@@lobstercrostiniI'd say that if they could figure out how many Dropout subscriptions he encouraged people to get, it would at least show the ROI of him being him.
Dawg, getting the “poor” status condition sucks. It’s so easy to get and extremely hard to get rid of. Makes the game extremely hard. Like if you don’t have the “trust fund” trait at the beginning of the game you’re kinda screwed
@@thatoneguy2136 Objectively, unless you're a multimillionaire, you'd have the "poor" status effect, it's just an entirely different world, not even comparable. Some people earn more than 10, 100, even 1000 times your own salary, and that's excluding what they inherited which was also unfairly earned or stolen.
@@stonemedia8901 Yes. And your likelihood to do so is miniscule unless you already have connections or a considerable headstart in the form of wealthy parents or a childhood in a first world country where education is within your means. This is similar to saying "you can win the lottery". Yeah. Theoretically everyone has a chance to win, but in reality you might as well stop holding your breath. Statistically you ain't gonna make it.
@@stonemedia8901you can by making sure you cause others to lose. Awesome system where you charge more than it's worth, and/or you pay employees less than they're worth so you make money and you continue until you make enough money off of the people who lived around your business. Yes that's called profit and businesses need it, so who gets the short end?
@@AndragonLea But a chance is a chance so we dare not change _anything_ about how all of this works because what if the chance goes *down?!* 😱 Then all of those decisions I made to make the world worse for myself and people like me now in exchange for my possible future victorious self winning even more will have all been terribly foolish mistakes! 😳
@@seanl7872Definitely. When they had the three impression artists on in the first season the prompts were pretty much entirely characters they do on TikTok and IG
Yeah all the people on the show are retarded woke millenial marxists but brennan is probably the worst offender outside of one of the women. At least he can be funny
@@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3It's more damning that they'd have the same criticisms, but sure ignore that so you can attach tribalism into political theory 😂
I think the best part is even the losers are better off then have been in any other system throughout all of history, in fact, they are so well off at the bottom, they are trying to get noticed, for who they like to have sex with because there are currently not enough problems that are real to talk about, amazing right?!
@@devinvenne Yeah, and it'd be great if we had a government-funded research team that provides average wages for different jobs and which degrees could help you get those jobs. We could call it the Department of Labor.
@@devinvennethats due to the mechanics of capitalism. they aint doing anything wrong they just playing the game how its ment to be played. a helpful tip is when the game gives you lemons you take those lemons and squirt them in another players eyes and take their lemons
Oh no thats one of the better conditions the worst debuff is "debt and homeless" The homeless condition creates further difficulties to get the "work expansion" as the work expansion comes with spending your time doing labor getting paid less or maybe a bit more than what it costs to generally live. Now you do have the pitential option to 'take out a loan' but if you don't pay it back in a timely manner or only pay the 'minimum' the added loan condition can send you back into debt. Isn't capitalism fun😊
I dont think its a debuff, more like youre out of currency. In games if you dont have gold you dont say "no gold debuff" There could be "debuffs" applied if you have an empty bank account though, usually applied by the bank
We all played a version of Monopoly in my Economy class where, going by turn order, Player 1 gets the most starting money, charges double rent, doesn’t pay Taxes, etc, then down the line the players get worse and worse until the last player gets only $500 to start, charges half rent, all that fun stuff. The benefits might not be as harsh as I remember, but I did win as a second-to-last player
Yeah once you wash a few episodes you definitely can tell that they specifically choose certain prompts for certain people, Ross, the tall guy is really skilled at music improv if he tends to get a lot of music prompt
A lot of the prompts are tailored to the player for sure, same episode they give one of the other guys a southern aristocrat lawyer, an accent that he excels at.
It also implies that you generally would start off rich and wealthy, which can also imply “Capitalism” is a game from a left-wing person popularizing why capitalism is inherently bad.
The creator of "the landlords game" had their idea stolen by a capitalist, and neolibs with trash taste bought that like hotcakes cuz the box was pretty and they played 4 times and then left it on the shelf for 30 years.
I love how at least once per game they tailor at least one prompt for each player and I love that Brennan’s is always something that he can either rant or just dunk on.
