It is cheaper to house homeless people than to keep them on the street.
@RandomPerson-tz7wk
4 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure it cost "nothing" keeping people on the street. Let other society pay for it. Not me. - rich people mentality (Ps, satirical comment)
@anubis2814
4 жыл бұрын
Thats true for most of the basics kzitem.info/news/bejne/tqigq4GBbot6oaw
@cherielk1975
4 жыл бұрын
Andrew Powell yep, a single night in a shelter can be as much as 1 month of rent for a 2 bedroom apartment..
@jonathanperigo6853
4 жыл бұрын
@Khaled Rapp that's because the point isnt to do the best most efficient thing. It's to maintain power.
@camellia_black
4 жыл бұрын
@Khaled Rapp I imagine it's more about short term profit. Lots of things companies do are incredibly risky and unstable for them, but they can often fall back on subsidies and bailouts.
@buzzkillzine8536
4 жыл бұрын
I've had people tell me how easy it is to start a buisness and be successful. The one's I know who 'made it on their own' were able to save money while working a job in high school because they came from a family where everything was provided for them. They were able to study hard in year 12 and at university because they were able to give up their part time employment and focus on study because they either had the money saved or were provided it from their family. They got their first car as a birthday gift when they turned 18 and in some cases were able to move out into a nice new rental property that was owned by their parents as an investment and were able to save money for a house deposit because they either paid very little or no rent. These people are very nice but they don't understand not having money. They haven't experienced poverty and don't understand that 'being broke' doesn't mean I'm down to my last couple of hundred before I have to dig in to my 4 or 5 figure savings account. Anyways great video. I reckon you nailed it.
@jasentracy8711
4 жыл бұрын
Not to mention that most new businesses fail, and that the average successful business starter has already failed twice. Therefore it's no surprise that most people who succeed at it have a solid safety net, such as family connections, that allow them not to be ruined if they fail.
@missmelodies52
4 жыл бұрын
What I love about this example is not only that it's so true, but also that it's considered middle class. Even middle class people have no concept of how much easier they have it than those born into poverty because they think they're normal working class people.
@Taru_the_Witch
4 жыл бұрын
Everyone that I have had talk to me about their success has been like "so in the 80's-90's" but we had a market crash in 2008 and I'm class of 2010...
@mrfoozy47
4 жыл бұрын
Perfect example, and on top of that, even for the people who do start their own business and “make it on their own”, they fail to see the simple math at play. Conservatives will tell you “anyone can make it”, and while some people CAN make it, that necessarily means that NOT EVERYONE CAN, MATHEMATICALLY
@fredthegamerschrarder7716
4 жыл бұрын
So what are trying to say?
@tofu_golem
4 жыл бұрын
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." --dom Helder Cámara
@Scroteydada
4 жыл бұрын
haha breelyant
@OtherDAS
4 жыл бұрын
No, you got called a Communist when you proposed a terrible 'solution' to fix things. Given how many more people starved under Communism than Capitalism, you owe people an apology.
@beatrixwickson8477
4 жыл бұрын
@@OtherDAS asking why sure is a terrible solution. Some people might even say it's not a solution. I guess asking why is also a terrible elephant and a terrible singing contest and a terrible stamp collection. It's a terrible everything basically, except a terrible question.
@OtherDAS
4 жыл бұрын
@q ǝɯɐN ou The mass starvation in Communists countries are well known. You can have your own opinion but not your own facts.
@OtherDAS
4 жыл бұрын
@@beatrixwickson8477 Let's be clear, he was doing more than just asking why. He had solutions for this issue. And it wasn't Free Market capitalism, it was some sort of Socialism. And he was properly identified and classified based on his social and economic theories/policies he wanted to undertake. Historically nothing has fed as many as Capitalism, nor made the poor as well off. You really only get a middle class when your society is generating a good deal of wealth, and Capitalist countries have the biggest middle classes. And we live far better than most upper classes of several generations ago. See our TVs, and Phones and Computers for quick evidence. We also have FAT poor people, when historically the poor were quite thin. The answer to the question of why the poor have no food is usually govt got involved in the economy.
@RyanStorey1231
4 жыл бұрын
I just took out my contacts, so I read the title as "Why do we tolerate puberty?" and I was like, "Goddamn, this is a mood." I was much cuter before puberty. And I was a better singer, too. Sorry, I'm fine. It's fine... I'M FINE
@gwinsyn9194
4 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@withlovemiki
4 жыл бұрын
This comment deserves more than a thumbs up xD!... Freaking wish KZitem would allow laugh, heart, and cry emojis like Facebook
@toothpastehombre
4 жыл бұрын
HA
@vega1411
4 жыл бұрын
@jodiethemathgenius9204
4 жыл бұрын
40$ is 3 weeks of groceries for me, 200$ is a month of rent when you live with 5 roommates like I do, like, yeah, that kind of money can be the difference between starving or not, or the difference between getting evicted or not
@OtherDAS
4 жыл бұрын
ID is generally good for eight years.So 5$... a year. Less than 50 cents a month savings.
@jonc8074
4 жыл бұрын
no it depends on your state. 5 years here. and you're usually guaranteed to lose public transportation fare ($6) or ($1100/year for a bus pass) a 1/2 to a whole workday ($25-100) waiting in line at DMV (bagged lunch of dumpster food because we're saving money) and they ask for things like your name on a utility bill (renters and roommates often don't have this) a birth certificate (30 dollars) a passport (100) to prove your address and identity. It helps to have internet or mobile data but that's 50 more dollars (you need that utility bill) or bus fare to the library to get your documents online which is more time and money out of your food and time budget.
@1123-n9f
4 жыл бұрын
Your rent is only $200 a month? God damn, I could never
@doggodoggo3000
4 жыл бұрын
@@1123-n9f I don't even pay rent any more and im still broke. I don't know how people do it. Im a live in caretaker.
@OtherDAS
3 жыл бұрын
@@doggodoggo3000 They have a more productive and in demand job.
@iceyarticuno
4 жыл бұрын
I have also always strongly disliked the assumption that individuals know how to save or invest without education, as though it's an inherent thing in some assumed learning process.
@darlalathan6143
4 жыл бұрын
Schools and colleges don't teach investment!
@iceyarticuno
4 жыл бұрын
@@darlalathan6143 in many formal educations, I agree, and the same holds true of informal educational settings as well. It's really frustrating.
@nectarshrub
4 жыл бұрын
My parents are uneducated and poor and it took me many years to understand these basic ideas. And I know others in the same boat. Almost nobody I know from the same socioeconomic circumstances I had growing up now owns a house. Only those from well off families. It's so sad to see.
@somkeshav4143
4 жыл бұрын
but for odd reason, those things are required to get more money, which doesn't make a lot of sense either.
@Neenerella333
4 жыл бұрын
One lucky thing I had was an 8th grade project about balancing an imaginary checkbook, paying imaginary bills, saving imaginary money. We had to do it while completing regular public school algebra 1. It should be taught.
@TheOutlawed1000
4 жыл бұрын
Things no one has ever said: "My boss works harder than me." "I get payed exactly what I'm worth." "I came out of poverty pretty easily, now here's all the steps for free." "I understand how Jeffrey Epstein made his money." Incidentally, trying to not be broke is expensive for some reason.
