Thomas Sowell - A Personal Odyssey
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@GuppyPal
Read his autobiography. Excellent, just as one would expect. Makes you respect the man even more. What a treasure Sowell is.
@51MontyPython
Man, this is awesome! I'm glad I found this. I didn't know Milton was a Keynesian or that Sowell started out as a Marxist, but knowing this only lends more validity and credibility to his current views and understanding of the free market.
@RonJohn63
The quote at 7:50 about institutional interest instead of the interest of others is so profound and saddening. And at the end, "I wasn't prepared to keep on explaining away the evidence."
@freedomandliberty93
Respect to Thomas Sowell.
@fzqlcs
Investigation and prosecution of various minimum wage law violations probably accounted for one-third of the department's activity. Since bureaucracies (at management level) are primarily concerned about self-perpetuation and expansion, they had no interest in whether minimum wage really helps those it purports to serve.
@51MontyPython
To add to what he was saying at 7:35, one thing I've learned in life is that not everybody is truly interested in knowing objective truth, but rather, more often than not, wish only to give false validation to their preconceived notions, and to defend them at all costs regardless of how inaccurate they may be, and these kinds of people scare the fuck out of me.
@PanMakaron
Great video.
@joemahony4198
Unwilling to explain away the evidence. That is what makes Dr.Sowell a true intellectual rather than an ideologue.
@bokera2
I'm just wondering. How did the minimum wage law provide one third of funding for the labor department? 7:34
@bokera2
Thanks!
@51MontyPython
Highly astute, my friend. Couldn't have said it better myself.
@reachforacreech
"other peoples well being would never be the priority of politicians and beurocrats"
SPOKEN LIKE A MARXIST BRO
@ERICGRIMEY1
Tom is the man
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bza069
thomas sowell is the man!!
Marxman0603
The old socialist solution to that would be to issue money with a 'use-by date', which like most commodities, would be impossible to hoard indefinitely. The modern solution is a fiat monetary system.
@flynn2008
Every individual is a libertarian. But not everyone likes the idea of an individual.
@jgoldsteincanada
What a stud!
@ohedd
I simply don't understand why he was still a Marxist even after studying economics at Chicago. How did he reconcile the labor theory of value with reality, for instance?
@mrgetrealpeople
Get a clue Sowell and Friedman. Both University professors, where do you think their exorbitant salaries and benefit packages came from? 80% of college students go to school on government loans, 90% of the economist work for the damn federal government or become professors where 80% of their economic students, pay their exorbitant salaries and benefit packages because of government loans. GET A FUCKING CLUE.....

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