Wealth Gap: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- John Oliver discusses America's growing wealth gap and why it may be a problem in the future.
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The guy who wrote The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, said something similar:
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
mjuang84 Thanks for that... that is a brilliant brilliant quote! :)
America is like a lottery as shown by John Oliver. We lose hard but never think twice about it because "we have a chance." Like that will ever happen. Run again Bernie!
Carlos Saraiva Yeah... and nothing has changed sadly.
That's actually a horribly over-simplified version of the actual quote which completely changes the initial meaning. ... "Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: ‘After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?’ Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
"I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew-at least they claimed to be Communists-couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."
+Hitler Stash On Fleek Couldn't you argue that reinforces the point? If even American 'Communists' interpret themselves in that manner, it speaks to how deeply rooted the belief that everyone can be wealthy goes.
That depends, I suppose, on whether the 'we' in the quote was all Americans or just the women and her friends. Although even then, the point with Marxism wasn't to make people wealthy, it was to get rid of a socio-economic inequality and class warfare altogether through egalitarianism.
"the greatest income gap since the 20's" oof that aged a little too well
Ikr then John said *nothing ominous there
*foreshadowing*
Holy crap I didn't even think about 2020 when he said that. Shiiiiiiiit
* too_smart_comment_detected.must_destroy.capitalism_will_get_you.get_you_on_your_knees. *
it was much funnier i swear
Anthony weiner also aged well lmao
These roaring 20's also seem to be doing equally well.
help us
Happy December 31st finally...
the roaring 20s had a deadly global pandemic and unbelievable income inequality.... clearly no foreshadowing here !
Coming back to old Last Week Tonight is always great
Just wait for the new worst depression!
Dear 2014 John Oliver: I've got some terrible yet extremely predictable news... IT HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE, MUCH WORSE.
😥
#Bernie2020
I can't wait for the freakout of the ultra rich acting like their lives are being destroyed.
I'm just genuinely terrified of the "blowback". The rich (and their corrupt politician friends) will do everything they can to make the common folk pay.
@@YaowBucketHEAD it's over buddy. Bernie couldn't pull it off. Were getting biden
@@SethTraplifeGLO999 and Trump destroys Biden.
I've seen speculations? rumors? that Biden is going to tab HRC as his VP.
They will be *obliterated* if that actually happens.
@@YaowBucketHEAD that will NOT happen lol
But yeah bidens gonna got smoked by trump and it sucks
its says something about this show when his old videos consistently age well
I agree with Mr. Watros
So true. Wattching from March 2020
Aging better all the time. July 2020 and this is all starting to feel like we're near some kind of terrifying tipping point.
Still aging like a fine wine. August 2020.
Yup
In the immortal words of George Carlin: It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
+Conar Kennedy I love George Carlin.
No... It's the American dream, because even the "poor" people in America are wealthier than most of the world.
wrong that is just the nonsense goal post switching shit the Rightwing does, for the longest time the "American Dream" was if I work hard and do a good job I will be compensated well and be able to afford a middle class life for me and my family. Then after giving over everything to the wealthy oligarchic elites it became "you never know you could just randomly get rich" and now apparently its "just be glade your not poor in another country, be happy to be poor in America".
lol poor people actually end up working harder and longer than rich people, but can't get anywhere because of poor paying jobs, which they got from not being able to afford a good education(or dropped out to help family members by working, or the school was underfunded and understaffed because it was in a poor area). Then when they have kids the cycle repeats. The result? Generations of people stuck down below the povcerty line, and this is why there is a higher number of minority people who are poor, because of past racism and bigotry that got them stuck their in the first place. Basically what I'm trying to say is we need a better education and medicaid system, as the key to breaking out of that poverty area is through getting a good college education, allowing for a higher paying job and doing the same if not less amount of work you would have had to do if you were still stuck in that poverty cycle.
MethylpheniDAVE that's basically a mantra you repeat to yourself to feel better about your life, but the US still has people going hungry just as in those countries full of peasants from your imagination.
John Oliver's videos all have two things in common:
1. They are still funny after years have passed
2. They are still relevant after all those years
You forgot his blatant leftie focus
Up until trump gets elected. Then every episode is about Trump
Oh man, wait until you find out about Smedley Butler
@@DiabloGEN Except that isn't the case. Just because he makes jokes about him or comments on him doesn't mean the episode is about it.
@@baysidelad1 That's a plus.
0:09
*chuckles in "watching this for free on CZcams"*
CZcams is the only way I watch John Oliver and the only way I stay sane
Technically, you've paid for a device to watch this on, & an internet connection & data, so bit completely free!
Except your data is being sold by google, so maybe?
I don't understand what's the point of using HBO subscription to watch last week tonight when they upload their episodes on CZcams
HBO stopped that this year. John was the reason I liked Mondays. Their filthy business daddy doesn't want the peasants to be happy.
Wealth Inequality is poisoning the American Dream, killing economic opportunity for everyone, and hurting the overall economy. It is the #1 fiscal issue we must keep the spotlight on in order to fix it.
Ole Olson Have you joined my John Oliver G+ community?
plus.google.com/app/basic/communities/101046899216328680869
It is unfathomable that members of our own communities defend the people who try to claim this isn't an issue. What could they possibly hope to gain from that thinking?
Bad link, but I searched it out and found it Kim.
plus.google.com/communities/101046899216328680869
***** I certainly agree with some of your points. Over the past 35 years the vast majority of the income gains have gone to the rich. Even under Obama 95% of the recovery has gone to the richest 1%. However Obama has repeatedly and passionately called for steps for Middle Class economy, one with good paying jobs with decent benefits. He has even taken executive action on the federal level to sidestep the unprecedented resistance to higher wages from cheap labor conservative obstructionists in the Republican Party. If Obama was truly the "king" that right wingers portray him to be, you be sure the federal minimum wage would have been $10.50 years ago, maybe even higher.
As for immigration, sure, it has an impact on wages for lower paid workers, especially in the agricultural sector. How many people would break their backs in the hot sun for 12 hour shifts in the field for $2/hour? How many US Citizens are willing to work in the incredibly harsh conditions of a turkey plant for poverty wages? Etc. If we were to fully crack down on businesses to stop undocumented folks from doing this work, it would help, even if prices would rise a bit. I would prefer a path to citizenship however so that these folks have a chance to become legal members of society, and for everyones wages to rise.
