Rich Guy Says That Billionaires Should Be Rewarded
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2022
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Being poor is a choice, a choice the rich make for you.
truer words have never been typed into a youtube comment section
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AGREED
But WHO do you think are the "rich" people in this case?
@@chris135x rich peple
There was a man here in Brazil that was not being paid by his bosses and got literally beaten to death after demanding to be paid, but sure graham norton, the milionares are the ones taking so many risks.
It's even worse in this brazillian case bc the guy that got killed was a immigrant :(
It's Graham Stefan, Graham Norton is an Irish legend :P
@@rachiboo14 I know, is just a reference to a joke nick made on the video. Love Graham Norton btw lol
that’s just insanely disheartening as well as disgusting. that poor guy.
😢
One funny thing is if they get called out on their privilege I bet they would say “I couldn’t help but be born into a rich family”. They believe they can be born rich, but poor people can’t be born poor 😭
TL;DR: If you believe your cause to be so worthy of joining, don't be so dismissive of people who have opposing views. Especially if they're young, the quickest way to get someone to be against you is by mocking them. Educate them. We usually live our whole lives being taught opposing views. Why would someone who lived their life being rich want to support something that negatively affects them when they've neither been educated nor treated with kindness.
I do find the 'you're born into a wealthy so you're privileged so you have no say argument' I could agree with them and they'd still get upset with me because of who I was born to.
My mom works extremely hard. She often went days, and in rare cases weeks without being home representing clients. They don't seem to understand the sacrifices some rich people have to make. This is why it saddens and discourages me when I experience people attacking and attempting to invalidate my experience because of reasons I literally cannot control.
My mom took all 5 of her kids to live in Indonesia, me included. We experienced things that made being homeless in America seem like a big upgrade. My family farm which had gotten big enough to supply most of our village's food had restrictions placed on us by the government. The farm nearly went under.
I also experienced the posh lifestyle. Being chauffeured around, having multiple homes, going out to eat and having chefs, etc. But depending on the status of the rich kid, they may also be forced to network at an early age. In my family, we are taught how to interact with clients and potential partners at *7*. Imagine having to network at 7. By 10, my Oma took me on business trips to help interact with her clients' kids. I was fluent in 3 different languages at this point. There are a lot of nuances when it comes to these things.
“Facebook has a lot of courses.”
I actually laughed at this. I’m sorry but very few employers are going to hire someone with a Facebook course as their main qualification when other candidates have degrees from prestigious colleges. People who aren’t in a good financial position mightn’t be able to go to college either because they can’t afford it or because they don’t have time due to having to work really hard to make ends meet. To say that people can make up for that with a FACEBOOK COURSE is the most OUT OF TOUCH thing I’ve heard in a while.
There are some things you can learn online for a lot less money than traditional school, like coding, but it’s still and uphill battle to get interviews
@@nervousbreakdown711 I agree, but at the same time that is still money to pay for a service that a person may not pass, or worse, not get used for interviews. I'm not saying you don't agree, I am just bringing up another point in it. But, yeah, as someone who lived pretty poor at some point in her life, I understand what it is like to just not have the money to spend on anything except bills and maybe some food. Online courses are too risky sometimes to spend even a little money and precious time on when it could become useless anyway. The system/society is just not built for people to work hard to succeed. It is all about luck and privilege.
Hasan did a react to this Jubilee video and pointed out that woman is probably making money on pyramid schemes when she said "FaCEbOoK hAS a loT OF CouRsES"
@@ToruKun1 Oooo that's a good point, I didn't even think of that
Also the fact that poor people might not be able to afford a computer or internet…
Briefly worked in a shelter. Third largest in my state. They didn’t allow the guests the stay during the day, and they weren’t allowed to stay the night if they were using alcohol or any substances. The only reprimand I ever received was for letting a regular in to use the restroom.
Guests who were allowed to stay the night (it was a women’s shelter) were women with children, but they had to follow an extra set of rules. I saw a family kicked out for keeping snacks in their room. Religious services were mandatory, and if you missed you were refused shelter or resources.
LGBTQ+ people weren’t accepted.
People who say anyone chooses to live on the street instead have never faced the reality of this.
The dehumanization of it.
LGBTQ aren't allowed, and MANDATORY church??? Where was this?? I wanna say you're full of shit just because I don't want to believe that could happen, but I guess if it's STRICTLY privately funded they can do whatever they want. Do you know if that was the case, because if they got subsidies in any way then that's illegal as FUCK.
Holy shit, I understand people not being allowed if they're under the influence for the safety of everyone at the shelter, but kicking a family out for keeping SNACKS??? that's so fucked up, why did the owners even run a shelter at that point if there's no humanity left.
@@michaelhaydenbell it was private and religious, located in a Bible Belt state. Besides, shelters tend to be one of those “out of sight out of mind” places people like to not think about because they don’t want to imagine real people are there and that they could be too someday if their life takes a turn. It was honestly sad as shit and I only lasted three months.
@@AdityaSharma-hi3zm my problem with it was that addiction and mental illness are big contributing factors to homelessness and that this shelter didn’t offer resources to help with that. So the people couldn’t stay if they had a problem, but nothing was done to fix the problem? Yep. I was in the room when they were asked to leave. Did not know what I was walking into, they were showing me how to do it. It was honestly heartbreaking.
They shrug and say “well they’re the ones who chose to break the rules.” On my most cynical days I think they enjoyed doing it.
@@michaelhaydenbell if you’re interested and have the stomach for it, there are stories from lgbt folks about their experiences in these situations. One I remember reading after was a trans woman at a Salvation Army shelter that was distressingly similar to what I saw. Unfortunately it’s not uncommon, at least where I live
Bruh this is absolutely ridiculous - everyone deserves to eat, be housed, and feel safe. That is like the BARE MINIMUM. And for some people to actually believe that those are not basic human rights and you instead have to work your ass off for some billionaire is absurd. People's labor is valuable. No matter what it is. And they deserve to be compensated for that labor. No one should have a billion dollars, period. There is no way for someone to 'earn' a billion dollars without exploiting people and actively causing harm. How do some people not understand this.
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Yes, this is so true. America was built off of slavery the most abusive institution in history. Now people are being expected to work 12hr shifts for wages that can't even house them. SMH.
@@georgeford8221 You lost me at JK Rowling
@@georgeford8221 really? You actually picked JK rowling?
Exactly. No one needs that much damn money. They don't do anything good with it. They just spend it on useless shit that someone else had to create and probably got paid next to nothing for. They have a rocket built for no other reason than to just be able to say they shot up into the atmosphere for five minutes. Wasting resources and creating more issues for the earth. Then everyone laughs anyways because we all know it's dumb as hell.
“how can you not be angry?” describes my thoughts exactly. how can people look at the world and not be angry at all the inequality and exploitation that’s going on?? i genuinely don’t understand
to them it's just theory, economics, debate. they're comfortable and it doesn't effect them. it's the same way that people can just talk about "politics" in such a disconnected way and claim that a person's politics shouldn't reflect on them or effect friendships. for people that get angry, it's because it effects them or they actually have empathy and care that others are hurt by these systems. none of it impacts the ones that make these bad arguments, so they just don't care. like when they say people are too "emotional" about these things. that's how it should be!
The fact that he never touched wage theft or the fact that minimum wage hasn't increased nationally in decades in his defense of billionaires is hilarious. And the fact that he balked at the idea of worker exploitation, but never actually refuted it.
