This class is You know, I named it I think nine or ten things every millennial should know about socialism and A lot of you are not millennials You're I think we're at the tail end of the millennial generation. I've been reading they're trying to decide what to call you now You're gonna yeah, I think the millennial generation and what is it everybody born after 1983 or something like that and so so you'll have to figure that out but But I wrote this book by the way you you probably have received the email by now that you will not be permitted to leave Auburn, Alabama Unless you purchase a copy of my book Socialism, you know, but I wrote this book in regularly publishing Contacted me after Tom Woods or they contacted Tom, but he's too busy with Tom Woods incorporated to write another book And so he recommended me Then and they said, you know, they read across these Opinion polls one of them's a 2016 Pew Foundation poll found that 69% of voters under the age of 30 expressed a willingness to vote for a socialist president and There are a number of other polls like that. So, you know, the so-called millennial generation that went crazy over a 74-year-old communist who spent his honeymoon in Moscow in the middle of the Cold War Bernie Sanders sort of a sort of a weird development that that there is sort of you know You know after all the world has gone through with socialism in the 20th century here. We have the young the younger generation Infatuated by someone like that and and socialism in general And I would have to assume though that a lot of them didn't know what it was and a lot of these young people Were were Ron Paul followers when Ron was running for the Republican nomination Because he's also anti establishment. So a lot of them. I think just thought of themselves as anti establishment It's just a good thing if you're anti Washington establishment But but they didn't have any really intellectual background to understand. Well, what am I for I'm against that But one of my four, you know, yeah, how could you how could you be more different than being for Ron Paul one day? And Bernie Sanders the old communist the next day that doesn't make any sense at all in Bernie by the way was a high school classmate of Walter blocks and they ran on the same track team And although Walter said Bernie was faster than him And Walter has been challenging Bernie to a debate for about three years now But he just seems to ignore him. He's not not too interested And so that's why I wrote this book the book was written That's Pinocchio on the front cover and the problem with socialism as this as he pointed out should have been problems plural But it comes from a quotation from Margaret Thatcher the late Prime Minister of England who once said the problem with socialism Is that you eventually run out of other people's money and that's sort of where the title of the book comes from And so I thought I'd go down, you know, as many of these nine or ten things as I can get through in the time that I have About what I think young people like you if you talk to your classmates about this if they say geo Oh god, I hope Bernie Sanders runs again for president or something like that. Like that. What would you say to them? Well, first of all, you should buy the book like I said Or else you won't be able to get on the bus back to the airport and and there's I can't cover everything It's in the book, but I'll go through some of these things. Well, first of all, what is socialism? What began in the early 20th century as government ownership of the means of production? And that's that's when all the socialist calculation debate took place in in the great debate over socialism But then it was expanded be far beyond that in in his famous book the road to serfdom in the 1976 edition Friedrich Hayek wrote that Before too long even by the time you got to the 1940s Socialism had been redefined as income redistribution through the welfare state and the progressive income tax And the objective he said was always the same the ostensible object objective was always egalitarianism It was always the an attempt to equalize society But the means just changed the means that they gave up on a lot of socialists gave up on the whole idea of taking over Industry and running it Especially in the United States where the the working class so-called in the United States was never interested in taking over the factories like Marks and Engels insisted. They just wanted to pay raise They didn't they weren't interested in all that so they redefined socialism to mean that so that's the second part of the definition and then also in Ludwig von Miesi's fame famous book socialism, which is for sale out here I assume and it's online and some of the latter chapters he talks about what he calls Destructionism he said it has always been a part of socialism wherever you see it is to first destroy the institutions of capitalism including The institutions of liberalism that mean that meaning the ideas that support economic freedom Okay, peace free enterprise equality under the law and then so forth Those things those ideas have to be destroyed and the and the institutions of capitalism have to be destroyed through taxation regulation inflation whatever means possible propaganda And you know re-education of the public, you know to hate capitalism and to love socialism That has that was always seen as a prerequisite first then you can try to have socialism And so my definition of it is is broader than just government ownership of the means of production It's also the welfare state and the progressive income tax and destructionism Okay, so that's why my book has 16 chapters. It's not just a book about the calculation debate That's actually a tiny tiny part of it the second thing second point is Socialism will destroy your economic future And we have a lot of history that I talked about some of the history in the textbook Here's my hand up and of course in the Soviet Union is the biggest the biggest example of this in world history Our friend Yuri Maltsev who has lectured here. He's a professor at Carthage College in Wisconsin now I just saw him a couple weeks ago in Florida and He he was a an advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev who defected and He ends up being a friend of the Mises Institute in an Austrian school economist And and how he came to be that is that One of his jobs working for Gorbachev Was to read the literature of the capitalist bourgeois Exploitors and criticize it and so he had unique access Yuri once told me that if you got if a Russian citizen got caught with a copy of the road to serfdom There was a seven-year prison sentence just for having that book in your possession And he read it in a mimeograph form and then passed it on right away to somebody else who wanted to read it But so he knew about all this literature and so he was a free market economist when he defected in the late 80s and And he's the guy who convinced Dick Cheney the US defense secretary at the time that the Soviet economy was no more than 5% of the US economy so you had the the the Richest country in the world in terms of natural resources including human beings in a huge population Producing basically nothing. I once asked an MBA class of mine. Well, what what product could you name that the Soviets? Produced it was a worldwide You know competitive on world markets and I had some military people in the class because there's a military base near where I was Teaching and they said a k-47s. Yeah a k-47, but no consumer good That's that's one thing they can think of it and maybe caviar, but that comes from a fish and not a factory So that's the worst biggest example all over the world Socialism is a disease, you know, and you know students need to study this and know this Argentina developed their brand of socialism in the 40s under Juan Perón and then that that imploded and The Argentines Tried to bail themselves out with massive government spending and printing of money for decades after that ending up with 12,000% inflation by the 1980s and but that all got started with the implosion of Juan Perón's socialist Project India was once one of the wealthiest countries on earth With a lot of brilliant engineers and people of all of all kinds of all trades and the very wealthy and but then after colonialism They adopted Soviet style central planning as their model and they and the rest is history It became one of the poorest countries in the world until Rajiv Gandhi helped them started turning things around Was that 20 or 25 years ago in in India? Africa the same thing after colonialism ended in Africa They all also moved into socialism as a possible answer and and so country after country also became You know among the poorest countries of the world the latest one of the latest examples of course is Venezuela of the wonders of socialism where in Where Hugo Chavez Nationalized all the major industries and a lot of not so major industries impose price controls regulation socialism It's only you know, not even 20 years ago. They did that in Venezuela has is reportedly Has more oil than Saudi Arabia and so it was a very affluent country a Latin American country and they've totally destroyed the place Here's one article from the London Telegraph Describing today's Venezuela It says explosive government spending combined with declining oil prices made Venezuela a dead hell as Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro refused to admit the folly of their ways today a hamburger cost the equivalent of a hundred and seventy dollars Because of hyperinflation a night in a hotel is six thousand nine hundred dollars a Middle-class monthly salaries savaged by inflation are worth about thirty five dollars in purchasing power Food prices more than tripled just in the past month and the annual inflation rate is four thousand five hundred and five percent One Venezuelan interviewed by the Telegraph Said that he had to spend more than half of his monthly income just on toilet tissue and You know that you can read articles on the web about people in Venezuela rummaging through garbage in the street competing with dogs for looking for something to eat out of garbage piles and Hundreds of thousands of people leaving the country and that only took about 15 years to do that to what was once a Fairly prosperous country And so there's no and there's no shortage of examples of that if you want to destroy your Economic future well, then socialism is the ticket for you. It's moved to Venezuela You can you can you can see your economic future quicker than if you just vote for Bernie Sanders and be a Bernie Sanders supporter Okay The third lesson is that you cannot fix Socialism any more than you can