I disagree to a level. Those rich people, more often then not worked hard for there money. If you also got. Into the system and got rich I *doubt* you would hate it then.
Tiffany your personal finance videos over the last few months have been incredibly helpful! I'm an accounting and finance major and started professionally preparing taxes 4 years ago. Personal finance content like yours helps there to be less stigmas about taxation, I really appreciate it!
Tiffany, I'm a big fan of your Internet Analysis series and I was so excited to hear that Cristine and Ben also appreciate it as much! You're doing great work :)
Regarding the "students are the ones protesting 'eat the rich"... At least in the US, the current student generation is paying orders of magnitude more in tuition than their parent's generation. A bachelor's degree earned then meant at least good job, salary, (eventually) homeownership, and graduating debt-free. Now, an entire generation of highly-educated young people are drowning in five-figure debt (six-figure in some cases) for the same type of jobs/salaries. THAT is why students are angry.
Students though have no right to be angry. The student CHOSE that school. He or she knew the schools tuition rates, dorm rates, and other expenses BEFORE he or she accepted. And if they didn’t see a way to AT LEAST have a manageable tuition and a reasonable Debt to Income ratio that’s on them. No one forces people to go to college it’s an investment that STATICALLY has proven to increase POTENTIAL income rates. It is no guarantee. No one hands you a key to a house or a family when you graduate. A degree only proves you are willing to stay and work for 4+ years and can take instruction. They drowned themselves. Community Colleges and State Universities offer reasonable tuition prices. Most Cal States for example are around $7000 (rounding up) for tuition, way less for community colleges. The education quality is there. Those are VALUABLE options to go until he or she are financially more stable. If you cannot afford a $40,000 tuition why the hell are you taking out $40,000 in loans for a job that only makes $60,000 a year. That’s not the systems fault that’s the students fault for not making the adult decision for financial security. They choose that five figure debt because they wanted a fancy education that had no guarantee to get them an job.
Love Lost I agree somewhat with what you’re saying on the point of it’s ultimately people’s choice on whether they go to schools with high expenses same way it’s peoples’ choice and responsibility for choosing an expensive car over an affordable one. However, the education system primarily in the United States of America is in my opinion somewhat broken and unfair for many. So many countries around the world, higher education is little to no cost to their citizens. The only reason America doesn’t do it like other countries is because the people who benefit the current system are greedy and corrupt.
Ivan I do agree in many ways. I just want to make it clear I was in no way claiming the system is fair nothing is fair that’s a fact of life nor was I claiming that the higher education system isn’t broken FASFA is so broken it’s funny, dorm room prices for some, the monopolies of College board and college texts book companies are a few examples but the true problem is America’s failing primary education system. My comment was more towards the delusion that ALL the blame is on the price of college and less the ownership of a decision that is ultimately the choice of which college. Plus the privileged notion that us as Americans have that it is our right to higher education when it’s a choice and an investment and not mandatory to be successful. (Or even the less know reddit rants on how the rich should pay for others colleges ‘which is classist and if everyone was taxed it would fall HEAVILY upon the middle-class’ where instead i think after you make more than a million a year you should just be disqualified from fasfa. But it is still no ones responsibility to pay for your college but you) I personally, was taught America was built for people to help themselves. And I agree that people are greedy and other countries have HIGHER education at lower coast but through my research, which I admit is most likely bias so grain of salt, their primary education systems are so much more developed leading for higher education to be more successful. I am no Darwinist and I believe in equal opportunity which everyone has the equal opportunity to spend four years of high school to meet the standards and expectations to race to the finish line. Like in a race everyone is not starting at the same place but those who don’t give up and push through have a statistical better chance of success. America’s higher education is a very good one getting high test scores and brings people in across the world but it cost a lot for, especially, the more prestigious the university , which those are usually private institutions that are so expensive, the individual chooses and can go affordable. Where compared to America’s PRIMARY education system that is mostly free government funded (mostly) but public students are testing way below other countries. And with a free or cheaper higher education there is no guarantee that like Public schools standards won’t fall or every institution will privatize leading to not only a primary teacher crisis but a higher one too. Plus, with America being number 1 in college drop out rates and number 20 in graduation rates it isn’t a great investment for the nation to make. But if America works on funding and improving the failing primary education systems and teaching the youth of America that community college and state universities are valuable options, teach them to make financial decisions to yes invest in their future but not by burying themselves in future debt. But the reason other countries higher education for less goes toward their PRIMARY education system more than their higher levels. Other countries such as France or Sweden Offer concentrations of literature, science, math etc where in college the subject concentration is further developed. America is built on a generalized education system to produce well rounded individuals right outside of high school to be ready for, in the past it was factory work, any general job. It also allows further specialized education or higher education for specified field I.e. ones major. general education was America not expecting a 14 or 15 y/o to know what they want to do for their entire lives and allowing them to be able to do simple factory work while ‘in the pursuit of happiness’’. Where other countries high school is configured almost exactly like college making the transition more fluid, and the higher education system is more educated within the primary system where things like the debt to income ratio is taught. where in America it’s really not mentioned to motivate that cycle which is up to the individual to identify. If you teach the youth to manipulate the greedy and corrupt in primary the won’t fall for their traps. So, in the end yes greed is a motivator but it is not the only reason America doesn’t do it like other countries.
@@lovelost442I agree! As a high school student myself, I have many peers who feel entitled to higher education. But in a way, I do sympathize with them. Unlike countries like France and Sweden where it seems like one can have a decent quality of life without secondary education, many of my peers believe that healthcare will be inadequate and inaccessible without higher education. Maybe I'm going on a whim here but, I felt insecure about my future if I would attend a community college or state university considering that the job market is saturated with highly competent and educated people and perhaps many of my peers shared the same fear. Of course my view on community college has changed, but I think many of my peers still believe that attending a prestigious university will help them stand out which would lead them to take out unreasonable loans. But idk🤷🏻♀️
yoinks you are totally right the matter of the fact people all around America are pressured to be accepted into the most prestigious schools they can with no plan to pay for it. And there is such a stigmatism about community college that’s just so wrong. Health care is tricky it either depends on the job you have or how much you make and while I personally find flaws in many free systems the healthcare system is another so broken that needs to be fixed. But many jobs look these days for the experience and qualifications in skill where education doesn’t necessarily prove that. For example my friend who went to cal state Fullerton interned her entire four years there at multiple tax agencies and when she went for a job where a BA student from UCLA was also there bragging she beat her out for it. The times are changing and yes the stigma is still there and may always be there but that’s why people need to shut it down. Don’t get me wrong those schools you’re paying for networking and getting opportunities but you can find other ways then kissing up to a guest speaker then paying 40,000 a year
My opinion: Don’t stop talking about your donations. I enjoy seeing when you use your success to help others and spread the word about important causes. You also talk about it in a humble manner which I also appreciate.
Renee Clark yeah don’t stop talking about donating it motivates others to do so ..it might not be something they think about all the time but being reminded that they can help by donating is a way to get more people to help.
I've basically lost all sense of time during these strange times so whenever I see that you've uploaded another podcast episode my first thought is "huh, it's Tuesday again already?"
While generally agreeing, I'd add to the billionaire donation shaming argument that people like Jeff Bezos work hard to make sure the economic system stays in their favour at the expense of their workers. I think that may be part of the reason for the shaming. Even if his donation is large, it seems a lot like a way to publicly absolve himself when the damage he is causing is immeasurable and ongoing. Perhaps that means he's being shamed for the wrong thing... on the other hand, it is a simpler issue to get angry about than the systemic issues within his company and governments he holds sway over.
yes definitely also some entrepreneurs make donations and talk about it all over social media or ensure people somehow find out that they made a donation but when you calculate their donation vs their income it comes down to it only being around 1% of their income. Bill Gates does this frequently and his donations sound amazing but compared to how much he earns it goes to prove he only did it for a tax right off or to be favoured in the eye of the public. We cant force rich people to help others but when they are clearly doing it for selfish reasons it rubs the public the wrong way.
So well-said. Ben and Cris make a good point about the system that enables billionaires and wealth disparity being the real issue here, but the rich are actively complicit in engineering and maintaining that system to best allow them to profit, almost always at the expense of the broader, poorer community.
Thanks for this comment! The entire time they were discussing, I was like "yessss, buuuuut..." because billionaires are complacent in keeping the system the way it is. Just as Ben mentioned, the older we get, the more money we end up having, the more conservative (generally fiscal) we end up being. And when you are a billionaire, and you have this foundational belief that this company was built on your back alone, you feel entitled to keeping all of your money without blinking an eye and that prevents you from realising your hard work was supported by millions of people supporting you. Then you end up wanting to keep the system the way it is because it made you the money you have (and will continue to get). And honestly, I get tired getting angry at the systemic issues because that's harder to fix; whereas getting angry at a single person means that single person has the power to change and improve themselves and you feel like maybe it's an easier problem to fix. (Although, I do have a friend who works at Amazon, and she's been very happy at her job, but it's simply because she's being paid better than all of her previous shit jobs and she's grateful for the one she has now. But that's an issue for another day...)
Billionaires and tens of millionaires have the money, power and influence to change the system that keeps millions of lives an inch from poverty. But they don't use their wealth to change our society, systematically, for the better because it means making a sacrifice. So yes, we should be angry at the system which creates wealth inequality but also, yes, we can be angry at the people who perpetuate it.
'It's not about keeping one from benefiting from the fruits of their own labors, but limiting how much one can benefit from the fruits of others' labors.' I heard this as a quick description of the ideals of democratic socialism and it really struck a chord with me
I can't remember, it was awhile ago. I think it was an NPR story about Bernie Sanders supporters or something. The idea goes back to Clause IV of the UK Labor Party, but a more modern take on it that doesn't involve straight up socialism with common ownership of industry. Kind of a capitalism-with-a-conscience system instead
When people start questioning why someone might donate to a certain cause instead of another, I always think back to the Lizzie McGuire episode when she burns herself out trying to help everything and everyone. That always stuck with me. There's no "better" charity to put your money or time towards, and there's no way to put either towards towards all of them at the same time. What's important is you make an effort to give back in some way, when you are able to. Thanks Disney Channel😋
@@RM-ks8hz I really get your point but I think the point of the lesson mentioned Robyn mentioned here can be applied even to Disney. Just because Disney as a corporation has plenty to be judged on doesn't mean that the shows they've produced in the past don't contain valuable lessons that are worthy of applauding & sharing the lessons of! Not everything needs to be a moment for tearing things down, you know? We can tackle the problems with companies/life/people while also applauding the good that exists simultaneously.
There are better charities. Ones that are more effective, ones that use the money for their states cause and not 50% or more on ads, ones that don’t have strings attached like “no abortion if you want our money”. Ones that aren’t exclusionary (no hep if you’re gay, etc). There are objectively better and worse charities. Causes are the ones that aren’t necessarily better.
I’ve always been in the mindset of supporting what you care about, and if you want to bring awareness to something you think should get more attention, then it’s your responsibility to champion that cause. Spread positive awareness and raise you own money for it. Only shamming other for being charitable is short sited immature response and not doing anything about it, and saying “you should have donated here or there”, doesn’t help.
One way I figured out to save money is to take out a portion each week into a separate savings account. Mine is a rainy day fund for emergencies and I take $75 each week. I'm glad I did because I saved up $2000 and its saving my ass during unemployment.
@@simplypodlogical That actually is something id want to learn more about. Do sponsorships change what type of video you make, do they change aspects of the video based on what sponsor is?
I think the Jeff Bezos shaming has more to do with him as a person and how he’s choosing to mistreat his workers. Some people (not saying me) were saying that he’s only donating to make all the bad publicity go away.
@@jennas9033 I think you should pay it in taxes. If everyone paid their fair share of taxes (obviously with tax free for those on such a low income as to make it nothing but penalising, so their fair share is zero - fair as in each according to their means) then you wouldn't need charities because everything would be able to be funded properly from the get go. Obviously assuming a non-corrupt government of course. I mean 1 billion dollars is equal to 7,631 years of constant work at $15 per hour wage (which Bezos refuses to pay his staff). So hundreds of billions is just plain ludicrous. It is simply unethical for one person to have that much money as the only way to accrue it is to exploit others and the environment. You can not be an ethical billionaire.
I think it comes back to the fact that there is no cap on how much a CEO can earn vs their regular employees. If a CEO wants to be a billionaire he should pay his workers like millionaires. So maybe Ben's brother can make some sort of math formulas for that.
@@libbykeiser801 that doesn't help in all instances - Bezos salary is $80k/year. The stock market is what makes him rich. We should definitely reel in the BONUSES these people earn, however. Places like Walmart give their leaders over 100% their annual salary in yearly bonuses, meanwhile hourly employees are lucky to make what amounts to an extra paycheck/year.
I feel that I regard your opinions similar to how I regard Philip DeFranco's. If you happen to say something I don't necessarily agree with I take it into consideration and move on because I respect you and I know you take care in how you form your opinions and think about what you say. And I think this is how many of us approach it both on and offline but the internet has allowed those less understanding people to nitpick every word you say while in real life they wouldn't get that opportunity or just wouldn't do it because that's a dick move and they know it.
Ashley Santoro the last sentence is revolutionary in the simplest way. Well said! If many people realized these people wouldn’t say much without the Internet, imagine how much shitstorm wouldn’t even occur in our brains.
And the internet is like real life where the stupidest people tend to be the loudest, so those are the voices that tend to be heard, drowning out the more rational masses
This will probably get lost, but just in case you see it. A local independent bookstore in my town decided to do a giveaway and to enter, you nominate a first line worker, best thing is, they included people who work in any essential services, including grocery. One of my good friends works on grocery, so I nominated her. She actually got chosen and was so shocked. Regardless on who you donate to, you are still making a difference in someones lives.
It's interesting because the day that the lockdown in the UK is eased, "low paid" workers are back to being called "low skilled". Very few jobs are truly low skilled. It is just the perception and pay that changes your view. Once you make a lot of money from your "low skilled" job, even if you continue to do it people will now call you "successful". Everything falls down to how well paid you are. There are influencers that are bringing in thousands for cleaning and yet we don't give value to cleaners out in the real world.