Just because someone makes a service that turns out to be widely used does not entitle them to unfathomable riches . Especially when those riches come at the expense of the lives of those who work for/under them
Here is a simple thought exercise that helps demonstrate just how obscenely large a billion dollars is and how there is no way to ethically earn your way to a billion dollars, you can only exploit your way there, is this, using simple arithmetic.
For most people, a $5,000 a month salary would be a dream. Now, let's say that in a hypothetical scenario, you were consistently paid a salary $5,000 every day. Because it's a salary, the hours worked don't really matter as much, so a workday could be anywhere from 3-8 hours long but you still get paid $5,000 at the end of the day. And let's say that you get paid $5,000 every day for 7 days a week, 366 days in a year. After all, there's always leap years so let's factor in every year as a leap year, just to be generous. And let's just completely ignore taxes in this fantasy utopian scenario. About how many years would it take for you to then reach $1 billion?
Answer?
Not in your freaking lifetime.
Even if you were paid $5,000 a day for 366 days in a year, for 90 years, you still wouldn't even hit $165 million dollars.
Alright, how about the years from when Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492 up to 10 years in the future, at 2032? From 1492 to 2032, that would be 540 years. So if you were paid $5,000 every day for 366 days in a year, for 540 years, would you reach $1 billion?
Answer?
Nope!
You'd be a few hundred million short. So yeah, not even being paid $5,000 every day, 366 days in a year, for 540 years, will get you to crack $1 billion. And we have billionaires today who have 100-200 times that in terms of net worth. There is no ethical way to earn yourself to $1 billion, only exploit your way to there. And this is provable with simple arithmetic.
Don't worry, Biden's definitely going to increase the minimum wage. Totally.
And the argument that rich people open up more opportunities for jobs is really insignificant if they work as f.ex. the avocado industries. The people in power exploit the shit out of the workers, who only work at te off-chance of getting a good salary, risking not only to get scammed, but also killed or having other family members kidnapped/ murdered.
My pay increases regularly here in NY
@@Lili-ey1nd Some states have been increasing their local minimum wage, but even then, they don't keep up with inflation. To match what the original minimum wage was, you'd have to have 25 dollars as the minimum wage. I'm in Oregon, with a relatively decent minimum wage, but its little more than half that, at 13 dollars. (15.45 in the Portland metro area.) Washington is the state with the highest base minimum wage, 15.74. Washington, DC is the territory with the highest base minimum wage at 17 dollars. No territory of the US has kept up with inflation on this matter.
When David said "I work at Disney" Graham Stephen's response was literally "oh hmmm you criticize society yet you participate in it. I am quite intelligent"
It's so disgusting, that David guy is probably a face character at Disneyland making sub-minimum wage in a sweaty costume and living out of his car and Graham Cuntbag is calling him a hypocrite for being exploited by a billion dollar corporation.
he's LITERALLY the guy from the Matt Bors comic
Capitalist are so dumb SMH
I've only heard of him through an Atozy video on some gearhead carbrain.
I had respect for him but wow his takes are trash.
Graham said himself that he became rich out of luck. Now he has the comfort and privilege to hold these bs ideas about wealth
Yeah… he just keeps contradicting himself
Yea I actually used to be a fan but he just keeps getting more deluded
@Kyle's Cardz please explain how being able to afford something when it goes on a major discount is equivalent to being a millionaire
@Kyle's Cardz Right... his luck was once in a lifetime and made him millions while Black Friday deals happen every year and exploit people's FOMO urges to cause them to buy more than they would usually, even then only saving a couple of hundred dollars on average. But go on, explain how occasional price cuts makes people privileged or how being rightfully angry at a system that rarely rewards hardwork makes people childish.
@@crypticcryptid4702you guys really don't watch his content huh...
He's saying that Graham got "lucky" because he had the opportunity to make investments / flip houses that didn't flop and made bank from that.
That's why he's comparing that luck to a black Friday deal- his videos advocate for other people to invest / learn how to recognize a good deal/ have courage to make those investments + seeing if it pays out (luck). He's not ignorant of his privilege to buy big ticket items now- he's trying to encourage others to make similar + smaller purchases because Black Friday deals are there for everyone.
Some homeless shelters are EXTREMELY religious and not only refuse to house lgbtq+ people, but also don’t allow people who don’t practice their religion, or just do anything they look down upon.
Name a few?
@@mutantchiki3988 Dude Its Literally The Same With *MOST* Rehab Facilities (Not Just Just A Few, Not Even 50/50; A *MAJORITY* Of Them) Require You To Follow Doctrine, 12 Step Is A Religious Based Approach..The Same People Who Run The Rehab Facilities Are Either Also Owners Of Or Partnered With The Shelters...
@@septimaserpent rehab is not the same as shelters. They are run differently, and just because an organization runs a rehab one way does not mean they will run a shelter the same way. Of course rehabs have rules.
@@mutantchiki3988 what's your point? Are you not able to do research on your own or to make a point?
@@mk177 the point is to use information on rehabs to try to make a point about shelters doesn't make sense. Rehabs and shelters are not run the same way. I have enough research to do for essays i have to write, I don’t have time to look up and cite sources on youtube as to why a rehab and a shelter are not the same thing 😅
I fucking hate when people who have never even been close to homelessness have an opinion on how homeless people make decisions. It boils my blood.
As someone who did have the privilege to “shop around” with my labor I can tell you it doesn’t pan out the way this guy thinks. From 2016-2020 I worked 7+ different jobs typically only 1 or 2 at a time. You eventually hit a point where no one will offer you more money than you’re currently making because you didn’t express “loyalty” and stay in one place longer. Employment industries want you to starve to show your loyalty to their company and it actively shames and penalizes you when you try to seek a higher wage/ better condition. It is a lose lose system.
piggy-backing off this comment, my decent job that i have now wasn’t one i sought out. they came to me. before that moment, i applied to so many places and was met with mostly getting ghosted. companies complain that “no one wants to work,” but they’re literally the ones creating that narrative because they aren’t hiring anyone and they hide that behind their “hiring” signs
Yes
@@nbdraws right! especially with the pandemic they realize they could have one person do the work of two or more. Even after business has started to go up. The media was spinning the story how these companies are desperate to hire but really they're working the few employees they have to the ground and stacking up more revenue 😮💨this is some bs. We need to eat the rich at this point (i.e government officials and these big companies) 😋
Keep fighting for decent wages man, turned down at least 50 applications when offered because of low pay, they always ask why and you have to tell them " you don't pay a living wage." & walk away
This is very true. I have been working minor and major labour jobs since my teens, a few office stints too that i could not handle.
Now i work in the agricultural world as a mechanic in layman's terms. If you do not stick it out with a company, you will not see much rise in wages. Sure you can find competitors willing to pay you close to a starting journeyperson salary or maybe a bit more, but unless they are desperately trying to poach you your wage will be vastly inferior if you shop around after years of fighting for raises at one place. Anyways, keep up the fight if you got it in you, I'll root for you.
his analogy sucks. his message is simply "play the hand you're dealt"-that only works when you're playing against a house that isn't rigged. in our little version the deck is stacked against a lot of us. to simply play the hand we are dealt is to accept a huge injustice. to ask us to do so only makes sense if you are the house, or you're in favor of the house winning. just proves if you're passing this message along, you're either a sucker or someone targeting suckers.
I had an ex that constantly told me to play the hand I was given and I tried explaining this to her so many times. hearing it from someone else was cathartic.