reform kudzu Those of you who have never been here down south in Alabama Don't know what kudzu is it's that weird vine if you on the highway from the air from the Atlanta Airport to Auburn You might have noticed that there's these vines that just completely come over all the big pine trees It's called kudzu and it's just like grows like crazy You can't kill it you can't can't trim it or anything like that You have to pull it out the mother roots and then burn the roots and and that's the only way to get to do Anything about socialism can and of course the reasons why you can't reform socialism Or the inherent reasons that you've learned a lot about that this week. I assume there's the Calculate the calculation problem that you've all been You know, you know, they are knowledgeable about now there's also the Hayekian knowledge problem the idea that That the kind of knowledge that makes an economy work is the knowledge of time and place that it's in the minds of the millions of people the Consumers the producers the workers the entrepreneurs the financiers and everybody and that no one mind or no one group of people could possibly Possess and utilize in an efficient way all that information And Hayek called that the pretense of knowledge in his in his last book before he died And so that's the knowledge problem. That's different from the calculation problem There's more to do with the absence of market prices and being able to calculate profit and loss and those sorts of things And then there's the famous incentive problem, you know, how do you how do you give people an incentive to work if everyone gets paid the same? if I'm a professor in a college class and I tell the students that Okay, we're gonna have six exams during the semester at the end of the semester I'm gonna add up all the scores and divide by the number of students and give everybody a C You know, what what incentive would you have to study if you know?  You get a C if you study one hour. You get a C You know, what's and that's that socialism? basically Okay, so these are the inherent reasons why you can't fix socialism And it's remarkable how some economists don't know this I remember reading an interview in the New York Times with years ago with Joseph Stiglitz who was Bill Clinton's chairman of his president of the council of economic advisors He was he was the head of the World Bank for a while. I believe a famous Princeton economist And so a real establishment kingpin Nobel Prize and the whole gist of the interview in the New York Times was that He thought and this was this was after he left the Clinton administration and after the worldwide collapse of socialism The gist of the interview was that he thought he could people like himself could make socialism work that they just didn't do it the Right way And so so he learned nothing through history or economics and this is somebody who's supposed to be a big shot economist He doesn't understand a darn thing about it to say something like that. It seems to me okay point number four is Democratic socialism can be just as disastrous as any other kind My Venezuela example is an illustration of that. That was a democracy As far as that goes so you can in his famous pamphlet the law Friedrich Bastiat commented this was published in 1850 Bastiat said that Democracy can be just as as bad as communism If what democracy means is you pass a law that imposes one system on the whole population And then uses the coercive force of government to keep that one system Imposed on the population. Well, that's what communism does and so you can have the same results of communism or socialism As far as that goes but with democracy and by the way, I don't I don't really distinguish between the two It's all the same gang to me communism socialism because after all the Soviets called their government The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. They didn't call it the Union of Soviet Communist Republics They they consider themselves to be socialists because communism was the utopian ideal that they hoped to reach someday Maybe in a hundred years, but even the Soviets never called themselves communists It was they called their government Soviet Soviet Socialist Republics okay, so that's sort of a Red herring argument to me because some people will say well you're criticizing socialism but communism is he has bad Yeah, but socialism is different. Well, no, it's not It's just the same same beast as far as that goes Yeah, a little Hayek made the point in Well, I'll leave I'll leave Hayek later. That's Hayek made the point about about this You know the road to serfdom there are there are several chapters in his famous book the road to serfdom about this point about democratic socialism and and he talks about how democracy inevitably is incompatible With with socialism because what happens what tends to happen among other things is that okay? The you'll impose some sort of central plan on society and then the plan will fail and then the government will face a choice It can either abandon the plan or it can adopt Dictatorial powers to keep keep the system going to sort of force more and more on the population in Venezuela For example democratic country they they're talking about Forcing all the adults in the country to spend two months on a farm somewhere working Because they're out they're running out of food And and so you know so it started with price controls and a nationalization of industry and now 15 20 years later They're talking about literally enslaving a large part of the population Like chattel slavery and forcing them to work backbreaking farm labor to feed the population And so so it's either that sort of thing or just abandon and admit that you failed And politicians are rarely inclined to do that aren't they and so so that's a high ex argument of how One of the reasons he gives several others of why Democracy is essentially destroyed by socialism even if it's adopted by a by a democratic country Okay See the next point I would make is uh Socialism does not produce equality it produces Just as much inequality as as any other system. Maybe even more than any other system. For example Uh, I read not too long ago in the wall street journal that the wealthiest person in venezuela Socialist venezuela today is the daughter of the late hugo chavez Who's reportedly worth four billion dollars with a b even though she never had a job and never ran a business And and also the chavez former finance minister who now lives in europe according to this article Is reportedly worth 11 billion dollars And there and the same article had a big uh long discussion Of the political cronies of hugo chavez who were still At their country clubs living high in the hog having you know Eating well having pig roast at the country club tonight and that that's sort of being driving mursadis But the people are living like animals and in as far as the animals go They're starving in the zoos too and people are eating dogs and and cats in venezuela But the politically the politically connected are doing very well. It's always been that way Joseph stallin was the richest man in the world during his time He essentially owned the entire soviet union You know people will say no i might have been john d rockefeller Or you know in his heirs or somebody like that knows stallin No, but nobody owned more property than than he did in his time and of course in the soviet union all the all the uh, the top politicians had Resort homes and secret bank accounts and all the rest and lived very well And everyone else is equally miserable And a couple of interesting quotations that i that i put in the book about this about equality and egalitarianism A couple of my favorites actually Like i said the book's written for a popular audience. It's not written Because i want to win the Nobel prize in economics okay H. L. Makin, this is one of my favorite H. L. Makin quotes about the whole subject of egalitarianism He said all government in its essence is a conspiracy against the superior man Its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him If it'd be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior Only in law against the man who is superior in fact If it'd be democratic then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force Meaning not just men men and women to make them as much alike as possible And as dependent upon one another as possible to search out and combat originality among men All that can see is in an original idea is potential change and hence an invasion of its prerogatives That is the government's prerogatives The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself Without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos And that's any You know egalitarianism Anywhere no matter where where you're talking about And then another quote that i stuck in here on this top of the chapter That my chapter is entitled egalitarianism versus human reality And I recommend if you're interested in this read Murray Rothbard's essay Egalitarianism as a revolt against nature It's a very informative a lot of good economics in it. It's on the web You don't have to find a book or anything like that And and Murray Rothbard quoted Kurt Vonnegut in this essay the the the american Literary figure Kurt Vonnegut in his essay called Harrison Bergeron About equality and here here's what vonnegut said It's a novel, you know novel, but it's fiction work of fiction The year was 2081 and everyone was finally equal There weren't only equal before god and the law they were equal in every which way Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else No one was stronger or quicker than anybody else All this equality was due to the 211th 212th and 213th amendments to the constitution and to the unceasing vigilance of the agents of the united states handicapper general And so so what did the handicapper general do? Here's an example Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence Which meant she could think about anything Except that she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts And george while his intelligence was way above normal had a little mental handicap radio in his ear He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter Every 20 seconds or so the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like george from taking unfair advantage of their brains and that's That's a good that's a good lesson in that Sometimes humor or making fun of the egalitarian the socialist egalitarians is a good way to criticize them And I have found that they hate that more than anything else And so therefore I enjoyed more than anything else All right when you can ridicule and make fun of them because they take themselves so