@helenl3193
4 жыл бұрын
I've heard people say that their bosses (our senior management, not my immediate supervision/line manager) work harder than they/we do. In 2 jobs at different companies, once by a colleague I didn't know that well, the other by my manager during a performance review; that's how I knew I wasn't getting the raise I'd been promised at the previous review. I found a new job ASAP. In Hollywood/most US TV that'd look like a big quitting scene and going on to succeed in a big way relatively quickly. In reality that means staying in the job for 5 months while job hunting, and then likely having to do the same again in a few years once promotion is again ruled out - or proves to mean extra work for no more pay! 😒
@jongottem9601
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah well i have had bosses that work pretty much 24/7....And they are construction jobs,painting roofing landscaping etc but my point is the owners of the company's i have worked for are always working.If they are not at the job they was getting supplies,making phone calls till 9PM.,dealing with everyone's problems...I can tell you i would not want to change places with most of them even if i could....Just pay me point me to the job and what needs done and leave..I do not want to deal with the customers,i do not want to use my car to get supplies.I do not want to be called at home after my 8 hours. Now if it was my own company that is different but i am not jealous of my boss for having a car collection and a big ass house and a boat and things like that because i know he has earned it,and i also know they hardly have the time to enjoy it and use them....All i see is the work truck that he spends most of his life in.
@victorvelie3980
4 жыл бұрын
My bosses work harder than me. There I said it
@Kaefer1973
4 жыл бұрын
@@victorvelie3980 Film or at least record yourself saying it, upload it and share the link, otherwise it didn't happen.
@smms905
4 жыл бұрын
My boss works harder than me. And i'm constantly self-conscious of living up to and being worth my salary... which is at the lower end of the industry standard.
@callusklaus2413
4 жыл бұрын
Yo, maybe this is nitpicking, but I wanted to softly push back against something you said. Overwhelmingly, statistically, wealth is best predicted by preexisting wealth. It isn't some people who are rich began life wealthy, it's most of them. It's more of a tone thing, otherwise I really liked this video.
@T1J
4 жыл бұрын
I feel like there is a whole section of this video that says exactly that
@RandomPerson-tz7wk
4 жыл бұрын
It's called wealth mobility. While it's true, "most" are born wealthy the majority of them don't stay wealthy. The exemption to this is only when a head of family established and ingrained into succeeding generations traits that are functional and useful, ie resourceful or opportunist. So that each generation is better than before. But this trick doesn't need wealth to start. Hence that's why refugees/migrants have tendency to accumulate wealth from nothing (or less than avg).
@Hamletonium
4 жыл бұрын
@@T1J It felt like your initial statement about how the left is silly about this cancelled the sentiment a bit. I ultimately mostly agree with your points there and think it's a problem of how the weight or tone was distributed across the argument.
@callusklaus2413
4 жыл бұрын
@@Hamletonium Thanks, I think you put words to my feelings better than I did.
@Tocha_official
4 жыл бұрын
@@BadEmpanada You guys, including @T1J, said some, most, the majority, etc but don't give anything to back them up. Any statistics about this? If you don't, then basically all that you're arguing here is moot because they're only assumptions.
@QuestingRefuge
4 жыл бұрын
Complete agreement. I think this is a large contributor to ableism as well. Productivity (especially combined with meritocracy) being required for survival is harm.
@baltofarlander2618
3 жыл бұрын
So what should be required for survival?
@bigbrainenergyguy
3 жыл бұрын
@@baltofarlander2618 "I dunno, being pure of heart I guess." Is what it feels like people are saying lmao. Problem is, somebody's gotta be productive enough to keep things running, so we're naturally going to place more value on more productive people. I don't think we should let unproductive people suffer needlessly, but you can't say it's unreasonable to have a meritocratic society. That's fucking stupid.
@baltofarlander2618
3 жыл бұрын
@@bigbrainenergyguy agree.
@Dorian_sapiens
4 жыл бұрын
Choosing not to reduce people's suffering is choosing to prolong their suffering, and that is immoral. And, as Cornel West likes to say, justice is what love looks like in public. Also, T1J is on Nebula? Cool.
@jodiethemathgenius9204
4 жыл бұрын
something people don't seem to realize is lots of people are poor because they're too disabled to work, or at least work full time, all the poor people I know are disabled
@lavendarcrash2941
4 жыл бұрын
The disgusting detail to this is there is a whole large segment of the disabled whom businesses are legally allowed to exploit by paying them less than minimum wage. Meanwhile the business also likely qualifies for grant money for employing those registered as disabled.
@americagonzalez9881
4 жыл бұрын
@@lavendarcrash2941 i agree
@OtherDAS
3 жыл бұрын
All the poor people I knew were college students who didn't stay poor, or small business people whose $$ was all tied into a business they had to work at day and night to become successful.
@OtherDAS
3 жыл бұрын
@@lavendarcrash2941 That's the incentive to hire them as they won't be as productive as others. Get rid of those 'disgusting' programs and they won't be hired. This way less $$ of taxpayers money is used to help out the disabled. I don't see you giving them a job.
@lavendarcrash2941
3 жыл бұрын
@@OtherDAS the problem isn't the grant programs. The problem is that businesses are not required to pay disabled workers the same as other employees as part of qualifying for the grants. I am not disgusted with the program, I am disgusted with the companies who abuse it like every other welfare program out there because they value profits, not people. And the law allows it because laws are made by people with money to protect and enrich themselves and others who have money. ANYONE employed full-time should be able to support themselves with that income without having to depend on welfare programs to survive. Anyone. Period, end of discussion.
@holliebrokaw3716
4 жыл бұрын
Can we talk about poverty on reservations? Something like 40% of all Navajo homes don't have a running sink or toilet. In one of the richest countries in the world. All of the stuff in this video is true, but imagine adding to all of that the worse public schools and worse job opportunities that natives have inflicted upon them. I wish we could consider native issues more often. They seem to be widely forgotten
@Joostmhw
2 жыл бұрын
Yes though they prefer Amerindian
@quasi8180
2 жыл бұрын
Its unnacceptable
@joealexander9043
4 жыл бұрын
Totally agree that to end poverty we need a coordinated international effort, rather than charity donations and individual political parties doing it on their own
@sierrasouthwell9237
4 жыл бұрын
Plus, a lot of charities are bunk. Most money donated goes to admin. Or the charity is less a charity and more a political action group or think tank. Those last two especially are the favored charities of the 1% (Think Clinton Foundation or Trump Foundation). Not to say that there aren't wonderful charities out there, but just make sure to do your research. Even more famous ones- like the Red Cross or the Susan B. Coleman foundation- have some sketchy things that go on in the background.
@jackgude3969
4 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite arguments is to say that yes, exceptional work does deserve exceptional rewards. Most people can’t be exceptional though. That’s the definition. Most people have to be okay or the system can’t be said to work for most people. Gas station attendants and fast food line cooks deserve peace of mind and safety just as much as anyone else. If anything they work harder than those “big-brain thought leaders” at the top of the hierarchy
@jackgude3969
4 жыл бұрын
Also this one. Me: do you think we as a species have the resources to feed and shelter 7 billion people? Other: I mean yeah technically probably Me: then why don’t we do that? But you gotta stare at them like you’re expecting them to actually answer.
