Really hit the nail on the examples of what being poor and living in a poor area is like. Parents on drugs, messy houses, 13 year olds dating high school graduates, and teens doing hardcore drugs young. All of this is extremely accurate at least from my own experience with drug addicted parents and the experience of every other poor person I’ve interacted with.
He was viscerally correct. I grew up middle class and thought poor just meant you had less stuff. Because I was comparing myself to rich ppl in other two parent households that also had stability but SUVs and big TVs. It wasn’t until I got poor friends that I realized the living hell That they had to deal with. Really changed my perspective.
I always describe the line between poverty and middle class as an elastic band. You start to break into the middle class and then your car breaks, cant work during that time, spouse gets fired, and BAM right back into poverty
I remember making very little money...and then getting boosted up 1 dollar made me so happy...it meant about an additional ($70ish) dollars to my check. I also remember having to sell a lot of my electronics (rip Yoshi 3DS and record collection) when I was really struggling. I am soooooooooo happy to be a bit more stable now. The amount of mental anguish that comes from car repairs, paying rent and utilities, and being unable to live life and watching everyone seem so happy is absolute dogshit mental torment. lol. It's hard.
"As soon as I got 10k in the bank, I just stopped caring about anything." Yep. Same for me. That's the point where I basically stopped worrying about money.
@@SDY274 Not thriving. But if you have a decent income as well, comfortable. The most expensive things are medical bills, and most out-of-pocket deductibles cap off well below 10k.
@@SDY274 If you live like a poor person and have cheap hobbies (like gaming) 10k is enough to not worry about anything if it's just you. You're not going to be doing much, but you're definitely not worrying about food or gas bills.
Awwww bro, the overdraft shit was crazy back in the mid 2000's. I remember my Bank of America always withholding a few debit card swipes. I'd check my balance online and buy a couple coffees or something and then suddenly a few $5 or $6 purchases from 5 days earlier would post to my account and it would hit me for like 3 overdrafts. I ended up closing my account there because I was convinced they had a system setup to fuck over people who spent their whole paycheck. Sure enough, they got sued in a class action filing and found guilty of doing exactly that. Some whistle-blower even explained how it all worked but they intentionally hid pending transactions until you made another swipe that would cause an overdraft.
Yee oughta learn some Good’ol fashion financial responsibility instead of trying to blame all yur problems on the hardworking business men at Bank of America, typical youngster trying to get hard working americans to pay for his stuff and having no fear of GOD! Well let me tell you hwat youngster, if you don’t want yer bank giving you over draft fees, than maybe you oughta just make sure you got enough money in yer account to avoid over drafts instead of blaming all your problems on other people and trying to get them to pay for yur own mistakes, maybe pull yourself up by a bootstrap or two, learn a little gumption and get a new job if you ain’t gettin paid enough at that one. Just walk into the business and you tell em this “now here’s the deal, yur gonna hire me starting at 25$ an hour, and if you don’t than I’m going to the business right across the street there, and let me tell you, you’ll be outta business faster than the June bugs hop over the moose tree in July if I start working for ye competition now ya hear.” Do that and you’ll be making as much as I was back in the 60s, youngins nowadays move slower than a hot steamy bowl of molasses in the middle of July when it comes to pulling your pants up and taking some Good’ol fashion personal responsibility tell ya hwat.
Literally EVERY banking institution, phone company, etc. A phone company employee and I spoke over the phone for an Hour about how his employer and every phone company Phuck poor people.
Destiny the point you were making was actually pretty accurate. Longest work week, the US is pretty low at 19, however according to a study by Maxis Global, The US is second in the world working hours above contract, ie overtime.
yup i waS able to pay my registration but my evap code went up i changed all my parts for it but the code keeps coming back i cant afford to take it to the shop for diagnostic. been driving it with no plates sin January... so now im scared that im gonna get pulled over and get it impounded but i need to drive it for work...
I know a girl who did everything right, but there was an error with her direct deposit pay check, and so it came a day or two later. However, because of that fuck up on her job’s end, she got like 600-700 in over draft fees. It took her forever to get out of that hole.
Did you know that in the matrix, when Morpheus and Neo were going to see the oracle, Morpheus give a head nod to the blind man sitting in the chairs, and The blind man nodded back.
As a european I can't even imagine having 0 paid vacation days Imagine not being able to go on paid vacation for a month and a half each summer to just enjoy life
@@onionfarmer3044 that's the point of vacation, you can use it however you want, traveling is fine, installing a new toilet is fine. That's the thing, you can do whatever you feel you want/have to do, while still being paid.
A paid month and a half off every year?? God I wish that were me. The only time I've been able to take off more than a day at a time has been for medical reasons so I couldn't even enjoy it
He is 100% right about middle class. If you look the numbers on incomes, a massive part of the population is in lower middle class which results in the lifestyle that is what Destiny described. I lived in a rural area of PA and it was a mix of what Destiny described all patched together across the surrounding 10+ counties. Most of the population would call themselves middle class even though within that category you have ppl that are certainly poor and drowning.
I may not agree with all of his takes, but Destiny describes poverty with more honesty than pretty much any politician or powerful person I've ever heard in my life.
Situational poverty. Generational poverty. Absolute poverty. Relative poverty. Urban poverty. Rural poverty. Poor live in worst areas. Poor drive old cars. Poor eat cheap food. Poor wear budget clothing. Poor go without basic luxuries. Poor struggle to pay for big ticket items that break. The list goes on. What people don't realize is that the goal post keep shifting with things like rising rents, rising food cost, rising fuel, rising price on second hand cars, rising prices on clothing, rising prices on electricity/utility, rising home ownership tax/rates, rising cost on insurance, rising cost on entertainment.
I think perspectives of lower/middle class is different for individuals depending on how they grew up. I thought my family was pretty well off because we always had food, both parents worked and we had spending money, but we lived in a single bedroom apartment as a family of 4 and my parents slept on the floor. Wasn’t till later when we moved to the burbs, that I realized we were lower middle class, and other kids thought I was poor because I didn’t have the newest Xbox or iPod or w/e. To middle class people, they think being poor is living in apartments and working manual labor. Being poor to me is how dest describes it, drug addicted single parents constantly on the verge of being homeless, kids are getting into bad stuff because the parents are always working and can’t afford to parent their kids, dirty and dangerous hoods, living on section 8, welfare, food stamps and WIC, pass me down clothing, having to work at temp places because nobody would hire you over your criminal record, donating plasma for extra money etc etc etc.
I feel ya. I knew fellas that would bitch and moan about how poor they were, making 1500 a week, sleeping in a house with central AC, eating fucking lasagna for dinner. Right now I make a quarter of the poverty line where I live (share house). After rent/utilities I have change left for food (thank god for food banks), and I'm one of the lucky ones. I know people on a 2 figure income, and homeless people. If doctors and lawyers are working class, we're dead out here. 12% unemployment rate, no joke.
