Income tax 2022-2023. Child and dependent care expenses credits. Can you claim the credit? Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Most of this information comes from publication 503. Child and dependent care expenses tax year 2022. You can find on the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. Looking at the income tax formula, we're down at the bottom in the credit area. Remember in the first half of the income tax formula is in essence an income statement, the bottom line taxable income being similar to the bottom line of the income statement, net income. We then take that taxable income, calculate the tax not with a flat rate, not with a flat tax, but with a progressive tax system to get to the tax before credits and other taxes. Then we're finally going to be dealing with those credits and other taxes like self-employment tax.


consumer behavior and under the consumer choices we are going to study the substitution effect. Considering the consumer's demand curve, we have the quantity demanded as usual that we have studied, that there are the basic three factors affecting the consumer demand, its own price, price of other goods and the income. When there will be the change in the price of the commodity, then what will be the change assumed to occur in the quantity demanded? And when the quantity demanded or the demand of the commodity it will change, then what will be the shape of the consumer demand or either this change, it will be same for every type of the commodity in the similar manner or it will be different. So, when we have to study this, first we study a very simple ordinary or the normal case. We study that if there is a change in the price, that will be called the price effect, but actually it will have the two types of the effect on the consumer demand. And these two consumers effect will be under the heading of income effect and the substitution effect. Income effect will be that when the price of a commodity it decreases, keeping the normal amount of the income or the money that is with the consumer fixed. Despite of this fact, due to reduction in the price, now the purchasing power of the consumer it enhances. So, with the decrease in the price, now the real income of the consumer it increases and vice versa if there is any change in the positive manner, meaning the price increase of a commodity, keeping the nominal income constant, purchasing power of the consumer it will decline. So, this effect of the change in the purchasing power that will be called income up. Now, with the decrease in the price if consumer is having more income, now he has to decide where he has to spend, either he has to spend this incremental amount of the income that is now he is having in his hand or incremental amount of the purchasing power on one commodity or he is going to spend this on again the both commodities of the bundle. Here a consumer has that additional amount in the form of saving, now what will he do to do that? So, when he is having original budget line and original indifference curve, tangency, so we call them both slope, so that was equal. Now, when that commodity X1's price has decreased, so we know that the slope of the budget line it becomes flatter. Becoming the flatter of this budget line it will require that now the consumer it must enhance the consumption of commodity X1. So, now the consumer instead of shifting on any other budget line or moving somewhere else, it is in the same income and on the same indifference curve, it switches its consumption as a substitution effect. Means, because the change in the slope of the budget line, to equate that slope, it can take on the same indifference curve or any other indifference curve, it shifts a point. So, this shifting will be called substitution effect. Now, if we want to do this substitution effect in detail, we say that substitution effect is basically two parts of it whose base we say is a complete operation that is called pivot and shift. Now, what is pivot? Pivot is that step in which the basic point of origin, we do not shift it, rather the curve or graph, we just move it around one point. We do not see the displacement or shifting in it. So, the consumer's price of commodity decrease and that commodity, because there is only one X1 decrease, so price 2, because price has not changed, so for that purpose, now consumer's budget line will not shift, rather consumer's budget line will just pivot out. Means, its original point on Y axis will remain same. So, this movement will come under the pivot movement. And now, with this new budget line, we see that this is having a particular slope that is different than the original budget line. Now, looking at this slope, which has increased in purchasing power, if we drag it forward, and when it goes to higher level of indifference curve, we will shift that movement under the shift and it will come from one indifference curve to the other indifference curve and from one budget line to the other budget line. Now, graphically, if we explain, we see that now the consumer is having this original budget line and this original budget line and now the consumer has, if this is the case, when we say that the consumer's price for the commodity, good X1 has decreased and in this form, now the consumer's budget line has shifted due to slope towards this. So, if this is the case and the consumer has to shift, now the consumer will shift from one indifference curve to this indifference curve and this movement to this, it will encompass two type of the operations. One will be the pivot and the other shift. So, when this original budget line and there is increase in the purchasing power due to reduction in the price, so this budget line slope, it shift to this and from here, if we draw, we can say that this indifference curve, it may extended up to this and we see that consumer shift to this part. So, up to this point to this, that will come under the pivot and from this point to this, it will come under the shift. So, when we explain, related to this, that the pivot line, it will just include the part of substitution that is along the same indifference curve and now the consumer was provided two points of various budget lines. It means consumer was dealing between two budget line of the different slope and now when the slope of the second budget line was extended and provided to the consumer, consumer got an opportunity to have a higher indifference curve and due to this, now again, the demand of the consumer, it increases not only of commodity X1, rather for the commodity of X2. Coming to this point, now we see again that at this curve, consumer was provided the opportunity to move from point X to point Y and this shifting, that will come under the pivot operation and now because this budget line was having the same slope, but now with the added income and this added income is just in the form of increase in the purchasing power due to reduction in the price. So, this shift from here to there, this will come under the income effect. So, this substitution effect and the income effect, but this substitution effect and the income effect, when we see, we say that the total effect, it is equal to substitution effect plus income effect, but this substitution and the income effect, they mostly not go in the same direction, keeping in view the nature of the commodity, it is possible that the both will reinforce or re-enhance to each other or it is also possible that they both will go in the opposite direction. If it is the case of a normal good, we see that there is a budget line and there is an indifference curve. Again with the decrease, now the budget line has shifted to the right side and now again a new indifference curve, point A to point C, but now it is shown that this shift from point A to point C, it was not directly possible, rather there was a step that was shown here and this green line is that budget line that we have drawn parallel to this new budget line that was possible due to change in the purchasing power. So, point A to B shows pivot and from point B to C it shows the shift and finally, we see that this point from A to B it will be true substitution effect and the other from point B to C it will be the income effect and when we both add up to this this from point A to C it will totally will be the total effect and in the normal good they both reinforce each other but when we take the case of the inferior good we again see the same budget line and shift of the slope again the same procedure but in this case from point A to B we see that this is the pivot or the substitution effect but this substitution effect is having an income effect from point B to C that is in the opposite direction. So, here the total effect will be equal to substitution effect and income effect and here the substitution effect and the income effect they both will have the negative directions to each other and they both can nullify the effect of each other. Now depending upon the level or the magnitude if income effect will be more then the consumer will be shifted towards left side more but this is the case when the consumer is having the preference for inferior good means when there will be the decrease in the price consumer will reduce its consumption and if it will be increased in the price so opposite to the normal good consumer will increase its consumption. So, in this way substitution effect it has the same direction either in the form of normal good either it is in the form of the inferior good but the direction of the income effect may vary for the different commodity.


From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report. Workers of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan will soon begin another cleanup effort. More than 1,500 nuclear fuel rods are to be removed from a damaged storage pool 30 meters above ground inside the reactor 4 building. TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, owns the nuclear power station. Critics say TEPCO should not be trusted to carry out the operation. However, TEPCO general manager, Maiseyuki Ono, says the operation has been carefully planned. TEPCO had to rebuild the reactor 4 building after a hydrogen explosion destroyed it. TEPCO workers will first remove pieces of wreckage left by the explosion. Then workers will remove the fuel rods one by one. They will use a crane suspended above the building. The fuel rods must not touch each other or break. Nuclear experts warn that any accidents could cause an explosion many times worse than the one in March 2011. Mitsue Murata is Japan's former ambassador to Switzerland and an anti-nuclear activist. He notes that problems over the past 30 months, including radioactive water leaks, have raised questions about TEPCO's efforts. He says, if the worst happens and workers have to withdraw, then it could be considered what he calls the beginning of the ultimate catastrophe of the world. Japan's Agency for Natural Resources and Energy says TEPCO alone is responsible for safety. But to support TEPCO, the Agency has sought advice from specialists around the world. Nuclear inspectors have approved TEPCO's plan to remove the fuel from reactor 4. The process is expected to begin in November and be finished in 18 months. For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presuti.