Undocumented migration is not even close to being the big part of the problem however, Trickle Down economics is, and yes, trade pacts that outsource good jobs to cheap overseas labor markets that have no environmental protections. Remember that up until Reagan, all incomes were rising equally, but after that only the rich had any significant income gains.
You've given me some reading to do *****, and I will give it an honest chance, as I respect evidence and let it guide my judgment. However, your last link is irrelevant. The Labor Participation Rate is low because Baby Boomers are retiring, not because undocumented migrants are taking all the jobs.
Similar to how the south defended slavery; only 1-2% of them actually owned slaves but the prospect of owning slaves themselves was the main reason they defended it so vigorously.
***** You're very insightful, Adrienne. I can just picture those poor white guys in the South before The Civil War.
I have a dream ... to own dozens of slaves who will work hard and make me wealthy! I will not judge them by the content of their character but by the color of their skin.
That's in the spirit of humor. Don't send me hate mail. Black people make jokes about white people too.
One main source of income equality is CEO pay. There is now proof that there is no correlation between CEO pay and performance.
In fact, there is evidence that CEOs are dumb and that you're likely smarter than your CEO.
Search for and read: "Leaders: Not the smartest in the room newworldparty"
Max Kissime u are very wrong. CEO very smart.
*****
Same logic could be applied to anything in history. "How could you speak for the entire Nazi Germany during World War II? Did you fight in that war? Were you even alive back then?" Does that mean that logical comparisons can't be done? No, so fuck off
*****
I did give a legitimate response and you're just choosing to ignore it. With your stupid comment you are pretty much discounting every opinion of every historian out there.
Megyn Kelly is right. She doesn't have a 5 million dollar estate.
She has a 45 million dollar estate.
What a bitch!!!
0:09
chuckles in "watching this for free on CZcams"
@@erikaflores2339 lmao
@@erikaflores2339 same
@@erikaflores2339 I thought that was the only way anyone watched this show.
I am always reminded of John Dickinson's line from the musical 1776: Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor. And that is why they will follow us!
I love that musical and I never see anybody referencing it so thank you so much
The greatest lie in America is its own dream.
+Bounsingonbongos1 It's called the american dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it
+Bounsingonbongos1 Its a dream, you have to be asleep to believe it. -George Carlin
+Bounsingonbongos1 Except I had a first row seat to watching someone do it themselves. From 3rd world immigrant to CEO of his own company, due to talent, diligence, and thrift. It's not dead. It's not imaginary.
+Javier Giron No, not dead nor imaginary, just extremely rare.
*****
American is as America does, of course. I like how clearly you described the origin of the American dream. Truly it's made up, regardless if that was done by Americans. Note that America itself was made up. It's a contract created by a bunch of landholders for their mutual benefit. The original benefits were "life, liberty and property", but perhaps Jefferson didn't want to imply that *everybody* should be allowed to own property, so he changed it to "pursuit of happiness". Talk about a lame right.
It's kind of unsurprising that the wealth gap is growing - class consciousness is so low in America that no-one really associates themselves with the "working class" so there's no solidarity among low-paid workers. No solidarity means no pressure on business and government for enfranchisement, and that means things inevitably get worse.
Put someone in a nice enough cage and they think its a house. I like my cage. It has internet tv.
+actuatedgear this is the perfect way to describe it. Didn't people give slaves beer so they wouldn't revolt or something?
potaterjim
It was my understanding that that was payment, not anti revolt bribery...but really whats the real difference?
+actuatedgear the difference is you can live free on payment, not "just enough to not want to bother revolting, but far too little to ever escape their situation"
potaterjim You'd be amazed how wide that margin can be. Absolutely fucking amazed.
Megan Kelly: "I dont have a 5 million dollar estate"
What about your annual 18 million dollar salary? u spend it all on argon oil shampoo ?
Actually, I would believe that. Career people like that piss away their salaries all the time
Well she was telling the truth there. she doesn't have a 5million dollar estate, it's probably something more along the lines of a 30milliion dollar estate.
"My momma always told me, a man only needs so much money to live...the rest is just for showin' off!" ~ Forest Gump
The difference between bringing home 18 million a year and 30k a year is insane. There needs to be a better balance.How about like 100k and 9 mil a year? Is that too much balance to ask for??
@@Scorch428 sadly, the people making those decisions are the people getting high salaries, they will never increase someone's pay at the expense of their own. My past workplace have the same issue. From my discussion with management / fellow colleagues, the main reason nothing has changed seems to be because
1) Other companies are also paying low (so it is expected industry wage) - but the wage has been the same for like 10+yrs...
2) They provides job security, so we should expect a lower wage - which makes the least sense in this technology era
3) People that climbed the ladder wouldnt fight for a higher wage, cos they received the same amount when they were starting out, so they see it as fair - but they didn't take into account inflation etc.
etc. etc.
Basically, unless there is a massive strike, or a massive group of people leaving the job which causes a tonne of problem, the boss sees as no problem and sticks to status quo.
Always remember that corporations absolutely have the capability to pay higher wages--they just don't want to, because that's less money given to the board, the shareholders, the CEO's, and the politicians pushing their agenda.
"A nation of have's and soon to have's" so does that mean all my dead relatives that never had still have a chance? What is the law on that, do I have to leave theirs on their grave or does that go straight to me?
+Mike Schultz Turns out that they never actually died; Wherever they are, they are ridiculously rich, like billions and trillions rich! True Story..
Damn I guess I should have been suspicious when uncle Rory's death certificate said cause of death was "HA HA HA HA Sucker!!"
+Mike Schultz I can't stop laughing
+Mike Schultz you deserve a cookie for that, but I can't bake, care for this Crymia commemorative coin instead?
+Mike Schultz
"America´s unlogic moments" for i German only a Face paw, to belive "A nation of have's and soon to have's" are stupit.
How scrud is the US raely??
It's not just the "Class-Warfare" stuff that causes a problem, it is as much, or more about the fact that the people who have all the money are funding all these campaigns.
Pat Doyle : and too many are gullible. Thomas Jefferson warned: a poorly educated society will not remain free. That's why politicians maintain a K-12 school monopoly with mandatory attendance. Paying twice affords "private" schooling.
Lee Welter
I agree, but it isn't just the politicians who are the problem. More often, it is the parents who support and demand the degradation of their own children's education.
