This Is Why You're Poor
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We've all heard poverty described as a "mindset" or a "moral failing," but those claims don't hold up to scrutiny when you start to look into it. In this episode we'll take a look at the real causes of poverty, and why it persists in capitalist economies.
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Hakim’s video
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My video on meritocracy
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My video on recessions
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My video on Elon Musk (collab w/ More Perfect Union)
• How Elon Musk Got Rich...
Poverty and recessions
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Ten wealthiest men doubling their wealth during the pandemic
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23% of workers work in low paying jobs
data.oecd.org/earnwage/wage-l...
Over 400,000 Americans work two full-time jobs. And nearly 8 million Americans have two or more job positions
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
Over 7 million Americans are working part-time involuntarily
money.cnn.com/2014/11/20/news...
Low wage work characteristics
poverty.ucdavis.edu/sites/mai...
Rent unaffordability
www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/full-... www.congress.gov/116/meeting/...
The cost of fuel and utilities
www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/ma...
The cost of healthcare
www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/ameri...
Dr. Devon Price on laziness in the office
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The history of laziness
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Why Americans Hate Welfare
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Reserve army of labor explained
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jacobin.com/2021/02/laziness-...
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I firmly believe that we need to implement a sick leave as well as maternity & paternity leave programs for all workers in this country. I personally feel that every time worker in this country regardless of their job should be guaranteed at least 2 weeks of sick leave & 2 weeks vacation per year. In addition to guaranteed sick leave, we also need to allow both mothers & fathers who just had a baby to be guaranteed time off with pay as well, so that way businesses can ensure that their employees at all levels can come into work feeling their best & contributing their best physically and mentally everyday.
Finally, I firmly believe that "Working Poor" should not be a thing! If you work full time every week of the year, you shouldn't be living at or below the poverty line in this country! Hence why I feel there should be a Universal Basic Income for every American citizen above the age of 16 based on what the poverty level is so that way no one who works full time should have to financially struggle to get by.
I once saw this image that said that if someone lived for 80 years & earned an average of $5,000.00 every day of their life, they still wouldn't be a billionaire, but rather have about $150,000,000.00. At the bottom of the image was a line that said that no one works to become a billionaire. So yeah, we should be taxing multi-millionaire & billionaire individuals & corporations in this country more then we currently are! And if you want to argue that taxes shouldn't be raised on the wealthy & corporations, how can you defend them when they send their U.S. dollars to other countries so they can't be taxed & help fund domestic programs to help poor people here in the U.S.?
We need Medicare-For-All in The United States! What's more "pro-life" then ensuring everyone living here has guaranteed affordable healthcare regardless of their job? If we all had access to healthcare, we would have the "freedom" to live long lives without having to worry about medical bankruptcies. Taxes will go up, but overall medical bills will go down. If some of us need additional healthcare, then we have the "choice" to purchase private insurance. If every other developed country (Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, & New Zealand) can implement this system & save money, then why can't The United States do the same to help "Make America Great Again" for everyone when it comes to healthcare? & If people in The United States die from lacking access to affordable health insurance then we are failing our country's promise of defending "life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" for its citizens as well as "promoting the general welfare" of everyone living here.
Price gouging of pharmaceutical drugs already makes no sense to me; if you as a company charge medications so much that many potential customers can't afford them, then how are you going to make money off those medications in the long-term with only the wealthy top percentage of the population being able to afford them? Personally, I feel the federal government needs to have some form of price control to ensure that we don't pay an absurd amount for prescriptions compared to other developed countries. If a bottle of pills in say Germany costs $6.00, that same bottle of pills shouldn't cost more then 50% extra here in the U.S., which would be $9.00 in this case. I'm not saying pharmaceutical companies don't deserve to make profit for their research & development, but they shouldn't be able to charge insane prices for their life saving products that most uninsured Americans can't afford.
Make a YT channel; you would do well.
Edit: I mean the bloke with the 4 comments
When you work 10hrs a day, 5 days a week and still cannot pay rent, insurance, medical and food. It’s a wages problem, not a work harder problem 🤷♀️
Truth. . .💯
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without parties or politicians. Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
Thorium energy renders their global energy monopoly obsolete
make more money then
The government needs to create a "government option" for all sectors, offering them at a somewhat loss. This will incentive lazy capitalist ceos to work harder, and make their product better so we chose them over the cheap govt option.
Plus a govt option of essential services would add more secure jobs to the economy
@@dontmindmeimjustchilling No doubt that the government option would be better by a mile for some time lol
The HARDEST I've ever worked was for the lowest wages
Yup same. My unionized city job pays me a lot more than my event security job, which sometimes has me literally catching full sized humans (crowd surfers) for just above minimum. I love doing it and i get paid to be at concerts i'd normally be paying to see, it'd just be nice to get paid a bit more for it.
This is because you aren't paid by how hard you worked, you are paid by how valuable the work is perceived as OR by how easy it is to replace you. SOME very physically demanding jobs pay really well. Most do not.
Same! My desk job is less work than retail or restaurant jobs I ever had and dont have to worry about my feet throbbing at the end of the day
@@JustownerI worked very hard as a cashier at McDonald's for 3 years. I made $8.50/hr.
I can't negotiate for $15/hr on my own. Not without a minimum wage increase or unions.
Plus I was kept part-time to avoid being eligible for benefits like health insurance.
I was a cashier, I had no bargaining power on my own to force my employees to provide health insurance.
Working in Sweden, my boss told me in my first month that a colleague was starting a union club (people are in different unions, but you can work together within your company). She said I should join, it's very advantageous for employees
That's the kind of boss everyone should have
As an American, I'm speechless. Your boss suggested it??
@@junicornplays980 yes.
@@junicornplays980right! My boss said he would shut down his business if his workers unionized.😂
It's very different in the US. Even the mention of unionizing will often result in the people responsible getting fired and blacklisted. Businesses have an iron grip on most work here in the US. There are laws on the books in most states that undermine any attempts at collective bargaining, and dishonest practices by businesses pick up the slack.
We are arguably one of the least free countries in the world when it comes to labor, and it has been getting worse. The only way I can make more than 11 or 12 dollars an hour (Basically minimum wage in my area of the US.) is if I am working overtime, and the overtime is often mandatory to maintain the job.
Or you know. Not have a boss period and have everyone working in unity instead. We just love perpetuating the system they want you to stay in.
My partner just had a meeting with their employer which amounted to, 'we can't give anyone a raise but you should be glad we're not laying you off, so keep working hard!' This multi-billion dollar international corporation says it can't afford raises while the top of the company make record profits. This is why you shouldn't put in any more effort than is necessary to complete your work.
Is it Jaff Bazels?
@@andreyhenriquethomas9554 nah, some company in Italy.
Two things to consider- the book It can’t happen here and the movie Office Space- Capitalism has trapped Americans with a false narrative about their own value and possibility
Simple corporation + profits = corporate commercial greed. Hog up most of assets for top 1% without sharing more with employees who labored to manufacture the business or company. It's as ancient as the world itself. But thank God, I labored for a company business that shared a bit more with its employees including benefits, time off, paid leave depending on circumstances, paid time & a half on holidays & more incentives for excellent job performance.
@@andreyhenriquethomas9554No, I think you're referring to Jeff Bezos who is the chief executive officer or president (top guy) at Amazon which is a major company that also conducts on-line commerce. He is 1 of the richest men on the planet.
It’s crazy that the rich expect that the working class be “more productive” when they are the ones both working them to death, and paying them nothing.
Also they wonder why aren't younger people having kids it exactly because of this in Japan the reason people don't have kids it's because of it work culture that have people overworked and underpaid
Quite often the rich have never experienced a single day of pure humility. Ever seen a video of a rich group going camping? Does not even qualify as camping when they practically lug their house along.
The more productive you are. The more money the rich will extract from you.
and they are the ones literally not working
Slavery was never abolished, it just morphed and adjusted its pressure points.
I love Andrew Tate saying "NEVER chill, NEVER take a break, I'm either WORKING or SLEEPING" literally while sitting on his ass flapping his lips.
Not only that...he literally made his money by manipulating, exploiting and abusing other people. He sold his videos to insecure misguided men, and also told them it was ok to disrespect and use women... actually told them to become pimps. He's awful...a sociopath.
Andrew Tate is evil
Podcast bros after doing nothing all day and just recording themselves saying bigoted things and inventing pyramid schemes to make a quick buck: I'm working so hard bro trust me I'm hustling
@ikhanum the only thing right now to do is to educate yourself. These videos, and the deprogram are a good start, but whats important is to be well read and educated about previous communist revolutions and the ways capitalism is destroying us. Luckily the best thing for a revolution is popular uncontentedness, and capitalism provides plenty of that! If you are well read enough, you can redirect peoples unhappiness onto the state, and then you'll eventually have another revolutionary!
@@helpanimals- Jail is too kind for Tate
Native Americans thought the colonizers way of life was bat shit crazy because of the amount of work it took to support. The also though the colonizers were heartless because there were so many poor people living in their towns. When the colonizers first interacted with the Natives, they were surprised that there wasn't a pauper amongst them. But the colonizers called us lazy and claimed we weren't using our land and didn't work much because we lived a very different, more sustainable life than they did.
