Imaginary capitalism
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 2022-05-28

Our economic system seems normal and natural to us, but how does it really work? Is it a system of freedom, where everyone gets to do what they want, as long as they work hard, or is it the system of private property and money that dominates our society? How much of what we are taught to believe about capitalism is true? Who keeps telling us the stories of capitalism and why?

Links: 

The history of capitalism:

The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation by Michael Perelman: https://b-ok.cc/book/4547608/7ab87e

Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty: https://b-ok.cc/book/5364825/701ff4 

Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams: https://b-ok.cc/book/852465/91d51c 

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation: https://b-ok.cc/book/1317367/41e565 

Why aren’t you rich? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjeJxoYTCt8&list=PL3waFZldV-Y3j_NwAoz4th0SavwoKOFKS 

Imaginary-capitalist theory:

Milton Friedman: https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctrine-the-social-responsibility-of-business-is-to.html, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLiVoHuBvNI 

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: https://youtu.be/s9ovOwl5Cns 

Jordan Peterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFpf0w2VlbI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWeDnN0O_xA 

Simon Sinek : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNgQOHwsIbg 

Tony Robbins: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiejmbaker/four-more-women-accuse-tony-robbins-of-sexual-misconduct 

Gary Vee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVE8J8dwJ5E, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xpx0l6FXJU 

Elon Musk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnlhmaM-dM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FGwDDc-s8, https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lifetime-carbon-emissions-electric-vehicles-vs-gasoline-cars-2021-06-29/, https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/polluting-plug-in-hybrids-are-the-car-industrys-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing/ https://www.wired.com/2016/03/teslas-electric-cars-might-not-green-think/,  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon-musk-tried-to-destroy-tesla-whistleblower-martin-tripp, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/06/sec-probes-tesla-over-whistleblower-claims-on-solar-panel-defects.html https://www.smeissner.com/tesla-whistleblower/, https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23052022/spacex-elon-musk-brownsville-boca-chica/, https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/mainstream-coverage-adopts-elon-musks-free-speech-framing-despite-his-anti-union-anti, https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-un-world-food-programme-chief-responds-to-elon-musks-6-billion-offer-20211103 

Howard Schultz: https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/communicating-directly-partners-values?s=w 

A transcript of this video is available here: https://theruleoffreedom.wordpress.com/2022/05/28/imaginary-capitalism/