In 1928, Edward Bernays, “The Father of Public Relations”, published his book,
PROPAGANDA. His opening sentence reads: “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”
Thirty-seven years later, Jacques Ellul authored PROPAGANDA: THE FORMATION
OF MEN’S ATTITUDES, concluding fewer than 10% of us can resist propaganda’s
powerful influence.
Lee Welter
I doubt that anyone is totally immune, but the big problem is that minimizing the effect takes serious, conscious effort that very few people are willing to make. It also requires people who have a decent education and reasonably strong critical thinking skills - something America seems to have in shorter supply each day.
Pat Doyle You're right about that last. I went to grad school for a master's in education, and we studied the history of public education in this and other countries. Through most of the 20th century, there was an ongoing policy battle about the purpose of public education, between the people who believe it is to provide informed citizens with critical thinking skills who know history and civics on the one hand and those who believe it is to provide compliant workers with enough basic skills to make them useful employees on the other. The latter faction won that tug of war decades ago. I could see the difference when I compared the schooling my kids were getting in the '80s and '90s with that I got in the '60s and '70s.
And for people to resist the influence of propaganda, they also need access to accurate information regarding the situations about which they're making decisions, i.e. transparent government, truth in product labeling, knowing who is funding what political initiatives, and so on. Otherwise we're navigating in the dark.
Obama speaking a full, grammatically correct sentence makes me cry... 0:26 "The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility, pose a fundamental threat to the American dream, our way of life and what we stand for around the globe. I believe this is the the defining challenge of our time."
To which Trump said: "Fake news! I have the best words!"
😂😭😂😭 I didn't always agree with Obama but I would rather listen to him read the phone book than any trump speech
Same honestly, I checked the date and realized this was before Trump and nearly cried
You should be crying because Obama's policies were a continuation of Bush's. SMH
Why is Obama one of the few politicians who bring up inequality when it is such a massive problem in our country? I don't understand why politicians can't bring it up. Just shows you who really runs the country.....the 1%.
@@55vermeer not really
"The paradise of the rich is made from the Hell of the poor."
--Victor Hugo
Alicia Nyblade if I created a app that brings value to people and cost $5.00 and 3.00 of every sale goes to operation costs and employee salaries and let’s say I get 10 million purchases a year for 50 million/ 30 towards operation cost and salaries but I make 20 million how do I screw any poor person over?
@@austinrichardson7433 So you hypothetically follow fair business practices and you expect to be considered a champion of the people? Well done.
@@austinrichardson7433 In theory, yes. In practice, I'm skeptical. Which is more likely - a person gets mega-rich through his or her own efforts in fair ways, or that the owner or board use methods barely this side of legal and barely complaint with their profession board of ethics?
Austin Richardson how many employees do you have? And how much in reality will their salaries be?
Oh no! Leaning towards CLASS WARFARE!!!
2:10 no one with a moustache that looks like that should ever say the word hashtag
+Cyberphobe #IAgree
#StopUsingHashtags
Agree
+jackson stange #FuckYouIllUseAsManyHashtagsAsIFuckingPleaseBitch
yoos dat heash-teag cleass wore-fair
What did Ghandi say?
The world has enough to support any mans need but not any mans greed.
And then he launched the nuke.
Priyo866 exaclty :D
But Ghandi...i kept sending you gold 15 turns in a roll...why?
:(
***** Ghandi can not be stopped only delayed
*****
I gave him THREE of my richest cities when he demanded those, loads of technology, thousands of gold (2/3 of my treasury), 90 turns of free oil, as well as supported all his actions in UN. All to keep him from attacking me.
....and yet I still got nuked 4 turns later.
"I don't have a $5 million estate."
Says the woman worth $30 million.
John Oliver is making $5 million a year. Why count other people’s pockets? I don’t see the point
@@benjaminkelly6443 John Oliver isn't saying you shouldn't tax him though. he's, like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, saying "tax me more".
@@benjaminkelly6443 Because John didn't simply lied to our faces about his pockets?
@@benjaminkelly6443 Ah the good old whataboutism fallacy.
She’s technically right
"Your mashed potatoes are BLAND." top 10 insults
Ah optimism, how sweet it feels and makes us feel good, like chocolate. But in reality, optimism without a healthy dose of realism and cynicism brings us nothing but disappointment and misunderstanding. We all dream of never having to worry about money but a lot of us Americans need to realize that when it comes to money it simply pays more to be practical and establish low goals than constantly seek out the grand dream. Doesn't mean we have to give up our characteristic optimism, but it does mean making less of a fool of ourselves.
It sucks that our government is ruled by the elite, and self-interests. Still, there are politicians out there that are representing the people and not the elite. Unfortunately, with politics most Americans simply do not want to touch it with a five foot pole. What a conundrum we live in!
Wipe the slate clean, BURN IT DOWN!
Haha, perhaps my choice of profile picture clashes rather badly with my attempt at social commentary.
Wikiramblings Well quite frankly Americans need a bit of British cynicism because we've been told about our income inequality for quite a while now and no one seems to care
There is a statement being made about religion in this post somewhere, :-D
Aregulargameplayer
... or does it *enhance* said commentary?
"When you hear a Republican use the word class warfare, you can guarantee that they are waging it." - David Graeber
This quote shows what an idiot Graeber is. But that's true for everyone who isn't republican.
So are you a millionaire yet
But ironically, Obama only bailed out the banks and GM CEOs. He did nothing to actually address the increasing wealth gap.
@@bobrolander4344 TARP? The Troubled Asset Relief Program Umm...that occurred during the election, but was enacted by the Bush Administration. October 3, 2008.
Obama did try a second "bail out" one that would've been directed towards the middle class, but congress wouldn't pass it.
@@bobrolander4344 Cause he couldn't. He didn't have the votes in congress to get any of it through.
"The reason a British person has to do that is because we're raised in a ridged class system where all hope is beaten out of us."
Ouch. That was painfully real.
but the ability to spell rigid is probably instilled.
@@ribbonsofnight Ridged class systems are the worst because they're SCRATCHY!
I keep watching these old John Oliver videos and every single time he says "the president" and cuts to Obama I'm like "what? oh right. the better days." how long ago that was.
Ah yes, the Before Times.
"Where your ether paying for HBO or stealing it." Too funny. I'm on the side of people who watch clips of it on CZcams.
because I barely afforded food this month...
life is a bitch
***** soylent. I think soylent is currently expensive though, not sure you can recommend it yet ^^
*****
Don't forget to mix in a dangerous amount of cinnamon to give it flavor!