Plus the house can kick you out or even refuse to cash out your chips if you are suspected of cheating which is at the discretion of the casino which you’ll have to spend lots of money on a lawyer to get back which might not even cover the expenses
It's like playing with someone and every time you get ahead they flip the table and make you reset as they keep all their previous points
I think it's kind of a toxic positivity thing and I sadly identify with it from back in my early 20s. I had had a rough childhood but nowhere near as bad as my bestie's, so I was always telling myself "it could be so much worse" and never gave myself permission to be upset about anything. it all kind of burned me out after a certain point.
it's okay to be pissed off when you're struggling, especially when it's not because of anything you did. ESPECIALLY ESPECIALLY when there are so many people out there who could help, but choose to work against you instead because it's more fun for them that way. it's okay to be pissed off at these people.
the house always wins
Companies like Nestle and Dupont really get away with a lot of cruelty and environmental damage and you're right it's not discussed nearly enough. It needs to be changed asap
Dupont literally poisoned billions of people and they still make over a billion dollars
@@no.reply_ I wouldn't be at all surprised if they're still poisoning people's water and we just don't know it because of the nonsensical way American laws work for big corporations to get away with pretty much whatever
What can be changed? These companies are richer than God himself. People have talked about it, everybody knows about the people they've killed. But they get away with everything because they bribe the system.
Lmao leave it to a rich guy to say healthcare and dental care is inherently a wealthy trait and not a human right…
How can it be a human right? Are people compelled to fix your teeth?
@@TH3Willster I had a tooth grow in completely backwards. It messed with my eating and caused me pain. They said if it wasn't fixed, it would cause a lot of problems. My birth mom's teeth were super messed up. It's part of healthcare, just like brushing your teeth and being able to go to the doctor/dentist.
@@chancewill6910 Sorry to hear but it doesn't really change the principal of the matter. For the record I don't think brushing your teeth or going to a doctor is a human right either.
Something I’ve heard of people doing, and idk how manageable this is for daily uploaded or even if the system still works this way, is to upload the video on private to see if it gets auto flagged and if it does then keep it private until an appeal goes through then switch it to public so you get all your views.
that's smart. I was just thinking not to watch the videos until 2-3 days after its uploaded lol
I was going to say this too, I know plenty of CZcamsrs that do that
this is a great idea!
I know this was just 2hrs ago but I really hope this blows up
I'm just going to wait an extra day or two before watching his videos until he can figure this out. That's messed up.
Comparing wealth with poker is stupid, capitalism is not poker, it's monopoly.
It’s like playing monopoly with a child who takes money from your hand and doesn’t pay when they land on the places they have to pay tax 😭
I really wish america had some anti-monopoly laws
Monopoly is based off capitalism
It's crony capitalism and oligarchy are which is mostly monopoly but not capitalism in general with social baseline. You are lumping all of capitalism into this which is not fair.
@@kha30s22 The same thing that capitalists do with Socialism and Communism. They just lump it in with countries like Russia and Venezuela.
Dolly Parton is a milllionaire by choice. She sees being a billionaire as an immoral failing.
She pays her employees well and donates to many charaties for the purpose of helping others more than profitting
That’s awesome. I like that perspective because I’m sure she’s still got enough for her wants and needs at that status.
and she’s still dripped out and living happily everywhere she goes, so that proves that nobody needs a billion dollars to be well off
She has $600 Million Dollars…there is no way she made that money without worker exploitation.
@@ellsmayab8642 I mean she isn’t really selling a physical product, she’s selling music which is mostly online now anyway other than from concerts and from all accounts I’ve heard she pays her employees well.
@@icenerdy3256 “Paying her employees well” isn’t an indication that they got a fair share of the profits they contributed to. Or else she wouldn’t have $600 Million dollars.
"As a worker, you get paid no matter what!" Oh really? I don't know a single person who hasn't experienced a check not showing up for one reason or another. Or had their hours not add up. Or have their employer screw up their paperwork/taxes for years without resolution. A person like this would say "Well that's Illegal! If it's happening, how would they ever get away with it?" Completely missing the point that you have to have money to sue. Employers know how much you make. They know you can't do anything even if you wanted to and they won't be retaliated against for wage theft or wrongful termination so they jut do it. All the time. A problem that unsurprisingly affects the most vulnerable populations the worst.
More money is stolen by Wage Theft by employers than actual robberies by a very wide margin
I’ve been threatened with not being paid because “you went over billable hours for Medicaid therefore we can’t pay you”
Hella illegal, but what am I gonna do?
i love your content nick but youre totally wrong about this. i once met jeff bezos and he said it would make him really sad if he didnt have the power of a small country. he then shoved me in a ditch and i said "thank you sir." really changed my perspective
🤣🤣🤣
Omg 😂
as a life long poor person, i can say it has always been my choice. Having financial issues is something i just find enjoying. Same with my chronically ill mother.... she always said its just more fun being poor. Its actually fucked up how people think its just about education and putting yourself out there like omg rich people are narrow minded and they dont do any good for themselves when they open their mouth it just proves how privileged they are..... im so offened its actually making me feel ashamed..... like they have no idea.......no idea.... just no god damn idea
i just love the stress and the adrenaline of not having money all the time. i won't have this type of enjoyment if i decide to become rich..
I bet you work fast food jobs then cry about being poor and demand more government handouts.
@@Bushido_Brown. wow thats really mean. But no im not employed atm due to mental illness and i dont get money from the government. My bf supports me. Im sick i litrerally cannot work. You dont know me and you mustn know that many people if you think all poor people are lazy and just want a handout. Your very stupid to have said that. But i am not ashamed of my situation. There is nothing more i can do about it. Id be more than happy to explain my entire situation to you so you can have a little more insight on other people in the world other than you... but im assuming your one of those people who doesnt listen to logic. and doesnt know what empathy is so why bother. screw you though
@@Bushido_Brown. I bet you lick boots or use daddy’s credit card to get whatever you want
@@Bushido_Brown. i bet you have not even a sliver of life and replied to the above comment out of spite and demotivation to do anything productive with your existence
I'm disabled and struggling to find a job that will literally just let me sit down. I'm lucky enough to be able to be supported by my dad at the moment. But seriously, if I didn't have him I wouldn't be alive right now. There is no way that disabled people can take care of themselves and live in a society that requires you to work despite the fact that there is literally no need for everyone to work, let alone this much. I hate things like this so much because the solution to these problems are so easy if people and companies weren't so greedy and selfish and slothful. it's downright evil.
Work keeps us exhausted so we can't notice all the manipulation from the government and corporations
I dont know if this wil be of any use or anything but especially walmart cashiers are allowed to have accessibility accomodations and when i worked as a cashier we had several people that had that type of accomodation, its a standstill job and they recently increased their starting wages. It obviously varies from store to store but that's something that despite walmart being a dumb company will def try to accomodate because a lot of times, like you basically stated, there aren't many jobs that will be accomodating outside of them
So, if someone living under the poverty line is meant to "shop around" to find better wages... what happens to the position that person just left? The next person who takes the job is going to be in the same financial position as the person who just left it. So then they're supposed to "shop around" for better wages too until, what? They can't fill the position anymore, and they raise wages as an incentive to fill the position? Couldn't they just retain employees by paying a live-able wage? Everyone deserves a live-able wage and you shouldn't be running a business if you won't provide that for your employees. Paying employees a live-able wage should be worked into the cost assessment to run a business.
