My parents grew up poor, but through their lives managed to acquire considerable wealth. I've watched them change from being very involved in charities and community building, to criticizing the poor for not working hard enough. "Nobody wants to work anymore!" is their motto these days. They refuse to accept that times have changed- that when they were young and starting out, the economy (and government programs) enabled people to buy homes, and build businesses more easily. That incomes (even for single income homes) allowed people to do and buy more. Basically, they were lucky to be born in the post-war economic boom. Yes, they also worked hard, but in the end, that hard work was much more rewarding for them and their generation, than it is for those that came after.
I find the only way to make people understand is to pull up all the stats for incomes and life expenses and show it by year and hourly wages. Basically take all the thinking out of it and simply feed them all the answers.
When I hear the "no one wants to work" BS, I try to inform said individual that the unemployment rate is 3.5%, which is its lowest level since the 1960s. They spout easily correctable, false nonsense, intended to condescend, as though their feelings on the matter make make it true in reality.
Naa idk tocme it sounds like they had a very "good reason" to change... I'm willing to bet quite a lot of money the reason is you Spoiled ungreateful entitled kids/generation does take away from my charitable spirit I bet its the same for your family
Yup, my parents are exactly the same. It's much easier for them to come up with complaints about all the "whiners" rather than actually think critically about the current state of the world/economy. As if suddenly every human was born lazy. It's ridiculous.
I never believed that rich people would be that weird. But then I had a relationship with a daughter of a mega rich landlord. She was a very nice person but the money messed her up is no many ways. She was gifted a sports car from her dad for getting a highschool diploma and always said how she had earned it. She worked hard for it because school was tough. And when she moved in my small apartment because it was so close to the university, she refused to contribute anything to the rent. When we broke up and she finally moved out, she even stole a bunch of my stuff. Every study this video talks about was so clear. Later I found out she got trialed for a hit and run shortly after the breakup. Rich people just live on another planet. On top of our planet, suffocating it.
@@AAhmou Yeah I know how it sounds but I say what video is telling. Being raised in a giant mansion with unlimited money changes peoples world view and makes them entitled. But I guess you never know for sure how somebody would have been, both a normaly humble person being raised with a golden spoon or a rich person being humbled in poverty
I'm impressed everytime someone richer is miserly 😂 and omg she really thought people get cars for grades? But that's what happens to your world view when it's limited. Flip side, people on low incomes believe their lifetime of work isn't even worth a sports car.
When I took a college class on criminal justice the professor made a good point. If you commit a crime and are only expected to pay a fine that isn't significant to you then it's not a punishment, it's a price. If the rich could kill and only pay a fine do any of us think they wouldn't be doing it whenever they felt like it.
I mean, i doubt that the teenager that killed four by drunk driving got that much of a consequence. My money is on him getting of far easier than less wealthy drunk drivers. In conclusion, yes i certainly think they would kill people if all there is as punishment is a fine. Edit: Looked up the kid, two years, that's what he got, which in Texas is the lowest punishment of years, 20 years being the hightest. Oh and a fine of up to 10000 dollars.
@@belgarath6388 you are right, the point my professor made was also ignoring the fact that the rich can afford to hire better lawyers who can better limit or even remove any real consequences for them AND haggle down the "fine." Truely the US has a great criminal justice system with no problems what so ever.
@@belgarath6388 just today or yesterday a man deliberately drove through a homeless charity (search: Food Not B*mbs) (but replace the * to make the word a thing they use in wars) and was charged for murder but he'll probably get off in 3 weeks because it was a homeless charity
Beau of the Fifth Column once mentioned a rich person who calls speeding-tickets "a go fast license", as in, the price you pay to go faster than the speed-limit, essentially a VIP pass. Corporations do the same thing, they estimate how much fines will be for breaking the law and if it will be more than the profit they make from breaking said law and decide if they will commit crimes based on that, on whether committing crime will be profitable or not, not if it's wrong. 🤦
Um... they do. Maybe not directly, but their companies, their actions, their pollution for profit... it all kills. They MIGHT get fined, but more often than not those deaths are 'just the price of doing business.'
This video's really hit home for me. I live with 7 roommates in a sizable house. Rent, split between us, is roughly 40% of my monthly income. 6 of my roommates, most of whom I've known since high school, have a poor or working class background. One is a descendant of literal aristocracy with every bit of privilege that implies. She's a nightmare. She regularly steals communal food and refuses to replace it and gets passive-aggressive whenever she isn't sufficiently gaining monetary surplus or convenience from everyone else in the house. I've always found it baffling how can she watch the rest of us choosing between food or rent on any given week and think it's appropriate to complain about her own money troubles the evening after a ski trip from which she returned with multiple hundred dollar pairs of boots. Turns out, she really does think it's the same thing. Money really is a Hell of a drug.
It's nifty. I'm a fulltime paramedic, I make $17.85/hr and have to pick up 36 hour shifts on the regular to be able to live paycheck to paycheck. But I go into work, and we have a very large wealthy development in my county, and every night I go to these $2-4 million dollar mansions I could never dream of affording. These folks are always calling 911 for the aches and pains of old age. The ravages of time, and they've never had a problem they couldn't pay their way out of. It's so hard to empathize with their shock at having their joints and back hurt, that they really are just too weak now to get back up off the floor. Especially when my joints and back and soul hurt while I am only 26 and compensated like shit.
17.85 for being a paramedic..? Jesus Christ. I make just about a dollar less being an uncertified mechanic. Yall need to start unionizing _bad_ if that’s what saving lives gets you.
Paramedics need to be paid *way* more. That's a ridiculous wage for what you do. I agree with the other comment about unionizing. Y'all are getting abused by your employers. Especially because it cost patients a ton to have an ambulance come, so the employers should have the money to pay more.
@@tweaker1bms Stealing from rich people is NEVER a good idea. Not only do they have itemized lists of everything they own they have cameras EVERYWHERE and are inherently suspicious. They know exactly who comes in and out and if you happen to be someone not on their list of people allowed in their house guess what? You'll have cops/lawyers/dangerous people coming after you.
This just reminds me of stories I've read about Bret Easton Ellis when he was writing _American Psycho,_ how he wanted to write about a disaffected Wall Street yuppie, and how after spending a research day with a few rich Manhattan bankers came away thinking, basically, "the only way I'll make this believable is if I make him a *serial killer."*
My man double down on "feminists" years later. I don't blame him being fed up with mostly being known for American psycho just like the director of that movie but still.
I don't know about anybody else, but my existence as a working-class dude is almost entirely about worrying about money. Sleepless nights worrying about paying rent, or affording food. Rich people never, ever experience this element that defines us as normal people. If you grew up without ever worrying about money, how can you even imagine you have anything in common with normal people like me? Rich people are, effectively, aliens. That's not hyperbole.
If people should be normal, and you say sleepless nights worrying about paying rent is normal, then you are advocating for a worse world. No one should have to worry about how they will pay for shelter. Wealth absolutely rots your brain, but poverty isn't the solution.
@@maverick_osthey're not saying that we should opt for poverty, just that a rich person has as much grasp on what a normal person experiences as an alien would.
In The Hobbit they had a name for when people got rich, became extremely selfish and it drove them mad, they called it “dragon sickness.” I think we should start using that term irl
my ex was from a fairly wealthy family. .1%ers, though not on a bezos level. he was adopted, and the entire vibe being around these people was surreal. zero grasp of value, zero personal responsibility, zero instinctive empathy. just totally detached. im p sure my exes mom adopted him just to have like a fun collectible bc she immediately gave him to nannies and boarding schools for his whole life and not once acted as a mother. it was like a world of people who never developed a theory of mind, and just coasted through life not once grasping that other people are alive and have thoughts. once, we attended a dinner at my exes sister-in-laws place. she hired a woman (who was present) to do all the setup, cooking, and even play music. and _in front of her_ the SILs father praised his daughter for "doing SUCH a good job with dinner, everything was amazing!" because they all sincerely cannot distinguish between paying for someone to do something and personally doing that thing. for my exes mom, sending the maid to buy medicine = "i bought you medicine, im such a nurturing mom". theyre all fucking insane.
My sister is one of a team of part-time sitters/nannies for a wealthy family in northern California and it's just disgusting the level of disconnect they have from the reality of other people's lives. They spent something like $20,000 on pumpkins that they paid other people to carve for Halloween and then just threw away on November 1st. Sorry, paid a landscaping service to come remove from the property and dispose of. The kids didn't even give a shit.
They don't buy their own food, they don't cook their own meals, the don't drive their own cars, they don't do their own laundry, they don't make their own appointments and they don't raise their own kinds. But it's poor people that are lazy.
Literally saw a rich man eyeing a little girl at one of those charity dinners and he turned and asked the mother how much she wanted for her. What's terrifying is the woman actually looked over at her daughter for a worryingly long moment before turning back and politely declining to name a price. I don't know what's worse, the fact that the man clearly had unsavory intentions and was not buying a daughter or the fact that the mother had to think about it.
Rich people say you can go to an ATM when you say you don't have any money. When you say you're "between jobs" they think you're broke because you're unemployed and not in fact just clocked out from your day job and about to clock in to your night job so you can do a 60hr week with no overtime to make some rich person richer.
Meritocracy never existed. It's the modern version of "divine right of kings". It's like "white supremacy" and "trickledown economics" in that they are made up things that hurt everyone forced to act like they are real things.
@T I was referring to things like home ownership and low six-figure salaries. For the rich, those are crumbs but it's enough for middle class to treat the people below them the way the rich treat everyone.
I watched my parents lose their empathy and souls as their wealth grew. Now they’re rich and don’t have a relationship with either of their adult children. Hope they’re happy with their choices.
@@advisorywarning let you go homeless? My parents booted me out with a beating on the day I finished school. "I've given you your education how get out". That was a fun day. My son can live with me until he's fifty if he wants...! I'll never understand it.
These comments seem to me to highlight that money addiction is as socially corrosive as any other addiction. From seemingly normal people who get excessive wealth turning into money-hoarding sociopaths, to people who acquired excessive wealth because they were sociopaths to begin with, the mental and social health ramifications of money addiction need to be more closely examined.
As for my own mother while most definitely not as rich as yours ended up nor compared to those brought up in this video it seems quite evident to me looking back that she only cared about me for as much as my mental condition was worth in a benefit meant to help with costs specifically related to MY condition (Medicines, therapy, time off, etc) which she squandered on ciggies and gave me nothing in return, the moment I turned 18 and the moment it ceased she essentially held me at metaphorical gunpoint and told me to pay double its value in 'board' and made me go on a benefit to pay it as thanks to covid, the aftermath of homeschooling on my social skills and a total lack of help I was unable to get work. Throughout this time she'd just openly ignore me outside of sharing Chinese Food which even then she did less and less, kept effectively asking tribute every time I'd go buy myself snacks (I'd be afraid of her losing it if I didn't get some for her too, this being despite her approach being "Don't come don't get even if its your birthday" for the full 18 years prior) and would continue kneecapping my benefit money to the tune of 60% until a final fight over her descent into fascism and wasting of money that could've gone towards things she'd been repeatedly holding off or entertaining the both of us as we live in a town overflowing with entertainment opportunities as the place was built on the back of tourism. After that fight I simply decided I'd had enough, packed my devices and other items with sentimental value in a mental state I'm still shocked I even survived. I went and found help in the shit hours of the day from a group I'd been trying to use to get ready for work, who then got the mental health crisis team from the hospital involved, and after hearing this the only thing she cared about is the fact she didn't receive that week's board money and finished by stating that she should've just abandoned me the day I came out as bisexual.
I just had to write a document where an executive was bragging that he "Hired 5, made them work like 10, and paid them 7." Ummm if they are working like 10, PAY THEM LIKE 10. I hate these people so much sometimes.
But a Therapist is someone who is a completely disinterested stranger you pay to listen to your problems when expressing your concerns and troubles to those among your own social circle (friends) is a much cheaper option. Yet you engage or employ a therapist because it is considered more trendy or socially up-trendy to announce to those among your social circle (friends) you are seeing a therapist for your problems.
@@charliepotatoes001 that isn't really the point of a therapist. Therapists exist to help us relearn healthy versions of the unhealthy patterns of thought that we pick up from our parents and society more broadly. There is a component of sharing your problems, but you cannot substitute therapy with venting to friends because most of your friends have ideas that are just as fucked up as the ones you need to change.
@@charliepotatoes001 Damn right! That's why when I get sick I just ask around to my friends. Doctors are just disinterested strangers and really don't know anything that makes them more qualified or a professional in the industry. Friends are the answer for everything I guess
On IQ and Eugenics... my grandfather had all of his kids take IQ tests from a tester who was seeking to be certified. Out of the five kids, the eldest didn't understand the premise and answered many questions with word association. The youngest, my mother, was deathly afraid of men and barely answered questions. She was extremely young. Maybe first grade? But my grandfather has treated them based on these scores all their lives. And my mother's siblings have done the same. My mother is a sharp but kind woman who keeps in contact with her father, and he asks her why his children don't talk to him frequently. So when I took an IQ test to get into the Extended Learning Program, my mother refused to disclose the results to me. Same with my older sibling. She didn't want that same issue. She just wanted us to have a special class to intrigue our curiosities. IQ is such a horrible non-metric.
@@billithekat2742 No, I agree. Kindness should be valued in a society more than IQ (which isn’t even a good measure). My mother even has an above average IQ, whatever that means, but she went to a family wedding and her siblings said, “it’s okay to not be as smart as the rest of us.” And my mum, brilliant woman and amazing social worker, just says, “ah, I do really value emotional intelligence.” I wish I could be someone with her kindness, empathy, intelligence, strength, and dignity.
I had to take an IQ test as part of my ADHD diagnosis when I was in elementary school. After every bad German exam result I got told by my mother that according to my IQ test I'm good at German (not as a foreign language, I'm from Germany) and bad at math. In reality it was the other way around.
They've gotten their fans and apologists to write millions of words about how that level of greed is a necessary feature of rationality and that anyone who isn't as greedy is either lying or is mistaken. Where "mistaken" seems to generally be code for "failing to think like humans are supposed to, therefore subhuman."
My parents have done horrible things to me. I want them to realize that things like attacking me with knifes is bad and to apologize, they offered me a down payment for a house (which I won't accept, because then they would know where I live..... And would you let someone who didn't understand it is unacceptable to attack you with knifes know where you live?) They are confused, because they think money fixes everything. And if I tell them "hey that was bad apologize" they won't learn and will do something equally bad.
The very simple fact is that if you're a community-focused person, you don't get super-rich, because after the first million or so you stop trying to make more money, because you have (weird concept I know) enough.
You really only need a couple million to live a very comfortable life purely off of interest and dividends. It's pretty messed up, actually, that you can sit picking your navel all day every day and your bank account keeps growing, exponentially, with no need to intervene in any way.
@@SantasGAINdeer Just get an expensive hobby, like sailing or live in a country where it can be expensive to buy brand new apartments in the right part of town. My dream Yacht, the Hainstiger X1 Trimeran, cost around 5 millions, my dream appartment cost 2-3 millions, (and this is not even in the most expensive city), and some of the social projects I would love to create can easily cost a million in a year. So even with ten millions - I probably wouldn't be able to buy the Yacht and pursuit my absolute biggest dream
@@SantasGAINdeer I guess it all depends on where you buy it and what kind of house you wanna build - I think, here where I live, it would probably cost you more - of course also depending on the size of your pool, heated or not, and if you want roof over. 😁
@@SantasGAINdeer 10M is about what I'd need to live the next 40 to 60 years in peace. And I don't think I would have much left if I died, assuming about half of it will go to taxes and I want to have at least twice what I now have which is the social minimum, about 12k a year now. I would probably be kicked out of this house because it's social housing, so I'd have to start paying a lot more for housing than the 250 I do now, so 12k is what I will likely pay for a roof over my head and I'd pay full price for health insurance and taxes. With 24k a year I'd probably have about 100 dollars a week to spend vs the 70 I have now. That would be awesome.
Recently Jeff Bezos wanted to launch his new retro sailing yacht out of a shipyard in Rotterdam, but an old monument-protected bridge was in the way. The bidge was too low for the yacht's masts to pass below it. Naturally, Bezos lobbied the city to have the bridge demolished just so he could cruise his new toy through that channel. And he might have gotten away with it if vocal public resistance had not stopped it in its tracks, with many people threatening to _egg_ the yacht if it ever passed through. As if this was not gross enough, it turned out that the masts could simply be erected _after_ the yacht had passed through.. which is exactly what they ended up doing..
i live in the Netherlands and while this story is true, I do want to say that the company that built the cruise ship did this, and that they did not ask for the bridge to be demolished, just the middle part temporarily dismantled and then reinstated. Bezos would cover the bill but the Company was lobbying for it to happen with the City Hall. Since the bridge is a national monument that had in the recent decade been majorly renovated and the locals were told it would never be dismantled again, the public called bullshit. I'm mainly giving context because I think even without being hyperbolic this story is still insane. Moves like this from out of touch rich people reminds me of Fitzcarraldo. "I want my opera house!!! I want my opera house!!!"
@@aatsiii My dad made that mistake when he bought an air hockey table and it wouldn't fit through the front door, lol! Though that was a $50 garage sale find, and it would have been our own house we were dismantling if we hadn't decided to just put it on the porch instead.
I once heard someone describe their income as, "enough to not have to think about money all the time, but not so much that I have to think about money all the time" and it immediately became my life goal.
One of my far, far, wealthier friends told me straight up that some really rich people, when traveling, will just rebuy entire wardrobes instead of having to carry luggage and that absolutely shattered my brain
A wealthy kid I went to college with threw his clothes and dishes away and bought new ones instead of doing the dishes or laundry. He didn't use paper or plastic plates either.
This kind of thing is why a lot of rich people will talk about "minimalist lifestyles." What it actually means is that they can always afford to buy stuff so they don't need to store anything at home.
I did this once, by flying to Vegas for the weekend with only the clothes on my back, but just went to the Walmart off the strip. Jetsetter dreams at scumbag prices!
@@GhostOfEnkidu Except you didn't try to promote how much of a good person you seem to be by donating surplus clothing and items you no longer need or had a use for to the poor and needy thus re-covering part of your initial costs in tax rebates & exemptions. Because You Deserve It!
I mean, that sounds extremely alien and not necessary to my ears, but... is there really a problem? I mean, they are buying some clothes (helping the stores and the economy of the place they are visiting) and then I assume that they give away those wardrobes, right? That sounds like a win-win to me.
the story about the beach is insane. like if you're buying giant stretches of beaches just to prevent people from enjoying it you are a demon in human skin, no other way to say it
That's soooo common here in Chile, with certain regularity you hear in the news of some rich asshole preventing people reach beaches or outright trying to remove them from "their" beaches, even though the law is clear about it.
He didn't buy the ocean-front property just to prevent people from enjoying it, he bought it "on a whim" because he's rich enough to be able to do so. Once he had it, he figured it didn't make sense to let "the poors" hang out on the beach so close to his property.
Always, always, always there's somebody putting this on demons or wild supernatural shit. Nah, it ain't demons, the man is just a hulking cunt. Nuff said.
He's clearly trying to monetize it to some degree, I think he's kind of just flailing trying to avoid more public scrutiny which is why he's making literally no sense whatsoever. If he wins the case color me surprised if he builds luxury airbnbs with tall fences and huge private property signs. At a certain point when you have enough money you can only think about making the money you have print you more money.
My favorite Rich person story is about Mitt Romney. His first time inside a Walmart was a lame attempt to curry sympathy votes back in 2012. "Storm Relief Event" in Kettering, Ohio. They showed up there to give supplies to families in need but to do so bought $5000 of the supplies that were already going to be donated then refused to hand out the relief packages without people signing release forms for a Photo op with good ol' Mitt. That wasn't even the best part. The best part was when Mitt attempted to walk off with the goods prior to paying for them and was stopped and asked for the payment. Mitt's responce was that he has people for that and he doesn't even know what color money is.
Once saw somebody come out of a mulitmilliondollar house in Leucadia, California shaking a can of spray paint headed for the (legally parked) cars next to the stairs down to the public beach until she realized we were watching her. She wouldn't have even been able to see the beach from her house because it was under the cliff - she was apparently that mad about having to look out her window sometimes and see surfers? From the house she bought next to a surf beach?
The banana taped to a wall was made specifically as a commentary on the absurdity of the high art market! Right after it was bought by some weirdo rich person, the artist stepped over the barrier, took the banana off the wall, and ate it. It's a great example to use, but it's also even better than most people know :)
@@caden-reynolds or maybe you should…. After its sale, while still on exhibit at Art Basel, Georgian performance artist David Datuna ate the piece in an intervention he called Hungry Artist. The banana was replaced later that day.[26][27] No legal action was taken against him, though he was asked to leave the fair.[28] Datuna stated, "What we perceive as materialism is nothing but social conditioning. Any meaningful interaction with an object could turn it to art. I am a hungry artist, and I am hungry for new interactions."
That's because "high art" is really just a money laundering scheme. It's kind of amusing that people don't get this, especially poor/unskilled artists who then proceed to price their works well above their actual value. And idc that they claim to have spent 53,000 hours painting their ex-girlfriends eyes, or that they think the tree against a barren landscape is some kind of groundbreaking socioeconomic commmentary, you aint Bukowski, this ain't mcdonalds, you don't get hourly, and this is why they'll find that painting unsold in some storage unit after they die.
