This episode made me a paid subscriber. The comments on conscientiousness, increase in neuroticism, people becoming shut-ins; this was an eerie echo of what I've been observing. I have not articulated these thoughts so clearly as is done in this material.
Thank you, Tracy! I appreciate your support and glad this is helping to frame what's going on. Judging from the comments on YouTube, this particular video has really helped people understand these issues, which is the whole point of what we do here!!!
I would love to be a paid subscriber, but this is a definite down side to capitalism. I am interested in a lot of different SubStack commentaries. However, I am a senior on Social Security. I still have to work part time just to pay for my mortgage and car. No traveling or Florida living for me. Couldn’t SubStack come up with a more diverse payment method, like we can get a small variety of people to follow or a changing small variety monthly, in order to use this platform? It could be a little more like “Spotify” or something? $86 a platform means that even yearly I maybe able to sign up for 4 or 5 contributors and I would have to space out paying for them on different months. This would be ok for the first year or so, but each year I may want to add something new or different. And, then f course my credit card will automatically renew and I will go down a financial slide. Maybe, someone could work something out with AARP or different community groups. Maybe you could gain more subscribes?
Thank you for sharing. I believe that they could attract more contributions if they had different tiers. Some people you can’t even read to see if you like their content. Additionally, they should have something for young adults. I would rather see them read something written for content and not for making their publication more money. The legacy press has really lost their integrity.
One last thing. I am really into education and critical thinking. The Free Press could provide thoughtful political differences to be discussed in colleges. For the life of me, I can’t believe that teachers do not have o comply with loftier objectives. Well, I guess I missed that teaching preschoolers. However, I stand fast to the belief that the love of learning starts in preschools. It is hard to motivate a high schooler who dreads school.
A different graduated payment scheme for an aggregation of subscriptions-of-choice is a good idea, AARP-sponsored or not. At one point I was doing quite a few on Patreon-funded content creators (mostly political), probably was over $80-90 a month, and in fact for a while I was close to $200 a month as I was contributing $100 a month for one creator. I was making a lot more money then -- I could still afford it now, but it does add up too much.
I think it comes down to diligent research; John Papola has covered things in an even-handed way and brought out some things I didn't know. Clearly he's done research! Since I'm paying for a Grok subscription, I've been asking it for background information on these sorts of things. I'll post a list in the next reply that Grok recommended. I asked the exact same thing from Gemini and it just pointed me to some online web stuff (reddit, brittanica, etc).
I enjoyed your commentary on the PBD Surrounded that I had watched previously, I came here to check out the documents you referenced, Thanks for this, Now subscribing on YouTube.
This episode made me a paid subscriber. The comments on conscientiousness, increase in neuroticism, people becoming shut-ins; this was an eerie echo of what I've been observing. I have not articulated these thoughts so clearly as is done in this material.
Thank you, Tracy! I appreciate your support and glad this is helping to frame what's going on. Judging from the comments on YouTube, this particular video has really helped people understand these issues, which is the whole point of what we do here!!!
Ditto…
I would love to be a paid subscriber, but this is a definite down side to capitalism. I am interested in a lot of different SubStack commentaries. However, I am a senior on Social Security. I still have to work part time just to pay for my mortgage and car. No traveling or Florida living for me. Couldn’t SubStack come up with a more diverse payment method, like we can get a small variety of people to follow or a changing small variety monthly, in order to use this platform? It could be a little more like “Spotify” or something? $86 a platform means that even yearly I maybe able to sign up for 4 or 5 contributors and I would have to space out paying for them on different months. This would be ok for the first year or so, but each year I may want to add something new or different. And, then f course my credit card will automatically renew and I will go down a financial slide. Maybe, someone could work something out with AARP or different community groups. Maybe you could gain more subscribes?
Thank you for sharing. I believe that they could attract more contributions if they had different tiers. Some people you can’t even read to see if you like their content. Additionally, they should have something for young adults. I would rather see them read something written for content and not for making their publication more money. The legacy press has really lost their integrity.
One last thing. I am really into education and critical thinking. The Free Press could provide thoughtful political differences to be discussed in colleges. For the life of me, I can’t believe that teachers do not have o comply with loftier objectives. Well, I guess I missed that teaching preschoolers. However, I stand fast to the belief that the love of learning starts in preschools. It is hard to motivate a high schooler who dreads school.
A different graduated payment scheme for an aggregation of subscriptions-of-choice is a good idea, AARP-sponsored or not. At one point I was doing quite a few on Patreon-funded content creators (mostly political), probably was over $80-90 a month, and in fact for a while I was close to $200 a month as I was contributing $100 a month for one creator. I was making a lot more money then -- I could still afford it now, but it does add up too much.
What's a good way to find the information that proves communism and the like are not good systems?
Archie Brown (Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford)
Key Work: The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009, Ecco Press, 736 pages).
(I happened to see Amazon showing this available for $3 via Kindle.)
Joshua Muravchik (Senior Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; former socialist activist)
Key Work: Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (2002, Encounter Books, 432 pages).
Robert Heilbroner (Late Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research)
Key Work: 21st Century Capitalism (1993, revised edition) and The Worldly Philosophers (1953).
János Kornai (Late Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Hungarian dissident economist)
Key Work: The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism (1992, Princeton University Press, 704 pages).
Leszek Kołakowski (Late Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago; Polish exile)
Key Work: Main Currents of Marxism (3 volumes, 1978, Oxford University Press, ~1,600 pages).
Anthology: The God That Failed (1950, edited by Richard Crossman, Harper, 288 pages).
Comparative Economic Study: Why Nations Fail (2012, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Crown, 544 pages).
Above list from Grok.
I think it comes down to diligent research; John Papola has covered things in an even-handed way and brought out some things I didn't know. Clearly he's done research! Since I'm paying for a Grok subscription, I've been asking it for background information on these sorts of things. I'll post a list in the next reply that Grok recommended. I asked the exact same thing from Gemini and it just pointed me to some online web stuff (reddit, brittanica, etc).
I enjoyed your commentary on the PBD Surrounded that I had watched previously, I came here to check out the documents you referenced, Thanks for this, Now subscribing on YouTube.
Mamdani and those young "adults" at the Jubilee Debate scare the CRAP out of me 😬