Remember folks you can't take a cent with you to the grave. You can however build a large grave monument to preside over your patch of ground as a middle finger to the indifferent cosmos. That'll show the serfs.
I just read your message. I read Georg. I thought you made a mistake spelling his name. I double-checked with his channel name. It is in fact Georg. I've been followong this dude for 2 years now. My mind is officially blown.
@@ireneuszpyc6684 it actually works both ways. Either can affect the other. Think of a stress response to publically performing. When you need to speak in front of an audience most people become nervous. They sweat, their mouth goes dry, you become tense, and you usually feel like you need to go to the bathroom. No one would label you sick, and you aren't suddenly coming down with something, but miraculously in a few moments sick you suddenly feel. That's an entirely psychological related state affecting your physiology. Your mood affects your nervous system. It's well known and well documented. Don't take my word for it tho, go look it up if you don't believe me.
I just discovered that my account was "hacked" in the last hour, and some moron is posting the same comment about Bitcoin over and over- I am deleting them, and changing all of my login credentials. Please accept my apology for this- and I assure you that I will do everything in my power to correct it. Also, please do not invest in Bitcoin.
Don't forget to run a malware scan on all your devices, or there won't be a point in changing your credentials if your device is compromised; it'll just get hacked again. Screen all email links and attachments too; many TH-camrs get sent a 'sponsorship offer' email or direct message, that has a link to a 'sample' video or software that the 'sponsor' wants you to watch first, and in reality it's a screengrabber and keylogger. Loads of TH-camrs get got this way. Best of luck G!
It's insane how many people have stress dreams about school all the way into their 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. It's almost like maybe we shouldn't be putting so much stress on literally every child that is a part of our society and teaching them to put their self-worth in the hands of those more powerful.
Yeah, I still have reoccurring nightmares of failing in school/college, even though I got my masters already. Unemployed 5+ years due to lack of jobs for my career level in my area, and not enough money or resources to move away.
Fantastic work. Sound conclusion. 10/10. I shall send it to friends who will see it is 20 minutes long and thus ignore it and go back to watching Tiktoks.
Anu Partanen's book "Nordic theory of everything" tells her story of moving from Finland to USA. Compared to USA, living in Finland is incredibly stress-free. Finland has free education and free healthcare so there are no student loans or insane hospital bills to burden you. Maternity leave and paternity leave give you time to raise your babies right. Taxes are simple, because the tax office sends you a pre-filled letter. State-funded news have no need of fear-mongering, so the news are polite and calm. The Finnish culture frowns upon bragging about your wealth, which reduces the social evaluation stress. There are basically zero homeless people, which promotes overall safety for everyone. Yes, we do have fewer billionaires because our progressive tax system punishes the ultra-rich, but I'd rather be a millionaire in an equal society than a billionaire living in a gated mansion worrying about law suits and kidnappers.
Here in Sweden I get my pre-filled letter from the tax office, and I only check that the numbers are correct. If they are, I simply send a pre-filled number in a text message to the tax-office and it's done.
I've been enjoying the direction of your channel, and respect the fact that you've never dumbed down your stuff, never tried to clickbait folks. I can't wait to watch your movie! Also, please bring back "Selling Stupid!" Cheers.
This video was superb. I lecture on inequality at a Russell Group university (as if the RG bit were important) and this is the best presentation on the topic I have ever seen. I’ll recommend it to my students.
I can't speak to my own inescapable death, but I do have a story I can tell. For most of my adult life, I have suffered from painful headaches and IBS. These worsened as I got married, bought a house, had kids, and so on. Then last year I got an extremely non-trivial raise, and at the same time finally paid off a pretty major bill, resulting in suddenly having an extra $400 of padding money every month. And in a week - A WEEK - my overall health has improved DRAMATICALLY. No more stomach upset, way fewer headaches. So it's pretty easy to believe that even greater financial insecurity could absolutely kill someone.
Cheers Georg, great content as ever. As somebody living in Japan I'd add that here the social gap isn't the same as the West. Wealthy people will mix with commoners, for example by taking language classes together, and such people generally see themselves as parts of society rather than Randian heroes taking Japan into a future of their own design.
Well, we think he was approving this message, but he also might have been making an off-colour joke about a black person. It was difficult to tell there, at the end.
It's great to know the governments in so many of our countries are working day and night to increase chronic stress as much as possible in last year and a half. It definitely doesn't affect general health, not at all :-)
@@samurguy9906 Yeah, their logic is absolutely bulletproof :-D It's like the famous quote from Spock in Star Trek: "“The Needs of the Few Banksters Outweigh the Needs of the Many”...or something like that.
@@samurguy9906 Considering that millions have died from COVID it seems like a good idea to try and nip it in the bud. If you look at the data, the lockdowns have undoubtedly saved more than one life.
@@nagualdesign the lockdowns were about flattening the curve to ease hospital capacity, not stop cases in the long term. We flattened the curve, and there were specific hotspots that still went over capacity. We could have done more targeted assessment. There is also little evidence that children catch or transmit the disease at significant rates, and most healthy young people weren’t at risk. The lockdowns killed more than they saved, in the third world at least (due to the global supply chain shutdown).
