Well at least Exxon's stock price didn't go UP in response to the Valdez spill. Oh wait, it did. Plus got a bunch of free money to make volunteers clean it up
@@PyroFalcon yes we do but I work in oil and gas and drilling rigs and fracs make alot bigger of a mess that these people would ever dream to do. Trust me drill mud all over the ground and drill extract, chemicals,oil , condensate drip gas, brine water list goes on and on.
When a poor person has a boat and lives in it, it’s called being “homeless”. But when a millionare lives on a boat it’s called being “adventurous” or “living the dream”, or having an “exotic excentric lifestyle”
Cause they have multiple other properties to dock the boat at lol But I know what you mean, although a home, it's just impractical having no fixed address
The rich finance guy’s frustration is understandable, but the way he just stereotypes all of them as being meth addicts or burnouts is very telling of his attitude. He looks down at them from his ivory tower and doesn’t care where they go as long as they are out of his line of sight. Cares more about his property value than human beings.
And guess what he made his money with? Tax evasion? Or laundering within the rules? Art deals? It's being said, every millionaire has some shame over how they earned their first million.
I thought he was sounding someone empathetic especially for somebody who keeps having these homeless boats docking under or crashing into his home for crying out loud! And this is me being empathetic for people not being able to afford I'm very simple life anymore
When a poor guy hits a rich guys dock with his boat, we change laws and hire people to destroy his property, when a rich man exploits a poor man’s labor for 50 years and gambles, loses and destroys the poor man’s retirement savings, we give the rich man our tax money because he’s too big to fail and that’s all you need to know about America in 2022 really.
When a poor person doesn't have enough saved up for retirement we call them foolish, when a big firm doesn't have enough to cover their billion dollar gambles we happily hand em all the cash they need
@@shammydammy2610 his dock not his house and so? Isn’t this what insurance is for? You know how many times a boat has hit my house? None, I don’t live on the water but I do live near a road so should a car drive into my wall can I lobby to get everyone’s cars impounded and destroyed and make everyone walk instead? Come on.
@@CosmicComputer Um....BOTH his dock and his house...there is more than one incident. Did you blank out when he discussed the one that hit his house? What about the other times as well? And insurance rates go up every time you make a claim....and there's the chance you get dropped by your insurance company after too many claims. It's easy for you to say 'Isn't this what insurance is for?' because you're never going to have to deal with any of this. You live next to a road? How about if you lived at the bottom of a hill on that road and had neighbors up that hill that had several junker cars illegally parked on that hill. And every once in awhile the parking brake or brick chock holding them in place on that hill gave up and one would roll down the hill and into your house. How many times are you going to tolerate it, how many times are you going to deal with your insurance company for damages, how many times are you going to swallow your insurance rates going up before you make that call to report those illegally parked junker cars up that hill?
you can judge character, integrity is Self contained , not dependent of outside sources, even criminals have integrity, it is about constancy and Self preservation, others from the same moral value system will respect and adjust behaviour, exemple "honor among thieves". Your notion of Integrity is tainted by religious moral standarts, noticeably christian values, mine is based on behavioural psychology, modern and future social behavioural moral and ethical standarts will depend on science, statistics and data can not be refuted.
What's shocking is how concerned these home-owners appear to be with the "environmental impact" of the boats. As though companies they work for don't account for 99% of the pollution in the ocean. Those boats are literally a drop in the ocean when it comes to pollution and the real culprits are white collar.
Not even talking about the humongous size of their own houses. It's beyond me how dissociated these people are from reality, "no buildable land" ofc not ya'll need 5 hectares for a single house.
the hypocrisy is staggering, being a multimillionaire and trying to use that financial power to lobby people that already can't have an established home to be removed from what little they do have. For them to also admit 'yeah there's not much here no idea what they'd do' - these people are morally bankrupt
Dude, just go get a job and build your credit. You’re not allowed to live in front of someone’s home when they pay millions to even just be there. You sound lazy af talking like that.
rich people are just stuck up and think their poop don't stink they only care about how much money they have and what they can buy next. they don't care about the normal person and that goes for the Biden Administration and the majority of all politicians they just don't care about the people they serve!
Not sure which was a bigger lie, the millionaire saying he felt bad about the anchor-outs losing their homes, or the part where he said he pays his taxes.
Dude that is spot on. I work in that area all the time and it’s full of rich entitled people. Good for them that they have money and success but it’s very sheltered.
Someone crashed into his waterfront home dock 16 times and you think it's about property value lmao. If they weren't such an eyesore and a nuisance nobody would care. They're directly affecting the people that they live next to.
The bottom line is this... who is worth more to society? Who pays taxes and contributes to the benefit of the city and state? Those that do will always win in this situation. It sucks for the anchor out people, but they chose that way of life and made the decisions they made.
@@deuscoromat742 As in all cases like this nationwide on land and water now, they were there first. No living being should be forced out of their home, human or otherwise. The factual term for that which we see every day now in our supposedly free country is “systemic violence”. But we gussy it up by calling it gentrification, now extended out on the water. The more self absorbed rich assholes with family money to spare, the more hard working Americans go homeless.
I love how when the millionaire was confronted with the question of where those people would live if they were kicked out, he just basically said "idk lmao not my problem". Really shows the consequences of wealth inequality.
Well, IF he is correct, that the vast majority are people who have made bad life choices, I wouldn't hold it against him for not wanting these people crashing into his property.
To describe the anchor outs the wealthy guy says “ they don’t want to spend money, pay rent or pay taxes”. He just described most wealthy people in America.
No one WANTS to. But some do. Some work hard. Pay their taxes. And contribute to the system they then pull goods and services from. While some want a free ride off the backs of others.
@@tkokflux6322 The way investments are treated for tax purposes means that someone earning 1,000,000 dollars in long-term capital gains, and someone earning 40,000 dollars in wages, are taxed in the (roughly) same bracket, when you consider deferments and carried interest, and all the other things only available to the rich. If you truly think that you can get rich paying 23% interest on your wealth without having a whole shitload of ways to avoid paying those taxes, then you're just gullible.
As a former maid for a couple of these neighbors, I can assure you their money was inherited, not earned. No one in the neighborhood works hard or is even tired when they get home. Once home, they complain about the “entitled attitude” of the poor while drinking wine that costs more than a hotel room.
We call em nepotism babies where I'm from. Born rich but the idea of having to go through school and college (100% paid for) makes them feel self made, from the ground up success stories.
@@RutakMcLydeLiterally Trump. "I'm a self made millionaire!" Cus his dad gave him millions in loans and he made money from those millions 🤦♀️ Logic lol
In my country there are no problem with boats crashing into waterfront homes because we generally don't allow waterfront homes. The beaches for the most part belong to everyone and cannot be bought and built on.
It makes me feel so good that a lot of people in these comments disagree with how people are being treated in this video. It’s so sad to see people who can’t afford rent or houses having their boats being destroyed. Imagine coming home one day and someone has demolished your house.
@@JohnM-sw4sc until what? Until one part of America is one giant never-ending slum and the other part is a gated community with multi-billion dollar homes and trust fund kids?
You clearly don't understand the ideology of free enterprise, capitalism, or democracy. America is a really shitty place because most people want to just be granted freedom, liberty, and false hope without putting anything into getting it. I am not a millionaire. I am just a working class person with an annual income less than 100k. I look around and there are tax breaks for the super wealthy and there are programs for the less fortunate meanwhile I pay my taxes and pay my bills on time and I have a pretty nice home yet right outside my home there are homeless people trashing the streets with human waste, drug needles, just garbage in general. Zombies that are suffering from addiction on anything from sniffing gas to meth roam the streets at all hours. Stop blaming people with money for your own dysfunction.
Cant say im too fond of those rich asshats, but they do have some valid points about boat drifting into their docks causing massive damage. That aspect aside i know people dream about living on the water and what not but its not cheap, boats require a lot of upkeep. Usually needing to being pulled to dry dock to be cleaned and repainted/epoxied every few years. Something a lot of these guys don't do for a decade if at all. Which is why they end up taking on water and getting condemned. Proper way of going about it is simply renting a dock slot and doing proper maintenance/upkeep to the boat.
I lived anchored out in Richardson bay there for a couple years. It should be a basic human right to be able to anchor. I finished high school while anchored out. I am now a home owner, outright. People on the hill in a 3 million dollar home telling me what to do was a horrible feeling. I never caused any grief to anyone, and often helped people in fancy boats when they had issues. Lawmakers need to think again before destroying communities. 90 percent of the people anchored out were functional good people.
Did most of the people there properly dispose of their "waste water" and garbage though? Like I know with a boat you either need to buy a boat that comes pre-equipped with a septic tank and water hook up line or retrofit the boat later. Then you need to dispose of the waste at a water hook up station every month. While I know it's legal to dispose of "waste water" when someone is 15 miles away from shore, those boats don't look like they're 15 miles away from shore. Also I imagine it's expensive for people to dispose of their used coffee tins, paper towls, plastic wrappers and such in an environmentally friendly way, so I can see why some,of the anchor outs would not want to do that. I'm not trying to troll you, I genuinely don't know so that's why I'm asking you.
Governments dont care for people or how good they live theyre job is to control people and keep them as por as possible and have less rights as possible where ever possible thats how people live rent by rent when it shouldnt be that way shelter is easy to make and doesnt cost years to pay off the governments stole that and sells it back expensively. Some get money they can pay of house in a year or 2 like cops while most are lucky if they pay off house in 30 years.
@@ml6719 well theres nothing wrong with being homeless plus the truth homelessness is caused by the theft by the governments by taken peoples abilitys to make shelter so dont pretend like that aint true.
@@ml6719 lol And Million dollar chunks of wood sticking out of the mountain is Not an Eye sore? XD Thanks for showing us how fucked up some peoples Priorities are.
It's curious how a finance executive believes he has made the proper choices in life, while he believes hard working folks who just plain can't afford to rent an apartment in the area are deemed as meth heads. What a complete and utter sausage.
It's called inheriting your lifestyle and being completely out of touch with reality. He has convinced himself that everyone is dealt the same card at birth just so he can feel superior.
@@Cheitsup That's not true. Wealth can be measured objectively, hence it's not just a subjective opinion. Besides he is still priviledged even if he earned it because he had that opportunity. For example, people born in poor african countires don't have that opportunity. And he probably has good education which costs money too. In essence it takes money to make money. What you said is not true at all.
@@JohnM-sw4sc That's probably one of the most idiotic and simple minded solutions I've ever seen. Some people don't have the luxury of picking and choosing where they live, some people have commitments that they cant just walk away from and are simply trying to do the best with the cards that have been dealt to them. Telling them to leave just because they're an eyesore is probably one of the most selfish things you can do and doesn't actually solve anything, it simply creates more division between the rich and the poor. Lets just hope you don't end up in a similar situation yourself eh?
@@JohnM-sw4sc People can be tricked by corporations to vote against their own interests due to propaganda funded by rich ppl or lack of knowledge on the subject. Doesn’t have anything to do with the topic though. Think of reasons for why you wouldn’t move across the country right now and realize that a lot of people have those same reasons and more
You shouldn’t laugh, it’s a serious problem. And if you want to act like that and say it’s okay because of your job then you’re a failure of a human being still regardless.
I had no where to go after a medical bankruptcy at 24. Lived aboard for 7 years and got back on my feet. Rowed to work every morning. Now I’m retired, own a home. Give ‘em a break.
I am older but not old enough for Medicare. Had an unplanned surgery and can relate to your medical expenses situation. It's scary at my age being alone and going in debt. Glad you have a home now. Thank you for sharing
You got lucky! I was in a similar situation! They not only took my boat, but everything else - such as my truck and all my tools made me completely homeless! Didn't do drugs or alcohol. Did no criminal activity - never been in jail either! Being poor in America is a disaster!😢
@@coolerhot646 A handful of finance people tend to skim 😶😶 there are lots of gray areas, unlisted funds, glossed over numbers, etc... I don't believe any top company out there is completely clean lol
I grew up near this guy. He’s a seasoned player when it comes to finance and debt. They literally “purchase transactions” and become holders of debt. Raw capitalism my ass. Where the hell is this guy creating value?
@@coolerhot646 bro thinks it’s funny to assume rich people haven’t broken laws to make money when poor people break laws to make money alllllllllll the fucking time. Shut up if you don’t know what tf you’re taking about.
Would you be happy with “homeless” people living in front of your house in a beat up RV? It would be different if there was a designated area where people could anchor der boat for a small fee, kind of like a trailer park. Registered and with regular safety inspections to make sure the boats are seaworthy and don’t pollute the water.
At the end when the man says, "there's no compassion around here", he is absolutely right. I grew up in North Bay and the lack of compassion is staggering. If we wanted to build a lot of housing to solve the homeless crisis, we would. Classic case of Marinites shutting everyone out except the ultra wealthy.
It just seems very easy in america do not identify with your fellow, more unlucky countrymen because of this "promise" that everyone can live the american dream if they work hard". Unfortunately that has been untrue for some time. But the sentiment is still there and so inequality can easily be disregarded by the winners to "well they just didn't work hard enough and therefore deserve what they got".
The irony here, is that Marin county is one of the most liberal counties in the country. I could see this kind of stuff taking place in Alabama but not Marin County. Crazy rich liberals are worse than Trumpers, in my opinion.
@@nusultannazarbayev7332 Your first mistake was assuming the lords are republican or Democrat. Those words were invented for the peasant to believe they had a say.
It's amazing how concerned some people are about protecting the environment when poor people live on old boats. Large corporations can legally cause enormous environmental damage through oil drilling and fracking, and investors receive enormous profits. But the Bay Area is full of millionaires. They don't want to see poor people. Poverty has to be invisible.
I find it so fascinating when people think than millionaires are a fundamentally different human being than the rest of us. It is literally racism on the basis of class but racism is bad and classism is good? Do you think is that the homeless crisis in California can easily be solved by people who are not millionaires? Because that's the implication of what you said. Do you think that his brain just works better because he's a millionaire and he should uniquely have to solve this problem before he can get local laws enforced?
@@deuscoromat742 nobody is saying that. But it's a bit tiring to hear incredibly fortunate people take issue to inconveniences in their lives to an extent they want entirely new legislation just to make their lives better, but when asked for a more widespread solution they continually brush it off. It's a have your cake and eat it too response.
@@deuscoromat742 The millionaire is brought into question because he is one of the many lobbying against the anchor outs. Classism is the word you’re looking for FYI, and it is what the millionaire is doing, not the people in the comments here.
That Jim Robertson guy is a real piece of work, I hate it when folks like him pull the "some of us wanna work and some of us don't" card like people aren't literally working themselves ragged just to survive on the monthly basis. The only folks I see that don't wanna work and reap the handout reward is the rich.
@@trevorertz8882 And the labor of their employees. I worked for a landscaping company in Marin for $7.50/hr. They were charging $65/hr per man on site. Since then I've read that the average employee creates $68/hr in productivity above and beyond their wage. Who's getting that?
@@duancoviero9759 guarantee he wasnt born sitting in his luxury bayside home. He did what he had to do to acquire that, and yes it does require work..or working smarter. Should that be punished simply because some people arent cut out for that life, or are cut out for it but simply make some very bad choices along the way? I can see both sides of this honestly...and I think as long as the boat people can maintain seaworthiness, they should be able to live on their "home" indefinitely..and use public docks when needed during times of storms and such.
@@NWPaul72 remember how black lives matter started as occupy wall street had just ended? almost like they want to distract you with artificially created racial tensions from the real problem of socioeconomic inequity.
Great video but I think there was a missed opportunity to highlight how hard Marin County has fought new housing developments. They’re choosing to destroy the only home these people have but also prevent any new options from being built in the area. It’s appalling and the residents should be held accountable for their selfishness.
Like that guy "pays taxes". His house COST $1.5 million, what's it worth now? He's assuming over half of these people are meth addicts. How does he know that?
@@basilio7947 hot take, but local municipalities aren't responsible for having housing available to anyone who wants to come from anywhere. It's the responsibility of the state, not local towns/counties.
@@dvoob They are responsible for the zoning laws which make it extremely restrictive. While I don't have the California laws on hand. In Texas it is "Local government code" - Sec. 211.003 - (a) The governing body of a municipality may regulate: (1) the height, number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures; (2) the percentage of a lot that may be occupied; (3) the size of yards, courts, and other open spaces; (4) population density; ... I am not stating that what they are doing is inherintly good or bad, I am just rebuking your idea of "its the states responsibility not the towns/counties"
Great job with your reporting man. I love how you flip the question back around to the rich guy sitting in his multimillion-dollar house, and make the statement that the median home price in this area is $1000000. Where else are people supposed to live? Because, when you think about it all of the people that service these million-dollar properties, Carpenters, HVAC technicians, electricians, roofers, restaurant workers, coffee shop Baristas, etc... do not make enough money to live anywhere near the area. And that smug look on his face when you asked him the question is pretty typical of rich people in that situation. They don't give a s*** about anyone else but themselves. I have no sympathy for that guy
This was very well-reported; reporter had great demeanor to keep all relaxed, never framed his question in gotch or hostile manner. That's the whole key to getting people to open up and speak honestly. Props!