I have relatives on both my mother's and father's sides who have ridiculous amounts of wealth compared to my family and some of my cousins. There is 100% a disconnect in their minds between reality and their frequent snowmobile trips and Caribbean cruises. My brother once had it out with some of my cousins over the water shut-offs in Detroit when they were literally just shutting the water off on poor people (which Detroit you may know has many, many of because of the short-sighted greed of some super rich people), and my cousins were of the opinion that basically if you can't pay you don't deserve something as basic as running water. It's freaking nuts, man.
Well unfortunately running water is something that has to be produced and takes money to create. The idea that it's "bad" to say that people should have to pay for something that *requires payment* to exist is a literal absurdity. Out of curiosity, how much money have you given to help poor people in need, and why are you not giving more?
@@superdog797 Yes, running water requires money to be produced- but... why not just use tax money?? That might require raising taxes, but... we could _also_ take money out of the over-inflated police budgets (paid for by taxes) and reallocate them towards things like water! You know, something that we all need to live, and it's ridiculous that we have to pay companies for something vital to staying alive. Note: _I'm a teenager who has not had to pay taxes yet, so pardon me if some of this is uh. Kind of inaccurate or otherwise a bit too simple._
@@fandomcringebucket hi mr. cho. it's good that you are giving thought to these kinds of topics and that you are able to ask questions. I'm glad you recognize that the kind of solution you're proposing is a bit of an oversimplification. There's nothing wrong with thinking about simple scenarios as a starting point for analysis. The trouble is that, as the phrase goes for all large-scale problems, the devil is in the details (the real challenges are in the actual details.) People have devoted their entire careers and lives to the study of economics, and economics is defined as the study of the distribution of scarce resources. "Scarce" in this definition simply means "limited" - the question, therefore, of economics, is how do we go about distributing the limited resources we have, given the inherent constraints and limitations that we do have? And what are the effects of each particular policy or plan that we use? You made a suggestion that we divert funds from police budgets to pay for water. Why don't you spend some time actually researching that? How much is the police budget? What do they spend their money on? What makes you think the budget is bloated? What would be a better police budget than the current one? Who should decide how large the budget would be? What effects on crime and safety in the community would removing funds from the police budget have? Would this money be enough to help some people get more water? How many people? How much water? Is it sustainable? You see, while it requires virtually no effort to sit around and suggest that "money just be made available" for this or that alleged social problem, what actually requires effort is the time to be able to formulate the _specific_ questions that are relevant, and then to provide actual evidence and facts and data relevant to answering those questions. Making new social policies without answers to such specific questions is in fact socially irresponsible - you might as well just base your social policy on random rolls of the dice - a policy change not backed up by facts could be not only no better - it could in fact be worse. Are you really sure that police budgets are bloated? If they aren't bloated and you take money away from them you're going to make society less safe. In fact, perhaps the police should be given _more_ money - maybe things would be safer if they had more money. Have you considered that? What evidence can you seek after or find to answer these kinds of questions? Unfortunately for you and everyone else in the world, there are no simple solutions. There are only trade-offs. If you take money away from one area to give it to another are you're going to get losses in one are (police safety) in exchange for, possibly, some benefit in another area (water availability). The _question_ really we should care about is what _are_ the specific trade-offs we can expect, and how can we know that these trade-offs will, in fact, occur? I would suggest that you spend time investigating these kinds of topics - you have all the information you need at your fingertips to investigate these things. Start by looking up police budgets and arguments about how much money the police should receive, and the effects police funding has on society. Unfortunately this is just the start of these kinds of investigations, but perhaps if you stick with this you can one day actually say with some confidence that you have some beginnings of a reasonable understanding of some of these situations and you are able to speak about them with at least a little bit of wisdom and fact-based analysis. It's nice to want things to be better for everyone but what we need isn't just well-wishes - we need facts and data that let us make better decisions.
This is the most important episode of your entire channel. I have felt like millionaires are mentally ill for a long time. I've always tried to explain to people but man your episode here really did a good job showcasing it. To me, this is the number one problem facing us today. It's unbelievable.
It certainly isn't something we often discuss or hear about. The rich clearly live in a separate world which is probably why we see them as far removed from us and don't normally care about them any more than we do about characters in a TV show. I realized we have the same disconnect with homeless people. We are their rich people and have no idea what their lives are really like. This episode is especially important because it actually shows how no one is really benefiting from capitalism as it stands. Bernie Sanders is too busy hating rich people to say they actually deserve our pity. He did an episode on Elon Musk (more than one) that made me feel pity for him because he is a human being in addition to everything else he is. If you heard the story of the creator of minecraft (Notch), he became a billionare, had some major hedonism, and came down from his high to actual depression and tweeting messed up garbage. His rich "friends" told him "you'll get used to it". He seems to have accepted that advice. I'm a bit of a hoarder so I imagine if I became mega rich I wouldn't easily accept that I'm not happy and give up my money or put it into some kind of charity or project. I'm so glad I'm middle class.
@@ericmollison2760 Capitalism isn't the problem. It's lack of social welfare and tax evasion by the wealthy (including you Mr MIddle Class), all of which can be fixed under capitalism with enough political will. Many countries do it well, not the USA though, USA is about the worst of the first world countries at it. Your disconnect from homeless people can be fixed by not being an ahole, just by the way. It's not really capitalisms fault, it's yours, but if it bothers you so much, I'll take your money off your hands. That'll fix it right?
To be honest, those with a high level of wealth AND those who go through life poor can BOTH be prone to mental health issues. If they arent grounded with a sense of purpose in life.
Isn’t it weird how if you have 6000 newspapers in your house you’re a “crazy hoarder” that needs immediate help. But if you hoard the world’s resources you’re just a successful business person.
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
"The mask of humanity falls from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone - everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the word. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world, then you know … that the bourgeois are not human.”
49:02 hearing "respected medical expert," then being spooked by Joe Rogan gave me an aneurysm from the cognitive dissonance. I request reparations paid in Beanie Babies.
As a philosophy major, this is something I’ve been thinking about for awhile. If you’ve noticed, we have these rich people stans where no matter what, apparently rich people are above criticism because A. any criticism means you’re just jealous (that’s not how refuting an argument works, that’s an ad hominem attack) or B. it’s just them being a genius and what do we know as people without wealth (this argument is literally saying rich people have some special skills or abilities and are to be trusted with whatever they do with their wealth…that’s literally social Darwinism)
Exactly!! Nevermind the fact that just a few minutes in a room full of rich people will make it brutally clear that most of them are dumber than a sack of rocks and twice as miserable. Those human-shaped black holes aren't positioned to advise us on ANYTHING.
We can prove that B is unequivocally false, due to how frequently the wealthiest businessmen bankrupt their companies and recieve golden parachute severance packages. (Trump, many many bank executives) Capitalism killed meritocracy.
It's the USA system of funding schools: average rent decides. How DARE I pay for SOMEONE ELSE'S kids!?!?!?!?! So people spend money to get in a wealthy district because that means their kids get an advantage, but that costs more and more people are wealthier than they are, so you will hear wealthy people claim they aren't wealthy, OTHER people are wealthy, and those other people have a bigger house or go further for holidays, or have more vacation houses or more land, or send their kids to better higher schools/universities.
They are also some of the most wasteful. I walk dogs in rich neighborhoods and my god they spend absurd amounts of money on the DUMBEST shit, usually to flex social status symbols. It drives me crazy.
@@dominican5683 This is literally my boss. The office for her business is in her basement and she is always spending to fill the emptiness she feels inside. I can't believe she 50+ years old and doesn't see that it will never work. It is actually disgusting to watch her go through a spending high and then she becomes irritable and bitchy when it never lasts or does nothing to help her life improve. . .so she will literally start the cycle all over again. And it is always shit she does not need or even want in some cases. It is depressing to both watch her do it to herself but all see a ton of money that could change my life just get burned in front of me.
Look how Mr. Cody profits off Warmbo while keeping him in a cage and exploiting him at every opportunity. Truly just another totally mentally fine rich person.
@@1239-d4s yeah I think he supports the working class puppets as long as the system isn't challenged in a meaningful way. He says he survives well on a healthy diet of "cotton candy" but I think it's just Cody's insulation.
Many of them are suffering right now since the classic Marshmallow Study didn't stand up to replication. They're working real hard to find another study that objectively proves that they're inherently more deserving of wealth
The rest of us are suffering because of them, and it is high time we start putting them out of our misery. We have a lot to learn from the French and early-twentieth-century Russians.
Claiming public beeches is popular activity in New England too. A fun thing I used to do with my family in Maine is to launch kayaks from a public beech and then land on the inaccessible public beeches. We didn't trespass on your land! We arrived by sea.
I know it wasn't on purpose, but reading beeches (beaches) as trees (beeches) makes this a waaaay more amusing image. Also sounds like a fun time. Never been in a sea kayak, but glad you and your family were able to get out to unique and inaccessible locations.
Goddamn y'all have been on fire these last couple of episodes. Its always fantastic, but the writing, performance and topics have been FUCKING brilliant and exactly what is needed.
I like that they're fucosuing more on the journalism part and the jokes are not as long-winded as they used to be. I was never a fan of the puppets either. This is what I'm looking for, information plus some running jokes. They are definitely in their SMN prime, their videos are tighter than ever before. Also, Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, lobbying, the GOP, the wealthy, these are interesting and important issues.
Weird to say this; but, your comment that people had kids during the black plague and that "it'll be tough, but it's ok" genuinely eased my daily anxiety about my two kids future lives. This is not a channel I come to for easing my anxiety, but you got me with that one. Thanks!
I had to keep reminding myself during the pandemic that even though it sucked having a toddler during a time all libraries and playgrounds closed, at least there weren't actual zombies running around constantly trying to eat our brains. Sure, things can always be better, but they can certainly always be worse, too. It's strangely pacifying to me, too, knowing people had kids during the black plague and that it was tough, but it's okay.
@@rakkatytam The 1920's didn't seem all that bad, really. I'm still waiting for a stock market crash in '29 to see if history really does repeat itself. We've already got a war going on in Ukraine right now that could potentially escalate to a WWI-status.
Good that anything makes you feel better. Regular people should never feel guilty about having a reasonable number of children... and yet many do, while billionaires fantasize about doubling the earth's population with their spawn and feel great about it.
Bruce Lee once said something like "Never compare yourself to anyone else, because you will always feel either superior or inferior. Neither of those emotions is desirable, because it will either spoil your character or make you feel miserable." It took me a while to really understand what he meant, but as soon as I got it and stopped doing it, my life became so much better in an instant. That statement holds more truth than ever today, imo. So many people are unhappy today because they spend so much time on looking into the "awesome" lives of others in so called "social" networks, instead of just focusing on their own lives. And it is also the reason for why the super rich simply become stupid assholes.
I'd argue, at least in America, that most people are unhappy because they can't afford to live. The minimum wage has increased 50 cents since I was born (I'm a dinosaur, this was in the 90's). There isn't a single state in the union where the minimum wage is livable. Most of my generation lacks access to housing, medical care and reliable access to food. Many of us spent tens of thousands of dollars on college degrees that in no way increase their earning potential. The material conditions of life are terrible and getting worse. I think the ability to ignore that fact from a place of shelter is part of why the rich are so sociopathically evil. It's hard to empathize with what it feels like to lay awake every night trying to strategize for bills in a way that keeps the wolves from the door for another month if you've never been in that position. The drowning man looks silly from the deck of your yacht.
Oof. This hits hard...just yesterday I had a meltdown in my doctor's office because my copay went from $20 to $140, and my car's check engine light turned on in the same 2 hours. I can't imagine how much less stressful my life would be, and what kind of person I could become if I didn't have to worry about all of this shit. Also, I work full time, above minimum wage, and I can't get by without side hustles.
welp, it's kind of the product of 40, almost 50 years now, (jeeze, time flies when you're having fun) of greed is good, we're number one oligarchy. Americans let this happen to themselves because they were sold a dream that they're not really poor, they just haven't become millionaires yet. Everyone's an aspiring actress in their head, nobody's a waitress. Fantastic wealth is just a positive affirmation away, and if you don't get it it's because you're lazy. And who needs those pesky workers rights or the organized labour that gets them those rights, right? Don't need to worry about minimum wage and middle class woes when you're on the path to riches, right? A fair deal for the overwhelming majority of your countrymen who AREN'T millionaires and billionaires, well that's just communism, right?
The health insurance crap in America makes my blood boil. I'm an American expat and whenever a talking head on TV criminalizes socialized medicine, I want to throttle them. The US insurance system SUUUUCKS. $20 usually means people with minor issues, like a sinus infection, will just power through it with OTC meds and be sick for 2+ weeks instead of just going to the doctor, getting good meds, and feeling better in a couple of days. $140 means you aren't going to the doctor unless you've been coughing up blood for a week straight. I now live in a country with affordable, not free, health care and I STILL won't go to the doctor after 20 years of conditioning unless it gets serious. My copay in Korea is less than $3! I do take my kids all the time, I was at the pediatrician's office 7 times last month for head colds. $2.50/visit plus $3 for meds each visit so $5.50x7 so a bit less than $40 for March with 2 kids alternating head colds. Growing up, our copays were $20 too so $140 without meds. I have no idea what standard prescribed head cold meds cost in the states these days. Btw, if you want to talk about wait time most ENT offices don't even do appointments. If they are super busy, it can be close to an hour (my kids' last doc was the most popular within walking distance. The other doc's staff was terrible) but usually between 5&20min. For other big procesdures, not a long wait time at all. Maybe a week for an MRI or colonoscopy. Basically every "negative" thing the media says about socialized medicine is entirely wrong and if more Americans were able to see how it actually works in other countries, they would be making big demands
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows expat. I've noticed that's what people who hate immigrants call themselves when they migrate to another country. Are you sure you're not a migrant worker?
Most people have to waste most of their lives (~6-10 hours + 2-4 hours commute) at crappy jobs that waste their time and leave them numb from exhaustion and stress just to try to make ends meet. Imagine what kind of world it could be if people could avoid that and have more free time to enjoy normal stuff and/or be productive. On the other hand, if rich people are any indication, that might not work, that might be a dystopia instead of a utopia. Humans suck. 🤦
I had a friend a while back who dated a fairly wealthy guy & he went to park somewhere with a sign posted & she was like "you can't park here, it's illegal" and he replied "no, it just costs ". And that about sums up rich people.
@@jooot_6850 for fines it would be great, payments ordered by court decision (dunno the term in english) should be based on income/net worth money is even more relative than time
Everything you said is something I constantly bring up in person and everyone thinks I’m being dramatic when I say the worst mental health problem facing the world today is other peoples greed. Wealthy people are absolutely insane. Absolutely. Thank you for this, let’s just hope this mentality gains traction. And things can maybe change one day. Yeah. Right. :/
I agree with you completely: money addiction is the most socially corrosive of all addictions. And like other addictions, I think we can test for it using brain function assays such as a set program of pictures and words paired with an EEG and galvanic response. These tests can be used for screening politicians, CEOs and private citizens, at least theoretically. I would like to see an epidemiological study of money addiction so that we can get a handle on the scope of the problem.
The empathy we need towards rich people was already put in practice once, on 21 January 1793 in France. It's a power dispute with people who have the power and are only willing to have more power. We can't adress the super rich problem without breaking society because society has been broken for decades.
I think we can break society step by step, via reform. History shows us revolutions usually end in violence and other, but still wrong, people getting in charge. Lasting change is created by a constant push, not a single strong hit. If there are enough of us, they won't be able to ignore what we have to say. It's also much easier to persuade people to join you that way. The vast majority isn't willing to risk their livelihoods in order to break the status quo. Slow and steady wins the race, no?
@@AltisiaK I'm suggesting collectivist reorganization. resources need to be evenly split between people in egalitarian society or humans will always fall into abusive power structures. look into chimp behavior research. no need to use power to intimidate - teach resourch sharing and physical and wmotional improvement prevent systemic abuse
@@scarletkittyeyes Who would be in charge of redistributing? How does one prevent that structure from corrosive corruption? How do you prevent quality education from being monetized and restricted to the wealthy? You come off as a good discussion :)
If you are a billionaire, you legitimately have enough money to build a town of affordable housing where the people you allow to move there pretty much agree with whatever you say and will shower you with compliments.
they never would, us section 8 occupants lower property value (by which i mean a bank does that to property estimates without our input or control due to a system no one will let us change but hey!)
@@falconeshield Funny fact China did and asked nothing for it XD they even lost 70 people building railways for Afrika in times when China was still rebuilding after war.
@@falconeshield Weird. Chinese billionaires are doing just that. Wonder how they outnumber American billionaires? Maybe they aren't hateful bigoted Nazis.
I am solidly in middle class, but holy shit keeping up with the Jones is effing REAL. I have definitely entered into buying shit I don't need to make myself feel better and it absolutely doesn't work. Having more money gives you just enough exposure to make you realize just how much money you don't have. I don't know how many times I've expressed, "I didn't even know this thing could be that expensive."
'solidly' Must be nice to be so confident in ones own means. Here's a tip, don't be an ahole, or if you can't help it, don't get worse. World is full of aholes already...
@RueBroadway This comment might change your life, and I truly hope it does. Listen carefully and repeat as many times as it takes for you to internalize the words and what they mean: Having expensive "Stuff" will never bring happiness. Say it a dozen times if needed. The long explanation for why expensive belongings don't bring happiness is this: 1. There is a cliff of diminishing returns. People who purchase "Expensive" items are essentially signaling they are socially insecure in their own self-worth. So, they seek out items that act as proxies of their self-worth. In the end it's a glaring red flag that these poor souls, no pun intended, have a self-identity and self-worth issue they need to address in order to achieve happiness. 2. No one cares about what you have. In fact, the most likely outcome of you keeping up with other's excessive purchases or outdoing them is they will envy and hate you. This explains why playing this game is a net loss to everyone. 3. This is a distraction from what really makes you happy. What really makes you tick. Everyone needs to sit down with themselves and ask the important question: What is the purpose I give myself? Purpose brings happiness. Once you identify your purpose, then you can set and achieve goals leading to that purpose and thus happiness. 4. You shouldn't' t care what other people have. If other's are putting themselves in tremendous debt to impress others, that will only lead to their misery. Why would you want to join them, even if misery loves company! Take it from me. I make enough money to "Impress" others. I drive a 10 year old truck I bought 8 years used and fixed up myself. I live in a middle class 1700 SQFT townhouse with middle class finishes. I wear clothes for 5-10 years. I cook homecooked meals every single day. I build my own furniture. Why don't I just "Buy happiness"? Because money never could buy happiness. That's the greatest lie that's been told to people.
Social weakness. Did your parents make sure you had everything your schoolfriends had or more, or did they say.. "no.. we are not buying that for you, if you want it you have to get a weekend job and pay for it yourself"? I learned at a young age to toughen up on that imminence front bs social pressure. It really is anti intelligent.
"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class." Heard that first when I played Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day and I've never forgotten it since. Quick edit: my boy Wiegraf didn't actually say this, but it still applies! Gotta love false memories lol
But then what's the alternative? How do you enforce smaller, much less serious offenses like disobeying traffic laws? Surely we can't enforce every single law with jailtime?
@@hittingyouoverthehead You can make the fine proportional to the person's income or wealth. In Finland, speeding tickets are proportional to income, so some multimillionaires have ended paying huge fines for speeding with their sports cars.
When I was like 10 I had this idea that I’d draw a blueprint of this massive mansion that would be filled with everything I could ever possibly desire. I only got as far as an indoor basketball court, ocean themed corral swimming pool and rooms so large I’d have an indoor four-wheeler to travel around the house before I moved onto doing something else. I basically ran out of shit I could want and got bored.
You mean you didn't think to spend $44 billion to buy a social-media company for as your private toy? 🤨 That's how rich people blow big money, by buying absurdly expensive stuff they have no need for and no business owning as an individual.
This is literally every kid I've known but with clothes, cars and video games. Like this was something their middle, lower and upper middle class parents will tell them to dream about in other to make it in life. Most of them ended up drug addicts and jobless or occupying some secretary job in the government or something "prestigious" like a "videochat" company. I'm from a former communist state, people who once where "equally" poor only see social classes and the 'right attitude". Believe me, is not right to judge a book by it's cover but the difference between us and them is we value reading or listening to others at best.
Last I heard, that "Affluenza" kid almost fled the country to South America after his mom paid his bail... I heard both of them got in trouble for that, but it goes to show you that people with too much money only see price tags, even for bad behavior.
Either way most rich people would die before they give up some money. They feel like they're powerless without money (fax) and to them, handing over their wallet is the same thing as being shot and killed for your wallet.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 They are addicts who have a disease and are causing harm to everyone. So in the exact same way that any person harming others gets a forced intervention we must do that to anyone who gets rich.
I think that Affluenza could definitely be considered a real condition ...but if someone is that dangerously out of touch, then the only logical conclusion, is that they therefore absolutely must not be allowed to make any decisions (incl financial ones), handle money in any way, drive, handle any potentially dangerous objects etc, and have to be monitored by others. (to say that Affluenza is real, and *_not_* do that, would be insane)
it's already been successfully used as a legal defense to get a rich kid out of trouble so welcome to the insanity that is our world. Glad to see you're caught up with the rest of the class.
I didn't work as a legal defence, unless you talkimg about a different one from the one Cody mentioned at the start. And if it HAD worked, what would the upside have been? You don't get leniency for being an alcoholic or a drug addict, if the judge had accepted it, he might have ruled that the guy should be sentenced to live as a poor for six months or something. Suspended sentence based on never having more than $50 to live on.