I often wonder how native Americans would have evolved had they been left undisturbed, their way of life sounds so peaceful and relaxing, meanwhile most Americans now are severely depressed.
Free The Land! Land Back! U.S out of Turtle Island!
That's so sad.
I am a young Zimbabwean immigrant living in a slum in South Africa ,today I was fetching firewood with my mother from a dumping site nearby ,my mother and I were each pushing a wheelbarrow each filled with heavy wood .As we were minding our own we needed to cross the road and in our tiredness a white SUV pulled up next to us. A lady wearing sunglasses rolled down her partially tinted windows and eyed us up and down .I asked if she was lost and whether she needed directions ,she scoffed at me and told me that our disgusting shanty town was stinking up the nearby golf course ,She told me to sceace my idleness and get a real job and to work ten times harder mind u I was sweating profusely almost having broke my back pushing a wheelbarrow through a kilometer of sand. In that moment I was glad my mother wasn't fluent in English ,sorry to bother u with the long story but this video put things into perspective. Stay blessed.🙏
@@kylezo It was an odd experience for me too.😂😂😂 I don't think she was trying to be evil our slum is encroaching on their exclusive golf course ,So she might be right.😂😂😂😂
I would love for every disgraceful excuse for a human being like that woman to live like a poor person for just a year and see how they like it. I sincerely hope life may get better for you one day.
@diarmuidkuhle8181 A whole year? I wouldn't bet on them surviving even a single day
@@kylezosounds about white to me 🤷♀️
Think of all the people who yell get a job about homeless people on Fox News. Or pull themselves up by their own boot straps 😮
Hoo boi! I'm surprised you didn't yeet the wheelbarrow right through her window...
Nothing made me want to punch someone more than working a 50-80 hour work week, and then being told I can't pay my bills because I was "too damn lazy."
It's called just-world fallacy.
work harder then
@@solushyperborea "No one cares, Work Harder"
Let me tell you something, if the US were to end up a communist regime, it won't be because of the success of the ML's and people like second thought.
It will be because of people like you.
@@RuyGedares_GuyRedares it wont tho
and if it does idc because im from sweden
@@solushyperborea Does your rhetoric even help in trying to remove the soc-dem-ishness from Sweden?
Probably not.
And people like you there are a dozen here in the US.
If you don't like communism or socialism, you should totally care.
This man is doing great work to teach the world the truth about how rich capitalists fuck over everyone else.
And that momentum has been growing since the 70s, rolling since the 19th century and so on.
He's doing wonders. I always recommend new comrades his channel, and it's always a surprise when I see baby leftists in public who already know him. He is making an impact
@@polihaysegive it time comrade, time and agitation
@@polihayse Maybe it's just where I live. (The Netherlands), but nearly everyone I know is leftist. My friends, my manager, my co-workers. They're all in their 40s or younger.
@@tonttu7979 I’m estimating 2029 is when things really hit the fan for the US. I feel (hope) that that year is going to be one of the breaking points where enough people realize that “business as usual” doesn’t work anymore and start rioting
The maddening part is that we've been battling this EXACT line for centuries. The argument that welfare = laziness literally has not changed since the days of line armies and cholera.
Here's one example. I'm currently researching land disputes and population clearance in Scotland. One major landlord was in the habit of giving rent-free accommodation to the poor, which got him heavily criticised by contemporaries. A minister, no less, had this to say in 1845: "Here, therefore, at the very door, is exhibited a significant exemplification of one of the most important truths of political economy - that the more prominently you hold out the prospect of making provision for people, and do actually provide for them, you tamper with the salutary spirit of independence, and in so far help to widen the domain of pauperism.”
It's the EXACT SAME LINE as Thatcherism/Reaganism and modern hustle capitalists. We should not still be having to debunk propaganda from a time when people were throwing the contents of their chamberpots into the streets.
That Scottish minister almost certainly inherited wealth.
What was the Lord’s name? I’d like to read about this
Why shouldn't you have to debunk old arguments?
Our rulers aren't in power because they have the best arguments or even new arguments.
They are in political power because they have economic power.
Remember. The French revolution never dealt with the landlords. So all western civilization still has the feudal title system for land owners.
I spent alot of my childhood on welfare and section 8. I remember how much it felt like a holiday when we had fresh veggies at a chain grocery store because we had to basically eat from cans most of the time, brought from dingy stores that smelled like mold. Like seriously, going to a place like Safeway was such a rare occasion. When people say that living on welfare is living the high life i just stare at them.
Safeway? Isn't that a cheap store like Walmart?
@@tachobrenner walmart wasn't much of a thing when I was a kid where I was at. And yeah, it may have been cheap, but it didn't accept food stamps, or none of the ones did where I lived. Or so my mom said
@@tachobrennerNah, Walmart stuff is half the price of Safeway. They only started doing groceries full time in the late 80s in many stores. When I was a kid they mostly sold canned foods and non perishable stuff, not produce.
And back in the 80s and early 90s Safeway was one of the nicer grocery stores. Not rich people level groceries, but middle class and comfortable.
Winco is the one that started more trashy, I think?
All those name brand stores vary in quality depending on where you are. In my parents neighborhood, they are all higher end, because my parents are much wealthier than I am.
@@unluckyone1655sir, i had the exact same experience growing up as a kid in Canada. Going to Superstore was like Disneyland.
Fresh fruits and vegetables. Better than candy because they made me feel so good and happy inside.
These days, now that im an hvac foreman, there is always more than enough food everywhere in my home. And anyone can expect a full meal at my house.
My great grandmother suffered very badly during the holodomor. In her final years she suffered with dementia and started hiding food around the house. It was one of the saddest things I've ever seen.
Food insecurity has long lasting impacts on the people who experience it.
@@tachobrenner Safeway is just a normal grocery store
Nothing more American than telling people who are working well over 40+ hours a week just to cover rent and food are poor because they are lazy and unmotivated
It's called just-world fallacy.
people who believe this need to get hurt for it
I know its these older generations like my parents who say that fucked up shit telling me "I'm going downhill" and that "I'm upsetting them" for leaving a miserable technology company that treated me like shit & even my coworker who was fired for taking something that he needed and my parents got mad at me fuck them I was glad to leave that pos company and I'm not going back I'm doing what I want to do idgaf what my evil parents want FUCK THEM
I am the child of a workaholic. It was horrible because my dad sacrificed knowing me, having a social life, spending time with family for a job that wasn’t there at his funeral or even when he was dying. It reminds me of the caterpillar that gets consumed by the wasp larvae from the inside out and nothing is left but a dead husk.
I’m sorry he neglected you. A product of this toxic system and sadly not an uncommon story.
Yes😊
When I was younger, I used to buy into the lies of the capitalists & the system. At that time I was a recent university graduate looking for job. At first I spent time looking for the job I studied for and desired. After sometime and multiple rejections even though it was supposedly "entry level", I changed my direction and started looking for other entry level jobs, did some interviews, but as you can guess, this one failed too. No matter how many times I change/re-write my resume, it all ended with the same result..."Rejection". I fell into severe depression, anexity, suicidal thoughts and even did self harm cuz I believed that "I wasn't doing enough to secure a job or my social skills were bad, or I didn't know how to talk or....or...etc". I truly started believing that I'm just a "lazy, useless and worthless human that doesn't deserve to live", however, there was a tiny voice inside telling me "it's not my fault, I did the best I could & i should stop blaming myself". That was until I decided to learn about economic stuff & how this system truly works. The more I learned about the Capitalist system, the more I felt anger & disgust to how it promotes gaslighting & guilt trip cuz that's what's keeping it alive, otherwise if everyone started to learn the truth about it, it would collapse in no time.
There are also so many people all looking for the same job now even getting a job at Walmart is apparently hard for people now. Just too large of a population.. too much competition everywhere it seems. The only way to avoid that is find a niche somewhere doing something nobody else does.
@@elysiadawn Yeah, I think there are plenty of jobs out there, but we are only ever taught about the same limited amount - doctor, lawyer, vet, programmer, politician, plumber, etc. But the world is much more complicated than we think, and there are tons of job titles we never even hear of.
If you want to be rich just be born into an already wealthy family. It's not that hard folks.
Oh, twas that simple.. dammit, wait a min just getting a respawn asap
🤣Just roll better at the character selection screen next time, duh!
/kill all entities
Coin, connections, clout, cronies, computer code, control, communities, and opportunities are required for success. If you ain't rich, you ain't sheet. End of story. No exceptions.
The best way to make a million dollars continues to be "start with ten million dollars".
Fight Poverty...Not The Homeless. 👊🏿
@@ericcomp7032 Do you mean I should give my empty bedroom in the apartment I occupy to someone if I had one?
And investment companies like Blackrock buy up these homes and rent them out at stupid high prices. And then there's corporate landlords for apartments and they're the biggest reason why a studio goes for 4 figures
Exactly.
@@tachobrennerre you a landlord? Do you own that property? If you do, I hold you to a much higher standard.
If you own property, you have a huge leg up on the vast majority of the populace.
If you are just renting, you are only a few steps above the homeless.