@purplerains but that falls to the education and practice. Not the skill. Plenty of trainee medical staff drop out because it's not for them and plenty of people could make wonderful medical staff should they have received the opportunity. I work in what is deemed a "low skill" job in a hospital and yet I work with plenty of doctors who know fully well they couldn't do what they do without me and my colleagues. I'm no lower skilled, I just have different skills with a different level of education. If you happen to become rich with minimal education, people won't ever call you low skilled because they assume that money some how means you've done something better, wherein you may have just got lucky. It's why I think low paid should be used. But people won't use that because there would be a level of guilt that people feel where they might feel people should be paid more. Low skilled implies they just didn't "try" hard enough and therefore its not their problem. It's amazing how different language makes us view things in a different way. This isn't me having a go btw! Its always hard to have a nuanced conversation via text.
Kay I call those idiot vlogger families "low skilled" all the time. They rake in millions of dollars a year by posting home movies of their kids online. Exploiting your child's privacy for cash isn't a skill, it is a personality defect.....and should be a crime.
Kay this is what I was trying to explain on Twitter with ben’s use of the term “low skilled” in the categorization of workers. Like you said, it implies that these people didn’t try hard enough, when in fact, I see my fellow employees trying their very best every single day, especially during this pandemic. I’m an essential worker at target, but I’ve been there for a good amount of time; today, I had my employee evaluation, and all of my leads talked positively about my accomplishments at work and the growth I’ve made since I started. I went from someone who didn’t know the sales floor to being able to directly contact our shippers about inventory stock up, especially for all the out of stocks we’ve had in our department during this pandemic (nail care, spa items, soap, hair dye, etc.) All these accomplishments led to a small pay raise, which is actually outstanding since I’ve haven’t been with the company a full year yet. I’ve learned so many new skills at work, and the paid training is the true investment target makes taking me in, and I’ve proved myself as an exceptional member of my team. I’m proud of my work, and this evaluation gave me a better vision of what my work means. I’m more than just the girl that stocks up the drugstore mascara, but an employee that assesses their sales floor for what the public needs for beauty/personal care during these hard times. It take a lot of skill, both physical and mental, to take in the hardballs retail can throw at me, so to say “low skilled” now would be an understatement of my capabilities. There are other jobs within my employment that I’ve seen do amazing and do deserve more than me, such as Human Resources and Asset Protection, not to mention Guest Service dealing with all those returns, but I’m glad I’m recognized for my work in the company, no matter what domine on the internet thinks of it.
@@Delight101ful completely agree. There is nothing "low skilled" about being the employee who can calm down an absolutely furious customer, and it certainly isn't something an education can teach you. Your "place" in the world sets you up before you ever even get a look in at other options. By his own admission, Ben has said he grew up, by all accounts, in a middle class household. That automatically gives him a foot in the door because he has financially stability behind him in the form of parents who can bail him out if needed. It doesn't mean he worked any less to get where he is, but that he didn't have the worry of losing everything if he didn't succeed. I maintain, there is very, very little that actually classifies as low skilled. You just have different skills that are learnt via different avenues.
Yes, this! (I realize my comment is late, but this stays relevant haha) I work in vocational rehabilitation and do quite a bit of vocational testing. Jobs like cashier are quite highly skilled. They require mental math, significant memorization of codes and product location, mental flexibility to switch from checking someone out to helping (for example) clean up a spill, social knowledge to deal with difficult customers, ability to deal with high stress high pace environment, ability to use technology, decision making to decide if a product should be returned, etc.. Yes, not a lot of education is needed, but if someone can be a good cashier that bodes pretty well for training to a new area of work and general learning ability. For "low skill" clients I'm looking for highly repetitive work with no independent problem solving or significant time stressors and very clear instruction. It's actually quite hard to find jobs which are suitable for folks with new disabilities who are also low skill because so few low skill jobs exist! (As someone said above, low skill is often a destination for training requirements, but it's important because language impacts how others are treated, so moving to different language in non technical environments is important.)
I'd like to hear about the legal side of RUclips. That would be pretty interesting to hear about when you decided you needed to get a lawyer, how that lawyer was familiar with the copyrights and such and anything legal that comes down through having a public channel. People often mention their lawyers or running things by their legal team, but you never hear about what goes on. Like if you were going to do a video about another RUclipsr or even a celebrity, do you have to run that by some kind of standard and practice thing? What falls and Free Speech what falls in something that will get your video demonetized if your video gets demonetized how are you fighting against that if it's unfair and so on
I tried to watch it but the way she talks excitedly kinda made me anxious. The contents seem interesting but I just couldn't watch it all the way through.
It's been very frustrating seeing this "keep the rich rich" thought in my university now even. I recently had two professors (that teach the majority of junior/senior level classes) let go while the head of the school got an assistant and none of the deans or other administration (who make 3-5x as much) got a pay cut or even talked to the department about it. It's so frustrating when education institutes act like a business and remove the people who are actually teaching classes to focus on other "business" opportunities and trying to increase their enrollment, get important researchers etc. Why do universities need to be a business.
As someone who attends the second most expensive University in the United States (on financial aid, but regardless), I second this wholeheartedly. They hide behind the fact that their multi-billion dollar endowments and fundraisers are strictly enforced and therefore cannot go towards the important and immediate causes that need money, like student aid or teacher salaries, but are perfectly fine with this reality. Assistant professors and graduate students especially take a huge hit in trying to stay afloat with the system they are caught in, having to work for nearly free while maintaining self-funded research all while having a barely functioning union, if they even have one. These schools are run like businesses, especially private schools like mine, and despite having immense political connections and influence, would never fight or lobby for a change that would take less money from them. "Non-profits" lol
I won’t say much but I’ll tell you as a grocery worker. Life is scary. My big company had not given us good plexiglass. People get so mad when you ask them to stay back and they get in your personal space all the time. And I make less then everyone sitting at home on unemployment. Life is not faire but it’s my job and I need money. So please be nice to everyone worker or not in this time
At the grocery I work at, the put "high theft" smaller items, behind the plexiglass with us. So people just reach around to touch and look at the things. It is terrifying having visibly sick people coming within 6 inches of me.
This thing with the quarantine and celebrities really reminds me of something I read about JFK. JFK had such a privileged childhood and came from an extremely wealthy family - so much so that he had never felt any effects from the Great Depression. He admitted he hadn't really learned about the Great Depression until he went to college (at Harvard). Having money like that insulates you from many hardships in life and these celebrities don't really know what the general populace is going through.
About the whole “should people announce it publicly that they donated a certain amount of money or not” - I think that such actions set an example for young people. For me personally, seeing Cristine and Ben donate to charities puts a smile on my face and reminds me that there is still so much good in the world. So really, let’s not dwell on the negatives so much, but instead maybe just try to be good people and set an example for others by whatever means possible - donating, volunteering or simply helping out an elderly person carry their groceries.
This makes so much sense!!! I completely agree that seeing others do nice things makes one more hopeful! Let's increase positivity and focus on the good things people do!
When I think of there being no such thing as a purely altruistic act, I think of Doug Forcett from the tv series The Good Place. He lived his life trying to make every action contribute to a net positive life score (there’s a points system in the show that breaks down how good of a life you led when you get to the afterlife) helping out every single cause he could - and in the end, he led a really crappy life trying to help everyone except himself. Also there’s a part where someone bought almond milk as a “good act”, but the points system broke it down to showing the carbon emissions from the purchase and other negative things that happened as a result of the existence of that almond milk. The Good Place really opened my eyes to the idea that to live a good life, you don’t have to be this god of a person. Every little action helps, but there is such thing as too much of a good thing. The real measure of being a good person isn’t a points total you can quantify, but the effort you show in trying to do the best to your ability every day, even if it isn’t perfect. (pls watch this show if you haven’t already!!)
also the quote from Hamilton: “if we try to fight in every revolution in the world, we never stop. Where do we draw the line?” Apply that to trying to help every person struggling right now in regards to some of the donation shaming concerns.
I LOVE 'The Good Place'! I love the idea that you could know all about ethics but be hindered by it and end up with a net negative life score--it's about the actions you can take within your means, but also you don't have to be perfect to be 'good'. I think it's important though that intentions mean a lot in 'The Good Place'. *glares at Brent*
Rachel Palmer, there’s an exception where too much help or the wrong kind of help can hurt the person you’re trying to help. For example: enabling an alcoholic. Ethics is a tough thing in practice and that’s why I hated it in college- it can seem arbitrary and the professors end up sounding like Chidi.
Also, there is a huge emphasis on unintentional consequences. If you donate to charity, there are gonna be people who are bitter, who complain you donated to the ‘wrong people’. The Good Places is actually a really meaningful show and I’m interested in reading ‘What We Owe To Each Other’
I love seeing random mentions of this show when I browse social media or watch completely different and unrelated content. It is a pleasant reminder that this show that I love so much exists and that some of the things that resonated with so much resonate with others as well. It makes me feel part of a collective consciousness of human beings that care about our actions and doing good in the world.
Billionaires (walmart for example 🙄) should just provide their workers with healthcare benefits and more deserving pay. Delivery man/woman should also be provided with at least healthcare benefits.
@@molliemon222 perhaps they mean health insurance for ALL employees (not just full-time) and fully-vested by the company (versus premiums paid by employees.) GoDaddy, for instance, pays the premiums for their workers.
Amazon workers don't have paid sick leave. Right now we get an extra $2 per hour, but that's only til May 15th and several warehouses have suffered COVID outbreaks. And many who have been exposed are afraid to get tested because they can't afford a copay or being quarantined without pay for two weeks. That's what is so frustrating about Bezos's net worth. He could be putting just a quarter of that into the work force that keeps him rich and still be one of the wealthiest people on the planet.
Its worse than that. He could be taxed 90% of everything he currently has (171.6 billion) and that would still leave him as a billionaire with 17.6 billion. You could take 99% of what he has and he would still have 1.7 billion. At this point, other than taking all of his money, there is no way for him to stop being a billionaire at this point even if taxed super heavily.
I think that in the US the reason people are so angry about billionaires not donating is because they don’t pay taxes. Bezos paid $0 in taxes recently and people are really mad, including me since I know if he paid a fair share of taxes we could get social programs working. Or Elon Musk wanting people to return to work against city, county, and state law. I think it is due to that more than trying to tell people what to do with their money. (This is for American billionaires)
Same in Australia - a lot of our billionaires don't pay taxes and are now asking the government for financial assistance to keep their businesses running during COVID-19...
I just don’t understand how it’s even possible to not pay taxes? There are so many consequences in my country if you don’t pay taxes and it all goes through a system that automatically checks whether you have paid them...
@@RutgerOfficial Same in my country and still CumEx happened. It was a huge scandal because the German Federal Ministry of Finance knew about it at least since 2002 and didn't do anything about it. Somehow 5 European countries have lost almost 63 billion dollars of taxes, imagine what could have been done with that much money.
What upsets me about Bezos paying nothing is that I'm a student just trying to make ends me and the job that I have I have to pay taxes no matter what I do, and it's just not right that I should have to pay it when I'm barely able to pay for rent
Fun fact: retail employees are evaluated - at least in part - by how often they can get a customer to make a charitable donation at check-out. I know this, because my final job selling luggage had such a system, complete with daily tallies. Knowing this, I used to always donate at the register not necessarily because I was interested in the charity but because I wanted to help out the employee. Then I learned that the people who own the holding companies that own the conglomerate that own the retail business etc. are potentially using the donations given by customers as tax write-offs. I stopped donating at the register after that. I think the royal family is a very good argument for Ben's ambivalence on millionaire heirs. I have no idea what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle did to deserve a £35 million wedding when the NHS is essentially crippled and can't hire nurses (not because there's a lack of nurses but because there's a lack of funding); but I also think no one needs a £35 million wedding in the same vein as no one needs to a be a billionaire to live comfortably--especially if their business doesn't pay taxes and underpays its employees. If Amazon employees had a living wage, good benefits and solid job security, I don't think I'd mind Jeff Bezos nearly as much. If the royal family - who don't have jobs and make their money off the UK taxpayers and being landlords - spent less money on needlessly lavish weddings and more money on charity, I probably wouldn't mind them nearly as much.
@@caitlinhs9670 and they get so much because they are representing the country (similar to footballers but they get payed way too much for doing way to little) and other countries seem to like the royals more than we do so its publicity.
I hate to be this person, but the royals are extremely active as workers - working for charities, working for the armed forces etc. They do make sure they're not just sitting around.
I absolutely agree, but in Meghan and Harry's defence - I'm quite sure that even if they wanted to have a smaller, less extravagant wedding, it wouldn't have been allowed. They're representatives of Great Britain and therefore need to at least invite certain people, or you'll have a political quarrel on your hands. That being said, I imagine an immense chunk of that £35 million went to security. It's extravagant and too much yes, but it's not their choice.
Zaira Bandy That would make me a hypocrite then. I stand firm in my beliefs and I will make sure to keep on doing so no matter what level of financial freedom I achieve. People who ram on the rich when they aren’t rich, but then join the "squad" when they make it big, were never in for anything other than themselves.
@@zairabandy8695 Therein lies the big fallacy that capitalism requires to continue thriving. There is this belief people have that there is a chance that they too might one day become a billionaire so they will fight to keep taxes from being high for billionaires on the chance that they may one day become one themselves. But its just not going to happen unless you are willing to exploit other people and the environment. No one amasses billions through their own hard work. They do it by underpaying others and reaping the rewards. You're much more likely to be 3 paydays away from homelessness than you are to become a billionaire. And there is this misconception of how much a billion even is. If you earned the "living wage" in America of $15 an hour, you would have to work for 66,666,667 hours (rounded up to avoid the decimal places) to earn that much. But that's still a big number, how do we make it easier to think about? Lets divide it by 24 to get the number of days you'd have to work. 2,777,778 days (again rounded up). Ok now we are in small millions of days. But still quite big. Lets divide by 7 to get weeks. 396,825 weeks. Ok, but how many years are we talking? There are 52 weeks in a year, so lets divide by that. That's 7,631 years of work at a living wage. With no breaks for sleep or anything of course. That's a wage which people like Bezos are refusing to pay his staff just so he can keep on earning more and more billions just on the interest on the money in the bank. Lets be kind and say you work in a job earning 50 dollars an hour (average American earns $27.16 an hour, so I'm being very kind!). That would still be 20 million hours of work, or 833,333 days, or 119,048 weeks, or 2,289 years of constant work. I don't know about you, but the average human lifespan is only 79 years and that with getting sleep and time to eat and you know, not work. So for the $50 an hour you're looking at 28.9 human life spans to earn 1 single billion dollars with continuous working. For $15 an hour, that would be 96.6 human life spans. So if you are ok with the idea of one person having the amount of money that nearly 100 people could earn if they worked constantly for 79 years (ignoring how child labour isn't a thing in most countries now) then I don't really know how to explain to you that you are a monster, but you're a monster.
