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In this very festive episode of TLDR’s World Leader Leaderboard, the team run through their final winners and losers of 2024, and has a big winner from last week fallen from grace…?
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00:00 Intro
00:54 Winners of the Week
21:07 Audience Submission
29:42 Losers of the Week
44:00 Greatest of the Week
45:42 Outro
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God Jul!
Hey! Let girls get a word in! Ok, it got better later on. 🙂
About the feedback on TooLong: You are good at making things short without dumbing them down.
Love the new graphics
Add modi or Albanese
Put Elon musk on the board.
Should he be a world leader representing a democratic country? No, but here we are
Add narendra modi,most popular leader in Asia, and didn't bcm victim of anti incumbency
Great addition from Nadja!
16:00 guys stop supporting Al Qaeda
i think it could be fun if on the leaderboard just next to the head of each leader you put a little flag of their country
28:12 Just an idea: i like to listen to tldr and mostly only look at the graps
“I vote for Zelensky because he killed yet another guy with a bomb strapped to a scooter” are you kidding me😂😂
Where is russia and india
1 nomber is putin
Macron is out,he has great ideas but he does not turn them into reality. Meloni on the other hand has turned around Italy and she is pragmatic,steady and she does not have the power of the president of France,on the contrary she has to deal with a bunch of political primadonna…and she is succeeding.
Hey, Israeli here. Would you still think he's honest if he started a country on the boarder of the UK? Say he took Wales 😂
I think you shouldn't limit speakers at all in this format. Joe Rogan can do 4 hours just so his guests get their full points across. I'd listen even if the video is double the length, it's great🎉
How is Javier Milei not higher in the leader board? He took office facing 25 percent monthly inflation, exploding unemployment, declining wages, growing poverty and massive budget deficits. Inflation is now down to 3 percent, unemployment is rapidly falling, wages are growing at twice the rate of inflation, Argentina is set to finish the year with its first annual budget surplus in a generation, and poverty is down from its peak of 57 percent to 38 percent, with all signs pointing to it falling to 25 percent in 2025. Moreover, approval polls have him as one of the most popular, democratically elected world leaders, only behind India's Modi. Milei should be far, far higher in this poll. What more does he need to do to gain woke TLDR's approval—cure cancer?
Proposal: Péter Magyar in Hungary. Becoming more powerful as an opposition leader.
Fun fact: His party is Tisza, which is the second largest river in Hungary, that springs in Ukraine and touches Romania too.
Idk where these guys keep their head… The Ukrainian front line has been collapsing everyday…
gustavo petro should be considered next week as one of the biggest losers of the week.
Going back on policies, enlarging corruption within government and family, camouflage it’s incompetence with polarization and jurisdictional soft blows to its own presidency legitimately on corruption and unfair practices in its campaign funding.
He is basically a bad faith politician embroiled in excessive excesses of ignorance, incompetence and corruption that he tries to camouflage with victim hood to protect his own fragile ego.
Also he tries to white wash his criminal past as a guerrilla fighter by in many of his events flying his M19 flag and guerrilla symbols.
Truly a bad person and politician nightmare.
I would move Trump down a noch after Congress turned down his debt ceiling argument and also because he is clearly taking orders from Musk, who has openly joked about being the president in all but name. Musk's Tesla incident and people being angry him having reins (not to mention Musk's name calling of Trump's supporters) is not, yet at least, enough for him falling down to the next rung.
Just adding that Musk is deeply unpopular with MAGA so Trump taking his side is also turning his supporters against him. And more people are starting to learn what tariffs mean, especially farmers who relied on China buying their soy beans.
Yes, you can spend your way out of a demographic crisis: through investing in social services like nurseries, kindergartens, schooling, healthcare. Weirdly enough, women don’t want to be stuck at home, especially after they studied at university and started their career.
To Zac's point about trump:
– opposition and media started calling musk co-president. Not great for trump who never fancier himself a copresident.
– trump did not get what he wanted out of the budget standoff, which was a bad look
– musk got a real break from the budget standoff for tesla, which won't need te report self driving car accidents like before. Basically, Musk did it to protect his business and succeeded. This promotes the notion that trump is shifting to oligarchy
Beyond the economic policies, that was properly not a great move for trump.
Karl Nehammer would be my nomiantion for the biggest loser of the week. Coalition talks have failed, he said himself that he will step down as chancellor and head of the ÖVP in a few days (which idk if that does already disqualify him) but his entire political career has basically just ended instead of him getting to be chancellor of Austria for the next 5 years. Also love this format, keep it up!
Change the water for whiskey. Thank you
With respect to demographic crises I think the issue is that you have to actually solve the barriers to having children. You can't incentivise someone into committing to working a 2nd full time job for free for ~20 years you have to change something fundamental to turn that into a reasonable option.
It wasn't that long ago that most households only contained 1 employed person while the other managed the household and looked after children. Now I'm not saying we should return to the patriarchal way that was happening, but I think that to understand demographic crises I think it's important that we realise that both then and now keeping a household and looking after children was unpaid labour that probably amounted to roughly a full time job.
The obvious consequence is that now households kinda need 2 full-time employees to afford to raise children they are short one person and that kind of extra work is not something that everybody wants to (or even can) perform.
Obviously there are other problems causing the demographic crisis but they also are similarly huge. Like the housing crisis. Solve that and loads of people will get to having kids cus they were waiting for the security of owning a house. But the housing crisis is a huge decade + length problem to solve.
My take is that the demographic crisis is sooo hard to kick basically because it derives from running our demography at it's economic capacity. And a government's fiscal capabilities are essentially limited to always be only a fraction of a society's total economic capacity.
Now my 5 minute solution thinking goes:
You have a problem which you aren't big enough to solve via 'brute force'… so you have to hack it (eg. humans are not strong enough to lift huge stone blocks, so they invented cranes)
How do you hack this one? Well probably best done by reducing the devastatingly high household labour requirements of raising children
Okay… but how? Well take the concepts of school and childcare, smash them together and add on loads of new staff in various roles that extend beyond education into care and household management, the evening meal for the whole family, more space and clubs and activities for the children and families to do. And fund it all by adding an obscene number to your government budget. (that 5% of gdp you were considering spending on incentives might do it)
That's pretty radical and not very precisely detailed but the basic principle is you need to reduce the number of person hours it takes to deliver the labour involved in a family raising children. And let's be honest, there is no moderate way to re-examine familial structures and their relationship to the economy.
Ofcourse if you want a more efficient solution employ professional parents to have like 5 children at once throughout their working years. Many people would choose that job and if you made them do training to qualify then you might solve the mental health crisis (for the next generation).
are these on spotify?