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Nobody is a Villain in their circle But in relation to the public their actions have a negative effect most of the time, whether they do it intentionally or not Just like how the Roy Siblings were fighting over which President they should support
Friends explains how Monica affords the apartment. It is a rent-controlled apartment that is in Ross and Monica's grandmother's name. They are not paying market-value rent because of the rent control and the lease being in their grandmother's name.
My least favorite thing about these shows/movies is that the "poor" person trying to go up the ranks usually gets villainized and the wealthy are treated to make us empathize with them.
@@manunascimxntothis is not a good representation because he wasn’t poor, the family was never displayed as “good people” and he wasn’t a better person anyways.
Maybe that's cz we are the audience - so we ideally feel vindicated in our lack of wealth while feeling somewhat superior in condemning the poor person who tried to join the wealthy class. It gives a sense of security in our way of life - instils a fear of wealth maybe. Just a guess.
@@littleraskle The whole point of Saltburn’s Oliver is that he is wealthy; he is upper-middle class. There are no working class people in Saltburn because they would never get in them. Saltburn is a portrayal of the desperate, social climbing middle class trying to destroy the upper class purely to become them.
@@littleraskle except tom ripley is still always sympathetic because rich ppl like dickie greenleaf are shown to be so callous and cruel, which is smth some shows forget to do with their villainous poor character. there's a sense that tom is leaning into his worst instincts when he tries to fit into the system, which encourages such toxic behavior.
The showrunners even said they DIDNT use some of the things theyve heard/read/told about, simply because they didnt think people would believe it! My wife made a good observation that these are basically messed up kids being handed keys for something they didnt really earn...yet their rash (or ego) decisions affect soooo much...crazy
The Roys don’t own any of the jets as this video suggests. The company owns or leases them. One of the storylines was that the Board of Directors was going to curtail the use of the private jets.
It’s often more tax efficient for the individual to own them or personally own a separate company that owns them (often based offshore) and lease them back to their companies…
@@KaiayaRules In the show, each family member owns a certain amount of stock. It’s a publicly traded company. A bunch of non family members also own a lot of stock. They never defined exactly how much stock everybody owns. But, they always seem to need support of others to gain control of the board. Up until the last episode, the combined family members controlled the company through their shares and support from others.
@@OhNoNotAgain42They say the kids have 5% a piece when he’s alive. They will have inherited more but they also say together they don’t own a controlling share.
I often wonder if some actors who portray the ultra wealthy are more or less wealthy than their characters (i.e. Leo in The Wolf of.. imo had to play a rich man with less $ than himself)
Reading the Cult of We, and just finished the part about WeGrow and Rebekah Neumann had to be told why it's not a bad thing for teachers to be paid and get a modest raise.
Re: the rich trying to 'keep up appearances' after they've lost their wealth is perfectly illustrated in the first episode of Schitt's Creek, which then becomes a running joke: Moira's wigs/wig wall. Of course, it can be said that the family's general wardrobe is a sign of their trying to keep hold of some semblance of their former life. However, I feel like our introduction to Moira is her putting her wigs into suitcases, then wearing them constantly throughout the show, as well as the hilarious episode where she literally wont leave a burning building until she saves her 'bébés', aka her wigs 🤣🤣🤣 is such a wonderful illustration of fear of letting go of your former self. And yes, I know that Schitt's Creek is satire, and in many ways, the entire family does indeed shed their former ways, but I think keeping Moira's wigs was a very good choice indeed 😁
Whole of Titanic was based on the premise. Likewise, the phenomenon of dollar princesses. They did an episode on Chicago med where a woman was eating cat food so she could pretend to her friends that she wasn't having money issues and was buying nice things. I think this phenomenon is why politicians and the upper middle class are scared of giving economic concessions to the less fortunate- because they feel this need to live their lifestyle
The guy screaming over the butter is so funny cuz I use to work at a Ben and Jerry’s in an area with ultra wealthy tourist. And if we were out of something like mint chip they would almost burst into tears. It was boarder line hilarious.
Just a note, folks making over 6 figures living paycheck to paycheck isn’t necessarily due to lifestyle creep. It can easily be due to inflation and especially for millennials and gen z the combination of student loans and the vast expense of owning your own home.
Every super rich person I know is actually pretty messed up behind closed doors. Not a one of them is balanced, grounded, emotionally healthy and is a genuinely kind person.
It depens on so many variables that I don't think that statement is true. I have met plenty of old money rich people who are kind, caring people. For sure there a lot of messed up rich people, but there are many messed up poor people too. It is not always about money. It is family, personalities , schooling, friend crowd etc. Saying "all rich people are messed up" is as ridiculous as saying "all poor people are kind and emotionally stable".
