@@NoBody-bx4cp excluding, it would take much longer if he had to rent. People generally don’t get mortgages at minimum wage (especially in this economy) so buying a house is out of the question lmao
Why would he be ‘forced’ to do that? His labour and time are worth a great deal more than that. Minimum wage is for people who’s labour is near worthless….. which is why those jobs suck for the employee. They have to be worked beyond their normal capacity just to justify employing them at inflated costs in the first place.
Or you could invest and grow your wealth over time like everyone else and make good financial decisions and end up fairly wealthy. You’re a idiot to think the super wealthy just got really lucky a thousand times.
@bradenosto8413 higher taxes on the 1% means a lot lower taxes on the rest of the society. Working class pays most of the taxes. You pay taxes that go to welfare queens like Amazon.
@@bradenosto8413Thats a cool fan fiction, people said raising wages would increase prices too weird prices keep going up but neither of what you said isnt happening
@@deezboyeed6764 yep, some people blame wage increases as the sole cause of inflation, but can't explain why inflation keeps going up without wages moving a micron.
The issue with taxing the millionaires is that they are a slippery bunch. They will evade taxes, flee the country, and make people think that the increased taxes are going to affect everyone terribly, instead of just taking a quarter of a zero off their bank account. Nevermind that having 9 zeros in your account doesn’t help you at all, or that even a fraction of that could make the quality of life for all us normies so much better. Nooooo. You have to hog all the wealth then use that amazing wealth to underpay and abuse your workers.
Oh good point I should vote to screw over people that have never wronged me because I'm an envious prick. Oh wait I'm not. I actually don't want high taxes for anyone. You know I'm not a completely self center jerk.
@@johnh8546 look i'll help you. everytime the rich skips out on taxes WE have to pay higher taxes to cover for them. This isnt about being envious. This is about equality. WE get jailed for doing the same thing, so they should as well.
@@happystoryfamily4830 And what they have to pay extra in taxes, you have to pay in higher costs for your products/services. Not saying it is fair, but life isnt fair. Making it fair is wishful thinking at best. Reducing government spending sounds more useful if you want to pay lower taxes
I like how the ending reminds people that they still should follow their dreams, because while you won't ever be a billionaire it doesn't mean you can't be successful
@@Harakatheboye *Maybe*, but if you’d rather hoard money and be unhappy than spend it and live a fulfilling life, I think you’re wasting your finite time on this planet. Of course, there are nuances, but that’s my take.
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 elon musk's daddy owned an emerald mine in south Africa and profited from apartheid. He came from wealth, stole or bought out his business partner's ideas and stole all the credit for them. Its a hard truth to face, but people dont become billionaires through hard work and determination. They become billionaires by sending American jobs overseas so they can exploit teenaged workers and pay them .35 an hour. You wont ever be a billionaire, and trust me, you don't want to be. That kind of wealth is something you sell your soul for.
I mean the thing is a lot of people really do get rich. But they get normal rich. Hundreds of thousands or even millions. Enough to live comfortably or even lavishly for the rest fo their lives. That's fairly attainable. A billion is only made by the already rich exploiting everyone they possibly can.
@@NH-le6pf You realise how few of those % are under the age of 50? They lived during a massive period of growth that purely doesn't exist. In order to keep that money so they can keep growing. At the detriment to future generations and the working class.
@@NH-le6pf Explain it to me then because I study economics and finance. So please tell me how now when markets are unstable. Population growth is stagnating, a tweet can tank stock prices and whole exchanges are going bankrupt. How is now the time to make money?
It's almost impossible to even spend that much money on stuff. You'd have to go out of your way buying ostentatious purchase after ostentatious purchase. Like you could buy up a fancy mansion, multiple sports cars, a yacht, go on vacation around the world 5 times, pay your kids' entire tuition, and do a bunch of the other typical bucket list stuff and not even be 10% through your money.
honestly i dont even want to be rich anymore. i just want enough money to live in a small cozy house and make money off the things i love doing. it sounds like small goals on paper but these days it's pretty much impossible
@crazydragy4233 I'd say this is one of the things that drives every single human, whether we realize it or not. We all desire a nice place to call home, and we all desire to do something we actually enjoy. I'd say this dream is probably as old as humanity itself. I mean, even the most primitive people have made themselves a home from which they conduct business. Cottage Industry has been around for centuries.
@Candy_Bittersweetit's insane that you think that costs a billion dollars. Depending on what "comfortable" means to them, they wouldn't even need anywhere close to a mil
The amount of people that actively vote against there own interests is startling. It’s like given a choice between stabbing themselves in the leg or electing someone they don’t like, the knife is in there thigh before you can even tell them there choices.
there’s really no good choice to be honest. It’s like choosing between the grim reaper and satan. One sucks and ones awful. pick your poison. Though complaining about how broke you are won’t get you anywhere. Work hard invest and don’t spend when you don’t need to and you can become a millionaire in a few decades starting from 0. People just like to complain and blame their circumstances though.
@@ethancollinsworth3927 this is mostly true at the national level, but becomes less and less true the more you zoom in, state and local elections are insanely important and good work can actually occur there. You just rarely hear about it cuz it’s not sensational, like you’ll never see “breaking news local city council balanced its budget and secured funding for road improvements”. It’s sad, but the world we live in.
omg i think people that disagree with me are stupid and bad and dont know anything too! i've never heard such an enlightened and nuanced take before! Seriously, don't make political statements before your brain is even close to being fully developed yet. You're going to look back at yourself saying stuff like this and cringe.
I don't wanna be a billionaire... I just want to live comfortably doing something that doesn't add more years of therapy to my already ridiculous list of mental health issues
Consider a trades job. You need some level of sunlight and physical exercise for optimal health (including mental health), and getting that through your job eases the logistics of needing to separately plan to fill those needs. Show up, prove that you're willing to do the hard work and sweat just as much as the rest of the people there, and you'll build a reputation for being reliable as your skills and responsibilities grow. When your ability to grow is capped for some reason, that's when you start looking for a different job to monkeybranch to. They also seem to pay a good amount more than something like basic retail jobs, at least once you passed the first month or three of training and getting the skills to work in the industry.
@@Thalanox ive found i dont find fulfillment in any sort of job. I dont like wasting my time with human civilization and it enrages me that we've made getting completely away from it pretty much impossible unless youre already rich.
Number 1 rule don’t get into debt. How do you do that? Don’t spend money on things you can’t afford. Buy a used car. You don’t need a brand new car. Buy a hybrid car it saves money on gas. Don’t buy expensive food all the time. Pay 100% of your credit card bill every month. Don’t just pay the $25 minimum. Invest your money in a mutual fund. Put away $2K a year in a mutual fund. If you do this earlier in life you will have over a million dollars when you retire (pending if the economy collapses or not.) Save at least 2 months salary for rainy day funds so that you don’t break the bank when an emergency happens or something breaks down. This is not easy and will take discipline but you will live comfortably if you adhere to these financial and lifestyle decisions.
@@emrikbergqvist4906 Nope, that’s born out of stats that if you are a businessman… which is anyone who works, not just the suit people. Then you will eventually hit 1% status.
Noone wants to be the oppressor. Rtrded Marxist talk. You realise that your labour produces exactly 0 value without capital, risk, and management. That's why the smart 30% vote for a more productive society which benefits everyone. While you dream of dismantling the best system ever created in favour of a system that has failed 100% of the time.
A few years ago, I won roughly $15mil (after taxes) in the lottery. I didn't quit my job or anything drastic. I paid off my house, my car, my CC debts, as well as those of my mom's, my 7 siblings', and my grandma's. Then I put a $5k emergency fund in the safe I keep hidden under the floorboards in my bedroom and spent the rest on an awesome Christmas where I paid for flights so my whole family could spend our 1st Christmas all together since I was a little kid. Now my whole family isn't rich, but we're all financially stable.
@@gkk116 If I don't help the people care about, what's the point of having all that money? Anyway, we were all getting by before, but now I'm debt free and so is my family as far as I know. We all still have to pay for utilities, gas, insurance, repairs, food, entertainment, taxes, and various other expenses. Only our biggest bills are gone.
@@DarkKingsKing That’s awesome bro. I’m happy for you. Do you mind sharing what lottery ticket you bought? The name of it? You don’t have to if you don’t want to though.
@@BrockGarrett-y8o I'd tell you if I remembered. It's been like 8 years. I spent most of what was left a few months ago. Now I'm a regular not-rich shmuck.
The 1% people talk about is actually more like the 0.001%, and I think that's what people don't realize. They think it's a 1/100 shot that they'll get there, but it's more like 1/10,000,000, and they still vote like it could be them one day. The disparity between the rich and the poor has never been greater, even including the time before anti-monopoly laws.
It is a 1/8,000,000,000 chance pretty much. There are 2700 billionaires. One would have to die for you to get their spot and youd be competing with everyone else.
@@Rapidblades-xnot really. A lucky few like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made it there themselves, and mostly because they took a big risk on a market no one knew was going to take off at the time. Basically every other billionaire was born filthy rich. And even when you compare the most wealthy 1% with the lower side of the 1%, the wealth gap just keeps growing faster and faster. Sure, you could hit that one in a billion chance to be a "self made" billionaire (still built off the backs of other, actually hard working people) but very nearly everyone is either gonna be born with disgusting amounts of money or they're never going to get there. And it's not for lack of trying.
