BUT WHO GETS THE PROFIT? D'Souza absolutely guts core Marxist argument
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- If you're a valet at the Ritz-Carlton, should you expect 100% of the resort's profit to go to you?
Of course not!
But then, that's exactly what Karl Marx says should happen...
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I find it deeply disturbing that he has to explain this to college students like they are middle schoolers…
It's an argument tailored to fools minds though. I'm no leftist, but many of his examples don't exactly hold up, in the sense that there could be better arguments. The great business he is talking about doesn't exist in a vacuum. I'm going to assume he is talking about net income, because gross income would be a useless statistic, that means the business is so profitable that it would be expanding, and therefore its net income would actually be reduced to a reasonable margin for the risk.
They are dealing with other competitors who want to offer better value, and valet prices are no different. The example he gives, from an economic standpoint, screams nothing about labor and everything about business mismanagement. I'm sorry, but as a conservativish guy I have to say this screams political figure talking about something he isn't too good at. I can't think of any example of a valet working outside of a worker pool, and worker pool means worker union.
Not only are labor cooperatives strong, but even major conservative economists like Friedman and Sowell advise against getting rid of unions, the major problem being political involvement in the process. The fact that his examples lack ideals of a proper union system when trying to argue against basically union extremists, I'd have to say he's failing to convince anyone serious.
His argument to what we can presume is the future pool of low end workers is basically fuck you, you work for me, do your job or go home. While that is precisely the attitude of any employer, its actually because those employers aren't in fact able to make major profit margins off of labor pools. Unless of course you count tips for alcohol service, however that's exclusively American. Companies that aren't very profitable, however, are begging people of quality to work them, and taking anyone with a single arm and potential. That's basically the service industry 101, including fast food.
The reality of labor economics is far too complicated for most to understand, myself included, but I'm pretty confident he's not playing the right angle here. The debate with communists in this sense is about the proper role of unions, but instead he makes hyperbolic similes defending old school non-union "lasses faire" as if banning unions would somehow be lasses faire.
Lmao hhaaja
@@davidjohnson8655 Dinesh didn't even touch on some of the other costs like the valet's desk and consumables (microscopic cost but not borne by the valet), uniforms, name tags, benefits other than cash, cost of the facility including the portico cochere, driveways, parking garage and the real reason people are there, the hotel and its facilities. All of those costs must be paid by the parking fees. So, who's the fool?
He’s having to explain it like they’re middle schoolers because they’re in Palo Alto and all the information they get is from their Stanford professors who, like Marx, have never had a job. Just Marx’s discredited theories.
@@David-hm9ic So that's certainly not true, much of that can be paid through the business, and it still doesnt mean anything in relation to my point, which is that there is a standard already set, his idea that it's fair to take a 2000% profit is just a terrible example, and he will be defended eternally by people who just want to repeat his lines, not actually learn something.
If you are a valet parker and want all the profits, go start your own company.
You will then have to work twice as hard and risk all your money before you realise it was much easier just working for someone else.
@@snowflakemelter1172 This is what people don't understand, working for yourself is not that easy. Yes you get to make all the decisions, but on the other hand you have to make all the decisions.
@@snowflakemelter1172 thats the reason for the excess value, dah
All this should be perfectly obvious to any child of _10_ who grew up watching his/her parent build a business -- watching what that parent has to go through and sacrifice, and then what the family has to sacrifice by extension. The only people who think socialism is a good idea are those who are inexperienced and utterly lacking in what it takes to start or run a business themselves. Which is why socialism _always_ goes so disastrously wrong. I cannot believe this is even up for discussion in 2019.
What if you are one of the millions who have an 85 IQ?
I partnered up with a friend and we started a construction crew. We worked right along side or employees, we provided many of the tools, nails and compressor fuel and such. We bidded on jobs, answered to general contractors, inspectors, homeowners and what not, which was fine. The real punch in the mouth is when all of our profits went to payroll on payday and we walked away with empty pockets. That happened a couple times. It is absolutely true that the employer takes on much more responsibility, headache, and risk.
Same here with a construction company. I remember when I wrote my first check to workers comp. It just about buried me.
Anyone with more then 3 working brain cells understands this, as it's very, very obvious.
Credit to the educational system for keeping the students so dumbed down that they do not even understand basic economics.
When starting your own business for the first time, most understand profit. Less understand overhead.
FOR REAL! Only business owners will understand this. These people really believe we pocket it all. 😂
@@maribart4237 AND they think you can just take as much time off as you want whenever you want!!
Patriots like this brilliant man is who we need teaching from preschool thru college. Than you sir.
Less than 5 minutes and he explains it better than what these kids are learning in college.
Not that you have any clue as to what they learn in college...
@@karl-ottoelch3644 Actually, I do. I'm an electrical engineering college professor.
You really think such basic concepts aren't known to left leaning folks?
@Nathan BlairSo, CZcams is only for everyone else but professors to comment on then? It should be beneath me, is what you're saying. Anyone who can provide a professional point of view must be wasting time on here.
This is an example of your deduction skills?
He doesn't understand Marx at all. He's misconstruing what Marx is saying. Surplus value is simply what the capitalist generates after the worker spends his or her working day generating the value of his or her wages and from that is profit. A business cannot run without labor no matter how much machines or fancy ideas a capitalist has the business cannot run unless they have workers who they can extract surplus value from and that surplus value is where profit comes from. In no argument did Marx ever say the worker should take all of the surplus value, That's not possible under capitalism thus why he spent time talking about the contradictions of labor and capital and how it would eventually cause revolution. Dinesh D'Souza really hasn't understood Marxist arguments.
This use to be common knowledge for any grade schooler.
Just like most college graduates would not pass a sixth graders test back in the late 1600's. just look up the schools curriculum from that period. actually most people with doctorates could not pass those test!
I'm 60 and never heard this in my school . We did have black and white couples come in and try to spread the word of peace and unity . We were also allowed to bring guns to school and put them in our locker so we could hunt on the way home . Guess how many kids got shot ? The answer is 0 .
Common knowledge in my school was that Capitalism and Socialism both are terrible systems and humans are appearantly stuck in the old ways to figure out how to move forward without using the third world and poor people to squeeze the ressources needed to sustain the bloated capitalistic system in the west.