Kind of, it is about the perspective you take though. If you're looking at everyone better off than you, you're going to be pretty miserable no matter how well you do. Also, it would be nice to not have to struggle, but when in human history did people not have to struggle to survive and thrive?
Just came back from visiting family I haven't seen in 5 years, in which this lovely snippet of conversation happened over dinner: "Do you believe in capitalism?" I mean... Yes, it exists...? "Well, no, I mean... Are you an advocate for capitalism?" I don't think capitalism needs an advocate. 😂
I started with the condition and now I don't. Amazing. All it takes is playing the game and learning about it rather then complaining about the rules and not playing.
@@RundveltYou're right. I know plenty of people who have made it alright, including myself. Quite a few sore losers here who complain about not having work, pay, money, etc. when they're not actively seeking a job and hate the one they have.
@@johnjohnfofohniam It's the people who don't want to work, who don't have any ambition thinking that everyone is like them and it's just given. It's absurd and childish. Pure entitlement.
In my sociology class one day, our teacher had us split into groups and play monopoly, but everybody got different amounts of money at the beginning to show how the lot your born into unfortunately has an impact on your life, no matter how hard you try
For a time, I worked for an organization that produced such a board game. It was supposed to simulate both the economic and political systems of a parliamentary democracy; it was called Poleconomy. The rules were super-complicated.
That scene of Papyrus almost falling down and being saved continues to make me SO EMOTIONAL, I always wonder if Sans ever found out that he was the one that gave his brother the guiding light to stay together and wake up... my heart! Brilliant reading :)
@@gormauslanderthe problem is that those who rolled 20 can stop you by "valuing" your assets as low by spending local currency "money" to out compete you in the free market.
@@unknownunknown7734 oh, I wasn't even talking about asset valuation. I was saying you can affect the money number with choices rather than chance. You can get a sales job and make a lot more money than working at Starbucks
So the best part is that the entire course of the game is decided by your initial roll that determines how much your parents make and where you were born.
Only if you are a loser with no intentions of bettering your self. I was born trailer park trash. Now I own homes. How many immigrants proves this wrong? The only thing stopping you from being wealthy is your mind set.
The "the game already started you were born into it" really speaks to and reminds me of the trauma that it gave me to think/realise ( think/realise cause it was kinda impossible for me back then to genuinely really know how much and where this applies irl) as a kid that everything I fvcking owned could very likely have been made by people who were living in subpar conditions and being payed a subpar amount of money to either make those things or get the materials for them, and that shit really didn't fair well with my already terrible self-esteem and the impression I had of myself being a parasite because I struggled to do things cause of my mental illness that I didn't even know was mental illness and I just thought was me being unable to do anything and the fact that I was well off enough to be able to be incompetent without it completely ruining my life also making me a parasite (cause the capitalist beliefs of worth already made me think as a kid if I couldn't do basic things to be of service I shouldn't get to be on this earth around other people who are inexplicably able to do the things I can't 💖) and how me having access to these cheap things was me taking advantage of people's poverty when like if anything I'd be my parents responsibility to provide me with ethically made things and the manufacturers responsibility to make things ethically and the states responsibility to make sure things sold or made under their supervision are ethical 💀 Knowing how inescapable capitalism is and how bad shit just happens even when it's something we know of (such as things we buy being made unethically and still getting bought or sometimes people not even having a choice for money reasons but otherwise also because we're just desentizised to it) really fvcked my head. Sorry kind of a bummer but it just unlocked this highly specific memory in me jdhajdbsj
And yet it's proven wrong every day. Look at the stats. It takes less than 3 generations for the majority of wealth to be lost while taking less than 1 to be earned.
Life's not going to hand you success on a silver platter; you have to *play* to win. Winning something valuable means overcoming disadvantages, your zip code doesn't matter.
"Poor is a status condition you all have" Preaching to the choir Im sure, but basically every time someone talks about taxing the rich, they aren't talking about you, so don't defend the rich.
Another cool rule of the game, is that a company's sole purpose is to make money for the shareholders and anything towards goal besides that one is actually ILLEGAL. It's on the rule book.