As a genetic counselor the eugenics/pro-natalist stuff is terrifying. We get stuff like this popping up sometimes in the clinical genetics community and we have to make statements denouncing it
My sister pitched an idea she read that I like: No more billionaires. Once you turn over from $999,999,999, all wealth going forward is donated to schools, social security, and infrastructure and you get this super neat trophy that says "I Won Capitalism."
Look at that number. That’s insane as is. Jesus. Throughout the course of your entire LIFE is an ambitious goal. Almost seems like a curse, a curse that should just end in that trophy. I like your sis’s idea.
It would have been interesting to explore the Richest Man in the World's family history: 1. Elon Musk's grandfather Joshua Haldeman was the Canadian leader of Technocracy Inc., a utopian technocrat cult that existed during the Great Depression and was considered subversive to the war effort in World War II. This may have been because of its fascist overtones. 2. The members of Technocracy Inc. referred to each other by serial numbers, and sometimes used the letter "X" in their pseudonyms. Hence, Musk's obsession with the letter X. 3. Remember that scene in "Ironman" where Tony Stark finds his father's secret plans for the energy generator in his futurist architectural models of what looks like EPCOT center or the World's Fair? Elon Musk cameoed in Ironman. It is reasonable to believe that he sees himself as the basis for the character of Tony Stark. The Richest Man in the World fashions himself as a comic book character. Real legitimate links: newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk/ www.businessinsider.com/who-was-elon-musk-grandfather-joshua-haldeman-technocracy-incorporated-party-2023-9 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
In my country i work 100 years to earn 1 million dollar, can you explain to me who on this planet can do work worth 999,999,999 dollar? No one can and no one should earn even a fraction of that amount.
My grandpa used to say, "with ideas like that you better be rich cuz otherwise people will just think youre crazy." ME: "why would that matter?" Him: "cuz then you have them write eccentric in the papers."
This episode should get an award. From the double-meaning in the title to the on-point commentary. It also reminds me of that time I said to a friend "being super-rich is like a mental-disorder, those people are not like us". And the fact, that the ecological footprint was invented by BP to make us - as always - go after each others throat for as a distraction. Good Job News Team! Cody, see you at the next beany baby conference....oh wait, too soon? XD
They would do what they've done all their lives, and what the poor and rich alike do all the time, steal deal, lie and hustle. The only difference is, one was born with a silver spoon and the other unable to eat because of it
It's incredible how much engaging you guys made a 1 hour long video. I had to pause the video multiple times to take notes so as to further look into all the articles and interesting facts you showed on the screen. I just subscribed!
My dad made it in the music industry so he's fairly wealthy, and I'm an aspiring musician. I definitely had to work to get good at it, but I'd never have had as much time to work on my art, as many tools to work with, or as much experience being around music without the lucky circumstances of my birth. I don't think I'd have developed my skills at all without that, and if I ever end up succeeding in the industry it will almost certainly be partially due to nepotism. I'm not really sure what to do about that personally other than being aware of it and advocating for political/industry change, but I think it would be disgusting for me not to be aware of it and to pretend I didn't get a huge leg up.
use some of your money and clout, especially and specifically if you make it, to help fund a working class artist and/or band. there's a bunch of amazing underground acts who bust their ass and have immense talent who could probably be just as successful if they could afford to just like...take the month off of work and go do a small regional. and also actually put yourself around those common folk. y'know. so you remain in touch with their struggles.
Legit spending weekends with a rich father while living with a lower-middle class mom is how I became a lot more aware of the differences between social classes and how becoming successful in our society means having less empathy and compassion for others and just SHEER luck.
Yea, Id definitely have been a musician if we could afford it growing up. First thing ever saved for was a guitar...then had nobody to teach me how to play it so it gathered dust til my 20s.
Jesus: A rich person must give away all their wealth or they will never see heaven. A Christmas carol: Stop being a greedy prick or you'll suffer! you'd think they'd get the memo at some point.
Here's a memo: we're all narcissistic opportunist. Evil doesn't have a leg to stand on without stupid people buying in, and humanity is a human centipede
I don’t think A Christmas Carol’s main theme was necessarily about greed. I think Scrooge’s love of money came down to his belief that money provided a sense of balance in his life…it wouldn’t leave him like the people in his life did. His father left him at boarding school, his sister died, his sweetheart left him. That is not to say that the book is not against the rich, the Spirit of Christmas Present has a wonderful screed against the isolating perspective of the wealthy.
I love how Cody just proposes obvious solutions, and it makes me wonder why I never heard anyone take them seriously. People homeless? Give them a home? People moneyless? Give them money. People have too much money? Put a limit on how much money you can have. And all those solutions are exactly what we need. To Bad we are conditioned by the rich controlling the media how "we cannot deny someone more money", even though we Can totally do so, and we already do so for the poor!
even worse is money as a concept. Try to blank your mind for a second and imagine a person with no money who needs food, and they go to a grocery store or some food place. The food is there, loads of it, and it will be thrown into the dumpster by the end of the day anyway. But that person has no magic green papers so they can't have the food, which is right there and destined to be discarded if nobody buys or an unhoused person who can't have a house while those same houses sit empty because of XYZ reason and the kicker? Money is made up. It's not real. We deny people access, we kill people simply because they don't have these game tokens. Fuck money and fuck capitalism and the state
@@SMPKarma That is the twisted and cruel circle - the people with the most money have the most influence on public opinion, so they logcially impose the opinion of "money is the best measure of quality in people" since that is what they have the most, so a lot of people get that idea hammered into their minds, and that creates new generations of money-hungry psychopaths who continue this cycle. You could compare that to a doomsday prepper loosely - they will stash up enormous amounts of foodstuffs, but instead of sharing that with fellow people that don't have any food, they keep it out of a twisted sense that they need/deserve it more, even though it wouldn't hurt them in any way to share.
Sometimes I wonder how rich people would function in the shoes of someone hovering just above the poverty line. Like imagine convincing a rich person to, just for a month or even a week, have to live like someone who works paycheck to paycheck. Would they even function properly? Of course this scenario would always be unrealistic since they would never be in the same position as other people. Someone living paycheck to paycheck without a savings account of billions can’t just call their friends or family for money, or a place to crash on a regular basis. Plus they would always by working with the knowledge that “this is temporary, I’ll be back in my mansion shortly.”
@@ohnoagremlin Why even give them that? I'm disabled and still haven't been able to get disability income for 10 years. Watching a rich person try to navigate the healthcare system with Medicaid would be a hoot though. Like if they break a bone in the month of December they won't even get seen by a doctor until March because all the hardworking, taxpaying non-moochers have to be seen first.
What's also really sad is that most rich folks only wish to help if it only benefits themselves financially, instead of just being a good person who can actually help others in need.
And I think that's because the systems their parents and ancestors have built have made it where the act of aiding another must in some may have a personal benefit. Like if a town needed water they would wanna help if the town gave them some fame or land.
As a mentally ill person, I feel like if we just classified rich people with the rich person disease as described in this video, we might be able to address it as a society and not glorify rich people as much lol
@Sam Smith he worked his way up to where he is (with a lot of dumb luck he himself will admit) and is fairly humble about it. Not a hero, but not a villain either
@@gatergates8813 He is an idiot. Not a particularly dangerous one. He is more comparable to moist critical, a normie who wants to platform everybody because it is advantageous to them because god forbid anyone powerful uses their wealth or influence to be good and contribute to society in any meaningful capacity.
A nice saying, but doesn’t really make sense. Since most people get money through committing acts of evil, they’re more likely to have received it from the devil.
@@DeadDancers Of course it makes sense. That's why it's funny. And isn't god supposedly omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent? God and "the devil" are therefore one and the same. Miss Parker was making an observation, a wry social comment cloaked in witticism that is just as true today as it was in the days of William Randolph Hearst, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt et al.
I've been watching for a few months now and finally realized why I love this news channel; it's like being given the news by Charlie Kelly from Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Money can buy happiness if you go from being homeless and living in poverty to making $200K a year and buying a house. It will not buy happiness if you go from making $2M a year to $20M year.
Money doesn't give power to make other people miserable. That power is granted by those willing to do anything for money. Money has no power without the accepting party's willingness.
@@gpmegaman I want to be a Ninja.. but I'm not going to spend my life being a target of the desperate masses just to build up strength on leg day.. that takes something "special".. like Goodfellas special..
Some of the most generous people I’ve met, has been low to medium income. Giving a higher percentage of their income to charities! In Norway, speeding tickets are adjusted for income - quite fair system!
@@MomirsLabTech He he, where I live, (Denmark), since April 2021, if you get caught driving 100% over the Speed Limit or above 200 km/h, Law Enforcement takes your car! The law had only been in effect for six months when a Norwegian guy who had bought a Lamborghini Huracán in Germany, on his way back to Norway, got caught driving around 240 km/h - now it might not have been his first born son, but it was probably his first, and maybe even only, Lamborghini - add to that, a fine of +2000 € and Drivers License gone for three years! He probably would have preferred getting caught speeding in Norway….
Having worked in an exclusive resort I have plenty experience with rich dips but you don't even have to be rich-rich to be like this. I have an upper-middle class friend whose husband parks in handicap spots and when my daughter pointed it out he laughed and called it his 'ability tax" as in he knows he is perfectly able to walk a few more feet but since he has the 50 bucks to cover any ticket he might get it's worth it. My daughter assists a woman who puts Tanya McQuoid to shame. They just went to Vegas and my daughter said she'd sneer if the workers looked her in the eye and she was so rude but she'd dole out the twenties for tips so the workers just cringed and accepted their fate. She treats my daughter like crap too but at least she got a free trip to Vegas. This woman came from money and really treats anyone who has less as either a charity case (this is how she treats my daughter) or a potential thief (and she's actually accused my daughter a few times). She seems miserable but she sure experiences the best places and eats the best food. My daughter was blown away by how they treated the wealthy clients in these places in Vegas. The would look down at her like they knew she wasn't the rich one. She also discovered just how poor people act different around rich people too.
I parked in one while I ran into a friend's house 1 time... (I was in my early 20's, should've known better) It was a spot in his apartment complex and I never saw anyone park there so I figured it was no big deal... that ticket was $250 and carried a mandatory court appearance. The judge told me if I came back for that again he would penalize as much as possible All that to say, that guy's getting off *Really* easy
I managed to weasel into a company's sales team back in 2021 as a "Customer Support Engineer," and I clearly didn't fit. Hell, three months into my probationary period, they dismissed me for "lack of a cultural fit," and when I asked the HR director on the phone to elaborate, he flatly refused. I'm guessing they literally meant that I wasn't accustomed to having *real* money on-hand or didn't know how to deal with having actual fiscal agency. I was dismissed just before the big trip to Las Vegas to some kind of sales conference. Strange to say, but I'm actually very glad that they fired me; if I ended up anything like them, I'd consider my life to be wasted.
@@crackmyknuckles169 Yeah but the way you make it sound, they fired you for not being wealthy enough, which is a labor crime. Since they won't elaborate on why you got fired, you could potentially sue them. Even if you don't want your job back, you might get something out of it, and maybe they will tread more carefully when firing people for suspicious reasons.
I've got severe anxiety, the doctor tells me I really need to start removing stressors from my life... I've told him several times that the vast majority of my anxieties are financially based. I already work two jobs seven days a week with two master's degrees. I'm nearly 30 and still haven't gotten steady full-time work, I'm not even pay-check to pay-check I'm pay-check to a couple of days after pay day and now I have to figure out how to survive the next several days. I hate it here I just want enough money to live comfortably
I hate hearing comments like this because I felt like you got mislead and just expected things to work out. What are your degrees and what do you need to work in the field that you want to make a livable wage from?
@@TierneilI think you might be a little out of touch. Over half of Americans can't afford a $400 emergency and more and more people are picking up multiple jobs that results in them working more than full-time but not receiving any overtime pay to compensate for he damage being done to their body and mental well-being by working past the point it would be reasonable. And "just get the right degree" doesn't mean anything if you're in America because you will likely be drowned in overwhelming debt for much of your life
Do you have a religious/spiritual foundation? That would help you make some steps out of your situation. Seems you did everything right. You just need gas in your tank.
@@patriciapandacoon7162 i dont understand how people are still getting college degrees for so much money without thinking about what it does to their finances. its just insane that you think im out of touch for calling out a bad situation tied to a bad decision. I'll probably not get my degree until im in my late 30's because why would I? It's not necessary for many career paths until much later on. and if it is necessary and the job still doesnt pay the bills, that just sounds like a bad decision.
The worst part about longermism is that they sort of hand wave the details. Like my questions are "oh how does your utopia handle homelessness?" and the answer is pretty much just "it doesn't have it" with no explanation of how or why. It's made all the more baffling by the fact that this "utopia" is capitalist, which sorta creates homelessness by design.
Homelessness is largely driven by mental illness & addiction, both of which have a genetic component. It isn’t impossible to imagine a world where such genetic susceptibilities would be edited out of the genome, or dramatically reduced by managing fertility.
I thought rich people were weird and gross from a young age but I didn't really experience their behaviour first hand until my mid 20s. I had this dude I met while buying md offer to let me live at his apartment for free, as long as I would teach him how to DJ. I was broke as hell at the time (a recent break up left me stuck on a lease by myself) so I jumped at the chance. I assumed this dude was well off but it turns out his family was crazy rich from breeding race horses and other ridiculous income avenues. They were worth somewhere in the range of 50 to 100 million. I have NEVER met a more fucked up family in my life They were both bizarre and straight up evil in so many ways. The father was one of the most intimidating people I've ever met and the stories his son (the dude I lived with) told about him were horrifying. His private boys school buddies were disgusting too, they'd refer to working class people as "low breeds" and the ideas they had about women were disturbing (definitely several date r*pists among them) and even though they went to an insanely expensive school, most of them were as dumb as dogsh*t. Definitely an eye opening experience. I could tell stories for hours.
@@voland6846 haha OK, well this one isn't particularly horrifying but it always stands out in my mind as such a rich a-hole thing... So after moving in i quickly realised that not only was I expected to teach this dude to DJ but I was obligated to be his friend too, I was about 4 or 5yrs older than him and his friends (most of whom hated him anyway) so I think he felt that gained him some level of clout(??). Anyway, his family put on a thing for his birthday at an Italian restaurant. It wasn't a crazy expensive place but definitely more expensive than I'd ever normally go to. Food was great but the family were at each other's throats all night, as usual. But after everyone had finished eating and the restaurant was due to close, the family insisted on staying for well over an hour longer while the staff literally stood around waiting to close up, the family (especially the dad) was getting enjoyment out of the fact that the staff were forced to wait for them because they had spent so much money. Meanwhile I was sitting there feeling awful and super awkward. We were the only table of people in the restaurant making everyone wait. It was this super gross power thing and it was a perfect example of how they viewed other people as beneath them and there to serve them.
Same for me with a guy I met in my 20s who came from a wealthy family. He "only" had about 5 million, the rest was held in trust. Everyone in that family was fucked up except for his mom who didn't get a single cent in the divorce and had to *gasp* work for a living. The stories I could tell...
@@inelouw Funny enough the parents of my rich dude got divorced while I was there too and yeah the mother didn't get much because the dad used all sorts of shady tricks to hide his wealth. They really were a miserable family and almost all the negative rich behaviour examples Cody mentioned in the video were on full display.
So right on about rich folks. Feeling rich and superior will have to be changed through a major culture, education, or consciousness shift. Not sure what will cause that. Love you, Cody!
I think you're right about the rich people abandoning society altogether instead of wanting to solve problems. Some Russian billionaires actually tried to found a human colony in space. They even recruited citizens from all over the world. I think they called themselves Asgardians. That was before the war in Ukraine btw. Sad stuff.
let them do it. Rich people, and I mean capitalist-rich not doctor-rich, they have no skills. Maybe they can make ramen noodles but that's likely the extent of their life skills, not to mention any skills such as survival, woodwork, metallurgy, chemistry (lol) billionaires would last like a week before starvation would make them kill each other for arguing about who is going to feed them while they slack off. On an isolated island, that is. In space? Lmao it's like that arrogant 13 year old kid who is going to "live off the land" in a Northern climate just to leave their home. Like yeah, good luck with that
Yes. Rich people aren't just more likely to cheat and steal because they think they're above the rules, but also because that's how you become and stay rich.
@@pepi7404 Yes, thank you. It's not that becoming rich makes you a rectum, it's that you can't get rich _unless_ you're a rectum. Look at people who got rich by chance like winning a lottery rather than from something like selling a company; they usually end up losing all the money from both spending on themselves, but also from spending on OTHERS.
17:55 I was a doorknocker for Greenpeace in NZ. We would drive for hours to out-of-the-way random Māori towns (as with most indigenous communities ours also are on the poorer end of the spectrum) because we knew they would give. Forget "WestGate" or any of these fancy new white people housing communities that were a half hour drive from us; it was actually more profitable to drive 4 hours and put a bunch of people up in a motel just to talk to a town comprised of stray dogs one horse on a lawn and a handful of Māori homes. We were frequently scheduled in the poorer areas for this reason. Poor and/or Māori=high sign-up rates. It also should be said that the Māori being (for all intents and purposes) indigenous care a lot more about the land and ocean (Greenpeace's bottom line) but it just really struck me that people who obviously had so little (we would go to these people's homes and often see inside them, they were not bleeding money) were the most willing to give. When we did South Auckland (very high pop. of immigrants, Polynesian, Fijian, Indian etc.) they told me they couldn't afford to give but would invite me inside for a meal. Never would you get that in the white suburbs. For context I am white
I am not bad off, pretty damn comfortable. But not so comfortable that I could give enough to qualify for a tax break like more wealthy people can. I do give to charity causes. But I found out pretty quickly the moment you do, you get harassed frequently letter after letter asking for aid. I chose 3 causes and give monthly rate. I also budget for random gifts. People keep finding and asking me for donations of 500 to 700 which is insane because thats actually a decent percentage of my paycheck. Though not half my rent.😢 I am pretty sure one of those charities I gave to sold my address to other charities. When I was newly well off I would just give some money to anyone who would ask. I quickly found out that was a way to have to go back to eating only beans and rice and never being able to save money for an emergency. I did send all my covid checks to charities because I couldn't justify hoarding something that was meant as a social help when I did not need to. Now despite unsubscribing my daily email box and physical mail box are filled with "the world is shit and someone will suffer if not for your financial help" messages. I feel like if I were to invite you in your organization would just guilt trip me dry. And remind me how much I want your work to be done by the government through my paying tax money so I don't feel like I have to be personally responsible for helping every cause. Or trying to research which is the best place for what I can spare. Then again, you live in New Zealand so if I were there I wouldn't be spending so much of my budget on Healthcare and maybe you have some anti harassing laws that means you won't be sending me wasteful flyers every month making me feel bad for choosing to live alone rather than finding a roommate so I can spend what I save on rent money to help people. Sorry rant over. All I am saying is that, while I know that people well off are definitely giving a smaller amount to charity. Not wanting to let a salesperson into your house is not always because people are apathetic or self centered.
My experience too. I remember a man standing in the driveway of his half a million dollar home, next to his boat, explaining to me why he couldn't give by gesturing to everything saying "I don't OWN all this! the bank owns all this!"
This is some of your best work ever, SMN team. Fascinating look into the psychology of the wealthiest people on the planet, and incredibly depressing as always!
i make my extremely wealthy mother watch SMN episodes when i visit bc i don't know how else to communicate with her. my own unexpected reaction to this one: it made me cry. she doesn't understand why i was such an unhappy kid bc "we gave you everything" and i can't get her to understand that "things" are not the #1 most important thing for a mother to give. i haven't even finished the episode yet, had to pause it for a xanax break
In my life I’ve been able to observe how rich "kids" fare in different aspects of life. An example is, we have conscription in my country, and having spend much time in the Army, I’ve seen some very interesting mechanisms. There was two types, the manipulative trouble makers who had a hard time accepting that they had superiors like me who came from low income families, and then there were those who clearly enjoyed, just being "equal" to the rest, it was like some burden had been removed, giving them a sense of self-respect! I remember when my own time as a recruit was coming to an end, and we were on the much dreaded Dragoon-Week, my buddy was a from one of the top 1%-2% of wealthiest families in the country. There was several times during that week where he told me he was about to quit, but he made it, and both of us ended in the top 10%, with him a couple of spots higher than me, (he was a far better runner than I was, I was among the worst in that category). He was so proud, and he started crying and thanking me, because he knew that without me, he wouldn’t have been able to make it - I honestly think that this is just one more good reason to have conscription! The guy learned that it was okay to ask for help, he learned that when SHTF and you need someone to count on wealth doesn’t matter, he learned that strength and success is best achieved through cooperation - and he found a sense of self worth that wasn’t based on the wealth of his parents! Now I’ve also moved in more shady circles, you know, growing up poor and in many ways feeling like an outcast, led to me seeking companionship in all the wrong circles, you know, drug dealers, 1% Bikers, etc., and again, it was quite fascinating to observe the difference between those who came from similar backgrounds as my own, and those who came from higher socioeconomic levels of life - it was like they "disintegrated" more easily - could be extremely violent, but often also the first to run and hide, had far less sympathy towards substance abusers, even thou they themselves were quickly descending towards becoming just that themselves - maybe it was because they somehow felt superior, or knew that there was always someone who would "catch" them if they fall, and help them to rehab! Anyway, it was interesting to read how you use the show to interact with your mom - is she better able to understand things after having watched the show? Hope this one maybe will, and that it can lead both of you towards a pathway towards healing your relationship! Best wishes from Scandinavia….