Hikari Studios コピック Your channel looks good and I like your art, but you shouldn’t use other people’s videos / comments to advertise your channel. That said, good luck with your channel!
Ollie Baird Twitter is very toxic. I spent years tweeting two celebrities, praising them, telling them how they literally saved my life, etc. I then commented on a tweet that had nothing to do with these two celebrities, didn’t mention their names, didn’t @ them, but I said how I no longer support them because they aren’t the same people as they once were. Well those two celebrities finally noticed me. And my tweet. And sent all their fans to bully me. I had to delete my twitter account that I had for years, and was actually pretty proud of cause I had a lot of positive celebrity interactions on that account. I also sent an apology to their business emails (it was easily accessible) and I never heard back. Just goes to show how toxic Twitter is and how angry everyone gets on there for no reason :(
best ever yeah. I mean there’s more to the story but I don’t want to give too much context and have to delete my RUclips channel. But I don’t tweet much anymore now regardless haha
Politics is lasting on twitter unlike Facebook and snap and insta it was somewhat banned all social media platforms. Toxicity is in all social media. while Twitter stans political garbage it does does stand up to more freedom of speech unlike fb who has curbed most media bashing like left and right wing bias
Transperancy is important. For example look at Selena Gomez saying: buy my song and percentage will go for fighting covid19. Like, what percentage, where will it go, what are you talking about? The only important thing is to sell a song.
i think on the merch site itself it said how much was going to be donated and where it is going. i think it was about 1$ per album sale to a charity which somehow helped musicians or people working in the industry.
Everyone has to care about something different. If we all cared about the same thing many groups of people, animals, and environments would be neglected.
I would definitely love a podcast on financial advice. As a student who is almost done with their degree I have many questions and some confusion about future economical investments. Buying a house saving enough to buy the house etc.
Same here. I just had my quarantine graduation from college. I heard it might be a good time to nab a car (I have a job secured already) since the car places are trying to reduce their inventory. Also, a good 6month-5year-10year financial plan would help. Nothing crazy, but just major things young people should be looking for/investing in before we're 35 or something
I always like to donate where and when I can. But most of the time I can’t afford to donate money so I donate blood instead. Still helps people in need and there’s always a need
Yes! High iron runs in my family so we all have to give blood regularly and I didn't realize until I went to college that not everyone gave blood every 6 months. It is such a simple and quick way to literally save people's lives. I always try to encourage people to give blood whenever they can. ❤❤❤
@@913zzzn Same! My mum and my dad donate blood every 6 months aswell, and then we always have a dinner which has good iron content, (such as liver and the vegetables that clesn your blood etc) Judt remembered a story my mum told me, when they people who test for the iron level said she didnt have enough, and because my mum is aware she has like actually good blood, sbe asked if she could do it again, once again they said there wasnt enough (i think the test is like something dropping idk i havent been to one) and then they had to do a different type of test to see, and it turns out my mum's iron levels were too high, and we all had a laugh about it. Always makes me happy to say to people that my parents donate blood to hospitals and, once im old enough, I can aswell (I'm 15 in july) Always thought it was normal to donate blood and thought everyone did but I mentioned it briefly in a conversation with my classmates and they was super confused. They were all just like "Wdym your parents donate blood?" and then I'd go "Wait so you don't know anyone who does?" and back and forth until we got told off by my teacher. ;-;
I think that the reason the animal shelter didn't announce you guys' donation publically at first is maybe because they thought people would see that they got a significant amount of money and thus would think that they don't need any more money (?) It's just a guess, and you guys obviously know more than I do about what happened, but that's what I thought at first when you talked about it, and it kind of makes sense, so I just figured I'd say it in case you haven't considered this possibility yet
Possibly. I know a big giver who told my organization that they would cover a yearly defect up to 80K, but nobody was supposed to know that. They would rather not have to fill the gap for basic operating expenses and instead do something like build an elevator. Even though I am on the finance committee, I do not know who that person is. Orgs don’t always know how to deal with giving to the point that it could keep them afloat. Much of the time it is slated for matching donations. I don’t know the situation on their end, but they also didn’t know your situation. I’m glad you worked it out :)
In regards to Jeff Bezos the anger is that he donated a small amount of money even though he is profiting of of this pandemic. I bet he pocketed way more than 100 mil, and continues to do so without listening and punishing his employees for demanding proper ppe.
Nevena Savic I’d encourage you to think a lot more on this. I don’t think you understand how much money this man has or how destructive his company is. Remember villains from cartoons? That’s him. It’s not an exaggeration. Some people are bad and they do bad things. Nobody should be able to hoard that much wealth when their workers can’t even afford food. It’s wrong and inexcusable and it’s because people like him would let others die to make a buck.
@Nevena Savic 'Started from zero like everyone' can everyone really get given $250,000 from their parents to start a business, because that's how he did it. The fact that so many people believe he started from nothing or even from an average background is the result of an overwhelmingly successful PR campaign.
Nevena Savic I’m not going to explain in a comment section but you can find plenty of explanations of Jeff Bezos online. And many more explanations of why billionaires wouldn’t exist in a fair society.
I'm team always same Bezos. You can't be worth over a 100 billion dollars and a majority of your employees live below the poverty line and you try to stop from forming unions and demanding safe work environments.
This is a topic that is very near and dear to my heart. I'm originally from Brazil and before moving to the US, I volunteered for 4 years in a non-governmental organization that would teach underprivileged kids/teens different skills, such as informatics or English. We'd also prepare and give them food on the weekends. We survived off of donations and the topic of publicizing these donations would come up often. Many people would come to us with comments like "are the donors doing it for the right reasons?" or "is it ok to donate for self-promoting reasons?". What I always say, from being on the side that needed these donations, it does not matter! It is better to donate and self-promote than to never donate! The "donation shaming" culture is not productive and might inhibit more donations.
Hey, I’ve been loving these podcasts. I love how they’re a little more mature than the videos. I started watching the videos 2 years ago but felt like I grew out of them overtime. So these podcasts allow me to still listen to you guys outside of the videos.
These podcasts feel like I'm having a conversation with two friends (even though I'm not talking lol). I've genuinely never found that in a podcast before.
One of my favorite quotes (I can’t remember where I read it but it was interesting) is ‘If a rich person donates a million dollars to a hospital just to get his name on the building, the patients inside don’t care about the intention. They just care that the doctors are able to care for them better.’ Or something like that. It basically means that a donation is good even with bad intentions because the money is still going to a good cause.
That is true to an extent. But when people donate and show an inflated amount on paper in order to get a tax break, what they are essentially doing is taking in more money which could have been used for better care.
@@radmoonable not in any way. O justify tax avoidance but I think on a benefit level, money to a charity probably does more good than taxes, especially to those against military spending because that is a huge portion of the Budget
i'd love to see more financial content, because, one of the motives for the breach between rich and poor is the lack of opportunities and education (very well put with the comment about kyle being a self-made millionaire). I think hearing some savvy advice on how to taxes, or how to manage the money or something like that will be very useful. thinking about kids and children that follow you, that's real advice to help adulting.
It has been said a thousand times, but we don't easily comprehend the diff between 1mi to 1bi. 1BI is such a gigantic number, and having that much wealth in one person is a but strange to me.
I would love to see you guys make a podcast about the process of setting up holo taco :) like how do you start this sort of business, how do you choose the colours and consistency. Where is holo taco made and what is the factory process etc. :)
The interesting thing about Bezos is that if they brought Amazon funds onshore, the taxes could be more beneficial than his donation. Its moreso about how he circumvents taxation which helps on a regular basis, instead of championing the one time he donated a significant amount.
It is insane that huge companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, and others have so much profit that they have it sitting in Ireland because they have no idea what to do with it all.
i saw the title of this podcast and thought “wow what a coincidence!! tiffany talked about this recently”, then i heard your intro. so glad tiffany is getting bigger recognition, i’ve loved her content for a long time. :)
How many people donate to animal charities? I feel like plenty donate to humans. Also Jeff Bezos isn't caring for his employees. IDC if he donates because he needs to help them first
I donate a lot to animal/enviro charities, as well as volunteer at a shelter (well, in normal times). The "why don't you do something for HUMANS" is a very common refrain. It's whataboutism. Like, people can do both. People can care about or think about multiple things.
I know the Donkey Sanctuary in the UK was in trouble a couple years ago cos they had millions in the bank they couldnt or werent spending. I think they for into trouble for advertising when they don't need the money. I think I've heard that animal charities usually get more donations than human charities but i may be wrong
Every article I've read about Amazon warehouse conditions are brutal. Essentially he's feeding on the desperation of the people who would have been retail workers. If they get work injuries or need food stamps, they can be replaced by the next one.
You guys are so smart about all the RUclips ‘business” side. My husband is a financial advisor and from what Ive heard him say about what wealthy people should be doing with their money, you guys are in the right track. It’s amazing seeing you donate and being open and honest about the financial side of RUclips. Hi from Nova Scotia! If you ever get the chance to visit here you’d love it Christine, there aren’t nearly as many people as Ontario 😆😆
There is also the issue of those who have obscene amounts of wealth and constantly remind you of that wealth (ie Musk) through one-upmanship whenever there is an issue. Plus, he was another one who was born into wealth. Though I would say that the US has the worst wealth disparity currently, because of the lack of healthcare. I'm aware that the disparity in the UK (where I am) is truly not great, however we provide the right to healthcare no matter who you are.
Publicizing donations is very contextual, at least in my opinion. I feel like you guys have done a good job of it from what I've seen, but if the video/tweet (whatever) of someone making a donation reads as "Look what I did. I'm such a great person. Look how nice and charitable and humble I am." - then yeah, I'm not surprised if that attracts criticism.
I definitely agree. But I also think that how their videos/tweets “humblebragging” come across depends on the group of people reading it too. That’s kind of a grey area here. How do we know if someone is actually bragging or just showing proof but we’re interpreting it the other way?
I think this would be exactly the case when whomever comes across the tweet/video need to suck it up and not criticize. Sure, this type of post is cringy, but the outcome is good. Criticizing people for doing a good thing, however cringyly, won't encourage them to continue.
I mean, for me, as long as you made a donation (a legit one where the other party actually received it) publicizing or famewhoring about it doesn't matter. You helped another person/group of people, period.
Yes please to the Financial Advisory Podcast! I currently have a financial advisor and am investing, but being a girl in my late 20's who finally has a "real job" and money coming in, I have no idea what to invest in and how to handle my money!
AndreaNicole I second this!! I’m 29 and this year is the first time in my adult life that I’ve had a steady checking account. It’s very overwhelming researching the smartest way to invest because there’s so much info out there.
This comment is serious in a different way... Zyler still hates Ben, he simply discovered Ben's allergy and is trying to make Ben's life harder by being a cute chonky sweety who deserves all the pets
About the emergency expense bit. I think I saw a study like that and it was even lower, it was something like if a $500 cost came up that they didn’t normally have, it would really throw them for potentially a long time. That’s an unexpected medical bill, if someone gets sick or injured. That’s a car repair. That’s literally anything, even if it’s not the person’s own “fault” or happened through their own doing, because jobs aren’t paying enough as it is. There’s basically no place in the US right now where a minimum wage job can be a living wage.
That and the fact many can't afford health insurance. And those that can are still getting hit with high bills. It's a broken system and many refuse to see it
To add to that because most people can't afford insurance they don't have a regular general health doctor so the ER is where they usually go but that's not really an option right now so there's people having health issues going unresolved getting worse every day further impacting then and their families. It really sucks.
Ratan Tata of Tata industries donates his 66% annual income to many good causes. Besides the regular donations his company donated 1500 crores to India to the battle against corona virus crisis. He might've been the richest person in world but he donates almost all of his income.
Thank you for recognising the grocery store workers, I think some of the negative comments are coming from the (not really the right word but...) 'glorification' of health care workers throughout the crisis. They are putting themselves at great risk, and should be thanked and respected for that, but there are many others who are doing the same with little to no applause. I think people are often just scared, and wish they were able to stay home and stay safe. I manage a team at an online food store in the UK, and most of my staff don't have any option but to work as it is not a well paid field, even if, like us, you are paid more than the usual minimum wage. We are lucky to have a close team and have worked really hard to keep each other safe and healthy, but not every company appreciates and listens to their workers.
18:59 I would like to make a correction on the type of people that work in grocery stores as essential workers. While it may be teenagers and unskilled workers in Canada, from Ben’s perspective, here in the US, it is a completely different story. I’m an essential worker, but I also have a bachelors degree. I had to make the hard decision to leave my career field (the entertainment industry) behind as things were getting worse within it and aid my family during this pandemic. I have a couple of older work friends who are close to retirement but have to work because they are not at the age to retire or take time off now. I have coworkers who have families to take care of, but cannot leave their job to invest their time into a better paying career field without affect the food to put on the table, keep the lights on, etc. not every grocery store worker is unskilled, we just happen to have a system in my country that puts profit over people. Just wanted to put that out there.
I'm Canadian but I completely agree. The way he explained it made me feel ashamed to be 28 and work at a pharmacy. I need to pay my way through school. I'm sure I'm nitpicking but I'm glad you can explain it better than I can .
There is a good population of retired folks who work part or full-time at grocery stores to supplement their retirement or to give them spending money if they live with family.
It bothers me too when someone gives to some animal rescue or cause and then people make it out like they're a bad person because they 'don't care about human causes'...
I came back to this podcast after listening to this weeks (just bc I was driving while listening to the last one and didn't have time to comment) but I just wanted to say how refreshing this was to hear! At one point I got a little nervous, when you were saying that we shouldn't donation shame or smthing to that effect but then continued on by saying that the anger should be directed to that inequality of wealth instead. So major kudos to you for that! Talking real shit right now, especially because so much of 'donations' are tax write offs, funneled into large NPOs that don't actually donate as much as they say, etc. Anyway! Thank you for actually dissecting this conversation around wealth and the realities of how 'we live in a society'
While many people/companies avoid controversy to not ruin our reputation, i like how you guys are brave enough in order to send a positive message. You guys tackle tricky topics in order to positively advocate your viewers and I really appreciate that.
