He's like a wily Cheshire cat about to pounce.

I didn't know that no matter the time of history, leftists always argued against the debater and not the argument itself. Friedman and Sowell, real gentlemen, didn't need to reject their adversary before engage the debate as the british guy has.

iluvinternalcombustion like a movie or video game when the boss is super overpowered and he’s listening to your plea for his life or that he’s gonna defeat you. And you just laugh hysterically at his gall 😂

he simply knows the reality of the argument's claims

Unless he went toe to toe against Samuelson it wont be interesting. Friedman vs Samuelson. Chicago economics vs New Keynesian

sowell is still a pretty cool guy

Sowell is still alive my man

I just love how time has only proven them right. And yet people out there willfully turn a blind eye to it.

Total badasses

Grey Winters Yep. I use Sowell’s three questions, including this one. It’s so sad when a great mind like Sowell’s gets completely ignored then and now, even though he is providing facts backed up by statistical data & research.

@@miamivlad I would've voted for him if he had ran for President.

@@miamivlad could you imagine where we'd be if these 2 men were listened to and taken seriously?! One could only dream!

I only actually discovered this question when listening to the Hoover Institute interview with Douglas Murray and it made so much sense!

no leftist intellectual in 2019 ar proposing absolute equality of any sort

That statement is intrinsic to socialist doctrine. Apposing argument will invariably be characterized as 'immoral'. Shutting down debate that way is a socialist's universal orthodoxy.It reveals an underlying intellectual dishonesty that is being exposed quite clearly recently and I'm happy to see that given the historical carnage that socialism has left behind it everywhere it's been implemented. Radical egalitarianism is in direct contradiction to human nature and all nature. This is self evident to anyone with even a micron of objectivity.In 1980, they were merely being a little more diplomatic about their world view. Even Sowell and Friedman could see through this rouse then.

I believe it was Solomon that's said that, "There is nothing new under the sun." If you know the right information, and are wise enough you can predict the thoughts or actions of mankind.

it's an impossible aim, but left wing ideology isn't concerned with reality

And none of you replying in affirmation of the the original comment were at all concerned with the fallacious claim he made that anyone today is credibly talking about equality of outcome (equity or otherwise) ...so one thing is certainly correct as regards then vs now, there's always you nefarious fuckers to reliably tilt at windmills.

Yeah, its kind of sad. Back then, America had Friedman and Sowell. Today the American right has Dinesh D'souza, Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh. Honestly the decline of Conservative intellectualism in America is embarrassing.

Godzilla52 … Intellectualism in not only America but the entire planet has dropped several points over the last few decades …

Well, at Thomas Sowell is still alive (and active)!

workingguy … Still digging Thomas Sowell too & the way he still puts his views out there. Good man…

Thomas Sowell isn't dead...

And now, we are being bombarded with lefty communist populism and politics are more on the left than the right. Immigrants pouring into our country with no restrictions or whatsoever. Taxes getting higher. Security on the streets getting low. Drugs taking their share of the population, etc. Is not looking good 'round here.

@Wade left wing ideology doesnt concernt itself with the truth that's the scary part of it

@Wade who did it work for? Sure, GDP per capita is up, but who's that money going to? "A 2018 government study showed that the richest Chileans had an income nearly 14 times greater than the poorest. Chile is the most unequal of OECD countries, with an income gap that's about 65% higher than the OECD average." That's who. You must think capitalism worked in America. Sad to break it to you buddy, but America has failed more people than it has "helped". We're a country where our laws are written by the elite for the elite. Democrats and Republicans both need to wake tf up and realize it instead of getting wrapped up in destructive and distracting "identity politics". They don't give af about your freedoms, they just want to put more money in their pockets. Friedman was a smart guy, and he might have truly had the best interest of the people in his heart. But he wasn't actually the one who got to choose which of his policies were implemented. Think about that before you praise everything he stands for.

"A 2018 government study showed that the richest Chileans had an income nearly 14 times greater than the poorest. Chile is the most unequal of OECD countries, with an income gap that's about 65% higher than the OECD average."

The Independent Chronicler why is it that you point out the the difference or pay gap between the richest and poorest, and fail to point out the fact that the poorest are not as poor? Bringing the rich down doesn’t make the poor less poor. The ideology of taking from the rich always seems to bring EVERYBODY down eventually, why can’t you see this?

Hahahaha that made me laugh. Good one.

Duh! :D

These two men should be studied in jr high and high school.

Friedman and Sowell should be the standard by which all things economic and government are judged.

Especially these videos where he is young. The dude had some serious fire in his tone! ;)

+BarbaraJoanneBJ I so strongly agree with you ,the voice of reason

Ben Shapiro?

Ben Shapiro + Jordan Peterson combined

Many think it’s Shapiro. I disagree. He’s way too flippant and antagonistic. There’s no one like Friedman. Sowell is still alive. And I hope his and Milton’s intellect and demeanor have touched some young people out there.

It was Ron Paul for me.

A little off topic, but there's a wonderful line in "Enemy at the Gates": "Even in a Soviet world, there will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts, poor in gifts. Rich in love, poor in love..."

VidkunQL Great film, great line.

+VidkunQL Yep. Good movie, and I think that was its point.

Unfortunately your gravest fears have been realised. We now have an ever expanding set of perceived privileges that are used by sociopaths to gain access to what they have done nothing to deserve.

Better believe it. More people have never been autistic than today.

Imho, IQ is being forced lower in the name of absolute equality, like Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron". On the common level, SJW absolutism is destroying competition (e.g. team sports, anti-Valedictorianism, etc.) yet it hasn't been able to suppress a Michael Phelps due to quantitative physicality. Yet it has successfully suppressed the potential Friedman/Sowell thinkers in academia. It has squelched freedom of thought/expression through political correctness with hypersensitivity and emotionalism replacing free inquiry. That's just mho, but I'm 58 and my mother is 95, so we have collective memory.

SleekMinister Autistic have the same IQ on average as other people, but the derivative IQ is much higher. You have many more mentally retarded autists, but you also have people with Asperger’s syndrome who are much smarter on average.

You can watch the entire Free To Choose 1980 series here: www.freetochoose.tv/broadcasts/ftc80.php

Run and hide!

Piven is no scholar.

Neo Smith Read Thomas Sowell’s writings about intellectuals. So insightful!

Thomas Sowell.

There's Thomas Sowell.

Jordan Peterson

Louis Cypher And Walter Williams.

That's why is in present times is the same as capitalism is the antidote to socialism

Inter Vest Com Socialists: “But I wanna be a slave again, let govmint take care of me.” Piven: “Yes! And I shall be your most wise and beneficent queen.” She even looks a bit like Cruella DeVille don’t you think? Obnoxious bitch!

This clip was cut from our Free To Choose 1980 series, which you can watch here: www.freetochoosenetwork.org/programs/free_to_choose/index_80.php

lool

LOL! BWS degree, chuckled for two whole minutes. Still smiling - thank you!

Tablet One He may be gone, but his books will live on.

And they could speak without a constant barrage of F words.