Hope you're feeling better, if you felt like stopping this video to take a pill, it sounds like it's really bringing a lot to the surface. Hang in there ! Also, as far as her perspective goes, maybe "things" are an expression of her love ? Of course that would be a flawed way of looking at it, but maybe it'd explain a few things.
My sister's dad didn't say much about his life prior to meeting our mum. I know he was from an affluent, well off family from Sardenia. I don't know why he moved here, no do I really care. He can piss off back there as far as I'm concerned. He had this exact same problem, conflating giving things to love. And he can't understand why my sister resents him for that
@@Begeru My dad's top 10%. I live on disability. He buys me groceries and paid for my credit card debt once, but he doesn't give me an allowance or anything so I effectively live in poverty. While you may be entitled to an inheritance at some point, having a rich parent doesn't make you rich.
@@jeffersonclippership2588 I think just because you need a special kind of crazed greed to become stupidly wealthy, doesn’t mean everyone with that greed gets the wealth
I have always questioned why all these rich people need all this money. More money could only make me happier if I had enough to buy my home so that it is actually mine and I don't have to worry ordering food whenever I feel like ordering food. Not being stressed out about ordering sushi because it is too expensive or whatever. I don't need a car where I live because the public transport is already pretty good. It would be so nice if the super omega rich had to just give up 99.9% of all their thing because they would still be obscenely rich if they did that. Like, they would still be richer than everybody else. It is psychotic that they "can't stop" getting richer. It is literally the dragon sitting on its mountain of gold. It is probably not even as comfortable as sleeping on the stone floor of the freaking cave.
I can feel this happening. I used to be working class, I mean really working class with a rough occupation. Now I'm slightly higher-working class, but I can already tell my mindset has changed. Not necessarily for the better.
Could you elaborate on this, please? I´d be interested to hear some examples of how your mindset has changed, I´ve been having some interesting discussions with my friends lately about work, wealth, and life in general(I´m in my mid-40s, most close friends are between about 35 and 50). I´d say most of them(myself included) think that having enough to get by and live a somewhat comfortable life is enough, but on the other hand, a few of the older ones(50+) who certainly have enough assets to retire tomorrow if they want, still want more money and things (I´ve been trying to gently nudge them lately to "just take it easy, you have enough already, man") 😊
The big marker between blue collar/poor and well to do is when stuff breaks. Poor you fix it. Your friend may come over to help, and have dinner. Blue collar you know how to fix it but don't want to, so you hire one of your buddies to either help you, or do it for you, and have a few beers after. Well to do - your hire someone you don't know and never see them again. This mindset applies to pretty much every problem. Well to do just throws money at it until it's not a problem anymore. If you grow up not well to do and get there later in life there's this constant battle inside of dealing with your shit or choosing to throw money at it.
@@basharic3162 except, most working-class hardware isn't meant to be long lasting enough to even be fixable. Cheap plastic breaks in multiple points when it breaks, because it's just not built to last. It's built to be replaced. Which is why it's cheap.
Earning more doesn't change the fundamental contradiction of interests between the ruling class and the rest of us. Unless you're now the owner you're still working class, friend, don't forget that.
just for sheets and giggles, when a 'christian conservative' brags about how they've made some money, say to them "you're blessed" and watch them instantly back way off the fake piousness, become reflexively offended, and retort "no, i worked ~hard~ for what i have".
Unfortunately, Protestants like Calvin had an excuse for this that is still commonly believed in many Christian denominations today; basically, they claimed that when you are born, god has already decided if you will go to heaven or hell, and nothing you do, either good or bad, can change that (incidentally, Martin Luther, back when he was still Catholic, was plagued with anxiety about nothing he did ever being good enough to earn a place in heaven, to the point he had what was basically a nervous breakdown and had to take a break from his work to try to recover, which probably isn’t a coincidence.). The key here is that while nothing you can do can change this fate, wealth is a sign from god that you have already been chosen for heaven, while poverty may mean the opposite, but god will only bless you this way if you are hard working and industrious.
That's what it was in the 1950s! Remember what Sen. Sanders accurately said; he may be a socialist, but he's not as big of a socialist as Eisenhower. If they want to relive the "good ol' days," let's start with that.
@@TheDancerMacabre Agreed. Better times, that have been whittled away by monied interests. Not easy to get money out of politics. Have to try, otherwise the extremes will force another "French Revolution", and that is not a good thing for anyone.
@@alexphoenix9208 To actually Make America Great Again would require taxes going back to 1970 levels. America was "great" (prosperous) because taxes were re-invested in the nation, the government spent on projects like the Hoover Dam, and the jobs those projects created and the money recirculating into the economy through trickle up economics because f them brought the lower and middle classes up into releative luxury. Then along came Reagan and his neocon goons, deregulating and privatizing everything, lowering taxes for the rich, attacking government spending and things have only gotten worse since.
Let's hope that they would use the 90% for public good as in the 50s, or better! More racially inclusive and stuff. Or ya know, the defense budget could just "not know where the money went" like they've been doing lately... and always...
@@smileywarhead5178 Don't disagree with you. There must be systems in place to ensure corruption doesn't bleed it, and I think reducing military spending (especially in the USA) would be a good thing. I think that goes for the world, but hey... we're still a fairly violent and self-serving species, so I don't think this will come to pass until our species matures a lot more. If we survive ourselves.
I worked tip jobs for probably a decade total. From Canada's most popular coffee shop to a luxury hotel. Can confirm, rich people are the WORST tippers.
The most generous tippers are on the lower ends of middle class. I would get about $500 a month in tips on average and probably more than 95% of that came from the people in beat up or just low end vehicles. At the luxury hotel with rooms starting at $1,000 a night, averages were $60 during the slow season, $100 during the busy season. Rich people are the worst.
This makes me think of the final episode of Squid Game: "Do you know what someone who doesn't have any money has in common with someone with too much money? Living is no fun for either of them. If you have too much money then it doesn't matter what you buy or eat or drink or... whatever. Everything. It all gets boring. All of my clients started to eventually say the exact same things whenever we talk. Everybody felt that there was no joy in their lives anymore."
@@bpalpha I mean yeah obviously, but the point is that being super rich isn't even that fun because your wealth defines you and every accomplishment is trivial with basically infinite resources. We shouldn't "pity" rich people or whatever, but use it to drive on that they can *easily* do without that obscene wealth and probably even be better off without it.
They could have resolved their dilemma through giving away their money to hit that middle-zone sweet spot. But nah, murder, because the ‘life has no joy’ line is just an excuse do commit heinous acts.
you know what rich people dont have to do? participate in a game where like 500 people die and 1 person wins (after killing his friend) to get out of their crippling debt. god rich people are so stupid sometimes
The rich widow did not build a weird house to hide from ghosts. she just kept starting new projects and didn't undo previous passages. The ghost thing was made up in the 70s to sell tickets.
tbf to Sarah Winchester she was actually just renovating a farm house into a huge house, the ghost story started later when it was made an attraction. the weird architecture is more hat she wasn’t an architect but designed it all herself and occasionally got bored and abandoned rooms, also the 1906 earthquake ruining parts of the building and just quick fixes being slapped on. which is pretty weird in itself.
This video has finally given me the context to understand the way my cousin treated me. His father divorced from my aunt, and went on to become incredibly rich through the creation of successful start-ups which he then sold. This cousin got his own 'start up company' to practice with, takes private jet flights, and has an eastern-European bride. The last time I saw him was at an anniversary party where he was joining in with an arts and crafts project, meticulously drawing dots on a large piece of paper. I told him jokingly that he'd be busy for a long time if he wanted to fill the whole paper, and he acted as if I was air. Literally a non-entity. As if I didn't exist. I'm not forgiving him for that, but it helps to know he's just sick in the head, rather than making a personal snub at me.
As a child of someone that's very rich, this is pretty true, my mom tries her best but can be pretty out of touch, and I've had to unlearn a lot of junk to empathize with people less lucky than me
I'll give you another point if you use the power you inherit for social good. In fact I just gave it to you. Now you have to do that, to break even and all.
If you would be empathetic, then you would be understanding of the fact that your life, the fact that you are alive alone, is a drain on society. It drains ressources away from others. Nothing you can ever do will ever amount to a positive compared to the parasticial damage you cause to all of us. I think it is safe to say, that the world would be better without you. Don't expect my empathy, I will be happy if something bad happens to you. If you get abused, I will side with your abuser, as due to your oppressor status making it more less likely, that any person who would harm you did so out of self-defense or resistance. You are not a good person. You will never be a good person. Even dead, you would be at bet a negative.
@@themudpit621 That's super vindictive and a show of bad character. It's highly dubious that she/he is in anyway responsible for what made you so cynical. Maybe OP is just pretentious and trying to score social points, or maybe she/he is actually empathic and trying her/his best to not be like the parents that brought her up. If we want to improve our economic and societal systems, then we need to bring everyone over to our side that we can. I see that self reflection and a will to look beyond the surface is something we should encourage.
On the doomsday part one thing I loved in World War Z the book is part of the story where all the formerly rich survivors realizing they were useless in a post apocalyptic society. The important, useful people are the ones that know how to build and fix things and all their "business acumen" is worth dick of all shit.
I also loved the chapter where a celebrity survival palace was overrun by the panicked masses, and the narrator said "they would've probably been alright if they didn't need the world to know where they were."
@@rvawildcardwolf2843it’s unfortunately an example of not reading the room. If i were in that position i’d have steered clear of the rich enclave like the plague because a: my money is probably secure and i don’t need to advertise my position and b: even if it is secure, what good is money going to be in that timeline if the dead are walking? It makes a strong case for being insanely wealthy being a mental impairment.
That said, maybe we should strive to help people survive even if they cannot be "useful" and build stuff, or every disabled person is fucked (I know this is tongue-in-cheek and about a zombie book. I don't want to yuck your yum, but just saying)
It's pretty common for wealthy doomsday peppers to buy land in isolated areas in Australia and New Zealand. Everyone knows- but it's laughable, what do they think is gonna happen in the apocalypse? They'll get lynched and have their heads stuck on pikes...
As a crazy woman on a Greyhound bus once told me, "Money just makes you more of what you already are". Money doesn't make you evil, being an evil person makes you hoard wealth.
I am a drifter. Only 45 years old, living isolated and mostly alone in a van for the last ten years. Life had shaped my view into something cynical. Making money is easy, you just buy low and sell high, and importantly you must also lie, cheat and steal. The first lie you tell is to yourself, that you "deserve it" ... What is hard to make is everything we need to actually live: houses, clothes, food and tools, that takes actual work that no one is willing to do, and unwilling/unable to pay for.
$95k a year is 4.75 times more money than I have ever made in a year. I'm miserable and the only solution people throw at me is therapy. Which wouldn't touch the issue of having no money, and potentially just take more of what little I have away from me
@@alexcthe Since you didn't answer my question I have no idea what you should do. Your refusal to answer is obviously a defense mechanism, which is fine, but in the long run that tendency will only perpetuate whatever situation you're in. Maybe you do need therapy or maybe not. If you feel so bad all the time you may want to consider seeing a psychiatrist who can legally prescribe you medication. Medication may help you to focus and get out of a rut you may be in. But none of that may be necessary. I don't know what your situation is but you seem like you (1) have a degree of self-awareness and (2) have a sense of humor and wit. Those are indicators of some intelligence. You owe it to yourself to get a career that will earn you more than $20,000 a year - you have to do better for yourself in your life because you're capable and you deserve it. I don't know what it is you have to do but whatever it is you need to become obsessively focused on taking the steps necessary to make it happen. This may require several years of very hard work and sacrifice, like going to school and working at the same time, but in the long run you will come out the better for that. Again, I don't know what you are interested in doing, but perhaps you should consider education or further training. There are all sorts of jobs out there that are in high demand, pay well, and require training from just a few months up to a few years. You have to make the choice. Welder - 40-50k/year starting Truck Driver - 82k/year entry level Garbage Collector - 39k/year Allied Health Professions - *Highly Recommended* - google this term *Surgical Technologist* - 50k/year, 1-2 years training *Anesthesia Technologist* - 40-50k/year, 1 year training *Dental Hygienist* - 60k+/year, 2-4 years training *Ultrasound Tech* (Medical Sonographer) - 2-4 years, 70k+/year *Respiratory Therapist* - 75k+, 4 year degree You have your whole life to find a job that pays you better and the fact of the matter is that, though you or others may not like to hear it, if year after year passes and you're still in the same situation you were years ago, that's not anybody else's fault. I pass no judgment on your personal character for your choices - but it makes no sense to just sit around and lament your situation when you aren't obsessively doing whatever is necessary to improve your life. If you have medical problems that are preventing you from progressing that's one thing - but if that's the case you need to treat those problems so you can proceed with your life. Otherwise you're just wallowing in a situation that you yourself describe as miserable. Your whole life doesn't have to be incredibly hard work but there may be times in life when you have to work very hard for a number of years. Get your education and training and commit to doing well, work hard for a number of years and focus on your self, and you'll be able to rest on your laurels a little more one day. That's the only thing I can tell you man and I know you deserve better for yourself and you can do it.
My parents grew up poor, but through their lives managed to acquire considerable wealth. I've watched them change from being very involved in charities and community building, to criticizing the poor for not working hard enough. "Nobody wants to work anymore!" is their motto these days. They refuse to accept that times have changed- that when they were young and starting out, the economy (and government programs) enabled people to buy homes, and build businesses more easily. That incomes (even for single income homes) allowed people to do and buy more. Basically, they were lucky to be born in the post-war economic boom. Yes, they also worked hard, but in the end, that hard work was much more rewarding for them and their generation, than it is for those that came after.
I find the only way to make people understand is to pull up all the stats for incomes and life expenses and show it by year and hourly wages. Basically take all the thinking out of it and simply feed them all the answers.
When I hear the "no one wants to work" BS, I try to inform said individual that the unemployment rate is 3.5%, which is its lowest level since the 1960s. They spout easily correctable, false nonsense, intended to condescend, as though their feelings on the matter make make it true in reality.
Naa idk tocme it sounds like they had a very "good reason" to change...
I'm willing to bet quite a lot of money the reason is you
Spoiled ungreateful entitled kids/generation does take away from my charitable spirit
I bet its the same for your family
Yup, my parents are exactly the same. It's much easier for them to come up with complaints about all the "whiners" rather than actually think critically about the current state of the world/economy. As if suddenly every human was born lazy. It's ridiculous.
get a job
I never believed that rich people would be that weird. But then I had a relationship with a daughter of a mega rich landlord. She was a very nice person but the money messed her up is no many ways. She was gifted a sports car from her dad for getting a highschool diploma and always said how she had earned it. She worked hard for it because school was tough. And when she moved in my small apartment because it was so close to the university, she refused to contribute anything to the rent. When we broke up and she finally moved out, she even stole a bunch of my stuff. Every study this video talks about was so clear. Later I found out she got trialed for a hit and run shortly after the breakup. Rich people just live on another planet. On top of our planet, suffocating it.
"She was very nice ... trialed for a hit and run". Idk, doesn't sound like nice person to me...
Bruh, the more this paragraph went on, the more you explicitely explain why she wasn't a nice person.
@@AAhmou Yeah I know how it sounds but I say what video is telling. Being raised in a giant mansion with unlimited money changes peoples world view and makes them entitled. But I guess you never know for sure how somebody would have been, both a normaly humble person being raised with a golden spoon or a rich person being humbled in poverty
I'm impressed everytime someone richer is miserly 😂 and omg she really thought people get cars for grades? But that's what happens to your world view when it's limited. Flip side, people on low incomes believe their lifetime of work isn't even worth a sports car.
@@hahu9088 Being nice does not make a person good.
When I took a college class on criminal justice the professor made a good point. If you commit a crime and are only expected to pay a fine that isn't significant to you then it's not a punishment, it's a price. If the rich could kill and only pay a fine do any of us think they wouldn't be doing it whenever they felt like it.
I mean, i doubt that the teenager that killed four by drunk driving got that much of a consequence. My money is on him getting of far easier than less wealthy drunk drivers. In conclusion, yes i certainly think they would kill people if all there is as punishment is a fine.
Edit: Looked up the kid, two years, that's what he got, which in Texas is the lowest punishment of years, 20 years being the hightest. Oh and a fine of up to 10000 dollars.
@@belgarath6388 you are right, the point my professor made was also ignoring the fact that the rich can afford to hire better lawyers who can better limit or even remove any real consequences for them AND haggle down the "fine." Truely the US has a great criminal justice system with no problems what so ever.
@@belgarath6388 just today or yesterday a man deliberately drove through a homeless charity (search: Food Not B*mbs) (but replace the * to make the word a thing they use in wars) and was charged for murder but he'll probably get off in 3 weeks because it was a homeless charity
Beau of the Fifth Column once mentioned a rich person who calls speeding-tickets "a go fast license", as in, the price you pay to go faster than the speed-limit, essentially a VIP pass. Corporations do the same thing, they estimate how much fines will be for breaking the law and if it will be more than the profit they make from breaking said law and decide if they will commit crimes based on that, on whether committing crime will be profitable or not, not if it's wrong. 🤦
Um... they do. Maybe not directly, but their companies, their actions, their pollution for profit... it all kills. They MIGHT get fined, but more often than not those deaths are 'just the price of doing business.'
This video's really hit home for me. I live with 7 roommates in a sizable house. Rent, split between us, is roughly 40% of my monthly income. 6 of my roommates, most of whom I've known since high school, have a poor or working class background. One is a descendant of literal aristocracy with every bit of privilege that implies. She's a nightmare. She regularly steals communal food and refuses to replace it and gets passive-aggressive whenever she isn't sufficiently gaining monetary surplus or convenience from everyone else in the house. I've always found it baffling how can she watch the rest of us choosing between food or rent on any given week and think it's appropriate to complain about her own money troubles the evening after a ski trip from which she returned with multiple hundred dollar pairs of boots. Turns out, she really does think it's the same thing. Money really is a Hell of a drug.
if she steals kick her out, simple.
Power breeds parasites
@@themudpit621 homie said in the comment that they're paying upwards of 40% of their income on rent. they can't afford to kick her out.
Get her into a scam and siphon her money
Yeeeaaahh, if I were y'all? she's gunna have to go learn how to live like an adult & play house somewhere else lol
It's nifty. I'm a fulltime paramedic, I make $17.85/hr and have to pick up 36 hour shifts on the regular to be able to live paycheck to paycheck. But I go into work, and we have a very large wealthy development in my county, and every night I go to these $2-4 million dollar mansions I could never dream of affording. These folks are always calling 911 for the aches and pains of old age. The ravages of time, and they've never had a problem they couldn't pay their way out of. It's so hard to empathize with their shock at having their joints and back hurt, that they really are just too weak now to get back up off the floor. Especially when my joints and back and soul hurt while I am only 26 and compensated like shit.
17.85 for being a paramedic..?
Jesus Christ. I make just about a dollar less being an uncertified mechanic. Yall need to start unionizing _bad_ if that’s what saving lives gets you.
Paramedics need to be paid *way* more. That's a ridiculous wage for what you do. I agree with the other comment about unionizing. Y'all are getting abused by your employers. Especially because it cost patients a ton to have an ambulance come, so the employers should have the money to pay more.
Seems like they should have some household items go missing...
@@tweaker1bms Stealing from rich people is NEVER a good idea. Not only do they have itemized lists of everything they own they have cameras EVERYWHERE and are inherently suspicious. They know exactly who comes in and out and if you happen to be someone not on their list of people allowed in their house guess what? You'll have cops/lawyers/dangerous people coming after you.
@@jooot_6850 I was making a dollar less than you for the same shit before I quit yesterday
This just reminds me of stories I've read about Bret Easton Ellis when he was writing _American Psycho,_ how he wanted to write about a disaffected Wall Street yuppie, and how after spending a research day with a few rich Manhattan bankers came away thinking, basically, "the only way I'll make this believable is if I make him a *serial killer."*
My man double down on "feminists" years later. I don't blame him being fed up with mostly being known for American psycho just like the director of that movie but still.
Oh cool! Thanx that's an interesting little bit of info
He's a fantastic writer. It's really a shame that he's not known for his other works.
This is not an exit.
@@Remedy462
【Want Exit Want!】
I don't know about anybody else, but my existence as a working-class dude is almost entirely about worrying about money. Sleepless nights worrying about paying rent, or affording food. Rich people never, ever experience this element that defines us as normal people. If you grew up without ever worrying about money, how can you even imagine you have anything in common with normal people like me?
Rich people are, effectively, aliens. That's not hyperbole.
I'm with ya on that one. I'm rooting for ya, we're all in this boat together.
If people should be normal, and you say sleepless nights worrying about paying rent is normal, then you are advocating for a worse world. No one should have to worry about how they will pay for shelter. Wealth absolutely rots your brain, but poverty isn't the solution.
@@maverick_osthey're not saying that we should opt for poverty, just that a rich person has as much grasp on what a normal person experiences as an alien would.
@@maverick_os " then you are advocating for a worse world"
No. Greg isn't advocating for that.