It doesn't matter where you are, there is likely a nearly empty building that could home dozens, or hundreds that the owner is sitting on collecting some kind of tax benefit off of, keeping it empty or mostly empty because they CAN.
A person who has made or inherited billions has much more obligation to humanity, they would not have that money without people like me, and presumably you.
If you are renting, the standards I hold you to are: keep yourself secure, if you can manage, try to help others.
If someone has a broken leg, they should get it fixed before they walk a mile to help a stranger with two broken legs.
Billionaires could but a whole fleet of ambulances and give them all away and not notice the loss of money. If you or I had to pay for our own ambulance bill, we might not make rent
@@tachobrennerif you’re living there and using it, then no. This stat means empty rooms that are available to rent / own. I don’t know why they worded it this way
I told my stepdad that minimum wage doesn't allow people to even afford an apartment and he basically said they should just work harder so they get promoted or get a raise. its baffling.
they have no idea, boomers.
Most people are just morons unfortunately. Truly intelligent people figure out there's something very wrong with the system pretty early on and would never say things like that.
@@Arejen03Yeah, things were a lot different when they were young. Most are totally out of touch with how much the world's changed I guess.
My dad said pretty much the same thing,
But he KNOWS.
I wish I can simply become a veterinarian by studying and working hard alone, without considering university tuition nor student debts.
I live in a 3rd world country where it currently takes an average of 11 generations for a family to get out of poverty. Nobody can tell me all these people are lazy or just don't work hard enough
It's called just-world fallacy
It's even more grotesque when you hear the "if it doesn't pay enough, go get another job" line applied to care workers.
Why?
@@tachobrennerbecause if care work doesn’t pay well enough and people leave because of it, who takes care of the elderly?
@@mrgaudy1954exactly. It's nonsense.
Yeahhh the low-level care workers get screwed. They work so hard for around $15 an hour!
@@contentwatcher1629 15 dollars? I make 12...
Poverty is a lack of cash, NOT a lack of character.
Poverty shouldn’t exist
Poverty teaches character, wealth decadence.
@@sternleiche inequality*
Compared to a King in the tenth century we are all rich
@@sternleicheOoh, the Disney mindset! That's always fun. "Suffering makes you strong kid, don't you dare think of a better world grr 😡"
@@Uncanny_Mountain Rich is who has healthy food a roof over the head, work which benefits the community and trusty friends.
The amount of people I have known and heard of in my entire life who actually unironically think, feel, and believe that those who are poor or broke and thus in debt, starving, thirsty, homeless, miserable, in pain/hurt, injured, suffering, sick, hurting, or dying, et cetera, and therefore struggling to make ends meet are all somehow essentially "just totally asking/begging for it" or "deserving it" very deeply disturbs and chills me to the very core entirely to no end.
That's every right winger.
@@jeffs4483 Pretty much, yeah.
@@jeffs4483 dont make it a republican thing those democratic NYU scum act the same way they dress up poor but mommy and daddy all have money
@@aaronasencio9459 BOTH the Republicans AND Democrats are responsible for these problems, oftentimes the former more so than the latter (but not always). Both are right-wing, Capitalist parties, and are hired, bought, sold, traded, bribed, lobbied, sometimes even extorted/coerced (forced and/or threatened), and elected or appointed as puppets, pawns, and tools or weapons of oppression by and for the wealthy Capitalist elite ruling classes.
One thing I’ve noticed about conservatives is, they have very little compassion for human frailty.
Been poor my whole life. I work 70 hr weeks and I'm about to be homeless for the third time anyway. No drug or alcohol habits either. I've been sober for years. And not because I'm on probation. No felonies, no trips to rehab, no AA or NA. Just hard work on myself only to see it not be enough over and over again. Revolution is the only answer
^^^ THIS. I am literally the hardest working, most ethical, most self-accomplished individual I've ever known over the past 30+ years. No alcohol, no jail time, no evil deeds, no debt, no "crazy dumb choices" EVER. But I'm still essentially invisible, obscured, ignored, poor, and homelessness is on the near horizon. I'm also an award-winning author, but guess what? I have *ZERO* coin, connections, clout, cronies, computer code, control, communities, and opportunities. Decades of this. 💪😎✌️ I'M SUPER DONE. I have no chance, obviously. I made a pact to quit everything by EOY, 2026. Seriously, this ain't no threat, either; I'm exiting after that. 🙂 It'll be my pleasure. I've earned it.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat You should join like minded people and try to organize protests with or without violence. As an author you are in a better position to write inspiring work to motivate people to get into action because collective action is the only thing that is going to change anything. We need to revolt and I don't think peaceful revolutions work.
youre not gonna do shit boyo
@@Novastar.SaberCombat yeah im sure youre a great author...
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Look on the bright side. The way this world is going, you might not need to "exit" in 2026. We may all be dead by then anyway.
Did you go to school for political science/theory? As someone who did, even I’m impressed by the way you cover these topics so eloquently and still bring them down to a very palatable kitchen table discussion kind of level. Also, you should do voice over narrations, atp your voice is famous 😂
Nope! Journalism with a minor in film production, so I guess I ended up using my degree after all. Thanks for your kind words!
@@SecondThoughtno wonder your videos lack such basic factual analysis
@@terme-nator_alright,
Provide some counterpoints.
👀
@@terme-nator_
You still have to admit "lazyness" is post-hoc rationalization.
Poor people aren't lazy in general. Rich people aren't hard working in general.
When I was a kid I used to believe that poverty is just an obstacle that we as a species are yet to overcome and through collective efforts we will overcome it someday. But I have come to realize that we as a society have chosen not to get rid of it and that there are a lot of people actively trying to maintain this broken system.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven
@@nicholasgutierrez9940usually I approve of this quite because of Evangelicals telling me gay people go to Hell, but I appreciate the application to the mega rich pulling strings.
chatGPT: in the future, money & credits & crypto will be no longer be necessary in facilitating trade. It will simply be irrelevant to do so. This is speculation however, and I am a dumb language model, so I asked a more powerful AI and this is what it told.
@@nicholasgutierrez9940is this a quote from something or is it yours because it's really good!!
@marsfeathers I think it's from dante's inferno
I went through a Andrew Tate phase where I thought the reason I was poor was because of my inability to hustle through my life. I went through depression after grinding through three part-time jobs. I'm so glad I got out of that phase.
now that you're out of it, why do you thing you were attracted to these ideas oor way of thinking in the first place? and do you think you still hold some of it?
i'm happy for you and proud of you bro. you stepped out of the matrix, which is a very real thing but not what his fans think it is. most of his fans never will but thats ok, we need to celebrate the ones that do. the matrix is a an advertising campaign designed by tate for tate's financial benefit.
being able to escape his matrix is a very rare and very valuable accomplishment and makes you an exceptionally valuable person in our society. you have the tools and the knowledge to help others get out of his matrix, and prevent others from going in. i really hope you extend your hand to others when you have the chance, the power you have is so much more significant than you know.
So sad the amount of damage he has done to vulnerable men. Props to you for making it out brother 🫂
@@henryhardtits It's not only men he has damaged...he has encouraged a whole new generation of misogynists, causing more conflict, pain and mistrust between the genders.
You’re doing great
Another core tenet I've come to realize, is that failure (of any kind, but especially related to perceived work ethics) not only means you're a bad person, but that this also means you deserve to suffer. No matter how bad or easily preventable it is.
If you ain't perfect, you're a loser. Plain and simple. Ain't no recovering from it, either.
Oh. Unless you're wealthy. In that case, make all the errors you like. You'll be fine. Even if you go to prison, you'll be rewarded. Just look at Theranos chick or Cryptocurrency creep. Or Chump.
Are you saying you agree with the sentiment or just that it's a societal problem? Your wording kinda sounds like you think this is a good thing.
@@groadybones from what i got from this is that they meant it’s a societal issue
I'm not living in the U.S., I am from Italy but I think this mindset here described has become popular in many places. I was also working harder than I should have (and way harder and longer than I agreed signing my contracts), living with the worry of losing my job and having to return living at my parents' for not being able to pay a rent, and being resentful at those who worked less than me (and now, in hindsight, I think they also were doing more than they were legally bound to do). I got sick, on the verge of depression, started hating every working day and even getting out of bed felt like a violence to myself. I no longer live in Italy, I have seen other countries, other cultures (Denmark, and generally northern Europe), worked under mor bearable conditions and not only I would never go back to working as I did, I pity myself for the resent towards my also unfortunate colleagues and I wonder how can so many people still live in such a mindset and accept it! Workers unions in Italy used to be a strong reality, but I see why they have been pushed to the margins of the picture and discredited so consistently in the media! in places where the unions are strong, the working life is so much better in so many ways that I struggle to explain to my friends in Italy.
The spread of hustle culture around the world didn't happen naturally: the US government has spent trillions of dollars over decades to force workers into this situation where we need to always work harder to avoid poverty. In rich countries that campaign was mostly peaceful, through economic and cultural pressure, but in poor countries it was a campaign of terror and mass murder of syndicalists and socialists
@@lebaronmarcusSocialists? You are deluding yourself. It has no correlation to socialism.
