The Myth of Philanthropy: Why Billionaires Won’t Save Us

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  • čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
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    What started with the notion of lending a helping hand, charitable work is no longer at the core of philanthropy in today’s world. Tax evasion and personal political gains have tainted the hands of the world’s wealthiest givers, causing a huge wealth gap that only seems to be growing, creating an ever-expanding rift between social classes. But what exactly happened? How did we turn that amazing feeling you get giving money away to charity into a corrupt scheme for billionaires and large corporations?
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  • @elio7610
    @elio7610 Před 2 lety +200

    i am glad to see these issues brought up, more people need to be informed of this stuff so it does not go unnoticed.

    • @maot6069
      @maot6069 Před 2 lety +2

      You should check out Second thought: he has already talked about this problem and many more. Trust me, join our side and make the world a better place

    • @maot6069
      @maot6069 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Victor-xw3ws Well, for starters, it was brought up how those who have the most means don't contribute to the public welfare as much as they could and should. Secondly, these billionaires act basically as polititian, except they haven't been elected and can therefore ignore our needs without renouncing to their power. Furthermore, in the specific case of them actually giving money to charity (and not "doing" so to evade taxes), they are basically deciding who is worth of support and who is not. And they're undermining the very society we live in in the process. HERE'S what's wrong.
      Post Scriptum: they didn't earn their wealth with their labour, but by inheriting and by exploiting.

    • @maot6069
      @maot6069 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Victor-xw3ws well, when you'll be able to become a millionaire with your own work (and not of those slaving under you), your argument will have a point. Furthermore, yes, inherintance should be heavily taxed, since your only merit would be being born in a wealthy family, and that's unfair towards those better than you but with less means. But hey, if you're from the USA, I can see how scared you are towards progress (and also the party you voted for)

  • @JakeSulinjr
    @JakeSulinjr Před 2 lety +179

    As horrible as most of this video's implications were, thank God we have intelligent young people like you that can and do use their platforms to uncover these practices. Best wishes!

    • @jaidenleary5441
      @jaidenleary5441 Před 2 lety +1

      What? Like capitalism sucks lmao

    • @aelinwhitehorn3526
      @aelinwhitehorn3526 Před rokem

      @@jaidenleary5441why do u say that? what's a better alternative, communism?

    • @user-ko5nt4ym2l
      @user-ko5nt4ym2l Před rokem +1

      @@aelinwhitehorn3526 Yes, communism as it is defined by Marx would be a much, much better alternative. It is not easy to achieve though, then again nothing worthwhile is.

    • @aelinwhitehorn3526
      @aelinwhitehorn3526 Před rokem

      @@user-ko5nt4ym2l Not really, the way Marx describes it (no personal property, no government, no class divisions) all would lead to a Purge like world where there would be no laws and everything would be chaos. Humans as a species like to be controlled, and they like (I say they as if I am not a human so excuse that) predictability to some degree so even though we may not agree with our leaders (I am only including leaders with a sound belief in democracy no authoritarian figures), I would say that there is a certain comfort in knowing the government that has control of the country allows most people to sleep soundly at night. I'm not saying that the world is perfect but I would say we definitely are much better off than 50 years ago. Furthermore, I feel the notion of personal property would just lead to violence and thievery and if an example of public property is going to be used as a counter argument, the majority of the time that is only maintained because people pay tax allowing for it to be maintained. If there was not a government or a tax system (a Marxist communist system) then we would most likely not have much as there would be no control of resources etc. Also I really appreciate how you raised your point in a very civil manner.

  • @Nitephall
    @Nitephall Před 2 lety +85

    Several years ago in Salt Lake City, Utah, a bill came up for public vote that would require everyone in every city in the Salt Lake Valley to pay a tax increase that would help the rich people on the east side send their kids to private schools. It failed miserably. I couldn't believe that such a thing ever came up for public vote. It should never have been considered. Why the hell should I pay a tax to help someone who makes a lot more money than I do send their kids to a private school? It's ridiculous, but this is the country we live in.

    • @Iron-Bridge
      @Iron-Bridge Před 2 lety +10

      That is jaw dropping. Would expect that sort of thing in some corrupt backwater nation not the US. And I'm not American.

    • @merma9042
      @merma9042 Před 2 lety +4

      @@Iron-Bridge The corruption here runs deep

    • @storieswithwes
      @storieswithwes Před 2 lety +2

      I remember that, nice to see another Utahn though lol

    • @Alex_1729
      @Alex_1729 Před 2 lety

      Why? Because you're the tax payers, and you guys pay for almost everything there is.

    • @baroquesham
      @baroquesham Před 2 lety

      yeah. you just made that up, and people actually believe it. lol

  • @ultraviolet7838
    @ultraviolet7838 Před 2 lety +53

    Philanthropy doesn’t solve problems as much as we’d like it to. In practice, billionaires use it as a tax loophole, a PR stunt, and (assuming they donated to an actual charity) a way to undercut the charity’s true mission. The truth is solving problems isn’t always beneficial to the ultra-rich. If poverty ended today, there would be no workers for them to exploit. It’s also true that some of the people branding themselves as “solutions” are also part of the problem (think Jeff Bezos).
    I recommend checking out Second Thought’s video on this topic.