Funny huh, a show that is actually informative and thoughtful cannot be watched by the very people who need to see it, the poor.
in Denmark we all pay an insane amount of taxes, and its fucking great, free education, payed vecation, PAID FOR STUDYING SO YOU DONT HAVE TO WORK AT THE SAME TIME! DAMN I LOVE DENMARK!
"FREE education" "insane amount of taxes"
See a connection there at all?
Yeah but it also means the rich have to pay taxes, so the poor also can go to school, and since tax is not just a number ,but a %, it means the rich actually help the poor which is great.
Haha, what you have in the USA is much like the a monarchy, except the new royals are billionaires, and since you dont have any taxes (or next to none) they dont have to help the poor and unlucky at all.
they pay 40% in taxes, the problem with billionaires is making them pay that 40% they owe without them tax evading.
+Bob Carter why not? we don't get anywhere as a people without fucking helping each other, you're not the only person living on this planet
Mercy is not a sign of a weakness but is in fact a sign of strength. For only those with power can choose to be merciful.
If I won the lottery I'd try to figure out a way to help as many people as possible with what ever I won, and only keep a sufficient amount to pay off my house. I don't need much to be happy, never have, likely never will.
From a capitalist perspective, that is weakness. Capitalism honours the accumulation of capital. If you don't use it to produce more capital, you have failed as a human in a capitalist system.
From a social viewpoint, you helping people out of goodwill is admirable and very honourable, but that's a perspective only humans can share.
You not capitalizing on your full monetary potential is weakness in the eyes of a capitalist mind. That's the substance of capitalism. That's what it means. The ism of capital. Just be aware that your being good would make as many people hate and despise you as it would make people love and revere you.
@@onkelpappkov2666 All that is flat out bull shit. All of it.
@@onkelpappkov2666 "from a Capitalist standpoint" is the bizarro version of humanity.
@@onkelpappkov2666 That may be a weakness in the eyes of a true capitalist, but in a capitalist system you just have to be able to care for your own basic needs to not "fail as a human". If you win millions on the lottery and just live off that for the rest of your life not earning one single more penny, you havent failed at all, you've actually gotten extremely lucky and won.
2014: idk maybe…. wealth gap bad? 🥺👉👈
2022: ABOLISH MONEY EAT THE RICH 🔥😤
Thornton Wilder said it best over 100 years ago: "America is a terrible country to be poor in." 100 years later and his words still hold true.
This might be the most retarded thing I’ve ever read. It’s terrible to be poor anywhere, but I’d like to see a “poor” American try moving to a 3rd world country and be poor there. You can be poor here and still have a home, electricity, a car, an iPhone, and loads of shit.
+Raj Singh The US gdp is still 9-10 times that of India and the highest in the world. The economy is far from destroyed.
On the other hand, it's fucking amazing country to be rich in. I mean, that's true for most countries, but moreso here than any other.
I am pretty sure every country is a terrible country to be poor
Depressing factoid: Even in 'class-ridden, down-trodden Britain ' economic mobility is now slightly higher than it is in the US.
the US is fucked.
rippedtanktop False. According to research on generational mobility the US has higher mobility than the UK.
@@alsmith5147 give source or stfu
@Jay Ocq source or fuck off
@@alsmith5147 today all top 5 countries in the mobility index is in scandinavia
that's what social democracy can do
and Britain is 4 points ahead of the US
during this lockdown, i'm on a mission to find any last week tonight videos that i haven't watched before. this is the second one i found
You don’t have to look at when the video was uploaded you just have to look at how gray John Oliver’s hair is 😂
I also noticed that. John has got more gray hair after Trump came to power.
He's a US citizen now.
Let's be glad the stress of that only made his hair gray.
"When someone is poisoning me!? Please do it faster!!!"
Ah, the "haves and soon-to-haves." The temporarily embarrassed millionaires Steinbeck referred to!
It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
Oh George Carlin...
How I miss him.
sodthong Oh my god yes..
Oooo no quotation marks. Must be your own quote
KougR Gaimz Do you have any valid point to make ?
sodthong Yes. Put quotation marks on quotes instead of trying to pass that knowledge off as your own.
it is now the twenties and we are still enduring the largest wealth gap since the twenties.
What a time to be alive.
Most people think it's going to be so sweet when they finally win this game, but the reality is that if you weren't born a winner, you've already lost. And the price for losing is a life spent in service to the winners, with no consideration for you own wellbeing.
People like saying if you work hard enough anything is possible but even then the chances are not in your favour whereas these ultra elite don't have to do a single thing which would have been alright if they weren't push to keep everyone else down
@@incharak1927 After all, if you can do anything as long as you work hard enough, then that means that any failure is only because you didn't work hard enough. Therefore, any misfortune is your own fault, and you deserve neither aid nor sympathy.
Circle (2015)
El Hoyo (2019)
That's right, and luck is a huge part of whether you do get it made or not. That and knowing all the right people, the movers and shakers, who can and will break you if they don't like you.
While you can win the game the chances are literally 1 in 1000000
We can't grow our consumer-driven economy if the consumers don't have enough money to CONSUME anything. That's what the wealthy and their pawns don't realize. Reducing income inequality might give them a slightly smaller share of the economy---but we'd have a stronger economy overall that would benefit the rich as well.
***** the wealthy invest in stocks and bonds? Well golly is the sky blue? That kinda proves my point. When two-thirds of our economy is driven by consumer spending, we can't have a growing economy unless the poor and middle class have enough money to spend. Give a billionaire another tax cut and he'll stick it away somewhere. Put that money into the hands of the poor and middle class and they become the real "job creators" by spending what they have (living paycheck to paycheck, you know).
"Rich people don’t create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small. What does lead to more employment is the feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion a virtuous cycle that allows companies to survive and thrive and business owners to hire. An ordinary middle-class consumer is far more of a job creator than I ever have been or ever will be."
---Nick Hanauer, venture capitalist.
***** In the 1950s we had a booming economy and much higher taxes on the rich and the corporations. We invested that in things like education, research and our infrastructure. There was much lower wage disparity, which meant the middle class had money to spend.
I guess you'd prefer a feudal society where the wealthy have it all and the peasants have no rights or property and the poor and old people are just left on the streets to starve.
*****
The rich, for the most part, got their wealth by inheriting it. Minimum wage workers do hard labor 40-60 hours a week. Being rich isn't about contributing, it's about taking advantage of other people. It's about being a parasite. Don't get me wrong, there are people like Musk and Gates who actually put in some work, and really contribute to the world, but how many of those are there?