Ben detto,grande zi
I love Italian labour song bandierra rossa
@@suprithAnCom
unfortunately in Italy both that song and the progressist ideals are more and more things of the past (let alone Communist Party that dissolved decades ago).
oh, and I am not, nor I have ever been a communist myself - don't need to be, in order to be disappointed at how my country is evolving.
truth is, billionaires should not exist. we don't need them… they need us.
Exactly, and you have the power to make them toothless. Stop buying products made outside of your local community, and rely on what you and your neighbors can manufacture, grow, and create. Get some land. Get some livestock. Grow some crops. Trade your extra harvests for other skilled labor or products at a local co-op or farmer's market.
@@rabbitcreative Folks in a completely insular commune don't have access to medication or nutritional supplements, and many people won't survive without access to dairy, eggs, or highly nutritious specialized food that can't be grown successfully in all climates. I'm personally vegan, but it does negatively affect my health because my body can't fix nutrients that are bioavailable for other vegans because I've had multiple organ failure and am a transplant recipient. I personally have to take a lot of supplements to even get close enough to the recommended daily dosage to function.
I also have working dogs who require quite a bit of raw meat, bones and organs.
@@rabbitcreative I understand, but it's true. I had alcoholic hepatitis at 25, and was extremely fortunate to be given a liver transplant when my liver and kidneys failed. I'm 35 now and as recovered as I can be, but I need to take 8 different prescription medications twice daily, plus nutritional supplementation, for the rest of my life. If may not be common, but special needs folks do exist.
Why we have so much importance to wealth and not well being??
@@Nylak-Otter Undialectical individualist jibber jabber, get some guns instead.
The rich make all of the money, do none of the work and pay none of the taxes.
The middle class does all of the work and pays all of the taxes.
And the poor are just there to scare the middle class into showing up at their job everyday.
- George Carlin
Carlin always knew. And he used his art and expertise to share it.
He's not wrong - the impoverished are often ignored until those towards the (rapidly diminishing) middle classes starts complaining about the way things are. Then everyone points to the poor and says "be grateful you aren't one of them!"
The rich probably pay the most taxes out of any group. The wealthier people in my family who aren’t retired, work a ton. However, they also work smarter.
@@TropicalityCatTell that to Jeff Bezos
Lmao it’s bc the rich are rich for a reason. The poorest of the poor have become millionaires and billionaires through taking a step forward in life and starting their own business(es). The reason why they “don’t do any work” is because they did the heavy initial lifting to build their machine that seemingly prints money for them. This guy is keeping you poor. The idea that socialism will solve all of your problems because it gives you enough money to simply live (supposedly) is stupid and is just laziness. Why not try to move forward in life and stand out? Why be another pawn? By letting the government control every aspect of you life you are just a happy little worker working until you die. Why let yourself be that? I’m 14 rn and in the process of starting my own business. I know the first few aren’t gonna be massive successes. I know there is going to be a lot more pain at first, but guess what, the people who have gone through that pain to move forward in life are now the rich. Before you say money doesn’t buy you happiness would you rather be crying in a shitty little apartment or your mansion. Also Porsche 911s. Money buys Porsche 911s.
Malignant capitalism, and lack of empathy is at the core of the poverty.
There is no laziness. People are designed to love working, as it has been our strategy to survive as a specie. But exploitation makes us to hate our jobs as we feel or even realise that our efforts are going not to help the society but to buy another superjet for the 1%. I love the statuette on the desk ❤
The greatest thing about the "poor people are lazy" trope is that it's the other way around. Most poor people can barely sleep while trying to get by, while the rich just sit on their fat asses and enjoy their hedonistic lifestyle few people could afford...
Extremely ironic you found a clip of Andrew Tate, the very embodiment of this extravaganza, quoting this trope...
Yeah Andrew Tate that made most of his wealth exploiting others and talking about it schooling others they need to work harder is the perfect meme for capitalism.
The most ironic shit is him talking about the "Matrix" and to stand outside of the "system".
I had watched some of his videos after all the drama surrounding him started, out of curiosity. The worst thing is that he speaks a lot of good stuff about all the exploitation, but instead of saying people should stand against this altogether, he proceeds to sell his course on how to become the EXPLOITER??? Not with these words, of course.
@@NothingXemnaskind of like populism that blames "other" people for your misery instead of the wealthy stealing your livelihood.
@@NothingXemnas Don´t blame the person wanting to change the system that it is forced to participate in said system.
@@benmcreynolds8581 Basically we are still living in a feudal system but instead of whips and turture they have electronic distractions and propaganda to keep us in check. That´s why we don´t fix this problem and probably will never fix it. Money is power and those that accumulate enough dictate the direction no matter what the majority thinks of it. And as it is already so concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people it is unlikely that will change.
The hardest jobs I’ve had paid the worst, and the easiest jobs paid the most. That’s so fucked up.
I would LOVE to see a billionaire try to get through a short-staffed shift in retail.
Yep
Some rich people started with those jobs like retail too. Some socialists say people stereotype the poor, but you do the same why assuming no rich people started poor or did regular or hard jobs too. Actress Caroline Rhea was a waitress for years.
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c No one is angry at actors, actors are workers like us. We are angry at high ranking executives in mega corporations who are 99% only in that position due to nepotism or inheritance and have never worked in retail ever
@@ortah2616How do you get the same outcomes if people have the freedom of effort?
Try cold-calling for newspaper subscriptions or demo work on a tight schedule. One is fun and hard the other one sucks out your soul through your butthole. Guess which one is which
I've worked in several big box retailers, and at each, there are people in their mid-seventies,and even early eighties still working. They aren't working there because it's fun, or to meet people, they are working there because they can't make it without that work. They are part of the working poor. Once one of them confided that he didn't know how much longer he could go on, but he needed the paycheck. I consider this work that they are in effect being forced to do as a total indictment of the capitalist system.
"If you're poor you just haven't found the right grift" could be a quote from any number of online Hustlers Universities
If I asked the government why I was poor, they'd say I just need to work harder or find a different job.
Thank you for producing a video that actually tries to explain a complicated but unfair global situation.
That such a shallow take to why your poor as like people don't work hard enough how having 2 jobs to make end meet not working hard enough or 1 job with overtime sometimes without pay
This is the one I'm spreading around as far as I can.
"work smarter, not harder"-*insert every stupid thing the top 1% ever did*
Also, if anyone thinks they're so unimportant, watch every person who works hard starts shifting his focus to only tackling brainpower based jobs and see what happens
Then you ask government to give you the job and they tell you that you are to poor for education fitting of the job.
@@USSAnimeNCC-you shouldn’t have to have 2 jobs to make ends meet
As a Canadian looking in, something that often strikes me as about Americans is how self-flagellating they often are. They have been trained to believe that they aren't ''entitled'' to so many of the most basic social perks all other first world (and even some non-first world) countries offer their citizens. Like Universal Healthcare, paid parental leave, decent worker protections, reasonable gun laws and so on. Its like people think asking for the tax money, they pay, to be used to better their society is unacceptable or something... when its supposed to be THE WHOLE POINT of paying taxes! Meanwhile politicians warn about ''socialism'' the moment any US citizen begs for crumbs, then turn around and gift absurd amounts of tax money left and right to their family's and friend's large corporations. It was no fluke when, during Covid, the aid money for businesses was a just a giant pot up for grabs to whoever and... oups! Look at that! The biggest companies that didn't need that money got there first and emptied the whole pot at once and looks like there's none left for the small home businesses actually struggling!
Heck, the budget for the military complex alone is absolute insanity. Imagine what could be done for the country with even a quarter of this amount of wealth if it was being put to good use instead of trashed away to feed the companies of deep pocketed campaign donors.
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JT touched on this a little but if you want to understand this behavior just look at how we treat our homeless people, disabled people, black people, migrant workers, ect. Americans are extraordinarily entitled. To the point where they feel it's just to deny others basic human needs and respect because uplifting them may mean they get something they don't deserve. A lot of Americans believe that people getting things "they didn't earn" takes away or contributes to their own struggles with the system and ultimately makes the system dysfunctional.
Even Americans' who sympathize with these groups of people will do a 180 the second "radical" solutions are brought up. Everything "given" away has to have strings attached to make sure people "deserve" what they're getting regardless of how bleak the situation is for the affected demographics. Even those who *are* given benefits are constantly under the threat of having those benefits taken away while still being treated as less-than. Hell, we've started trying to roll back child labor rights when migrant children were found working factories with a surprising amount of people defending it.
@@AkiironzoPeople have basically nothing to lose if we did change and they still rationalize against doing radical change
Well said. It's all a goddamn scheme. Everything here is for profit and our government is so corrupt.
The "x-world countries" term was invented by the CIA to gauge the "usefulness to the US a country is."
Ergo the US is not a first world country since the US is not "helping itself."
After months of resenting my coworkers, I quit my job as a line cook and quit the industry all together. I got tired of feeling like I was working harder then others. I would feel like I was coming into work and cleaning up after the other employees. I feel this.
