I was a homeless junkie....a social worker took me in and I fought my way back to health and working a job...it's rare but some make it..I work in AA and help people who want help...it's a beautifull thing to see...but many don't make it...
This isn't america's #1 problem, this is the WORLDS #1 problem. I'm from the UK and we send billions in aid to other countries, when people in our own are going hungry and go ignored.
Do you honestly believe they're sending billions abroad. Those are relief packages we send after we fuck some 3rd World shithole for all their resources. Its our way of saying thanks for all the gold heres some donated laptops.
@@Lethalbanter He's not talking about the government aid packages, MAX is talking about normal people giving millions out of there own pockets, we do it all the time in the UK, people give a few £ each and chip in to help others who need it, this is on top of what the government does.
Your right Max, unfortunately American's totaly obsessed about them self's. The rest of the world talks about global problems, American's only talk about there own problems. I think this is because it's drummed into them from a young age that they have to be patriotic, the rest of us see ourselves as part of the world but they see themselves as part of America. There not team players like the rest of us. In the UK you never hear people talk about being patriotic but the yanks are obsessed about it!
@@xforkhandlesx I think we Europeans did have a history with a certain central European country with a extreme form of nationalism in the middle of the previous century.
That's maybe yet another proof that just throwing money at the problem won't solve it. There has been nothing like the so called "war on poverty" in USA that has increased to much poverty in America. Is not money (always) what you need. You need education, you need family stability and fairness. Also money to get that, but if you just give poeple money... They are fucked.
I was homeless for a couple of years,trust me it can be vary vary hard to get out of the circle of homelessness.i was lucky because I had a game plan,I stuck to that plan .but a lot of other homeless people haven’t got a plan.either through mental health problems or drug problems,it is vary hard to sort your life out.peace to everyone who cares about others.☯️☮️
What are your views of Capitalism? Do you think it helped or hindered you in your trials? (I am genuinely asking for your opinion, not trying to trap or Bait) Thanks for commenting.
Same here, it is very possible. My struggles inspired friends that anything is possible through hard work and staying the course. Always lead by example.
@@retired4365 What kept you guys going? I imagine some days you faced depression and enormous anxiety. How do you focus and stay on track and not lose it?
lmao thanks for clearing this up before I wasted 18 minutes of my life on the edge of my seat, curious about wtf America's problem with Russell Brand is.
One thing I do like about Russell is Will quietly listen to you’re side of an argument and see things from your point of view, then give his side of the argument from his point of view and is completely willing to agree to disagree and walk away peacefully instead of shouting you down and letting you get a word in edgewise.
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 it's more than that. Russell has admitted that he was basically an abusive narcissistic drug addict for much of his life. He's different now, he's ( *PLEASE* excuse the term! ) woke. As in, aware, awake, all of that. Aware enough to absorb ideas and remain collected when others might crack, might blow up or give up. Like NGT and Bill Nye do with science, Brand is a communicator of big ideas from philosophy. He may not be the originator of the ideas but he's an excellent teacher. All just my opinion, of course. 😎✌
@@devodavis6747 Do not be ashamed to use the phrase woke. Those who are sleeping will be offended by both expressions those awoken will understand and appreciate them..
Russell has transformed from a drunk idiot into a kind, caring and thoughtful human being. He gives me hope for the rest of us drunk idiots. Good for you mate...carry on
13:33 "Lets not crush this optimism in the crib, Joe." I absolutely adore both of these men and their beautiful facility with words. They are magical word artists and communicators. So much love for you guys
I think Russell means well. But his vision is not realistic in today's world. There's always going to be those who work harder than others. Equal opportunity will never equal outcome.
@@alaska-bornfloridaman Oh shit dude you can't be more wrong, People work extremely hard in every walk of life they just don't get the monetary value of there hard work like the rich do. You make it sound like only the rich work hard thus get rewarded for it, we all work hard m8. Without the vision you can't have the reality, every brilliant thing you see first came from someone dreaming it up, someone has to have the crazy idea before you get the crazy product.
some of his views are abit silly i agree. he listens tho and articulates himself well. i believe your either very drunk, high or thick, because the rest of your rant after the first sentence is unreadable. get your life together bro.
Yes, start funding very well structured homeless shelters, Give it an umbrella name, make it GLOBAL. EVERY PERSON WITH X AMOUNT OVER ONE MILLION IN BANK GIVE A PERCENTAGE EVERY YEAR! CLEAN UP THE STREETS. GET IN THERE IN THESE COMMUNITIES AND MAKE INCENTIVE...GOALS, BUILD SCHOOLS OF REAL LIFE EDUCATION, GYMS...JOB SKILLS, ...FEED, ECOURAGE N LOVE! THOSE WHO CHOOSE NOT TO PARTICIPATE, DONT GET INCENTIVES. MANDATORY DRUG TESTS ETC. FIND THE RIGHT PPL TO TRAIN AT A GLOBAL OUTREACH POINT, MILLIONS,AND LET THE BOZOS PAY FOR IT! ITS POSSIBLE!
We are animals. Do as they propose and your job ought to be labelled to you near adolescence. You stronk or not? Smart or dumb? No thanks, I pick my job and who I allow to be around me. I choose where my money goes and who deserves my vote. You're two cents richer.
In this area... Talk is cheap... How many people can easily see the problem but do absolutely nothing to sacrifice everything they have to fix it? We are talking about Mother Theresa level of charity to change the world. How many religious orders or institutions struggle everyday to do the very thing these "wonderful rich men" are talking about with less resources. In fact talk to Joe Rogan about religion and the great things these Saints have done. A Mother Theresa or Maximilian Kolbe who sacrificed himself in aushwitz to save another's life. He will crap all over them, ridicule them and mock them without trying to have an open mind. I'm sure it makes them feel good to talk about it but talk is cheap. That's why it is easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
this wealth inequality problem is a made up problem by ourselves as humans to climb higher in the social hierarchy. if we thought it through,we could all eat simple(like super simple) made nutritious food,but we do not,cuz it isnt cool to do so,cuz f u wanna be cool u must eat those meat which is peppered with all kinds of sauce & shit and it makes u cool.we could all live in simple huts,but our desire to climb d social hierarchy brainwash us that we should live in a mansion with a car and all kind of shits and that makes us feel cool. if we are all billionaires,we will all be living with d same perception of the folks thousands of years ago before humanity huddled to towns or city,cuz we wont need each others help to acquire something cuz we are all billionaires,if u get terribly sick,u just have to suck it up cuz ur billionaire neighbor wont bother helping u cuz he doesnt need ur money,just like humans thousands of years agp,f every1 is rich everyone s poor.. what we seek today like education,high paying job,job security,affordable or free healthcare,money etc are all in the name of trying raise our social status. if we have a magic wand and make everyone whose poor and magic upgrade them to middleclass,after a generation or two,there sons and daughters will just eventually take it for granted,and start labeling themselves as poor,and want to climb up the social ladder again,and we well be back were we started. all problems in developed countries are just newly made up problems to achieve their goal of attaining higher and higher social status.,unless you're eating literal grass (like some in north Korea) and live in a cave in a developed country,which is unlikely cuz of food stamps,ur problems s a state of mind. wake up.just be a monk in a mountain or something,and u will be mentally fulfilled. as long as technology keeps on and on and on improving,so is the social pyramid. homeless humans in the future will be complaining about there living conditions on mars cuz they r just stuck in their personal 20 year old 2nd hand spaceships.
That last sentence by Russel was so true, the internet lets us hear great men like these talk on important things in such a compassionate way that listening to the average politician makes u think “wtf is wrong with these people”
So does television! But that would not make you rich n big corporate even richer?!!! Big tech boys! Sold out! Sold out onus! I'm no slave to internet. This is my second time watching Joe Regan. They talk, you pay! Nobody gets it!
The percentage of politicians who go into it to help the people and make the world a better place must be in single digits. It should be a noble endeavour. It’s tragic that it overwhelmingly attracts the kind of people who crave power and self enrichment at the expense of the most vulnerable.
I lived in a coal mining town in Maryland for over 9 years, and that’s absolutely right. These places are a black hole, and people there have absolutely zero agency over the life they want, it’s terrible :/
I was locked up in Maryland with some guys from Garrett and Allegheny counties and the poverty they came from was no joke. A lot of those guys lived a worse life than dudes from impoverished neighborhoods in East Baltimore. It's sad dude but I'm glad you're making a better life for yourself.
@djohnson6528 I would say the ones who can afford kids aren't really having any. And the ones who can't afford kids are having 4. I have one child ( don't regret it) but financially I would have been much better off if I hadn't had one.
I dont want a mansion, I need shelter. Warmed in the winter and cooled in the summer. Clean water and electricity. Enough food to be satiated and nourished. Clothed in clean fabric. Able to wash myself. These are not luxuries, these are essentials required to live with a basic level of dignity. Problem is we cant agree that these are essentials. Some would argue this list is too long while others say it's too short.
The disagreement isn't whether they're essential, it's whether anyone has the right to force others to provide those necessities rather than protecting the right to acquire them for ourselves and voluntarily provide for our neighbors.
@Seeker197, philosophically I agree that it is immoral to make others provide for you (e.g. government redistribution). I believe practically that we need to address the plight of the homeless and less privileged. We either pay upfront or pay later. We end up always paying more when we pay later (emergency room visits, housing criminals, etc.). And we have the resources as long as we stop foreign wars and cut back on foreign aid. I also believe that practically some people can’t be helped (repeat drug users). If a majority of homelessness is caused by drug addiction, address that first before trying to address homelessness.
Your list isn’t too long in my opinion, you need to add one caveat / prerequisite though. If you can’t keep off drugs (with the help of programs), you can’t have access to your list above. Non ending addiction is a black hole of resources in this country.
Umm, you are aware that this is the richest nation in history right? Proportionally we have more resources and wealth than the ancient Roman Empire. There’s more than enough to go around without taking or forcing anyone to donate anything at all. No one is asking you to fund the poor, our government has waaaaay more than enough to solve poverty in this country the world over. It’s just, there’s no profit in it, AND, we’d rather spend that money on the Military Industrial Complex, foreign economic wars, etc. This is why it’s ridiculous when people ask “how is Bernie Sanders gonna pay for universal healthcare AND cheaper college education!? Is he going to marginally raise my taxes!?!? That’s TREASON!!!!!” Except, no he’s not, and you could just as easily reallocate those military funds (not all of it but a lot) to solve these problems. It doesn’t take an economic professor from an Ivy League university to see this. People are just greedy and everyone sees themselves as temporarily inconvenienced millionaires. We can’t all be millionaires, but we definitely could all have salary jobs plus decent benefits.
@Nick.....Of course we do, and I know that you know this as well. But the guy you’re responding to maybe isn’t aware of this. That’s okay, be polite and educate those who don’t already know this. That’s all we can do in the TH-cam comment section. 😉
One of the easiest 'solutions' to those areas is to create or provide jobs. From there onwards you will see overall wealth in an area increase. Either that or you see people flee the area. Wonder why Detroit is such a shithole? It's due to most jobs being gone there. On top of that, average IQ of the people that have stayed is unbelievably low, so prepare for a lot of very poor choices in life by the average Joe over there. Want people to beat their drug addiction? Make sure they have something to life for, which for most people would again be a job (and as such, a purpose).
@@PHeMoX Also, get rid of the Democ- I mean uh corrupt politicians promoting a welfare big daddy government mentality, a militarized police, absurd drug laws, and a corporate prison system.
I mean corrupt corporations screwing over blue collar workers too and big companies working people in other countries like slaves yet we still but their products. Every big company you can think of is doing something horribly immoral because most of them have sweat shops in other countries that are working kids till suicide
I’m really grossed out that over a thousand people gave this a thumbs down? THIS, Joe and Russell, THIS is the beginning of a real change. This is one of our biggest crisis as a country. I genuinely believe this will spread love and positivity ❤️ We are a team ❤️
I’ve never been homeless but I grew up in poverty in a middle class town, and something I always found confusing and hurtful was how the town ostracized me for being the poor kid, even though it wasn’t my fault. It would have been so easy to pool money together to help me, but for some reason, people punish you for being needy, and despise a poor person who isn’t able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, even if help would enable them to do so.
Russell, thank you for your validating comments about folks that work in the field of Social Work! I am a Social Worker from Worcester, MA. You are correct to say that my field is undervalued and unappreciated by the public. I will keep fighting the good fight.
