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ZIZ231 Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (with Jordan Peterson) (19.04.2019)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Poor Are Not Getting Poorer Under Capitalism

Happiness is a confused notion. It relies on the subject's inability to fully confront the consequences of his erter desire. Human life of freedom and dignity does not consist just in searching for happiness. No, matter how much we spiritualize it, or in the effort to actualize our inner potentials, we have to find some meaningful cause beyond the mere struggle for pleasurable survival. I'm the poor are not getting poor under capitalism. The poor are getting richer under capitalism by a large margin. And i'll leave you with one statistic, which is that now, a in africa, the child mortality rate in africa now is the same as the child mortality rates was in euro

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