Professor argued in favor of socialism. This took place in new york city. [applause] thank you so much for coming out on a friday night. [applause] we are here to debate out on a friday night. The proposition that capitalism is the best way to improve standards of living, ensures liberal and economic freedoms and provides opportunity. The reason that i was intrigued when bhaskar asked me if i wanted to do this, im sort of persuadable on this issue. I came of age at a time when it seemed as if alternatives to capitalism has been completely discredited. I think its hard to remember or hard to understand if you werent around then, how much it seem as if there was really no alternative. It kind of didnt matter what you thought of capitalism just like it doesnt matter what you think of human mortality. It was inevitable fact of life after fall of communism. If you are coming of age now, it seems that just as communism had failed, capitalism has now failed. Were governed by this comic book o
Proposition capitalism is the best way to improve standards of living, ensure political and Economic Freedom and provide opportunity. And the reason i was intrigued when i was asked if i wanted to do this is because i am sort of persuadablon this issue. Time when it at a seemed as if alternatives to capitalism had been completely discredited. I think its hard to remember if you are not around them. It is hard to remember, how much you have seen if there was really no alternative. It doesnt matter what you think where of human mortality, the m you are in notable fact of life, i imagine that if you are coming of age now, it seems as if communism has failed and capitalism has now failed. We are governed by this comic book villain oligarch, while people are forced to wear diapers, because they arent given bathroom breaks. This is at a time when wages are stagnant, while tens of millions are investing in Silicon Valley startups. Im interested to see if i can be be talked out of my sense of
Much it seemed as if there was really no alternative. It kind of didnt matter what you thought of capitalism, just like it doesnt really matter what you think of human mortality. It was an inevitable fact of life after the fall of communism. If you aregine coming of age now, it seems that just as communism has failed, capitalism has now failed. Ofare governed by this cabal comic book villain oligarchs, while people are forced to wear diapers at their factories because they arent given bathroom breaks. Even the one thing that used to be able to say for capitalism, that it was supposed to be efficient at allocating capital, is clearly not true at a time when wages are stagnant, while tens of millions or hundreds of millions are investing in Silicon Valley startups. Im interested in this debate. Im interested to see if either side can talk me out of my sense of despair and total futility. [laughter] im grateful to cooper union for giving us this historic great hall to have this in. It was
Montcello, you would have seen jeffersons neoclassical villa. But we wanted to restore the landscape of slavery. Because if you had come up this mountain top in jeffersons time, the first thing you would see most likely would have been enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountain top slavery wasnt visible. And we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. So were now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along mullberry row, that main plan tashz street. As well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this is part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens offing other people who essentially made his life possible. Right now were actually just near jeffersons main house, the pulaidian mansion he built throughout his life and were standing next to mullberry row which is the main plantation street, about 1,300 feet through archeology and documentary research. We kn
Montcello, you would have seen jeffersons neoclassical villa. But we wanted to restore the landscape of slavery. Because if you had come up this mountain top in jeffersons time, the first thing you would see most likely would have been enslaved people. There would have been no place on this mountain top slavery wasnt visible. And we want to restore that, make that known to visitors who come here today. So were now in the middle of recreating or restoring dwellings along mullberry row, that main plan tashz street. As well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this is part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from just jefferson and talk about the dozens offing other people who essentially made his life possible. Right now were actually just near jeffersons main house, the pulaidian mansion he built throughout his life and were standing next to mullberry row which is the main plantation street, about 1,300 feet through archeology and documentary research. We kn