The cool thing about this game is it already started, you automatically lose but you have to keep playing anyways. It comes with an app. Whenever you go to jail, you can upload a mug shot! But if the lighting isn't good, you can't get out of jail no matter how many doubles you roll.
Correction: astronauts are the only people exempt from the game of Capitalism. Because as we all know, the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism is space.
"The game already started a few hundred years ago. If you're hearing this rules explanation, that means your family hasn't been playing this game for generations, and you've already lost. You're just going to have to sit through it until a new game starts, which very likely won't be within your lifetime. Sorry."
She sells seashells on a seashore But the value of these shells will *fall* Due to the laws of *supply and demand* No one wants to buy shells 'cause there's loads on the sand Step 1: you must create a sense of *scarcity* Shells will sell much better if the people think they're rare, you see Bare with me, take as many shells as you can find and hide 'em on an island stockpile 'em high until they're rarer than a diamond Step 2: you gotta make the people think that they want 'em Really want 'em, really fuckin want 'em Hit 'em like Bronson Influencers, product placement, featured prime time entertainment If you haven't got a shell then you're just a fvcking waste man Three: it's monopoly, invest inside some property, start a corporation, make a logo, do it properly ""Shells must sell"", that will be your new philosophy Swallow all your morals they're a poor man's quality Four: **expand, expand, expand**, clear forest, make land, fresh blood on hand Five: why just shells? Why limit your self? She sells seashells, **sell oil as well!** **Six: guns, sell stocks, sell diamonds, sell rocks, sell water to a fish, sell the time to a clock** **Seven: press on the gas, take your foot off the brakes, Run to be the president of the United States** **Eight: big smile mate, big wave that's great Now the truth is overrated, tell lies out the gate** **Nine: Polarize the people, controversy is the game** **It don't matter if they hate you if they all say your name** Ten: *the world is yours, step out on a stage to a round of applause You're a liar, a cheat, a devil, a wh0re* *And you sell seashells on the seashore*
"poor is a status condition in the game, which you all have" is surprisingly accurate to this ttrpg Nahual it's extremely anticapitalist among other things (one of the evil factions in the game is literally The Parasites of Capitalism) and on your character sheet above all your optional traits it informs you that "you are mexican and you are poor" it's honestly really sick and I'd recommend it as an anticapitalist roleplaying ttrpg that's about hunting angels to keep paying the bills
You know, in an alternate reality where I'm rich, I've probably convinced myself that I'm happy. I'd be out on a boat or vacationing some place exotic, doing whatever it is rich people do and think "It doesn't get any better than this" but this reality's me has a fantastic secret: "Poor" me has discovered the Dropout cast, and knows Brennan's amazing eye for detail, incredible ability for creative storytelling, and insane capacity for random bits of knowledge. *_This_* is the life.
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Brennan was absolutely born to DM. We may have the poor status condition but he enriches us so.
Is there a monetary value for how he enriches us... Or?
@@lobstercrostiniI'd say that if they could figure out how many Dropout subscriptions he encouraged people to get, it would at least show the ROI of him being him.
@@lobstercrostini it's negative according to my dropout subscription
@@ashtonhoward5582 he’s the reason i have a dropout subscription
@@stuckbetweenfandoms5138 he is also mine
The delivery of “poor is a status condition” interjection is so natural. That’s exactly how everyone trying to explain a board game talk
"Poor is a status condition, you all have it" 🤣🤣🤣
Why he gotta hit me right in the feels
it's not a personal roast, it's a commentary on society
Dawg, getting the “poor” status condition sucks. It’s so easy to get and extremely hard to get rid of. Makes the game extremely hard. Like if you don’t have the “trust fund” trait at the beginning of the game you’re kinda screwed
Insufficient Fund Fee "it hurt itself it it's confusion!"
@@thatoneguy2136 Objectively, unless you're a multimillionaire, you'd have the "poor" status effect, it's just an entirely different world, not even comparable. Some people earn more than 10, 100, even 1000 times your own salary, and that's excluding what they inherited which was also unfairly earned or stolen.