We are already gearing up for a new war to pay for you rich a-holes
Socialism might not be the best system, but atleast it could be able to sustain itself without making a war every 5 years and stomping on poor people.
Fosphor How well is Venezuela sustaining itself?
True, Janice....but that was before Bush entered America into the globalist elites New World Order. While the left and Democrats are advancing it, the Bush types and establishment Republicans are not exactly fighting or opposing the leftist slide towards global socialism. At best, they are conspiring with the left to ensure that crony capitalism remains. That is why many of the wealthiest American entrepreneurs and business owners (Zuckerberg with Facebook, Google and Silicon Valley executives, etc.) are embracing rather than rejecting it. Dont get me wrong, Republicans are much, MUCH better than Democrats...and there is a chance that Republican constituents can elect the right people (conservatives) to their party and save the party and America at the same time, but voters need to be more involved during the primaries and vote the RINOS out and replace them with conservative, Constitutionally principled candidates.
Thank you Dinesh! I've been self employed all my life. Without fail, people have no idea what it takes (and what it cost) to run a business.
It's so hard to persuade people that businesses barely leave margin. During the rough patches, my father was losing money EVERY day while his employees were profiting on their labor. It took him over ten years to pay off his debt and start profiting. Revenue is not profit and I've worked in huge companies that were losing money for years on end while still paying all salaries on time and in full.
I think of it as, a $100,000 salary equates to the investment income of around $2,000,000. If I had $2.5m I would have an annual dividend salary of $100k.
It is an incredible power we have in a capitalist system where our simple labor is worth so much that we can have the purchasing power of million dollar portfolios.
@@sloth6765 That's a pretty interesting way to look at it, and it's very true. Which is why the really big companies are actually creating a lot of jobs, and the people who make the big company salaries in turn return a lot of that money back to the system by being consumers.
Simply not true, I am smart and I'll dictate to you guys what's up
@@Guthix198 let's hear it then. ??
@@dan4992 honestly, it's not about the "needs".
People who only want what they need, never start a business. People who have something more than the basic needs, like some goals and desires, are the ones that create businesses or that work harder than most to gain more.
For some, it's the desire of being retired by 40-50 and live the last 30 years of their life while doing only what they really enjoy, EX: Traveling, writing, staying with the family, working on personal projects and other skills, like horsemanship, wood working etc..
Just as well as those that have big dreams; saving people, building amazing structures, or whatever. And those could be due to other reasons.
Essentially, it's not about the basic needs.
We had a restaurant that failed due to external factors (roadworks taking years right on our doorstep). This was years ago and we are still busy paying off the debt from that business. The staff just went and found new jobs. That is why the owner gets the money when things go right, because the staff don't have to deal with it when things go wrong.
often times owners use investors and when it doesnt pan they take their profits and leave like the employee did too
the rich get richer
_im a capitalist btw_
Yep. RISK.
Same thing happened in Sydney Australia when they built this Tram line through the city a few years ago.
@@devinbreckmann8956 its the same concept. The investors provide the capital for a share of the profits on an idea they believe will be successful. If its not, they lose the money (risk). The people they invested in are likely to lose whatever they invested too, or at least not profit. If they just took investor money and ran, thats fraud, not capitalism.
Also, liquidators usually seize their assets and distribute the value amongst people they owe money to... once they pay themselves. I hate liquidators.
Or they run the whole thing through an LLC and pass the risk to subcontractors who get stiffed when the owner bankrupts the company.
It often doesn't work the way you say it does unfortunately.
I used to be a liberal left winger until my brain fully developed
I rofled at this, this is so true in a sense. Too bad some people never get that chance xD.
Me too.
I think you meant to say you didn't want to go through the research and accept facts, so you chose the easier route filled with lies, conspiracies, and hypocrisy.
Being a conservative is like being a member of the easiest club in the world. If MENSA requires high intellect, being a conservative should be called DENSA because you have to be dumber than a ten pound sack of crap to join the club.
I used to think Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson were actual intellectuals until I stopped being a naive teenager.
My mother-in-law is a registered republican, and as far as I know, has always voted red. I have always for the most part voted blue, occasionally red for senate/house/local government, but presidential has always been blue. When it was Trump vs Hillary, I refused to vote, because I could not stand either of them. This year, I will grudgingly vote for Trump, because Biden is just that much worse. I dislike Trump on a personal level, he is truly someone I could never be friends with, but our president isn't supposed to be our pal, he is supposed to run this country with the powers afforded him by his office. And aside from all the BS that covid has caused which is beyond his control (the liberal media would have you believe otherwise), he has done a half decent job of it.
But my mother-in-law (and I love her like my own mother lol)...she has fallen for the liberal media BS and watches CNN and MSNBC religiously and thinks all the vomit they spew is pure unbiased truth. She hates Trump both personally and politically, and believes the lies and twisted truths that they spill to millions of viewers daily. I can hear that wretch Rachel Maddow in the background from the other room, and the crap that woman says turns my stomach as much as listening to that idiot Rush Limbaugh...They both represent the deep end of their respective sides perfectly, utter trash. She has literally never heard a differing opinion other than what she hears on CNN/MSNBC. I don't like to talk politics with her so whenever she says anything I just ignore it or change the subject. She would probably hate me if I tried to change her mind, and that's really sad. I would rather ignore her opinions than hurt our relationship. My wife asked her if she would watch the RNC after she talked about the DNC, and she said "no, I don't want to hear anything they have to say." 😔
Success in business is like a pregnancy: No one knows how many times you were screwed before the success. They only see the result of success.
Lmao...what a comparation! But so true if one think of many "failtures".
lol
Well said wayne. Success always! Dr D
Well, that fully answers the question, why did I not get into business for myself.
the crazy thing is , 60% of startups failed in their first year, and 80% of startups failed in their first 5 years.
Very profound. Simple but complete breakdown of the underlying omissions of Marx concerning capitalism.
I Agree with Dinesh D'souza 100%.
@Denver Scott
7th grade education? Your writing ability suggests an education beyond that of HS. Well done!
Anyone who's started a business and has had to work long hours for free during the startup phase fully understands this.
Trouble is most haven't
Eric, it is your problem. I do not care. Nobody cares. As an employee who comes to you should i feel sorry and let u treat me crap because you work long hours. I do not give a f...