I used to be poor because my job at McDonald’s didn’t pay me enough but I just stopped sleeping and started going to my local library instead and now I am a billionaire doctor from reading books. It’s that easy
This makes me think of the Terry Pratchett quote explaining how it’s expensive to be poor:
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
So true
Middle class people can afford to shop sales. They have the money to wait a bit for something to go on sale. But if you’re living pay cheque to pay cheque, you sometimes need to buy stuff then ans there. Can’t buy in bulk or anything. So you buy stuff no on sale becuase you need it now
Poor economics is a good book that explains in more depth on why the poor have to make the financial decisions that they do, even if it seems illogical to someone who’s not poor.
1000% agree. Being poor is expensive.
Pratchett is based.
I love when people say shit like 'just find another job' when someone is complaining about how little they are payed. Do these people think that the job would stop existing after quitting it? That the person who will replace them will not get underpaid? Or that is justifiable that people are not paid enough to live a proper life?
as someone who does think that billionaires shouldn't exist, it's really not about the fact that they started a company that provides a lot of jobs or something. becoming a millionaire through working for it does happen imo (theres also nepotism happening in most of these cases though) if you're at the top of a very lucrative field (eg. lawyers or plastic surgeons or celebrities who get top billing) but i don't really think there's any way of getting to billionaire status without exploiting other people for their labour. a famous actor who gets paid like 20 million dollars for doing a role in a movie is completely different to someone like jeff bezos
sometimes i don't think ppl understand how much a billion is. it's a million million. not 100 million not 1000 million but 1000000000. that does not happen by working for it lol
@@eryn2883 uh no it's 1000 times a million
The actor is still very rich and should be taxed appropriately but yes they are a worker and don't make money by exploiting people. They are not employers but employees themselves which is not the case with most billionaires.
@@eryn2883 if you received a dollar every second it would take you about 11 days to reach a million, 31 years to get a billion, and 3405 years to reach the wealth of Bill Gates.
@@notyouraveragechicken8479 One could argue that although they don't exploit people themselves, their money is made from the exploitation of all the other employees of the media they work for (minor actors, technical crew, make-up artists, decor artists...) that are definitely not paid as much.
It's really easy to talk about how the system is fair when you're on the side benefiting from it. When you have the privilege to close your eyes, to turn away and be distracted by all your pretty shiny things, and tell yourself that you earned it.
“They get paid no matter what.”
I would rather eat a McFlurry machine than work at McDonald’s again.
I was treated with more dignity as a call girl than when I worked in retail.
@@sarahperkins6421 1000%
this is exactly what people so disconnected from the rest of the world say to themselves so they can sleep easier at night. “i worked for my money! 😡 i earned every cent! whoever can’t pay rent just doesn’t work hard like me 😌” it just feeds their ego and simultaneously reassures them that they have every right to hoard their money and not give back to their community
The "get paid no matter what" bit isn't even true. There's countless examples of businesses withholding pay for weeks, saying that they will give the paycheck and a bonus, if only an employee helps the business just a little bit, and then the business going under and those employees getting paid nothing for weeks or months of work. That was the reason that union commandeered a coal train a couple years ago.
And the worst part is, if a business does go under, the employees are pretty much the LAST people who get paid off of selling the businesses assets. If there's not enough because the business owner took out too much money in loans, guess what? You, as the employee "who hasn't taken on risk" and "gets paid no matter what" just got royally screwed.
He's argument against the guy that works for Disney is,
"You claim to be against exploitation when, in fact, you have most likely been exploited!"
... Yep.
Right? Shocker that someone who has been exploited would be against being exploited.
I am sure the millionaire has opinions on poor people that are not out of touch with reality and do not attempt to dehumanize them in any way. Everyone knows that if you are born with generational wealth that automatically makes you super smart and everyone should always listen to you......
Facts
i disagree. they have book smarts, not street smarts on what a average person goes through and how they go through it. its a certain.."thing" that people born wealthy will never have. and so we arent required to listed to them because they went to a prestige school, and we shouldnt.
@@thatssoari3533 I think op was being ironic but, besides that, yeah I agree with you :)
And we know these people who are handed daddy's money are super hard workers that are totally entitled to money they didn't earn.
Graham Stephan didnt have generational wealth. Or go to college.
I love how in the rich guys video he highlights the article where it says it was 10% stock, and not the line where it said 10% was 140 MILLION. He was clearly trying to minimize how much money he pulled out.
I'm glad that someone from the middle class understands how being lower class hurts. I am 19, have no family, and living paycheck to paycheck from McDonald's. I never had the opportunity to learn how to drive, so I have to walk everywhere. And I have mental health problems that go undiagnosed because I don't have insurance to go to a therapist or doctor. Being lower class, even if not born in it, is a very hard ditch to climb out of, but I have hope that I will, and know you will too
Sounds awful. It's sad that it's that bad for lower class, my prayers goes to you and i hope you get to climb out of it.
@@gladysarthur6543 Thank you. I think what would help the most is just mutual understanding from more people about the struggle, but most people don't respect or understand the lower class just because we don't get the same opportunities as people with more privilege and wealth.
@@AprilD693 yeah, i get it. I am not from lower class so i can't claim that i understand everything but it does seem worse and most people look down at them despite the fact that they would be nothing without their service. I have a lot of respect for you guys and i really hope that the system would change so that people who didn't start off rich would have more facilities and ways of having a comfortable life.
@@gladysarthur6543 Thank you ❤️
I'm sorry to hear this and I know how you feel. Im in similar situation but right now I consider myself more priveleged because im starting to get more financially stable. I know how tough it is and i Hope itll get better for you too :)
As someone who is currently poor I can assure literally everyone that it's not a choice
My parents are months behind rent
The only food we've had for years is eggs and ramen and maybe once a month, spaghetti or smth like that
My mom is supposed to be in a wheel chair so my dad is supporting our family of 6 and on top of that they're still working to get caught up on bills
My dad has a good job! It pays well, for a family of 1-3 maybe but its not enough to support all of us constantly
They owe me and my older sisters money as well because they're constantly borrowing. We have maybe 5-10 dollars to our name right now and if we could just CHOSE to be millionaires we would've done it by now but we literally can't and it's taken a major mental toll on all of us
i really hope everything works out for you :)
@@aislingbutler7669 I appreciate it, thank you :)
hope that gets better, I agree, it's always the people who have no idea what they're talking about who have ignorant opinions like that
@@xKIING_AGUSTx Thank you, and yes exactly. I completely agree
first of all, im really sorry. people that get rich out of nowhere think theyre so entitled to have these bs opinions when they constantly forget that there are REAL PEOPLE living in poverty. he couldnt imagine living with only eggs and ramen. because of that, he cant have an opinion on it and he still chooses to. i hope that everything works out for you, its so fucking stupid that people have to work that much for bare necessities and are still just scraping along; and then people still say its a choice to be poor. clearly its not if there are still that many people that are poor.
the idea that if people aren’t willing to give up their right to privacy or potentially the only real family they have (and a lot more that isn’t even mentioned) to live in a shelter that might be worse than their current living situation that they don’t deserve any other form of help and are choosing a hard life is so sickening to me. so many people will never be in a situation where they have to give up anything like that and will never fully realize the gravity it has on a person
Fun fact: apparently people are required to leave during the day at shelters. I heard this from a couple houseless folks I knew from Portland, OR so idk if it’s completely true around the board. But if it is it would make sense as to why folks wouldn’t want to subject themselves to that
As someone who has been homeless in multiple States I can guarantee you that that is the fact for every shelter. You don't live at a shelter, you get to stay there at night and there are extremely strict rules to be able to do so for every single one of them. For every shelter you have to be there between 7:00 p.m. if you're lucky and usually 9:00 p.m. and if you aren't at the door to the shelter by that exact time then you lose the bed for the night and you have to depending on the shelter either wake up at 7:00 and be out the door by 8:00 at a lenient shelter or at the vast majority of shelters you have a 5 to 6:00 a.m. wake up and then you have to be out the door at 7:00 a.m. and you can't store anything whatsoever so when you get to the shelter it's with everything that you own and when you leave in the morning it's with everything that you own and if you don't get out of the door by the exact time that they specify you won't be able to come back that night.