I saw a comment section between someone from New Zealand (pretty sure it was NZ) and someone from America. The person from New Zealand said that half of their money went to taxes (someone in the comments has corrected this) but it didn't bother them because they knew if they got sick, they wouldn't lose everything to the Healthcare bill, and that they had security in general and that mattered more than the actual number on their paycheck. The American (I'm American btw) could not understand that. They were like "how can you let them take that from you, that's so much" and that they'd rather have that money and I think a huge problem actually lies in the power we give money. Like you said with the massive sums of money, it just sitting there does nothing. Money is meant to be a means to an end and shouldnt have to be an end in itself or just getting you one thing. It makes sense to want it to go towards security for yourself, your health, the quality of your or your children's education. The person from NZ said that they had what they needed and that's why they didn't mind the taxes. Idk, I just feel like it makes a lot of sense. But it also requires a level of trust in your government and competency on their part to recognize the importance of those basic securities. All something I don't personally trust our government with. Edit: There is more information about how the tax money is distributed in the comments
I'm a New Zealander, the highest tax rate is 33% for income over $70k/year, most people pay much less. That tax pays for more than just free health care, it subsidises everything - public transport, defence force, student loans, retirement fund, all the good stuff which creates a happier, healthier society. You're right that there are different mindsets, New Zealand is egalitarian, we don't want anyone to be left behind, whereas America prioritises the individual instead of the community.
@@astroZOMBIESattack Ah, thanks! I'm not going to lie, it seems really nice. Do you like living there? I've thought about moving there recently, as something to strive for
Cristine, i hope you'll see this. I would like to recommend one specific topic to discuss next - domestic violence. Currently in Russian speaking media circles this topic (i live in Belarus). One Instagram star and TV host sad on her life stream "and what exactly did you do for your husband not to beat you". These words "blew up" so many people, because as someone said, one of three families experience homicide regularly. The worst thing is that many people (men, women) agree with her.
Nothing turned me progressive more than "Libertarians" and seeing life's inequities up close. I also have an engineering & business degree, so I'm not starving. The myopia of our own personal greed brings us all down.
recoil53 I am an anarchist. Seeing life's inequalities up close and living them radicalized me. I'm in my early 20's and I've seen war in person as a citizen along with my home country fall into shambles because of capitalist, government, and authoritarian corruption. People there currently are rioting on the streets because nobody can afford food. My move to the USA also radicalized me as I saw the massive amounts of inequality when it came to class, race, sexuality, etc. and the amount of corruption that occurred on a daily basis in this country. The amount of grief and inequality I have seen and experienced over time has pushed me far left, and I honestly don't believe that everybody does get more conservative as they get older because it really depends on your life experiences and how much faith you have in the system.
I saw a quote recently about this covid situation that was "we may all be weathering the same storm but we are not all in the same boat" and that really hit home for me about why people are so angry at a lot of these celebrities who are really out of touch with the problems and struggles that people deal with on a day to day basis- covid or no covid. As always, i think you guys have a lot of good comments and express them critically and appropriately- I love your podcasts and think you guys do a really great job explaining or encouraging people to think critically, not emotionally. Looking forward to nexts week's episode!
I can relate to Beyn saying that it feels good when your good deed is recognized. That makes sense to me and isn't a bad thing at all. Whenever I have donated blood I also post about it on socials. Sure, in part to make people aware that if they are healthy, they may consider doing it as well but I also enjoy the pat on the back for it xD
It's okay to feel good about a good deed, or even get a sense of satisfaction when that deed is recognized. Though my line is when the intent of the deed is for the recognition, it becomes muddled.
I loved Tiffany’s video and thought the entire video was entirely on point. But separately and more in the context of YOU guys, there is research showing that sharing when we donate is important for positive social peer pressure to remind others of the importance of donating in general, and for amplifying certain important causes. We’re motivated by others’ generosity.
I think it's strange to give praise to billionaires for donating money to charities if they're exploiting their workers or indulging in tax evasion. I'm not saying they should be shamed for their charity work, just that it should be pointed out that most of the times one thing doesn't compensate for the other.
Look up how many things are named for the rich from the "Robber Baron" era. Carnegie, Vanderbuilt, etc had working conditions that would be shocking for a third world sweatshop. People lost limbs and lives in their factories and they wouldn't make safety improvement. They paid in company cash instead of real money to further profit from their workers. And now they get remembered as philantropists.
Yes!! Please do an episode on finances. It is such an important topic. For me I only really starting caring and knowing last year.....I’m 28 years old!! I would love to hear your journey with it, what you know and why do you think people aren’t taught it at a young age.
Just wanted to say that you guys are awesome and down to earth and it’s so refreshing to hear this sort of conversation from people who have been in both middle class and upper middle class lifestyles. I think it really opens people’s eyes to the different types of shaming going on for people who have a little money as opposed to people who have gobs of money. I did want to say one thing about inheritance though, the money that gets passed on was often earned by someone, therefore taxes were already paid by someone. This is why the heir doesn’t pay major taxes when they receive that money. It wouldn’t be fair, it’s already been heavily taxed.
I know you’ve spoken about your education a bit but it could be cool if you talked to some students from different fields at different academic levels - a lot of current students don’t even know what college and grad school are like or what to expect/ look for - as a first gen student I had no idea what I was doing when I first applied for college in high school and now I’m getting my PhD. You have a young audience and it could be an interesting topic! I volunteer as interview tribute too, 😅
It would be great to see a podcast about your experiences in university and through getting your masters degree Current high school junior here who’s a little scared and doesn’t know what to expect
I think that the internet has made it alot easier to learn about the process. There are tons of videos about applying to schools and people's experiences. I watched alot while kw as applying to law school.
This is very important, because some people think that a B.A or B.S is the highest level that they can accomplish. So I agree!! (Also, I am taking doctoral classes too!💙)
I'm an undergraduate student right now, but I really hope I can get my PhD someday. I'd like to hear about how people become PhD students, because I have no clue. You have to apply, I think?
Lovisa Hänström Saying student loans is an option is saying “go into more debt!” More interest, more money to pay off. I think applying for possible government programs is a good idea but there’s also just a ton of exception SPECIFICALLY excluding university students because of our seasonal/part-time jobs and full time schooling.
I'm so glad you two got lucky on the internet and got to have such a great platform. We definitely need more educated and compassionate people having this kind of conversations. I really appreciate you.
You guys are genuinely one of the most honest , unproblematic, informative youtubers I’ve ever come across and I just don’t understand how anyone can complain about y’all doing great things to help your community, other communities and the world in general. I really don’t get how people can find the negative in anything and everything. Just know both of you are doing amazing things for all of us , now during this time of crisis and prior even when things were more normal. Love you cristine and ben , you’ll always have my support and so many others💕💋
I appreciate this so much. I live in an 800 square foot apartment with four people and 3 dogs and 3 of us work for Amazon. This is the reality for a lot of people in my neighborhood (I don't live in a bad area, just not very rich). It has been cold and rainy pretty much the entire lock down so going outside really isn't an option. Our quarantine is much different than someone who lives in a warm climate or someone who lives in a 5000 square foot house, with a pool and what ever else they might have. I hope people know that everyone is not the same and I am sure people are worse off than I am too. Good luck everyone.
I think it's fine if you donate more to animals, you two are people who love and care about animals so it just makes sense, don't see anything wrong with that.
My other thinking is they are putting money back into their community. They will see exactly what that money is being used for. Rather than donating to some charity that you don't get to see the inner workings of.
I think it would help a lot, if everyone paid their taxes. If billionaires had to pay their full taxes that would already help a lot and their (hopefully) wouldn't be that much need of giant philanthropy on their part. Also you can't please everyone and doing something is always better than nothing. Maybe next time it will be the Red Cross again and not the animal shelter but that is up to them and that is fine.
What people don't realise is that donations to animal charities is also extremely important rn. There are animals starving because there are not enough donations and people working in the centers to care for them. More and more pets are getting abandoned because people are unable to care for them in this situation.
Juliet Lawson I always see articles saying things like if big companies paid their full taxes, they would be paying sooooo much more than just donating a million dollars. If amazon guy paid his fair share, there would be plenty of money in the government funds for things like preschool, snap benefits, college, and other social programs that are constantly being cut for budgetary reasons. And he further exasperated the problem by not paying fair wages, and encouraging employees to use federal programs like food stamps and cash assistance.... none of which he is paying into to help fund, and just eating away at the taxes that us regular people pay... I think that’s what’s so frustrating 🤔
Also with taxes, in Australia there are things called franking credits. Basically it means that rich people, including the ones who don't pay taxes, are getting a huge "tax return" for owning shares. Literally, rich Australians are getting government handouts, yet fight to make sure that those who need it remain well below the poverty line.
@@radmoonable Well and it's not like you aren't helping people with those donations too. I worked at an animal-based charity for a bit and in addition to volunteers we had about 20 paid people on staff. When donations and grants dried up, a lot of those jobs got cut, which wasn't good for the people or the animals they worked with.
It's probably not a very popular suggestion but since I love to read : could you talk about literature in one of your podcasts? It's always so nice to listen to you talk because you both are so insightful and considered.
i personally think that announcing the charity you donate to, along with a little info about them and why you chose them is super great, not only for the sake of accountability and clarity, but also because it informs people of charities and programs they may have not known about prior. i would have never known about know your rights camp without being told about it during the protests in response to the unjust killing and general oppressiveinjustice against black and brown lives in the US. As a late 20 something, sometimes we think we know about everything or know all possible resources, but we don’t and it’s good to get that passive knowledge and learning through media & figurehead driven exposure.
Billionaires shouldn't be shamed for not donating enough. They should be shamed for not paying their workers a living wage and not paying their taxes.
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I was jus think the exact thing. Like how does a person sleep at night knowing some of their staff work 2+ jobs and are still having a hard go
Amen!
I totally agree, but I don't think it's really a problem with Capitalism
@@andyroo2334 how so?
ben every episode:
"I probably shouldn't say this..." *chuckle*
Brooke Ross accurate 😂
someone do a contemplation of ben's chuckles please
* Cristine adding in a quick footnote to clean up possible mess *
Brooke Ross lol
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The best way I’ve heard the corona virus explained is “we’re all in the same storm but we are not in the same boat.”
Clever and profound, here’s my like.
Some of the boats are yachts, and others are row boats with water rushing in...
Aila B. Some have rafts and debris
BINGO
This is a great post!
SimplyPodLogical Drinking game: Drink when Ben Says "I shouldn't say this..."
i smell merch
I’m down. 😹
And then says it
I don't fancy dying today, I'll pass 😅
I don’t hate rich people, I hate the system that made them rich.
Well, rich people created and perpetuate said system, so fuck 'em.
@@hobbitilius No... EAT'EM
But wouldn't the same system if you work hard enough, help you get rich too in the end?
I disagree to a level. Those rich people, more often then not worked hard for there money. If you also got. Into the system and got rich I *doubt* you would hate it then.
@@MandyJonas97 Hmmmm... Please calculate how much time you'd have to work at a median salary to reach Bezos's fortune.
Wow wow I am so excited you guys are covering this topic and expanding the discussion! And so glad you enjoyed my video 💗✨
Tiffany your personal finance videos over the last few months have been incredibly helpful! I'm an accounting and finance major and started professionally preparing taxes 4 years ago. Personal finance content like yours helps there to be less stigmas about taxation, I really appreciate it!
Tiffany, I'm a big fan of your Internet Analysis series and I was so excited to hear that Cristine and Ben also appreciate it as much! You're doing great work :)
Y’all joked about Ben getting a podcast and talking about taxes. And it actually happened 😂👏🏼
Really?
i'm actually looking froward to them bringing on a professional financial advisor and actually talking about money management
And we can't complain
* Me eating hummus *
Ben: Eat your hummus.
* Me covering my camera. *
I dunno why but I read hummus as humans.
@@VicAnthropy eat your humans
Ask long as it's just the rich 🍴
Goat Mermaid omg me too!!! And I was like “I really don’t think eating the rich will solve the problem...”
Goat Mermaid omg me to
Regarding the "students are the ones protesting 'eat the rich"...
At least in the US, the current student generation is paying orders of magnitude more in tuition than their parent's generation. A bachelor's degree earned then meant at least good job, salary, (eventually) homeownership, and graduating debt-free. Now, an entire generation of highly-educated young people are drowning in five-figure debt (six-figure in some cases) for the same type of jobs/salaries. THAT is why students are angry.
Students though have no right to be angry. The student CHOSE that school. He or she knew the schools tuition rates, dorm rates, and other expenses BEFORE he or she accepted. And if they didn’t see a way to AT LEAST have a manageable tuition and a reasonable Debt to Income ratio that’s on them. No one forces people to go to college it’s an investment that STATICALLY has proven to increase POTENTIAL income rates. It is no guarantee. No one hands you a key to a house or a family when you graduate. A degree only proves you are willing to stay and work for 4+ years and can take instruction. They drowned themselves. Community Colleges and State Universities offer reasonable tuition prices. Most Cal States for example are around $7000 (rounding up) for tuition, way less for community colleges. The education quality is there. Those are VALUABLE options to go until he or she are financially more stable. If you cannot afford a $40,000 tuition why the hell are you taking out $40,000 in loans for a job that only makes $60,000 a year. That’s not the systems fault that’s the students fault for not making the adult decision for financial security. They choose that five figure debt because they wanted a fancy education that had no guarantee to get them an job.
Love Lost I agree somewhat with what you’re saying on the point of it’s ultimately people’s choice on whether they go to schools with high expenses same way it’s peoples’ choice and responsibility for choosing an expensive car over an affordable one. However, the education system primarily in the United States of America is in my opinion somewhat broken and unfair for many. So many countries around the world, higher education is little to no cost to their citizens. The only reason America doesn’t do it like other countries is because the people who benefit the current system are greedy and corrupt.