Alrighty guys what's going on got Kyle and Shawn here relating sports cards and we are ripping This is the sports cards almanac collectors edition volume one we did two randoms before the break one random to get our case We got seven out of ten and one random for our order. I will show you guys results again real quick We had Bradley are with one Austin with two the big unit with three Christian with four Benjamin with five Thomas with six Henry with seven Jim D eight David B nine and Rory C with 10 Alrighty guys again, there's only two rules tonight. I haven't had to really ban anybody tonight very nice No talking about card values during the draft and no influencing the draft guys So no saying oh, I would take that card there or ooh should have taken that card none of that kind of stuff guys We will meet you for a couple minutes the first time and if you do Do it again. We'll have to ban you guys Um been really good so far. I appreciate everybody. You haven't had to do anything yet Been very nice. Good luck on this one guys case number seven. This is break number four Good luck. Let's get the cards out. See what we got and then we'll start our draft Right you guys case seven. I got you know french. You're right Go nice. Go nice. Um could be Jason. I don't know um lane put this together. I don't know exactly what's in here Um could be some hockey tonight though. I would not be surprised I would not be surprised Alrighty box one Box one contraband will is a scholar and a gentleman. No question PSA 10 to start it is killin imbappe. Nice one there on the 2018 world cup sticker Very nice. That's the black back PSA 10 on the imbappe sticker Very nice one there very early imbappe PSA 10 there for the beast from france It is very good box two Yeah, guys just a few to go with lane and force over on fanatics live go say what's up to them go hang out Um just a few to go in bowman chrome four box and then they've got a flawless pyt case as well Division sold out. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you Nt division. So only one break left to fill the night. It's gonna be um flawless pyt flawless pyt that is it Card two nice. We got naji harris on the gold ink on card auto That is the um a field pass rookie auto that is from 2022 or 2021. Sorry nt 2021 nt Najee on the um, what's that 70 out of 99 field pass gold ink auto Najee ready guys box three See what we got 16 to go on Flawless guys last one of the day got halfway full box three. Nice. We got cj abrams. This one's out of 2022 tops chrome This is a aqua wave rookie And what is number two 199 on the ps a 10? Not bad there nice on card cj out of tops chrome from last year 2022 Now on the nationals cj abrams tops chrome ps a 10 Go box four That is crazy Olson's got 53 Matt Olson It's crazy Alrighty guys box number four slab It is jalen williams nice one there nice j dub on the rookie auto out of impeccable Second in the rookie of the year voting this year. How my boy paolo 13 of 99 on the j dub on card from 2022 impeccable. It's a nice one there Young thunder man. They got a very good young core lane was in here. He would be uh He would be reiterating that for sure nice one there at 13 and 99 on the j dub on card rookie auto Box five you guys this is case number four And there we go chris lanes excited man. He's excited for the thunder They got a good young team This is gonna be randy moss on the 1998 tops ps a 10 randy moss rookie draft picks randy you chilling there ps a 10 on the randy 1998 tops Yeah, the beast man Nice randy rand university We've got box six the stickers didn't stay on very well now on so Box six a bgs slab It is nice. It's stefan digs only 24 or 2015 contenders rookie playoff ticket That one is number two 199. That's a bgs nine. I've got a nine five sub grade up there as well One more and we bump it up Nice digs there playoff ticket to 199 That's the uh, miniapolis miracle digs there Almost forget about him in miniapolis to be honest Nice one there digs from 2015 on the rookie playoff ticket box seven Good luck here guys Let's see what we got Hope everybody's having a good night box seven is a ps a 10. It's my boy palo 2022 prism ruby wave that one will be not numbered on the ps a 10 palo That's roi rookie other year right there Palo ban caro for the magic go magic. I love that Ruby wave ps a 10 on the palo Box number us eight box number eight. Let's keep it going Great stuff so far. Look everybody. I appreciate everybody hanging out with us again our two rules Um, no talking about the um, no influencing the draft and no talking about card values during the draft. That is it Everybody's been uh following so far. I appreciate it Ooh, nice one there. We got an emit smith on card auto from um upper deck sp that one is 2008 spx, um upper deck spx football That's a sick one there nice emit Love them and even if he was a florida gator Even if he was a gator a nice emit there on card on the um spx from 2008 Sick one there I think just one just one. Yeah, I think just one lions and packers Box nine small It's redemption cops redemption It is ellie dale a cruise from bowman's best Nice one there out of 250 the on card ellie that one is from 2023 or 2022 bowman's best baseball Very nice one there. That's the uh perspective royalty insert auto That is a redemption from tops. They'll got the top sticker on it nice ellie He had a killer night the other night had two home runs a double Very nice ellie to 250 they call him big ellie Yeah, they do And number 10 sick really they call him big ellie Last one here. This is case number four guys get the hit draft going right away Box 10 It is wow jabari smith jr. On the impeccable rookie signatures gold I want is one out of 10 a little jersey number there Nice jabari with the big on-card auto that is from 2022 23 impeccable Third pick in the draft this year nice jabari One out of 10 impeccable rookie signatures It's a nice big on-card jabari there All righty guys, that'll do it for the 10 boxes. Give me just a moment set everything up We will get the hit draft going. I've got bradley r up first Let me get everything set if I push these further back Just a moment here guys. We'll get everything all set up All righty guys will have bradley r on the clock here with pick number one Let me know bradley if you do want to see any of the cards. I'll do a quick pan of everything Show you guys again real quick Get one minute on the clock once we do that So we started off with our imbappe sticker back there PSA 10 from 2018. We had nazi harris to 99 on the field pass gold ink auto We had to 199 a cj abram's PSA 10 tops chrome rookie um jalen williams to 99 on the auto and a PSA 10 randy moss 1998 tops and then our front row we had um digs ellie bradley gotcha, sir to the ellie Nice one there out of 2022 bowman's best. That is a prospect auto to 250 Very nice one there. Congrats bradley Thank you, sir quick on the pick too as well appreciate that And sabs up next sabs up next minute on the clock, sir Minute on the clock, sir Again guys only two rules tonight no influencing the draft no talking about card values during the draft That is it guys Other than that, let's have some fun man already to jabari Three two eight oh six. That's my area code. Yep One of ten there we go Impeccable rookie six jabari nice one there on the jersey number We'll take that my friend One of ten out of impeccable Nice goal for you there sab all righty guys Pick number three is going to be the big unit The big unit the big unit with a minute on the clock my friend get a few more up here Again guys, let me know if you want to see anything on the back row Um, I got jalen williams impeccable our auto to 99. We got a cj abram's tops chrome rookie Got naji from nt and we've got a killian imbappe psa 10 The palo is not numbered on the red wave, um, but his psa 10 not numbered on the red waves A little more rare than like a silver But not numbered on the red waves Well ready minute on the clock for you shane. We'll start now appreciate you sir You know if you guys do want to see anything like I said, we got the imbappe in the back Got naji to 99 on the auto got 99 jalen williams and to 199 cj abram's PSA 10 tops chrome rookie. Yeah, so not numbered on the palo, but it is a psa 10 red wave Ruby wave they call them Yep, the naji is gold ink on card from 2021 in t So it's a rookie naji on the gold ink field pass auto I like those field passes too, man Really cool, uh photography and everything Well gold ink naji Thank you, eric, uh c buying a spot in a group break tomorrow Appreciate you Getting guys just um flawless py t left for today. Yeah, sorry to 99 shane to 99 70 of 99 On the uh naji Yep to 99 on that one Appreciate everybody hanging out today. I hope everybody's having a good time I am enjoying myself, man Digging the almanac. Hope everybody else is Go to naji. Got you shane 307 39 naji on the gold ink field pass out of nt 70 out of 99 there you go shane very nice Very nice on the naji the gold ink Alrighty guys pick number four pick number four. It is going to be um christian l christian l Um again guys if you do make a pick just need your um your zip code along with the pick and we will get it out to you Just to confirm it is you guys. I appreciate everybody following our rules so far today very very nice We've uh, haven't had to have shawn discipline. No dying to jaco jaker will probably be here soon jaker might be here soon. You can get somebody out of here. I told jaker. I'll be nice one Not tonight man. Not tonight Alrighty minute on the clock at about 30 seconds left christian l christian l Next up will be ben l Pick five up next And again guys force and lane are still ripping over on fanatics live You guys want to get some rips going with them got bowman chrome four boxer Can I see the digs? Yep. This one is out of 199 playoff ticket from 2015 bgs nine had 195 on the subs Three nines and 195 And the 10 on the auto one was the uh playoff ticket to 199 Well, miniapolis miracle digs there all right oppo seven six one two six Palo psa 10 one man right there. Hey, thank you chris. Nice palo