Alux: A Dystopian Self Help Channel
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Articles
One about UBI in Finland: www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archi...
One about Payday loans: www.pewtrusts.org/en/research...
Alux videos used:
15 Reasons Why Finland is the Happiest Country
15 Things Rich People Do That The Poor Don’t
15 Things Poor People Do That The Rich Don’t
15 Things Poor People Don't Know About Making Money
15 Things Poor People Waste Money On
15 Rules of Poverty
Purpose of Wealth
15 Reasons Staying Poor is a Choice - Krátké a kreslené filmy
"giving people $1100 a month didn't improve their lives, it just made them happier" what the actual fuck lmao
Giving this rando a drink of water didn't improve their lives. It just made them happier.
Lol
isn't happiness... an improvement though
@@spookysomeone they aren't rich so... no? /s
I am so confused by this part like…WHAT
Rich people never buy frivolous things like clothes, haircuts, and televisions. They simply buy mansions, yachts, porsches, etc. the essentials
And of course, billion dollar joyrides in space.
Right? How many fucking cars or houses do folks need?
Right! They never have expensive get-aways to spas where they have great massages, facials, manicures, plastic surgery, etc.
They never ever watch movies in their home movie theaters.
They don't have several houses in various places and planes to get there.
They only work and create value
@@scarlett8960 sounds like the LIFE.
@@scarlett8960 I bet rich people don’t even drive cars, because that would waste money. They only get around with their Chad Quintillionaire stride.
"The only noticable result is the money made them more happy, but nothing else"
This sentence is bone chilling. I can't describe it. It's horrifying. Holy shit.
literally demonic
They said security and safety is irrelevant, the only value in humans is their capacity to produce capital (for someone else). Yes, it is demonic. It’s also soul sucking and inherently anti-humanity. It’s so fucking disgusting how this ethos has seeped into our bloodstreams. I see so many conservatives and neoliberals talk about people like they’re dead weight from the beginning and have to work to prove otherwise. It’s the OPPOSITE of basic human rights and it’s not the world I want to live in. I dont want to walk around and see humans like they’re a price tag.
Lmao ikr, like that's the whole point you dipshits
@@emilyhines6564 More like a crude mockery of demonic that is somehow worse…
its the disgust in witch she said the word happy
not gonna lie, alux has the most evil vibe of any conservative channel/content. like, they take a look at the problems with capitalism, understand that there is exploitation, and say “this is a good thing”
Even their name sounds like the name of a Cyberpunk evil corporation
The narrator makes me angry for no reason, she sounds so happy saying the most fucked up crazy shit ever
Yeah, and it’s not spoken as much as angrily spit out.
it sounds almost like AI generated scripts, sometimes its just lists of proven issues that contribute to poverty but don't feel like they are framed in a way that makes sense.
@@noizepusher7594 should they be like Alux Corporation or Alux Technologies
Ever notice all rich people have the same basic haircut
Hi Jacob
hey J. Geller come to brazil
100%
They should get their heads cut
The cost of being rich is that you loose any sense of good taste.
“All the money did was make them H A P P Y” what more ghoulish thing could you say? She sounded like she was physically uncomfortable with the concept of poor people being happy
She made it sound like "making them happy" was the equivalent to "giving a crack addict a month's supply of crack"
With corporate content, the person speaking is usually just a VA, unless stated otherwise. There is definitely a point where you can get pissed at someone for the beliefs they'll parrot for money, but what's the point here? I have no reason to think that this person cared enough about their performance to have ghoulishly evil feelings about people being happy.
That’s because she is
What is the point of having more than anyone else if they're still happier than you? How can I know I've succeeded unless other people are worse off than me? Why are other people smiling when the screaming abyss in my soul will never be satiated?
@@fruitygarlic3601 It's not all on the VA, it's all those involved in the creative direction of that video, such as the one who wrote the lines. Also that comment was an observation "she sounded like", it wasn't a comment on the VA's character.
love that this channel simultaneously calls poor people lazy and stupid, while also calling poor people stupid for working so hard. But also the rich got where they were through hard work.
what..
@@user-ey8yc7st7k exactly
Working hard at an office job and working hard on your own business/education are two different focuses. Can't sweep 'Working hard' as both and sweep then under the rug like that 😊
@@nttwashere Office jobs aren’t usually poor. Poor people usually have no choice but to work hard at their jobs bc of their conditions and treatment by higher-ups, and usually the lowest paying jobs are the most time consuming and draining, too, giving you less time to work on your own things, and you need a stash of extra starter money to start your own business or pursue higher education, so people forced to live paycheck to paycheck can’t really afford to do either. And poor people forced to work extra part time jobs just to survive have no extra time or energy, either. But way to be vague as usual and blame the poor for not having infinite savings, time, and energy, and pretending they’re working hard at jobs where they don’t have to. But I’m just replying to you for the sake of anyone reading the comments, I know you’ll probably just invent more strawman arguments and try to attack my integrity instead of listening or saying anything smart ☺️
@@nttwashere Oh hey you even changed your comment so you could mislead ppl and look less obviously wrong. Lol
Im a Political Economy student and I wrote a 10 page paper studying the Finland UBI study and the Ontario, Canada UBI study - in favour of UBI. The people who got UBI in Canada showed A) improved mental health and also B) improved physical health. People reported that now that they had a small amount of disposable income, they were able to buy healthier foods or do things like take their families swimming (getting exercise). The experiments were definitely a success.
But were they working 24 hours a day with no rest to contribute to capitalism? If not, their happiness is clearly worthless. Lol
@@SigFigNewton no, they became more productive
@@ultraevaviolet5386 turns out the ancient wisdom of "a happy worker is a productive worker" holds true.
@@zenaku666 absolutely!
You still got this paper to share?
It's an interesting and very telling language choice that it's "rich *people*" and "*the* poor"
The dehumanisation of poor people by referring to them as a collective horde, directly contrasted against the humanised rich is the thesis statement of the channel
It's like when a totally not racist person says "the blacks."
They literally said poor people at the very start
@@vinceemery5943 I'm talking about their titles mostly, but even if they don't do it *100%* of the time, it's still a trend.
I'm kinda sure the channel was founded by a sociopath who strives to be the most malicious predatory and evil of them all. There are people who glorify sociopathic traits and dream of becoming the archetypal villain. The target audience of that channel are the hustle-culture wolf-of-the-Wall-Street guys who think in a similar way. And they don't just wish to become rich and powerful, they want to cause as much suffering to "the weak" as possible along the way.
You said exactly what i was thinking
I’m convinced Alux is actually leftist satire buried under 500 layers of irony
It feels like a way to convince people who hate the poor to understand how hard the poor work, it’s so strange.
I think that that would be just a single layer of irony, just a very powerful one
From the very first clip I was like, "this absolutely sounds like satire."
But I can't be sure and I hate that.
All their videos sound like Onion articles
It HAS to be... right? RIGHT???
Happy to see GladOs pursuing her video essay career. Watch out Joel!
