I really enjoyed this video. The billionaires steadily hog up all the money while the middle class and the poor get poorer. I know that there are poor people here in America who tried to do right but they kept having setbacks. My paternal grandmother always grew up in an upper middle class family like my dad and she feels that most poor people are lazy and live off of welfare.
you know america has gotten bad when prison looks good...3 meals a day, you don't have to work, get a job, or pay taxes..just "serve time"...compared to the economic slave system you have today..i mean half of all new jobs are for mcdonalds..wtf has this "land of the free" come to...tragic end..
It's all true, having experienced this myself as being born into a poor family watching my peers, some who were born into wealthy families get by while either ignorant or oblivious to the fact that their families got them to where they are at.
Also working twice as hard has a negative effect, as you become a niche worker and "stuck" in a low pay position with no chance to move up because companies see you as a valuable asset, but nothing more.
@Gallimaestro Continued from my earlier post -- Also consider that the wealthy famliles are too prideful to see their children flipping burgers or bagging groceries, so they'd rather give them high pay paper pushing jobs, or jobs created just for them.
A quote I like to say "You didn't start with a bad hand, the truth is, the game was rigged from the start."
By flooding the nation with credit, we create an illusion of an economy, the rich get to use the money first, since they have the most amount of credit, flooding the system with cash, creating inflation. When that money reaches the poor, they can't even afford they're own housing, because the inflation has risen the price of goods and commodities so much, they can't afford it.
Work hard! get another degree, do more internships, and make sure you are flawless! yes, the middle class is going into deeper debt and making less money. Things don't look too good anymore. I graduated from college and spent a year looking for a job. I even had my resumes professionally done and spent almosta year seeing a career adviser. All i can do is keep on trucking and maybe something will come along.
My father always told me work hard, but also work smart. Some people do get lucky, like Oprah and most celebs who get money for pretty much no reason. I agree with you.
You are right on. Ya a few people make it big. There are opportunities, but its like hitting the lotto. You can work hard, but most of the time it doesn't work. We are just wage slaves and the rich control all of us like puppets. Most people are brain washed to believe in the system. That's what the rich want to control us. Example, let's invade Iraq because they have weapons of mass destruction so my friends and I can steel the peoples money by getting gov contracts to manage the oil fields.
I think we should be putting money back into the community. Save in small local banks, spend in your town. We shouldn't be saving massive amounts of money and never using it. It should be invested. Yes we should have money in our savings account as a back up, but do we honestly need over a million?
I just recently moved, but I was living smack dab in the middle, between Detroit and Flint.You can get a job at a fast food restaurant to start off in life. As long as you do not quit that job.Than you can only move up from there. Getting an interview at a better place and saying, I make 7.40/hr now, what will you guys offer me.I think people just need to work hard and don't fear their bosses, or companies.They're not as evil as everyone makes them sound.My current boss favors ppl w/ attitude.
You are the smartest black guy I have seen talking economics on youtube thus far. Your right about this country. I feel like the government kind of has us locked down in this situation though. I do think people have more of an opportunity to become wealthy here than in any other country on Earth, but that will change as we move closer to socialism. And you can work your way up easy in a company. The problem is that we are in a recession still and people seem to forget that.
I agree. I mean I wanted to watch the better privite fireworks at a golf course. I wasent hurting anyone. we did no damage. There was no reason for the police to come. Theer sposto serve and protect everyone not the dollor. I mean I cant get police to protect that well. I bet some one died because the police protected someone who was rich who didn't need protection. Thats the curroption in the US for ya..
the fact of the matter is 1% of people have more than 95% of people the only way to level the playing field is to tax the rich whorders of america. that is the only way to fix are economy. thats it probable we will just fight each other for crumbs and hate and opress each other lord forgive us if we stop fight and get our money back from the rich
Indeed aristocracy is often inherited, whether it be political or economic. However, there are exceptional individuals who can become apart of the elite class by the sheer force of their will. Also, bailouts are not simply intended to make the rich richer. The bailout was enacted in order to stop the economic freefall. I have a question for you. What alternative would you propose for this "corrupt" system?
@bxjam85 Lower the cost of the trademarks and patents to $35. Like copyrights
I think a trademarks is like like $600. The rich pay the lowest in taxes if any. Corps pay the least. Flat tax. Then lower the taxes. To about 7% use $ for catching crooks. People doing time for selling weak drugs like pot so we don't have to pay for them and teach them(Maybe) and children how to run a business not work or one. These actions will even the playing feild very capitalisticaly
Why are you compaining this is capitalism your soul costs money and you created it and accepted it why are you complaining communism is almost gone capitalism has spread in the entire universe then why are you complaining of your own creation?
That's how life is. Some people do cheat to acquire riches and some people acquire riches from hard work. It's not just America, it's the world period.
I think the problem is that you have to be a criminal and destroy other peoples lives to succeed in America. And that is not how a society grows but precisely how it falls apart. The idea that you need to compete and destroy the people around you is destroying America. Societies are built on cooperation, friendship, fairness, an environment were people are happy and motivated.
well obviously rich people have to work less to achieve more...it's called networking. it just means their parents, grandparents, or further generations worked hard to reach that status. they could very well have been poor, worked "a lot to achieve little", and eventually built the lifestyle for them that they have today.
@chutneymon so obviously "rags to riches" is less probable, but if you have enough of a passion for your trade, you can and will not only be rewarded monetarily, but you will be able to build that lasting lifestyle for your children. so there is no need to complain that world doesn't reward you enough for being a nice guy. keep at what you're good at doing, make it work for the public, and you will capitalize on it.
America is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Obama is a corporatist, not a socialist. I hate how if you go to an Ivy(like Harvard or Yale[like Bush]) or do well on an SAT, you're "smart." When a rich kid who had no touting, or a stable home gets into a state college, they're just normal. If you stuck these rich kids in a poor home, many would probably literally die. This really bugs me because "need blind admissions: do not exist, and education is a building block to wealth.