Ivan I do agree in many ways. I just want to make it clear I was in no way claiming the system is fair nothing is fair that’s a fact of life nor was I claiming that the higher education system isn’t broken FASFA is so broken it’s funny, dorm room prices for some, the monopolies of College board and college texts book companies are a few examples but the true problem is America’s failing primary education system. My comment was more towards the delusion that ALL the blame is on the price of college and less the ownership of a decision that is ultimately the choice of which college. Plus the privileged notion that us as Americans have that it is our right to higher education when it’s a choice and an investment and not mandatory to be successful. (Or even the less know reddit rants on how the rich should pay for others colleges ‘which is classist and if everyone was taxed it would fall HEAVILY upon the middle-class’ where instead i think after you make more than a million a year you should just be disqualified from fasfa. But it is still no ones responsibility to pay for your college but you) I personally, was taught America was built for people to help themselves. And I agree that people are greedy and other countries have HIGHER education at lower coast but through my research, which I admit is most likely bias so grain of salt, their primary education systems are so much more developed leading for higher education to be more successful. I am no Darwinist and I believe in equal opportunity which everyone has the equal opportunity to spend four years of high school to meet the standards and expectations to race to the finish line. Like in a race everyone is not starting at the same place but those who don’t give up and push through have a statistical better chance of success. America’s higher education is a very good one getting high test scores and brings people in across the world but it cost a lot for, especially, the more prestigious the university , which those are usually private institutions that are so expensive, the individual chooses and can go affordable. Where compared to America’s PRIMARY education system that is mostly free government funded (mostly) but public students are testing way below other countries. And with a free or cheaper higher education there is no guarantee that like Public schools standards won’t fall or every institution will privatize leading to not only a primary teacher crisis but a higher one too. Plus, with America being number 1 in college drop out rates and number 20 in graduation rates it isn’t a great investment for the nation to make. But if America works on funding and improving the failing primary education systems and teaching the youth of America that community college and state universities are valuable options, teach them to make financial decisions to yes invest in their future but not by burying themselves in future debt. But the reason other countries higher education for less goes toward their PRIMARY education system more than their higher levels. Other countries such as France or Sweden Offer concentrations of literature, science, math etc where in college the subject concentration is further developed. America is built on a generalized education system to produce well rounded individuals right outside of high school to be ready for, in the past it was factory work, any general job. It also allows further specialized education or higher education for specified field I.e. ones major. general education was America not expecting a 14 or 15 y/o to know what they want to do for their entire lives and allowing them to be able to do simple factory work while ‘in the pursuit of happiness’’. Where other countries high school is configured almost exactly like college making the transition more fluid, and the higher education system is more educated within the primary system where things like the debt to income ratio is taught. where in America it’s really not mentioned to motivate that cycle which is up to the individual to identify. If you teach the youth to manipulate the greedy and corrupt in primary the won’t fall for their traps. So, in the end yes greed is a motivator but it is not the only reason America doesn’t do it like other countries.
@@lovelost442I agree! As a high school student myself, I have many peers who feel entitled to higher education. But in a way, I do sympathize with them. Unlike countries like France and Sweden where it seems like one can have a decent quality of life without secondary education, many of my peers believe that healthcare will be inadequate and inaccessible without higher education. Maybe I'm going on a whim here but, I felt insecure about my future if I would attend a community college or state university considering that the job market is saturated with highly competent and educated people and perhaps many of my peers shared the same fear. Of course my view on community college has changed, but I think many of my peers still believe that attending a prestigious university will help them stand out which would lead them to take out unreasonable loans. But idk🤷🏻♀️
yoinks you are totally right the matter of the fact people all around America are pressured to be accepted into the most prestigious schools they can with no plan to pay for it. And there is such a stigmatism about community college that’s just so wrong. Health care is tricky it either depends on the job you have or how much you make and while I personally find flaws in many free systems the healthcare system is another so broken that needs to be fixed. But many jobs look these days for the experience and qualifications in skill where education doesn’t necessarily prove that. For example my friend who went to cal state Fullerton interned her entire four years there at multiple tax agencies and when she went for a job where a BA student from UCLA was also there bragging she beat her out for it. The times are changing and yes the stigma is still there and may always be there but that’s why people need to shut it down. Don’t get me wrong those schools you’re paying for networking and getting opportunities but you can find other ways then kissing up to a guest speaker then paying 40,000 a year
My opinion: Don’t stop talking about your donations. I enjoy seeing when you use your success to help others and spread the word about important causes. You also talk about it in a humble manner which I also appreciate.
Renee Clark yeah don’t stop talking about donating it motivates others to do so ..it might not be something they think about all the time but being reminded that they can help by donating is a way to get more people to help.
It also makes me happy to see people and animals getting support they need!
OK who else is living for dat yellow hoodie matching the neon banana light
Yiying Sui yes!!! it was very satisfying
Yesssss!!!! I was thinking exactly the same thing! Adore the colour 😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
Except I'd want it with a zip and not over the head.
Same gurl same
Yessss
He's Ben-nanas
I've basically lost all sense of time during these strange times so whenever I see that you've uploaded another podcast episode my first thought is "huh, it's Tuesday again already?"
it's Taco Tuesday!!!
Except when they posted on a Thursday 😆
Same! When I look at RUclips in the morning and I see a new episode I’m like “oh, it’s Tuesday.”
I cant even keep track of when this comes out
Hikari Studios コピック tbh don’t really like it when people promote themselves in comments of other vids but I’ll consider subscribing
While generally agreeing, I'd add to the billionaire donation shaming argument that people like Jeff Bezos work hard to make sure the economic system stays in their favour at the expense of their workers. I think that may be part of the reason for the shaming. Even if his donation is large, it seems a lot like a way to publicly absolve himself when the damage he is causing is immeasurable and ongoing.
Perhaps that means he's being shamed for the wrong thing... on the other hand, it is a simpler issue to get angry about than the systemic issues within his company and governments he holds sway over.
yes definitely also some entrepreneurs make donations and talk about it all over social media or ensure people somehow find out that they made a donation but when you calculate their donation vs their income it comes down to it only being around 1% of their income. Bill Gates does this frequently and his donations sound amazing but compared to how much he earns it goes to prove he only did it for a tax right off or to be favoured in the eye of the public. We cant force rich people to help others but when they are clearly doing it for selfish reasons it rubs the public the wrong way.
thank you for saying this
So well-said. Ben and Cris make a good point about the system that enables billionaires and wealth disparity being the real issue here, but the rich are actively complicit in engineering and maintaining that system to best allow them to profit, almost always at the expense of the broader, poorer community.
Thanks for this comment! The entire time they were discussing, I was like "yessss, buuuuut..." because billionaires are complacent in keeping the system the way it is. Just as Ben mentioned, the older we get, the more money we end up having, the more conservative (generally fiscal) we end up being. And when you are a billionaire, and you have this foundational belief that this company was built on your back alone, you feel entitled to keeping all of your money without blinking an eye and that prevents you from realising your hard work was supported by millions of people supporting you. Then you end up wanting to keep the system the way it is because it made you the money you have (and will continue to get).
And honestly, I get tired getting angry at the systemic issues because that's harder to fix; whereas getting angry at a single person means that single person has the power to change and improve themselves and you feel like maybe it's an easier problem to fix.
(Although, I do have a friend who works at Amazon, and she's been very happy at her job, but it's simply because she's being paid better than all of her previous shit jobs and she's grateful for the one she has now. But that's an issue for another day...)
Billionaires and tens of millionaires have the money, power and influence to change the system that keeps millions of lives an inch from poverty. But they don't use their wealth to change our society, systematically, for the better because it means making a sacrifice. So yes, we should be angry at the system which creates wealth inequality but also, yes, we can be angry at the people who perpetuate it.
'It's not about keeping one from benefiting from the fruits of their own labors, but limiting how much one can benefit from the fruits of others' labors.' I heard this as a quick description of the ideals of democratic socialism and it really struck a chord with me
Shauna Corrigan I like that description. Do you know whereabouts you heard it?
I can't remember, it was awhile ago. I think it was an NPR story about Bernie Sanders supporters or something. The idea goes back to Clause IV of the UK Labor Party, but a more modern take on it that doesn't involve straight up socialism with common ownership of industry. Kind of a capitalism-with-a-conscience system instead
Cristine: is that something you guys would want? Financial advice?
Me: (Jenna’s Voice) Hell yea
Hell yea 👍
When people start questioning why someone might donate to a certain cause instead of another, I always think back to the Lizzie McGuire episode when she burns herself out trying to help everything and everyone. That always stuck with me. There's no "better" charity to put your money or time towards, and there's no way to put either towards towards all of them at the same time. What's important is you make an effort to give back in some way, when you are able to.
Thanks Disney Channel😋
that’s rich coming from corrupt Disney🙄
@@RM-ks8hz I really get your point but I think the point of the lesson mentioned Robyn mentioned here can be applied even to Disney. Just because Disney as a corporation has plenty to be judged on doesn't mean that the shows they've produced in the past don't contain valuable lessons that are worthy of applauding & sharing the lessons of! Not everything needs to be a moment for tearing things down, you know? We can tackle the problems with companies/life/people while also applauding the good that exists simultaneously.
There are better charities. Ones that are more effective, ones that use the money for their states cause and not 50% or more on ads, ones that don’t have strings attached like “no abortion if you want our money”. Ones that aren’t exclusionary (no hep if you’re gay, etc). There are objectively better and worse charities. Causes are the ones that aren’t necessarily better.
Robyn B I just rewatched Lizzie McGuire on Disney+. So many great life lessons. From Disney in general, too.
I’ve always been in the mindset of supporting what you care about, and if you want to bring awareness to something you think should get more attention, then it’s your responsibility to champion that cause. Spread positive awareness and raise you own money for it. Only shamming other for being charitable is short sited immature response and not doing anything about it, and saying “you should have donated here or there”, doesn’t help.
Umm, yes financial advise podcast. I can’t afford to talk to one but want to be better with my money! Please, I need help adulting.
I really hope they do it. I just turned 30 and I barely got an idea of why inflation can eat my money away 😱
i think everyone needs this
I hope they do it too, but if you need help, the financial diet and Graham Stephen are some good youtube channels for money advice.
One way I figured out to save money is to take out a portion each week into a separate savings account. Mine is a rainy day fund for emergencies and I take $75 each week. I'm glad I did because I saved up $2000 and its saving my ass during unemployment.
Don’t put on a credit card what you can’t pay off each month. If you watch hauls, stop. THINGS can’t actually make you happy.
Cristine should have wore the "I died." shirt on simplynailogical when she broke her nail the tragic time
That’s merch from threadbanger after Rob had his health scare in summer of 2019, so she wouldn’t have had it😊
I would have but the video was sponsored so it wouldn't have been the best idea. A topic for another podcast😜
@@missdaniliz she broke it again last month :P
Wait no..... FOR HER WILL
@@simplypodlogical That actually is something id want to learn more about. Do sponsorships change what type of video you make, do they change aspects of the video based on what sponsor is?
I think the Jeff Bezos shaming has more to do with him as a person and how he’s choosing to mistreat his workers. Some people (not saying me) were saying that he’s only donating to make all the bad publicity go away.
I'm the some people
@@jennas9033 I think you should pay it in taxes. If everyone paid their fair share of taxes (obviously with tax free for those on such a low income as to make it nothing but penalising, so their fair share is zero - fair as in each according to their means) then you wouldn't need charities because everything would be able to be funded properly from the get go. Obviously assuming a non-corrupt government of course.
I mean 1 billion dollars is equal to 7,631 years of constant work at $15 per hour wage (which Bezos refuses to pay his staff). So hundreds of billions is just plain ludicrous. It is simply unethical for one person to have that much money as the only way to accrue it is to exploit others and the environment. You can not be an ethical billionaire.
I think it comes back to the fact that there is no cap on how much a CEO can earn vs their regular employees. If a CEO wants to be a billionaire he should pay his workers like millionaires. So maybe Ben's brother can make some sort of math formulas for that.
Busy Honey Bee boom yes. The top can’t make more than 75% more than the lowest paid employee. Something like that.
@@libbykeiser801 that doesn't help in all instances - Bezos salary is $80k/year. The stock market is what makes him rich.
We should definitely reel in the BONUSES these people earn, however. Places like Walmart give their leaders over 100% their annual salary in yearly bonuses, meanwhile hourly employees are lucky to make what amounts to an extra paycheck/year.
Every podcast:
Ben:' I probably shouldn't say this...'
Ben: *says it anyway"
:L
I love his subtle RUclips shade!
I feel that I regard your opinions similar to how I regard Philip DeFranco's. If you happen to say something I don't necessarily agree with I take it into consideration and move on because I respect you and I know you take care in how you form your opinions and think about what you say. And I think this is how many of us approach it both on and offline but the internet has allowed those less understanding people to nitpick every word you say while in real life they wouldn't get that opportunity or just wouldn't do it because that's a dick move and they know it.
Ashley Santoro the last sentence is revolutionary in the simplest way. Well said! If many people realized these people wouldn’t say much without the Internet, imagine how much shitstorm wouldn’t even occur in our brains.
And the internet is like real life where the stupidest people tend to be the loudest, so those are the voices that tend to be heard, drowning out the more rational masses
This will probably get lost, but just in case you see it. A local independent bookstore in my town decided to do a giveaway and to enter, you nominate a first line worker, best thing is, they included people who work in any essential services, including grocery. One of my good friends works on grocery, so I nominated her. She actually got chosen and was so shocked. Regardless on who you donate to, you are still making a difference in someones lives.
That's pretty neato. Thst was super great of you to throw her name out there. ♡♡♡
I am a 16-year-old kid listening to this while doing crochet... just wanted to say that lmao.
Dawnagon Sapphire honestly seems relaxing ngl
Crochet rocks
Omg I'm crocheting too haha
Oh my goodness, same! What are you making?
@@Emily-wq6wu I got lazy and haven't finished it but since I only learned the basics of it that day, I can say that it looks uh... Crappy kind of. 🤣😅
It's interesting because the day that the lockdown in the UK is eased, "low paid" workers are back to being called "low skilled". Very few jobs are truly low skilled. It is just the perception and pay that changes your view. Once you make a lot of money from your "low skilled" job, even if you continue to do it people will now call you "successful".
Everything falls down to how well paid you are. There are influencers that are bringing in thousands for cleaning and yet we don't give value to cleaners out in the real world.
@purplerains but that falls to the education and practice. Not the skill. Plenty of trainee medical staff drop out because it's not for them and plenty of people could make wonderful medical staff should they have received the opportunity.
I work in what is deemed a "low skill" job in a hospital and yet I work with plenty of doctors who know fully well they couldn't do what they do without me and my colleagues. I'm no lower skilled, I just have different skills with a different level of education.
If you happen to become rich with minimal education, people won't ever call you low skilled because they assume that money some how means you've done something better, wherein you may have just got lucky.
It's why I think low paid should be used. But people won't use that because there would be a level of guilt that people feel where they might feel people should be paid more. Low skilled implies they just didn't "try" hard enough and therefore its not their problem.