Glados has more emotion than this woman does.
Glados has more /SYMPATHY/ than this woman does
This person honestly sounds far more robotic than glados
My mother is poor. When we first moved into our old trailer home, it was 500 dollars. we had to wash out of a bucket. My mother is the best person in the world. She is neither lazy, nor stupid. I love her to death and I am so thankful she raised me to be self aware of the 16 years she put into raising me.
ive been living in motels for years with my 4 siblings, and I can say the same for my mother. shes anything FROM lazy, and works multiple jobs to barely make ends meet. its not that poor people are lazy, its the government refusing to care for its people. my mother raised 4 smart, considerate, and hard working children, even under a hostile government and poor financial state. videos like these are so disappointing.
@guitarsolo. Well that's a stupid take!! You want the government to be everyone's sugar daddy?? 😂😂 You're poor because you have the wrong mindset. You are responsible for making your ends meet, not the government's responsibility
@@weathertimelapsevideos4002 as a 14 year old it is not my responsibility to make ends meet for my and my family. its my mothers whos already struggling enough as is. being homeless isnt as easy as just getting a job and working hard. and im not homeless because I have a bad mindset. even if I had a "good mindset" , money wouldnt come rolling in, would it? the wages my mother gets payed isnt nearly enough to sustain 4 children and a home. the government has been PROVEN to overlook and ignore homeless people. we're treated like trash, a last priority, and its not okay. people in todays economy are working to live, and sometimes (like in my case) its barely enough. your take of "youre poor because you have the wrong mindset" is ignorant.
Should have sold that bucket and invested that money in APPLE stocks 🙄 /s
@@weathertimelapsevideos4002it was my understanding that the government was supposed to GOVERN their people. Helping them gain money is part of that.
On point 4: I saw a pretty fitting thing earlier today. It said: "When middle-class people pamper themselves, we call it "self-care". When the poor do it to ease their suffering, we call it irresponsible."
genuinely can't believe how cartoonish this is hahaha. like the chill corporate music, clean graphic design, upbeat narrative tone all just to legit go "why r u so poor lmao. try not being poor next time loser"
Joel needs to research & advocate for intellectual property abolition. Why hasn’t he yet?? Joel & everyone please see the work of Stephan Kinsella, Michele Boldrin, & David K. Levine. These are the best experts on intellectual property in the world. Everyone who cares about seriously improving things for humanity needs to know what IP abolition is about.
@@user-wl2xl5hm7k Go away.
RIGHT? This seems like something out of Portal or something
Feels like a Niel Cicierega song
@@user-wl2xl5hm7k how about shut up
this is the first time I have ever heard the idea that multiple pregnancies is "lazy." the idea that one of the most physically, financially, and mentally strenuous things a human body and mind can even do is somehow lazy and when I heard that I laughed out loud for real. wtf kinda drugs is this woman on
A CEO works 4000 times faster than a normal working poor human. They have superhuman speed and 700 IQ, and of course have psychic powers
All of which they worked really hard to achieve.
Impressive that she managed to make "predatory loan sharks" something the poor are responsible for
Never underestimate the mental gymnastics that victim blamers can pull out...
that she thinks it's somehow feasible for a person with no income to repeatedly use scummy payday loans for every dumb little purchase like that process doesn't eat up like 3000% interest. they're like fake emergency rooms, they trick you into devouring what little you have and spit you out
Really, most of their hot takes against the poor could be viewed as entrepreneurship ideas.
Ayn Rand self help let's gooooooooo
Wouldn’t be a problem if they never took the loans! /s
Notice how in the clip about poor people "wasting" their money on beautification they showed only women to represent "poor people with complicated hair" and only men to represent "rich people with simple hair." Like, they're observing an entirely different trend than the one that they say their describing. Rich women get their hair done too, and poor men also tend to have simpler hair. What even was that argument?
I'm poor. I dye my hair at home and get it cut once yearly. 🙄
Also they didn’t show it visually, cuz they probably realized how yikes it would be but given all the other “welfare queen” tropes they serve up, they were almost certainly talking about poor and working class black women specifically. Just a nice tangled knot of racism, sexism and classism all in one intersecting ball there.
@@huckthatdish yup. Workplace hair discrimination for black hair. Gotta spend money to make it look “professional” and less “ethnic”. Oh what’s that? You don’t want to spend all the extra money on a hairstyle you don’t even want? Sucks to suck, I guess
Also the more general argument from that section is just... "Poor people don't deserve to enjoy things because they're poor" and that's just a really gross argument. Poor people are allowed to get their hair done and own a gaming system dammit! They deserve to be able to look nice and have hobbies too!
The confusion is coming from the argument being classic old school racism delivered by self conscious closet racists lol. They can't make it clear what hairstyles are "too much" because what they mean is non white hairstyles, they can't say what kind of beauty routines they find "frivolous" because what they mean is things black people do differently than white people.
This is hilarious:
Alux: "Hey poor people, don't waste your money on buying stuff! Don't watch sports unless you own a sports team or you're an athlete!"
People: "Ok, we won't"
Rich people: "Hey, why are we not making any profit anymore? Nobody is buying our stuff or watching our sports teams play!"
How Millennials Are Killing Sports
Something about the "lottery baby" idea seemed somewhat foreign to me, so I looked into who owned the Alux site. Turns out it is owned by full time Romanian luxury blogger Emil Anton. He sells $250 entrepreneurship courses and $40 hoodies saying "future billionaire". So it's likely all a grift lol.
What, were you expecting a CZcams channel specialised in machine-reading "stop being poor lol" over and over to *not* be a grift?
> romanian
being from moldova i just bursted in laughter
Alux is right on one thing. The rich don't protest or boycott. They lobby and monopolize.
and they astroturf to have people protest in their stead
I'm glad you made this comment, as I'm too late to the video to make it myself
they lobotimize.
its not called protesting, its ASTROTURFING!!!!!
Exactely: the rich complain ALL THE TIME, but they can do so directly into the ear of politicians.
Their entire message is: "don't protest, don't complain, just work."
The worst part is some people don't realize how dystopian this shit is.
Would be pretty pog if everyone just stopped working and did what they wanted to do. Perhaps if we had robots to take care of the essentials and other stuff that’d be pretty cool
yeah, I've meet people who are exploited by their bosses pretty awfully and yet believe all the propaganda that Alux spews
@@alexwildner6369 i too dream of fully automated luxury gay space communism
@@alexwildner6369 pipe dream but fuck yeah would be dope
PROTEST IS GREED
COMPLAINT IS ENVY
WORK IS HAPPINESS
The phenomenon of a Lottery Child does exist but it's typically among people in extreme poverty (living below a dollar a day.) It makes a lot more sense for families whose resources are so limited that they can only afford to send one kid to school and where the safety net is non-existent so if they get too old to work without having a kid to provide for them, they'll just die. Neither of those conditions apply in countries with free/mandatory schooling and financial assistance for the elderly.