In an Anthropology class I took we had a lecture on Biological Anthropology, and we covered this. They referred to it as the "health-wealth gradient" and talked about those studies of UK civil servants. I remember asking a lot of questions about it, seems like a fascinating topic to me.
Twelve years ago, after being diagnosed with kidney failure and lupus the same day at age 23 (whee!) I started looking into why. I thought maybe I had failed somehow and deserved it - I wasn't in the head space to tell myself it was a matter of luck or anything like that, I needed to know how to blame myself the right way. You can probably already guess my social status... I found several studies detailing the increased prevalence of autoimmune disease in people who were exposed to traumatic experiences. I'd been dealing with PTSD for years. My mom was unwillingly pregnant with me when my parents were fighting and considering divorce. And yes, I did grow up poor, have weight issues, was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and have been considering anger management therapy. So thanks for killing me softly with this video Georg lol. As depressing as it is to think that there are millions of people who are ticking health time bombs, it is inspiring to know that the contributing variables can be changed for the better.
@@tropezando I also recommend any books by Dr. Gabor Mate. He worked closely with many addicts and figured out that many addicts, don't really have an addiction problem, really. Addiction is their biggest symptom that something else is wrong, or as he puts it, "behind every addiction is usually some large unresolved pain." He also states that one can be addicted to anything, though society doesn't see it as harmful. Television addicts, phone addicts, work addicts--the result is always the same: destruction of personal relationships and and a loss of the individual as well. Of course, addictions can also hide other health issues, and addicts are *initimately aware* that their addiction will kill them. It's not rational. But as Mate has learned, "The addiction is what keeps them from going over the edge. The addiction is what helps them cope with life; it's the one thing that lets them feel normal, wanted, and human." When you learn stuff like that you really get the image of how destruction and regressive the War on Drugs has been on the WORLD. It hasn't helped the poor stay off drugs, it hasn't helped kids stay away from drugs, and it hasn't helped drug criminals and addicts deal with the problems that drive us toward drugs. It has been just another tool from powerful people to pretend they care about the issue, when in fact, they only care about pretending to do something about the issue. FUCK Nancy Reagan and the DARE program. What a fucking waste of money for Americans that was.
George, I would just like to say that I've been watching your content for about 4 years now. I subscribed for film analysis and other various curiosities, but these recent videos where you're spitting hard ideological points have truly been knocking it out of the park. I love this look for you! Keep up the good work! Cheers, mate!
There are a few self defence tactics to relife stress, own a pet, humor and meditation. There are some interesting study's that suggest that laughter can help you live longer.
So what you're saying is that an individual should be taking time out of their life and money out of their pockets so that the systemically imposed stress on them will not hamper their productivity quite so much?
@@richteffekt that's an overly-cynical way of looking at some solid advice on combating the stress brought about by our society. You don't have to even be employed to be stressed, y'know.
@@rogerroger9952 I do not argue with the soundness of the advice in the commentary. Nor with the fact that stress will occur wherever it will occur. In the context of the video under which we're posting however it is necessary to point towards an obvious flaw in the assumption that individuals should be working towards mitigating stress which gets imposed onto them so that they function better as a workforce to begin with. So now one just has to work another hour more in order to fix oneself after one's actual hours of work and commute. That's what I deem problematic as it hands the issue to the affected instead of those causing or profiting from it.
16:12 This is one of my favorite songs ever. I'm so glad that whoever was coming up with music for Fallout 3 decided to put it in. Playing through the game the first time I heard the song I couldn't believe some old-timey jazz song like that could be so self-aware and critical of the insane nature of human civilization and modernity. Good on you for including it.
One little nitpick, epinephrine is the fight or flight hormone. Raises your blood pressure, heart rate, etc. Cortisol is the hormone to signal the body to hold onto calories and eat more to store up calories
The guy that looks back at the girl in the street is from the New York 1993 HD video (which is well worth watching - It’s quite surreal to see every day life from almost 30 years ago looking like it was recorded yesterday on an iPhone). The guys name is Robert Knupfer, years later he saw the video on TH-cam and recognised himself. Anyway, good video Georg!
I know i said something similar in on of your other recent videos but I'll say it again. I love the Variety of your channel, gut busting tour-de-farce's with Damien or these informative, thought provoking, videos. We delivered with a great use of older and newer film footage which all has a sense of candidness rather than the glamourized version. Cutting through complex statistics and numbers to get to the important stuff and making it easy to take in. You look good with your more svelte appearance but i have to admit...I miss the beard.
I appreciate you expanding your essays from cinema toward broader topics at large. I think when you done enough cinema essays, it's hard not to go back to the culture that sprouts said films. Art is not made in a vaccum, after all. I think we'll be seeing more "revenge films against the rich" in the next 20 years. Specially from Hollywood. Whereas in the 1920s we saw films that portrayed the poor as powerless and grieving for their own existence, I think this next wave will focus on how empowered the poor have become due to technology and overall, how much the poor can create their own networks outside the pre-established mediums that were once exclusively owned by rich elites.
That's a beautiful observation, but sadly it takes a deathbed for most people to come to that realisation. It's very fucked up how many people value money over human life.