@@rbe6963 You should care because these are the people who give you a job. A good employer treats his employees well and if not you can always find another job.
I have been on both sides.
The valet hasn't invested in real estate, insurance, utilities, advertising employee's fringe benefits.
So why is the valet entitled to 100% of the profits?
Bottom Line
Working produces wages
Investing produces wealth.
@@Mynamesalexa absolutely none of those are essential for living and are simply side effects of our greed. Unfortunately you cannot have profit without deficit. I don't give a shit about nicer cars, bigger houses, I dont care about brands, I dont care about the pointless shit that this world seems to run on that causes massive divides in class and essentially leads to animosity between common people. I want food, water, warmth and decent people. You can keep your "wealth" for what it's worth but capitalism will never bring about peace. Not when greed is such a prominent factor.
Unfortunately humans will probably never change.
Four minutes of wisdom that millions of college students have never been taught, despite paying $80,000 in tuition.
As a dentist, it amuses me when assistants think they should get paid a similar wage as me since according to them, they do “all the work.” I’ll be the first to admit they have a physically more demanding job and I truly appreciate that. But peoples greed and lack of common sense foster an entitlement mentality.
It’s their arrogance and entitlement that’s laughable. They have no risk, nor money in the game. They didn’t get the education, invest in the business, nor grow the patient base. If something goes wrong, or the business fails, employees just leave. If it’s so easy, and they’re so important, they should open their own practice, and pay floor sweepers an equal share of their hard earned investment.
Can listen to D'Souza for hours. The guys brilliant.🇺🇸
He is why LEGAL immigration MERIT based is a win for this awesome country
The man IS the American Dream!
Bear C137 his latest book is FASCINATING AND BEYOND BRILLIANT
Literally business 101. Akin to the alphabet when learning english lol.
Yeah, except the USA refuses to TEACH Business or Money Management or Credit to its school children. No one in the industrialized world should graduate High School without having a basic understanding of how business and credit work.
@@gregsteele806 Dude, the reason why the INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD, doesn't teach you business or money management should be extremely obvious.
Let's say they did, and every kid that leaves school is actually prepared and knows what to do and how to do it, and they all split up and go off to execute their own plans and they all built their own businesses and enterprises . Except, who runs the existing systems of the Industrialized world? They NEED you to work for them, that's why they only teach you as much as they need you to know, want to know more? Work harder, make more money, then give that money to a school who will again teach you only as much as they want you to know, because they also need you and your money to continue existing.
There's a LOT of reasons why they push out half retarded morons who can barely read or write, they need them to vote for them, keep them in power, and work for them until you're no longer useful and move onto the next, the moment you're more prepared than they let you be, you see the chains.
I'm not saying you're wrong, I agree with you that we should be better prepared, it took me years to get myself organized, and it's still a work in progress, but asking for it to be different is a bit hopeful, it's not beneficial to the elites to prepare us peasants better, it's only beneficial to us, and may even be detrimental to the elites, they'll never allow it.
Greg Steele we don’t teach it anymore because our elite have chosen to teach socialism instead
Business school hardly teaches it anymore.
Free Radical how has that worked out in the past? Everytime it’s Attempted, it goes to bolshevism. Problem is yes it sounds nice, but it’s only a theory. Human nature makes it impossible to achieve socialism
I started a company 6 months ago, i haven't had a life since. I started from scratch, no capital. Its getting better but sometimes i ask what have i got myself into !!! I dont sleep much, i work like a dog, i can relate perfectly to what dinesh is saying
so you get 100 % of your labor .....
Search for, The E myth, the entrepreneurial myth, by Michael gerber
As an entrepreneur I have had employees who want an equal share of the profits. You know what they ended up getting... fired because they decided they didn't need to work anymore.
I had one who asked for a cut of the profit ONTOP of their wage...
But President Obama said "If you've got a business-you didn't build that"
Obama sings a different song now that he is a multimillionaire. I haven’t heard him say “ at some point I think you’ve made enough money “ for quite some time.
But he never can say that the idea, the risk, isn’t yours either because it is! Besides, the government didn’t build the infrastructure with their own money, they built it with YOUR money, so we did build it!
I’m still waiting for him to give most of his wealth away. After all, didn’t we hear for 8 years how the rich are evil and the top 1% take everything?
@@supremeleadergnkdroid3202 Good luck with that 😅 he just bought a new 15 million dollar mansion in Martha's Vineyard 🤑
@@wanda520 i hope many people remind him of that 20 x a day on his twitter feed!!
#LiberalHypocrisyKnowsNoBounds !!!
I was a business owner for many years there were days when I wish I was an employee and not the owner.
I wasn't an owner but I'd love to be able to reverse management decisions.
how many day's because if you spent less days wishing you were an employee than not wishing you were an employee then I fail to see your point.
@@popscratchie3985 His point is that it's not all roses and sunshine running a business. There's considerable stress and worry, things that most regular employees do not have to be concerned with. So yes, if the company is lucky enough to turn a profit, you're damn right he has every right to it.
@@gunthre and my point is that he would still rather be an employer than an employee. Using the" I'd rather do one thing but instead I'll do another" doesn't wash with me. If it's so bad being an employer don't be one.
@@popscratchie3985 He never said he'd rather be an employee, nor did he say it was so bad to be an employer. He simply said that, over many years, he had bad days where it would have been much easier to be an employee. That's because small business owners don't exactly sit on giant thrones while tormenting their inferior and unworthy workers while stealing all the wealth, the way many leftists imagine. They work very hard and sacrifice a lot, and so are entitled to every penny they earn.
The fact of the matter is this. The employer has all the risk, the employee has no risk. If there were no cars to park the employee would still get paid. If you are not happy OPEN YOUR OWN BUSINESS. 👍
I am not an economics or business person but I knew this innately. It is common sense. The fact that there are people who need to be taught this is deeply disturbing.
People in college need to be taught this...
And the capitalist paid for the land for the parking lot or structure and paid to construct them, and continues to pay property taxes on them. Minor point, but valid. That cost of doing business is deducted before net profit is determined.
The capitalist also pays big bucks to a manager (to handle the whiny employees). ;-)
Only a person who has signed the front of a paycheck understands the big picture.