Two of my aunties are social workers, there is definitely a case to say social workers are underappreciated, but not undervalued. The average social worker in the US earns nearly four times more than the minimum wage, if you rise into management positions can pay into six figures.
What a fucking pair of brains 🧠 This content is awesome, i’m very happy I get to be something like a fly on the wall listening to minds like yours 🙏 Thanks
@Blue Sky Puzzle Its not about intelligence... though they both clearly are very intelligent... its about so much more. You don't understand because its you that is the numbskull.
Listening to two wealthy guys complain about capitalism is awesome? Joe Rogan is worth $100 million. He could donate $80 million of that tomorrow, no one is stopping him.
Most of the homeless people I worked with as a nurse had a history of becoming homeless to escape violence. Childhood abuse most often, second would be domestic abuse. The real problem comes when people discover how many predators are willing to help them survive on the street. Trading one abuse for others. All of which leads to mental health issues. There were vets and people with other forms of PTSD who couldn’t get the help they needed …so many paths.
When you teach kids philosophy at a young age, the experience empowers them to make good choices and their lives improve. It's a bit old school to say that education can save us, but I think we've missed the mark on what we should be teaching our kids.
@Half life 3 that's funny because in 2019 the three poorest states were Mississippi, West Virginia and Arkansas. Guess what? All run by republicans. You have to actually go a ways down the list of "what were the poorest states in 2019" before you hit a democratic state.
I have anti government right wing buddies who hate the government but never talk about their 100% disability checks that come every month from the government that doesn’t care about them.
@@dusk4923 Dude, seriously? Carlin was an American success story who busted his ass from little to get what he got. I mean, your pointing at a guy whos net worth was 10 million dollars. GTFOH with your moronic comment.
I don’t agree with Brand and his political views, but he’s a critical thinker, capable of changing his mind on a view point given unknown information. I respect him for that.
@@donnieparker1811 Yeah, I really like him too. People try to call him a pseudo-intellectual, but I don't think these people are really listening to the actual content of what he says, they're too caught up with his colourful speaking style and vocabulary and just assume he's babbling... But he's a skilled speaker and debater and respectful when he's does debate. I've rarely seem him lose his 'temper' except at times when the other person is just being a dickhead and deliberately trying to bate him or trap him. The interview with Jon Snow is particularly bad for that. Snow was being a total dickhead with Russell and completely underestimated how clever and well-spoken, and effective and clear a communicator, that Russell is.
@@childofthesun32 there is a big motivation to discredit selfthinking eloquent people with strong will, for there is nothing more dangerous to the powerfull.
@@childofthesun32 I'm convinced that 'pseudo-intellectual' is just a term many unintelligent people throw around to criticise intelligent people who are better at articulating themselves. It's a cheap shot used as a defence by people incapable of conjuring anything remotely impressive.
Jimmy B at the same time there’s a lot left to be desired with brand’s message. It sounds really good and I generally agree with what he’s saying but when you analyze it point by point you may find it is quite hollow. Not to say he is misinformed but this clip did give me a pseudo intellectual vibe
I never read Americans criticising other specific groups of people, but I constantly read some xenophobic people like you, who by some weird reason believe themselves to be morally superior to Americans... Lol you are no better than racists, homophobic, etc.
@@IgnacioAguilarToledo you've got to be joking right? Anyway, it's scary to see how lost in human decency america is and how a big military superpower it is. By the way, try to play an online fps game and listen to them, it's really scary, they go full racist.
The first 4 minutes of Joe talking was spot on and extremely refreshing to hear. We need to fight hard for that kind of help for so many people. We can do it!
@@aliceshaw8265 I always find it mind numbing how being a millionaire instantly negates the stance of trying to improve society. How do you people manage to come to this conclusion? It has all the itchings and prickings of a deficit in emotional intelligence and understanding nuance.
I find him annoying and I'm a Brit but if you actually listen to him he's a lot smarter than you think he is and a lot what he says makes a lot of sense I used to just be irritated by his comedy but he is a clever speaker I would like to see Russell Brand and Ben Shapiro have a debate
Actually Joe, I live in Rockford Illinois and Miss Carly passes out 1000 sack lunches per day to anyone who is in need. She also has sent hundreds to drug rehab and follows up after to provide support. She started with a wagon and two kids on her hip. Now it's grown into something everyone in this community and surrounding communities actively support. God bless people like Miss Carly. ❤
@@markodwyer9537 Neo-Marxist/Postmodernists. Looks for some of Joe's podcasts with James Lindsay, Jordan Peterson, Bret Wienstien, etc. All of them are basically moderate liberals who have a beef with the far left and put forth great explanations about what is going on with them and the university system (they're all academics).
Every four to eight years ( regardless of political affiliation) politicians come around and promise things-but do you ever notice nothing substantial or concrete happens in poor communities. Nothing really changes.
Thats the goal. If you can convince everyone its in their own personal best interest to keep capitalism around then they wont even question it. Everyone in america that hasnt realized this think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires that will wake up from their broke dream someday. But truly the only people that wake up from the broke dream are people that realize there is more to life than money.
@Renaud Villacis What impact has that had on your day to day life whatsoever? Honestly GDP could be double whatever the hell it is right now but suicide rates are still up %50 in the past 7 years so what does it matter?
Because no one can make someone accountable, if the people in “poor communities” spent everyday improving themselves, their situation, respecting other humans and setting a plan then those poor communities wouldn’t have to rely on anyone or what they promise.
We don't ALL have compassion and love in us. The unfortunate part about that is, the people who DON'T are the majority of the people who make the rules.
There’s a different wave of homeless for the past 10 years or so... their are family’s with children..women alone.. many many many people.. These people do not have mental problems...aren’t on drugs...don’t drink... are clean . THEY JUST CAN NOT AFFORD TO PAY TOP RENT .. many have jobs... they don’t keep them long because someone finds out their homeless and their children live in a car and they loose their job Lets keep it real..🌹
The poverty is so bad in Alabama, Kentucky, and the rest of the south. Its so bad that the United Nations wanted to investigate Alabama on it’s poverty.
Think about that poverty every time the military decides to fire off a missile that’s worth 500k+. The money is there. It just won’t go to helping citizens.
The opiate epidemic has greatly increased the homeless population. Heroin is getting in on a large scale through the boarder. Then doctors were handing out pain pills for a stubbed toe and people instead of taking one every 8 hours as needed for pain, started taking 3 at a time to get high.
@@larrytate1657 ex addict myself. Stuck on suboxon trying to get off . makes me sad my mother who has cancer rasied 3 kids no father worked 2 jobs from 15 years old no lie. Yes her parents owned alot busniess and properties my mother's Now isn't able to walk she has several medical issues that require a lot of surgeries she also had septic shock so has other issues when it comes to having surgeries anyways just in time she will get them done she's 60 years old she can't even stand up sometimes this is not a joke my mother she needs to get a pain pill she can't because of the opioid epidemic yes I see people walk into pain clinics that are 30 years old hopping and skipping out different scriptions selling in the street
@@derrecklastname720 the drugs have ruined your mind buddy. you cant even write a coherent rant correctly. Your mother failed to raise you correctly and you feel bad for her? When you admit you were a part of the problem and still are? Stop taking subs, dont do drugs and smarten your weak ass up. Give your mother one bit of happiness in life. Get your head out of your ass and stop being a useless addict. The subs you are addicted to is the same as you being addicted to dope. You know this but are to weak to just quit doing the shit. subs or dope, youre still using bro. Youre no ex addict. youre still using(subs)
Before we were herded into cities to work the factories of the industrial revolution we lived in small communities and took care of those in need because it was beneficial for the whole community. Cities have fomented a good deal of suffering for poor people.
Not really. Back then inequality was even greater, kings and the aristocracy lived in mansions while the poor worked the fields, illiterate with no education, no healthcare, died young, half of pregnancies would end in the woman's death, no cars or even bicycles to get around, you were stuck in your community, going hungry every day, starving, war, disease and suffering. At least now poor people don't die at 20, at least they now get an education, at least now they can move, at least now they can do shit other than working in the fields from sunrise to sunset. The industrial revolution caused a massive jump in living standards and made the average person way more happy. I would rather be homeless in LA than be a peasant farmer in England dying of disease, starving, working in the fields.
@@SOMEONE-cd9wf Well if you call working 16 hour days as a child threading power looms over working in fields or farms with parents and family improvement. The poor weren't educated or given healthcare in the first century of industrialization, they were cheap labor, paid pennies and taken advantage of. I believe you are confusing our modern era with the industrial revolution. Ever heard of Charles Dickens, you are just romanticizing Victorian times.
I worked in law enforcement in New Orleans, Baltimore, Dallas and Miami (federal agent). I was constantly amazed at how many people, living in horrid conditions in those cities, didn't just leave and go to some smaller community where life was so much better. I really don't think they ever realized that there was an alternative. If it was me, I would have walked out, to get out of those hell holes.
THIS IS PARTLY DUE TO A MATRIARCHAL SOCIETY OVER A PATRIARCHAL ONE. THE MATRIARCHAL EPOCH WAS BASED ON THE FAMILY UNIT & A REAL CONNECTION TO YOUR COMMUNITY. THAT EPOCH IS COMING BACK ,FOR IT IS CYLICAL.
I grew up in LA, no family, foster homes, group homes, Juvenile Detention, drugs...etc...etc. BUT...NOW...after 24 years in the Air Force, owning several Martial Arts schools and running mentoring programs for at-risk youth...Im retired in Greece and running a Life Coaching business... I AM FORTUNATE...MOST ARE NOT! People need to get involved and help those that need it...the world can be "better"❤❤❤
This made me cry. I grew up in a poor community in the Midwest in the ‘70s/‘80s. Back in “the day,” it was a boom town, largely because of the now-depleted natural gas deposits. But when I was born in 1970, it was nothing more than what’s colloquially known as a “bedroom community,” with only a handful of dying mom-and-pop shops still in operation. (They’re all gone now.) Drug use and alcoholism rates continue to soar as jobs (and certainly decent-paying jobs) continue to rapidly disappear. My mom ran the local food bank for many years until her death in 2015, and scores of people filed through our 1890’s Victorian house- which had definitely seen better days- for counseling and money. (My mom was the pillar of the community, but now that she’s dead- murdered by one of the people she tried to help, ironically- the town is basically a living hell.) I got out, but as a musician- particularly one living in the cultural cesspool that is modern America during a f-ing pandemic- I am facing the EXACT SAME financial crisis/ruin that the good folks in my economically-devastated hometown are facing. I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do. I currently take care of my last remaining relative (my 81-year-old aunt), and I’m too old and broke to “just start over” (as several rich friends have ignorantly suggested). My plan now is to purchase a gun and off myself as soon as my ailing aunt dies. I honestly don’t see any other way. (And BELIEVE me, I’ve desperately searched for another way!) I’ve always been a compassionate and tolerant person, but now I COMPLETELY understand why so many people (including most of the people my mom helped) turn to drugs, alcohol, and crime and why the suicide rate in America continues to exponentially surge upwards. Sad and dark times for our nation and many of its citizens.
I send my compassion and love to you. Your not alone, frankly your the majority. I hope you can find happiness and love instead of the alternative. I'm saying this as someone who almost successfully offed themselves multiple times, so I do understand.
I know this comment is 2 years old, but I hope you've managed to find a way forward and are still with us. I really resonate with your second to last sentence about how you now completely understand why people turn to drugs, alcohol, and crime. US culture and hyper-individualism loves to tear those people down and in some ways I used to too, but I fell on hard times myself and realized just how painful and brutal life on the bottom can be. It is absolutely no wonder why people turn to those things to cope because US culture (and capitalist culture more generally) simply does not care about those people. They have no adequate place to turn. Even psychotherapy, the one (often unaffordable or inaccessible) solution, is so focused on what the individual has to do to improve him/herself, when in reality the solution needs to be much broader than that, operating at a systemic and community level. The way this culture treats people who fall on hard times or are just unlucky from the start is thoroughly disgusting.
Man I've just seen this comment now. Fuckin devastating, I truly hope you're still around. Things can always get better and that coming from an addict thats still trying hard. Sending love and prayers your way. 🤞
like the "joke" with Gates helping so many people. looking at this days for what he and the elite pushing for you wouldn't give af about about their agenda and their lies.
