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TRIGGERnometry

How the Civil Service Ruined Britain

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0

Capitalism is evil. You hear that all the time these days, in internet clips on TV, even in real life.

0:07.0

But has anyone actually explained what capitalism is or why it's responsible for the greatest increase in human prosperity the world has ever seen?

0:15.0

Hillsdale College is offering a fantastic free online course called Understanding Capitalism, and I've been watching it myself.

0:21.9

I found that the course does an incredible job of making complex concepts like the market

0:26.3

economy understandable. In just seven lectures, you'll learn how capitalism works with human nature,

0:32.4

why it relies on freedom and private property, and why it's actually a system that rewards virtue and responsibility,

0:39.3

not greed. And this is just one of over 40 free online courses Hillsdale College offers.

0:44.5

You can learn about the US Constitution, the Book of Genesis, the Roman Republic, even the history

0:49.8

of the ancient Christian church. Go right now to Hillsdale.edu slash trigger

0:55.6

to enroll in this course understanding capitalism.

0:58.7

There's no cost and it's easy to get started.

1:01.3

And that's Hillsdale.edu slash trigger

1:04.4

to enroll for free.

1:05.7

One more time, that's Hillsdale.

1:07.7

.edu slash trigger.

1:21.8

Every government comes in and they say, we're going to cut red tape.

1:22.8

There's too much red tape.

1:24.3

Cut the bureau, slash bureaucracy.

1:26.2

And none of them do.

1:44.4

Like, it's just been the story. It just gets worse and worse. Red tape, bureaucracy, and it's easy to issue this stuff. But when you're a business trying to implement it, it's a nightmare. It makes you life of misery. Waste time and money and gives you a headache. And it's just, you know, ridiculous. So we wanted to do something about that. So we had this kind of approach to it, which was rather than going in like every previous government and say, well, let's try and

1:48.9

find the things that we want to cut. Why don't we have a different kind of mindset, which is let's

1:53.9

review, let's look at everything and choose the ones we want to keep and assume that everything

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