Don't forget electricity, insurance, security, inspections, and needs a better return than they could get elsewhere or they would never make the initial investment.
Good point.👍
Net net net is much smaller then any non business owner understands
Can't believe this had to be explained at all! 😲
Clear, concise and spot on. Well put Dinesh.
I was left wing once, then I hit puberty.
Funny but real I'm sure.
I used to be a liberal some time ago up until common sense hit my head
The hormonal changes must have caused some silent strokes and your iq dropped low enough to become a capitalist.
@@ioioiotu That is the most ignorant statement. Every single liberal "cannot" assert logically based on economics both how and why they believe that Marxism will work and yet that is what they are striving for under a title of "socialism." But I welcome you to do so instead of simply name calling.
@@jett7499 The original comment was about left wing, and that's different from being a liberal. American liberals are just useful idiots for capitalists.
As for socialism (that is also different from Marxism) i can show you how it will logically work by pointing out Mondragon in Spain and Coop in Italy.
The owners take all the risk. They should make more
Ruby Badilla Yeah
And they probably didn’t become profitable right at the start either. They had to endure months or years of no profit, no wages for themselves. THEN they get paid for their ideas, their risk, if ever.
Exactly. If Mr Valet Parker drives a customers car into the fountain at the Ritz, who's paying for it? Who's taking the bad press? Who suffers a bad image and lost profits due to a lame valet driver. 🤔
All the valet does is wake up at noon, eat a lunch his mom made him, play video games till 4, then take four seconds to douse himself in axe body spray before heading off to park cars and complain that he doesnt make enough.
It's the owners job to plan things so they do make more. Cheaper costs, better negotiations with suppliers, etc.
In short, they always make exactly as much as they should.
Nothing could be more true!!! Cheers, a guy from former East Germany, and I know
You just used a double negative. What you meant was:
Nothing could be more true.
OR
It couldn't be more true.
Patrick Hennessey thanks for the correction. Dumb mistake of mine. Won’t happen again. I hate when someone can’t use language properly.
@@surethebest I hate what u did here.
But certainly worth appreciating ,
U are a very smart man..
@@surethebest We know what you meant. Don't have to apologize.
@@surethebest
Why diont you ask Patrick if he would write a few sentences in German
This is the best explanation of capitalism - in simple, succinct statement.
The very fact that he has to explain this concept to this crowd says a lot about our school system
Huh? That’s his speech. Nobody said please explain this to us. It’s his speech
Also the Ritz pays lots of taxes, expensive liability and workmans comp Insurance’s and a load of hidden expenses!
This is a 100% true story. I have worked for a struggling busines where they did not have enough to make payroll at the end of the week. Perhaps more than one as some were more private about things than others. When that happened, and it did more than once, someone had to make an additional investment in an awful hurry before the banks closed on Friday and then no pay checks would go out. I did NOT want to be the owner. I did not envy the owners. To their credit, no one had to go without a paycheck when that happened. Their bank accounts shrunk but we got paid. The owners EARNED every penny they got when things got better. And I, for one, was glad for that and for them.
Yes, they did borrow from bank(s). But they had to repay those loans. It is called capitalism and it is, so far, the best system that we have invented.
Your last sentence is the key. We've tried communism as an alternative, it doesn't work.
We don't have a perfect way of distributing wealth, and we never will, but we know that what we have now is WAY better than having everything controlled by the state.
People don't understand what a gift it is to be able to choose where to spend their own money. A gift, and a responsibility. Vote with your dollars.
I agree with you 100%. I also find it incredulously ironic that those who make billions from capitalism suddenly feel they have the authority to tell others how to live (i.e. Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, et al).
@@MrWayneJohn1 yet it isn't them who tell you how you have to live.
@@victorhopper6774 Many of the ultra-wealthy influence politics to make the masses toe their desired line, so yeah, the do try to tell us how to live.
@@MrWayneJohn1 try and do are two different things. are you a child.
This is THE best description of my beloved capitalism I’ve ever heard. Thank you sir!! Will someone please show this to Robert Reich
This is Economics 101, the fact it has to be explained in 2021 shows how fast we're retrogressing
The fact that you have invested 50 million into a hotel, means you get the lions share of the profit. The valet has invested nothing
Wrong actually. The valet has invested time. That's where it ends though. Time. Their time gets exchanged for currency (a paycheque). A straight up exchange of time for money.
The owner had to first come up with the idea...then the financing for his idea...then the permits and regulations for that idea...then the additional insurances as required by law...then the OpEx (all the material used by the idea)...then the bills to pay when the idea is realized...then the payroll...and if they have a bad day, sucks to be them. If the valet has a bad day they still get paid money for time. That never changes.
If this was just the owner and the valet, then an argument *might* be made for a bigger share of the profits since really only one of two is doing any actual work...but when you are one employee of hundreds or more, you have no leg to stand on. If you want more money for the time you spend, then better yourself and get a different role that compensates you more for the time.
The left simply doesn't understand this most basic principle.
I dislike this idea as there is no explanation of the car park land cost rent insurance etc
100%. Any idiot can park a car. Few "idiots" can execute & build a brand into a globally recognised entity of luxury...
@@BigDaddyJinx American business does not respect a good worker. The valet in this example has work ethic and loyalty. That should get payed for as well. What is their customer service? How do they handle the cars? What extra tasks to they do to improve the job? How much experience have they accumulated? How long have they worked for the company?
Then there are other issues that should be addressed, by the not only the employee, and business owner, but the community of the city, and the politicians. What is the the cost of living in the city? How accessible is education, and health care? Access to education makes a better employee, and citizen. Access to health care makes a better employee, and citizen. What transportation is available for the citizenry? If the cost of living comes out to 40 bucks an our, why are we paying 15? However we should also ask, WHY is the cost of living 40 bucks an hour?
@@zadekeys2194 Your flaw is dismissing the valet as an idiot. That is what is wrong with out society. Respect the people working at all levels. They contribute to society. IT does not matter of they are flipping the burgers, or designing the building, honest contribution is valuable.