So either they think all people in any level of poverty are the same or they're saying that people are dying of hunger because they're just too lazy to get a job. Interesting take!
Such countries also have social expectations that a person's financial success means they WILL support the rest of the family. They don't have the same individualism as the U.S., where "sucks to be you" would be a common attitude.
@@jefftitterington7600 Yeah. Individuality at the expense of health and well-being is totally worth it.
Also while I may have no children of my own I've been told by several sources: _raising kids is very hard, time consuming, and expensive._ Are we seriously expected to believe people are having children and raising them to adulthood in hopes they will be productive because they _want to be lazy?_
Yes it's a reality here in Philippines
not to take away from your point, im on your side, but pensions in the first world suck
"Have you ever noticed how those who are bad with money can never seem to keep hold of it?" Yes. That is the definition of being bad with money
“have you ever noticed how those who have insomnia can never seem to fall asleep easily?”
@@ErikaCartetyes
That "lottery child" thing is so disgustingly hateful that I actually can't comprehend it.
Joel needs to research & advocate for intellectual property abolition. Why hasn’t he yet?? Joel & everyone please see the work of Stephan Kinsella, Michele Boldrin, & David K. Levine. These are the best experts on intellectual property in the world. Everyone who cares about seriously improving things for humanity needs to know what IP abolition is about.
@@user-wl2xl5hm7k Spamming top comments with your nonsense is pathetic.
@@user-wl2xl5hm7k
It's a valid topic, but please stop spamming.
@@user-wl2xl5hm7k Touch grass.
NOTICE: To the extent I have any copyright in the comments in this thread, I relinquish those rights to the public domain according to the CC0 license. Signed, PN. -Before we abolish IP, everyone use the CC0 license for all types of works (including software) when you can!
"Everybody felt happier, but nothing important happened," my favorite normal sentence that is completely normal. No problems I can imagine with that sentence.
That sentence felt like high school me just giving up halfway through writing a book review. "The themes were adequately communicated, but ultimately contradicted my thesis, and I don't want to do more research or come up with a different talking point so let's just move on"
My boss once said: "Once you start making a certain amount of money, enough to be considered 'rich', you're outlook on everything changes. You look at poor people and just tell them to 'stop being poor'. Why do you think i hate my district manager?"
That's coming from the guy who works 50+ hours a week to keep our store from falling apart at the seams constantly.
To some extent .. if you manage to become rich af (like beyond safety and comfort) .. you're probably rather lacking in empathy/compassion .. since otherwise, wouldn't they be spending the extra money on helping people ..
Your boss is cool
@@wednes3day The reason most people get rich is because they see a demand, a need and they fulfill it. So it's like when you help a group of people thru ur services OR product, money will definitely follow you. This is how you get rich.
@@sexymary how about we eat the rich instead.
@@sexymary Oh look, an Andrew Tate repost on your channel. Either you've been fooled or are a part of the grift.
The main problem with the channel seems like they're focusing that the end goal for any person is to be rich. Not leaving a legacy, raising a family, feeling loved and loving others, charity and contributions to society, being with friends, or even just feeling happy.
Also is it just me or is it just "don't do this! Rich people are doing this to you, so do it to other poor ppl :)"
You missed the point. They're focusing on the end goal of being rich because their target audience is people whose goal is being rich, not raising a family or leaving legacies. People like the out-of-touch-with-reality guy posting this off-the-mark video and his Gen Z circle-jerk pro-socialist viewers are not the people Alux is targeting.
Alux: "here are the "chains" you have to break to become rich."
>Begins listing off random things that you can't control.
Ah, the classic solution to poverty: just be born rich!
I'm interested in how they mention utilities such as power, water, and communications. Does every rich person own their own water well and power generation and comms? Are they all wealthy, lucky homesteaders?
Know 'Genetically Modified Sceptic'?
@One Guy Named Ivan while that may be true, and I’m pretty certain It is, people with those Neurodivergencies on average are also more likely to be living below the poverty line.
@@Eli-ns2oz Need to have the profitable forms of psychopathy. Being neurodivergent with any kind of conscience is a "chain to poverty"
@@fluffskunk It's not like most people with defunctional empathy don't act moral but it's true that jobs like being a CEO or lawyer reward having no empathical consideration.
Funny how they said rich people make tv/movies when in reality, most of the people working in the industry are working class free lancers making just enough to get by, you know, like the rest of us
And historically the greatest works of art, whether it be paintings, or written works are made by people who aren't rich. Maybe they're famous but not necessarily financially great.
@@poppinmycollar
Eraserhead was filmed in four years because the director David Lynch was constantly going through financiary problems and he couldn't build the sets and the puppets
Indie content is INFINITELY better than corporate drivel anyways.
It's depressingly easy to forget the ten minutes' worth of names who go into making the blockbuster movies we watch.
Far too many people confuse "making" with "financing". "Financing" is only a required part of the process because we have a productive system that makes it a requirement for the actual makers to work.
It reminds me of my favorite line from the Friendship is Witchcraft abridges series for MLP.
"I made it myself! Out of my own trip to the store."
“Money only solves money problems”
A few seconds earlier
“They gave everyone $1000 and all it did was produce happiness. No economic effect.”
That happiness thing was hilarious.
“Pff all they got was stupid happiness, you don’t need happiness, the only fuel you need to continue living is the desperate unlikely hope you strike it rich”
Man, this video has really inspired me to:
-Shower 23 seconds a day
-Invest 45k in crypto
-Evade taxes (the government halts the grind)
-Work out 140 hours a week
-Stop wasting money on food for my toddlers (Mooching is beta, they should get a job)
-start a new business every week
See you broke bitches in a year, when I'm a Billionaire 😎
You now have 43k in crypto.
You now have $10 in crypto.
#sigmatrillionairegrindset
@@peterprime2140 Sauce?
Get that sigma grindset king 👑👑👑
What’s so strikingly horrific about Alux is that most conservative media like this pretends not to hate poor people. Alux is very brazen and open about their distaste for the poor. It’s kinda hard to listen to. It almost makes me wonder how this lady can stomach recording some of this.
The bizarre thing is that there is no shortage of poor people that completely agree with this rhetoric.
Absolutely mindboggling.
She’s probably one of those many millionaire voice actresses. Those are common, right? Or maybe she’s one of us poors, being used for profit.
@@mechanomics2649 yeah , my dad and my sister subscribed to this retoric , and it's disgusting hearing them argue that a howner taking away payed sick days is because someone abused it , no ! it's because they always wanted to take it away , that person that abused it was just a scapegoat for them ...
@@davidegaruti2582 as a German, "paid sick days" are such a wild concept. How can you limit the time somebody is allowed to be sick??
It's for sure a robot voice
24:50 My therapist actually clarified that escapism is healthy in moderation. It's not a bad thing! It's a part of stress reduction.
9:06 the fact that they dismiss “being happy” over productivity and fulfilling goals is honestly kinda sad. Imagine living a life where the only thing that matters are the checklists of work and achievements to accomplish.