    • @AndWilly
      @AndWilly Před 2 lety +2

      Taxing those billionaires is what can solve the problem. Given the government also uses that to fund healthcare, social services, housing, mental health, infrastructure..etc. so maybe not even that solves anything.

  • @self-inflictedphilosophy
    @self-inflictedphilosophy Před 2 lety +410

    “We don’t need another Forbes Five Hundred List of the wealthiest people in the world; we need a Forbes Five Hundred List of those who give away the most money.” ~Ted Turner

    • @dontcheckmychannel5882
      @dontcheckmychannel5882 Před 2 lety +13

      Forbes - we don't do that here

    • @supersaiyajin5944
      @supersaiyajin5944 Před 2 lety +18

      We need people who invent and create something useful for humanity, giving away money won't change anything

    • @supersaiyajin5944
      @supersaiyajin5944 Před 2 lety +6

      And that's exactly what most of the wealthiest do

    • @davidrtrains
      @davidrtrains Před 2 lety +6

      @@supersaiyajin5944 thank you. Most people don't realize it's not even remotely close to being that simple. I'm just as dumb as the next person, it's just that most people saying shit like that don't actually care about objective truth. And they're probably the same people who wouldn't give in any form of significant charity if they were blessed with that kind of wealth.

    • @maxwellr.a.harkonenn8317
      @maxwellr.a.harkonenn8317 Před 2 lety +3

      that's the most pathetic quote I've ever read

  • @93Centinela
    @93Centinela Před 2 lety +70

    Phenomenal topic, phenomenal video. Absolutely great work, as always.

  • @Astr.o
    @Astr.o Před 2 lety +122

    Its sad because there is an extremely small chance that these loopholes will change. The people who made them and their descendants are/were the rich, so why would they close something that benefits them? Definitely not out of the goodness of their heart, because 99% of the time, people get rich off the backs of the working class by exploiting them in inhumane conditions and paying them as little as possible, if at all.
    And their children are being born into wealth, so its very unlikely that they'll do anything because they will know wealth, and won't want to give that up. The children will repeat the cycle, and so will their own because they don't know how it feels to be exploited and lied to for someone else's benefits.
    They just know that money = power, and to get money, you need the working class to work as much as possible for you, even if it means causing them harm.

    • @owengonzales53
      @owengonzales53 Před 2 lety +5

      You’re right but the good news is that the current system can’t last forever. We’re destroying the planet in the process. So something will have to change but who knows what that change will look like

    • @Alex_1729
      @Alex_1729 Před 2 lety

      As Warren Buffett said: "we (the rich) are winning". If he said it, then it probably is true and it won't change any time soon. I think the only way to change is to have the discord in the rich world, and have them wage war against each other. We (the public) can't do those changes other than improve the education system (which in US is terrible - besides universities), and have the public educated on critical thinking. Only then do you guys have a chance (and by extension, my country as well)

    • @Sabeximus
      @Sabeximus Před 2 lety +3

      Indeed. It would require a total destruction of the current economic system and a revolution. The bad thing is, that nobody knows how that would turn out. We could accidentally just collapse the whole society, just like all the ancient and historical civilizations have collapsed in the past. I think we are truly living in a crucial time period, and we might actually be quite close to the collapse of our civilization. For example, our current situation is not that far from Ancient Rome's final moments; it too fell partly because of the huge inflation and the wealth gap between the rich and the poor, as well as over-reliance on slaves. We have those too as well, in today's world. Most of our economies today are based on cheap stuff manufactured in third world countries, and if those ever decide to just stop doing that, our first world societies would very quickly crumble to pieces. One other problem with Ancient Rome was governmental corruption, and the USA is a great example of that how the rich can run the government today as well.

    • @owengonzales53
      @owengonzales53 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Sabeximus I think of this quite often as well and it’s definitely worrying. But the flip side is that it’s also really exciting! I feel like now we have a better chance than anyone’s had in the last 400 years to create something better. Things will probably get worse before they get better but it’s a comforting and exciting thought that the world economic system will likely be very different in 50-100 years

    • @Sabeximus
      @Sabeximus Před 2 lety +2

      @@owengonzales53 Yes, I try to be hopeful as well. And I just hope that at the brink on collapse, someone (most likely in a position of power afraid to lose that power) does not decide to also bring down the whole world with them by doing something extremely stupid, like starting a nuclear war. But I choose to be hopeful, and wish that the collapse won't be too sudden so that it can remain mostly peaceful.