This. Having a low income as a man means women don't want to interact with you, and therefore society doesn't want to interact with you. To society and women you are to be dehumanized and discarded.
@@dropit7694 Dear genius: As the original comment says - ''The girls hold the keys to social circles'' - they do not suffer from low status like guys do. That's why they live longer than men on average
@@dropit7694 Low-status women want nothing to do with low-status men. Also notice there are basically no homeless women compared to men? That is because women get taken care of no matter what.
I just noticed the quick blip of K&A in this video. Used to ride the Blue Line every day to work and back. Still live in the city and yes it is terrifying.. and the horrifically sad part.. is getting worse (which I didn't think was possible). ODs are up. Druguse is up. rents are skyrocketing in the city so even those who are still paying rent we're now paying through the nose.. income has not risen in kind. Had to beg last year and explain I was on SSD (disability pension) so locked into a fixed income etc. So now this year the next lease renewal they raised the rent on the lease 15$ higher than the cost of living adjustment I got from the fed (I think they picked basically the maximum cost of living adjutsment amount). with all the talk about ppl not taking jobs im not seeing very many help wanted signs ignored in the city and ppl still screwed. a lot of folks gonna die earlier.
I'm not saying I own a guillotine... but you know how it is: you make a New Year's resolution to get in shape and so you buy a guillotine cause it seems like it'll be fun enough to motivate you into actually exercising this time... and the flat-pack model you buy ends up having extra piece so it just sits around like an expensive, half-assembled clothes hanger, gathering dust and mocking you for your lack of motivation just like the picture of Robespierre with the disapproving expression that hangs near it (cause it fit the theme of the room) and at this point it's either revolution or Craig's List.
Don’t exercise. I first starve myself eating only 50g meat a day(idk the minimum to not lose muscle) and drinking water. If your stomach hurts drink some London juice it helps me. After you’re light enough it will be easier to expertise.
Wow, look at all of those major issues we've clearly identified and yet do nothing about. Glad to know those in power get satisfaction by knowing why we suffer more then them and not by solving issues plaguing innocent people everywhere.
I really like this more overt messages in your videos and I hope it can continue to try and represent more working class individuals like myself in TH-cam media. Thanks!
Great video George! A very interesting topic that should be highlighted more. It also gives more than a moral argument when arguing that inequality is wrong.
This isn't hard to figure out. Aside from the carefully researched argument presented here that stress increases your chances of developing health issues, if you're wealthy and think you have a health problem you usually can afford to not delay getting it checked out and dedicate quite some time to deal with it. A person with a lower income might delay a visit to the doctor because it conflicts with work schedules or more importantly, your own family routines. A wealthy person can request absence without pay, they can take it easy and leave urgent matters that require their attention (specifically at home) in the care of someone else. This isn't just about access to healthcare, because seeing that graph on life expectancy I spot Denmark and Portugal, both of which have excellent public healthcare services regardless of GDP or GDPPC. It's really about what life is like when you live under constant demand, from various sources, and how much of an opportunity you have to take care of yourself. And yes, mental illness, depression and addictive behaviour comes into play immediately. One of my parents has fallen victim to a variety of health issues despite having easy access to healthcare - both public and private - and the stress you mentioned played a huge part in them developing those issues: addiction, stress-induced high blood pressure, depression, two different types of cancer and the cherry on top of this shit-cake, degenerative neurological disease. It wasn't just the lack of money, it was everything they had to do in order to not stop having enough to get by and raise a family by themselves, while their world was constantly on fire. It certainly had an impact on my own health life, and the health and life of my sibling. Poverty fu%%ed up our lives.
A very interesting, thought provoking essay. A couple of points occurred to me: 1. Your charts make Japan look like the US's mirror-image on the income inequality versus health matrix. I am from the US but have lived in Japan for thirty years. While I can't argue with your characterization of Japan in terms income distribution, longevity, and other health issues, Japan is definitely NOT a country with a low level of social stress. In spite of the relatively even income distribution, Japanese society is very hierarchical, especially in business and education. I think a lot of Japanese people experience a very high level of chronic stress from these social relationships, as evidenced in the very high suicide rates for both young and old. 2. I think your linking health outcomes to income inequality may be mistaking correlation for causation. After all, the baboons have zero income inequality, but do have social status stress correlating negatively with health. I think that attempting to reduce health disparities by reducing income equality would prove futile as the society would shift to some other means of signaling social status. If the problem really boils down to human biology being too similar to baboons', I'm afraid the problem may be beyond the reach of any government or social action to make a positive change.
"baboons have zero income inequality" you forget that within animal groups, those who are on the bottom rung of a heirarchal ladder have less to eat and what they do eat is of worse quality, they do not have the comfort of say, sleeping in the middle of the group in winter, they're less likely to be protected by the strongest in the group if a predator closes in. they may not use money as we do, but they definitely have their own currencies.
So a couple of things to take a way from this.. 1: Good news is that death is closer than expected so I have less time to worry about life than a rich person. 2: That doctor is a cool guy. Spending 25 years of his life to a single study. That is peak passion and folks like him are what made humanity into what it is today. 3: So I should be more of a "sausage" towards people lower than me? Say no more!