How are they comparing people who make "over $100,000 a year" with billionaires? As a result of the greed of the super rich, families that make just over $100,000/year are often very much living paycheck to paycheck - along with everyone making less who can't even survive.
Not the main focus of the video, but ppl keeps complaining about unrealistic apartments sizes on movies and series. That's because they can't fit all the cameras, crew and actors on a tiny one bedroom NYC apartment. So that's the reason most of poor ppl on tv lives in '' rented controlled apartments''. Yes, it takes a little bit of reality out of the picture, but it's better than bad footage.
(Not to be pretentious) but I was recently reading Hegel for a course and he makes a point about the world reflecting ourselves back to us. When you’re at the very top when everyone is underneath you your own self image can be totally distorted
That’s great can you explain more plz ? 🙏🏻 and also mention which book of his you read this in ? I would like to start reading Hegel but I’m intimidated and afraid that I can’t follow through
@@doingmythinghere9722 it was Phenomenology of the Spirit, esp. the section “Lordship and Bondage” there’s this really good channel that goes through the whole book section by section on here that I found really helpful (Half Hour Hegel) the only thing that helped me was that it’s a requirement for one of my courses so I was forced to actually sit down and try to get through Hegel in regular intervals.
The rich are just extorinists. People making $100,000 a year are also spending most of it to maintain their life styles instead of learning to live with less and spend less than they need to. Poor people ultimately pay more for everything as being poor costs more. Like the buying boots example: buying cheap boots that fall apart faster because they can't afford higher quality boots, but because they have to keep buying cheap boots over and over again, they end up spending more money long term compared to if they could buy the higher quality ones, from the start, that last longer and thus cost less over all. Even if $100,000 isn't a lot to those who have it, it's a lot to poor people. It's a number they may never reach in their lifetime. Yeah people can thrift, but that doesn't take away the fact that the conditions set out by capitalism are arbitrary and shouldn't exist. Period.
You can’t help but “live paycheck to paycheck” when housing costs are TOO D@MN HIGH! You can’t just “live somewhere smaller” because the cost is based on the neighborhood. Want to pay less, live in a much worse neighborhood. Is that a viable alternative?
@@epbrown01Depending on the neighborhood, you could catch a stray bullet coming through your wall or window. 24k/year is not worth your life or your mobility. ... I would take the cheaper appartement though. 😂
poor wittle rich people :( won't someone pity them (I say that but I do honestly pity the children, like the actual under 18 children, being raised in these horrifically toxic at best, and often abusive environments. I can understand why they're so fucked up when they're adults, but they also have the money to get therapy and honestly unpack things, and instead choose to refuse to learn and grow...because they have money, so they don't have to.)
Better than growing up in destitute poverty anywhere else in the world. Where you can also just as well have an abusive household. Basically, toxic household environments are unavoidable in spite of any class situation. Always better to be rich though. These kids will always have all the support they need, materially at least. But I understand your point that it feels like a nightmare pretty often to be around elitist people all the time, esp of it's your parents/family
The Roy family planes are worth way more than $50M in total. They are each worth that amount or more. Those long haul jets in particulary cost well over $50M. I’m excluding the BBJs they fly to Europe which are modified Boeing 737s.
The mega rich in my community donate money to the local universities and have buildings named after them. They travel in groups with private security that take up several tables in restaurant.
@@gangstaberry2496 oh don’t know them personally, wouldn’t that be fun, haha. I think that they would be considered nouveau rich cuase they made their money in tech. Think early 2000s excess. My guess is that the donated money at the universities is in well invested endowments but a building at a small university probably doesn’t stack up to a building at an Ivy League school. So are the rich people in my area really that rich I dunno
I will never be uber wealthy and that is fine. I couldn't give 2 shits about "keeping up with the Jones". There are a lot of horror/thriller/dark comedy shows and movies that have also covered this topic, like Ready of Not and Knives Out. They both have wealthy families that will go to extremes to keep their wealth, as well as "everywoman" audience surrogates. I'm especially surprised that The Fall of the House of Usher wasn't featured. That is a prime example of a stupidly wealthy family empire full of shitty people, but they are extremely entertaining. Shit goes south fast and I really enjoyed meeting those awful family members (and their awesome spouses/partners), seeing how they got to where they were, the lengths they went to keep it, and ultimately, how it all came crashing down.
I must say I am bit disappointed with this episode. This felt more like a summary of succession than an actual analysis of wealth on TV. You start by posing the question, "How true to life are these portrayals, really? And how do these narratives shape our perception of the wealthy?" & all you really do is walk us through the most common tropes. The section "ultra rich lifestyle on screen vs television" only points out that really wealthy people tend to keep their luxury quiet - something anyone who opened Instagram or TikTok in the past 12 months could have told you as well. This did not seem en par with your usual content. I feel like you could have gotten a lot more in depth here.