"So how do we win?"
"Thats the neat part. You cant"
Actually you can.
@@stonemedia8901 Yes. And your likelihood to do so is miniscule unless you already have connections or a considerable headstart in the form of wealthy parents or a childhood in a first world country where education is within your means.
This is similar to saying "you can win the lottery". Yeah. Theoretically everyone has a chance to win, but in reality you might as well stop holding your breath. Statistically you ain't gonna make it.
@@stonemedia8901you can by making sure you cause others to lose. Awesome system where you charge more than it's worth, and/or you pay employees less than they're worth so you make money and you continue until you make enough money off of the people who lived around your business. Yes that's called profit and businesses need it, so who gets the short end?
@@AndragonLea
But a chance is a chance so we dare not change _anything_ about how all of this works because what if the chance goes *down?!* 😱
Then all of those decisions I made to make the world worse for myself and people like me now in exchange for my possible future victorious self winning even more will have all been terribly foolish mistakes! 😳
@@kjj26k Insert futurama meme
"But Fry, you aren't rich!"
"But maybe one day i will and then people like me better watch out!"
“Which you all have” was such a perfect finisher
I think they chose the perfect man for this prompt
Pretty sure they actually *wrote* this perfect prompt for this (admittedly also perfect with no caviat) man. ☝️😅
I’m positive all the prompts are written for the specific guests at least 75% of the time.
@@seanl7872Definitely. When they had the three impression artists on in the first season the prompts were pretty much entirely characters they do on TikTok and IG
Yeah all the people on the show are retarded woke millenial marxists but brennan is probably the worst offender outside of one of the women. At least he can be funny
That was definitely intentional
Ross buckling up before Brennan started was cut out but was 100% validated😂
I love it when liberals joke about capitalism and wonder why they get associated with marxists and communists.
@@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3did he say anything wrong?
@@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3 LMAO? people are allowed to criticize the system they were born under???
@@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3yes and?
@@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3It's more damning that they'd have the same criticisms, but sure ignore that so you can attach tribalism into political theory 😂
This prompt alone warrants the Buzzer Sam has on his desk - otherwise Brennan would *literally* never stop 🤣🤣🤣
30 min later and we’d have a full rule set for “new monopoly “
I don’t want him to stop lol
Eventually he’d just start explaining the laws of physics
@@caltheuntitled8021 explaining the law of value would've fit right in tbh
I honestly want him to keep going lol. I feel like that’s an interesting way to teach a subject
"I don't have capitalism"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE CAPITALISM IT CAME WITH YOUR FUCKING BIRTH CERTIFICATE"
"The games already started"
-Hey, wanna play a game... btw you're like a million turns behind
the fun thing about the game is that the point is not to see who wins, but who loses the least
Brilliant
Uh no
Love the gay Terezi pfp
@@forsaken696what
I think the best part is even the losers are better off then have been in any other system throughout all of history, in fact, they are so well off at the bottom, they are trying to get noticed, for who they like to have sex with because there are currently not enough problems that are real to talk about, amazing right?!
Amazingly, Brennan wanted to say so much that he almost choked. That's the issue with having your own perfect prompt.
That needs to be a 1 hour segment
Fuck yeah, I’d watch the shit out of that!
I’d also watch Brennan monologue about capitalism for… let’s just say a lot longer than that
They actually wrote a book about this! If you're interested in the game I recommend checking it out it's called Das Kapital by Karl Marx
Just... just read Das Kapital while shotting vodka and drinking whiskey.
agreed
@@gigamt1484 he also wrote a book called "On The Jewish Question".
Such an amazing episode. "Complicated Country Lawyer" had me cackling.
Me: "How do I win?"
Brennan: *Laughs maniacally*
"Unless you were born with the Rich status condition, I'm gonna need you to roll with a disadvantage indefinitely."
So accurate
Man, I wish we had institutions that would teach valuable knowledge and skill so people could move up in life. 😢
@@anond2015 yeah and it'd be great if those institutions were not predatory at all and you were guaranteed a living wage after going through them.
