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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

You began to have not onlythe welfare state, you began to have the mind-setthat goes with...

[ music ] You began to have not only
the welfare state, you began to have the mind-set
that goes with the welfare state so that there was no stigma
any longer attached, for example,
to being on relief or welfare

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You began to have not only the welfare state,
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you began to have the mind-set that goes with the welfare state
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so that there was no stigma any longer attached,
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for example, to being on relief
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or welfare.
Duration
18 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:34:33
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Free To Choose Enterprise

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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.
Those types are welfarism and how they have affected - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
Those types are welfarism and how they have affected
It's a hard pill to swallow. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:04
It's a hard pill to swallow.
Just how welfarism does incentivize people to fail. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
Just how welfarism does incentivize people to fail.
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