If you just replace “poor people” with “black people” I think you’ll understand how Alux is connecting lottery kids to welfare and protests to poverty. It’s all about the bits they don’t say. As a black person, all of these arguments sounded very familiar to me.
@Afshan Ali its "welfare queens" with a new coat of paint
Oh god its the same thing all over again. The same bullshit just keeps recycling...
Especially the lottery kid shit
I especially liked the part about [black womens'] hair.
100%.
"The rich don't protest", while Jeff Bezos, the richest of them all, is screaming at and suing NASA for giving a contract to a company that does something instead of Blue Origin.
jeff bezos pays off people to violate his workers rights.
"the rich don't protest, they just give millions of dollars to lobbying firms and political campaigns to protest on their behalf"
They don't protest, they use the power and money they have to lobby to fix the game in their favour, so instead of complaining publicly about having to pay taxes for their company, they just lobby and have politicians change the laws to their benefit
I mean there's no reason to protest, when you're the one making the laws right.
I wonder why the people who own everything and live of the slavelabor of others don't protest against said explotation, weird hu.
It's super gross that Alux warped some actual good household finance advice into a cruel bludgeon to beat down a class of people they find repulsive
"Stop taking out payday loans and do something valuable with your life, like open a payday loan shop."
Aw man this comment is so beautiful
"All UBI did was make people happier."
Okay, so let's do it. Sounds a LOT better than most Government policies.
but what's the overall utility when you combine that happiness with the anger of the people who had to pay for it
@@mossadgynist We could always cut military spending. No sovereign country is trying to wage war against and actively invade U.S. Like we really don't need most of the spending that goes into the military.
@@mossadgynist "why legalize gay marriage, when a bunch of people are gonna be butt hurt about it? fuck the people that actually benefit from it. we need to cater to the reactionaries who are angry that the livelihood of people who are not them have improved."
@@mossadgynist "the people who had to pay for it" are _also_ being given UBI money. Whether you make $0 a year or $1,000,000 a year you still get the same amount of free money from the government. Sure, wealthier people are putting more into the program than they're getting back from it, but you'd be surprised how much less likely people are to complain about "having to pay for" social programs when those programs directly benefit themselves as well.
@@mossadgynist Rich people are mostly gonna pay for it.
I want them to be angry.
The whole "poor people spend their money on their hair" thing seems like it's probably targeted towards black women but either way, a poor person has to spend more effort to look *not poor* so people like whoever wrote these lists might not decide they "deserve" to not know where their next meal is coming from. No one asks the rich guy if he really needs that third yacht.
Yeah, I think this is fairly obvious and I'm not sure why it wasn't mentioned. The stereotype that poor women are pumping out kids for welfare and that they spend money frivolously, particularly highlighting elaborate hairstyles and nails, are racist as well as classist stereotypes. Wealthy white women do PLENTY of aesthetic maintenance, it just looks different. Routine botox is going to blow even the most elaborate nail budget out of the water.
yeah, that comment was especially off to me
@@Crimson50 Why are you even pretending to want to watch big Joel if you're not a liberal soyboi with a hardon for virtue signaling, sweet nuts?
@@convenienceatth3pub white women also get tracks and weaves but it's more under the radar since they're not expected to completely change their hair texture to be considered "professional" enough to have a job...
I immediately thought this too. Especially with the "nails" thing, cause the acrylic nails trend is so associated with black women, though more recently rich white ppl have started doing it too.
For the "Being poor is expensive" portion, I'm not sure if they had it in their video, but if you open up a bank account, you're likely going to have some monthly fee. The fee is either reduced or removed so long as your balance remains above a certain amount. For example, not keeping a balance of $100.00 or more means that you'd have to pay $7 a month for that account. So, if you're already struggling to maintain a balance over $100, you're then essentially penalized for being poor.
Its utterly insane how american banks work.
Honestly this feels like the kind of sleep tape that Patrick Bateman listened to every night as a teenager
"Making money is no secret: you get a job or sell a product or service."
For a channel that touts itself as one that gives advice to future billionaires, Alux sure doesn't seem to understand how billionaires actually become billionaires.
Being a billionaire is no secret: you take someone’s profit or sell their labor
Oh, they understand, they just don’t want us to know it.
They don't understand because... Drum roll please...
They're not billionaires. Probably not even millionaires.
If someone gets rich through hard work it's usually not their own hard work.
Ways to become a billionaire:
1: Be born rich
2: merciless exploitation of the working class + being born rich
"They were happier, but nothing else."
Pretty sure that's constitutionally awesome. Right up there with life and liberty.
Can't have poor people be happy when rich are struggling with ever having enough to be happy
Conservatives be like "the Constituition doesn't guaranteee happiness, just the pursuit! So pursue you lazy dogs!"
@@tomlxyz 😂😂😂
They said: the amount of money is finite, you can't just give money to the poor. I was like: Nope, the amount of resources is finite, the amount of money is literally infinite and it is being created out of thin air every single day. See Monetary multiplier for example.
But that's the problem with the whole channel/site of Alux. They measure worth of everything, of every human action with money, something is only productive if it brings money somehow. Then turn around and say: actually, money can't buy happiness and solve problems. When the fact of the matter is that up to a certain threshold, money can actually buy you happiness and solve problems. Not every problem can be solved with money does not equal no problem can be solved with money.
Dude if you're happy then fuck everything else
Isn't all that other stuff you want, just a more complicated way to increase your happiness? Why not cut out the middleman?
ALUX: "A million dollars a year isn't a lot of money."
Me: "Oh, really? Can I have a million dollars a year, then?"
ALUX: "Oh, absolutely not. I refuse not for _my_ sake, you see, but for _yours!_ It's not a lot of money, of course, but if I just _gave_ it to you, you wouldn't learn how to solve your own problems. You're more empowered when you have to struggle! :D"
Me: "Robot lady, there is literally no problem in my life that wouldn't be instantly solved by a $1M/year free income."
"Money isn't everything...unless you don't have it."
This isn't place for begging.
The only way you dont have to worry about money is if you already have it. I dont need to worry about money because I was born into a family with money in abundance. I have never had to worry about rent, I never went a day without food or water, and I have health-insurance. Once I became aware of this, I noticed times in my life where I'm able to get things I need (that are expensive may I add), which poorer people couldnt get. I recently got new glasses since I have bad eyesight and they cost at least 100 Euros. When you dont have a lot of money, you are forced to spend the little you have for basic necessities, so getting things that are important and would make your life easier are hard or even impossible to pay for. I for one need glasses to be able to read what the teacher writes on the Blackbord in class, my Grades could be impacted if I didnt have my own glasses.