seriously all the time And so humor is a is a can be a very powerful weapon You know, why do you think why do you think they put comedy central on tv and all these all these all these comedians? You know what that what's her name holding the head of trump up and in the stuff like that? They think it's funny. They think that was not a very effective tactic that the severed head thing, but but that's But that's what they do You know, where am I? So Also socialism has been responsible for some of the worst crimes in human history I teach a course I'm teaching in the fall called capitalism and its critics and I use different books all the time But in one year I used the road to serfdom was one of the books I had the students read that well, it's very hard. It's not easy to read. So I had to Spent a lot of time in the class explaining explaining the book But then after that I had them read The black book of communism and write papers about it and this was a book Written by seven french scholars. It was translated into english in the sometime in the mid 90s, I think and it just details the crimes under communism and it showed why Why it was that in order, you know in the name of of imposing socialism on the people That these governments had to mass murder hundreds of millions of their own population of their own people It was an essential part of socialism for the whole 20th century And let me see if I can find the page number here And it's an example of the chapter in a road to serfdom of That where that hyac called why the worst rise to the top I think it's chapter 10 in the road to serfdom Why it is that under these socialist regimes, whether it's fascism or socialism or anything else You see the worst Rising to the top and and basically the basic reason one of the reasons is is that the essence of socialism is the imposition Of a a government plan or a set of government plans On the population that will replace their own private plans for their own lives And so you you have to use force and coercion because people don't like To have their lives and their own personal plans disrupted and and so forth That's why the Ukrainians for example Stalin had to murder six million Ukrainians That they wanted to be farmers. They wanted to keep their farms They didn't want to give their farms over to the to the government And so they they killed six million Ukrainians for starters in the 1930s And so and so and my students were my students were totally unaware of this They they didn't know that a single person died under communism. It seems like they never taught a darn thing about it They were and you know at first they couldn't believe it and then they Then they got into this book and uh, and uh, and I had them write short papers on Pick any one country that's discussed in this book and explain to the class the rest of the class How they went about enforcing socialism in cuba or wherever the country because that's what the black book of communism does Each chapter is a different country once you get past the first couple of chapters in it Let's see. So as far as the death count Uh, you don't have to buy a book you can go online and google rj rummel His book is called death by government But his website is uh talks about demo sites So if you just google demo site, you'll find this website of rj rummel He was a sociologist at the university of hawaii Who has probably had the most depressing academic job i've ever heard of you spend his whole career researching How many people were killed by their own governments for being dissenters not sent to war not world war two deaths or Vietnam war deaths, but people who were murdered by their own governments because they dissented to socialism basically and and it's a big long list and let's And you know one of the uh comments about this that I make in my book is that in the academic world The socialists if they if they do anything who who totally dominate higher education in america now and a lot most other countries They always take the moral high road You know the capitalists and the defenders of capitalism They're the ones who are evil if you defend decentralized government like jeff dice just did you're a neo confederate Who probably wants to secretly bring back slavery? Because you were decentralized government, you know the states rights.  How does that happen? How are they? How are they? taken the moral high road according to uh This is from the black book of communism not rummel but rummels is the easiest to get a hold of you Don't have to buy his book. It's online. His website's online Now the soviet union 20 million people china 60 million vietnam 1 million north korea 2 million cambodia 2 million eastern europe 1 million latin america 150,000 africa 1.7 million afghanistan 1.5 million And then these are people killed by their own governments for merely dissenting not not being sent off to war or anything like that And and so and that's an important point. I think if you want to if you're if you ever get into a debate about socialism How can you defend that? You know, that's that's the real history of socialism Okay, and of course the defenders are always they always like to defend it on theoretical grounds Not not realistic grounds Okay Another point I would make is that fascism is a form of socialism After all Nazi the word nazi stands for national socialism You know the only difference the big difference between the nazis and the soviets Is that the the german socialists? Claimed to be national socialists whereas the russian socialists said they were international Socialists that's the only difference really they're they're all socialists They all came from from the same roots and they all hated capitalism. They all they all criticized capitalism and whether it's italian fascism or or german fascism or japanese fascism or any other kind it's a form of socialism As far as that goes, you know, I think it was Stalin who came up with this false dichotomy of Fascism being different than socialism because you know after after hitler double crossed him He was originally with hitler, but then hitler double crossed him and invaded russia but But so they were they're they're on you know the same page for a while because they were just socialists with minor differences between them One's national one's international Maybe solid thought he could talk hitler into joining him and being international But it didn't quite work out that way as far as that goes, but um Let me read you some examples. This is number seven from this From the horse's mouth Here's benito musolini let's see Look at the right. Oh, yeah musolini wrote a book When I was doing research on this years ago, it was kind of funny I ran across musolini's autobiography, you know that I read and The title was kind of like if you were say a third grader and your teacher said write an autobiography What would you call it? He called it my autobiography That's musolini's biography, but this his other book is fascism doctrine and institutions Okay, he said this the fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the state And accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with the state It is opposed to classical liberalism Which denied the state in the name of the individual And so the fascist understood that the enemy was people like ludwig von mesis and hyac In the austrians primarily classical liberalism Read mesis book liberalism. He literally wrote the book on classical liberalism. It's online liberalism I'm using that in my class in the fall because I want my students to know not just what the institutions of capitalism are But the philosophical underpinnings that allow capitalism to exist as long as a segment of the population understands these underpinnings And and it's these underpinnings these these ideas that musolini was attacking here And and of course the german socialists did the same thing Same they attack the same ideas Yeah, well, that's all I don't want to read any more any more long quotes Anything like that. And so, you know, like I said, the nazis were national socialists Hayek wrote in the road to serfdom That quote all of the leading men of german and italian fascism began as socialist and ended as fascist or nazis So they just it was just a minor variation as far as that goes One other thing about socialism, you know, since I defined it kind of broadly as being Not just government ownership of the means of production, but also the welfare state and the progressive income tax You know, I I get to talk at a at a university or college in uh, north carolina in the spring and And I was asked about this about Well, how can I attack the welfare state? You know attack the welfare state and my response was To give examples of how we treat people on welfare in baltimore where I worked for for many years Where the public housing projects are are so decrepit that Some of them the police won't even go there because they get shot at Or there there are three or four generations of children who have grown up Never seeing a man who gets up and goes to work in the morning Is that really a good thing? I mean there there's been book There was a sociologist who wrote a book about that in in chicago about how there are three or four generations in some section of chicago like this And it kills off the work ethic it destroys families because Fathers are now off the hook once once we have welfare checks replacing fathers It eliminated the stigma that there once was to abandoning your children And so not all men will do that But a lot do if they think they're not going to starve They're not going to not have a roof over the head the government will take care of that It's easier to leave. It's easier to to be irresponsible And so so you have all these pathologies That we've been studying for many decades and if you really get into it, you see you see the pathologies of of this with You know In lower income communities, especially I think I cited one study that said that the teenage boys are something like three times more likely to get involved in crime If if they if they have a family like this has been abandoned by their father You know, we all know great examples of heroic people who avoided this But we're talking generalizations here about that And so so it's always easy for the socialists to to play these sympathy game about the poor people But what the poor people want to need is jobs and and and and uh, you know climbing up economic ladder first and foremost Uh, not not handouts Okay So that's one thing I would put See running out of time here, but another thing I would mention is The progressive income tax now in the communist manifesto, this is plank number two So this was a high priority to marks and angles in