany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front facinghistory.org/resource-library/outlawing-opposition Nazi seating in parliamenthttps://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00000005?page=650,651&q=sitzungssaal The Nazi economyhttp://www.ub.edu/graap/nazi.pdf https://www.dhm.de/lemo/kapitel/ns-regime/industrie-und-wirtschaft.html Capitalist investment in the Nazisbooks.google.com/books?id=WSsGEsBUsVcC&printsec=frontcover en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Meeting_of_20_February_1933 brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-big-business-bailed-out-nazis https://www.ns-archiv.de/nsdap/foerderung/eingabe-hindenburg.php https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/41555/concerned-citizens-for-hitler The rise of leftism before the Nazisbooks.google.com/books?id=WSsGEsBUsVcC&printsec=frontcover http://isj.org.uk/divided-they-fell-the-german-left-and-the-rise-of-hitler Extrajacobin.com/2022/08/nazi-germany-national-socialism-hypercaptialism-social-darwinism-liberalism https://www.wm.edu/offices/auxiliary/osher/course-info/classnotes/thedoctrineoffascismedited.pdf Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Do Socialists Just Want To Take Your Stuff? Second Thought 2022-10-07 | Get free access to Nebula with your CuriosityStream subscription, and watch episodes 1 and 2 of my original series, The New F-Word! curiositystream.com/secondthoughtHow many times have you heard the claim that socialism sounds good in theory, or that socialists are just lazy, or that socialists want to take your stuff? I'm sure you've lost count by now. I have too. That's why I made this week's video - it's intended to be a resource for the people who make these misguided claims about socialism and help them understand why they're incorrect.Do Socialists Just Want To Take Your Stuff? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Are Landlords Really That Bad? Second Thought 2022-09-23 | Get access to all my content early and ad-free with Nebula! Visit watchnebula.com/secondthoughtOver the last few years, landlords have been in the news a lot. Thanks to covid, we've seen countless rent strikes, the formation of tenants' unions, and waves of evictions. Let's take a few minutes to look at what role landlords play in modern society, and investigate whether or not they're really as bad as everyone says.Are Landlords Really That Bad? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Rent increase of 18% over last 5 years, 150% over last 35pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/23/key-facts-about-housing-affordability-in-the-u-s theguardian.com/society/2022/may/21/rents-soaring-across-us Average landlord income vs. average renter incomerent.com/research/rent-statistics Minimum wage workers can’t afford housing anywhere in the USnlihc.org/oor 45% of landlords in the UK have no outstanding mortgagesweb.archive.org/web/20200616210915/england.shelter.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/1236820/Landlord_survey_18_Feb_publish.pdf Millenials have 35% less wealth, 70% can’t afford housingapartmentlist.com/research/2019-millennial-homeownership-report edition.cnn.com/2021/03/23/opinions/millennials-almost-impossible-to-afford-home-olson/index.html 3.6 million official evictions each yearevictionlab.org 3.5 million people, 1.4 million children experience homelessnessnationalhomeless.org/publications/facts/How_Many.pdf For-profit firms have 45% of the housing supply (21.7 million units) in the USpewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/02/as-national-eviction-ban-expires-a-look-at-who-rents-and-who-owns-in-the-u-s Wall street landlords are even worse than individual landlords theintercept.com/2018/01/20/you-think-your-landlord-is-bad-try-renting-from-wall-street http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2018/01/afr-report-wall-street-and-single-family-rentals nytimes.com/2020/03/04/magazine/wall-street-landlords.html Blackrockblackrock.com/us/individual/insights/buying-houses-facts jacobin.com/2022/03/index-funds-blackrock-vanguard-stocks-ownership-democracy-concentration Blackwaterthenation.com/article/archive/blackwater-down thenation.com/article/archive/blackwater theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/12/hurricanekatrina.usa Wall Street lobbies against rent controltheintercept.com/2018/10/12/prop-10-california-rent-control-wall-street Wall Street bought up foreclosed homes after crashing the economytheintercept.com/2018/01/20/you-think-your-landlord-is-bad-try-renting-from-wall-street All those Adam Smith quotesmarxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/rent.htmOnly 6.7% of Americans are landlordspewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/02/as-national-eviction-ban-expires-a-look-at-who-rents-and-who-owns-in-the-u-s 238 federal lawmakers are landlordsbusinessinsider.com/congress-assets-property-real-estate-law-2021-12?r=US&IR=Topensecrets.org/news/2016/01/lawmaker-landlords-members-make-millions-from-property-owned Vienna’s social housing covers 62% of the populationyoutu.be/LVuCZMLeWko?t=372 Millions of homes in America are vacantnytimes.com/2022/03/10/realestate/vacancy-rate-by-state.html Good vids about landlordsyoutu.be/g2EWQ4v9wbA youtu.be/TBOxrHdTKE0 youtu.be/9gm4b1WgVEQ youtu.be/wAuE1MLditQ Good take about “good landlords” http://www.gmhousingaction.com/good-landlord-myth Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Is American College So Expensive? Second Thought 2022-09-16 | Get your first month of Audible completely free! Visit audible.com/secondthought or text secondthought to 500-500Why Is American College So Expensive? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Reagan killed free collegetheintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/january-17-1967-statement-governor-ronald-reagan-tuitioncounterpunch.org/2022/08/31/why-talk-about-loans youtu.be/R58Si78N9i4 Loan forgiveness’ $300B costbbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62669071 US student loanseducationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics Biden says no free collegeforbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/02/07/jill-biden--free-community-college-is-off-the-federal-table California tuitiondailycal.org/2014/12/22/history-uc-tuition-since-1868blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2015/12/26/there-is-no-skills-gap-it-is-employers-who-have-not-kept-up-with-the-improved-skills-of-graduates Dartmouth tuition cost in the olden daystime.com/4472261/college-cost-history Current cost of a bachelorseducationdata.org/average-cost-of-college#:~:text=the%20ultimate%20price%20of%20a%20bachelor%E2%80%99s%20degree%20may%20be%20as%20high%20as%20%24509%2C434 educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college#:~:text=or%20%24102%2C828%20over%204%20years War on drugs costamericanprogress.org/article/ending-war-drugs-numbers War on drugs vs. education fundingsnopes.com/fact-check/california-prisons-universities politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/09/delaine-eastin/false-claim-california-has-built-nearly-four-times Enrollment rates by wealthhigheredtoday.org/2015/11/25/where-have-all-the-low-income-students-gone nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html College background of the governmentnytimes.com/2020/12/21/opinion/politicians-college-degrees.html#:~:text=But%20perhaps%20most%20fundamentally%2C%2095%20percent%20of%20today%E2%80%99s%20House%20members%20and%20100%20percent%20of%20the%20Senate%E2%80%99s%20have%20a%20bachelor%E2%80%99s%20degree%20or%20higher.%20%20Yet%20just%20a%20bit%20more%20than%20one%2Dthird%20of%20Americans%20do Nixon quotebooks.google.com/books?id=fJs3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3315&lpg=PA3315&dq=We+have+long+considered+our+colleges+and+universities+citadels+of+freedom,+where+the+rule+of+reason+prevails.+Now+both+the+process+of+freedom+and+the+rule+of+reason+are+under+attack.+At+the+same+time,+our+colleges+are+under+pressure+to+collapse+their+educational+standards,+in+the+misguided+belief+that+this+would+promote+%E2%80%9Copportunity.%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=ind9NT6NU_&sig=ACfU3U0BJX28ntXTCRn_vUauB7_ECSJJjA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPksW3h_b5AhVDPOwKHXa-CHgQ6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q=We%20have%20long%20considered%20our%20colleges%20and%20universities%20citadels%20of%20freedom%2C%20where%20the%20rule%20of%20reason%20prevails.%20Now%20both%20the%20process%20of%20freedom%20and%20the%20rule%20of%20reason%20are%20under%20attack.%20At%20the%20same%20time%2C%20our%20colleges%20are%20under%20pressure%20to%20collapse%20their%20educational%20standards%2C%20in%20the%20misguided%20belief%20that%20this%20would%20promote%20%E2%80%9Copportunity.%E2%80%9D&f=false Republican congressmantwitter.com/repjimbanks/status/1562820837140742144 Free college costeducationdata.org/how-much-would-free-college-cost#:~:text=Free%20college%20would%20cost%20on%20average%2067%25%20of%20what%20federal%20tax%20dollars%20pay%20for%20now.%C2%A0 Student debt durationeducationdata.org/average-time-to-repay-student-loans#:~:text=The%20average%20student%20borrower%20takes%2020%20years%20to%20pay%20off%20their%20student%20loan%20debt. Philosophy vs. welding fivethirtyeight.com/features/philosophers-dont-get-much-respect-but-their-earnings-dont-suck cnbc.com/2021/09/01/college-graduate-starting-salaries-are-at-an-all-time-high.html [chapter 7] books.google.com/books?id=zeb9DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover Businesses can’t adaptblogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2015/12/26/there-is-no-skills-gap-it-is-employers-who-have-not-kept-up-with-the-improved-skills-of-graduates Education vs Job Trainingtandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2017.1382384 books.google.com/books?id=8cRXDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover Colleges historyeducation.stateuniversity.com/pages/2044/Higher-Education-in-United-States.html http://factmyth.com/factoids/state-universities-began-charging-tuition-in-the-60s Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman
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How Capitalism Robs the Developing World Second Thought 2022-09-02 | Get free access to Nebula with your Curiosity Stream subscription! Visit curiositystream.com/secondthoughtYou've probably seen videos ask questions like "why is _____ so poor?" or "why are northern countries richer?" but most of them fail to grapple with the underlying causes of global inequality. In this week's video, we'll fix that. Come learn about what really causes so-called "underdevelopment" in the global south. How Capitalism Robs the Developing World – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodneyabahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf Imperialismbritannica.com/topic/imperialism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/imperialism.pdf youtu.be/NrpLPs2FcF8 youtu.be/unCGQDKJ0p0 youtu.be/3elgPd3IpfQ youtu.be/5nvCS84pMLk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unequal_exchange politicalanthro.