Indeed, extremely weak argument, borderline disgusting when the law is making someone homeless who wouldn't otherwise be, with no real answer as to any option they might have.
He’s prob a hardcore liberal. But since this “trash” is in his backyard, he’s not going to tolerate it. The wealthy live in bubbles and when those bubbles get invaded, they change their tune real quick when it affects them. Hypocrites. They are voting for the real “trash” that refuse to do anything about the problem. Disguising their real problem with these people with concern for the environment and “debris” falling in the water is such a cop out. Meanwhile, these people probably own boats and all other kinds of things that pollute. So gross.
he's just a privledged psychopathic fool asociating himself with and thinking he is aligned with positive or good attributes it is like alot of schemey capitalist leeches it is very very cult like oblivious to abuse of his own privledge and has no idea reality
I'm from San Francisco. To give you more background here, the waterfront homes in Marin County (in the Tiburon area), are worth an average of $5M - $15M. The people who live there are not just rich or millionaires, they are wealthy beyond measure. As a San Francisco native who has watched my city price out generations of residents, it's almost comical to watch these people who live on the Marin County waterfront complain about anchor-outs. Now I could understand if the anchor-outs broke into their houses, stole from them, etc, but to get upset at their existence is honestly a mix of hilarious and infuriating
The mega-rich, techies, and generational millionaires have sucked the soul of SF and the Bay like vampires, leaving just an empty husk, devoid of humanity. Shame what's happened to my birthplace, I can barely stomach looking at it anymore.
It's sort of like how I feel about Atherton, which is not so much a city, but the artificial absence of one that is visible from outer space. They're people who live in >$5million houses who are afraid to live near people who live in $2million houses.
@@umungus518 cry me a river dude. You dont think insurance covered those crashes? Even if he came out a pocket, I dont have much sympathy for the ultra elite. More money more problems
I live in SF and am a native. I dont think tech made SF expensive, landlords who decided they wanted to money grab are the ones who did this. @@tehBleuRiot
Life is not fair for everybody. We must always keep in mind that every person in this world is fighting his own battle and destroying a poor man's home is the worst thing that anyone can do.
The capitalism is not fair for everybody. We must Al away keep in mind that every person in this world have to fight for others and destroying a monopolism is the best way to bring right for every individual person in this planet.
I agree but they cant stay there without getting their homes destroyed. They have two choices.... Clean up their homes so they dont stand out and look like a squalid hovel. Or sail it up north around the Ft. Bragg area. So Cal is cracking down. Slowly but surely. Up north is their best option.
@@angelcitystudio lol Freedom Is the Only choice that matters and How You feel about someone's Possessions or State of their Home, is Your personal issue to deal with.
@@redneckhippiefreak Bottom line is, people work hard and change their lives and struggle like hell to be able to get as far away from squalid hovel shithole neighborhoods as they can. They pay BIG money for it. Poor people who do nothing but squat and pollute and contribute nothing think they can just move into these areas as well.... FOR FREE....while everyone else pays for the upkeep 🤣No. You fucking cant. Your feelings about your FREEDOM does not matter.
People need to start shooting those who do that. It's always the opposite, they shoot the good people and take everything from them, that's why you live in a literal hell.
My wife and I lived in our sailboat there for a while. Met some amazing people with amazing stories. We were getting our boat ready to sail south. We were treated very different because we were anchor outs. The police threatened us. Everyone of the anchor outs were great though. We would hang out with them at the church or at the coffee shop. Many were working jobs and coming back to their boat. The county made it very difficult for everyone to live out there. Shut down all the docks except one. Over 100 boats and only 1 tiny dinghy dock. Fun. The harbormaster was not very liked. He got many boats destroyed. That’s what the county was paying him to do. Many lost their homes and lived in tents. Even kids. I know everyone that was interviewed. Amazing people! Miss this place so much. A strange balance between very rich and very poor.
@@complex3704 That's what they keep missing here. It's pretty standard in maritime law not to have a nuisance out in a harbor. If these things can't move under their own power they are nuisances. If they still worked like real boats they could move it around every 72 hours.
When a law is designed to only serve the rights of the wealthy and not uphold the rights and security’s of every man woman and child equally then it’s not law it’s purely a gateway to entitlement.
That was literally the only reason a police force popped up was to keep low class in line so the rich would feel safe. Started over in France, go check it out. It's pretty disgusting how we integrated that into our system but you know America, Capitalism and Greed is good
One hasn't the time to think up answers when one spends so much time maintaining one's parasitic lifestyle-addiction & subsequent mental-illness. 🎩🧐 Now, someone fetch me my clutching-pearls and fainting-couch. And, ffs, put my hat back on my head.
Rich people making laws and thinking their way of life is secure because of all the money they have are delusional. Pushing the poor to the edge has consequences as history have shown.
Rich people don't make the laws. The people we elect make the laws. And there's a lot more "poor" and middle class people than rich people. So the laws are made by the officiels the poor and middle class elect.
@@PeterMJensenSF It's so adorable you think that. The rich set your laws and legislative policy. If the "middle class" and poors had any influence election pay would be a federal holiday. You know, so the wage slaves could go vote and not worry about upsetting their pay masters by missing their shift to do something as trivial to the ownership class as civic engagement. Also your access to healthcare wouldn't be dependent on your ability to go into bankrupting debt.
"It's a tough question." My Marin friends will only ever be able to live there after they inherit the same houses that have been in their families for 3 generations... if their parents don't sell them.
It's time to Decriminalize poverty, this man in the interview "Jim Robertson" basically implied that because these people are poor they must be drug addicts or screw ups and therefore it is acceptable to kick people out of there homes and destroy what little possessions they have left. I can't believe people can think this way.
Yeap - that rich dude explaining his views makes you feel he is in need of some unevitable "bad choices" that he never made he says - like some whatsoever bad luck one day so he is gonna see the other side. Just Anything. The literal truck that overruns you , just anything, praying for this kind ...
In Jim's defense, he's not necessarily far off. I mean, even poor people, normal ones, understand that they have to figure out how to put a roof over their head via working multiple jobs to afford the rent. However, given how expensive rent is in San Francisco, you can sympathize with the boat dwellers and Jim doesn't address that aspect of it.
Imagine living in a waterfront mansion on one of the most beautiful bays in the world and focusing your energy on making unfortunate people even more so.
As someone who went to college in Marin this is extremely accurate. The wealth gap is massive. Marin is constantly at war with the poor. During my final year of college the city of San Rafael got rid of its homeless navigation center.
@@imhotep561 Exactly. I don't live in my dream area. Why? Simple. I can't afford it. So I did a lot of research and planning to find someplace I could afford that still gave me a standard of living I wanted.
@@imhotep561 how much more ignorant can you sound? They’re homeless, now how do you think they’re gonna move to a more affordable city exactly? The closest affordable city would most likely be Bakersfield, well over 100 miles away
@@ballerboi4980 ummm, the guy said he worked but couldn’t afford to pay rent. So, like everyone else, he can find a place that is affordable for his income. As for the others, get a job, apply for social security disability if you qualify, move to another state that offers affordable house and jobs. I’m all for helping others (if it’s yoyur personal choice), but I’m tired of people advocating for the government to provide for everyone that makes poor life decisions off of the backs of others.
"Its a tough question" yet Mr. Finance has no possible solution. Give me a minute while I search for how much care/concern I have for a Millionaires complaints.
The fact that they authorities not only confiscated the boats, but also forbid the owners from rescuing their personal possessions, including family heirlooms, is the crux of the story. The rich will always find a way to grind the rest of them underfoot. God willing, Karma will take over.
@@apples8872 There is no God. At least, not in any way you or I can possibly fathom. The difference between us is you pretend to know something you cannot possibly.
The karma are started for the rich in the Bay area. I just watched a video on crazy theft is getting in their neighborhoods. Though I don't know about the water front spots but I'm sure it's only a matter of time as they just created more homeless with this
Props to the interviewer for keeping a straight face at 8:46 when the guy with generational wealth is preaching about hard work, intelligence, and luck
I lived in a community that was split into rich, middle class and poor. I remember being invited to a friends and their family was “going out on the yacht.” We didn’t go anywhere, just stayed tied to the dock. They pay 500 a month to have these boats “docked.” They never take them out, they don’t take trips, nothing. I was middle class and went fishing regularly. I remember asking where they went and the families and yacht owners would almost get angry or offended. Years they would pay to have boats in during the summer and out stored in the winter. What a wasted. Easily 200+ high end Luxury boats that only moved by the wake of charted fishing boats.
I hate rich boat owners with a burning passion, because even when they do use their boat they have no idea how. They have no respect at all for others who are out at sea.
It's because the fuel for those yacht are so expensive. Plus the upkeep if you use it etc. They don't want to let go of the money for it to USE, it's just to sit there like a usable prop to take photos on, and tell freinds, strangers "ah yes that's my yatch, we go fishing off it and swim, party" just to make folks jelous. They honestly can't affford to really DO anything with it other than bragging rights. Nothing more.
They don’t know how to navigate their ship !!! Lol ! Losers !!! My boyfriend has a little bass fishing boat that we have fun in ! The motor blew up .. 9 thousand dollar motor .. during Covid .. he watched UTube videos and taught himself to repair his motor ., cost was 2000.00 part found on line (-; we just went kayaking a lot more until he made the repair ! Poor and smart .
It is wierd. I'm in Michigan. All boat owner's want to do is dock on the beach just to be seen by other people. I fish offshore and it pisses me off that they always want to get in the way. Just so we have to see them. Nevermind they are cutting our fishing lines or illegally too close to the fishing pier.
As someone who lived aboard a sailboat from NYC and north up the coast-mind you a very pretty one that we kept in great shape and could just about blend in with the “yachts” of the upper class-the creative tactics we’ve encountered from cities, marinas, and parks to make sustainable and responsible living aboard impossible is really staggering. The liveaboard community is incredibly diverse, resourceful, and low impact-I’d take their company any day. But because we take nothing from and “contribute nothing” to the capitalist machine that funds most waterfronts, we’ve been recast as a nuisance. One more tragedy amongst many 🙄
@@oakraptor I can understand your elementary ignorance in your baseless conclusions.... he's had a stroke and he's contributed significantly with his electronics business, he's recovered significantly through therapy and does a lot online. So your point is recklessly made and irrelevant...it just reveals how shallow you actually think.... I'm not surprised, just disappointed
Actually lived aboard in Oakland. We paid moorage. Even so the city wanted to get rid of us. This 15 years ago. The hand writing was on the wall , so i left for SA. It it interesting how capitalism is portrayed as the only viable system possible as rather our collective invention out of a infinity of possibilities . Either way the society will deal with poor whether it wants or not.
I was homeless and not drugs. I lived in the woods by myself and my area was free of litter. I would say if you are living homeless at least keep your camp clean because those who make the homeless look bad. I had a job. I walked to work until I found a better life but I preserve the woods the way I found it when I left it and in between. I loved living in the woods by myself and was getting accustomed to it but I resisted the woods. People trash it and that’s the problem
I definitely sympathise as someone living in a van in the Vancouver area. It's a huge, huge improvement over being completely homeless, and the authorities and legislators say, "either a home, or homeless. No in-between."
Fellow Canuck here. I'm sorry but with respect if you have a working van then why don't you just rent a place in Surrey or Langley or Abbotsford or Chilliwack? Or maybe you could find some person that lets you live and park in their driveway for a small fee each month? While I understand the drive would suck, I had to commute to work each day using public transit for years and it took an hour and a half each way.
If you need a job why not just do some temping for a while? All you need is the clothes on your back. If you go to a temp agency in the morning they'll give you a job assignment and loan you the personal protective equipment if you don't have it. (Usually they loan people a safety vest, some "green triangle" steel toed rubber boots and any other equipment you might need.) Of course it's good later to buy a cell phone (so you can call them to get jobs the day before) as well as your own safety vest and some regular "green triangle" shoes (they sell some cheap at walmart for between $50 to $100) although that's not necessary to start with. I know it's hard to get a part or full time job when you don't have money to start with. I know even McDonald's asks people to buy around $100 worth of work clothes to start off with.
I'm convinced the human race isn't going to make it as long as we are ruled by a few people who think they are the chosen ones. Greed motivates them and they will never stop wanting more.
Watch how within the first few sentences the rich man dehumanizes the boat dwellers. Any time you see someone make excuses like that you need to know they are viewing other humans as sub human. That's not ok, that's never ok.
How do you know he's "dehumanizing" anyone? His tone sounded sympathetic yet annoyed and frustrated. It seemed like he was just stating what he considered to be the truth of the matter
@@SurprisinglyDeep It’s the fact he brings up the alleged vices as if it’s pertinent. The issue is not whether these people are alcoholics; the only issue is should these people be allowed to continue living on the water or not. Why then bring up the alcohol and meth thing right off the bat? It’s an attempt to justify his position. “What I’m doing is okay, those people are junkies” is essentially the position. It’s an ad hominem attack and thus can be ignored.
@@Bucketheadhead He brought that up because alcoholics and drug addicts commit a lot of petty crimes in order to feed their addictions. Also many are emotionally unstable. He was basically saying "many of them commit petty crimes like breaking in to peoples cars and houses and/or randomyl accousting people for money" in a tactful way and without falsely implying that all the anchor outs commit crimes.
@@SurprisinglyDeep No he wasn’t saying that at all; at no point was it stated or even implied that these people are committing crimes. The whole point of the discussion was should these people be left to live their lives on the water or should the people living on land be able to prevent them doing so. The ad hominem attack only serves as a justification for evicting them, and it’s a pretty obscene one at that. He doesn’t even provide any evidence for his claim. His real implication is not that which you’ve identified but in fact that poor people are poor because they are junkies and criminals. It’s pathetic really. He even reinforces it at the end with his little “some people work hard” speech.
Fast forward 10 years and they’ll be interviewing millionaires outraged that they can’t find a housekeeper within 100 miles. I’m sure they’ll have a great explanation, like, “it’s pathetic… nobody wants to work anymore.”
@@MrHavokman not unless you’re the Brady Bunch. Live-in housekeepers are pretty rare. If it pleases you, though, swap “gardener” or “handyman” or “caterer” or “house painter” for “housekeeper” in my original statement. It’s the same sentiment.
@@ifckdurdad I do handy man work for wealthy clients and can charge more than if I were in a poorer area. I see your point but there will always be someone willing to make money if the millionaire wants their house maintained. Charging for travel is pretty normal to cover costs.
I spoke to a homeless man once and he told me "If you want to know how people are in a city look at how they treat their homeless", sure it's biased but it says a lot. Hope that guy got to keep his boat.
Obviously if you're homeless but I'm living where the homeless people can't. Who in their right mind would want to live next to people with mental health and addiction issues!?
@@macfig6017 please explain how homelessness wouldn't be an issue if the blue states weren't providing shelter and resources for the homeless. Would they just die off? Is this the same wisdom as "if you feed the strays, they'll breed"?
So sad... most of the "legal" boats sit empty and most houses on the water are vacation homes for the rich... this is simply a disgusting example of social inequality at its finest. There are so many better options than just crushing someones home.
Well you have to put your emotions aside and realize that removing these people from the water front helps prevent shanty towns from forming in the area hence which cause a reduction of property values. These rich people that many bash on many of them worked hard for their assets and pay horrendous amounts of various taxes so in a way it's just. I know things can seem unfair but it's justified in my view.
@@_nimrod92 Well you have to realize the dehumanization is never justified. Your fear of homeless encampments (shanty towns) bears witness to long term failure of government policies to properly manage the situation. Ye I get it you don't like them, most don't. Pretty ironic that the harbor master and their policies are literally creating more homeless encampments on land.
Let's keep it real, it's not about saftey or protection of the enviroment. It's about property values. If someone wants to live on the water, that's their right.
Yes, let's keep it real. CA is very anal about the environment, and it's in public area. Most people wouldn't have a problem if the boats were in good condition and not abandoned leaking feces, oil or whatnot, and not crashing into resident's docks. Property prices have gone up by 60% minimum. They don't give a damn about the prices.
If it were yachts they wouldn't mind. It's the fact that the boats are falling apart and not "seaworthy" that they don't like. It just so happens that a boat being non seaworthy and being disgusting are about the same thing, as defined by the rich people who defined the laws.
Millionaire: "The anchor-outs are a diverse community... 90% of them are meth addicts and alcoholics." Utter genius, that one. And this guy's in finance, so he's in charge of someone's investments!