the communist manifesto You know, you know next to the abolition of private property A a a progressive income tax Uh, what they thought would would be a good tool for destabilizing societies. Remember Misi said destructionism Was always a part of socialism What I write about in the book though is one of the things that the progressive income tax did Was to nationalize all income think about it when the united states adopted the income tax in the year 1913 The government was essentially saying We now own all of your income. It's no longer yours. It's ours And we will tell you how much of it you can keep by setting the tax rate So you go to work and you're working for us And if we decide the tax rate is 20 you keep 80 if we decide it's 80 you keep 20 But we'll tell you we'll let you know What the tax rate is going to be so the government essentially nationalize all income with the income tax And another thing that uh, there was a result of the income tax that most economists don't really discuss at all really Is that when we got we got the Fed and the income tax at the same time And of course, that's another thing that's in the the the 10 point platform of the communist party And it's also in the 25 point platform of the nazi party. You can google that If you really want to become a nazi scholar, you can google 25 point program. I have my students read it So they know what it was Was government control of money is always right up there. It's always an important thing as far as as far as that goes Government control of money, but once the government has the ability to print money and the ability to tax However much of your income they claim to need Well, they can do just about anything They they can bribe any governor any mayor Who resists what they want to do any community that resists one what they want to do They can impose military conscription for their wars And if you run away from the army, they can send a hundred men out to round you up In the united states, you know, one of them, you know, I've written a good bit about the american civil war and all that there's one book written by a Female civil war scholar whose name I can't remember right now But on desertion in the civil war and it was massive. There were there were some of the big battles Where the generals in the in the us army were on the eve of battle They had 80 000 men and then the sun comes up and there's 10 000 You know, where'd they go? Where'd they pretty go? Massive desertion Especially in places like the mountains of pennsylvania where I grew up actually That'd be a good hiding place in the 19th century because it's pretty wild It's like pittsburgh over here philadelphia over here, and it's all mississippi in the middle In pennsylvania But I tell people like I I came from pencil tucky. That's better. You should have called the pencil tucky But but abe lincoln even abe lincoln didn't have the resources to send people out to round up the deserters But you give them the income tax that we have now and and a central bank That's a piece of cake and you can do that very easily so they could do just about anything So in other words, it created a massive centralization of power Which is why all socialists everywhere of all sorts are always Dead set against decentralized government secession nullification states rights, whatever you want to call it And and they're always for more and more centralization of power in in the central state The neocons are for that too because they think they can as long They see nothing wrong with the highly centralized powerful state as long as they can be in charge of it And I wouldn't they don't call themselves socialists. They're just uh evil status I would put them in that category But uh, but they're but they're no different But that's why you see you see these in one of my debates over lincoln And since I wrote two books on lincoln I debated the late harry jaffa hold your applause, please when I since I said the late harry jaffa, but But uh, but he I knew he had before I went to the debate. I knew he always He always had these with a disgusting tactic of insinuating that anybody who disagrees with him It would be a nazi sympathizer He looked at delusional and nazi and sure enough he did that with me You say it's something like oh, they don't fitler would probably agree with dealer inzo or something like something to that effect That's when I knew I wanted to bait, you know If you could you hear that desperate to start name calling, you know But but what I did was I had I had taken a course in college on european history And the professor actually had us read parts of mind comp European history hitler's hitler's book and I remember there was a whole big chapter on federalism and states rights in mind comp So I went I couldn't wait. I was in california for the debate So I couldn't wait to get home because I think I still have that book somewhere I got home and I dug that dug mind comp out. So, you know, if anybody saw me, they would think well, jerry jaffa's right Look at him. He's reading Sitting there reading mind comps and I flipped through sure enough Here's and here's adolf hitler paraphrasing abraham lincoln's first and all girl address Uh, where where lincoln says the states were never sovereign And hitler used that to say well neither were the german states never sovereign So we should not have any states rights or federalism in germany He was making a case for a powerful centralized rike in germany And he used abraham lincoln of all people as his as his model in in mind comp So I wrote up an article on lou rockwell.com called uh jaffa's hitlerian defense of lincoln So you could find it on it's on the web so lou rockwell.com And so and so the conclusion was that all the worst tyrants in history Were naturally socialist tyrants in world history Were enemies of divided sovereignty states rights federalism whatever you want to call it The things jeff dease just talked about in his talk and he's the parts that I was listening to From from the doorway over there And so and and it's the income tax and the control of the central bank That that enables them to do that more than anything else In in democracies not just dictatorships but democracies also And my time's about up. Maybe I have time for one question of Or a brilliant announcement or anything like that Other than uh, you know wend's dinner or anything like that. Okay, if not, well, that's it for now


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unisor Education. This lecture will be dedicated to introduction to triangles. Actually, it's about terminology, most of it at least, with very, very little proofs or theorems or anything like this. Triangles are pretty complex actually topic. So that's why I would like to dedicate this relatively short lecture to basically the terminology. All right, so what is triangle? It's a geometrical object which contains three different segments, and they are connected in such a way that the beginning of each segment corresponds to the end of the previous segment. And its beginning is corresponding to the previous segment, ending, etc., etc. So we have three vertices and three segments or sides of triangle. So these are sides, side, side, and side, and this is vertex. These are angles, obviously. So that's how it's taught. This is the definition of triangle. Now, what kind of triangles do we consider as separate classes, if you wish? Well, there are many different ways to classify the triangles. The first one is how the sides are compared. Well, if you have all three sides equal to each other, it's called equilateral, equilateral. Equilateral triangle means all sides are equal, okay? If only two sides are equal, then they are usually called either legs or maybe just sides, and the side which is not equal to both of those guys. So this is leg and this is leg is usually called the base. And if we are talking about vertex, it's not just any vertex of this particular triangle, usually it's the vertex which connects to equal legs. Unless specifically said that vertex at the base left or right or whatever. And this triangle is called isosceles, that's another word. All right, so that's how triangles can be differentiated or classified based on the lengths of their sides. Now, how about angles? Well, angles can be, as you know, right, acute, or obtuse. And that's why triangles with a right angle are called right triangle. This is called acute angle triangle or just acute. And this is called obtuse angle triangle or just obtuse triangle. So these are three categories which we based on the angles. Now, that's about it, about classification of triangles. Now, what's inside the triangle? What kind of elements of the triangle we will be considering? Well, besides vertices and sides, there are different lines or segments inside the triangle, which we will be dealing with. Now, first of all, let's consider a side and its middle point. And then the line which contains the opposite vertex with this middle point. So this is ABC and this is, let's say, M. AM congruent to MC. So these two segments have the same lengths. Now, the BM line is called medium. All right, so we know how to divide the side. Now, let's talk about the angle. What if instead of this, we will have these two angles the same. So BM is bisecting the angle. Well, if angle ABM is equal to angle to MBC, then BM is bisector or angle bisector. So these are different lines. Now, angle bisector might in some cases coincide with the medium. Well, sometimes not. It depends. And finally, if BM is perpendicular to AC, then BM is called altitude or height. So let's consider our triangle is such that all these three different lines do not coincide with each other. So let me use this and I will put... Okay, these are three lines. M, M, and P, let's say. So BM, in this case, if it divides AC into equal parts, BM will be medium. BM, in this particular case, let me correct this to the letter N. BM, angle bisector. So this angle is equal to this angle. So these are congruent angles. And finally, I will change M to P. So BP is perpendicular to AC. So BP is an altitude or... So this is the right angle. So these are three main components of the triangle. Now another thing which is sometimes also considered as a separate line. In this case, it's not a segment which is inside the triangle. It's a line actually. Line which is perpendicular to a side at its middle point. Now this is called midpoint bisector. So it bisects this side in two halves and it's perpendicular to it. Usually perpendicular midpoint bisector. That's how usually the full name of this line. It's a perpendicular midpoint bisector, if you wish. There are many different... there is no standard here. So these are important