That's our boy here from the magic droid rookie of the year righty Moving right along appreciate that guys got ben l up next with pick number five Yeah, i'm i'm down with the palo for sure oppo Always down with the palo nice pick my friend What year is the emit? Yeah, I can try that Yeah, um the emit is 08 08 upper deck spx signature supremacy 08 spx don't see any numbering on here just 08 spx emit smith on card Oh wait, no, that's actually a sticker. That is a sticker. There's a sneaky one. They put it at an angle So it's a sticker auto emit 08 upper deck spx And then in the back i've gotten in boppe PSA 10 pinny world cup And PSA 10 cj abram's tops chrome aqua wave to 199 righty Appreciate everybody making this easy so far Making it easy so far Take the emit one four five six four four ben Nice nice one there Nice emit from 08 upper deck spx upper deck made some great football cards, man signature supremacy Emit smith thank you ben Yes, the moss is a rookie the moss is a rookie um draft picks 1998 All righty next up we got pick number six thomas thomas pick number six And then the fact we have in boppe Boppe PSA 10 that is a moss rookie. Yep 1998 I don't like that the back of the card says florida state All right thomas or pick six got about 30 seconds still thomas And again guys we got lane and force ripping on fanatics the digs 605 27 thank you thomas Oh digs there we go 2015 contenders on the playoff ticket to 199 Nice pick thomas guy is a beast 195 on the subgrade as well Thank you thomas Righty guys four to go pick number seven will be henry d Henry d with pick seven everything up front now So the abrams is the 199 we got some 99 the jail and williams and the other two are not numbered psa 10s He hasn't for a while thomas. I don't think he has for a while. I don't see him in a lot of sets. Yeah, that's a good one Definitely contenders rookie Oh boy, where's my red card? We'll give you a yellow to start Vissante You gotta be careful, you know It's not it's not uh It's not the usual person that's trolling you but usually the person that's in person trolling you All righty guys, henry d here with pick number seven. Yes. Yes. Jalen williams. Um j dubb there to 99 That is out of impeccable on the rookie autoset 22 23 rookie. Um jalen williams. There you go. Shane Bradley I don't believe so Don't believe so Take the episode Yes, exactly exactly Me and uh, me and vasanthi. All right. I don't know. I'm the best terms right now, man I had to ban him a couple days ago. I had to ban him Oh, yeah Yep He's getting a lot of control getting a lot of control Make a move, dude make a move All right Sean is ready to go guys. Everybody's following the rules. He's ready to go. He is ready to go Got the finstain on he is feeling dangerous Feeling dangerous Alrighty henry will give you a lot about 15 seconds here. Make your pick Appreciate you sir got four to choose The abrams three six three oh one got you sir aqua wave to 199 On the tops chrome rookie cj abrams Henry Very nice one there CJ now on the nationals Alrighty pick number eight is going to be jim jim d Hey, what's up larry? That's all right, man for almanac I'm excited to be driving the uh driving the boat today Let me drive the boat Alrighty guys and only one um one break with spots left to go halfway full on flawless um two box full case Pyt here. We'll do that at the end of the night here after all 10 almanac cases A minute on the clock for you jim. Hey, thank you chris. Have a good one, sir I appreciate you always uh positive in the chat for everybody else Have a good night my friend Alrighty guys jim d with pick number eight Jimmy d about 30 seconds left for you jim. What would jimmy deen breakfast sausage? Yeah, yeah, you in oh This guy wanted to sizzle Jimmy deen that's probably the same thing. No, they probably just take him out the wrapper and uh walk Yeah, I probably mean i need to i'm down for jimmy deen Hey, what's up preacher? That's right. That's right Yeah, I don't know what our uh, I don't know what our team nickname is they got the s and s express, but Probably uh has to be natural Yeah Alrighty jim last call here last call pick number eight jim jim d jim d We also again guys have lane um and force ripping on our main channel or not our main channel over on uh fanatics live We got two breaks left to go flawless p yt and um some bowman chrome. You guys are interested in that righty Right, I think we'll pick for jim here guys Um pick number eight was jim. We'll go with the randy 1998 rookie randy moss on the ps8 10 1998 tops or randy mumps Did not play red shirted force date straight cash on me straight cash homie. That is right And one more pick here david Be with number nine and then rory c we'll get um whichever card david does not pick All righty. Thank you david. Let's go david a minute on the clock sir david beat. I appreciate everybody man. This is going smoothly Kyle stash almanac. Let's do it. Let's do it I should have put a mustache on the thumbnail on the almanac little box I should have done that Alrighty guys david be here with pick nine and then rory c we'll get um the other card Yeah, exactly mook exactly.  Yeah start Don't you start I mean, he's ready man. I'm telling you. I'm telling y'all. I'm telling y'all. Sean is ready today Sean's all jacked up on mountain dew. Dude. I'm hopped up Alrighty guys get about 15 more seconds david beat pick number nine He's scared old chain boy Oh, man, you should be He should be He is uh, he is on one since the dolphins have been playing good man He is on one. You should have seen him at the uh soccer game, man That's right. Williams four eight three four one for david J dubb nice one there appreciate you david Nice j dubb second in the brook of the year voting this year One of the good young core for the thunder And that means rory c spot number 10 will get a panini world cup in bop a 2018 blackback psa 10 Psa 10 on the imbop a that'll go to rory c with our last pick All righty guys. Thank you so much that will do it for case number four guys Um got about 10 minutes. We'll get going on case number five. I'll get a random set up Thank you. Thank you guys


The title of my talk is really a sort of pastiche title.  And my subject will be a little bit different from the place of women in the free society, but we'll see where it will go. But I want to start by calling your attention to the fact that every country in the world has a history of male domination. And this has often been explained and excused as being only natural. For instance, our own Murray Rothbard in the title essay of a book called Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature suggested the fact that historically cultures have been male dominated may simply indicate that males are superior to females. Such a view, of course, overlooks the fact that the domination has been enforced by law. And it still is. Divorce laws, property laws, the franchise, legal restriction on occupations are traditionally skewed in favor of men. And this fact has caused a reaction which is generally called feminism. That is, a desire to change and eradicate this legally enforced domination. And the present women's movement in the United States was formed out of several strands in the 1960s. The New Left, the New Deal Left, that is, people who believed that big government could solve all kinds of problems, which they learned from Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Roosevelt's followers, and the classical liberal strand. People of all these persuasions became aware that there were a number of legal and social assumptions about women that needed to be questioned. And today, there is still feminism, but there is a backlash to it. And there are women who are both for the women's movement and who are against the women's movement. And now, feminism themselves are arriving at a position where they are divided. There are feminists on the one hand wanting to censor pornography and to remove sexism from school books. And there are feminist organizations that support the First Amendment to the American Constitution, which says that Congress shall make no law restricting freedom of speech. There are feminists on both sides of a challenge to a new California law that requires employers to grant maternity leave to their employees. Some feminists say, yes, this is very good, but women, other feminists say, no, it's not good for women to be treated specially and separately. And feminist historians testified both for and against Sears Roebuck when that company was charged by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with discriminating against women in commissioned sales jobs. So we find that a great deal has changed since the women's movement first surfaced in the 1960s. In the 1960s, for instance, when this movement began, the so-called nuclear family consisting of a working husband and a wife staying at home with the children and dependent on him for her support was the norm. And today, half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. And only 7% of American families fit this nuclear pattern. Where once most American women were dependent on men for their support, now most women are expected to support themselves and can do so. In the 1960s, women began to realize that they were virtually excluded by law or custom from a number of occupations. And few women held political office. Today, although women still dominate the so-called feminine occupations like nursing and secretarial work, they also form a significant part of the professions of law, medicine, banking and engineering. And they own 25% of all the small businesses in the United States. And more than 15,000 women now hold elective office. Whether or not the American women's movement is solely responsible for these changes, as a result of them, the American women's movement is no longer viewed with the same urgency on the part of feminists. Now this experience that American women have had is not completely duplicated in other countries. European women, for instance, are not faced with such rapid fragmentation of the family as we are faced with in America. According to one source, the divorce rate in the United States is now double that in Sweden, that in Britain, that in Germany, triple that in France and 20 times as high as in Italy. But everywhere, all over the world, even in Muslim countries who have perhaps the strongest logical resistance to the modernization of the role of women, there is a move afoot for women to combine their age-old role of nurturing the family with access to education and productive work. As the productive work is relevant to an industrial society. If society is changing on its own, so to speak, is there a need for feminism in today's world? Is there a meaningful way in which feminism can define what woman's place should be in that world? What is woman's place in society? I hope that an audience of libertarians recognizes that this is a strange question. You may not even notice how strange a question it is until you reverse it.  