Guys like the mechanic anchor-out have done more actual work in a month than that finance tool has done his entire career. Sitting in an office (or as of right now, working from home) cannot compare to physical labor, and I say that as someone who is fortunate enough to be working from home right now lol
That homeowner is a prime example of what Marin people are like. The homeless are an eyesore to them and if you don’t make 100,000,000+ a year you deserve to live at least an hours commute from their little paradise. I grew up there and it’s really a wonderful place but the people are so backwards and heartless that I had to get out as soon as I could.
When he is asked, where are the other affordable places to live? He says, "That's a tough question." I wonder if he really means, "I don't care about them.."
Are we supposed to understand the plight of the poor rich man in his mansion upset because his view has been ruined by people living a lifestyle that hasn't been a problem for 70 years but now suddenly is because they built mansions?
No matter what these people's life decisions are they still deserve a place to exist, but the housing market and gentrification in California have made survival so difficult that people have to go to these lengths
They voted for it. Fck em. You reap what you sow... in this case, California falling apart is exactly what californians deserve. It's a shame that once it collapses, you can't box those people in and force them to sleep in their refuse.
@@turtlepopper even if they voted for it...... I dont blame them, i blame the media for in a sense force them to vote for or stand by and watch.... I have been trying to discuss questioning authority and support what is important to you.... Ive lost friends, been called a racist, mocked and attacked and so i just keep doing me.. and try to stay open minded , i listen to views the. Get shut down when i express my point of view ..... And mostly the ignorance comes from news stations and shows .....so there is that .... Your either agreeing or you will be shunned
I live in similar place, where the skyrocketing rent is almost impossible for most people. Homeowners complain when they can't find painters, babysitters, maintenance people, landscapers, when the coffee shop down the street closes at 2pm for lack of staff... but it doesn't occur to them that none of those people they've come to rely on for their pleasant daily lives can live anywhere near their neighborhoods. There was a "created" neighborhood near my old apartment. 100+ luxury homes on curated streets with names like Sunshine Avenue, with "intentional commerce" on the Main Street. Think cute coffee shop, tailor, local clothing and jewelry, organic groceries, hidden parking to not mess up the aesthetic of the street, all the "nice" things the residents wanted. The majority of the employees bused in every morning from the surrounding towns a half hour away, because no one working min wage in the "cute" coffee shop was buying a $3mil house in the neighborhood.
@@JohnnyBravo-sb8hqit’s such a lie too. Everyone works. Humans work. The unemployment rate is like 3.6% and then the real is 7%. People work. Anyone who says otherwise is either an idiot or disingenuous in order to spread whatever bullshit they. 93% percent of all people even marginally attached to the workforce to work. That’s a majority so anyone saying that people don’t want to work are completely wrong.
"I work in finance". Also reads as: I make money contributing nothing to society, but I get paid ridiculously well to get my slice of the pie. No one else should have access to the pie. It is my pie. I deserve it because only I worked hard. If you don't have anything, it is your fault.
Wow, the feels are hard on this one. I'm a brother who wouldn't know the first thing on what to do to live on a boat. The maintenance needed to keep it seaworthy. How to hunker down in storms. How to monitor the depth so I don't hit something and take on water. Hell, just keeping it fueled up and livable day to day. You'd need a special type of person to be able to do that life. And you reduce them down to meth heads and criminals? Crazy. Then to put them into a tent down next to the yard that literally destroys their home as the watch and listen? That's a special type of cruelty. I understand the whole "not in my backyard" mentality, but to crush a persons only asset, their home that contains all of their worldly possessions? Its not just inhumane, its sociopathic.
California is unsustainable when it comes to rent. People forget about property tax, especially new buyer of property. 2% of the price you paid is the going rate in property tax. So $20,000 dollars in taxes is low in California.
Sociopaths and psycopaths run the world. They have the ruthlessness required to become successful in life with less effort and no conscience to interfere with their decisions.
I know many people who live on their boats, some are dear friends, and you're exactly right, it does take a lot of ingenuity and know-how to live that way. I don't know the first thing about boats either, so I have a lot of respect for those who do. Just watching people sail and being on their craft while they do is amazing to me, let alone watching them live on their boats. All of the people I know who live on their boats are decent, hard-working people. I'm with you completely, it's the lack of empathy and human connection that destroys me.
@@greenwave819 nope, it's just the US. You won't see that problem in Europe, Asia, Australia, or anywhere else for that matter (yes, even in Africa, homelessness is not an issue -- there are other worse ones, but not homelessness).
@@tgb-vf4es lmao you are smoking mad drugs dude. go travel outside of america and see how all those countries treat their poor. america is a fucking paradise compared to any 3rd world country. i KNOW you’ve never been outside of the USA if you’re posting something so absolutely absurd.
@@steviechampagne Being born in Africa and living Europe now i can tell you that what he said is 💯 true! People may be be poor in Africa but homelessness is an issue not in Europe either.
@@demagoog3641 I live in Berlin and I can tell you that homelessness is a problem here and in all the big cities in Europe (Paris, marseille, cologne......) I can't compare it to US because I've only been there once, but I think that every society that evolved around captialism treat the poor bad
How we point the finger at the boat people "bad choices, on drugs;& alcoholics" REALLY?! YOU WERE TAKING ADORALL, DOING 8 BALLS, AND STEALING YOUR PARENT'S EXSPENSIVE ALCOHOL. The nerve of that guy complaining "the peasants boats are hindering my view, change the law;& get rid of them "! Pressure burst pipes, you can't keep beating on the downtrodden amongst us; it will surely burst in they're faces.
Maritime law is different than law of the land. Also those waters aren’t owned by the town. It’s federal water. The 72 hour “rule” is an unconstitutional city ordinance that doesn’t have jurisdiction over the water
All the main stream wants to do now is fear monger and doom and gloom broadcasting. It's pathetic! This might of made 60 minutes or something like that but no nighly news anymore they are too woke for this story now
straight up. I'm stoked vice did this piece. I'm from cali and it's been in state/local news a little, not as much as I think it should be though. Living on the water seems like a viable option in an area where rent is as high as it is. I might need to buy a boat lol.
I know a guy who's an anchor-out and he's pretty well put together, he likes living on his boat. He loves being near the marine life and the freedom to go out on the water and see parts of our city people don't normally get to see.
Yeah, seems like a great guy. Though, why the others in this situation can't clean up their boats a bit, I don't know. Some looked like floating garbage piles.
"Poor" people on average pay a higher percentage of their meager income on taxes and other poor tax penalties and often work harder than this gentleman who is obviously oblivious to this.
@JP not at all? I make 1200 a month, get paid weekly- they take out 100 in taxes a week. There are so many tax breaks for higher income people it’s ridiculous.
@@asuchemist3371 No; taxes should be comparable to income or investment. The more you have the more you pay and likewise, the less you have the less you pay. Not in dollar amounts but in percentages.
Maybe if rent prices were fixed people wouldn’t think they have much of a need to live on a boat in this way. Rent prices are messed up. The rich needs to realize they are the problem.
This is for "public safety and protection of the environment." Don't fucking lie to yourselves, you're getting rid of these people because you don't want non-rich people in your neighborhood. Plain and simple.
I can see that argument for the boats that AREN'T seaworthy, (in which case all they need to do is make repairs on their boat) but other than that yeah they're just salty
These boats are full of toxic chemicals and human waste. Then the boat sinks and creates ton more problems. Liberals always wanna use other peoples money to fix problems. If you are such a good liberal, invite these people into your homes. Take them in and feed them. So something instead of talking about hot trump ruined your democratic dump of a state
The fact that the main person in this story goes ashore and works proves that the town NEEDS him. But the town only wants him if they don’t have to see him. It’s pathetic.
How do we know for sure that he works in that community in particular? Also what's stopping him from living in another nearby community and just commuting in to work everyday?
@@SurprisinglyDeep lol Whats stopping him? Nothing, He made a Choice to Live as Cheaply as possible. Nothing wrong or Federally Illegal about Living within your Means on a body of water.
@@redneckhippiefreak Local laws are still a thing even if someone does not want them to be a thing. If I constantly held dozens of drag races each night outside your house for hours on end and there were no federal laws banning me from doing that, would you just accept that?
@@redneckhippiefreak Obviously the anchor outs did break some sorts of laws (probahly some sort of environmental protection laws based around protecting the health of sea creatures) or else the city would not have sent the harbour master out there to destroy the boats. (If nothing else, government officials and lawyers are very careful when it comes to making sure they're not breaking laws and risking the city getting sued for millions of dollars.)
@@SurprisinglyDeep First, You underestimate My love for cars and tire smoke, Secondly, You are Placing a Monetary Burdon on someone that has Absolutely No effect on You or Duty to anyone else. Thirdly, Your attempt at claiming Environmental impacts is a Copout. To attempt to equate the run off from the 7 Million people million people living in the Water Shed Is Soooo much greater than the 1200 "Problem" boats in the bay. This is shown by the nearly10,000 pounds of raw human feces washing into the bay from the Streets above every Day.. XD .Media manipulation and Greed has California brainwashed. Try to avoid the traps. In reality, We as American Citizens Do have the Right to Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, With that is the Right to be forgotten. A Body of Water, Is NOT Owned by a State or a Government, An Unmolested,/undamed water system is Public and thus Living on it is Not Illegal Federally and the Right to live there freely and Forgotten is Present. Just because States decide to Violate the Rights of Us all, Does Not Justify it.
I live off the Richardson Bay. I live in a house. I was brought up here, been here since 1957. All the complaints about the anchor-outs are valid to different degrees. But that's not the end of the story. Many of these anchor-out folks have been in their water boat homes for 15 or more years. If there was a law against it, it was never enforced. I question the fairness of letting people live in an environment for that long and then, one day, to just declare their way of living is illegal, confiscating their water abodes, leaving them with absolutely nothing. It is not really practical to offer them "affordable" land homes because southern Marin is 100% built out. There is nowhere to build low income housing to give to each boat owner or family. I have a different and maybe more charitable idea- Go out to the anchor-outs and take a census of boats and boat owners/family. Grandfather them in for their lifetime or the boat's lifetime, which ever is shorter. If the owner/family leaves their boat or moves the boat to a new location, there is no coming back. A boat may be technically sold but no new tenant of a boat may be permitted to live on the boat. Over time this population will dwindle to the end. It has to, no body lives forever, and people do leave for another place. My wife asked, what about the boat sunk in the mud? She's not from the bay. Let me help here. That boat was not stuck in the mud! The photo was taken at low tide. Big deal! Go to the "legal" houseboats tied up, like the smarmy guy in the video. HIS houseboat gets "stuck" in the mud too a low tide, unless he's on pilings. Many of the "legal" moored houseboats are not on pilings and will also sit on the mud in low tides! That photo was provided to influence you without understanding life on tidal water. My idea results in no relocation problem, no wrecking of a person's living space, no rendering a person homeless, and a sure timeline to an end of anchor-outs. it's done with no animosity or pain to these independent folks whose only crime is living as lone solitary people on the bay. Lets give a little folks!
That was what I was thinking. Also the boat that was sinking and was taken to shore. Why did they not remove the personal belongings before the boat was torn in half for crushing? Maybe they couldn’t find him ? either way cruel not to at least remove them put away safely at least for 6 mos instead of leaving them out for the rain etc. again allowing the community to slowly dissolve is the fairest to them.
Also a boat allowed to stay MUST be able to move itself! Be seaworthy. Otherwise it’s a danger to the owner, the boats around it , as well as taking into the docks etc. you (and I) would not want to have to repair your home frequently because of a floating piece of, at that point, trash
The rich finance guy is the same kind of guy that shows up to town hall meetings to oppose any sort of affordable housing being built while he sits there and says he doesn't know the solution to the problem.
8:34 "Do you ever feel bad for the people that are losing their homes?" "Of course" says the man in a mansion and who actively campaigns to get rid of poor people that live next to him, he doesn't feel bad, this isn't about right or wrong, this millionaire that can basically live anywhere he wants in the US is basically saying: "hey you people are ruining my view so now I am going to do everything I can to get you to leave, I don't care if its the only home you have or that you will become destitute after I take it away from you, I don't care, I want my view and since I am rich I will get, your lives be damned, they're the lives of insects"... These millionaires don't see anyone else but themselves as human beings, "of course I feel bad" that's a repugnant answer when his actions are the reason why people's homes are being destroyed. They don't care about people's life, they only care that they are gone from their "view" They don't even have the backbone to admit to their behavior, they label the people they're throwing out as lesser, marginal "oh they're meth addicts, they are former felons, they are felons" as if these title serve as evidence to rip people's dignity from them.
Imagine having the free time to go lobby your local government to destroy other people’s lives at your behest because they’re eye sores to you. That shows you right there how much the mansion dweller “works” for what he has.
I love how when rich people talk about living the dream they don't care about anybody else living their dream they just want to be living their own dream and only if it makes money it can be a dream but if it makes happiness they call it a nightmare
Who cares? I don't care if people live their dreams? Are you telling me that other people care about people that they don't know exist? It's not unique to rich people. They are wealthy because they see reality how it presents itself.
I thought he was pretty well-spoken. "Some people want to work, some do not. Some people are lucky, and others are unlucky." I think that sums things up pretty well.
@@MrBigsteve518 That's because knowledge and hard work doesn't really equal you being successful. It's who you know, your upbringing (family wealth), and luck
@@martyr4806 I'm sure some of the anchor rats didn't get the same start as this guy in finance. Even having parents who are reasonable and give you good opportunities VS parents who are alcoholics or drug addicted, or not providing any sort of role model. Or even child abuse or molest. The guy in finance doesn't stop and think how lucky he's been from the get go. Sometimes people making bad decisions are doing best given the trauma they've endured. Maybe they're handling it a lot better than the finance guy would had he been through the same starting line.
@@travelingmindful You never know, the guy may have started his life as a caravan rat, anchor rat, homeless etc. Doesn't mean he was given to it on a silver plate. You can make any assumption you want but, many start from nothing, make the correct decisions and move their lives upwards.
@@martyr4806 that assumption that just because they are poor it must mean they are lazy, unintelligent, or don’t want to work is extremely incorrect and toxic
I was part of a group that started with the hope of advocating for the anchor out community. What we found was that a number of the people owned multiple boats, some as storage centers, some as homes, but the common thread was that none wanted to pay any money to keep their boat(s). Many boats are therefore maintained at the bare minimum level so that they don’t sink, but not to a level where they can move under their own power (hence the reason that they get blown into Tiburon by storms: they can’t start their engine to stop the boat from drifting). There are also numerous situations where the owner, usually of multiple boats, rents out one of their boats to someone else or simply provides it as a place for someone else to stay, and in many of those cases the individuals living on the boat has no idea how to live on the water safely. I gave a tow once to a family in a small row boat that wasn’t making any ground against the ebbing current, and after throwing them a line, I found out that none of them knew how to tie a knot. I don’t mind people living on the water, and especially if the boats are well maintained and can run under their own power and are safely lit with anchor lights, etc., but that’s not what’s going on out there with the vast majority of people. It’s unsafe conditions compounded by hoarding (sometimes making the boat top-heavy), with the result that it’s dangerous (multiple people have died, and several dogs as well... one drowning to death when the boat sank while its owner was away). Regarding the environment, these folks aren’t destroying it, but they sure aren’t helping it either. Each time a boat sinks, depending on it’s fuel tank and engine size, gallons of oil and fuel leak out. Trash from hoarding gets blown overboard, and while it’s no commercial oil spill equivalent, in that relatively small bay, it’s not great. This is an extremely challenging issue, but after trying to support the anchor outs for a time, we ended with the conclusion that such a life on the water is being abused by some/many of those out there on the water, and it was something we couldn’t support.
It seems like finding a remedy to the reason they don't want to live on land would be a helpful direction to focus efforts. If there aren't other options available what are they to do? Also, mental health counseling is generally necessary for hoarders to change; It's usually a coping method to help manage latent trauma.
This is the first compassionate argument I've seen against the anchor-outs. Perhaps there should be some support to help the people keep their boats able to move, and training for things (like the knot issue)? Also the hoarding thing is a mental health issue, as another commenter noted. I'm glad you tried to help, and I think it would be far better to support and empower these people than destroy their livelihoods and force them into a tent city.
@@sterlingmarshel6299 Sure, although most of the shelter and food services are day to day, first come first serve (often reaching max occupancy) and have strict policies against animals and drugs. Not really the environment that is conducive to change; Something that requires a degree of stability and at least some reprieve from stressors, so that one can be introspective. You can't expect someone who is teetering, off-balance on the edge of a cliff to build a bridge.
@@ze3934 Exactly! The Dems are responsible for high taxes, pushing the middle class and businesses out. Only the super rich can live there. The Dems have created more poverty.
A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine! Revelation is unravel before our eyes.