@@devinvenne Yeah, and it'd be great if we had a government-funded research team that provides average wages for different jobs and which degrees could help you get those jobs. We could call it the Department of Labor.
@@devinvennethats due to the mechanics of capitalism. they aint doing anything wrong they just playing the game how its ment to be played. a helpful tip is when the game gives you lemons you take those lemons and squirt them in another players eyes and take their lemons
The worst debuff is an empty bank account
Maybe that's an inspiring way to think about your condition? You are so powerful that they had to nerf you?
Oh no thats one of the better conditions the worst debuff is "debt and homeless"
The homeless condition creates further difficulties to get the "work expansion" as the work expansion comes with spending your time doing labor getting paid less or maybe a bit more than what it costs to generally live. Now you do have the pitential option to 'take out a loan' but if you don't pay it back in a timely manner or only pay the 'minimum' the added loan condition can send you back into debt.
Isn't capitalism fun😊
One penalty of an empty bank account is that it makes it harder to replenish your bank account.
I dont think its a debuff, more like youre out of currency. In games if you dont have gold you dont say "no gold debuff"
There could be "debuffs" applied if you have an empty bank account though, usually applied by the bank
Try the "incarcerated" debuff. They say the "enslaved" debuff was patched out, but "incarcerated" can have basically the same effect.
Give me the 2 hour clip.
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“You were born into it. Your stats are randomized on a luck-based system so the majority of players pull the ‘poor’ condition”.
"luck-based" cute
@@louiss2441 You didn't choose your parents. It's luck based.
We all played a version of Monopoly in my Economy class where, going by turn order, Player 1 gets the most starting money, charges double rent, doesn’t pay Taxes, etc, then down the line the players get worse and worse until the last player gets only $500 to start, charges half rent, all that fun stuff.
The benefits might not be as harsh as I remember, but I did win as a second-to-last player
Another prompt made specifically for Brennan, I think
That's exactly what I thought 😂
All the prompts on this show are, I'm pretty sure. He nailed it!
I'm surprised it took this long for them to realize they can give him a way to talk about game design and diss capitalism at the same time.
Yeah once you wash a few episodes you definitely can tell that they specifically choose certain prompts for certain people, Ross, the tall guy is really skilled at music improv if he tends to get a lot of music prompt
A lot of the prompts are tailored to the player for sure, same episode they give one of the other guys a southern aristocrat lawyer, an accent that he excels at.
That “yaa” in the beginning got me 💀
Same 😂💀
Me too bahahaha
"Brennan"
*Injured eagle sound*
OMG me too lol
I love the description of poor as a "status condition". Like... makes me feel so much cooler about having no money.
It also implies that you generally would start off rich and wealthy, which can also imply “Capitalism” is a game from a left-wing person popularizing why capitalism is inherently bad.
@@iantaakalla8180you can? Like Elon musks father had a emerald mine so he started of rich.
"Everything is worth whatever you can get someone else to pay for it." pretty much sums it up.
Gonna tell my kids this is Karl Marx
Great idea. Push the narrative of the largest mass murderers in history.
@@Ashtor1337 What? The nazis thought Karl Marx was an Irish guy famous for a very successful RPG podcast? … Sorry, what?
Fun fact....... My great grand uncle (or something, I honestly forget) was a famous Marxist also named Karl....... Not Karl Marx though.
@@johnjohnfofohniam Liebknecht? Kautsky?
@@alexjeffrey3981 Raimund Popper. Theory of Falsification?
I want to hear Brennan explain this with no time limit.
Essentially the Patton Oswalt Parks and Rec filibuster? I’d pay to see that.
with enough time, it would just become the rules explanation to Roads & Boats or Food Chain Magnate.
Yes please!
Sam sounded SO excited to give Brennan this prompt.
"Which you all have" caught me so off guard
“You work for me, I keep all the money. We clear? Good.”
Brennan’s instantaneous launch is really impressive. Thinking so fast, on the spot, is beautiful.
For the poor players money has real value, but for the game makers money is only a way to keep score.