Wealth has been increasing for both the rich and the poor it’s just the rich get rich quicker so while the gap is increasing overall wealth and quality of life is rising for all
@@50-frames-of-stick71 That used to be true, but now it's not. The middle class has been shrinking quite rapidly for quite some time now. The rise in pay for high earners has far outpaced the rise in pay for low to middle earners, and the pay for low to middle earners hasn't kept up with inflation in decades. These days the increase in standards of living for the poor and middle class has come more from technological advancements than it has come from the ability to support oneself financially, which has been on the decline for a long time.
No bro told you to stop pretending there will ever be a chance for you to become a billionaire and that it’s time to fight back and get what’s yours because rich people are stealing your money and blaming you for being poor.
If you think not being a billionaire or a millionaire means you're "broke", then your standards for "broke" are shit and you really need to reconsider your terrible spending habits.
@@Cherryblossoms110 and you are being rude why? i obviously know you dont have to be a millionaire to not be considered broke. this comment was a joke but people want to argue about literally everything for no reason.
It’s not looks out for the rich. The 1% owns most of the jobs in this country and if they have to pay a lot in taxes guess who’s pay is gonna get cut or guess who’s gonna get laid off? The 99% and also prices for just about everything would go up. And this big corporations like ford and Chevy and others like that would just move their business to china or Mexico where they can get cheap labor and not a lot of taces
@@thegetlostgamg7568 good points :/ I guess we need to strengthen the rights of the 99% much more, start figuring out ways to make greedy practices illegal... idk how though...
@@SartorialDragon or... do the smart thing and wipe out income taxes all together. All income tax is, is a way for greedy politicians to stuff their own pockets.
@@TheAmericanFox The problem isn't income tax, then. The problem is greedy politicians. Any sort of nepotism or corruption should lead to immediately getting the boot, replacing them with someone who doesn't betray the public trust. If you don't have the best interest of EVERYONE on your mind, gtfo of politics.
The 99% being better off would be better for the 1% as well, considering they’re apart of the same society. If workers are doing better they are more productive and less likely to switch jobs and cost less for businesses.
Depends how big the contrast is between the billionaires gaining from this growth of wealth in the 99% and the punishment they endure to support the growth of wealth in the 99%
@@pandax5359 the 1% is referring to millionaires and billionaires in the population. The US is not the richest country in the world, and isn’t even the most populated one. The 99% cant help people out of poverty properly without costing themselves their livelihood
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 no you won't. if it was that easy, everyone would be billionaires this video was targeted at conservatives who want the tax to stay low anyway
To be fair though, taxing billionaires is not about not wanting to tax your future self more. It's not about not wanting to make them move. Yeah we could tax them 80% but they'd just move.
@@hejalll move to where? Billionaires aren't going to move en mass the the third world. Also Norway and Sweden have a much higher rate of billionaires by capita than the US does dispite having much higher taxes.
You guys are so jealous of someone making money, but giving all of it to the government seems fair. What about everyone pay a fair tax? Look at how much jobs Tesla, Spacex and Amazon created over the years, probably they wouldn't hire this much people if they payed even more taxes. In Brazil the government taxes companies like crazy (i live here and i know), it just lead to companies going out of the country and small companies failing, wich resulted on unamployment crysis. Please listen to people and to history, stop this stupid idea, the GOVERNMENT making money doesn't solve anything and your taxes won't reduce if billionares pay more, this will never happend.
@@Henrique-bz3ch high corporate tax rates incentivizes hiring more people since any money spent on hiring and wage expenses is tax deductible while if it was retained as profit it would be subject to those high tax rates The myth that low tax rates incentivizes investment in the business makes no sense if you have any understanding of how business taxes work
@@Smagasins I have an understanding, that is why i am saying this, it doesn't even make ANY sense that taxes is an incentive to companies, here in Brazil companies are afraid to get big and not survive the absrud taxes, you don't know absolutely nothing you are talking about, probably because you live in a country that don't apply this and don't know how bad it actually is. The government doesn't deserve more money coming from anyone, everybody should pay less taxes, besides the government nobody earns something by paying more taxes.
"Six unlucky months" hit different. My family was middle class up until 2008. Then everything went wrong rapidfire; my mother couldnt work as long because her disability was worsening, my father's business partner got cancer and died, and one of our cars gave up the ghost. All this amid the housing crisis, and we couldnt make our rent payments. If my dad's business partner hadn't known about our struggles and wrote us into his will to take his house, we might've been homeless. We frequently ate nothing but mcdoubles- the mcds by our house had a 50 cent special on them, and it got us through a little over a summer. Me and my sister's college funds were liquidated to pay for the essentials. My mom eventually got laid off, and had to go on welfare. My dad got a maintenance job at target that really didnt pay much. It's been over ten years, and we still haven't really recovered. We may never recover.
America is full of stories like these and yet the majority of people will say shit like "the homeless deserve it, why dont they just work" The system is so unbelievably broken and it saddens me that people refuse to see it. All the best for you and your family ✌🏼
Seems odd to celebrate the opposite of success. I mean what’s the point of living if you won’t live up to your potential because some idiot told you so?
This reminds me so much of being trapped in the car with my dad, forced to listen to him explain trickle down economics as a positive when he himself was born into poverty 💀
@@derppoo3887 Well the song is right, your more likely to end up on welfare than become a milionaire- if things go terrible for you... injury, sudden disability, mental health crisis..... You might not have a choice about using government support, regardless of your feelings about other people using it
All of the young people in the comments who think he's not talking to you are missing the point. "But im only 15, maybe there's still a chance" nope. You're never going to be a billionaire.
Yeah, it applies to them too lol. This level of wealth is generational, if it's not set up for you to inherit then you could be a newborn and this would still apply
@@angelo08280 Probably because he’s dead. Joke’s aside, it’s about power dynamics. Marx wouldn’t be able to sway politics or public opinion in his favor like billionaires did back then and still do. No person needs to be a billionaire, end of story.
@@JohnAprile No, you can't. If you're here wasting your time in youtube comment sections and watching Andrew Tate, you will never be rich. No way in hell.
Im in a business class and we were given a packet that talked about how becoming a billionaire is becoming the norm and I'll never understand what that article was going on about
In America you get to pick between the party controlled by billionaires that want to nuke Russia. and the party controlled by billionaires that want to nuke China. I sure do love voting its so important!
@@shadowbonbon3 I'd choose China because of how potentially large their army can be. I'm surprised they haven't just turned on "World Domination" mode yet. However, China is also most of our supplies... yea, it's a lose-lose situation. Pick your poison.
To all the people saying that billionaires deserve to keep their money if they earned it: No one earns a billionaire dollars fairly. The only way to ever accrue that much wealth is through worker exploitation, wage theft, tax evasion, or other immoral financial activities. In the United States, the top 1% income “earners” own over a third of all the wealth in the country. And that hoarding and stagnation of wealth by the richest few literally takes wealth away from other people. The 1% are getting richer by taking money away from the middle class and keeping the lower class impoverished. There’s only so much money in the world, and more money cannot be made without causing inflation, decreasing the value of everyone’s money. Wealth needs to be continuously circulating in order for the economy to function properly. Taxes need to be proportionally higher the greater someone’s wealth is to ensure that money keeps flowing. Billionaire apologists in the United States will point to the federal income tax as “proof” that billionaires are paying their fair share or even being burdened unfairly. But the reality is that when considering taxes overall, the billionaires actually pay the lowest overall tax rate. That needs to change, or the wealth gap will keep increasing - which, again, means that the 50% of the population who are middle class get poorer while the 1% who are ultra-wealthy get richer. If you are watching this video, you are almost definitely middle class or part of the third of the population who are lower class. Raising taxes on billionaires and the top 1% can only help you. And if by some chance you’re in the other 19% of the upper class, you still aren’t the ones being talked about here.
It might be immoral, it might be wrong, You might be bending rules, but if you have over 1 bil without a criminal record, you have done something right, and if the law allows it I'd say it's "fair"
JEFF BEZOS GOT HIS CHILD TAX CREDIT IN 2011!!! HE DOESN'T PAY TAXES AT ALL WHILE HIS WORKERS EARN $19 AN HOUR AND HAVE TO SCRIMP TO MAKE RENT WHILE THE GOVT TAKES $400 A MONTH FOR GOVT SERVICES THAT HELP BEZOS MORE THEN THEMSELVES.
@@EmotionsNeverLie 70k income ? I am confused since I don't see how this is relevant to becoming super rich. Like income is nice and all but if we are talking about people becoming million/billionaires there income is like a drop in the bucket. Investments, businesses and general wealth management is a lot more important than.
i used to go to school with legitimate billionaires (whos family literally owned the entirety of some gas company) unless theyre left out of the will theyll likely start out filthy rich and not even need to work for anything further XD lifes not fair
It’s not fair but it’s not wrong, be the difference. Anyone can create generational wealth if you’re young. I’m sure that families wealth started somewhere.
@spigbungus Generation wealth isn't specifically the issue, no, but A. It means nothing in the scale of skills. You aren't better than someone else just because you start on economical third base. And B. Yes that wealth started somewhere, but often that somewhere was highly exploitative of other people.