I've been living in the Philippines for 5 years. There's a shitton of inequality. This video is in strong contrast to the interview with Ben Shapiro. Some people just don't understand how tiny the horizon is of a person who grew up in poverty and with no perspective in life. It's not like these kinds of people are lazy on purpose, are making bad decisions, are dumb, whatever... The main problem is these people have no frame of reference for what a better life looks like. They don't even know this possibility exists. Go to the province anywhere in the Philippines and try to hire any of the kids there for a job, you will be shocked how little they know of their own capacity for greatness. They have just never seen what's possible because their entire environment is just like that. I agree, fix your own doorstep first. Then help fix the doorsteps of places like I just mentioned, such as the Philippines.
Russell: help the people Joe: make it so the people don’t need help Both great ideas, there are the resources to do both, try getting those above to drop enough for those below..
@Meme Notyou There are ways to redistribute wealth that aren't communist in nature. Progressive tax systems, shutting down tax havens and tax avoidance methods, etc... Being 'liberal' doesn't = communism.
Meme Notyou I wasn’t talking about a redistribution of wealth, I just mean, a power company making record profits of multiple billions for the fifth year in a row while a large portion of the population struggle to pay their power bill seems a little unnecessary, but to make matters worse there will be a price hike to meet the shareholders expectations next year. All I’m really saying is, it’s 2020, nobody should be malnourished now, anywhere in the world, period.
@Meme Notyou Yes, thanks for schooling me on what wealth redistribution isn't, what a scholar you are. And yes, it's 'Liberals' fault that tax havens still exist. I'm surprised I didn't see it before!!!
Appreciate this acknowledgement Joe and Russell. I'm one who broke through this precise environment. It's incredibly alienating, like a borderland between biological family that's toxic and others that don't understand (or ignore) this reality exists. It's hard as hell. And very disheartening to consider the lost potential. Many times I've wondered what more I could've achieved if given the right petri dish, instead of climbing from deficit to try to get what most are given. It took a lot to persevere, and still trying. Thanks for bringing to light.
The point he tried to make about places in America being just as bad as many of the 3rd world places that ppl sense their money to was one of the most obtuse, clueless things I've ever heard him say!!
It's actually because the republicans specifically always funnel the most wealth to the rich and gerrymander election maps so they don't need a majority to win elections, and many of them are hoping segregation will come back, and a lot of people are too fucking stupid to have a clue what's going on, so they just pretend to make a point by saying idiotic shit like "it's both sides at fault".
@@jjjames713 Do you think Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Shumer, "The Squad" and the rest of the Democrats care about the homeless they pass on their way home to their lavish estates? Nancy Pelosi has a refrigerator which she showed off worth $22,000. Pelosi has a huge estate with acres of property. She could set up a compound for the homeless in Los Angeles if she really cared about them.
One of the signs of the enormous size of Russell brands intelligence is that he listens without speaking when people are speaking to him. Beyond refreshing.
Check out the interview he did with Jon Snow. Snow totally understimated Russell and was trying to play him like a bitch, to the point that Russell nearly lost his temper with him, but never his eloquence and focus.
nothing warms my heart more than seeing 2 millionaires who could make a change for the better, talking about how other people should make changes for the better
They could be just hedonistically enjoying their ‘millions’. Don’t begrudge a man a million, it’s when he has a Billion... and yet still wants more... it has to come from someone... but at what and whose cost?
But it's an empty conversation. It's just wishy washy feelings, no substance, no real structure. These guys know neither the causes of poverty, nor the effect of proposed fixes, just that "we should do something, man".
“Smarter than Joe” kinda misses the point of compassion, which isn’t strictly based in intellect, right? (And considering that you don’t have that *baseline* understanding, kindly knock off the pretentious “namaste” crap.)
Maybe neither are smarter than each other, both are understanding and willing to bounce ideas to solve the issues that keep humanity as a whole moving forward. We are all one and one individual trying to solve these problems is not achievable. It will take 8 billion of us ! 😊🙏🏽
I have been homeless a couple different times. Everytime it was the result of things that were beyond my control. It's a very eye opening experience and you have to take inventory of your life really quickly and figure it out. For me I have family in the same city where I have been homeless and they wont help, nor will the rest of my family, so I know I'm on my own. It's about knowing where you stand and having a goal and drive to get out. You truly learn what youre made of but you also get to see what life and people are truly like
If your homelessness is caused by circumstances out of your control, how is it your own family doesn't want to help? What kinda family says "screw you" after a mudslide devours your home, or whatever the case may be? Is your whole family the shittiest people in the world or what?
@@ChristelVinot well I'll give you an example. My mother always blamed me for being a mistake and stuffing up her life because she couldn't keep her legs together. I was abused and beaten by both parents. Just differently. Father would use a belt and buckle then next day at school I'd be sent home because the teachers didn't want to see my rectangle bruises with a blood spot near the centre. He is/was a narcissist and you couldn't trust a word he said, pretty much the same with a brother 3 years younger. Only one half normal is a brother 6 years younger than me, and he believes EVERYTHING he's told. My mother's gift to me at age 4, when I asked for a glass of water on a hot day, was 3 broken ribs. I never received any medical attention but I remember the pain and breathing issue for months. The injury was exposed a few years later when due to auto immune problems, my chest had to be xrayed. Eventually I got fed up with the numerous attempts of her to rid her life of me. She really did make multiple attempts, to end my life. So at age 41 in 2010, I left all of them behind. There is obviously so much more I could go into but now I struggle to care if any of them live or die. Btw my mother has been diagnosed as a bipolar psychopath. So anyway. This is the type of family that wouldn't lift a finger to help me but happy to blame me for crap I've never even known about nor been involved in. My guess that OP could probably tell you a similar story. Trust me just my little bit is extremely brief, but hopefully gives you some sort of idea, on the "what type of family" question.
@@kalebvera1841 BINGO. don't trust Musk either. Work out why NASA isn't appearing to be doing much these days. Same reason science and testing at Skinwalker Ranch were done by Robert Bigelow's company. It's the relationship between private vs public funded companies and the demand for FOIA to be supplied. Who is Musk really ?
@@ryanalexander5438 so very true. Capitalism might not be the problem, just how people interact within capitalism? The entire goal of capitalism is to make as much money as possible for the capitalist. To keep people in communities where they feel hopeless and stuck is what enables capitalists to exploit workers with unlivable wages and working conditions. People will subsidize a hopeless life with drugs and addictions. Capitalism demands an endless supply of workers who are willing to work throughout their best years and miss time with family and children in order to provide for their own piece if the American Dream.
I clicked this video thinking joe was gonna explain why we hate Russell brand but I’m glad I listened. My wife manages a homeless shelter here in Detroit and you guys are making some valid points for real
m213 i recently learned the real estate is outrageously priced because interest rates are kept low to keep economy rolling. If we let the rates adjust up people are all of a sudden underwater in their homes but no way home prices can keep growing so fast. Yes wages are stagnant
Several years ago I listened to Ron Paul respond to Michael Moores movie attacking capitalism. Ron, on Larry King, agreed with everything Moore said, but corrected him, stating that the problem was not capitalism, but corporatism. And his solution was limiting lobbyists. Joe, you know what took place during the 80s with the yuppies, e.g. - "greed is good", which was when the corporations began leaving the U.S.. I had two parents who began as upper middle class, but ended up in poverty at the end of their lives. And all the social poison you suggested at the beginning of your podcast I experienced growing up. However, I was changed by spirituality which brought healing and life to me. But Christianity has been attacked by the society that has been the foundation of it.
With the ability to access information at our fingertips, my question is why 'any'one would sign up for 'any' military service in the U.S. knowing how fucked our government treats our Veterans.…???? I mean, I'm a 49 year old, overweight ex drug addict and if any person or country invaded the U.S., I'd be the first to attempt to defend her shores, (and probably the first to die...lol)… But, once again, knowing how shitty our own government has treated our Vets and troops over the decades, why would any sane person enlist????
@@oweneldridge8813 no, the 50% of them that end in divorce; usually due to finances. Edit: just confirmed the current statistics and depending on sources 40-50% of marriages end in divorce.
They can depending on where they go, they can also go to school paid for by the government after their service. Do you even know what you're talking about?
We're gonna be alright. Just keep fighting my brothers and sisters. Keep getting up and keep helping others and I promise your life will get better. I didn't believe it a few years ago. Having mental health and addiction issues that I'm sure now coincided with each other and no real family support I didn't believe anything positive besides death. Life is better today. Much love.
According to the 16th amendment we can not increase taxes period. Stop being a puppet for the democratic-republican party that want to get rid of our federal government. This humanist can take his philosophy back to the U.K.: like economics stats this man should go back to U.K. and take our philosophy of being free to that phacist country. How is parliament a better government when they let Christians be killed with no way to protect t themselves. It is not materialism. It is the fact that there is not enough money to pay for everybody. The money in our economy is the amount that has been estimated as just. Look at Californian and it crumbling economy with there high taxes with no economic good that is new that can offset the inflation of pumping our economy with more money. Since you are a drug addict go and fix yourself. It is not my job to fix you, and let you steal from me. You two are truly dumb as fuck. You both like drugs. How about I stead of taking dmt. Stay sober and make a dream journal I stead of letti g your humanist intentions ruin the experience you are having. To be infuencual you need to understand what you are talking Bout. It is a p roble. With incopitnece, and not wanting to work from a young age to be successful. I see people with downsydrome, and they work. You guys are making excuses.
Well we don't know how to spend our way out of social problems like poverty and crime. Programs assumed to be social in intention may be ineffective or even work against their own stated goals. But clearly any truly effective solution would be economically more a benefit than a burden. It's still a false economy to ignore a country's problems through blaming, rationalizing and externalizing them. A growing social problem WILL be something that directly affects us all. Germany knows this.
Totally doable through focusing on holistic approaches to equality, tackling childhood trauma and get tax from corps to the people who need it the most. Well said @Joe Rogan
4:20 minutes and he made it like it was somebody's fault, like you never herd this rant before it's rehearsed speech got it written down and Bill Gates is his sponsor meh
I grew up in poverty, was abused as a child in every way possible. I've over come domestic violence, homelessness & the death of my son. Yet not once did I look to anyone else to "save" me. I am a firm believer in pulling yourself up by your boot straps, toughen up & put in the work to get the life you want. I am now a home owner, I run my own business & NO ONE HELPED ME. I didn't expect anyone to help me either. Regardless of what environment you grow up in, you can make something of yourself if you TOUGHEN UP & PUT IN THE WORK. It's NOT anyone's job to care about you, feel sorry for you, or to rescue you. YOU need to be YOUR OWN HERO. NO one else is responsible for YOUR life but YOU!!!
#1 problem is the shocking lack of education. Millions of braindead, entitled consumers who are unable to make good decisions because they don't understand the world surrounding them.
Hope is used by the rich to get you back to slaving for them and making them richer while you get to hope for an actual better life and not just one that isn't living in a ditch
Prison- industrial complex is the 3rd most profited industry on the planet. That defines how this world works and how it’s been for hundreds of years. It’s literally a prison planet.
That is also true but in you're generalizing Joe's statements too much. He could be saying people who grow up in middle America with resources, but decide to smoke weed all day instead of doing anything with their lives. In this case Joe is talking about people who grow up in areas where they are at a disadvantage from the start
I'm just going to let everyone in on a little secret that every sci-fi nerd knows. There's all this talk about solving the energy crisis. Yeah sure. Solve that. But then... move on to developing tech that can convert that technology into material needs. Think 3D printing but with complex molecular structures and increase the efficiency by a factor of 100. Then you don't just solve the energy crisis. You solve the material crisis at the same time. Lack of meaningful contribution to the world and material means to stave off our animal natures, in addition to a lack of well-rounded education and an ignorance of individual mental health is the reason why we are where we are. When you really think deeply about what's available out there, and given the same resource we have today, how much better we could be doing if we did things (I'm not even saying "the right" way, whatever the fuck that means) in a better way... it's so easy to imagine how much better things could be for everyone, including yourself. If you got this far reading, I really appreciate the fact that you are alive and that we can communicate over this amazing shit called the internet. Thanks for being you ;)
It doesn't seem like that's the route we're going down though, it looks like we're going down the AI lottery route instead. Every scifi nerd knows the list of possibilities, good or bad, that AI opens up.
