Name: 彼得-約瑟夫--批判伯尼-桑德斯的《美國的不平等》市政廳 2018-03-19 (Peter Joseph - Critique of Bernie Sanders' 'Inequality in America' Town Hall 2018-03-19)
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My name is Peter Joseph and the following is a critique of the Bernie Sanders

March 19th Town Hall with Michael Moore, Elizabeth Warren and others

Structuralism simply means you're accounting for larger order contexts

The point being that much of what was discussed

in the context of root causes and solutions was rather disappointing to me

as the true origins of the problem of socioeconomic inequality

and loss of democracy was not really addressed at all.

Naturally if you do not understand the root problem

you cannot create viable solutions to problems or symptoms.

And it's frustrating to see how this representative group of influencers

still don't seem to have the awareness or perhaps the courage

to go after the market economy and its incentive psychology

When I say incentive psychology I'm referring to the individualistic,

effectively antisocial incentives generated through competition,

generally at the expense of long-term sustainability

An obvious example is that when a person works to invent something,

they do it first and foremost to sell, to make money.

The incentive is to make money, not advance society.

While some argue this relationship - this proxy relationship -

has been fruitful, which of course it has on one level,

it has also simultaneously been unnecessarily destructive,

especially when other economic alternatives that remove this proxy incentive system

Also, things do not get done in our society because

which is extremely depressing and one of the main core reasons

from the resolution of ecological decline

to the prevalence of poverty and homelessness.

Similarly, when I say procedural dynamics

I'm referring to the game of market trade and how it orients human rationality.

orienting behavior around the structure of the game itself,

there's a near automatic pattern of response

for each individual or group's advantage.

For example, a universal constraint inherent to this market game

Cost efficiency simply means people are trying to save money on input

while maximizing gain upon the final sale of course.

And what has this led to? Well, slavery for one.

or the millions of slaves that exist in the world today

getting paid virtually no money or so little that it doesn't even matter,

And keep in mind - and I think it's an important distinction -

that what we call capitalism or a capitalist society,

isn't really capitalist by any absolute definition

because there's no such thing as a purely capitalist society nor could there ever be

It's more accurate to say that it is capitalistic:

was birthed by the Neolithic Revolution 12,000 years ago

molding and evolving society and culture ever since.

It's a specific structural framework that we've been inside of.

And if you're not familiar with that I can point you to my book

'The New Human Rights Movement' which details it

along with other issues related to socioeconomic inequality.

But suffice it to say, it's very important to understand that there's a

long term geographical determinism that has set

the characteristics of our society in motion.

countless people are pulling levers on a giant machine,

along with a loss of earthly sustainability.

It's built into the collectively-operating mechanism.

without the need for individual malicious intent

Cost efficiency is often confused with the idea

of technical or natural efficiency and design.

The truth is cost efficiency is deeply destructive

because it doesn't actually employ any kind of true science.

Systems science would define true efficiency

in the design and production of a given good.

True efficiency is about doing things correctly from a scientific perspective in other words,

and cost efficiency is simply about doing things in order to maximize income

and reduce loss in the process of production and sale.

This again leads to enormous earthly waste and perpetual human abuse

And when you put these two things together -

incentive psychology and procedural dynamics of capitalism -

you begin to understand why any attempt to push back against the outcomes,

the inevitabilities of this system that we see consistently,

will either be short-lived or they will fail.

It will also happen, again regardless of the moral aptitude of the society,

because this isn't some trivial matter in decision-making.

individual self-interest coupled with familial or group self-interest,

coupled with an expansive materialist culture now derived from our need to

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