No rich person alive could be rich without taking advantage of the society they're a part of. They get the most benefit from society, and so they should contribute the most towards its upkeep. Their only practical and moral entitlement is proportionate financial responsibility for the upkeep of a nation.
Did u not pass 1st grade? He said like 56 out off 400 of the richest people in u.s. had inherited their wealth and most of them only partially meaning that the main source of wealth for most of those 56 did something to earn it. Now I'm not a business expert but I figure neither one of us have a right to others $ or would make sense to complain about $$ since we have the leisure time to watch CZcams & make meaningless comments to people we don't know for virtually no reason
But we need to reduce consumption to save the planet, so if the rich take all the capital they have all the control. Poor can't consume anymore so the environmental issues are solved. Yayyyy
"Wealth is essentially dispersed as a lottery of birth." Couldn't agree more! Wish more people would acknowledge this.
Well, they're right. It is class warfare. But we already experience class warfare on a day to day basis when poor people can't afford to eat, have shelter, go to the hospital, or educate their children properly, etc. The difference is when you're talking about income inequality, it's obvious you're punching up rather than the implicit failures of America in solving those problems, which are constantly punching down as they ignore the issues.
I agree that people starving should be helped for survival but besides that the argument of wealth gap is nonsense. How do you ensure that the money you take from the rich as tax reaches every poor person and that too equally? And why should poor people get such freebies? The rich became rich because they or their ancestors worked hard for it, so why should they give it away?
@@kushanshah8040 A n UBI like the one proposed by Yang, or alternatively the one currently functioning in Alaska, would help every poor person without question.
What do you mean by "why should poor people get such freebies?", they are our fellow countrymen. If your mother was poor would you not want the government to help her keep the lights on and be fed?
Why should anyone be rewarded for the hard work of their ancestors? Why is it okay for you to inherit the wealth of your ancestors without having to work for it?
The entire purpose of capitalism is for those who are good at managing a particular kind of resource to acquire control over more of it, yet poor people are not given a chance to be able to this as college is too fucking expensive and the various industries of this country are dominated by people who lucked out and inherited daddy's wealth and connections, ironically putting unqualified people in a position of power and preventing competent people from being able to manage any resource. Not to mention that an UBI system would grow the economy as there would be more money flowing through it which would allow more people to become rich do to their competence and not their family name by having the capital to start their own business, making the economy grow further.
@@Robin-jk6wz I agree
@@Robin-jk6wz Yang is a nut in my opinion. Bernie talked about and studied inequality for over 40 years and dosen't have any extreme views on certain people meanwhile Yang is this typical hipster millenial who thinks that the rich cause all of life's problems so he will propose a 90 something % tax on the rich and give the money to drug addicts and criminals whk will achieve nothing in their miserable lives.
@@salvatoremaglione6398 Outside of the fact that Yang is closer to being a Libertarian, my comment has relatively little to do with Yang. If I talked about how infrastructure should be better maintained that wouldn't be an endorsement of Trump, now would it?
"Nation of haves and soon to haves" a fucking guillotine
xD
Amazing how this video is four years old, and more true today than when it was made.
This has been going on for four *decades*.
two more years. like 10x truer now.
@@irllcd13 this problem has existed since the dawn of civilization
That goes for all of John Oliver's videos. Too bad nobody in charge ever seems to watch him
There's no way of discussing wealth inequality without talking about class warfare because that is the heart of the problem.
+Marco Alencar
Class is the heart of the problem, but the Right has to pretend that class is ephemeral and meaningless. They're terrified of class conflict, unless it's favorable for the bourgeois.
Most of the bourgeois aren't in the 1% either.
Here's the thing: this needs to be addressed now, or actual class warfare WILL happen at some point. It's happened before, and it'll happen again.
The trickle down shit that was put into overdrive by Ronald Reagan and the Republicans that came after him was the real class warfare. They were armed with tactical nukes with the express goal of destroying the middle class. And for the most part, they won. They have to keep a token shred of it so as to not be too blatant. The GOP is waging the true class warfare. And they're doing it with the support and help of the very victims of it.
The French and Russians knew how you deal with corrupt plutocrats. But that was a long time ago, and apparently the world needs a reminder.
When you invest you're buying a day you don't have to work
Assets that can make you rich
Bitcoin
Stocks
Real estate
@@christopherhobb7702 you're right it's obvious a lot of people remain poor due to ignorance
I'm looking for something to venture into on a short term basis, I have about $6k sitting in my savings
Starting early is the best way to getting ahead of build wealth, investing remains the priority
I advice everyone to start investing and never rely on just salary. No billionaire made it through salary
Socialism for the rich and rugged capitalism for the poor
Privatizing the profits and socializing the losses. That's the game we're playing.
This video is brilliant. The comments below immediately made me feel weary. How can sooo many people miss the point by sooo far? HOW?
I love John Oliver more than I should love a British man telling Americans how fucked up their nation is.
***** Well said m'lord.
Sometimes, it's good to have the opinion of somebody that can see things from the outside and not be involved
Chester Davis
He's an American now
***** So is Obastard
I don't have HBO, I've got CZcams ❤️🍺🍕
The TV version has a more Content longer episodes I think
The fact that the amount of likes on this video has reached almost 100k (whilst the dislikes are close to 5k) accurately represents the class disparity among us
On one hand it is great that videos like this are getting lots of views and likes. I means there are a lot of people knowing, learning and agreeing with the many problems in America and the world. But it is a little unfortunate that, while Oliver is funny and does great in depth analysis, he rarely if ever talks about solutions. That's where looking at The Zeitgeist Movement, Peter Joseph, or Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, Jimmy Dore show or Chris Hedges is equally, if not more important. Because once people know what the problem is they naturally want to know what solutions there can be. We can only take so much awareness until we need concentrated action. That time should come sooner than we may think. Basically, we should emerge from the Coronavirus in maybe 1-2 years time ALSO emerging from the Capitalistvirus!
It is indeed! And in my opinion, many of not most of the dislikes are bots paid for my the same people trying to sow anger and frustration. Meaning that I believe (with admittedly little empirical evidence) that the like/dislike ratio is more like 100/3 to 100/1
Hearing Obama's voice again was so calming.
T VS , HIS OWN FAMILIES ADMIT HE WAS BORN IN KENYA 🇰🇪 AFRICA .!!!!!! SEE : THE VIDEOS .? .😳😎🇺🇸😎😂🤣.....
