Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024

As the new year approaches, now's as good a time as any to reflect on what's important and how we get there. Maybe 2024 is the year you realize you're a socialist!

Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024 – Second Thought

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Covid wealth transfer

Wealth transfer since 1975

PTO statistics

Ten richest double their wealth while bottom 99% of humanity’s fall/would still be richer than 99% of the world after 99.99% loss

Nearly 100 million fall under $1.90/day during COVID

Bosses bet on workers getting COVID

Layoffs during COVID

Why Socialism? - Albert Einstein

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 1975

Vacation days & paid time off

Maternity leave

Legal & societal changes growing the gap between productivity and wages

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[randomdoofy]

The fact that the idea of better salaries, a sensible healthcare and overall better quality of life is contentious in capitalism should raise huge red flags. But here we are

[adamkreuz]

What pushed me over was realizing corporations torpedoing a company and laying everyone off just to increase profits for one quarter and being rewarded for this wasn't just "bad Capitalism", it's what the system was designed to actually do.

[eski]

in an end-of-year employee evaluation, i told my employer that we deserved a raise, not just for our hard work, but because me and my coworkers are the face of our company. i hope nothing bad happens to me or my coworkers because of this, but i want to continue striving for us to have a better quality of life. this channel keeps me believing that things can improve <3

[AndyMorrisArt]

I noticed many of these concerns over 50 years ago, but until the last 10 years or so I felt like I was the only Socialist in this Country. I'm happy to see that younger people are much more aware of the harm that we all suffer under capitalism and are open to an expansion of social programs.

[ionsilver]

The cruelest thing about capitalism is that "only caring about the line going up" is not even because of the greed of that small group of unelected capitalists, but because if they don't, they will immediately be replaced by capitalists who care even more about the line going up. This is a social law of capitalism that operates relentlessly like a law of nature and cannot be fought by the goodness of any individual capitalist.

[LaborwaveLenin]

"Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, "-Karl Marx

[Justathinker]

If an economic system allows innocent people to die for profit, then that system should NEVER be allowed ever....

[mjohans]

”If these ten men were to lose 99.999 percent of their wealth tomorrow, they would still be richer than 99 percent of all the people on this planet”

That is soo fucked, how can we allow this?!

[mikecarpentier]

Greetings from a person born in the USSR and thank you very much for your videos. Yes, in our country it was not possible to fully implement socialism, but progress was made on the way to it - we received free public education, free housing, and free medicine. We probably haven’t been able to overcome human greed and stupidity, but today, in the age of free information and the Internet, people have more opportunities to receive information, think and analyze. Never forget that the rich will commit any crime in order to maintain power.

[josephlewis]

Hope your channel, Hakim YUGOPNIK, the deprogam and first thought continue to grow in 2024. You ARE making a difference!

[tekstone]

Excellent as always! One thing worth noting, however, is that the primary goal of the capitalist class isn't really maximizing their profits; it is maintaining and reinforcing the capitalist class structure. They would gladly sacrifice some profits/wealth in the name of maintaining or fortifying the capitalist class structure that gives them their lofty status and power in our capitalist society.

[CondosNkarens]

I don’t understood how the pandemic didn’t show most people how damaging capitalism can be in such raw American form.

[JP-JustSayin]

"CEO's make 300 times what workers make." If a working life time is 40 years then CEO's get 7.5 LIFETIMES of worker pay EACH YEAR... That's vampiric.

[bigdogpc]

One way that oligarchs protect their wealth is by redirecting the people's anger from them to other people

[bonniedrasco]

The poverty in the so called richest country on earth is absolutely staggering! What a cesspit of a country 💩

[mrmacken]

Even before I knew it had that definition, I believe I was a socialist. I have long believed everyone should have a home, food, healthcare, and education, as a simple baseline

[geoffreysmith]

Adam Smith, lover of markets and liberalism, believed that government is needed in order for the rich to stay rich and protect itself from the poor and the guillotines we know how to make. In a genuine moment he offered that a market based economy was a transitional proposition we would use until we got to the point where we became collectively creative enough to institute and intelligent, humane system, like exactly what JT is describing in this video. We need to evolve quickly though because those who resist our evolution look to places like Gaza as a future option for us because they see us as a commodity at best and a menace at worst. Workers of the world unite

[koliveira]

I found your channel yesterday and watched why we should be a socialist in 2023, awesome video with really good points, never thought of myself as a socialist but you might convince me to chance my mind. I know I'm late to the party but got a new sub here

[nolangould]

I become a socialist/communist for 3-4 months and your channel helped me a lot! thank you for creating such videos.
btw I'm a teenager from a very unequal country (Iran) and honestly it's good to see so many teens interested in socialism and can think of a better world!

[Endgame_]

Capitalism does work... for capitalists