And then we tell the poor to be mindful, live more healthy lives at a higher price tag and take things easy overall. So that they alone must fight an uphill battle with a disease imposed onto them.
at the start of the video. i’m wondering if the connection between health and wealth is a bellcurve. country gets richer, food becomes cheaper, health care gets better, but at a certain point, unhealthy highly processed food becomes cheaper than healthy options, and health care stagnates. Interested to see Georg’s take on things, as always!
I learned how the world really was reading candide, The idea that the world is a good place and that everyone should help or some kind of pink good government story makes people feel bad because the world isn’t like that but you can still be good and do good to the people around you. my life is still worth living, I can’t effect the world. I’ll focus on my life and the things I can change.
Not at all! If our health is ultimately determined by the structure of our society, it is only through the reform of that society that we can truly improve our lives. No one can do it alone, but we can do it together. And it starts with acknowledging that our power as individuals comes from the ability to work with each other towards a better future.
No I’m simplifying things. It’s negative for people who take negative things negatively. People can control themselves so not internatize outside negative things. Also people don’t just work together in a isolated society. You need friendships to form small groups.
Now I am stressed about being stressed.
Your comment stressed me out!
Same
Congrats for getting to the grave even faster than before.
@@MadnerKami yay we're all going to die!
Perfect
Remember folks you can't take a cent with you to the grave. You can however build a large grave monument to preside over your patch of ground as a middle finger to the indifferent cosmos. That'll show the serfs.
Not to mention that a horrible Goth band will use your immaculate tomb for the cover of their EP.
Yes but you can leave a family and legacy that will be effected.
@@ericgrajeda9916 Only if you manage to reproduce.
@@josephmarble2371 This is the primary argument for capitalism.
@@josephmarble2371 And they'll name their band "Immaculate Tomb".
Never thought I'd see my boy Georg discussing how human psychology affects our physiology. Proud of you, my boy.
I just read your message. I read Georg. I thought you made a mistake spelling his name. I double-checked with his channel name. It is in fact Georg. I've been followong this dude for 2 years now.
My mind is officially blown.
Good profile pic. Watership down is cool as heck
@@DogsaladSalad I haven't changed it since I made my youtube account more than a decade ago lol
@@Drewsel it's the other way around: our physiology affects our psychology
@@ireneuszpyc6684 it actually works both ways. Either can affect the other. Think of a stress response to publically performing. When you need to speak in front of an audience most people become nervous. They sweat, their mouth goes dry, you become tense, and you usually feel like you need to go to the bathroom. No one would label you sick, and you aren't suddenly coming down with something, but miraculously in a few moments sick you suddenly feel. That's an entirely psychological related state affecting your physiology. Your mood affects your nervous system. It's well known and well documented. Don't take my word for it tho, go look it up if you don't believe me.
It's like a sharp, edgy movie and cinema critic spontaneously transformed into a gifted and articulate science communicator. Color me impressed.
impressed isn't a colour, so that's going to prove impossible.
Even more perplexing is that color isn't a color either. It's just electromagnetic waves across a frequency spectrum we call visible light.
Probably all the hiptang.
That stuff is crazy
I just discovered that my account was "hacked" in the last hour, and some moron is posting the same comment about Bitcoin over and over- I am deleting them, and changing all of my login credentials. Please accept my apology for this- and I assure you that I will do everything in my power to correct it. Also, please do not invest in Bitcoin.
should pin this comment also so the masses can see it first and foremost
Georg you're a light, love your vids man 💜
@@trienos3040 So real estate and stocks is the answer?
Don't forget to run a malware scan on all your devices, or there won't be a point in changing your credentials if your device is compromised; it'll just get hacked again. Screen all email links and attachments too; many TH-camrs get sent a 'sponsorship offer' email or direct message, that has a link to a 'sample' video or software that the 'sponsor' wants you to watch first, and in reality it's a screengrabber and keylogger. Loads of TH-camrs get got this way. Best of luck G!
@@Naptosis Already on it. Cheers mate :)
Oh no, now that I know I'll die from stress, I'm even more stressed. Thanks George!
I still get (occasional) nightmares today, about having my A-level exam tomorrow when I’ve spent 2 years doing nothing...
...And I’m 62 😳
It's insane how many people have stress dreams about school all the way into their 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. It's almost like maybe we shouldn't be putting so much stress on literally every child that is a part of our society and teaching them to put their self-worth in the hands of those more powerful.
Hey man, your education isn’t “nothing” no matter how late in life it may occur. Good luck on your A-levels tomorrow
@@skunkrat01 No he meant he still has anxiety nightmares about his exams he took 44 years ago. He's not doing them now.
Yeah, I still have reoccurring nightmares of failing in school/college, even though I got my masters already. Unemployed 5+ years due to lack of jobs for my career level in my area, and not enough money or resources to move away.
@@rogerroger9952 "this makes too much sense, I will now stick my fingers in my ears lalala" - every government ever on education reform
Fantastic work. Sound conclusion. 10/10. I shall send it to friends who will see it is 20 minutes long and thus ignore it and go back to watching Tiktoks.
Anu Partanen's book "Nordic theory of everything" tells her story of moving from Finland to USA. Compared to USA, living in Finland is incredibly stress-free.