I feel like the most realistic billionaires are the VIPs from Squid Game and Isherwell from Don't Look Up. They're totally removed from reality and, most importantly, think they're a lot smarter and cleverer than they actually are. Just a bunch of deranged losers who see themselves as visionaries while laughing at 69 jokes and acting like creeps to everyone around them.
Mom is a fashion designer and dad is a businessman. Theory is that works for the mob or is a mob attorney. I think all the brothers come from a wealthy though Uncle Rob had multiple residences and paid for the family to go to Paris.
I think that (first) movie came out before the housing crisis, back when we still had a middle class, home loans were handed out like fake $100 bills, and the wages vs cost of living scale wasn't *quite* as unbalanced as it is now.
forget movie and tv depictions. social media will make you feel like 10x more people are living the 1% lifestyle. I realise the more one flaunts their wealth, is usually when that person is feeling things are going downhill, and that the flaunting is to help cope with the drop in self confidence. I had a friend who would regularly buy up the most expensive sports watches. His collection is worth 7 figures. One day I see in the news that his family is declaring bankruptcy, and the guy has no longer made a single post on social media again.
Christ, another 'poor little rich girl' video... hoping there will be a nice, chunky series on the lack of/wrongful depictions of the poor/poverty/working class- and why these people are of so little focus. Make sure you include some joy and reality if you do though, as we're not all Dickensian or 'hillbillies'! See Lois (Malcolm in the Middle; On My Block; Connell (Normal People); Derry Girls; Atlanta.
the only feeling I have when watching succession, downton abbey wolf of wall st etc is anger that we are ruled by sociopaths and we should take their stuff and throw them in jail.
This is why i didn't like White Lotus, found it was just about rich ppl's problems, and zero relatibility. I still don't understand why ppl watch it, maybe the aesthetic
That’s not what it’s about. Especially the first season, but both seasons. It fully shows how middle and working class people are exploited by these rich idiots. Also shows how so many of the rich idiots aren’t as rich as they pretend to be.
@@KatyloveheartI've always said this always. Anytime a Disney movie or a new movie comes out and I look at reviews about it, there's always people that complain that it's not relatable and I always say that not everything is meant to cater to everyone and that's fine 😅
I saw a breakdown somewhere but let's put it this way: The most expensive hotel room in the world is the Empathy Suite at the Palms Casino Resort, at $100,000 a night. If you had a billion dollars, you'd have to stay in that suite for 100 consecutive days to feel like you've spent a penny.
A year not a month. If you were making that much a month your wealth would likely be in the 7-8 digits. As for making 100k a year though and living paycheck to paycheck, its not strange or even due to expensive lifestyles. I am not living paycheck to paycheck but making that much in one of the most expensive states in the USA, i can tell you its hard to save a lot. You can easily end up broke if youre not minding every dollar, constantly.
Monica is rich lol. Just look at the wrapped punch bowl which is so big and takes up so much space. In a normal house you have to think about where would every thing go w/t taking so much space.
Full disclosure as I haven't finished this video yet, but Big Little Lies features wealthy people living in northern California and she is in that show.
I felt that way mostly about Nate Archibald in Gossip Girl. He was genuinely a nice guy who happened to be rich. Sure he made mistakes (he's a teenager) but I remember several times Dan tried to make him like a bad person just things worked out for him cause he's a kind and charming
Well, you dont get rich by being a good person, generally. You get rich by lying, cheating and exploiting the rules and the people. So if youre talking about 'self-made millionaires' then they honestly can all get bent. If youre talking about old money then how can you hold on to millions or billions when there is such suffering in the world? They are propping up the very system (capitalism) that is destroying the working class and the planet. So while they might not be movie villain eviu they are at least apathetic which is still shitty
@@letrailhall-nance9189looking at Gossip girl as a whole though, didn’t the overall story make the poor people the villains? Vanessa, Jenny, Dan…the poorer characters are portrayed as the villains of the show.
Puhleeze stop saying that $100K a year is a good income. That’s quite marginal, especially when compared to people who already own 8-10 figures and make 7-9 figures a year just being rich.
Which god? The supposedly omnipresent/omnipotent and all benevolent one that lets his name be used by evil people to commit atrocities even though he could stop it if he wanted it? Ever heard of the saying 'there's no hate like Christian love'? Im sure similar sayings exist for islam and judaism as well, and it doesnt come from nowhere. Religion has been used to commit millions of horrific crimes and cruelties and if god existed you have to agree that he either doesnt *know* it happens or cant stop i (which would make him not omnipresent/omnipotent) or he knows it happens and could stop it but won't (which would make him not all benevolent) or both. To claim that 'gods currency is love' when every day innocent people are killed in the name of god is honestly vile, sorry
I love rich people. They don’t have a scarcity mindset. They don’t think in lack. They live in abundance! They operate on a frequency so they can live out their dreams. I feel it’s a jealousy thing. Because why are you mad at them? Why can’t you be intelligent enough to create your reality? I now understand the hate of well off individuals. It’s demonic.
