As every person who takes social media seriously knows, it is a life in which statistics play a part. You just can't help looking at data, largely to work out what went well, and which posts did not, and to see if there are any lessons to learn as a result.
The last couple of days were good for us on YouTube, this being real-time data at 7:11 this morning:
Saturday's post, timed to coincide with the No Kings marches, has done well, in the US above all else, but the data shows it has spread far and wide:
Meanwhile, and even more than usual, our audience is older, and heavily male:
Still, we'll take half a million views in 48 hours. The total traffic on that one video is now 493,000. We have done better, having had several with one million views, but this is the best since April, and such things are pleasing. We produce a lot of what might be described as good album tracks, but the odd hit along the way never does any harm.
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Heartening.
Another weekend video ‘Public Debt is Your Wealth’ really does need to be seen and understood, not least by politicians and journalists. Suggest a reissue at Christmas, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ as a lot to answer for….
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Really pleased for you but not entirely surprised. When I am out and about and talk to people about the forthcoming budget (for example) I get the impression that the public are starting to get your message. It helps when you get people like Zack Polanski raise these issues very publicly. I also saw Ash Sarkar make a convincing and succinct case for why the privatisation experiment has been such an economic disaster for the UK economy. Obviously the vested interests who have peddled the neoliberal snake oil for decades have to fight back otherwise they risk exposure as the charlatans that they really are but I do feel that your efforts are starting to cur through. I suppose when Hayek (who I would classify as one of those most responsible for the neoliberal confidence trick) started out he was very much a lone voice but, after many years, he upended the then economic orthodoxy so it might be unrealistic to expect today’s economic orthodoxy to repent their sin of neoliberalism without a struggle. However the background is different. We are not in the years following two devastating world wars and a stock market crash when there was a widespread belief that things could be done better as per the Attlee government. We are faced with potentially far greater issues – climate change, the growth of AI, the rise of autocracy, growing inequality where a very small number of people have hoarded immoral amounts of wealth: in short, a battle for the survival of humanity – and so the eradication of neoliberalism may quickly gather speed.
I feel that one message each of us should make and repeat ad nauseam is that the choices Rachel Reeves makes are not economic choices but political choices wrapped in the bogus and repeatedly failing economic philosophy of neoliberalism. In short we must make the political class take ownership of their political decisions and hold them to account when they eventually fail, as they will do.
Keep up the good work. It maybe a long and arduous road but your efforts will eventually be realised and recognised.
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Hayek’s voice was amplified by well funded think tanks as explained in the bobk ‘Masters of the Universe’ by Daniel Stedman-Jones.
Noe-liberalism didn’t come about by accident or the weight of its arguments.
Good to see a mention for Dan’s book. He gave me a copy when we were both members of the same chambers. In fact he occupied the room next to me. It formed the basis of his PhD thesis. It is well researched and I found it quite an eye opener. We used to have some interesting conversations about it over a pint or two in the Edgar Wallace pub!
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Judging by the comments on YouTube, a fair proportion of the viewers seem to consider you a bit of a plank..
Really? 98.9% positive reaction on the main video I am referring to. I think that might make your ability to interpret data a little questionable.
Schumacher who wrote ‘Small is Beautiful’, was called a ‘crank’.
He replied “A crank is a piece of simple technology that creates revolutions”.
Planks are useful for building new and sustainable structures.
Very good.