Demcad - so far, I am liking your channel. You remember reading Dr. Seuss books in your childhood? Well - this country, this recession, this current bullshit can best be summed up by the following excerpt from 'The Cat in the Hat':
This mess was so big, and so deep, and so tall
we could not pick it up - there was no way at all.
Nothing stops the average guy going from nothing to something but themselves. Learn the rules of the rich and start playing them too. Its strictly the mindset of the individual. We all can get filthy rich if we so decide to. Working hard is not the answer, its being financially smart, mentally strong, emotionally strong and choosing your friends wisely
@Danboy5050 .... Yes, I am rich right? LOL.... No, I am just educated. I don't blame anyone else if things arn't perfect in my life. Unlike you who take no blame for your own circumstances. You have a million excuses why you are a loser. Accept it, and then fix it. Otherwise you will always be a loser! The super rich get there money direct from the federal reserve? Damn man, you are as dumb as a box of rocks! Go play your video game!
@Danboy5050 .... LOL, yeah yeah yeah... Lets all hate rich people because we arn't! You are a knucklehead in your class envy! The fact is the super rich are not normally getting in trouble to be put in jail in the 1st place. The cops do not check bank accounts before the arrest someone. You have no facts here just liberal marxist mumbo jumbo. So what's your solution lets take their money and give it to you? How about you get a job and become rich? Too much work? LOL
@seriouslyboredguy .... Equality? Who expects equality? I suppose you think if your neighbor makes $1 more than you then you expect them to knock on your door to hand you $0.50 in the name of equality? Come on now. Expecting equality is the problem. I am 47, how old are you? 21? I suspect you may be at your college years where you think and are tought how bad America is when because you know no other life you have no idea how great it really is. You need to live life more to know these things.
The founding fathers designed the American empire after the empire of the Roman Republic, complete with slavery. Its purpose was to concentrate wealth in the hands of a small group of white men (an oligarchy) who wouldn't be threatened by an aristocracy, and that didn't begin to change until the the advent of the Progressive Era in the early 20th Century. Since the early 1970s we've been backsliding.
The right attitude in our state of corruption is to be a sociopathic demon who has no problem stepping on everyone to "get ahead." We are a sick society. We were founded on some good principles. However, when the basis for the existence of a society is 400 years of slaughter, theft, conquer and genocide, I don't see how it can be anything other than sick. I agree with you, though. Some people can make it out, but most don't despite their efforts.
Demcad, why not report on what's going on in congress and the unemployment situation? I have a friend who applied for a job in Michigan on a site that supposedly is for the unemployed. Was a job as a highway flagger and only pays $9 an hour. When he was interviewed and asked what he's been doing for the last 6+ months he replied "looking for work".. their response, "sorry, it's our company policy to not hire people that have been unemployed for more than 6 months!!!
stop whining it's up to you how well you do, and by the way, the rich/poor gap is a totally meaningless phony leftist statistic. Naturally, we're always going to have the top end getting higher and higher, 2010's rich will be much richer than 1980's rich. On the other end, there's always going to be people close to 0, $10,000 , $15,000 a year people, so the "gap" will keep widening naturally.
@RuflessRecords you basically have one end that's static or only slowly drifting up (especially handout people on welfare) and the other end of the wage spectrum will keep rising, so of course the gap will keep widening. All we should care about is individuals getting rewarded for how much they contribute. I care if you're poor and your work is worth upper middle class money, if it's worth little, that's all you deserve.
this video is a bull shit excuse to blame some body else for ones own failures. the person that owns the company that I work at. works allot harder then most. he is usually the first one in and the last to leave. he works hard to keep what he has
@HyperBorealOperator NO, you DO NOT KNOW. Money buys guns and buys influence with EVERY PERSON, EVERY COMPANY, WITH OR WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT. The company with the money IS THE GOVERNMENT. Your "government" is just a curtain, the Wizard is on the other side. ALL OF THIS can and WILL happen with no government - the presence of "elected" people is only to stop immediate riots. I CERTAINLY know what entropy is and you EPIC FAIL in every attempt to use logic or facts. Fucking fool.
It's like the old joke "lifes like a s*#t sandwich, the more bread ya got the less s*#t ya have to eat". BTW love the coffee and ammo in the background.
@mhstz No thanks, since I'm one of the most intelligent humans on the planet, I think I'll just off the stupid people. Crews still standing by for you, you're one of the Darwin Award finalists.
@mhstz sometimes the acid is good for the soil and the pine cones are eaten by quite a lot of animals, squirrels in particular. You might just be stupid enough to win a Darwin award. Award-ceremony crews are on stand-by.
When you are a single lone wolf, if a depression or other catastrophe occurs, you dont have anyone to team with that really has your back. That is a reason why civilization is organized around families, during catastrophes normally families would help one another, and blood is thicker than water. So when you say there is no reason for men to marry, this is a reason for men and women to have helpmates in tough times.
Some devilish powers that be, at times decide to harass you if you do speak against injustice so that you cant find employment, so being able to free yourself by buying farmland and living off the grid is important. Also what is rich or middleclass or poor just a slave cast system made up by a bunch of devils. The Amish seem pretty happy to me they do not think of themselves as poor and they are happy to be free from devils and are living comfortably in peace.
However, this is still the greatest country in the world where you can come to this country not even speaking the language and still live a middle class lifestyle. There is no other country like this one. It is difficult to weather economic storms (recessions and depressions) when you do not have any connections, so you have to teach your children to save for lean years and also try to buy land for hunting and farming for your family to live off the grid.
I normally agree with a lot of what you say. Although the race is skewed we have a lot of mooching generational welfare recipients that are not even trying and at the same time we have a lot of thieving rich corporate welfare recipients. The middle class and the working poor are sandwiched in between a bunch of trifling thieves.
You are 100% right man. The poor are held down by the structural inequalities intentionally built into the system by the most advantaged. The genius of their production is that so many people are made to believe that it is otherwise. The culture machine is very powerful.