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 they didnt make 100 billion. They had capital to invest at the right time and Extract surplus value out of ideas and Work of others. Working hard doesnt make ypu a billionaire. You ate the Propaganda. They are not on your side, they are not your friends, you wont be them, no matter how ,,hard" you work. Stop simping for them, it makes you seem like a proud little slave defending their Masters. Ps: i have a great job and am pretty well off. I just hate the myth that billionaires got their wealth soley from hard work.
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 elon bought himself into Tesla, pushed out the founders and didnt invent any of the patents they hold. He leeched of the hard work and innovation of others.
I love the lack of backround music and just the clapping. It has something more real to it, I guess? Plus, probs to him for wearing so many different outfits and editing this video, besides the obvious probs for writing it and having this message
@@nickromo8195 oh yeah I get you, probably. The violin doesn’t come in til later... but I honestly didn’t notice it until the other commenter brought it up!
@George Cornwall wait a second he has a point But also my dad and mom are rich but they don't give me much money cause they don't wanna raise an untitled brat and they apparently succeeded cause i don't except money at all
@@xkancho oh really i am not an American lmao i know Russian spanish some french and fluent in arabic And fluent in english too Just not good at grammer in general sense i have bad memory which doesn't let me remember the rules
@@stealth6308 oh yeah, basically they printed so much of their own currency that it's become obsolete, istg a million Zimbabwean dollars can't get you a loaf of bread. It's been printed so much its worth nothing, hence why the inhabitants of Zimbabwe use other currencies.
as long as I'm healthy, alive and can throw cinderblocks at a rich person's expensive car on the highway, im as rich as i could ever be i got nothing to lose since i dont have anything to begin with it doesn't take millions/billions to make me happy
I only want to be a millionaire so I can finally be financially stable. I dont need fancy cars or a mansion or gucci or whatever. I just want to be able to afford food AND rent....
@@sethbrisby9312 yeah its stupid. If you are wealthy, you can enjoy even the basics like clothes and food and maybe a house. But if you are not, you have to work 80 hours weeks pr get into a specialty in order to survive. But then you can't enjoy life. For one, you are constantly working, so no time. And then most of your money goes to living anyway... It's dumb, thats why I want to be more financially stable. I dont want to be a billionaire, I just want to be able to afford to live..
@@novalopez3068 that's what we all want... To live comfortably, with the basic necessities met. Unfortunately, so many in the US (and around the world) don't have these things, even working a full time job. Which is why we need to keep fighting for a big increase of the minimum wage, universal healthcare, etc. Those two things are really the bare minimum, but it would be a great start!
@@novalopez3068 my dad makes 90 thousand a year and we’re pretty comfortable, I go to a nice school we have a house on the beach, we have a house in North Carolina aswell, so you don’t have to be a millionaire to be comfortable
Too many people need to hear this. It's like millions of people are all thinking "Sure, life sucks _right now,_ but some day, I'll just magically get super rich, and then I'll get richer and richer, and when that happens, I don't want to give up a single cent of MY wealth!" The worst part is that even though they are living in worse conditions now, possibly in poverty, thinking this way proves wouldn't appreciate the staggering change to their life just being a _millionaire_ would bring, always wanting even more, never happy for as long as they live, a yawning, black void of suicidal greed where their heart should be.
Yea I’m sorry the government is your parents and even if it had the funds to be like your parents it would never ever spend money in a smart manner. Right now the government is already in debt and you’re idea is to give up more of your freedoms so they can, what? Raise taxes on you today for a false promise of financial benefits when you’re 60? Did you know today if the government sized the entire 1% net worth they would spend every last cent of it within the year? They’re fucking dumb and the only one who cares about you is your family and yourself.
And yet peoples only excuse is "Its stealing!! Poor people are just jealous!!" When they literally lobby against making a 9-5 job a living wage and constantly find aays around paying taxes that build the infrastructure you stand on.
Not just lobby, Americans actively protest living wages. I lived there. They cut the hours and make the workers compete and call all kinds of jobs 'starter jobs'
@@United.Kingdom. I grew up watching nothing and started a company at 6 years old fainting 1 pence a day and now after 69 days I have 25 pence because math is gay
Considering that the billionaires that exist now are some of the most abhorrent people in America, I really don't think I'd want to be a billionaire anyways. It's literally saying you wanna be a real-life supervillain, and not the fun, campy, queercoded kind.
Fuck that I'd love to be a billionaire, I never will be but god damn yo I just wouldn't ever make myself a public figure I'd live as privately as possible and donate most of what I earn to charity, I'd want to have a regular ass house, and a regular ass car.
@@ahzayoc1207 if it werent for them, wed get nothing though. Its called sharing profits. Providing the job is providing value, even if they keep lots of money too
@KayOS Code he is talking about big companies exploiting workers like Amazon not giving a damm if their workers live or die and forcing them to work or be fired in disasters. However, gain no bonus/hazard pay for it. They also fire you for trying to start a union to help gain rights/protection. They only care about themselves not their workers. A company with just a couple is useless, but a company without a ceo isn't. For a more relatable example, just think about McDonald's with or without a manager. Without it, nothing goes out of place, and it runs smoothly, but with only just a manager, you only have 1 person working everything.
I mean you're still young, so learn what you can. You still have a bright future ahead of you, work hard, but always remember to still do things you enjoy! We might never be billionaires, but having pride in what we do, and staying happy is what really matters in the end!
How many billionaires have there even been in history? Divide that number by the non billionaires... You'll see real quick what the chances are. (That is just a quick and simple ignorant example)
I honestly only wish to be like my grandfather, fairly wealthy, being able to travel on a whim and not have a single trouble with the law. Just being able to be with my family whenever i please but still love and enjoy my work until the day i finally kick the bucket. I don't wanna work myself to death, i wanna enjoy what i do until the day my lights finally go out. Fuck being ultra rich that just brings you into trouble no matter what you do.
I'm so depressed haven't had positive money in the account to save or spend on myself for years. I actually hate living like this my cats and gf deserve better but I'm just working a job I hate making minimum wage. So many times I've considered just growing weed because I'd do a good job , be passionate about it and make money. But then I'm risking the little I have. What's the point of life someone please educate me because all I've done is work since I was 11 and have nothing.
Well they are literally useless to us, they're levers of power that could be replaced with anyone. They don't employ us, their businesses they sold to shady people do. They don't put the food on our table, we do, after all they get the money from our work.
i don't understand how people think they could really be part of the 1% without being born into it. I worked with a 17 yr old at Subway that thought the rich deserved tax cuts because he "might" get rich one day and "need" those cuts, like, he lived in a richer part of town, but it was still not a rich enough town to get there, also, not a single person in the 1% EVER worked in fast food
Look it up only 20% of wealthy americans were born into wealth. Also, you'll find that the most common way of people making there money is providing you with life changing technology and advancements . If you want to be wealthy you have to do it intentionally it's not just going to happen.
@@thelogicalfallacy hey bestie, did you only skim the one article you looked up, because what I looked up said that about 20% of wealthy americans Received Inheritance, which is only one (1) part of being rich, connections are how people get and stay rich, and unless 80% of wealthy americans are no contact with their parents, it's more than 20% that were Born into Wealth. It also looks like that statistic is only coming from one source because any other source that has that number references back to one article. Plus, if that statistic was 100% true, this video would be 100% wrong and there would be a very good chance that anyone could be a billionaire
@@jestyr5979 Hey I appreciate you looking into it. The 20% statistic comes from a lot of different places it seems. I found a BLS government report that also finds the same number. And honestly I understand contact's are a big part of being rich, but if your not trying to build something for yourself why would you need contacts? The rich aren't bad most of the time they get rich by providing us with goods and services that have overall improved our lives. And there are plenty of contacts available to you its called the internet. Anyone can be rich and in fact some will granted for a short time. The top and the bottom aren't stagnet but ever moving.
Hell I'm nearly there. I'm actually there, I just need to plan a bit better. I don't know why I'm telling you this. I guess your comment somehow made me realise I'm actually kinda lucky or something, thanks random person on RUclips ✌🏼
@@cmckee42 Okay but when people or politicans talk about raising taxes they usually refer to the the 1% (450,000 a year) which is way more possible than a million imo
@@subspacestudios3870 exactly, the people making $450,000 a year don't have a significant impact on income inequality. People in that income bracket are moderately successful entrepreneurs, and mid to upper management of mid to large sized companies. Taxing those people is very different that taxing the people rich enough to live comfortably off the interest of thier existing wealth.
The bridge of that song has already come true in Australia now since Covid. Great song. I almost called it a jingle; There used to be jingles --like Randy Newman used to write for Dr Pepper-- you are so talented. And bold too. Good on y'a!!
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 For one, rich people did not earn that money. Unless you want to tell me that Jeff Bezos delivers every Amazon package, or that Elon Musk makes every Tesla, then they simply did not perform the actions that caused them to make money. All they did was claw their way to the top of the food chain in order to boss the boots on the ground around and siphon the profit away from them. Secondly, Venezuela was never communist. They were socialist at most, but the reality is that their downfall is a lot more complicated than "socialism no iPhone". Corruption was rampant in the government, and misguided decisions meant that they abused and over relied on their primary export (oil) and paid the price for it. However, Venezuelan socialism had many benefits, such as greatly increasing the literacy rate. Also, isn't it crazy to think that every self proclaimed communist country has also been an authoritarian dictatorship, which is against the communist principle of democracy? However, when you look at the countries with policies like those that Sanders supports, they are doing the best in the world (like norway or denmark). Your brainwashed red scare ideology means nothing in the face of facts and actual, complicated history.
