Greatest thread to human civilization : capitalist greed - Stephen Hawkin

[g5000]

Machines have brought us to the point where we need to seriously consider a 35-hour, maybe even a 30-hour, work week.

 

[g5000]

Greed is definitely a threat to us. But not in the way Hawkins says it is.

Greed manifests itself in all of us when we spend more than we make. "I just gotta have that George Foreman grill with the 4-wheel drive option!"

It's debt which is killing us. Public and private debt.

Stop blaming the rich, and take a goddam look in the mirror to find who is really at fault, kiddos.

 

[The Rabbi]

Machines have brought us to the point where we need to seriously consider a 35-hour, maybe even a 30-hour, work week.

That worked really well in France.
Oh, no it didnt.

 

[The Rabbi]

Greed is definitely a threat to us. But not in the way Hawkins says it is.

Greed manifests itself in all of us when we spend more than we make. "I just gotta have that George Foreman grill with the 4-wheel drive option!"

It's debt which is killing us. Public and private debt.

Stop blaming the rich, and take a goddam look in the mirror to find who is really at fault, kiddos.

Yes we're all guilty. We're all pieces of shit for wanting creature comforts. Shit, who really needs an electric blanket anyway?

 

[g5000]

We demanded and demanded and demanded. Gimme gimme gimme, and make that guy over there pay for it.

Now we are blaming that guy over there for the shit we are in? Seriously?

 

[g5000]

Greed is definitely a threat to us. But not in the way Hawkins says it is.

Greed manifests itself in all of us when we spend more than we make. "I just gotta have that George Foreman grill with the 4-wheel drive option!"

It's debt which is killing us. Public and private debt.

Stop blaming the rich, and take a goddam look in the mirror to find who is really at fault, kiddos.

Yes we're all guilty. We're all pieces of shit for wanting creature comforts. Shit, who really needs an electric blanket anyway?

We had to have the McMansion, and crashed the economy.

We had to keep requesting our credit card limit be raised, and then bitch when Congress raises theirs! Which they only do so they can give us more shit, too!

 

[g5000]

Shit, who really needs an electric blanket anyway?

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[The Rabbi]

Greed is definitely a threat to us. But not in the way Hawkins says it is.

Greed manifests itself in all of us when we spend more than we make. "I just gotta have that George Foreman grill with the 4-wheel drive option!"

It's debt which is killing us. Public and private debt.

Stop blaming the rich, and take a goddam look in the mirror to find who is really at fault, kiddos.

Yes we're all guilty. We're all pieces of shit for wanting creature comforts. Shit, who really needs an electric blanket anyway?

We had to have the McMansion, and crashed the economy.

We had to keep requesting our credit card limit be raised, and then bitch when Congress raises theirs! Which they only do so they can give us more shit, too!

Buying McMansions crashed the economy? Who knew?

 

[g5000]

Greed is definitely a threat to us. But not in the way Hawkins says it is.

Greed manifests itself in all of us when we spend more than we make. "I just gotta have that George Foreman grill with the 4-wheel drive option!"

It's debt which is killing us. Public and private debt.

Stop blaming the rich, and take a goddam look in the mirror to find who is really at fault, kiddos.

Yes we're all guilty. We're all pieces of shit for wanting creature comforts. Shit, who really needs an electric blanket anyway?

We had to have the McMansion, and crashed the economy.

We had to keep requesting our credit card limit be raised, and then bitch when Congress raises theirs! Which they only do so they can give us more shit, too!

Buying McMansions crashed the economy? Who knew?

Buying a McMansion when all the dipshits could afford was a toolshed, yes.

Their eyes were bigger than their bank accounts.

 

[g5000]

Machines have brought us to the point where we need to seriously consider a 35-hour, maybe even a 30-hour, work week.

That worked really well in France.
Oh, no it didnt.

France has the second strongest economy in Europe. Their problem is not a short work week. Their problem is too many government gifts.

So is ours.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Doesn't the Bible teach that money is the root of all evil?

 

[g5000]

Doesn't the Bible teach that money is the root of all evil?

It teaches the love of money is the root of all evil.

Money is a tool.

 

[Zander]

Mr Hawking should really stick to physics.....