For the game makers value is tied to time. Not money
oooooo
Purchasing a Dropout subscription is worth it just to see the slow zoom in on Brennan as he just keeps eating away at Sam’s soul without pause
Brennan always delivers. I cannot believe how many fucking clips there are of this man just showering us with his golden nuggets of delectable humour.
It's like Monopoly, but one person starts with all the money.
Pretty sure the game was originally called 'Capitalism'
Brennan Lee Mulligan is such a treasure
That’s cool but how much gold is in the treasure?
Sam throwing up the ball for an easy windmill dunk from Brennan.
Brennan is incapable of doing any less than a windmill dunk.
The creator of Monopoly created it to show people the risk of Capitalism...
The creator of "the landlords game" had their idea stolen by a capitalist, and neolibs with trash taste bought that like hotcakes cuz the box was pretty and they played 4 times and then left it on the shelf for 30 years.
Yup, game ends when 1 person owns it all and everyone else is fucking dead
But I like winning so yay for capitalism
And to promote Georgism. It's no replacement for capitalism, but, as far as band-aids go, it's a pretty okay patch job
And we refused to adhere to the lesson.
I love how at least once per game they tailor at least one prompt for each player and I love that Brennan’s is always something that he can either rant or just dunk on.
"how do we win?"
*_"don't get your hopes up..."_*
Kind of, it is about the perspective you take though. If you're looking at everyone better off than you, you're going to be pretty miserable no matter how well you do. Also, it would be nice to not have to struggle, but when in human history did people not have to struggle to survive and thrive?
You can win. Maybe not capitalism, but you can win at life.
Just came back from visiting family I haven't seen in 5 years, in which this lovely snippet of conversation happened over dinner:
"Do you believe in capitalism?"
I mean... Yes, it exists...?
"Well, no, I mean... Are you an advocate for capitalism?"
I don't think capitalism needs an advocate. 😂
And yet it has so many unpaid apologists working overtime! Fascinating.
“Which you all have” 💀
I started with the condition and now I don't. Amazing. All it takes is playing the game and learning about it rather then complaining about the rules and not playing.
@@RundveltYou sound poor.
@@RundveltYou're right. I know plenty of people who have made it alright, including myself. Quite a few sore losers here who complain about not having work, pay, money, etc. when they're not actively seeking a job and hate the one they have.
@@johnjohnfofohniam It's the people who don't want to work, who don't have any ambition thinking that everyone is like them and it's just given.
It's absurd and childish. Pure entitlement.
@@Rundvelt Well said.
At least I have the "HealthCare" modifier....
Man he held himself back compared to the blockchain one
The "which you all have" KILLED me lol
In my sociology class one day, our teacher had us split into groups and play monopoly, but everybody got different amounts of money at the beginning to show how the lot your born into unfortunately has an impact on your life, no matter how hard you try
Very smart
That prompt was absolutely made solely for Brennan xD
For a time, I worked for an organization that produced such a board game. It was supposed to simulate both the economic and political systems of a parliamentary democracy; it was called Poleconomy. The rules were super-complicated.
I can absolutely see Sam writing this prompt and snickering to himself thinking “this is absolutely going to be for Brennan”
Brennan is breathless with excitement for this prompt
That scene of Papyrus almost falling down and being saved continues to make me SO EMOTIONAL, I always wonder if Sans ever found out that he was the one that gave his brother the guiding light to stay together and wake up... my heart! Brilliant reading :)
This made me lose The Game. I am very sad, Brennan.
Fuck, now i lost too
...I am losing the game 😭 my year of winning has ended curse you internet stranger 😖
I hate you, I lost too
Dang it, I lost too
I lost the game, and honestly I tried to deny it during the clip. Thank you for keeping me honest
And what's really great Gamedesign is that your playstyle has no impact on if you win or lose, you just role the dice once and see what happens
Not entirely true. You can play by the same rules they do and get pretty far without luck (definitely not overtake the ones that rolled a 20)
@@gormauslander The downside to this playstyle is that you alienate all your friends and family and eventually everyone just wants to kill you.
@@ConnorJaneu so basically Monopoly.
@@gormauslanderthe problem is that those who rolled 20 can stop you by "valuing" your assets as low by spending local currency "money" to out compete you in the free market.
