Russell Brand is a very smart and very articulate guy with a good sense of humor. I could do without the farting bird though.

The downside to Russell is that he thinks that the corrupt criminal psychopaths are the result of the economic system of capitalism. And that it is all about money by greedy capitalists.

I believe he is wrong about that.

I believe that human beings evolved in small or medium size tribes. So we are optimized to be living in a community where everybody knows each other and there is one chief who has to deal with all the disputes and makes the rules.

Scaling this system up to a country of 378 Million people is definitely a challenge, but I think our Constitutional Republic did it the best.

Capitalism works best I think up to a certain size of company, but breaks down when companies get too big. This leads to CEOs making hundreds of millions of dollars for doing just typical stuff like talking on the phone and sending emails. CEOs are paid crazy amounts because if one CEO is 1% better than another, that could mean $100 million more in profits when the company is huge.

Globalism is the real disaster. Example:

Swedish Car Maker Volvo sold 148,916 cars in China in 2020

Volvo sold 52,691 cars in Sweden in 2020

So is it a Swedish car company? If the Chinese Government wanted them to do something decidedly un-Swedish would they comply? Because the CCP could shut off all Chinese sales with one phone call. They wouldn't care what the Chinese people thought about that.