@IamIK3
4 жыл бұрын
Jack Gude I really like the second framing in particular, because it forces the person you’re debating to really stop and acknowledge how we just accept inequality by default.
@johannageisel5390
4 жыл бұрын
@@IamIK3 I'm afraid it breaks down because many people that tolerate or even encourage economic hierarchies do not believe (or would not admit) that we actually have the ability to feed and shelter all people on Earth. They might start about overpopulation and that poor countries are poor because they mismanage their stuff and are corrupt and whatnot (which might be true to some extend, but it's not the most important factor; rich countries are also corrupt and still do not suffer). And they would probably be afraid that they would have to give something up in order to stop the starvation of other people. And that they don't want.
@OtherDAS
4 жыл бұрын
@@IamIK3 Poverty is the default. Wealth requires effort to generate. It's not handed out as a reward. Make it easier to generate wealth. I mean technically you could have been growing crops to feed people instead of being on the internet commenting on videos. But here you are.
@souti7436
4 жыл бұрын
Isn't it kind of interesting that Religion and Capitalism often have the same ideas baked into them? If you make the wrong choices you deserve to suffer (Hell and Poverty) and if you suffer it must have been because you made the wrong choices (Poverty and Devine Retribution)
@Cosmosandchisme
4 жыл бұрын
I never noticed that before but it’s spot on and kind of scary...
@Duragizer8775
4 жыл бұрын
That's true of fundamentalist/conservative religion, certainly. Liberal/progressive religion, not really.
@souti7436
4 жыл бұрын
@@Duragizer8775 I completely agree, being a progressive Christian myself. But this new wave of religious thought is not accepted and so may be called 'Spiritual' and not Religious. And let's be honest, a dozen cavities would have made the comment a lot less punchy.
@souti7436
4 жыл бұрын
@@Duragizer8775 Perhaps the origin is the same or powerful people just came to the same conclusion of the best ideologies to use to control the masses?
@franciscofernandez8183
4 жыл бұрын
Well, I mean Adam Smith's kind of capitalism stems directly from his religious beliefs. The "Invisible Hand" he talks about it's literally good.
@nacoran
4 жыл бұрын
I got sick. I stayed in college because I could take out loans to keep a roof over my head (and didn't do very well last couple semesters). I used my credit cards to get medication... and yes, that's what they told me to do at the welfare office... "Why can't you just use your credit cards?" Actual quote from the aid worker. Eventually ended up on disability. The credit cards eventually went past statute of limitations and the student loans were forgiven.
@JonGodcommadore65
4 жыл бұрын
It's abhorrent you had to do this. USA?
@sacta
4 жыл бұрын
The idea that most rich people inherited their wealth is silly? I guess it depends on the country. In the USA, class mobility is some of the lowest it's ever been. At the current point, saying 'most rich people in the US worked hard for their money' is not just 'silly', it's delusional.
@gooseleap
4 жыл бұрын
something i feel like a lot of people don't understand is the link between disability and poverty.... some people genuinely dont seem to understand how disabilities affect peoples ability to sustain themselves even with existing government programs. an upsetting amount of homeless people are disabled and i never understood how people just ignore that?? do people choose to be disabled??
@katherinemorelle7115
4 жыл бұрын
Firstly, it depends on what kind of rich. If we’re talking multi millionaires and billionaires- they usually did have a leg up to begin with. They might have made a lot of money on top of that, but they usually started a lot higher up the chain than someone on the bottom. Also, I want to note that the term “meritocracy” was actually invented to parody the very idea of a meritocracy. It’s kinda like the bootstraps thing, really- which originally was pointing out that it’s actually impossible to do so.
@katherinemorelle7115
4 жыл бұрын
I know I should wait to make comments (I blame my ADHD). As is evidence by the Jossing of my comment, where my point was addressed literally as soon as I hit play again. My bad. Sorry. (Though I’ll still pause and comment. I don’t have the memory or concentration needed to wait until the end) Also, the “someone needs to do it” thing. My Prime Minister (ugh), once said that if aged care workers wanted a good wage, they should get a better job. But if every aged care worker got a better job, who is going to look after our elderly? Apparently that’s not a problem for ScoMoFo.
@mboatrightED300
4 жыл бұрын
I got lectured at the other day by a guy who said he had "no sympathy" for homeless people, because he and hsi wife lived on only $8,000 a year (20 years ago...) and all you have to do is scrimp and spend money on nothing and you can work your way out of it. This...made me literally have an anxiety attack because I already spend so little money on things to bring myself joy, I can't cinch that belt tighter. I make $15,000/year, and after rent, food, utilities, and above all MEDICAL BILLS I have nothing left. How will cutting maybe $10-20 a month that I spend on a few pleasures add up to anything that gets me out of my situation? I've been feeling miserable since that conversation, and your video was super helpful in making explicit all the reasons why what he said to me was crap, so thanks.
@fatcat1414
4 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that you acknowledged the complexity of these issues while still making your points concise. It made for a compelling video essay and is a breath of fresh air from recent political events.
@limbverbatim2220
4 жыл бұрын
I moved down to the north end of DC around 2 and half years ago, and I was surprised by all the homeless people that I walked/drove by. I gave 5 bucks to one of them and he said "God bless you" to me and hand me a rose that was living off water in a Wendy's cup. The government was able to afford to help banks around ten years ago; how come they can't do the same for that guy?
@JKJ1900
4 жыл бұрын
More people need to learn to understand that what people need is more important than what they may deserve. What a person "deserves" is suggestive, and depends on the standards of those judging them, but what people need is far more universal. We she all be more concerned when people are judged not not "deserve" what they need for the sake of their own survival, or a quality life. A life where ones needs are not met, a life filled with suffering, a life devoid of the qualities that make one happy to be alive, is not a life worth living, at least as far as I am concerned.
@Dan-yl4gh
4 жыл бұрын
As a economics academic. this was spot on. The conservative economists who think poverty is a righteous punishment for the people who "aren't working hard" are people I imagined internalized nothing in their economics classes. In a time period were production is so high people shouldn't be without food and shelter. it's genuinely absurd we don't provide these basic needs to people. This would also in no way stop people from becoming wealthy, it would actually increase wealth all around if we didn't allow our lowest income brackets to suffer so much.
@Jadesky22
4 жыл бұрын
i always find it interesting that looking from a larger prospective it looks like the elimination of poverty is not only a moral good but a economic positive. The same reason public education is a good investment is the reason that the elimination of poverty is. a investment in your people now is a better tomorrow.
@OtherDAS
3 жыл бұрын
You got things backwards. It's a good economy that reduces poverty. Capitalism not Socialism leads to a good economy. Capitalism produces the economic positive of less poverty.
@audreyfinlay4378
3 жыл бұрын
@@OtherDAS really cuz it seems like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer under capitalism now.
@OtherDAS
3 жыл бұрын
@@audreyfinlay4378 Look at your smart phone. Now look at the best phone available to the 1% in 1970 (or heck even 2000). Which is better? And mind you even poor people have them, not just the middle class. Look at your average joe's Computer. Now the best computer that could be had in 1970 when the supposed growth ended. Not even close. Yes, the rich got richer. So did the poor. Yes there will still be the crack head living in the street but your blue color worker, the working poor are far better off today than middle and some upper classes were just a generation or two ago. The issue some have, is that in a Free Market when the poor double in wealth the rich may triple. How is this an issue?