@@belkys120
Link the video then.
A clean face and a lot of PR, look what it lead the US to.
Arturo fernández shut
We miss him too
What do you expect from a party that praises "The trickle down effect"
+Brian Moya even the name is insulting, but at least it could have been something if the upper class hadn't started plugging all the leaks
+Dukoth Well, rich people are by definition economic sponges. They spend disproportionately less than anyone else, which hinders the economy.
.....the trickle down effect is a real thing ask any economist. If u want to make an argument for the left (I am making an assumption here) at least make sense
the trickle down effect only works in an economic system where human greed is non existance.
haha....ask any two economists *anything* and you'll know you cant trust an economist
I respect that Obama was attempting to talk about these issues, but his ultimate cowardice in backing off of them when faced with resistance is one of the factors that led to the rise of Trump.
It's also why I'm a huge Bernie supporter. He speaks for what he believes no matter what's thrown at him.
Leo to be fair. Its not that obama backed off the subject. Its his attempt at trying NOT to leave out his detractors. He's president of both democrats AND republicans. He tried to not insult the right. It turned out to be a bad strategy. But He's one of those Americans who gave the far right the benefit of the doubt and thought that there was some decency left. He was wrong. We all were.
@@jamesjohnson3910 Good point. He wasn't being nefarious in backing away.
@@jamesjohnson3910 You did not learn from FDR. His principle was that we should fight for what's right and if the right oppose we should just crush them as the majority is with the fighter.
@jack Maher He rallied behind him because he's a better option than Trump.
Yep. Exactly. Me too.
It's only class warfare when the poor fight back.
I'm gonna use this quote.
+Stubbe Very true and well put!
Stubbe
Give me your name so I can quote you as a real philosopher.
Stubbe I
Stubbe poor people can't do shit
American Dream: There's a reason it's called a dream.
If you have a dream, your probably sleeping
If you think it's a 'dream' then you're probably lazy.
Thank god this is 9 years old. Surely the wealth gap hasn't exponentially grown in the wrong way since 9 years ago. We all saw that there was a problem, and we fixed it, that's what's so great about humanity
Watching this in 2022 prior to another recession…the world is great!
this is exactly what Karl Marx said. the exploitation of the workers, who believe hard work will benefit them, won't actually move them anywhere
+Austin Pohl Yes, and all of Marx's theories worked perfectly without flaw.
+Henry Baer yep, until the new clique took over
VYKnight_ADark Are you being sarcastic?
+Austin Pohl That is why the Marxist countries all broke and disappeared.
+Austin Pohl That is why the Marxist countries all broke and disappeared.
"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
Goddamnit I miss Carlin.
If fighting income gap is "class warfare" can we consider letting this inequality happen in the first place also "class warfare"?
Apparently not, history is written by the victors and all that
Obama being like 2:28 "help me discuss it without being accused of class warfare."
We need a leader that will say "Yeah, this is class warfare. Screw you, rich people."
and that is a great way to lose an election.
"Class Warfare" sounds like the result of TreyArch making a classic RPG.
I'd play it. :P
roadhouse699 I mean the term was coined over 150 years ago by Karl Marx.
Pretty sure I would have to blind myself to avoid the nightmares.
Sounds like a Call Of Duty game where 1 side has assault rifles and the other side has rocks and sticks.
@@Travis_Inlanzer And the sticks people are fighting the rocks people on Easy difficulty.
Work doesn't make money. Money makes money. That's why rich will always get richer very easily, and the poor will struggle to stay afloat. And if you think this doesn't concern you remember, that in relative terms the middle-class is becoming poorer and has been for decades. Wealth is siphoned out of 99% into 1%'s pockets. Capitalism is great!
Tom Mackevich That is factually incorrect. The us is one of the easiest countries to change your wealth status in the world. And since you said capitalism is great sarcastically, I am assuming you would prefer some sort of Marxism? So let's just make everyone poor, as long as they don't belong to the government, and see how fun life is then. It's really going great in Venezuela right?
Are you under the impression There have only ever been to economic systems in the world?
Don Williams I am under the impression that there is yet to be one better than capitalism when it comes to wealth and class mobility.
the wealth gap is increasing, that is a fact, no we shouldn't make everyone poor, that doesn't mean we should just allow our poor to live in poverty and perhaps spread the wealth out a little fairer.
Btw to counter your Venezuela meme (because it is a right wing meme at this point) i give you Bolivia.
Owen Munday Yes, the rich are getting richer and the gap is increasing, but the poor are also getting richer, just at a slower pace, we should focus not on the difference between the rich and poor, but just on the poor, and try to help them out, instead of looking at the rich and deciding they owe the poor something.
Watching this four years later with Trump as "president" is making me ill...
Christopher Sadlowski Same boat.
Drumpf is further evidence of this sham system.
I am so sad because I also think of myself as one step away from wealth. But I'm not, except for that $4 lottery ticket I didn't buy.
My wife spent that money.
Watching again, 2019. No one would listen back then.
I'm sure a democratically elected president would make you ill.
@@redpanda7967 oh the irony of that statement right now....
@@TheBoxingCannabyte ? Oh yeah I’m sure a lot of people are I’ll at the fact that now Biden is president now.
“We are at cinnamon dangerous levels right now”
-US Coronavirus Pandemic
July 2020
Funnily enough (or depressingly enough) there is undoubtedly more class mobility in Britain than in the USA.
It seems to me that you take your career/achievements, and those that you know of, to be a representative of how easy it is to realize the american dream in USA. If that is so, why? I dont know about England, but the statistics clearly shows that the class mobility and wealth gap in America, which indicates how far the american dream is possible, is not good.
I agree with you for the most part but our lawmakers and the Federal Reserve are making decisions that are giving me reason to pause. The American government has been selling out middle class America for decades and it will all come to a head soon if something is not done to right the ship.
Well, now that Brexit is here...
Except you just said it yourself "I don't know about England". No, you don't. You don't have any idea how expensive it is to live there, and overall the lower standard of life a LOT of British people have compared to the States.
The US has a hell of a lot of problems, but even with the wealth gap, there is more mobility here than there.
I'm pretty sure a greater proportion of the American population has a significantly low standard of living than the UK.
Whenever I'm struggling financially I try to detect my heart beat and get pointless satisfaction that it is one thing the 1% doesn't have that I do.
