I love the presentation, other than the reference to "capitalism" being a causal factor.
Having been a farmer, raising all types of animals and poultry for food, under an organic, biodynamic, AND grass-fed approach, over the past several decades, I can tell you, with great authority, that the problem has nothing to do with "maximizing shareholder value" and everything to do with the Departments of Agriculture and the agricultural "colleges" pushing farmers to "get big or get out" and insisting that the ONLY way to raise food, profitably, is via the CAFO approach that you, so correctly, condemn within your presentation.
The government, and their accomplices, the Ag schools, have been killing off the small farmers and the local farming communities, for decades. Their goal has been a large, corporate Ag industry that they can easily -- and completely -- control via a Central Command setup. I could write books about this topic, having experienced it, firsthand, but, for here, I will just request that people stop blaming capitalism for something that is, in fact, communism (think centralized Soviet farms).
Capitalism gets blamed because the government has created a corporatist approach to farming that would not exist under true capitalism. The greatest farming efficiencies actually occur at the 50-acre to 100-acre farm size, NOT 10,000-acre farm size. Why else would the most profitable farms be those --HORRORS! -- still farmed with horses????? A small farm of less than 100 acres, usually, but not always, Amish-farmed, is, almost always, more profitable than the 10,000-acre grain-only corporate farms, or the 5,000-head robotically-milked cow dairies, also "corporate" owned and operated.
The real problem is that the U.S. has NOT been a capitalist country in decades. We worship at the altar of corporatism -- not capitalism. We are so far off from a true capitalism that the Millennials and younger are almost "born socialists" because people push the idea that capitalists are, and capitalism is, at fault for things that no longer have anything to do with capitalism.
Please be very careful with placing the blame where the blame belongs. Other than that thought, the presentation is fantastic. Please keep up the excellent work!
Growing up on a small farm/ranch operation in the 1970's I remember parents talking about Monsanto and so many other subjects. I then remember in the late 1970's and early 80's when "they" began to shut down our local dairies, mills, and slaughterhouses and everything started becoming consolidated. We have been told that consolidation is the only way that we can feed the world. Bull! We were doing just fine before they started destroying small farms and ranches. Our farm is gone, along with many others. I agree with everything you mentioned. Somehow the free market was able to deliver eggs and dairy to thousands upon thousands of homes every single day for decades. Nah... this has all been about control, power, greed, etc. I'm so sick of it!
MARKET ECONOMIES have existed since the beginning of civilisations (many 1000s of years) and are defined as owner/producers of goods and services trading their surplus time and output.
CAPITALISM is just one type of market economy. As the name suggests, those who own the capital (land, resources, machines, buildings, tools, etc) determine what is made, how it is made, who sells it, for how much, and what to do with the profits. Capitalism is an economy controlled by an owner class, and not a producer class (who are the ones actually producing goods and services -- doing the labour). The Amish own their land and resources and also produce the goods and control what gets made, how it is made, where it is sold, and what happens to the profits. So they are both owners and producers.
Capitalism is nothing like the Amish version of a market economy because the owners are very rarely the producers. They are remote investors, managing directors, and administrators who make all the decisions and keep all the profits. By law, capitalism must maximise shareholder value, not public value. When profits and market share are your only goals, then products get made that pollute the environment, are designed to have a short life (high turnover), and employees are considered a cost that must be minimised to maximise profits.
One way we can bring back ownership of the market economy into the hands of the workers (not through the government) is to create workers' cooperatives where everything is fully-owned by everyone in the enterprise, all with equal say in how it is run. That does not mean equal wages because some owner/workers are able to contribute more than others to the success of the business.
But it does mean that everyone in the cooperative will not agree to pollute the community they live in, produce goods that cause ill health (as they and their families are also consumers of the goods they make), and will never agree to send their business overseas to cheap-labour countries.
Keep in mind, the government allows up to 599 additives in cigarettes. These include fragrances, extracts and mostly chemicals that you can’t pronounce. Some of them cause a cigarette to keep burning instead of self extinguishing, some of them make a signature odor so you will choose one brand over another. So much of the stink from cigarette smoke is from these chemicals, not the nicotine. Pure nicotine makes a nice odor when smoked in a pipe.
Great job, Meryl, as always. I don't know why globalism and the related issues that you address are not properly addressed in the Trump campaign. Maybe they have their reasons, but they seem too important to ignore. At least Kennedy publically stated that the destructive weather modification program is a crime that must stop. Maybe such deeply hidden truths would be discrediting to a brainwashed public that would find them too far fetched.
I would also like to add another way that geoengineering detracts from plant health. The elements that are sprayed, such as aluminum are in the form of nanoparticles, the most dangerous of contaminants. These particles work their way into the soil and smother the root systems of the plants.
Election's almost here. Our survival as a free people is truly at stake more so than ever.
Hope and pray for our success and for finding you and RFKJr. In prominent positions in our goverment. I think we've earned you guys!