@SwnkyTiger
3 жыл бұрын
@@OtherDAS You seem truly misguided and tone deaf ... which is sad. While true "Today" is always the best day to be alive, it does not mean people are not suffering everyday in systems which for most are practically inescapable. You'd have to wilfully ignore reality to not see it, I hope that isn't the case. I'm sure a lot of people dream of being truly rich, most would just like to pay their bills and feel a sense of security. They may not change the world or create some new technology but nonetheless should experience dignity in their existence. We may not genuinely agree on anything but I still believe you deserve the potential to feel a sense of self-respect and pride in whatever life you choose to live, provided it is not at the expense of someone else. Technology advances regardless of the indignity experienced in poverty and while Capitalism is not inherently the enemy, if you a business owner cannot afford to pay your staff a reasonable dignified wage then you do not 'deserve' to succeed regardless of your perceived hard work. Feel free to continue minimizing the suffering of others with your meaningless comparisons to what MATERIAL POSSESSIONS are available for purchase today, doesn't sound pernicious at all. Enjoy your stuff Demetri..
@OtherDAS
3 жыл бұрын
@@SwnkyTiger == You seem truly misguided and tone deaf ... which is sad. ++ Take your fake sympathy and stuff it. I am not misguided. Fools like you who don't understand economic but still think themselves wise enough to tinker and ruin the bounty for every one due to their greed and envy of others are disgusting. == While true "Today" is always the best day to be alive, it does not mean people are not suffering everyday ++ Yes, todays system is better than what ever went before. I also didn't say it was paradise either. Everyone still has to live in the real world. == in systems which for most are practically inescapable. ++ It's not inescapable, it just that the other options and systems suck way more. You want to replace it, come up with a better system, AND show it's better. Don't burn down the current building for the promise that the untried new one will be a little bit better. == You'd have to wilfully ignore reality to not see it, I hope that isn't the case. ++ It's you who is ignoring reality. Socialism sucks. Economic laws can not be ignored without consequence. Listening to the Law of gravity when building a plane doesn't mean you don't want people to fly. It means you understand why they shouldn't jump off roofs. == I'm sure a lot of people dream of being truly rich, ++ And compared to previous Generations they are. Look at the 1% rich of 1970. Look at their phones, tvs, and computers. Now look at the average persons Cellphone, TV and PC. Guess who has much better quality and more services on them? == most would just like to pay their bills and feel a sense of security. They may not change the world or create some new technology but nonetheless should experience dignity in their existence. ++ Dignity is internal not external. Also, again compare the survival of previous generations to the un appreciated luxury of today. == We may not genuinely agree on anything but I still believe you deserve the potential to feel a sense of self-respect and pride in whatever life you choose to live, provided it is not at the expense of someone else. ++ In a free market, with free exchange it is NEVER at the expense of someone else. Stop trying to redefine terms. == Technology advances regardless of the indignity experienced in poverty ++ It does not march forward on it's own. Capitalists make the technology, and make it available to everyone eventually. Again look at your cellphone and compare to the best phone the rich had in 1970. Thank an Entrepreneur and a Capitalist for that. == and while Capitalism is not inherently the enemy, ++ It is not the enemy in any shape or form. == if you a business owner cannot afford to pay your staff a reasonable dignified wage then you do not 'deserve' to succeed regardless of your perceived hard work. ++ The pay is mutually decided on. High School kids flipping burgers do NOT get a dignified wage that enables them to live on their own with spouse and 2.3 kids. They aren't that productive. Become more productive if you want more. Law of Supply and Demand can not be ignored with out terrible consequences. == Feel free to continue minimizing the suffering of others ++ It's you doing this. I understand the constraints reality has placed on life. and understand that ignoring basic economic laws will INCREASE suffering not lower it. Shame on you, for caring more about patting yourself on the back as a do-gooder, rather than caring about the actual results your policies will have. Unicorn piss don't make my car go, gasoline does. == with your meaningless comparisons to what MATERIAL POSSESSIONS are available for purchase today, doesn't sound pernicious at all. ++ These material things help make life easier. Like a roof over my head, fresh food in the fridge, electric stove over smoky fire, heat in the winter and cool in the summer. these are good things, and are what people want -- not just for themselves but their families. Don't dismiss the free judgement of people in regards to what they want. Nor force people into your life style. == Enjoy your stuff Demetri.. ++ Me and my family will. Including the advanced medicine that Capitalism has given us. Unlike the Soviet Union which used your system and wound up with a life expectancy going down. And long lines for food. And not much material stuff. But plenty of people desperate to get out.
@b_wrecka
4 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of “The ones who walk away from Omelas” by Ursula K Le Guin. What suffering is acceptable? How much? Can we even walk away at this point? I appreciate your message. Going to show it to my students.
@GrampaPiggie
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the shoutout. A lot of people seem to forget about the people who cook meals for them.
@mattjohnson380
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I think a lot of people on the upper end do this thing where they go "I worked hard and got rich, so that's all you need to do. So if you aren't rich, you must not be working hard enough." and... no... maybe it takes hard work, but it takes /more/ than that. We don't live in a strict meritocracy, and they don't like to acknowledge it.
@RicardoPetinga
4 жыл бұрын
Even when someone gets rich because they "work hard" or have a profitable idea, they never make their wealth exclusively on their own when that wealth reaches a massively disproportionate level. A multi-millionaire does not make millions without the labor of others who are paid much less. It's like Bernie told Boomerberg in the Las Vegas debate: Boomer didn't work alone for his billions of dollars, the workers he employed did, and they didn't become billionaires or millionaires. Let's say, hypothetically, one of his hard workers made a million... Can anyone say unironically that BlOOMbERg worked 65 thousand times harder? (I think his "net worth" was 65 billion dollars or close to that last time I checked/heard about it.) On a side note but probably not any less important, was his work beneficial in any way to society? Did he/his company produce anything that people actually needed? Or did it just take advantage of a system that employs people often for the sole purpose of circulating capital in the direction of the already super wealthy, allowing them to keep some to survive in that same system that requires people to have money to be able to afford basic necessities and a minimum of quality of life, but just enough so they have to keep working until their old age?
@kristopherloviska9042
4 жыл бұрын
EXACTLY! I don't care how many shares of McDonald's stock one owns. Without someone to flip the burgers, you got nothing.
@annat7717
4 жыл бұрын
Also... if people make a "bad choice" does that mean they should suffer? I once learned that low SES folks often spend money on things like movie tickets and dining out even though they 'cant afford it' because their future is uncertain, when they save money it all disappears in an emergency, and happiness is fleeting so 'might as well have a good time now' because you don't know what the future holds. I'm not doing this argument justice, but I would go so far as to say that even low income people who don't sacrifice enjoyment to save every last penny are deserving of a leg up. Always love your videos T1J ❤
@gaebren9021
4 жыл бұрын
WOW, you have to pay to vote? o.O In Australia we get fined $50 AUS, $30 US, if we don't vote! That is not just anyone who is registered. That is everyone. It is illegal not to vote.