lines. Let's just leave aside midpoint bisector. I would like to talk about these three main components. Angle bisector, medium, and the altitude. What's important is that if you remember whenever I define something, I pay specific attention to two very very important components of a logical system which we are building. Existence of what I define and uniqueness. So I have defined let's say a bisector or a medium. Now, is it unique? Does it exist first of all? And if it does, is it unique? Well, let me just concentrate on medium first. I would like to prove actually that the medium does exist and it's unique. And it seems to me like an obvious fact. However, everything, even the obvious facts, need to be proven or taken as an axiom as you know. There is no axiom about medium being existing and being a unique triangle. There is no such axiom. So we somehow should derive this particular fact that medium exists and it's unique from certain axioms which we accept. Again, if you remember in one of the prior lectures, I was actually talking about Hilbert and his system of 21 axioms. And among them, we should really find something which could be used to prove this particular fact. Alright, so let's talk about medium. So first of all, let me say that there is a midpoint between two points on the line, between A and C, and it's unique. Well, existence of the midpoint is really a difficult topic and I don't want actually to get deeper into this. As I was saying before, the elementary things are most difficult to prove because there is nothing to be based upon. But its uniqueness actually is a relatively simple thing. Let's say you have a segment, in this case it's AC, and let's consider you have two different points, M and N, which both are midpoints of this segment. Now, what does it mean that they are midpoints? Well, AM has the length equal to output length of AM, equals to length of MC, since M is a midpoint. And similarly, I can say that length of AM is equal to length of MC, since N is a midpoint. Now I have to prove that M and N are exactly the same points. Well, let's consider they are different. So we will try to prove the theorem from the inverse statement and basically prove that the inverse statement is false. Well, let's have the lengths of these three small segments, from A to M, from M to N, and from M to C, as X, Y and Z. Now, what does it mean that length of AM is equal to length of MC? Well, AM is X. MC is a combination of M, N, and MC, so it's equal to Y plus Z. So that's what this particular equation means. Now, this equation means length of AM, which is X plus Y, equals MC, which is Z. Now, from these two equations, what can we actually derive? I would like to come up with some kind of contradiction that this is basically impossible. Well, if X, Y, and Z are, if Y is not zero. Well, let's try to do it. We can substitute Z into the first equation, and we will have X plus Y, sorry, X equals Y, plus, and instead of Z, we will substitute its value, X plus Y. Well, obviously, we can subtract X from both sides of this equation, and we will have zero on the left, and X and X will nullify each other, we will have two Y, from which Y is equal to zero. So, from these two things, we come up with Y equals to zero, which means that if we consider that these two points, M and M, are not exactly coinciding with each other, then we have the contradiction, then the length between them is equal to zero, which means that they have to really coincide. So this is a very elementary proof that there is one and only one midpoint of any segment. Now, how can it be used in this particular case? Well, obviously, since M, which is the midpoint of AC, unique, so it's just one point, now B is a given point in the triangle, and now we go back to the axioms, that if you have two points, there is one and only one line which contains them. That implies that the median is actually unique. Now, with angle bisector, it's actually exactly the same thing. So instead of caps of segments, I have to consider caps of the angle, which also have their own measures. So instead of lengths of segments, I should put measures of angles, and the proof is exactly the same thing. Now, how about height? Height is a little bit more complex. Why can't we have two different perpendicular from the same point outside of the line dropped on the line? Well, again, it goes back to the axioms. It goes actually, even simpler actually, you don't have to go through all the Hilbert axioms. You can go to Euclid's fifth postulate. So if you remember, the postulate has that if you have two lines crossed with another line, and if these angles, some of these angles is less than two right angles, then they have to really cross. And same thing on this side. These lines will cross wherever this sum is less than two straight angles. But in this case, we have two straight angles equal to each other, which means the sum of these two angles is equal to right angles, which means that these two lines cannot cross each other. So it actually corresponds to the fifth postulate of Euclid that you cannot really have two different lines dropped from the same point outside of the line on the line and perpendicular to the line. So that actually is how you prove that the altitude is unique in a triangle. It's actually very... I'm trying to emphasize once again that some elementary properties are more difficult to prove. You have to really know your axioms, what you can and what you cannot use. For instance, I cannot use, for instance, in this particular case, that the sum of angles in a triangle are supposed to be 180 degrees, because this is a much later theorem, which is proved after many other properties are proven. Because if I can use this, then obviously these two angles are right angles, so it's already 180 degrees, so there is nothing left for this angle, which means these two segments supposed to coincide with each other. But they cannot use this particular property because it would break the logical system of axiom, then the initial theorems, which are proven only based on the axioms, and then the second level etc. So we are building this building of logical conclusions only into one direction, only upwards, if you wish, from the axioms to more and more sophisticated theorems. We cannot use the theorem which is significantly above our level, wherever we are, to prove it. Because that would mean that we would have a logical loop, which is absolutely no-no in mathematics. Alright, what other interesting lines I missed? Well, there is one more, actually, I think. This is called mid-segment. The line, the segment which connects two middle points of two sides, it's called mid-segment. We will have certain problems related to properties of mid-segments. Well, basically, that's it. Again, it's a very introductory lecture about triangles, what kind of triangles exist and what elements we will be dealing with. There is basically a very descriptive notes for this particular lecture on the website. I do recommend to go to unicor.com not only to study these lectures, but also for parents, for instance, and supervisors to get engaged in supervising the educational process of their children and students, because they can actually use exams and tests. There are scores, so I do recommend actually to sign in as the real user of the system, not just a lecture watcher. That would help in a very important educational process. Alright, so in next lectures, I will start going into more details about triangles, but this is just an introduction. Thank you very much.


My name is Andrew Ip. I'm a director of our Outcomes and Value Care Division and also a member of our Lymphoma Division. Lymphoma is a type of blood cancer. It's one of the most common types of blood cancer and it's very, very treatable, often curable. Well, when I treat a patient, I think the first thing that has to be focused on is the biology of the cancer, which is really the best way that we know how to treat lymphoma is if we have a target, we're going to go after it. And after the biology though, I really do try to look at the patient as a whole person. And I often take into account things like their social background, their spiritual background, and things that really encompass the whole patient when tailoring a patient's treatment. So really we're in the new age of immunotherapy in treating lymphoma at this time and what that means is we have a very exciting type of therapy platform called CAR T therapy, basically engineering a patient's own immune system cells and basically designing it so that it's a killer type of cell and that it's only going to kill the cancer cell and not other parts of the human body. And that's really the most exciting part of lymphoma treatment at this time. It's a huge type of research. What do I want to know when a patient comes to see me is, you know, I want them to know that I'm a doctor that's going to care for them and be there for them. And I think that's one of the most important things that may be missing in a lot of today's healthcare system is we're so focused on numbers and focused on just giving the right drugs to a patient, but they have families with them, they have friends with them, they have loved ones. And I really try to be a doctor that's going to treat them and their family and really treat them like they're my own family, really. I went into healthcare because I had family members with cancer and I take that still very personally to this day. And so when I see a patient, I see them as if they're my own family member because it's been very personal for me. And so I think I want patients to know that I'm right there with them.


What I enjoy most about being a logistician here in Europe and being within the Knights Brigade is how much you can see the impact that your job has throughout the entire continent. You're not just training to do whatever your brigade is supposed to do. You're really affecting the entire, not only country, but throughout the entire continent and also in Africa. Whether it's civilian disaster relief support or providing support to Ukraine, you can really notice the impact that you and your soldiers have throughout the entire theater just by doing your assigned job. I think that officers should want to come be in the Knights Brigade and in the European theater because you have the ability to really expand your experience as an officer and also your logistic experience. Just myself this year I've been able to travel to 14 countries, TDY, and not only working with our allies armies, but also their logistic networks in those countries and it's really developed myself as a professional and also it's nice to travel to all those places and really see the entire continent.