Man's place?  How can human beings have a place in it? Indeed. But woman is not man. Women do not by themselves constitute human beings or people. Dorothy Sayers, who was one of the first women to earn a degree from Oxford, wrote an article in the thirties called The Human Not Quite Human, which calls attention to this discrepancy. She wrote, probably no man has ever troubled to imagine how strange his life would appear to himself if it were to be assessed in the terms of his maleness. If everything he wore, said, or did had to be justified by reference to female approval. If he were compelled to regard himself day in, day out, not as a member of society, but merely as a virile member of society. If the center of his dress consciousness were the cod piece, his education directed to making him a spirited lover and meek pat of familiar. His interests held to be natural only so far as they were sexual. If from school and lecture room press and pulpit, he heard the persistent outpouring of a shrill and scolding voice bidding him remember his biological function. His newspaper would assist him with a men's corner, telling him how he could attract the girls and retain his wife's affection. People would write books called History of the Mail Psychology of the Mail or Mails of the Bible and he would be regaled daily with headlines such as Gentlemen Doctor's Discovery and Men Artists in the Academy. If he gave an interview to a reporter, he would find it recorded in such terms as these. Professor Bracht, although a distinguished botanist, is not in any way an unmanly man. He has in fact a wife and several children. When I swilled beer with him in his laboratory, he bawled his conclusions at me in a strong rough voice that implemented the promise of his swaggering moustache. Let's go back a bit in history. Edmund Burke supported the American Revolution but both ridiculed belief in the rights of men and assumed the inferiority of women in his later statement Reflections on the Revolution in France, written in 1790. Burke said, a woman is but an animal and an animal not of the highest order. An answer appeared to Burke before the end of 1790 entitled A Vindication of the Rights of Men. It was written by an anonymous author who also took on Burke's views about women and this anonymous author was herself a woman. Her name was Mary Wollstonecraft. In this book, her general definition of rights was as follows. The birthright of man is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact and the continued existence of that compact. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Man is not well known today. It has been overshadowed by the book she then wrote in 1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Women. In it, she carefully analyzed and refuted the assumptions of her day about the nature and place of woman.  That's Marie Rothbard's argument. As she put it, pointing out that men too have submitted to tyranny. And she said, Tillard has proved that the courtier who severely resigns the birthright of a man is not a moral agent. It cannot be demonstrated that woman is essentially inferior to man who has always been subjugated. And not only did Wollstonecraft argue that woman should be considered the philosophical equals of man, she was probably the first person to point out that the laws respecting woman make an absurd unit of a man and his wife. And then by the easy transition of only considering him as responsible, she is reduced to a mere cipher. But to render her really virtuous and useful continued Wollstonecraft. She must not, if she discharged multiple duties, want individually the protection of civil laws. She must not be dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life or support after his death. For how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own or virtuous who is not free? She called for a proper education for women so that they might be fitted for various businesses instead of only being taught to please men. Saying eloquently, how many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent who might have practiced as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop and stood erect, supported by their own industry. Would men but generously snap our chains and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience they would find us more observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers, in a word, better citizens. This was all said remember in 1792. The concern of the Enlightenment for the rights of man led inexorably to a concern for the rights of women on the part of some. In the United States the concern for the rights of slaves led to a similar concern for the rights of women as the states of the union had generally adopted the same British common law that Mary Wollstonecraft pointed out made of husband and wife an absurd unit. In 1848 a group of abolitionists met in Seneca Falls, New York and issued a declaration of women's rights based stylistically on Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. But where the tyrant that Jefferson referred to was the British King, the Tyrant the Seneca Falls declaration referred to was that generic man that had created the laws and rules of society. Listen to some of the points. The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward women having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her to prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men both natives and foreigners. Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen the elective franchise thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation he has oppressed her on all sides. He has made her if married in the eyes of the law civilly dead. He has taken from her all right to property even to the wages she earns. He has made her morally an irresponsible being as she can commit many crimes with impunity provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage she has compelled her to promise obedience to her husband. He becoming to all intents and purposes her master. The law giving him power to deprive her of liberty and to administer chastisement. By the way you sure that you've all heard the English phrase the rule of thumb many of you may not know what that refers to. The rule of thumb is that a man may not beat his wife with a stick larger than his thumb. That's part of the common law of Great Britain and which was adopted by the United States. And still exists in some states in the United States today although legislation has superseded it in most places. He has so framed the laws of divorce we're now back at the Seneca Falls declaration as to what shall be the proper causes and in case of separation to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women. The law is going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of man and giving all power into his hands. After depriving her of all rights as a married woman if single and the owner of property he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it. Clearly the founding of the United States upon what were to be called liberal principles hadn't done much for women. The abolitionist movement years before the Civil War enlisted many women and both they and their male colleagues became sympathetic to the burgeoning feminist movement. How could one believe that slaves should have civil rights and still believe in denying those rights to the women who are championing their cause. Surely these supposedly free women were no less intelligent, no less worthy, no less human than these unfortunate members of another race enslaved on our shores. Yet like the slaves American married women could not own property, could not sign contracts could not vote, could not control their own earnings, could be physically beaten and could be returned to their homes by force if they ran away. After the Civil War women abolitionists expected their male colleagues to help them gain the rights that now would be granted to freed male slaves by the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution but it was not to be. A petition to specify that the 14th amendment applied to women was introduced in the Senate and voted down. And to make sure that there was no ambiguity about this, the word male was introduced into the American Constitution for the first time. What this means in American law is that no matter what the wording of equal protection of the law may seem to imply, it is clear that the framers of this amendment did not mean it to apply to women and so it doesn't. When the territory of Wyoming which gave women the vote in 1869 became a state in 1889, it was even argued in Congress that the 14th amendment made it unconstitutional for women to vote. So that Wyoming women should be deprived of their suffrage before Wyoming could be admitted to the union as a state. Fortunately this argument did not prevail. But it's one reason why a branch of American feminists agitated for a number of years for an equal rights amendment to be added to our Constitution. But I'm getting ahead of the story. I think I've said enough to show that feminism began as a classical liberal movement based on the