@mandalevelsup
4 жыл бұрын
So we don't technically have to pay to vote, but we do have to pay for our government issued IDs, so if our state has voter ID laws... And our government really is comfortable with making it difficult for people to vote. This is all ultimately a form of voter suppression since making it difficult for poor, disabled, and or marginalized people to vote tends to mean that the people in power don't feel as compelled to... well... Serve them. It's a really upsetting system, honestly.
@DavidLindes
4 жыл бұрын
Amanda B indeed. And very much deliberate and intentional, sadly.
@gaebren9021
4 жыл бұрын
@@mandalevelsup HOLY COW! :-( That is horrific. Voter ID. Yeah, thats.... Ummm I am apologise for this next bit but. Your government has failed you... (the people) :-( what can be done? do you know? Is there charity organisations that can run like a bus full of people on a particular day to get these id's. Are officials able to come out to specific places to issue id's like if people are not able to get to an office? I am not offering solutions I am just wondering what could be done? How can people work around this system? They have sitched up poor people. It is not so bad in Australia but we are getting a welfare card. Which is pretty bad. I don't want to be on that.
@gaebren9021
4 жыл бұрын
@@DavidLindes I understand. :-( That is horrible
@banquetoftheleviathan1404
4 жыл бұрын
They make it a huge hassle out here too, long ass lines, you have to drive somewhere and can't just do it online, etc.
@gleann_cuilinn
4 жыл бұрын
In the words of Pyotr Kropotkin, “the landlord owes his riches to the poverty of the peasants, and the wealth of the capitalists comes from the same source.” Poverty is a necessary part of upholding private property and capitalistic relationships. It is enforced by design. Only a desperate person will sell themself for a wage, or give over most of that wage to a landlord. So, their desperation must be enforced. And the only way to enforce it is by the threat of violence by the state. If resources and supplies and means of production were held in common and democratically allocated, there would be no poverty.
@shanedsouza189
4 жыл бұрын
The world has enough for everyone's need, not everyone's greed.
@stevenliang3213
4 жыл бұрын
Shane DSouza : As my brother puts it, we have enough food to feed everyone. We just choose not to
@salvaldes3229
4 жыл бұрын
I've been the college kid without $200. Michael Strain has a point. I did take out a credit card, and then people like him scolded me for having credit card debt while I STILL struggled. One thing rich people miss about poverty is that it's not a state of owning zero (or nearly zero) dollars. Plenty of rich kids don't have much spending money while in college. It's a state of multiple debts that grow exponentially if you don't feed them. It's having to chose between having your phone shut off and having your medical debt go to collections. It's not being able to take a better paying job, because you would need to drive there, and you can't buy a car. It's having NO network of better-off friends or family to hit up when you get into trouble.
@andrewpowell1734
4 жыл бұрын
I also think that the wealthy understand money better than the poor and middle class. Financial management classes should be required in K-12 and not be elective courses.
@Tacom4ster
4 жыл бұрын
Also class on Anarchism
@Woahlookitthemoon
4 жыл бұрын
@@Tacom4ster Lets add critical thinking, too!
@vividao4123
4 жыл бұрын
Problem is that you'll just have a bunch of people who are broke and are more acutely aware of their brokenness while remaining complacent about it and assume that they are just bad at managing finances.
@darlalathan6143
4 жыл бұрын
Of course, one needs to make money to manage money.
@Wanettepoems
3 жыл бұрын
Late reply: I wouldn't say they understand money *better*, but that they understand it differently. They may know how to navigate stock markets and other such spheres, but oh, what I would not give to see the ones with more than they need try to live on either minimum wage or no wage at all. I do not think they could do as much with as little.
@Losckeychan
4 жыл бұрын
Poverty is a completely unnecessary vestigial organ kept alive by rich people who criminally getting away with telling other people around them not to rise above their station, and to be honest, how the billionaires of the world could continue to be billionaires without the smallest thought that perhaps their disgusting amount of wealth should literally be a crime is beyond me.
@herbcoleman5156
4 жыл бұрын
The saddest thing to me is that for everyone to live a comfortable middle class existence, the wealthy and super wealthy would not have to change their lives at all. We're talking 1-3%.
@thisisobviouslybait
4 жыл бұрын
@@herbcoleman5156sounds really good and possible when you just make up numbers and don't think any further into the future than the initial lets just take money from rich people step.
@herbcoleman5156
4 жыл бұрын
@@thisisobviouslybait I could get you the actual figure but Warren's campaign has them. It's not about "taking" money from them rich but having them pay their fair share. When you look at the amount of resources they consume and how little they pay back in taxes having them step up is only right (at least according to Warren Buffet and some other billionaires). A 3% tax on Jeff Bezos alone could raise almost 100,000 people out of poverty. You know what, he'd get even richer because these people would in turn purchase more products through Amazon, thus bringing more people out of poverty.
@thisisobviouslybait
4 жыл бұрын
@@herbcoleman5156 They already pay a much bigger share than you do % wise. Why don't you pay your fair share and match them before you demand more from other people. It's much easier to be generous with other people's money though isn't it.
@herbcoleman5156
4 жыл бұрын
@@thisisobviouslybait Afraid not . Warren Buffet said his secretary who earns $60,000 a year pays more in taxes than he does. Bezos paid NONE last year.
@TheAlfredo094
4 жыл бұрын
Almost completely agree with you. I think the disagreements could be interesting but ultimately unimportant to the political goal of giving poor people a good shot of having a decent life.
@mashpushblock9770
4 жыл бұрын
"We're all running the same race, but we all have a different starting line". I honestly wish i knew who to attribute that quote to but I don't really trust google to give me the right answer lol. Anyway. Liked the video. As someone who grew up sheltered from a lot of the hardships that come with poverty it took me a bit longer than I would like to admit that no amount of hard work guarantees a success.
@herbcoleman5156
4 жыл бұрын
Sadly we're not even all running the same race. Many are running something a kin to the steeple chase with barriers, hurdles and water hazards while others are downhill skiing.
@brittanylucas9194
4 жыл бұрын
The title of this alone earns my subscription.
@jackgude3969
4 жыл бұрын
I’ve only seen like a half dozen of your videos but they’re all just A1 primo such good stuff
@samuelrosander1048
2 жыл бұрын
It IS insane and disgusting how easily suffering and cruelty are justified or excused. Great video.
@andythedishwasher1117
4 жыл бұрын
Dude, I was a dishwasher for seven years before I quit a few weeks ago. I feel this issue so hard. I actually don't have that $40 at this very moment. I'm making music about it, and your essay just helped out a hell of a lot. Thank you for real, man.
@chicksbookstop7490
4 жыл бұрын
I started working and paying rent at 15. The only time I stopped working, two, three jobs sometimes was when I was in the hospital from neglecting my own health. I'm 37 now, just outta the hospital again, laid off and laid up. Being poor is so hard. Survival is a state of mind that I'm now convinced wealthy people have no concept of. I will not live long. I pray my children will do better than me.