That's how it always goes when you're working for or with narcissistic megalomaniacs. They'll always take credit for what they didn't do, and blame others for things that didn't go as planned. It's friggin' bananas, but most people are wired that way. Oh, and society obviously rewards 'em! You know, the Chumps, the Theranos chicks, the Cryptocurrency creeps, the "alpha workout" phonies, the Alex Jones', the Amber Heards, the influencer moms, etc. etc. 🙄
Omg your vids literally save my life! Living in our modern world is dragging me down mentally so much. Pointing out flaws (or even suggesting that there might be flaws) gets met with such incredible disbelief, mockery or even hate that its not even funny anymore. And not pointing such things out is hard when confronted with it on a daily basis (working in healthcare and freetime voluntary teacher for kids who need the help). Your vids feel like a bit of rationality in this crazy crazy world!
I've experienced similar things when trying to talk to people. Being confronted about these things leaves people feeling confused and helpless so they just resort to attacking you. They also likely don't know any other way to react to it other than hostility. The 'just world hypothesis' and victim-blaming as a social phenomenon might help make some sense of such encounters. Stay strong and just remember, they don't know any better. Any decent person who cares about others and improving the world would not react that way. They would at the very least be curious instead of outright hostile.
@@skatesatgod-fusion2619 Good points. I've noticed this, too. I've been thinking, why do people who many of us generally care about react so hostile and dismissive when confronted with uncomfortable truths about our current socio-economic system? Well, maybe the answer is right there.
If we are on the Titanic and we know we've hit an iceberg but not everyone knows we are on a sinking ship. The first group of people who notice it is sinking, well they are the most poor, they are in survival mode so they can't reach out to tell others. A small group in the middle notice the ship is sinking and go tell the other group of middle class, but they don't believe it because that means they have to find a way out, but they don't know a way out, they don't know if there are enough 'safety boats' to get everybody out. So denial sets in, even for many intelligent people.
So, what do we need when we are addressing the dire situation with people? A viable, actionable strategy by which we can partake in to build a bridge to a safer, healthier environment. Or, to stick with the analogy, if we can tell people, if we work together we can build a big enough escape boat for us to get off this sinking ship. To be fair, no, it will not save everyone, I'm sorry, but we can only do so much and where we can effect the most change is locally. Build a local safety boat that creates a rising tide that lifts all ships. No yachts, though! We are not building a new elitist society of owners vs the many workers and poor. No thank you.
That viable new system? Well, maybe it is already here. Called One Small Town strategy with Michael Tellinger. Already started for real in towns around the world. Any other similar models could be welcomed, but if the platform already exists and works for most people in their communities, then why not use it?
Ever since becoming a leftist/socialist in my early teens, I think, feel like, and believe that I have developed a sort of "convert-or-die" policy towards the sleeping masses.
@@cyberspacesupersoldier problem is in my opinion, that, while very understandable, such a strategy won't be very enticing and thus not very good at converting. It's not necessarily their fault that they can't see it (of course some are willfullfy leading the broken system, but lots of them just don't know what to do)
@@vlr4631 Yeah, I'm aware. I just wish that way more people out there would be much more open-minded and curious like us socialists/leftists, and actually see things for what they really are (and not see things for what they aren't). Honestly, my political, economical, social, societal, philosophical, ideological, historical, and scientific views have become like a religion to me over time, to some extent.
I once saw this image that said that if someone lived for 80 years & earned an average of $5,000.00 every day of their life, they still wouldn't be a billionaire, but rather have about $150,000,000.00. At the bottom of the image was a line that said that no one works to become a billionaire. So yeah, we should be taxing multi-millionaire & billionaire individuals & corporations in this country more then we currently are! And if you want to argue that taxes shouldn't be raised on the wealthy & corporations, how can you defend them when they send their U.S. dollars to other countries so they can't be taxed & help fund domestic programs to help poor people here in the U.S.?
How big is a billion? If salt was money, average life time earnings (~$2M) fills half of a red solo cup.
A billion grains of salt fills a bathtub.
Taxes aren't theft ... profits are.
@jessetorres8738 If you made $5000 every day since Columbus came to America, you still wouldn’t have 1 billion dollars.
I'm always delighted to see my co-workers being "lazy" or working less. It's removes the pressure on myself and makes feel more content.
I'd like to be your co-worker. I'm like naturally extremely lazy!
Yeah, my coworkers rn are, unfortunately, try-hards almost all of the time, not wanting to take so much as 10 min breaks when we finish a task early. Weird part is my direct boss will straight up tell us we can take breaks/leave early, and they're reluctant to do so because of some false work-ethic mindset.
Same here.
@@austinobambino1360I hate how often I see this. Grind culture is doing all the work for capitalists they don't even have to try 🙄
The rich depend on the poor more than the poor depend on the rich because the rich are not willing to do the same amount of grimy work.
A similar analogy: Professors depend on students far more than students depend on professors. Without students, professors are out of a job, but without professors, students can still learn via independent study and diligence. It became much more clear when certain universities have had ongoing low enrollment statistics, like my university.
I truly think laziness does not exist. If one is motivated and not physically ill or exhausted one will work towards their goals. If someone doesn’t want to work maybe that’s because they know they are being taken advantage of.
This!!!! Nobody wants to be screwed over!!
If their not gonna work though, they shouldn’t except support, or a living wage (when their not working) if they do, that’s laziness.
@@TropicalityCat their = they are and except=expect* You sound like a low effort troll.
@@TropicalityCat Dont you think a person is worth something regardles of the labour they can provide?
@@ajankytoucan If you have the opportunity to work, and don’t, than you shouldn’t expect anything.
This video is hitting super close to home. I got fired from my last job for having a negative attitude about being moved to part time only a few months after I was hired full time. Eight months later and promises that had been made about having my benefits restored were broken and I was kicked out. I’ve been unemployed for the last few months, surviving on my savings and meager unemployment assistance I’m eligible for, while trying my hardest to get a new job. Every day that passes I’ve been low key blaming myself, that I should have shut up and continued to be exploited and disrespected.
I used to blame myself, until I realized other people were trying to game the system.
Now I realized that humanity is not one single group. But two.
You have normal humans on one side. Greed on the other.
Kind of the reason why early immigrants to this country stuck to their own neighborhoods. Because they didn't have a choice.
It was either stay there, or fall victim to whatever was going on outside. Just like in that book "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair.
Yeah, I feel you...I've just graduated from a third career change education program and I've applied for over 200 jobs with no interviews. I'm working two other jobs (one an unpaid internship) while job searching and I feel like a lazy pos even though I KNOW I'm not. That poverty shame runs so deep. And at the same time that I desperately want a job, I hate the idea that my goal is ultimately to be exploited by someone who doesn't even care if I exist. All I can do is try not to think about it and keep moving forward. I have to tell myself it will all be ok and unfortunately that's all I can say to you; It will all be ok. Take care, friend.
This is why we must call for Direct Digital Democracy without parties or politicians. Citizen initiated referendums with thresholds and a social contract means Communities can vote their own laws. As well as a Public Authority to audit police and prosecute bad actors in our own courts.
Thorium energy renders their global energy monopoly obsolete
@@Uncanny_MountainI mean this could work especially with the internet
@@Uncanny_Mountain Yep I though of that system too, but there is quite a bit of issues needed to be ironed out before we could try it. We could start by introducing phd level test for politicians to take a post, why the fck are they in parliament if they need 20 people to tell them how to do the thing they applied to do. If you applied for job and you need bunch of people to constantly tell you how to do you work you get axed no questions asked. Why are these lazy uneducated fucks get different treatment? Before we can axe government first we need to fix it.
So happy this is being put out. So tired of obviously corporate sponsored content creators pushing their delusion that we aren't in a recession and that we're lazy for not grinding hard enough. The worst feeling in the world is probably to try your hardest but realizing it's not enough.
When costs are so high that people are considering to have kids later or none at all, everyone should realize shit is fucked up. Procreation is one of important things we need to do to survive as a species
Yep
@@ironsales5669 What are you talking about? Did you watch the video?
God I agree , I've given 110% to companies for years in the past and deeply regret it as it wasn't enough in the end
For laziness, I've known (and lived with) a few people that would outright refuse to work. Mentally, physically, they were fine. They just refused to work. One dude mooched off of me for a year and a half until I managed to leave.
A few of my friends literally couldn't work due to severe mental and/or physical health problems. I can easily sympothise with them since they don't have control over those health problems. Hell, some of them managed to get well enough and enter the work force over time. And I'm proud as hell that my friends managed to get through those issues.
But our resources for people with disabilities is piss poor, and our overly capitalist system makes life so much harder on the disabled then it needs to be.
Does laziness exist? Yes, but the vast majority of poor people are not lazy. As someone who grew up poor, most of the people around me worked horrible jobs to barely survive.
Excellent video as usual, JT. Thank you. One thing I'd like to mention is how I've always felt weird about the "if you don't like the conditions then go find another job" mentality, mainly because how absurdly individualistic it is. If I quit my job and let another desperate person take my place, they would be suffering as well. We all gotta look after each other, I think.
You really can't "fiscal responsibility" your way out of a system designed to keep you poor.
Exactly.
yeah you can
Yep, the most you can do with fiscal responsibility is hope for an opportunity and even then that takes more than that to take advantage of.
In today's world fiscal responsibility usually just helps your children after you're gone.
