'If who you are and where you're born is a complete lottery, would you want to come to the world of today?' So profound

I think this is your best movie video yet. Well done!

Mr. Clifford, you are a genius! I'd vote for you any time!!

This is absolutely fantastic! I shared your videos with my microeconomics class and we all said we wish we had a lecturer like you. You're making revising for the exam so much easier.

I already passed my Microeconomics and Macroeconomics classes (Thank you Mr. Clifford) but I still watch these awesome econ movies. You make learning this stuff so much fun!

Sir this was the most exciting economic class I ever had. Thank you so much.

Thank you for the explanation Mr. Clifford!! Your videos are always fun to watch.

An Absolutely Amazzing Idea to make Econ Interesting as well as easy to learn! Hats off to you, Sir! :)

I enjoy watching your normal videos. when i saw the thumbnail image for this video i sorta giggled and thought i'd give it a go for some laughs. Oh how wrong was i? I am so surprised! You explained it awesomely, more better than i thought! ;) Thank you sooo much for putting such efforts into sharing your amazing knowledge!

Thank you so much for the Studio C!!

Thanks, Mr. Clifford for your videos. They are interesting and make me to be more analitical when watching movies.

This Econ movie is even better than the original one, LOVE Mr. Clifford!!!!!

I teach Econ/Personal Finance and your videos are great - my high school students enjoy them. Thanks!

OH MY GOSH STUDIO C AT 0:30 I'M DEAD 😂😂😂

Amazing video, you are both funny and inspiration. Love the way you say ‘until next time’

1:55 if you pay attention you’ll notice that fox face actually commits suicide as we see her training with plants earlier in the movie at a high level.

"a company can't force you to buy their product" not if it's a monopoly on something like water. "one of the key characteristics of capitalism is freedom" well, that's not true for people born into poverty, or people whose wage doesn't allow them to move homes, buy anything other than necessities, or have any time for leisure. the idea that an ideology such as capitalism is innately free is definitively false; your freedom depends majorly on if you won the birth lottery. additionally, monopsonies and monopolies even existing are examples of lack of freedom in choice for labourers/consumers. capitalism is, inherently, an economy built on expolitation, like how Panem is described in the video. it makes people compete for how low they're willing to work for, and it does often force people to work in horrible conditions for horrible pay or otherwise be homeless, or even starve. income inequality is an inherent feature under capitalism, and takes constant regulation to avoid, which would often go against capitalistic principles of a market economy based purely on monetary incentives for working. severe income inequality, like with the districts and the capitol, is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. capitalism will *never* have equal opportunity. if everyone had equal opportunity, this would require equal money to provide this opportunity, which would, if done to a level of perfectly equal opportunity, resemble something incredibly far away from capitalism. 'leveling the playing field' is very close to marxist economic and political thought, and not a simple improvement on capitalism.

I'd like to thank you for your honesty and helping many people to learn in a different way about this subject. Sadly I have to say that in my opinion we will never get to equality income since we are so manipulated by media and government and the people who control the government won't let the 90% get to the point where they can make changes to improve the quality of life they have and the 10% won't change...The system has some serious problems and the "invisible hand" is not working so well (crisis-war-etc). Obviously the change can be attainable as soon as people realize what they need and stop getting or trying to get what they want. You said it. New phone when actually you didn't need it. If we stop consuming they way we are maybe some real solutions may develope. I'm not sure if I can change the world but I'm sure I will get to the point where I live a more efficient life with just the goods I need. I'm working on it. Please keep doing your work. Greetings from Antofa.

This was a missed opportunity. The economic world of the Hunger Games is about as well thought out as the economics in most board games. 12 districts, all sparsely populated, producing just 12 raw materials (out of millions which exist in reality). Nobody making circuit boards, polymers, paint, glass, aluminum, dyes, gravel, wire, tape measures, or any of the billions of products needed to build one of their hovercraft or sky scrapers in the capital. And don't give me that "it's district 1" shit. It takes thousands of people to efficiently make a pencil. It would take a diverse population of hundreds of millions to produce all the clothes, springs, cosmetics, cars, straws, rockets, handheld holographic projectors, chemicals, brooms, etc for the entire country. Is that what District 1 is in the book? No. Nobody is being seriously educated (districts are too poor, capital population too dumb and opulent). To that - who does research and development? There don't seem to be any universities or labs. There are no market forces - prices seem fixed or non-existent, while the capital city has seemingly unlimited wealth/demand. They say that if you win, you get money and are, therefore, rich in your slum district. Money doesn't make people rich. Goods and services do. If you give a peasant farmer a million gold coins in a peasant farming community, he isn't any better off than he was (unless he can leave and go to a place where there are goods and services to buy). This is just a small list of the many insane aspects of this economy. Movie economies don't have to make sense, in general. But I think they do when they determine the plot, setting, and character motivations.