If someone paid of my mortgage my stress levels would be much lower. That would feel life changing for my family
In The Hobbit they had a name for when people got rich, became extremely selfish and it drove them mad, they called it “dragon sickness.” I think we should start using that term irl
Nah because "dragon sickness" sounds rad as fuck and they don't deserve it.
Sickness of the slug count
It’s a cool idea, don’t get me wrong, but we need to keep dragon sickness for the day there’s a disease that turn our acid reflux into actual fire 😂
@@SinHurrExactly. We all like dragons. In The Hobbit, dragons bad. In our minds, dragons sweet.
I'm going to start using it!!
my ex was from a fairly wealthy family. .1%ers, though not on a bezos level. he was adopted, and the entire vibe being around these people was surreal. zero grasp of value, zero personal responsibility, zero instinctive empathy. just totally detached. im p sure my exes mom adopted him just to have like a fun collectible bc she immediately gave him to nannies and boarding schools for his whole life and not once acted as a mother. it was like a world of people who never developed a theory of mind, and just coasted through life not once grasping that other people are alive and have thoughts.
once, we attended a dinner at my exes sister-in-laws place. she hired a woman (who was present) to do all the setup, cooking, and even play music. and _in front of her_ the SILs father praised his daughter for "doing SUCH a good job with dinner, everything was amazing!" because they all sincerely cannot distinguish between paying for someone to do something and personally doing that thing. for my exes mom, sending the maid to buy medicine = "i bought you medicine, im such a nurturing mom".
theyre all fucking insane.
My sister is one of a team of part-time sitters/nannies for a wealthy family in northern California and it's just disgusting the level of disconnect they have from the reality of other people's lives. They spent something like $20,000 on pumpkins that they paid other people to carve for Halloween and then just threw away on November 1st. Sorry, paid a landscaping service to come remove from the property and dispose of. The kids didn't even give a shit.
They don't buy their own food, they don't cook their own meals, the don't drive their own cars, they don't do their own laundry, they don't make their own appointments and they don't raise their own kinds.
But it's poor people that are lazy.
I want to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind you out of pure sympathy.
Literally saw a rich man eyeing a little girl at one of those charity dinners and he turned and asked the mother how much she wanted for her.
What's terrifying is the woman actually looked over at her daughter for a worryingly long moment before turning back and politely declining to name a price.
I don't know what's worse, the fact that the man clearly had unsavory intentions and was not buying a daughter or the fact that the mother had to think about it.
Rich people say you can go to an ATM when you say you don't have any money. When you say you're "between jobs" they think you're broke because you're unemployed and not in fact just clocked out from your day job and about to clock in to your night job so you can do a 60hr week with no overtime to make some rich person richer.
It has been my observation that rich people view their wealth as proof of the correctness of everything they do.
The worst part is the middle class thinks the same way because of the crumbs rich people toss them
Meritocracy never existed. It's the modern version of "divine right of kings". It's like "white supremacy" and "trickledown economics" in that they are made up things that hurt everyone forced to act like they are real things.
@T and then they write off the crumbs and somebody else collects them back into a sandwich and chews it up for them to baby bird it into their mouths
@T I was referring to things like home ownership and low six-figure salaries. For the rich, those are crumbs but it's enough for middle class to treat the people below them the way the rich treat everyone.
AKA the just world fallacy
The movie 'Speed' said it pretty well: only poor people can be crazy, rich people are "eccentric"
Nahhh, Kanye went straight out crazy
@@alistairlindsay2685 ...but he's also black. Blackness negates the richness, in the public eye.
@@vebdaklu nah, man, I think it was the Hitler thing, not blackness...
@Alistair Lindsay i think as an innovative artist and producer, he’s still looked at as eccentric, if just a “crazed genius”.
Don't get me wrong he started out 'eccentric genius' but that didn't last
I watched my parents lose their empathy and souls as their wealth grew. Now they’re rich and don’t have a relationship with either of their adult children. Hope they’re happy with their choices.
Same here. It’s pretty gross, especially bc they let me go homeless.
@@advisorywarning let you go homeless? My parents booted me out with a beating on the day I finished school. "I've given you your education how get out". That was a fun day. My son can live with me until he's fifty if he wants...! I'll never understand it.
These comments seem to me to highlight that money addiction is as socially corrosive as any other addiction. From seemingly normal people who get excessive wealth turning into money-hoarding sociopaths, to people who acquired excessive wealth because they were sociopaths to begin with, the mental and social health ramifications of money addiction need to be more closely examined.
I'm sure they're 'okay'
As for my own mother while most definitely not as rich as yours ended up nor compared to those brought up in this video it seems quite evident to me looking back that she only cared about me for as much as my mental condition was worth in a benefit meant to help with costs specifically related to MY condition (Medicines, therapy, time off, etc) which she squandered on ciggies and gave me nothing in return, the moment I turned 18 and the moment it ceased she essentially held me at metaphorical gunpoint and told me to pay double its value in 'board' and made me go on a benefit to pay it as thanks to covid, the aftermath of homeschooling on my social skills and a total lack of help I was unable to get work.
Throughout this time she'd just openly ignore me outside of sharing Chinese Food which even then she did less and less, kept effectively asking tribute every time I'd go buy myself snacks (I'd be afraid of her losing it if I didn't get some for her too, this being despite her approach being "Don't come don't get even if its your birthday" for the full 18 years prior) and would continue kneecapping my benefit money to the tune of 60% until a final fight over her descent into fascism and wasting of money that could've gone towards things she'd been repeatedly holding off or entertaining the both of us as we live in a town overflowing with entertainment opportunities as the place was built on the back of tourism.
After that fight I simply decided I'd had enough, packed my devices and other items with sentimental value in a mental state I'm still shocked I even survived. I went and found help in the shit hours of the day from a group I'd been trying to use to get ready for work, who then got the mental health crisis team from the hospital involved, and after hearing this the only thing she cared about is the fact she didn't receive that week's board money and finished by stating that she should've just abandoned me the day I came out as bisexual.
I just had to write a document where an executive was bragging that he "Hired 5, made them work like 10, and paid them 7."
Ummm if they are working like 10, PAY THEM LIKE 10.
I hate these people so much sometimes.
But how else does the boss get three people's pay?
mmm yummy surplus value i love stealing the value created by labor yummy yummy
"paid them like 7" huh? More like paid them like 2 and think that's what 7 are worth.
What do you mean you wrote a document? Like, recording what they said?
That is legitimately the goal of all share holders. Stocks and shares and the notion of infinite growth they require will be the death of humanity.
“Maybe it’s a therapist you need, and not a lawyer” applies to a depressing number of people
But a Therapist is someone who is a completely disinterested stranger you pay to listen to your problems when expressing your concerns and troubles to those among your own social circle (friends) is a much cheaper option. Yet you engage or employ a therapist because it is considered more trendy or socially up-trendy to announce to those among your social circle (friends) you are seeing a therapist for your problems.
@@charliepotatoes001 you should try out a therapist, at least so you can learn what they do.
@@charliepotatoes001 that isn't really the point of a therapist. Therapists exist to help us relearn healthy versions of the unhealthy patterns of thought that we pick up from our parents and society more broadly. There is a component of sharing your problems, but you cannot substitute therapy with venting to friends because most of your friends have ideas that are just as fucked up as the ones you need to change.
I wish my local storage unit place had therapists, family law, and a laundrette included in the huge monthly rent.
@@charliepotatoes001 Damn right! That's why when I get sick I just ask around to my friends. Doctors are just disinterested strangers and really don't know anything that makes them more qualified or a professional in the industry. Friends are the answer for everything I guess
On IQ and Eugenics... my grandfather had all of his kids take IQ tests from a tester who was seeking to be certified. Out of the five kids, the eldest didn't understand the premise and answered many questions with word association. The youngest, my mother, was deathly afraid of men and barely answered questions. She was extremely young. Maybe first grade? But my grandfather has treated them based on these scores all their lives. And my mother's siblings have done the same. My mother is a sharp but kind woman who keeps in contact with her father, and he asks her why his children don't talk to him frequently. So when I took an IQ test to get into the Extended Learning Program, my mother refused to disclose the results to me. Same with my older sibling. She didn't want that same issue. She just wanted us to have a special class to intrigue our curiosities. IQ is such a horrible non-metric.
F an IQ test.
@@billithekat2742 No, I agree. Kindness should be valued in a society more than IQ (which isn’t even a good measure). My mother even has an above average IQ, whatever that means, but she went to a family wedding and her siblings said, “it’s okay to not be as smart as the rest of us.” And my mum, brilliant woman and amazing social worker, just says, “ah, I do really value emotional intelligence.” I wish I could be someone with her kindness, empathy, intelligence, strength, and dignity.
None of that is an IQ tests fault. It has plenty of uses. Sorry for that horrible experience
I had to take an IQ test as part of my ADHD diagnosis when I was in elementary school. After every bad German exam result I got told by my mother that according to my IQ test I'm good at German (not as a foreign language, I'm from Germany) and bad at math. In reality it was the other way around.
@@Tierneil Literally the only use IQ tests have is to discriminate against people that aren't like you.
The crazy part is, they actually believe everyone else is as greedy as they are.
They've gotten their fans and apologists to write millions of words about how that level of greed is a necessary feature of rationality and that anyone who isn't as greedy is either lying or is mistaken. Where "mistaken" seems to generally be code for "failing to think like humans are supposed to, therefore subhuman."
My parents have done horrible things to me. I want them to realize that things like attacking me with knifes is bad and to apologize, they offered me a down payment for a house (which I won't accept, because then they would know where I live..... And would you let someone who didn't understand it is unacceptable to attack you with knifes know where you live?) They are confused, because they think money fixes everything. And if I tell them "hey that was bad apologize" they won't learn and will do something equally bad.
Most people are, they just don’t have platforms to expose their greedy tendencies.
@@noneya3635 They let anyone be greedy in the United States. Most people just aren't.
@@M_M_ODonnell Most folks literally just aren't greedy at all, and don't spend time trying to hoard a bunch of wealthy.
The very simple fact is that if you're a community-focused person, you don't get super-rich, because after the first million or so you stop trying to make more money, because you have (weird concept I know) enough.
You really only need a couple million to live a very comfortable life purely off of interest and dividends. It's pretty messed up, actually, that you can sit picking your navel all day every day and your bank account keeps growing, exponentially, with no need to intervene in any way.
Or you give it away to your community
@@SantasGAINdeer
Just get an expensive hobby, like sailing or live in a country where it can be expensive to buy brand new apartments in the right part of town.
My dream Yacht, the Hainstiger X1 Trimeran, cost around 5 millions, my dream appartment cost 2-3 millions, (and this is not even in the most expensive city), and some of the social projects I would love to create can easily cost a million in a year.
So even with ten millions - I probably wouldn't be able to buy the Yacht and pursuit my absolute biggest dream
@@SantasGAINdeer
I guess it all depends on where you buy it and what kind of house you wanna build - I think, here where I live, it would probably cost you more - of course also depending on the size of your pool, heated or not, and if you want roof over. 😁
@@SantasGAINdeer 10M is about what I'd need to live the next 40 to 60 years in peace. And I don't think I would have much left if I died, assuming about half of it will go to taxes and I want to have at least twice what I now have which is the social minimum, about 12k a year now.
I would probably be kicked out of this house because it's social housing, so I'd have to start paying a lot more for housing than the 250 I do now, so 12k is what I will likely pay for a roof over my head and I'd pay full price for health insurance and taxes. With 24k a year I'd probably have about 100 dollars a week to spend vs the 70 I have now. That would be awesome.
Recently Jeff Bezos wanted to launch his new retro sailing yacht out of a shipyard in Rotterdam, but an old monument-protected bridge was in the way. The bidge was too low for the yacht's masts to pass below it. Naturally, Bezos lobbied the city to have the bridge demolished just so he could cruise his new toy through that channel. And he might have gotten away with it if vocal public resistance had not stopped it in its tracks, with many people threatening to _egg_ the yacht if it ever passed through. As if this was not gross enough, it turned out that the masts could simply be erected _after_ the yacht had passed through.. which is exactly what they ended up doing..
i live in the Netherlands and while this story is true, I do want to say that the company that built the cruise ship did this, and that they did not ask for the bridge to be demolished, just the middle part temporarily dismantled and then reinstated. Bezos would cover the bill but the Company was lobbying for it to happen with the City Hall. Since the bridge is a national monument that had in the recent decade been majorly renovated and the locals were told it would never be dismantled again, the public called bullshit.
I'm mainly giving context because I think even without being hyperbolic this story is still insane. Moves like this from out of touch rich people reminds me of Fitzcarraldo. "I want my opera house!!! I want my opera house!!!"
@@KatiCleostill the dumbest thing I've ever heard when they could just... Wait to lift the masts.
When i bought my couch i walked around my living room with a tape measure FIRST
I used to work with white goods delivery, and trust me, you are special @Toadwine
@@aatsiii My dad made that mistake when he bought an air hockey table and it wouldn't fit through the front door, lol! Though that was a $50 garage sale find, and it would have been our own house we were dismantling if we hadn't decided to just put it on the porch instead.
I once heard someone describe their income as, "enough to not have to think about money all the time, but not so much that I have to think about money all the time" and it immediately became my life goal.
Yea, sounds healthy. I'd like to make enough to save for passive income that I can then use to give to others.
That's the dream
Yeah. I just want to have enough to pay my bills, save for an okay retirement, do the occasional fun/indulgent thing, and help people in my community
If you have a half decent job and you aren't spending your money on a bunch of dumb crap this is easily attainable
@@TehPwnerer what is a "half decent job" and salary exactly?
One of my far, far, wealthier friends told me straight up that some really rich people, when traveling, will just rebuy entire wardrobes instead of having to carry luggage and that absolutely shattered my brain
A wealthy kid I went to college with threw his clothes and dishes away and bought new ones instead of doing the dishes or laundry. He didn't use paper or plastic plates either.
This kind of thing is why a lot of rich people will talk about "minimalist lifestyles." What it actually means is that they can always afford to buy stuff so they don't need to store anything at home.
I did this once, by flying to Vegas for the weekend with only the clothes on my back, but just went to the Walmart off the strip. Jetsetter dreams at scumbag prices!
@@GhostOfEnkidu Except you didn't try to promote how much of a good person you seem to be by donating surplus clothing and items you no longer need or had a use for to the poor and needy thus re-covering part of your initial costs in tax rebates & exemptions. Because You Deserve It!
I mean, that sounds extremely alien and not necessary to my ears, but... is there really a problem? I mean, they are buying some clothes (helping the stores and the economy of the place they are visiting) and then I assume that they give away those wardrobes, right? That sounds like a win-win to me.
My favorite part of hearing the apocalypse news from Mr. Cody News is that every sentence is a fucking banger
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Like, literally every sentence. It's kind of amazing.
the story about the beach is insane. like if you're buying giant stretches of beaches just to prevent people from enjoying it you are a demon in human skin, no other way to say it
That's soooo common here in Chile, with certain regularity you hear in the news of some rich asshole preventing people reach beaches or outright trying to remove them from "their" beaches, even though the law is clear about it.
He didn't buy the ocean-front property just to prevent people from enjoying it, he bought it "on a whim" because he's rich enough to be able to do so. Once he had it, he figured it didn't make sense to let "the poors" hang out on the beach so close to his property.
Always, always, always there's somebody putting this on demons or wild supernatural shit. Nah, it ain't demons, the man is just a hulking cunt. Nuff said.
They are immune to words because your actions aren’t feared.
He's clearly trying to monetize it to some degree, I think he's kind of just flailing trying to avoid more public scrutiny which is why he's making literally no sense whatsoever. If he wins the case color me surprised if he builds luxury airbnbs with tall fences and huge private property signs. At a certain point when you have enough money you can only think about making the money you have print you more money.
My favorite Rich person story is about Mitt Romney. His first time inside a Walmart was a lame attempt to curry sympathy votes back in 2012. "Storm Relief Event" in Kettering, Ohio. They showed up there to give supplies to families in need but to do so bought $5000 of the supplies that were already going to be donated then refused to hand out the relief packages without people signing release forms for a Photo op with good ol' Mitt. That wasn't even the best part. The best part was when Mitt attempted to walk off with the goods prior to paying for them and was stopped and asked for the payment. Mitt's responce was that he has people for that and he doesn't even know what color money is.
Once saw somebody come out of a mulitmilliondollar house in Leucadia, California shaking a can of spray paint headed for the (legally parked) cars next to the stairs down to the public beach until she realized we were watching her. She wouldn't have even been able to see the beach from her house because it was under the cliff - she was apparently that mad about having to look out her window sometimes and see surfers? From the house she bought next to a surf beach?
god forbid she is reminded that people exist
The banana taped to a wall was made specifically as a commentary on the absurdity of the high art market! Right after it was bought by some weirdo rich person, the artist stepped over the barrier, took the banana off the wall, and ate it. It's a great example to use, but it's also even better than most people know :)
As an artistic statement, that's kinda brilliant!
Except that’s not what happened, a performance artist ate the banana….
@@nicolajane7389 probably google before you correct people
@@caden-reynolds or maybe you should….
After its sale, while still on exhibit at Art Basel, Georgian performance artist David Datuna ate the piece in an intervention he called Hungry Artist. The banana was replaced later that day.[26][27] No legal action was taken against him, though he was asked to leave the fair.[28] Datuna stated, "What we perceive as materialism is nothing but social conditioning. Any meaningful interaction with an object could turn it to art. I am a hungry artist, and I am hungry for new interactions."
That's because "high art" is really just a money laundering scheme. It's kind of amusing that people don't get this, especially poor/unskilled artists who then proceed to price their works well above their actual value. And idc that they claim to have spent 53,000 hours painting their ex-girlfriends eyes, or that they think the tree against a barren landscape is some kind of groundbreaking socioeconomic commmentary, you aint Bukowski, this ain't mcdonalds, you don't get hourly, and this is why they'll find that painting unsold in some storage unit after they die.
I have relatives on both my mother's and father's sides who have ridiculous amounts of wealth compared to my family and some of my cousins. There is 100% a disconnect in their minds between reality and their frequent snowmobile trips and Caribbean cruises. My brother once had it out with some of my cousins over the water shut-offs in Detroit when they were literally just shutting the water off on poor people (which Detroit you may know has many, many of because of the short-sighted greed of some super rich people), and my cousins were of the opinion that basically if you can't pay you don't deserve something as basic as running water. It's freaking nuts, man.
I have to agree with your cousins. If you can't pay it you don't get it. Otherwise, someone else has to pay for your lazy ass and that will not be me.
Literally the "no money? Die then poorscum" mentality
Well unfortunately running water is something that has to be produced and takes money to create. The idea that it's "bad" to say that people should have to pay for something that *requires payment* to exist is a literal absurdity. Out of curiosity, how much money have you given to help poor people in need, and why are you not giving more?
@@superdog797 Yes, running water requires money to be produced- but... why not just use tax money?? That might require raising taxes, but... we could _also_ take money out of the over-inflated police budgets (paid for by taxes) and reallocate them towards things like water! You know, something that we all need to live, and it's ridiculous that we have to pay companies for something vital to staying alive.
Note: _I'm a teenager who has not had to pay taxes yet, so pardon me if some of this is uh. Kind of inaccurate or otherwise a bit too simple._
@@fandomcringebucket hi mr. cho. it's good that you are giving thought to these kinds of topics and that you are able to ask questions. I'm glad you recognize that the kind of solution you're proposing is a bit of an oversimplification. There's nothing wrong with thinking about simple scenarios as a starting point for analysis. The trouble is that, as the phrase goes for all large-scale problems, the devil is in the details (the real challenges are in the actual details.)
People have devoted their entire careers and lives to the study of economics, and economics is defined as the study of the distribution of scarce resources. "Scarce" in this definition simply means "limited" - the question, therefore, of economics, is how do we go about distributing the limited resources we have, given the inherent constraints and limitations that we do have? And what are the effects of each particular policy or plan that we use?
You made a suggestion that we divert funds from police budgets to pay for water. Why don't you spend some time actually researching that? How much is the police budget? What do they spend their money on? What makes you think the budget is bloated? What would be a better police budget than the current one? Who should decide how large the budget would be? What effects on crime and safety in the community would removing funds from the police budget have? Would this money be enough to help some people get more water? How many people? How much water? Is it sustainable?
You see, while it requires virtually no effort to sit around and suggest that "money just be made available" for this or that alleged social problem, what actually requires effort is the time to be able to formulate the _specific_ questions that are relevant, and then to provide actual evidence and facts and data relevant to answering those questions. Making new social policies without answers to such specific questions is in fact socially irresponsible - you might as well just base your social policy on random rolls of the dice - a policy change not backed up by facts could be not only no better - it could in fact be worse. Are you really sure that police budgets are bloated? If they aren't bloated and you take money away from them you're going to make society less safe. In fact, perhaps the police should be given _more_ money - maybe things would be safer if they had more money. Have you considered that? What evidence can you seek after or find to answer these kinds of questions?
Unfortunately for you and everyone else in the world, there are no simple solutions. There are only trade-offs. If you take money away from one area to give it to another are you're going to get losses in one are (police safety) in exchange for, possibly, some benefit in another area (water availability). The _question_ really we should care about is what _are_ the specific trade-offs we can expect, and how can we know that these trade-offs will, in fact, occur? I would suggest that you spend time investigating these kinds of topics - you have all the information you need at your fingertips to investigate these things. Start by looking up police budgets and arguments about how much money the police should receive, and the effects police funding has on society. Unfortunately this is just the start of these kinds of investigations, but perhaps if you stick with this you can one day actually say with some confidence that you have some beginnings of a reasonable understanding of some of these situations and you are able to speak about them with at least a little bit of wisdom and fact-based analysis. It's nice to want things to be better for everyone but what we need isn't just well-wishes - we need facts and data that let us make better decisions.