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/nkrumah.pdf the-red-flag.org/en/notes-on-bureaucratic-comprador-capitalism-article-one-pasaron britannica.com/topic/neocolonialism marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch04.htm versobooks.com/blogs/4810-colonialism-as-a-system-for-underdeveloping-africa en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accumulation_of_Capital jacobin.com/2020/01/franc-zone-french-neocolonialism-africa Structural Adjustment Programsglobalissues.org/article/3/structural-adjustment-a-major-cause-of-poverty Castro quotehttps://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/documents/dabsolve.htm Soil and European agriculture under feudalismjstor.org/stable/26162192 Estimating the costs of slavery and colonialism in Africaqz.com/africa/1915182/what-reparations-are-owed-to-africa https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/29412034/hup_africa_slave_trade10.pdf?sequence=1 Britain stealing $45 trillion from Indiaaljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india#:~:text=Drawing%20on%20nearly%20two%20centuries%20of%20detailed%20data%20on%20tax%20and%20trade%2C%20Patnaik%20calculated%20that%20Britain%20drained%20a%20total%20of%20nearly%C2%A0%2445%C2%A0trillion%20from%20India%20during%20the%20period%201765%20to%201938 The costs to Haitiabcnews.go.com/US/colonial-era-debt-helped-shape-haitis-poverty-political/story?id=78851735#:~:text=The%20French%20recognized%20Haiti%27s%20independence,%2421%20billion%20(USD)%20today cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/empire-racial-capitalism-and-international-law-the-case-of-manumitted-haiti-and-the-recognition-debt/4CE72865EFD32479C4F31327D6C5DDFA/share/b8eb2248cdd1bd128bde8ca8eff30a351f8704f2 British profits in Africa (p.237)abahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf Quote about Africa’s wealth from a European “explorer” (p.211)abahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf Canadian mine ownershipvice.com/en/article/wdb4j5/75-of-the-worlds-mining-companies-are-based-in-canada allafrica.com/stories/201304181336.html twitter.com/nyeusi_waasi/status/1430593342983839748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.notion.so%2FRelevant-Info-47d372dfc4744a3a910573812b32ea77 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Capitalism Is Destroying Us - The New Climate Report Second Thought 2022-08-26 | It's never good to hear the words "total societal collapse" from a scholarly paper, but that's exactly the phrasing used in the new UN climate report. We all know it's bad, but what's really standing in the way of us ensuring a livable future? Check out my podcast, The Deprogram! Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7tk1sTZDeE8p9lnxYLy4KyApple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deprogram/id1596666465YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCOInEMAm0Y4VXoAfbJMR3Wg Everything else: buzzsprout.com/1890340Capitalism Is Destroying Us - The New Climate Report – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Previous video on carbon footprints and individual responsibilityyoutu.be/5sgRTbTm91Q The UN Reportundrr.org/gar2022-our-world-risk undrr.org/media/80217/download bylinetimes.com/2022/05/26/un-warns-of-total-societal-collapse-due-to-breaching-of-planetary-boundaries yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/07/the-future-of-global-catastrophic-risk-events-from-climate-change Climate Change’s Effectshttps://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_TechnicalSummary.pdf Hickel & Kallis, “Is Green Growth Possible?” static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc0e610abd04bd1e067ccc/t/5cbdc638b208fc1c56f785a7/1555940922601/Hickel+and+Kallis+-+Is+Green+Growth+Possible.pdf jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/9/14/why-growth-cant-be-green Hickel, “Less is More” (includes Harvard/Yale study and a discussion of green growth)https://dl1.cuni.cz/pluginfile.php/1179270/mod_resource/content/1/Jason%20Hickel%20-%20Less%20is%20More.pdf The Harvard/Yale studynature.com/articles/nature13530 ESG lower returnscnbc.com/2022/03/28/green-investing-is-underperforming-but-dont-count-it-out-just-yet.html The power and capitalization of the fossil fuel industrybnarchives.yorku.ca/490/2/20160000_di_muzio_energy_capital_as_power_and_world_order_preprint.pdf Joe Manchin and coal moneycnn.com/2022/07/15/politics/joe-manchin-coal-financial-interests-climate/index.html BP ads about carbon footprintsyoutube.com/watch?v=ywrZPypqSB4 Fossil fuel companies kill renewable legislationtheguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/22/fossil-fuel-firms-accused-renewable-lobby-takeover-push-gas Finance capital doesn’t want an end to fossil fuels capitalaspower.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220200_baines_hager_from_passive_owners_to_planet_savers.pdfFossil fuel companies and electric carspolitico.com/story/2019/09/16/oil-industry-electric-car-1729429 Fossil fuel’s record profits theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/02/oil-industry-record-profits-climate-crisis youtu.be/BpK6uFJP0gQ?t=126 Citizens’ assembly for the climate in Franceen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Convention_for_Climate https://propositions.conventioncitoyennepourleclimat.fr/pdf/ccc-rapport-final.pdf fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_citoyenne_pour_le_climat https://blogs.mediapart.fr/helloat-sylvain/blog/110221/la-grande-hypocrisie-de-la-loi-climat-et-resilience-acheve-la-convention-citoyenne French approval of the convention’s policieshttps://elabe.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/elabe_ccc_25062020.pdf Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger? Second Thought 2022-08-19 | Want to make videos like mine? Check out Storyblocks! storyblocks.com/secondthoughtWe're often told just how productive a capitalist economy is. We produce far more than we need...so why are there still so many hungry and malnourished people? In this episode we'll investigate the real cause of world hunger, and assess whether capitalism has the tools to solve this massive problem.Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:The Elon Musk world hunger tweet sagaabc10.com/article/news/verify/business-verify/elon-musk-indicated-2021-to-donate-6-billion-to-fighting-solving-world-hunger-if-un-met-conditions/536-cad0e59e-775d-4c3d-a309-b3ef93379a71 fortune.com/2022/02/15/elon-musk-5-7-billion-donation-weeks-after-asking-un-world-hunger 829 million people/~10% of people actionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-statistics 25,000 daily deaths theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/hunger-and-obesity/how-many-people-die-from-hunger-each-year 3.1 million children die of malnutrition every yeartheguardian.com/global-development/2013/jun/06/malnutrition-3-million-deaths-children World hunger is on the riseactionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-statistics Famineswfp.org/stories/hunger-hotspots-4-countries-face-famine-un-report-warns Food insecurity affects 38 million Americansers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-u-s/key-statistics-graphics/#insecure Food insecurity affects 8% of American childreners.usda.gov/amber-waves/2022/february/food-insecurity-for-households-with-children-rose-in-2020-disrupting-decade-long-decline We produce enough to feed 10 billion peopledoi.org/10.1080/10440046.2012.695331 Our Changing Climate’s food waste videoyoutu.be/1MpfEeSem_4?