Because theyre killing the planet and exploiting people maybe? I dont want to be rich, i just want the rich to not constantly try to get richer and richer by any means necessary and stop fucking literally everybody else over in the process. Capitalism is a deadly drug and we are all addicts.
What a crazy way to deflect the very real problems with being so rich. You are the demonic one. Likening being a good/successful human with being “rich”..😒
Wealthy doesn't equal intelligence. A LOT of people are born into wealth. A LOT of wealthy people are born on third and act like they hit a triple. People are people. Wealthy assholes are just as horrible as poor assholes
This is really aburd! No sane person will believe, that tv shows and movies portrey ultra rich in a precise way. Yes, a lot of super rich will have terrible personality, but also many many common people have terrible personality as well, so an attemp to attack wealthy group of people is nonsense and pointless. There is only one and the only reason, why anybody would atttack ultra rich and the reason is ENVY. Most people can´t grasp the idea, that only so few people are so good with money and know, how to get at the top. Well, it is the common person problem, that he or she is not good with money and is dumb, no one else´s. No wonder, that 1% of super rich can´t spend their time with common people and must be isolated. Because if not, common people would try to destroy their success and lifes. And why? Again, because most common people are super dumb and envy, thinking, that life is not fair to them. Well, it is fair! Peole are dumb and don´t do antyhing to improve their life, so they must stay ordinary. Anything difficult to understand about it? It is not, it is very simple and fair. It is the natural law of our planet. And other thing is that showing envy to someone has no dignity and at that very moment you became an ultimate looser proving this idea, that common people are indeed super dumb and vain.
And what about those born into wealth? They absolutely did NOTHING to acquire that position. Pure luck. And there are people born into wealth who actually think they achieved something by being born. Most people don't hate the wealthy. But a lot of people hate people who use their wealth (or wealthy status) to mock or be cruel to those who are NOT wealthy
Elon Musk is homeless! He lives in his offices! A judge canceled his 2018 compensation plan which was 25% of this net worth!😮 Musk salary from 2018 to present is $1.00 a year!😂
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Succession was the most realistic show about ultra wealthy I’ve seen. Not everyone’s a villain but nobodies good.
Logan Roy was my favorite character, he was a mix of Periander and Darth Vader.
What makes you think so?
I also thought that they could not feel truly happy because of their wealth
chy i wouldn’t know 😭
Nobody is a Villain in their circle
But in relation to the public their actions have a negative effect most of the time, whether they do it intentionally or not
Just like how the Roy Siblings were fighting over which President they should support
Friends explains how Monica affords the apartment. It is a rent-controlled apartment that is in Ross and Monica's grandmother's name. They are not paying market-value rent because of the rent control and the lease being in their grandmother's name.
no wonder landlords hate any semblance of rent control
Yeah but the Mr Treeger knew. It was unrealistic that someone else didn't know.
And Joey is an idiot - he wouldn't be able to keep that secret
Mr Treeger knew. And Joey is so bad with secrets, he likely told at least one of his one-nighters
My least favorite thing about these shows/movies is that the "poor" person trying to go up the ranks usually gets villainized and the wealthy are treated to make us empathize with them.
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@@manunascimxntothis is not a good representation because he wasn’t poor, the family was never displayed as “good people” and he wasn’t a better person anyways.
Maybe that's cz we are the audience - so we ideally feel vindicated in our lack of wealth while feeling somewhat superior in condemning the poor person who tried to join the wealthy class. It gives a sense of security in our way of life - instils a fear of wealth maybe. Just a guess.
"A lack of money will make you miserable, but an excess of money will not make you happy."
That’s what rich people want you to think so they can keep all of it 😂. Absurd people think this
The poor people are villains in gossip girl
Saltburn, talented Mr Ripely, even succession has Greg betray his mentor lol.
@@littleraskle The whole point of Saltburn’s Oliver is that he is wealthy; he is upper-middle class. There are no working class people in Saltburn because they would never get in them. Saltburn is a portrayal of the desperate, social climbing middle class trying to destroy the upper class purely to become them.
@@littleraskletbf greg was portrayed more sympathetically since he had all the reasons
@@littleraskle except tom ripley is still always sympathetic because rich ppl like dickie greenleaf are shown to be so callous and cruel, which is smth some shows forget to do with their villainous poor character. there's a sense that tom is leaning into his worst instincts when he tries to fit into the system, which encourages such toxic behavior.