When the dude whose boat got crushed and he goes and visits it and sees his grandmother’s photos, I started crying. How could they not even give these people at least a heads up about demolishing their boat, their home? Their possessions, possibly even living things on the boat like kids and pets. It’s possible they didn’t know that those living things were on the boat and could’ve killed them. This just shows how fucking heartless these rich people are. When that rich guy said he felt bad at the end, I saw right through his lies. You feel bad, yet you still continue to do this to them? You feel bad yet you don’t help them find their feet after what you’ve done? You feel bad yet you don’t solve the root problem that causes some of these people to live in these boats in the first places. You’d do anything to get them out of your sight as you sit in your ivory towers. You’re despicable.
I live in California and this is what they do to homeless people - when they have health problems, etc. - instead of helping them out - no, they want to tear these people with problems down more by stealing all their stuff - maybe just so they have 'crime to fix'. Vagrancy laws are the worst - they make being unemployed, without a home, etc. illegal - and what's unethical and sad. Just sad.
@@luckydc3761 I agree that if these people really cared, they wouldn't do anything illegal and just get their act together - otherwise don't be surprised. The video shows these anchor outs are stubborn and don't have respect. Do they pay for the wealthy people's homes they break or their own life even? You can see the boats they take are the ones that're damaged and abandoned. I mean it would be nicer for them to repair and resell them - but maybe they don't do it for the liability?
Honestly this just shows the rich people in that Neighbourhood really don’t care about anyone but themselves, even if people’s boats are destroyed which is a house to the people living in it. Sad very sad.
They care about what they have…. They earned what they have, stop getting mad at hardworking people when the lazy dope addicts want to come in and enjoy that same life 💀
I was on the fence but then my 5 year old child just said to me “why don’t the rich just help them get good looking boats?” 😭 I cried. Children see the world how it should be
If a boat is genuinely in poor enough condition that it will sink and turn into a source of marine pollution. Then ultimately the reality is that many could end up homeless regardless of anyone interfering. If the lifestyle is sustained where they continue proper maintenance on that boat it should obviously be allowed. But for the boats shown, I can't help but think that this situation was always going to be just temporary and never sustainable indefinitely. A nice way to help would be to purchase the boats from owners before destroying them and offer welfare and housing to those who need it.
Instead of lobbying for low income people to lose their only housing option because it slightly inconveniences you, why not lobby for affordable public housing to fix the issue? It’s almost as if the inconvenience isn’t the boats, it’s the people within them he can’t stand. They are throwaways to him. If they were all million dollar yachts out there with white affluent individuals enjoying them, I bet he wouldn’t have a shred of an issue. 🤔 Imagine having the money to live in one of the wealthiest parts of the US & still catching feelings over seeing some lower class citizens. Smh how disgusting these wealthy people are. This preconceived notion that THEY worked harder than everyone, & that if ur not rich like them it’s simply because your lazy & not a hard worker is beyond asinine.
Except someone said straight up "they paased a law in the 1980s stating that NOBODY is allowed to dock in the harbour for more than 72 hours." That includes everything from shrimping boata to mega yachts.
If many of the anchor outs were actually drug and/or alcohol addicts like that guy said then there might be a lot of property crime and theft there due to addicted anchor outs stealing to help feed their addictions. I've worked with actual "functioning addicts". A regular job does not pay enough to feed an addiction while also paying for the cost of living, especially not a job at a place that would tolerate someone who was clearly drunk or high at work. Most of them could only do temp jobs and even then could only work at a temp job for a limited period of time before they disappear for days on end and get replaced by someone else.
Lol that dude has had his dock crashed into 16 times! You think they’re going to pay for any of that damage? Doubt it. The law has been in place since the 80’s, this isn’t some new thing that just happened. What’s wrong with working hard for something nice and taking care of the things he paid for? So you’re saying it’s ok for some homeless meth head to walk by your house and throw a brick through your window because of your privilege? Get real 😂
I used to see documentaries showing the extreme wealth disparities between the rich and the poor in places like South Africa and Brazil, with very little middle class and think, “I’m glad America isn’t that bad.” Used to. Now I see most wealth concentrated into a tiny percent of the population in America, with a shrinking middle class, and a growing poor class. We’re going in that same direction.
The UK is the same tbh....something has to give...I know communism isn't the answer and I know capitalism definitely isn't the answer but I think the world maybe needs a reset so that the top 1% still have plenty of super wealth but a small percentage of their wealth possibly raise their tax so it's not hidden in off shore accounts and so life is a bit more fair in terms of people being able to work up the ladder if they wish because that's not the case any more and young people are pretty depressed as don't see the point if they cant work there way up to getting a mortgage or even able to afford rent..idk 😔😔
There is a bit more to this than is really covered. I live in SF, and I know a few people that do live on the water in a boat. One of my good friends is an Aerospace engineer and lives on his boat, has a Starlink for the internet and works from home. He stays here for 5-6 months of the year, then heads out to sail wherever the wind takes him the other 6 months of the year. He makes good money, but not enough to afford a SF home, instead, he roams the Arctic, travels the world, and etc. He has never had a problem, but his boat is maintained, it runs, and it is sea-worthy. It's like someone that lives in an RV full time just driving around the country, stopping off at RV parks, but it's a boat... no one has an issue with it. Then you have the other side of it, the streets you see with a line of older broken down RV's that aren't really RV's anymore, they'll never run, and are now just a tiny home and part of a homeless encampment. A lot of the boats they are talking about don't run, they aren't watertight anymore, and as we saw, they can take on water and sink or the anchor can break, and they are pushed into docks and stuff, because they simply don't run anymore, no way of avoiding objects or other boats should something happen, and then they cause damage, and of course, they don't carry any insurance in case that does happen, they aren't registered, etc. It sucks to lose a home, but, if you are going to live in a boat on the water, you need to keep it operational, and the reason these are scrapped and etc is because they aren't, and they have literally become a danger. . It's like any home, if you don't take care of it, and keep up with the maintenance, then it is going to get condemned and you are going to get booted out, most of these are condemned homes, they just happen to be on the water, and they are unfortunately beyond repair in most cases. Like I said, it is sad, but it is their fault, if they kept up with the maintenance, they would be all good, and it's not the money, I know a lot of people that love boats and would gladly help out others just for the fun of working on a boat. For whatever reason, they just let it go, and it went too far.
Vice should have talked to this guy because he has the whole story. 👆 It is also worth mentioning that the county then “buys” these broken boats for far more money than they are worth, from the owners after they have already been declared to not be sea worthy, before ever scrapping them. You are actually legally allowed to anchor in that part of the bay as well as many others, but similar to having an RV you have to move every few days, just a few miles to another part of the bay, but most of these boats are not sea worthy enough to actually be able to move, so they just sit in the mud leaking gas and sewage into the bay.
It's amazing how much effort that finance guy put in to get rid of these people but provides zero sensible solutions for housing them. It shows you exactly where his mindset is at. I hope that the guy in the hoodie and cap saves up and moves down to Texas, we'd welcome him in and he can still go boating.
Texas would not welcome him. You are actually delusional because they have stricter homeless laws and they actually enforce them. People are moving to Texas because of the homeless crisis in California. It's also ridiculous to suggest that this man has to solve homelessness before he can get the laws enforced. It's people like you who will turn texas into the same hellhole as California.
@@deuscoromat742 it's not ridiculous to put a plan in place as you're doing that for the homeless. Saying you don't have an answer isn't the solution either because you're quick to get rid of it but those people don't magically disappear and make the entire place worse because that isn't also being addressed. It's like putting tires on a car and not putting air in them then driving a few miles down the highway. What do you think is gonna happen? lol Also he works for a living as a handimen because the boat doesn't fuel itself. Last I checked we have a shortage of blue collar workers in America and if he comes down here he'd make a killing.
Man it sure seems easy to "feel bad" for people losing their homes when you're sitting on a $10,000 couch in a $2,000,000 waterfront house, I hope that guy isn't losing too much sleep over it in his temperature controlled adjustable king sized bed.
wow. these comments make me sad. key west resident here, and some of my closest friends are live- aboards. they ARE the hardest working, cleanest, most respectful people i know. it is SMART to not pay rent, especially because many landlords here are really shitty. instead of getting in your tiny little heads about "ohH UGHH METH PIRATES" maybe consider the freedom and love for the water these people have?
Cali folk are weirdos... they haven't been humbled in a while... they need a good earthquake, or real major tsunami before they'll all feel one as a community again. Bunch of ego centric nut cases out there.
Anecdotal evidence. Plus your opinion doesn't matter because you are not paying property taxes in the areas where these people are setting up. The regulations were put in place or advocated for by the people they actually affect. You could donate all of your money and time to helping them but nobody else is obligated to.
I went to school for boatbuilding. I would NOT recommend buying or living on a boat if you’re on a tight budget. Failure to do regular maintenance could end up with your house on the bottom of the bay. Remember folks, BOAT is an acronym for BUST OUT ANOTHER THOUSAND 😢
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Land of the free
It's okay if the oil companies destroy the Gulf but a gas can on a personal watercraft is a real "threat" to the environment. Amazing!
Well at least Exxon's stock price didn't go UP in response to the Valdez spill. Oh wait, it did. Plus got a bunch of free money to make volunteers clean it up
Well, we all need petroleum, not floating meth heads
@@PyroFalcon yes we do but I work in oil and gas and drilling rigs and fracs make alot bigger of a mess that these people would ever dream to do. Trust me drill mud all over the ground and drill extract, chemicals,oil , condensate drip gas, brine water list goes on and on.
@@bencaldwell7234 please anonymously tell EPA what you see
Both are issues
When a poor person has a boat and lives in it, it’s called being “homeless”. But when a millionare lives on a boat it’s called being “adventurous” or “living the dream”, or having an “exotic excentric lifestyle”
Right look how judgemental the finance guy was. Like honestly these people are probably so free and much free than those rich people
YUP!!!
When a poor person acts weird - they're crazy,
but when a rich person acts weird - they're 'eccentric' ??!!
Boats and cars are not needs they are wants. They take care, time, money etc.
This.
Cause they have multiple other properties to dock the boat at lol
But I know what you mean, although a home, it's just impractical having no fixed address
The rich finance guy’s frustration is understandable, but the way he just stereotypes all of them as being meth addicts or burnouts is very telling of his attitude. He looks down at them from his ivory tower and doesn’t care where they go as long as they are out of his line of sight. Cares more about his property value than human beings.
Insurance and deductible
True enough--not all of them are drug addicts or criminally insane. Only about 85% are.
And guess what he made his money with? Tax evasion? Or laundering within the rules? Art deals? It's being said, every millionaire has some shame over how they earned their first million.
That’s Silicon Valley /Bay area people in a nutshell for you .
@@mcashnv I smell prejudice
I get REALLY bad vibes from that rich guy.
Definitely
@@louis-we3yi Did you hear him talk? He's not that great of a person. Already. LOL
Everyone who owns a boat is a meath addict or felon obviously!
He needs a little reality right up his bum
I thought he was sounding someone empathetic especially for somebody who keeps having these homeless boats docking under or crashing into his home for crying out loud! And this is me being empathetic for people not being able to afford I'm very simple life anymore
When a poor guy hits a rich guys dock with his boat, we change laws and hire people to destroy his property, when a rich man exploits a poor man’s labor for 50 years and gambles, loses and destroys the poor man’s retirement savings, we give the rich man our tax money because he’s too big to fail and that’s all you need to know about America in 2022 really.
When a poor person doesn't have enough saved up for retirement we call them foolish, when a big firm doesn't have enough to cover their billion dollar gambles we happily hand em all the cash they need
And the other times his house got hit by loose boats? How many times is he supposed to look the other way here?
@@shammydammy2610 his dock not his house and so? Isn’t this what insurance is for? You know how many times a boat has hit my house? None, I don’t live on the water but I do live near a road so should a car drive into my wall can I lobby to get everyone’s cars impounded and destroyed and make everyone walk instead? Come on.
@@CosmicComputer Um....BOTH his dock and his house...there is more than one incident. Did you blank out when he discussed the one that hit his house? What about the other times as well? And insurance rates go up every time you make a claim....and there's the chance you get dropped by your insurance company after too many claims. It's easy for you to say 'Isn't this what insurance is for?' because you're never going to have to deal with any of this.
You live next to a road? How about if you lived at the bottom of a hill on that road and had neighbors up that hill that had several junker cars illegally parked on that hill. And every once in awhile the parking brake or brick chock holding them in place on that hill gave up and one would roll down the hill and into your house. How many times are you going to tolerate it, how many times are you going to deal with your insurance company for damages, how many times are you going to swallow your insurance rates going up before you make that call to report those illegally parked junker cars up that hill?
@@shammydammy2610 I'd say enduring a few groundings is better than being stuffed into a woodchipper
You can tell about a man's integrity, by how he treats the poor....
you can judge character, integrity is Self contained , not dependent of outside sources, even criminals have integrity, it is about constancy and Self preservation, others from the same moral value system will respect and adjust behaviour, exemple "honor among thieves".
Your notion of Integrity is tainted by religious moral standarts, noticeably christian values, mine is based on behavioural psychology, modern and future social behavioural moral and ethical standarts will depend on science, statistics and data can not be refuted.
Actually the saying is: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” - Dostoevsky.
See if you're singing the same tune when the poor are crashing into your home, causing thousands in damages.
@@WmSrite-pi8ck that is a very redundant statement. Define civilisation? Who's definition do you subscribe to?
Live in California for awhile. Your opinions will change.
What's shocking is how concerned these home-owners appear to be with the "environmental impact" of the boats. As though companies they work for don't account for 99% of the pollution in the ocean. Those boats are literally a drop in the ocean when it comes to pollution and the real culprits are white collar.
Not even talking about the humongous size of their own houses. It's beyond me how dissociated these people are from reality, "no buildable land" ofc not ya'll need 5 hectares for a single house.
the hypocrisy is staggering, being a multimillionaire and trying to use that financial power to lobby people that already can't have an established home to be removed from what little they do have. For them to also admit 'yeah there's not much here no idea what they'd do' - these people are morally bankrupt
horrid people..... distort reality based on their perceived self superiority.
Dude, just go get a job and build your credit. You’re not allowed to live in front of someone’s home when they pay millions to even just be there. You sound lazy af talking like that.
rich people are just stuck up and think their poop don't stink they only care about how much money they have and what they can buy next. they don't care about the normal person and that goes for the Biden Administration and the majority of all politicians they just don't care about the people they serve!
Not sure which was a bigger lie, the millionaire saying he felt bad about the anchor-outs losing their homes, or the part where he said he pays his taxes.
That was clever.😂
@@bsmartcoaching and true
"Of course I feel bad. Pfft! Oh sorry. There was dust on my $20,000 crystal conversation piece."
@@timothyexnerto be fair, who doesn't want a $20,000 crystal conversation piece?
What makes you think he didn't pay taxes? This country relies on people like him paying taxes.
This isn't about safety, it's about keeping the property value high 🤷🤷
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Dude that is spot on. I work in that area all the time and it’s full of rich entitled people. Good for them that they have money and success but it’s very sheltered.
Someone crashed into his waterfront home dock 16 times and you think it's about property value lmao. If they weren't such an eyesore and a nuisance nobody would care. They're directly affecting the people that they live next to.
The bottom line is this... who is worth more to society? Who pays taxes and contributes to the benefit of the city and state? Those that do will always win in this situation. It sucks for the anchor out people, but they chose that way of life and made the decisions they made.
@@deuscoromat742 As in all cases like this nationwide on land and water now,
they were there first.
No living being should be forced out of their home, human or otherwise.
The factual term for that which we see every day now in our supposedly free country is “systemic violence”.
But we gussy it up by calling it gentrification, now extended out on the water.
The more self absorbed rich assholes with family money to spare, the more hard working Americans go homeless.
I love how when the millionaire was confronted with the question of where those people would live if they were kicked out, he just basically said "idk lmao not my problem". Really shows the consequences of wealth inequality.
Inequality is a nice way of saying smarter people who understand how to make money
IT ISNT THEIR problem though
Well, IF he is correct, that the vast majority are people who have made bad life choices, I wouldn't hold it against him for not wanting these people crashing into his property.
@@user-hr9hy9it7q if you equate being rich with being smart that means you’re an idiot.
I love when people go “they should just make money”🤓🤓🤓
To describe the anchor outs the wealthy guy says “ they don’t want to spend money, pay rent or pay taxes”. He just described most wealthy people in America.
Based
No one WANTS to. But some do. Some work hard. Pay their taxes. And contribute to the system they then pull goods and services from.
While some want a free ride off the backs of others.
wealthy literally pay the most of the taxes and they spend the most which employes tens of millions wtf r u on dawg
@@codycast Never say to me again, "rich people work hard". They do not. They have OTHER people do the work for them.
@@tkokflux6322 The way investments are treated for tax purposes means that someone earning 1,000,000 dollars in long-term capital gains, and someone earning 40,000 dollars in wages, are taxed in the (roughly) same bracket, when you consider deferments and carried interest, and all the other things only available to the rich. If you truly think that you can get rich paying 23% interest on your wealth without having a whole shitload of ways to avoid paying those taxes, then you're just gullible.