What a brilliant conversation They expressed what i have felt for so long We need compassion in our society It’s too easy to say if you work hard to say if you work hard you will get everything . to. If you have grown up in a dysfunctional family life is not easy . We need a social movement of compassion
Compassion? That is just an empty word. People have done extremely well in America compared to other countries. My home country of the UK does not have anywhere near the opportunities that America has given its people. In America the standards of living has decreased due to increased taxation on working people over the decades.
My feelings exactly. I've always said that you must judge a nation on how it deals with their most unfortunate. Joe and specifically Russell vocalized my thoughts into words. It's like winning lottery to get up in social bracket if you are starting from lower levels. Working hard can get you only so far. More likely a huge mortgage and mountain of debts. Only few decades ago life was much easier. It's a fact.
Thank you Joe Rogan ! I live in Appalachia the rest of America doesn't have a clue what it's like here .I'm thankful and sometimes actually stop and say thank you God that I have indoor plumbing ,I don't have to carry it in a bucket and build a fire in a stove too heat it to wash dishes or bathe .thousands of people in this county didn't have access to clean water until the 1980s .Sure we could get it from a creek with no idea if it was clean or not . People smart enough to get educated leave ,but what people don't get is how much harder it is for a poor kid to go too college ,all the rich kid has too worry about is getting grades ,the poor kid has too absolutely work somewhere to buy clothes food for themselves and make car payments and pay insurance and sometimes send money back home so mom can buy clothes for your siblings ,Appalachia is similar too a third world country And the rest of America ignores it
@@suaveclt proves nothing. What percentage of millions do we have to none millionaires? If this was baseball we would have a batting average below .100. That's not good according to the stats.
Joe in my experience I was one of those who got out through hard work...but at the same time I had a lot of help along the way. I was also blessed in that I had some really good examples to follow. I also understand that not everyone coming up has the help and the good example to follow...so yes we do need to focus in on those segments of impoverished communities.
LOL, you're Asian though, man. That's a pretty big advantage. As the saying goes "No matter how good you are at something, there's always an Asian kid, probably on the internet, who is way better than you are"
The problem with saving homeless people is that they're mostly too far gone. I've spoke to many of them and the majority prefer to stay homeless for odd enough reasons. Good luck changing somebody's preference.
Great, I was yelling at my phone thanks to this exact video. Neither of you are recognizing the biggest problem in these downtrodden areas, the problem is a lack of purpose. You cannot legislate purpose into peoples lives, you can’t write a check big enough to get people to really want to do anything. All of the successful people that you named had purpose in their life, with no exceptions. Both of the people speaking in this podcast have purpose in their lives as well. Having a purpose in life will not guarantee you success, but having no purpose will guarantee you to be a failure.
Funny you mentioned WV...I am from West Virginia, near the coal mining towns in fact once upon a time this area ONCE was a coal mining town....I always wanted to get away when I was growing up, as a young GAY dude, I knew even as a child that if I ever wanted to be happy/successful I would have to physically leave everything I knew behind and move away.. I've traveled a lot as an adult, but now at 32, I'm back in WV due to my mother being ill and my father passing.... one of the most difficult times of my life and I literally broke down mentally when I thought about coming back to this area. I see these people you're talking about EVERY day... and they are so dark and consumed by negativity and oppressive behavior. COMPLETELY in a vacuum/vortex and CANNOT change. They CANNOT get anywhere because transportation is nearly impossible in these areas for some... You would honestly think you traveled back to the early 1900s in some areas, and even then, some lived better during that time.. Complete poverty everywhere.......Thankfully I'm now in a healthier head space and with just a basic highschool dipIoma, I still feel fucked even with making almost...40,000 a year.....My boyfriend of 6 years, a medically retired veteran, STILL live pretty much paycheck to paycheck.....I really wish politicians were forced to live in these areas to truly see, what happens. I'm happy that i'm on the greener side of the grass and I know I can leave if necessary but we all have to travel over these mountains here.... #westvirgina #raiseminimumwage #WVneedshelp #wildandwonderfulbrainwashed
LEAVE!!!! I'm not gay, but born and grew up in the same place. LEAVE TODAY!!!!! LEAVE. Just leave. I left at 18, made the mistake of maintaining some connections and ended up living there for a little while and finally left for good more than 15 years ago. That place is hell on earth and you need to get out.
why mention your sexuality, feel the need to cried it out? who fkn cares , seriously its pathetic how that keeps coming up. so what i get from your stupid comment is that all you wanted to say it that your gay..WHO CARES!!! hey everyone look hes gay, looooook at her, sorry him.
I was a homeless junkie....a social worker took me in and I fought my way back to health and working a job...it's rare but some make it..I work in AA and help people who want help...it's a beautifull thing to see...but many don't make it...
Its gotten to were if u dont vibe with 30 outta the 300 million people here u goin rogue n hopefully ur a decade done n removed n dont miss people
That's awesome, man. Good on you to be doing your part for the community.
People change
I’m aware I don’t know you, but I know your story, so for that, I am proud of you. Stay safe and take care ✌️
Bob, I I so happy you are still here with us. Proud of you.
This isn't america's #1 problem, this is the WORLDS #1 problem. I'm from the UK and we send billions in aid to other countries, when people in our own are going hungry and go ignored.
Do you honestly believe they're sending billions abroad. Those are relief packages we send after we fuck some 3rd World shithole for all their resources. Its our way of saying thanks for all the gold heres some donated laptops.
@@Lethalbanter He's not talking about the government aid packages, MAX is talking about normal people giving millions out of there own pockets, we do it all the time in the UK, people give a few £ each and chip in to help others who need it, this is on top of what the government does.
Your right Max, unfortunately American's totaly obsessed about them self's. The rest of the world talks about global problems, American's only talk about there own problems. I think this is because it's drummed into them from a young age that they have to be patriotic, the rest of us see ourselves as part of the world but they see themselves as part of America. There not team players like the rest of us. In the UK you never hear people talk about being patriotic but the yanks are obsessed about it!
@@xforkhandlesx I think we Europeans did have a history with a certain central European country with a extreme form of nationalism in the middle of the previous century.
That's maybe yet another proof that just throwing money at the problem won't solve it. There has been nothing like the so called "war on poverty" in USA that has increased to much poverty in America. Is not money (always) what you need. You need education, you need family stability and fairness. Also money to get that, but if you just give poeple money... They are fucked.
I was homeless for a couple of years,trust me it can be vary vary hard to get out of the circle of homelessness.i was lucky because I had a game plan,I stuck to that plan .but a lot of other homeless people haven’t got a plan.either through mental health problems or drug problems,it is vary hard to sort your life out.peace to everyone who cares about others.☯️☮️
What was your game plan?
What are your views of Capitalism? Do you think it helped or hindered you in your trials? (I am genuinely asking for your opinion, not trying to trap or Bait) Thanks for commenting.
The same with joblesness. The same vicious circle.
Same here, it is very possible. My struggles inspired friends that anything is possible through hard work and staying the course. Always lead by example.
@@retired4365 What kept you guys going? I imagine some days you faced depression and enormous anxiety. How do you focus and stay on track and not lose it?
Also.. Joe was able to talk! Respect to Brand for letting him talk and he acknowledged him with yes’s not trying to interrupt him at all.
Yeah but Russ is often conscious of allowing others to speak.
Actual Title:
America’s #1 problem with Russell Brand
Intended Title:
America’s #1 problem, with Russell Brand
You are God.
That’s exactly right. I was pleasantly surprised that this wasn’t a dog on Russell.
lmao thanks for clearing this up before I wasted 18 minutes of my life on the edge of my seat, curious about wtf America's problem with Russell Brand is.
The #1 problem with him is he's just not funny.
America's #1, problem with Russell Brand
One thing I do like about Russell is Will quietly listen to you’re side of an argument and see things from your point of view, then give his side of the argument from his point of view and is completely willing to agree to disagree and walk away peacefully instead of shouting you down and letting you get a word in edgewise.
Chad Valliere
English manners
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 it's more than that. Russell has admitted that he was basically an abusive narcissistic drug addict for much of his life. He's different now, he's ( *PLEASE* excuse the term! ) woke. As in, aware, awake, all of that. Aware enough to absorb ideas and remain collected when others might crack, might blow up or give up. Like NGT and Bill Nye do with science, Brand is a communicator of big ideas from philosophy. He may not be the originator of the ideas but he's an excellent teacher. All just my opinion, of course.
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Lol r u serious only if u agree with everything he says he might give u a cm
@@devodavis6747 Do not be ashamed to use the phrase woke. Those who are sleeping will be offended by both expressions those awoken will understand and appreciate them..
i agree, everything you said is true, but there is no demonstration of such character in this video. Russell and joe are in full agreement
Russell has transformed from a drunk idiot into a kind, caring and thoughtful human being. He gives me hope for the rest of us drunk idiots. Good for you mate...carry on
He was that way but then whennhis fame took off he went off the rails but he's well sorted his shit out now
or maybe he was like this along
@@cartmanbraahnd6660 he was on smack before the fame
@@bhew7409 yea and it made him the guy he is today...
@@cartmanbraahnd6660 yeah it wasn't really the fame though. He's a good lad ol' Russ
13:33 "Lets not crush this optimism in the crib, Joe." I absolutely adore both of these men and their beautiful facility with words. They are magical word artists and communicators. So much love for you guys
I thought this was gonna be America’s #1 problem with Russel Brand
me too
That's the video I wanted to see
That's how I read it
Lol same
The title badly needs a well-placed comma!
Am I the only one who thought this was going to be about people not liking Russell...lol
I think Russell means well. But his vision is not realistic in today's world. There's always going to be those who work harder than others. Equal opportunity will never equal outcome.
@@alaska-bornfloridaman Oh shit dude you can't be more wrong, People work extremely hard in every walk of life they just don't get the monetary value of there hard work like the rich do. You make it sound like only the rich work hard thus get rewarded for it, we all work hard m8. Without the vision you can't have the reality, every brilliant thing you see first came from someone dreaming it up, someone has to have the crazy idea before you get the crazy product.
Florida Man is totally right.
You can wish for this or that but you’re stuck in delusion if you don’t observe and think logically.
the power of a full stop.
Joe Rogan | America’s #1 Problem. w/Russell Brand
I 100% thought this was about America having a problem with Russell too 😂
Title made it seem like America hated Russell....
*TOUCHING THINGS* most people dowho know who he is and what he does
TOUCHING THINGS!!! AHHH... IM *TOUCHING THINGS!* WHAT DO I DO!?
Yeah, I was hoping for at least an America's Top 5 problems w/ Russel Brand, cause I have several problems with this asshole.
some of his views are abit silly i agree. he listens tho and articulates himself well. i believe your either very drunk, high or thick, because the rest of your rant after the first sentence is unreadable.
get your life together bro.
They kind of did.
"We have an obligation to aspire to the better parts of our nature." What a profound statement.
I like that
Obligation to what or who? Nothing means anything at all. To be a good human being is overrated and at times not in your best interest.
@@noelnegele6039 Trying to be an edgy nihilist is the dog shit of 17 year olds. Are you 17 or just intellectually dense?
@@noelnegele6039 to ourselves
Yes, start funding very well structured homeless shelters, Give it an umbrella name, make it GLOBAL. EVERY PERSON WITH X AMOUNT OVER ONE MILLION IN BANK GIVE A PERCENTAGE EVERY YEAR!
CLEAN UP THE STREETS.
GET IN THERE IN THESE COMMUNITIES AND MAKE INCENTIVE...GOALS, BUILD SCHOOLS OF REAL LIFE EDUCATION, GYMS...JOB SKILLS, ...FEED, ECOURAGE N LOVE!
THOSE WHO CHOOSE NOT TO PARTICIPATE, DONT GET INCENTIVES.
MANDATORY DRUG TESTS ETC.
FIND THE RIGHT PPL TO TRAIN AT A GLOBAL OUTREACH POINT, MILLIONS,AND LET THE BOZOS PAY FOR IT!
ITS POSSIBLE!
How beautiful to hear these two men speak with such humanity...They are 100% right. We are all on the same time. We need to step up.
We are animals. Do as they propose and your job ought to be labelled to you near adolescence. You stronk or not? Smart or dumb? No thanks, I pick my job and who I allow to be around me. I choose where my money goes and who deserves my vote. You're two cents richer.
Step up and do what? It's all virtue signalling and talk until an actual step is taken.