I remember having a similar conversation with some fellow employees back in the mid 1990's. They were complaining they weren't paid enough and that the owner should give more. I explained to them that they get to come in and work 9-5 (in which "work" was what they did only half the time), they would take 2 hour lunches, and numerous smoke breaks. I explained they didn't have to go find the work. That was the owner finding the work for us. When the client complained it wasn't to them but the owner. When the work was coming to an end (contract) it was the owner busting his butt to find more asap to keep everyone employed lest they lose them to another studio. The cushy desk they sat at, the studio they worked in, all paid by the owner. And of course if things went south, they would just go to another studio, whereas the lawyer would have to pay back all the loans out of pocket. No stress for them. It all went on the owner.
Did they agree? Nope. Just mumbled and turned to each other with the same whining so they could feel supported in their selfishness.
2 hour lunches? And they weren’t fired? Please!
@@gwarlow tbh it's same almost everywhere in the world. It is very hard to control your labour and get them to do any work properly for 8 hours unless it's work under a roof, by which I mean in a factory or building. And if you fire them, then they start crying about wives and children and needs and in US it might even turn into a protest nowadays. If you're a local businessman that's a huge problem.
I always thought my country has bad education system , guess America has worst ones .
There must be some people who are offended by his explanation.
"Racist bigot, homophobe, white-supremacist, Nazi, fascist, misogynist, chauvinist, patriarchy, xenophobe, transphobe."
- Most certainly a leftist.
Fuck those guys
Yes, they're called Communists
Aren't there always?
OFFENCE ......is big business, my friend.
Very low risk
very low reward.
Very high risk
very high reward.
This is too intelligent for Democrats and Socialist to understand.
People also conveniently forget that high risk leads to high losses in most instances. They only see the successful results of the few and disregard the combined losses of businesses that failed. Only thing they know is that they want a part of the reward.
Excellent video. But Dinesh D'Souza always makes great videos. He is a smart man!
Dinesh D'Souza , Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles , Rush , et al are the reason the left hates debate and must crush free speech at all cost.
My father was a lawyer. He opted for a secure job rather than start his own practice. He made far less than those who started successful law firms ( and I suppose far more than those who started unsuccessful firms). He never complained about the trade off he made.
My grandfather who was an Italian immigrant with a 3rd grade education understood Capitalism better than these students. He worked hard in a factory his whole life and always admired his boss for the “smarts and guts” it took to go out and open the factory that gave him work for his entire life.
Not to mention FICA taxes. Everyone overlooks how businesses pay for their employees insurance which is mandatory by law
Pay half
RJ 1999 they’re still paying it lol
@@rolandgibson156 lol true
its so true in the beginning years of my business my staff went home many a time with more money in their pocket then I did.
That's me right now. All of my workers make 30 to 100 percent more than me.
Also a buisness owner and I completely agree. The grass is not always greener.
And you probably work in the weekend as well and overtime during the week
@@alexdawson868 Yep
Having a business is very hard. Best of luck to all you. I hope it pays off one day. 👍
This is correct. I worked for an arms importer for awhile. I started in one of his retail stores as a salesman. It turns out I am really good at selling guns, I sold more guns than anybody he had before, during or after my tenure there. But what good would my talent do me if I had no place to use it? He spent his life building the business, risking, sacrificing, taking loans that needed to be paid off, hiring, firing, training, dealing with myriad government agencies, insurance, catalogs, flyers, manufacturers, other importers, foreign officials and red tape overseas....the list is almost endless. I came in, opened up the shop, sold guns and went home. Should I get the profits? No, I should get exactly what he and I agreed upon and I got that and more. After I moved on to another job he let me still have shifts on the weekend to make extra money. When I left the business entirely he still encouraged me to come by and constantly told me he was proud of the things I was doing. I got enough, and I was happy that he was able to do well.
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When we employees work at a job, we (typically) wake up, go to work at lets say 8 am, work until 5pm and then go home and dont have to worry about anything. The boss on the other hand usually have to work all day and can't just leave at 5 if something urgent came up. They have so much responsibility. What lefties dont get is that responsibility is one of the main factors to your pay, not how hard your job is physically.
James-you have a knack for selling guns, why not cough up the $ for an FFL and go into business for yourself? It may take a year of little income, but it will pay you many times over in the long run. The sense of self-reliance is very satisfying. It took me 10 years to grow my printing company from $0 sales on Day 1 to a $million/year in sales, with many sleepless nights, but would not trade the life I led for anything.
@James
I always enjoy doing business with folks like you , , someone who shows up does their job knows their job , makes money for the company they work for in order to continue making the money they agree to work for , under conditions they both agree is profitable to each other ,
Friend , THAT is true capitalism in a nutshell , , , always hope to find like minded folks to do business with ,
Im totally blown away that he even had to have this conversation......i hope he was talking to 10 year olds.
No, he was talking to college students. Pretty complex stuff; most likely went right over their heads (snark).
You want more money? Go start your own business! See how that works?
@Amused No, they won't be in for a surprise. They know it or they'd have started their own business already.
Dennis M, another perspective on this point is if they understand how business and economics work, but are “unwilling” to put in the effort to start a business, then a logical assumption based on them “understanding” would be that they would be willing to work for wages without expecting the business’ profit to be paid to them too.
Another point that people miss, that pisses me off to no end - That $15/hr job that you have? Nobody forced you to accept it! The job was open, you ACCEPTED the terms, including the pay rate, and you AGREED to take the job! There is no overlord, no slave driver, no chains.... There is NOTHING keeping you at that job, other than your own unwillingness to do something else. There is no one to blame (or thank) for your own position, but YOU! That is what the American dream is all about. YOU control your destiny. And I had my own business. I took the risk. I was the one who worked day and night and most of the time, 7 days a week. Not the employees. For the first 5 years, my employees made more than I did. So when I sold it, I'm expected to share the proceeds with the employees? I think not. Anybody who supports Marxism or Bernie Sanders, or any of the other whackos in the democratic party are in for a RUDE awakening if any of them manage to get elected. Socialism sounds great until they wake up one morning and realize that we are all equally poverty stricken and the only person living in luxury is Czar Bernie....
@@aliveandwell829 What happens if you don't have a job?
@@themelancholia There are millions of jobs available in this country right now. Look for one and get it. There is no excuse.
It's truly ridiculous that some people need this explained to them. It's tragic that even then, some of those people don't get it.
They don’t need this. It’s just him talking. And lying of course
Thank God for you Dinesh! Keep the truth and information flowing..as long as it's truth.