I have an MA but cam from a poor backround and now the student loans I carry are so heavy that I still can't succeed.
The beauty of capitalism is has the ability to create wealth. Govt run anything does not. If you build a house and it cost you $200,000 and then you sell it for $250,000 then you created $50,000 from nothing. Not only that you funded workers salaries and paid stores for products which all support many, many families from your original $200,000. All and all you probably created $400,000 is society wealth. Pretty cool huh?
@aSingleDallasGuy can't create wealth without labour & materials. Capitalism hasn't done any better than socialism in this regard. Doesn't require government, merely co-operation and putting group needs ahead of personal needs. One person is NOT more important than the group, should never be. Capitalism is great at MOVING wealth but this has entropy, it isn't creation and often includes loss. "profit" is inefficient. Your math doesn't add up.
Demcad....let's say I have a combination of hard work & good luck, and I make lots of money. I have some kids, & spend my money getting them A+ educations. Then when I die, I leave them the money I earned as well.
What's wrong with that? It's natural to care about one's own family & progeny more than other people's. For instance, I love my siblings more than I love your siblings. I do care about what happens to your sibs...but I care about what happens to my sibs MORE. Favoritism is natural.
Demcad, many of those that work hard never save anything, they think they have to have everything under the sun. They think they have to have new cars,big houses, go out to dinner ever night, smoke, drink, gamble. All those thing make people poor.
I agree with you the system is skewed, but I think that it is natural and it will always be that way in this type of govt. Competition today is so competetive, and the economy is week, I feel that this creates a natural competitive advantage for people who have a silver spoon in their mouth.
Finally, someone has put the words right... "government is stealing from the working poor and other taxpayers and giving the money to the "thieves and crooks" on Wall Street!" HELL YES!
Three excellent books I recommend taking the time to read describing the forces which desire to destroy our Republic are: 1) 'Rockefeller Files' by Gary Allen 2) 'Masters of Seduction' by Jeri Lyn Ball 3) 'Secrets of the Federal Reserve' by Eustace Mullins (1952) - This book was thoroughly researched and published 42 yrs before G. Edward Griffin's "The Creature from Jekyll Island". In fact when you read Eustace Mullins book, you realize that Griffin got alot of his material from it.
Anyone can become "rich" but only the children of the rich can become the "elite". The reason is because children of rich families are born into behaviors and ideologies which suit them for the elite lifestyle, where as those who do work to become rich still have their roots contaminating their minds in "elite" societies.
I'd rather learn the skills of the rich and elite but remain making a middle class wage. Using money more wisely will enrich your life better than just having more money regardless of how much you make.
It is not skewed at all dude. This is typical nonsense that just because some people become more successful then others doesn't mean it's skewed. Most people have the same opportunities as anyone else. Just because some people take more advantage of these opportunities doen't take away from them or those who have not. The idea that everyone someohow should have the exact same results in life in socialist nonesense. get over the jealousy of others!
@DEMCAD .... Sorry DEMCAD I often will agree with you but definitely not in this case. In capitalism some people will be more successful than others. It has NOTHING to do with unfairness. It has everything to do with self initiative, drive, passion, willpower and forsightness. People out there who have none of these qualities tend to fall behing those that do. So what? You want the govt to rob these successful types and hand it to the less successful types because you perceive it as unfair?
@sharinganclan213 not even close to reality for aSingleDallasGuy. Not even close. LSD-induced hallucination love-in of slavery is more like it, because that's all this capitalism is bringing us.
There aren't any unions anymore therefore the average American worker can't demand a decent wage,most of the jobs that created a "middle class" in the 1950s have been outsourced.Most Americans can't afford the simple luxuries they had in the 90s, that's why business struggle and houses go under foreclosure,now college is even harder to afford ...so "the opportunities" are slimming.Get out in the world buddy.
@Deepstarr7020 ... Geez, this is the same nonesense DEMCAD is saying. For heaven's sake. Where do I start? Anyone, yes anyone has the right to find a different job anytime they want. The idea as you imply they are trapped in a low paying job is a joke. Move on if you don't like it. Who needs a union? I never belonged to a union in my life and I have no complaints and glad of it. Watch the DEMCAD response video above and learn something.
@aSingleDallasGuy No one has a right to find a better paying job. The elite create and destroy jobs and markets for jobs and also choose who may work based on who they know and what nasty evil things they'll do to anyone else. That's it. If you refuse to do evil to people, to lie about them or to them or steal from them, you don't get ahead, and if a group of people insists on honest wages the entire company LEAVES. No job. No rights. No opportunities. Real capitalism is all this slavery
@ytgv3fc7 hogwash ytg, people leave jobs for better ones all the time, especially when the economy is not in recession. You're trying to set up a nanny state dependent society where the pathetic, useless and stupid sit around waiting for someone to give them a job, or better yet a free handout. It's up to you how well you do. If a corporation is rotten, move on. If you're a good worker, you're valuable.
@RuflessRecords hogwash, people keep getting moved to lower grade jobs en masse because higher paying jobs cease to exist. That's what free trade is doing in the international markets. If you're a good worker you're enslaved or thrown out the door. It's a choice : choose to be free, choose not to be enslaved, not to work harder for less money and you will be thrown out the door every time. EVERY TIME. I don't want a nanny state. I want a state where elite richness is a crime and so shall it be.
@ytgv3fc7 "if you're a good worker you're enslaved or thrown out the door" don't think so, good workers are making at or above the average compensation in the US which as of March this year was $27.42/hr, $19.41 in salary on average and 8.01 in benefits, according to Bureau Labor Stats. Doesn't sound like slavery to me, didn't they have to work for free?
@ytgv3fc7 ... WHAT? I don't know what Marxist propaganda you read but you are living in a different country. The Elite has every right to create and uncreate jobs. It's their businesses. Is it not? You think a job is some god (or Obama) given right when it is NOT. If it wasn't for the elite you would be a peasant in the rice fields. You really need to get a grip. Our public education is really a mess. You are exhibit "A". God help us all!