  • @SC-fk9nc
    @SC-fk9nc Před 2 lety +73

    These DAF loopholes (including lack of transparency) are absolutely disgusting, another example of political corruption and supreme mediocrity of human behaviour.
    Thanks for highlighting these facts

  • @Shane39
    @Shane39 Před 2 lety +23

    Donations and purchase of "art" are one of the most obvious way for rich to keep getting richer without any consequences whatsoever. If only government had a backbone.

    • @Pattypink13
      @Pattypink13 Před 2 lety +6

      Government are as guilty. They are on their side. Not ours.

    • @Shane39
      @Shane39 Před 2 lety +8

      @@Pattypink13 They are the government

    • @Pattypink13
      @Pattypink13 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Shane39 to be honest, you're right on that, sadly.

    • @baroquesham
      @baroquesham Před 2 lety

      “ getting richer without any consequence” ???? When did making money become a crime?

    • @Shane39
      @Shane39 Před 2 lety

      @@baroquesham money making isn't crime but money laundering is

  • @MichaelMM
    @MichaelMM Před 2 lety +21

    I like how you give a sort of back story to something for people to understand before explaining your video. Thats really cool. I like your videos.

  • @pransharma680
    @pransharma680 Před 2 lety +19

    Dude literally exposed billionaires!
    Hats off🖖

  • @chrismuratore4451
    @chrismuratore4451 Před 2 lety +16

    Money is just a tool. Like all other tools humans have used, eventually, we evolve beyond it and adapt to newer tools. We are living through the transitional period where humans evolve beyond money.
    Whether the division among us allows us to survive...

    • @stealthslide2723
      @stealthslide2723 Před 2 lety +1

      We have already evolved beyond it. Welcome to CREDIT.

    • @baroquesham
      @baroquesham Před 2 lety

      It's not a tool. It's a mean of exchange. right now people complain about money as that is the mean of exchange. Poor and incompetent people will complain about whatever the new means of exchange will be. Thats what lazy and incompetent people do , they complain and want the world to help them, while the rich and successful adapt and thrive

  • @madhavendra
    @madhavendra Před 2 lety +278

    "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them." - Karl Marx

    • @bankingsensei925
      @bankingsensei925 Před 2 lety +18

      Karl marks was a fool though

    • @bankingsensei925
      @bankingsensei925 Před 2 lety +31

      @Anhedon the so called oppressed people will act the same if you give them power and money

    • @adwoaosei8892
      @adwoaosei8892 Před 2 lety +3

      The irony 😭😭

    • @kshitijmore5916
      @kshitijmore5916 Před 2 lety

      There are no "oppressed" people, there are just fools who don't know there are being oppressed.

    • @completelynormalperson7077
      @completelynormalperson7077 Před 2 lety +9

      @@bankingsensei925 and? Doesn’t that just prove that we shouldn’t have a system where there can be those who are “above” others? Doesn’t that statement in itself prove we should not have this system

  • @lr8786
    @lr8786 Před 2 lety +4

    I donated to Travis doodles and my church. Both are faith based organizations. My church has an outreach program that's faith based to help addicts in recovery all over the world. I don't donate a lot cause I'm single mom working but it makes me feel better to know I could be helping someone who needs it.

  • @josephs.4813
    @josephs.4813 Před 2 lety +35

    I agree with all of this unfortunately we’ll never accomplish anything as long as they have half of us fighting the other half while they watch, laugh and profit.

  • @BladeValant546
    @BladeValant546 Před 2 lety +18

    Thank you, we need to detach policy from partisan politics. We should do what is best for the most altruism is the basis of how we succeed between tribes. This isn't anti enterprise, we need to make life awesome for everyone. Ther is a solution for everything. I am tired of this debate between "left and right" in reality it is compassion vs selfishness, kindness vs cruelty. I think most of us agree no one should suffer and ones who have issue should be helped.

  • @flippodynamics3635
    @flippodynamics3635 Před 2 lety +27

    "But would that bill stop gates" I see what you did there

  • @4shotpastas
    @4shotpastas Před 2 lety +8

    I'm not defending his sketchy actions. But when he said he'd donate money to solve world hunger, it was because someone claimed that elon musk could solve world hunger with 1% of his wealth, or something like that.

    • @san5828
      @san5828 Před 2 lety +1

      The second thought channel did the same attack on Musk, I commented about it and he just deleted my comment. I like the ideals of the left, but things like that, distorting facts, is why more people don't embrace the cause.

    • @4shotpastas
      @4shotpastas Před 2 lety +1

      @@san5828 Yeah, it always bugs me when facts are distorted or taken out of context. I don't really fully identify with any political view because I'm mostly centralist. So when people cherry pick information to make their perspective look more appealing, it bugs me. Because not only is it disingenuous, it's also manipulative, which cause a butterfly effect of misinformation. Like a shitty game of telephone.

    • @san5828
      @san5828 Před 2 lety +1

      @@4shotpastas exactly

  • @garima5460
    @garima5460 Před 2 lety +10

    Your videos are truly insightful! Every other video help me in different ways. So grateful to have found this channel!