@@solushyperborea Hypothetical question then, if you're willing to prove that you're not wrong. If the minimum cost of not dying is 30,000 and your yearly income before taxes is 22,000, how do you budget yourself into both avoiding death AND building wealth?
Spoilers, if your answer is "already be more wealthy", you're an idiot.
@@solushyperboreaexplain how your "responsibly" broke the system and allows you to paid fairly enough to live a comfortable life without slaving to some corporate dog
The rhetoric that "you're poor because you want to be" has been so ingrained in people's heads that even motivational content use it. It also gives the rich an out not to help the poor. With the rise of billionaires and the decline of the middle class, I think a lot people are waking up to this bs.
Just-world fallacy.
You know what was really effed up to me about the pandemic? Almost all the “essential workers” were the super low paid people on the front lines risking exposure. Everyone complained about the unemployed collecting free checks, not realizing the people getting laid off were taking massive pay cuts by having to accept unemployment
Because they don't want to admit poverty is a policy choice
I was working at company at the start of the pandemic, the company sent out a letter asking staff to take a reduction in pay so they could save jobs from being made redundant. I remember in chat with colleagues saying they're planning to make redundancies regardless, this is a way of getting everyone to take a pay reduction which they won't put back up at anytime. Well the staff voted for a pay reduction, then roughly 4-6 weeks later they started making redundancies. They made over 50% of the staff redundant, and they never increased the wages. Those at the top don't give a monkey's about the workers, all they care about is their own bottom line.
"Poverty.. a great motivator"... Yes, yes it is.. People will do terrible things to escape it.
Like crime. Or join the military to do genocide.
You don't get to simultaneously say poverty is good because it motivates people and then say crimes against personal and private property are bad. You wanted people to be motivated by their poverty, so don't be mad when they steal your stuff. You were the one who wanted them to. Don't be mad when you get mugged, you wanted people to be in a position where that's the only way to avoid dying. Don't be mad when your entire family is murdered and your house raided of all valuables. You were the one who said poverty should be used to motivate.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 I think hes being sarcastic
@@thebalkanfilmmaker9858 Probably, but the other comment still stands for the people who unironically think of poverty as a positive motivator, then complain when their anti-poor policies come home to roost.
Yeah it's a direct correlation with crime, like how do people want to both ignore poverty then go hard on crime when they're the same f'ing thing
It's truly astonishing to me how, not too long ago, a man could provide for his stay-at-home wife, raise more than one child, own a house and cars, and on top of that go on vacations every few years, all while working as a MAILMAN. I would hear stories of my grandfather, who worked as a taxi driver, where he could dine exclusively at restaurants and pursue his expensive hobbies. It's something I know I won't have.
I was born in the mid-60s, and have a depressing story.
We used to have a milkman. He was what they called "r3tarded" back then. He had very limited abilities, and was a functional illiterate who got your milk order right most of the time.
He invited us to his retirement. He had a big home and a new car. He was the only one who worked one job, while his wife stayed at home to raise their NINE children about put ALL of them through college.
To this day, I've not personally met one person who is as successful as that milkman.
@@TalpaTulpaI’m gonna be that guy, saying aww in regards to something going well for someone with a disability can be very infantilising.
@@DrumWild I remember that guy! Tom Spikowski! Didn't he invent a new game called "Jump to Conclusions?"
And a mailman is infinitely more beneficial for society than any ceo
It is indeed astonishing how far humanity has regressed in so little time because of the greed of the few. Getting what was considered to be an average lifestyle for that time feels like centuries away
This channel deserves 1 million subscribers. This guy is very educated. And he knows what he is talking about
If everyone had a marketable skill (from college, trade school or on the job training) and worked hard, there would still be the same amount of poverty, because someone would still have to work that $12/hour job. It has happened to me for years, even after graduating from college, before I could land a good job, and that is often luck. I would get guilt tripped back when I was stuck in a menial job. Statements like, "find a higher paying job" or "stop being so lazy", make me angry.
I have a friend who is one of the best chefs in Brisbane and he worked at a hotel.
He didn't loose his job but the owner of the house decided not to renew his lease and none of his applications to rent other homes were excepted.
He is still head chef of the hotel, just homeless and crashing on my couch for a few months.
Even if you do have a good paying job and money sometimes not even that will save you from homelessness.
Didn't he search for a new home?
@@tachobrennerit can be competitive if you only have a certain budget to work with and if you do applications and they decide on other ppl you are forced to keep looking until something in your price range happens.
@@tachobrenner "how much can a banana cost, $10?"
@@tachobrenner Naw he clearly prefers living on those lovely Australian streets.
Let me help you. It's "lose," not loose. And, "accepted," not excepted.
Every time I hear Tate telling people about passion for work and how you should work all the time, three things come to my mind:
- he has been hit in the head a lot
- he is CONSTANTLY online, chatting with people in videos (looks pretty idle to me)
- how the poor girls he trafficked feel making his money by exploiting vulnerable men (under his orders, of course).
It's amazing what people will swallow, and fron whom!
He just exploits women and the desperate for money. He doesn't really do much himself except being a terrible person
It was his grift, he sold courses on how to become rich. If he put people in a desperate or even excited mindset to do as he said, it made it easier to sell his crappy course. People told that they'd lose ten of thousands of dollars by following his advice. Andrew Tate was hard at work when he talked about the mindset, turns out, the listener was the product.
A lot of these people have a different definition of work. Manual labor, answering phones, dealing with customers etc…. Much of their work is relaxing, but they use the excuse as clearing their mind to think of the next thing. So yea it can be a form or work, but it is more on the line as gardening or as the video opens, fishing
being online is his work. he is internet personality. he makes money by being online. u are very stupid to not see that
@@Putseller100who are "these people"?
Andrew Tate fans? Tate himself, and those in his earning class? People online in general?
Its wild that Andrew Taint's grift only works on teenaged boys (and maybe young men under 25 the oldest).
*Edit to Add:* And speaking of grifts... _Work shall set you free_ is an old, common one. A form of control that keeps us working ourselves into early graves.
The motto on the entrance gates to the German concentration camps was “ Arbeit Macht Frei”, or “ Work Liberates”.
People don’t seem to get that this was a strategy put in place by Ronald Reagan and the Republicans back in 1980. The US started printing money to inflate it’s way out of the OPEC embargo back in the 70s. They figured out that if they built a low rate of inflation in, say 2%, and then exempted the money they gave themselves and their rich friends from the inflation rate, they could continue to raise their rate and profits while the workers wages lost their value. Then, every time wages started to catch up, the Fed would raise rates and throw a bunch of people out of work, since higher rates meant more money for them and less for the workers. They called this “Trickle Down Economics” and therefore, they could shift all the wealth to the wealthy and claim they were doing this to help the worker. This is exactly backwards to how the economy actually works. A strong economy is created by putting money in the hands of the worker and keeping it circulating not giving it to the rich where it stagnates or is used to weaken Democracy by bribing politicians or Judges, a practice that has been made legal by the Roberts Supreme Court.
I've been suffering from depression for a very long time now and my family kept shaming me for 'being lazy'.
I had trouble finding a job, I don't engage much in the work environment and I make no effort to get promoted, so clearly it must be because I lack a work ethic.
And yet I work on things like writing, painting and animation up to ten hours a day, even if I have to work.
I'm not lazy, I just can't let myself be exploited like that.
I'll gladly work if it makes me or somebody else happy, but I won't if all I do is shovel more money into the bottomless wallet of my boss
Boy if 10 hours a day on side hustles is suffering from depression then I don't know what mine is...
For me just fighting the constant suicidal thoughts already feels like a full time job by itself and I'm only in my early 20s
@@furiousdestroyah9999 They're not even side hustles. I don't do it for any kind of pay. I think that's a big part of why I can enjoy it so much. When I work on my projects, I'm not worrying about any of this crapitalist nonsense
I can see you're an art person. Therefore working in the office is not suitable for you
Thank you so much for this video. I was diagnosed with stage iv breast cancer in 2016 (my original prognosis was 2-5 years) and ever since have been struggling financially as I will be in some form of treatment for the rest of my life. Imagine finding a full-time job that is ok with you being in cancer treatment once every 3 weeks + all of the additional tests/doctors appointments. I am a freelance photographer/videographer/graphic designer. I am very transparent about my financial struggles because so many knew me as a "hard worker" before cancer and nothing about that has changed, yet - here I am. I "worked hard" through my harshest chemotherapy treatments with a bald head and chemo sores... I even photographed many long events (8, 10, 12+ hour long) while in the middle of my worst health moments... because *I had to*. The worst part of being diagnosed with terminal cancer (and living past my 2-5 years life expectancy) has been... financial. Not the treatments, or knowing I will likely die from this disease... it's struggling to survive *financially*. That says something about our world and the system we've created. In the beginning I got a lot of financial help from friends/family which is the only way I was able to make it through. But -- the financial problems never end. They just became my "new normal."
I hope that one day more people will wake up to these realities. Unfortunately, so often people do not learn until it happens to them... by then, it's too late. :(
I wish someone should make a game (maybe VR?) in which the game character is put in various real life scenarios such as mine. Maybe if we gameify reality, people will come to understand that it isn't as easy as "just work harder".
Again - THANK YOU. I love your channel! I have learned so much.