It's wild to me that people don't realize how shelters work and that they actually think that people get to stay there during the day because that is very much not the case ANYWHERE.
the problem is that some shelters are abusive, have unsafe living conditions, require money to enter every night, predators, etc
i remember a homeless man i met needed money just to stay at the local shelter for the night. and after a certain time he can’t get in. it’s so sad
"Jay-Z doesn't make the money he deserves on his records, but also he should make less and us executives should make more" brilliant and consistent argument mate
The "but they created jobs tho" argument might just be the most infuriating. For specifically the company that made the rockets, the majority of space research ever has been government-funded. If rich people paid more taxes, we could devote more money to space research. And then the research would be used for the public good instead of being held in private hands.
But taking the job creation thing more broadly, it's complete BS. They always describe companies creating jobs like it's a favor. Like it's charity they're doing out of the kindness of their heart. No! They create jobs because they need work to be done so they can make a profit. And it's especially bad with companies like Amazon because they kill jobs!
Listening to some people defend Amazon you'd think that no one ever shopped before Amazon came along. Stores existed before Amazon did. Those stores employed more people, paid them higher wages, and more of that money stayed within that particular community. Whenever Amazon kills one of those smaller stores, there's a net loss in the number of jobs, the salaries paid, and instead of staying in the community, the profits are funneled into Jeff Bezos' pocket.
Not to mention that if you're creating jobs, you'd better be creating jobs with wages that your employees can live off of. If you're paying less than that, you can fuck right off with your "job creation".
I've said this for a long time. The whole "cReAtInG jObS" argument is completely BS
I grew up very poor. I was homeless as a kid with my teenage mom at some points, living in shelters or staying at a family members house. People always say " get a job" or " you're just lazy" it's just not that simple. Try getting a job when no one wants to hire you because you don't have a phone, or a reliable mode of transportation, or your teeth are yellow because you didn't have hygiene products or even a bathroom to brush your teeth. I consider myself to still be very lucky though, because although I've never had a lot of money or materialistic items, my mother worked harder than any human being I've ever met. She put in blood sweat and tears as a young single mom of 2 with no outside help, and still does daily. If I ever hear someone say that being poor is a choice or that poor people are lazy I just get so flustered, life isn't fair to most and is never fair to the ones in the most need. But if you can learn to live without receiving then you will find inner piece. Find what makes you happy and try not to worry about the future. Love anyone who took the time to read this.❤️ Hope you have a wonderful day friends and always remember that you are loved.
i'm so glad you covered this and showed real emotion with it. because it's so tiring and painful to see people that self proclaim they have money doing everything they can to act like poor people don't deserve humanity.
my family has always been on the lower income range to straight up poor. my father left before i was born and my family was my mom, my grandma and me, a single child. my mother and grandmother ran their own window tinting and car cleaning business. they had no employees, and some years we didn't know if we'd have enough money to get by for the winter. my mother and grandma would work secondary cleaning jobs to keep us afloat. eventually, my alcoholic stepfather drained all our money and we lost the business. much of my early life was my family struggling. and what hurts so much is hearing how they talk about poor people, and i just see my mother. how she would work in 90 degree florida heat, tinting car windows, waxing cars, taking more jobs than she could really handle. knowing that if she didn't push herself, we might not have enough money for food. and she'd still smile at me, still find ways to let me feel like a kid when i was little. doing everything she could to make me happy and not realize just how bad things were. she worked hard labor her whole life, and eventually after we lost the business, she finally got a job working for call support. literally, it was the first time in 40 years she wasn't constantly hurting her back and tearing muscles.
in 2019 she passed away suddenly from a blood clot. she was fine one day and gone the next. my grandma lost her job shortly after (yes my grandma was still working in her 80's) i'm now the only person looking after my grandma. my uncle, i guess you could say is a 'rich' person. however, he doesn't live in the same state, he doesn't provide for us. hell. he hasn't even offered to help with my mom's funeral. its been 3 years and i still haven't been able to set anything up for my mom, my best friend. and currently i'm trying to get my name on the deed for the house i've lived in my entire life. a house my mom and i redid, a house i pay the bills on. because my uncle things when my grandma passes away that i'm "better off not in a house by yourself" all i can really do is plea and try to get something signed in my name. because i don't have the money to fight. and perspectives like what this video show are the type that are exactly why my uncle things i'm better off not having an actual home anymore.
right now i have a stable job, it drains me, it's not my passion, but i don't get a choice to look around for something else. i am my family's only income, if i make a bad decision it will be my fault and i'll have to live with it. i can't pursue career goals that require me to take even part time schooling because where am i going to get the time when i work 8 hours shifts 5 days out of the week. i can't tell what would be a good decision, and if something happens suddenly to my grandma, i have no one else. my uncle may be my godfather, but there is no assurance he wont use the power he has over my house to just sell it out from under me and leave me alone. he barely knows me. i have to constantly keep the worst possibilities in the back of my head. i don't get to start a business or make a risky move. my car breaking down, or my grandma taking ill could take all the money i've saved up in an instant.
when you're poor, you have to fight tooth and nail for everything you have. and even when things are starting to get better, something devastating can happen and all of what you've done is reversed in an instant. and i know how even through the worst, we kept ourselves smiling. when we'd evacuate for a hurricane, my mom would treat it like a road trip. we always kept joy in each other. and by god, you have no idea how much i wish i could have done more for her before she died. she was 54 years old and i was 24 when it it happened. she had so many plans for when things started to get better, i wish i could have been able to give her a better life. she tried everything she could to make mine better.
people out there struggling, they deserve so much better. these are people that do everything they can to make their lives and their family's lives as good as they can, and at every instant they're shoved back to the ground and belittled. by people that have never had to comfort their mother as she cries and tells you that she doesn't know what to do anymore. it hurts to see people with not an ounce of empathy cause even more hurt to people, never giving a second thought to what struggles they might actually face.
I am so sorry for your loss. I cannot even imagine. Losing your mother is absolutely devastating. I don’t know you, but from your comment, you sound like an incredibly strong person. Shit fucking sucks and it is unfair. I hope you can find a good support system
@@annapruitt5546 i appreciate the kinds words. i didn't think anyone would take the time to read my venting honestly.
thankfully i have some really good friends. so even though i can't rely rely on what's left of my family, i know people care about me. it's painful, but i try my best to remember the kindness and good my mom did and try to live that way. try to just live day by day and hope for the future.
The reason I didn't go into a homeless shelter and how my family used all our money to afford a tent and hotel is because of the chances of being raped. Even if it's an all women / all men area, there's a large chance. I have a female body (sadly HELP) and my mom and stuff, and my dad would most likely never be there as he needs to work. I don't want to worry about someone hurting me. We'd rather be alone than be hurt.
its unfortunate that the system allows for this. no one should ever have to choose. i hope you and your family are doing better ❤️
So sad, I’m sorry you had to worry about this
wow, are shelters particularly dangerous in that way? This is a genuine question, not a gotcha: what makes a shelter more dangerous than being in the tent by yourselves?
@@SM-yz4hi never been to a shelter so I just going off other information, but I think since many of the workers are volunteers, so it is understaffed and overworked, that things get overlocked very quickly. Plus predators going to places were vulnerable people are concentrated in.
