I want to live better, not longer! Great lecture as usual, Mr Secretary.

Thank You for uploading this lecture Professor Reich ❤😀

Raise your hand if you are absolutely NOT enrolled in this class but watch these videos every week… 👋

Now for the first time I have a small inkling of how our democracy, government and capitalism works. Every policy maker from local to national should be required to take this class along with all CEO's of public companies. With some clues they may be able to recognize how unintended consequences happen to poorly thought decisions. Their decisions even  with popular opinion and good intensions, they don't always have the intended results. I have always watched and admired your career and at your age you have my vote as a human being, by the way by birth year was 1951. I spend my enormous free time now just learning. I was too busy working 7 days a week with an obsession of hard work with miniscule regrets because of one wife who made all the difference. Luck has a lot to do with it. Not growing up poor but extremely frugal, I learned many necessary things from my parents. I will continue until some day I will not awake on this earth. Thank you for your efforts.

Elucidating as always! Thank You, Mr Reich, for continuing to shine a light on economic realities! 💖🇭🇲

When I was in university, wow nearly a decade ago, maybe none of the lectures I attended would warrant applause at the end. I'm so glad you're able to reach so many through your classes, online and offline.

All of these lectures have had a deep, earth-shaking kind of impact on me, as someone who is really waking up to political activism and trying to educate myself on the problems facing us today. But this one truly hits home. My husband just left a job of eight years because his wage “increases” were completely outstripped by rising insurance costs. He has a masters in teaching, yet we struggle every month to pay our bills. He’s choosing to work 2 part time jobs instead - one at a large public district with a union, and the other at an ethical grocery co-op. It was a huge leap to leave a “stable” job of many years, and scary for both of us. We can only hope there will be a better insurance plan as he networks within this new district in hopes of full-time hours down the road. We’d like to start a family, but my sister in law is still paying off her hospital bills for her two births. For her youngest daughter, she received an itemized bill in the BABY’S NAME for time spent in the natal unit, which is just… obscene.

This stuff has got to change. Husband and I are both doing all we can to reach out to our local politicians and get involved in these decisions. I hope millions of other Americans do the same. We can exert enormous pressure if we work together.

On healthcare, there’s also a variable of how high stress over long periods affects lifespan and all aspects of health. And pretty much all food in the US is crap. Especially with the introduction of high fructose corn syrup. Even the fresh fruit and vegetables have far less nutrients because of factory farming. You can’t have time to exercise or get proper sleep when working 2 or 3 jobs.

Glad to see people like this exist in the US.

With this lecture someone is finally teaching me how the medical system works.  No wonder I could not make sense of it before... I did not understand it in terms of the "HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS".  That is basis to understanding a lot of things in life but especially the things that have to do with life-and death-type issues.  Thank you, Prof. Reich.

Enjoying this entire series!

On this I expected to also hear about the impact of the diminishing quality of our food in the US on our health, including how the foods we all regularly consume (rich and poor alike) include ingredients which are BANNED in other countries, but overlooked in for the sake of higher profits in the US… Think the high fructose corn syrup in or favorite Coke products, etc.

Change starts with education. The cigarette example proved this point.

Can’t thank you enough for giving us free access to class!

Thanks again for sharing your lecture, this time insights about policy and health care.

US pays medical professionals pretty high with compared with countries who have centralized healthcare. The difference is most of these place have free or cheaper colleges. Opening doors for more people to become professionals

Ounce of prevention or pound of cure. 18:20

Love the anecdotes about what was going on behind the scenes during the Clinton administration.

M1 increased from around $#4 trillion  to around $20 trillion.  That's the main reason why we have higher inflation today.  Reich's argument about lack of competition, however, is a contributing factor.

Thank you so much for your dedication and wisdom.  Thank you for making this available.

This class has become my favorite game show. 🙂

I live in a neighborhood undergoing gentrification, right next to a supermarket.  I go there daily.  Poorer people's carts are loaded with cheap soda, cakes & sweets, ramen noodles, hot dogs, etc... I ate that stuff when I was poor in college too... they're the cheapest food.  And I witness obesity, diabetes (including plenty of missing limbs & what looks undiagnosed in young people too), bad health, daily.  It bothers me so much that the gov't subsidizes corn & cheap food.  So much unnecessary suffering.

What amazing points. Why would corporations have record profits yet keep raising their prices if capitalism truly worked on competitive pricing? Why would they risk losing business to their competition? They don't compete, they cooperate behind closed door meetings to maintain this profiteering practice.