The TED edutainment industrial complex must be stopped.
Contains standard (neo)liberal propaganda so I don’t really see the need to ‘debunk’. Just watch and laugh.
The TED edutainment industrial complex must be stopped.
Contains standard (neo)liberal propaganda so I don’t really see the need to ‘debunk’. Just watch and laugh.
This video and the comments pissed me off so I’m going to quote the important bits so y’all don’t suffer. I put the quotes under spoilers to save space:
INEQUALITY
This line of thinking is what leads to complacency and apathy. Inequality is natural and therefore nothing will change. Some people are just inherently better than others. Historically there were egalitarian societies, even recently. The real life Lord Of The Flies: 1965-1966 a group of young boys were shipwrecked on an island and survived 15 months by establishing a productive system of chores (farming and general survival stuff) and vowing to never quarrel. If the had spats, instead of escalating they’d time-out to calm down and return to discuss. So the exact opposite of what happened in the fictional book.
GINI INDEX
Corrado Gini was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was a proponent of organicism and applied it to nations. Gini was a eugenicist, and prior to and during World War II, he was an advocate of Italian Fascism.
Whoopsie! It’s fascism! They don’t mention this in the video lol
MORE GINI
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t remember Marx talking about paying children…
GINI IS FAKE
So it’s essentially useless I guess.
NUANCE NEEDED
Why are you surprised that a fascist made system doesn’t actually give an accurate account of human society?
GOVERNMENT
Uh oh. Here we go…
RED SCARE
They weren’t as prosperous as the “world leading economies”? China??? Also the Soviets literally fast tracked industrialization to defeat the Nazis and suffered the most losses. Then when WWII ended the west immediately begun its attack on the USSR.
CONT.
What were the other issues TED SAY IT WHAT WERE THEY
CHINA
Ok. I’m willing to admit when I don’t know something. Can’t say much about this tidbit but hopefully someone else can.
DUCKS
He says that in a “funny” voice to make this sentiment sound stupid and far fetched but it’s literally true. That’s the whole point.
CHINA BAD
Oh my god, please leave China alone. Also, doesn’t that kind of prove the point you’re trying to dismiss? So China bad because communism, capitalism good, but China capitalism bad because China bad. OOF
EUROPE
Ah of course it’s Europe. Europe is so perfect unlike other countries. It’s not like Europe has a history of brutal colonialism and imperialism that is still present to this day. That’s absurd.
AMAZING
Yeah that seems to be working out GREAT
TAXES
This one was too much for me to break down. So what is TED implying? That people in Europe have accessible healthcare and education and therefore they don’t complain about anything? I don’t live in Europe but isn’t high education expensive and the distance between classes very very large?
WIFI
We already know why that is. Keeping countries in debt to extract profits, countries that have suffered decades of brutal colonization.
BILLIONAIRES
Cool. We’ve been saying this forever. How do you propose we deal with this? Because taxes haven’t done shit. I can think of a few examples of how to solve this problem…
BEZOS, MUSK, GATES
Wow amazing observation…
FIN
And Scene.
From what I gathered: communism bad, China capitalist because communism bad, Europe good because taxes, billionaires exist; anything else?
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