@@TheProletariat321 the irony of this comment and your name lol
@@donpollo3154 My parents are working class
the angry tone she used when talking about poor people making installment payments on a tv or whatever was so unsettling that shit made me feel like she was gonna come kill me
Get her first
Kill the scary robot lady
Rich people: “money flees the hands that don’t earn it”
Also rich "people":
• trust fund kids
• jobs through nepotism
• generational wealth
• gaining their wealth thru asset appreciation instead of labor
• bank bailouts
• big business subsidies
They will cook up nice when the other sources of protein vanish
"Meritocracy" can't exist unless you pretend that wealth and opportunity aren't heritable. And without the myth of meritocracy, capitalism has nothing to offer except stagnation and contempt.
Most millionaires got there by their own means. You're picking a very small percentage to represent the whole
@@maskettaman1488 That's just about the biggest lie they want us to believe.
@@alexrogers777 That's a lie? Do you have something to substantiate that then? It's not a difficult topic to research
Poor people protest, the rich would never sully their hands with such a thing. Lobbying is the noble way to pursue your interests
And the great thing is, unlike protesting, you never have to lobby for other people's interests, because you don't care about them
How didja send this message ten hours ago
@@tnttiger3079 Patreon, I'm guessing.
Joel needs to research & advocate for intellectual property abolition. Why hasn’t he yet?? Joel & everyone please see the work of Stephan Kinsella, Michele Boldrin, & David K. Levine. These are the best experts on intellectual property in the world. Everyone who cares about seriously improving things for humanity needs to know what IP abolition is about.
@@user-wl2xl5hm7k Stop liking your own comments, spammer.
IP laws make no sense from either left or right politics. The “property” in intellectual property is a false term used for propaganda purposes. Intellectual property is not property in any sense. It’s monopoly. IP actually stifles innovation & creativity. IP also is the main component of cultural control, propaganda, & advertising. And IP seriously screws up our economy & stacks it for the rich & powerful more than any other tool (especially IP with digital tech & the internet).
I think one thing no one ever talks about, is that non-neuro-typicalness can aide being poor. Someone who has ADHD may have financial issues, and possibly always will?
Also, being rich is not what she makes out, the ‘Nouveau Riche’, can be crass, showy and haemorrhage money, and some 2nd gen. ‘NRs’, can follow suit. And with the Insta thing, lots of rich people waste money, or even just burn it!
I mean yeah, it's easy for some people to describe people with ADHD as lazy, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of us were bad with money. The difference is how you approach the existence of people with disabilities. You could be like this channel and say, "Some people are disabled. Fuck those people! They are garbage. You better hope you're not one of those disabled people"
Rich people: Poor people need to stop buying play stations.
The economy tanks
Rich people: why aren't poor people buying things!
4.6 million people quit their jobs because the wages can't help them pay their mortgage, food, etc.
Rich people: why is there a labor shortage??? 🤯 I said get back to work peasants!!
The Alux stuff almost sounds like someone fed a bunch of hyper-capitalist propaganda and buzzwords into a machine-learning algorithm and just made videos using what it spat out.
So true
And then it started noticing that capitalism sucked ass but could only frame it in a way that made capitalism sound good. Like some sort of cultural hegemony thing but for AI
i think they are super based and the whole channel is satire
@@dragonlordsaviour7005 We can only hope...
Yeah! It's not quite natural sounding, right?
Well if those cobalt mining kids would just stop getting their nails done…
What about the nail salon workers then? They need to be paid too! Got a response for that Alux? Didn't think so smh...
@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 simply get another job. pshh. easy.
@@aarontheperson6867 We could always do with more cobalt miners...
I’m sorry but that comment invoked the funniest image of an impoverished child in a nail salon acting like a rich white woman getting their nails done.
@@eothamec2427 haha me too. Except in my imagining the mining bougie children also had dead, soulless affects a la Coroline button eyes and the whole seen was a dystopian hellscape.
Probably something wrong with me lol
"Nobody watch sports because you don't own the team" is just the wildest take I've ever heard...the misunderstanding of entertainment and economy is just baffling-
I have never wanted to slap a person harder in my entire life than whoever is behind Alux.
when they said "the only result of the ubi study was that the money made the people more happy" i legitimately broke out laughing. i think your ideology might be broken guys please get it checked out
b-but the filthy poors can't be happy, that's illegal!
@@Romanticoutlaw It is though! Honestly it's very simple. You can innit be happy with hard drugs. Hard drugs are illegal. You can only do hard drugs if you can afford them. They can't afford hard drugs therefore they're twisting the concept of happiness into some discount dollar store version of real happiness! They can't even afford to bribe the police if they get caught! That's just selfish, how else will that poor cop afford his happiness/cocaine habits? An unhappy cop may not be as willing to break up strikes! It's like tipping but for drug arrests.
Yeah this was an utter failure, we just made people’s lives better.
it's kindof like the pick-up channels that say that sex doesn't feel that good anyway. Why go through all this crap, if the thing doesn't make you happy.
They sound like mr burns
“Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed”
Lol I was searching for this comment... Always cracks me the repulsion on his voice when he says synagogue...
How they had family first and just breezed past it I was like 😶
“Excellent!”
Without friends or family and definitely without my religion, I'd be languishing in a run down apartment watching my life pass by. I might not be rich now, but I'd have far less to live for without them. As devout as I am, or rather because of my religious inclinations, I feel a particular repulsion to anyone who decides to act as if they're a saturday morning cartoon villain by calling family and friendship "demons" to "slay". That goes against something at the very core of our nature as a social species. Friends and family are not just part of how we survive, but as a social species, something we live for in a sense. People who cut themselves off so utterly and completely from these two things tend to be very miserable souls indeed. Though some might find it at odds with my political inclinations I consider myself a staunch individualist, however this "Screw you, I'm self made, anyone who asks for help is weak" bullshit has caused nothing but misery. All it does is cause agony that need not be. Working hard to achieve something you desire and being proud of your accomplishments doesn't mean you have to discard your connection to others.
That point is fucking repulsive : the whole "while you watch netflix you're not working" thing is ridiculus , like what do i do with those money then ?
Do i use to have fun and watch movies ? Revolutionary concept :
i already am doing that !
They outright say sometimes " give up your friends if they don't talk about finances " yeah sure i'll go the local brick and mortar store and get a stack yuppie friends that won't backstab me for more money ...
It's an absolutely revolting ideology that the more right wing you go the more you need to water this anti-life philosophy down , the solution is to mix in fascist stuff : they tell you to be at war with everyone else , constantly individually fighting , even against the pepole that made you into what you are , essentially erasing yourself into the sense of the word , but fascism comes in and tells you that no , you don't need to direct your hatred towards everyone else , just against the black , the slavs and the jews they are bad but we and you are good ...