I had this same realization as well. My brother recently graduated and is making gooooood money, and I will be graduating soon too. My mom raised us as a single parent, while maybe less than 20k after getting laid off and losing her pension for a job she had worked 20 years for, and worked during the day. We also had to hop houses a few times because we couldn't afford our areas after a few years. (We lived in various areas throughout Detroit.) I remember we also stopped buying certain foods and would often be going to food banks for groceries. However, I never really FELT poor. I was always fed, our bills were being met, I was clothed, and I had a game console to entertain myself (no cable or internet). It's only really reflecting on it that I realize my mom was basically on 1 HP trying to raise us to the point where we could succeed through life.
@@kimilsungthefirst6840 apologies that it upsets you so much that not everyone has Mommy and Daddy's money to live comforble and cushy. These problems do exist outside of the youtube comments.
@@kimilsungthefirst6840 its not bragging to see who's poorer if they're all considering themselves middle lower class. You're just too much of a fool to realize this is the common experience for a lot of those in poverty and they're sharing similar experiences.
Holy shit dude Destiny talking about the overdrafting your account as a line of credit. I can't even tell you how much I paid in overdraft fees a few years ago.
I fucking hate how aptly Destiny described my life in his interpretation of working class. I've always been in a traditionally poor, working class caste. There are points where I'm doing really well but in my position all it takes is a car breaking down or breaking my glasses with no insurance to completely fuck my life up.
Spent the first half of this video screaming based. As I’ve slowly come up from poverty I find people just lack understanding of what the bottom really is. I’ve meet people lose their mind over not having things go their way, while as early as 12 I understood I’m probably going to be funny, and there is a good chance lights will shut off in the AM. Rural Poor versus urban poor is always starkly different.
When I think back to being poor I remember people always screaming at each other, everything being gross and/or broken, and just this feeling that you only have a few weeks before your account is in the red again
Recently, for the first time in my life, I absorbed a cost of over $1,000. At first I was a little upset by it, but eventually I came around and felt appreciative that I could take an unexpected hit like that and remain afloat
i think its in the nineties this joke was made (atleast destiny said so) so back than he was probably just a good athlete, not a commentator with his own investments. atleast thats what i assume, i dont know anything about sportsball and i dont even know if i am thinking of the right person
That good times assessment is exactly what I thought while watching. My time working as a cable guy and furniture delivery guy in Louisiana gave me a look into that “fucked” world
I guess I am working class. Not because my family doesn't have money or that I don't have stability, but definitely because I feel like it's been a decade and I still haven't made progress. I don't want to blame anyone else for my own inability or incompetence in the choices I've made in life, but I've done atleast the bare minimum to not screw it up. IE No addictions, graduated Highschool and made 42 credits in college (time and financially cannot continue it), Work inconsistently throughout the last decade and helped my families hobby farm. It's not that I fucked up, but that nothing ever stuck or my lack of self motivation has killed my drive to achieve what I should have done years ago. I almost feel like there are market forces bent in a direction against me to keep me as a working peon instead of actually being competitive in the job market.
For the spinning plates analogy. I think what happens is too many people lack the self control and/or perspective in their own life and take on too many plates at once. A lot of this comes from pressure to keep up with the joneses or portray a certain level of status in the pursuit of "happiness". People think "I need more plates to be happy". What people should do is focus on one plate, and spin it PERFECTLY. Then when they know theyre confident they can take on another plate, only then should they do so. For example if you are lower class or a graduate student, its probably a bad idea to lease a new car, rack up a bunch of credit card debt, get a new puppy or pay for an expensive apartment you can barely afford because its what everyone else does. Without those things you have complete freedom, because your ratio of expense to income is sound. So you can spend way more time, COMFORTABLY building your skillset, networking and hunting for the perfect job where you feel fulfilled and get paid more. All the while spending time comfortably with family and friends. Then when you've moved up in the world, is it time for the puppy, the nice apartment, the new car lease etc. But so many people are having kids super young, spending all of their time and energy between the kid and their job that probably doest pay them enough and takes up all of their time resulting in becoming stuck.
uncut gems sometimes makes you forget its acting, i think thats the main draw. if you cant appreciate the craft the story wont really do anything for you.
In the UK the worse kind of poverty is often referred to by mentioning council estates (publicly run cheap housing, often paid for by benefits/welfare) in some fashion. It's difficult to imagine knowing nothing about this coming from the UK. Due to how most neighbourhoods are built here you'd be very cosy indeed if you didn't even know this kind of distinction at least exists.
Lived my whole life in that space below middle class. Lowest middle class before you get absolute poverty. Hes right, the frame of mind of the people there is the lowest you can get. Its more of a mentality thing. Most people have zero clue
Fuck rural living. I’ve lived in rural Alabama for 23 years, its not fucking fun. There is literally nothing to do and nobody to see. There are so many things to do in 2022 and you get the 2005 experience in rural places. 3mb/s max download speed too
Sounds like prime investment opportunities. Open a bar and gaming shop and you got business. Maybe a gun shop and weed joint and boom. Invest in greenhouses, start building some more homes, you got small city in 70 years.
It is hell, nothing to do but drugs and video games, no career opportunity or ability to meet up with those who work in a field you want to get into. Finally moving to a city and I've got a decent outlook on life because of it.
I was having flashbacks for stuff like taping over the check engine light and just driving until the car took a shit. Police auctions were my go to. You could get a beater than ran for a year or two for between $800-$1000. My family was homeless for awhile and we were buying these massive bags of Costco rice for like a few bucks a pop that would last all week and smuggling water from bathroom sinks in stores until we would get kicked out. Good times
My first couple jobs were all contracting jobs, you can take time off but you get zero pay and a percent of your paycheck would go towards insurance if your under 25.
I think Destiny's "Middle Class" category is too vague to be useful. Like, it's just below capital B Billionaire down to slightly above drug addict which might get evicted any day now. What he descibes here is basically "financially stable, but not Amazon owner yet", of what use is that category? :D
That you’re all the fucking same. It’s not vague whatsoever; you just gave the perimeters. I can tell you only commented this because you’re middle class and feel an incessant need to be oppressed.
Having mentally ill/undiagnosed parents, having health problems, living in an extremely unstable neighborhood or house. Literally life on impossible mode
I grew up extremely poor for America. Being homeless at times. Brothers on meth. Not much food. 8 people in a two bedroom single wide in a dirt small town with no jobs or opportunities. Dropped out of high school at 15. I am middle class now. I make $80k a year. My first real shot of getting out of poverty was selling cars. They hired anyone. 100% commission. No base salary. I went from being homeless and working dead end labor jobs to making $30k a year. I worked 7 days a week for three years. I saved up. I got an online degree from Canada that I paid with cash. Cheaper than USA schools. It took me 10 years to where I am making $80k a year. I'm still on survival mode though. I still feel I'm on the verge of being homeless. I have about 50k in savings. I don't invest it. I don't do anything. I just keep it in case something bad happens. I don't know how to shut off the survival mode. I felt this fight or flight everyday since I was about 10. When I was 10 we went from being poor to really poor.