When i was a kid, i saw my grandfather having an argument with a subordinate. The subordinate was absolutely sure he was right and refused to follow my grandfather's instructions. The employee was so sure of himself that he offered to bear all responsibility if he was wrong. My grandfather then said to him: "Doesn't matter what you say to the judge or our customers. The responsibility will fall on me. I will be ruined and arrested, at best you can go to jail with me, if I can convince them it was your fault, but there's no possibility for me to not go to prison, with or without you." "If youre right," he said, "we lose money, but if youre wrong, i lose everything, and im not going to jail because of you. You either do as i say or go work somewhere else." He said all that yelling in pure anger. The employee got the point, and so did i.
At that day i understood why my grandfather earned in a month what his subordinate earned in more than five years. My grandfather had a dairy industry and any mistake in manufacturing could cost the company's reputation, the work and sacrifice of family's generations, and even his freedom. Responsibility is why directors earns more than subordinates, for the subordinate its just a job, but for the owner, its everything.
Dairy cows are task masters.
My main issue with what he shared is that these kids have already been dumbed down so well that I bet less than 5% of them had the first clue what he was talking about, even as simply as he put it.
There’s nothing wrong with the realization that you are making a ton of money for someone else.
It SHOULD spur you to figure out how to better yourself.
That is one of the great things about capitalism and is what inspires others to actually go out and do better. If I see you making more money than me while running the same type of business I will do everything I can to find out just how you are doing that and try to improve my own business the same way.
The problem is entitlement, kids spend 25% of their life having their parents give them everything while not actually learning how to do it themselves. If my kids want money then they will have to earn it by performing work around the house and in the yard. Even telling them that they have to work for their food and clothes will go a long way even though they will be getting it regardless, it will instill responsibility and a work ethic into them and remove that sense of entitlement.
@@unitedstatian I'm a Gen Z and I'm so grateful to my parents for not raising me to be an entitled leftist. If I wanted to have something, I'd have to get good grades, do chores, etc. You know what's funny? I was born and raised in Vietnam, came to The US at 19 for college, and that's when I first met a self-proclaimed Communist.
Best comment on this list!
@@heylo5274 how about you get good gradss work hard and still become a leftist?
This.....
No one is making you work there so if you don't like how things are going then you can quit and go somewhere else and try your luck there
The best way to answer Marxist is by asking questions:
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Marxist: "I park the cars. I deserve $3000!"
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Me: "If you deserve $3000 per day, quit your job and go convince someone to let you park cars and pay you $3000 per day."
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Marxist: "But....uh...err, where will I park the cars?"
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Me: "That's for you to decide. You get to find a location you think people will want to come visit where they need a place to park. Then you will go get a mortgage for it, buy it, get zoning to approve your proposed usage, hire an architect to design it, hire a builder to build it, borrow the capital to buy the materials to develop it, write checks while all this is going on and no income is coming in, pave the parking lot, license it, pay taxes on it, hire an advertising firm to get the word out, and in about 12-18 months from now and $10 million later you can start parking cars."
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Marxist: "I don't know how to do any of that, and I don't know anyone who will loan me $10 million."
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Me: "Exactly. And that's why you do not deserve $3000 per day just for parking cars."
This needs subtitles for ALL languages. So we can show it to people all around the world. So on point.
And even after this their next response to this is "Yeah, but still..." and then come up with some stupid argument.
They don't listen.
Can't remain a leftist for very long if you are not severely obtuse. 😏
@Mr Brightside and describing the failures of Marxism philosophies as "doesn't work" massively understates what happened. Over 100 million corpses is marxism merely "not working". When people say Marxism hasn't worked yet spits on the graves of everybody who died at the hands of it.
@Mr Brightside I'm not blaming you. I know you know marxism in all of it's various forms sucks. It's just sometimes the phrase "it didn't work" vastly understates what happened. People who are pro marxism say "it hasn't worked yet, or it hasn't been done right" which suggests they can do marxism better then those that have come before them. Which is such an arrogant statement.
I mean... My response would be more like: There is no reason the workers can't fulfill those three factors. They could (1) come out with an idea collectively; (2) I forgot the second point but I remember it was as dumb as the rest; (3) The workers salary would be the profits of the company, so if the company isn't making much the workers just wouldn't get paid: They own the company, they aren't employees. I'm sometimes amazed at the sheer stupidity that some people that talk in public has; and here I am, with hardcore anxiety that's telling me that I'm too stupid to do anything while people like these exist xD
@@gentleman-kl3rp Communism doesn't work my friend.. 100 million corpses to prove it. It's been tried in all variations, and has failed tremendously.
Dinesh totally channeling Milton F. here. Even down to the phrasing and gesticulating. This is not a bad thing!
Excellent presentation. It was insightful but simple enough for even a democrat to understand.
Dinesh D’Souza is such a smart and wise man!!!
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@Dinesh D’Souza, Will you be doing any appearances or speeches in Arizona any time soon? I would love to see you in person and meet you some day! 👍 You are TRULY my favorite Celebrity! 💜
Obama to business owner: "You didn't build that". Business owner: The hell I didn't."
Business owner: "Anything I didn't directly build, my tax dollars paid for, you goddamned socialist."
Coal Miner to Coal Boss, "Boss which costs the company more a dead miner or dead mule?" Coal Boss, '"A dead mule of course. We have to buy and feed mules. We can always hire another miner."
@@dustymiller2912 There are more waged people 's tax dollars paying for everything else, than employers tax dollars. So the infrastructure that your business relies on came from everyone else. Not everyone wants to desert their family and work more than 8 hours a day, never meeting their children, and no holidays for years.
You might be a robot, but many people are human, and want a life outside of work. Whats it all for, just to be able to sneer at other people who aren't rich.
You might consider that it maybe that you are thick skinned and selfish, and haven't a clue about the point of life,and that your opinion isn't in fact a normal opinion, it could be you that is an oddity.
@Alex C No; we need some people to take calculated risks and others to prevent them from dying when they faceplant so they can go out and do it again. Better that the others be less wild.
Plus, the Ritz Carleton still needs valet parkers. Probably better to hire non risk takers for that job.
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"There are more waged people 's tax dollars paying for everything else, than employers tax dollars. So the infrastructure that your business relies on came from everyone else."