I think part of the reason is that the campaigns (and Harris' is so much WORSE here) think that they need to 'dumb down' the issues into sound bites or ignore them completely. nothing new I'm afraid. hopefully citizens are starting to see thru this ?? idk
Excellent series of slides - a rare skill to present the essence in a way those interested can act upon. The present society is based on racketeering instead of "keeping Gaia alive and thriving", a view only a few scientists can afford. One of them, Prof Andrew Glikson, who didn't mince his words:
Okay, it's now "very clear" that WE MUST FOCUS OUR EFFORTS AND GO AFTER BILL GATES, that tiny little teeny-weenie lying megalomaniacal philanthropathic vaccine-obsessed MONSTER and put an end to the machinations and lies of this one-person plague on mankind once and for all.
I read almost all of your work and appreciate your dedication to helping us commoners. I do agree with Fringe Lunatic in that capitalism is not the problem. Corporations have ethics standard like all of us do but they are only as good as the personal moral standards the leaders hold. To make it worse, when capitalism combines with government to push ideologies and subsidizes select activities then it becomes crony capitalism at best and fascism at worst. At the same time, the main job of our legislators is to protect the citizens from harm in many, many, ways including from predatory, dishonest, & fraudulent behavior anywhere in society (taking away our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with the rights of free speech, press, assembly, & religion. Our legislators have become conflicted with vested interest and contributions giving them biased representation. How can we instill ethics and moral standards back into our government and industry leaders? I think only by electing people with high integrity which is hard to do if the pool of candidates is lacking in said characteristics.
It just needs a small caveat in my mind to make persons running the corporate person to be as responsible equally for any wrong doing including prison time for the real persons and suspended licenses of the corporate person. If we had legislators that were on our side vs bickering with each other, this could be done. Still, the problem is really not "Capitalism" or even legally making a corporation legally like a person. It is our biggest problem in society of holding "every person" accountable for their actions with no hiding places carved out for anyone.
Made up statistics/models tried to move us towards a more nutrient vulnerable populations. Raising and sterile processing insects does not save world/energy resources it controls diets and allows producers and medical to make profits.
ELECTION TIME is approaching and to prevent Nuclear War we MUST get Trump and Friends into the White House!
My production company LowWiseZah Studios creates purposeful entertainment to awaken society. I would greatly appreciate your support so that I can produce more eye-opening movies!
I love the presentation, other than the reference to "capitalism" being a causal factor.
Having been a farmer, raising all types of animals and poultry for food, under an organic, biodynamic, AND grass-fed approach, over the past several decades, I can tell you, with great authority, that the problem has nothing to do with "maximizing shareholder value" and everything to do with the Departments of Agriculture and the agricultural "colleges" pushing farmers to "get big or get out" and insisting that the ONLY way to raise food, profitably, is via the CAFO approach that you, so correctly, condemn within your presentation.
The government, and their accomplices, the Ag schools, have been killing off the small farmers and the local farming communities, for decades. Their goal has been a large, corporate Ag industry that they can easily -- and completely -- control via a Central Command setup. I could write books about this topic, having experienced it, firsthand, but, for here, I will just request that people stop blaming capitalism for something that is, in fact, communism (think centralized Soviet farms).
Capitalism gets blamed because the government has created a corporatist approach to farming that would not exist under true capitalism. The greatest farming efficiencies actually occur at the 50-acre to 100-acre farm size, NOT 10,000-acre farm size. Why else would the most profitable farms be those --HORRORS! -- still farmed with horses????? A small farm of less than 100 acres, usually, but not always, Amish-farmed, is, almost always, more profitable than the 10,000-acre grain-only corporate farms, or the 5,000-head robotically-milked cow dairies, also "corporate" owned and operated.
The real problem is that the U.S. has NOT been a capitalist country in decades. We worship at the altar of corporatism -- not capitalism. We are so far off from a true capitalism that the Millennials and younger are almost "born socialists" because people push the idea that capitalists are, and capitalism is, at fault for things that no longer have anything to do with capitalism.
Please be very careful with placing the blame where the blame belongs. Other than that thought, the presentation is fantastic. Please keep up the excellent work!
Growing up on a small farm/ranch operation in the 1970's I remember parents talking about Monsanto and so many other subjects. I then remember in the late 1970's and early 80's when "they" began to shut down our local dairies, mills, and slaughterhouses and everything started becoming consolidated. We have been told that consolidation is the only way that we can feed the world. Bull! We were doing just fine before they started destroying small farms and ranches. Our farm is gone, along with many others. I agree with everything you mentioned. Somehow the free market was able to deliver eggs and dairy to thousands upon thousands of homes every single day for decades. Nah... this has all been about control, power, greed, etc. I'm so sick of it!
You are a very dedicated hard worker your efforts are educational and useful. Thank you.
MARKET ECONOMIES have existed since the beginning of civilisations (many 1000s of years) and are defined as owner/producers of goods and services trading their surplus time and output.