As a former maid for a couple of these neighbors, I can assure you their money was inherited, not earned. No one in the neighborhood works hard or is even tired when they get home. Once home, they complain about the “entitled attitude” of the poor while drinking wine that costs more than a hotel room.
We call em nepotism babies where I'm from. Born rich but the idea of having to go through school and college (100% paid for) makes them feel self made, from the ground up success stories.
@@RutakMcLydeLiterally Trump. "I'm a self made millionaire!" Cus his dad gave him millions in loans and he made money from those millions 🤦♀️
Logic lol
@@chrish4439 well he made millions so I guess he was successful but definitely had much more help than any regular person.
you sound sour
@@shneor.e Now why would you think that?
In my country there are no problem with boats crashing into waterfront homes because we generally don't allow waterfront homes. The beaches for the most part belong to everyone and cannot be bought and built on.
what country is that?
As it should be tbh
Ding ding you've hit the nail on the head
They will soon be homeless as well as the glaciers melt and sea levels rise .
@Lycantrope Poland.
It makes me feel so good that a lot of people in these comments disagree with how people are being treated in this video. It’s so sad to see people who can’t afford rent or houses having their boats being destroyed. Imagine coming home one day and someone has demolished your house.
@@JohnM-sw4sc seems like everywhere is getting expensive… are living costs going down somewhere?
@@JohnM-sw4sc Toledo Ohio didn’t have inflation in the last year?
Where does there poop and pee go?
@@JohnM-sw4sc until what? Until one part of America is one giant never-ending slum and the other part is a gated community with multi-billion dollar homes and trust fund kids?
Should have lived in a homeless shelter or on land 🤷
when will people recognize that working hard doesn't equal wealth
Great comment
the rich have never worked a day in their life . they turn to alternative definitions like “working smart”
@@walterclements_ wow your comment was shadow banned
@@walterclements_ musta hurt someone's feelings😳
@@musicismagic5074 three letter agents
My heart goes out to the poor millionaires who struggle so much in life to ruin everyone else’s life around them
You clearly don't understand the ideology of free enterprise, capitalism, or democracy. America is a really shitty place because most people want to just be granted freedom, liberty, and false hope without putting anything into getting it. I am not a millionaire. I am just a working class person with an annual income less than 100k. I look around and there are tax breaks for the super wealthy and there are programs for the less fortunate meanwhile I pay my taxes and pay my bills on time and I have a pretty nice home yet right outside my home there are homeless people trashing the streets with human waste, drug needles, just garbage in general. Zombies that are suffering from addiction on anything from sniffing gas to meth roam the streets at all hours. Stop blaming people with money for your own dysfunction.
Having no heart must be painful. No friends. Nothing genuine
#richlifematter
Cant say im too fond of those rich asshats, but they do have some valid points about boat drifting into their docks causing massive damage. That aspect aside i know people dream about living on the water and what not but its not cheap, boats require a lot of upkeep. Usually needing to being pulled to dry dock to be cleaned and repainted/epoxied every few years. Something a lot of these guys don't do for a decade if at all. Which is why they end up taking on water and getting condemned. Proper way of going about it is simply renting a dock slot and doing proper maintenance/upkeep to the boat.
They should take better care of their boats, and maybe they wouldn't be kicked out.
I lived anchored out in Richardson bay there for a couple years. It should be a basic human right to be able to anchor. I finished high school while anchored out. I am now a home owner, outright. People on the hill in a 3 million dollar home telling me what to do was a horrible feeling. I never caused any grief to anyone, and often helped people in fancy boats when they had issues. Lawmakers need to think again before destroying communities. 90 percent of the people anchored out were functional good people.
Did most of the people there properly dispose of their "waste water" and garbage though?
Like I know with a boat you either need to buy a boat that comes pre-equipped with a septic tank and water hook up line or retrofit the boat later. Then you need to dispose of the waste at a water hook up station every month. While I know it's legal to dispose of "waste water" when someone is 15 miles away from shore, those boats don't look like they're 15 miles away from shore.
Also I imagine it's expensive for people to dispose of their used coffee tins, paper towls, plastic wrappers and such in an environmentally friendly way, so I can see why some,of the anchor outs would not want to do that.
I'm not trying to troll you, I genuinely don't know so that's why I'm asking you.
Looks like their boats were 💩boxes. Perhaps they should have maintained them better.
Governments dont care for people or how good they live theyre job is to control people and keep them as por as possible and have less rights as possible where ever possible thats how people live rent by rent when it shouldnt be that way shelter is easy to make and doesnt cost years to pay off the governments stole that and sells it back expensively. Some get money they can pay of house in a year or 2 like cops while most are lucky if they pay off house in 30 years.
@@ml6719 well theres nothing wrong with being homeless plus the truth homelessness is caused by the theft by the governments by taken peoples abilitys to make shelter so dont pretend like that aint true.
@@ml6719 lol And Million dollar chunks of wood sticking out of the mountain is Not an Eye sore? XD Thanks for showing us how fucked up some peoples Priorities are.
It's curious how a finance executive believes he has made the proper choices in life, while he believes hard working folks who just plain can't afford to rent an apartment in the area are deemed as meth heads. What a complete and utter sausage.
His proper choices: Just be born rich lmao how do you not get this?💀
That’s rich ppl for you!
It's called inheriting your lifestyle and being completely out of touch with reality. He has convinced himself that everyone is dealt the same card at birth just so he can feel superior.
@@Dragon_Iord there is no way of judging if someone was born into wealth or made it himself. you are just as judgemental as him.
@@Cheitsup That's not true. Wealth can be measured objectively, hence it's not just a subjective opinion. Besides he is still priviledged even if he earned it because he had that opportunity. For example, people born in poor african countires don't have that opportunity. And he probably has good education which costs money too. In essence it takes money to make money. What you said is not true at all.
He asked the guy with the house where they should live with the absurd rent and buddy really hit him with "I don't know, but you can't live here"
@@JohnM-sw4sc That's probably one of the most idiotic and simple minded solutions I've ever seen. Some people don't have the luxury of picking and choosing where they live, some people have commitments that they cant just walk away from and are simply trying to do the best with the cards that have been dealt to them. Telling them to leave just because they're an eyesore is probably one of the most selfish things you can do and doesn't actually solve anything, it simply creates more division between the rich and the poor. Lets just hope you don't end up in a similar situation yourself eh?
@@LiamB1994 not to mention essentially the entire state of Cali is a renters nightmare
That's a basic fact. I work a 9-5 and can't afford to live in San Fran or Belair. Does that mean I can set up camp and drop my craps all over? No
You can tell he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Hes probably one of those male Karens that tells people "just get rich"
@@JohnM-sw4sc People can be tricked by corporations to vote against their own interests due to propaganda funded by rich ppl or lack of knowledge on the subject. Doesn’t have anything to do with the topic though. Think of reasons for why you wouldn’t move across the country right now and realize that a lot of people have those same reasons and more
Talking to a finance guy and assuming he feels emotions is the most hilarious thing to me.
Why because of his job is that funny that he feels. Likely you and your 72 friends don't.
@@davidames1746 Finance is notoriously known for being full of narcissists
@@davidames1746 cause exploitation is part of finance bros life
You shouldn’t laugh, it’s a serious problem. And if you want to act like that and say it’s okay because of your job then you’re a failure of a human being still regardless.
@@davidames1746you have to be a sociopath to work as a finance bro.
They all defraud, steal and lie. They all love usery.
I had no where to go after a medical bankruptcy at 24. Lived aboard for 7 years and got back on my feet. Rowed to work every morning. Now I’m retired, own a home. Give ‘em a break.
I am older but not old enough for Medicare. Had an unplanned surgery and can relate to your medical expenses situation. It's scary at my age being alone and going in debt. Glad you have a home now. Thank you for sharing
You got lucky! I was in a similar situation! They not only took my boat, but everything else - such as my truck and all my tools made me completely homeless! Didn't do drugs or alcohol. Did no criminal activity - never been in jail either! Being poor in America is a disaster!😢
Dude works in finance and acts like he’s never broken any laws? Come on man.
Bro thinks you have to break laws to be in finance 💀 are u dumb
@@coolerhot646 A handful of finance people tend to skim 😶😶 there are lots of gray areas, unlisted funds, glossed over numbers, etc... I don't believe any top company out there is completely clean lol
I grew up near this guy. He’s a seasoned player when it comes to finance and debt. They literally “purchase transactions” and become holders of debt.
Raw capitalism my ass. Where the hell is this guy creating value?
@@coolerhot646 bro thinks it’s funny to assume rich people haven’t broken laws to make money when poor people break laws to make money alllllllllll the fucking time. Shut up if you don’t know what tf you’re taking about.
Wow! So judgey..
Poor rich guy is occasionally inconvenienced by small boats. Really breaks my heart.
He's part of the Problem not the solution
Typical rich NIMBY
Would you be happy with “homeless” people living in front of your house in a beat up RV? It would be different if there was a designated area where people could anchor der boat for a small fee, kind of like a trailer park. Registered and with regular safety inspections to make sure the boats are seaworthy and don’t pollute the water.
@@paulpichler thank you 🙏
When should send him something! Like a flaming bag of dog doo doo.
"theres no buildable land left here" so you built giant houses with ten bedrooms, seven bathrooms all for one, two or three people?
Same initial thought. If there's no buildable land, how come there's new and shiny mega mansions.
Greed is there need
there is no compassion around here ! that summed it up quite nicely.....
At the end when the man says, "there's no compassion around here", he is absolutely right. I grew up in North Bay and the lack of compassion is staggering. If we wanted to build a lot of housing to solve the homeless crisis, we would. Classic case of Marinites shutting everyone out except the ultra wealthy.
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Guy: "There's a lack of compassion around here"
Also guy "someone came up to me and gave me money at 7/11"
It just seems very easy in america do not identify with your fellow, more unlucky countrymen because of this "promise" that everyone can live the american dream if they work hard". Unfortunately that has been untrue for some time. But the sentiment is still there and so inequality can easily be disregarded by the winners to "well they just didn't work hard enough and therefore deserve what they got".
The irony here, is that Marin county is one of the most liberal counties in the country. I could see this kind of stuff taking place in Alabama but not Marin County. Crazy rich liberals are worse than Trumpers, in my opinion.
@@nusultannazarbayev7332 Your first mistake was assuming the lords are republican or Democrat. Those words were invented for the peasant to believe they had a say.
It's amazing how concerned some people are about protecting the environment when poor people live on old boats. Large corporations can legally cause enormous environmental damage through oil drilling and fracking, and investors receive enormous profits.
But the Bay Area is full of millionaires. They don't want to see poor people. Poverty has to be invisible.
Who do you think uses more RECOURCES, the rich guy or the man with one old boat?
Fracking doesn't cause enormous environmental damage, and yeah, if you want to keep things like "reliable electricity" around we need it.
@@danlorett2184 The gulf of Mexico would like to have a word with you
@@danlorett2184 Good joke, mate! Gimme another.
@@danlorett2184 this isn't even up for debate, the damage fracking does is common knowledge.
I got emotional when the Millionaire said it was a bummer having boats in his backyard... Life is hard, man.
Yes, it's really painful. When you realize that luck determines almost everything from the moment you are born and even before...
@@Dragon_Iord You’re such a victim lmao
Don’t millionaires love to say, “That’s a tough question.”
Capitalism has a noted moral dilemma.
Dude the millionaire "works" in finance which is 90% drug addicts, felons, and theives... 🙄 Sooooo???
I find it so fascinating when people think than millionaires are a fundamentally different human being than the rest of us. It is literally racism on the basis of class but racism is bad and classism is good? Do you think is that the homeless crisis in California can easily be solved by people who are not millionaires? Because that's the implication of what you said. Do you think that his brain just works better because he's a millionaire and he should uniquely have to solve this problem before he can get local laws enforced?
@@deuscoromat742 nobody is saying that. But it's a bit tiring to hear incredibly fortunate people take issue to inconveniences in their lives to an extent they want entirely new legislation just to make their lives better, but when asked for a more widespread solution they continually brush it off. It's a have your cake and eat it too response.
@@deuscoromat742 The millionaire is brought into question because he is one of the many lobbying against the anchor outs. Classism is the word you’re looking for FYI, and it is what the millionaire is doing, not the people in the comments here.
That Jim Robertson guy is a real piece of work, I hate it when folks like him pull the "some of us wanna work and some of us don't" card like people aren't literally working themselves ragged just to survive on the monthly basis.
The only folks I see that don't wanna work and reap the handout reward is the rich.
Yes! Also i doubt he really works. He looks like he is living very comfortably.
Exactly. These billionaires are the real leeches sucking off the government contracts and subsidies.
@@trevorertz8882 And the labor of their employees. I worked for a landscaping company in Marin for $7.50/hr. They were charging $65/hr per man on site. Since then I've read that the average employee creates $68/hr in productivity above and beyond their wage. Who's getting that?
@@duancoviero9759 guarantee he wasnt born sitting in his luxury bayside home. He did what he had to do to acquire that, and yes it does require work..or working smarter. Should that be punished simply because some people arent cut out for that life, or are cut out for it but simply make some very bad choices along the way? I can see both sides of this honestly...and I think as long as the boat people can maintain seaworthiness, they should be able to live on their "home" indefinitely..and use public docks when needed during times of storms and such.
@@NWPaul72 remember how black lives matter started as occupy wall street had just ended? almost like they want to distract you with artificially created racial tensions from the real problem of socioeconomic inequity.
Great video but I think there was a missed opportunity to highlight how hard Marin County has fought new housing developments. They’re choosing to destroy the only home these people have but also prevent any new options from being built in the area. It’s appalling and the residents should be held accountable for their selfishness.
Like that guy "pays taxes". His house COST $1.5 million, what's it worth now? He's assuming over half of these people are meth addicts. How does he know that?
And they say theres no buildable land. That means, no buildable land within view of their homes that they would want homeless to live
@@dustyking8851 Probably costed upwards of 5 million
@@basilio7947 hot take, but local municipalities aren't responsible for having housing available to anyone who wants to come from anywhere. It's the responsibility of the state, not local towns/counties.
@@dvoob They are responsible for the zoning laws which make it extremely restrictive. While I don't have the California laws on hand. In Texas it is "Local government code" - Sec. 211.003 - (a) The governing body of a municipality may regulate:
(1) the height, number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures;
(2) the percentage of a lot that may be occupied;
(3) the size of yards, courts, and other open spaces;
(4) population density;
...
I am not stating that what they are doing is inherintly good or bad, I am just rebuking your idea of "its the states responsibility not the towns/counties"
Great job with your reporting man. I love how you flip the question back around to the rich guy sitting in his multimillion-dollar house, and make the statement that the median home price in this area is $1000000. Where else are people supposed to live? Because, when you think about it all of the people that service these million-dollar properties, Carpenters, HVAC technicians, electricians, roofers, restaurant workers, coffee shop Baristas, etc... do not make enough money to live anywhere near the area.
And that smug look on his face when you asked him the question is pretty typical of rich people in that situation. They don't give a s*** about anyone else but themselves. I have no sympathy for that guy
This was very well-reported; reporter had great demeanor to keep all relaxed, never framed his question in gotch or hostile manner. That's the whole key to getting people to open up and speak honestly. Props!
Couldn't have said it better 👏🏽
Hahaha not used to it. Normally i expect some concern Karen like Stacey Dooley to do the interview
good job doing the bare minimum! everyone clap
Yea this was great work wasnt it!
"They're breaking the law" is always an easy way out comment. America has too many laws and not enough freedoms
Right! He didnt have anything else to say. Weak comeback smh
Rich evil bastards. They create problems in the world that is free. GOD GIVEN RIGHT
"they're breaking the law" doesn't mean a thing when you make the laws to target people.
And who makes the law?? Who has influence over those whose individuals?? The rich.
Indeed, extremely weak argument, borderline disgusting when the law is making someone homeless who wouldn't otherwise be, with no real answer as to any option they might have.
Being proud of trying your hardest to destroy someone's boat because it's not seaworthy
while you know that they live there is just insane
He’s prob a hardcore liberal. But since this “trash” is in his backyard, he’s not going to tolerate it. The wealthy live in bubbles and when those bubbles get invaded, they change their tune real quick when it affects them. Hypocrites. They are voting for the real “trash” that refuse to do anything about the problem. Disguising their real problem with these people with concern for the environment and “debris” falling in the water is such a cop out. Meanwhile, these people probably own boats and all other kinds of things that pollute. So gross.
Time for a revolution
I understand both sides..
I wouldn't want a bunch of hippies smoking crack & pot on their boats next to my million dollar beach house.
he's just a privledged psychopathic fool asociating himself with and thinking he is aligned with positive or good attributes it is like alot of schemey capitalist leeches it is very very cult like oblivious to abuse of his own privledge and has no idea reality
Sadly that is how are systems to made to work.