Finland has free education and free healthcare so there are no student loans or insane hospital bills to burden you. Maternity leave and paternity leave give you time to raise your babies right. Taxes are simple, because the tax office sends you a pre-filled letter. State-funded news have no need of fear-mongering, so the news are polite and calm. The Finnish culture frowns upon bragging about your wealth, which reduces the social evaluation stress. There are basically zero homeless people, which promotes overall safety for everyone.
Yes, we do have fewer billionaires because our progressive tax system punishes the ultra-rich, but I'd rather be a millionaire in an equal society than a billionaire living in a gated mansion worrying about law suits and kidnappers.
This makes me want to cry, sounds so good. Thanks for sharing. I ❤ Finland, i have to visit one day. Canadian here.
Here in Sweden I get my pre-filled letter from the tax office, and I only check that the numbers are correct. If they are, I simply send a pre-filled number in a text message to the tax-office and it's done.
The relationship between health, happiness and consumption of Hiptang should be covered next.
HIPTANG! Do you know where your organs have been?
STOP INDORCING HIPTANG THEY EXPLOIT BLIND DYSLEXIC ORPHANS!!!
*endorsing.
I'm one of the dyslexic orphans you see..
@@Mariathinking HIPTANG BAYBEE, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, YOU CAN GET OUT
I've been enjoying the direction of your channel, and respect the fact that you've never dumbed down your stuff, never tried to clickbait folks. I can't wait to watch your movie! Also, please bring back "Selling Stupid!" Cheers.
I love your movie stuff, but, I gotta admit, these are my favourite.
Came here to say exactly that.
Me too.
As a low-status male, i'm now aware i am now about all the bad things that come with being low status, such as stress. Thanks.
Yep, gotta start taking xanax
I came for the film videos, I stayed for the social commentary. Awesome work
I didn't realize you made this kind of content, but I'm incredibly happy to see that you do. ..
This video was superb. I lecture on inequality at a Russell Group university (as if the RG bit were important) and this is the best presentation on the topic I have ever seen. I’ll recommend it to my students.
We all know that Georg’s life is powered by his lava lamp so as long as it continues to appear in videos, he will survive.
Weird proof of life. Then again never thought of the fella as "ordinary".
I can't speak to my own inescapable death, but I do have a story I can tell.
For most of my adult life, I have suffered from painful headaches and IBS. These worsened as I got married, bought a house, had kids, and so on. Then last year I got an extremely non-trivial raise, and at the same time finally paid off a pretty major bill, resulting in suddenly having an extra $400 of padding money every month. And in a week - A WEEK - my overall health has improved DRAMATICALLY. No more stomach upset, way fewer headaches.
So it's pretty easy to believe that even greater financial insecurity could absolutely kill someone.
The message is clear. To achieve and maintain better health, have someone below you to step on. You'll feel so much better in many ways.
Cheers Georg, great content as ever.
As somebody living in Japan I'd add that here the social gap isn't the same as the West. Wealthy people will mix with commoners, for example by taking language classes together, and such people generally see themselves as parts of society rather than Randian heroes taking Japan into a future of their own design.
Before he slipped away, Prince Philip, aged 99, approved this message.
You mean the andrenochrome addict?
@@tubeguy4066 Ah the adrenochrome conspiracy. It’s got a cool name, and some medical uses, but by and large it’s not a very exciting compound. Sorry.
Well, we think he was approving this message, but he also might have been making an off-colour joke about a black person. It was difficult to tell there, at the end.
Poor uncle Phil he died so young. And poor Lizzie, losing a husband and a cousin on the same day
@@dropit7694 they're not cousins
Maybe the algorithm only brought me here for the Teddi and Girardi videos, but I'm glad, what a great channel
Thank you georg, for reminding me of my impending doom
It's great to know the governments in so many of our countries are working day and night to increase chronic stress as much as possible in last year and a half. It definitely doesn't affect general health, not at all :-)
youth suicide up, depression up, domestic abuse up... but you know, continue the shutdowns so long as it saves just one life, right?
@@samurguy9906 Yeah, their logic is absolutely bulletproof :-D It's like the famous quote from Spock in Star Trek: "“The Needs of the Few Banksters Outweigh the Needs of the Many”...or something like that.
@@samurguy9906 Considering that millions have died from COVID it seems like a good idea to try and nip it in the bud. If you look at the data, the lockdowns have undoubtedly saved more than one life.
@@nagualdesign the lockdowns were about flattening the curve to ease hospital capacity, not stop cases in the long term. We flattened the curve, and there were specific hotspots that still went over capacity. We could have done more targeted assessment. There is also little evidence that children catch or transmit the disease at significant rates, and most healthy young people weren’t at risk. The lockdowns killed more than they saved, in the third world at least (due to the global supply chain shutdown).
@@samurguy9906 Do you have a source for that last sentence?
The stress of watching this video took 5 years off my life.
Can relate
In an Anthropology class I took we had a lecture on Biological Anthropology, and we covered this. They referred to it as the "health-wealth gradient" and talked about those studies of UK civil servants. I remember asking a lot of questions about it, seems like a fascinating topic to me.