We should send this video to the White House
In this area... Talk is cheap... How many people can easily see the problem but do absolutely nothing to sacrifice everything they have to fix it? We are talking about Mother Theresa level of charity to change the world. How many religious orders or institutions struggle everyday to do the very thing these "wonderful rich men" are talking about with less resources. In fact talk to Joe Rogan about religion and the great things these Saints have done. A Mother Theresa or Maximilian Kolbe who sacrificed himself in aushwitz to save another's life. He will crap all over them, ridicule them and mock them without trying to have an open mind.
I'm sure it makes them feel good to talk about it but talk is cheap.
That's why it is easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
this wealth inequality problem is a made up problem by ourselves as humans to climb higher in the social hierarchy. if we thought it through,we could all eat simple(like super simple) made nutritious food,but we do not,cuz it isnt cool to do so,cuz f u wanna be cool u must eat those meat which is peppered with all kinds of sauce & shit and it makes u cool.we could all live in simple huts,but our desire to climb d social hierarchy brainwash us that we should live in a mansion with a car and all kind of shits and that makes us feel cool. if we are all billionaires,we will all be living with d same perception of the folks thousands of years ago before humanity huddled to towns or city,cuz we wont need each others help to acquire something cuz we are all billionaires,if u get terribly sick,u just have to suck it up cuz ur billionaire neighbor wont bother helping u cuz he doesnt need ur money,just like humans thousands of years agp,f every1 is rich everyone s poor..
what we seek today like education,high paying job,job security,affordable or free healthcare,money etc are all in the name of trying raise our social status. if we have a magic wand and make everyone whose poor and magic upgrade them to middleclass,after a generation or two,there sons and daughters will just eventually take it for granted,and start labeling themselves as poor,and want to climb up the social ladder again,and we well be back were we started. all problems in developed countries are just newly made up problems to achieve their goal of attaining higher and higher social status.,unless you're eating literal grass (like some in north Korea) and live in a cave in a developed country,which is unlikely cuz of food stamps,ur problems s a state of mind. wake up.just be a monk in a mountain or something,and u will be mentally fulfilled.
as long as technology keeps on and on and on improving,so is the social pyramid.
homeless humans in the future will be complaining about there living conditions on mars cuz they r just stuck in their personal 20 year old 2nd hand spaceships.
The first 4 minutes of the video are probably the longest i heard Russel Brand NOT talk
He probably had an anxiety attack
Dude I was thinking the same thing!! He usually always hogs the mic. I’m impressed !
I was going to say the same. Lol
All he says is yiis yiis yiis yiis
Thank the lord , can’t stand Russel Brand , he is not liked in the uk .
"It is cruel to ask a man to pull himself up by the bootstraps when he has no boots." MLK Jr.
Never would have thought I would hear Joe repeating MLK
You figure out another way to pull yourself up.
You forget that millions of Americans have done just that, and it happened because they were in America.
Pull ya self together. Fuck off im not a pair of curtains 🤪🤣😅
Why?
The general idea is that one solution doesn't fit all. Why's it so hard for people on the internet to be nice?
That last sentence by Russel was so true, the internet lets us hear great men like these talk on important things in such a compassionate way that listening to the average politician makes u think “wtf is wrong with these people”
This deserves way more likes.
So does television!
But that would not make you rich n big corporate even richer?!!!
Big tech boys! Sold out!
Sold out onus!
I'm no slave to internet. This is my second time watching Joe Regan.
They talk, you pay!
Nobody gets it!
@@Alexe829 dude what the fuck are u on about?
The percentage of politicians who go into it to help the people and make the world a better place must be in single digits.
It should be a noble endeavour. It’s tragic that it overwhelmingly attracts the kind of people who crave power and self enrichment at the expense of the most vulnerable.
I lived in a coal mining town in Maryland for over 9 years, and that’s absolutely right. These places are a black hole, and people there have absolutely zero agency over the life they want, it’s terrible :/
djohnson6528 what the
@djohnson6528 you ok?
I was locked up in Maryland with some guys from Garrett and Allegheny counties and the poverty they came from was no joke. A lot of those guys lived a worse life than dudes from impoverished neighborhoods in East Baltimore. It's sad dude but I'm glad you're making a better life for yourself.
@djohnson6528 I would say the ones who can afford kids aren't really having any. And the ones who can't afford kids are having 4. I have one child ( don't regret it) but financially I would have been much better off if I hadn't had one.
@Meme Notyou is that where you came from?
I dont want a mansion, I need shelter. Warmed in the winter and cooled in the summer. Clean water and electricity. Enough food to be satiated and nourished. Clothed in clean fabric. Able to wash myself.
These are not luxuries, these are essentials required to live with a basic level of dignity.
Problem is we cant agree that these are essentials. Some would argue this list is too long while others say it's too short.
The disagreement isn't whether they're essential, it's whether anyone has the right to force others to provide those necessities rather than protecting the right to acquire them for ourselves and voluntarily provide for our neighbors.
@Seeker197, philosophically I agree that it is immoral to make others provide for you (e.g. government redistribution). I believe practically that we need to address the plight of the homeless and less privileged. We either pay upfront or pay later. We end up always paying more when we pay later (emergency room visits, housing criminals, etc.). And we have the resources as long as we stop foreign wars and cut back on foreign aid. I also believe that practically some people can’t be helped (repeat drug users). If a majority of homelessness is caused by drug addiction, address that first before trying to address homelessness.
Your list isn’t too long in my opinion, you need to add one caveat / prerequisite though. If you can’t keep off drugs (with the help of programs), you can’t have access to your list above. Non ending addiction is a black hole of resources in this country.
Umm, you are aware that this is the richest nation in history right? Proportionally we have more resources and wealth than the ancient Roman Empire. There’s more than enough to go around without taking or forcing anyone to donate anything at all. No one is asking you to fund the poor, our government has waaaaay more than enough to solve poverty in this country the world over. It’s just, there’s no profit in it, AND, we’d rather spend that money on the Military Industrial Complex, foreign economic wars, etc. This is why it’s ridiculous when people ask “how is Bernie Sanders gonna pay for universal healthcare AND cheaper college education!? Is he going to marginally raise my taxes!?!? That’s TREASON!!!!!” Except, no he’s not, and you could just as easily reallocate those military funds (not all of it but a lot) to solve these problems. It doesn’t take an economic professor from an Ivy League university to see this. People are just greedy and everyone sees themselves as temporarily inconvenienced millionaires. We can’t all be millionaires, but we definitely could all have salary jobs plus decent benefits.
@Nick.....Of course we do, and I know that you know this as well. But the guy you’re responding to maybe isn’t aware of this. That’s okay, be polite and educate those who don’t already know this. That’s all we can do in the TH-cam comment section. 😉
I agree with Joe on this one. The problem is crappy neglected areas. The symptom is homelessness, crime, and drug addiction.
One of the easiest 'solutions' to those areas is to create or provide jobs. From there onwards you will see overall wealth in an area increase. Either that or you see people flee the area. Wonder why Detroit is such a shithole? It's due to most jobs being gone there. On top of that, average IQ of the people that have stayed is unbelievably low, so prepare for a lot of very poor choices in life by the average Joe over there. Want people to beat their drug addiction? Make sure they have something to life for, which for most people would again be a job (and as such, a purpose).
@@PHeMoX Also, get rid of the Democ- I mean uh corrupt politicians promoting a welfare big daddy government mentality, a militarized police, absurd drug laws, and a corporate prison system.
I mean corrupt corporations screwing over blue collar workers too and big companies working people in other countries like slaves yet we still but their products. Every big company you can think of is doing something horribly immoral because most of them have sweat shops in other countries that are working kids till suicide
www.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/
I think the real problem is lack of love and care. When you abuse or neglect a child they usually turn to addiction and therefore crime.
I’m really grossed out that over a thousand people gave this a thumbs down?
THIS, Joe and Russell, THIS is the beginning of a real change. This is one of our biggest crisis as a country. I genuinely believe this will spread love and positivity ❤️ We are a team ❤️
Some people just lack of empathy...🤷♀️
I'd say some people just don't like Russell brand though its not for a good reason
I’ve never been homeless but I grew up in poverty in a middle class town, and something I always found confusing and hurtful was how the town ostracized me for being the poor kid, even though it wasn’t my fault. It would have been so easy to pool money together to help me, but for some reason, people punish you for being needy, and despise a poor person who isn’t able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, even if help would enable them to do so.
Unfortunately too many people only feel good when they can look down at someone else
Julian I’m so sorry for your childhood. I hope you are doing better now. That made my heart bleed; sending positive vibes your way 💕✨🌷
bradyrad just poor
Russell, thank you for your validating comments about folks that work in the field of Social Work! I am a Social Worker from Worcester, MA. You are correct to say that my field is undervalued and unappreciated by the public. I will keep fighting the good fight.
@Dio Strabo And that is the attitude that must be overcome if Joe's dream of "unfucking them" will ever become a reality.
Two of my aunties are social workers, there is definitely a case to say social workers are underappreciated, but not undervalued. The average social worker in the US earns nearly four times more than the minimum wage, if you rise into management positions can pay into six figures.
What a fucking pair of brains 🧠 This content is awesome, i’m very happy I get to be something like a fly on the wall listening to minds like yours 🙏 Thanks
@Blue Sky Puzzle Its not about intelligence... though they both clearly are very intelligent... its about so much more. You don't understand because its you that is the numbskull.
@Blue Sky Puzzle cringe 🤣 they’re clearly intelligent you’re just an ignorant fool.
@Blue Sky Puzzle woke asf 007
Damm It took Joe Rogan to make you aware of this reality? Wake Up JP
Listening to two wealthy guys complain about capitalism is awesome? Joe Rogan is worth $100 million. He could donate $80 million of that tomorrow, no one is stopping him.
Most of the homeless people I worked with as a nurse had a history of becoming homeless to escape violence. Childhood abuse most often, second would be domestic abuse. The real problem comes when people discover how many predators are willing to help them survive on the street. Trading one abuse for others. All of which leads to mental health issues. There were vets and people with other forms of PTSD who couldn’t get the help they needed …so many paths.
When you teach kids philosophy at a young age, the experience empowers them to make good choices and their lives improve. It's a bit old school to say that education can save us, but I think we've missed the mark on what we should be teaching our kids.
@Vmancanada1 because red states aren't extremely poverty stricken, right? Lmao
Shawn Kelly actually yes
@Half life 3 that's funny because in 2019 the three poorest states were Mississippi, West Virginia and Arkansas. Guess what? All run by republicans. You have to actually go a ways down the list of "what were the poorest states in 2019" before you hit a democratic state.
@@justadummy8076 actually yes, what?
Yes.
"If the government really cares about us...." Hahaha.
That are bought by the real power - big business $$$.
Governments don't care about us at all.
Just the corporations we re-present, under Admiralty Law.
they take care of us with soma 🤑
Less government responsibility, more state and local responsibility!
I have anti government right wing buddies who hate the government but never talk about their 100% disability checks that come every month from the government that doesn’t care about them.
Russell waits patiently. Contemplates.... Knowledge explosion, boom
The guy who's quiet until asked a question is usually the smartest person in the room. You learn more keeping your mouth shut and your ears open...
"The poor exists to scare the shit out of the middle class"
~ George Carlin
Carlin was a multi-millionaire by the 60s, he got famous by making funny faces in a suit in the 50s. Biggest hypocrite sellout preacher wannabe
@@dusk4923Sooooooo, are only poor people allowed to make comedic observations as to how fucked up life is ?
@@dusk4923 Dude, seriously? Carlin was an American success story who busted his ass from little to get what he got. I mean, your pointing at a guy whos net worth was 10 million dollars. GTFOH with your moronic comment.
@@dusk4923 you sound salty asf lol can’t relate
THAT IS ORCHESTRATED BY THE RICH TO KEEP THE MICROSOPE OFF OF THEIR UNPRINCIPLED PROFITEERING.
That's the problem Joe...our government doesn't give a fuck.
who elects people into government?
Our government is paid off to benefit the rich and corporations.
I don’t agree with Brand and his political views, but he’s a critical thinker, capable of changing his mind on a view point given unknown information. I respect him for that.
He’s brilliant.
@@donnieparker1811 Yeah, I really like him too. People try to call him a pseudo-intellectual, but I don't think these people are really listening to the actual content of what he says, they're too caught up with his colourful speaking style and vocabulary and just assume he's babbling... But he's a skilled speaker and debater and respectful when he's does debate. I've rarely seem him lose his 'temper' except at times when the other person is just being a dickhead and deliberately trying to bate him or trap him.