It's amazing how different language makes us view things in a different way.
This isn't me having a go btw! Its always hard to have a nuanced conversation via text.
Kay I call those idiot vlogger families "low skilled" all the time. They rake in millions of dollars a year by posting home movies of their kids online. Exploiting your child's privacy for cash isn't a skill, it is a personality defect.....and should be a crime.
Kay this is what I was trying to explain on Twitter with ben’s use of the term “low skilled” in the categorization of workers. Like you said, it implies that these people didn’t try hard enough, when in fact, I see my fellow employees trying their very best every single day, especially during this pandemic.
I’m an essential worker at target, but I’ve been there for a good amount of time; today, I had my employee evaluation, and all of my leads talked positively about my accomplishments at work and the growth I’ve made since I started. I went from someone who didn’t know the sales floor to being able to directly contact our shippers about inventory stock up, especially for all the out of stocks we’ve had in our department during this pandemic (nail care, spa items, soap, hair dye, etc.) All these accomplishments led to a small pay raise, which is actually outstanding since I’ve haven’t been with the company a full year yet.
I’ve learned so many new skills at work, and the paid training is the true investment target makes taking me in, and I’ve proved myself as an exceptional member of my team. I’m proud of my work, and this evaluation gave me a better vision of what my work means. I’m more than just the girl that stocks up the drugstore mascara, but an employee that assesses their sales floor for what the public needs for beauty/personal care during these hard times. It take a lot of skill, both physical and mental, to take in the hardballs retail can throw at me, so to say “low skilled” now would be an understatement of my capabilities. There are other jobs within my employment that I’ve seen do amazing and do deserve more than me, such as Human Resources and Asset Protection, not to mention Guest Service dealing with all those returns, but I’m glad I’m recognized for my work in the company, no matter what domine on the internet thinks of it.
@@Delight101ful completely agree. There is nothing "low skilled" about being the employee who can calm down an absolutely furious customer, and it certainly isn't something an education can teach you. Your "place" in the world sets you up before you ever even get a look in at other options. By his own admission, Ben has said he grew up, by all accounts, in a middle class household. That automatically gives him a foot in the door because he has financially stability behind him in the form of parents who can bail him out if needed. It doesn't mean he worked any less to get where he is, but that he didn't have the worry of losing everything if he didn't succeed.
I maintain, there is very, very little that actually classifies as low skilled. You just have different skills that are learnt via different avenues.
Yes, this! (I realize my comment is late, but this stays relevant haha) I work in vocational rehabilitation and do quite a bit of vocational testing. Jobs like cashier are quite highly skilled. They require mental math, significant memorization of codes and product location, mental flexibility to switch from checking someone out to helping (for example) clean up a spill, social knowledge to deal with difficult customers, ability to deal with high stress high pace environment, ability to use technology, decision making to decide if a product should be returned, etc.. Yes, not a lot of education is needed, but if someone can be a good cashier that bodes pretty well for training to a new area of work and general learning ability.
For "low skill" clients I'm looking for highly repetitive work with no independent problem solving or significant time stressors and very clear instruction. It's actually quite hard to find jobs which are suitable for folks with new disabilities who are also low skill because so few low skill jobs exist!
(As someone said above, low skill is often a destination for training requirements, but it's important because language impacts how others are treated, so moving to different language in non technical environments is important.)
I'd like to hear about the legal side of RUclips. That would be pretty interesting to hear about when you decided you needed to get a lawyer, how that lawyer was familiar with the copyrights and such and anything legal that comes down through having a public channel. People often mention their lawyers or running things by their legal team, but you never hear about what goes on. Like if you were going to do a video about another RUclipsr or even a celebrity, do you have to run that by some kind of standard and practice thing? What falls and Free Speech what falls in something that will get your video demonetized if your video gets demonetized how are you fighting against that if it's unfair and so on
I concur! How do you even find a RUclips lawyer, anyway?
@@RebeccaMundschenk right?!
I would love a podcast on this!
Yeah! Although they don't have a legal team, they might know how it works
It would be so cool to see a podcast about this with maybe Legal Eagle or another lawyer on RUclips!
I highly recommend As Told By Kenya’s video “STOP Asking Broke People for Money” for another great perspective on the topic
I tried to watch it but the way she talks excitedly kinda made me anxious. The contents seem interesting but I just couldn't watch it all the way through.
She is pretty great .
It's a great video! I would also recommend it!
Goat Mermaid same! I tried to watch it with the captions and no sound but it wasnt working.☹️
When I saw ben’s banana coloured hoodie...🤩🍌
He's a benana
Aysha Anwar Bennenana
Benana, ok I'm out
It's been very frustrating seeing this "keep the rich rich" thought in my university now even. I recently had two professors (that teach the majority of junior/senior level classes) let go while the head of the school got an assistant and none of the deans or other administration (who make 3-5x as much) got a pay cut or even talked to the department about it. It's so frustrating when education institutes act like a business and remove the people who are actually teaching classes to focus on other "business" opportunities and trying to increase their enrollment, get important researchers etc. Why do universities need to be a business.
As someone who attends the second most expensive University in the United States (on financial aid, but regardless), I second this wholeheartedly. They hide behind the fact that their multi-billion dollar endowments and fundraisers are strictly enforced and therefore cannot go towards the important and immediate causes that need money, like student aid or teacher salaries, but are perfectly fine with this reality. Assistant professors and graduate students especially take a huge hit in trying to stay afloat with the system they are caught in, having to work for nearly free while maintaining self-funded research all while having a barely functioning union, if they even have one. These schools are run like businesses, especially private schools like mine, and despite having immense political connections and influence, would never fight or lobby for a change that would take less money from them. "Non-profits" lol
not everyone can be management, there needs to be those who actually do those 'low level' jobs..
I won’t say much but I’ll tell you as a grocery worker. Life is scary. My big company had not given us good plexiglass. People get so mad when you ask them to stay back and they get in your personal space all the time. And I make less then everyone sitting at home on unemployment. Life is not faire but it’s my job and I need money. So please be nice to everyone worker or not in this time
At the grocery I work at, the put "high theft" smaller items, behind the plexiglass with us. So people just reach around to touch and look at the things. It is terrifying having visibly sick people coming within 6 inches of me.
Liz's everyday life It’s honestly so scary I hate it
Even when there isn't a global pandemic people should be respectful to grocery store workers. I'm sorry you're having to deal with all of this shit.
dexa aww thank you ❤️❤️
Chocolate Chip thank you 💜💜
This thing with the quarantine and celebrities really reminds me of something I read about JFK. JFK had such a privileged childhood and came from an extremely wealthy family - so much so that he had never felt any effects from the Great Depression. He admitted he hadn't really learned about the Great Depression until he went to college (at Harvard). Having money like that insulates you from many hardships in life and these celebrities don't really know what the general populace is going through.
Thats crazy, I never knew that, and you make a good point too
Not necessarily though. Some celebrities come from very poor or middle class backgrounds. Not all, but I think it's a case by case basis.
About the whole “should people announce it publicly that they donated a certain amount of money or not” - I think that such actions set an example for young people. For me personally, seeing Cristine and Ben donate to charities puts a smile on my face and reminds me that there is still so much good in the world. So really, let’s not dwell on the negatives so much, but instead maybe just try to be good people and set an example for others by whatever means possible - donating, volunteering or simply helping out an elderly person carry their groceries.
This makes so much sense!!! I completely agree that seeing others do nice things makes one more hopeful! Let's increase positivity and focus on the good things people do!
Well said.
When I think of there being no such thing as a purely altruistic act, I think of Doug Forcett from the tv series The Good Place. He lived his life trying to make every action contribute to a net positive life score (there’s a points system in the show that breaks down how good of a life you led when you get to the afterlife) helping out every single cause he could - and in the end, he led a really crappy life trying to help everyone except himself. Also there’s a part where someone bought almond milk as a “good act”, but the points system broke it down to showing the carbon emissions from the purchase and other negative things that happened as a result of the existence of that almond milk. The Good Place really opened my eyes to the idea that to live a good life, you don’t have to be this god of a person. Every little action helps, but there is such thing as too much of a good thing. The real measure of being a good person isn’t a points total you can quantify, but the effort you show in trying to do the best to your ability every day, even if it isn’t perfect. (pls watch this show if you haven’t already!!)
also the quote from Hamilton: “if we try to fight in every revolution in the world, we never stop. Where do we draw the line?” Apply that to trying to help every person struggling right now in regards to some of the donation shaming concerns.
I LOVE 'The Good Place'! I love the idea that you could know all about ethics but be hindered by it and end up with a net negative life score--it's about the actions you can take within your means, but also you don't have to be perfect to be 'good'.
I think it's important though that intentions mean a lot in 'The Good Place'. *glares at Brent*
Rachel Palmer, there’s an exception where too much help or the wrong kind of help can hurt the person you’re trying to help. For example: enabling an alcoholic. Ethics is a tough thing in practice and that’s why I hated it in college- it can seem arbitrary and the professors end up sounding like Chidi.
Also, there is a huge emphasis on unintentional consequences. If you donate to charity, there are gonna be people who are bitter, who complain you donated to the ‘wrong people’. The Good Places is actually a really meaningful show and I’m interested in reading ‘What We Owe To Each Other’
I love seeing random mentions of this show when I browse social media or watch completely different and unrelated content. It is a pleasant reminder that this show that I love so much exists and that some of the things that resonated with so much resonate with others as well. It makes me feel part of a collective consciousness of human beings that care about our actions and doing good in the world.
Nothing makes me more excited than waiting to hear what Ben says after he says "Maybe I shouldn't say this, but...."
Billionaires (walmart for example 🙄) should just provide their workers with healthcare benefits and more deserving pay. Delivery man/woman should also be provided with at least healthcare benefits.
I agree on the more money thing, but Walmart does have healthcare benefits? I'm not really sure why you think they don't.
@@molliemon222 perhaps they mean health insurance for ALL employees (not just full-time) and fully-vested by the company (versus premiums paid by employees.) GoDaddy, for instance, pays the premiums for their workers.
Amazon workers don't have paid sick leave. Right now we get an extra $2 per hour, but that's only til May 15th and several warehouses have suffered COVID outbreaks. And many who have been exposed are afraid to get tested because they can't afford a copay or being quarantined without pay for two weeks. That's what is so frustrating about Bezos's net worth. He could be putting just a quarter of that into the work force that keeps him rich and still be one of the wealthiest people on the planet.
Yeah forgive me if I'm not praising the guy for donating money that he gained by exploiting workers.
Its worse than that. He could be taxed 90% of everything he currently has (171.6 billion) and that would still leave him as a billionaire with 17.6 billion. You could take 99% of what he has and he would still have 1.7 billion. At this point, other than taking all of his money, there is no way for him to stop being a billionaire at this point even if taxed super heavily.
I think that in the US the reason people are so angry about billionaires not donating is because they don’t pay taxes. Bezos paid $0 in taxes recently and people are really mad, including me since I know if he paid a fair share of taxes we could get social programs working. Or Elon Musk wanting people to return to work against city, county, and state law. I think it is due to that more than trying to tell people what to do with their money. (This is for American billionaires)
And the fact that Jeff bezos doesn't pay his workers properly and expects everyone else to donate for them.
Same in Australia - a lot of our billionaires don't pay taxes and are now asking the government for financial assistance to keep their businesses running during COVID-19...
I just don’t understand how it’s even possible to not pay taxes? There are so many consequences in my country if you don’t pay taxes and it all goes through a system that automatically checks whether you have paid them...
@@RutgerOfficial Same in my country and still CumEx happened. It was a huge scandal because the German Federal Ministry of Finance knew about it at least since 2002 and didn't do anything about it. Somehow 5 European countries have lost almost 63 billion dollars of taxes, imagine what could have been done with that much money.
What upsets me about Bezos paying nothing is that I'm a student just trying to make ends me and the job that I have I have to pay taxes no matter what I do, and it's just not right that I should have to pay it when I'm barely able to pay for rent
Fun fact: retail employees are evaluated - at least in part - by how often they can get a customer to make a charitable donation at check-out. I know this, because my final job selling luggage had such a system, complete with daily tallies. Knowing this, I used to always donate at the register not necessarily because I was interested in the charity but because I wanted to help out the employee. Then I learned that the people who own the holding companies that own the conglomerate that own the retail business etc. are potentially using the donations given by customers as tax write-offs. I stopped donating at the register after that.
I think the royal family is a very good argument for Ben's ambivalence on millionaire heirs. I have no idea what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle did to deserve a £35 million wedding when the NHS is essentially crippled and can't hire nurses (not because there's a lack of nurses but because there's a lack of funding); but I also think no one needs a £35 million wedding in the same vein as no one needs to a be a billionaire to live comfortably--especially if their business doesn't pay taxes and underpays its employees. If Amazon employees had a living wage, good benefits and solid job security, I don't think I'd mind Jeff Bezos nearly as much. If the royal family - who don't have jobs and make their money off the UK taxpayers and being landlords - spent less money on needlessly lavish weddings and more money on charity, I probably wouldn't mind them nearly as much.
The Royals have private incomes of their own.
@@caitlinhs9670 and they get so much because they are representing the country (similar to footballers but they get payed way too much for doing way to little) and other countries seem to like the royals more than we do so its publicity.
I hate to be this person, but the royals are extremely active as workers - working for charities, working for the armed forces etc. They do make sure they're not just sitting around.
I absolutely agree, but in Meghan and Harry's defence - I'm quite sure that even if they wanted to have a smaller, less extravagant wedding, it wouldn't have been allowed. They're representatives of Great Britain and therefore need to at least invite certain people, or you'll have a political quarrel on your hands. That being said, I imagine an immense chunk of that £35 million went to security. It's extravagant and too much yes, but it's not their choice.
I like how Ben’s outfit is perfectly matched to the banana behind him.
I don't believe in a system that enables billionaires to exist.
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If you also got. Into the system and got rich I doubt you would hate it then.
Zaira Bandy That would make me a hypocrite then. I stand firm in my beliefs and I will make sure to keep on doing so no matter what level of financial freedom I achieve. People who ram on the rich when they aren’t rich, but then join the "squad" when they make it big, were never in for anything other than themselves.