How did people confuse "Working Class" and "Poor" with Rural? Yo, there are some people that live in the sticks, own the land, the house on it, all the vehicles. They're set. And there are people living in the city (urban), broke as shit. Rural doesn't mean poor. But so many people in that Chat up there saying "Rural life is based! You got it all wrong!". Dude, a desert can be pretty awesome if you got money. I used to work for a lawn mowing crew out in the sticks. We were getting 5.25 an Hour (1994). We were working class, barely making it, broken down cars. The lawns we mowed, they had nice cars, stable lives, money. You know who mowed our lawns? We did, on our own... because we couldn't afford to pay some one to do it. That's the difference. We all lived out in the sticks, but some of us lived in a trailer, and others had a huge ass house paid for. There's a difference.
Okay, on those Hours. I think what you are looking up is 'expected work week'... which is different from 'hours worked'. In other words, in France a 'work week' is 24.7 Hours or what ever crap it said. In America it's 38.4 Hours. That's taking a lot of industries and things into consideration, because we have jobs that want Part-Time Employees to not pay out as many benefits, and then we have Salary Employees where the Company wants as many hours as possible since it doesn't cost additional money, despite us having in general a '40 Hour Work Week'. But we have people with 2 Jobs, and Over-Time Workers... which is where Hours Worked comes in. So in Slovakia, 40 Hours isn't a 'work week', it's 42 Hours. A 'work week' in America is 5 Days, generally the 'week' with assumed Week Ends off. But obviously, that's not everyone's schedule. If you're in Fast Food, you might ONLY work Weekends. A Work Day is 9am-5pm, but again a lot of jobs have different shifts. You might work 3rd Shift. So I think what they are saying is what a 'Work Week' is in those Nations, but not exactly what the average worker puts up for hours. Because it wasn't long ago I saw Japan #1 in Hours Worked, those dudes are either Salary and logging insane hours, or hourly and grabbing all the OT. They have a huge 'work hard culture', which is where the 'Lay Flat' Movement spun off from. US was like 2nd or 3rd at that time. As an example, in 2015 Mexico was #1 in the world at 2,246 Hours per Worker, which came out to 10 Hours a Day. By Law their LONGEST Work Week is 48 Hours... I think that means they CAN NOT WORK more than 48 Hours in any Week. This leads me to not be certain that Mexico has Over Time, or if everything after 48 Hours has to be 'agreed to be worked' by the Employee and THAT is what earns OT, everything AFTER 48? But we know we got people pulling 60+ Hours in America and Japan, and we don't have a Legal Maximum for Hours Worked (outside of certain very specific industries). www.worldatlas.com/articles/15-countries-working-the-most-hours.html But when it talks about South Korea, it says the Work Week there is a 40 Hour Mandate, but that's not the MAXIMUM, as they allow for 12 Hours of OT during the Week and 16 Hours of OT on the Week End... that's 68 AVAILABLE HOURS to be worked in South Korea. Again, in the US... if you want more than 68 Hours and the job allows it, you can get it... we don't have a National Mandate for Maximum Hours that can be worked (again, outside of certain specific industries... trucking, pilots, etc.). So it seems Mexico has 48 AVAILABLE hours, while South Korea has 68 Available Hours but a 'standard' 40. Also, these Laws are not always followed. For example, people in Mexico fear unemployment and bosses might require more than that 48 Hours. In Chile the Law is 45 Standard Hours and 2 Overtime Hours... 47 Available Hours... however there are Chileans working over 50 Hours, which isn't supposed to be a thing. So how much it's enforced is questioned.
25:00 Mexicans work a 48 hour week shift as a standard, and some still have 2 Jobs. 6 days of the week. Not counting overtime which in some cases doesnt get paid. We don't get vacations on our first year on a company, after that you get 6 days (that you can't split), after that you get 2 days up until your 5th year, after that it takes even more years to get 2 more days with a cap of 22 days in total I think. Although, man I don't think there's a country that works more than China.
Its more a thing of % in each class and issues that are harder to solve the less money you have. For example, if you are lazy and just dont clean up your home, thats a non issue if you are rich or even middle class, to pay someone else to do the cleaning for you. If you dont have money, thats all on you and nobody else will do it, so if you dont do it, you spiral into trash and that makes you prone to depression as you end up in a place where the "shit" piles up and the first step to just clean up becomes more and more a burden that prevents people from acting at all. Drugs are something you find in all classes, but being rich and a drug addict, you can get along with it, as you have the money to simply buy the drugs. If you dont have money, drug addiction forces you to steal or do other crimes to get your drugs, so that again spirals into problems. If you get sick, having money is critical to get healthy more quickly. So if you have any illness being poor, thats much more of a burden. You can be happy being poor, as you dont need money if you just do all you need yourself.
i hated uncut gems, but it seems like everyone who i talked to loved it. Didn't make it to the ending, maybe that's why? Or maybe it hit too close to home to be entertaining for me.
Because our culture doesn't know how to delay gratification and save for things, so we buy shit we don't need with money we don't have because paying $100 a month for something is "affordable"... Then reality hits when the car breaks down and you need to add another $800 of debt to that credit card because you haven't been saving money and can't afford to get to work to make money to pay your bills anymore. Then you're paying $200 a month on that credit card trying to catch up. Then the toilet starts leaking and you don't know how to fix it so you call a plumber and don't have money to pay that $500 bill, so boom... Back on the credit card, and the $400 of that $2000 balance you've paid off over the last couple months is now a $2100 balance. Debt sucks. Most people in this country would be OK if they stopped buying shit they don't need, and if they stopped using credit cards.
It's "Looks Rich". I mean, that's not the expression, but that's what it means. Like the drug dealer that runs the corner. He HAS to have a fly car. If he showed up in a busted ass Datson, no one would work for him. Why would they? So that one day, they too, could risk their live for a Datson? He's got to look the part, even though he's eating on Ramen, while he's trying to impress the people over him so he can move up into some actual money. So he's got the chains, the sneakers, the whip... but what he ain't got is money. Just the money he's holding from the sells that he's picked up from his pushers... of which most of that is going up the chain, not in his pocket. But while he's holding it, he can flash it to his crew and he sure does LOOK like he's got nice things and lots of money. And so then kids will work for him so they can one day run a corner, believing they'll have nice things and money... when really they'll just be living exactly like he is, trying to reach that next rung. That's Uncut Gems, except the dude sells Diamonds and Gems instead of Drugs. Everything he owns is on Credit, and he's maxed out. Now he MIGHT get rich if he'd stop losing on all his bets, but he's drowning in debt so he thinks he's got to hit a big bet just to be able to break even and catch back up. So dude LOOKS like he has money, and he sure has a lot of nice things... but he's one bad day away from having it all taken away.
Man I got no catharsis out of uncut gems. It just sorta went along how I expected, and ended how I figured it would end. Not badly made what so ever but for me it was a complete waste of time.