August is coming to an end and that means this video is going to be focused on the top 10 products that you need to be dropshipping in September 2023. Let's go ahead and run that intro and let's get started. It's going on everyone Mario here with AutoDS and in this channel we cover anything and everything dropshipping related starting from some of the best tips and tricks to help you start and scale your dropshipping business all the way to some of the top products that you can offer in your store for maximum profits. So if that's something that interests you just make sure you hit that subscribe button and ring that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future videos. Now every single product and link that I'm going to be talking about in this video I'm also going to have for you in an easy to reference cheat sheet and if you want access to that all you have to do is comment down below hashtag September 2023 and let me know which one of these products is your favorite. Once you do that I'll go ahead and reply back with a link to the cheat sheet. Alright so without further ado let's go ahead and start the countdown and let's start talking about the top 10 products that you need to be dropshipping in September 2023. So the first item on this list is going to be an LED digital projector alarm clock. Now taking a quick look at the Facebook ad we can see that they're showing you exactly how it looks so it does have a mirror finish to it and it projects the time onto the wall. You can easily see it at night so that way you don't have any problems being able to tell what time it is and it's plugged in and charged through USB other than that it's pretty much just showing a few buttons and the finish to it so this ad is pretty straight to the point and shows you everything that you need to know about this projector clock. Now being September it does make sense that a product like this would come into our top 10 because in September that's when a lot of people already started school typically they start around August September so this is a perfect time to be able to start offering these kinds of products. This product is perfect for a customer to get for their kid so that way whenever they wake up they look at the roof and they realize how late they really are. In all seriousness though having an alarm clock like this could prove to be a lot more beneficial than someone using their phone because when it comes to using your phone most of the time people just grab it swipe it and go back to sleep and throughout the whole time they're doing it with their eyes closed so that's how they end up missing their alarm so getting an alarm clock like this where you can actually see the time on the roof and be able to think oh wow I'm actually pretty late or I need to get up now could be very beneficial and provides a bit of a wow factor. So now let's see where we can source this product. So jumping over to AliExpress we can see that they have the LED digital projection alarm clock at a price of $11.29 with $2.20 shipping and yep that includes tracking. Now they do have a couple of other variations so they have the different trims on it so they have the white one the black one and a green one which is pretty cool and checking out our sellers website. This time we actually have an Amazon listing so they're actually selling this product on Amazon for $28.99 so jumping back over to our cheat sheet let's go ahead and do some profit analysis. So here we can see that it's actually selling for $28.99 now our sourcing price is going to be about $13.67 with the shipping included that's going to give us a potential profit of about $15.32 per sale. Now as for the target demographic for our Facebook ads this is one ideal option for your target audience. Now when it comes to the gender you're going to target both males as well as females between the ages of 15 and 50 and with their marriage potential status as single and married as for interests you're going to look for people that are interested in home decor technology organization time management and health and wellness and as a quick bonus students now remember the suggestions that we're giving you for the Facebook target audience are just that their suggestions you can always tweak them to target a different demographic if that's what you're looking for up next in our second spot for all the foodies out there we have this deep fryer pot now this one is currently running for $49.95 at a whopping 50% off down from $99.99 now when somebody actually buy this fryer pot for about $100 I don't know but pretty much what is going on right here is hey this is on sale you need to buy this right now since it's at a whopping 50% off because who knows maybe tomorrow it's going to go back up to 100 bucks and then you're not going to buy it anymore because it's you know $100 so that right there is making the customer start thinking well maybe I should make the purchase right now and that my friends is what we call an impulse and those are the type of people that we want to target remember that our main target demographic isn't going to be the people that think I could probably find this cheaper on Amazon our target demographic are going to be the people that see this they see that's on sale and they cannot wait to purchase it because who knows tomorrow it might be at full price again now onto the structure of the actual website so as we can see they have a few quantity discounts so the more you buy the cheaper it's going to be they have all their different variations their images are pretty good they show exactly what the item does and they're pretty high quality which is one of the more important parts scrolling down you can see they have well this is actually pretty cool I haven't seen too many websites that have an actual video that showcases their product right that's interesting that's pretty unique and then just like most other pages they have some information a gift some information picture and so on oh and they have the suggested products down here all right cool so let's go ahead and check out where we can source this product so as you can see on AliExpress it's actually running for $29.75 down from $58.33 so you never know they might be actually charging $100 for these and people could potentially be buying them especially when they put it with something as appetizing as this tempura shrimp that's delicious but aside from that they have two different sizes actually so as you can see they have the medium as well as the large so the medium is 29 and then the largest 38 so I'm assuming the one that they're offering is the medium let's go back and check yeah so the one we were looking at is the 8.7 inch which would be the medium the largest 9.6 which jumps the price up to $54.99 all right it's not a huge jump but it's definitely there so now let's go ahead and check out the Facebook ad for kitchen paradise and here you can see that what they're doing is they're just frying up some shrimp placing the oil in the actual fryer it has its own temperature gauge which is pretty cool then they're just showing it being used oh and they're actually showing that it has a rack on top where you can hold the food that's already cooked that's pretty cool that's pretty unique I don't think I've seen too many frying pots that actually have something like that where they you can store the food that's cooked on top so that's actually a pretty cool feature right there and that's pretty much it so that's pretty straightforward straight to the point now as for the interactions we can see that it has quite some good ones so it has 14,000 likes and loves then as far as comments it has 949 and 4.2 thousand shares now what are they saying looks good love this pot I would like that would love it very nice I would love this all right so so far just the top comments already are praising it and give it some good social proof now let's go ahead and run back to our cheat sheet let's do some profit analysis and let's see how this seller targeted these people all right so back over the cheat sheet we can see that the selling price is about $49.95 with a sourcing price of 29.75 giving us a potential profit of $20 and 20 cents as for the Facebook demographic they're targeting both males and females between the ages of 25 and 60 that are both married and single with interests in cooking Japanese culture foodie home entertainment as well as hosting gatherings now up next on our third spot we have a women's jumpsuit now this is perfect for the time because September is actually the start of the fall or autumn season these types of outfits are generally used around this time of the year so that's what makes this a best seller for the month of September 2023 so let's go ahead and check out the Facebook ad for this all right so on here she's showing exactly how easily she can jump into it he has hence the name jumpsuit it's stretchy it definitely has a lot of room in it and she's reenact that meme that I've seen online sometimes it cuffs the ankles small like this is great oh even with a small she actually has a lot of room in there so it does look to be a very comfortable garment all right so now let's see where that Facebook ad takes us and it takes us to the full of expect website on here we can see that a last day 70% off the wide leg jumpsuit buy to get free shipping this right here the buy to get free shipping a lot of the times as we'll probably see right now when we check out the supplier after you spend over a certain amount with your supplier you qualify for free expedited shipping so that's probably what they're doing right here they're passing on the savings to their customers so they have that you can see that it's currently at 2898 down from 7988 you're saving 64% you have the different sizes as well as the different color variations quantity oh and here we can see that they have some as I like to call them pressure builders because this builds up the pressure in the customer and makes them want to buy it now why because there's only 48 left and apparently 958 visitors are currently looking at this product is this true I can't say yes or no but this right here is also another way to build some anticipation or some pressure in your customers in order to get them to make a purchase or make an impulse purchase so aside from that let's check out the different images that they have this one looks pretty good actually the scenery behind it is great the pictures are pretty high quality everything looks good no pixelization and no blurriness right some high quality photos scrolling down you have the bulk discounts and as usual gifts or images and some information followed by more gifts and images now the big question how much are they paying for this so the seller is actually paying a measly $9 and 46 cents per jumpsuit with a shipping cost of four dollars and 39 cents so let's see if they have that sale special that I mentioned earlier and it looks like they actually do not so what they're probably doing is they're probably offering free shipping because they're going to be getting a higher profit and that way they can increase their average order value so they're