The best way to illustrate the problem of inherited wealth is to play Monopoly and let the winner keep their earnings for the next round. Pretty soon it will be laughably impossible for them to lose because of how badly the odds are stacked in their favor.
That was actually the purpose of that game.
Watch FEE's video on Monopoly
@@bruhboi4692 Just because everybody is getting "richer" does not solve poverty or economic inequality, because inflation is always going to ensure that everyone's wages must grow substantially in order to keep pace.
Let's say a meal cost 5 dollars 10 years ago, and a poor man made 6 dollars while a rich man made 20. Then, ten years later, that meal now costs 10 dollars, due to inflation. In order for both men to afford the meal, the poor man's wage must rise proportionally, to 12 dollars, to remain at his status quo ten years ago. The rich man's money doesn't need to change much, however, unless he really likes being able to afford two meals with money to spare.
Our economic systems should be ensuring the poor man's wage grows proportionally with inflation, but it doesn't. Instead, the _rich_ man's wages grow, through poor economic decisions like tax cuts on wealthy people, designed to ensure that rich wages grow exponentially while poor wages stagnate. Yes, they grow, and a first-world country's poor man is rich to many third-world countries, but it's essentially like putting an experienced novice chess player up against a grandmaster, and saying that because the novice is better at chess than most plebeians who've never touched a chessboard in their lives, that he'd fare well against someone who can see every move the novice will make before he even makes it.
@@TheGrayMysterious I agree with your reply, but your original comment was funny.
The winner must have used his brains to win the game, why shouldn't the odds be stacked in his favour?
@@bruhboi4692 Because it facilitates the lessened enjoyment of the other 3 players in the game if one player gets to slowly take away the other players' ability to even play the game, let alone win. It's not a matter of skill or "brains" anymore at that point, because the thing that is required to win, the money, is entirely controlled by one player. Said player only has to win once or twice in order to be impossible to ever beat again.
In real life, rewarding selfishness based on merit leads to the same scenario, an exceptionally greedy and powerful individual (or individuals) allowed to hoard the vast sum of important resources, starving everyone around him/them of what they need to survive, simply because he/they "earned" it.
The current wealth distribution shows that as of November 2022 the top 1% now makes 31% of all the money and the bottom 50% only makes 3.2%
....... Shit is catastrophically fucked up.
This is all painfully true. Every year, the UN publishes its Human Development Report. In it is enclosed the Human Development Index (HDI), an index that determines how developed a country is through GDP per capita (corrected with Purchasing Power Parities), illiteracy, life expectancy and level of education. In this index, the US ranks eighth, roughly the same as Canada and Germany. However, the UN also calculates an inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI). On this list, the US drops to 27th place, roughly equal to Poland, Lithuania and the economically plagued Greece. This is the biggest drop of all developed countries.
The 2010 report stated that the HDI is merely an indication of potential human development, and the IHDI is the actual level of human development.
In other words, income inequality in the US is an issue. A big one.
+appelpower1 Yeah, there is also the Gini coefficient which is a number dedicated solely to inequality, and the US doesnt do great on that either. Having said that, perfect equality is not a good thing, but the 1% having almost 20% of available income... is just alarming.
***** Perfect equality is never a good thing, but with a Gini coefficient of 41.1 according to World Bank data, the US ranks 96th out of the 157 listed here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality). That's alarming for a developing country. Practically all developed countries hover between a score of 25 and 35, which is much better.
David n The UN itself says the IHDI is the *actual* level of human development rather than the potential level. Thus, the IHDI is actually more important.
This is ignorant (literally). GDP is a worthless indicator. Empirical evidence shows that additional government spending reduces REAL wealth, and the GDP includes government spending. So if you print up trillions and trillions of dollars and put that into government spending, GDP will skyrocket, the value of the currency will deteriorate, and real wealth declines. So tell me again how GDP is an indicator of how developed a country is. The only thing that indicates how developed a country is is production, which is declining in the US.
Also, screw the UN and what makes there experts infallible? This is a HUGE debate between the differing schools of economic thought. You can't just take a study done by the UN, which is ridiculously corrupt, and just spew out nonsense from it.
TheKyfe Of course, HDI isn't the only indicator for development. However, in many other indexes and statistics, generally those regarding quality of life, press freedom, etc., the US tends to perform worse than other, more liberal Western countries.
Gotta love how the class warfare channels were all some form of Fox News.
Leah Ocarina And now, in line with internet tradition, no one can like your comment again. The perfect 69.
WHO LIKED A 70TH TIME?!
edo 7ensei Who could be so evil?
Fox news is basically the billionaires using their millionaires to spread propaganda.
@@DM-Raven right on, bro!
That's why we need Bernie man
I’m afraid he’s getting to old to run :( he might need to pass his torch
@@MrHistory269 I just hope that he can live enough to become the president and turn his plans to reality.
Which political party would support Bernie? The Democrats have shown their true color twice already.
@@shumeister1059 unfortunately he has no choice but to stick with democrats
He needs to get as much progressives in there as possible because the party leadership is full of center right corporate neoliberals
@@MrHistory269 Bernie hasn't been able to do anything. So how can he get anyone in?
I truly appreciate and love John Oliver ❤ ♥ 💕 💙 I really do.
It's good that The US has shows like these to remind how fragile their system is, that it isn't democracy but Oligarchy that "runs" Murica!
If you don't vote you're a under an oligarchy.
America doesn't vote they have electoral college and even if you assume your vote counts for something, all of the candidates and chosen to run with the ok of big business and special interests... most candidates that are halfway reasonable are attacked by their own party and affiliated media, who are paid to represent information in a way that protects your world view. it is an oligarchy that is so well embedded in our subconscious that to question it rallies the flag waving spirit that it means to be "American"
We do vote, for representatives. It is a republic.
Slaanesh, Prince of Pleasure And who ever said that was a good thing? A republic is a society with no monarch, not one hovered so indirectly.
Until the reagan, bush, and orange turd tax cuts for the rich are repealed, it will only get worse. Right wing Fraudonomics has established a plutocracy.
If there ever were anyone who deserved his own show, it's definitely John Oliver. He did an amazing job substituting for Jon Stewart. Seeing him today makes me so happy. He's the soul reason I pay for HBO, even though I have to wait 1-2 days extra to see the episodes (I live in Denmark).
John Oliver: "Whether you are paying for HBO, or whether you are stealing it."
Me: “Dammit! They found us! Zork, I told you that wouldn’t work!”