Not sure I agree with destiny about people being weirdly happy about .50 or dollar raises cuz it potentially doubles expandable income. Feels a little of a misrepresentation. Working at a grocery store we got 6 month raises and within 6 months we'd see gas prices go up by 20-30 cents a gallon, prices of groceries go up, 20 cent or 50 cent more per item quickly racks up your grocery bill by like 15-20 dollars more. So we start with a smidge and slowly inflation shrinks it and then our raises come to give us back the smidge we had before. That's the struggle the promise of moving up but the world is knocking you down at the same speed
In sociology we learned that the upper class is divided into people who are born into wealth which is the aristocracy, whereas the new class of rich people who came from the working class originally and still carry that culture with them (think of like Alan Sugar) are referred to as the super rich class. The distinction coming from the fact that you can be economically associated with a class but also culturally. So there are people who are socially working class but too rich to be considered it and are therefore middle-class or up despite not culturally behaving like someone middle or upper class
This is so true omg my parents been always spinning plates and now me and all my brothers are doing the same and is a lot harder to make it out of that situation when you don't have any stable foundation. All people I meet my age are able to study in good universities and have a place to go back to when something fails. I in the other hand had to leave my house at 16 and been working and paying since then without any hope of making it out. It kinda pisses me off when Hasan tries to call working class to basically everyone who works for a salary like people who work from home n shi
N word rich wasn’t you had money. I always thought it was someone who was poor but they had nice things. They didn’t have a lot of money but they somehow had Gucci belt and a decent car.
I remember my journey of “atheism” was just growing up to the age of 12 just believing that god is real and is simply just “a thing” the same way I knew the president and the government existed without ever actually seeing them, but then I found a TH-cam video of an atheist talking about atheism and I kinda just started thinking “wow, why are most people so stupid, obviously god isn’t real” and after years of that thought process, I ended up slowly moving to the right wing away from the leftwing and then started believing in god, NOW HOLD ON, story doesn’t end there, in 2018 I found destiny’s TH-cam channel and after 2 years of watching destiny AND VAUSH, I slowly moved BACK to the leftwing and also became agnostic, also I debated destiny for 10 minutes back in late 2020, right around the time I officially “switched” to being a democrat voting liberal, you can hear the cognitive dissonance in my voice during that debate. I still cringe at how stupid I used to be lmfao.
Do you not have MOT tests in America? There's no way you'd get away with an engine light in the U.K. once that MOT comes up you better get that shit fixed.
@@Sprite_525 I despise Hasan, but wasn't Destiny literally providing him a place to sleep at some point? Not sure if his bank account was empty at the time, but definitely sounds like he was homeless for that period.
The way I see it all working class people are poor but not every poor person is working class. Think about immigrants who are working class who in one generation are able to be middle class or higher. I think working class you can get out of poverty but for poor people you almost never get out of poverty. Agree? Disagree?
Depending on why they are poor. If you're mind or body aren't healthy then no amount of money will help without medical support. If you are just broke then a few years grinding and possibly moving with the basic if that will get you out.
I don't agree with your assessment of the working poor. Sure, there are some rough areas where some people are less clean or drug addicted or whatever, but a ton of working poor are clean, non-addicts who are trying their best to make a good life. I don't think it's good to stereotype all poor people the way you are; it's quite offensive.
Working for low wages for a few years, live in a shitty rundown house with my parents. We are too poor to fix our plumbing system, none of our water drains anywhere, not in the sink shower or toilet. Literally nothing we can do at this point. going to kill myself
They're psychotic. I grew up in a pretty fucked situation with no money but I'd still say we were effectively middle class, strictly because I knew so many others who were waaaaay worse off. Idk how these streamers get it so wrong and have no clue what problems actually exist
Really hit the nail on the examples of what being poor and living in a poor area is like. Parents on drugs, messy houses, 13 year olds dating high school graduates, and teens doing hardcore drugs young. All of this is extremely accurate at least from my own experience with drug addicted parents and the experience of every other poor person I’ve interacted with.
Grew up and still live in a poor area. I can confirm, and it just gets sadder when you become an adult.
He was viscerally correct. I grew up middle class and thought poor just meant you had less stuff. Because I was comparing myself to rich ppl in other two parent households that also had stability but SUVs and big TVs.
It wasn’t until I got poor friends that I realized the living hell
That they had to deal with. Really changed my perspective.
Yep exactly
The key to losing my virginity was right in front of me all along...
I always describe the line between poverty and middle class as an elastic band. You start to break into the middle class and then your car breaks, cant work during that time, spouse gets fired, and BAM right back into poverty
Destiny is spot on with the spinning plates analogy. Everyone essentially is getting through and coping until they do when you're working class.
I remember making very little money...and then getting boosted up 1 dollar made me so happy...it meant about an additional ($70ish) dollars to my check. I also remember having to sell a lot of my electronics (rip Yoshi 3DS and record collection) when I was really struggling. I am soooooooooo happy to be a bit more stable now. The amount of mental anguish that comes from car repairs, paying rent and utilities, and being unable to live life and watching everyone seem so happy is absolute dogshit mental torment. lol. It's hard.
"As soon as I got 10k in the bank, I just stopped caring about anything."
Yep. Same for me. That's the point where I basically stopped worrying about money.
Likewise, once I had 10k, it was so fun to throw money in there, EFT's, etc
Really? Just 10k? I doubt that’s enough to thrive in America
@@SDY274 Not thriving. But if you have a decent income as well, comfortable. The most expensive things are medical bills, and most out-of-pocket deductibles cap off well below 10k.
@@SDY274 If you live like a poor person and have cheap hobbies (like gaming) 10k is enough to not worry about anything if it's just you. You're not going to be doing much, but you're definitely not worrying about food or gas bills.
This is the goal boys.
Hood rich would prolly be a good substitute
He gets suggested that at 5:24
ASAP Rocky on Fuckin Problems:
“They say the money make a nigga act niggerish
But at least a nigga nigga rich”
This is where I knew the term from
no, n word rich is pretty based
but where you say n word, not the actual n word
This is a literal term that chatter is tapped in on bro
That’s what we call it in the hood lol it’s not a new term it’s in our music and allat
Awwww bro, the overdraft shit was crazy back in the mid 2000's. I remember my Bank of America always withholding a few debit card swipes. I'd check my balance online and buy a couple coffees or something and then suddenly a few $5 or $6 purchases from 5 days earlier would post to my account and it would hit me for like 3 overdrafts.
I ended up closing my account there because I was convinced they had a system setup to fuck over people who spent their whole paycheck. Sure enough, they got sued in a class action filing and found guilty of doing exactly that. Some whistle-blower even explained how it all worked but they intentionally hid pending transactions until you made another swipe that would cause an overdraft.