assumption that the rights of man included the rights of woman. That woman is not by nature man's property whose primary purpose is to bring other generations of men into the world but is equally a human being with all the variations that that implies. The 19th century feminists didn't want special treatment by the law. They wanted less restriction. But society changed. Industrialism preceded a pace. Socialism developed as did a trade union movement into which women began to be admitted in the late 1860s. By 1880 women workers were 15% of the labor force. In 1903 the National Women's Trade Union League was formed and lobbied Congress to investigate the working conditions of women and children. So as one strain of feminism fought to dismantle the laws that treated women differently a new network of laws concerning women was passed. Called protective labor legislation. The Supreme Court which had held general protective legislation to be an unconstitutional violation of the right to contract, appell protective laws that only applied to women in 1908 on the ground that it is in the interest of people to take special care of the health of women as if she were a farm animal because the physical well-being of women becomes an object of public interest and care in order to preserve the health and vigor of the race. In 1901 the Socialist Party was formed in America, the first political party to allow women to participate. And it was an avowed supporter of votes for women. And in 1904 the first socialist women's organization was formed. The National Socialist Union the coincidence of language is just that. The larger progressive party made women's suffrage part of its program in 1912. When the campaign to allow women to vote finally was won in 1920 it was with the help of socialists and progressives who did not entirely share the original classical liberal vision of dismantling restrictive laws. And the first laws that women lobbied for after they got the vote had expanded state power. Two among other things, inspect meat and outlaw child labor. The cutting edge of social reform was socialist in the 20s and 30s and only one small women's group kept the classical liberal flame alive. A tiny organization called the National Women's Party that kept introducing the Equal Rights Amendment into every session of Congress despite the opposition of such formidable foes as the women's bureau of the labor, Eleanor Roosevelt, the AFL-CIO, the League of Women Voters, President John F. Kennedy's commission on the status of women, all of whom pointed out that the Equal Rights Amendment would invalidate the protective labor legislation regulating women's pay, hours and working conditions. But the new wave of feminists began to realize that this legislation actually restricted the economic options open to women and they began to insist that protective legislation should be struck down. At first their vehicle was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but then they began to see that the Equal Rights Amendment would save them from having to bring individual suits against specific laws by making the entire category of protective laws unconstitutional. So a group of now activists now as the National Organization for Women disrupted a session of a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee demanding immediate hearings on the ERA and they got it in 1970. It's interesting in light of the later successful campaign against this Equal Rights Amendment that none of the conservative legal experts that testified against it between 1970 and 1972 when hearings were being held complained that it would expand government power. On the contrary, they said it would invalidate too many laws. That it would disable the government from passing legislation and that the government already had all the power it needed to pass any positive legislation for women that it wished to. Let me give you as an example one objection a testimony objecting to the Equal Rights Amendment that was given by a former director of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor. She said, this amendment wouldn't put a single law on our books. It wouldn't require equality of pay in states now lacking women interested toward this end. It would not require Yale or Harvard, Princeton or Notre Dame to add a few women full professors to their staffs. Nor would it change policy with respect to women seeking admission to law or medical schools or any other private institutions of higher learning. It wouldn't put more women in top jobs nor supply a single daycare center to enlarge the opportunity of a welfare mother to obtain a job. The inequality of women does not arise as a constitutional defect but rather out of economic, social, political and legislative default. So this was the kind of argument that was mounted against the Equal Rights Amendment. A very heartening thing happened in the United States in the early 1970s and that is that conservatives primarily Sam Irwin of the Watergate thing tried to pull a variation of the Washington Monument Gambit and their bluff was called the Washington Monument Gambit as it has been identified by the Public Choice School of Economics is when the bureaucracy says these budget cuts can only be achieved if we close the most popular tourist attraction in Washington, the Washington Monument on the busiest holiday of the year which is the 4th of July. What Sam Irwin did was to say to American feminists this Equal Rights Amendment will only function to invalidate all the wonderful laws that we have passed for divorced women. Not only protective labor legislation but exemption from jury due, the exemption from armed forces conscription and compulsory alimony for divorced women and to his surprise, instead of saying we can't do without these benefits as any self-respecting interest group should be able to be counted to do liberal feminists said we don't want your benefits we just want equality before the law and they quoted the 19th century abolitionist Angelina Grimke I ask no favors for my sex all I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks and permit us to stand upright it didn't last Over the years the supporters of the ERA forgot that they had originally agreed that the amendment would have no impact on private discrimination or private employment but would only affect governments and started predicting that it would lessen the pay gap between men and women and would wipe out any and all existing inequalities between men and women because no one in the feminist movement did the intellectual homework to distinguish between equality before the law, meaning the law treats all people equally and equality in fact meaning the law treats people in different positions differently in order to make them equal what we might call the classical liberal and socialist strains in the women's movement continued to maintain an uneasy coexistence using the same word equality in contradictory ways and forming coalitions to invalidate laws or to expand them with equal abandon this lack of identification of political principles has led to the present confused picture with feminists on both sides of many issues including censorship how to deal with existing pay and job differentials between men and women and maternity leave two books that came out this year in the United States tell the good news and the bad news of American thinking about the woman question one, gender justice is a piece of establishment scholarship written by two men and a woman that meticulously makes the case that justice depends on freedom of choice it was published by the University of Chicago Press widely reviewed in major media and hailed by the New York Times reviewer as literate, jargon free and even entertaining it criticizes both those on the right who want to change the present state of things because women are not fulfilling their natural function which is to stay home and those on the left who want to change the present state of things because women are acting in accordance with their conditioning instead of creating an ideal society saying that both schools are equally opposed to freedom of individual choice this book is a welcome addition to the literature of liberty that is increasingly being produced by American academia the book that tells the bad news of American thinking is one that is also gaining attention from the mainstream media the author was a guest for instance on the prestigious television show Face the Nation on Mother's Day it is called a lesser life the myth of women's liberation in America and it is written by Sylvia Ann Hewlett a former economics professor who is now vice president for economic studies at the United Nations Association her book criticizes the emphasis in the American women's movement on consciousness raising expanding opportunities in the equal rights amendment as too individualistic and suggests that women should become like any other special interest group and band together to get the legislation that European social feminists she says take for granted legislation provided for paid maternity leaves child allowances subsidized day care and free health services she advises women to ally themselves with labor unions in order to achieve these goals saying that the market can never adequately solve the problems of working mothers the danger of this approach is that it seems so reasonable that it's being hailed by American conservatives as a breath of fresh air about feminism after all the book is written by a mother of four whose vowed aim is to make life easier for mothers and therefore help preserve the family Dr. Hewlett explicitly supports Phyllis Schlafly's opposition to the ERA pointing out that Schlafly like Eleanor Roosevelt realized the protective labor legislation was more in women's interest than equality before the law here both conservatives and old line democratic feminists like Betty Friedan agree is an approach that may solve the American women's dilemma by offering her concrete non-ideological help already maternity leave is the new rallying cry at the United