We were joined by Dennis Prager Show producer and Prager U co-founder Allen Estrin. Breitbart News Daily Host Mike Slater talks about PragerU’s 2 billion views of short-form video content per year and introduces the latest PragerU 5-minute video series, “Economics 101.”
Slater began his show by playing an audio clip of Vice President Kamala Harris saying:
Equality is often the idea that everyone should get the same thing. This assumes that everyone started from the same place, which is contrasted with fairness. Fairness means that everyone will end up in the same place. And if you understand that not everyone started from the same place, you can understand that some people need more, and everyone will end up in the same place.
“That’s Marxism,” Slater argued.
“We’ve lost the foundations of capitalism, the foundations of why socialism doesn’t work, why it leads to totalitarianism,” Estrin responded. “Socialism doesn’t lead to freedom. Her statement is a statement of unfreedom, because the only way to impose fairness, which is totally counter to the principles this country was founded on, is for the government to tell people what to do, how to do it, and how much they can and can’t own.”
To remind people about economic fundamentals, sound economic principles, why it works, and where it came from, Estrin and his Prager U team have produced 15 five-minute videos with titles like “Why the Gilded Age Was Golden,” “Markets Will Set You Free,” “The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Richer,” and “Seven Economic Truths.” The videos will be delivered free to the email inboxes of those who subscribe to the series. here.
“You’d be amazed at how much you can learn in five minutes,” he said.
Estrin has worked as a television scriptwriter and is particularly suited to video storytelling. Touched by an angelA television series that aired from 1994 to 2003 and a 1998 Disney animated film Pocahontas II.
As he points out, in the pre-woke days, scripts for Hollywood had only one goal: to entertain: “Disney was different then. The goal was just to entertain kids.” Aiming to entertain while educating, PragerU was the first to produce short videos, “taking the best ideas from the best people and condensing them into five minutes.”[so that] “It’s helped me reach a lot of people. It’s easy to say to someone, ‘I know you don’t have much time. We’re all busy. But would you like five minutes?'”
Estrin said talk shows are great, but he sees these videos, which are based on Judeo-Christian values, as a way to reach a larger audience, especially young people.
of Introduction to Economics You can watch the series and other videos below: PragerU.com.