Tbh, the point of gossip girl is that you shouldn’t idolize the characters… they’re all written as assholes (especially the rich ones)…
Can we get a character study on Tom Wambsgans? 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽
6:06 I’m also reminded me of Kate Hudson’s assistant in ‘Glass Onion’ and the scene about ‘sweatshops’.
The showrunners even said they DIDNT use some of the things theyve heard/read/told about, simply because they didnt think people would believe it!
My wife made a good observation that these are basically messed up kids being handed keys for something they didnt really earn...yet their rash (or ego) decisions affect soooo much...crazy
The Roys don’t own any of the jets as this video suggests. The company owns or leases them. One of the storylines was that the Board of Directors was going to curtail the use of the private jets.
It’s often more tax efficient for the individual to own them or personally own a separate company that owns them (often based offshore) and lease them back to their companies…
But as long as the roys still own the company, all the companies assets are part of their net worth, are they not?
@@KaiayaRules In the show, each family member owns a certain amount of stock. It’s a publicly traded company. A bunch of non family members also own a lot of stock. They never defined exactly how much stock everybody owns. But, they always seem to need support of others to gain control of the board. Up until the last episode, the combined family members controlled the company through their shares and support from others.
@@OhNoNotAgain42They say the kids have 5% a piece when he’s alive. They will have inherited more but they also say together they don’t own a controlling share.
Whether or not they own them, they do have them at their disposal. Does it matter if they own them at that point?
I often wonder if some actors who portray the ultra wealthy are more or less wealthy than their characters (i.e. Leo in The Wolf of.. imo had to play a rich man with less $ than himself)
Reading the Cult of We, and just finished the part about WeGrow and Rebekah Neumann had to be told why it's not a bad thing for teachers to be paid and get a modest raise.
Re: the rich trying to 'keep up appearances' after they've lost their wealth is perfectly illustrated in the first episode of Schitt's Creek, which then becomes a running joke: Moira's wigs/wig wall.
Of course, it can be said that the family's general wardrobe is a sign of their trying to keep hold of some semblance of their former life. However, I feel like our introduction to Moira is her putting her wigs into suitcases, then wearing them constantly throughout the show, as well as the hilarious episode where she literally wont leave a burning building until she saves her 'bébés', aka her wigs 🤣🤣🤣 is such a wonderful illustration of fear of letting go of your former self.
And yes, I know that Schitt's Creek is satire, and in many ways, the entire family does indeed shed their former ways, but I think keeping Moira's wigs was a very good choice indeed 😁
Whole of Titanic was based on the premise. Likewise, the phenomenon of dollar princesses. They did an episode on Chicago med where a woman was eating cat food so she could pretend to her friends that she wasn't having money issues and was buying nice things.
I think this phenomenon is why politicians and the upper middle class are scared of giving economic concessions to the less fortunate- because they feel this need to live their lifestyle
The guy screaming over the butter is so funny cuz I use to work at a Ben and Jerry’s in an area with ultra wealthy tourist. And if we were out of something like mint chip they would almost burst into tears. It was boarder line hilarious.
I play the world's tiniest violin for them 🤏🎻
Just a note, folks making over 6 figures living paycheck to paycheck isn’t necessarily due to lifestyle creep. It can easily be due to inflation and especially for millennials and gen z the combination of student loans and the vast expense of owning your own home.
Difference in power...paying to get on the Forbes list vs. paying to stay off the Forbes list.
“If you’re on top there only one way to go”
This is why Ralph Feinnes invites these people to his restaurant in "The Menu"
"I mean it's one banana Michael, what could it cost? Ten dollars?"
I love Arrested Development lol
Every super rich person I know is actually pretty messed up behind closed doors. Not a one of them is balanced, grounded, emotionally healthy and is a genuinely kind person.
Sounds like your coping to feel good about your situation by make theirs seem bad
It‘s not a healthy lifestyle
It depens on so many variables that I don't think that statement is true. I have met plenty of old money rich people who are kind, caring people. For sure there a lot of messed up rich people, but there are many messed up poor people too. It is not always about money. It is family, personalities , schooling, friend crowd etc. Saying "all rich people are messed up" is as ridiculous as saying "all poor people are kind and emotionally stable".
Does that not include poor people too?
I've met rich people who are messed up and rich people who are healthy and down to earth. Don't try to generalise people based on limited experiences
How are they comparing people who make "over $100,000 a year" with billionaires? As a result of the greed of the super rich, families that make just over $100,000/year are often very much living paycheck to paycheck - along with everyone making less who can't even survive.
Not the main focus of the video, but ppl keeps complaining about unrealistic apartments sizes on movies and series. That's because they can't fit all the cameras, crew and actors on a tiny one bedroom NYC apartment. So that's the reason most of poor ppl on tv lives in '' rented controlled apartments''. Yes, it takes a little bit of reality out of the picture, but it's better than bad footage.