Nations World Conference in Nairobi last summer according to Betty Friedan American women delegates led by Maureen Reagan president Reagan's daughter were working for a consensus on parental leave childcare and even equal pay for work of comparable value in other words American feminism is borrowing a leaf from the European alliance between women as a special interest group and trade unions representative Patricia Schroeder a democrat from the state of Colorado has been supporting a parental and medical leave bill this summer which would require employers to give both birth and adoptive parents 18 weeks of unpaid parental leave it would also authorize a commission to study the feasibility of requiring this parental leave be paid by the employer and the grand of American feminism Betty Friedan is fighting feminists in now in the American civil liberties union who are challenging the California law that singles out pregnant women for special legal benefits namely maternity leave Friedan an earlier supporter of equal rights before the law has now decided that the fact that women are different from men justifies as time describes it not only benefits like those routinely offered to working mothers in other industrialized countries there's a strong push for feminists and labor to join in support of status measures not just daycare and child allowances but comparable worth and affirmative action these are being presented as I said before as non-ideological issues that can unite everyone feminism as a political philosophy has been fragmented infiltrated as was liberalism by the idea that not only is the state the enemy of freedom if it is not restrained but the powerful private interests must also be restrained the result for both ideas is a contradictory mixture of individualism and collectivism in the last analysis only expediency tells us when to call on the individual to restrain the state and when to call on the state to restrain the individual in trying to rescue the word feminism in my opinion there is just as there is a value in referring to the classical liberal tradition the history of freedom should not be abandoned in our present struggle and particularly today when the pendulum of political action is swinging again towards special treatment for or we would point out against women libertarian feminism may have important points to contribute to the dialogue at least we have to try thank you


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What's up guys Nick chain back another video? What's happening guys? It's your boy Nick chain coming back with another video today We have a very special guest on the channel. It is my boy Amherst Magic Kane As many of you guys know or if you don't know you should know Amherst is my best friend from home We have done a bunch of traveling together. We've been to Europe. We've been to Paris, London Nice Barcelona Madrid soon to be Africa soon to be Africa soon to be Korea There's a lot of trips that we've done together and he is actually visiting Princeton for this weekend yesterday We went to New York and we filmed just a quick shopping vlog So that will be up later this week hopefully but today we are going to be doing Ivy League compared to state universities because Amherst is a Student at University of Alabama, you know, there's a lot of people out there that number one either get into state universities with full-ride scholarships So a lot of people get caught up of whether or not that is worth it compared to the Ivy League So today we're just gonna sit down and talk about a few different stuff that hopefully you guys can be able to take something away From so the first topic we are going to be covering are academics Obviously that is the main reason that you should be going to university I can start off by saying that yes, it's Princeton Yes, it's the Ivy League meaning that the education is very top tier It's probably going to be the best in the country just in terms of the quality of the education And what I mean by that is obviously there are classes some of them that I've taken which may not be the most Interesting or the most beneficial for myself But in terms of just the quality of the departments and the research that they do it's very top-notch So what do you feel like the academic opportunities are at Alabama? Um, I think it really depends on what you're doing. So I'm pre-med So I wanted to you know, I want to go to I want to go to med school in the future So, I mean our bio departments really good. What do you feel like in terms of the classes and the professors? Do you feel like you know people are there to support you and that like office hours are beneficial and that you're Generally learning a lot from the classes. I think it depends on the class and professor a lot of like, you know The intro classes freshman classes, there's like hundreds of people and you're never gonna meet your professor You can barely hear them sometimes But upper-level like upper-level bio like you really get to know your professor you go to office hours You talk to them. They help you out. I agree. I think that's very much the same thing over at Princeton is You know college once again is what you make of it meaning that if you take the initiative to Go out and schedule with dinners with your professors or go into the office hours You're going to be able to get a lot more out of it Now when it comes to like the intro classes like he was saying it is kind of hard to you know Get more involved, but as you get into the upper-level stuff You kind of have to be more in touch with your professor now a big thing when it comes to universities are obviously Affordability and how you're going to be paying for college now. Luckily. I will say that Princeton has some very good financial aid One of the best in the country meaning that it is all need-based There is no merit scholarship and there are no athletic scholarships This is very much the Ivy League only and it is very different for just about every other school out there Alabama obviously has a ton of merit and academic scholarships. So you want to talk on that? Yeah, Alabama has a bunch of merit scholarships along with athletic scholarships But you know like I got a full ride to Alabama. So in my it was at first album was my last option But it ended up being like my best option just because I'll graduate with no debt and I can have money to go towards grad school or you know do whatever I want to do with extra money So, you know a big thing is you need to be taking into account all the variables of your education It's not just the name brand or what university ranking it is It's really about the affordability and whether or not you're getting the best bang for your buck because there are you know Several students out there who are going to be in-depth when they come out of college But if you are offered a full right tuition to you know some big state school where you're going to be able to do a lot more with that Available resources and scholarships then you know it may be a good scenario for you And that's not something that we can decide it's very much of individual and personal basis So that's obviously a discussion that you need to be having with your family. Yeah, moving on to the social aspects of college Alabama is obviously one of the best football teams in the country. So there are way more football games There are way more, you know tailgates frat sororities all that stuff. So you can probably take it away Yeah, football games are huge tailgating huge Greek life is really big. Everyone goes to football games. It's really hot, but people are dedicated Or how many championships do you guys have? You're asking that a lot. So Alabama obviously has tons of championships their football team is very great You know if you're an athlete who is getting a full right scholarship to play sports at a state school where there are could be more Opportunities after you, you know, hopefully getting drafted or whatever. That's of avenues to consider as well. What do you think about like parties? What do you usually do on the weekends? There's stuff happening at Alabama every single night. Maybe not Sunday, but probably Sunday. Last night Amherst came to Princeton for the first time It was a Friday night. He's like wow it is dead. There's nothing happening here Yeah, Alabama's popping like every day every night. We have this place called The Stripped where like all the bars restaurants are every night It's like tons of people mostly frat parties or bars. No, it's like bars and there's frats They have like big functions, but you have to be in a frat to go to that usually so going off of that We do have things called eating clubs at Princeton. They're similar to frats But they're co-ed and you eat all your meals there but at night That's where the social scenes happen The good thing about eating clubs is that it's essentially open to anyone if you are able to get a pass or find a list spot from an upperclassman It all sounds very complicated. I know it's very weird I try to explain it to people all the time like what the hell is that but as far as just like around Alabama What do you usually do to go hang out go eat? Are there a lot of restaurants shopping? Yeah, there's lots of restaurants So one big difference I noticed like there's a lot of like I live off campus a lot of upperclassmen live off campus So, you know people cook together like lots of like friend groups just like make dinners together And like that's their night out and then hang out in the living room because we just have a lot of space People go hiking. There's like a river they go most people have cars, right? Yeah, everyone has cars They take like weekend trips to the beach Atlanta Birmingham so speaking off that I will say that just about everyone on Princeton lives on campus for all four years Just because number one apartments are pretty expensive off campus and number two everything is pretty centrally located We also don't have cars meaning that it's hard to get out of the town unless you go to New York or Philly But it's very much Focus on academics like people won't take weekend trips because it's study time So what are extra casers? I would say in a real sports huge like frats play frats There's men's teams co-ed teams like every sport men's basketball soccer indoor soccer rug B No So in terms of just like the overall quality of your time at experience including academics extracurricular is social life Atmosphere and affordability What is your overall? But you know, what are your overall thoughts your sophomore? So having enjoyed your past two years so far Yeah, I'm glad I made the decision. I made like where your other options other options were UT like Texas A&M just like state schools and then I just applied to Alabama because a friend told me to and Got in full scholarship ended up deciding on May 1st Emerson's on a scholarship meeting. He doesn't have to pay for tuition You mind telling us like what your scores were to get that? Yeah, so I got a 32 and on the ACT 32 ACT and then if you have above a 3.5 GPA So I mean it doesn't seem like the bar is set too hot.  