@aSingleDallasGuy "God" is a lie to enslave humanity. "Elite" are the enslavers. Peasants only exist when there is an elite - freedom is what happens when the elite are gone. We have the right to kill all elite in all the world to protect our survival. The elite are nazis, are religious insane nutters, are controllers, are mafia, are thieves. Death to them all, I shall see it in my lifetime.
SHAME ON YOU. This isn't marxism this is SURVIVAL. ELITE = KILL ALL THE REST OF US.
@ytgv3fc7 .... LOL... So now you nutjobs believe anyone who believes in God part of a conpiracy! Yeah keep on taking your meds my friend. I'm sure the doctors will release you from your rubber room someday. How about you go out and get a job? Oh I forgot, your hero Obama alkeady made that impossible. I hear the Census is hiring. Should be a great 6 month gig. I know, I know... Why work when you can sponge off of people who do... right?
@aSingleDallasGuy I work for a major cell phone carrier. I bet you are jobless and posting this crap from the library. Religion is a conspiracy to enslave humanity and has many times. This world SHALL BE CLEANSED of the EVIL OF RELIGION. It is the same evil as murdering children and eating them.
@ytgv3fc7 .... I see, so you are a capitalist pig for working for a business overcharging customers to make a profit. That's how it works right? Or is it only other people who are capitalist pigs to forever exclude yourself? You have some issues my friend, I suggested that you start taking your neds again remember? Did you not take my advice? I won't comment about your eating children analogy as I'm not a psychiatrist and am not qualified to speak in regards to someone in your state of mind.
@aSingleDallasGuy anyone making unfair trades for profit is a capitalist pig. Anyone making a fair deal to replace materials & keep the business running, feed one's self, is not a capitalist pig.
@ytgv3fc7 ... Fair? Unfair? Those are very opinionated words. According to liberals the rich should pay much more in taxes, and that is called fair. While to me I have to ask why does the rich need to pay even a dime more than anyone else? That would be real fairness. Why doesn't society have smart cash registers in stores that checks you bank account balance and if your are "rich" that loaf of bread will cost $75.50 and if you are poor it costs you $0.25? Fair? What a funny word!
@aSingleDallasGuy that's a good question. Why do corporations, businesses, not do a sliding scale of fees?
Actually some used to back in the day. I know I've traded paper for goods at a loss to a friend or two to help out. Sometimes regretted it as the person turned out to be a fraudster, not poor as presented, but that's my risk & my choice.
@ytgv3fc7 "Why do corporations, businesses, not do a sliding scale of fees?" Because in your liberal fair unfair world that would be discrimination. LOL I broght this up to show how stupid liberal thought is and you of course thought it was a serious suggestion! You left-wing kooks should be committed! There's no one stopping anyone from succeeding in life, but yourself. Yet, you blame those who take chances, educate themselves and make a few extra bucks. You feel so entitled to their hard work!
@aSingleDallasGuy I'm not left-wing or right-wing. Both such "sides" are zombie sheeple.
As I wrote, some corporations used to do such sliding scales back in the day because it was socially right & good for long-term business. If you don't care about repeat-customers, don't bother.
@ytgv3fc7 ... "I'm not left-wing or right-wing".. Yeah right. I love how people claim to be independent then open their mouth and prove themselves wrong. You are clearly far left-wing whether you admit it to yourself or not. Your comments speak for themselves. In Capitalism corporations are not in business as a welfare service. They are in business to make money, period. Harsh? Sure, but it's reality. In the process of making money they hire people which allows them to prosper. See how it works?
@ytgv3fc7 Who are the elite? The rich pay most of the taxes for America, so we should be thanking them for providing a large chunk of our government's revenue to serve social programs that we need every day. Greedy they are not, since they get involved in philanthropy, funding for other projects, and creating organizations. In fact, the average person is greedier than the rich. I see a woman with a child begging for money on the street and most people are not kind enough to give them $1 dollar.
@GunsNRosesbitches who are the elite? The banksters & paid off politicians are the elite, as are all the royal families left on the planet. The rich pay the least taxes, the majority are paid by the people who are poor. Some nations are allowing the poorest to pay no tax but then the next level up still pays the majority of national taxes. It has never been any other way. We need to philanthropy of the rich if we stop them from robbing us initially (same for taxes too).
@GunsNRosesbitches check your facts: before all the unemployment it was definitely the bottom 95% of working Americans. NOW so many are not working it may very well be different but times are changing, taxes are being raised in every direction & the top 5% are getting tax-breaks not taxes paid.
@ytgv3fc7 But the bulk of the government's income comes from federal income taxes. You'll then see that the vast majority of federal income taxes comes from the top 5%.
@GunsNRosesbitches Corporations are monster entities composed of hierarchy, giant cash reserves, exploitation of lowest-ranking members/entry-level employees, with many shareholders being greedy bastards who are themselves getting ripped off when they're not looking. Corporations are not people. Never can be.
@ytgv3fc7 Exploitation of lowest-ranking members? Who forced those poor suckers to work for that corporation? Nobody did. Shareholders are greedy? Who isn't. You are greedy too. Nobody gives homeless people any money when they actually have money. Whose fault is that? It is a fallacy to think that corporations and other large entities are sinister and evil, while we are the good ones. Bullshit. Keep your pessimism....people like you don't get anywhere in life. Bill Gates oughta lecture u first
@GunsNRosesbitches You're just full of lies, aren't you? Corporations once they take over a city change it: you work for them or you die. That's force. All around those corporations lie & steal, then act like that's not lying or stealing. I'm not greedy. I absolutely give money to homeless people when I have it, $20 at a time. Your entire comment is 100% bullshit. These are the facts: corporations systematically steal, all of them, and actual human persons systematically DO NOT.
@ytgv3fc7 CORPORATIONS ARE NOT MACHINES, THEY CONSIST OF PEOPLE! Its not the corporation that is doing the "stealing", "lying" and "deceiving", it's the people who work and run the corporation that are doing it. In other words, people are stealing, lying and deceiving others. No big deal, it happens all the time. Besides, corporations have only one goal...profit. The CEO has only one obligation....to make everyone happy so the shareholders can get that 10% return. Simple as that.