100K is not alot anymore.. .. 100K is the new 70K.. its the bonus and stock options that really make a difference
(Not to be pretentious) but I was recently reading Hegel for a course and he makes a point about the world reflecting ourselves back to us. When you’re at the very top when everyone is underneath you your own self image can be totally distorted
That’s great can you explain more plz ? 🙏🏻 and also mention which book of his you read this in ? I would like to start reading Hegel but I’m intimidated and afraid that I can’t follow through
@@doingmythinghere9722 it was Phenomenology of the Spirit, esp. the section “Lordship and Bondage” there’s this really good channel that goes through the whole book section by section on here that I found really helpful (Half Hour Hegel) the only thing that helped me was that it’s a requirement for one of my courses so I was forced to actually sit down and try to get through Hegel in regular intervals.
The rich are just extorinists. People making $100,000 a year are also spending most of it to maintain their life styles instead of learning to live with less and spend less than they need to.
Poor people ultimately pay more for everything as being poor costs more. Like the buying boots example: buying cheap boots that fall apart faster because they can't afford higher quality boots, but because they have to keep buying cheap boots over and over again, they end up spending more money long term compared to if they could buy the higher quality ones, from the start, that last longer and thus cost less over all.
Even if $100,000 isn't a lot to those who have it, it's a lot to poor people. It's a number they may never reach in their lifetime. Yeah people can thrift, but that doesn't take away the fact that the conditions set out by capitalism are arbitrary and shouldn't exist. Period.
You can’t help but “live paycheck to paycheck” when housing costs are TOO D@MN HIGH! You can’t just “live somewhere smaller” because the cost is based on the neighborhood. Want to pay less, live in a much worse neighborhood. Is that a viable alternative?
Pay an extra 2 grand a month or get a concealed carry permit? If a nice $700 Glock will save me $24k/year, I’m in.
@@epbrown01Depending on the neighborhood, you could catch a stray bullet coming through your wall or window. 24k/year is not worth your life or your mobility.
... I would take the cheaper appartement though. 😂
poor wittle rich people :( won't someone pity them
(I say that but I do honestly pity the children, like the actual under 18 children, being raised in these horrifically toxic at best, and often abusive environments. I can understand why they're so fucked up when they're adults, but they also have the money to get therapy and honestly unpack things, and instead choose to refuse to learn and grow...because they have money, so they don't have to.)
Better than growing up in destitute poverty anywhere else in the world. Where you can also just as well have an abusive household. Basically, toxic household environments are unavoidable in spite of any class situation. Always better to be rich though. These kids will always have all the support they need, materially at least. But I understand your point that it feels like a nightmare pretty often to be around elitist people all the time, esp of it's your parents/family
The Roy family planes are worth way more than $50M in total. They are each worth that amount or more. Those long haul jets in particulary cost well over $50M. I’m excluding the BBJs they fly to Europe which are modified Boeing 737s.
The mega rich in my community donate money to the local universities and have buildings named after them. They travel in groups with private security that take up several tables in restaurant.
How many people have you seen like that?
@@gangstaberry2496 oh don’t know them personally, wouldn’t that be fun, haha. I think that they would be considered nouveau rich cuase they made their money in tech. Think early 2000s excess. My guess is that the donated money at the universities is in well invested endowments but a building at a small university probably doesn’t stack up to a building at an Ivy League school. So are the rich people in my area really that rich I dunno
I will never be uber wealthy and that is fine. I couldn't give 2 shits about "keeping up with the Jones".
There are a lot of horror/thriller/dark comedy shows and movies that have also covered this topic, like Ready of Not and Knives Out. They both have wealthy families that will go to extremes to keep their wealth, as well as "everywoman" audience surrogates.
I'm especially surprised that The Fall of the House of Usher wasn't featured. That is a prime example of a stupidly wealthy family empire full of shitty people, but they are extremely entertaining. Shit goes south fast and I really enjoyed meeting those awful family members (and their awesome spouses/partners), seeing how they got to where they were, the lengths they went to keep it, and ultimately, how it all came crashing down.
Gossip GGoirl is the epitome of the show showing oppulence and also making them look human and how they view rest of the world. i loved it.
I don't care about the ultra rich people's feelings "Kim there's people dying". Literally
I must say I am bit disappointed with this episode. This felt more like a summary of succession than an actual analysis of wealth on TV. You start by posing the question, "How true to life are these portrayals, really? And how do these narratives shape our perception of the wealthy?" & all you really do is walk us through the most common tropes. The section "ultra rich lifestyle on screen vs television" only points out that really wealthy people tend to keep their luxury quiet - something anyone who opened Instagram or TikTok in the past 12 months could have told you as well. This did not seem en par with your usual content. I feel like you could have gotten a lot more in depth here.