I wish I would have tried harder in high school for sure Yeah, freshman year and sophomore year. I did give the effort I should have so I had some catching up to do junior year and then I met you know Learned some good study habits started hanging out with different people. Well, I don't know where you started hanging out I wonder when we started having classes together. Yeah, I definitely didn't know how to study at first Yeah, that's a big thing. It's like if you don't know how to study properly and find Study groups and habits that will help you be more productive Especially when you're in high school and you're getting ready for those tests that can come back to bite you in that ass I'm still learning how to study honestly every new class every new person I study with I learned a new habit That's really helpful facts one place where I think your school doesn't matter as much as if you're you know pre-med Predental pre-law if you can do good at really any school then I guess the grad school that you go to matters more I will say that going off of that my friends were doing pre-law or pre-med right now are literally Struggling so much because they have to maintain a super high GPA of like a 3.8 3.9 even a 4.0 And especially at an Ivy League that is incredibly difficult to do so for anyone interested in going to those type of grad schools Where your GPA is really going to be that important then genuinely take into consideration of whether or not you want to be Struggling very much for the next four years at an Ivy League Not that a state school is going to be less harder or the less rigorous at all But the fact that number one grades can be counted for differently depending on the type of school We are at the difficulty of the course loads all that is very able to take into the factor Yeah, I mean I have the 4.0 still but like it I know it wasn't as hard to get as it is here I mean not to say it wasn't work. It's gonna be working. It's gonna be working any school And you're gonna have to put in a lot of hours a lot of library time. That's facts Anyways that about wraps it up for this video. I hope you guys enjoyed this first on this new series I will say if anyone can come up with a name for this series leave it down below if I end up picking it I will shout you out because I have no idea what to call this, you know fireside chats or cactus chats Guys this battery is dying. I think it's slowly gone down there. I think I did this video. Maybe just give you a timer Make sure to go follow Amherst on Instagram. I will have it linked down below Comment down below for more videos and as always don't stress finesse. Yeah


Studying the Merchant of Venice, here's how you can analyse Act 1, Scene 3. The scene opens with dialogue between Sherlock, a Jewish moneylender and Bessonio. The repetition of three here shows that Bessonio has found this moneylender to get the money off him. Bessonio then tells him that his friend will be bound by this debt and he'll make good on the payment. Sherlock then lists all of these different places and it shows that he knows that Antonio has all his ships in all these different places and he wonders if he can make his money back. Each direction shows that Antonio has entered and Sherlock is speaking in the side to show us that he doesn't like him. Sherlock then says he hates Antonio because he's a Christian and he gives out money without lending any interest. Where still, Antonio is anti-Semitic. Antonio asks the loan from Sherlock and he can't help but insult Sherlock using this oxymoron. Sherlock then uses listing here to show how anti-Semitic and horrible Antonio has been to him. Yet Sherlock still decides to loan him the money and he says that if Antonio can't pay him back he won't charge interest but he's going to ask for a pound of his flesh. Antonio agrees but Bessonio has a really bad feeling.


Hi everyone, I'm Gorn Haff, Technology Advocate at Red Hat, where I work in emerging technology areas. And as part of that, I do a lot of work with Red Hat Research. And the topic of my talk today is I'm going to take you through, serve some of our thinking around setting up Red Hat Research, some of the things we're doing at Red Hat Research, some of the things that we've learned in setting up the program the way we have. But first, I'd like to spend a few minutes to talk about the nature of invention in the first place. Now when we ask how does invention happen, probably one of the logical first places we end up is, well, there's an inventor, of course, and on the right hand side here we have the first marine chronometer, which was important for determining the longitude of ships that see you need precise time on a rocking sailboat, which made traditional clocks not work very well. And Leonardo da Vinci, famous artist, famous inventor, and we could go down a whole list of things, probably most of you at some point in high school or whenever, probably had to memorize a whole list of inventors of various technologies. Now there's a couple of things wrong with this mindset. The first is that certainly people do invent things, I know won't take that credit away, but they're almost always based on pre-existing work of various kinds. The other thing we find is that when people are listed as inventors and you really dig into the stories, usually those stories are a lot more complicated. There were various people doing different things at about the same time, taking different approaches, but really the need to have an inventor is so ingrained that you almost always come up with an inventor for the thing and that's what makes it into the school books. Now particularly as products technologies got more complicated, we start to see more invention at really the company or a team within the company level. So if you look at something like the Ford Model T for example, Henry Ford gets a lot of the credit, probably rightly so, however obviously there were teams of engineers at Ford Motor Company who made the assembly line happen, made the Model T happen. It wasn't one individual who did this, however there was really kind of an other mode of invention. I think I alluded to this a little bit when I was talking about how individuals invent things based on prior work and that has been well recognized for a long time. If you look at for example how viticulture happened in Southeast Asia and Europe, there are patterns of spread of technologies over time and this seems to be a natural process. There was no board of viticulture spreading this knowledge. This knowledge just kind of happened and this has been well known for a long time but wasn't actually studied until relatively recently and in 1983 a researcher, professor at University of British Columbia, R.C. Allen studied this idea of collective invention, this idea of informal knowledge sharing and specifically he looked at the 19th century steelmaking industry in the UK and what he observed was that a lot of knowledge seemed to be being informally shared between companies and by individuals moving from one company to another. Now companies at that time generally didn't have corporate research departments. Most of these inventors at these companies with few exceptions aren't very well known but he found that things like chimneys get incrementally higher or there were incremental changes that seemed to be coming from some sort of knowledge diffusion and he actually studied this quantitatively and the other thing he found was there were patterns here. You had companies that seemed to be out ahead of making changes and then you had other companies that just kind of followed what those first companies have and what has happened in more recent years is that you can look at a couple of different things and this is where Burkai gang into how we're thinking about the Red Hat Research Program is research obviously happens in academia. A lot of this is actually a relatively recent process. A lot of the academic research we think of was really kind of a product around the World War II era. There was research in universities earlier, particularly starting in maybe the later 19th century, but sort of the modern research university is probably less than a hundred years old and these are some institutions in the Boston and Cambridge area, institution in Brno obviously and what we can kind of say about this academic type of research is you do have a lot of collaboration in academia, but it's often in silos IP licensing may be a consideration actually some of the big research universities make quite a bit of money off of licensing their IP. One thing we can also say about academia is it can be rather academic. It can be not terribly rooted in real world use cases and practices and this is a concern that played into getting Red Hat Research started, but we also see this in some of the big research universities where there's been some deliberate efforts to do more collaboration across different specialties. In academia they use a lot of open source but actually working in open