@@zairabandy8695 Therein lies the big fallacy that capitalism requires to continue thriving. There is this belief people have that there is a chance that they too might one day become a billionaire so they will fight to keep taxes from being high for billionaires on the chance that they may one day become one themselves. But its just not going to happen unless you are willing to exploit other people and the environment. No one amasses billions through their own hard work. They do it by underpaying others and reaping the rewards. You're much more likely to be 3 paydays away from homelessness than you are to become a billionaire. And there is this misconception of how much a billion even is. If you earned the "living wage" in America of $15 an hour, you would have to work for 66,666,667 hours (rounded up to avoid the decimal places) to earn that much. But that's still a big number, how do we make it easier to think about? Lets divide it by 24 to get the number of days you'd have to work. 2,777,778 days (again rounded up). Ok now we are in small millions of days. But still quite big. Lets divide by 7 to get weeks. 396,825 weeks. Ok, but how many years are we talking? There are 52 weeks in a year, so lets divide by that. That's 7,631 years of work at a living wage. With no breaks for sleep or anything of course. That's a wage which people like Bezos are refusing to pay his staff just so he can keep on earning more and more billions just on the interest on the money in the bank.
Lets be kind and say you work in a job earning 50 dollars an hour (average American earns $27.16 an hour, so I'm being very kind!). That would still be 20 million hours of work, or 833,333 days, or 119,048 weeks, or 2,289 years of constant work.
I don't know about you, but the average human lifespan is only 79 years and that with getting sleep and time to eat and you know, not work. So for the $50 an hour you're looking at 28.9 human life spans to earn 1 single billion dollars with continuous working. For $15 an hour, that would be 96.6 human life spans. So if you are ok with the idea of one person having the amount of money that nearly 100 people could earn if they worked constantly for 79 years (ignoring how child labour isn't a thing in most countries now) then I don't really know how to explain to you that you are a monster, but you're a monster.
if my relationship isn't like theirs, i don't want it.
same
#relationshipgoals
@@usagihika if u almost have 300 subs u arent small
Hikari Studios コピック Your channel looks good and I like your art, but you shouldn’t use other people’s videos / comments to advertise your channel. That said, good luck with your channel!
That or Armoured Skeptic and ShoeOnHead
"twitter just seems like a toxic place in a really big way" -Ben
that is the most accurate thing I have ever heard lmao
Ollie Baird Twitter is very toxic. I spent years tweeting two celebrities, praising them, telling them how they literally saved my life, etc. I then commented on a tweet that had nothing to do with these two celebrities, didn’t mention their names, didn’t @ them, but I said how I no longer support them because they aren’t the same people as they once were. Well those two celebrities finally noticed me. And my tweet. And sent all their fans to bully me. I had to delete my twitter account that I had for years, and was actually pretty proud of cause I had a lot of positive celebrity interactions on that account. I also sent an apology to their business emails (it was easily accessible) and I never heard back. Just goes to show how toxic Twitter is and how angry everyone gets on there for no reason :(
@@myfun20230 both the celebrities somehow assumed that the tweet was about them? uh that's kinda weird
best ever yeah. I mean there’s more to the story but I don’t want to give too much context and have to delete my RUclips channel. But I don’t tweet much anymore now regardless haha
Politics is lasting on twitter unlike Facebook and snap and insta it was somewhat banned all social media platforms. Toxicity is in all social media. while Twitter stans political garbage it does does stand up to more freedom of speech unlike fb who has curbed most media bashing like left and right wing bias
Transperancy is important. For example look at Selena Gomez saying: buy my song and percentage will go for fighting covid19. Like, what percentage, where will it go, what are you talking about? The only important thing is to sell a song.
i think on the merch site itself it said how much was going to be donated and where it is going. i think it was about 1$ per album sale to a charity which somehow helped musicians or people working in the industry.
Everyone has to care about something different. If we all cared about the same thing many groups of people, animals, and environments would be neglected.
i really love how cristine and ben just complement each other’s sentences which makes the flow of the podcast even better
I would definitely love a podcast on financial advice. As a student who is almost done with their degree I have many questions and some confusion about future economical investments. Buying a house saving enough to buy the house etc.
Yes please 100%
Same here. I just had my quarantine graduation from college. I heard it might be a good time to nab a car (I have a job secured already) since the car places are trying to reduce their inventory. Also, a good 6month-5year-10year financial plan would help. Nothing crazy, but just major things young people should be looking for/investing in before we're 35 or something
Yeees, Ben, please 💸
Another great channel for that is the financial diet. I love them!
I always like to donate where and when I can. But most of the time I can’t afford to donate money so I donate blood instead. Still helps people in need and there’s always a need
As someone who has had 5 blood transfusions in the space of three months I thank you ❤️
Yes! High iron runs in my family so we all have to give blood regularly and I didn't realize until I went to college that not everyone gave blood every 6 months. It is such a simple and quick way to literally save people's lives. I always try to encourage people to give blood whenever they can. ❤❤❤
@@913zzzn Same! My mum and my dad donate blood every 6 months aswell, and then we always have a dinner which has good iron content, (such as liver and the vegetables that clesn your blood etc)
Judt remembered a story my mum told me, when they people who test for the iron level said she didnt have enough, and because my mum is aware she has like actually good blood, sbe asked if she could do it again, once again they said there wasnt enough (i think the test is like something dropping idk i havent been to one) and then they had to do a different type of test to see, and it turns out my mum's iron levels were too high, and we all had a laugh about it. Always makes me happy to say to people that my parents donate blood to hospitals and, once im old enough, I can aswell (I'm 15 in july)
Always thought it was normal to donate blood and thought everyone did but I mentioned it briefly in a conversation with my classmates and they was super confused. They were all just like "Wdym your parents donate blood?" and then I'd go "Wait so you don't know anyone who does?" and back and forth until we got told off by my teacher. ;-;
I see the ol' "is it philanthropy if you gain something from it"- discussion coming up
The Phoebe-dilemma, as I call it
I thought the exact same thing!
Yes, you just can't win there. Phoebe was wise
thank you for the captions,
I think that the reason the animal shelter didn't announce you guys' donation publically at first is maybe because they thought people would see that they got a significant amount of money and thus would think that they don't need any more money (?)
It's just a guess, and you guys obviously know more than I do about what happened, but that's what I thought at first when you talked about it, and it kind of makes sense, so I just figured I'd say it in case you haven't considered this possibility yet
That’s a good reason because yes they have some money but they keep getting animals and they keep needing money
Possibly. I know a big giver who told my organization that they would cover a yearly defect up to 80K, but nobody was supposed to know that. They would rather not have to fill the gap for basic operating expenses and instead do something like build an elevator. Even though I am on the finance committee, I do not know who that person is. Orgs don’t always know how to deal with giving to the point that it could keep them afloat. Much of the time it is slated for matching donations. I don’t know the situation on their end, but they also didn’t know your situation. I’m glad you worked it out :)
In regards to Jeff Bezos the anger is that he donated a small amount of money even though he is profiting of of this pandemic. I bet he pocketed way more than 100 mil, and continues to do so without listening and punishing his employees for demanding proper ppe.
Rubi B Yeah he made around 25 billion last month, he deserves all the criticism
Nevena Savic I’d encourage you to think a lot more on this. I don’t think you understand how much money this man has or how destructive his company is. Remember villains from cartoons? That’s him. It’s not an exaggeration. Some people are bad and they do bad things. Nobody should be able to hoard that much wealth when their workers can’t even afford food. It’s wrong and inexcusable and it’s because people like him would let others die to make a buck.
@Nevena Savic 'Started from zero like everyone' can everyone really get given $250,000 from their parents to start a business, because that's how he did it. The fact that so many people believe he started from nothing or even from an average background is the result of an overwhelmingly successful PR campaign.
Nevena Savic I’m not going to explain in a comment section but you can find plenty of explanations of Jeff Bezos online. And many more explanations of why billionaires wouldn’t exist in a fair society.
I'm team always same Bezos. You can't be worth over a 100 billion dollars and a majority of your employees live below the poverty line and you try to stop from forming unions and demanding safe work environments.
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This is a topic that is very near and dear to my heart. I'm originally from Brazil and before moving to the US, I volunteered for 4 years in a non-governmental organization that would teach underprivileged kids/teens different skills, such as informatics or English. We'd also prepare and give them food on the weekends. We survived off of donations and the topic of publicizing these donations would come up often. Many people would come to us with comments like "are the donors doing it for the right reasons?" or "is it ok to donate for self-promoting reasons?". What I always say, from being on the side that needed these donations, it does not matter! It is better to donate and self-promote than to never donate! The "donation shaming" culture is not productive and might inhibit more donations.
Hey, I’ve been loving these podcasts. I love how they’re a little more mature than the videos. I started watching the videos 2 years ago but felt like I grew out of them overtime. So these podcasts allow me to still listen to you guys outside of the videos.
These podcasts feel like I'm having a conversation with two friends (even though I'm not talking lol). I've genuinely never found that in a podcast before.
One of my favorite quotes (I can’t remember where I read it but it was interesting) is ‘If a rich person donates a million dollars to a hospital just to get his name on the building, the patients inside don’t care about the intention. They just care that the doctors are able to care for them better.’ Or something like that. It basically means that a donation is good even with bad intentions because the money is still going to a good cause.
That is true to an extent. But when people donate and show an inflated amount on paper in order to get a tax break, what they are essentially doing is taking in more money which could have been used for better care.
@@radmoonable not in any way. O justify tax avoidance but I think on a benefit level, money to a charity probably does more good than taxes, especially to those against military spending because that is a huge portion of the Budget
i'd love to see more financial content, because, one of the motives for the breach between rich and poor is the lack of opportunities and education (very well put with the comment about kyle being a self-made millionaire). I think hearing some savvy advice on how to taxes, or how to manage the money or something like that will be very useful. thinking about kids and children that follow you, that's real advice to help adulting.
It has been said a thousand times, but we don't easily comprehend the diff between 1mi to 1bi. 1BI is such a gigantic number, and having that much wealth in one person is a but strange to me.
I would love to see you guys make a podcast about the process of setting up holo taco :) like how do you start this sort of business, how do you choose the colours and consistency. Where is holo taco made and what is the factory process etc. :)
Working on my finals for college and this podcast is just giving me life right now. Thank you, such a great topic to listen to.
The interesting thing about Bezos is that if they brought Amazon funds onshore, the taxes could be more beneficial than his donation. Its moreso about how he circumvents taxation which helps on a regular basis, instead of championing the one time he donated a significant amount.
It is insane that huge companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, and others have so much profit that they have it sitting in Ireland because they have no idea what to do with it all.
i saw the title of this podcast and thought “wow what a coincidence!! tiffany talked about this recently”, then i heard your intro. so glad tiffany is getting bigger recognition, i’ve loved her content for a long time. :)
How many people donate to animal charities? I feel like plenty donate to humans.
Also Jeff Bezos isn't caring for his employees. IDC if he donates because he needs to help them first
I donate a lot to animal/enviro charities, as well as volunteer at a shelter (well, in normal times). The "why don't you do something for HUMANS" is a very common refrain. It's whataboutism. Like, people can do both. People can care about or think about multiple things.
I know the Donkey Sanctuary in the UK was in trouble a couple years ago cos they had millions in the bank they couldnt or werent spending. I think they for into trouble for advertising when they don't need the money.
I think I've heard that animal charities usually get more donations than human charities but i may be wrong
@@imogeng6701 Yeah, I've heard that in the UK at least animal charities get more.
Every article I've read about Amazon warehouse conditions are brutal.
Essentially he's feeding on the desperation of the people who would have been retail workers. If they get work injuries or need food stamps, they can be replaced by the next one.
You guys are so smart about all the RUclips ‘business” side. My husband is a financial advisor and from what Ive heard him say about what wealthy people should be doing with their money, you guys are in the right track. It’s amazing seeing you donate and being open and honest about the financial side of RUclips. Hi from Nova Scotia! If you ever get the chance to visit here you’d love it Christine, there aren’t nearly as many people as Ontario 😆😆
There is also the issue of those who have obscene amounts of wealth and constantly remind you of that wealth (ie Musk) through one-upmanship whenever there is an issue. Plus, he was another one who was born into wealth.
Though I would say that the US has the worst wealth disparity currently, because of the lack of healthcare. I'm aware that the disparity in the UK (where I am) is truly not great, however we provide the right to healthcare no matter who you are.
Publicizing donations is very contextual, at least in my opinion. I feel like you guys have done a good job of it from what I've seen, but if the video/tweet (whatever) of someone making a donation reads as "Look what I did. I'm such a great person. Look how nice and charitable and humble I am." - then yeah, I'm not surprised if that attracts criticism.
Yes like they publicised the cat cafe donation by showing us lots of kitties❤️❤️
I definitely agree. But I also think that how their videos/tweets “humblebragging” come across depends on the group of people reading it too. That’s kind of a grey area here. How do we know if someone is actually bragging or just showing proof but we’re interpreting it the other way?
I think this would be exactly the case when whomever comes across the tweet/video need to suck it up and not criticize. Sure, this type of post is cringy, but the outcome is good. Criticizing people for doing a good thing, however cringyly, won't encourage them to continue.
I mean, for me, as long as you made a donation (a legit one where the other party actually received it) publicizing or famewhoring about it doesn't matter. You helped another person/group of people, period.
Hasan Minhaj has a really great “Patriot Act” episode about billionaires and charity!
He has great content period
I love his show
Yes please to the Financial Advisory Podcast! I currently have a financial advisor and am investing, but being a girl in my late 20's who finally has a "real job" and money coming in, I have no idea what to invest in and how to handle my money!
AndreaNicole I second this!! I’m 29 and this year is the first time in my adult life that I’ve had a steady checking account. It’s very overwhelming researching the smartest way to invest because there’s so much info out there.
This podcast thing is nice.. I get to listen to cristine and ben’s thoughts while I paint. This is nice :3 thank you for your wonderful insights!
Love this episode. Also, my cat perked up when she heard either Zyler (probably Zyler) and Menchie yowling.
This comment is serious in a different way...
Zyler still hates Ben, he simply discovered Ben's allergy and is trying to make Ben's life harder by being a cute chonky sweety who deserves all the pets
Called Zyler Chonky and insidious I wanna be offended for him but I’m laughing way too hard at how very cat that would be of him 😂
He's allergic to cats ???