Twelve years ago, after being diagnosed with kidney failure and lupus the same day at age 23 (whee!) I started looking into why. I thought maybe I had failed somehow and deserved it - I wasn't in the head space to tell myself it was a matter of luck or anything like that, I needed to know how to blame myself the right way. You can probably already guess my social status...
I found several studies detailing the increased prevalence of autoimmune disease in people who were exposed to traumatic experiences. I'd been dealing with PTSD for years. My mom was unwillingly pregnant with me when my parents were fighting and considering divorce. And yes, I did grow up poor, have weight issues, was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and have been considering anger management therapy.
So thanks for killing me softly with this video Georg lol. As depressing as it is to think that there are millions of people who are ticking health time bombs, it is inspiring to know that the contributing variables can be changed for the better.
Oh and I recommend The Body Keeps the Score for anyone dealing with trauma.
@@tropezando I also recommend any books by Dr. Gabor Mate. He worked closely with many addicts and figured out that many addicts, don't really have an addiction problem, really. Addiction is their biggest symptom that something else is wrong, or as he puts it, "behind every addiction is usually some large unresolved pain."
He also states that one can be addicted to anything, though society doesn't see it as harmful. Television addicts, phone addicts, work addicts--the result is always the same: destruction of personal relationships and and a loss of the individual as well.
Of course, addictions can also hide other health issues, and addicts are *initimately aware* that their addiction will kill them. It's not rational. But as Mate has learned, "The addiction is what keeps them from going over the edge. The addiction is what helps them cope with life; it's the one thing that lets them feel normal, wanted, and human."
When you learn stuff like that you really get the image of how destruction and regressive the War on Drugs has been on the WORLD. It hasn't helped the poor stay off drugs, it hasn't helped kids stay away from drugs, and it hasn't helped drug criminals and addicts deal with the problems that drive us toward drugs. It has been just another tool from powerful people to pretend they care about the issue, when in fact, they only care about pretending to do something about the issue.
FUCK Nancy Reagan and the DARE program. What a fucking waste of money for Americans that was.
George, I would just like to say that I've been watching your content for about 4 years now. I subscribed for film analysis and other various curiosities, but these recent videos where you're spitting hard ideological points have truly been knocking it out of the park. I love this look for you! Keep up the good work! Cheers, mate!
That conclusion had me in stitches. This is the dark humour I come here for
There are a few self defence tactics to relife stress, own a pet, humor and meditation. There are some interesting study's that suggest that laughter can help you live longer.
Lol really now? Lol
You never were ever happy and laughed? Childhood? I could of told you that.
@@Stealthsilent1337
Yes, but what if all that laughing, is the reason you are old now?
Is there escape?
So what you're saying is that an individual should be taking time out of their life and money out of their pockets so that the systemically imposed stress on them will not hamper their productivity quite so much?
@@richteffekt that's an overly-cynical way of looking at some solid advice on combating the stress brought about by our society. You don't have to even be employed to be stressed, y'know.
@@rogerroger9952 I do not argue with the soundness of the advice in the commentary. Nor with the fact that stress will occur wherever it will occur. In the context of the video under which we're posting however it is necessary to point towards an obvious flaw in the assumption that individuals should be working towards mitigating stress which gets imposed onto them so that they function better as a workforce to begin with. So now one just has to work another hour more in order to fix oneself after one's actual hours of work and commute. That's what I deem problematic as it hands the issue to the affected instead of those causing or profiting from it.
Mr. Rockall-Schmidt, I must say your latest videos are most delightful.
The sound editing from 7:10 on is just unreal. The subtle music bg- love it. 😂❤️🤌
This is one of the most criminally underwatched videos on this whole platform
16:12 This is one of my favorite songs ever. I'm so glad that whoever was coming up with music for Fallout 3 decided to put it in. Playing through the game the first time I heard the song I couldn't believe some old-timey jazz song like that could be so self-aware and critical of the insane nature of human civilization and modernity. Good on you for including it.
One little nitpick, epinephrine is the fight or flight hormone. Raises your blood pressure, heart rate, etc. Cortisol is the hormone to signal the body to hold onto calories and eat more to store up calories
Though Sapolsky's work can, at times, be stress inducing, his storytelling is always soothing to me. Kudos for including him in this 👍
You're amazing and thank you for this
Awesome seeing you here, thanks for the amazing music 😊
The guy that looks back at the girl in the street is from the New York 1993 HD video (which is well worth watching - It’s quite surreal to see every day life from almost 30 years ago looking like it was recorded yesterday on an iPhone). The guys name is Robert Knupfer, years later he saw the video on TH-cam and recognised himself. Anyway, good video Georg!
this was a particularly good if only for the pronunciation of ‘stress-iga-ga’ and the brilliant conclusion. nice work, more please
The stress being deadly is true shit. It gave me arrhythmia and I needed emergency heart surgery at 29 because of it. Take care of yourselves, folks.
"The Platform" was on my mind all the time
A must see.
Incredible flick
A stupid film.
I came for the variety, and I fuckin stay for the variety.
I’m not glad I listened to this at work, but I’m glad I heard it. Thank you for your work.
Georg & Renegade Cut both blowing my mind.