    • @m_s007
      @m_s007 Před 2 lety

      In which class you study?
      I am also from india

    • @technomist6899
      @technomist6899 Před 2 lety

      @@m_s007 ShutUp Simp

  • @self-inflictedphilosophy
    @self-inflictedphilosophy Před 2 lety +35

    The wealthiest 100 have probably heard the famous quote by Stan Lee, “With great power comes great responsibility.” The problem is that they have been distracted by the outdated story of “get rich or die trying” and “hoarding wealth is cool.”
    Let’s update the story. Like maybe the following… “Get healthy or die trying” “It’s cool to expiate power” “Prestige is the new wealth” “Sharing is honorable” “Keep the tribe healthy”
    In order to update our current sick society, we must practice cooperation over competition, people over profit, health of the tribe over hoarding wealth. If we don’t, then we are doomed as a species.
    We can only hope that the richest among us choose to become prestigious philanthropists rather than greedy hoarders, but we should never underestimate human stupidity. Belief is a powerful thing. If the richest among us believe in the failed stories of our culture, then almost nothing will change their minds. Sometimes there are simply not enough cultural leveling mechanisms in place to keep them in check. And cognitive dissonance is one hell of a drug.

  • @Frexuz
    @Frexuz Před 2 lety +5

    "Will that Bill stop Gates?" 😂

  • @RobertHildebrandt
    @RobertHildebrandt Před 2 lety +12

    Question: if a billionaire "donates" money to a DAF, can they get the money back? Because when I look in wikipedia article of DAF, it says
    "They surrender ownership of anything they put in the fund, but retain advisory privileges over how their account is invested, and how it distributes money to charities. "

    • @jort9210
      @jort9210 Před 2 lety +2

      I think they can’t get it back on their name but can control it anyway

    • @serbanmihnea2120
      @serbanmihnea2120 Před 2 lety +2

      At the 5:30 mark , the key words I believe are "qualified charities", that money can go anywhere I guess but I didn't research this and its only guess work on my part.

    • @serbanmihnea2120
      @serbanmihnea2120 Před 2 lety +1

      They might be able to get the money back or their money's worth in another shape or form.

    • @RobertHildebrandt
      @RobertHildebrandt Před 2 lety +1

      @@serbanmihnea2120 I've heard that in some countries it's possible to create a "charity" with the goal to ensure the financial well-being of your family. But if I remember correctly, you neither own the money nor do you control the money after you've given it to that "charity".
      I wonder whether that kind of "charity" would qualify for DAF. If not, then we should keep an eye on the laws to ensure they stay this way^^

  • @krishanSharma.69.69f
    @krishanSharma.69.69f Před 2 lety +9

    Trust me. If you keep making 2 videos per week, you will get 10 millions subs by the end if this year.

  • @HShango
    @HShango Před 2 lety +5

    Love your philosophical content bro

  • @harryv6752
    @harryv6752 Před 2 lety +7

    It's funny... Some have likened Musk to the real life Tony Stark. I think the real life Lex Luthor is more like it. 😁
    Awesome vid and very insightful. Thanks. 🤘

    • @inquisitor_snake
      @inquisitor_snake Před 2 lety +2

      Lol. At least lex luthor is smart.
      Id say musk is more like Justin hammer from the iron man movies. He was born into wealth and just pays other people to design and engineer stuff.

    • @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman
      @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman Před 2 lety +2

      @@inquisitor_snake fax man

  • @wwaspy
    @wwaspy Před 2 lety +11

    hey aperture, could you do a video on the increased cost of living? it’s so bad in my country right now

    • @mango11119
      @mango11119 Před 2 lety

      US?

    • @wwaspy
      @wwaspy Před 2 lety

      @@mango11119 UK, but yeah the US is awful too 💀

    • @mango11119
      @mango11119 Před 2 lety

      @@wwaspy and to make it worse I'm in New jersey

    • @manimaan3362
      @manimaan3362 Před 2 lety

      Same in india increased cost of living and low paying jobs
      Plus overpopulation problem oh God the world is so cruel 💔

    • @baroquesham
      @baroquesham Před 2 lety

      make more money and stop complaining

  • @benwherlock9869
    @benwherlock9869 Před 2 lety +2

    Behind every great fortune is a crime.

  • @ASapientBeing
    @ASapientBeing Před 2 lety +5

    Man I learnt a lot today thanks to you.