@@unknownunknown7734 oh, I wasn't even talking about asset valuation. I was saying you can affect the money number with choices rather than chance. You can get a sales job and make a lot more money than working at Starbucks
So the best part is that the entire course of the game is decided by your initial roll that determines how much your parents make and where you were born.
Only if you are a loser with no intentions of bettering your self. I was born trailer park trash. Now I own homes. How many immigrants proves this wrong? The only thing stopping you from being wealthy is your mind set.
"Explain the rules to the board game 'capitalism'" *pulls out Monopoly's rulebook
The "the game already started you were born into it" really speaks to and reminds me of the trauma that it gave me to think/realise ( think/realise cause it was kinda impossible for me back then to genuinely really know how much and where this applies irl) as a kid that everything I fvcking owned could very likely have been made by people who were living in subpar conditions and being payed a subpar amount of money to either make those things or get the materials for them, and that shit really didn't fair well with my already terrible self-esteem and the impression I had of myself being a parasite because I struggled to do things cause of my mental illness that I didn't even know was mental illness and I just thought was me being unable to do anything and the fact that I was well off enough to be able to be incompetent without it completely ruining my life also making me a parasite (cause the capitalist beliefs of worth already made me think as a kid if I couldn't do basic things to be of service I shouldn't get to be on this earth around other people who are inexplicably able to do the things I can't 💖) and how me having access to these cheap things was me taking advantage of people's poverty when like if anything I'd be my parents responsibility to provide me with ethically made things and the manufacturers responsibility to make things ethically and the states responsibility to make sure things sold or made under their supervision are ethical 💀 Knowing how inescapable capitalism is and how bad shit just happens even when it's something we know of (such as things we buy being made unethically and still getting bought or sometimes people not even having a choice for money reasons but otherwise also because we're just desentizised to it) really fvcked my head.
Sorry kind of a bummer but it just unlocked this highly specific memory in me jdhajdbsj
Win condition of the game when you have the poor debuff becomes: eat the rich.
💯💯💯
Man it was so hype when Lenin went pro
@@gigamt1484Didn’t he do a bunch of team-killing in the Kronstadt map?
@@Ma_Zhongying What can I say, they couldn't get with the new meta
Or become rich/get better for your kids to get rich
Truer words have never been spoken‼️💯
And yet it's proven wrong every day. Look at the stats. It takes less than 3 generations for the majority of wealth to be lost while taking less than 1 to be earned.
There's a whole school of thought with thousands of books written specifically about that topic, it's called "Marxist theory"
Perfect prompt for brennan
“Poor is a status condition in the game, which you all have”
Absolute banger line
The "the game was already the started when you where born" reminded me that i just lost the game
I just lost the game because you are liking my comment
@@kathryn1515sorry about this
I appreciate Brennan's brain.
step one you must create a scarcity, shells will sell much better if the people think they're rare you see-
Bear with me
Only thing would've been better is if Brennan brought up the correlation between future success in life and your zip code.
Life's not going to hand you success on a silver platter; you have to *play* to win. Winning something valuable means overcoming disadvantages, your zip code doesn't matter.
This was mind-blowing, how quickly he came up with this. He legit had seconds to start talking.
Bold of you to assume this is his first time lecturing on this topic 😂
The squeaky "bRenNaN?" "yUh-HUu?" is PHENOMENAL I need it in a loop lol
Brennan may be one of my favorite humans on the planet. I could watch him for hours. In hiding 😈
The game ends when you convince the other players to launch a revolution.
I thought he was just gonna give the rules to Monopoly
This could have just gone on for the remainder of the show run time and I'd watch it happily.
I need more of these quick, thirty minute to eight hour explanations
They wrote this prompt tailor made for Brennan
"Poor is a status condition you all have"
Preaching to the choir Im sure, but basically every time someone talks about taxing the rich, they aren't talking about you, so don't defend the rich.
the best part is it’s always the same crowd that thinks owning a home means you’re rich
I would have been a different kind of smartass and started reading the instruction manual to monopoly
Another cool rule of the game, is that a company's sole purpose is to make money for the shareholders and anything towards goal besides that one is actually ILLEGAL. It's on the rule book.