In a sense this colture of absolute individual hustle is worse than fascism , and fascism is here to water it down
the poverty chains bit just reminded me of the "family, religion, friendship, these are the three demons you must slay to succeed in business" speech from Mr Burns. The first one is literally the same point lmaooooo
as a kid i remember every other saturday going to the payday loan store and waiting in the car while my mom went in. this was so prevalent for so long that it was a normal errand. my sisters and i actually looked forward to it because it was one of the very rare instances where we got to go out and spend time with our mom. she worked so much - it had to have been at LEAST 70 hours a week. and this was my entire childhood. in '98 my dad was a union plumber in chicago and got injured on the job and it ruined his ability to work. my little sister just turned 2. my parents never got any government assistance, not even my dad being basically disabled to work in manual labor where his skills were. my mom did have to go to food banks occasionally when things got really dire. there were many many winters when we had to choose between paying electricity or gas. cold showers in chicago winters are fucking rough. i just really hate when rich people speak about poor people so horribly and quite frankly in such a disgusting manner. i'm glad i grew up dirt poor - i feel it creates a much better moral compass than many many wealthy people have. granted, i wish my family didn't struggle so hard and that we could have lived a bit more comfortably. but i hate to imagine the type of person my sisters or myself would be if we had grown up with riches and wealth.
I was the child of upper-middle class parents. I always low-key envied my poorer friends, who seemed more interesting, creative, funnier, &c. Maybe I'm just lame, but those guys made being poor look cool.
@@ucantSQ actually i have heard similar sentiments from people before so you're deff not lame saying/thinking that! growing up poor definitely has a bit more spice than middle/upper-middle class childhoods for sure lol.
It feels like their philosophy can basically be summed up by a quote from John Oliver: "I recognise the game is stacked against me, which is why it's gonna be so sweet when I win this thing!"
This philosphy by itself isn't the worst at least if it also has empathy, ethics, compassion and self awareness
@@blaisegirl420 but that's just it though. the philosophy inherently lacks empathy, ethics, compassion and self awareness
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 no it doesn't. it's basically survival mentality. knowing the system is rigged and wanting to win for yourself doesn't inherently include screwing people over or actions that lack those qualities we mentioned. It's all in what the speaker defines as winning - absolutely not defending alux or the pursuit of billions but people wanting a little breathing room in a fucked system is not inherently wrong.
I feel like the quote can be applied to playing low tiers in games, but if instead of trying fix the problem IRL you keep going with this philosophy, then i feel like there's a problem
@@blaisegirl420 There is a joke amongst Tabletop players alluding to the three basic class archetypes (Fighter, Mage, Thief) and how they basically play. "The fighter plays by the rules and tries to be the best at them. The mages try to break the rules by exceeding limits. The thief looks for loopholes in rules to abuse."
However, if the Wallstreetbets incident at the beginning of the year proves one thing it is that nowadays the thieves are at the top and constantly change the rules and abuse loopholes, so everyone fighting fairly has almost to no chance at suceeding. They can screech all they want, but Wallstreetbets has simply beaten them at their own game.
It is so easy to disprove the “if you only saved more, you would be a billionaire”. Let’s assume an engineer, that makes 150k a year. We can agree, that they can be called “well-paid” (for a salary worker). Let’s assume, they don’t eat, sleep or shit, but works 24h a day, so he now makes 450k a year. They don’t have any needs, so they save *all* the money they make. They need more than 2 thousand years to became a billionaire this way.
Your math powers are impressive and also made me sad.
Well engineer clearly had to invest everything into bitcoin.
To have a single million in the bank you need to save 2000$ every month of every year from 18yo to retirement
If you manage to live a thousand lives like this, you’d end up a billionaire by the time you are 45 000 years old
You don’t get rich working, you get rich stealing other’s work
This is a bit of a dumb hypothetical. Why wouldn't this engineer be investing their money? If the engineer puts their money in the stock market making 7% per year after inflation, they'd be a billionaire in 73 years.
@@gmansplit Because not every person that invests in the stock market profits. The general populace cannot make more from the stock market than the GDP allows.
Every time they mention poor people buying frivolous things that they don't need I just imagine Jeff Bezos flying around in a spaceship
“Most people in the US end up in debt before they are old enough to drink” Hmm, I wonder why all these people are so poor? It’s not like there are institutions that young adults are told they have to go to or else their life won’t amount to anything. It must be because they’re having so many lottery babies.
It's extremely important that you take out some loans that you can't get out of, even with bankruptcy. It's even more important that you do this before you know better, which is why government and economics are usually combined, taught as late as possible, preferrably by a brain dead slug.
15:00 This sounds like the same circular argument I've heard from sexists: "all the progress in science / art has been done by men", completely ignoring the fact that throughout the centuries women have been barred from even pursuing those things, let alone in a professional manner (and most of the few who could were basically immediately handwaved off history, until recently)
So true.
Same thing with "men fought all the wars", as if women just sat at home doing jack shit while men fought and died for 1000s of years.
And racists
Throughout history women were killed for their intelligence (Hypatia of Alexandria as an ancient example) such as "witch" hunts. Also many achievements by women were either destroyed or attributed to men.
bros forgot that a woman discovered polonium
You ever notice how the King never protests? It's always the peasants protesting things!
Conclusion: the King is rich because he doesn't protest.
Wow...
It's true though, rich people tend to protest less often because they can afford to lobby/donate to a cause meaning they feel less compelled to protest since they have other avenues to advance their ideals.
If you're poor and can't afford to donate then the only thing you have to offer is your free time.
That's like, preschooler-level reasoning skills right there
@@scragar it's also because they often profit from the system, so why change it?
The king is rich because he takes avantage of the poor, so why would he protest a system where he's king.
Alux just unironically did the "That just sounds like slavery with extra steps" bit from Rick and Morty.
Wow. Big Joel is an epic champion, who always manages to leave me satisfied, yet hungry for more
"Money flees the hands that don't work for it" sounds like something a villain from a Charles Dickens book would say.
It's like Aflux pretends they never heard of the ultra wealthy's favorite work method: passive income and "anti-death-tax" inheritance.
@@letsomethingshine my thoughts exactly
I think the phrase is misinterpreted. She doesn't mean work as in "working to get paid" but rather as in "this shirt doesn't work with my vest" or "you're not a good fit for this job". This is more in line with the money cult aspect.
@@TheNefastor So basically 'be a good robot'?
Because poor are the most exploited class, because they cant fight back (and why unions are good). Because poor give more oney than anyone to anyone really, because they cant affort lawyers maybe.
“Money doesn’t like people who don’t work for money” oh so that’s why my landlord “can’t afford” to fix what’s broken, because he doesn’t do any work and leeches off his tenants?
He's working for his money, not for you
@@richwilliams1863 he is not doing any work whatsoever. Landlords job is owning a thing, zero work or effort involved
Yep and it’s like “ooh that’s pretty expensive”; “I pay all the bills, you get your repairs as favours from your mates, what on earth could you have spent all that rent over the last year on?”
@@richwilliams1863 his job as per the lease is to fix things when they break... That's it. That's his only job and he won't do it...
Lol my landlord gets 2100 a month in rent from me. His mortgage payment? 800$. He hasn’t been on the property since he bought it in 2015, in fact he lives in an entirely different state. Fuck landlords. They don’t “work” for their income. My house literally caught on fire and it took my landlord over a year to fix it. His literal job is to take care of the property… he does not “earn” his income, by far. Fuck landlords.