⅓ of the food produced, 1.3 billion tons, gets wasted each yearwfp.org/stories/5-facts-about-food-waste-and-hunger#:~:text=1.,worth%20 approximately%20 US%241%20 trillion Food waste along the supply chainfoodengineeringmag.com/articles/97511-food-waste-in-the-supply-chain 34% of the food grown gets wasted at the farmsciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344919301296#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20we%20found%2011%2C299,estimating%20on%2Dfarm%20food%20losses Farmers respond to price fluctuationsjacobin.com/2017/03/food-production-hunger-waste-agriculture-commodity-capitalism Farm waste during the pandemic nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html “Ugly produce” companies aren’t helpingtheatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/01/ugly-produce-startups-food-waste/581182 newrepublic.com/article/152596/hungry-harvest-box-ugly-produce-help-planet-or-hurt-it Best before dates aren’t regulated/standardizedvox.com/22559293/food-waste-expiration-label-best-before 40 million Americans live in food desertsaecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts Supermarkets stock 10x larger food products and plates have increased 36% in sizehttp://www.meta-systems.eu/nickbrown/duplication/PortionSizeMe/(Annotated%20vs%202013)%20Wansink,%20van%20Ittersum%20-%202007%20-%20Portion%20Size%20Me%20-%20Downsizing%20Our%20Consumption%20Norms.pdf Refrigerators have gotten 30% bigger and cost half as muchappliance-standards.org/product/refrigerators-and-freezers The commodification of foodjacobin.com/2017/03/food-production-hunger-waste-agriculture-commodity-capitalism Structural adjustment programs globalissues.org/article/3/structural-adjustment-a-major-cause-of-poverty Gambian fish storyhttps://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/06/URBINA/63205 Food for beginnersarchive.org/details/FoodForBeginners-CartoonBook-SusanGeorge/mode/2up World hunger book (outdated statistics, but the analysis is still relevant) tni.org/files/download/howtheotherhalfdies.pdf http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj86/obrien.htm Twelve myths about world hungerhttp://cf.linnbenton.edu/artcom/social_science/clarkd/upload/x-Twelve%20Myths%20About%20World%20Hunger.pdf Food justice is class warjacobin.com/2016/09/agriculture-ecology-food-justice-farmworkers-local-climate Unequal exchangeyoutu.be/4lDZaKjfs4E tni.org/es/node/4597 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanBusiness Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Peaceful Protest Wont Solve Anything Second Thought 2022-08-12 | Get free access to Nebula with your Curiosity Stream subscription! Visit curiositystream.com/secondthoughtHow many times have you heard people scold protestors for being "uncivil"? How many news stories have you seen about "mobs" and "violence" when talking about people exercising their right to assembly? Isn't the whole point of a protest to get the government's attention? What's going on here? Why are these calls for "civility" so common, and what's really behind that seemingly innocent word?Why Peaceful Protest Won't Solve Anything – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:The original Kavanaugh protest videotwitter.com/DouglasKBlair/status/1523095574156742657 Civilityjacobin.com/2018/11/bipartisanship-tribalism-midterm-elections jacobin.com/2017/07/labour-entryism-left-momentum-corbyn-party-democracy?fbclid=IwAR1ocTfjOKUngKpqiUf9FRbAnAMj2eIYFy7ATEznZTGdjqnoddI7ryKyuIY motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/abortion-brett-kavanaugh-john-roberts-samuel-alito-supreme-court-roe-protest themarysue.com/protests-scotus-abortion-exhausting-civility-debate thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-court-protests Biden and segregationistswashingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/19/joe-biden-james-eastland-herman-talmadge-segregationists-civility cnn.com/2017/10/10/politics/joe-biden-center-history/index.html Roe v. Wade maternal mortality rate theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/27/roe-v-wade-overturned-maternal-mortality-rate-will-rise reuters.com/article/factcheck-abortion-false/fact-check-termination-of-pregnancy-can-be-necessary-to-save-a-womans-life-experts-say-idUSL1N2TC0VD Maternal mortality rate in the UScommonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/nov/maternal-mortality-maternity-care-us-compared-10-countries Imprisonment/prosecution after Roe texastribune.org/2022/06/29/texas-abortion-funds-legal vox.com/policy-and-politics/23021104/texas-abortion-murder-charge-starr-county theintercept.com/2022/06/24/roe-v-wade-overturn-economic-impact Femicides and abortionhttps://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr/vol34/iss3/3/ Obama deportationabcnews.go.com/Politics/obamas-deportation-policy-numbers/story?id=41715661 Obama drone strikescfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush Obama austeritydissentmagazine.org/online_articles/austerity-obama-years The liberal view of the stateyoutube.com/watch?v=MHrQW-3M5_Yyoutube.com/watch?v=MAbab8aP4_A The study on who the American government listens tocambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Are Democrats Funding The Far Right? Second Thought 2022-08-05 | Get your first month of Audible completely free! Visit audible.com/secondthought or text secondthought to 500-500Everybody knows the democrats and the republicans hate each other. All they ever talk about on Fox and CNN is how stupid and "authoritarian" the other side is. So...why are democrats funding some of the most far right candidates? Why Are Democrats Funding The Far Right? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Democrats are funding adsnpr.org/2022/06/27/1106859552/primary-illinois-colorado-republican-candidate-democrats-ads politico.com/news/2022/06/09/dems-meddle-in-colorado-senate-gop-primary-00038294 foxnews.com/media/washington-post-calls-out-democrats-funding-republican-extremists-primaries-shameless-dangerous washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/29/democrats-stop-funding-right-wing-candidates politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/05/18/takeaways-from-the-biggest-primary-night-of-the-year-00033345 jacobin.com/2022/06/democrats-boosting-far-right-republicans-defend-democracy-republican-gop-primaries Democrat-funded adshost2.adimpact.com/admo/viewer/821ff523-0f2f-4b51-83fb-934cad4b92a7 coloradopolitics.com/democratic-colorado-ron-hanks-too-conservative-ad/video_43f84c7c-e757-11ec-9d51-a789fa752bb2.html theillinoize.com/articles/democratic-governors-association-boosting-bailey big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2022/06/03/629a9b0ce4b07aa93899ef25.mp4 Biden’s low approvalnytimes.com/2022/07/11/us/politics/biden-approval-polling-2024.html Claire McCAskill quote and articlenpr.org/2022/06/27/1106859552/primary-illinois-colorado-republican-candidate-democrats-ads politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/todd-akin-missouri-claire-mccaskill-2012-121262 Millennials and Gen-Z like socialismaxios.com/2019/10/28/millennials-vote-socialism-capitalism-decline Socialist theories of fascismmarxists.org/subject/fascism/index.htmmarxists.org/archive/dutt/articles/1935/question_of_fascism.htm marxist.com/what-is-fascism-and-is-it-an-imminent-threat-today.htm youtu.be/IG8Bczss228 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Can There Be Innovation Under Socialism? Second Thought 2022-07-29 | How many times have you heard the claim "without the profit motive there would be no innovation"? It's a line repeated so often that it seems like common sense to many people. Let's investigate that claim. Can there be innovation under socialism?Can There Be Innovation Under Socialism? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Capitalism and Innovationinthesetimes.com/article/capitalism-pandemic-covid19-vaccine-coronavirus-socialism-innovation jacobin.com/2015/03/socialism-innovation-capitalism-smith hbr.org/2011/11/people-dont-need-a-profit-motive-to-innovate tribunemag.co.uk/2020/08/how-capitalism-stifles-innovation science.org/content/blog-post/adam-smith-goes-pharmaceutical youtu.be/uylnpj6zLWw The iPhonegoogle.com/books/edition/Entrepreneurial_State/Wro1DgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcovergoogle.com/books/edition/The_People_s_Republic_of_Walmart/IcCGDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover Public investment in health innovationsncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5878010 The 11 lines of open-source code that broke the internetqz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code youtube.com/watch?v=LmI4W8X7vU8 COVID patents and Africa, mutationsafricacdc.org/covid-19-vaccination healthline.com/health-news/how-low-vaccination-rates-contribute-to-the-rise-of-coronavirus-variants 6.7% of world has a college degreehuffpost.com/entry/percent-of-world-with-col_n_581807 nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w15902/w15902.pdf Cuban medical innovationsnature.com/articles/nbt1204supp-DC19.pdf?proof=t Economic planning and innovationgoogle.com/books/edition/The_People_s_Republic_of_Walmart/IcCGDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover https://people.umass.edu/dmkotz/Soc_and_Innovation_02.pdf Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Would Anyone Work Under Socialism? Second Thought 2022-07-22 | Why Would Anyone Work Under Socialism? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Unemployment and jobsmintpressnews.com/dont-be-fooled-the-official-unemployment-numbers-are-a-lie/274731 bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm cnbc.com/2022/03/29/there-are-now-a-record-5-million-more-job-openings-than-unemployed-people-in-the-us.html washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/05/may-2020-jobs-report-misclassification-error Americans overworkednbcnews.com/id/wbna7190211 Engagement at workgallup.com/workplace/388481/employee-engagement-drops-first-year-decade.aspx news.gallup.com/poll/150383/majority-american-workers-not-engaged-jobs.aspx gallup.com/workplace/356063/gallup-q12-employee-engagement-survey.aspx Volunteering statisticscnn.com/2018/07/19/us/volunteering-statistics-cfc To each according to his contributionen.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_each_according_to_his_contribution Work and socialismjacobin.com/2019/10/work-ethic-socialism-bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez marxist.com/work-capitalism-socialism.htm politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/03/what-would-a-socialist-america-look-like-219626 theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-friends-of-4-million-young-workers-a-world-without-money-communismyoutu.be/-3vbRNM5Pw8 youtu.be/W61HHFv6WOM socialism101.com/basic Cuban doctorstime.com/5467742/cuba-doctors-export-brazil Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