@GunsNRosesbitches Absolutely wrong. Corporations are machines of rules & regulations, including corporate theft culture. Their purpose is to lie and they do. I got someone fired in my last corporation because of this. It is their MANDATE to cover up fraud & steal money. It is only by alerting the NEXT corporation being stolen from that this was stopped. All management was 100% aware, It is their purpose to steal. It is a big deal, it is the ruination of all economies. The CEO? You're nonsense
@GunsNRosesbitches your nonsense doesn't fly with me. The CEO's one simple job is take all the money. Nothing else. Not making anyone happy. Just take all the money and run. The shareholders aren't getting any 10% return. They're getting told lies and told to wait and then stocks are diluted and prices drop, dividends are cut or never exist. It's all theft. Wake the hell up
@ytgv3fc7 Stocks are diluted? Prices drop? Dude do you even know anything about finance and investing? Or are you just being told lies by some brainwashed activist group?
@ytgv3fc7 You are being naively pessimist with your anti-corporation ideals. Corporations are a major vehicle for the global economy and a major vehicle for human prosperity and progression. No one will work for free and the rewards you get is correlated to the sweat you've accumulated. Why? Because we do not have infinite resources. People have to compete for resources. Corporations provide jobs and pay workers based on supply and demand (unless its under minimum wage).
@ytgv3fc7 So exactly what should we do since corporations are "killing us alive" and "robbing us of wealth"? More government regulation? Haha...that will probably make it even worse.
@aSingleDallasGuy thats not true its skewed because Rich people have powerful people in power. Therefore they have people who have money and therefore it would be easier for Daddys daughter or son to get a job because of this. On the other hand the people at the bottom who don't have the economic status. Have to try double to get into the door where there is even a decent paying job. Its who you know not what you know . that in itself does skew alot of this American dream.
@EmeterioBetances the true form of capitalism. One person gets to a pile of food before the others and eats. Gets stronger and then kills anyone else who gets close to the food. A few shall be allowed the smallest scraps to survive so long as they promise to be slaves forever. Refusal is met by death. Capitalism is this most heinous evil.
@ytgv3fc7 I'd like to revise that: so long as capitalism is balanced at the personal level with socialism at the collective level, an optimal balance can be attained. The fraud & killing is the most heinous evil. I have seen now that the rich thieves and poor thieves are the same except for what they start with. May they both be killed judiciously for the rest of us to survive. "popular conceptions" of socialism & capitalism are frauds: the pushers of these frauds merely want to steal.
@aSingleDallasGuy socialism is the one true path of humanity's future. Anything else will end in murder, war and capitalistic evil. Capitalism is an epic fail and we must be rid of it before we are all slaves. Every piece of capitalism in this world right now is geared to one thing: drive down wages, drive up cost of living, turn everyone into a slave. That's it, nothing more.
@aSingleDallasGuy There are two possibilities here. 1)Your name says it all. Single + guy = you don't know shit about being married or divorced, or being a woman, or having a family to support - and you sound a lot like a white guy, so you probably don't know shit about being anything other than instantly privileged. Or 2)You're a fucking troll.
@M0US3P0T4TO .... Nice 5th grade response! And very judgmental to boot! So all white people are privledged? LOL...... How racist art thou? Unlike you, I don't judge other's by their gender or color of their skin. Your comments shows how uneducated you are and speaks for itself. You forgot the 3rd possibility.... That I take responsibility and blame no one for my own life choices. Try it sometime.
One point; People not moving between classes could have more than one root cause. The "System" is one (collective View). Perhaps personal Morality is another?
Libertarianism may be our last hope but, frankly, I think it's too late. The people here are already deeply divided between the Makers and the Takers (as a result of the two parties selling their souls for power).
All free societies are temporary. I'm sad to say that this one may be over.
The people will never starve so long as we have forest for all the animals, some of which are food. Kill the trees, starve the people. Save the trees, save us all.That's reality. WAKE UP.
@HyperBorealOperator wrong, feudalism can certainly mean any dynastic power, and by its power, BECOMES government because the amassed wealth and exploitation de facto means it has all the power.
Too all the rest of us the definition of who is officially government should not be relevant.
Who is your government? It's Goldman Sachs. Do you understand?
Even with NO LAWS, MADE OR EVER TO BE MADE, this is feudalism.
(cont.)... Your race analogy should have not been a 2 min. head start, but instead having the poor and middle class run the race with only "one leg", that would have been more accurate! And anyone who comes from nothing and makes it, is an an anomaly! Remember, Jim Fixx, marathon runner died of a heart attack at 52. While George Burns smoked cigars all his life and lived to 95 !!!
@DEMCAD- You are right on so many points that I don't know where to begin! I This system has been corrupt since at least 1913! am 42 yrs old now. Growing up, my family would have been considered middle class. My father worked no less than two jobs(sometimes three) and there were MANY things my brothers and I did without. You are correct...this ideal of working harder will get you further is a myth!
Demcad, we agree totally! You hit one thing I believe is the very foundation of all the inequality we see in America. That's the adage of "it's not what you know, it's who you know." That's why Bush valued loyalty so much and why Obama is cultivating the republicans..he does catch on quick. Another big one for you young people to know, is you need to find a champion, someone in power that will champion your success. Be it at school or on the job. Look for one.
You're vloging on a tough subject b/c it'll make you sound "left". At the core, you're looking for political inequality... where a class of people have priviledges stablished directly or indirectly by state policy/force. Probably correct to say that the FED and current banking system and corporate law concentrates wealth to a few.
Whats up DemCadd, good buddy you re right about the the rich and the poor, and the middle class being abolished, Clinton signed nafta,bush signed the patriot act and took us to war, obama brings in corruption along socialism/communism....while keeping whites and blacks fighting about racism....when we should all be storming Washing d.c. and restoring our republic.