source working in upstream communities may not be familiar and what academia tends to produce is sort of the almost stereotypical publish or perish. They do fundamental research and they publish papers based on that and that's very important for both PhD students, for example, getting their thesis and for professors to get tenure. Another phenomenon that we've seen over kind of the same period, maybe a little, starting a little earlier, is the idea of the corporate laboratory. Edison's lab is sort of famous for this Bell Labs is a very familiar example, but a number of large companies have had fairly well-known corporate laboratories. DuPont and the chemical area talk right as IBM corporate lab up in Yorktown Heights in New York. Interestingly enough, IBM, when they started out their initial corporate lab, it was actually located at Columbia University in New York so IBM was actually a fairly early on example of an academic and corporate collaboration in terms of research. What can we say about corporate labs? Well, they were mostly limited to dominant firms. Typically companies that had some sort of monopoly either kind of legally in the case of Bell Labs are de facto in terms of companies like IBM and DuPont in the chemical area because basically their financial situation allowed them to put money into labs that weren't necessarily going to have short-term benefits to the company. There didn't tend to be a lot of collaboration outside the labs. They were famously a lot of collaboration within the labs but not necessarily between companies. They are generally looking to make money in the long-term. They've tended to be in companies have gone back and forth a bit about this over the years sometime but they're tending to be wanting to have results that have some immediate benefit or at least if not immediate relatively near-term benefit. In fact, a trend that we've seen over the years in corporate labs has often been that they they will sort of go off in more academic territory and particularly if profits go down a bit they'll kind of get sucked back into the product development space. The research can end up looking a lot more like development. The output here is patents, fairly famously in the case of IBM and working artifacts of various kinds, something practical. Again there may be collaboration papers and so forth. If you look at somebody like Microsoft Research for example or Google but that's not really the primary thing they're trying to accomplish. We bring this to open source and this is sort of the ultimate knowledge diffusion and the IP concerns are mostly handled by things like licenses, maybe trademarks. Most of the bigger successful products out there, projects out there are very collaborative. Open source has tended to work better in software than in other areas. There are some other things like hardware for instance in RISC-5 ISA but it's been harder outside the software space and again like Allen's knowledge diffusion they tend to lean towards the incremental and the output is obviously code. Again we're trying to broaden that out to things like operational knowledge and so forth. And one of the nice things about open source is what Jim Zemlin of the Liggs Foundation calls these virtual open source cycles. So you have projects that lead to products, products hopefully make money and if they do that can feed back into the projects and pay developers for example. So we set out at Red Hat to think about how can we organize deliberate invention that pulls in some of that virtual virtuous cycle that I described and really have a model of a research organization that brings in that open source that can combine some of the academic type of invention and some of the corporate type of invention. And that's sort of where we ended up at Red Hat Research. So start out Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University in Boston obviously started 2018. It was a joint project by Red Hat and BU and the goal would basically do advanced research in emerging technologies in areas of joint interest. So in the case of you know Red Hat it's been mostly things in the loosely defined software infrastructure space and we've had these collaborative teams of BU faculty, PhD students predominantly, although not exclusively in Red Hat engineers, and we support fellowships, internship programs for the students, organized joint talks and workshops. We've also been expanding this to other universities including in Bernau. However we've been very deliberate about this and I'll talk about some of the lessons as we go on here to not try to boil the oceans here but to really focus where we can have a real effect and a real difference. And from Red Hat's perspective this is run out of the office of the CTO. So the mentioned were predominantly in Westford Boston and Massachusetts, Bernau in the Czech Republic and Tel Aviv in Israel. There are some other projects going on so it's not exclusively by again we've tried to keep this focused in a manageable number of areas. We publish quarterly magazine, we have internships, we do mentoring with students closely, we have some Red Hat engineers who teach classes and we have Red Hat research days events which we'll hopefully go back to in person one of these days obviously haven't been in a while. So what kind of projects do we do in terms of kind of scale? Some of you looking at this may be familiar with some of the three horizons planning model and to me this looks a little bit like that. That you have large-scale projects, smaller-scale projects and speculative projects and you know essentially this corresponds to the amount of funding and the amount of Red Hat effort that go into these. So you know there are projects that are very well established. We know there's something there basically but we want to do more with those projects so something like Chef for example is probably a good example here. It's very visible, there's a number of people involved both from academic background and from Red Hat and often these are built up from something that has already been proven may even be a product based on it and we just want to make some changes, improvements, speculative projects you know like hey this is an interesting idea don't know if there's anything there or not but it's worth putting a little bit effort, putting a little bit of money into this and you'll see if there's something there that's worth spending a bit more effort on and then small-scale projects are kind of in between those two. One of the kind of the general ground rules here is this is all open source and publicly available so this is we're not interested in working on closed source in this context. There's a bunch of related work predominantly coming out of our our Boston Cambridge based efforts. They're sort of this complex interlocking of different organizations out there they're doing various things in terms of providing research work into large-scale cloud operate first is one very currently active project we're looking for ways to kind of bring open source approaches into an operational context rather than just software development looking at telemetry as part of that and again a number of these other projects that are a combination of Red Hat funded, Partner funded, Massachusetts government funded, University funded so there's a lot of related things that are kind of going on in this space. So you know we've had a lot of success here we have quite a few Boston University professors who are involved in this specifically again in the Boston Cambridge area we have a very large number of OpenShift compute platform licenses that have been donated to mass open cloud there's a ton of SEF storage which is being increased continuously and you know we've funded a lot of public research over the last five years and we've influenced other you know other research that's going on as well. Some of the areas we're working on I mentioned SEF, Unicernals is an interesting area basically Linux based Unicernals and there's an article about that in a recent Red Hat research quarterly issue FPGA tooling and there's also some work going on with risk five in conjunction with FPGAs AI ops a lot of self-tuning there's been some other work in the AI area as well in terms of preserving privacy and data sets so differential privacy homomorphic encryption 5G project specifically with northeastern in that area and looking at various types of software verification. What we learned well just giving money isn't enough the the sort of people component here the internships the mentorship are important I mean you need money at the end of the day but this isn't just a case of writing a check and I think related to that there really has to be this joint commitment Red Hat or industry more broadly needs to work with academia can't just go off in its own thing and do it and again these are all kind of part and parcel the same thing the senior engineering time has definitely been a bottleneck here and again can't just write a check you you know you need to supply the the senior people to do the mentorship and the work there does need to be local involvement again that's you know why we're not doing this every place do need some focus as I say we've been focusing in areas that are primarily of interest to Red Hat and I think we did we've over time we've sort of discovered the project management and so forth associated with this is something that really needs to be thought about deliberately you can't just do this all ad hoc so what's next feel free to reach out to me with any questions feel free to subscribe to Red Hat Research Quarterly there's a digital version available HTML on Red Hat Research website and we also have a very nice print magazine and we're going to continue to have Red Hat Research Days events we've been doing these virtually as shorter sort of self-contained pieces because nobody really wants to be in video all day but hopefully we will get back to person one of these days so with that thank you and I can take some questions


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