Yee oughta learn some Good’ol fashion financial responsibility instead of trying to blame all yur problems on the hardworking business men at Bank of America, typical youngster trying to get hard working americans to pay for his stuff and having no fear of GOD! Well let me tell you hwat youngster, if you don’t want yer bank giving you over draft fees, than maybe you oughta just make sure you got enough money in yer account to avoid over drafts instead of blaming all your problems on other people and trying to get them to pay for yur own mistakes, maybe pull yourself up by a bootstrap or two, learn a little gumption and get a new job if you ain’t gettin paid enough at that one. Just walk into the business and you tell em this “now here’s the deal, yur gonna hire me starting at 25$ an hour, and if you don’t than I’m going to the business right across the street there, and let me tell you, you’ll be outta business faster than the June bugs hop over the moose tree in July if I start working for ye competition now ya hear.” Do that and you’ll be making as much as I was back in the 60s, youngins nowadays move slower than a hot steamy bowl of molasses in the middle of July when it comes to pulling your pants up and taking some Good’ol fashion personal responsibility tell ya hwat.
Was that Bank of America? They had crazy ass overdraft fees. I dropped them after a few months.
@@lilgoop ya it was
Literally EVERY banking institution, phone company, etc. A phone company employee and I spoke over the phone for an Hour about how his employer and every phone company Phuck poor people.
Wells fargo does that shit
Destiny the point you were making was actually pretty accurate. Longest work week, the US is pretty low at 19, however according to a study by Maxis Global, The US is second in the world working hours above contract, ie overtime.
Man when destiny talked about the check engine light, pot holes and checking bank account, that hit home Lmao.
yup i waS able to pay my registration but my evap code went up i changed all my parts for it but the code keeps coming back i cant afford to take it to the shop for diagnostic. been driving it with no plates sin January... so now im scared that im gonna get pulled over and get it impounded but i need to drive it for work...
@@2xXhunterXx you can pick up an OBD II reader fairly cheap and run the diagnostic yourself.
@@NINEx7x i already changed the parts for the codes and erased the codes, But they keep coming back with the same codes.
@@2xXhunterXx damn.
I know a girl who did everything right, but there was an error with her direct deposit pay check, and so it came a day or two later. However, because of that fuck up on her job’s end, she got like 600-700 in over draft fees. It took her forever to get out of that hole.
But we live in a free country though!
Did you know that in the matrix, when Morpheus and Neo were going to see the oracle, Morpheus give a head nod to the blind man sitting in the chairs, and The blind man nodded back.
As a european I can't even imagine having 0 paid vacation days
Imagine not being able to go on paid vacation for a month and a half each summer to just enjoy life
Not only do I not have to imagine, I don't care either. Where the hell would I go to "relax" and "enjoy my time" if I got shit to do.
@@onionfarmer3044 that's the point of vacation, you can use it however you want, traveling is fine, installing a new toilet is fine.
That's the thing, you can do whatever you feel you want/have to do, while still being paid.
A paid month and a half off every year?? God I wish that were me. The only time I've been able to take off more than a day at a time has been for medical reasons so I couldn't even enjoy it
@@cheapypeepy9150 Look for government jobs like usps(make sure you get Custodian) and you're pretty much living life good.
@@onionfarmer3044 then dont take it lmfao. it's not like vacation days are mandatory
He is 100% right about middle class. If you look the numbers on incomes, a massive part of the population is in lower middle class which results in the lifestyle that is what Destiny described. I lived in a rural area of PA and it was a mix of what Destiny described all patched together across the surrounding 10+ counties. Most of the population would call themselves middle class even though within that category you have ppl that are certainly poor and drowning.
15:22 Seeing that 5th digit in your account for the first time is a magical moment
I may not agree with all of his takes, but Destiny describes poverty with more honesty than pretty much any politician or powerful person I've ever heard in my life.
Situational poverty.
Generational poverty.
Absolute poverty.
Relative poverty.
Urban poverty.
Rural poverty.
Poor live in worst areas. Poor drive old cars. Poor eat cheap food. Poor wear budget clothing. Poor go without basic luxuries. Poor struggle to pay for big ticket items that break. The list goes on. What people don't realize is that the goal post keep shifting with things like rising rents, rising food cost, rising fuel, rising price on second hand cars, rising prices on clothing, rising prices on electricity/utility, rising home ownership tax/rates, rising cost on insurance, rising cost on entertainment.
I think perspectives of lower/middle class is different for individuals depending on how they grew up. I thought my family was pretty well off because we always had food, both parents worked and we had spending money, but we lived in a single bedroom apartment as a family of 4 and my parents slept on the floor.
Wasn’t till later when we moved to the burbs, that I realized we were lower middle class, and other kids thought I was poor because I didn’t have the newest Xbox or iPod or w/e.
To middle class people, they think being poor is living in apartments and working manual labor. Being poor to me is how dest describes it, drug addicted single parents constantly on the verge of being homeless, kids are getting into bad stuff because the parents are always working and can’t afford to parent their kids, dirty and dangerous hoods, living on section 8, welfare, food stamps and WIC, pass me down clothing, having to work at temp places because nobody would hire you over your criminal record, donating plasma for extra money etc etc etc.
I feel ya. I knew fellas that would bitch and moan about how poor they were, making 1500 a week, sleeping in a house with central AC, eating fucking lasagna for dinner.
Right now I make a quarter of the poverty line where I live (share house). After rent/utilities I have change left for food (thank god for food banks), and I'm one of the lucky ones. I know people on a 2 figure income, and homeless people. If doctors and lawyers are working class, we're dead out here. 12% unemployment rate, no joke.
@@theseesh9163 British?
I had this same realization as well. My brother recently graduated and is making gooooood money, and I will be graduating soon too.
My mom raised us as a single parent, while maybe less than 20k after getting laid off and losing her pension for a job she had worked 20 years for, and worked during the day. We also had to hop houses a few times because we couldn't afford our areas after a few years. (We lived in various areas throughout Detroit.) I remember we also stopped buying certain foods and would often be going to food banks for groceries. However, I never really FELT poor. I was always fed, our bills were being met, I was clothed, and I had a game console to entertain myself (no cable or internet).
It's only really reflecting on it that I realize my mom was basically on 1 HP trying to raise us to the point where we could succeed through life.
@@kimilsungthefirst6840 apologies that it upsets you so much that not everyone has Mommy and Daddy's money to live comforble and cushy.
These problems do exist outside of the youtube comments.
@@kimilsungthefirst6840 its not bragging to see who's poorer if they're all considering themselves middle lower class. You're just too much of a fool to realize this is the common experience for a lot of those in poverty and they're sharing similar experiences.
Holy shit dude Destiny talking about the overdrafting your account as a line of credit. I can't even tell you how much I paid in overdraft fees a few years ago.
I crave this content, the non political/drama focused material. Seems somewhat rare on the official channel.
I fucking hate how aptly Destiny described my life in his interpretation of working class. I've always been in a traditionally poor, working class caste. There are points where I'm doing really well but in my position all it takes is a car breaking down or breaking my glasses with no insurance to completely fuck my life up.