@h8a1c3
4 жыл бұрын
When I was young I was very Republican and very conservative. I completely bought into the idea that everyone earned their success and wealth... and thus earned their poverty. The first crack in my worldview was my first job after grad school. I taught vocational classes in a women's prison. About a month after starting the job my car required an $1800 repair. Without hesitation my parents paid for it and didn't expect me to pay them back. I spent every day surrounded by women who were largely there because of poverty and generational dysfunction (which is also a byproduct of poverty). I couldn't help but spend every day realizing how lucky I was. What would I have done if my parents didn't pay for that repair? I quickly realized just how much had been handed to me throughout my entire life and how I'd done nothing to earn it. And I also quickly realized that lacking resources and social support systems were the real reason most of those people were in prison. It was humbling and ultimately changed me fundamentally aftera few other contributing experiences. As I've gotten older I've become cynical about whether other Republicans/conservatives actually believe what I believed. I sometimes think they're just knowingly reinforcing their power. But there are plenty of average people who do buy into the meritocracy and they prop up the machine. It depresses me to have fundamentally changed and wish I could get others to learn what I have learned.
@GoBooYourself
4 жыл бұрын
Because we tolerate greed
@SuperAlfonsoBros
4 жыл бұрын
I work in a factory and I can say I thought I was making a huge leap forward. This job pays 2 maybe even 3 times what I made working fast food and janitor work I did for a good 7 or 8 years. I've been with this job for 3 years now and my life is miles better and I'm grateful for what I've accomplished but I still struggle. Having a family and kids I NEED this job just to cover the basics. Honestly $40 was a lot of money back then and that's still true. I made it a habit to skip breakfast the past 3 years so I could afford gas for my car during the work week. Sometimes the struggle gets easier but I don't think it stops.
@slowbro596
4 жыл бұрын
On reddit the other day some person in an economic subreddit tried to argue that income is not related to quality of life, which a cursory google search immediately disproves. It's discouraging when I see people in the finance/economy field that have this clearly ignorant attitude about eliminating poverty. I understand the economy is complex and change can't happen overnight, but holy shit, can people at least not act like ignorant children?
@pythonjava6228
4 жыл бұрын
You right. If we're talking about wealth to the level of billionaires, most either inherited their wealth or came from otherwise fortunate backgrounds. Like Bill Gates with his trust fund or Donald Trump who got a million dollar loan from his father. It's extremely rare to go from poverty to even upper middle class let alone being a multi-millionaire / billionaire
@rumidude
4 жыл бұрын
Right on! Many of my progessive friends who though not wealthy are solidly middle-class, often dismiss the idea that poor people can't afford to do ... well just name something. I have even heard some say that peopl just have to "make it a priority" in order to afford say an entrance fee to a state or national park. And a person/family doesn't even have to be poor, just lower-middle-class for the finances to be fairly restrictive. I know because I have been both. Even $5 can be a very high hurdle sometimes. And we aren't even getting down to people who are destitute. Anyway, an absolutely great video. Thanks and stay HAKO!
@johannageisel5390
4 жыл бұрын
"Make it a priority"... Yeah, along with the 10 other things that already are a priority, like food, rent, heating, electricity, clothing, education fees, public transport/car payments to get to school/work, medical bills/medication, telephone/internet and emergencies.
@skateryan
3 жыл бұрын
I've lived in Dallas for nearly 10 years now, and I watched the same intersection go from one or two homeless people living under the overpass to an entire camp of people. I've never thought it was acceptable for people to be forced into poverty, but the rate at which it's visibly increasing is baffling.
@JayColorful
4 жыл бұрын
I completely agree with all your points! I always tell my family that I wish everyone on this earth would always have access to food, a safe place to stay, and not have to struggle so much just to live.
@skellymom
4 жыл бұрын
Yours is one of the best arguments I have heard about helping to abolish poverty and elevate those suffering from it. It comes from a place of empathy. Which is unfortunately lacking as of late. Anyone can have something bad happen to them and find themselves struggling through no fault of their own or making very human mistakes. We need to be more empathetic and loving as a nation. We need to help each other out.
@finecommathanks
4 жыл бұрын
I'm over here in Ms and I had to go to the DMV not too long ago. Something you might not have been aware of, I certainly wasn't, but the DMV has had to integrate with DHS. So every time someone at the DMV puts your name in a blank on their computer your name gets run through a bunch of search engines making sure you're not on a terrorist watchlist or you're not stealing an identity or whatever. The upshot of this is that it takes HOURS to process a handful of people. So you have to be there well before the DMV opens or be prepared to spend 6+ hours there. Our DMV closes for an hour for lunch too, so...
@herbcoleman5156
4 жыл бұрын
Yes the "Real ID" goes into effect in the Fall. In order to fly, you'll need passport or an ID with the Real ID star on it.
@yensid4294
4 жыл бұрын
Yep. I couldn't renew my Calif DL because I never changed my name on my SScard. I left the state in 5/01 & returned in 2007 not knowing the laws had been changed. It was a big ole mess with both DMV & the SSoffice. I doubt they caught any terrorists but I'm sure they inconvenienced MANY a woman who got married, divorced or remarried & didn't alert the SS office. 😈
@sierrasouthwell9237
4 жыл бұрын
@@yensid4294 And that is why I am not changing my name when I get married.
@yensid4294
4 жыл бұрын
@@sierrasouthwell9237 I had hyphenated my name thinking it would avoid confusion & paperwork with schools, doctors & govt agencies. Apparently I was wrong & it was too much to ask that they figure it out.
@Little_Lepus
4 жыл бұрын
Poor people work harder than ANYBODY. They DO make smart choices, clipping coupons, and buying things on sale! Having to be on your toes all the time to keep people from ripping you off is EXHUASTING.
@ese_victor
4 жыл бұрын
A family member, 50ish male white, what I would call a "moderate conservative" - super nice guy, only wants good in the world (can you tell I'm trying really hard NOT to paint him as a monster?) thinks the reason (the actual reason) that bad things happen to people (like being born into poverty) is because of bad luck. He was born lucky, others were not. This is a hard core embedded belief that is even more insidious than it sounds. If it's "god wills it" then you can pray and hope that god changes his mind. If it's meritocracy then you can do the whole 'bootstrapping' thing. But bad luck? That's just what happened. Then you die. I suspect this sentiment in privileged circles is more widespread than given credit for.
@GrayYeonWannabe
4 жыл бұрын
i mean, like, it is luck tho? no one chooses where they are born or who their parents are. which is fundamental to understanding that the system as is is screwed. if it isn't bad luck, what is it?
@SlapstickGenius23
4 жыл бұрын
What about screwed up families and addiction? They’re clearly linked with each other.
@sparshjohri1109
2 жыл бұрын
But it is bad luck though. That doesn't mean that we should just let it stand. If people are suffering because they're unlucky, isn't that all the more reason to help them (so that they can have circumstances that depend upon their efforts as opposed to their initial luck)?
@ese_victor
2 жыл бұрын
@@GrayYeonWannabe @sparsh and others.. I don’t know why I wasn’t notified of earlier of responses. Sorry I wasn’t clearer: Luck is their explanation for oppression. If you don’t want to be oppressed then have different pigment, be born somewhere else. This is way to relieve them of responsibility (and guilt) because the systems are fixed. If they don’t benefit you then “tough luck”
@johnmorris5963
4 жыл бұрын
Incredibly well put and thoughtful content. Thank you.