I'm from San Francisco. To give you more background here, the waterfront homes in Marin County (in the Tiburon area), are worth an average of $5M - $15M. The people who live there are not just rich or millionaires, they are wealthy beyond measure. As a San Francisco native who has watched my city price out generations of residents, it's almost comical to watch these people who live on the Marin County waterfront complain about anchor-outs. Now I could understand if the anchor-outs broke into their houses, stole from them, etc, but to get upset at their existence is honestly a mix of hilarious and infuriating
The mega-rich, techies, and generational millionaires have sucked the soul of SF and the Bay like vampires, leaving just an empty husk, devoid of humanity. Shame what's happened to my birthplace, I can barely stomach looking at it anymore.
It's sort of like how I feel about Atherton, which is not so much a city, but the artificial absence of one that is visible from outer space. They're people who live in >$5million houses who are afraid to live near people who live in $2million houses.
What about the part where the guy said their boats had crashed into his house and dock at least 16 times?
@@umungus518 cry me a river dude. You dont think insurance covered those crashes? Even if he came out a pocket, I dont have much sympathy for the ultra elite. More money more problems
I live in SF and am a native. I dont think tech made SF expensive, landlords who decided they wanted to money grab are the ones who did this. @@tehBleuRiot
Life is not fair for everybody. We must always keep in mind that every person in this world is fighting his own battle and destroying a poor man's home is the worst thing that anyone can do.
The capitalism is not fair for everybody. We must Al away keep in mind that every person in this world have to fight for others and destroying a monopolism is the best way to bring right for every individual person in this planet.
I agree but they cant stay there without getting their homes destroyed. They have two choices.... Clean up their homes so they dont stand out and look like a squalid hovel. Or sail it up north around the Ft. Bragg area. So Cal is cracking down. Slowly but surely. Up north is their best option.
@@angelcitystudio lol Freedom Is the Only choice that matters and How You feel about someone's Possessions or State of their Home, is Your personal issue to deal with.
@@redneckhippiefreak Bottom line is, people work hard and change their lives and struggle like hell to be able to get as far away from squalid hovel shithole neighborhoods as they can. They pay BIG money for it. Poor people who do nothing but squat and pollute and contribute nothing think they can just move into these areas as well.... FOR FREE....while everyone else pays for the upkeep 🤣No. You fucking cant. Your feelings about your FREEDOM does not matter.
People need to start shooting those who do that. It's always the opposite, they shoot the good people and take everything from them, that's why you live in a literal hell.
My wife and I lived in our sailboat there for a while. Met some amazing people with amazing stories. We were getting our boat ready to sail south. We were treated very different because we were anchor outs. The police threatened us. Everyone of the anchor outs were great though. We would hang out with them at the church or at the coffee shop. Many were working jobs and coming back to their boat. The county made it very difficult for everyone to live out there. Shut down all the docks except one. Over 100 boats and only 1 tiny dinghy dock. Fun. The harbormaster was not very liked. He got many boats destroyed. That’s what the county was paying him to do. Many lost their homes and lived in tents. Even kids. I know everyone that was interviewed. Amazing people! Miss this place so much. A strange balance between very rich and very poor.
People wouldn't lose their homes if they were still able to function as boats and move around.
I have some video of what the life was like on my RUclips
Maybe because people are supposed to live on land, not out at sea anchored in one spot becoming a nuisance
@@complex3704 That's what they keep missing here. It's pretty standard in maritime law not to have a nuisance out in a harbor. If these things can't move under their own power they are nuisances. If they still worked like real boats they could move it around every 72 hours.
I feel like couples that live on sailboats are the swinger types. Intuition. Just sayin'.
When a law is designed to only serve the rights of the wealthy and not uphold the rights and security’s of every man woman and child equally then it’s not law it’s purely a gateway to entitlement.
Yessss
That was literally the only reason a police force popped up was to keep low class in line so the rich would feel safe. Started over in France, go check it out. It's pretty disgusting how we integrated that into our system but you know America, Capitalism and Greed is good
You mean like 90% of the “laws” these days?
If this is allowed, the bay will become a shantytown like the ones in Hong Kong and the water will become sewer
It is slavery. Government is SLAVERY.
This guy/home owner reeks of smug and entitlement. He has no answers. I love it
One hasn't the time to think up answers when one spends so much time maintaining one's parasitic lifestyle-addiction & subsequent mental-illness. 🎩🧐
Now, someone fetch me my clutching-pearls and fainting-couch. And, ffs, put my hat back on my head.
To be fair he was put on the spot and that really isn't his area of expertise/his job
Rich people making laws and thinking their way of life is secure because of all the money they have are delusional. Pushing the poor to the edge has consequences as history have shown.
The best method of reform is assassination of corporate boards
Eat the rich , the lower classes outnumber the small minority.
@@ChipChurp like that'll ever happen
Rich people don't make the laws. The people we elect make the laws. And there's a lot more "poor" and middle class people than rich people. So the laws are made by the officiels the poor and middle class elect.
@@PeterMJensenSF It's so adorable you think that.
The rich set your laws and legislative policy.
If the "middle class" and poors had any influence election pay would be a federal holiday. You know, so the wage slaves could go vote and not worry about upsetting their pay masters by missing their shift to do something as trivial to the ownership class as civic engagement.
Also your access to healthcare wouldn't be dependent on your ability to go into bankrupting debt.
"5% of the people don't want to pay rent."
And that's a bad thing?
It's bad for rich snobs
rule for thee but not ME,thats what been going on lmao and anyone can figure that out
Anything that doesn’t perpetuate the doomed cycle is a problem to those who benefit from it.
"It's a tough question."
My Marin friends will only ever be able to live there after they inherit the same houses that have been in their families for 3 generations... if their parents don't sell them.
Bet its way higher, all the old heads won't agree but this new generation don't wanna slave it out for the government.
It's time to Decriminalize poverty, this man in the interview "Jim Robertson" basically implied that because these people are poor they must be drug addicts or screw ups and therefore it is acceptable to kick people out of there homes and destroy what little possessions they have left. I can't believe people can think this way.
Yeap - that rich dude explaining his views makes you feel he is in need of some unevitable "bad choices" that he never made he says - like some whatsoever bad luck one day so he is gonna see the other side. Just Anything. The literal truck that overruns you , just anything, praying for this kind ...
In Jim's defense, he's not necessarily far off. I mean, even poor people, normal ones, understand that they have to figure out how to put a roof over their head via working multiple jobs to afford the rent. However, given how expensive rent is in San Francisco, you can sympathize with the boat dwellers and Jim doesn't address that aspect of it.
I agree
In a country full of so called Christians too
easy to think that way when ur that fucker in finance
Imagine living in a waterfront mansion on one of the most beautiful bays in the world and focusing your energy on making unfortunate people even more so.
As someone who went to college in Marin this is extremely accurate. The wealth gap is massive. Marin is constantly at war with the poor. During my final year of college the city of San Rafael got rid of its homeless navigation center.
Well then maybe those people should move somewhere more affordable for them
@@imhotep561 Exactly. I don't live in my dream area. Why? Simple. I can't afford it. So I did a lot of research and planning to find someplace I could afford that still gave me a standard of living I wanted.
@@imhotep561 try being homeless and see how easy that is
@@imhotep561 how much more ignorant can you sound? They’re homeless, now how do you think they’re gonna move to a more affordable city exactly? The closest affordable city would most likely be Bakersfield, well over 100 miles away
@@ballerboi4980 ummm, the guy said he worked but couldn’t afford to pay rent. So, like everyone else, he can find a place that is affordable for his income.
As for the others, get a job, apply for social security disability if you qualify, move to another state that offers affordable house and jobs.
I’m all for helping others (if it’s yoyur personal choice), but I’m tired of people advocating for the government to provide for everyone that makes poor life decisions off of the backs of others.
"Its a tough question" yet Mr. Finance has no possible solution. Give me a minute while I search for how much care/concern I have for a Millionaires complaints.
It's not his job to find a solution. He's tired of having his place wrecked into 16 times. How'd you feel if ppl crashed into your home 16 times?
Why don't you make those homeless crack addicts move away... or do you have free shelter you can offer for them?
Mr. Finance has done more in his life and for his community than you, many lifetimes over.
@@dennischen2642 yes like signed them up for lifetimes sentences worth of debt to a bank. Such heroes.
@@zkproof I would try to find a solution that fits both not just moving the problem out of sight.
The fact that they authorities not only confiscated the boats, but also forbid the owners from rescuing their personal possessions, including family heirlooms, is the crux of the story. The rich will always find a way to grind the rest of them underfoot. God willing, Karma will take over.
@@Prolific_Troll my father will repay. He will just those people
Don't bet on it. Consider drones with Sarin gas. However, do not harm any animals, fish or birds.
@@apples8872 There is no God. At least, not in any way you or I can possibly fathom. The difference between us is you pretend to know something you cannot possibly.
The karma are started for the rich in the Bay area. I just watched a video on crazy theft is getting in their neighborhoods. Though I don't know about the water front spots but I'm sure it's only a matter of time as they just created more homeless with this
@@Prolific_Troll you are such a nerd dawg grow up
Props to the interviewer for keeping a straight face at 8:46 when the guy with generational wealth is preaching about hard work, intelligence, and luck
I wouldn’t have the patience to talk to people like that, man it’s ruthless
I lived in a community that was split into rich, middle class and poor. I remember being invited to a friends and their family was “going out on the yacht.”
We didn’t go anywhere, just stayed tied to the dock. They pay 500 a month to have these boats “docked.” They never take them out, they don’t take trips, nothing. I was middle class and went fishing regularly. I remember asking where they went and the families and yacht owners would almost get angry or offended. Years they would pay to have boats in during the summer and out stored in the winter. What a wasted. Easily 200+ high end Luxury boats that only moved by the wake of charted fishing boats.
I hate rich boat owners with a burning passion, because even when they do use their boat they have no idea how. They have no respect at all for others who are out at sea.
It's because the fuel for those yacht are so expensive. Plus the upkeep if you use it etc. They don't want to let go of the money for it to USE, it's just to sit there like a usable prop to take photos on, and tell freinds, strangers "ah yes that's my yatch, we go fishing off it and swim, party" just to make folks jelous. They honestly can't affford to really DO anything with it other than bragging rights. Nothing more.
Haha. Yup. I know a marina just like that. They have some pretty cool parties during the summer tho.
They don’t know how to navigate their ship !!! Lol ! Losers !!! My boyfriend has a little bass fishing boat that we have fun in ! The motor blew up .. 9 thousand dollar motor .. during Covid .. he watched UTube videos and taught himself to repair his motor ., cost was 2000.00 part found on line (-; we just went kayaking a lot more until he made the repair ! Poor and smart .
It is wierd. I'm in Michigan. All boat owner's want to do is dock on the beach just to be seen by other people. I fish offshore and it pisses me off that they always want to get in the way. Just so we have to see them. Nevermind they are cutting our fishing lines or illegally too close to the fishing pier.
Imagine making your life’s mission to destroy someone else’s. Disgusting
No one's done that
@@flintson2268 a lot of people do lol
Happens every single day
That is putting it mildly
Rich pick done that
As someone who lived aboard a sailboat from NYC and north up the coast-mind you a very pretty one that we kept in great shape and could just about blend in with the “yachts” of the upper class-the creative tactics we’ve encountered from cities, marinas, and parks to make sustainable and responsible living aboard impossible is really staggering. The liveaboard community is incredibly diverse, resourceful, and low impact-I’d take their company any day. But because we take nothing from and “contribute nothing” to the capitalist machine that funds most waterfronts, we’ve been recast as a nuisance. One more tragedy amongst many 🙄
go to Cuba or Venezuela you'll be happy with their non-capitalistic societies. Or maybe N.Korea is more your taste.
@@zkproof Maybe your friend who had a stroke should try those countries considering he's contributing nothing as well
@@oakraptor I can understand your elementary ignorance in your baseless conclusions.... he's had a stroke and he's contributed significantly with his electronics business, he's recovered significantly through therapy and does a lot online. So your point is recklessly made and irrelevant...it just reveals how shallow you actually think.... I'm not surprised, just disappointed
@@zkproof Oh no some mf named Arnold is disappointed in me what a shame. Half a brain and he can still be a sheep what an achievement
Actually lived aboard in Oakland. We paid moorage. Even so the city wanted to get rid of us.
This 15 years ago.
The hand writing was on the wall , so i left for SA.
It it interesting how capitalism is portrayed as the only viable system possible as rather our collective invention out of a infinity of possibilities .
Either way the society will deal with poor whether it wants or not.
I was homeless and not drugs. I lived in the woods by myself and my area was free of litter. I would say if you are living homeless at least keep your camp clean because those who make the homeless look bad. I had a job. I walked to work until I found a better life but I preserve the woods the way I found it when I left it and in between. I loved living in the woods by myself and was getting accustomed to it but I resisted the woods. People trash it and that’s the problem
I definitely sympathise as someone living in a van in the Vancouver area. It's a huge, huge improvement over being completely homeless, and the authorities and legislators say, "either a home, or homeless. No in-between."
Live and let live. Not much to ask of the rich, one might assume. Wish you all the best my friend.
This is definitely an analog to Vancouver.
Whoa.
Fellow Canuck here. I'm sorry but with respect if you have a working van then why don't you just rent a place in Surrey or Langley or Abbotsford or Chilliwack? Or maybe you could find some person that lets you live and park in their driveway for a small fee each month?
While I understand the drive would suck, I had to commute to work each day using public transit for years and it took an hour and a half each way.
If you need a job why not just do some temping for a while? All you need is the clothes on your back. If you go to a temp agency in the morning they'll give you a job assignment and loan you the personal protective equipment if you don't have it. (Usually they loan people a safety vest, some "green triangle" steel toed rubber boots and any other equipment you might need.)
Of course it's good later to buy a cell phone (so you can call them to get jobs the day before) as well as your own safety vest and some regular "green triangle" shoes (they sell some cheap at walmart for between $50 to $100) although that's not necessary to start with.
I know it's hard to get a part or full time job when you don't have money to start with. I know even McDonald's asks people to buy around $100 worth of work clothes to start off with.
I'm convinced the human race isn't going to make it as long as we are ruled by a few people who think they are the chosen ones. Greed motivates them and they will never stop wanting more.
@@sh23598 Not cheesy at all! Common sense more like it.
It's true - take my brother - please.
@@sh23598 You're right, that's exactly what we need. What would it take? Revolution?
It’s almost like they only want the rich in this country. The rest of us are fucked once robots take our jobs
The ones with the most money win. It's a hard pill to swallow.
Watch how within the first few sentences the rich man dehumanizes the boat dwellers. Any time you see someone make excuses like that you need to know they are viewing other humans as sub human. That's not ok, that's never ok.
How do you know he's "dehumanizing" anyone? His tone sounded sympathetic yet annoyed and frustrated. It seemed like he was just stating what he considered to be the truth of the matter
@@SurprisinglyDeep yeah these comments are frustrating.
@@SurprisinglyDeep It’s the fact he brings up the alleged vices as if it’s pertinent. The issue is not whether these people are alcoholics; the only issue is should these people be allowed to continue living on the water or not. Why then bring up the alcohol and meth thing right off the bat? It’s an attempt to justify his position. “What I’m doing is okay, those people are junkies” is essentially the position. It’s an ad hominem attack and thus can be ignored.
@@Bucketheadhead He brought that up because alcoholics and drug addicts commit a lot of petty crimes in order to feed their addictions. Also many are emotionally unstable.
He was basically saying "many of them commit petty crimes like breaking in to peoples cars and houses and/or randomyl accousting people for money" in a tactful way and without falsely implying that all the anchor outs commit crimes.
@@SurprisinglyDeep No he wasn’t saying that at all; at no point was it stated or even implied that these people are committing crimes. The whole point of the discussion was should these people be left to live their lives on the water or should the people living on land be able to prevent them doing so. The ad hominem attack only serves as a justification for evicting them, and it’s a pretty obscene one at that. He doesn’t even provide any evidence for his claim. His real implication is not that which you’ve identified but in fact that poor people are poor because they are junkies and criminals. It’s pathetic really. He even reinforces it at the end with his little “some people work hard” speech.
“I totally feel bad “ is literally the sole driving force taking away there homes
Fast forward 10 years and they’ll be interviewing millionaires outraged that they can’t find a housekeeper within 100 miles. I’m sure they’ll have a great explanation, like, “it’s pathetic… nobody wants to work anymore.”
That’s exactly what happens, delusional
That last sentence 💯
Generally accomadation is provided to house keepers at wealthy homes
@@MrHavokman not unless you’re the Brady Bunch. Live-in housekeepers are pretty rare. If it pleases you, though, swap “gardener” or “handyman” or “caterer” or “house painter” for “housekeeper” in my original statement. It’s the same sentiment.
@@ifckdurdad I do handy man work for wealthy clients and can charge more than if I were in a poorer area. I see your point but there will always be someone willing to make money if the millionaire wants their house maintained. Charging for travel is pretty normal to cover costs.
