Bill Moyers on America's Mad Dash Toward Oligarchy

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10 жыл бұрын

Bill Moyers reflects on the forces that are causing inequality to skyrocket, why it matters and where we're headed in the future.

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@robertruiz7 10 жыл бұрын

I've been a Bill Moyers fan all of my life. Listening to this piece reminds me why that is Thank you Mr. Moyers!!

@camadams9149 3 жыл бұрын

I cant believe Im just finding you know. 7 years after this video came out and your points are even more applicable

@olvidomemoriahistori 10 жыл бұрын

I celebrate the existence of journalists like Bill Moyers. So we are walking into a path of looking straight to the myths of American society: democracy and equality. All this reflections will allow the people of good will to understand better, the historical eternal inequality and lack of liberty of your most near and inevitable neighbors: Latin America. We have been living like this almost 100 years of solitude, recalling Garcia Marquez.

@707westy 10 жыл бұрын

Yes. Inequality does matter indeed.

@geotom28 4 жыл бұрын

Some inequity is a normal occurence, but Top Exec's raking in 331 times their average worker's salary is ludicrous. Past time to take back the REPUBLIC! DJT- Has been feverishly working to clean up the DC cesspool (WORSE Than Any Swamp!)

@independentviews9245 10 жыл бұрын

plu·toc·ra·cy (plo̅o̅-tŏk′rə-sē) n. pl. plu·toc·ra·cies 1. Government by the wealthy. 2. A wealthy class that controls a government. 3. A government or state in which the wealthy rule.

@fakeItRight 6 жыл бұрын

Moyers is like 4 years ahead of everyone else. A TRUE American icon!

@justgivemethetruth 6 жыл бұрын

It is worse than this shows, because that average $35,239 dollars is the average, pulled up but all the executives. So lots and lots of people make much less than that.

@jamesmarchetti3286 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video on this Topic!

@sojutime 9 жыл бұрын

Reform corporate governance!

@MrHarveyrex23 4 жыл бұрын

Reforms are just temporary band aid solutions. We need real dramatic radical transformative structural institutional changes

@Dascorpio36 7 жыл бұрын

It's time late. Both political parties are in the pockets of the rich and there's no turning back

@iaagg 10 жыл бұрын

If we are going to change, we have to educate our populace. Here in Tennessee, we are among the poorest states in American, but overwhelmingly we vote for the the most aggressively pro-rich, far right wing party, over and over again.

@hhiser6206 10 жыл бұрын

they do hire people!

@skyguy5587 7 жыл бұрын

roomba yed,unfortunately we do.over and over again and I could go in detail as to why..but the real question is WHY?! I live in chattanooga and everyone I speak to about politics are completely ignorant to the fact that the u.s. govt doesn't give two shits about their well being..its frustrating and disheartening cause all they hear and think I am is a liberal..when in fact the only thing I care about are basic human rights LOGIC AND REASON. HOPEFULLY future generations in the South will start to see the scam Washington and the republicans as well as Corp dems are ass blasting everyone who doesn't make 10million a year..but I'm not holding my breath cause TRUE censorship of facts and free thinking is well on its way..Ive spent the past 3 years studing and researching political policy in Washington and the corruption is so great that the only logical solution I can fathom is a damn real revolution and uprising by the people..yes I know it sounds ludicrous on its face but with gerrymandering,large sums of money in politics controlling politician's, and suppression of free thinking I can't think of any other way to take back the corporation that is the United States..Mainstream media along with the politicians divide us up and suppress factual information from being made readily accessible to the public..We will hit another recession or worse very soon and the republicans will deny deny deny accountability along with corp dems who are basically republicans themselves and they won't truly address the real issues facing this country.Why would they,they make a profit with shit hits the fan financially..sorry for going off but it's truly demoralizing on so many fronts that WE can't even progress the single strongest, richest, geographically located, natural resourced, land in the world and move it forward to where ALL PEOPLE who wish to search for the pursuit of happiness can't even do that..We continue to put our people at a disadvantage at every turn for short term gains for the wealthiest of the wealthiest..Its just sad man,but have a good day anyway lol

@randyrudd5485 7 жыл бұрын

John SmithDE yeah- at a much lesser wage than the generations before - relative to inflation , of course.

@ebrown0071 6 жыл бұрын

The reason is that the Democrat party is also a pro-rich, right wing party but just happens to be pro-abortion and pro-LGBT.

@bedazzlejuju 3 жыл бұрын

I know you have been saying it (however pleasantly)... but we’re definitely screwed.

@TheTgcid 8 жыл бұрын

Vote Bernie Sanders

@benm5221 4 жыл бұрын

The problem is not capitalism per say, but capitalism without restraint, responsibility, and human decency. If the values of a society are rotten, their use of capitalism will be too. America was founded, built, and operated by removing constraints, grabbing opportunities, exploiting natural resources and the unfortunately vulnerable. The focus of "Our Grand Experiment in Self-Governance" has been on an Individual's independence, happiness, and rights. There is no balance with morality, social responsibility and mutual support.

@TklistNet1 10 жыл бұрын

Cronyism, the Tax Code, excessive regulations, the national debt and the Federal Reserve are the major causes of the widening income inequality gap. Solutions: Abolish Tax Code and IRS Enact Fair Tax (national sales tax) Minimize regulations to only what is absolutely necessary. Balance the budget. Start decreasing the national debt. Abolish the Federal Reserve as we know it. Replace with automated system as Milton Friedman suggested until better solution is discovered. The income inequality problem is counterintuitive. Big government equals more income inequality. Smaller government equals less income inequality.

@bedazzlejuju 3 жыл бұрын

I know you have been saying it (however pleasantly)

@Hallands. 4 жыл бұрын

The one percent is spoiling for trouble...

@jamesmarchetti3286 2 жыл бұрын

We already kissing our Democracy goodbye!

@dianeflatten4564 10 жыл бұрын

Will you please run for office! We need more leaders like you who can communicate the moral ideals that America was founded on to the people so that everyone will WAKE UP and see the government for what it has become! It is our duty as citizens to fix a government when it is broken. If we don't do it, who will? We all love our country...we just don't like our leaders!

@Chinovideo 10 жыл бұрын

Only boycotting the companies which hurt us , a general work stoppage, and stop paying property taxes (income taxes are too hard to stop because it's not voluntary) …. and a full occupation of washington DC and other power centers all at once will get the govt to even relent a little from the plutocracy ways. this means everyone not showing up to work…. from lawyers to janitors…. people are so distracted and scared to lose their jobs everyone is to fearful to commit to any change. this is how th eUS was before WW2 for a brief while the middle class had the upper hand that all ended in the 70s

@1969JohnnyM 7 жыл бұрын

Funny I watched this and the UK sort of mirrors the US in that as you had Reagan we had Thatcher who both made the wealth and power go towards the rich elite at the expense of the working and middle classes. Pre 1980 the wages of CEO's in relation to the average workers salary stayed fairly constant but by the early 1980's the average CEO's salary started rapidly started going upwards regardless of whether they did a good job or bad it always goes up whilst the average workers pay barely quivered and basically flat lined. By 2015 the average boss of a major company was being paid 183 times what their average worker was paid whilst in 1980 it was between 13 and 4 times what the average worker earned. Reaganomics/Thatcherism e.g. Trickle down economics was really gush upwards economics.

@alixmordant489 6 жыл бұрын

Neoliberalism was always just a con to re-establish a quasi feudal class society.