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Just how welfarism does incentivize people to fail
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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

Just how welfarism doesincentivize people to fail

Just how welfarism does
incentivize people to fail

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Just how welfarism does incentivize people to fail.
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00:35:01
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May 10, 2025
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documentary, biography
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Traces Thomas Sowell's journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of our era's most controversial economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors.
It's the state saying that, so as long as you fail, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
It's the state saying that, so as long as you fail,
You'll get this money, we'll take care of you, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
You'll get this money, we'll take care of you,
But the minute you get above this line, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
But the minute you get above this line,
[ Children shouting playfully ] - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:23
[ Children shouting playfully ]
Upon accepting the offer, his teaching days were over. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
Upon accepting the offer, his teaching days were over.
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I don't think I ever like standing in front of people - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
I don't think I ever like standing in front of people
When Hoover offered him the opportunity - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
When Hoover offered him the opportunity
How would you describe Tom to someone - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
How would you describe Tom to someone
And by that, I mean Tom looks at evidence - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:12
And by that, I mean Tom looks at evidence
And then he offers a prognosis, and he's not interested as much, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:14
And then he offers a prognosis, and he's not interested...
You point out that depending on - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
You point out that depending on
Yes, that if you look at the Chinese - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:13
Yes, that if you look at the Chinese
The people who have come in since World War II - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
The people who have come in since World War II
They've come in with a different set of experiences - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
They've come in with a different set of experiences
Many of them are the poverty-stricken Chinese - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:18
Many of them are the poverty-stricken Chinese
The American employer is probably totally unaware - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
The American employer is probably totally unaware
It's only the people who work with the data - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
It's only the people who work with the data
"It takes considerable knowledge - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:17
"It takes considerable knowledge