I spoke to a homeless man once and he told me "If you want to know how people are in a city look at how they treat their homeless", sure it's biased but it says a lot. Hope that guy got to keep his boat.
Same with seeing how a society treats their prisoners says a lot of what their real values are.
Obviously if you're homeless but I'm living where the homeless people can't. Who in their right mind would want to live next to people with mental health and addiction issues!?
It's not biased. It's a pretty old slice of wisdom. If you want to no about a society,look at how it treats it's:prisoners, homeless, animals, etc.
Any state that subsidizes homeless, attract more homeless. Homelessness is a Democratic problem that they created themselves
@@macfig6017 please explain how homelessness wouldn't be an issue if the blue states weren't providing shelter and resources for the homeless. Would they just die off? Is this the same wisdom as "if you feed the strays, they'll breed"?
So sad... most of the "legal" boats sit empty and most houses on the water are vacation homes for the rich... this is simply a disgusting example of social inequality at its finest. There are so many better options than just crushing someones home.
Nicely worded
This is what happens when you vote for California type policies and politicians. Same reason people are leaving in droves to other states.
It's not social inequality- it's government and politicians who can't just leave people alone.
Well you have to put your emotions aside and realize that removing these people from the water front helps prevent shanty towns from forming in the area hence which cause a reduction of property values. These rich people that many bash on many of them worked hard for their assets and pay horrendous amounts of various taxes so in a way it's just. I know things can seem unfair but it's justified in my view.
@@_nimrod92 Well you have to realize the dehumanization is never justified. Your fear of homeless encampments (shanty towns) bears witness to long term failure of government policies to properly manage the situation. Ye I get it you don't like them, most don't. Pretty ironic that the harbor master and their policies are literally creating more homeless encampments on land.
Imagine you living in a Multi Million dollar house and the guy living in a boat bothers you that much
Let's keep it real, it's not about saftey or protection of the enviroment. It's about property values. If someone wants to live on the water, that's their right.
Buuuuut the environment and safety points still stand
Yes, let's keep it real. CA is very anal about the environment, and it's in public area. Most people wouldn't have a problem if the boats were in good condition and not abandoned leaking feces, oil or whatnot, and not crashing into resident's docks. Property prices have gone up by 60% minimum. They don't give a damn about the prices.
@@FVBmovies Texas would do the same thing if poor folks started living on the water of Lake Austin.
@@flintson2268 how is taking away someone's best option increasing their "safety"?
If it were yachts they wouldn't mind. It's the fact that the boats are falling apart and not "seaworthy" that they don't like. It just so happens that a boat being non seaworthy and being disgusting are about the same thing, as defined by the rich people who defined the laws.
Millionaire: "The anchor-outs are a diverse community... 90% of them are meth addicts and alcoholics." Utter genius, that one. And this guy's in finance, so he's in charge of someone's investments!
im surprised more people aren't calling out that PoS. He's lobbying! He's the fucking source!!
he's probably just mad he gotta work hard to pay his 3mil mortgage
@@forrestl5597 Fr
@@sharifahhusna55 that house is worth more than 3mm
Guys like the mechanic anchor-out have done more actual work in a month than that finance tool has done his entire career. Sitting in an office (or as of right now, working from home) cannot compare to physical labor, and I say that as someone who is fortunate enough to be working from home right now lol
That homeowner is a prime example of what Marin people are like. The homeless are an eyesore to them and if you don’t make 100,000,000+ a year you deserve to live at least an hours commute from their little paradise. I grew up there and it’s really a wonderful place but the people are so backwards and heartless that I had to get out as soon as I could.
Theyre not heartless.....they all have plastic signs in their yard saying they "Stand Against Hate" 😆😆😆😆
100% agree with you, a very NIMBY attitude.
@@teinstripezWow so funny Mr. I dislike minorities.
so true
When he is asked, where are the other affordable places to live? He says, "That's a tough question." I wonder if he really means, "I don't care about them.."
That rich guy was being very careful to not call them poor
Are we supposed to understand the plight of the poor rich man in his mansion upset because his view has been ruined by people living a lifestyle that hasn't been a problem for 70 years but now suddenly is because they built mansions?
No matter what these people's life decisions are they still deserve a place to exist, but the housing market and gentrification in California have made survival so difficult that people have to go to these lengths
They voted for it. Fck em. You reap what you sow... in this case, California falling apart is exactly what californians deserve. It's a shame that once it collapses, you can't box those people in and force them to sleep in their refuse.
49 other states to live
@@turtlepopper even if they voted for it......
I dont blame them, i blame the media for in a sense force them to vote for or stand by and watch....
I have been trying to discuss questioning authority and support what is important to you....
Ive lost friends, been called a racist, mocked and attacked and so i just keep doing me.. and try to stay open minded , i listen to views the. Get shut down when i express my point of view .....
And mostly the ignorance comes from news stations and shows .....so there is that
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Your either agreeing or you will be shunned
@@turtlepopper The problem is, all the cali folk are no moving north and fucking up my home (oregon).
Only rich people think they should exist is the problem
I live in similar place, where the skyrocketing rent is almost impossible for most people. Homeowners complain when they can't find painters, babysitters, maintenance people, landscapers, when the coffee shop down the street closes at 2pm for lack of staff... but it doesn't occur to them that none of those people they've come to rely on for their pleasant daily lives can live anywhere near their neighborhoods.
There was a "created" neighborhood near my old apartment. 100+ luxury homes on curated streets with names like Sunshine Avenue, with "intentional commerce" on the Main Street. Think cute coffee shop, tailor, local clothing and jewelry, organic groceries, hidden parking to not mess up the aesthetic of the street, all the "nice" things the residents wanted. The majority of the employees bused in every morning from the surrounding towns a half hour away, because no one working min wage in the "cute" coffee shop was buying a $3mil house in the neighborhood.
The employees having to bus in every morning is entirely intentional, these rich scumbags can’t tolerate living in close proximity to any poor person
That's not a neighborhood, it's a theme park.
“Nobody wants to work!”
@@ShakaCthulu Nobody wants to work where they can't afford to live.
@@JohnnyBravo-sb8hqit’s such a lie too. Everyone works. Humans work. The unemployment rate is like 3.6% and then the real is 7%. People work. Anyone who says otherwise is either an idiot or disingenuous in order to spread whatever bullshit they.
93% percent of all people even marginally attached to the workforce to work. That’s a majority so anyone saying that people don’t want to work are completely wrong.
"I work in finance". Also reads as: I make money contributing nothing to society, but I get paid ridiculously well to get my slice of the pie. No one else should have access to the pie. It is my pie. I deserve it because only I worked hard. If you don't have anything, it is your fault.
Wow, the feels are hard on this one.
I'm a brother who wouldn't know the first thing on what to do to live on a boat. The maintenance needed to keep it seaworthy. How to hunker down in storms. How to monitor the depth so I don't hit something and take on water. Hell, just keeping it fueled up and livable day to day. You'd need a special type of person to be able to do that life. And you reduce them down to meth heads and criminals? Crazy.
Then to put them into a tent down next to the yard that literally destroys their home as the watch and listen? That's a special type of cruelty. I understand the whole "not in my backyard" mentality, but to crush a persons only asset, their home that contains all of their worldly possessions? Its not just inhumane, its sociopathic.
Mostly the rich today lose their compassion with every thousand they store away.
California is unsustainable when it comes to rent. People forget about property tax, especially new buyer of property. 2% of the price you paid is the going rate in property tax. So $20,000 dollars in taxes is low in California.
For real brother! You speak the truth!!
Sociopaths and psycopaths run the world. They have the ruthlessness required to become successful in life with less effort and no conscience to interfere with their decisions.
I know many people who live on their boats, some are dear friends, and you're exactly right, it does take a lot of ingenuity and know-how to live that way. I don't know the first thing about boats either, so I have a lot of respect for those who do. Just watching people sail and being on their craft while they do is amazing to me, let alone watching them live on their boats. All of the people I know who live on their boats are decent, hard-working people. I'm with you completely, it's the lack of empathy and human connection that destroys me.
We treat people SO badly in our society. It's a real shame.
Sadly, it's everyone that does this, not just "us"
@@greenwave819 nope, it's just the US. You won't see that problem in Europe, Asia, Australia, or anywhere else for that matter (yes, even in Africa, homelessness is not an issue -- there are other worse ones, but not homelessness).
@@tgb-vf4es lmao you are smoking mad drugs dude.
go travel outside of america and see how all those countries treat their poor.
america is a fucking paradise compared to any 3rd world country.
i KNOW you’ve never been outside of the USA if you’re posting something so absolutely absurd.
@@steviechampagne Being born in Africa and living Europe now i can tell you that what he said is 💯 true! People may be be poor in Africa but homelessness is an issue not in Europe either.
@@demagoog3641 I live in Berlin and I can tell you that homelessness is a problem here and in all the big cities in Europe (Paris, marseille, cologne......) I can't compare it to US because I've only been there once, but I think that every society that evolved around captialism treat the poor bad
I love how people who obviously had a privileged background call everyone who has less money than them lazy under the excuse of capitalism.
How we point the finger at the boat people "bad choices, on drugs;& alcoholics" REALLY?! YOU WERE TAKING ADORALL, DOING 8 BALLS, AND STEALING YOUR PARENT'S EXSPENSIVE ALCOHOL. The nerve of that guy complaining "the peasants boats are hindering my view, change the law;& get rid of them "! Pressure burst pipes, you can't keep beating on the downtrodden amongst us; it will surely burst in they're faces.
@@mikemann1960 Greed will either be the downfall or the wake up call for our country.
Maritime law is different than law of the land. Also those waters aren’t owned by the town. It’s federal water. The 72 hour “rule” is an unconstitutional city ordinance that doesn’t have jurisdiction over the water
This is why I love Vice. I never would have known about this through national news
All the main stream wants to do now is fear monger and doom and gloom broadcasting. It's pathetic! This might of made 60 minutes or something like that but no nighly news anymore they are too woke for this story now
Word
@@BIGBrand815 yo g I sell seashells down by the seashore drop by sometime
straight up. I'm stoked vice did this piece. I'm from cali and it's been in state/local news a little, not as much as I think it should be though. Living on the water seems like a viable option in an area where rent is as high as it is. I might need to buy a boat lol.
@@bencaldwell7234 exactly, the “news” is a fuckung buisness. They’ve made so much money from the pandemic.
I know a guy who's an anchor-out and he's pretty well put together, he likes living on his boat. He loves being near the marine life and the freedom to go out on the water and see parts of our city people don't normally get to see.
Yeah, seems like a great guy. Though, why the others in this situation can't clean up their boats a bit, I don't know. Some looked like floating garbage piles.
"Poor" people on average pay a higher percentage of their meager income on taxes and other poor tax penalties and often work harder than this gentleman who is obviously oblivious to this.
@JP not at all? I make 1200 a month, get paid weekly- they take out 100 in taxes a week. There are so many tax breaks for higher income people it’s ridiculous.
Its california baby, a haven for leftists, what did you expect?
@JP bro I pay at least 30-50% of each paycheck to taxes. Get out of here.
Everyone should pay less taxes. The wealthy and the not so wealthy.
@@asuchemist3371 No; taxes should be comparable to income or investment. The more you have the more you pay and likewise, the less you have the less you pay. Not in dollar amounts but in percentages.
Maybe if rent prices were fixed people wouldn’t think they have much of a need to live on a boat in this way. Rent prices are messed up. The rich needs to realize they are the problem.
This is for "public safety and protection of the environment." Don't fucking lie to yourselves, you're getting rid of these people because you don't want non-rich people in your neighborhood. Plain and simple.
he made that really obvíous by calling all of them "meth addicts or (ex-)felons" - shows how diversified his views are
In the meantime the oil-rich drillers spill thousands of gallons and pay fines that amount to little...and continue on
Ha as if America cared about nature
I can see that argument for the boats that AREN'T seaworthy, (in which case all they need to do is make repairs on their boat) but other than that yeah they're just salty
These boats are full of toxic chemicals and human waste. Then the boat sinks and creates ton more problems. Liberals always wanna use other peoples money to fix problems. If you are such a good liberal, invite these people into your homes. Take them in and feed them. So something instead of talking about hot trump ruined your democratic dump of a state
The fact that the main person in this story goes ashore and works proves that the town NEEDS him. But the town only wants him if they don’t have to see him. It’s pathetic.
How do we know for sure that he works in that community in particular? Also what's stopping him from living in another nearby community and just commuting in to work everyday?
@@SurprisinglyDeep lol Whats stopping him? Nothing, He made a Choice to Live as Cheaply as possible. Nothing wrong or Federally Illegal about Living within your Means on a body of water.
@@redneckhippiefreak Local laws are still a thing even if someone does not want them to be a thing.
If I constantly held dozens of drag races each night outside your house for hours on end and there were no federal laws banning me from doing that, would you just accept that?
@@redneckhippiefreak Obviously the anchor outs did break some sorts of laws (probahly some sort of environmental protection laws based around protecting the health of sea creatures) or else the city would not have sent the harbour master out there to destroy the boats.
(If nothing else, government officials and lawyers are very careful when it comes to making sure they're not breaking laws and risking the city getting sued for millions of dollars.)
@@SurprisinglyDeep First, You underestimate My love for cars and tire smoke, Secondly, You are Placing a Monetary Burdon on someone that has Absolutely No effect on You or Duty to anyone else. Thirdly, Your attempt at claiming Environmental impacts is a Copout. To attempt to equate the run off from the 7 Million people million people living in the Water Shed Is Soooo much greater than the 1200 "Problem" boats in the bay. This is shown by the nearly10,000 pounds of raw human feces washing into the bay from the Streets above every Day.. XD .Media manipulation and Greed has California brainwashed. Try to avoid the traps. In reality, We as American Citizens Do have the Right to Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, With that is the Right to be forgotten. A Body of Water, Is NOT Owned by a State or a Government, An Unmolested,/undamed water system is Public and thus Living on it is Not Illegal Federally and the Right to live there freely and Forgotten is Present. Just because States decide to Violate the Rights of Us all, Does Not Justify it.
I live off the Richardson Bay. I live in a house. I was brought up here, been here since 1957. All the complaints about the anchor-outs are valid to different degrees. But that's not the end of the story. Many of these anchor-out folks have been in their water boat homes for 15 or more years. If there was a law against it, it was never enforced. I question the fairness of letting people live in an environment for that long and then, one day, to just declare their way of living is illegal, confiscating their water abodes, leaving them with absolutely nothing.
It is not really practical to offer them "affordable" land homes because southern Marin is 100% built out. There is nowhere to build low income housing to give to each boat owner or family. I have a different and maybe more charitable idea-
Go out to the anchor-outs and take a census of boats and boat owners/family. Grandfather them in for their lifetime or the boat's lifetime, which ever is shorter. If the owner/family leaves their boat or moves the boat to a new location, there is no coming back. A boat may be technically sold but no new tenant of a boat may be permitted to live on the boat. Over time this population will dwindle to the end. It has to, no body lives forever, and people do leave for another place.
My wife asked, what about the boat sunk in the mud? She's not from the bay. Let me help here. That boat was not stuck in the mud! The photo was taken at low tide. Big deal! Go to the "legal" houseboats tied up, like the smarmy guy in the video. HIS houseboat gets "stuck" in the mud too a low tide, unless he's on pilings. Many of the "legal" moored houseboats are not on pilings and will also sit on the mud in low tides! That photo was provided to influence you without understanding life on tidal water.
My idea results in no relocation problem, no wrecking of a person's living space, no rendering a person homeless, and a sure timeline to an end of anchor-outs. it's done with no animosity or pain to these independent folks whose only crime is living as lone solitary people on the bay. Lets give a little folks!
Very well said!
You have my vote!
Very well thought out and well said. It would be great if you could present this to your local representative, if you live in the area.
That was what I was thinking. Also the boat that was sinking and was taken to shore. Why did they not remove the personal belongings before the boat was torn in half for crushing? Maybe they couldn’t find him ? either way cruel not to at least remove them put away safely at least for 6 mos instead of leaving them out for the rain etc. again allowing the community to slowly dissolve is the fairest to them.
Also a boat allowed to stay MUST be able to move itself! Be seaworthy. Otherwise it’s a danger to the owner, the boats around it , as well as taking into the docks etc. you (and I) would not want to have to repair your home frequently because of a floating piece of, at that point, trash
The rich finance guy is the same kind of guy that shows up to town hall meetings to oppose any sort of affordable housing being built while he sits there and says he doesn't know the solution to the problem.
8:34 "Do you ever feel bad for the people that are losing their homes?"
"Of course" says the man in a mansion and who actively campaigns to get rid of poor people that live next to him, he doesn't feel bad, this isn't about right or wrong, this millionaire that can basically live anywhere he wants in the US is basically saying:
"hey you people are ruining my view so now I am going to do everything I can to get you to leave, I don't care if its the only home you have or that you will become destitute after I take it away from you, I don't care, I want my view and since I am rich I will get, your lives be damned, they're the lives of insects"...