CAPITALISM is just one type of market economy. As the name suggests, those who own the capital (land, resources, machines, buildings, tools, etc) determine what is made, how it is made, who sells it, for how much, and what to do with the profits. Capitalism is an economy controlled by an owner class, and not a producer class (who are the ones actually producing goods and services -- doing the labour). The Amish own their land and resources and also produce the goods and control what gets made, how it is made, where it is sold, and what happens to the profits. So they are both owners and producers.
Capitalism is nothing like the Amish version of a market economy because the owners are very rarely the producers. They are remote investors, managing directors, and administrators who make all the decisions and keep all the profits. By law, capitalism must maximise shareholder value, not public value. When profits and market share are your only goals, then products get made that pollute the environment, are designed to have a short life (high turnover), and employees are considered a cost that must be minimised to maximise profits.
One way we can bring back ownership of the market economy into the hands of the workers (not through the government) is to create workers' cooperatives where everything is fully-owned by everyone in the enterprise, all with equal say in how it is run. That does not mean equal wages because some owner/workers are able to contribute more than others to the success of the business.
But it does mean that everyone in the cooperative will not agree to pollute the community they live in, produce goods that cause ill health (as they and their families are also consumers of the goods they make), and will never agree to send their business overseas to cheap-labour countries.
Keep in mind, the government allows up to 599 additives in cigarettes. These include fragrances, extracts and mostly chemicals that you can’t pronounce. Some of them cause a cigarette to keep burning instead of self extinguishing, some of them make a signature odor so you will choose one brand over another. So much of the stink from cigarette smoke is from these chemicals, not the nicotine. Pure nicotine makes a nice odor when smoked in a pipe.
The food is scary now.
Great job, Meryl, as always. I don't know why globalism and the related issues that you address are not properly addressed in the Trump campaign. Maybe they have their reasons, but they seem too important to ignore. At least Kennedy publically stated that the destructive weather modification program is a crime that must stop. Maybe such deeply hidden truths would be discrediting to a brainwashed public that would find them too far fetched.
I would also like to add another way that geoengineering detracts from plant health. The elements that are sprayed, such as aluminum are in the form of nanoparticles, the most dangerous of contaminants. These particles work their way into the soil and smother the root systems of the plants.
Election's almost here. Our survival as a free people is truly at stake more so than ever.
Hope and pray for our success and for finding you and RFKJr. In prominent positions in our goverment. I think we've earned you guys!
I think part of the reason is that the campaigns (and Harris' is so much WORSE here) think that they need to 'dumb down' the issues into sound bites or ignore them completely. nothing new I'm afraid. hopefully citizens are starting to see thru this ?? idk
I don't think I can take much more of the stakeh9lder grabs.
Answer: All of us reading this contain (estimated) 50% - 80% of Haber-Bosch-Process-Derived Nitrogen.
There is no easy way out of this.
Back out slowly, if you can. Grow some vegetables as a practice of humanity, if you can.
Excellent series of slides - a rare skill to present the essence in a way those interested can act upon. The present society is based on racketeering instead of "keeping Gaia alive and thriving", a view only a few scientists can afford. One of them, Prof Andrew Glikson, who didn't mince his words:
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/09/ai-controlled-apes-with-apps-at-seconds-to-midnight.html
Okay, it's now "very clear" that WE MUST FOCUS OUR EFFORTS AND GO AFTER BILL GATES, that tiny little teeny-weenie lying megalomaniacal philanthropathic vaccine-obsessed MONSTER and put an end to the machinations and lies of this one-person plague on mankind once and for all.
I read almost all of your work and appreciate your dedication to helping us commoners. I do agree with Fringe Lunatic in that capitalism is not the problem. Corporations have ethics standard like all of us do but they are only as good as the personal moral standards the leaders hold. To make it worse, when capitalism combines with government to push ideologies and subsidizes select activities then it becomes crony capitalism at best and fascism at worst. At the same time, the main job of our legislators is to protect the citizens from harm in many, many, ways including from predatory, dishonest, & fraudulent behavior anywhere in society (taking away our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with the rights of free speech, press, assembly, & religion. Our legislators have become conflicted with vested interest and contributions giving them biased representation. How can we instill ethics and moral standards back into our government and industry leaders? I think only by electing people with high integrity which is hard to do if the pool of candidates is lacking in said characteristics.
Well, why not get rid of CORPORATE PERSONHOOD, huh?? No one's mentioned that any more...wt..
It just needs a small caveat in my mind to make persons running the corporate person to be as responsible equally for any wrong doing including prison time for the real persons and suspended licenses of the corporate person. If we had legislators that were on our side vs bickering with each other, this could be done. Still, the problem is really not "Capitalism" or even legally making a corporation legally like a person. It is our biggest problem in society of holding "every person" accountable for their actions with no hiding places carved out for anyone.
We need a new culture
Made up statistics/models tried to move us towards a more nutrient vulnerable populations. Raising and sterile processing insects does not save world/energy resources it controls diets and allows producers and medical to make profits.
I think what’s happening here is fairly obvious.
Thank you so much!
Wow amazing! 🙏
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