This is the most important episode of your entire channel. I have felt like millionaires are mentally ill for a long time. I've always tried to explain to people but man your episode here really did a good job showcasing it. To me, this is the number one problem facing us today. It's unbelievable.
It certainly isn't something we often discuss or hear about. The rich clearly live in a separate world which is probably why we see them as far removed from us and don't normally care about them any more than we do about characters in a TV show. I realized we have the same disconnect with homeless people. We are their rich people and have no idea what their lives are really like. This episode is especially important because it actually shows how no one is really benefiting from capitalism as it stands. Bernie Sanders is too busy hating rich people to say they actually deserve our pity. He did an episode on Elon Musk (more than one) that made me feel pity for him because he is a human being in addition to everything else he is. If you heard the story of the creator of minecraft (Notch), he became a billionare, had some major hedonism, and came down from his high to actual depression and tweeting messed up garbage. His rich "friends" told him "you'll get used to it". He seems to have accepted that advice. I'm a bit of a hoarder so I imagine if I became mega rich I wouldn't easily accept that I'm not happy and give up my money or put it into some kind of charity or project. I'm so glad I'm middle class.
@@ericmollison2760 Capitalism isn't the problem. It's lack of social welfare and tax evasion by the wealthy (including you Mr MIddle Class), all of which can be fixed under capitalism with enough political will. Many countries do it well, not the USA though, USA is about the worst of the first world countries at it.
Your disconnect from homeless people can be fixed by not being an ahole, just by the way. It's not really capitalisms fault, it's yours, but if it bothers you so much, I'll take your money off your hands. That'll fix it right?
Same. The moment I saw Jeff Bezos buy that super yacht I was like "....yeah, there's something irredeemably broken about these people."
To be honest, those with a high level of wealth AND those who go through life poor can BOTH be prone to mental health issues.
If they arent grounded with a sense of purpose in life.
Isn’t it weird how if you have 6000 newspapers in your house you’re a “crazy hoarder” that needs immediate help. But if you hoard the world’s resources you’re just a successful business person.
Would you rather have 6,000 newspapers, or $6,000?
Idiot.
This sounds like something someone with 6000 newspapers in their house would say
@@crystallemming6027 some people just can't get enough some more news.
Or you can be like Rupert Murdoch, horde tons of newspapers/TV stations & be called a media mogul.
"I literally can never use all of this in my lifetime BUT IT'S MINE I EARNED IT GET AWAY!"-typical rich person
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
"The mask of humanity falls from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone - everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the word. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world, then you know … that the bourgeois are not human.”
what's that quote from?
@@corvid8461 Count Zero, by William Gibson
@@coopidge3372 this is from count zero, not neuromancer.
@@theonlybass8947 thanks, it's been a while since I read the series
49:02 hearing "respected medical expert," then being spooked by Joe Rogan gave me an aneurysm from the cognitive dissonance. I request reparations paid in Beanie Babies.
Good luck getting it past his armed guard! He paid good money for him.
I have the lobster one that's my profile icon... would you accept Sir Pinch-a-Lot?
As a philosophy major, this is something I’ve been thinking about for awhile. If you’ve noticed, we have these rich people stans where no matter what, apparently rich people are above criticism because A. any criticism means you’re just jealous (that’s not how refuting an argument works, that’s an ad hominem attack) or B. it’s just them being a genius and what do we know as people without wealth (this argument is literally saying rich people have some special skills or abilities and are to be trusted with whatever they do with their wealth…that’s literally social Darwinism)
Exactly!! Nevermind the fact that just a few minutes in a room full of rich people will make it brutally clear that most of them are dumber than a sack of rocks and twice as miserable. Those human-shaped black holes aren't positioned to advise us on ANYTHING.
We can prove that B is unequivocally false, due to how frequently the wealthiest businessmen bankrupt their companies and recieve golden parachute severance packages. (Trump, many many bank executives)
Capitalism killed meritocracy.
Yup! Every time!
In terms of logical fallacies, B is an appeal to authority, or false authority.
And darwin would be absolutely opposed to social darwinism if he was alive today
One thing I've learned while house hunting is that rich neighborhoods have the best schools, but they have the worst communities.
because property taxes fund the schools and they likely congregate there to avoid blacks
It's the USA system of funding schools: average rent decides. How DARE I pay for SOMEONE ELSE'S kids!?!?!?!?! So people spend money to get in a wealthy district because that means their kids get an advantage, but that costs more and more people are wealthier than they are, so you will hear wealthy people claim they aren't wealthy, OTHER people are wealthy, and those other people have a bigger house or go further for holidays, or have more vacation houses or more land, or send their kids to better higher schools/universities.
They are also some of the most wasteful. I walk dogs in rich neighborhoods and my god they spend absurd amounts of money on the DUMBEST shit, usually to flex social status symbols. It drives me crazy.
@@missraincanyon they don't have anything else. It's the way they can FEEL something you know. When you have everything really what do you have?
@@dominican5683 This is literally my boss. The office for her business is in her basement and she is always spending to fill the emptiness she feels inside. I can't believe she 50+ years old and doesn't see that it will never work. It is actually disgusting to watch her go through a spending high and then she becomes irritable and bitchy when it never lasts or does nothing to help her life improve. . .so she will literally start the cycle all over again. And it is always shit she does not need or even want in some cases. It is depressing to both watch her do it to herself but all see a ton of money that could change my life just get burned in front of me.
Look how Mr. Cody profits off Warmbo while keeping him in a cage and exploiting him at every opportunity. Truly just another totally mentally fine rich person.
But Warmbo is not human! Warmbo was sired of no womb!
Mr.Cody doesn't even allow Warmbo to speak without his own voice. GROSS MR.CODY.
@@matthewcaldwell8100 Are you dehumanizing the puppet class so you can be ok with the systemic oppression?
But Warmbos a liberal so it's okay
@@1239-d4s yeah I think he supports the working class puppets as long as the system isn't challenged in a meaningful way. He says he survives well on a healthy diet of "cotton candy" but I think it's just Cody's insulation.
Many of them are suffering right now since the classic Marshmallow Study didn't stand up to replication. They're working real hard to find another study that objectively proves that they're inherently more deserving of wealth
The fact that they have it requires no further justification.
Yeah, we should all have empathy and share the truth. It would collapse the systems of power held by hypocrisy that reek death upon the planet.
Kind of looks like they're trying to get back to using religion to justify their wealth. It worked well for them before.
The rest of us are suffering because of them, and it is high time we start putting them out of our misery. We have a lot to learn from the French and early-twentieth-century Russians.
French hair cuts are back in. Contact Mr Gill'Oteen.
Claiming public beeches is popular activity in New England too. A fun thing I used to do with my family in Maine is to launch kayaks from a public beech and then land on the inaccessible public beeches. We didn't trespass on your land! We arrived by sea.
I know it wasn't on purpose, but reading beeches (beaches) as trees (beeches) makes this a waaaay more amusing image.
Also sounds like a fun time. Never been in a sea kayak, but glad you and your family were able to get out to unique and inaccessible locations.
Goddamn y'all have been on fire these last couple of episodes. Its always fantastic, but the writing, performance and topics have been FUCKING brilliant and exactly what is needed.
I like that they're fucosuing more on the journalism part and the jokes are not as long-winded as they used to be. I was never a fan of the puppets either. This is what I'm looking for, information plus some running jokes. They are definitely in their SMN prime, their videos are tighter than ever before. Also, Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, lobbying, the GOP, the wealthy, these are interesting and important issues.
💯💯💯💯
Seriously! I get pumped when I see a new video, feels like they’ve been dropping them faster and they’re all so quality!
Agree 100%
Weird to say this; but, your comment that people had kids during the black plague and that "it'll be tough, but it's ok" genuinely eased my daily anxiety about my two kids future lives. This is not a channel I come to for easing my anxiety, but you got me with that one. Thanks!
Just thinking about what basic human life was even a hundred years ago makes me pessimistic about our life
Lol I mean optimistic
I had to keep reminding myself during the pandemic that even though it sucked having a toddler during a time all libraries and playgrounds closed, at least there weren't actual zombies running around constantly trying to eat our brains. Sure, things can always be better, but they can certainly always be worse, too. It's strangely pacifying to me, too, knowing people had kids during the black plague and that it was tough, but it's okay.
@@rakkatytam The 1920's didn't seem all that bad, really. I'm still waiting for a stock market crash in '29 to see if history really does repeat itself. We've already got a war going on in Ukraine right now that could potentially escalate to a WWI-status.
Same here. It's weirdly comforting during this time
Good that anything makes you feel better. Regular people should never feel guilty about having a reasonable number of children... and yet many do, while billionaires fantasize about doubling the earth's population with their spawn and feel great about it.
Bruce Lee once said something like "Never compare yourself to anyone else, because you will always feel either superior or inferior. Neither of those emotions is desirable, because it will either spoil your character or make you feel miserable."
It took me a while to really understand what he meant, but as soon as I got it and stopped doing it, my life became so much better in an instant.
That statement holds more truth than ever today, imo. So many people are unhappy today because they spend so much time on looking into the "awesome" lives of others in so called "social" networks, instead of just focusing on their own lives. And it is also the reason for why the super rich simply become stupid assholes.
I'd argue, at least in America, that most people are unhappy because they can't afford to live. The minimum wage has increased 50 cents since I was born (I'm a dinosaur, this was in the 90's). There isn't a single state in the union where the minimum wage is livable. Most of my generation lacks access to housing, medical care and reliable access to food. Many of us spent tens of thousands of dollars on college degrees that in no way increase their earning potential. The material conditions of life are terrible and getting worse. I think the ability to ignore that fact from a place of shelter is part of why the rich are so sociopathically evil. It's hard to empathize with what it feels like to lay awake every night trying to strategize for bills in a way that keeps the wolves from the door for another month if you've never been in that position. The drowning man looks silly from the deck of your yacht.
Thinking about my aunt who was literally born in a barn, married absurdly rich, and stole my sister's wedding ring last year
That would make a good obituary.
Oof. This hits hard...just yesterday I had a meltdown in my doctor's office because my copay went from $20 to $140, and my car's check engine light turned on in the same 2 hours. I can't imagine how much less stressful my life would be, and what kind of person I could become if I didn't have to worry about all of this shit.
Also, I work full time, above minimum wage, and I can't get by without side hustles.
You are where most of us are. Don’t let them tell you that you don’t deserve better.
welp, it's kind of the product of 40, almost 50 years now, (jeeze, time flies when you're having fun) of greed is good, we're number one oligarchy. Americans let this happen to themselves because they were sold a dream that they're not really poor, they just haven't become millionaires yet. Everyone's an aspiring actress in their head, nobody's a waitress. Fantastic wealth is just a positive affirmation away, and if you don't get it it's because you're lazy. And who needs those pesky workers rights or the organized labour that gets them those rights, right? Don't need to worry about minimum wage and middle class woes when you're on the path to riches, right? A fair deal for the overwhelming majority of your countrymen who AREN'T millionaires and billionaires, well that's just communism, right?
The health insurance crap in America makes my blood boil. I'm an American expat and whenever a talking head on TV criminalizes socialized medicine, I want to throttle them. The US insurance system SUUUUCKS. $20 usually means people with minor issues, like a sinus infection, will just power through it with OTC meds and be sick for 2+ weeks instead of just going to the doctor, getting good meds, and feeling better in a couple of days. $140 means you aren't going to the doctor unless you've been coughing up blood for a week straight.
I now live in a country with affordable, not free, health care and I STILL won't go to the doctor after 20 years of conditioning unless it gets serious. My copay in Korea is less than $3! I do take my kids all the time, I was at the pediatrician's office 7 times last month for head colds. $2.50/visit plus $3 for meds each visit so $5.50x7 so a bit less than $40 for March with 2 kids alternating head colds. Growing up, our copays were $20 too so $140 without meds. I have no idea what standard prescribed head cold meds cost in the states these days.
Btw, if you want to talk about wait time most ENT offices don't even do appointments. If they are super busy, it can be close to an hour (my kids' last doc was the most popular within walking distance. The other doc's staff was terrible) but usually between 5&20min. For other big procesdures, not a long wait time at all. Maybe a week for an MRI or colonoscopy.
Basically every "negative" thing the media says about socialized medicine is entirely wrong and if more Americans were able to see how it actually works in other countries, they would be making big demands
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows expat. I've noticed that's what people who hate immigrants call themselves when they migrate to another country. Are you sure you're not a migrant worker?
Most people have to waste most of their lives (~6-10 hours + 2-4 hours commute) at crappy jobs that waste their time and leave them numb from exhaustion and stress just to try to make ends meet. Imagine what kind of world it could be if people could avoid that and have more free time to enjoy normal stuff and/or be productive. On the other hand, if rich people are any indication, that might not work, that might be a dystopia instead of a utopia. Humans suck. 🤦
I had a friend a while back who dated a fairly wealthy guy & he went to park somewhere with a sign posted & she was like "you can't park here, it's illegal" and he replied "no, it just costs ".
And that about sums up rich people.
"if it's illegal and the punishment is a fine, it's legal for the rich"
@@LachNetSoDumm Fines should be based around the value of the vehicle driven. Speeding in your Bentley? That’ll be $30,000.
@@jooot_6850 for fines it would be great, payments ordered by court decision (dunno the term in english) should be based on income/net worth
money is even more relative than time
This is exactly why fines should be based around a person's income.
And this is exactly what Sweden does.
One thing to note: spending exorbitant amounts on art (or wine, for that matter) is a very popular way for the rich to launder their money.
it is the only reason they ever donate to "charities". just another way to lower their taxes and launder their ill-gotten monies.
Bingo!
If they’re smart enough to do that and get away with it, please, let them fund the arts. It’s also pretty poetic.
Everything you said is something I constantly bring up in person and everyone thinks I’m being dramatic when I say the worst mental health problem facing the world today is other peoples greed. Wealthy people are absolutely insane. Absolutely. Thank you for this, let’s just hope this mentality gains traction. And things can maybe change one day. Yeah. Right. :/
I agree with you completely: money addiction is the most socially corrosive of all addictions. And like other addictions, I think we can test for it using brain function assays such as a set program of pictures and words paired with an EEG and galvanic response.
These tests can be used for screening politicians, CEOs and private citizens, at least theoretically. I would like to see an epidemiological study of money addiction so that we can get a handle on the scope of the problem.
@@MaryLudwig-q5qNow I want there to be an economic system that is designed to assign people money in inverse proportion to how much they desire it.
The empathy we need towards rich people was already put in practice once, on 21 January 1793 in France. It's a power dispute with people who have the power and are only willing to have more power. We can't adress the super rich problem without breaking society because society has been broken for decades.
FACTS xcept not decades but millennium. we need to divest from authoritarian structures
I think we can break society step by step, via reform. History shows us revolutions usually end in violence and other, but still wrong, people getting in charge. Lasting change is created by a constant push, not a single strong hit. If there are enough of us, they won't be able to ignore what we have to say.
It's also much easier to persuade people to join you that way. The vast majority isn't willing to risk their livelihoods in order to break the status quo. Slow and steady wins the race, no?
@@scarletkittyeyes We require more than divestment when that's only trying to use their power structure to remove them from power.
@@AltisiaK I'm suggesting collectivist reorganization. resources need to be evenly split between people in egalitarian society or humans will always fall into abusive power structures. look into chimp behavior research. no need to use power to intimidate - teach resourch sharing and physical and wmotional improvement prevent systemic abuse
@@scarletkittyeyes Who would be in charge of redistributing? How does one prevent that structure from corrosive corruption? How do you prevent quality education from being monetized and restricted to the wealthy? You come off as a good discussion :)
If you are a billionaire, you legitimately have enough money to build a town of affordable housing where the people you allow to move there pretty much agree with whatever you say and will shower you with compliments.
How billionares never competed to improve corners of Africa with monobuilt railway stations and libraries and universities, I don't knowm
they never would, us section 8 occupants lower property value (by which i mean a bank does that to property estimates without our input or control due to a system no one will let us change but hey!)
@@falconeshield Funny fact China did and asked nothing for it XD they even lost 70 people building railways for Afrika in times when China was still rebuilding after war.
@@falconeshield Weird. Chinese billionaires are doing just that. Wonder how they outnumber American billionaires? Maybe they aren't hateful bigoted Nazis.
Ah yes, the concept of "Company Towns".
Yeah they already did this
Take rich people's money away from them, for their own good
Yes, and, and, and their freedom! Their lives too!
Wonder where we've seen this logic?
@@pendejo6466The French Revolutions.
The point is that it's not their money.
@@kratosGOW Yes, that was the point. Did you not watch the video or something? Even regular people acted out of the norm in the monopoly test.
@@FeiFongWang
The video, yes.
I was referring to the use of possessive terminology. “Rich people’s money”
I am solidly in middle class, but holy shit keeping up with the Jones is effing REAL. I have definitely entered into buying shit I don't need to make myself feel better and it absolutely doesn't work. Having more money gives you just enough exposure to make you realize just how much money you don't have. I don't know how many times I've expressed, "I didn't even know this thing could be that expensive."
This!
'solidly'
Must be nice to be so confident in ones own means. Here's a tip, don't be an ahole, or if you can't help it, don't get worse. World is full of aholes already...
@RueBroadway This comment might change your life, and I truly hope it does.
Listen carefully and repeat as many times as it takes for you to internalize the words and what they mean:
Having expensive "Stuff" will never bring happiness.
Say it a dozen times if needed.
The long explanation for why expensive belongings don't bring happiness is this:
1. There is a cliff of diminishing returns. People who purchase "Expensive" items are essentially signaling they are socially insecure in their own self-worth. So, they seek out items that act as proxies of their self-worth. In the end it's a glaring red flag that these poor souls, no pun intended, have a self-identity and self-worth issue they need to address in order to achieve happiness.
2. No one cares about what you have. In fact, the most likely outcome of you keeping up with other's excessive purchases or outdoing them is they will envy and hate you. This explains why playing this game is a net loss to everyone.
3. This is a distraction from what really makes you happy. What really makes you tick. Everyone needs to sit down with themselves and ask the important question: What is the purpose I give myself? Purpose brings happiness. Once you identify your purpose, then you can set and achieve goals leading to that purpose and thus happiness.
4. You shouldn't' t care what other people have. If other's are putting themselves in tremendous debt to impress others, that will only lead to their misery. Why would you want to join them, even if misery loves company!
Take it from me. I make enough money to "Impress" others. I drive a 10 year old truck I bought 8 years used and fixed up myself. I live in a middle class 1700 SQFT townhouse with middle class finishes. I wear clothes for 5-10 years. I cook homecooked meals every single day. I build my own furniture.
Why don't I just "Buy happiness"? Because money never could buy happiness. That's the greatest lie that's been told to people.
I have enough money I just hate owning excess stuff, or overspending. I love second hand.
Social weakness. Did your parents make sure you had everything your schoolfriends had or more, or did they say.. "no.. we are not buying that for you, if you want it you have to get a weekend job and pay for it yourself"?
I learned at a young age to toughen up on that imminence front bs social pressure. It really is anti intelligent.
"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class." Heard that first when I played Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day and I've never forgotten it since.
Quick edit: my boy Wiegraf didn't actually say this, but it still applies! Gotta love false memories lol
Yeah its why a lot of white collar criminals get off so lightly despite doing way more damage to the economy than some guy robbing a bank.
Rich people think of fines as fees they pay to not have laws, like a VIP pass.
@@I.____.....__...__ just the cost of doing business to them
But then what's the alternative? How do you enforce smaller, much less serious offenses like disobeying traffic laws? Surely we can't enforce every single law with jailtime?
@@hittingyouoverthehead You can make the fine proportional to the person's income or wealth. In Finland, speeding tickets are proportional to income, so some multimillionaires have ended paying huge fines for speeding with their sports cars.
When I was like 10 I had this idea that I’d draw a blueprint of this massive mansion that would be filled with everything I could ever possibly desire. I only got as far as an indoor basketball court, ocean themed corral swimming pool and rooms so large I’d have an indoor four-wheeler to travel around the house before I moved onto doing something else.
I basically ran out of shit I could want and got bored.
You mean you didn't think to spend $44 billion to buy a social-media company for as your private toy? 🤨 That's how rich people blow big money, by buying absurdly expensive stuff they have no need for and no business owning as an individual.
This is literally every kid I've known but with clothes, cars and video games. Like this was something their middle, lower and upper middle class parents will tell them to dream about in other to make it in life. Most of them ended up drug addicts and jobless or occupying some secretary job in the government or something "prestigious" like a "videochat" company. I'm from a former communist state, people who once where "equally" poor only see social classes and the 'right attitude". Believe me, is not right to judge a book by it's cover but the difference between us and them is we value reading or listening to others at best.
@@yamataichul cool story. Whats your point?
Now that Cody is rich, I hope he is able to replace the doors and floorboards in his house
I hope he can get another 3 walls
We all know Katie will just break down any replacements.
@@therabbithat maybe get some blood back
Last I heard, that "Affluenza" kid almost fled the country to South America after his mom paid his bail... I heard both of them got in trouble for that, but it goes to show you that people with too much money only see price tags, even for bad behavior.