These millionaires don't see anyone else but themselves as human beings, "of course I feel bad" that's a repugnant answer when his actions are the reason why people's homes are being destroyed. They don't care about people's life, they only care that they are gone from their "view"
They don't even have the backbone to admit to their behavior, they label the people they're throwing out as lesser, marginal "oh they're meth addicts, they are former felons, they are felons" as if these title serve as evidence to rip people's dignity from them.
Imagine having the free time to go lobby your local government to destroy other people’s lives at your behest because they’re eye sores to you. That shows you right there how much the mansion dweller “works” for what he has.
Yeah and he has no idea who they really are.
Justification of a psychopath
right
I love how when rich people talk about living the dream they don't care about anybody else living their dream they just want to be living their own dream and only if it makes money it can be a dream but if it makes happiness they call it a nightmare
Well said. I don’t like how under capitalism, a solution for a problem has to be profitable or it won’t happen.
@@Sean-kg2gr Name one country that isn't run by the super wealthy. Really. Name one.
@@johnnymcblaze what’s that have to do with what I said?
@RussiantoIndia people can enjoy life without bringing others who are trying to live free down
Who cares? I don't care if people live their dreams? Are you telling me that other people care about people that they don't know exist? It's not unique to rich people. They are wealthy because they see reality how it presents itself.
Nothing wrong with living rent free. That is a good thing and how humans have lived for 500.000 years.
find it hilarious the rich mf complained about that part
Nothing is free.
Nothing!
@@Otto45 and these people are paying their own price
@Otto45 well air at the moment is free so sup it up while it is
A lot of people who are poor are not poor from "bad"choices so much as having no choices, or no knowledge of what the choices were
The guy who has it all speaks the kind of words that are killing society and with a huge grin on his face.
I thought he was pretty well-spoken. "Some people want to work, some do not. Some people are lucky, and others are unlucky." I think that sums things up pretty well.
@@MrBigsteve518 That's because knowledge and hard work doesn't really equal you being successful. It's who you know, your upbringing (family wealth), and luck
@@martyr4806 I'm sure some of the anchor rats didn't get the same start as this guy in finance. Even having parents who are reasonable and give you good opportunities VS parents who are alcoholics or drug addicted, or not providing any sort of role model. Or even child abuse or molest. The guy in finance doesn't stop and think how lucky he's been from the get go. Sometimes people making bad decisions are doing best given the trauma they've endured. Maybe they're handling it a lot better than the finance guy would had he been through the same starting line.
@@travelingmindful You never know, the guy may have started his life as a caravan rat, anchor rat, homeless etc. Doesn't mean he was given to it on a silver plate. You can make any assumption you want but, many start from nothing, make the correct decisions and move their lives upwards.
@@martyr4806 that assumption that just because they are poor it must mean they are lazy, unintelligent, or don’t want to work is extremely incorrect and toxic
I was part of a group that started with the hope of advocating for the anchor out community. What we found was that a number of the people owned multiple boats, some as storage centers, some as homes, but the common thread was that none wanted to pay any money to keep their boat(s). Many boats are therefore maintained at the bare minimum level so that they don’t sink, but not to a level where they can move under their own power (hence the reason that they get blown into Tiburon by storms: they can’t start their engine to stop the boat from drifting).
There are also numerous situations where the owner, usually of multiple boats, rents out one of their boats to someone else or simply provides it as a place for someone else to stay, and in many of those cases the individuals living on the boat has no idea how to live on the water safely. I gave a tow once to a family in a small row boat that wasn’t making any ground against the ebbing current, and after throwing them a line, I found out that none of them knew how to tie a knot.
I don’t mind people living on the water, and especially if the boats are well maintained and can run under their own power and are safely lit with anchor lights, etc., but that’s not what’s going on out there with the vast majority of people. It’s unsafe conditions compounded by hoarding (sometimes making the boat top-heavy), with the result that it’s dangerous (multiple people have died, and several dogs as well... one drowning to death when the boat sank while its owner was away).
Regarding the environment, these folks aren’t destroying it, but they sure aren’t helping it either. Each time a boat sinks, depending on it’s fuel tank and engine size, gallons of oil and fuel leak out. Trash from hoarding gets blown overboard, and while it’s no commercial oil spill equivalent, in that relatively small bay, it’s not great.
This is an extremely challenging issue, but after trying to support the anchor outs for a time, we ended with the conclusion that such a life on the water is being abused by some/many of those out there on the water, and it was something we couldn’t support.
It seems like finding a remedy to the reason they don't want to live on land would be a helpful direction to focus efforts. If there aren't other options available what are they to do?
Also, mental health counseling is generally necessary for hoarders to change; It's usually a coping method to help manage latent trauma.
Thank you for sharing some light on this.
This is the first compassionate argument I've seen against the anchor-outs. Perhaps there should be some support to help the people keep their boats able to move, and training for things (like the knot issue)? Also the hoarding thing is a mental health issue, as another commenter noted. I'm glad you tried to help, and I think it would be far better to support and empower these people than destroy their livelihoods and force them into a tent city.
@@thundasc there are free mental health services, shelter, food service for those who really want help - some people don't want to be helped
@@sterlingmarshel6299 Sure, although most of the shelter and food services are day to day, first come first serve (often reaching max occupancy) and have strict policies against animals and drugs. Not really the environment that is conducive to change; Something that requires a degree of stability and at least some reprieve from stressors, so that one can be introspective.
You can't expect someone who is teetering, off-balance on the edge of a cliff to build a bridge.
This is extremely cruel. A country that only claims to value private property, but every action and most laws goes against just that.
It is but there are good things too
@@morganm.mcgrath8398 like you dying
The cruel part is bringing a dog into your little floating box ,poor thing has no finns ?!
Thank the democrats that run california. You know, the ones that “care” for thecworking class.
@@ze3934 Exactly! The Dems are responsible for high taxes, pushing the middle class and businesses out. Only the super rich can live there. The Dems have created more poverty.
A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine! Revelation is unravel before our eyes.
When the dude whose boat got crushed and he goes and visits it and sees his grandmother’s photos, I started crying. How could they not even give these people at least a heads up about demolishing their boat, their home? Their possessions, possibly even living things on the boat like kids and pets. It’s possible they didn’t know that those living things were on the boat and could’ve killed them. This just shows how fucking heartless these rich people are. When that rich guy said he felt bad at the end, I saw right through his lies. You feel bad, yet you still continue to do this to them? You feel bad yet you don’t help them find their feet after what you’ve done? You feel bad yet you don’t solve the root problem that causes some of these people to live in these boats in the first places. You’d do anything to get them out of your sight as you sit in your ivory towers. You’re despicable.
They re hypocrites, and always say "it's the law." As if they follow the law
@6:25 the notice on his boat CLEARLY gave him 10 DAYS NOTICE.
I live in California and this is what they do to homeless people - when they have health problems, etc. - instead of helping them out - no, they want to tear these people with problems down more by stealing all their stuff - maybe just so they have 'crime to fix'. Vagrancy laws are the worst - they make being unemployed, without a home, etc. illegal - and what's unethical and sad. Just sad.
@@luckydc3761 I agree that if these people really cared, they wouldn't do anything illegal and just get their act together - otherwise don't be surprised. The video shows these anchor outs are stubborn and don't have respect. Do they pay for the wealthy people's homes they break or their own life even? You can see the boats they take are the ones that're damaged and abandoned. I mean it would be nicer for them to repair and resell them - but maybe they don't do it for the liability?
@@extropiantranshuman lol
Honestly this just shows the rich people in that Neighbourhood really don’t care about anyone but themselves, even if people’s boats are destroyed which is a house to the people living in it. Sad very sad.
True
People in Marin are such a-holes. They are, not all, so conceited and look down on anyone that doesn't live there like they're less than.
They care about what they have…. They earned what they have, stop getting mad at hardworking people when the lazy dope addicts want to come in and enjoy that same life 💀
Or the rich people in that neighborhood are tired of having drifting boats run into their house....but that's okay, right?
Rich people only care about getting richer.
I was on the fence but then my 5 year old child just said to me “why don’t the rich just help them get good looking boats?” 😭 I cried. Children see the world how it should be
True they have millions and those boats don’t cost much
@@Azelai777 You can share your money if you want
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Wait....so if I become rich I then should have to buy people boats? How many of you are willing to give me some money?
Give them a shitty boat and let them IMPROVE it themselves.
“It’s bad for the environment” then destroys the boat and throws it into a big hole in the ground somewhere 😂
Yeah, that part pissed me off. Now these fuckers care about the environment?
Not that the situation is okay, but potentially dumping oil or gas directly into the ocean is probably worse than something sitting in a landfill.
If a boat is genuinely in poor enough condition that it will sink and turn into a source of marine pollution. Then ultimately the reality is that many could end up homeless regardless of anyone interfering. If the lifestyle is sustained where they continue proper maintenance on that boat it should obviously be allowed. But for the boats shown, I can't help but think that this situation was always going to be just temporary and never sustainable indefinitely. A nice way to help would be to purchase the boats from owners before destroying them and offer welfare and housing to those who need it.
OR let them take craps and pee all over?
@@netglitch_ so why are big oil companies allowed to do it? For profit.
Instead of lobbying for low income people to lose their only housing option because it slightly inconveniences you, why not lobby for affordable public housing to fix the issue? It’s almost as if the inconvenience isn’t the boats, it’s the people within them he can’t stand. They are throwaways to him. If they were all million dollar yachts out there with white affluent individuals enjoying them, I bet he wouldn’t have a shred of an issue. 🤔
Imagine having the money to live in one of the wealthiest parts of the US & still catching feelings over seeing some lower class citizens. Smh how disgusting these wealthy people are. This preconceived notion that THEY worked harder than everyone, & that if ur not rich like them it’s simply because your lazy & not a hard worker is beyond asinine.
Privilege
That would raise taxes which is the only thing the rich fucks care about apart from their property value
Except someone said straight up "they paased a law in the 1980s stating that NOBODY is allowed to dock in the harbour for more than 72 hours." That includes everything from shrimping boata to mega yachts.
If many of the anchor outs were actually drug and/or alcohol addicts like that guy said then there might be a lot of property crime and theft there due to addicted anchor outs stealing to help feed their addictions.
I've worked with actual "functioning addicts". A regular job does not pay enough to feed an addiction while also paying for the cost of living, especially not a job at a place that would tolerate someone who was clearly drunk or high at work.
Most of them could only do temp jobs and even then could only work at a temp job for a limited period of time before they disappear for days on end and get replaced by someone else.
Lol that dude has had his dock crashed into 16 times! You think they’re going to pay for any of that damage? Doubt it. The law has been in place since the 80’s, this isn’t some new thing that just happened. What’s wrong with working hard for something nice and taking care of the things he paid for? So you’re saying it’s ok for some homeless meth head to walk by your house and throw a brick through your window because of your privilege? Get real 😂
I used to see documentaries showing the extreme wealth disparities between the rich and the poor in places like South Africa and Brazil, with very little middle class and think, “I’m glad America isn’t that bad.” Used to. Now I see most wealth concentrated into a tiny percent of the population in America, with a shrinking middle class, and a growing poor class. We’re going in that same direction.
Couldn’t agree more.
14% of Kroger fulltime workers were homeless in 2021. In 50 years time, that number will be 50%. Slavery is returning to America, slowly, but surely.
It's a global issue and the end route of capitalism.
dismantle capitalism and enforce national socialism. the people who's hands look the grimiest are worth more than the smooth hands, "worth" is key.
The UK is the same tbh....something has to give...I know communism isn't the answer and I know capitalism definitely isn't the answer but I think the world maybe needs a reset so that the top 1% still have plenty of super wealth but a small percentage of their wealth possibly raise their tax so it's not hidden in off shore accounts and so life is a bit more fair in terms of people being able to work up the ladder if they wish because that's not the case any more and young people are pretty depressed as don't see the point if they cant work there way up to getting a mortgage or even able to afford rent..idk 😔😔
There is a bit more to this than is really covered. I live in SF, and I know a few people that do live on the water in a boat. One of my good friends is an Aerospace engineer and lives on his boat, has a Starlink for the internet and works from home. He stays here for 5-6 months of the year, then heads out to sail wherever the wind takes him the other 6 months of the year. He makes good money, but not enough to afford a SF home, instead, he roams the Arctic, travels the world, and etc. He has never had a problem, but his boat is maintained, it runs, and it is sea-worthy. It's like someone that lives in an RV full time just driving around the country, stopping off at RV parks, but it's a boat... no one has an issue with it. Then you have the other side of it, the streets you see with a line of older broken down RV's that aren't really RV's anymore, they'll never run, and are now just a tiny home and part of a homeless encampment. A lot of the boats they are talking about don't run, they aren't watertight anymore, and as we saw, they can take on water and sink or the anchor can break, and they are pushed into docks and stuff, because they simply don't run anymore, no way of avoiding objects or other boats should something happen, and then they cause damage, and of course, they don't carry any insurance in case that does happen, they aren't registered, etc. It sucks to lose a home, but, if you are going to live in a boat on the water, you need to keep it operational, and the reason these are scrapped and etc is because they aren't, and they have literally become a danger. . It's like any home, if you don't take care of it, and keep up with the maintenance, then it is going to get condemned and you are going to get booted out, most of these are condemned homes, they just happen to be on the water, and they are unfortunately beyond repair in most cases. Like I said, it is sad, but it is their fault, if they kept up with the maintenance, they would be all good, and it's not the money, I know a lot of people that love boats and would gladly help out others just for the fun of working on a boat. For whatever reason, they just let it go, and it went too far.
Vice should have talked to this guy because he has the whole story. 👆
It is also worth mentioning that the county then “buys” these broken boats for far more money than they are worth, from the owners after they have already been declared to not be sea worthy, before ever scrapping them.
You are actually legally allowed to anchor in that part of the bay as well as many others, but similar to having an RV you have to move every few days, just a few miles to another part of the bay, but most of these boats are not sea worthy enough to actually be able to move, so they just sit in the mud leaking gas and sewage into the bay.
It's amazing how much effort that finance guy put in to get rid of these people but provides zero sensible solutions for housing them. It shows you exactly where his mindset is at. I hope that the guy in the hoodie and cap saves up and moves down to Texas, we'd welcome him in and he can still go boating.
Texas would not welcome him. You are actually delusional because they have stricter homeless laws and they actually enforce them. People are moving to Texas because of the homeless crisis in California. It's also ridiculous to suggest that this man has to solve homelessness before he can get the laws enforced. It's people like you who will turn texas into the same hellhole as California.
Yeah man. Lot more room for meth encampments down there. Enjoy!
@@CoreyIsTheName he has a job dude. Did you catch he's a handyman?
@@deuscoromat742 it's not ridiculous to put a plan in place as you're doing that for the homeless. Saying you don't have an answer isn't the solution either because you're quick to get rid of it but those people don't magically disappear and make the entire place worse because that isn't also being addressed. It's like putting tires on a car and not putting air in them then driving a few miles down the highway. What do you think is gonna happen? lol
Also he works for a living as a handimen because the boat doesn't fuel itself. Last I checked we have a shortage of blue collar workers in America and if he comes down here he'd make a killing.
@@deuscoromat742 I'd rather welcome him. Instead of some jerk.
Who is quick to call people "delusional."
Man it sure seems easy to "feel bad" for people losing their homes when you're sitting on a $10,000 couch in a $2,000,000 waterfront house, I hope that guy isn't losing too much sleep over it in his temperature controlled adjustable king sized bed.
Lol @ 2 million. Much more than that hahah
On Zillow the average waterfront home in that area is $12mil
wow. these comments make me sad. key west resident here, and some of my closest friends are live- aboards. they ARE the hardest working, cleanest, most respectful people i know. it is SMART to not pay rent, especially because many landlords here are really shitty. instead of getting in your tiny little heads about "ohH UGHH METH PIRATES" maybe consider the freedom and love for the water these people have?
Cali folk are weirdos... they haven't been humbled in a while... they need a good earthquake, or real major tsunami before they'll all feel one as a community again. Bunch of ego centric nut cases out there.
@@scottbeaulieu13 Drought, covid, and wildfires aren't enough apparently.
Anecdotal evidence. Plus your opinion doesn't matter because you are not paying property taxes in the areas where these people are setting up. The regulations were put in place or advocated for by the people they actually affect. You could donate all of your money and time to helping them but nobody else is obligated to.
@@scottbeaulieu13 “money is the root of all evil”
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I went to school for boatbuilding. I would NOT recommend buying or living on a boat if you’re on a tight budget. Failure to do regular maintenance could end up with your house on the bottom of the bay. Remember folks, BOAT is an acronym for BUST OUT ANOTHER THOUSAND 😢