@@LakinMae5 isnt sex trafficing a big problem because of that. If they know that you dont have money and no support net, they are way more likely to go for you. I can understand that you would rather take the slight chance of someone hurting you, opposed to walking into the lions den on your own
The comments about the shelters is SO upsetting. Those restrictions and rules may SEVERELY impact the opportunities that homeless talent can take- and they also spend SO MUCH time trying to get in line to even potentially get a bed that it takes up a lot of their life. The amount of empathy and compassion is just disappointing.
Fr, also I feel like it would be difficult to get information on whether or not its worth it if you're homeless. It's a risk people wouldn't want to take when they feel like it won't do them as much good as doing whatever they were doing before. of course I don't know much about the situation or rules so i could be completely wrong. Either way, the fact that we have a system that can put people out of homes is horrible and rich people aren't helping at all
You can’t become a billionaire without having a lot of employees whose surplus value you can steal. There are no self-made billionaires, only billionaires who either exploited their workers or came from a family who did so.
I was poor as a kid, like literally we lived in a motel, and we had weeks where me and mom would split a dollar burger, she would give me the meat and cheese while she just ate the bread. My mom didn’t get us out from under the poverty line til I hit like middle school. It wasn’t a choice for us, we had to fight to get where we’re at now (not middle class yet but trying to get there)
Yeah being poor actually is a choice, it was in the Terms and Conditions for life, but nobody reads ToS so we all just agreed to it.
2-year olds can't choose to be poor.
@@lifeiswonderful22 They're being sarcastic.
@@ToruKun1 I couldn't tell. Not like I was saying anything false, and there are countless people that don't acknowledge that fact.
wait... u might be onto something 🤔
Not to mention that nowadays even if you go to college and get a degree it doesn't guarantee that you'll be employed. "Entry level" jobs require like 4+ years of experience. ENTRY LEVEL. And whenever someone brings that up people reply "well there are internships" or "you should've networked better in college" but most internships aren't paid and networking still doesn't guarantee a job.
Dude the whole acting like that guy working for Disney is hypocritical thing is insane! I mean I’m trying to not work for companies I have ethical problems with - I sincerely am, but it’s proving pretty difficult considering the fact that all of them have ethical problems - it’s almost like the problems with worker treatment is a societal-wide, systemic problem in our country.
And the fact that our country actually does have it so much better than most is baffling
@@ZachPlum it is tragic.
Some people truly do not understand poverty, but they’re full enough of themselves to convince themselves that it really is just everyone else who doesn’t have the determination or brains to get rich.
My mother works 60 hrs a week to barely make ends meet. My sister and I were counting on an education that we could do without issue. I have autism and public school is literal hell on earth. On the flip side I *also* have ADHD that makes online school extremely difficult. We were counting on this homeschool situation/program to help us get a quality education, but we cant afford it. I have to now, take dash three classes and only get my GED. No college or uni. We have no other money makers in the house, and our government says that I am not allowed to help. We are in debt because we had to take my deadbeat (and mentally unstable and unsafe to be around) father to court. We are in debt because my ex abusive stepdad (who was once rich as fuck) put a lot of debt from *his company* onto my moms personal bank account. We can't take him to court because 1) we dont have the money to do so 2) he has threatened to ruin our lives even further 3) he has proven time and time again that he is capable and *willing* to physically harm us. My mom grew up even poorer than we are now. We live in a 720sqft house, which is pretty good considering everything. We aren't the poorest we have been, we also arent the poorest we can be, but there are times where we are told we cant buy groceries. There are times where mom doesnt get home until like 7 or 8 at night because shes working so much. I am fairly privileged, but I still wonder sometimes when the next time we'll be drained of money and have to stick to eating ramen packs. I wonder when the next grocery trip we skip out on. I wonder when the next time i can buy myself clothes that fit me. We are in debt because of a system that disadvantaged us from the start.
I hope things get better. So sorry you had to go through all this
Using the shelters as an example of "people choose to be poor" it's ridiculous. Shelters don't allow animals nor drugs. Homeless people who have addictions are obviously NOT leaving their addiction out of the blue even if it's for a better life, that's not how it works. If it was, addiction wouldnt be such a hard topic to go around and find ways out. And second, a lot of homeless people are very lonely and only have PETS as company and usually they are their only family. And these are two things that you can find in a 5 min research, imagine how much more you can find about it in more than 5. So I repeat once more, using shelters as an example in this topic is extremely low and ridiculous.
Also withdraws are dangerous and possible even deadly for some. And it’s not like they can go into treatment to quit cause that would cost money they don’t have. Homeless shelters are just a way to look down on homeless people and make people think being homeless is a “choice”
@@bucketonfoot yeahh, people are just so ignorant for trying to say shelters are good
They Should Create Harm Reduction Shelters Where They Have A Needle Exchange & On Site Paramedics & Pass Out Narcan & Leaflets/Flyers That Teach You How To Use Safely, Has Links & Phone Numbers To Rehab Facilities As Well As Resource Centers/Hotlines/Temporary/Permanent Housing Referrals & Vouchers, Etc. I Feel Like Everywhere Needs To Follow Suit Behind Seattle, WA (Or Like The Entire State Of OR & Decriminalize All Drvgs) & Implement The LEAD Program That They've Implemented There. I Recommend Watching 'Chasing Hero¡n' Here On CZcams. If You Skip To Around The Hour Mark-It'll Give You A Decent Amount Of Info In Regards To How The Program Works, How They Began It's Implementation, The Results/Progress Of Their Efforts & Compassion Based Policing (Less Recidivism, More People STAYING Clean, Less Villification/Ostracization Of Users/Addicts By Humanizing A Populous That Have Already Had Hard Enough Lives As Is, Etc.)
@@septimaserpent Why Do People Capitalize Every Word It's Actively More Annoying To Press Shift Every Few Letters
@@ZachPlum There's A Multitude Of Reasons. 1. I Like The Aesthetic 2. For Emphasis/It's An Attention Grabber 3. People Whilst On The Internet Tend To Have Varieties Of Different Typing Styles To Suit Their Preference; Some Majority Of The Time Type/Present Using Slang (AKA "Wass goodie b"), Some Type Lazily (AKA "Wat r u doin'") Some Type Using Acronyms (AKA "WYD") & My Typing Preference Is Capitalizing The First Letter Of Every Word. Besides The Aforementioned Reasons, Some People Really Get All Up In Their Feelings Like Hella Butthurt Over The Way I Choose To Type & The Fact That I Have So Much Power/Control Over Someone's Emotional State Without Even Having To Address Them Whatsoever Makes Me Kinda Giddy Inside...+ I've Had Numerous Times In The Past Where People Have Attempted Sending Messages/Writing Status Updates Posing As Me; & Due To The Way I Type; It Was A Dead Giveaway Every Time That I Wasn't Responsible For Writing Said Message/Post; It's Basically A Signature That I Use For A Wide Variety Of Reasons.😬 There's An Explanation For Ya; Hope It Helps Offer Some Insight Into The Motives Behind My Mannerisms/Method Of Manuevering🥳.
After college I was stuck in a minimum wage job for nearly 4 years, living with my parents and still struggling living paycheck to paycheck due to crippling student debt. I am lucky enough that I was able to move to New Zealand on a partnership visa and become a permanent resident here. After 4 years outside of the States I have made more progress in my career than I ever would have been able to living in America. There are definitely problems here as well, but I have had so much more freedom and opportunity here than I ever did before moving thanks to a far healthier wage and workplace culture. It's not perfect, but so far ahead of what it is in the States. I could rant for ages on what I've learned having a new perspective on the way things are run here vs there. It's very hard to see while you are living in America and that's all you've known your whole life. Living and working somewhere new has been incredibly eye-opening.