Ye
I know i said something similar in on of your other recent videos but I'll say it again. I love the Variety of your channel, gut busting tour-de-farce's with Damien or these informative, thought provoking, videos. We delivered with a great use of older and newer film footage which all has a sense of candidness rather than the glamourized version. Cutting through complex statistics and numbers to get to the important stuff and making it easy to take in. You look good with your more svelte appearance but i have to admit...I miss the beard.
Honestly, this is my favourite channel on TH-cam ❤
Georg, I love your movie analysis, but this is supreme. I loved this.
I honestly blame my lymphoma on the stress that my ex-boss put me through due to moral abuse.
I'm so delighted you've returned to topics such as this. Cheers man!
Great work. Very happy to see that you don't mind engaging with the politics of broad systemic issues.
"... thank god for civilisation" that was the funniest and most tragic line I have heard in a while. I am delighted and depressed at that, thank you.
I appreciate you expanding your essays from cinema toward broader topics at large. I think when you done enough cinema essays, it's hard not to go back to the culture that sprouts said films. Art is not made in a vaccum, after all. I think we'll be seeing more "revenge films against the rich" in the next 20 years. Specially from Hollywood.
Whereas in the 1920s we saw films that portrayed the poor as powerless and grieving for their own existence, I think this next wave will focus on how empowered the poor have become due to technology and overall, how much the poor can create their own networks outside the pre-established mediums that were once exclusively owned by rich elites.
Imagine dying in a terrible smelting accident while eating a terrible sandwich.
Thanks Georg. I have aged 20 years with the stress this video caused me, but at least I learned something. As a side note, love your videos!
No dying man asks for more money, just more time.
Money, the bane of our existence.
Thank you Georg for the upload
That's a beautiful observation, but sadly it takes a deathbed for most people to come to that realisation.
It's very fucked up how many people value money over human life.
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 Very fuckef indeed!
Content like this is why me and so many other people my age (teens and 20s) have cut cable.
This channel is amazing. If I went into detail I’d be here all day.
thank you georg, this is what public education should be!
Woo!!! We're Number One! USA! USA! USA!
@4:44 - ''Fewer social relationships''
Yeah, women don't deal with low status men. And the girls hold the keys to social circles
This.
Having a low income as a man means women don't want to interact with you, and therefore society doesn't want to interact with you. To society and women you are to be dehumanized and discarded.
There is a such thing as low status woman by the way. You probably haven’t noticed them through your own social hierarchal blinders
@@dropit7694 Dear genius: As the original comment says - ''The girls hold the keys to social circles'' - they do not suffer from low status like guys do. That's why they live longer than men on average
@@dropit7694 Low-status women want nothing to do with low-status men. Also notice there are basically no homeless women compared to men? That is because women get taken care of no matter what.
Been looking for your channel for ages and I didn't even realize it. Subscribed.
As always, I love your cheerful, upbeat demeanor. Your conclusion will have me smile for the rest of the day.
Loving the change in content, Georg. Keep up the good work.
I just noticed the quick blip of K&A in this video. Used to ride the Blue Line every day to work and back. Still live in the city and yes it is terrifying.. and the horrifically sad part.. is getting worse (which I didn't think was possible). ODs are up. Druguse is up. rents are skyrocketing in the city so even those who are still paying rent we're now paying through the nose.. income has not risen in kind. Had to beg last year and explain I was on SSD (disability pension) so locked into a fixed income etc. So now this year the next lease renewal they raised the rent on the lease 15$ higher than the cost of living adjustment I got from the fed (I think they picked basically the maximum cost of living adjutsment amount). with all the talk about ppl not taking jobs im not seeing very many help wanted signs ignored in the city and ppl still screwed.
a lot of folks gonna die earlier.
Adopting a sort of optimistic nihilism has definitely helped my outlook. Nothing I'll ever do will matter, and that's pretty cool!
Your "bizarre summary" videos are soooooo good please make more 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Nice to see variety on this channel. Great video!
From the graphs, it sounds like we need to be like Japan with a Finland education system 😏
This could be your finest work yet. My compliments to you, il duce.
Literally my favorite channel
Absolutely wonderful -- it's good to see you branch out into other interesting topics, with the same polish and humor.
I'm not saying I own a guillotine... but you know how it is: you make a New Year's resolution to get in shape and so you buy a guillotine cause it seems like it'll be fun enough to motivate you into actually exercising this time... and the flat-pack model you buy ends up having extra piece so it just sits around like an expensive, half-assembled clothes hanger, gathering dust and mocking you for your lack of motivation just like the picture of Robespierre with the disapproving expression that hangs near it (cause it fit the theme of the room) and at this point it's either revolution or Craig's List.
Don’t exercise. I first starve myself eating only 50g meat a day(idk the minimum to not lose muscle) and drinking water. If your stomach hurts drink some London juice it helps me. After you’re light enough it will be easier to expertise.
Nah hang onto it, we'll help you put it together when it's needed. Plus we can use it as a model to build more. We'll need 'em.
This is an extremely important video
Not heard anyone say "tarah" since I lived in Sheffield! Miss the people, the parks, but not the gridlocked city roads.
Fuck, that stuff about low ranking baboons having large guts and slouching postures really hit me hard.
Really makes you think ☹️
That was one of the best videos you’ve ever done, George.