Tell ya who I blame. Our grandparents. Some did work hard, and now are driving around in their winnebagos seeing the country, with one foot in the grave. they tolerated too much. What is tolerated in todays society, is readily accepted in the next. they let government get out of hand when the lawns are green. But hard times are here, everyone sees the shortcomings of government...but it is waaaay out of hand now. And a fix almost seems impossible. Corruption abounds, deeply.
I agree with u Demcad. ur right that the rich have the advantage, & as u said, in reality, a poor man doesnt have the pure opportunity to go from rags to riches that a free market should provide. great ie with the casino scenario. We got robbed for millions it was given it to the crooked who robbed us in the first place. smh... and they cry out against solcialism?? what do you this this is???
I agree with you DEMCAD with the part about the this govt. being corrupt. If it was an honest capitalistic society then things would be better. I do think though that people forget that working smart is key. You can be a hard worker but if you don't have a plan to get to point B C D then you will never get anywhere. Rich get richer because once you have a certain amount of money it can easily grow. But anyone can still be middle class without too much effort.
if you can for this year and next don' t borrow any money from a bank or credit card .just try to pay cash for things you need for today . rent vs buying a house or car? and lets see what happens in a couple of years from now
Did you play sports? I hear the same thing all the time from kids / parents on teams that I have coached for 20 years.
"My kid should be lead off, play 3rd, play midfield, be the QB, start, be first team .. the only reason he /she is not is because of favoritism / family / don't like us / not from the right side of town.. Truth might hurt but not everyone is a star or if you were at 8, does not mean U R at 18. More often than not, work - effort - persistence with a slice of talent - wins.
This is good stuff DEMCAD....I kept my nose to the grindstone too long...when I finally looke dup in 2007, I saw the monopoly game was cheating and changing up the rules. I quickly transferred out of dollars and into commodities, metals, real estate raw land. People don't understand their 401k's (yes they came back a little) will be sheared again..maybe worse next time. You can't give friday 401k money every week to widget companies that have no incentive to expand-or-grow..money disappears.
I see someone posted a video response which said you don't have to work hard just smart.
It is a argument that runs such that if I say, but what about all those companies set up that fail each year? Then back comes the retort, well they weren't smart! The retort is rather braggadocio because the bragger can't be sure they aren't just lucky.
There is always a risk and if you have kids to feed and have been brought up without the breaks, risks aren't always an option.
wow, socialist much? no, its the education system that needs to be blamed. public education cannot compete with private education, and thus, the poor do not have as good of oppurtunities. so its education reform we need
Luck has little to do with success. Repetition is rather the key. Take Abe Lincoln's life as an example (you know the story). I certainly don't think that success in this country is skewed. Looking at the numbers is the best way to look at the trees without seeing the forest. Some of the most poor and unsuccesful people I know inherited riches and opportunity, and thus took it all for granted. Saying it's skewed is the best way of saying "why try?"
Amen to that. I have been busting my hump for 52 years and now I have been out of work 2 years. Because cutting staff is popular. Try being over 50 and looking for work. It just makes me crazy.
Yep I say this to people who are of the older generation, keep on chasing that rabbit that is the American in the end you will have nothing for all the hard work. This system just simply enslaves people their whole lives.
Not only is the one man two mins behind ,they have game rules to force him to have his arms ,and legs tied,with a bag over his head. The man in front changed the game rules.But He keeps telling you that you can win just work alittle harder.Because you have a bag over your head you couldnt even see he wasnt running at all , but just standing at the finish line collecting everything you was working so hard for.
the 19 people who dislike this are all rich.
GNut1980 2 months ago
great fuckin vid D...one of your best..everything you said is correct
GNut1980 2 months ago
working hard to get ahead? I worked very hard for 20 years and I have five dollars in my savings account!! Thats what hard work gets you in America
mirandaluc 3 months ago
The factual accuracy of the claim that the poor are getting poorer is very disputable.
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I really enjoyed this video. The billionaires steadily hog up all the money while the middle class and the poor get poorer. I know that there are poor people here in America who tried to do right but they kept having setbacks. My paternal grandmother always grew up in an upper middle class family like my dad and she feels that most poor people are lazy and live off of welfare.
liberty2011able 6 months ago
you know america has gotten bad when prison looks good...3 meals a day, you don't have to work, get a job, or pay taxes..just "serve time"...compared to the economic slave system you have today..i mean half of all new jobs are for mcdonalds..wtf has this "land of the free" come to...tragic end..
elmolovescookies 8 months ago
You should check out the Zeitgeist Movement if you aren't familiar with it. :)
Elphadyre 8 months ago
It's all true, having experienced this myself as being born into a poor family watching my peers, some who were born into wealthy families get by while either ignorant or oblivious to the fact that their families got them to where they are at.
Also working twice as hard has a negative effect, as you become a niche worker and "stuck" in a low pay position with no chance to move up because companies see you as a valuable asset, but nothing more.
Gallimaestro 9 months ago
@Gallimaestro Continued from my earlier post -- Also consider that the wealthy famliles are too prideful to see their children flipping burgers or bagging groceries, so they'd rather give them high pay paper pushing jobs, or jobs created just for them.
A quote I like to say "You didn't start with a bad hand, the truth is, the game was rigged from the start."
Gallimaestro 9 months ago
I like this video.