How Do Politicians Keep Getting So Rich? Second Thought 2022-07-15 | Want to make videos like mine? Check out Storyblocks! Get started today at storyblocks.com/secondthought How Do Politicians Keep Getting So Rich? – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Average American salaryssa.gov/oact/cola/AWI.html 0.1% of Americans by wealthhttps://economics.princeton.edu/working-papers/top-wealth-in-america-new-estimates-and-implications-for-taxing-the-rich/ Wealth increases in congressopensecrets.org/personal-finances Majority of lawmakers are millionairesopensecrets.org/news/2020/04/majority-of-lawmakers-millionaires Pelosi net worthopensecrets.org/personal-finances/nancy-pelosi/net-worth?cid=N00007360&year=2018 Pelosi investments and returnsjacobin.com/2021/12/house-speaker-paul-stocks-insider-trading-wealth nerdwallet.com/article/investing/average-stock-market-return Pelosi says notwitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1471222077688532997?s=20 Richard Burr’s pandemic articlefoxnews.com/opinion/coronavirus-prevention-steps-the-u-s-government-is-taking-to-protect-you-sen-alexander-and-sen-burrBurr’s stock dumppropublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-7-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparedness Stock dump investigations closednpr.org/2020/05/26/862692569/justice-department-closes-investigations-of-3-senators-burr-inquiry-continues npr.org/2021/01/19/958622574/doj-drops-insider-trading-investigation-into-sen-richard-burr Business insider investigation into insider trading businessinsider.com/congress-staff-violated-stock-act-conflicts-of-interest-possible-2021-12 Studies on congress stock returnsresearchgate.net/publication/227378283_Abnormal_Returns_From_the_Common_Stock_Investments_of_Members_of_the_US_House_of_Representatives 2017 Public Citizen reportcitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/migration/case_documents/2017_stock_act_report.pdf $3.7 spent on lobbyingopensecrets.org/federal-lobbying Top spendersopensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/business-labor-ideological Nancy Pelosi $180,000 in lobbyingopensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-recipients-details?cycle=2020&id=N00007360 $1 lobbied = $760 returnsunlightfoundation.com/2014/11/17/fixed-fortunes-biggest-corporate-political-interests-spend-billions-get-trillions ⅔ of politicians go into lobbyingcitizen.org/news/revolving-door-class-of-2019-nearly-two-thirds-of-former-lawmakers-with-jobs-outside-politics-land-in-influence-business Lawmakers get pay raise for going into lobbyingthenation.com/article/archive/when-congressman-becomes-lobbyist-he-gets-1452-percent-raise-average Nancy and Paul Pelosi Visa lobbying/investmentreuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-insidertrading/house-insider-trading-bill-takes-dig-at-pelosi-idUSTRE81700720120208 cbsnews.com/news/new-details-on-visas-attempt-to-influence-pelosi investors.com/politics/editorials/pelosi-corzine-visa-scandal Lobbyingyoutu.be/FZVfTCBUkgM Revolving dooropensecrets.org/revolving Insider Tradingyoutu.be/TdYqE60-8E8 Being wealthy going incbsnews.com/news/why-is-congress-a-millionaires-club Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why You Cant Reform The Supreme Court Second Thought 2022-07-08 | Get free access to Nebula with your CuriosityStream subscription! Visit curiositystream.com/secondthoughtUnless you've been living under a rock (in which case, I envy you), you've definitely heard about the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding abortion rights. This is a good time to talk about how the Supreme Court works and what exactly makes it not only undemocratic, but anti-democratic. Is reform an option? Watch and find out!Why You Can't Reform The Supreme Court – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:cnbc.com/2022/05/06/how-supreme-court-went-from-roe-v-wade-to-drafting-opinion-to-overturn-it.html npr.org/2022/05/05/1096732347/roe-v-wade-implications-beyond-abortion desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/06/25/other-privacy-rights-could-danger-if-roe-v-wade-reversed-abortion-supreme-court/1561115001 politico.com/news/2022/05/03/supreme-court-abortion-privacy-rights-00029871 dissentmagazine.org/article/the-court-is-not-your-friend bostonreview.net/articles/samuel-moyn-resisting-juristocracy washingtonpost.com/world/2018/10/06/why-americas-supreme-court-drama-looks-so-strange-rest-world jacobin.com/2020/10/us-constitution-law-supreme-court-socialism jacobin.com/2022/02/judicial-review-democracy-liberals-minorities-breyer-warren-biden jacobin.com/2020/10/supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-juristocracy wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/09/14/how-canada-supreme-court-justices https://nouvelle.news/2020/09/why-are-american-supreme-court-appointments-more-politicized-than-canadas/ vox.com/2018/10/12/17950896/supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-mark-tushnet theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/supreme-court-power-overrule-congress/661212 Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Is Retirement Still Achievable? Second Thought 2022-07-01 | Get your first month of Audible absolutely free! Visit audible.com/secondthought or text secondthought to 500-500Let's face it, it's hard enough just to get by these days. Saving for retirement? Now that's a pipe dream for most Americans. Why is that? Are things really that bad? Let's take a look at retirement trends in the United States and see what's behind these worrying developments.Why You'll Never Retire – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading: Increase in the age of retirement and typical justificationsmoney.usnews.com/money/retirement/social-security/articles/the-social-security-retirement-age-increases ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/agereduction.html ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/ageincrease.html ssa.gov/pressoffice/IncRetAge.html#:~:text=The%20retirement%20age%20will%20increase,full%20retirement%20benefits%20at%2065. https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/increasing-the-eligibility-age-for-social-security-pensions/ Estimates of the retirement age in the futurecnbc.com/2022/04/03/social-security-retirement-age-reaches-67-some-say-it-may-go-higher.html That Wikipedia pageen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_age 97% of people depend on social securitycbpp.org/research/social-security/top-ten-facts-about-social-security#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%2097%20percent%20of,people%20at%20all%20earnings%20levels. Social