The interview with Jon Snow is particularly bad for that. Snow was being a total dickhead with Russell and completely underestimated how clever and well-spoken, and effective and clear a communicator, that Russell is.
@@childofthesun32 there is a big motivation to discredit selfthinking eloquent people with strong will, for there is nothing more dangerous to the powerfull.
@@childofthesun32 I'm convinced that 'pseudo-intellectual' is just a term many unintelligent people throw around to criticise intelligent people who are better at articulating themselves. It's a cheap shot used as a defence by people incapable of conjuring anything remotely impressive.
Jimmy B at the same time there’s a lot left to be desired with brand’s message. It sounds really good and I generally agree with what he’s saying but when you analyze it point by point you may find it is quite hollow. Not to say he is misinformed but this clip did give me a pseudo intellectual vibe
In this video, Joe Rogan attempts to explain basic empathy to Americans. Good luck man.
I never read Americans criticising other specific groups of people, but I constantly read some xenophobic people like you, who by some weird reason believe themselves to be morally superior to Americans... Lol you are no better than racists, homophobic, etc.
He interviewed Peter Joseph a while back but apparently wasn't able to face his own judgement
@@IgnacioAguilarToledo you've got to be joking right? Anyway, it's scary to see how lost in human decency america is and how a big military superpower it is.
By the way, try to play an online fps game and listen to them, it's really scary, they go full racist.
Says the one not extending empathy to Americans.
@@muridae637 waa big scary American say mean bad words online :( all Americans must be rayciss!!!
The first 4 minutes of Joe talking was spot on and extremely refreshing to hear. We need to fight hard for that kind of help for so many people. We can do it!
@@aliceshaw8265 I always find it mind numbing how being a millionaire instantly negates the stance of trying to improve society. How do you people manage to come to this conclusion? It has all the itchings and prickings of a deficit in emotional intelligence and understanding nuance.
@@aliceshaw8265 Predictable rebuttal from someone who can’t think. Great job little buddy. Make sure your carer wipes your chin.
Legit thought this clip was about America hating Russell Brand. Thanks Jamie
At least half of America doesn't actually like him for real, so I'm not surprised people expected the title to mean that.
the problem with America is to many foreigners trying to tell us whats wrong with it. and people like Jamie.
I find him annoying and I'm a Brit but if you actually listen to him he's a lot smarter than you think he is and a lot what he says makes a lot of sense I used to just be irritated by his comedy but he is a clever speaker I would like to see Russell Brand and Ben Shapiro have a debate
@@lets_rock_and_ride5943 Then you would see how smart he actually isn't.
@@yt1300inHtown but most points he makes are right
"The invisible bias is in the direction of profit." Great sentence from Russell. Easy to dismiss as truism yet describes the problem succinctly.
I’d love for Joe to have Russell Brand on more often.
Actually Joe, I live in Rockford Illinois and Miss Carly passes out 1000 sack lunches per day to anyone who is in need. She also has sent hundreds to drug rehab and follows up after to provide support. She started with a wagon and two kids on her hip. Now it's grown into something everyone in this community and surrounding communities actively support. God bless people like Miss Carly. ❤
Joe actually spitting some legit truth here, refreshing bro
It's easy to forget that Joe is actually pretty liberal when he spends so much time being angry, justifiably so imo, with the extreme left.
he would be a great president if this is what he stood for
@@ddandymann what are the extreme left?
@@markodwyer9537 Well there's a few variants but the one I am referring to are is the blue haired college campus social Marxist variety.
@@markodwyer9537 Neo-Marxist/Postmodernists. Looks for some of Joe's podcasts with James Lindsay, Jordan Peterson, Bret Wienstien, etc. All of them are basically moderate liberals who have a beef with the far left and put forth great explanations about what is going on with them and the university system (they're all academics).
Every four to eight years ( regardless of political affiliation) politicians come around and promise things-but do you ever notice nothing substantial or concrete happens in poor communities.
Nothing really changes.
Thats the goal. If you can convince everyone its in their own personal best interest to keep capitalism around then they wont even question it. Everyone in america that hasnt realized this think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires that will wake up from their broke dream someday. But truly the only people that wake up from the broke dream are people that realize there is more to life than money.
@Renaud Villacis What impact has that had on your day to day life whatsoever? Honestly GDP could be double whatever the hell it is right now but suicide rates are still up %50 in the past 7 years so what does it matter?
Because no one can make someone accountable, if the people in “poor communities” spent everyday improving themselves, their situation, respecting other humans and setting a plan then those poor communities wouldn’t have to rely on anyone or what they promise.
@@skylerashe guys people are killing themselves so no steps we make in the right direction count anymore
The Problem isn't necessarily capitalism or socialism but CORRUPTION.
GSS 365 and people ability to look the other way because of there own problems
@alexroll 92 that's about white 🤡 🤡👍
Corrupted souls
Exactly, Capitalism is not the problem, its corruption with money in political, politicians are all bought
@@ThinkingCrypto Imo capitalism breeds corruption and exploitation.
We don't ALL have compassion and love in us. The unfortunate part about that is, the people who DON'T are the majority of the people who make the rules.
We all have the capacity for everything, but everything is learned or taught - both good and bad...
Adolph Hitler Loved animals and his (COUNTRY) on the one hand and hated people who weren't the correct type on the other. Explain that one...
@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 ying yang, we all have it.
@UCKjr57zJndj5C-t77lLNSow fuck off mate. don't ask questions to which you know the answers
There’s a different wave of homeless for the past 10 years or so... their are family’s with children..women alone.. many many many people..
These people do not have mental problems...aren’t on drugs...don’t drink... are clean . THEY JUST CAN NOT AFFORD TO PAY TOP RENT ..
many have jobs... they don’t keep them long because someone finds out their homeless and their children live in a car and they loose their job
Lets keep it real..🌹
Love Russell Brand..he talks the truth and its from his heart.
The poverty is so bad in Alabama, Kentucky, and the rest of the south. Its so bad that the United Nations wanted to investigate Alabama on it’s poverty.
Think about that poverty every time the military decides to fire off a missile that’s worth 500k+. The money is there. It just won’t go to helping citizens.
Have you been to the South? It’s no different than California or Colorado.
The opiate epidemic has greatly increased the homeless population. Heroin is getting in on a large scale through the boarder. Then doctors were handing out pain pills for a stubbed toe and people instead of taking one every 8 hours as needed for pain, started taking 3 at a time to get high.
@@larrytate1657 ex addict myself. Stuck on suboxon trying to get off . makes me sad my mother who has cancer rasied 3 kids no father worked 2 jobs from 15 years old no lie. Yes her parents owned alot busniess and properties my mother's Now isn't able to walk she has several medical issues that require a lot of surgeries she also had septic shock so has other issues when it comes to having surgeries anyways just in time she will get them done she's 60 years old she can't even stand up sometimes this is not a joke my mother she needs to get a pain pill she can't because of the opioid epidemic yes I see people walk into pain clinics that are 30 years old hopping and skipping out different scriptions selling in the street
@@derrecklastname720 the drugs have ruined your mind buddy. you cant even write a coherent rant correctly. Your mother failed to raise you correctly and you feel bad for her? When you admit you were a part of the problem and still are? Stop taking subs, dont do drugs and smarten your weak ass up. Give your mother one bit of happiness in life. Get your head out of your ass and stop being a useless addict. The subs you are addicted to is the same as you being addicted to dope. You know this but are to weak to just quit doing the shit. subs or dope, youre still using bro. Youre no ex addict. youre still using(subs)
Before we were herded into cities to work the factories of the industrial revolution we lived in small communities and took care of those in need because it was beneficial for the whole community. Cities have fomented a good deal of suffering for poor people.
Not really. Back then inequality was even greater, kings and the aristocracy lived in mansions while the poor worked the fields, illiterate with no education, no healthcare, died young, half of pregnancies would end in the woman's death, no cars or even bicycles to get around, you were stuck in your community, going hungry every day, starving, war, disease and suffering. At least now poor people don't die at 20, at least they now get an education, at least now they can move, at least now they can do shit other than working in the fields from sunrise to sunset. The industrial revolution caused a massive jump in living standards and made the average person way more happy. I would rather be homeless in LA than be a peasant farmer in England dying of disease, starving, working in the fields.
@@SOMEONE-cd9wf Well if you call working 16 hour days as a child threading power looms over working in fields or farms with parents and family improvement. The poor weren't educated or given healthcare in the first century of industrialization, they were cheap labor, paid pennies and taken advantage of. I believe you are confusing our modern era with the industrial revolution. Ever heard of Charles Dickens, you are just romanticizing Victorian times.
I worked in law enforcement in New Orleans, Baltimore, Dallas and Miami (federal agent). I was constantly amazed at how many people, living in horrid conditions in those cities, didn't just leave and go to some smaller community where life was so much better. I really don't think they ever realized that there was an alternative. If it was me, I would have walked out, to get out of those hell holes.
Unless they had the wrong colour, the wrong religion or had a minority opinion on something. Then came the pitchforks and torches...
THIS IS PARTLY DUE TO A MATRIARCHAL SOCIETY OVER A PATRIARCHAL ONE.
THE MATRIARCHAL EPOCH WAS BASED ON THE FAMILY UNIT & A REAL CONNECTION TO YOUR COMMUNITY.
THAT EPOCH IS COMING BACK ,FOR IT IS CYLICAL.
I grew up in LA, no family, foster homes, group homes, Juvenile Detention, drugs...etc...etc. BUT...NOW...after 24 years in the Air Force, owning several Martial Arts schools and running mentoring programs for at-risk youth...Im retired in Greece and running a Life Coaching business...
I AM FORTUNATE...MOST ARE NOT!
People need to get involved and help those that need it...the world can be "better"❤❤❤
This made me cry. I grew up in a poor community in the Midwest in the ‘70s/‘80s. Back in “the day,” it was a boom town, largely because of the now-depleted natural gas deposits. But when I was born in 1970, it was nothing more than what’s colloquially known as a “bedroom community,” with only a handful of dying mom-and-pop shops still in operation. (They’re all gone now.) Drug use and alcoholism rates continue to soar as jobs (and certainly decent-paying jobs) continue to rapidly disappear. My mom ran the local food bank for many years until her death in 2015, and scores of people filed through our 1890’s Victorian house- which had definitely seen better days- for counseling and money. (My mom was the pillar of the community, but now that she’s dead- murdered by one of the people she tried to help, ironically- the town is basically a living hell.) I got out, but as a musician- particularly one living in the cultural cesspool that is modern America during a f-ing pandemic- I am facing the EXACT SAME financial crisis/ruin that the good folks in my economically-devastated hometown are facing. I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do. I currently take care of my last remaining relative (my 81-year-old aunt), and I’m too old and broke to “just start over” (as several rich friends have ignorantly suggested). My plan now is to purchase a gun and off myself as soon as my ailing aunt dies. I honestly don’t see any other way. (And BELIEVE me, I’ve desperately searched for another way!) I’ve always been a compassionate and tolerant person, but now I COMPLETELY understand why so many people (including most of the people my mom helped) turn to drugs, alcohol, and crime and why the suicide rate in America continues to exponentially surge upwards. Sad and dark times for our nation and many of its citizens.
I send my compassion and love to you. Your not alone, frankly your the majority. I hope you can find happiness and love instead of the alternative. I'm saying this as someone who almost successfully offed themselves multiple times, so I do understand.
So sad I can relate to everything you have written. I hope you, and me, and everyone else who feels the same finds peace.
Much love to you - from Australia
I know this comment is 2 years old, but I hope you've managed to find a way forward and are still with us. I really resonate with your second to last sentence about how you now completely understand why people turn to drugs, alcohol, and crime. US culture and hyper-individualism loves to tear those people down and in some ways I used to too, but I fell on hard times myself and realized just how painful and brutal life on the bottom can be. It is absolutely no wonder why people turn to those things to cope because US culture (and capitalist culture more generally) simply does not care about those people. They have no adequate place to turn. Even psychotherapy, the one (often unaffordable or inaccessible) solution, is so focused on what the individual has to do to improve him/herself, when in reality the solution needs to be much broader than that, operating at a systemic and community level.
The way this culture treats people who fall on hard times or are just unlucky from the start is thoroughly disgusting.