  • @Jay-ate-a-bug
    @Jay-ate-a-bug Před 2 lety +5

    I am philanthropic through actions rather than pocket change. Large organizations like "Goodwill" "The Salvation Army" etc. tend to take a large majority of their donations to upkeep their hundreds of facilities around the world.
    In the same breath, handing your pocket change to a homeless person on the street is not really helping them and will possibly be used by that person for drugs and alcohol rather than feeding themselves or their children. There are many "Homeless" that aren't even homeless. Some are con-men taking advantage of your guilt at not being in their shoes.
    I am not saying there are not real people in need; there are thousands, even millions of people in need around the world. When I give anything to these people, it is by giving them a ride, or personally buying them a meal, or by volunteering at a clothing drive or a soup kitchen. I try my best to help, not just enable them to remain homeless longer.
    I spent 6 months on the street myself. No home, no job, no hope. I met many others like myself, and the majority of them had given up completely and learned how to "Play the system" and to "Play people" to get what they wanted. 9 out of 10 of these people are content in how they live and playing on the guilt of others is how they get by day to day. In that 6 months I never met another person who was working to get off the streets like I was trying to do. It took me those six months of grueling labor jobs with daily pay to finally get a place to live and job that payed every 2 weeks while still being able to eat and bathe daily. It can be done; but many do not want to do it.

  • @San.KyawHtin
    @San.KyawHtin Před 2 lety +1

    8:54 dont want to be thst guy but the child morality caught me off guard

  • @Zimboprenuer
    @Zimboprenuer Před 2 lety +3

    Poverty is a business - Winky D🇿🇼

  • @Gavanater7
    @Gavanater7 Před 2 lety +11

    The only think I am charitable to is my time to organizations or volunteering and or money or food to the homeless on the streets which goes directly into their hands. That helps infinitely more than rounding up your bill giving pennies to some Uber corporation that claims the money will go to the right people

  • @lindseyotton
    @lindseyotton Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you for your time on these videos

  • @LungaMasilela
    @LungaMasilela Před 2 lety +31

    The truth is that so long there is capitalism there will always be poverty, capitalism just like any other economic system is one that dictates how resources should be distributed in society and seeing that poverty is a state in which an individual is in due to the fact that they don't have resources it seems to me that if you want to end poverty you change capitalism. The question is are we willing to change it and the answer is no from the way things are.

    • @TheKrzyy
      @TheKrzyy Před 2 lety

      Capitalism doesn't dictate resource allocation, why do you think that? In capitalism you buy available resources then make a product and if it is useful then people will buy it. And if nobody buys, it means you allocated resources badly.

    • @BladeValant546
      @BladeValant546 Před 2 lety +4

      @@TheKrzyy Those are markets, capitalism is just the mode of production, which is privately owned. This is the issue with people understanding of economics they equate markets with modes of production and ideologies.

    • @elio7610
      @elio7610 Před 2 lety +6

      the issue with capitalism is that it makes people and companies value profit above all else. when everyone puts their own profit as their highest priority, all the social issues naturally follow as a result.

    • @ace2311
      @ace2311 Před 2 lety

      I won't say capitalism doesn't have issues but it's definitely one of the better systems out there

    • @elio7610
      @elio7610 Před 2 lety +1

      ​@@ace2311 are you sure about that? i am very skeptical of the idea that capitalism is even one of the "better" options. a lot of the arguments people use in support of capitalism do not really seem to reflect the reality of it.

  • @Mandolatron
    @Mandolatron Před 2 lety +7

    An effective graduated tax system in which absurd wealth is taxed at a higher rate, with loopholes closed will solve so many of our problems.

    • @ericvulgate
      @ericvulgate Před 2 lety +1

      Only if it's world wide.

    • @derek8149
      @derek8149 Před 2 lety +1

      It may solve some things, but on the flip side, even if these billionaires gave the money they donated to the government for taxes, I wouldn't trust the government to use that money efficiently. 2/3 or more will be funneled into maintaining the bureaucracy, while only a small fraction would be actually used to do good. Look at the Homeless Industrial Complex. In 2021, the federal government spent 51 billion dollars to "solve" homelessness. That's $92K per homeless person (550k homeless people in the US)... In Fiscal Year 2022, California budgeted 12 billion dollars for homelessness. That's $74K per homeless person (161K homeless in CA)... In FY 2020, San Francisco spent 852 million dollars on a population of 8000 homeless people for a whopping $106.5k per homeless person...
      Imagine if you just GAVE that money directly to homeless people. That would single handedly solve homelessness. These government bureaucracies have no incentive to actually "solve" homelessness because that would put them out of a job. In a nutshell, the incentives to solve homelessness are not aligned with the goal of actually solving homelessness. That's why its an INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (same mechanism behind the military industrial complex, the military is not actually incentivized to keep the peace but actually look for war) and continue to perpetuate homelessness. These departments are also not incentiviezed to use the money they get efficiently - most departments have a lot of money left over at the end of the fiscal year that they wastefully spend in order to ensure they get the same amount allocated the next year. It incentivizes initiatives and projects that are good for publicity, but lack any real effectiveness and are often wasteful without much oversight. Centralized government spending creates a highly inefficient allocation of resources and oftentimes do not actually solve things that they wish to solve.
      Philanthropy has their issues, but taxes and government spending have their own problems as well... I don't actually know what the solution may be. Either philanthropists need to have tax loopholes closed and be more transparent and targeted with their donations OR government needs to figure out a way to allocate their resources more efficiently and align their incentives better (in a way that mirrors resource efficient free market incentives).