security is the largest source of income for those over 65harpers.org/archive/2014/08/the-end-of-retirement Income and life expectancy datancbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/figure/F1 Cases of declining life expectancy among the poormedpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/healthpolicy/93695 Pensions go from 40% to 13% of workers covered (some sources go up to 20%, but all show a steep decline)benefitnews.com/news/early-champions-of-the-401-k-lament-the-revolution-they-started Pensions and 401(k)s, more generallycnbc.com/2021/03/24/how-401k-brought-about-the-death-of-pensions.html 52% of Americans above 55 have no retirement savingsgao.gov/products/gao-19-442r Private equity funds, $230 billion, largest transfer of wealth quotelevernews.com/news-trump-just-fulfilled-his-billionaire papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3623820 The Trump 401k policy picked up by Bidenjacobin.com/2022/02/joe-biden-policy-private-equity-blackstone-retirement-401k dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/information-letters/06-03-2020-supplemental-statement.pdf prospect.org/economy/letting-private-equity-billionaires-rob-worker-retirement-funds pionline.com/defined-contribution/dol-letter-intel-ruling-pave-way-private-equity-dc-plans news.bloomberglaw.com/in-house-counsel/private-equity-firms-are-winning-the-fight-for-your-401k jacobin.com/2022/01/retirement-accounts-401k-hughes-northwestern-university-supreme-court-ruling-wall-street Camperforceharpers.org/archive/2014/08/the-end-of-retirement Labor militancy and retirementaflcio.org/about-us/history Retirement, generallyjacobin.com/2017/04/retirement-social-security-pensions-welfare-state-workers jacobin.com/2019/11/retirement-united-states-work-elderly-loneliness https://claudepeppercenter.fsu.edu/neoliberalism-and-the-future-of-retirement-security/ Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Why Youre Not “Middle Class” Second Thought 2022-06-24 | Get your first month of Audible completely free! Visit audible.com/secondthought or text secondthought to 500-500Fun fact, the vast majority of people see themselves as "middle class." That includes everyone from those making $20k per year all the way to those making millions of dollars per year. Surely they can't all be part of the same group, right? What's going on here? What is the middle class? Why You're Not Middle Class – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:“What is Social Class” by Marxist Paulyoutu.be/KMzeeHMeiyw“Social Class: WTF?” by Tom Nicholasyoutu.be/7eWLDuWnEbw Millionaires say they’re middle classfinance.yahoo.com/news/most-millionaires-theyre-middle-class-140000146.html Gallup poll (green bar chart)news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/204497/determines-americans-perceive-social-class.aspx Roe lack of supportpbs.org/newshour/politics/majority-of-americans-dont-want-roe-overturned dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/12/10/a-federal-ban-on-abortion-is-wildly-unpopular-in-all-50-states?fbclid=IwAR3zBOqnw8yGGa_7IAnWh3GwxD3YoNzHSm0wBvPYBBtqqCc9TJ9plmGDVp0 Vox article vox.com/the-goods/22166381/hollow-middle-class-american-dream Stats about the American Dreamcbs19news.com/story/34248451/6-in-10-americans-dont-have-500-in-savings educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt Different definitions of ‘middle class’ https://www.brookings.edu/research/defining-the-middle-class-cash-credentials-or-culture/ pewresearch.org/social-trends/2016/05/11/americas-shrinking-middle-class-a-close-look-at-changes-within-metropolitan-areas Small business statsfundera.com/blog/what-percentage-of-small-businesses-failbls.gov/bdm/us_age_naics_00_table7.txt Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
Mark Robers Prank And The Truth About Scammers And Capitalism Second Thought 2022-06-17 | You've probably seen Mark Rober's wildly popular video where he pranks scam call centers. As satisfying as it is to see these awful places get a small taste of their own medicine, there's something deeper we need to talk about. Scam call centers are just one cancerous offshoot of bureaucracy under capitalism, and while pranking these places may be cathartic, it's not enough to tackle the root cause. Mark Rober's Prank And The Truth About Scammers And Capitalism – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:Mark Rober’s original videoyoutube.com/watch?v=xsLJZyih3Ac& twitter.com/MarkRober/status/1524856304686465024?cxt=HHwWgIDQ5dyusKkqAAAA Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisherfiles.libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%20No%20Alternat%20-%20Mark%20Fisher.pdf brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2019/10/28/the-minotaur-in-the-labyrinthine-office-on-bureaucracy theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=3454 opendemocracy.net/en/how-to-kill-zombie-strategizing-end-of-neoliberalism Milton Friedman clip and articleyoutu.be/ViAT1TxhBk4?t=109 hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/friedman-government-problem-1993.pdf Jacobin article jacobin.com/2019/03/capitalism-freedom-socialism-milton-friedman-hayekFollow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
