I’m watching Robert Reich’s 14-week Berkley lecture series on Wealth and Poverty. The first lecture was last week, and this week was the second. They’re on YouTube, and you can subscribe to the email feed that will notify you of subsequent lectures. Just click Subscribe now.
One of my dear friends, another libtard, says that she couldn’t possibly watch these because the subject matter is so sad and discomforting. I get it. Still, I have spent most of my life steeped in cynicism, unhappiness and mild-to-moderate depression. So, these lectures bring me no untoward emotional experience that I do not already know intimately. I watch these lectures because I have an interest in economics – micro and macro and behavioral. I began exploring that interest when I retired.
The better that I understand the subjects of Poverty and Economic Inequality, the better I am prepared to defend my position against those of people who haven’t really studied the subject matter but still have sincerely held, if idiotic, opinions.
I invite you to check out these lectures – just pretend that you are auditing a world-class course at Berkley. I don’t know for certain, but I suspect that they still smoke a lot of weed on that campus. 🙂