I once watched Alux for them to say, "Don't be stupid and waste money on entertainment and video games" and in another video say, "You can't even buy this painting of two solid colors for five million." And I'm like, ah, yes. Alux truly knows how to spend money wisely.
It’s an investment. Clearly you don’t know the meaning of high value!
It's like seeing that the system is exploitative, inhumane and awful, but then deciding that the real injustice is that YOU don't personally get to do the exploiting
This sounds like a content farm. They don't actually have a position, they are just slapping stuff together to pump out videos people will click on.
That actually makes more sense than trying to get any interpretation out of it
100%
It's Mojo.
If you’re right, which it seems you are, there still has to be a foundation from where the ideas came from. Plus it’s spreading the vague claims to desperate people that click on the video. By posting the stuff they slapped together, they’re gonna be made into actual opinions and ideas
@@lily.. Well, if there's PragerU who's transparent about him being a shill, what if there are channels that would rather be mistaken for a content farm, plausibly denying their actions…? Consider the following scenario: Let's say I'm a psychopath. Given that I already financially support my puppet lobbyists (who are legally required to acknowledge that), wouldn't it be my next logical realization that covert propaganda *must* be at least just as successful as mere lobbying? Anyway, their content is a scary example of applied “value shuffling”. A menace to society, regardless of the reasoning that led up to it.
"Ever notice how people who are bad with money can't keep it?"
That's a *tautology.* That's literally what "bad with money" *means.* It means not keeping track of it or spending it unwisely.
Of course, this kind of tautological thinking about the poor is all over the place in anti-poor circles-jerks.
I can't tell if I love or hate "circles-jerks" as the plural for that. Part of me wants to go with "circles-jerk" like with "passers-by".
same with “ever notice how it’s always the rich people who fund innovation?”. or, rephrased “ever notice how it’s always the people who have money they don’t need to survive that are giving money to things they don’t need to survive?” huh. yes. that is indeed what the term rich means.
Have you ever noticed that people in prison have often been convicted of a crime?
Yo, you ever notice how people who are bad with money...
_are bad with money?_
@@thousandislandstare6924 thank u for this one made me laugh and I needed that 😭
My folk etymology for "Alux" is Greek "a-" (not) + Latin "lux" (light, bright), ie, "not bright"
I knew a teacher who played these videos for the class when there was no work to do. It infuriated me.
The extremely violent classism that seeps off of the “lottery baby” concept makes me sick to my stomach
That term is baffling. Is that channel trying to say that poor people shouldn't ever be allowed to have children? It not only reeks of classism; it also stinks of eugenics - as if poverty somehow makes somebody 'unfit' to live...
The philosophy of Alux says that only the rich can enjoy anything. If you’re poor you can’t look nice, play video games, experience any pleasure whatsoever.
Go back to work you are not rich enough to enjoy this video
@@vraolet yes, and spend more time -meeting some company's bottom line- making yourself... gooder or something
That’s right. Why aren’t they working! I had to wait an extra 2 minutes for my coffee this morning because McDonalds was “understaffed” because people are demanding “better wages.” 🙄 The entitlement of some people. Dont these people have a daddy they can call who puts more money into their accounts whenever they run out?
@@davidfl4 I'm glad to see that you have obtained the required amount of money.
You are now allowed to enjoy your life and feel such emotions as, fulfilement and/or happiness.
Congratulation on choosing to be rich.
Sounds depraved
Joel, you missed something. When they say that the people in Finland don’t have their lives together, they assume that you only have your life together if you have a job. I believe that’s what they were hinting at.
dear god, the tone of the Alux lady makes me really anxious, like a really angry parent/teacher.
"The only noticeable result was they were happier"
Yeah we can't have that.
Sign me up!
that part killed me
Useless happiness. Can’t grind your life away when you are happy after all
"Happiness? Is that something we can monetize?"
-Mark Zuckerberg probably
That’s so blatantly horrible and exposes how they really just want people to stay poor, social mobility be damned.
I went to the haircutman and told him to give me a shitty haircut in the name of austerity. I had hardly noticed the rustling in the distance before money--so much money--came voraciously rushing into my open arms, fleeing from their previous owner who had just committed the moneycrime of fairly paying a skilled worker for performing an essential grooming task at artisanal level.
You know what they say, money flies
The Samuel Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness, as described by Terry Pratchett, posits that when a rich person goes to the store to buy some new boots, they have some options: They can buy cheap boots that will last one year or they can buy expensive boots that will last ten years. It's cheaper long-term to buy the nice boots than to replace your boots every year, so the rich person will buy the nice boots.
When a poor person goes to the store to buy boots, their options are somewhat different: They can buy the cheap boots, (and then have to buy new boots next year) or they can buy the expensive boots (and not have money for food.)
It's so much harder to save money when you're poor.
And this is just one miniscule example. The poor get higher interest rates, they have to make smaller payments and thus interest accrues faster. They can't afford better food choices, and thus have worse health outcomes. They don't have as many choices about where to live, which will effect their options for transit, which effects where they can work, or where they buy their food. If their landlord unfairly withholds their deposit, they usually can't afford the time or money required to file a small claims suit. Uh... perhaps I'm straying from the OP's main point here but yes: quality of life affects quality of life in a kind of feedback loop.
Alux talks about poor pepole like there isnt a section of poor pepole that were war veterans and got screwed over by their country.
The beauty stuff has an extra "rubs me the wrong way" when workplace grooming standards are a time-honoured way to keep or throw poor people out of lucrative industries. Not looking poor is actually a material factor in your ability to stop being poor, the way we have this world set up right now. Of course people put effort and money into it!
And like... Black women were kind of expected to change their whole ass hair texture to have an office job. I really wish that were a completely past tense thing but it's probably not :/
This is the definition of the rich creating conditions to control the poor and then criticizing them for participating in a system that they have no choice but living in. It's sadistic.
Yeah, the problem with UBI is that people don't try to become billionaires but they do voluntary work and care for others instead.. that's not "success" and is therefore awful. What a degenerate society we will have with these goodie two shoes people.
The UBI part is the most evidence we have that people inherently WANT to give a shit about others and the community.
@Be'y Travonez That's what happen when you give a lot of power only to selected people.
@Be'y Travonez Tax the rich and make workplaces democratic for now.
No single person should have the power to stop climate action by simply pouring billions in anti-science propaganda.
@@seileen1234 It's the kind of thing that gives me hope in humanity.
@@seileen1234 we don't give power to people lol. We give power to strange gods of money, like "Economic Growth," or "The Shareholders," or "The Free Market." If we gave power to people, they'd just spend all their time helping people and making the world better, and that's not good for the economy.
Many many rich people are rich because of an elder in their family. & many of them go bankrupt anyway. I think what’s truly important is trying your best to survive & if possible being comfortable. I find that learning from how the poor in the past lived helps a lot. Especially learning how to repurpose scraps of fabric, cooking cheap meals especially food from The Great Depression, & making your cleaning products, using pedometer salt rather than fabric softener, etc.