Same
Spent the first half of this video screaming based. As I’ve slowly come up from poverty I find people just lack understanding of what the bottom really is. I’ve meet people lose their mind over not having things go their way, while as early as 12 I understood I’m probably going to be funny, and there is a good chance lights will shut off in the AM. Rural Poor versus urban poor is always starkly different.
Do you scream at the TV often?
The check engine light and checking bank account anxiety. So true.
When I think back to being poor I remember people always screaming at each other, everything being gross and/or broken, and just this feeling that you only have a few weeks before your account is in the red again
Recently, for the first time in my life, I absorbed a cost of over $1,000. At first I was a little upset by it, but eventually I came around and felt appreciative that I could take an unexpected hit like that and remain afloat
Shaq is the definition of wealthy... listen to his philosophy about building and maintaining wealth.
i think its in the nineties this joke was made (atleast destiny said so)
so back than he was probably just a good athlete, not a commentator with his own investments.
atleast thats what i assume, i dont know anything about sportsball and i dont even know if i am thinking of the right person
I would never use the terms middle class and 32k in the same sentence
This, 32k is just rich.
That good times assessment is exactly what I thought while watching.
My time working as a cable guy and furniture delivery guy in Louisiana gave me a look into that “fucked” world
And it’s not just the environment, it’s the attitudes of the people. Hence why uncut gems feels the same
I guess I am working class. Not because my family doesn't have money or that I don't have stability, but definitely because I feel like it's been a decade and I still haven't made progress. I don't want to blame anyone else for my own inability or incompetence in the choices I've made in life, but I've done atleast the bare minimum to not screw it up. IE No addictions, graduated Highschool and made 42 credits in college (time and financially cannot continue it), Work inconsistently throughout the last decade and helped my families hobby farm.
It's not that I fucked up, but that nothing ever stuck or my lack of self motivation has killed my drive to achieve what I should have done years ago. I almost feel like there are market forces bent in a direction against me to keep me as a working peon instead of actually being competitive in the job market.
The McGangbang guy, truly a man of culture, a real king.
For the spinning plates analogy. I think what happens is too many people lack the self control and/or perspective in their own life and take on too many plates at once. A lot of this comes from pressure to keep up with the joneses or portray a certain level of status in the pursuit of "happiness". People think "I need more plates to be happy". What people should do is focus on one plate, and spin it PERFECTLY. Then when they know theyre confident they can take on another plate, only then should they do so. For example if you are lower class or a graduate student, its probably a bad idea to lease a new car, rack up a bunch of credit card debt, get a new puppy or pay for an expensive apartment you can barely afford because its what everyone else does.
Without those things you have complete freedom, because your ratio of expense to income is sound. So you can spend way more time, COMFORTABLY building your skillset, networking and hunting for the perfect job where you feel fulfilled and get paid more. All the while spending time comfortably with family and friends. Then when you've moved up in the world, is it time for the puppy, the nice apartment, the new car lease etc.
But so many people are having kids super young, spending all of their time and energy between the kid and their job that probably doest pay them enough and takes up all of their time resulting in becoming stuck.
uncut gems sometimes makes you forget its acting, i think thats the main draw. if you cant appreciate the craft the story wont really do anything for you.
Alright you sold me. I’m checking that movie out later on tonight
This was a really good talk by him, and shows the lives people who are actually poor.
In the UK the worse kind of poverty is often referred to by mentioning council estates (publicly run cheap housing, often paid for by benefits/welfare) in some fashion. It's difficult to imagine knowing nothing about this coming from the UK. Due to how most neighbourhoods are built here you'd be very cosy indeed if you didn't even know this kind of distinction at least exists.
Lived my whole life in that space below middle class. Lowest middle class before you get absolute poverty. Hes right, the frame of mind of the people there is the lowest you can get. Its more of a mentality thing. Most people have zero clue
Fuck rural living. I’ve lived in rural Alabama for 23 years, its not fucking fun. There is literally nothing to do and nobody to see. There are so many things to do in 2022 and you get the 2005 experience in rural places. 3mb/s max download speed too
Sounds like prime investment opportunities. Open a bar and gaming shop and you got business. Maybe a gun shop and weed joint and boom. Invest in greenhouses, start building some more homes, you got small city in 70 years.
It is hell, nothing to do but drugs and video games, no career opportunity or ability to meet up with those who work in a field you want to get into. Finally moving to a city and I've got a decent outlook on life because of it.
@@onionfarmer3044 Yeah just open those shops willy nilly. Ok bud.
@@DontDrinkthatstuff your right. Let's just send them more drugs. My mistake, they are mostly white people.
Which part?
Barely scraping by and living poor you just get numb to chaotic fucked up shit. Does make you resilient though.
I was having flashbacks for stuff like taping over the check engine light and just driving until the car took a shit. Police auctions were my go to. You could get a beater than ran for a year or two for between $800-$1000. My family was homeless for awhile and we were buying these massive bags of Costco rice for like a few bucks a pop that would last all week and smuggling water from bathroom sinks in stores until we would get kicked out. Good times
“N word rich” WHOOOOAAAA DESTINY CHILLLL
Twitch ban bringing out Nebraska Steve
My first couple jobs were all contracting jobs, you can take time off but you get zero pay and a percent of your paycheck would go towards insurance if your under 25.
Uncut gems was legit super strange like it was just things happening and i was constantly expecting an adam sandler punchline.
Also nofucking way you can beat the calories for dollars of frozen vege’s nd rice.
@@mickeyboy90 dry lentils + dry rice + dollar store cooking oil & cheese. The true poverty survival meal.
Anything between $10-$15hr you HAVE to work more than 40hrs a week just to not live in a trailer and need food stamps.
I find that in parts of Texas, this isn't necessarily true. You can make it work...with roommates lol.
I think Destiny's "Middle Class" category is too vague to be useful.
Like, it's just below capital B Billionaire down to slightly above drug addict which might get evicted any day now.
What he descibes here is basically "financially stable, but not Amazon owner yet", of what use is that category? :D
That you’re all the fucking same. It’s not vague whatsoever; you just gave the perimeters. I can tell you only commented this because you’re middle class and feel an incessant need to be oppressed.
Having mentally ill/undiagnosed parents, having health problems, living in an extremely unstable neighborhood or house. Literally life on impossible mode
Describes my life perfectly in the first 5 minutes.
I grew up extremely poor for America. Being homeless at times. Brothers on meth. Not much food. 8 people in a two bedroom single wide in a dirt small town with no jobs or opportunities. Dropped out of high school at 15. I am middle class now. I make $80k a year. My first real shot of getting out of poverty was selling cars. They hired anyone. 100% commission. No base salary. I went from being homeless and working dead end labor jobs to making $30k a year. I worked 7 days a week for three years. I saved up. I got an online degree from Canada that I paid with cash. Cheaper than USA schools. It took me 10 years to where I am making $80k a year. I'm still on survival mode though. I still feel I'm on the verge of being homeless. I have about 50k in savings. I don't invest it. I don't do anything. I just keep it in case something bad happens. I don't know how to shut off the survival mode. I felt this fight or flight everyday since I was about 10. When I was 10 we went from being poor to really poor.