Adding how the features are cool and interesting really makes this bit.
legend says he's still explaining it to this day
part of the instructions: you spend money, that you don’t have, learning how to play the game.
Crying over work rn and this made me feel better
“Yeaugghh?” Best Answering sound Brennan’s ever made. I love it 😂😂
The cool thing about this game is it already started, you automatically lose but you have to keep playing anyways.
It comes with an app. Whenever you go to jail, you can upload a mug shot! But if the lighting isn't good, you can't get out of jail no matter how many doubles you roll.
"Brennan"
"gyhAH-"
Correction: astronauts are the only people exempt from the game of Capitalism. Because as we all know, the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism is space.
Continue this answer into an entire podcast or book please...it is such fundamentally important stuff honestly
The 5 economic status levels (from best to worst):
-MrBeast
-Wealthy
-Middle Class
-Poor
-Chicago
"The game already started a few hundred years ago. If you're hearing this rules explanation, that means your family hasn't been playing this game for generations, and you've already lost. You're just going to have to sit through it until a new game starts, which very likely won't be within your lifetime. Sorry."
Also if you want to stop playing, that's just not possible
Rule 1: Screw the rules, I have money
I would like too have Brennan as a teacher
“The game was rigged from the start”
- Benny Fallout New Vegas
"Look, if Bremnnan's the DM the badguy is capitalism."
She sells seashells on a seashore
But the value of these shells will *fall*
Due to the laws of *supply and demand*
No one wants to buy shells 'cause there's loads on the sand
Step 1: you must create a sense of *scarcity*
Shells will sell much better if the people think they're rare, you see
Bare with me, take as many shells as you can find and hide 'em on an island stockpile 'em high
until they're rarer than a diamond
Step 2: you gotta make the people think that they want 'em
Really want 'em, really fuckin want 'em
Hit 'em like Bronson
Influencers, product placement, featured prime time entertainment If you haven't got a shell then you're just a fvcking waste man
Three: it's monopoly, invest inside some property, start a corporation, make a logo, do it properly
""Shells must sell"", that will be your new philosophy
Swallow all your morals they're a poor man's quality
Four: **expand, expand, expand**, clear forest, make land, fresh blood on hand
Five: why just shells? Why limit your self? She sells seashells, **sell oil as well!**
**Six: guns, sell stocks, sell diamonds, sell rocks, sell water to a fish, sell the time to a clock**
**Seven: press on the gas, take your foot off the brakes, Run to be the president of the United States**
**Eight: big smile mate, big wave that's great Now the truth is overrated, tell lies out the gate**
**Nine: Polarize the people, controversy is the game**
**It don't matter if they hate you if they all say your name**
Ten: *the world is yours, step out on a stage to a round of applause You're a liar, a cheat, a devil, a wh0re*
*And you sell seashells on the seashore*
*starts explaining monopoly*
First rule: Don't be poor!
I think it's perfect that Brennan started with a "Ja?" Man answered like he knew who's energy he was about wield.
"So how do you win this game?"
"Corruption."
"poor is a status condition in the game, which you all have" is surprisingly accurate to this ttrpg Nahual
it's extremely anticapitalist among other things (one of the evil factions in the game is literally The Parasites of Capitalism) and on your character sheet above all your optional traits it informs you that "you are mexican and you are poor"
it's honestly really sick and I'd recommend it as an anticapitalist roleplaying ttrpg that's about hunting angels to keep paying the bills
You know, in an alternate reality where I'm rich, I've probably convinced myself that I'm happy. I'd be out on a boat or vacationing some place exotic, doing whatever it is rich people do and think "It doesn't get any better than this" but this reality's me has a fantastic secret:
"Poor" me has discovered the Dropout cast, and knows Brennan's amazing eye for detail, incredible ability for creative storytelling, and insane capacity for random bits of knowledge.
*_This_* is the life.
I love how unabashedly radical this show is getting
the gAaAAaah from brennan at the beginning had me on the floor for no reason😂😂😂😂😂
I love his little bird squawk at the beginning