  • @rezin4378
    @rezin4378 Před 2 lety +1

    Aperture, You are the hero we need!

  • @LAMPROS311
    @LAMPROS311 Před 2 lety +1

    Excellent video! You hit the nail on the head.

  • @AdmiredDisorder
    @AdmiredDisorder Před 2 lety +5

    I had to wait till I was in the mood for this very sobering video essay... money is twisting, rotting, manipulative power... its shown how disappointing humanity can really be

    • @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman
      @Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman Před 2 lety

      Money isn't the problem, money is a tool, humans took advantage

    • @baroquesham
      @baroquesham Před 2 lety

      this comment is just proof that you definitely dont have money; You have such ugly perception of money

  • @iworkforwendys
    @iworkforwendys Před 2 lety +8

    the only way for society to actually prosper is to give up greed. to just let it go. to not grab the 20 sitting on the ground because it be better off in a homeless man's hands than mine. though not everyone is taught how to live life to live in this modern society, that should not discourge us from giving those who wish to change or work a chance to do so. this American dream may be fading. falting in the way of the world's order, but one thing is certain if we don not find a way to work together, we will only rip eachother apart.
    it may be natural to better yourself for tomorrow, but better to live like I will die today than be scared to walk today in fear of starving tomorrow.

  • @sylfixplayz2142
    @sylfixplayz2142 Před 2 lety +2

    More amazing videos. Always so well done here

  • @Arpit_Maurya
    @Arpit_Maurya Před 2 lety +1

    You shouldv'e talked about the greatest philantrophist of all time
    Sir Ratan Tata
    from India

  • @likebutton11
    @likebutton11 Před rokem +1

    that's why I just give straight cash in hand to an individual then again that's probably why I'm fucking broke

  • @locker011
    @locker011 Před 2 lety +1

    "Somebody gotta tell me, why I ain't got SHIT!" - Napoleon

  • @Waffles4903
    @Waffles4903 Před rokem

    Trust carefully and genuinely consider who you give money to.

  • @briandsouza7854
    @briandsouza7854 Před 2 lety +3

    Good one! Do you recommend reading that Dark Money book?

  • @animeeditsx1682
    @animeeditsx1682 Před 2 lety +2

    Your Videos Are Intriguing I Like it Very Much

  • @yunseiprod
    @yunseiprod Před 2 lety

    yo this is like johnny harris vibe but instead of maps its like ideas

  • @user-ko5nt4ym2l
    @user-ko5nt4ym2l Před rokem

    Your best video imo.

  • @God-ld6ll
    @God-ld6ll Před 2 lety +1

    "Let me help you or you'll drown mr fish"

  • @HShango
    @HShango Před 2 lety

    George Peabody invested in housing in London and built so much social housing in England (London) for the working class/poor

  • @Face1essAsh
    @Face1essAsh Před 2 lety +8

    A lot of people believe that the intent matters a lot. For example, a lot of people believe Mr. Beast is amazing for how much charity he does. I agree he does a lot of good, but that good doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
    Charity is a band aid solution, it doesnt fix problems, it simply allows them to continue to exist for longer.

    • @denshi_lives29
      @denshi_lives29 Před 2 lety

      I know that we understand this , and there are people like us who can see grey between black and white but the majority of people can't see the gray and are looted by power.

    • @piumirajapaksha7620
      @piumirajapaksha7620 Před 2 lety +1

      Well, no, not really. It can also provide opportunities to people. I know many people that used charitable donations to turn their life around during tough times. It really isn't black of white, but of course we can't analyze each situation independently as well.

    • @denshi_lives29
      @denshi_lives29 Před 2 lety

      Even detective agencies give up once they witness the genius evil web constructed by rich to control flow of wealth. It's not a good sight ☺️

  • @serbanmihnea2120
    @serbanmihnea2120 Před 2 lety

    I love that you have been putting up more videos lately.
    Btw I can't wait for a piece on the billionaires and the benefits/disadvantages for the 99.99% of us.

  • @elctron5185
    @elctron5185 Před 2 lety +1

    I just want to say that we want to know how you make your video from beginning to end

  • @samcs06
    @samcs06 Před 2 lety

    Only 46k views. This shit needs more views.

  • @Sir_Uncle_Ned
    @Sir_Uncle_Ned Před 2 lety +2

    No wonder every time I have reached out to a philanthropist I have been ignored. They don't care about helping people, they just want to avoid paying their fair share.

  • @bubakorowski8413
    @bubakorowski8413 Před 2 lety

    "It's a Big Club. And You ain't in It. You and I are not in The Big Club".

  • @onthemantlepiece422
    @onthemantlepiece422 Před 2 lety +2

    When is humanity finally going to wake up and purge itself of this repulsive tapeworm?

  • @user-mo8br5sc2o
    @user-mo8br5sc2o Před 2 lety

    Thank you

  • @dutchdragonser
    @dutchdragonser Před 2 lety +1

    Could u please give your sources... Nor in the website or in the video (desc., Comments) they are shown ...