How did people confuse "Working Class" and "Poor" with Rural?
Yo, there are some people that live in the sticks, own the land, the house on it, all the vehicles. They're set. And there are people living in the city (urban), broke as shit.
Rural doesn't mean poor. But so many people in that Chat up there saying "Rural life is based! You got it all wrong!". Dude, a desert can be pretty awesome if you got money.
I used to work for a lawn mowing crew out in the sticks. We were getting 5.25 an Hour (1994). We were working class, barely making it, broken down cars. The lawns we mowed, they had nice cars, stable lives, money. You know who mowed our lawns? We did, on our own... because we couldn't afford to pay some one to do it. That's the difference. We all lived out in the sticks, but some of us lived in a trailer, and others had a huge ass house paid for. There's a difference.
the bit about america and japan work hours was an article about overtime, i believe.
steve was "poor" for like... a couple years and he acts like he has this deep understanding of being destitute lmao
True, but he has a better understanding than his peers.
Thanks for acknowledging the struggle.
The US is 10th in annual work hours in the world. One the most overworked populations.
Okay, on those Hours.
I think what you are looking up is 'expected work week'... which is different from 'hours worked'. In other words, in France a 'work week' is 24.7 Hours or what ever crap it said. In America it's 38.4 Hours. That's taking a lot of industries and things into consideration, because we have jobs that want Part-Time Employees to not pay out as many benefits, and then we have Salary Employees where the Company wants as many hours as possible since it doesn't cost additional money, despite us having in general a '40 Hour Work Week'. But we have people with 2 Jobs, and Over-Time Workers... which is where Hours Worked comes in.
So in Slovakia, 40 Hours isn't a 'work week', it's 42 Hours. A 'work week' in America is 5 Days, generally the 'week' with assumed Week Ends off. But obviously, that's not everyone's schedule. If you're in Fast Food, you might ONLY work Weekends. A Work Day is 9am-5pm, but again a lot of jobs have different shifts. You might work 3rd Shift.
So I think what they are saying is what a 'Work Week' is in those Nations, but not exactly what the average worker puts up for hours.
Because it wasn't long ago I saw Japan #1 in Hours Worked, those dudes are either Salary and logging insane hours, or hourly and grabbing all the OT. They have a huge 'work hard culture', which is where the 'Lay Flat' Movement spun off from. US was like 2nd or 3rd at that time.
As an example, in 2015 Mexico was #1 in the world at 2,246 Hours per Worker, which came out to 10 Hours a Day. By Law their LONGEST Work Week is 48 Hours... I think that means they CAN NOT WORK more than 48 Hours in any Week. This leads me to not be certain that Mexico has Over Time, or if everything after 48 Hours has to be 'agreed to be worked' by the Employee and THAT is what earns OT, everything AFTER 48? But we know we got people pulling 60+ Hours in America and Japan, and we don't have a Legal Maximum for Hours Worked (outside of certain very specific industries). www.worldatlas.com/articles/15-countries-working-the-most-hours.html
But when it talks about South Korea, it says the Work Week there is a 40 Hour Mandate, but that's not the MAXIMUM, as they allow for 12 Hours of OT during the Week and 16 Hours of OT on the Week End... that's 68 AVAILABLE HOURS to be worked in South Korea. Again, in the US... if you want more than 68 Hours and the job allows it, you can get it... we don't have a National Mandate for Maximum Hours that can be worked (again, outside of certain specific industries... trucking, pilots, etc.).
So it seems Mexico has 48 AVAILABLE hours, while South Korea has 68 Available Hours but a 'standard' 40.
Also, these Laws are not always followed. For example, people in Mexico fear unemployment and bosses might require more than that 48 Hours. In Chile the Law is 45 Standard Hours and 2 Overtime Hours... 47 Available Hours... however there are Chileans working over 50 Hours, which isn't supposed to be a thing. So how much it's enforced is questioned.
How much time did you waste typing this boring trash out
So, is that where the line is between middle class and poor "is your check engine light on"?
It’s so cringe hearing the guy who went to private school talk about how poor he was growing up.
25:00 Mexicans work a 48 hour week shift as a standard, and some still have 2 Jobs. 6 days of the week. Not counting overtime which in some cases doesnt get paid.
We don't get vacations on our first year on a company, after that you get 6 days (that you can't split), after that you get 2 days up until your 5th year, after that it takes even more years to get 2 more days with a cap of 22 days in total I think.
Although, man I don't think there's a country that works more than China.
Everytime I hear the name uncut gems i think of the meme of the cali girl saying unkajams
“This is my favorite thing about Good Times and UHKUWH JAWMSSSS”
Its more a thing of % in each class and issues that are harder to solve the less money you have.
For example, if you are lazy and just dont clean up your home, thats a non issue if you are rich or even middle class, to pay someone else to do the cleaning for you.
If you dont have money, thats all on you and nobody else will do it, so if you dont do it, you spiral into trash and that makes you prone to depression as you end up in a place where the "shit" piles up and the first step to just clean up becomes more and more a burden that prevents people from acting at all.
Drugs are something you find in all classes, but being rich and a drug addict, you can get along with it, as you have the money to simply buy the drugs. If you dont have money, drug addiction forces you to steal or do other crimes to get your drugs, so that again spirals into problems.
If you get sick, having money is critical to get healthy more quickly. So if you have any illness being poor, thats much more of a burden.
You can be happy being poor, as you dont need money if you just do all you need yourself.
I'm very rich and even I can't afford someone to clean my house lol
shameless is probably a good depiction too id imagine of working class life, probably a little dramatised obviously
Uncut Gems is incredible
Synechodche New York is also great
48hrs is normal in México. I know ppl in the US that work 36hrs and are poor.
Had no idea destiny was upper middle class
i hated uncut gems, but it seems like everyone who i talked to loved it. Didn't make it to the ending, maybe that's why?
Or maybe it hit too close to home to be entertaining for me.
This mans diet was the EXACT same as mine from college. I just went to to Wendy's instead because McDonalds is nasty
I'm glad that in Poland literally nobody uses credit cards, i never understood why Americans use them
Because our culture doesn't know how to delay gratification and save for things, so we buy shit we don't need with money we don't have because paying $100 a month for something is "affordable"...
Then reality hits when the car breaks down and you need to add another $800 of debt to that credit card because you haven't been saving money and can't afford to get to work to make money to pay your bills anymore. Then you're paying $200 a month on that credit card trying to catch up.
Then the toilet starts leaking and you don't know how to fix it so you call a plumber and don't have money to pay that $500 bill, so boom... Back on the credit card, and the $400 of that $2000 balance you've paid off over the last couple months is now a $2100 balance.
Debt sucks. Most people in this country would be OK if they stopped buying shit they don't need, and if they stopped using credit cards.