Man I've just seen this comment now. Fuckin devastating, I truly hope you're still around. Things can always get better and that coming from an addict thats still trying hard. Sending love and prayers your way. 🤞
“If the government really cares about us....” Joe’s got jokes
like the "joke" with Gates helping so many people. looking at this days for what he and the elite pushing for you wouldn't give af about about their agenda and their lies.
I've been living in the Philippines for 5 years. There's a shitton of inequality. This video is in strong contrast to the interview with Ben Shapiro. Some people just don't understand how tiny the horizon is of a person who grew up in poverty and with no perspective in life. It's not like these kinds of people are lazy on purpose, are making bad decisions, are dumb, whatever... The main problem is these people have no frame of reference for what a better life looks like. They don't even know this possibility exists. Go to the province anywhere in the Philippines and try to hire any of the kids there for a job, you will be shocked how little they know of their own capacity for greatness. They have just never seen what's possible because their entire environment is just like that.
I agree, fix your own doorstep first. Then help fix the doorsteps of places like I just mentioned, such as the Philippines.
Russell: help the people
Joe: make it so the people don’t need help
Both great ideas, there are the resources to do both, try getting those above to drop enough for those below..
@Meme Notyou There are ways to redistribute wealth that aren't communist in nature. Progressive tax systems, shutting down tax havens and tax avoidance methods, etc... Being 'liberal' doesn't = communism.
Meme Notyou I wasn’t talking about a redistribution of wealth, I just mean, a power company making record profits of multiple billions for the fifth year in a row while a large portion of the population struggle to pay their power bill seems a little unnecessary, but to make matters worse there will be a price hike to meet the shareholders expectations next year. All I’m really saying is, it’s 2020, nobody should be malnourished now, anywhere in the world, period.
@Meme Notyou Yes, thanks for schooling me on what wealth redistribution isn't, what a scholar you are. And yes, it's 'Liberals' fault that tax havens still exist. I'm surprised I didn't see it before!!!
Meme Notyou why so angry?
@Meme Notyou Wow! I learned absolutely nothing from our exchange. Other than you are a total waste of time. Good day sir!
I just had chills for over 15 minutes watching people speaking my emotions towards how well I wish we can do to humanity as humanity
Imagine a world where even 50% of the human population thought and acted in this vein.
Do we really want a system that relies on philanthropic billionaires? My man Anand.
?
No, we don’t.
Anand is the man.
Just a tax right off. If they didn't get a tax break and more power from it I don't think they would do it. Like buying status and/or redemption.
No, the system relies on taxes. Those billionares are the reason you have a job and are not plowing the land for 12 hours a day
Appreciate this acknowledgement Joe and Russell.
I'm one who broke through this precise environment. It's incredibly alienating, like a borderland between biological family that's toxic and others that don't understand (or ignore) this reality exists. It's hard as hell. And very disheartening to consider the lost potential. Many times I've wondered what more I could've achieved if given the right petri dish, instead of climbing from deficit to try to get what most are given. It took a lot to persevere, and still trying. Thanks for bringing to light.
Love Joe's words in the beginning.
Charity is a failure of public policy in my opinion.
The point he tried to make about places in America being just as bad as many of the 3rd world places that ppl sense their money to was one of the most obtuse, clueless things I've ever heard him say!!
Maybe because it's the career politicians on both side f'n everyone over.
It's actually because the republicans specifically always funnel the most wealth to the rich and gerrymander election maps so they don't need a majority to win elections, and many of them are hoping segregation will come back, and a lot of people are too fucking stupid to have a clue what's going on, so they just pretend to make a point by saying idiotic shit like "it's both sides at fault".
@@jjjames713 Do you think Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Shumer, "The Squad" and the rest of the Democrats care about the homeless they pass on their way home to their lavish estates? Nancy Pelosi has a refrigerator which she showed off worth $22,000. Pelosi has a huge estate with acres of property. She could set up a compound for the homeless in Los Angeles if she really cared about them.
Damn, this thread got real allegorical. Do you atleast see now what the real problem in America is?
I love Joe. So empathetic. So many well-to-do never even consider the lives of those less fortunate.
@Ela Lamblin Now that's the kind of shit that doesn't matter and doesn't help anyone.
Yeah, 2 millionaires talking about how the system is designed so that for a minority to be rich, many have to be poor…
One of the signs of the enormous size of Russell brands intelligence is that he listens without speaking when people are speaking to him. Beyond refreshing.
He acts like a freshman in university.
Russell is so well spoken, I love hearing him speak on important issues
Check out the interview he did with Jon Snow. Snow totally understimated Russell and was trying to play him like a bitch, to the point that Russell nearly lost his temper with him, but never his eloquence and focus.
Our problem with Russel Brand? Bruh this is why we love Russel Brand.
This must be the longest time in Russel's Brand life where he has not spoken...
nothing warms my heart more than seeing 2 millionaires who could make a change for the better, talking about how other people should make changes for the better
They could be just hedonistically enjoying their ‘millions’. Don’t begrudge a man a million, it’s when he has a Billion... and yet still wants more... it has to come from someone... but at what and whose cost?
Probably Joe Rogan's most eloquent, well-said segment of the entire the podcast
Russel Brand is a very intelligent man. When him and Joe get together it’s always an amazing conversation.
LOL
But it's an empty conversation. It's just wishy washy feelings, no substance, no real structure. These guys know neither the causes of poverty, nor the effect of proposed fixes, just that "we should do something, man".
I clicked on this clip thinking the title was 'America's #1 problem with Russel Brand'
Grammar problems. Or a brilliant clickbait title.
Me too
#metoo 😺
I misjudged Russel, he's smarter than Joe and had an agenda to help as many people as possible with his appearance. Namaste
“Smarter than Joe” kinda misses the point of compassion, which isn’t strictly based in intellect, right?
(And considering that you don’t have that *baseline* understanding, kindly knock off the pretentious “namaste” crap.)
@@juc3rd Kindly f@#k off, Namaste James.
Maybe neither are smarter than each other, both are understanding and willing to bounce ideas to solve the issues that keep humanity as a whole moving forward.
We are all one and one individual trying to solve these problems is not achievable. It will take 8 billion of us ! 😊🙏🏽
I have been homeless a couple different times. Everytime it was the result of things that were beyond my control. It's a very eye opening experience and you have to take inventory of your life really quickly and figure it out. For me I have family in the same city where I have been homeless and they wont help, nor will the rest of my family, so I know I'm on my own. It's about knowing where you stand and having a goal and drive to get out. You truly learn what youre made of but you also get to see what life and people are truly like
If your homelessness is caused by circumstances out of your control, how is it your own family doesn't want to help? What kinda family says "screw you" after a mudslide devours your home, or whatever the case may be? Is your whole family the shittiest people in the world or what?
@@ChristelVinot well I'll give you an example.
My mother always blamed me for being a mistake and stuffing up her life because she couldn't keep her legs together.
I was abused and beaten by both parents. Just differently. Father would use a belt and buckle then next day at school I'd be sent home because the teachers didn't want to see my rectangle bruises with a blood spot near the centre. He is/was a narcissist and you couldn't trust a word he said, pretty much the same with a brother 3 years younger. Only one half normal is a brother 6 years younger than me, and he believes EVERYTHING he's told.
My mother's gift to me at age 4, when I asked for a glass of water on a hot day, was 3 broken ribs. I never received any medical attention but I remember the pain and breathing issue for months.
The injury was exposed a few years later when due to auto immune problems, my chest had to be xrayed.
Eventually I got fed up with the numerous attempts of her to rid her life of me.
She really did make multiple attempts, to end my life.
So at age 41 in 2010, I left all of them behind.
There is obviously so much more I could go into but now I struggle to care if any of them live or die.
Btw my mother has been diagnosed as a bipolar psychopath.
So anyway. This is the type of family that wouldn't lift a finger to help me but happy to blame me for crap I've never even known about nor been involved in.
My guess that OP could probably tell you a similar story.
Trust me just my little bit is extremely brief, but hopefully gives you some sort of idea, on the "what type of family" question.
@@rogerramjet6429 That sucks ass, sorry to hear.
Yep some families are just fucked up I guess.
Yet you can afford a phone to watch TH-cam. You’re fine mate.
Bill Gates, and Altruism in the same sentence is utterly insane
Crazy how many people praise Rogan when the guy is clearly a shill.
And it sounds like Joe was advocating for universal basic income.
just like advocates for transhumanism, homeboy is onboard with it all. no wonder hes a big star
@@kalebvera1841 BINGO. don't trust Musk either. Work out why NASA isn't appearing to be doing much these days.
Same reason science and testing at Skinwalker Ranch were done by Robert Bigelow's company.
It's the relationship between private vs public funded companies and the demand for FOIA to be supplied.
Who is Musk really ?
That's unjustified by you.
We can make changes for the better without such an impractical idea.
Joe doesn't understand economics so probably best to ignore him when he tries to chime in about economic issues.
@@ryanalexander5438 so very true. Capitalism might not be the problem, just how people interact within capitalism? The entire goal of capitalism is to make as much money as possible for the capitalist. To keep people in communities where they feel hopeless and stuck is what enables capitalists to exploit workers with unlivable wages and working conditions. People will subsidize a hopeless life with drugs and addictions.
Capitalism demands an endless supply of workers who are willing to work throughout their best years and miss time with family and children in order to provide for their own piece if the American Dream.
I clicked this video thinking joe was gonna explain why we hate Russell brand but I’m glad I listened. My wife manages a homeless shelter here in Detroit and you guys are making some valid points for real
Katy Perry must be so pissed she missed this Russle. He is amazing.
Autumn Saldana she was never good enough for him, not his equal emotionally or intellectually.
@@wendyknoxleet fully agree. Even back then insane he had more to him that this shocking character he was playing.
@Mário Gama so when are you leaving?
Didn't she made a song called The One That Got Away?
@@eppsislike was that song about him?
Problem is real estate prices, real estate prices tripled since 90s but wages stagnated.
m213 i recently learned the real estate is outrageously priced because interest rates are kept low to keep economy rolling. If we let the rates adjust up people are all of a sudden underwater in their homes but no way home prices can keep growing so fast. Yes wages are stagnant
everything has, college, cars, etc
If you think real estate is bad, you should see healthcare.
Joe actually out-talking Russel. That is quite a feat.
Russell isn’t as flamboyant and wild as he once was lol
His mouth is a rusty faucet.
I was thinking the same thing 😂
I disagree. I thought joe sounded confused and really count grasp russell's concerns.
@@user-ru9gf7ky2y I think your comment is pretty tapped tbh.
Several years ago I listened to Ron Paul respond to Michael Moores movie attacking capitalism. Ron, on Larry King, agreed with everything Moore said, but corrected him, stating that the problem was not capitalism, but corporatism. And his solution was limiting lobbyists. Joe, you know what took place during the 80s with the yuppies, e.g. - "greed is good", which was when the corporations began leaving the U.S..
I had two parents who began as upper middle class, but ended up in poverty at the end of their lives. And all the social poison you suggested at the beginning of your podcast I experienced growing up. However, I was changed by spirituality which brought healing and life to me. But Christianity has been attacked by the society that has been the foundation of it.
I mean why can’t Veterans get out of the military and find a decent paying job with livable wages?
With the ability to access information at our fingertips, my question is why 'any'one would sign up for 'any' military service in the U.S. knowing how fucked our government treats our Veterans.…????
I mean, I'm a 49 year old, overweight ex drug addict and if any person or country invaded the U.S., I'd be the first to attempt to defend her shores, (and probably the first to die...lol)…
But, once again, knowing how shitty our own government has treated our Vets and troops over the decades, why would any sane person enlist????
@@shawnc666 why do people get married knowing the current statistics? Just idiots signing up to give away half their shit?
@@RyanSpringer1984 you mean the 50% that hasnt been true in decades?
@@oweneldridge8813 no, the 50% of them that end in divorce; usually due to finances.
Edit: just confirmed the current statistics and depending on sources 40-50% of marriages end in divorce.
They can depending on where they go, they can also go to school paid for by the government after their service. Do you even know what you're talking about?
We're gonna be alright. Just keep fighting my brothers and sisters. Keep getting up and keep helping others and I promise your life will get better. I didn't believe it a few years ago. Having mental health and addiction issues that I'm sure now coincided with each other and no real family support I didn't believe anything positive besides death. Life is better today. Much love.
Amen buddy xo
Much love brother
The tax system must reflect the economy, reform it every 3 -5 years in order to fix the finances
Taxes are not the issue. Government spending and growing national debts are.