offering free shipping in exchange for a purchase of two it's not a bad strategy and at the end of the day with the profits that they're making from selling to they're easily covering the shipping so jump back over to the cheat sheet we can see that the selling price is currently about 34 dollars and 83 cents our sourcing price is going to be about 14 dollars and four cents leaving us with a potential profit of 20 dollars and 79 cents that's not bad at all and as you can see if you sell two of these you're gonna be making a profit of about 40 dollars which can easily cover shipping for your customer so as far as the target demographic for the facebook ads they're targeting for this one mainly females the ages are going to range between 18 and 35 with a marital status of both single and married with interests in fashion streetwear casual clothing comfort wear and urban style now one more style that i've actually learned about recently is athleisure you can add this because it's more of an athletic slash leisurely look or feel so that in itself would also work well with this type of demographic the next item on this list is going to be a pet hair mover so this is primarily used for cats and dogs and let's see how they're advertising it so they're cleaning out the entire bed which i can tell you is an actual problem because i have this same issue i might actually need to buy this the cats obviously do not care they're just sitting in the background and they show you just how much it actually picks up compared to the traditional lint roller well you can actually see that it does pick up a lot more and even cooler it has a compartment where it actually collects all the hair you can use it in just about anything on yourself on furniture and as always of course the cats are just going to sit in the background and not care now checking out the reactions to this video you can see that it has 24 000 likes and loves 1.8 000 comments and 3.4 000 shares it's not bad that's some pretty good interaction that means that their facebook targeting is pretty on point so they commented themselves but aside from that you can see that it works great works great this works great this is where i got it this is where i got it it took a while but works great they actually work pretty well i was surprised and impressed we got something similar and they work fantastic so as you can see the comments down here are also providing social proof which helps the customer feel more confident in making a purchase so jumping over to the seller's website we have jenu i'm not going to even try to pronounce that last day promotion 70 off pet roller hair remover buy two free shipping now they have a couple of emojis here of a cat and a dog works on any pet hair then their images are pretty good they are high quality not pixelated not blurry everything looks clear and i like this right here the fact that they have an image in the back and a gift in the middle now as far as a price you can see that it's being sold for $18.98 and they have some coupons so you buy three save 10 percent or buy four and save 20 they've sold over 22 000 of them 39.2 personal recommendations which i'm assuming that probably means shares on facebook maybe aside from that scrolling down it ships from california it gives you an estimated delivery date which is pretty cool that's interesting it shows you where from california it's actually shipping from del amo fashion center what's different i actually haven't seen that before aside from that they have information on the store some pictures information on the products and more pictures as usual and apparently it's been seen on abc cbs fox and nbc all right so let's go ahead and see how much it's being sourced for so this is only being sourced for $2.96 with a shipping fee of $2.34 that's a pretty good profit right there you have two different variations the green and the red and let's go ahead and check out the profit analysis so this product is being sold for $25.54 and the source price is about $5.30 giving us a potential profit of $20.24 not bad as for the target demographic pretty much everyone loves or hates cats so you're going to be targeting both women and men between the ages of 20 and 60 with a marital status of single and married with interests in pet care convenience home cleaning and household organization the next product on this list is going to be a bike pendant necklace so let's go ahead and check out the seller's website first here we have the biker's blessing engraved dog tag pendant necklace it's running for $29.99 down from $79.99 apparently 9.6 thousand have been sold this month and they only have nine percent left in their inventory so act fast get it now aside from that they have some pretty high quality pictures they roll through themselves so you don't have to actually click on them they show the packaging on it which seems to be pretty generic white label packaging if you scroll down you can see that they also have the bulk discounts and they have a couple badges he guarantees safe and secure checkout then they have a bit of a description this is pretty cool right here the fact that they're telling you that it doesn't have any nickel any lead or any cadmium which that i'm actually not sure what it is obviously it's a type of metal but i've never heard of it aside from that they have some suggested products and that's about it it's actually a pretty clean website i like the structure and i like how it looks it's straight to the point looks clean and easy to navigate now as far as the supplier on aliexpress we can see that it's currently running for three dollars and forty one cents with free shipping so it's actually really cheap to source but does this come with tracking it does not how much is it with tracking a dollar sixty eight all right so we're going to go with the dollar sixty eight plus the three dollars and forty one cents because of course as i always mentioned you always want to provide a tracking number to your customers that way if they open up a case against you and they say i never received it you can show whatever platform it is that they did in fact receive it and it was delivered to their house or apartment or job or wherever it is now as for the facebook ad we can see that it's got some music in the background and it's just simply showing the pendant they're showing all the different sides of it and all of the wording around the edges so it's straight to the point there's really not much to show on here aside from the actual pendant itself now as for the interactions you can see it has 21 000 likes and loves that's actually really good then when it comes to comments 1.9 000 and 2 million views that's good so who did they target as for the targeting they targeted both males and females between the ages of 18 and 45 both single and married with interests in biking vintage fashion which that right there is a huge niche vintage and fashion it's a money maker jewelry and unique accessories now for the part that everyone loves profit analysis so for this one they're selling it for about 37 dollars and 88 cents and they're sourcing it for immediately five dollars and nine cents including shipping with tracking now that gives us a potential profit of $32 and 79 cents that's not bad at all up next number six spot we have the gardening cloth protective gloves now these gloves are pretty cool because on one of them they actually have gloves that help you dig into the ground but for me it's more like wolverine claws so that's actually why i like it but let's go ahead and check out the facebook ad and see what people are saying alright so that's actually what it's used for so people are using it to be able to dig in the ground easily and be able to protect their hands as well as their nails it makes it a lot easier to be able to dig and you don't have to worry about grabbing any flowers with thorns and actually pricking yourself aside from that it kind of gets rid of the need of using certain tools and they're easy to clean because they're waterproof that's actually pretty cool all right so this ad was pretty straightforward straight to the point and showed you exactly what these gloves are used for now as far as the interactions 4.8 thousand with 426 comments and 565 shares not that about great ideas good efforts love these good idea love it right pretty positive checking out the sellers website we have windy lawn and here we can see that they're running for 13 dollars and 98 cents now one thing that i'm noticing is that one has claws while the other doesn't they aren't necessarily specifying that and in the video it showed both of them having claws so with that people are probably purchasing two of them but i think that's something that does need to be cleared up so if you do end up offering these make sure that if the pair comes with only one of them with claws mention that in the description or in the facebook ad that you're running if it comes with both also mention it as a plus aside from that they have some product recommendations down here they have the bulk discounts the images are pretty straight to the point and high quality and on this side we have information image information image and yeah pretty much that's it straight to the point now as far as our suppliers we can see that here it actually shows that it comes with both of them having claws so this part was a little bit confusing i don't know if it was maybe just me let me know down in the comments below if you weren't sure whether or not this came with both claws or just one but yeah it seems to be like they both come with claws oh wait never mind we gotta start looking at these things look at the variations don't assume so here we have the four hand claw variation and then you have the eight hand claw variation and then you also have just the four claws by themselves then you have a few other options which come in black and purple all right so let that be a lesson to you don't assume just by the pictures always look at the variations but let's see what they did over a windy lawn here they didn't specify that they only did one pack two pack and three pack there it is durable cloth four fingertip claws on the gloves so it seems to only be on one but honestly i'm not sure it's not 100 clear so just as a quick tip always make sure you clear these things up with your customers so that way there's no doubt in their minds as you saw i got super confused and if i was actually looking to purchase these i would end up going somewhere else right so as for the price so for just one they're selling for two dollars and fifty seven cents with a shipping fee of two dollars and eleven cents now if you buy the one with both claws on both hands it goes up to three dollars and thirty five cents which isn't really a huge jump and the shipping is stays at two dollars and eleven cents so let's see our profit analysis here here it's being sold for about twenty one dollars and sixty seven cents then the sourcing price is the three dollars and forty eight cents giving us a potential profit of eighteen dollars and nineteen cents that's not that bad that's pretty good over fifteen dollars is usually pretty