How The EU Created The Worlds Deadliest Border Second Thought 2022-06-10 | We hear a lot about the horrific border policy of the US, but very rarely does anyone mention Europe. Believe it or not, the deadliest border In the world isn't shared with the US...but the EU. What's going on here? How is Frontex, the EU border security organization, responsible for tens of thousands of preventable deaths?This episode is a collaboration with Marxist Paul, so make sure to check out his video next: youtu.be/zQUxZTlpDM4How The EU Created The World's Deadliest Border – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:abolishfrontex.org/frontex euronews.com/my-europe/2021/07/29/allegations-lawsuits-and-damning-reports-how-frontex-became-the-most-contentious-eu-agency socialistworker.org/2016/04/28/a-mass-grave-in-the-mediterranean Biden likes wallscbsnews.com/news/immigration-border-wall-biden-funds Frontex director resignsyoutube.com/watch?v=5obdeCkJxAo https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-border-agency-fabrice-leggeri-resigns-watchdog-probe-findings-released-misconduct/ theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/head-of-eu-border-agency-frontex-resigns-amid-criticisms-fabrice-leggeri Deaths in the Mediterraneannews.un.org/en/story/2017/11/637162-mediterranean-crossing-still-worlds-deadliest-migrants-un-report https://reliefweb.int/report/world/renewed-tragedy-rise-drowned-missing-migrants-asylum-seekers-toll-2021-enar#:~:text=The%20report%20on%20the%20movement,when%20the%20number%20was%201%2C448 theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/18/eu-has-blood-on-its-hands-say-activists-calling-for-frontex-border-agencys-abolition statista.com/statistics/1082077/deaths-of-migrants-in-the-mediterranean-sea Pushbackstheguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/28/revealed-eu-border-agency-involved-in-hundreds-of-refugee-pushbacks josoor.net/post/frontex-protection-or-abuse https://refugee-rights.eu/pushbacksevidence/ Frontex hides pushbackshttps://www.politico.eu/article/europe-migration-frontex-pushbacks-illegal-parliament-report/ infomigrants.net/en/post/38907/frontex-leaders-concealed-pushbacks-watchdog-reports Non-refoulementen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-refoulement Frontex briefhttps://frontex.europa.eu/assets/Publications/General/In_Brief_2020/20.0147_inbrief_2020_11th_web_fixed4.pdf New border walls in Europetni.org/en/publication/building-walls Frontex budgeteuronews.com/my-europe/2021/07/29/allegations-lawsuits-and-damning-reports-how-frontex-became-the-most-contentious-eu-agency statewatch.org/publications/reports-and-books/at-what-cost-funding-the-eu-s-security-defence-and-border-policies-2021-2027 Dronesstatewatch.org/analyses/2021/border-surveillance-drones-and-militarisation-of-the-mediterranean theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/04/drones-replace-patrol-ships-mediterranean-fears-more-migrant-deaths-eu Pullbackshttps://reliefweb.int/report/world/how-europe-can-help-end-death-and-despair-mediterranean-sea “Concentration camp-like conditions”https://fragdenstaat.de/blog/2018/libyen-fluechtlingslager/ Coast guard firing at migrantstheintercept.com/2016/08/22/coast-guard-fired-at-migrant-boats-european-border-agency-documents-show Frontex mapsthecorrespondent.com/664/how-maps-in-the-media-make-us-more-negative-about-migrants/87812829368-c203ad78 Biometric/AI use and discriminationstatewatch.org/publications/reports-and-books/building-the-biometric-state-police-powers-and-discrimination statewatch.org/news/2022/may/eu-has-spent-over-340-million-on-border-ai-technology-that-new-law-fails-to-regulate Failed reformstheguardian.com/global-development/2021/jan/19/eu-border-force-head-fabrice-leggeri-faces-calls-to-quit-over-allegations-he-misled-meps statewatch.org/analyses/2022/frontex-more-power-no-responsibility-mega-agency-lacks-real-accountability-structure Institutional EU support for Frontexen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontex CNN clipyoutube.com/watch?v=Ja1pW89kK48 Capitalism and Bordersleftvoice.org/borders-and-capitalism-a-socialist-perspective socialistworker.org/2018/11/27/the-case-against-the-case-against-open-borders blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/the-effect-of-anti-immigration-rhetoric
How The Next Election Will Be Stolen Second Thought 2022-05-27 | After January 6th, the whole "Stop The Steal" charade mostly fell out of the public discourse. That being said, those same angry, distrustful elements within the American electorate are still very much alive, just waiting to be activated in the lead-up to 2024. Have we learned anything? What's to stop Trump or another Trumpian figure from using un-democratic means to steal the election?How The Next Election Will Be Stolen – Second ThoughtSUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTSNew video every Friday!Citations and Further Reading:washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/election-overturn-plans theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843 nytimes.com/2022/01/30/us/politics/election-deniers-secretary-of-state.html npr.org/2021/12/09/1062683521/journalist-says-republicans-now-have-more-reliable-ways-to-overturn-election-res washingtonpost.com/investigations/electors-giuliani-trump-electoral-college/2022/01/20/687e3698-7587-11ec-8b0a-bcfab800c430_story.html?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template vox.com/policy-and-politics/22274429/republicans-anti-democracy-13-charts wbur.org/onpoint/2021/06/23/viktor-orban-hungary-teach-america vox.com/2020/5/21/21256324/viktor-orban-hungary-american-conservatives vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/13/17823488/hungary-democracy-authoritarianism-trump en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_ascertainment Statsipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2021-12/Reuters%20Ipsos%20Large%20Issue%20Poll%20No%206%20Topline%20-%20December%202021.pdf washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/07/republicans-big-lie-trump npr.org/2021/11/01/1050291610/most-americans-trust-elections-are-fair-but-sharp-divides-exist-a-new-poll-finds Follow and Support Second Thought!Twitter: twitter.com/_SecondThoughtPatreon: patreon.com/secondthoughtBuyMeACoffee: buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapmanWatch More Second Thought:Latest Uploads: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27Spaaaaaace!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6vWhat If...: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--CviPopular Videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxNAbout Second Thought:Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome!Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com