  • @emmanuelr710
    @emmanuelr710 Před 2 lety +1

    Excellent video 👏 👏 👏

  • @ethos.artwork
    @ethos.artwork Před 2 lety +1

    pure content straight into my bloodstream mmmmmMMMM

  • @andrewfischer1389
    @andrewfischer1389 Před rokem

    Excellent video in regard to exposing the abuse of modern Philanthropy but this just outlines the problem with Capitalism, if Philanthropy isn't going to decrease the wealth gap because of the obvious greed of the rich then how can anyone trust them to actually be Philanthropists? All this tells me is that Capitalism has failed, and the concept of the ultra-wealthy needs to be done away with.

  • @aidenpratt
    @aidenpratt Před 2 lety

    Thanks you.

  • @nico8564
    @nico8564 Před 2 lety +1

    Just what I needed, thanks man

  • @AnkurAwx
    @AnkurAwx Před 2 lety +1

    You aren't aware of Tata Trust and their charity.

  • @sebastiankolter
    @sebastiankolter Před 2 lety

    Great topic

  • @Phone-vn6rk
    @Phone-vn6rk Před 2 lety +1

    Rich people only care about themselves.. look around you.

  • @yasinnabi
    @yasinnabi Před 2 lety

    If you want to get rich, focus on creating value to the market, then the money itself will flow in, Value itself is the symbol of money you are making, a fellow creator,..,.,.,.

  • @liafuentes326
    @liafuentes326 Před 2 lety

    Excellent content.

  • @IKEMENOsakaman
    @IKEMENOsakaman Před 2 lety +1

    Oh man, I wish I was a billionaire. Then, I will save the world!

  • @jamaicaigot9335
    @jamaicaigot9335 Před 2 lety

    hey there, really enjoyed the video - I would love to get these as audio only, are you on audea?

  • @nischal7881
    @nischal7881 Před 2 lety

    Aperture: philanthropy won’t save us
    Mr Beast: 🤨

  • @imdarrel
    @imdarrel Před 2 lety +2

    The sad thing, is that we could win. Just about everyone is lazy or too worried about themselves to think about how bad the future will be. It may seem irreversible but it's not. Soon it will be though if we don't stand up for ourselves instead of saying "Sure I'll do more for less..." or "I'll take a buck less to do it!". It's just sad how the millions and millions of us literally let this happen... So do your part, don't vote. FIGHT. We need to show the rich that without us working, they will fail. Last I checked, money doesn't have the limbs required to do most of the jobs out there. We are needed to make them rich. Yea, it'll be bad on us for sure but in the long run, we will win. But if we keep waiting, then we wont win. If you think the army can stop us, just remember what the government does to them one their time in the service is up. They are here to protect the freedom of America. Most of the people in our government are traitors towards America and they wont be stopped until we actually take our freedoms back. Forget about peaceful protests, forget about voting, and absolutely forget about being silent because none of it works.

  • @fredouellet1945
    @fredouellet1945 Před 2 lety +3

    Stop waiting for a savior and victimising yourself, save yourself.

  • @pedrosalgado8984
    @pedrosalgado8984 Před 2 lety +3

    Ok so WFP said they could solve world hunger with X amount of money. Musk said prove it. Then WFP said well, not technically solve world hunger just Y amount of people will be helped. So, you kinda told half the truth there.

  • @Josh-bb1nn
    @Josh-bb1nn Před 2 lety

    So do they get the money back out of the DAF? Im not getting how it’s a scam. I believe you, I’m just not making the connection.

  • @romainquintosol4575
    @romainquintosol4575 Před 2 lety +2

    this video made me a little mad... It's very well put nonetheless, you made a good analysis that goes beyond the simple "eat the rich", well done!

  • @SculptorandMarble
    @SculptorandMarble Před 2 lety

    What’s the background music?

  • @shapikai6431
    @shapikai6431 Před 2 lety

    I love your channel 💙

  • @BentleyBohemian_96
    @BentleyBohemian_96 Před 2 lety

    Damn you blew the elon vs united nation twitter back and forth out of context man