First, you're missing the point that without employers, there wouldn't be employees - or wages. Jobs don't exist for the taking, in nature, and must be created by someone. Taxes paid by employees are in truth paid by the employer, so that's your first point taken care of.
"Not everyone wants to desert their family and work more than 8 hours a day, never meeting their children, and no holidays for years."
Entrepreneurship does not require deserting your family. About the rest, you think I don't know that? This is precisely why successful entrepreneurs are so rare, and must be valued so highly.
"You might be a robot, but many people are human, and want a life outside of work."
Interesting how you label people better than you as robots. You're defining being human as being less able - think about that for a second. What a classic ego-preservation tactic of the untalented, to claim that people who actually have talent and work ethic are somehow less than you, instead of more. Most people have no problem accepting that when one athlete performs better than others, he or she is considered a winner and better than the other athletes. But somehow, when it comes to success, all the unsuccessful people claim that those who succeed are somehow less than they are - robots, or heartless, or whatever. I find your psychology transparent and contemptible.
"Whats it all for, just to be able to sneer at other people who aren't rich."
When you reveal that you think that's how rich people spend their time, you're really revealing how you think and what you would do if you had money.
AOC and Obama need to watch this everyday
As a business owner for 30 years (construction) I've had the argument many times with many workers...They can't grasp the overall picture; they see the money and themselves. That's it.
I was looking for this video FOREVER! Thank you for posting it again!
BRAVO!!! I wish this is what my teachers sounded like back in the day.
So many people need their hands held.
I wish I could thumbs up this twice. That is exactly my experience with my businesses.
Forgot a couple things there. At just one of my plants alone, the electric bill is between $11,000 and $15, 000 a month. Let’s tack on the water, sewage, waste, argon, oxygen, Miller lease and service on welders and plasma cutters, overhead door repair, hoist lease and service, supplies provided to workers, hauler fees and licenses, insurance on the buildings, insurance on the haulers, insurance on the drivers, office equipment including paper, scanner repair and lease services, Dell computer lease and repair services, recycling fees, systems licenses, oh, outside there’s forklift lease and repair, materials purchase to build the product... property lease, property tax, required inspections, health care for workers.... And, workers salary. It blows peoples minds sometimes that 1billion dollar company could be in the red for two years straight, until you are the one signing the paychecks.
I would venture the vast
Majority of employees have no clue as to what has already been spent on the business the day they walk in and apply.
I have a small business and all I build are sheds and do finish out in them. To start with let’s say minimum $15,000 for a truck, $3,000 for a trailer, $2,000 for a cargo trailer for tools, on the low end $7,000 for tools, I have a $1,000,000 dollar insurance policy which cost $400 a month, a $250,000 bond that was $4,000 for the year, gas cost at $2 a gallon and I get 10 miles to gallon. If I hire a good framer it is minimum $20 an hour for him. So yeah I understand!! Yet they want someone like me that works hard just to get jobs and then to do the actual work to just give them part of my profit or all of it because they are to lazy to do what I did. I can understand why that makes perfect sense to them. All the rewards and none of the work!!!!
Actually, Dinesh did not forget. What you mentioned can be summed up in one word, 'Risk' which he did mention.
@@DC7BQCThe Ritz-Carlton was build by workers, and the water, electricity, carpets and furnitur and you name it was produced by workers. All of the surplus value belongs to the workers ...
@@torbenpetersen8983 There would be no Ritz-Carlton without the man who thought of it and risked someone else's money to build it. Same goes for everything that went into building it. If he didn't think of it and built it there'd be no Ritz-Carlton then the 'workers' would all be standing around in an empty field with nothing to do and no wages to be earned and no surplus value for any one. Did you not listen to a word D'Souza said?
This was so interesting! D’Souza is a great orator, and a killer!!! I can listen to him speak and perform for hours (if only I had the time)! 💞
We the people are guilty of the insanity we live with today. We let this happen!.
Going forward we the people have to be more than sunshine patriots.
We have to commit to being active participants and contributors to the running of our country.
We have been the weakest link.
This man never misses.
This needs to be taught in schools more. Exactly the way he said it.
But that wouldn't fit the narrative
@@joltedjon Sad, but true
Interesting statement said: the worker takes a fixed wage for security. It’s a good point
The worker exchanges something later for something now. The capitalist exchanges something now for something later.
It's basic commerce. I exchange my time for your money. That's the economic engine of the world as we know it. Time for money. Well, time and effort of course but that should go without say.
of course. The wage is basically interest on worker's time. Similar to banks - bank lends you money at a fixed interest and what you make on top of it is yours. Now, imagine a Marxists coming and saying that since the bank provided the capital and only got paid the interest it should get the whole profit.
@@vojtasks Huh?
@@bradchristy8429 I am explaining that to you in the full context
As a CPA I did books for one of those mail box shipping centers. The business sold US postage stamps at a price higher than could be bought at a USPO. Many customers complained that they were paying more than they would at the post office. He asked me what to do. I advised him to post a sign that states "a sale without profit is merely a donation with risk". He never received any more complaints.
WELL said. Cogent explanation to address a gross oversimplification.
I have a buddy who worked for nothing trying to get a business started, and 6 months later after not making enough money to have the business viable, he had to accept failure, call bankruptcy and have that blemish on his record. 100% of the employees just went out and got another job, within a few weeks they were okay. None of them lingered around the failed business to help clean up the pieces or help with the financial ruin. He ended up losing his house, his marriage and it took him nearly 5 years to psychologically recover . Socialists wants a piece of the pie with a successful business, but nobody wants to accept the risk that it just might fail and the consequences that go with it.
The guy parking cars would have no income at all if not for the job offered, so....
Well duh! I can't believe this has to be explained to people older than 15 years old.
And you only mentioned "Some" of the employers on costs!!!!! such as State and Federals wanting their cut!!!! .... Then comes the BANKS and shareholders.
This clip should be obligatory watching for every student in every college in the world. It takes a metaphorical baseball bat and batters ignorance into a pulp. What a brilliant mind and delivery of the concept.
It's very disturbing that youngsters these days actually need to be explained these very basic concepts.
This dude is right on the money!!
Wow brilliantly described. Took alot from this.