good as far as the facebook target audience you can see that it's geared both towards males and females between the ages of twenty five and sixty that are both married and single their interests are going to include gardening diy projects home improvement outdoor activities farming as well as cleaning up next number seven spot we have the seating cultivation box this is for all those people with the green thumbs out there now as for the facebook ad they're showing exactly how it's used all you gotta do is put the water inside the green pan and then put the soil on top of the little egg card and looking thing is then you just cover it and by day six you should have some roots as well as some flowers just keep watering it and that's pretty much it it just shows you exactly how it works and more or less how long it's going to take obviously that would depend on the type of plant probably I'm not entirely sure but aside from that it's pretty straightforward it's straight to the point it tells you exactly how it's used what it can be used for and scrolling down we can see that I have two point one thousand likes and loves four hundred and six and four comments so it's not bad I used to use the compressed peat pods to start a couple of tags I already like these little starting trades my seeds are already coming up quickly so you see these are the types of comments that you always want to highlight and if you have the option to pin them pin them because this right here is perfect social proof so jumping over to our seller we can see that this is actually selling on amazon for twenty three dollars and ninety nine cents now checking out the supplier we can see that it's being sold for a measly ninety eight cents I mean it's kind of a piece of plastic I can see why it's so cheap shipping is a dollar fifty eight which is not that bad whatsoever does that include tracking it does not so let's go ahead and switch this over and do the two dollars and forty two cents so we're going to take into consideration two dollars and forty two cents for the tracking now let's do some quick maths and it's being sold for twenty dollars and thirty nine cents with a sourcing price of about four dollars and forty two cents giving us a potential profit of fifteen dollars and ninety seven cents now as for the seller's facebook target audience you can see that they're targeting both males and females between the ages of twenty and sixty both married and single with interests in gardening plant care and agriculture up next we have a humming bird feeder at our number eight spot and for this taking a look at the facebook ad they're showing you how it's being used and how all of the little humming birds are using it you can see that it comes in a few different colors and it's supposed to attract tons of different types of animals actually not just hummingbirds also butterflies so it has raised feeding ports too far from the nectar for wasps to have an interest so it gives you all of the benefits to all of the critters that can bring in as well as the benefits to all of the critters that it's going to be keeping out that in itself is pretty cool because it tells customers what they should expect from it and what they shouldn't expect from it a lot of people that use these type of products probably think oh i might be getting a wasp because of the type of feeder that it is but an ad like this can address those concerns directly so that way your customer has more confidence in making the purchase so let's check out the supplier first and here we can see that they're sourcing it for just six dollars and sixty cents with free shipping that actually has tracking available not bad and it comes in a couple of different colors so purple blue and red now as for a seller's website we have bossani and they have the hummingbird feeder with perch and built in moe it's selling for twenty nine dollars and ninety five cents down from thirty nine dollars and ninety five cents and we need to purchase it quickly because in the next twenty five minutes it's going to go back up to the regular price no it's not taking a look at the structure of the website itself they have clear images of the different variations so that's pretty cool so they have all of the different variations here you have how it's packaged and feed beautiful hummingbirds with the little gift right here i like that right if you scroll down you have little bundle deals so if you buy these together you can get some discounts then they have the typical image information image information all right all right so that was pretty good straight to the point it's pretty clear now let's do some quick maths as for the selling price they're asking about thirty four dollars and ninety cents their sourcing price is going to be seven dollars and forty four cents which gives a potential profit of twenty seven dollars and forty six cents now the people that they're targeting on facebook can include both males and females between the ages of twenty five and sixty that are single and married with interests in bird watching gardening outdoor activities nature enthusiasts and home decorations next up we have bath and shower grab bars now for the facebook ad we can see that they're showing how easily it is to install and how strong it is she became spider woman so aside from that they show that it's actually very very stable and it won't fall when you're using it it's not like you're gonna grab it and just immediately fall so it uses some sort of air suction i can even lift a little dresser that's pretty cool and aside from that they're just showing exactly how strong it is and just pretty much reaffirming the fact that when you use this in your shower you're not gonna fall this is really convenient for mainly a lot of older people when they shower so that way they don't slip and fall or as you can see here to help them get up from the toilet now as for the seller's website they are contemporary kind of sounds like contemporary but i guess not so here they're showing quite a few different images they're all pretty high quality and show all of the details of the product itself then they have some information on it it's being sold for fifteen dollars and ninety nine cents down from twenty seven dollars and ninety eight cents they accept clarna which is pretty cool so if you want to buy multiple or multiple things from the store you can split it up into four different payments they have the quantity discount and another pressure builder which shows that they only have forty two left in stock and the rest is pretty straightforward and the same as all of the other websites as for a supplier over aliexpress we can see the first images grandma using it making sure she does not fall in the bathroom and it's being sourced for seven dollars and sixty five cents with free shipping and it does include tracking nice always love free shipping that includes tracking but that's for one piece they also have the two piece variation for twelve dollars and forty nine cents so let's jump back over to our cheat sheet and let's do some more math i know i know we hate math i hate math but when it comes to money it's all right so selling prices twenty two dollars and forty six cents the sourcing prices seven dollars and sixty five cents giving us a potential profit of fourteen dollars and eighty one cents now looking at the facebook target audience we can see that it's geared for both towards males and females between the ages of forty five and seventy you are going to target more or less of the older generation on this not that forty five is old but aside from that marital status both single and married with interests in independent living senior activities health and wellness and home and safety and last but certainly not least just in time for the autumn or fall season we have the stretch body con pencil skirt now checking out the facebook ad we can see that it is just images they're not actually showing videos so what they're showing here are all of the different variations and just that's pretty much it so they have the different variations they have the different colors and they show how it fits aside from that that is pretty much it now let's check out what the interactions are so twenty two thousand likes that's not bad at all especially for just an image as far as comments that has two hundred and thirty two and a hundred and five shares not that bad could be better you could be showing off somebody actually wearing it or turning around in it you know something like that something maybe walking with it walking outside showing how it looks in certain types of seasons or out in the street or out of park just keep that as an idea if you decide to offer this product you can market it in tons of different ways now taking a look at the supplier we can see that on aliexpress it's being sold for fifteen dollars and sixty cents with free shipping that includes tracking aside from that you have all of the different variations which they all seem to be the same price which is good sometimes different colors can vary in price but that doesn't seem to be the case here but that's just always something to keep in mind now as far as the sellers website we have sandy boho and they have the nile pencil skirt being sold for forty five dollars they have the same images that we found over at aliexpress and they have the drop down box with all the different variations and the different sizes scroll down you see more images of small description and features along with a sizing chart this right here this sizing chart is extremely important if you offer clothing always try to offer a sizing chart if you're able to get one this ensures that your customer will feel more comfortable purchasing it because they're gonna know that it can actually fit them a lot of the times different types of garments shirts shorts pants skirts dresses whatever it may be they all fit differently so having a sizing chart can be very helpful aside from that they have a bit more information on the product and just more pictures that's pretty much it straight to the point one thing i don't like is the fact that they have all of these different images lined up it doesn't look too good and it just makes the website just keep scrolling on and on but aside from that let's go ahead and see how much they're making off of this so they're selling it for about fifty dollars forty nine dollars ninety five cents sourcing it for fifteen dollars sixty cents giving a potential profit of 34 dollars and 35 cents it's pretty good target audience for this is going to include females between the ages of 18 and 35 both single and married with interests in fashion style beauty social events and nightlife and those were our top 10 picks for the best products for you to drop ship in the month of september 2023 what did you think of all of them let me know down in the comments below remember we also have a cheat sheet with all of these different links the profit analysis the facebook target audience and all of these products if you want access to that just comment down below hashtag september 2023 along with 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