"I love that you line around blocks... ...for talents you objectively don't have"
☠️☠️☠️
New game
call of duty: class warfare
it's already getting worse every year may as well throw this in there
+James Dale Ahhhh, a return to realism is what Call of Duty needs.......
If the entire game was just some dude in a suit fucking around with stocks then it would still be more interesting than Advanced Warfare's plot ever was.
DeadpoolX9 tbh I'm still annoyed about ghosts and if someone was shot by a magnum in the chest how could he drag of the main character who wasn't shot in the chest but yh you are right
That sounds amazing!
That’s GTA.
In which you play a Cheka/(O)GPU/NKVD officer (all predecessors to the KGB) and put kulaks in the gulags because you ain't free unless you jail the bourgeoisie. In Soviet Russia we have remedies for class enemies comrade! Stalin will go all in on class traitors and their collaborators!
It rhymes because it's true.
6:59 If a british person can recognize that your food is bland then it really really is bland.
IT IS FUCKING RAWWWWW
Fredrik Dunge this is the truest thing ever. except for gordon ramsay
Ramsey is Scottish though, not British
QR One yeah but scotland is part of Great Britain so that still makes them british. Welsh, Scotts and English make up Great Britain, so technically all of them are british
@@1rockcrawford Have you tried Scottish food? My dad's a scot and I used to dread going to my grans because all she'd serve was traditional Scottish stuff and it was grim. Give me Pork pies, toad in the hole or Cumberland pie any old day
There needs to be a current updated report on this
John can literally redo all of the old topics and still be very relatable
This is why I love Bernie! He does not care if folks know he is on the warpath!
John Oliver, you are the most patriotic British i have ever seen- if i ever saw one.
It's been four years since this video was made and it's truer now than ever before.
This has been going on for four *decades.*
It's nice to go back to a time when things were simple
It's funny that the party of jesus (you know, the guy that said "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God") is so opposed to helping poor people.
Nobody ever said Republicans were consistent. Or smart.
Lmao that verse is literally followed 2 verses later with him saying “with man this is impossible, but with god all things are possible”
@@feldani4724 Which bit is "impossible"? Someone actually following what Jesus commanded by selling everything they have and give it to the poor (Matthew 19:21)? (quoted directly from the parable)
Or to serve two masters... love money and still loving God? (Matthew 6:24)
You mean the party that donates far more to charity AFTER having paid taxes for social programs? That would be the conservatives, my dear. Jesus wasn't a socialist and neither were the disciples, "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat".
All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. (Acts 2:44-47)
I wonder if the fact that the church in America is in decline has anything to do with the members forgetting what they are supposed to do on earth, and valuing their accumulation of personal wealth over the call
This entire segment was incredible (as usual), but the lotto-ball bit was pure gold!
There's a documentary on youtube called Requiem for the American Dream by Noam Chomsky that discusses EXACTLY how the wealthy have managed to completely take over American politics in order to maintain their status and stop the disadvantaged from gaining. I had to watch it for my sociology class when we were talking about elections and its really eye opening to how deep this problem goes. I think its very fitting for our time.
America, land of the free... only if you're rich.
Land of opportunity...only if you make at least 50k a month
+Anthony Long that ain't shit man, get your life together..
+njintau
Ritch only one %
As well as a white, heterosexual, cis man.
MadSwedishGamer
No, just rich.
Money is all that matters, your race, gender and sexuality are irrelevant.
"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." - Warren Buffet, second richest man in USA. On the subject of inheritance tax, he said repealing it is like "choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the eldest sons of the gold-medal winners in the 2000 Olympics".
It's just a shame the next 1000 richest or so don't share that view.
I worked my ass off for about forty years, went to college and served in the military. I have never been able to afford my own home and bought a new vehicle once which I lost after getting sick. Moral: don’t get sick, lose your job or get a divorce. Ten years ago I had $100,000 in investments and savings. All gone. It’s a house of cards. American Dream my ass. My only regret is not having moved to another country when I had the chance.
Ya I delivered food for more than a year straight during a pandemic in a car I still live in. . . They tackled it so good
Ah, news shows - rich people paying rich people to tell middle-class people to blame poor people.
I missed the part where anyone has ever told anyone to blame poor people...
@@operator8014 Think again, Immigrants, blacks, Muslims, Latinos ... These are the POOR people constantly blamed and portrayed as a scapegoat for anything wrong within the country to shift discussing the real perpetrators.
The minimum Wages of Denmark is 20 dollar an hour. Damn I'm glad I don't live in murica
Walid Shabaab Yeah and they also have higher unemployment and minimum wage earners in Denmark have a much higher percentage of their earnings taxed than in the US, because, you know...there are trade-offs in the real world. If your earnings are based solely on what the minimum wage is- that means you're a minimum wage earner because you likely don't have much to offer employers or else you could command a higher salary. The US has enough slackers as it is, we're glad you don't live here, too.
Care to elaborate?
Tomas Kurjan If you get get a finger cut of in denmark the hospital will sow it back on while in the US you must out with about 60000 dollars for what your tax in denmark gives you.
You also dont get hospitals dumping old senile folks on the street because they dont have insurance.
It there are no taxes in a capitalist society then poor people are completely screwed.
Tomas Kurjan I am more than happy to give 50% of my incoming to taxes if I see that the money is being well spent: high quality free healthcare, free universities, modern infrastructure and more. In the US you may have lower taxes, but by direct comparison, you don't have free healthcare, your university fees are some of the highest ones in the world, and your infrastructure is crumbling.
XZDrake really? free healthcare? even Obamacare bones people without insurance by making it that they fine you until you do
in case you are back here years later, the income aspect has gone from 20% to 32%
OH 2014. you sweet summer child.
How many citizens actually act after being informed by this show? Or do they just clap and laugh.
+Alexei Fando
That's the kind of thing that keeps me up at night damn it.
Am I doing enough?
Are we doing enough?
I DON"T KNOW
Help
+DJK5364 remember we are still humans :). Change takes time. Do what you can don't stress yourself out, the weight of the world is not on your shoulders alone :).
Have a good night!
+DJK5364 I'll help you, you're not doing enough. Watching a video alone doesn't amount to anything.
none. they just ake selfies and post on Facebook that they were at the show
If you do at least a little bit, be happy because it's much more than most of the citiziens do.
But be also not happy, because you know that "a little bit" is much less than you could do.
His segments really are so good!