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 So do you think that musk should have only been paid once, when he started the company? Or if his job is to hire people, then should he be paid as much as the recruiters for his companies? And about Norway, this is where you've failed. Because on one hand, you call Bernie Sanders a socialist. But on the other hand, you call Norway not socialist. Bernie Sanders wants America to be more like Norway. So which is it? Also, education and criminal justice are not outside factors. They are government services, paid for by taxpayer money. You can't have it both ways. Also, it's incredible how you keep linking me internet cartoons instead of making an actual argument.
"You would probably already be there."
15 year old me: _"Fuck..."_
Imagine not having $100,000,000 at 15
@@picklelover6576 right? like I’m 15 and I already have 1B dollars it’s not that hard,
@@zephyne3747 rip I duped dollar bills and was a trillionaire at -4 months
I’m 13 😂😂😂
Just too have this thought but the average life span of a male is 75.1 and if your 15 that’s 1/5 of your life gone
Fun fact if Jeff bezos was forced to work a minimum wage job until he made the same amount of money as his net worth it would take 9.3 million years
instead he cheats, lies, and uses slave labor, hooray
Is that INCLUDING or EXCLUDING literally any kind of expenses?
@@NoBody-bx4cp excluding, it would take much longer if he had to rent. People generally don’t get mortgages at minimum wage (especially in this economy) so buying a house is out of the question lmao
@@NoBody-bx4cp excluding
Why would he be ‘forced’ to do that? His labour and time are worth a great deal more than that.
Minimum wage is for people who’s labour is near worthless….. which is why those jobs suck for the employee. They have to be worked beyond their normal capacity just to justify employing them at inflated costs in the first place.
The thousand lighting strikes line goes so damn hard bro
Or you could invest and grow your wealth over time like everyone else and make good financial decisions and end up fairly wealthy. You’re a idiot to think the super wealthy just got really lucky a thousand times.
$99 million gang???
It’s weird that 30% of population support perks for billionaires assuming they will be there.
Taxes affect everyone. Higher taxes on the 1% means higher cost of goods and services. Which intern taxes us with inflation.
@bradenosto8413 higher taxes on the 1% means a lot lower taxes on the rest of the society. Working class pays most of the taxes. You pay taxes that go to welfare queens like Amazon.
that has never been a thing though
@@bradenosto8413Thats a cool fan fiction, people said raising wages would increase prices too weird prices keep going up but neither of what you said isnt happening
@@deezboyeed6764 yep, some people blame wage increases as the sole cause of inflation, but can't explain why inflation keeps going up without wages moving a micron.
A lot of people need to hear this. Not to mention: even if youre going to be a billionaire, taxing them now STILL wont affect you.
The issue with taxing the millionaires is that they are a slippery bunch. They will evade taxes, flee the country, and make people think that the increased taxes are going to affect everyone terribly, instead of just taking a quarter of a zero off their bank account. Nevermind that having 9 zeros in your account doesn’t help you at all, or that even a fraction of that could make the quality of life for all us normies so much better. Nooooo. You have to hog all the wealth then use that amazing wealth to underpay and abuse your workers.
Oh good point I should vote to screw over people that have never wronged me because I'm an envious prick.
Oh wait I'm not. I actually don't want high taxes for anyone. You know I'm not a completely self center jerk.
@@johnh8546 You think billionaires/the rich skipping out on taxes never effected you? Wow you poor thing
@@johnh8546 look i'll help you. everytime the rich skips out on taxes WE have to pay higher taxes to cover for them.
This isnt about being envious. This is about equality. WE get jailed for doing the same thing, so they should as well.
@@happystoryfamily4830 And what they have to pay extra in taxes, you have to pay in higher costs for your products/services.
Not saying it is fair, but life isnt fair. Making it fair is wishful thinking at best.
Reducing government spending sounds more useful if you want to pay lower taxes
7yo me: *doesn't want to be a doctor*
My family:
This killed me 💀
True
Doctors aren't even billionaires lol I'm pretty sure the highest it goes for a doctor I'd multi millionaire
@@0Peaks also doctors barely get 4 figures
@@HeveanDearest you mean 6? 4 figures won’t even get you above the poverty line anywhere
Idk, man. I have 25 bucks in my bank account. I'd say I'm pretty up there.
Dayum this guy is LOADED
Danm I only got 10$
On a global scale: yea, actually.
Dang my life savings is $2.01
Damn I got 25 cents am I am rich
I like how the ending reminds people that they still should follow their dreams, because while you won't ever be a billionaire it doesn't mean you can't be successful
E
Following your dreams leads to financial struggle
@@Harakatheboye *Maybe*, but if you’d rather hoard money and be unhappy than spend it and live a fulfilling life, I think you’re wasting your finite time on this planet. Of course, there are nuances, but that’s my take.
@@Harakatheboyeokay have fun with depression! I bet that won’t make you spend millions on therapy or anything… (:
@@Harakatheboye As a software engineer who followed his dream to be a software engineer, I respectfully disagree :)
"Yeah, but someday I might be rich, and then people like me better watch their step!"
Lol I always think about this quote when this discussion pops up.
Is that fry?
You are putting a lot of faith, responsibly and emphasis on that “might”.
@billnyesenberg yes
@@spectrumom1 It's a quote from Futurama, he's just saying it as a joke
this guy made telling us we wont be rich into something somewhat inspiring
Yeah, I feel somehow insulted even though he's right😅
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 oh he’s just copy pasting this into every comment huh.
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 elon musk's daddy owned an emerald mine in south Africa and profited from apartheid. He came from wealth, stole or bought out his business partner's ideas and stole all the credit for them.
Its a hard truth to face, but people dont become billionaires through hard work and determination. They become billionaires by sending American jobs overseas so they can exploit teenaged workers and pay them .35 an hour. You wont ever be a billionaire, and trust me, you don't want to be. That kind of wealth is something you sell your soul for.
No vison, no hope, empowering stuff guys 🤦♂️
I mean the thing is a lot of people really do get rich. But they get normal rich. Hundreds of thousands or even millions. Enough to live comfortably or even lavishly for the rest fo their lives. That's fairly attainable. A billion is only made by the already rich exploiting everyone they possibly can.
If you're going to end up filthy rich you need to start at rich.
You aware of the % of millionaires are first generation
Nice, y’all predicted one of his videos
@@NH-le6pf You realise how few of those % are under the age of 50? They lived during a massive period of growth that purely doesn't exist. In order to keep that money so they can keep growing. At the detriment to future generations and the working class.
@@rollfaceonkeyboard dude wake up the massive period to make money is right now
@@NH-le6pf Explain it to me then because I study economics and finance. So please tell me how now when markets are unstable. Population growth is stagnating, a tweet can tank stock prices and whole exchanges are going bankrupt. How is now the time to make money?
Mfs making 35k really do be simping for the ultra rich
It's so galling.
I need an extended version. Need it.
This song is good as a short but I don't think it would make for a good extended version.
I liked how you put the lyrics on the order board.
Hey Technoblade picture makes me happy.
@@TheBookOfAkersGaming I'm glad, Techno did like to make people happy.
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Don’t even want to be a billionaire, I just want to live a decent good life and that’s all
Yea 😅
Well sorry bro,we live in a society so that aint happenin
It's almost impossible to even spend that much money on stuff. You'd have to go out of your way buying ostentatious purchase after ostentatious purchase.
Like you could buy up a fancy mansion, multiple sports cars, a yacht, go on vacation around the world 5 times, pay your kids' entire tuition, and do a bunch of the other typical bucket list stuff and not even be 10% through your money.
@@justarandomguyplayingrando4792 but if you manage make a stable income to support yourself just live a normal decent life it’s not that bad
Yeah I don't want a whole butt load of money either.
honestly i dont even want to be rich anymore. i just want enough money to live in a small cozy house and make money off the things i love doing. it sounds like small goals on paper but these days it's pretty much impossible
Yes... it's why this world become so sad and ugly
Truth is this has always never been a thing for most people to have ever existed. This dream is a fairly new thing
Yeah.
@crazydragy4233 I'd say this is one of the things that drives every single human, whether we realize it or not. We all desire a nice place to call home, and we all desire to do something we actually enjoy.
I'd say this dream is probably as old as humanity itself. I mean, even the most primitive people have made themselves a home from which they conduct business. Cottage Industry has been around for centuries.
@Candy_Bittersweetit's insane that you think that costs a billion dollars. Depending on what "comfortable" means to them, they wouldn't even need anywhere close to a mil
The amount of people that actively vote against there own interests is startling. It’s like given a choice between stabbing themselves in the leg or electing someone they don’t like, the knife is in there thigh before you can even tell them there choices.
there’s really no good choice to be honest.
It’s like choosing between the grim reaper and satan. One sucks and ones awful. pick your poison.
Though complaining about how broke you are won’t get you anywhere. Work hard invest and don’t spend when you don’t need to and you can become a millionaire in a few decades starting from 0.
People just like to complain and blame their circumstances though.
"The knife in my thigh builds character, it makes me stronger."