Throwin you a like for the callout of unhealthy consumerism. was skeptical at first with the beginning, but I opened up to the video

Thank you for making economics so understandable! Love it! :)

The Hunger Games is unintentionally one of the single greatest pieces of pro-Socialist propaganda to come out of modern media :)

Actually, Foxface committed suicide. She's shown acing the botany tests, earlier (it's more obvious in the books, where you don't have to rely on visual cues, but she does, trust me), so she's implied to have the information at hand to know what plants she should eat and which ones she shouldn't, but she ate the poisonous berries anyway.

Great presentations and successful delivery of key economic points. Thanks! Economic literacy is getting a shot in the arm.

Actually I find how your saying it to be a bit off. Fox Face did know all sorts of berries and such, it's shown to be her skill when she is training. So, it's determined she killed herself off. Also, I think the Capital is to be a mirror of capitalism, only in the sense that truthfully no one is really free. The people up top get all the money, and the middle/poor class works to make sure they have a better life. They make the goods, and the money, and the rich profit from their work. It's kind of what we see in hunger games. Just an opinion, she couldn't make it direct as people wouldn't have read her books should she outright call Capitalism evil or unfair. Not to say it is or isn't, but there parallels are there. Anyone can tell when they are getting fucked by a system. In my opinion, both sides of the coin are just as equally corrupted. That being the two many know, Socialism and Capitalism. Just my personal opinion.

''hes good in picking berrys while picking poison berrys'' pls -,- he be dead of not for katness

This video was amazing, cheers.

Easy to understand explanation! I would say though that If we're being faced with an environmental crisis such as global warming then maybe capitalism isn't the best system to operate on if it's based on endless consumption and the depletion of our natural resources.

So how does it change? What do we do?

Vomitorium was a think in Roman empire I think, the movie borrowed it. I learn while entertaining, thank you for your videos

I loved the video but the last sentence doesn't make sense. If you understand capitalism you know that it is impossible to achieve equality within it, simply because capitalism is based and needs inequality to exist...

Studio C reference at 0:30!!!

Good video, but I gotta disagree with your last point. As a reader of The Hunger Games, splitting the last book into two movies was a great decision. Whether the movie company did it for profit or not, it did enormous favour to the novel by respecting so much details that are crucial to the message of the story but would've been easily lost otherwise.

I hardly desagree with ur ideia of free market and freedom

What a wonderful video . I get clear my all concepts related to this topic

Soo... capitalism creates inequality, so lets use capitalism to make sure everyone has equal opportunities?WTF? Also, capitalism is not synonymous to free-markets(assumling there is such a thing as a free-market anywhere in the real world) markets are a method of exchange of goods and services with the use of money, capitalism is the worker-employer relationship in which the employer exploits the worker by extracting a surplus value from his labour and keeping it for himself. There were markets in precapitalist societies such as feudalism and slavery, also exploitative but in different ways.Also, there are few theories on markets without capitalism, i.e., markets without exploatation such as Mutualism of Proudhon, which emphasizes on self-employing individuals owning their own means of production and taking the full value of their work and co-operatives, which are democratically owned and controlled collectives that share the profits much more justly. These self-employing individual workers and coops exist today all around the world, (members in various coops are more than a billion) and they compete with capitalist enterprises on the global markets more or less successfully. I am an individual worker who doesent give a cent to any capitalist to exploit me for more than a 10 years and believe me, I am doing pretty well. When I was working for a boss he was taking 60% of my work and I couldnt meet my needs. Now I am perfectly well selfemployed and I compete with capitalist and state enterprises and I am never without work, in fact I have the opposite problem - too many people seek my services, so I needed to learn to turn off some of them. So we can live perfectly well without exploatators, fuck capitalists, I hope they drown in their fucking greed Also, capitalists need fucking force to protect their monopoly over means of production, land and capital and to suppress the rising force of the workers and guess how this force is called? Government! It is no coincidence that in every constitution of every state we can read that the government must protect private propety. Because, when the government is weak and the workers are strong, the workers rise up and take over the means of production like it was the case in Spain 1936-38 when anarchists rose and collectivised everything that they could and the capitalists fled abroad or aligned with the fascist Francisco Franco to save their beloved wealth and to suppress and kill the workers who dared to challenge the capitalist dictatorship. So tont talk to me about how good and pretty the capitalists are and how they use only voluntary means because capitalists always use the state for their advantage and to suppress workers rights.

Interesting way to learn

The hunger games is a perfect example of why socialism and communism doesn’t work

Mr. Clifford, you blew me away!

Idea... Limited Capitalism you get the pros of capitalism while income inequality wouldn't be nearly as bad

your the best economics teacher

Thank you for the analysis of the film.

thank you!