-Blonnie
I'm so sorry that you have to spend what time you have left worrying about money. I hope you can find some peace and some time to relax. You definitely deserve it.
I'm so glad you're still here with us and survived cancer. I agree most ppl dont realize a health issue, spouse dying, a bad car accident can set someone back for years
Love you Blonnie ❤
Thank you for your story and bravery. Why is it, that it seems many Americans cannot understand that most other countries don't run like this with regard to health costs, etc? It seems many are blind to the propaganda they are fed. Don't get me wrong, my country (Australia) has plenty of issues, but we treat the ill at no cost to them if they are unable to afford it. But hey - that's socialism, apparently...
“Resentment is assign that you should be slowing down” that quote spoke so hard to me. I use to work in service and I would always feel upset that my bosses wouldn’t say anything when I was busting my ass at work and my coworkers were doing Jack shit. eventually i slowed down and just did enough to get through work. I jumped to another job and carried the “I’ll do the minimum or even extra slack off “ with me. these companies don’t give a fuck about you and the sooner that clicked, the more I started to see how shit capitalism has rotted are little brains
The hardest-working people I know are also some of the poorest. There was a time when my mom worked three jobs and my dad one, thus providing FOUR SOURCES OF INCOME at once. We were extremely frugal and _still remained impoverished_ (by every legal definition) for a decade. The only reasons we got out of poverty were fortunate circumstances after the recession and a kind of frugality that no one in the wealthiest country in history should have to bear. This is just one example.
I am Italian, and I know this applies to my country too. We may not be as bad as the US, but I know how hard I work and how little I get.
Non ho ancora visto il video ma in Italia sotto alcuni aspetti siamo messi peggio degli USA
@@villaexcel7522 Non su questo, i nostri sindacati funzionano molto meglio.
Wait, this applies to Italy despite it being at the lower end of the "low-wage jobs" graph he presented!?
Italy is okay as long as you have work. USA has multiple bad aspects going on at once, for working people. I'm sure you heard of the healthcare, but add on education, lack of transit, crime (there are three major metro areas in USA that have more murders per year than all of Italy).
@@stevens1041 I'm not American (though I do know about American issues, thanks to the internet...) just part of a small country that is near it (on the worse end) of the graph...
Though luckily we have a working public transportation and healthcare system, yet we still have the worst cost of living issue on the planet...
I recently went on a trip to mexico and met up with a very close friend who I had never met in person until now, and she took me to all these beautiful places and in the moment, looking over green forests and hills I realized this is how life should be lived: rich with love and memories. That’s how I want it. And this country doesn’t want me to have that. It wants me to work 40+ hours for the bare minimum , just so someone else can live that life. Instead of treating us as important as we are they just keep demanding longer hours. This ain’t how life is supposed to be spent.
I've been around millionaire's before due to my job in tech.. they aren't rich because they are better than you.
They are rich because they have lots of people working for them and they squeeze as much out of them as they can get away with.
As someone who has lived in the U.S. for almost 40 yrs, I’ve absolutely had to retrain my brain as an adult on how to see my own worth despite not aligning with the values of a capitalist society. I’m richer than most, though it isn’t external. I’m defiant in my belief to live how I choose and incredibly territorial over my time and energy.
I’m not poor I just can’t fish 😂
I don’t even like fish. I’m doomed.
I'm not poor, I'm just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
I’m not poor… I just can’t eat unless I sell my labor.
I've never had riches and wealth, but never considered myself poor.
It's others who do.
Who claim that i'm not "doing enough"
Usually by people who have sat around never working all their lives yet think they worked hard for all they have because they've been told: "hard work equals wealth"
So these people born into wealth think they are already working very hard... 😂
@@RSAgility and these Tommy Boy’s get to control the social & economic fabric of society. The best system ever. It’s the end of history.
Yeah, I hate the tendency to blame oneself for being "lazy" or "unproductive" when we aren't managing to get a financial foothold. They (the ruling class) convinced us to blame ourselves.
Every video from you, Hakim, and Yugobnik opens my eyes to reality. Thank you for educating us, comrade.
Why did you say that word 😂😂😂😂
Just Because he quote Marx 😂😂😂😂
@@RevolutionaryMaskman that and the small Lenin statue on his table.
"The great thing about laziness is that if you can get people to feel really guilty about it, they will willingly exploit themselves more and find it morally wrong when someone else isn't being exploited enough."
😂
Said so perfectly. This is practically everyone.
Why I take pride in my laziness. Also a good strategy to use if you want slaves.
Well said !
For anyone interested in learning about the structural reasons for why the global south is still poor despite the supposed aid effort from the first world, Jason Hickel's "The Divide" is an excellent read.
My favourite quote from that book is: "Poverty doesn't just exist. It is created."
The first chapter delves into how the World Bank manipulated the poverty metrics to sell the narrative that poverty is decreasing.
To sum it up:
"Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty...
...By defining what poverty is and then adjusting that to serve their propaganda."
Yep.
Jason Hickel's 'Less Is More' is one of my favourite books. I hadn't heard of The Divide until now. I'll definitely have to check it out. Thanks for sharing.
@@TheDudleyReport
"Less is More" is the first book I read too. Both are excellent reads.
"The Divide" is a brilliant book. Jason't books are so pedagogical - he's great at breaking down and explaining the things we take for granted about the way the world economy words. Great recommendation!
Read “How Europe undeveloped Africa” too
The belief that I'm not working hard enough has been eating at me for years. The phrase "the working class people are lazy" feels like an oxymoron. Litterally, the idea people that work to survive are somehow lazier than the people at the top who get more for equal or lesser efforts is rediculous.
It is the false belief that how much money you make determines how hard you worked.
@@DevinMacGregorexactly
@@DevinMacGregorit's calvinism
@@DevinMacGregorI received a $0.50 raise as a cashier
@@DevinMacGregor or that the measure of people is how much money they have or revenue they can generate. that whole ideology gets really genocidal, really quickly.
Great episode. I'm still sure that "laziness" definitely exists as a factor, I personally knew people who do not work and only sit on the neck of their relatives, sincerely convincing them that they are actually looking for a job. But this factor does not even come close to the size that capitalists are trying to imagine.
I especially liked the part about "accusing others of laziness". If you have spent your life on a 6/1 work schedule, it does not mean that others should follow your example. I myself work on a 2/2 schedule, and I sincerely enjoy it. Listening to questions from others at the level of "why do you need SO MUCH free time" is both funny and sad. TO LIVE, PEOPLE, TO LIVE!
And people don't just blame poverty on laziness. They also blame obesity on it, too. Look at diet culture.
And yes.
As senior SW engineer, senior QA engineer and SW architect (at the same time 😢), I know for sure that laziness is not the reason I have to work harder and more with time just to keep up after the inflation.
Also, I noticed how hard development of AI hits IT specialists. With growth of AI salary raises are becoming less and less often, and smaller, and coming with extra responsibilities.
Similar things took place in 19-20 centuries with industrialization of economics all over the world. Farmers, workers, welders, builders, mechanics... - were beaten hard by the capitalists taking advantages of the industrialization from society and using them to their - capitalists - own profits.
There is no person in the world who can work harder than the majority to deserve the payment tens of thousands (upd+) times more than the others.
I have a Bachelor's in English and Marketing since I'm trying to be a copywriter. I'm home ridden so I have to apply for remote work. Every time I apply, there's 1,000 other applicants on average. Its frustrating to hear people say I'm lazy when there's statistically only a 0.1% chance of me getting any given job I apply to. This is why I wager almost everyone knows someone with a Masters degree or higher that still works a low paying job- there's no outlet for people to even get work in such an artificially saturated job market.
A lot of copywriters freelance and make decent money that way, so you could try that. You can buy online courses on how to be a freelance copywriter. But there’s still competition with that. Yeah it sucks.
@@laurenvandenbosch4051 I took a course but its really tough since going freelance is a gamble if you'll even get work week by week even if you send extremely strong email copy to companies or are willing to do spec work. Truly a challenge.
It's a race to the bottom. People need money, and so do the work for peanuts, so they can pay their rent. Then, they force the next person to lower their rates. Places live FIVERR and UPWORK exist and make their creators billions, on the backs of the poor working shmucks who can't get the capital together to create the next Uber or Lyft software.
Im a home ridden writer and I’ve applied for hundreds of jobs in the past year. I’ve seen many postings that require a Master’s degree and are only paying $15-20/hour. Like, someone just had to drop $40K on their education, but thanks for the $20, I guess?
Also lot of companies are against remote work because it does allow the person to take their wages to a cheaper location. CEO hate their workers to live in comfort.
"You're poor because you don't shill enough"
- The Shill Master
I bet you aren't even selling a scam multi vitamin supplement. Clearly you just want to be a lazy poor.
I understand this intellectually, but I still feel guilty that I don't work enough, even when I'm completely exhausted from the week's work. That's how strongly I've been brainwashed into "Protestant work ethic".
Videos like this are very important, not only for the intellectual arguments but also because they show that we aren't alone in believing that hustle culture is deeply wrong. I work in a field with toxic work/life balance, which makes me feel like I'm the weird one for believing we should all work less
I was never brainwashed into accepting the Protestant work ethic. Maybe the fact that I was raised Catholic had something to do with that.