@nixpike3883
4 жыл бұрын
I recently read an article about how creatives have to have wealth to be creatives. That even at the start they need to be supported by someone else. That creatives aren't getting paid even a fraction of what their time is worth. When people commented on the article one said that only 15% of SAG make a living acting. I don't know how true that is but I can believe it. The average salary of an author is 6k a year. So that is one path to wealth that needs wealth to start.
@Justsegarra
4 жыл бұрын
Just discovered your channel, man. Why I have never come across it before, I have no idea. Instantly subscribed, and will be watching many of your videos.
@Mallory-Malkovich
4 жыл бұрын
I think there should be consequences for poor choices, I just don't think those consequences should include starvation or homelessness.
@mynewchanel
4 жыл бұрын
My man T1J tackling real issues out here
@kimberlee9608
4 жыл бұрын
Recognizing T1J hasn’t popped up in my feed in a bit even though I’m subbed... I’m not usually a bell ringer on YT but you got belled today man! Talking about some real important stuff and it’s not getting the push on this platform it really deserves.
@barbaradavaz1010
3 жыл бұрын
I just discovered your channel. I am a 61 year old Caucasion woman who lived in Queens, New York until I was 12 and then relocated Worcester, MA w/my mother who remarried and my two brothers. I had an upbringing where both of my parents put a high premium on costantly exposing their children to all the best New York has to offer, e.g.,Season tickets to New York City Ballet performances in Lincoln Center, all the museums, of course, beloved trips to Central Park and the Bronx Zoo. My parents were immigrants from London with a Turkish lineage on my patenal side and my mother's lineage was 100% French. My father worked like a dog on the floor of the NYSE, plus two part time jobs to be able to avail a slow but steady Sol in upward Mobility. We moved often like a military family New York my nuclear family never living in one place more than two and a half years. I need to brief in response to your highly intelligent videos. (It hit me once that it is possible is not a the rule rather than not, one could think of another as smart if they are in agreement with them). Both apply, I feel both towards you. I'm on permanent disability as income and I was forced to go on welfare when I initially net and was ensnared with my son's father when I was 18 I moved out of the house and lived with him for five years there was an egregious in the domestic violence I was alone and always have the in my life to figure out how I can help myself Escape horrible situation and I did escape with my son until but I never ever escaped the Vicious Cycle of domestic violence or some really effed up stuff including the prejudiced towards people who are poor and simultaneously because I matriculated into Brenda University as a single parent from the urban blight city of Worcester to Waltham 10 miles outside of Boston and British University is part of the Harvard MIT Consortium. I worked my brain like the Dickens at Brandeis and I did get awarded some specific alcalade for my senior thesis and the member of Phi Beta Kappa but he did not go and progressed in the fairy tale American Dream climb the corporate ladder table thing at all at all. It was just unbelievable within 2 months after I graduated from Brandeis the corrupt DEA colluded with depetrillo's grandfather of my son some kind of trouble Creek it made mafioso tight and they shift their greasy hands together to figure out how to say the father from having to pay the child support in the deadbeat dad or era of when they finally caught up with him to get I get a welfare I need to date a private hortatory university and I am absolutely convinced I was the only student who ever did as a commuter a single parent Who subsisted on welfare this text is very frustrating because I cannot type and the talk-to-text is just as bad. I'm going to try to get us three Crusades free before I go crazy with this texting problem I diversity can you have in two months after I graduated from Brandeis the former DEA of Worcester who is about to resign or retire basically told me I should be saving myself for doing that because I was charged with something like twelve tones of Welfare fraud and it was all nicely tied up with a big bow of Grand Theft larceny tied onto a charging this occurred with a 24 pillow secret indictment I could not get a lawyer to represent me I finally found one and my I got no speedy trial there was no change of venue my day was splashed all over the Worcester paper the counter and lived in and the IQ of every single person from slander to defamation of character to libel because the DNA as of course the woman who wanted to get her byline said in quotations mom quote 36 quote dupes welfare system. it was simply too delicious in salacious of a story for anybody to question the impossible impossible veracity in that As a consequence I was extorted to enter a plea bargain of guilty after that I served 16 years in Superior Court probation paid back every penny that I ever passed through my hands to put food on the table for myself and my son in a poor section of town I paid back more and there was never any story about that but it was not fun to be in Superior Court probation for that long time you're always worried that easy get violated by going through a yellow light one more time I'm really trying to say this oh my God Hugo's I think that poverty be in the state of exactly what I'm talkin I believe that poverty is the number one disabling condition. A two things about me I know the suffering and the addition and the aggressive discrimination shoot that I suffered because people is is urban blight City from will hard you will discriminate against you with a salacious aggression is somehow either I slip up and say something about my reggae sigree had a proud I have one or they just instantly can detect it on intelligence educated because I have access to polysyllabic vocabulary I don't know how to dummy down all the time. I also know what it's like to be discarded and regarded as a I do the stigma associated with poverty domestic violence drug addiction I didn't ask his attitude but there's a single or two I know about it from personal experience and I am a prescription medication now I don't have a lock box I volunteered to have that with a visiting yours who walks on water he's a decent decent man and he's very smart and we get along very well he happens to be from Kenya and it is my impression or the Purex empirical experience that people who had traveled in this world that immigrants in cities are a lot have a lot a lot a lot less prone to be ignorant and narrow-minded because they have seen more of the world than the the bottom of street everyday there is a master PHD programs and their Heller school of social reform and policy did department chair is Anita Hill. I realized that I would not only have been greatly qualified student to the triculate into that any sense I could is a conducted my research based on my empirical experience in my skin my white ass Poor skin. thank you for raising such an incredibly important subject the ludicrousy to the point of dereliction that related to the idea of a meritocrasy this is a really really bizarre fantasy. thank you for turning my brain on again, man I love you!
@Unicornsrfab
4 жыл бұрын
omg i agree with all of this so much!! i don't get how people don't think this way
@cliffridenour6675
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking on this absolute monster of a topic. It's hard for people to talk about how poverty is interpreted and you really nailed it. I wonder if one of the reasons its hard to even talk about is the shame people feel for not having "made it" even when we aren't in poverty.
@tatianabeastmode6573
Жыл бұрын
This is so important and I'm super glad you've said it out loud.
@Captain.Spaghetti
4 жыл бұрын
Long time lurker, I had no idea how I missed this one - my guy. MY GUY. YOU HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD. brb subscribing to the patreon 🖤🖤🖤
@bartekdgpl
2 жыл бұрын
I really liked your thought that there are different ways to wealth but all of them require you to not be poor to begin with. You put it into words really well.
@lopez.jacinto.6726
4 жыл бұрын
4:08 Wait. You have to pay for an ID... Damn... In Mexico is free.
@Zuuuu94
4 жыл бұрын
Gabriel jacinto lópez also in Costa Rica
@lopez.jacinto.6726
4 жыл бұрын
@Aiyaluna Yourke I don't understand it. The way we see it down here is that every citizen has the right to have an identity, therefore it's the responsibility of the State to provide us with IDs.
@weakvsfire
4 жыл бұрын
And I agree with that after all folks don't have to pay for a social security card. Also I recall one politician try to justify needing to have ID to vote say that having an ID is essential. Since it is as essential as having a social security card it should not cost anything like a social security card. I'm not sure it was always like this though. I can't remember how much I paid for mine but my mom remembers she paid 33 dollars for her card.