Another good example in midia is Ryan's Murphy show The Politician
I feel like the most realistic billionaires are the VIPs from Squid Game and Isherwell from Don't Look Up. They're totally removed from reality and, most importantly, think they're a lot smarter and cleverer than they actually are. Just a bunch of deranged losers who see themselves as visionaries while laughing at 69 jokes and acting like creeps to everyone around them.
This is one of the best depictions
12:45 THE OG RICH B***H. Jessica Walters, such an icon.
What about the McCallisters in Home Alone? How the heck can they afford their huge house?
Mom is a fashion designer and dad is a businessman. Theory is that works for the mob or is a mob attorney. I think all the
brothers come from a wealthy though Uncle Rob had multiple residences and paid for the family to go to Paris.
I think that (first) movie came out before the housing crisis, back when we still had a middle class, home loans were handed out like fake $100 bills, and the wages vs cost of living scale wasn't *quite* as unbalanced as it is now.
Kevin's father is a policeman who sells informations to Tony Soprano...
when is The Take going to make a video about Arrested Development?!!
I do enjoy escaping to another world by watching shows about the rich. I like it when the characters aren’t all bad then just evil
forget movie and tv depictions. social media will make you feel like 10x more people are living the 1% lifestyle. I realise the more one flaunts their wealth, is usually when that person is feeling things are going downhill, and that the flaunting is to help cope with the drop in self confidence. I had a friend who would regularly buy up the most expensive sports watches. His collection is worth 7 figures. One day I see in the news that his family is declaring bankruptcy, and the guy has no longer made a single post on social media again.
3:49 I was just going to mention this.
It is super fun to watch the wealthy on the big screen. but overall it just sounds like stressful life after a certain point
Most of them inherited the wealth. Never worked a day in their lives.
Christ, another 'poor little rich girl' video... hoping there will be a nice, chunky series on the lack of/wrongful depictions of the poor/poverty/working class- and why these people are of so little focus. Make sure you include some joy and reality if you do though, as we're not all Dickensian or 'hillbillies'! See Lois (Malcolm in the Middle; On My Block; Connell (Normal People); Derry Girls; Atlanta.
the only feeling I have when watching succession, downton abbey wolf of wall st etc is anger that we are ruled by sociopaths and we should take their stuff and throw them in jail.
It s not much of a revelation. My family is escaping the Forbes list ever since, and yet we live a pretty sorrowless life.
I love this channel
I'm poor, but at least I know what little I have I got myself, amarite?!? 😬
This is why i didn't like White Lotus, found it was just about rich ppl's problems, and zero relatibility. I still don't understand why ppl watch it, maybe the aesthetic
That’s not what it’s about. Especially the first season, but both seasons. It fully shows how middle and working class people are exploited by these rich idiots. Also shows how so many of the rich idiots aren’t as rich as they pretend to be.
The first season was a MASTERCLASS in strata dynamics. Devastating.
Not everything is meant to be relatable and just because it's not relatable to you doesn't mean it's not relatable to other people
@@KatyloveheartI've always said this always. Anytime a Disney movie or a new movie comes out and I look at reviews about it, there's always people that complain that it's not relatable and I always say that not everything is meant to cater to everyone and that's fine 😅
I saw a breakdown somewhere but let's put it this way:
The most expensive hotel room in the world is the Empathy Suite at the Palms Casino Resort, at $100,000 a night. If you had a billion dollars, you'd have to stay in that suite for 100 consecutive days to feel like you've spent a penny.
McAllister were so rich! Kevin's parents come from some serious money.
Pay cheque to pay cheque on £100,000 a month!!! That would take me 8 years to gain (if I spend absolutely nothing)
A year not a month. If you were making that much a month your wealth would likely be in the 7-8 digits. As for making 100k a year though and living paycheck to paycheck, its not strange or even due to expensive lifestyles. I am not living paycheck to paycheck but making that much in one of the most expensive states in the USA, i can tell you its hard to save a lot. You can easily end up broke if youre not minding every dollar, constantly.
What are the movies in this video?
12:46 - Which movie is it?
Nothing like Wealthy People in the Media Discourse.
Monica is rich lol. Just look at the wrapped punch bowl which is so big and takes up so much space. In a normal house you have to think about where would every thing go w/t taking so much space.
I couldn't watch Crazy Rich Asians. Non existent story, completely reliant on materialism to attract shallow little girls.
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I find these movies dull as all hell because they're too many of them.
What is this Laura dern movie or show they keep showing
Full disclosure as I haven't finished this video yet, but Big Little Lies features wealthy people living in northern California and she is in that show.