A marxist: Read Marx's book
A capitalist: UNDERSTOOD Marx's book
which is why conservatives don’t even bother to read Marx’s books and even then fail to understand them. Which is why böhm bawerk was refuted by Andrew kliman after the former tried to make claims of “inconsistency” in das kapital. someone who actually understands Marx will become a Marxist.
@@surafelgeleta6441 Research how Marx actually lived his life vs the philosophy he espoused.
@@surafelgeleta6441 Foolish statement. That's like saying reading the Bible will make you a Christian. Have you read the drivel Marx wrote? Now read the Bible.
@@surafelgeleta6441 this is the main problem of all dogmatists - you pretend that your ideas and your point of view is the predominant, and everybody who doesn't agree are just bunch of idiots, who didn't understand.
Let's begin with that I have read Marx and analyzed him:
1) His style of writing is a total disaster.
He had a lot of problems with constructing his point of view in order to make it clear for a reader. If you write something that pretends to reveal and disapprove some mainstream ideas, you must work on your writing skills.
2) He uses very simplified models and ignores everything else. As you may know, in his reasoning about economy he simply throws out the service sector, by calling it "non-productive" and because of that he thinks of it as a "non-sufficient" in his schemes. So, his world only consists of a capitalist who runs a large manufactory and of the labor, which is being exploited.
As we can observe nowadays, this is simply a total idiotism. The service sector is one of the important sectors which is responsible for redistribution of wealth.
I presume that when Marx was writing his books, the economy was a little bit different(one of the reasons why his ideas are totally irrelevant in the modern World), but I am not sure that the difference was SO sensible.
3) His ideas have nothing to do with facts
Not even one of his predictions has ever took place. If you have even one, please, share.
4) I would say that about 90% of his "ideas" were not fresh at all. He simply took something there, something here and adopted them.
The only thing that I hadn't heard about while was reading his books - the idea of exploitations according to surplus value.
5) His view on historical development of society is full of contradictions and questions, especially about the classes struggle as the main driver of development.
I have recited the common claims that aroused in my head. Of course, there are tens and hundreds of them if we make a deep analysis.
@@surafelgeleta6441 "someone who actually understands Marx will become a Marxist". So you begin your statement by implying that there will be universality on something entirely subjective? That's rather ironic considering that's one of the known inherent flaws of the ideology you're raving about. I mean, surely you don't believe that Marx is so infallible, NOBODY could understand his work but simply disagree? (This is one of the reasons why many people find Marxists cult like.)
His philosophy is sophomoric. For one, he was so consumed with the dichotomies necessary for dialectical materialism, he consistently oversimplified the hell out of things to force them to fit into his philosophy. One obvious and simple example is his bourgeoisie vs the proletariat paradigm. There are plenty of other classes that are not accounted for in that paradigm, but without a dichotomy, Marx's dialectic materialism really didn't hold water. This was one of the criticisms Mises always gave of Marx's work, but there are dozens and dozens of other examples. It's a well known flaw.
Not to mention Marx's many failed predictions. For example, Marx predicted that capitalism would produce one tiny upper class and a gigantic lower class, when in reality, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT COMMUNISM PRODUCED!! Meanwhile, free market economies have produced by far the largest middle class in the history of the world. The reality is the opposite of Marx's prediction. Which is pretty much par for the course for Marx. Or did I miss the whole, "workers of the world unite" thing? Ya, that prediction didn't pan out too well either did it? In fact, numerous 20th century Marxist philosophers spent their careers trying to explain why that particular prediction didn't pan out. In fact, that's the very reason we're suffering under Marcuse's strategy of repressive tolerance right now.
Here's all you really need to know. Any ideology that effectively requires a total transformation of human nature to succeed, is probably destined to fail. You're NEVER going to have universality of opinion on this. I absolutely understand Marxism, and I'm NEVER going to cooperate with it voluntarily. And there are millions more just like me. If you don't have a guy pointing a gun at us, we're going to create goods and services that we then trade with each other in mutually beneficial voluntary exchanges. Which means just like every other time it's been implemented, your Marxism will need to be glued together with authoritarianism and intimidation. Haven't enough people died for this goddamn cult?
I could listen to D'Souza for hours. Such an intelligent and well spoken man.
Spot on👍
I agree with you D'Souza. I grew up watching my parents built my family business from nothing. They had to sleep 4 hrs a day and work 16 hrs or so everyday. No vacation. No fancy cars. Nothing. This went on for years and years. We pay our employees 3x the minimum wage but they're still complaining. Our workers want all the profits, but they don't share the risks and losses.
What I've notice is that in order to be a Marxist or Socialist, you have to be a Democrat first. Which explains a lot.
Remarkable that living breathing souls require an explanation of capitalism. Who gutted their "thinking" brain?
todays liberal colleges
The entire school system
Thanks for this explanation mr d'souza......you see i leave in nigeria, and for years i have been explaining this to friends who hates capitalism.
And then we get into Credit Lines, then we get into ESG scores and then we run into all sorts of problems 😒.
"If you can't handle me at my lossest, you don't deserve me at my profitest."
-The means of production.
The expansion of capitalism has reduced global extreme poverty by nearly 80% in just the last few decades. Much of Africa remains impoverished today not because they are unable to provide for themselves, but because their governments have so many anti-business laws and regs, it's impossible for entrepreneurs to operate. The corruption stems from bribes paid to go around these laws, creating a defacto separate tax that many cannot afford along with regular start up costs. If this was reformed, African countries could develop like China and India have in the last three decades, and you wouldn't have nearly an entire continent dependent on western handouts, a purpose-less and humiliating way to live. They could proudly pay their own way and much of the corruption would disappear. As long as they keep these hostile environments, the rest of the world will continue to leave them behind, leaving them subject to the worst forms of poverty. If you care about poor people, be a raging capitalist, it's the only system that has consistently improved their lives and no amount of freebies will change that.
Free Radical and what caused the industrial revolution
fascinating that people still need this explained to them
Absolutely Brilliant
Amazin!
Ahhhh MAZIN
Shady Pillow He blat!
I have tried to explain this to my lib friends. Thank you for saving me the energy!
Yup, most people don't want to take the risk. I've offered people shares on the company for artwork and they want the money and not a percentage of the profits.
So would this valet accept not being paid anything if for some reason there were no vehicles for him to park?