Little ceasers kept me alive for a while :(
New money Destiny, like the Great Gatsby
Professional sports, popular music artists, actors that only have like one breakout role
It's "Looks Rich". I mean, that's not the expression, but that's what it means.
Like the drug dealer that runs the corner. He HAS to have a fly car. If he showed up in a busted ass Datson, no one would work for him. Why would they? So that one day, they too, could risk their live for a Datson?
He's got to look the part, even though he's eating on Ramen, while he's trying to impress the people over him so he can move up into some actual money. So he's got the chains, the sneakers, the whip... but what he ain't got is money. Just the money he's holding from the sells that he's picked up from his pushers... of which most of that is going up the chain, not in his pocket. But while he's holding it, he can flash it to his crew and he sure does LOOK like he's got nice things and lots of money.
And so then kids will work for him so they can one day run a corner, believing they'll have nice things and money... when really they'll just be living exactly like he is, trying to reach that next rung.
That's Uncut Gems, except the dude sells Diamonds and Gems instead of Drugs. Everything he owns is on Credit, and he's maxed out. Now he MIGHT get rich if he'd stop losing on all his bets, but he's drowning in debt so he thinks he's got to hit a big bet just to be able to break even and catch back up. So dude LOOKS like he has money, and he sure has a lot of nice things... but he's one bad day away from having it all taken away.
Man I got no catharsis out of uncut gems. It just sorta went along how I expected, and ended how I figured it would end. Not badly made what so ever but for me it was a complete waste of time.
Not sure I agree with destiny about people being weirdly happy about .50 or dollar raises cuz it potentially doubles expandable income. Feels a little of a misrepresentation. Working at a grocery store we got 6 month raises and within 6 months we'd see gas prices go up by 20-30 cents a gallon, prices of groceries go up, 20 cent or 50 cent more per item quickly racks up your grocery bill by like 15-20 dollars more. So we start with a smidge and slowly inflation shrinks it and then our raises come to give us back the smidge we had before. That's the struggle the promise of moving up but the world is knocking you down at the same speed
You don’t have to choose the over draft protection
In sociology we learned that the upper class is divided into people who are born into wealth which is the aristocracy, whereas the new class of rich people who came from the working class originally and still carry that culture with them (think of like Alan Sugar) are referred to as the super rich class. The distinction coming from the fact that you can be economically associated with a class but also culturally. So there are people who are socially working class but too rich to be considered it and are therefore middle-class or up despite not culturally behaving like someone middle or upper class
i only use credit cards, i cut up my debit card when they send them to me. I have perfect credit and never get overdraft fees.
we are all so proud of you
@@kailoucleary6025 thanks babe
This is so true omg my parents been always spinning plates and now me and all my brothers are doing the same and is a lot harder to make it out of that situation when you don't have any stable foundation. All people I meet my age are able to study in good universities and have a place to go back to when something fails. I in the other hand had to leave my house at 16 and been working and paying since then without any hope of making it out. It kinda pisses me off when Hasan tries to call working class to basically everyone who works for a salary like people who work from home n shi
I've been to a lot of rural areas in east Tennessee and I wouldn't describe them all as based haha
Hood rich? Im tryna be socialist streamer rich babyyyy. I should make a socialist crypto currency. Co-op coin haha
Griftcoin lmao
Uncut gems are about gambling addict not poor.
I don't think not even Destiny can keep up with what he's saying.
Come down to Mississippi, no hope here
Officially middle class at $21k/year in canada lets go! Based 😎
That overdraft shit is insane. That never happens in Europe.
Good stuff.
Double cheeseburgers? Laughs in beans and rice
Oh god… I remember the McGangbang
Hey. Making fun of my messy counter tops?! Now I don't even know how fucked my life really is
Wait that’s not normal for everybody?
N word rich wasn’t you had money. I always thought it was someone who was poor but they had nice things. They didn’t have a lot of money but they somehow had Gucci belt and a decent car.
Totally agree with Overdraft fee's. YOU CAN TURN IT OFF. Call your bank and tell them to turn it off. The scumbags turn it on by default.
I called them a couple of years ago to turn that shit off. They just started doing it again recently though.
isnt nword rich a scene from boiler room
I remember my journey of “atheism” was just growing up to the age of 12 just believing that god is real and is simply just “a thing” the same way I knew the president and the government existed without ever actually seeing them, but then I found a TH-cam video of an atheist talking about atheism and I kinda just started thinking “wow, why are most people so stupid, obviously god isn’t real” and after years of that thought process, I ended up slowly moving to the right wing away from the leftwing and then started believing in god, NOW HOLD ON, story doesn’t end there, in 2018 I found destiny’s TH-cam channel and after 2 years of watching destiny AND VAUSH, I slowly moved BACK to the leftwing and also became agnostic, also I debated destiny for 10 minutes back in late 2020, right around the time I officially “switched” to being a democrat voting liberal, you can hear the cognitive dissonance in my voice during that debate. I still cringe at how stupid I used to be lmfao.
Do you not have MOT tests in America? There's no way you'd get away with an engine light in the U.K. once that MOT comes up you better get that shit fixed.
Hearing destiny talk about vaush and hassan not understanding being poor is hilarious.
Destiny was poor and now is not. Vaush and Hasan never were but talk on their behalf all the time.
@@Sprite_525 I despise Hasan, but wasn't Destiny literally providing him a place to sleep at some point?
Not sure if his bank account was empty at the time, but definitely sounds like he was homeless for that period.
@@TheLumberjack1987 you can only be so bad off when you've got a place to fall back on, worst case scenario in hasans life he moves in with his uncle.
@@WhayYay fair enough, that's true
Vaush and Hasan have never been poor.
The way I see it all working class people are poor but not every poor person is working class. Think about immigrants who are working class who in one generation are able to be middle class or higher. I think working class you can get out of poverty but for poor people you almost never get out of poverty. Agree? Disagree?
Huh? A working class person could be like an electrician married to a schoolteacher, I wouldn’t consider them poor
Depending on why they are poor. If you're mind or body aren't healthy then no amount of money will help without medical support. If you are just broke then a few years grinding and possibly moving with the basic if that will get you out.
I think the ponsy way to say n word rich is nouveau riche
Destiny is describing Mansfield, Ohio lmfao
Sustiny
I don't agree with your assessment of the working poor. Sure, there are some rough areas where some people are less clean or drug addicted or whatever, but a ton of working poor are clean, non-addicts who are trying their best to make a good life. I don't think it's good to stereotype all poor people the way you are; it's quite offensive.
What do you think of good time?
Destiny: does vaush and hasan even know what its like to be working class?
Working for low wages for a few years, live in a shitty rundown house with my parents. We are too poor to fix our plumbing system, none of our water drains anywhere, not in the sink shower or toilet. Literally nothing we can do at this point. going to kill myself
godstiny
*translate to English*
They're psychotic. I grew up in a pretty fucked situation with no money but I'd still say we were effectively middle class, strictly because I knew so many others who were waaaaay worse off. Idk how these streamers get it so wrong and have no clue what problems actually exist