They had enough money, but they didn’t know enough people because that sounds pathetic. I would say they were both suffering from that.
Either way most rich people would die before they give up some money. They feel like they're powerless without money (fax) and to them, handing over their wallet is the same thing as being shot and killed for your wallet.
It 's time to start calling billionaire 'hoarders'
Oligarchs is another good option
Red dragons
The word oligarch doesn't have the same zing as dictator even though it just means one of several dictators. Let's call them dictators.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 They are addicts who have a disease and are causing harm to everyone. So in the exact same way that any person harming others gets a forced intervention we must do that to anyone who gets rich.
@@bentuttle Yeah, Money Junkies hits it pretty well IMO
I think that Affluenza could definitely be considered a real condition ...but if someone is that dangerously out of touch, then the only logical conclusion, is that they therefore absolutely must not be allowed to make any decisions (incl financial ones), handle money in any way, drive, handle any potentially dangerous objects etc, and have to be monitored by others. (to say that Affluenza is real, and *_not_* do that, would be insane)
it's already been successfully used as a legal defense to get a rich kid out of trouble so welcome to the insanity that is our world. Glad to see you're caught up with the rest of the class.
@@Secret_Takodachi I am well aware, that it's been used as a defence. My point is, that you shouldn't get let off for it.
So people with "affluenza" need a conservatorship? Doesn't sound great tbh.
I didn't work as a legal defence, unless you talkimg about a different one from the one Cody mentioned at the start. And if it HAD worked, what would the upside have been? You don't get leniency for being an alcoholic or a drug addict, if the judge had accepted it, he might have ruled that the guy should be sentenced to live as a poor for six months or something. Suspended sentence based on never having more than $50 to live on.
If you're that out of touch, I think a logical treatment plan would include several months in genpop
As a genetic counselor the eugenics/pro-natalist stuff is terrifying. We get stuff like this popping up sometimes in the clinical genetics community and we have to make statements denouncing it
My sister pitched an idea she read that I like: No more billionaires. Once you turn over from $999,999,999, all wealth going forward is donated to schools, social security, and infrastructure and you get this super neat trophy that says "I Won Capitalism."
Look at that number. That’s insane as is. Jesus. Throughout the course of your entire LIFE is an ambitious goal. Almost seems like a curse, a curse that should just end in that trophy. I like your sis’s idea.
great idea, all for it but they'll just hide it in offshore bank accounts or shell corporations or some shit. these people's greed knows no bounds.
It shouldn't even be that much. After half of that would be even more helpful to our environment. It would just create more crime though
It would have been interesting to explore the Richest Man in the World's family history:
1. Elon Musk's grandfather Joshua Haldeman was the Canadian leader of Technocracy Inc., a utopian technocrat cult that existed during the Great Depression and was considered subversive to the war effort in World War II. This may have been because of its fascist overtones.
2. The members of Technocracy Inc. referred to each other by serial numbers, and sometimes used the letter "X" in their pseudonyms. Hence, Musk's obsession with the letter X.
3. Remember that scene in "Ironman" where Tony Stark finds his father's secret plans for the energy generator in his futurist architectural models of what looks like EPCOT center or the World's Fair?
Elon Musk cameoed in Ironman. It is reasonable to believe that he sees himself as the basis for the character of Tony Stark. The Richest Man in the World fashions himself as a comic book character.
Real legitimate links:
newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk/
www.businessinsider.com/who-was-elon-musk-grandfather-joshua-haldeman-technocracy-incorporated-party-2023-9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
In my country i work 100 years to earn 1 million dollar, can you explain to me who on this planet can do work worth 999,999,999 dollar? No one can and no one should earn even a fraction of that amount.
Words cannot express how outstanding this channel is.
My grandpa used to say, "with ideas like that you better be rich cuz otherwise people will just think youre crazy."
ME: "why would that matter?"
Him: "cuz then you have them write eccentric in the papers."
what actually happened:
YOU: "why would that matter?"
HIM: "do I really need to explain the fucking joke to your dumbass?"
This episode should get an award. From the double-meaning in the title to the on-point commentary. It also reminds me of that time I said to a friend "being super-rich is like a mental-disorder, those people are not like us". And the fact, that the ecological footprint was invented by BP to make us - as always - go after each others throat for as a distraction. Good Job News Team! Cody, see you at the next beany baby conference....oh wait, too soon? XD
That's Scott Fitzgerald's quote
Yikes!!!
I just imagine a rich person receiving a paycheck from a minimum wage job and watching them try to budget
Mp tried in the UK in the eighties.
Lasted three days.
They would do what they've done all their lives, and what the poor and rich alike do all the time, steal deal, lie and hustle. The only difference is, one was born with a silver spoon and the other unable to eat because of it
"This won't even pay for my food for a week! How do The Poors™ ever afford private jet flights?"
Watching this while wearing my "BILLIONAIRES ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS" shirt from the Some More News TeePublic store makes this video all the sweeter.
It's incredible how much engaging you guys made a 1 hour long video. I had to pause the video multiple times to take notes so as to further look into all the articles and interesting facts you showed on the screen. I just subscribed!
My dad made it in the music industry so he's fairly wealthy, and I'm an aspiring musician. I definitely had to work to get good at it, but I'd never have had as much time to work on my art, as many tools to work with, or as much experience being around music without the lucky circumstances of my birth. I don't think I'd have developed my skills at all without that, and if I ever end up succeeding in the industry it will almost certainly be partially due to nepotism. I'm not really sure what to do about that personally other than being aware of it and advocating for political/industry change, but I think it would be disgusting for me not to be aware of it and to pretend I didn't get a huge leg up.
“Partially” you weren’t born with a brain predisposed to learning music, were you born into any other family you’d’ve likely been doing something else
use some of your money and clout, especially and specifically if you make it, to help fund a working class artist and/or band. there's a bunch of amazing underground acts who bust their ass and have immense talent who could probably be just as successful if they could afford to just like...take the month off of work and go do a small regional. and also actually put yourself around those common folk. y'know. so you remain in touch with their struggles.
Legit spending weekends with a rich father while living with a lower-middle class mom is how I became a lot more aware of the differences between social classes and how becoming successful in our society means having less empathy and compassion for others and just SHEER luck.
Awareness W!
Yea, Id definitely have been a musician if we could afford it growing up. First thing ever saved for was a guitar...then had nobody to teach me how to play it so it gathered dust til my 20s.
Jesus: A rich person must give away all their wealth or they will never see heaven.
A Christmas carol: Stop being a greedy prick or you'll suffer!
you'd think they'd get the memo at some point.
They ain’t suffering. Trust me.
Then they couldn't laugh in God's face and take a hit out on him to overthrow him at the same time..... Apostilles of the human race
Here's a memo: we're all narcissistic opportunist. Evil doesn't have a leg to stand on without stupid people buying in, and humanity is a human centipede
Instead American Protestants created Prosperity Gospel, which is by definition, heretical to all the teachings of Jesus.
I don’t think A Christmas Carol’s main theme was necessarily about greed. I think Scrooge’s love of money came down to his belief that money provided a sense of balance in his life…it wouldn’t leave him like the people in his life did. His father left him at boarding school, his sister died, his sweetheart left him. That is not to say that the book is not against the rich, the Spirit of Christmas Present has a wonderful screed against the isolating perspective of the wealthy.
I love how Cody just proposes obvious solutions, and it makes me wonder why I never heard anyone take them seriously. People homeless? Give them a home? People moneyless? Give them money. People have too much money? Put a limit on how much money you can have.
And all those solutions are exactly what we need. To Bad we are conditioned by the rich controlling the media how "we cannot deny someone more money", even though we Can totally do so, and we already do so for the poor!
"Dats socialism/communism!" is the only respond you get from most people unfortunately.
@@TheNN *from most americans.
even worse is money as a concept. Try to blank your mind for a second and imagine a person with no money who needs food, and they go to a grocery store or some food place. The food is there, loads of it, and it will be thrown into the dumpster by the end of the day anyway. But that person has no magic green papers so they can't have the food, which is right there and destined to be discarded if nobody buys
or an unhoused person who can't have a house while those same houses sit empty because of XYZ reason
and the kicker? Money is made up. It's not real. We deny people access, we kill people simply because they don't have these game tokens. Fuck money and fuck capitalism and the state
@@SMPKarma That is the twisted and cruel circle - the people with the most money have the most influence on public opinion, so they logcially impose the opinion of "money is the best measure of quality in people" since that is what they have the most, so a lot of people get that idea hammered into their minds, and that creates new generations of money-hungry psychopaths who continue this cycle. You could compare that to a doomsday prepper loosely - they will stash up enormous amounts of foodstuffs, but instead of sharing that with fellow people that don't have any food, they keep it out of a twisted sense that they need/deserve it more, even though it wouldn't hurt them in any way to share.
Boy, I come from Venezuela and did they try those... a lot.
Sometimes I wonder how rich people would function in the shoes of someone hovering just above the poverty line. Like imagine convincing a rich person to, just for a month or even a week, have to live like someone who works paycheck to paycheck. Would they even function properly? Of course this scenario would always be unrealistic since they would never be in the same position as other people. Someone living paycheck to paycheck without a savings account of billions can’t just call their friends or family for money, or a place to crash on a regular basis. Plus they would always by working with the knowledge that “this is temporary, I’ll be back in my mansion shortly.”
This is the plot to numerous comedy films that, oddly enough, never get talked about on mainstream outlets. I wonder why? 🤔
i've got fantasies of making a rich person live off disability income exclusively for 5 months & checking in on month 3
@@ohnoagremlin Why even give them that? I'm disabled and still haven't been able to get disability income for 10 years. Watching a rich person try to navigate the healthcare system with Medicaid would be a hoot though. Like if they break a bone in the month of December they won't even get seen by a doctor until March because all the hardworking, taxpaying non-moochers have to be seen first.
@@shroomyk true, the first time they get told "we don't take that" like you tried to offer a dogturd as payment would be wild to see
@@ohnoagremlin That is such a good description tho 😭
What's also really sad is that most rich folks only wish to help if it only benefits themselves financially, instead of just being a good person who can actually help others in need.
And I think that's because the systems their parents and ancestors have built have made it where the act of aiding another must in some may have a personal benefit. Like if a town needed water they would wanna help if the town gave them some fame or land.
As a mentally ill person, I feel like if we just classified rich people with the rich person disease as described in this video, we might be able to address it as a society and not glorify rich people as much lol
Just start sharpening the guillotines, because there's only one cure of Affluenza.
It's hilarious how Joe Rogan looks like a genius next to Elon when he's unscripted.
Joe Rogan is not your hero.
@@samsmith1999 He definitely isn't.
@Sam Smith he worked his way up to where he is (with a lot of dumb luck he himself will admit) and is fairly humble about it. Not a hero, but not a villain either
@@gatergates8813 He is an idiot. Not a particularly dangerous one. He is more comparable to moist critical, a normie who wants to platform everybody because it is advantageous to them because god forbid anyone powerful uses their wealth or influence to be good and contribute to society in any meaningful capacity.
@@gatergates8813 he will never admit and he wasn't poor to worked hard to up there
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
Dorothy Parker
A nice saying, but doesn’t really make sense. Since most people get money through committing acts of evil, they’re more likely to have received it from the devil.
@DeadDancers they sure seem to thank God for it though…. A LOT!
@@DeadDancers Of course it makes sense. That's why it's funny. And isn't god supposedly omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent? God and "the devil" are therefore one and the same. Miss Parker was making an observation, a wry social comment cloaked in witticism that is just as true today as it was in the days of William Randolph Hearst, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt et al.
I've been watching for a few months now and finally realized why I love this news channel; it's like being given the news by Charlie Kelly from Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
I wish one of the ad breaks was about kitten mittens
If Charlie actually knew anything about what's going on. XD
I have had that thought for a while now, glad I'm not the only one who sees it
@@mountainhun charlie, you're the most uninformed person i know! you don't even know what's going on in ISRAEL!
I watch it because he is healthy, with strong legs, and likes dogs
Money can't buy you happiness but it can give you the power to make others miserable.
Money can buy happiness if you go from being homeless and living in poverty to making $200K a year and buying a house. It will not buy happiness if you go from making $2M a year to $20M year.
maybe not happiness persay, but it absolutely can and will make you *far* less stressed and more comfortable
It’s a shame the envy and jealously people have for wealthy people.
Money doesn't give power to make other people miserable.
That power is granted by those willing to do anything for money.
Money has no power without the accepting party's willingness.
@@nemo-studios all evidence says otherwise but ok
No one hordes billions of dollars without some insecurities.
A normal person would make enough to stop working and just live a decent life.
What? We're gonna pretend we wouldn't all choose to be billionaires if we had the choice?
Also likely that no one hordes billions of dollars without some in securities 😅
@@gpmegaman I want to be a Ninja.. but I'm not going to spend my life being a target of the desperate masses just to build up strength on leg day.. that takes something "special".. like Goodfellas special..
@@gpmegaman Are we pretending we're all without insecurity?
Some of the most generous people I’ve met, has been low to medium income.
Giving a higher percentage of their income to charities!
In Norway, speeding tickets are adjusted for income - quite fair system!
Speeding in your Golf? 10 dollarinos
Speeding in your Lambo? Oh buddy, we're gonna need you to turn over your first born son
Not since the recent reform. Sorry.
@@MomirsLabTech
He he, where I live, (Denmark), since April 2021, if you get caught driving 100% over the Speed Limit or above 200 km/h, Law Enforcement takes your car!
The law had only been in effect for six months when a Norwegian guy who had bought a Lamborghini Huracán in Germany, on his way back to Norway, got caught driving around 240 km/h - now it might not have been his first born son, but it was probably his first, and maybe even only, Lamborghini - add to that, a fine of +2000 € and Drivers License gone for three years!
He probably would have preferred getting caught speeding in Norway….
@@gamlerik1
Oh, what a shame - I’ve always admired the approach - it was so sensible and very "Norwegian"!
@@gorillaguerillaDK What's it like living in a civilized country?
Having worked in an exclusive resort I have plenty experience with rich dips but you don't even have to be rich-rich to be like this. I have an upper-middle class friend whose husband parks in handicap spots and when my daughter pointed it out he laughed and called it his 'ability tax" as in he knows he is perfectly able to walk a few more feet but since he has the 50 bucks to cover any ticket he might get it's worth it.
My daughter assists a woman who puts Tanya McQuoid to shame. They just went to Vegas and my daughter said she'd sneer if the workers looked her in the eye and she was so rude but she'd dole out the twenties for tips so the workers just cringed and accepted their fate. She treats my daughter like crap too but at least she got a free trip to Vegas. This woman came from money and really treats anyone who has less as either a charity case (this is how she treats my daughter) or a potential thief (and she's actually accused my daughter a few times). She seems miserable but she sure experiences the best places and eats the best food. My daughter was blown away by how they treated the wealthy clients in these places in Vegas. The would look down at her like they knew she wasn't the rich one. She also discovered just how poor people act different around rich people too.
I parked in one while I ran into a friend's house 1 time... (I was in my early 20's, should've known better)
It was a spot in his apartment complex and I never saw anyone park there so I figured it was no big deal... that ticket was $250 and carried a mandatory court appearance. The judge told me if I came back for that again he would penalize as much as possible
All that to say, that guy's getting off *Really* easy
The trip to Vegas is not free. She paid with a portion of her mental health. No one endures abuse and comes out of it intact.
I managed to weasel into a company's sales team back in 2021 as a "Customer Support Engineer," and I clearly didn't fit. Hell, three months into my probationary period, they dismissed me for "lack of a cultural fit," and when I asked the HR director on the phone to elaborate, he flatly refused. I'm guessing they literally meant that I wasn't accustomed to having *real* money on-hand or didn't know how to deal with having actual fiscal agency.
I was dismissed just before the big trip to Las Vegas to some kind of sales conference. Strange to say, but I'm actually very glad that they fired me; if I ended up anything like them, I'd consider my life to be wasted.
@@crackmyknuckles169 Yeah but the way you make it sound, they fired you for not being wealthy enough, which is a labor crime. Since they won't elaborate on why you got fired, you could potentially sue them. Even if you don't want your job back, you might get something out of it, and maybe they will tread more carefully when firing people for suspicious reasons.
Your friend's husband is a scumbag
I've got severe anxiety, the doctor tells me I really need to start removing stressors from my life... I've told him several times that the vast majority of my anxieties are financially based. I already work two jobs seven days a week with two master's degrees. I'm nearly 30 and still haven't gotten steady full-time work, I'm not even pay-check to pay-check I'm pay-check to a couple of days after pay day and now I have to figure out how to survive the next several days. I hate it here I just want enough money to live comfortably
I hate hearing comments like this because I felt like you got mislead and just expected things to work out. What are your degrees and what do you need to work in the field that you want to make a livable wage from?
Check out Mr money mustache. I wasn't in your situation but he helped me at a good time in life and I owe a lot to him.
@@TierneilI think you might be a little out of touch. Over half of Americans can't afford a $400 emergency and more and more people are picking up multiple jobs that results in them working more than full-time but not receiving any overtime pay to compensate for he damage being done to their body and mental well-being by working past the point it would be reasonable. And "just get the right degree" doesn't mean anything if you're in America because you will likely be drowned in overwhelming debt for much of your life
Do you have a religious/spiritual foundation?
That would help you make some steps out of your situation.
Seems you did everything right.
You just need gas in your tank.
@@patriciapandacoon7162 i dont understand how people are still getting college degrees for so much money without thinking about what it does to their finances. its just insane that you think im out of touch for calling out a bad situation tied to a bad decision. I'll probably not get my degree until im in my late 30's because why would I? It's not necessary for many career paths until much later on. and if it is necessary and the job still doesnt pay the bills, that just sounds like a bad decision.
The worst part about longermism is that they sort of hand wave the details. Like my questions are "oh how does your utopia handle homelessness?" and the answer is pretty much just "it doesn't have it" with no explanation of how or why. It's made all the more baffling by the fact that this "utopia" is capitalist, which sorta creates homelessness by design.
Capitalism needs homeless in late stages. Homeless people are just another cohertion tactic of capitalism.
They will eat the poor.
Homelessness is largely driven by mental illness & addiction, both of which have a genetic component. It isn’t impossible to imagine a world where such genetic susceptibilities would be edited out of the genome, or dramatically reduced by managing fertility.
@@anolisa1939 holy shit, eugenics much?
@@anolisa1939Or slave labor.
Can't be homeless if you live on the work compound, woo!
Only one minute into the video but I can 100% confirm that rich people are FAR from okay.
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I thought rich people were weird and gross from a young age but I didn't really experience their behaviour first hand until my mid 20s.
I had this dude I met while buying md offer to let me live at his apartment for free, as long as I would teach him how to DJ. I was broke as hell at the time (a recent break up left me stuck on a lease by myself) so I jumped at the chance.
I assumed this dude was well off but it turns out his family was crazy rich from breeding race horses and other ridiculous income avenues. They were worth somewhere in the range of 50 to 100 million.
I have NEVER met a more fucked up family in my life They were both bizarre and straight up evil in so many ways. The father was one of the most intimidating people I've ever met and the stories his son (the dude I lived with) told about him were horrifying.
His private boys school buddies were disgusting too, they'd refer to working class people as "low breeds" and the ideas they had about women were disturbing (definitely several date r*pists among them) and even though they went to an insanely expensive school, most of them were as dumb as dogsh*t.
Definitely an eye opening experience. I could tell stories for hours.
Give us one of the stories! Doesn't have to be for hours, just the most horrifying/entertaining one :)
@@voland6846 haha OK, well this one isn't particularly horrifying but it always stands out in my mind as such a rich a-hole thing...
So after moving in i quickly realised that not only was I expected to teach this dude to DJ but I was obligated to be his friend too, I was about 4 or 5yrs older than him and his friends (most of whom hated him anyway) so I think he felt that gained him some level of clout(??).
Anyway, his family put on a thing for his birthday at an Italian restaurant. It wasn't a crazy expensive place but definitely more expensive than I'd ever normally go to. Food was great but the family were at each other's throats all night, as usual.
But after everyone had finished eating and the restaurant was due to close, the family insisted on staying for well over an hour longer while the staff literally stood around waiting to close up, the family (especially the dad) was getting enjoyment out of the fact that the staff were forced to wait for them because they had spent so much money. Meanwhile I was sitting there feeling awful and super awkward. We were the only table of people in the restaurant making everyone wait.
It was this super gross power thing and it was a perfect example of how they viewed other people as beneath them and there to serve them.
Same for me with a guy I met in my 20s who came from a wealthy family. He "only" had about 5 million, the rest was held in trust. Everyone in that family was fucked up except for his mom who didn't get a single cent in the divorce and had to *gasp* work for a living. The stories I could tell...
@@inelouw Funny enough the parents of my rich dude got divorced while I was there too and yeah the mother didn't get much because the dad used all sorts of shady tricks to hide his wealth. They really were a miserable family and almost all the negative rich behaviour examples Cody mentioned in the video were on full display.
I would read that memoir! It sounds wild…
So right on about rich folks. Feeling rich and superior will have to be changed through a major culture, education, or consciousness shift. Not sure what will cause that. Love you, Cody!
I think you're right about the rich people abandoning society altogether instead of wanting to solve problems. Some Russian billionaires actually tried to found a human colony in space. They even recruited citizens from all over the world. I think they called themselves Asgardians. That was before the war in Ukraine btw. Sad stuff.