MTVVH1sucks 11 months ago
America is run by David copperfield batty boys with long noses, an is a very hard place to live to me.
spotthatruth1 1 year ago
"green" is the only colour that matters.
black, white, yellow, brown etc are irrelevant.
long as they can keep the other colours fighting, the "green" people win.
blorgensteen 1 year ago
I would have to agree with this guy.
flagship21 1 year ago
By flooding the nation with credit, we create an illusion of an economy, the rich get to use the money first, since they have the most amount of credit, flooding the system with cash, creating inflation. When that money reaches the poor, they can't even afford they're own housing, because the inflation has risen the price of goods and commodities so much, they can't afford it.
villalba874 1 year ago
Work hard! get another degree, do more internships, and make sure you are flawless! yes, the middle class is going into deeper debt and making less money. Things don't look too good anymore. I graduated from college and spent a year looking for a job. I even had my resumes professionally done and spent almosta year seeing a career adviser. All i can do is keep on trucking and maybe something will come along.
salamsabee 1 year ago
My father always told me work hard, but also work smart. Some people do get lucky, like Oprah and most celebs who get money for pretty much no reason. I agree with you.
salamsabee 1 year ago
You are right on. Ya a few people make it big. There are opportunities, but its like hitting the lotto. You can work hard, but most of the time it doesn't work. We are just wage slaves and the rich control all of us like puppets. Most people are brain washed to believe in the system. That's what the rich want to control us. Example, let's invade Iraq because they have weapons of mass destruction so my friends and I can steel the peoples money by getting gov contracts to manage the oil fields.
freeze427 1 year ago
I think we should be putting money back into the community. Save in small local banks, spend in your town. We shouldn't be saving massive amounts of money and never using it. It should be invested. Yes we should have money in our savings account as a back up, but do we honestly need over a million?
martin692006 1 year ago
Well said!
cain825 1 year ago
THATS HOW IT IS!!! GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
MRTEL7777 1 year ago
I just recently moved, but I was living smack dab in the middle, between Detroit and Flint.You can get a job at a fast food restaurant to start off in life. As long as you do not quit that job.Than you can only move up from there. Getting an interview at a better place and saying, I make 7.40/hr now, what will you guys offer me.I think people just need to work hard and don't fear their bosses, or companies.They're not as evil as everyone makes them sound.My current boss favors ppl w/ attitude.
wafflepistol 1 year ago
You are the smartest black guy I have seen talking economics on youtube thus far. Your right about this country. I feel like the government kind of has us locked down in this situation though. I do think people have more of an opportunity to become wealthy here than in any other country on Earth, but that will change as we move closer to socialism. And you can work your way up easy in a company. The problem is that we are in a recession still and people seem to forget that.
wafflepistol 1 year ago
@ Demcad. I think people just cant accept reality. You should look up "just world theory"."
msenlightened 1 year ago
I agree. I mean I wanted to watch the better privite fireworks at a golf course. I wasent hurting anyone. we did no damage. There was no reason for the police to come. Theer sposto serve and protect everyone not the dollor. I mean I cant get police to protect that well. I bet some one died because the police protected someone who was rich who didn't need protection. Thats the curroption in the US for ya..
singlaprety12 1 year ago
the fact of the matter is 1% of people have more than 95% of people the only way to level the playing field is to tax the rich whorders of america. that is the only way to fix are economy. thats it probable we will just fight each other for crumbs and hate and opress each other lord forgive us if we stop fight and get our money back from the rich
REAL88E 1 year ago
Indeed aristocracy is often inherited, whether it be political or economic. However, there are exceptional individuals who can become apart of the elite class by the sheer force of their will. Also, bailouts are not simply intended to make the rich richer. The bailout was enacted in order to stop the economic freefall. I have a question for you. What alternative would you propose for this "corrupt" system?
bxjam85 1 year ago
@bxjam85 Lower the cost of the trademarks and patents to $35. Like copyrights
I think a trademarks is like like $600. The rich pay the lowest in taxes if any. Corps pay the least. Flat tax. Then lower the taxes. To about 7% use $ for catching crooks. People doing time for selling weak drugs like pot so we don't have to pay for them and teach them(Maybe) and children how to run a business not work or one. These actions will even the playing feild very capitalisticaly
Finallythankyou 1 year ago
amen. brother
777games777 1 year ago
Why are you compaining this is capitalism your soul costs money and you created it and accepted it why are you complaining communism is almost gone capitalism has spread in the entire universe then why are you complaining of your own creation?
NEMESIS1999 1 year ago
That's how life is. Some people do cheat to acquire riches and some people acquire riches from hard work. It's not just America, it's the world period.
moeschizlac 1 year ago
I think the problem is that you have to be a criminal and destroy other peoples lives to succeed in America. And that is not how a society grows but precisely how it falls apart. The idea that you need to compete and destroy the people around you is destroying America. Societies are built on cooperation, friendship, fairness, an environment were people are happy and motivated.
leapingfury 1 year ago
Communism ftw???? the new american revolution??
lifes40123 1 year ago
Amen.
DGot14U 1 year ago
well obviously rich people have to work less to achieve more...it's called networking. it just means their parents, grandparents, or further generations worked hard to reach that status. they could very well have been poor, worked "a lot to achieve little", and eventually built the lifestyle for them that they have today.
chutneymon 1 year ago
@chutneymon so obviously "rags to riches" is less probable, but if you have enough of a passion for your trade, you can and will not only be rewarded monetarily, but you will be able to build that lasting lifestyle for your children. so there is no need to complain that world doesn't reward you enough for being a nice guy. keep at what you're good at doing, make it work for the public, and you will capitalize on it.
chutneymon 1 year ago
America is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Obama is a corporatist, not a socialist. I hate how if you go to an Ivy(like Harvard or Yale[like Bush]) or do well on an SAT, you're "smart." When a rich kid who had no touting, or a stable home gets into a state college, they're just normal. If you stuck these rich kids in a poor home, many would probably literally die. This really bugs me because "need blind admissions: do not exist, and education is a building block to wealth.
imanerd36 1 year ago
Demcad - so far, I am liking your channel. You remember reading Dr. Seuss books in your childhood? Well - this country, this recession, this current bullshit can best be summed up by the following excerpt from 'The Cat in the Hat':
This mess was so big, and so deep, and so tall
we could not pick it up - there was no way at all.