Interesting. You got a bit "real" here.

school brought me here

so good!! me and my husband learned a lot!

In Mockingjay HG book 3 the district 13 president had to choose between rescuing peeta or katniss. They chose Katniss, an electrical engineer, and a celebrity. Opportunity cost 3 out of 5.

Yeah... I’m from district 12.

What do you think about Murray Rothbard?

if you are studying for an AP test, are the econ movies also needed? or are the regular videos for the chapters enough to understand the concepts?

cool video, thanks for the info! super beneficial

I haven't watched this in a while what are the 3 sources of economic growth shown in this video again?

You were SO CLOSE!! Right up until the income inequality business and dealings further. I was disappointed that you didn't connect income inequality with the government intervention.

I love this guy!

These videos are awesome.

Please make a video explaining The Big Short!!

" Since the start of the Industrial Revolution and capitalism, wage rates have risen steadily---as an inevitable economic consequence of rising capital accumulation, technological progress and industrial expansion. " -Nathaniel Branden-

I disagree that Capitalism (at least the way it's applied in the US) is "kill or be killed" as you describe it. While "death" is possible for any company (even the top dog) Capitalism thrives on constant competition. If you kill off all your competitors, you may be top dog, but you now have no one to oppose you, which means you have no reason to improve. In fact, eliminating the competition via monopolies is a large part of why antitrust laws were created. I think a better example of how Capitalism works in the US is sports. Teams are constantly competing to get people with the talents they need to compete for the Championship. All the teams that didn't win aren't ousted from the Association/League- they retool so they can compete again, and the winning team retools so they can compete to stay on top. It's business, not Highlander.

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excellent for economy class

same same thoughts on the last rant :)

I feel like there’s a contradiction here. You say that capitalism is ultimately good for the consumers, but you also say that income inequality on the level of Panem exists. Are the people starving in the streets not also consumers? And if they aren’t consumers, or if consumership is a sliding scale that weights your benefit according to how much you consume, then isn’t “consumers” a deceptively narrow category? It makes it sound like pretty much everyone benefits when in reality there are a lot of people left out due to their inability to consume sufficiently.

You are the man!

0:30 I heard that Studio C clip

can I have the transcript, thank you

Nice

I couldn't stop laughing at 5:53

Really good video.

In Roman times, people threw up to eat more.

People who talk bad about capitalism usually use the argument of inequality, they compare the lower sectors of their economy to higher ones, and then draw that conclusion that capitalism is bad. That is just a poor analysis. The one they should make is comparing the same sectors of different economies. For example middle class americans have a much grater income than middle class south americans. Why? Well, many things actually, but the most important are capitalism and a "good" state and government ( at least better).

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Mr. Clifford for President ❤️

lol those are so so good

Jacob Clifford for President

Can you do one with Jurassic Park?

I just spoiled the whole movie to myself

LOL. Look forward to GOT!!!

I don't applaud capitalism[.]

This made me laugh so much, how stupid he is

Yeah, rich people will certainly turn everything into tyranical dystopia if we let inequality grow too much. Kappa. Your bias is showing. I also thing you must love conspiracy theories.

Why he gotta do fox face like that.

Long live free market capitalism!!

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really u look like mark cuban

It is only illogical to think that it is possible to have a just and fair capitalist society. Capitalism is founded on inequality. It breeds unfairness. The only way to make capitalism better is to overcome it and evolve to an actually more fair system which doesn't allow for children to die of hunger while there are plenty of food and resources (don't even start talking about meritocracy. It's passed time for people to understand it's far from just being flawed). Hunger Games is exactly about how an authoritarian capitalist bourgeois State use of violence to justify and perpetuate social classes' struggle. Maybe, just maybe, your education (probably provided by either a private school or a bourgeouis State) made you believe that there is no alternative to this "wonderful" system or even "the least evil" system. In about 200 years of capitalism we have already devastated our planet and its resource. Capitalism is inherently dependant on eternal economic growth, however, our resources are limited. The question is: which will fall first, capitalism or human existance?

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Mr Clifford... please fix my country D: They just said that they would increase the minimal salary by 50%... HALP!... they need to watch your videos... OMG inflation in 3, 2, 1...

This video is a swing and a miss. The government in the game is not capitalism. As you showed earlier with the picture of two WW2 dicators at 3:52 it is socialism. You are really stretching trying to say any of this is capitalism. Look at Cuba and when Fidel Castro died. He had 900 million dollars in his home. Yet the normal people of Cuba had nothing. Panem is a communist country. Which is why it name translate to breed. Which is why their so much bread in this movie. It is a metaphor for bread lines that was common in the USSR. This video is clearly some left wing propaganda trying to trick people with lies.