Wait really? Shit that messed up.
let them do it. Rich people, and I mean capitalist-rich not doctor-rich, they have no skills. Maybe they can make ramen noodles but that's likely the extent of their life skills, not to mention any skills such as survival, woodwork, metallurgy, chemistry (lol)
billionaires would last like a week before starvation would make them kill each other for arguing about who is going to feed them while they slack off. On an isolated island, that is. In space? Lmao
it's like that arrogant 13 year old kid who is going to "live off the land" in a Northern climate just to leave their home. Like yeah, good luck with that
Sounds like American billionaires
You can't exploit a billion dollars out of people when you have a conscience.
Yes. Rich people aren't just more likely to cheat and steal because they think they're above the rules, but also because that's how you become and stay rich.
@@pepi7404 Yes, thank you. It's not that becoming rich makes you a rectum, it's that you can't get rich _unless_ you're a rectum. Look at people who got rich by chance like winning a lottery rather than from something like selling a company; they usually end up losing all the money from both spending on themselves, but also from spending on OTHERS.
Well done to all those that voted in Wisconsin 👏👏👏👏
17:55 I was a doorknocker for Greenpeace in NZ. We would drive for hours to out-of-the-way random Māori towns (as with most indigenous communities ours also are on the poorer end of the spectrum) because we knew they would give. Forget "WestGate" or any of these fancy new white people housing communities that were a half hour drive from us; it was actually more profitable to drive 4 hours and put a bunch of people up in a motel just to talk to a town comprised of stray dogs one horse on a lawn and a handful of Māori homes. We were frequently scheduled in the poorer areas for this reason. Poor and/or Māori=high sign-up rates. It also should be said that the Māori being (for all intents and purposes) indigenous care a lot more about the land and ocean (Greenpeace's bottom line) but it just really struck me that people who obviously had so little (we would go to these people's homes and often see inside them, they were not bleeding money) were the most willing to give. When we did South Auckland (very high pop. of immigrants, Polynesian, Fijian, Indian etc.) they told me they couldn't afford to give but would invite me inside for a meal. Never would you get that in the white suburbs. For context I am white
I am not bad off, pretty damn comfortable. But not so comfortable that I could give enough to qualify for a tax break like more wealthy people can. I do give to charity causes. But I found out pretty quickly the moment you do, you get harassed frequently letter after letter asking for aid. I chose 3 causes and give monthly rate. I also budget for random gifts. People keep finding and asking me for donations of 500 to 700 which is insane because thats actually a decent percentage of my paycheck. Though not half my rent.😢 I am pretty sure one of those charities I gave to sold my address to other charities.
When I was newly well off I would just give some money to anyone who would ask. I quickly found out that was a way to have to go back to eating only beans and rice and never being able to save money for an emergency. I did send all my covid checks to charities because I couldn't justify hoarding something that was meant as a social help when I did not need to.
Now despite unsubscribing my daily email box and physical mail box are filled with "the world is shit and someone will suffer if not for your financial help" messages.
I feel like if I were to invite you in your organization would just guilt trip me dry. And remind me how much I want your work to be done by the government through my paying tax money so I don't feel like I have to be personally responsible for helping every cause. Or trying to research which is the best place for what I can spare.
Then again, you live in New Zealand so if I were there I wouldn't be spending so much of my budget on Healthcare and maybe you have some anti harassing laws that means you won't be sending me wasteful flyers every month making me feel bad for choosing to live alone rather than finding a roommate so I can spend what I save on rent money to help people.
Sorry rant over. All I am saying is that, while I know that people well off are definitely giving a smaller amount to charity. Not wanting to let a salesperson into your house is not always because people are apathetic or self centered.
My experience too. I remember a man standing in the driveway of his half a million dollar home, next to his boat, explaining to me why he couldn't give by gesturing to everything saying "I don't OWN all this! the bank owns all this!"
This is some of your best work ever, SMN team. Fascinating look into the psychology of the wealthiest people on the planet, and incredibly depressing as always!
i make my extremely wealthy mother watch SMN episodes when i visit bc i don't know how else to communicate with her. my own unexpected reaction to this one: it made me cry.
she doesn't understand why i was such an unhappy kid bc "we gave you everything" and i can't get her to understand that "things" are not the #1 most important thing for a mother to give. i haven't even finished the episode yet, had to pause it for a xanax break
In my life I’ve been able to observe how rich "kids" fare in different aspects of life.
An example is, we have conscription in my country, and having spend much time in the Army, I’ve seen some very interesting mechanisms. There was two types, the manipulative trouble makers who had a hard time accepting that they had superiors like me who came from low income families, and then there were those who clearly enjoyed, just being "equal" to the rest, it was like some burden had been removed, giving them a sense of self-respect!
I remember when my own time as a recruit was coming to an end, and we were on the much dreaded Dragoon-Week, my buddy was a from one of the top 1%-2% of wealthiest families in the country.
There was several times during that week where he told me he was about to quit, but he made it, and both of us ended in the top 10%, with him a couple of spots higher than me, (he was a far better runner than I was, I was among the worst in that category).
He was so proud, and he started crying and thanking me, because he knew that without me, he wouldn’t have been able to make it - I honestly think that this is just one more good reason to have conscription!
The guy learned that it was okay to ask for help, he learned that when SHTF and you need someone to count on wealth doesn’t matter, he learned that strength and success is best achieved through cooperation - and he found a sense of self worth that wasn’t based on the wealth of his parents!
Now I’ve also moved in more shady circles, you know, growing up poor and in many ways feeling like an outcast, led to me seeking companionship in all the wrong circles, you know, drug dealers, 1% Bikers, etc., and again, it was quite fascinating to observe the difference between those who came from similar backgrounds as my own, and those who came from higher socioeconomic levels of life - it was like they "disintegrated" more easily - could be extremely violent, but often also the first to run and hide, had far less sympathy towards substance abusers, even thou they themselves were quickly descending towards becoming just that themselves - maybe it was because they somehow felt superior, or knew that there was always someone who would "catch" them if they fall, and help them to rehab!
Anyway, it was interesting to read how you use the show to interact with your mom - is she better able to understand things after having watched the show?
Hope this one maybe will, and that it can lead both of you towards a pathway towards healing your relationship!
Best wishes from Scandinavia….
Hope you're feeling better, if you felt like stopping this video to take a pill, it sounds like it's really bringing a lot to the surface. Hang in there !
Also, as far as her perspective goes, maybe "things" are an expression of her love ? Of course that would be a flawed way of looking at it, but maybe it'd explain a few things.
My sister's dad didn't say much about his life prior to meeting our mum. I know he was from an affluent, well off family from Sardenia. I don't know why he moved here, no do I really care. He can piss off back there as far as I'm concerned. He had this exact same problem, conflating giving things to love. And he can't understand why my sister resents him for that
I find it interesting you say your mom is wealthy but you’re not?
@@Begeru My dad's top 10%. I live on disability. He buys me groceries and paid for my credit card debt once, but he doesn't give me an allowance or anything so I effectively live in poverty. While you may be entitled to an inheritance at some point, having a rich parent doesn't make you rich.
I literally talk about his phenomenon with my friends and just call it 'wealthy brain rot'.
Might I suggest "dragon sickness"? Tolkien came up with that, so it fits quite well.
My mom was born dirt poor and it somehow didn't save her from wealthy brain rot
No, no, doesn't your stupid poor brain understand that if someone is rich that means they're smarter than you?
@@jeffersonclippership2588 I think just because you need a special kind of crazed greed to become stupidly wealthy, doesn’t mean everyone with that greed gets the wealth
I have always questioned why all these rich people need all this money. More money could only make me happier if I had enough to buy my home so that it is actually mine and I don't have to worry ordering food whenever I feel like ordering food. Not being stressed out about ordering sushi because it is too expensive or whatever. I don't need a car where I live because the public transport is already pretty good. It would be so nice if the super omega rich had to just give up 99.9% of all their thing because they would still be obscenely rich if they did that. Like, they would still be richer than everybody else. It is psychotic that they "can't stop" getting richer. It is literally the dragon sitting on its mountain of gold. It is probably not even as comfortable as sleeping on the stone floor of the freaking cave.
I can feel this happening. I used to be working class, I mean really working class with a rough occupation. Now I'm slightly higher-working class, but I can already tell my mindset has changed. Not necessarily for the better.
Could you elaborate on this, please? I´d be interested to hear some examples of how your mindset has changed, I´ve been having some interesting discussions with my friends lately about work, wealth, and life in general(I´m in my mid-40s, most close friends are between about 35 and 50). I´d say most of them(myself included) think that having enough to get by and live a somewhat comfortable life is enough, but on the other hand, a few of the older ones(50+) who certainly have enough assets to retire tomorrow if they want, still want more money and things (I´ve been trying to gently nudge them lately to "just take it easy, you have enough already, man") 😊
The big marker between blue collar/poor and well to do is when stuff breaks.
Poor you fix it. Your friend may come over to help, and have dinner.
Blue collar you know how to fix it but don't want to, so you hire one of your buddies to either help you, or do it for you, and have a few beers after.
Well to do - your hire someone you don't know and never see them again.
This mindset applies to pretty much every problem. Well to do just throws money at it until it's not a problem anymore.
If you grow up not well to do and get there later in life there's this constant battle inside of dealing with your shit or choosing to throw money at it.
@@basharic3162 except, most working-class hardware isn't meant to be long lasting enough to even be fixable. Cheap plastic breaks in multiple points when it breaks, because it's just not built to last. It's built to be replaced. Which is why it's cheap.
Earning more doesn't change the fundamental contradiction of interests between the ruling class and the rest of us. Unless you're now the owner you're still working class, friend, don't forget that.
Buy me a pizza, high-roller
just for sheets and giggles, when a 'christian conservative' brags about how they've made some money, say to them "you're blessed" and watch them instantly back way off the fake piousness, become reflexively offended, and retort "no, i worked ~hard~ for what i have".
Hmmm...I haven heard people who cant acknowledge BOTH.
Unfortunately, Protestants like Calvin had an excuse for this that is still commonly believed in many Christian denominations today; basically, they claimed that when you are born, god has already decided if you will go to heaven or hell, and nothing you do, either good or bad, can change that (incidentally, Martin Luther, back when he was still Catholic, was plagued with anxiety about nothing he did ever being good enough to earn a place in heaven, to the point he had what was basically a nervous breakdown and had to take a break from his work to try to recover, which probably isn’t a coincidence.). The key here is that while nothing you can do can change this fate, wealth is a sign from god that you have already been chosen for heaven, while poverty may mean the opposite, but god will only bless you this way if you are hard working and industrious.
Excessive wealth has always ruined people. 90% taxes on extreme wealth are not a bad thing. Part of the problem is "capital gains" vs. "income".
That's what it was in the 1950s!
Remember what Sen. Sanders accurately said; he may be a socialist, but he's not as big of a socialist as Eisenhower.
If they want to relive the "good ol' days," let's start with that.
@@TheDancerMacabre Agreed. Better times, that have been whittled away by monied interests. Not easy to get money out of politics. Have to try, otherwise the extremes will force another "French Revolution", and that is not a good thing for anyone.
@@alexphoenix9208 To actually Make America Great Again would require taxes going back to 1970 levels. America was "great" (prosperous) because taxes were re-invested in the nation, the government spent on projects like the Hoover Dam, and the jobs those projects created and the money recirculating into the economy through trickle up economics because f them brought the lower and middle classes up into releative luxury. Then along came Reagan and his neocon goons, deregulating and privatizing everything, lowering taxes for the rich, attacking government spending and things have only gotten worse since.
Let's hope that they would use the 90% for public good as in the 50s, or better! More racially inclusive and stuff. Or ya know, the defense budget could just "not know where the money went" like they've been doing lately... and always...
@@smileywarhead5178 Don't disagree with you. There must be systems in place to ensure corruption doesn't bleed it, and I think reducing military spending (especially in the USA) would be a good thing. I think that goes for the world, but hey... we're still a fairly violent and self-serving species, so I don't think this will come to pass until our species matures a lot more. If we survive ourselves.
I worked tip jobs for probably a decade total. From Canada's most popular coffee shop to a luxury hotel.
Can confirm, rich people are the WORST tippers.
The most generous tippers are on the lower ends of middle class.
I would get about $500 a month in tips on average and probably more than 95% of that came from the people in beat up or just low end vehicles.
At the luxury hotel with rooms starting at $1,000 a night, averages were $60 during the slow season, $100 during the busy season.
Rich people are the worst.
This makes me think of the final episode of Squid Game:
"Do you know what someone who doesn't have any money has in common with someone with too much money? Living is no fun for either of them. If you have too much money then it doesn't matter what you buy or eat or drink or... whatever. Everything. It all gets boring. All of my clients started to eventually say the exact same things whenever we talk. Everybody felt that there was no joy in their lives anymore."
Sorry, but anyone given the choice between "too much" money and too little isn't hard to figure out what most would select.
@@bpalpha I mean yeah obviously, but the point is that being super rich isn't even that fun because your wealth defines you and every accomplishment is trivial with basically infinite resources. We shouldn't "pity" rich people or whatever, but use it to drive on that they can *easily* do without that obscene wealth and probably even be better off without it.
They could have resolved their dilemma through giving away their money to hit that middle-zone sweet spot. But nah, murder, because the ‘life has no joy’ line is just an excuse do commit heinous acts.
@@DeadDancers Bro I was just quoting a thing that he said in the show. I never said that his actions were justified.
you know what rich people dont have to do? participate in a game where like 500 people die and 1 person wins (after killing his friend) to get out of their crippling debt.
god rich people are so stupid sometimes
The rich widow did not build a weird house to hide from ghosts. she just kept starting new projects and didn't undo previous passages. The ghost thing was made up in the 70s to sell tickets.
Lol so she just had money and ADHD then.
Did they also add doors to nowhere in the 70s?
@@fandomcringebucket "Did they also add doors to nowhere in the 70s?"
They do if you abandon construction projects halfway through.
tbf to Sarah Winchester she was actually just renovating a farm house into a huge house, the ghost story started later when it was made an attraction. the weird architecture is more hat she wasn’t an architect but designed it all herself and occasionally got bored and abandoned rooms, also the 1906 earthquake ruining parts of the building and just quick fixes being slapped on. which is pretty weird in itself.
This video has finally given me the context to understand the way my cousin treated me. His father divorced from my aunt, and went on to become incredibly rich through the creation of successful start-ups which he then sold.
This cousin got his own 'start up company' to practice with, takes private jet flights, and has an eastern-European bride. The last time I saw him was at an anniversary party where he was joining in with an arts and crafts project, meticulously drawing dots on a large piece of paper. I told him jokingly that he'd be busy for a long time if he wanted to fill the whole paper, and he acted as if I was air. Literally a non-entity. As if I didn't exist.
I'm not forgiving him for that, but it helps to know he's just sick in the head, rather than making a personal snub at me.
More stories, what do you mean by that? That was super creepy lol. Jeez. No soul…
As a child of someone that's very rich, this is pretty true, my mom tries her best but can be pretty out of touch, and I've had to unlearn a lot of junk to empathize with people less lucky than me
You'll never understand, but I'll give you points for trying. Just two. Two points.
I'll give you another point if you use the power you inherit for social good. In fact I just gave it to you. Now you have to do that, to break even and all.
If you would be empathetic, then you would be understanding of the fact that your life, the fact that you are alive alone, is a drain on society. It drains ressources away from others. Nothing you can ever do will ever amount to a positive compared to the parasticial damage you cause to all of us. I think it is safe to say, that the world would be better without you. Don't expect my empathy, I will be happy if something bad happens to you. If you get abused, I will side with your abuser, as due to your oppressor status making it more less likely, that any person who would harm you did so out of self-defense or resistance. You are not a good person. You will never be a good person. Even dead, you would be at bet a negative.
it can happen in middle class families, too.
People who are 'comfortable' are sometimes ...out of touch.
@@themudpit621 That's super vindictive and a show of bad character. It's highly dubious that she/he is in anyway responsible for what made you so cynical. Maybe OP is just pretentious and trying to score social points, or maybe she/he is actually empathic and trying her/his best to not be like the parents that brought her up. If we want to improve our economic and societal systems, then we need to bring everyone over to our side that we can. I see that self reflection and a will to look beyond the surface is something we should encourage.
It’s crazy how much better these videos are now that you’re rich
He’s so much smarter, better looking and talented, too! And he did it all by working hard and not taking any handouts.
@@anondecepticon and he is always right! Or he wouldn't be rich
Just got here hope his wealth has helped his quality and channel to benefit us too
On the doomsday part one thing I loved in World War Z the book is part of the story where all the formerly rich survivors realizing they were useless in a post apocalyptic society. The important, useful people are the ones that know how to build and fix things and all their "business acumen" is worth dick of all shit.
I also loved the chapter where a celebrity survival palace was overrun by the panicked masses, and the narrator said "they would've probably been alright if they didn't need the world to know where they were."
@@rvawildcardwolf2843it’s unfortunately an example of not reading the room. If i were in that position i’d have steered clear of the rich enclave like the plague because a: my money is probably secure and i don’t need to advertise my position and b: even if it is secure, what good is money going to be in that timeline if the dead are walking? It makes a strong case for being insanely wealthy being a mental impairment.
That said, maybe we should strive to help people survive even if they cannot be "useful" and build stuff, or every disabled person is fucked (I know this is tongue-in-cheek and about a zombie book. I don't want to yuck your yum, but just saying)
It's pretty common for wealthy doomsday peppers to buy land in isolated areas in Australia and New Zealand. Everyone knows- but it's laughable, what do they think is gonna happen in the apocalypse?
They'll get lynched and have their heads stuck on pikes...
@@Pan-optic from each according to their abilities. To each according to their needs
As a crazy woman on a Greyhound bus once told me, "Money just makes you more of what you already are". Money doesn't make you evil, being an evil person makes you hoard wealth.
You might be on to something
The mentally ill on the Greyhound are the best source of advice
As long as they don't decapitate you in the station bathroom
@@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel a broken clock is right twice a day. And drifters/junkies for sure can have lots of life experience to draw from
@@brandondavidson4085 I wasn't being sarcastic
I am a drifter. Only 45 years old, living isolated and mostly alone in a van for the last ten years. Life had shaped my view into something cynical.
Making money is easy, you just buy low and sell high, and importantly you must also lie, cheat and steal. The first lie you tell is to yourself, that you "deserve it" ...
What is hard to make is everything we need to actually live: houses, clothes, food and tools, that takes actual work that no one is willing to do, and unwilling/unable to pay for.
$95k a year is 4.75 times more money than I have ever made in a year. I'm miserable and the only solution people throw at me is therapy. Which wouldn't touch the issue of having no money, and potentially just take more of what little I have away from me
What do you do? And out of curiosity why do you not take the steps necessary to get out of a 20,000$/year job?
@@superdog797 YOU CONTINUE ?! AND SOMEHOW GET EVEN WORST ?!
@@NIHIL_EGO I'm not sure I see your point
@@superdog797 Should I... pull myself somehow upwards by... I know, my bootstraps, or something?
@@alexcthe Since you didn't answer my question I have no idea what you should do. Your refusal to answer is obviously a defense mechanism, which is fine, but in the long run that tendency will only perpetuate whatever situation you're in. Maybe you do need therapy or maybe not. If you feel so bad all the time you may want to consider seeing a psychiatrist who can legally prescribe you medication. Medication may help you to focus and get out of a rut you may be in.
But none of that may be necessary. I don't know what your situation is but you seem like you (1) have a degree of self-awareness and (2) have a sense of humor and wit. Those are indicators of some intelligence. You owe it to yourself to get a career that will earn you more than $20,000 a year - you have to do better for yourself in your life because you're capable and you deserve it. I don't know what it is you have to do but whatever it is you need to become obsessively focused on taking the steps necessary to make it happen. This may require several years of very hard work and sacrifice, like going to school and working at the same time, but in the long run you will come out the better for that.
Again, I don't know what you are interested in doing, but perhaps you should consider education or further training. There are all sorts of jobs out there that are in high demand, pay well, and require training from just a few months up to a few years. You have to make the choice.
Welder - 40-50k/year starting
Truck Driver - 82k/year entry level
Garbage Collector - 39k/year
Allied Health Professions - *Highly Recommended* - google this term
*Surgical Technologist* - 50k/year, 1-2 years training
*Anesthesia Technologist* - 40-50k/year, 1 year training
*Dental Hygienist* - 60k+/year, 2-4 years training
*Ultrasound Tech* (Medical Sonographer) - 2-4 years, 70k+/year
*Respiratory Therapist* - 75k+, 4 year degree
You have your whole life to find a job that pays you better and the fact of the matter is that, though you or others may not like to hear it, if year after year passes and you're still in the same situation you were years ago, that's not anybody else's fault. I pass no judgment on your personal character for your choices - but it makes no sense to just sit around and lament your situation when you aren't obsessively doing whatever is necessary to improve your life. If you have medical problems that are preventing you from progressing that's one thing - but if that's the case you need to treat those problems so you can proceed with your life. Otherwise you're just wallowing in a situation that you yourself describe as miserable. Your whole life doesn't have to be incredibly hard work but there may be times in life when you have to work very hard for a number of years. Get your education and training and commit to doing well, work hard for a number of years and focus on your self, and you'll be able to rest on your laurels a little more one day. That's the only thing I can tell you man and I know you deserve better for yourself and you can do it.