@@ethancollinsworth3927 this is mostly true at the national level, but becomes less and less true the more you zoom in, state and local elections are insanely important and good work can actually occur there. You just rarely hear about it cuz it’s not sensational, like you’ll never see “breaking news local city council balanced its budget and secured funding for road improvements”. It’s sad, but the world we live in.
omg i think people that disagree with me are stupid and bad and dont know anything too! i've never heard such an enlightened and nuanced take before!
Seriously, don't make political statements before your brain is even close to being fully developed yet. You're going to look back at yourself saying stuff like this and cringe.
Stupid people do stupid things.
I don't wanna be a billionaire... I just want to live comfortably doing something that doesn't add more years of therapy to my already ridiculous list of mental health issues
Consider a trades job. You need some level of sunlight and physical exercise for optimal health (including mental health), and getting that through your job eases the logistics of needing to separately plan to fill those needs. Show up, prove that you're willing to do the hard work and sweat just as much as the rest of the people there, and you'll build a reputation for being reliable as your skills and responsibilities grow. When your ability to grow is capped for some reason, that's when you start looking for a different job to monkeybranch to. They also seem to pay a good amount more than something like basic retail jobs, at least once you passed the first month or three of training and getting the skills to work in the industry.
@@Thalanox ive found i dont find fulfillment in any sort of job. I dont like wasting my time with human civilization and it enrages me that we've made getting completely away from it pretty much impossible unless youre already rich.
Yes, this one right here, this one has their head screwed on right
Number 1 rule don’t get into debt. How do you do that? Don’t spend money on things you can’t afford. Buy a used car. You don’t need a brand new car. Buy a hybrid car it saves money on gas. Don’t buy expensive food all the time. Pay 100% of your credit card bill every month. Don’t just pay the $25 minimum. Invest your money in a mutual fund. Put away $2K a year in a mutual fund. If you do this earlier in life you will have over a million dollars when you retire (pending if the economy collapses or not.) Save at least 2 months salary for rainy day funds so that you don’t break the bank when an emergency happens or something breaks down. This is not easy and will take discipline but you will live comfortably if you adhere to these financial and lifestyle decisions.
@Sorren Blitz, I feel you I just wanna live my life off the land.
the 1% watching this video:
ah yes interesting very interesting i see…
Yeah, most people reach 1% status at some point in their lives.
@@anondabomb uhh what then it wouldn’t be 1%? I’m pretty sure only 1% reach 1%?
@@emrikbergqvist4906 Nope, that’s born out of stats that if you are a businessman… which is anyone who works, not just the suit people. Then you will eventually hit 1% status.
I see we have the same pfps
lovejoy enjoyers unite
The inherent desire to become the oppressor rather than dismantling the system is so sad to me.
because its easier and life's hard
Noone wants to be the oppressor. Rtrded Marxist talk. You realise that your labour produces exactly 0 value without capital, risk, and management.
That's why the smart 30% vote for a more productive society which benefits everyone.
While you dream of dismantling the best system ever created in favour of a system that has failed 100% of the time.
i dont even know how to take apart a rubix cube let alone the government
People getting trapped in warped Marxist thinking despite it being proven to be a crock of sht is so sad to me.
Zimbabwe citizens : I was already a trillionare the moment I was born
“Man I’m really excited to take all my money to America to get all their amazing products since I have so much money”
@@JackDeSante the best I can do is 1$
As some one who lived in Venezuela same thing here
Germans in the 1920s: I'm a bilionare myself
A few years ago, I won roughly $15mil (after taxes) in the lottery. I didn't quit my job or anything drastic. I paid off my house, my car, my CC debts, as well as those of my mom's, my 7 siblings', and my grandma's. Then I put a $5k emergency fund in the safe I keep hidden under the floorboards in my bedroom and spent the rest on an awesome Christmas where I paid for flights so my whole family could spend our 1st Christmas all together since I was a little kid. Now my whole family isn't rich, but we're all financially stable.
Good for you!
It takes a lottery win to become financially stable... lucky you!
@@gkk116 If I don't help the people care about, what's the point of having all that money? Anyway, we were all getting by before, but now I'm debt free and so is my family as far as I know. We all still have to pay for utilities, gas, insurance, repairs, food, entertainment, taxes, and various other expenses. Only our biggest bills are gone.
@@DarkKingsKing
That’s awesome bro. I’m happy for you. Do you mind sharing what lottery ticket you bought? The name of it? You don’t have to if you don’t want to though.
@@BrockGarrett-y8o I'd tell you if I remembered. It's been like 8 years. I spent most of what was left a few months ago. Now I'm a regular not-rich shmuck.
The 1% people talk about is actually more like the 0.001%, and I think that's what people don't realize. They think it's a 1/100 shot that they'll get there, but it's more like 1/10,000,000, and they still vote like it could be them one day. The disparity between the rich and the poor has never been greater, even including the time before anti-monopoly laws.
It is a 1/8,000,000,000 chance pretty much. There are 2700 billionaires. One would have to die for you to get their spot and youd be competing with everyone else.
@@Repetoire when youre born you dont get a "chance" to be a billionare its something you make yourself
@@Rapidblades-xnot really. A lucky few like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made it there themselves, and mostly because they took a big risk on a market no one knew was going to take off at the time. Basically every other billionaire was born filthy rich.
And even when you compare the most wealthy 1% with the lower side of the 1%, the wealth gap just keeps growing faster and faster. Sure, you could hit that one in a billion chance to be a "self made" billionaire (still built off the backs of other, actually hard working people) but very nearly everyone is either gonna be born with disgusting amounts of money or they're never going to get there. And it's not for lack of trying.
@@RepetoireThat’s not how it works. Not how math works and also not how economy works?
@@Rapidblades-xgo “make it yourself” and let us know how it went.
The pizza comparison really shows the huge difference between a million and a billion
Wealth has been increasing for both the rich and the poor it’s just the rich get rich quicker so while the gap is increasing overall wealth and quality of life is rising for all
@@50-frames-of-stick71 That used to be true, but now it's not. The middle class has been shrinking quite rapidly for quite some time now. The rise in pay for high earners has far outpaced the rise in pay for low to middle earners, and the pay for low to middle earners hasn't kept up with inflation in decades. These days the increase in standards of living for the poor and middle class has come more from technological advancements than it has come from the ability to support oneself financially, which has been on the decline for a long time.
@@50-frames-of-stick71completely untrue
@@mountainjews well it is maybe cone up with a better response lil bro
You should make full songs this is a banger
9 year old me who don’t want to be a lawyer
My Asian parents:
lmao
trust them its either that doctor engineer or your poor imo
BRO LAWYERS ARE GOOD not in suidia Arabia tho....
@@Shadowgangster123 that is very untrue
@@Moon-QXW not in iraq
Instructions unclear I’m a trillionaire now
haha
Excuse me sir, could I please have a small, miniscule loan of... uh... 1 billion?
Instructions unclear assassinated all people with more than 1 million in net worth
Double it and give it to the next person
Lol
Dude that Pizza Diagram was really helpful at scaling Billions to millions
bro just humbly told me ill always be broke
Not being a billionaire doesn't mean being broke. There's lots of brackets between broke and billionaire
@@Subreon999,999,999 brackets to be exCt
No bro told you to stop pretending there will ever be a chance for you to become a billionaire and that it’s time to fight back and get what’s yours because rich people are stealing your money and blaming you for being poor.
If you think not being a billionaire or a millionaire means you're "broke", then your standards for "broke" are shit and you really need to reconsider your terrible spending habits.
@@Cherryblossoms110 and you are being rude why? i obviously know you dont have to be a millionaire to not be considered broke. this comment was a joke but people want to argue about literally everything for no reason.
“You won’t ever be a billionaire” little did he know that i was playing the monopoly version with 50 million dollar bills
I want to see that set
God damn
Got it. Break into billionaires’ home, pull a Robinhood, give back to the people
I’ll bring the music, pink panther or payday soundtrack?
AFTER THE HEIST CAN I HAVE LIKE 2 million???
Man, this slaps so good in a weird way. Nothing unnecessarry, just pure musical expression. You have talent, mate
"don't vote as if you're ever gonna be a billionaire" is amazing advice.
I fully believe I'll be rich one day. And if I can get rich, I can afford to pay my fucking taxes. Not sure why people are looking out for the rich
It’s not looks out for the rich. The 1% owns most of the jobs in this country and if they have to pay a lot in taxes guess who’s pay is gonna get cut or guess who’s gonna get laid off? The 99% and also prices for just about everything would go up. And this big corporations like ford and Chevy and others like that would just move their business to china or Mexico where they can get cheap labor and not a lot of taces
@@thegetlostgamg7568 good points :/
I guess we need to strengthen the rights of the 99% much more, start figuring out ways to make greedy practices illegal... idk how though...
@@SartorialDragon or... do the smart thing and wipe out income taxes all together. All income tax is, is a way for greedy politicians to stuff their own pockets.
@@TheAmericanFox The problem isn't income tax, then. The problem is greedy politicians. Any sort of nepotism or corruption should lead to immediately getting the boot, replacing them with someone who doesn't betray the public trust. If you don't have the best interest of EVERYONE on your mind, gtfo of politics.
The 99% being better off would be better for the 1% as well, considering they’re apart of the same society. If workers are doing better they are more productive and less likely to switch jobs and cost less for businesses.
Depends how big the contrast is between the billionaires gaining from this growth of wealth in the 99% and the punishment they endure to support the growth of wealth in the 99%
Thats not how it works
I mean America is the 1% of the world. Yall should really help 99% of the other human population.