“You have to provide immense value to the planet to be a billionaire”
Quick someone find a montage of Amazon workers having to pee in water bottles bc they weren’t allowed to take restroom breaks during their deliveries
Just because someone like Jeff Bezos can't sell all of his stock without making it worthless, doesn't mean that doesn't provide value to him. If you have a crazy high net worth you can use it as leverage to get loans, and banks don't tend to worry about if a billionare can pay them back on a massive loan (yet another thing that rich people can do easily but poor people basically can't do).
So that stock argument is dumb and pointless even if we assume the stock market system is perfect.
None of that is an argument against stock compensation, if you're against people taking out loans against their own assets then go campaign against that instead of just saying the same lies about the stock market over and over again.
!!! This answer. This one RIGHT here.
@Bankrupt Fraud I don't care if you think taking out loans against assets is good or not, I'm just saying that there are other ways to leverage net worth in stocks that don't devalue the market price.
People will really look at Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk living in mansions, driving luxury cars, buying yachts, going to space and then say "Yeah well it's all on paper, bro so it's not real. Their salary's only $80k."
Technically if you have stocks for over a year, and pull out specific smaller amounts you don't have to pay taxes on it. So they definitely could sell without making it worthless, it would just take years to do
I'm only 12 minutes in but it's kind of upsetting that one rich girl looked all upset when they were saying its not homeless peoples fault for being homeless. ??? she was rolling her eyes. its so disrespectful, you are RICH. sit down lord
"how can we tax people on their unsold property?! It's not cash it's assets! You don't understand economics!"
So I don't have to pay taxes on my home until I sell it? Sick
"Billionaires have to risk bankruptcy"
...oh you mean like every time an average person discovers they have a health issue
Yeah absolutely the billionaires are providing the value for the woeld, not the people who work at the company. Without a billionaire CEO how would the poor workers know how to do the jobs that the CEO personally trains each of them in
Idk what ur talking about, I was told that Jeff bezos personally ran laps around the Amazon factory to get my order ready this morning
@@narutoxinwen2005 well i guess i take it back!! My bad!! What a guy!!
ya the ceo of walmart flew in to help the cashier return my order
damn the guy who personally trains CEOs must be rich af
so does the guy that trained him
wait, does that mean the world economy is a pyramid scheme?
Did the man who invented college go to college
bro this dude's voice is literally nick's mocking voice
People who have never lived paycheck to paycheck don't understand the mental toll it takes on people. It literally changes your brain and makes long term thinking and planning more difficult. It's not just about the things afford in terms of money, it's about being trapped in a stress cycle in which you're always thinking about the immediate problem at hand, and trying to recuperate some mental and emotional energy before the next one pops up.
I considered myself a fan of graham's videos for a while back in 2019ish... he used to make videos about financial literacy for millennials and building credit for ppl who have absolutely no model for what good credit or money management/investment looks like. I know for a fact that he is one of those self-made millionaires... by being a landlord and real estate flipper. (read: landlordship as the last vestige of feudal society, the most explicit form of the poor being indebted to the rich by simply living.) watching this vid after not having watched his videos for a long time, he's TOTALLY fallen off. when will millionaires realize that they're closer to poverty than a billionaire?????? this is crazy. It's like having an uncountable amount of money makes your propensity for compassion plummet
I learned a lot about credit through him but I have not seen his content in years. Billionaire simping? Bruh!
@@davidpachecogarcia dude same ... I used to like his shit because no one else in my life showed me the importance of building credit early and to see him bootlick bezos is crazy but not totally unexpected
summer 2021: i applied for every job i could find from april to september. i got one interview. i didn't get the job. during that time i had £200 to live on. i went without eating for days. i foraged for food. bezos could have given me £1000 easily and i could have eaten every day. that's the difference.
Only 1000£? Homeboy could give you like 10 million pounds and he would still be perfectly fine
i literally have the worst possible insurance in my area and got my braces WITH those rubber bands for free because my insurance thankfully covered it. why does this guy think only rich people can get braces LMAO
He said it so judgmentally too like the fact that health care and dental care especially is so expensive and difficult to access. His response feels like he agrees that dental care should be expensive and hard to access, like only rich people should be able to get braces and poor people don’t deserve it and can’t get it
Most (if not all) homeless shelters require people to be drug free. Which is a huge problem because some homeless people are addicted to drugs and have a physical dependency on them, meaning they could literally die from withdrawals
So it’s a lose lose for homeless people, they would have to risk their life and go into painful withdrawals, or if they go to the hospital they would have to pay up money they don’t have to get treatment.
main reason i think rehab should be free or unable to refuse people. they need way more funding to be able to do so
The only way we financially survived the pandemic in 2020 was because I had cancer in 2019 and had disability pay. Idk what we would have done without that monthly income. How sad to be grateful for cancer because it meant my family could survive.
There was a time where my mom was working 3 jobs and we still barely got by. You can't say wealth is hard work
David is a KING! He gets shit on by people who are just arrogant and want to feel superior, and David ALWAYS backs his point with super smart arguments and doesn’t let them affect his opinion and views. S tier guy! Also it’s super disgusting to judge people with poor backgrounds for the jobs they are having, because A LOT of the times people cannot choose what job they are doing, they just have to accept any job to survive…
I like that the guy giving the commentary provided more context for why people in L.A. don't like the shelter. It's not about "wanting to live in tents" the shelter has a lot of strict rules that are hard for many people to follow. Which is why the solution to homelessness is to build houses and give them to people for free rather than building shelters. It's actually cheaper to do too!
If 70% of students in a program are “underperforming”, and only 1% of students are “wildly successful”, is that an issue with the program or the students ?
I know people that work 2 or 3 jobs and are still poor, so it's definitely not that poor people don't work as hard 🙄
This! Rich people, especially billionaires, aren’t just rich because they work hard. They’re rich because they exploit others and aren’t morally against doing so.
I don’t even get the argument… billionaires are just providing so much value by letting the peasants work a third of their life to provide the entire source of said billionaires income? Like, saying “I will let 1000 people work 40 hours a week to produce a product that I will then keep the majority of the profits from selling”.
33:21 “if you don’t like your job, get a better paying one”
Last July I found myself jobless after a year and some months of working my first job.
I had the resource to go stay with my parents, RENT FREE, to get back to a new job, where they pay me more and I am much happier.
So many people don’t have parents or a free place they can stay while they figure things out.
If my mom hadn’t been there, I’d probably have been working at McDonalds until I could afford to even try finding other work.
However, that being said… if you DO have the resources to not accept a shitty wage, please try finding work where you’re valued. I currently make a LOT more money than I did at my first job and all it took was me finding my place. And actually, despite COVID, MORE places have been hiring. Because less of us are willing to accept a shit wage for shit work with shit customers.
If you’re struggling and looking for something not too hard, not boring, I recommend going into the car wash industry. It is BOOMING and you can make tips plus commission depending on the company you work for!
I love how he says Jeff Bezos is helping the planet when he's litterally harming the planet
it irritates me when people say "millionaires worked hard for their money" like, yeah, maybe they do work a lot, but in the end all that money comes manly from exploitation
How so? People become rich in a lot of different ways, that's a pretty blanket statement to make.