@OtherDAS
4 жыл бұрын
And yet so many people from Mexico and Central America want to come here instead of stay. There is a lesson in that if you pay attention.
@lopez.jacinto.6726
4 жыл бұрын
@@OtherDAS Yeah... like 2009, the US organizing a cue againts the president of Honduras. Or what about that time the Obama administration just gave guns to the cartels? And I also remembered what just happened recently in Bolivia... The immigration problem it's a problem your government has caused.
@sams3533
4 жыл бұрын
Gods this video put together so many of the thoughts I've had and things I believe and presented it far more succinctly than I could have. Seriously, what you laid out is pretty much society as wellness as a priority rather than "success".
@Yaeka
4 жыл бұрын
I want this video to be translated into every language in the world and mandatory to watch/listen/read for every single person.
@MPR2
4 жыл бұрын
I'm new to your channel (thanks YT algorithm), I appreciate your articulation and mature approach to difficult subjects in a polarized society. 🤜🏻🤛🏽
@whatgsaid
4 жыл бұрын
My only regret is that I didn’t find your channel sooner. These are excellent video essays!
@toomuchsci-fi
4 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! I work with people who have never been as poor as me and Ive heard them giving all the reasons you mentioned and just belittling people for being poor. It has been a struggle for me to get out of poverty (and still not quite there yet) and many people are truly ignorant of what being poor is actually like.
@serinatsuki9511
4 жыл бұрын
As someone who grew up in a high middle-class home and who had the views of hard work and ambition equals success, I did believe in a lot of the things you mentioned in this video which made me despise my dad even more while I was living with him in my years as an adolescent. My mother was the high middle-class successful women with 3 degrees and a high paying job, my father was the poor one who has only a GED from high school, no college degree and had to pay for child support for my sisters and I even though he could not maintain a job for more than 6 months. I remember hearing my mom say, “if he actually worked hard to maintain a job then he wouldn’t be losing them all of the time.” I believed her for a long time, but now being in college and learning more about the world around me has helped me truly understand how some people can be more fortunate than others even though we put in the same effort. Long story short, this video has really helped me solidify and clarify a few things and has helped me remember that I am blessed to be where I am today. Thank you so much and keep discussing these imperative topics! ✌🏼😘
@m.m.6786
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this video available.
@DavidLindes
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many people who use the word meritocracy understand that it was literally coined as the premise for a dystopian satire... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy Based on your intro of it (at 7:28), I'm guessing you may well, T1J... I just wonder how many others do. HAKO.
@AKilahVamp
3 жыл бұрын
I am so glad that I have found your channel!
@MissEliza99
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you. This is excellent and can't be said enough.
@kJLH1973
4 жыл бұрын
One of the best things I've ever heard is that it's not about the choices you MAKE, it's about the choices you HAVE. Many people take for granted the opportunities that seem perfectly normal (education, networks, resources like libraries and business centres). If you don't know what you don't know, how do you ask the questions to find out? If a child in a resource-poor area has an aptitude for numbers, who can they ask about the options they could pursue? How many of their friends' parents are likely to be engineers, financiers, actuaries, analysts? Who becomes their mentor? Who points them in the direction of the paths that will take them further? The reality is that their skills wither on the vine and they lose interest and continue the cycle into which they were born. What can you do if you fall into the category of someone with choices? Contact mentorship programs, seek opportunities to help in resource-poor areas, share you knowledge. CREATE choices.
@susnail8437
4 жыл бұрын
i think you would do great work in the podcast format! thanks for educating me and others on various themes
@TheGudTam
4 жыл бұрын
I really, really enjoyed this video. I think this might've been your best one yet. I've read and listened to many discussions about this topic for a while, mostly hitting these same exact points, but you did an amazing job presenting it in an easy to understand and emotionally stirring format. I'll definitely recommend this video to others when trying to make these points. Thank you!
@goodpal7444
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this. I was raised in unending precariousness by a single mom. Though I've made my life better with a good partner and help from others, I'm still only saving a fraction of what I should given my age. I've never forgotten how people disregard the poor and blame us for our circumstances. Lost what I thought was a friend to this very conflict. There's a lot of money to be made by those who make dehumanization palatable for the middle-class. I'm glad to hear someone pointing the finger at the real problem and calling it what it is: amoral. History won't be kind to our time.
@kaitlintaylor2835
4 жыл бұрын
Your videos are fantastic.
@SonOfIroh
4 жыл бұрын
I highly recommend Herbert J Gans' essay "The Uses of Poverty" it's been revisited several times. I find that it has held true in decades since I first read it.
@d-5037
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for verbalizing my thoughts so well. Nobody works so hard that they justly earned their billions. Our system is broken if a one person can accumulate a wealth of 100 billion while others are barely making it even if they have a job.
@bkaebel
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for always adding to a nuanced and informative discussion :) ! I do agree with Callous Klaus, though: money often begets more money. The saying that "Money isn't everything," which is often cynically used to "level the playing field" by presenting the well-heeled as equally vulnerable to misfortune as anybody else, does after all imply that money is "something"; I'd argue, a whole lot. It sure 'nough makes it so much easier to deal with adversities unrelated to material security...
@Dsonsee
4 жыл бұрын
Comrade T1J spittin facts over here
@Prisoner
4 жыл бұрын
I've not seen the video yet, but the title's question alone already made me learn somwthing, I ll proceed to watch the video
@rachaelpino6914
4 жыл бұрын
There is nothing to add to this video; you said it all.
@aylbdrmadison1051
4 жыл бұрын
*Compassion = strength. Greed = weakness.* This is easily proven by the fact all heroes endeavor to selflessly help others and or to defend those who are less able to defend themselves.
@erichnk
4 жыл бұрын
Watching this video right after you video on "left tube" makes it very clear that you are indeed "left" in the sense of being a socially caring compassionate person championing a fair society and even economy. Those are indeed the real issues in a world that capitalisms foundational thinker, Adam Smith would condemn as a perverse nightmare.
@adalin
4 жыл бұрын
Really incredible, thank you so much for this.
@GnightOwl
4 жыл бұрын
Didn't realize you were a fellow Alabamian Glad more of our people are on this kind of stuff
@dant8008
4 жыл бұрын
I love your words, your truth.
@Jopie65
4 жыл бұрын
This! This is so true! Spread the word!
@michaellooney7330
4 жыл бұрын
$40 is a LOT if you're only making $200 a week...and to be honest when I worked hard and stayed poor it lead to burn out and despair until the point i reached where I sort of gave up working hard, and now I realize I make just as much as I did without breaking my back by doing just enough to stay under the radar and keep my position. There's no incentive to go above and beyond except that they expect you to continue doing more and more without receiving anything in return.
@sage5530
4 жыл бұрын
commenting to hopefully have this show up in people's recommendeds
@fts_space_shark
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you.
@JKJ1900
4 жыл бұрын
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and they outweigh more the wants of the few. If a few have more than they need, they should give it to those with less, despite how much they may want to keep it, that is the altruistic and compassionate thing to do.
@lchameleon
3 жыл бұрын
100% agree. Meritocracy also completely crumbles when you consider the notion of free will not existing and how talented people earned that talent in the first place.
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