  • @mohammadanwar9848
    @mohammadanwar9848 Před 2 lety +6

    Won't save us from what? Have we even considered saving ourselves, from ourselves??
    As far as billionaires go, some people have this notion that we should just probably quit technology and start living like the Amish, which personally sounds like defeat to me in the face of collective human potential and what we could achieve in the next 1000 years.
    If on the click of a button we could somehow make all billionaires vanish, there are going to be others who are in the right place at the right time with the right factors to make an impact.
    Hmm.. how can we somehow make sure that these new upcoming B's don't become so? Maybe we could introduce some kind of legislation that limits "rewards". But we'd simultaneously also be limiting enthusiasm proportionally (by limiting paychecks) all the while introducing all kinds of loop holes. Example of legislation where as soon as somebody reaches a certain threshold of wealth they have to pay a certain amount which increases exponentially making sure they never make it to the B mark. Now what would prevent somebody from actually becoming more wasteful and actually deliberately "showing off" (a little rare in the actual rich, cz they wanna be as likeable as possible), since they know that after a certain amount of savings they're gonna have to choke up the cash anyways. E.g. somebody has billions in income but deliberately never crosses the half a B mark and spends it ALL. Billions and billions gone in parties, stuff and what not instead of perfecting the startup.
    So now you have mediocre companies with non-enthusiastic entrepreneurs who's new motto is "reach the top to have a blast"
    The thing that is missing in this whole discussion of cancelling B's is what the B's have to say themselves which means folly, as you guessed it. And a discussion about human nature, psychology and consequences which I don't see.
    Now what about the billionaires, whom we don't consider to be billionaires like somebody who is worth a third or half of a billion dollars? Hey, we just phrased their wealth in terms of billions! Are they also not "kind of like billionaires?"
    And who are these people? You guessed it, a huge chunk of celebrities, singers, actors etc fall in this category who too are absent from the discussion.
    Somehow just because they are more likeable and relatable, they are excluded from a very valid discussion? And the category which "wastes" much money on parties, property and yes "showing off"? Exactly this group..
    Just shows how biased humans can be, things never occur to us simply because of personal likes and dislikes. Which leads us back to what I wrote at the top.

  • @DauntlessBlade___
    @DauntlessBlade___ Před 2 lety

    This video just got me thinking about Mr.Beast again

  • @takenname8053
    @takenname8053 Před 2 lety

    Very Nice

  • @mariaradulovic3203
    @mariaradulovic3203 Před 2 lety

    There is no back.

  • @cipher2508
    @cipher2508 Před 2 lety

    I just realized your channel's name is the name of my favorite company ever built

  • @self-inflictedphilosophy

    Ask yourself: would you rather be a typical hero who earns power and hoards it; or a prestigious hero who earns power and expiates it?
    Put in another light: would you rather be the hero hunter who hoards all the meat while the rest of the tribe dies, or the prestigious hero hunter who keeps the choicest meat for his effort but then shares the rest with the tribe so it doesn't starve?
    Then ask yourself: in which way is my conscience clearer?

  • @shapejustanormaltriangle7659

    Thank you for this amazing content

  • @EldhoseJoseph
    @EldhoseJoseph Před 2 lety

    Remember it is only legal till everyone does it. 😊 let everyone open a charity fund and apply for deduction. Soon tax will be historically low only for them to fix this against common people.

  • @love13f
    @love13f Před rokem

    They don't save us, they don't have to, they are not obliged to. Simple

  • @bilbobaggins7490
    @bilbobaggins7490 Před 2 lety

    It's the wealthy who need their souls saved. Even most charities do very little for the poor. Because Billionaire CEOS use their own charities to steal from those they claim to help. They may say that your purchase helped pay for 10 meals but a volunteer told me that they use old non perishables donated to churches and food pantries.
    I always give directly to the homeless. In fact many second hand stores sell your stuff and give mere pennies to those they claim to help. One homeless program was taking donations from their shelter and selling them at their restore, instead of handing them out to homeless directly.
    A lady I know went shopping at a restore and saw her clothes hanging on the rack with price tags. Nobody who was homeless got her donation.
    The CEO of the charity was making almost a million dollars a year too.
    The poorest among us, including the prostitutes and drug addicts will enter the kingdom of Heaven before any of the rich will. Jesus said, " It is easier for a camel to enter through an eye of a needle, than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

  • @Yahdir
    @Yahdir Před 2 lety

    can you make a video on the ethics of a billionaire

  • @MSHNKTRL
    @MSHNKTRL Před 2 lety

    so...basically they ARE like Bruce Wayne, who, when as Batman, battles the criminals that his lack of actual public service engenders.

  • @onionlayers9457
    @onionlayers9457 Před 2 lety

    But would that bill stop Gate?

  • @wandile.dlamini_
    @wandile.dlamini_ Před 2 lety

    Nice "Bill Gates" pun at the end.

  • @adrianwolff2007
    @adrianwolff2007 Před 2 lety

    Words are coined and coins are minted.

  • @dystopiaeatsmoney
    @dystopiaeatsmoney Před 2 lety

    Revolution Now podcast with Peter Joseph

  • @animeeditsx1682
    @animeeditsx1682 Před 2 lety +1

    Ya Hoooooooooo

  • @jagadeeshchenna6518
    @jagadeeshchenna6518 Před 2 lety +1

    I don't understand, ultra rich spending a lot of money on philanthropy is a bad thing ?
    They would be better of if they paid the damn tax itself right ?

    • @kapoioBCS
      @kapoioBCS Před 2 lety +1

      They don’t pay anything while making more money

  • @_monti142
    @_monti142 Před 2 lety

    hmm why do i need saving?

  • @Therichestone27
    @Therichestone27 Před 2 lety

    Wooow