First world problems…
More like fantasy la la land problems
its all part of the propoganda
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Only issue i have, is when they constantly try to make a wealthy person the bad guy just because they have money
I felt that way mostly about Nate Archibald in Gossip Girl. He was genuinely a nice guy who happened to be rich. Sure he made mistakes (he's a teenager) but I remember several times Dan tried to make him like a bad person just things worked out for him cause he's a kind and charming
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Well, you dont get rich by being a good person, generally. You get rich by lying, cheating and exploiting the rules and the people. So if youre talking about 'self-made millionaires' then they honestly can all get bent. If youre talking about old money then how can you hold on to millions or billions when there is such suffering in the world? They are propping up the very system (capitalism) that is destroying the working class and the planet. So while they might not be movie villain eviu they are at least apathetic which is still shitty
They are all the bad person. The average billionaire has more blood on their hands than the Nazis
@@letrailhall-nance9189looking at Gossip girl as a whole though, didn’t the overall story make the poor people the villains? Vanessa, Jenny, Dan…the poorer characters are portrayed as the villains of the show.
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Puhleeze stop saying that $100K a year is a good income. That’s quite marginal, especially when compared to people who already own 8-10 figures and make 7-9 figures a year just being rich.
There are two forms of currency in this world: God's currency is Love, Man's currency is money.
god killed an awful lot of people in the bible for all kinds of reasons. That doesn't seem like love to me.
Thank you for this
Which god? The supposedly omnipresent/omnipotent and all benevolent one that lets his name be used by evil people to commit atrocities even though he could stop it if he wanted it?
Ever heard of the saying 'there's no hate like Christian love'? Im sure similar sayings exist for islam and judaism as well, and it doesnt come from nowhere.
Religion has been used to commit millions of horrific crimes and cruelties and if god existed you have to agree that he either doesnt *know* it happens or cant stop i (which would make him not omnipresent/omnipotent) or he knows it happens and could stop it but won't (which would make him not all benevolent) or both.
To claim that 'gods currency is love' when every day innocent people are killed in the name of god is honestly vile, sorry
I love rich people. They don’t have a scarcity mindset. They don’t think in lack. They live in abundance!
They operate on a frequency so they can live out their dreams.
I feel it’s a jealousy thing. Because why are you mad at them? Why can’t you be intelligent enough to create your reality?
I now understand the hate of well off individuals. It’s demonic.
Because theyre killing the planet and exploiting people maybe? I dont want to be rich, i just want the rich to not constantly try to get richer and richer by any means necessary and stop fucking literally everybody else over in the process.
Capitalism is a deadly drug and we are all addicts.
Wow.
What a crazy way to deflect the very real problems with being so rich. You are the demonic one. Likening being a good/successful human with being “rich”..😒
Well said agreed ❤
Wealthy doesn't equal intelligence. A LOT of people are born into wealth.
A LOT of wealthy people are born on third and act like they hit a triple.
People are people. Wealthy assholes are just as horrible as poor assholes
Is Jeff Bezos girlfriend a guy?😂
This is really aburd! No sane person will believe, that tv shows and movies portrey ultra rich in a precise way. Yes, a lot of super rich will have terrible personality, but also many many common people have terrible personality as well, so an attemp to attack wealthy group of people is nonsense and pointless. There is only one and the only reason, why anybody would atttack ultra rich and the reason is ENVY. Most people can´t grasp the idea, that only so few people are so good with money and know, how to get at the top. Well, it is the common person problem, that he or she is not good with money and is dumb, no one else´s. No wonder, that 1% of super rich can´t spend their time with common people and must be isolated. Because if not, common people would try to destroy their success and lifes. And why? Again, because most common people are super dumb and envy, thinking, that life is not fair to them. Well, it is fair! Peole are dumb and don´t do antyhing to improve their life, so they must stay ordinary. Anything difficult to understand about it? It is not, it is very simple and fair. It is the natural law of our planet. And other thing is that showing envy to someone has no dignity and at that very moment you became an ultimate looser proving this idea, that common people are indeed super dumb and vain.
And what about those born into wealth? They absolutely did NOTHING to acquire that position. Pure luck. And there are people born into wealth who actually think they achieved something by being born.
Most people don't hate the wealthy. But a lot of people hate people who use their wealth (or wealthy status) to mock or be cruel to those who are NOT wealthy
Elon Musk is homeless! He lives in his offices! A judge canceled his 2018 compensation plan which was 25% of this net worth!😮
Musk salary from 2018 to present is $1.00 a year!😂
Musk inherited money from his dad's blood emerald empire
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Poor people are very evil people we rich people know that for a fact.
Why do you say that?
Genuinely curious
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@@derkeksuchtige3416 why are you so mean 😰😭
You literally just spoiled the ending of Succession. Come on guy. Put a disclaimer at the start of the video next time. JC.