The economy, as a whole, should be reviewed every 10 years or so.
Tax reform, minimum wages, government programs/expenditures, etc.
According to the 16th amendment we can not increase taxes period. Stop being a puppet for the democratic-republican party that want to get rid of our federal government. This humanist can take his philosophy back to the U.K.: like economics stats this man should go back to U.K. and take our philosophy of being free to that phacist country. How is parliament a better government when they let Christians be killed with no way to protect t themselves. It is not materialism. It is the fact that there is not enough money to pay for everybody. The money in our economy is the amount that has been estimated as just. Look at Californian and it crumbling economy with there high taxes with no economic good that is new that can offset the inflation of pumping our economy with more money. Since you are a drug addict go and fix yourself. It is not my job to fix you, and let you steal from me. You two are truly dumb as fuck. You both like drugs. How about I stead of taking dmt. Stay sober and make a dream journal I stead of letti g your humanist intentions ruin the experience you are having. To be infuencual you need to understand what you are talking Bout. It is a p roble. With incopitnece, and not wanting to work from a young age to be successful. I see people with downsydrome, and they work. You guys are making excuses.
Well we don't know how to spend our way out of social problems like poverty and crime. Programs assumed to be social in intention may be ineffective or even work against their own stated goals.
But clearly any truly effective solution would be economically more a benefit than a burden. It's still a false economy to ignore a country's problems through blaming, rationalizing and externalizing them.
A growing social problem WILL be something that directly affects us all. Germany knows this.
@@PHeMoX but there's got to be a solution to solve the debt
Totally doable through focusing on holistic approaches to equality, tackling childhood trauma and get tax from corps to the people who need it the most. Well said @Joe Rogan
I love hearing Joe Rogan talk in this way. Economics is everything we need to solve.
I usually listen @ 1.25 x speed but Russel is running 1.5 outa the box...
hey Cheers man watching it in 1.5x
How do you do that? I would love to do that with 95% of the videos I watch!
Laura change the playback speed. It's an option on every TH-cam video
@@Cheekilyabsent it's under the settings icon, bottom right of the video
MarkJohnson : Great tip, thanks!!!
0 - 3 minutes in is the BEST I have ever seen senior Rogan.
Yes so true he is on point. Let’s invest in America and not China.
4:20 minutes and he made it like it was somebody's fault, like you never herd this rant before it's rehearsed speech got it written down and Bill Gates is his sponsor meh
@@veganmomma24b21 No, let’s invest in our workers, not corporations
I grew up in poverty, was abused as a child in every way possible. I've over come domestic violence, homelessness & the death of my son. Yet not once did I look to anyone else to "save" me. I am a firm believer in pulling yourself up by your boot straps, toughen up & put in the work to get the life you want. I am now a home owner, I run my own business & NO ONE HELPED ME. I didn't expect anyone to help me either. Regardless of what environment you grow up in, you can make something of yourself if you TOUGHEN UP & PUT IN THE WORK. It's NOT anyone's job to care about you, feel sorry for you, or to rescue you. YOU need to be YOUR OWN HERO. NO one else is responsible for YOUR life but YOU!!!
"hard to be smart when all on ya mind is dying from a thumper"
-Lupe Fiasco
#1 problem is the shocking lack of education. Millions of braindead, entitled consumers who are unable to make good decisions because they don't understand the world surrounding them.
Yup, forget higher education for now. America needs to fix it's public education at an even earlier level.
And laziness to educate one's self
Add to that, a lack of critical thinking. Buy your kids puzzles, read them mystery books, and logic rubrics
Have russell brand and ben shapiro on at the same time
*Jordan Peterson
Ben Shapiro is 100% the right person to respond to and dissect Russell
@@jamesdean354 Imagine actually admiring Ben Shapiro.
Ben “I talk fast so dummies think that I’m smart” Shapiro
@@ChristianCThomas Ben "Why Won't AOC Debate Me" Shapiro
Hope is used by the rich to get you back to slaving for them and making them richer while you get to hope for an actual better life and not just one that isn't living in a ditch
Prison- industrial complex is the 3rd most profited industry on the planet. That defines how this world works and how it’s been for hundreds of years. It’s literally a prison planet.
Never been there, nor anyone I associate with.
And not breaking laws is how you stay out of prison. It's not difficult.
Neil Anderson oh! So it's not a problem! Thanks for your input dipshit.
J C you're obviously white
c Guerrero so not going to jail and not associating with anyone who has been , that makes him white ? Lol
Habitat for Humanity is helping with this in a practical and material way.
Thank you for sharing.
what if a group of companies including Habit string a portion of services to completely rehabilitating homeless.
Joe on next episode with Ben Shapiro, Crowder, etc: "People just don’t work hard enough."
Alan Smith I’m glad you noticed too
I know he's as fairweather as they come but hes entertaining and has very good guests.
Tbf he did say the same thing to Ben when he was on Recently.
That is also true but in you're generalizing Joe's statements too much. He could be saying people who grow up in middle America with resources, but decide to smoke weed all day instead of doing anything with their lives. In this case Joe is talking about people who grow up in areas where they are at a disadvantage from the start
Show me any video where Ben or crowder or Joe has said that? You cant.
Russell Brand is one of the best humans ever. Love that guy!
I'm just going to let everyone in on a little secret that every sci-fi nerd knows. There's all this talk about solving the energy crisis. Yeah sure. Solve that. But then... move on to developing tech that can convert that technology into material needs. Think 3D printing but with complex molecular structures and increase the efficiency by a factor of 100. Then you don't just solve the energy crisis. You solve the material crisis at the same time. Lack of meaningful contribution to the world and material means to stave off our animal natures, in addition to a lack of well-rounded education and an ignorance of individual mental health is the reason why we are where we are.
When you really think deeply about what's available out there, and given the same resource we have today, how much better we could be doing if we did things (I'm not even saying "the right" way, whatever the fuck that means) in a better way... it's so easy to imagine how much better things could be for everyone, including yourself.
If you got this far reading, I really appreciate the fact that you are alive and that we can communicate over this amazing shit called the internet. Thanks for being you ;)
It doesn't seem like that's the route we're going down though, it looks like we're going down the AI lottery route instead. Every scifi nerd knows the list of possibilities, good or bad, that AI opens up.
Problem is we left it a bit late to solve the energy crisis, and facing the consequences of that is going to affect everything.
c4tch th-cam.com/video/ZBInhPFFVog/w-d-xo.html
I let you and your 50 likes a secret.. you are a pretencious idiot.. you cant even write without mistakes.....
@@skywalker35515653 Grammar Nazi detected.
Never seen Russell Brand talked into silence for so long. Presumably because he was taken aback by Joe Rogans humanity.
Nah, he just knows how important listening is.
What a brilliant conversation They expressed what i have felt for so long We need compassion in our society It’s too easy to say if you work hard to say if you work hard you will get everything . to. If you have grown up in a dysfunctional family life is not easy . We need a social movement of compassion
Compassion?
That is just an empty word. People have done extremely well in America compared to other countries. My home country of the UK does not have anywhere near the opportunities that America has given its people.
In America the standards of living has decreased due to increased taxation on working people over the decades.
My feelings exactly. I've always said that you must judge a nation on how it deals with their most unfortunate. Joe and specifically Russell vocalized my thoughts into words.
It's like winning lottery to get up in social bracket if you are starting from lower levels. Working hard can get you only so far. More likely a huge mortgage and mountain of debts. Only few decades ago life was much easier. It's a fact.
Thank you Joe Rogan ! I live in Appalachia the rest of America doesn't have a clue what it's like here .I'm thankful and sometimes actually stop and say thank you God that I have indoor plumbing ,I don't have to carry it in a bucket and build a fire in a stove too heat it to wash dishes or bathe .thousands of people in this county didn't have access to clean water until the 1980s .Sure we could get it from a creek with no idea if it was clean or not . People smart enough to get educated leave ,but what people don't get is how much harder it is for a poor kid to go too college ,all the rich kid has too worry about is getting grades ,the poor kid has too absolutely work somewhere to buy clothes food for themselves and make car payments and pay insurance and sometimes send money back home so mom can buy clothes for your siblings ,Appalachia is similar too a third world country And the rest of America ignores it
He does have a point about the ones saying pull up your boots and strap them usually have never had too
Exactly!
As well as pulling oneself up by their boot straps is physically impossible.
80% of millionaires are self made
@@suaveclt source?
@@suaveclt proves nothing. What percentage of millions do we have to none millionaires? If this was baseball we would have a batting average below .100. That's not good according to the stats.
Joe in my experience I was one of those who got out through hard work...but at the same time I had a lot of help along the way. I was also blessed in that I had some really good examples to follow. I also understand that not everyone coming up has the help and the good example to follow...so yes we do need to focus in on those segments of impoverished communities.
LOL, you're Asian though, man. That's a pretty big advantage. As the saying goes "No matter how good you are at something, there's always an Asian kid, probably on the internet, who is way better than you are"
ChildOfTheSun32 That’s unbelievably dismissive about someone you know nothing about but his race. Ridiculous.
@@DibbzTV Are you American?
Before I actually watched this I thought America had a huge issue with Russel that I was just unaware of
He is a socialist and most Americans would have a problem with that.
The problem with saving homeless people is that they're mostly too far gone. I've spoke to many of them and the majority prefer to stay homeless for odd enough reasons. Good luck changing somebody's preference.
Great, I was yelling at my phone thanks to this exact video.
Neither of you are recognizing the biggest problem in these downtrodden areas, the problem is a lack of purpose.
You cannot legislate purpose into peoples lives, you can’t write a check big enough to get people to really want to do anything.
All of the successful people that you named had purpose in their life, with no exceptions.
Both of the people speaking in this podcast have purpose in their lives as well.
Having a purpose in life will not guarantee you success, but having no purpose will guarantee you to be a failure.
Funny you mentioned WV...I am from West Virginia, near the coal mining towns in fact once upon a time this area ONCE was a coal mining town....I always wanted to get away when I was growing up, as a young GAY dude, I knew even as a child that if I ever wanted to be happy/successful I would have to physically leave everything I knew behind and move away.. I've traveled a lot as an adult, but now at 32, I'm back in WV due to my mother being ill and my father passing.... one of the most difficult times of my life and I literally broke down mentally when I thought about coming back to this area. I see these people you're talking about EVERY day... and they are so dark and consumed by negativity and oppressive behavior. COMPLETELY in a vacuum/vortex and CANNOT change. They CANNOT get anywhere because transportation is nearly impossible in these areas for some... You would honestly think you traveled back to the early 1900s in some areas, and even then, some lived better during that time.. Complete poverty everywhere.......Thankfully I'm now in a healthier head space and with just a basic highschool dipIoma, I still feel fucked even with making almost...40,000 a year.....My boyfriend of 6 years, a medically retired veteran, STILL live pretty much paycheck to paycheck.....I really wish politicians were forced to live in these areas to truly see, what happens. I'm happy that i'm on the greener side of the grass and I know I can leave if necessary but we all have to travel over these mountains here.... #westvirgina #raiseminimumwage #WVneedshelp #wildandwonderfulbrainwashed
LEAVE!!!! I'm not gay, but born and grew up in the same place. LEAVE TODAY!!!!! LEAVE. Just leave. I left at 18, made the mistake of maintaining some connections and ended up living there for a little while and finally left for good more than 15 years ago. That place is hell on earth and you need to get out.
why mention your sexuality, feel the need to cried it out? who fkn cares , seriously its pathetic how that keeps coming up. so what i get from your stupid comment is that all you wanted to say it that your gay..WHO CARES!!! hey everyone look hes gay, looooook at her, sorry him.
@@Mikelavoridesbikes Obviously, the fact that he's gay had something to do with his desire to leave WV.
@@Mikelavoridesbikes If you were from that area it would make more sense.
@@Mikelavoridesbikes you're attitude is typical and a big part of society's problem! Where's the compassion?
Because people make money off those people! Tickets,prison,big pharma & the list goes on!
ALOT of money Big Pharma needs to go
what about the GRO group?
Punishment=Profit
I’m have to pay $300 in North Louisiana for running a red light I didn’t even run.
Joe Scott big war companies pushing/lobbying for endless wars and conflicts off the patriotism of our military personnel
Wow. Just, wow. An interview with these two is what I've been needing to see recently. Brilliant men.