Wow, look at all of those major issues we've clearly identified and yet do nothing about. Glad to know those in power get satisfaction by knowing why we suffer more then them and not by solving issues plaguing innocent people everywhere.
On point. Directly on the nuts. Applause, nods, and whispers of approval.
I really like this more overt messages in your videos and I hope it can continue to try and represent more working class individuals like myself in TH-cam media. Thanks!
Interesting topic.
Equally fascinating, illuminating and terrifying.
Great video George! A very interesting topic that should be highlighted more. It also gives more than a moral argument when arguing that inequality is wrong.
Highly underviewed and excellent!!
This content is pure gold.
Fantastic video, Georg. As they always are.
Very interesting, thought there was foreshadowing there when you mentioned that in civil service everyone knew each others level in the hierarchy.
This is such good work.
As someone who's been plagued by depression for a long time and seems to manages to injure himself despite not even doing anything really, I approve.
What a great intro. Nice shot too, well done
Magic Computer is my favourite statistics application.
This isn't hard to figure out. Aside from the carefully researched argument presented here that stress increases your chances of developing health issues, if you're wealthy and think you have a health problem you usually can afford to not delay getting it checked out and dedicate quite some time to deal with it. A person with a lower income might delay a visit to the doctor because it conflicts with work schedules or more importantly, your own family routines. A wealthy person can request absence without pay, they can take it easy and leave urgent matters that require their attention (specifically at home) in the care of someone else.
This isn't just about access to healthcare, because seeing that graph on life expectancy I spot Denmark and Portugal, both of which have excellent public healthcare services regardless of GDP or GDPPC. It's really about what life is like when you live under constant demand, from various sources, and how much of an opportunity you have to take care of yourself. And yes, mental illness, depression and addictive behaviour comes into play immediately.
One of my parents has fallen victim to a variety of health issues despite having easy access to healthcare - both public and private - and the stress you mentioned played a huge part in them developing those issues: addiction, stress-induced high blood pressure, depression, two different types of cancer and the cherry on top of this shit-cake, degenerative neurological disease.
It wasn't just the lack of money, it was everything they had to do in order to not stop having enough to get by and raise a family by themselves, while their world was constantly on fire.
It certainly had an impact on my own health life, and the health and life of my sibling. Poverty fu%%ed up our lives.
Wow! Trio's "Da Da Da" really takes me back.
A very interesting, thought provoking essay. A couple of points occurred to me:
1. Your charts make Japan look like the US's mirror-image on the income inequality versus health matrix. I am from the US but have lived in Japan for thirty years. While I can't argue with your characterization of Japan in terms income distribution, longevity, and other health issues, Japan is definitely NOT a country with a low level of social stress. In spite of the relatively even income distribution, Japanese society is very hierarchical, especially in business and education. I think a lot of Japanese people experience a very high level of chronic stress from these social relationships, as evidenced in the very high suicide rates for both young and old.
2. I think your linking health outcomes to income inequality may be mistaking correlation for causation. After all, the baboons have zero income inequality, but do have social status stress correlating negatively with health. I think that attempting to reduce health disparities by reducing income equality would prove futile as the society would shift to some other means of signaling social status. If the problem really boils down to human biology being too similar to baboons', I'm afraid the problem may be beyond the reach of any government or social action to make a positive change.
"baboons have zero income inequality"
you forget that within animal groups, those who are on the bottom rung of a heirarchal ladder have less to eat and what they do eat is of worse quality, they do not have the comfort of say, sleeping in the middle of the group in winter, they're less likely to be protected by the strongest in the group if a predator closes in. they may not use money as we do, but they definitely have their own currencies.
So a couple of things to take a way from this..
1: Good news is that death is closer than expected so I have less time to worry about life than a rich person.
2: That doctor is a cool guy. Spending 25 years of his life to a single study. That is peak passion and folks like him are what made humanity into what it is today.
3: So I should be more of a "sausage" towards people lower than me? Say no more!
USA was at the top of all those charts 😎 USA is number one!! 🇺🇸
One of your best. More like this, please
And then we tell the poor to be mindful, live more healthy lives at a higher price tag and take things easy overall. So that they alone must fight an uphill battle with a disease imposed onto them.
at the start of the video. i’m wondering if the connection between health and wealth is a bellcurve. country gets richer, food becomes cheaper, health care gets better, but at a certain point, unhealthy highly processed food becomes cheaper than healthy options, and health care stagnates. Interested to see Georg’s take on things, as always!
I learned how the world really was reading candide,
The idea that the world is a good place and that everyone should help or some kind of pink good government story makes people feel bad because the world isn’t like that but you can still be good and do good to the people around you.
my life is still worth living, I can’t effect the world. I’ll focus on my life and the things I can change.
Not at all! If our health is ultimately determined by the structure of our society, it is only through the reform of that society that we can truly improve our lives. No one can do it alone, but we can do it together. And it starts with acknowledging that our power as individuals comes from the ability to work with each other towards a better future.
No I’m simplifying things. It’s negative for people who take negative things negatively.
People can control themselves so not internatize outside negative things.
Also people don’t just work together in a isolated society. You need friendships to form small groups.
An unusual, and thoughtful piece. Excellent.