@@pandax5359
America is in debt, though.
@@pandax5359 the 1% is referring to millionaires and billionaires in the population. The US is not the richest country in the world, and isn’t even the most populated one. The 99% cant help people out of poverty properly without costing themselves their livelihood
Say it loud and proud: I won't ever be a billionaire.
I won't ever be a billionaire
Ha
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 no you won't.
if it was that easy, everyone would be billionaires
this video was targeted at conservatives who want the tax to stay low anyway
I wont ever be a billionaire
I will dip from society and live in the woods and be a cryptid
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 lol u won't ever be a billionaire
Idk man, my grandma is giving me £50 for christmas, im basically already there
lol
Nah man I mortgaged my house and bought two monkey jpegs... I'm going to be in the billion club next year
To be fair though, taxing billionaires is not about not wanting to tax your future self more. It's not about not wanting to make them move. Yeah we could tax them 80% but they'd just move.
@@hejalll move to where? Billionaires aren't going to move en mass the the third world.
Also Norway and Sweden have a much higher rate of billionaires by capita than the US does dispite having much higher taxes.
You guys are so jealous of someone making money, but giving all of it to the government seems fair. What about everyone pay a fair tax? Look at how much jobs Tesla, Spacex and Amazon created over the years, probably they wouldn't hire this much people if they payed even more taxes. In Brazil the government taxes companies like crazy (i live here and i know), it just lead to companies going out of the country and small companies failing, wich resulted on unamployment crysis. Please listen to people and to history, stop this stupid idea, the GOVERNMENT making money doesn't solve anything and your taxes won't reduce if billionares pay more, this will never happend.
@@Henrique-bz3ch high corporate tax rates incentivizes hiring more people since any money spent on hiring and wage expenses is tax deductible while if it was retained as profit it would be subject to those high tax rates
The myth that low tax rates incentivizes investment in the business makes no sense if you have any understanding of how business taxes work
@@Smagasins I have an understanding, that is why i am saying this, it doesn't even make ANY sense that taxes is an incentive to companies, here in Brazil companies are afraid to get big and not survive the absrud taxes, you don't know absolutely nothing you are talking about, probably because you live in a country that don't apply this and don't know how bad it actually is. The government doesn't deserve more money coming from anyone, everybody should pay less taxes, besides the government nobody earns something by paying more taxes.
Instructions unclear: I am now living in Zimbabwe and I am a billionaire
I’m sorry that you’re so poor
bros a quadrillionare
That’s less than like 40 cents
2 people dident get the joke💀💀
@@mah7294dident💀
"Six unlucky months" hit different.
My family was middle class up until 2008. Then everything went wrong rapidfire; my mother couldnt work as long because her disability was worsening, my father's business partner got cancer and died, and one of our cars gave up the ghost. All this amid the housing crisis, and we couldnt make our rent payments. If my dad's business partner hadn't known about our struggles and wrote us into his will to take his house, we might've been homeless. We frequently ate nothing but mcdoubles- the mcds by our house had a 50 cent special on them, and it got us through a little over a summer.
Me and my sister's college funds were liquidated to pay for the essentials. My mom eventually got laid off, and had to go on welfare. My dad got a maintenance job at target that really didnt pay much. It's been over ten years, and we still haven't really recovered. We may never recover.
America is full of stories like these and yet the majority of people will say shit like "the homeless deserve it, why dont they just work"
The system is so unbelievably broken and it saddens me that people refuse to see it. All the best for you and your family ✌🏼
Not that hard to get a better job.
@@ItalianoDio- obvious troll is obvious
@MC Hammer Yes they are.
@@ItalianoDio- Do you refer to yourself as “they”
I’ve listened to this 34 times in a row and I love it
Same
Why? This is awful
Kepler S H U T
@@Lennythethirdjr19789 I think you have a problem
@@kelpermoon23opinion invalid
The harsh truth never sounded so good
The sky is blue.
I sense no falsehoods in either of these statements.
Seems odd to celebrate the opposite of success. I mean what’s the point of living if you won’t live up to your potential because some idiot told you so?
@@Oogiddyboogway if you think being successful is just getting lots of money then that’s a you problem
Even tho it's coming from some one making 100's of not 1000 off this song
This reminds me so much of being trapped in the car with my dad, forced to listen to him explain trickle down economics as a positive when he himself was born into poverty 💀
I didn’t realize a pyramid could trickle economics down it.
OMG dad never told me about you. Nice to meet you! :D
Really good message and the song is a bop
Idk sounds like it supports stuff like government support. I don't like that.
@@derppoo3887 Well the song is right, your more likely to end up on welfare than become a milionaire- if things go terrible for you... injury, sudden disability, mental health crisis.....
You might not have a choice about using government support, regardless of your feelings about other people using it
@@ViewingChaos lol as a capitalist i always worried i would go broke and end up supporting the very thing i fight to destroy
All of the young people in the comments who think he's not talking to you are missing the point. "But im only 15, maybe there's still a chance" nope. You're never going to be a billionaire.
Yeah, it applies to them too lol. This level of wealth is generational, if it's not set up for you to inherit then you could be a newborn and this would still apply
Well the video isn’t directed at them, it’s directed to voting age
@@GameCatastrophe It’s also directed to future voters
@@GameCatastrophe one may argue that it's still talking to younger people as they will become of voting age one day
The array of pizzas was really well thought out, props
“No thank you, I’d rather defend people who don’t even know I exist.”
With that logic, I don't think Karl Marx would know you exist
@@angelo08280 Probably because he’s dead. Joke’s aside, it’s about power dynamics. Marx wouldn’t be able to sway politics or public opinion in his favor like billionaires did back then and still do. No person needs to be a billionaire, end of story.
@@teoman_acikgoz Ok I do agree that billionaires shouldn't exist, I was just questioning your logic back there
That logic could be applied in primitive societies of few hundred inabitants, but not modern ones there is simply too many people
@@NandoGarcia-q5h ?
"You won't ever be a billionaire"
Everyone in Monaco: You're right! We're trillionaires!
Facts
Truly one of the best things to show if you wanna give someone a reality check
This guy speaks from experience. He spent his billion on that Choir, band and stadium.
honestly, nobody should EVER have that much money
If they deserve it they should
@@dansmakes3553 no they do not. It is impossible to deserve a billion dollars.
@@anthonypena3322how are you going against both sides here "what are you gonna do about it?" Yet also "nobody deserves that much" make up your mind
@@anthonypena3322 guillotine
@@anthonypena3322 revolution
Andrew Tate has been real quiet since this dropped 😳
He scared😮😮
Fr fr😂
Andrew Tate started so broke he ate kfc leftovers from random trays. If he could do it we can do it too.
@@JohnAprile I have no doubt that your right. I was just making a comment. I’m not dissing on Andrew Tate or anything.
@@JohnAprile No, you can't. If you're here wasting your time in youtube comment sections and watching Andrew Tate, you will never be rich. No way in hell.
Im in a business class and we were given a packet that talked about how becoming a billionaire is becoming the norm and I'll never understand what that article was going on about
thats odd
Yeah I think there’s probably only around 5000 billionaires at most in the world. Maybe they were talking about companies.
Becoming the norm for corporate executives maybe
If only voters in America cared this much about each other
In America you get to pick between the party controlled by billionaires that want to nuke Russia. and the party controlled by billionaires that want to nuke China. I sure do love voting its so important!
@@pohatuthereactor1693 yeah lol they are the options because that's who Americans vote for because they hate each other.
@@pohatuthereactor1693well if I had to choose China is doing more for us so Russia it is
@@pohatuthereactor1693And thats why the 2 party system should straight up not exist
@@shadowbonbon3 I'd choose China because of how potentially large their army can be. I'm surprised they haven't just turned on "World Domination" mode yet. However, China is also most of our supplies... yea, it's a lose-lose situation. Pick your poison.
Actually good advice and good wake up to reality
Love this man's dedication to record himself with like 15 different outfits.
To all the people saying that billionaires deserve to keep their money if they earned it: No one earns a billionaire dollars fairly. The only way to ever accrue that much wealth is through worker exploitation, wage theft, tax evasion, or other immoral financial activities.
In the United States, the top 1% income “earners” own over a third of all the wealth in the country. And that hoarding and stagnation of wealth by the richest few literally takes wealth away from other people. The 1% are getting richer by taking money away from the middle class and keeping the lower class impoverished.
There’s only so much money in the world, and more money cannot be made without causing inflation, decreasing the value of everyone’s money. Wealth needs to be continuously circulating in order for the economy to function properly. Taxes need to be proportionally higher the greater someone’s wealth is to ensure that money keeps flowing.
Billionaire apologists in the United States will point to the federal income tax as “proof” that billionaires are paying their fair share or even being burdened unfairly. But the reality is that when considering taxes overall, the billionaires actually pay the lowest overall tax rate. That needs to change, or the wealth gap will keep increasing - which, again, means that the 50% of the population who are middle class get poorer while the 1% who are ultra-wealthy get richer.
If you are watching this video, you are almost definitely middle class or part of the third of the population who are lower class. Raising taxes on billionaires and the top 1% can only help you. And if by some chance you’re in the other 19% of the upper class, you still aren’t the ones being talked about here.