I love the "people worked hard all week, and reward themselves" line combined with the "poor people hate to work" sentiment
A+, excellent cognitive dissonance!
The part about beauty purchases is so baffling. The entire cosmetic surgery industry thrives on rich people pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into their appearance. Not to mention personal trainers, boutique cosmetics, fancy home gym equipment, etc. These are all luxury industries. The sheer dissonance of claiming that rich people are unconcerned with their appearance is overwhelming.
Plus that take is pretty paradoxical considering they also point out "rich people" have the same haircut/style all the time, implying they "waste" their money more frequently to maintain said style/cut which they pointed out earlier was bad
for exactly this reason the book/film american psycho came to mind...it has countless flaws but is culturally important because of your point
Elon Musks hairline agrees
It's only okay if rich people do it because Alux thinks they are perfect moral beings or something
Because its not about beauty as much as its about joy. Anyone who isn't rich daring to want something that brings them joy but not money is wrong to these people.
Millionaires: "Stop spending money on stupid shit!"
Workers: "Ok, I'll stop consuming your stupid tech gadgets"
Millionaire: "NO WAIT NOT LIKE THAT"
Hey bud "wrong number "almost anyone can make millions but very few can amass billions a doctor or a lawyer can make a million dollars an Independent contractor can make a million in one life. One billion dollars is 100, 100 million dollars they are the problem not. The more so privileged people who still have obtainable wealth in a single life time.
To be a millionaire is still hard as fuck without generational wealth but it's actually a feasible goal. It's miles apart.
Tech people are billionaires not millionaires.
@@skooptywooop1030 Thanks, I love having my jokes explained to the ground.
@@dskalfelan I'm not explaining the joke you mentioned the wrong thing how is that even a joke
@@skooptywooop1030 you're missing the point; you're being needlessly nitpicky
@@TheNinja94a no I got the point, it's just wrong because it's a big difference. 1 million seconds is like less than a day but a billion is years at a time, when you translate it into money you get why. It's such a big deal and even in jokes accuracy matters because you're illustrating a point.
this is quite possibly the most dystopian channel ive ever seen on youtube, i feel like this is something they'd play 24/7 in a dystopian megacity on all the billboards
The craziest part about Alux is the the reader sounds SO HAPPY to dunk on the poor like she gets hard off of insulting poor people
This has to be satire, right? "Alux" literally means "without light". Someone made a parody channel about an advice channel in a horrible dystopian nightmare world?
Haha, man I would love to have your optimism.
I look at Alux videos as a sort of black comedy.
It almost looks like a kafkaesque art project to me.
I would agree agree with you but this immediately radiates marketing 101 mid semester project energy. A real lateral thinker just wracking his brain for a name for his premium brand. Just listing off adjectives until coming across “deluxe.” Naturally they ruled out superlative derivatives like “mega deluxe” and “deluxe plus” for not being punchy enough. You wanna keep it bisyllabic but transform something *de* luxe into something better? A “D” is almost a failing grade, gotta make it an A. *A* lux.
I would bet money on this.
@@Lucy666Fernandez They sure got rich over it!
This channel also seems to assume that the end goal is to be rich, when in fact most people don't actually want to be rich, they want to be able to peruse their hobbies and interests without worrying about having food and shelter, and it just so happens that being rich is the only way to do that under capitalism.
Couldn't agree more. I wanted to say something else but you summed it up so perfectly that there's really nothing else to say lol
True, and wealth gives a person access to resources, which gives access to all other things, and people too
"All UBI does is make people happy and is therefore a failure" kind of gives the game away.
MOST people, sure, but this channel is targeting itself at a demographic that wants to get rich by any means necessary. It's a lucrative market on YT- there are loads of channels based around get-rich-quick schemes, some with millions of viewers. Most are basically scams asking their viewers to buy expensive 'business' courses based on recycled self-help books, to join MLM's or to invest in cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes.
Bro, that's all I want. Enough money to actually take a vacation a few times a year and spend some time with my son. To have a car break down or a house repair come up and not freak out about it... the basics. That's truly all I want. How many yachts, cars or houses does a person need? I gladly still have my 2012 VW Jetta with 200k miles and would still keep it as my daily driver if I landed a lot of money tomorrow. The pursuit of meaning and purpose far outweighs the possession of things. Unfortunately money in the modern economy has become more a barrier to this for most.
god, in an alternate reality this could have been an awesome origin point for some sort of ARG or a satire on all of these "motivational" people you see on social media, honestly a missed opportunity for some brilliant trolling.
I love how these hacks list websites as the sources of their stolen images, and not the actual creators of the images like they're supposed to. Pinterest didn't create any of these images. Instagram didn't create any of these images.
It tracks pretty well with how Alux sees the world tbh
Honestly if it were my image Id use it to file a DMCA
I love the argument that rich people don’t buy frivolous things while showing helicopters flying to yachts- these are just pleasure items- the example of frivolity.
Oh, Im used to that hypocrisy. Ive had my grandmother criticize me for having Hulu when she had just gotten back from a trip to Israel (from US for reference so cost had to be at least a few thousand). The (pile of BS) philosophy is that rich people are allowed to have fun because they already did all the work to pull themselves up, so they deserve it. But if you dare want a $20 luxury when you are still poor, then f*** you. How dare you be so entitled!
No, you don't understand. They needed to buy the yacht so they can have something to land the helicopter on, and they needed to buy the helicopter to get a better view of the yacht.
@@theyellowmeteor Makes perfect sense to me. Next life, don't be poor, you loser!
EDIT: since I'm not very funny, I should say I was being sarcastic.
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But imagine. If you had not spent that money on entertainment, you could have about 20 bucks a month. That's money you could invest in the economy, and then... I don't know, you could get a few cents a year ? I mean, what were you gonna do with it ? Start a successful business? Go back to college?
I genuinely think that the system is built to have poor people have just enough to entertain themselves, not enough to do anything else, and then blame them for buying the entertainment instead of _waves hand_ ...
@@alexp6013 and also, if every poor and middle class never spent money on those types of products, the economy and businesses would go to shit
Alux: being poor is a choice I'm so pro capitalism I never have fun
Also alux: capitalism is fundamentally broken, working hard gives no benefit, debt is slavery and poor people stay poor because they pay more for basic goods and services
My theory is that Alux is a documentary channel created by an AI. It's only goal was to take a bunch of random "facts" from the internet about poverty and make it into a self help documentary.
the thing about "rich people financed most innovation in recent history" is objectively untrue. Most of the modern technology we use today was developed in the state sector (i.e. financed by taxes)
Also it would not be surprising that the most wealthy groups finance the most things
Rich people will only finance something if they can profit off it. So if it betters humanity but doesn't fill the rich man's pocket, they won't finance it.
But it was patented and profited off of by private industry! Checkmate atheists