@@mutantchiki3988 I'm generally talking about millionaires here, huge company CEOs. one of the reasons they thrive is that their products have low production costs - and why's that? overworked, underpaid employees in vulnerable positions
@@mutantchiki3988 It is a blanket statement to make. And it's true.
@@ZachPlum it isn’t, hence the term blanket statement. How do *all* millionaires get their money from exploitation? Explain every single millionaire of this "true" blanket statement. If you want to say most, fine. Saying all is an untrue statement.
@@lenvesa yes, workers are often underpaid! In those situations, it is absolutely gained from exploitation.
This guy definitely says he's an alpha.
Except he doesnt
Nah an omega
I love how he says these people get paid no matter what when if a company goes bankrupt regular employees are like the last people to be paid.
"If billionares make that money on their own..."
Yeah, that's the thing: they don't make it "on their own" but from work of others.
19:58 beat me to it.
One of my ex’s friends worked at a Amazon shipping center in our area during the 3rd shift to get as much money as possible. He told us it was the worst job he’s ever had. He said his supervisor was like a drill sergeant and The turnover rate was like 4 weeks minimum. If you took a break and were a min late coming back they would dock an entire hour so that’s why most people would just pee in bottles or wear diapers so to not even risk getting docked their time. He eventually would just leave Bc if he’s not on the clock for that hour, he’s not going to stay. I think he lasted like 3 months there. He would hang out with us after work a couple times just completely shattered.
Just as you said I don't usually argue with these kinds of people because I assume I don't know better, thank you for addressing this kind of issue. I feel like I deserve to stick up for myself and others struggling.
I’ve been homeless before and it definitely was NOT a choice. Me and my boyfriend tried everything to get money or find a job and we were always looking for places to rent that we might be able to afford
I actually really appreciate the transparency about your rant, especially as someone who recently started a CZcams premium membership. I work from home and have CZcams on all day in the background so it's reassuring to know yall are actually benefiting from me not watching ads haha
As a poverty baby adolescent and teenager I'm probably gonna be in that 50 percent, and God damnit if I could change it I would but we have severe disabilities and I genuinely can't ever see us growing with them as a family. Rich people make me so mad like. Ugh. Just no words. Some people have never genuinely feared starving to death and it shows
WAIT… so you’re telling me… if I want to be rich… I just need a new job???? Who would’ve THOUGHT. God this video made me so angry. Also no rich person became rich ethically.
grew up paycheck to paycheck ( my dad was in the military and they paid like garbage and he was never around ) and lived paycheck to paycheck all my adult life working for Apple , doing IT stuff and dealing with epilepsy without insurance, which is extremely hard and basically a burden on everyone around me everywhere I go.
Had a seizure in the shower a few years ago and shattered my L3, money is the only reason I haven't had surgery or even been able to consult with a neurosurgeon meanwhile, i'm losing feeling in my legs.
All because of money~
Being a former homeless person for a few years when I was younger. I don't feel anyone who is well off should talk about what they assume it means to be homeless unless they are discussing ways to fix the issue. And yes, homeless people prefer to live on the streets free and open to do as they please than feeling like you are being regulated the government that put you in that situation in the first place. Kindness, some hot food, and helping them find feasible jobs goes a long way for the homeless. Trust me, it helped me! It has also worked well for many people I too have helped out along the way because of being in that situation before. Solving homelessness on a large scale really is more complicated. I don't understand why people assume there is an easy button to solve it. That just shows the lack of understanding and experience from many people with a lot of money.
Ahaha! This video, which I have watched in its entirety, was a very entertaining piece of media!
so true bestie
What perfectly normal human comment.
Very true !
this!
@@sourgreendolly7685 ohoho! I’ve read this comment in its entirety, was a very entertaining piece of media!
Sad to say that I've watched this guy's videos (I was shopping for credit cards and his video was recommended) and I regret even giving him my one view
It's insane how people like this actually exist and I thought from the beginning that MAYBE he is speaking from a place of ignorance, since he did say some stuff I agreed with, but damn it went down real quick after that Billionaire question
Sadly, I also gave him views when researching my first credit card. I really hate him now
Felt bad for him being beat up by Michael Reeves but then I remember he's a capitalist... it doesn't feel that bad anymore
that millionaire is right, if i just worked hard enough, i'd be able to pull myself out of poverty! i haven't been able to hold a job, not because my disabilities make it impossible to do the work required by the only jobs that'll hire me, but because i'm not working _hard_ enough! i just have to push past my _laziness_ and grind until i don't make minimum wage anymore! maybe then i wouldn't be over $400 in debt despite only being 22... it all makes sense now!
If you’re poor just don’t be. Its so simple I chose last year to throw out all my mental illnesses, systematic oppression, stopped eating etc. now I’m a trillionare! Y’all are just lazy and so entitled to think you should eat, have basic necessities and not spend 24 hours a day at a job 🙄🤚
17:10 It bothers me so much how people think money just poofs into existence through the stock market and nfts. Like no, any time you make money, someone else is losing an equal amount of money.
I grew up really poor due to a divorced household, and throughout my entire childhood I was told I would need to work really hard to have a better life. I’m now a senior in college and I have the worst anxiety surrounding money. I only spend money on rent, and I have anxiety attacks and major guilt when I spend money on anything for myself (no matter how small). The worst thing about my experience is the fact that so many people have it way worse than me. So yeah, I think billionaires are kinda unnecessary and should have a cap on how much money they can acquire, and we should have some policy that helps distribute wealth (even if it just helps fund school lunches/supplies or even daycare so parents can work)
I've lived my entire life paycheck to paycheck, from childhood to today living on my own, by my own resources. And even if I see a negative bank balance almost every month the week before my next paycheck, I still never considered myself truly poor. I always had a place to live, never had to live without food for more than a couple days, never found myself homeless (except for once, but that's only because the housing market really sucked when I was apartment hunting). I have pets, I have utilities, a car, and a stable job. That being said, I wish more than anything that I could afford to build a savings, so I could buy a house and not have to worry about the price tags when I go out to eat. This society isn't really set up well to help people who are struggling to ever get comfortable.
Also, studies have shown that the lower-middle and poverty-stricken social-economic classes experience more stress, anxiety, depression, work injury risks, and suicidal tendencies than middle and higher classes, simply because they are so worried about putting food on the table and keeping the lights on. Every day, ALL THE TIME. They are stuck in jobs that they hate because they pay the bills, and they don't have the money to get a suit to interview somewhere higher, or to go back to school, or to start up their own businesses.
People have told me "it's simple- invest!" First of all, I don't understand investments and could lose what little savings I have, and secondly, INVEST WITH WHAT MONEY?! No savings, remember???
This has been an essay on the plights of the lower classes, and how capitalism harms US citizens more than it helps. Read my book (I don't have a book)
David is 100% in debt for his braces.
The way this guy talks sounds exactly like how nick mocks people I’m crying
This is insane. I saw that Jubilee myself a few months ago and I was like "I wonder who reacted to this" because it was so crazy. So I looked up reactions and I found Graham Stephen's video. I saw it, got rlly upset and thought "wow, Nick would make a great video about this guy". Imagine my shock when I see that Nick actually reacted to this exact video. Great content btw Nick :)
thank you for hammering home that wage exploitation and all the evil shit capitalism does is not complicated and it's straightforward and obvious if you show even a smidge of empathy. you're very unforgiving to assholes and i really like that about you and your content! great video as always.
Graham is a landlord and a real estate investor -- the worst of the worst kind of rich leech -- if you're wondering where most of his money comes from.
Oh wow..
color me surprised and shocked.
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