It might be immoral, it might be wrong, You might be bending rules, but if you have over 1 bil without a criminal record, you have done something right, and if the law allows it I'd say it's "fair"
JEFF BEZOS GOT HIS CHILD TAX CREDIT IN 2011!!! HE DOESN'T PAY TAXES AT ALL WHILE HIS WORKERS EARN $19 AN HOUR AND HAVE TO SCRIMP TO MAKE RENT WHILE THE GOVT TAKES $400 A MONTH FOR GOVT SERVICES THAT HELP BEZOS MORE THEN THEMSELVES.
"If your were- your probably already be there"
Me who isnt even out of college yet... "thanks mate"😢
I mean if you’re going to become rich you’re parents already need to be rich for you to become even more rich. So yeah you’d probably already be there
Bruh, you'd be lucky to make 70k after college.
@@EmotionsNeverLie you’re lucky to make 50k.
@@elephantguy0790 lol I was about to say. 70k shooting a lil high there.
@@EmotionsNeverLie 70k income ? I am confused since I don't see how this is relevant to becoming super rich. Like income is nice and all but if we are talking about people becoming million/billionaires there income is like a drop in the bucket. Investments, businesses and general wealth management is a lot more important than.
i used to go to school with legitimate billionaires (whos family literally owned the entirety of some gas company) unless theyre left out of the will theyll likely start out filthy rich and not even need to work for anything further XD
lifes not fair
@@Ramurray33 huh
what are you saying?
even if theyare left out of the will they'll probably still be filthy rich jut from the contacts that such a life brings
@@fairystail1 ikr
It’s not fair but it’s not wrong, be the difference. Anyone can create generational wealth if you’re young. I’m sure that families wealth started somewhere.
@spigbungus Generation wealth isn't specifically the issue, no, but A. It means nothing in the scale of skills. You aren't better than someone else just because you start on economical third base. And B. Yes that wealth started somewhere, but often that somewhere was highly exploitative of other people.
Ngl… even if I was rich I would still vote to increase taxes for the 1%. Only people without souls wouldn’t.
@@yourmatriarchalparent867 would you not?
@@yourmatriarchalparent867 then your soulless.
@@hyperswag506he's just thinking that he shouldnt be more taxed if he had a billion dollars than he is rn
Agreed. I wouldn't miss a million dollars or two, even ten, if I had a thousand millions.
Yeah no. Taxes already too high. Let's have less programs
This slaps EAT THE RICH
facts comrade
We can never eat the rich as long as the government hasn't been eaten first
I agree
Everybody says that until they become rich and then they say don’t eat rich
@@Spidermanspiderman3923lmao thats a cool fanfiction, to become rich you already have to start wealthy.
Never have I ever been so degraded by such a catchy and truthful song
Same I feel offended
There is no shame in not being a beneficiary of exploitation, long live the REVOLUTION! Peace be amongst us and war to our masters.
Being a Billionaire makes you a sociopath. Consider it a compliment
Hey man, its only true if you believe the lyrics
“You would probably already be there” literally!!! Do people not realise a lot of billionaires started off already in the millions?
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 they all had starting capital from their families. Stop eating the boot.
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 they didnt make 100 billion. They had capital to invest at the right time and Extract surplus value out of ideas and Work of others. Working hard doesnt make ypu a billionaire. You ate the Propaganda. They are not on your side, they are not your friends, you wont be them, no matter how ,,hard" you work. Stop simping for them, it makes you seem like a proud little slave defending their Masters.
Ps: i have a great job and am pretty well off. I just hate the myth that billionaires got their wealth soley from hard work.
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 could you be more of a cliche?
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 elon bought himself into Tesla, pushed out the founders and didnt invent any of the patents they hold. He leeched of the hard work and innovation of others.
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 and you complain abou being insulted after calling me lazy without knowing anything about me. Smh.
I love the lack of backround music and just the clapping. It has something more real to it, I guess?
Plus, probs to him for wearing so many different outfits and editing this video, besides the obvious probs for writing it and having this message
Plus the beautiful violins
@@nataliebrown7673 you mean the background music? Lol I think this person only watched the first like 10 seconds
@@nickromo8195 yeah but they said lack of background music lol
Kinda low effort content tbh. Thats why he's never gonna have any more than maybe 10k in the bank at any moment.
@@nickromo8195 oh yeah I get you, probably. The violin doesn’t come in til later... but I honestly didn’t notice it until the other commenter brought it up!
Imagine a future billionaire watching this
I can’t get it out of my head.
What? It is a song you donut
Same
Same
I’ve looked everywhere but couldn’t find anything
24 likes is the most you’ve gotten? 😐
boutta send this to my man Greg Heffley
Ong bro already knows he gonna be filthy rich
Nah Greg is built different
Lol
LMAO
juan??
The guy: You wont ever be a billionaire
Inflation: im about to end this mans whole career
A million dollars for a loaf of bread!? What a great deal!!!
Just go to Venezuela and convert currency
Easy
@@1nfinite4ce or argentina works too if u have over 50k dollars or more tbh
@@vlader1743 or zimbabwe
@@RalphInRalphWorld that suppose to be a post ww1 germany joke
this guy : wtf is the bourgeoisie
well the bourgeoisie is shrinking because of the rich, so..
"Already be there" sir i haven't finished school yet
Exactly
Still correct
Same 👁️👄👁️
@George Cornwall wait a second he has a point
But also my dad and mom are rich but they don't give me much money cause they don't wanna raise an untitled brat and they apparently succeeded cause i don't except money at all
@@xkancho oh really i am not an American lmao i know Russian spanish some french and fluent in arabic
And fluent in english too
Just not good at grammer in general sense i have bad memory which doesn't let me remember the rules
“You won’t ever be a billionaire”
People in Zimbabwe:
_are you sure about that?_
Bruh the people im Zimbabwe barely use their own money, they just use foreign currency mostly.
@@MimosaPrime oh I didn’t realize that, it would probably be very hard to use their currency anyway
@@stealth6308 oh yeah, basically they printed so much of their own currency that it's become obsolete, istg a million Zimbabwean dollars can't get you a loaf of bread. It's been printed so much its worth nothing, hence why the inhabitants of Zimbabwe use other currencies.
The fact that you just explained the joke in the first comment. And failed to understand. Comedy is dead. Lol
@@Super503Dank I'm gonna pull a real shithead move and say "comedy is subjective"
"you won't ever be a billionaire" man saying it like i don't already know
as long as I'm healthy, alive and can throw cinderblocks at a rich person's expensive car on the highway, im as rich as i could ever be
i got nothing to lose since i dont have anything to begin with
it doesn't take millions/billions to make me happy
based
based
so unbelievably real
@@Smicc Colonel sanders arent you a billionaire since you own kfc?
@@joshispro345i died in 1980
This is so good! Make this a full song please! We all need it!
I only want to be a millionaire so I can finally be financially stable.
I dont need fancy cars or a mansion or gucci or whatever.
I just want to be able to afford food AND rent....
is it not a bit unreasonable that you have to be still pretty god damn wealthy just to actually afford the basics of life?
@@sethbrisby9312 yeah its stupid.
If you are wealthy, you can enjoy even the basics like clothes and food and maybe a house.
But if you are not, you have to work 80 hours weeks pr get into a specialty in order to survive.
But then you can't enjoy life.
For one, you are constantly working, so no time.
And then most of your money goes to living anyway...
It's dumb, thats why I want to be more financially stable.
I dont want to be a billionaire, I just want to be able to afford to live..
@@novalopez3068 that's what we all want... To live comfortably, with the basic necessities met. Unfortunately, so many in the US (and around the world) don't have these things, even working a full time job. Which is why we need to keep fighting for a big increase of the minimum wage, universal healthcare, etc. Those two things are really the bare minimum, but it would be a great start!
@@novalopez3068 my dad makes 90 thousand a year and we’re pretty comfortable, I go to a nice school we have a house on the beach, we have a house in North Carolina aswell, so you don’t have to be a millionaire to be comfortable
@@DonnyDrake06 Not while you work but you do need it to retire.
Too many people need to hear this. It's like millions of people are all thinking "Sure, life sucks _right now,_ but some day, I'll just magically get super rich, and then I'll get richer and richer, and when that happens, I don't want to give up a single cent of MY wealth!"
The worst part is that even though they are living in worse conditions now, possibly in poverty, thinking this way proves wouldn't appreciate the staggering change to their life just being a _millionaire_ would bring, always wanting even more, never happy for as long as they live, a yawning, black void of suicidal greed where their heart should be.
thats deep dang
Yea I’m sorry the government is your parents and even if it had the funds to be like your parents it would never ever spend money in a smart manner. Right now the government is already in debt and you’re idea is to give up more of your freedoms so they can, what? Raise taxes on you today for a false promise of financial benefits when you’re 60? Did you know today if the government sized the entire 1% net worth they would spend every last cent of it within the year? They’re fucking dumb and the only one who cares about you is your family and yourself.
And yet peoples only excuse is "Its stealing!! Poor people are just jealous!!" When they literally lobby against making a 9-5 job a living wage and constantly find aays around paying taxes that build the infrastructure you stand on.
Not just lobby, Americans actively protest living wages.
I lived there.
They cut the hours and make the workers compete and call all kinds of jobs 'starter jobs'
Surprised that i cant find more people talking about how this song is just a bop.