 

[CultureCitizen]

It doesn't matter. He's rich telling others to not be rich and yes I'm sure it has improved the quality of his pathetic life.

He is not telling the rich have to stop being rich , rather , that they should share their capital goods.

Wh should they do that? What exactly are "capital goods"? They need to share their industrial lathes?

Capital goods - goods used to produce other goods.
There are many ways to share : they could open source the technology ( many programmers already do that ) , they could sell old machinery instead of scrapping it.

 

[CultureCitizen]

It doesn't matter. He's rich telling others to not be rich and yes I'm sure it has improved the quality of his pathetic life.

He is not telling the rich have to stop being rich , rather , that they should share their capital goods.

Sharing involves a voluntary action by the giver. When one person with the authority to do so tells another person to "share", it's called a mandate and the concept of sharing is gone.

SH is not telling how such redistribution should be achieved. He is merely saying the machines should be shared ( somehow ). Do you donate to some cause?

What does that even mean?

Donate ? Ah , that you give away some money out of free will . You should try it once in a while.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Doesn't the Bible teach that money is the root of all evil?

It teaches the love of money is the root of all evil.

Money is a tool.

Another example of a la carte Conservatives treating the Bible as a smorgasbord.

 

[Avatar4321]

Capitalism is what you get when people are free to make choices on how to us their time, talents, and resources optimally.

The idea that we need the government to take resources from one person and give them to another is wrong. If people choose to give to others, that's fine and good. But who gets to determine who we steal from and who gets the spoils?

Why is it those who want to take money from others aren't seen as just as greedy as those who don't give?

 

[hortysir]

“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.” Hawking continued, “Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."

We have been warned.

Stephen Hawking Warns About The Greatest Threat To Humanity | Zero Hedge

Is Hawkins living a hermit's pauper life?
Then stfu

 

[The Rabbi]

Greed is definitely a threat to us. But not in the way Hawkins says it is.

Greed manifests itself in all of us when we spend more than we make. "I just gotta have that George Foreman grill with the 4-wheel drive option!"

It's debt which is killing us. Public and private debt.

Stop blaming the rich, and take a goddam look in the mirror to find who is really at fault, kiddos.

Yes we're all guilty. We're all pieces of shit for wanting creature comforts. Shit, who really needs an electric blanket anyway?

We had to have the McMansion, and crashed the economy.

We had to keep requesting our credit card limit be raised, and then bitch when Congress raises theirs! Which they only do so they can give us more shit, too!

Buying McMansions crashed the economy? Who knew?

Buying a McMansion when all the dipshits could afford was a toolshed, yes.

Their eyes were bigger than their bank accounts.

I want a mansion too and I cant afford it. Whose fault is it if I buy one?

 

[Wry Catcher]

“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.” Hawking continued, “Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."

We have been warned.

Stephen Hawking Warns About The Greatest Threat To Humanity | Zero Hedge

Idiots. It is amazing how some of the smartest people can be so dumb.
Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than anything else. IT's benefits are literally without precedence.

Opportunity is what allows Capitalism to lift people out of poverty, exploitation by Capitalists creates income inequality and social unrest; it is why Capitalists need to be regulated by a government elected by the people.

Today, do to both Citizens United rulings, and the greed of the mass media, elected officials are purchased by the wealthy and govern for the wealthy.

Simple minds never take the long view, and Rabbi is one of the simplest minds around.

Hmm, capitalism creates social unrest? I dont think so. Compare socialist countries in Africa, the Middle East, and SOuth America to capitalist countries in Asia and your statement is, typically for you, dead wrong.
As for income inequality, do you think there are more equal incomes under feudalism? Or under Communism? Are people better off under those systems? Even socialism. Are people better off under socialism in Greece and Venezuela?

You're so thoroughly confused it's easy to understand why fools like you persist in your beliefs.

Apples (a system of governance) and Aardvarks (an economic system).

We live in a democratically elected Republic, which operates under a mixed economic system. Regulated Capitalism and our nation's form of Socialism.

That combination served us well until recently. Today our Democratic Republic is in grave danger from within; the New Right has rejected traditional American ethos by adopting a radical ideology from the past.

An ideology that is selfish, callous, dishonest and fraught with peril.