My favorite job I've had so far, that I truly wish I could have made a career, was (zero sarcasm) working front lines non-management retail at a local craft store that closed a few years ago. At the end I was a register supervisor, and if I had been able to make a comfortable (not lavish) living doing it I would have happily stayed in that position full time for decades. Yes, even with the customer service aspect. I loved the problem solving of helping customers find things that enabled their creativity. And seeing what different people were working on. And seeing new products come in and get my own creativity excited. At the store level it was an all-around positive, enabling, and encouraging environment... except for the pay. You can't eat good vibes, or pay bills with them.
In the current American retail world living wages are for managers, tech support, and corporate folks only. But being any of those means way more administrative stuff and corporate pressure/quotas, and way less actually helping customers.
And for managers, working 60+ hours per week during the winter holidays. That wasn't optional, if you didn't agree they'd just find someone else who IS willing and hire/promote them into management instead. So I wasn't interested.
"If you don't like your job, get another one" is the new "if you are homeless, buy a house"
Its obviously not that simple but it has some merit. You can not expect a barista to earn amazing money just because they work 40 hours a week or whatever. People get paid on the value they provide to society, a fully automatic coffee machine for example can make a coffee that most people would not know who/what made it for maybe $1000 for the machine.
Im an average earner but I understand this. Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos provide immense value to the world (like it or not), and that's why their companies are worth so much. Do they have insane amounts of excess capital? Yes off course, but this wealth is in company stock its not sitting in their bank accounts. Could they pay their workers more, yes! But in turn, they get paid on the value provided, and a warehouse worker gets less than a rocket engineer.
@@usefulrandom1855
My opinions disagree with JT on a few things as I don't consider myself a socialist
The thing is, I don't expect a Barista, Cleaning lady or waiter to become very wealthy from their jobs, but I believe that if company has you working a full work week, you should at least get paid enough money to cover basic living expenses (rent, food, transportation, personal hygiene products, water, electricity, phone bills and the like), as it stands right now, if you earn the federal minimum wage (7.25), you could work 50 hours a week, and you most likely will not be able to cover basic living expenses, not to mention that the law allows employees who receive tips to only get paid 2.13 by their employeers, forcing the burden of payment onto customers.
Low skilled jobs and entry level jobs in this day and age are just an excuse for big companies to prey on the desperation of people and it's disgusting
@@usefulrandom1855value is subjective.
If people were paid based on profits and not skill, places like Chic Fil A would be paying their cashiers around $100,000/year.
@@aaz1992 if everyone that works minimun wage had a choice, no one would work minimun wage
@@jmca_power I live in the in UK and excluding London its enough for those things. USA is another story with the "tipping culture"
I remember telling a supervisor I once had that i was quitting because the income was not enough. Told me to work harder and that I would become "successful" if I were to do so. Fueled my ass to quit even faster and after doing what I want, am at a place doing what i enjoy and am good at. So I'm ready to stand against the bosses
It wouldn't surprise me if your boss was one of those that would advise people to get a better job if they're not making enough. The second it is their business the workers would be moving from, they instead advise you to just 'work harder'.
The harder you work, the bigger the house your boss lives in
To all commenters here: This is not about disallowing people from getting rich if they want to. This is about creating a system that does not necessitate poverty and ruthless exploitation. There will always be people who have more than others, but that is not a problem if everybody has enough.
Finally, a "this is why you're poor" titled video that actually talks about the actual problems.
When I worked at a Motorola facility that made phone batteries, the labor costs on my line were around $2.00 per battery (That's including management and the other facilities that made the parts we assembled) and those batteries retailed for $45 or $50. About half the people on my line went straight from their full time job at Motorola each day to a part time job at UPS.
They could have bumped the lowest paid workers from $8.50/hour to $12/hour and it would have only added a few cents to the labor costs per battery, and it probably would have actually reduced the level of waste from accidents and mistakes because the workers would get more sleep/be less stressed out. But you know, capitalism.
Life happens. I would know.
I pay off my car, and a month later, it gets totaled. Now im back to being "car poor".
I save up for weeks/months to treat myself, only for an emergency to occur. Now i have nothing.
It was never my fault, but the world sure does treat me like it is.
How is public transportation doing in your area? Are you able to reliably use that as an alternative for the time being?
As someone from Latvia, I paid about 30 coins for healthcare last year. And about 300 for public transportation.
I'm poor because I didn't pick myself up by my bootstraps
Bruh it's like just *lift* yourself out of that shyt man, like just begin having more money dude 💯
"It's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man to pick himself up by his bootstraps" -MLK
@@henryhardtits yeah just be born in the right family dude🚨🔊🗣️
Bruv, just start owning the boot factory :D
just start a business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“This is why you’re poor” sounds exactly like what someone like Andrew Taint would title a video, only it would say ‘broke’ instead of ‘poor’ and ‘you’re’ would be spelt ‘your’
I have just completed my fifth year of medical school in Finland, and I am currently earning a salary of 90 euros per hour for my summer residency as a physician in a small town with a population of only 6,000. This town is located in a sparsely populated area. It is worth mentioning that we have a highly influential union known as The Finnish Medical Association, which includes almost all practicing doctors and medical students throughout the country. I just cannot understand how some blind people are putting their faith in individualistic nonsense while completely disregarding the only tool a worker has to combat an employer.
P.S. And we have med schools without a tuition fee...
Huh? Please clarify.
@@ccam001 What exactly do you want me to clarify?
He's American. In America our doctors work like pack mules but since they eventually could have a high salary. They don't consider themselves exploited workers. So American doctors aren't unionized. @@butylpropylshekel1167
I have been denied opportunities, mentors, networking and experience. Each year of this adds to the last. Before I had ceased to be a youth I was already stamped as unmotivated or lazy or manipulative. Yet I am a high energy person, always going, quick to join in and help, and concientious with my work. Unfortunately, I only ever get work that I make for myself. It doesn't pay well so my constant state of poverty is taken as evidence that I am of poor character and deserve punishment. My own mother once said I couldn't afford to be happy and didn't deserve it. I have long asked why I am sidelined. It isn't racism or classism. Transphobia, religious bigotry, intolerance of neurodiversity, and my choice of mental health support, cannabis, have all combined over my sixty years to guarantee I cannot even afford to be part of my own natal family. And they too have sidelined me for it. Here's the silver lining. I live in a bus now. The last week has seen me with a lakeside view and near complete solitude in which to do my work. I never stop working. I just don't get paid. I don't submit all my power to some sadistic bully with a business license and a bank loan, either.
“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
eat successful people! steal from people that are successful
this is how you make a functioning society;;; punish people who are succesful!
genius idea so true!!!
lmao i hope you dont ruin my country doing this sweden should retvrn to tribalism
The day of reckoning, when justice shall be served, with a side of fries and some salad
And then get shot by the rich.
@@MomoBeci They can't shoot all of us ;)
google the quote
Our regional manager was in town this week, and bragged to me about his long work hours, how often he has to travel, and how little he sleeps. I told him he should make sure he gets more sleep, and take better care of himself. He seemed absolutely repulsed. His brain has been rotted by hustle culture. He probably has an unhappy home as well, but still.
Yes
Rich narcissists are always rewarded. That's just how it goes.
I went to fish in a lake and i got in trouble. Apparently I needed a permit to fish there I gotta pay a fine now
I live in USA. I work for a non-profit. We are switching to a 4 day work week starting in September. We are working on getting everyone not being paid enough substantial raises since we have been getting counties to sign on with us and we are going to have substantially more money coming in. I have 22 days of PTO. I have 9 paid holidays. All the forms of health insurance, the employer pays 100% of the premiums. I also only started about 2 months ago.
Amazing what can be done for laborers when you don't have someone profiting.
I work very hard. I work hard just to commute. I get up early. I’m still poor. Hard work is not valued, only certain kinds of work are valued.
Obviously it can't be the markets™ fault you have to commute so far and without adequate mass public transit.
Clearly you need to do work that provides a tangible benefit to society. Like speculating on global currencies. You know, a real job.
@@Praisethesunson Or just the good old owning capital job, you know, a real job which everybody can clearly do, provides massive benefits for society and allows you to be satisfied with the hard work you put towards helping others. You know, a *real* job
The hardest jobs I've had were minimum wage or close to it. As my earnings have increased, the work has always gotten easier.
This is my experience as well.
A lawyer wrote a great story in The Wall Street Journal in the early 90s. He says that whenever it's 2:30am and he's tired from researching a case in a library, he will turn his thoughts to THE hardest work he ever did, detasseling corn.
I did that for 3 summers, and it's brutal. Pays cash at the end of the day. Okay for high schoolers, not so much for providing.
The people I know who work the hardest have the least to show for it.
This so vague... What job are you talking about? Fast food? Even if you are , this is definitely not the experience of a majority of working people.
As I'm watching this an ad for EVE Online came up. The pitch for the game went something like: "Whenever there's a war in the universe, that reflects on the markets, which makes people like me very happy because I'm making money off it. I'm the CEO..." An age where even our leisure and fantasies are of malignant and exploitative relationships that are so normalized as to be mainstream is a dark one.