I keep coming back to this one. Need a full version, so good!
I don't know, i have 25 pence or cents.
@@I-dont_love-balls no need to flex
@@United.Kingdom. I know, I'm rich
@@I-dont_love-balls tell me your ancient ways
@@United.Kingdom. I grew up watching nothing and started a company at 6 years old fainting 1 pence a day and now after 69 days I have 25 pence because math is gay
“Unless you invest in crypto and nfts”
-Gary V probably
@@joaquinvideo2959 do I need to explain the joke?
@@joaquinvideo2959 i think the joke flew right over your head bud lmao
What about nFt?
@@joaquinvideo2959 "🤓"-🤓
This is a brilliant message, fr tho.
Considering that the billionaires that exist now are some of the most abhorrent people in America, I really don't think I'd want to be a billionaire anyways. It's literally saying you wanna be a real-life supervillain, and not the fun, campy, queercoded kind.
Fuck that I'd love to be a billionaire, I never will be but god damn yo I just wouldn't ever make myself a public figure I'd live as privately as possible and donate most of what I earn to charity, I'd want to have a regular ass house, and a regular ass car.
Problem is if ur this filthy rich you know ways to dodge the taxes
Many billionaires are no villains you only hear about the villains.
@Red Shuriken RLSH true.
I don't give a fuck. Let me be the main villain; all I want is to live comfortably with my mother and brother
This song is a straight banger
I KNOW RIGHT
I want financial stability in my life. I don't need a billion to achieve that.
True dat.
The billionaires provide it by giving us all jobs though
@@KayOScode and we provide them the all the labor so they can get rich off exploiting us for our work
@@ahzayoc1207 if it werent for them, wed get nothing though. Its called sharing profits. Providing the job is providing value, even if they keep lots of money too
@KayOS Code he is talking about big companies exploiting workers like Amazon not giving a damm if their workers live or die and forcing them to work or be fired in disasters. However, gain no bonus/hazard pay for it. They also fire you for trying to start a union to help gain rights/protection. They only care about themselves not their workers.
A company with just a couple is useless, but a company without a ceo isn't. For a more relatable example, just think about McDonald's with or without a manager. Without it, nothing goes out of place, and it runs smoothly, but with only just a manager, you only have 1 person working everything.
I'd like to be a millionaire, but you can't be a billionaire without exploiting people, I believe it's genuinely impossible
“You’d probably already be there”
Me at thirteen: okay i guess I’m broke for the rest of my life then
Guys this is a *joke*
you can be relatively better ofc i doubt you'd want to be a billionaire anyway. a life so isolated and full of nothing but material greed would be sad
Better you find out now if I'm being honest.
The point is that people who get that 100 plus million pretty much have to be born there or very close to it
I mean you're still young, so learn what you can. You still have a bright future ahead of you, work hard, but always remember to still do things you enjoy! We might never be billionaires, but having pride in what we do, and staying happy is what really matters in the end!
15 but yeah like I don't even have a job yet
Thanks for the encouragement man 😞
There's a difference between encouragement and lying to someone about what they can achieve
Your welcome
How many billionaires have there even been in history? Divide that number by the non billionaires... You'll see real quick what the chances are. (That is just a quick and simple ignorant example)
I honestly only wish to be like my grandfather, fairly wealthy, being able to travel on a whim and not have a single trouble with the law.
Just being able to be with my family whenever i please but still love and enjoy my work until the day i finally kick the bucket.
I don't wanna work myself to death, i wanna enjoy what i do until the day my lights finally go out.
Fuck being ultra rich that just brings you into trouble no matter what you do.
Good dream. I hope you live it.
even the chance of that is small.
Exactly, I literally just want stable healthcare and to be able to take a vacation every other year, and to help my parents.
@@fruityblue9784 every other year? why not every year?
I'm so depressed haven't had positive money in the account to save or spend on myself for years. I actually hate living like this my cats and gf deserve better but I'm just working a job I hate making minimum wage. So many times I've considered just growing weed because I'd do a good job , be passionate about it and make money. But then I'm risking the little I have. What's the point of life someone please educate me because all I've done is work since I was 11 and have nothing.
“Go get some inspiration”
The first thing you see:
When the people have nothing left to eat, they shall eat the rich
Napoleon
Yep. Just ask France.
@@wordforger O.O
what about the cake...
Well they are literally useless to us, they're levers of power that could be replaced with anyone. They don't employ us, their businesses they sold to shady people do. They don't put the food on our table, we do, after all they get the money from our work.
Awful lot of fat… and just where it sat
i don't understand how people think they could really be part of the 1% without being born into it.
I worked with a 17 yr old at Subway that thought the rich deserved tax cuts because he "might" get rich one day and "need" those cuts, like, he lived in a richer part of town, but it was still not a rich enough town to get there, also, not a single person in the 1% EVER worked in fast food
Look it up only 20% of wealthy americans were born into wealth. Also, you'll find that the most common way of people making there money is providing you with life changing technology and advancements . If you want to be wealthy you have to do it intentionally it's not just going to happen.
@@thelogicalfallacy hey bestie, did you only skim the one article you looked up, because what I looked up said that about 20% of wealthy americans Received Inheritance, which is only one (1) part of being rich, connections are how people get and stay rich, and unless 80% of wealthy americans are no contact with their parents, it's more than 20% that were Born into Wealth. It also looks like that statistic is only coming from one source because any other source that has that number references back to one article. Plus, if that statistic was 100% true, this video would be 100% wrong and there would be a very good chance that anyone could be a billionaire
@@jestyr5979 Hey I appreciate you looking into it. The 20% statistic comes from a lot of different places it seems. I found a BLS government report that also finds the same number. And honestly I understand contact's are a big part of being rich, but if your not trying to build something for yourself why would you need contacts? The rich aren't bad most of the time they get rich by providing us with goods and services that have overall improved our lives. And there are plenty of contacts available to you its called the internet. Anyone can be rich and in fact some will granted for a short time. The top and the bottom aren't stagnet but ever moving.
Ray Kroc, The founders of Burger King, Colonal Sanders.
besides the awesome lyrics, this song is really good fr
I just wanna be a thousandaire personally
Baby: gets born
This guy: You won't ever be a billionare
I mean, statistically he'd be right.
Don't really mind, I'll just be happy as long as I can afford not to worry about being able to buy my weekly groceries
The realness.
The apathy...
Fair enough
Hell I'm nearly there. I'm actually there, I just need to plan a bit better. I don't know why I'm telling you this. I guess your comment somehow made me realise I'm actually kinda lucky or something, thanks random person on RUclips ✌🏼
Please don’t forget to vote in your state and local city elections
I’ve never been so offended by something i 100% aggree with
He looks like pastor Jeff from young Sheldon
Well, to reach the 1% you need an annual income of 450,000 +
Came here to say this. There is a big difference between top 1% and billionaires.
@@cmckee42 Okay but when people or politicans talk about raising taxes they usually refer to the the 1% (450,000 a year) which is way more possible than a million imo
@@subspacestudios3870 exactly, the people making $450,000 a year don't have a significant impact on income inequality. People in that income bracket are moderately successful entrepreneurs, and mid to upper management of mid to large sized companies. Taxing those people is very different that taxing the people rich enough to live comfortably off the interest of thier existing wealth.
@@cmckee42 I know but Joe biden raised taxes on $450,000+ not just the billionares
@@subspacestudios3870 yeah, because taxing the 1% income level is easier and sounds better that actually fixing the tax code.
The bridge of that song has already come true in Australia now since Covid. Great song. I almost called it a jingle; There used to be jingles --like Randy Newman used to write for Dr Pepper-- you are so talented. And bold too. Good on y'a!!
"If there is going to be class warfare in this country, it's about time the working class won that war." Bernie Sanders, 2019
Frfr he should have been elected in 2021
@@plutolunaplays *2016
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 “reds killed millions”
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 For one, rich people did not earn that money. Unless you want to tell me that Jeff Bezos delivers every Amazon package, or that Elon Musk makes every Tesla, then they simply did not perform the actions that caused them to make money. All they did was claw their way to the top of the food chain in order to boss the boots on the ground around and siphon the profit away from them. Secondly, Venezuela was never communist. They were socialist at most, but the reality is that their downfall is a lot more complicated than "socialism no iPhone". Corruption was rampant in the government, and misguided decisions meant that they abused and over relied on their primary export (oil) and paid the price for it. However, Venezuelan socialism had many benefits, such as greatly increasing the literacy rate. Also, isn't it crazy to think that every self proclaimed communist country has also been an authoritarian dictatorship, which is against the communist principle of democracy? However, when you look at the countries with policies like those that Sanders supports, they are doing the best in the world (like norway or denmark). Your brainwashed red scare ideology means nothing in the face of facts and actual, complicated history.
@@thereisacatnexttothisname9388 So do you think that musk should have only been paid once, when he started the company? Or if his job is to hire people, then should he be paid as much as the recruiters for his companies? And about Norway, this is where you've failed. Because on one hand, you call Bernie Sanders a socialist. But on the other hand, you call Norway not socialist. Bernie Sanders wants America to be more like Norway. So which is it? Also, education and criminal justice are not outside factors. They are government services, paid for by taxpayer money. You can't have it both ways. Also, it's incredible how you keep linking me internet cartoons instead of making an actual argument.
The last frame is so wholesome