Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mentions it occasionally as a source for Wolff's views, such as on worker co-ops, rather than as a widely recommended watch.
What it is
Lex Fridman interviews economist Richard Wolff, a Marxist, about Marxism, communism, capitalism and worker cooperatives. The conversation runs nearly three hours.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends ellopoppit · 2022-06 · on “Think twice before founding that free-market utopia”
I recently watched a Lex Fridman podcast with Richard Wolff, a philosopher and Marxist economist and he made many of the same compelling points you are making: [this video] >It's really hard for me to see where the rigid conformity came from. Perhaps its from the concept of "equality of outcome", everyone is treated the same no matter what they do. >In other venues, we see rigid conformity tied to hierarchy (military, strict schools).. all venues that tend to have figurehead leaders, and disempowered individuals rather than collective empowerment. It's an interesting correlation, but within those organizations there does at least seem to be some elememts of meritocracy involved. Although, Stalin,
Cites ex3xu · 2023-03 · on “Why We Never Have Enough Time”
I think your understanding will improve if you view the content of this link as nothing but a scathing review of the book in question. I get the sense that your confusion comes from thinking that the linked article is trying to make points about the subject of the book, when really the point of the review is to trash the book as a waste of time (while recommending better options, linked throughout the review). For instance, when the reviewer states "Problems with style and pacing are problems of thinking", the primary intent is not to make some sort of generalized insight applicable to you, but instead to criticize Odell in particular as putting poorly styled, poorly paced, and poorly though
Cites ironmagma · 2023-07 · on “Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human”
> if the bar loses money each month you're still owed a paycheck Only until the bar stops existing. You're on the hook for business continuity whether you're the employer or the employee. Lex Fridman and Richard Wolff discussed this: [this video] Co-ops are indeed the closest thing we have to escaping capitalism in America. However they don't grow very quickly if at all, for the very reason that they aren't efficient at extracting value to fuel growth.