@@sy6282 yes, unfortunately for him. They talked about it in the cats episode 😊
About the emergency expense bit. I think I saw a study like that and it was even lower, it was something like if a $500 cost came up that they didn’t normally have, it would really throw them for potentially a long time. That’s an unexpected medical bill, if someone gets sick or injured. That’s a car repair. That’s literally anything, even if it’s not the person’s own “fault” or happened through their own doing, because jobs aren’t paying enough as it is. There’s basically no place in the US right now where a minimum wage job can be a living wage.
That and the fact many can't afford health insurance. And those that can are still getting hit with high bills. It's a broken system and many refuse to see it
To add to that because most people can't afford insurance they don't have a regular general health doctor so the ER is where they usually go but that's not really an option right now so there's people having health issues going unresolved getting worse every day further impacting then and their families. It really sucks.
This is why the room is always so dark when Beyyn comes in.
Cause he shadyyy
Cam Chau Nguyen wow.
Lavender Hazel
Sorry it was way more funny in my head 😓
Cam Chau Nguyen no it was! It made me chuckle!!!!!
He is so petty 😂 I love it though cause I feel like cristine would never say some of this stuff without him pushing her lol
Whenever he says "oh maybe I shouldn’t say this" I’m readyyyy for tea to be spilled
Ratan Tata of Tata industries donates his 66% annual income to many good causes. Besides the regular donations his company donated 1500 crores to India to the battle against corona virus crisis.
He might've been the richest person in world but he donates almost all of his income.
Thank you for recognising the grocery store workers, I think some of the negative comments are coming from the (not really the right word but...) 'glorification' of health care workers throughout the crisis. They are putting themselves at great risk, and should be thanked and respected for that, but there are many others who are doing the same with little to no applause. I think people are often just scared, and wish they were able to stay home and stay safe. I manage a team at an online food store in the UK, and most of my staff don't have any option but to work as it is not a well paid field, even if, like us, you are paid more than the usual minimum wage. We are lucky to have a close team and have worked really hard to keep each other safe and healthy, but not every company appreciates and listens to their workers.
Here we gooooo I am so excited for them to spill the tea on this
@Summer Daley Also very valid. It's a hard choice!
Summer Daley I know it’s so wasteful and tea is so delicious!!!
18:59 I would like to make a correction on the type of people that work in grocery stores as essential workers. While it may be teenagers and unskilled workers in Canada, from Ben’s perspective, here in the US, it is a completely different story. I’m an essential worker, but I also have a bachelors degree. I had to make the hard decision to leave my career field (the entertainment industry) behind as things were getting worse within it and aid my family during this pandemic. I have a couple of older work friends who are close to retirement but have to work because they are not at the age to retire or take time off now. I have coworkers who have families to take care of, but cannot leave their job to invest their time into a better paying career field without affect the food to put on the table, keep the lights on, etc. not every grocery store worker is unskilled, we just happen to have a system in my country that puts profit over people. Just wanted to put that out there.
I'm Canadian but I completely agree. The way he explained it made me feel ashamed to be 28 and work at a pharmacy. I need to pay my way through school. I'm sure I'm nitpicking but I'm glad you can explain it better than I can .
There is a good population of retired folks who work part or full-time at grocery stores to supplement their retirement or to give them spending money if they live with family.
It bothers me too when someone gives to some animal rescue or cause and then people make it out like they're a bad person because they 'don't care about human causes'...
I came back to this podcast after listening to this weeks (just bc I was driving while listening to the last one and didn't have time to comment) but I just wanted to say how refreshing this was to hear! At one point I got a little nervous, when you were saying that we shouldn't donation shame or smthing to that effect but then continued on by saying that the anger should be directed to that inequality of wealth instead. So major kudos to you for that! Talking real shit right now, especially because so much of 'donations' are tax write offs, funneled into large NPOs that don't actually donate as much as they say, etc. Anyway! Thank you for actually dissecting this conversation around wealth and the realities of how 'we live in a society'
While many people/companies avoid controversy to not ruin our reputation, i like how you guys are brave enough in order to send a positive message. You guys tackle tricky topics in order to positively advocate your viewers and I really appreciate that.
I saw a comment section between someone from New Zealand (pretty sure it was NZ) and someone from America. The person from New Zealand said that half of their money went to taxes (someone in the comments has corrected this) but it didn't bother them because they knew if they got sick, they wouldn't lose everything to the Healthcare bill, and that they had security in general and that mattered more than the actual number on their paycheck. The American (I'm American btw) could not understand that. They were like "how can you let them take that from you, that's so much" and that they'd rather have that money and I think a huge problem actually lies in the power we give money. Like you said with the massive sums of money, it just sitting there does nothing. Money is meant to be a means to an end and shouldnt have to be an end in itself or just getting you one thing. It makes sense to want it to go towards security for yourself, your health, the quality of your or your children's education. The person from NZ said that they had what they needed and that's why they didn't mind the taxes. Idk, I just feel like it makes a lot of sense. But it also requires a level of trust in your government and competency on their part to recognize the importance of those basic securities. All something I don't personally trust our government with.
Edit: There is more information about how the tax money is distributed in the comments
If half my paycheck went to taxes, I couldn't pay rent...
Indigo Ashes Perhaps they’re making enough money to afford stuff even when half of it went to taxes
I'm a New Zealander, the highest tax rate is 33% for income over $70k/year, most people pay much less. That tax pays for more than just free health care, it subsidises everything - public transport, defence force, student loans, retirement fund, all the good stuff which creates a happier, healthier society. You're right that there are different mindsets, New Zealand is egalitarian, we don't want anyone to be left behind, whereas America prioritises the individual instead of the community.
@@astroZOMBIESattack Ah, thanks! I'm not going to lie, it seems really nice. Do you like living there? I've thought about moving there recently, as something to strive for
Cristine, i hope you'll see this. I would like to recommend one specific topic to discuss next - domestic violence. Currently in Russian speaking media circles this topic (i live in Belarus). One Instagram star and TV host sad on her life stream "and what exactly did you do for your husband not to beat you". These words "blew up" so many people, because as someone said, one of three families experience homicide regularly. The worst thing is that many people (men, women) agree with her.
Can you give the name of this host?
Regina Todorenko
Thank you
Thank you for paying attention
I heard it. How does she sleep at night ? And here fake apologies on ig does not help her at all.wow.
Personally, I didn't start saying things like "eat the rich" until after I graduated college and got a job.
Nothing turned me progressive more than "Libertarians" and seeing life's inequities up close.
I also have an engineering & business degree, so I'm not starving.
The myopia of our own personal greed brings us all down.
recoil53 I am an anarchist. Seeing life's inequalities up close and living them radicalized me. I'm in my early 20's and I've seen war in person as a citizen along with my home country fall into shambles because of capitalist, government, and authoritarian corruption. People there currently are rioting on the streets because nobody can afford food.
My move to the USA also radicalized me as I saw the massive amounts of inequality when it came to class, race, sexuality, etc. and the amount of corruption that occurred on a daily basis in this country. The amount of grief and inequality I have seen and experienced over time has pushed me far left, and I honestly don't believe that everybody does get more conservative as they get older because it really depends on your life experiences and how much faith you have in the system.
I saw a quote recently about this covid situation that was "we may all be weathering the same storm but we are not all in the same boat" and that really hit home for me about why people are so angry at a lot of these celebrities who are really out of touch with the problems and struggles that people deal with on a day to day basis- covid or no covid.
As always, i think you guys have a lot of good comments and express them critically and appropriately- I love your podcasts and think you guys do a really great job explaining or encouraging people to think critically, not emotionally. Looking forward to nexts week's episode!
I would love financial advice from Ben!!! As a broke college student, no one has ever given my financial advise and I would highly appreciate it!
I can relate to Beyn saying that it feels good when your good deed is recognized. That makes sense to me and isn't a bad thing at all. Whenever I have donated blood I also post about it on socials. Sure, in part to make people aware that if they are healthy, they may consider doing it as well but I also enjoy the pat on the back for it xD
It's okay to feel good about a good deed, or even get a sense of satisfaction when that deed is recognized. Though my line is when the intent of the deed is for the recognition, it becomes muddled.
I loved Tiffany’s video and thought the entire video was entirely on point. But separately and more in the context of YOU guys, there is research showing that sharing when we donate is important for positive social peer pressure to remind others of the importance of donating in general, and for amplifying certain important causes. We’re motivated by others’ generosity.
I think it's strange to give praise to billionaires for donating money to charities if they're exploiting their workers or indulging in tax evasion.
I'm not saying they should be shamed for their charity work, just that it should be pointed out that most of the times one thing doesn't compensate for the other.
Look up how many things are named for the rich from the "Robber Baron" era.
Carnegie, Vanderbuilt, etc had working conditions that would be shocking for a third world sweatshop. People lost limbs and lives in their factories and they wouldn't make safety improvement. They paid in company cash instead of real money to further profit from their workers.
And now they get remembered as philantropists.
Yes!! Please do an episode on finances. It is such an important topic. For me I only really starting caring and knowing last year.....I’m 28 years old!! I would love to hear your journey with it, what you know and why do you think people aren’t taught it at a young age.
Just wanted to say that you guys are awesome and down to earth and it’s so refreshing to hear this sort of conversation from people who have been in both middle class and upper middle class lifestyles. I think it really opens people’s eyes to the different types of shaming going on for people who have a little money as opposed to people who have gobs of money.
I did want to say one thing about inheritance though, the money that gets passed on was often earned by someone, therefore taxes were already paid by someone. This is why the heir doesn’t pay major taxes when they receive that money. It wouldn’t be fair, it’s already been heavily taxed.
I know you’ve spoken about your education a bit but it could be cool if you talked to some students from different fields at different academic levels - a lot of current students don’t even know what college and grad school are like or what to expect/ look for - as a first gen student I had no idea what I was doing when I first applied for college in high school and now I’m getting my PhD. You have a young audience and it could be an interesting topic! I volunteer as interview tribute too, 😅
Yes, I hope they do. I dont know what to expect in grad school at all
It would be great to see a podcast about your experiences in university and through getting your masters degree Current high school junior here who’s a little scared and doesn’t know what to expect
I think that the internet has made it alot easier to learn about the process. There are tons of videos about applying to schools and people's experiences. I watched alot while kw as applying to law school.
This is very important, because some people think that a B.A or B.S is the highest level that they can accomplish. So I agree!! (Also, I am taking doctoral classes too!💙)
I'm an undergraduate student right now, but I really hope I can get my PhD someday. I'd like to hear about how people become PhD students, because I have no clue. You have to apply, I think?
Watching this as a Swede and paying 33% tax each month. So happy to! No need for donations here, our government is fine.
So true
Except if you're a hourly payed student atm with a family :) you get kicked out from work and can't apply for any of help because you study full time.
@@etnicia7973 you can still apply for help though. And student loans!
Lovisa Hänström Saying student loans is an option is saying “go into more debt!” More interest, more money to pay off. I think applying for possible government programs is a good idea but there’s also just a ton of exception SPECIFICALLY excluding university students because of our seasonal/part-time jobs and full time schooling.
I'm so glad you two got lucky on the internet and got to have such a great platform. We definitely need more educated and compassionate people having this kind of conversations. I really appreciate you.
You guys are genuinely one of the most honest , unproblematic, informative youtubers I’ve ever come across and I just don’t understand how anyone can complain about y’all doing great things to help your community, other communities and the world in general. I really don’t get how people can find the negative in anything and everything. Just know both of you are doing amazing things for all of us , now during this time of crisis and prior even when things were more normal. Love you cristine and ben , you’ll always have my support and so many others💕💋
I appreciate this so much. I live in an 800 square foot apartment with four people and 3 dogs and 3 of us work for Amazon. This is the reality for a lot of people in my neighborhood (I don't live in a bad area, just not very rich). It has been cold and rainy pretty much the entire lock down so going outside really isn't an option. Our quarantine is much different than someone who lives in a warm climate or someone who lives in a 5000 square foot house, with a pool and what ever else they might have. I hope people know that everyone is not the same and I am sure people are worse off than I am too. Good luck everyone.
Zyler raising his pat so Ben pet him is the cutest thing of today 🥺💞💞💞
I think it's fine if you donate more to animals, you two are people who love and care about animals so it just makes sense, don't see anything wrong with that.
My other thinking is they are putting money back into their community. They will see exactly what that money is being used for. Rather than donating to some charity that you don't get to see the inner workings of.
I think it would help a lot, if everyone paid their taxes. If billionaires had to pay their full taxes that would already help a lot and their (hopefully) wouldn't be that much need of giant philanthropy on their part. Also you can't please everyone and doing something is always better than nothing. Maybe next time it will be the Red Cross again and not the animal shelter but that is up to them and that is fine.
What people don't realise is that donations to animal charities is also extremely important rn. There are animals starving because there are not enough donations and people working in the centers to care for them. More and more pets are getting abandoned because people are unable to care for them in this situation.
Juliet Lawson I always see articles saying things like if big companies paid their full taxes, they would be paying sooooo much more than just donating a million dollars. If amazon guy paid his fair share, there would be plenty of money in the government funds for things like preschool, snap benefits, college, and other social programs that are constantly being cut for budgetary reasons. And he further exasperated the problem by not paying fair wages, and encouraging employees to use federal programs like food stamps and cash assistance.... none of which he is paying into to help fund, and just eating away at the taxes that us regular people pay... I think that’s what’s so frustrating 🤔
Also with taxes, in Australia there are things called franking credits. Basically it means that rich people, including the ones who don't pay taxes, are getting a huge "tax return" for owning shares. Literally, rich Australians are getting government handouts, yet fight to make sure that those who need it remain well below the poverty line.
@@radmoonable Well and it's not like you aren't helping people with those donations too. I worked at an animal-based charity for a bit and in addition to volunteers we had about 20 paid people on staff. When donations and grants dried up, a lot of those jobs got cut, which wasn't good for the people or the animals they worked with.
"If everybody paid their taxes" - yeah, that's not why rich people donate to political campaigns.
It's probably not a very popular suggestion but since I love to read : could you talk about literature in one of your podcasts?
It's always so nice to listen to you talk because you both are so insightful and considered.
i personally think that announcing the charity you donate to, along with a little info about them and why you chose them is super great, not only for the sake of accountability and clarity, but also because it informs people of charities and programs they may have not known about prior. i would have never known about know your rights camp without being told about it during the protests in response to the unjust killing and general oppressiveinjustice against black and brown lives in the US. As a late 20 something, sometimes we think we know about everything or know all possible resources, but we don’t and it’s good to get that passive knowledge and learning through media & figurehead driven exposure.