The video explores the concept of housing cooperatives (co-ops) as a compelling solution to the affordable housing crisis in the United States and beyond. It begins by highlighting the severe …
Legal Immigration: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The video transcript provides a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and misconceptions surrounding the U.S. legal immigration system, particularly in the context of political rhetoric under the Trump administration. It …
Let’s talk about UBI and living wages…
In this video, the speaker addresses a common argument against Universal Basic Income (UBI) — that providing people with a fixed monthly income would disincentivize work. Although the speaker is …
SOCIALISM: An In-Depth Explanation
The video provides a comprehensive exploration of socialism, tracing its evolution from early critiques of liberalism and capitalism through its various ideological developments up to the present day. It begins …
Basic income and other ways to fix capitalism
A few years ago, those who warned us about the risks of technological unemployment were labelled as luddites, crazy, or techno-pessimists. Now some of the greatest economists agree that automation …
Socialism for Absolute Beginners
This video explores the meaning of socialism, addressing common misconceptions and contextualizing socialism within historical and modern economic frameworks. It begins by acknowledging the growing interest in socialism among American …
How the USA Inspired the Nazis – From Manifest Destiny to Lebensraum
This video explores the ideological and practical connections between the United States’ settler colonialism and Nazi Germany’s plans for territorial expansion and colonization in Eastern Europe. It begins by imagining …
The Economics of Racism
This video delivers a comprehensive exploration of the systemic, structural, and institutional racism that has historically and continuously suppressed Black economic mobility in the United States. The narrative begins by …
Why America REFUSES To Raise Minimum Wage
The minimum wage debate in the United States continues to spark national controversy as the gap between wages and the cost of living grows wider each year. For millions of …
Why We Hate Welfare Freeloaders (But Shouldn’t)
Researchers in England and Germany studied human behavior toward freeloaders using an economic game where participants contributed tokens to a public good. Players chose between a voluntary cooperation group and …