M0US3P0T4TO 1 year ago
Nothing stops the average guy going from nothing to something but themselves. Learn the rules of the rich and start playing them too. Its strictly the mindset of the individual. We all can get filthy rich if we so decide to. Working hard is not the answer, its being financially smart, mentally strong, emotionally strong and choosing your friends wisely
tot7tot 1 year ago
@Danboy5050 .... Yes, I am rich right? LOL.... No, I am just educated. I don't blame anyone else if things arn't perfect in my life. Unlike you who take no blame for your own circumstances. You have a million excuses why you are a loser. Accept it, and then fix it. Otherwise you will always be a loser! The super rich get there money direct from the federal reserve? Damn man, you are as dumb as a box of rocks! Go play your video game!
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
Stop complaining bitch
navyseal100 1 year ago
@Danboy5050 .... LOL, yeah yeah yeah... Lets all hate rich people because we arn't! You are a knucklehead in your class envy! The fact is the super rich are not normally getting in trouble to be put in jail in the 1st place. The cops do not check bank accounts before the arrest someone. You have no facts here just liberal marxist mumbo jumbo. So what's your solution lets take their money and give it to you? How about you get a job and become rich? Too much work? LOL
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
@seriouslyboredguy .... Equality? Who expects equality? I suppose you think if your neighbor makes $1 more than you then you expect them to knock on your door to hand you $0.50 in the name of equality? Come on now. Expecting equality is the problem. I am 47, how old are you? 21? I suspect you may be at your college years where you think and are tought how bad America is when because you know no other life you have no idea how great it really is. You need to live life more to know these things.
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
The founding fathers designed the American empire after the empire of the Roman Republic, complete with slavery. Its purpose was to concentrate wealth in the hands of a small group of white men (an oligarchy) who wouldn't be threatened by an aristocracy, and that didn't begin to change until the the advent of the Progressive Era in the early 20th Century. Since the early 1970s we've been backsliding.
TheForwardGaze 1 year ago
The right attitude in our state of corruption is to be a sociopathic demon who has no problem stepping on everyone to "get ahead." We are a sick society. We were founded on some good principles. However, when the basis for the existence of a society is 400 years of slaughter, theft, conquer and genocide, I don't see how it can be anything other than sick. I agree with you, though. Some people can make it out, but most don't despite their efforts.
AnotherCompartment 1 year ago
Demcad, why not report on what's going on in congress and the unemployment situation? I have a friend who applied for a job in Michigan on a site that supposedly is for the unemployed. Was a job as a highway flagger and only pays $9 an hour. When he was interviewed and asked what he's been doing for the last 6+ months he replied "looking for work".. their response, "sorry, it's our company policy to not hire people that have been unemployed for more than 6 months!!!
giftandprosper 1 year ago
love the winchester boxes in the background
83scarface 1 year ago
stop whining it's up to you how well you do, and by the way, the rich/poor gap is a totally meaningless phony leftist statistic. Naturally, we're always going to have the top end getting higher and higher, 2010's rich will be much richer than 1980's rich. On the other end, there's always going to be people close to 0, $10,000 , $15,000 a year people, so the "gap" will keep widening naturally.
RuflessRecords 1 year ago
@RuflessRecords you basically have one end that's static or only slowly drifting up (especially handout people on welfare) and the other end of the wage spectrum will keep rising, so of course the gap will keep widening. All we should care about is individuals getting rewarded for how much they contribute. I care if you're poor and your work is worth upper middle class money, if it's worth little, that's all you deserve.
RuflessRecords 1 year ago
this video is a bull shit excuse to blame some body else for ones own failures. the person that owns the company that I work at. works allot harder then most. he is usually the first one in and the last to leave. he works hard to keep what he has
BUDDAWG2004 1 year ago
@HyperBorealOperator NO, you DO NOT KNOW. Money buys guns and buys influence with EVERY PERSON, EVERY COMPANY, WITH OR WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT. The company with the money IS THE GOVERNMENT. Your "government" is just a curtain, the Wizard is on the other side. ALL OF THIS can and WILL happen with no government - the presence of "elected" people is only to stop immediate riots. I CERTAINLY know what entropy is and you EPIC FAIL in every attempt to use logic or facts. Fucking fool.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
you on point..i totally overstand!!!!
MrBlackmask27 1 year ago
It's like the old joke "lifes like a s*#t sandwich, the more bread ya got the less s*#t ya have to eat". BTW love the coffee and ammo in the background.
juniorjer 1 year ago
CRY BABY!!! PURE ME!!
1inkdaddy 1 year ago
The Bigger the Government get the poorer we all get. Fact.
quizerry 1 year ago
@mhstz No thanks, since I'm one of the most intelligent humans on the planet, I think I'll just off the stupid people. Crews still standing by for you, you're one of the Darwin Award finalists.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@mhstz sometimes the acid is good for the soil and the pine cones are eaten by quite a lot of animals, squirrels in particular. You might just be stupid enough to win a Darwin award. Award-ceremony crews are on stand-by.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@Demcad
When you are a single lone wolf, if a depression or other catastrophe occurs, you dont have anyone to team with that really has your back. That is a reason why civilization is organized around families, during catastrophes normally families would help one another, and blood is thicker than water. So when you say there is no reason for men to marry, this is a reason for men and women to have helpmates in tough times.
cathylake1 1 year ago
@Demcad cont... my posts are backwards due to 500 character limit.
cathylake1 1 year ago
@Demcad
Some devilish powers that be, at times decide to harass you if you do speak against injustice so that you cant find employment, so being able to free yourself by buying farmland and living off the grid is important. Also what is rich or middleclass or poor just a slave cast system made up by a bunch of devils. The Amish seem pretty happy to me they do not think of themselves as poor and they are happy to be free from devils and are living comfortably in peace.
cathylake1 1 year ago
@Demcad
However, this is still the greatest country in the world where you can come to this country not even speaking the language and still live a middle class lifestyle. There is no other country like this one. It is difficult to weather economic storms (recessions and depressions) when you do not have any connections, so you have to teach your children to save for lean years and also try to buy land for hunting and farming for your family to live off the grid.
cathylake1 1 year ago
@Demcad
I normally agree with a lot of what you say. Although the race is skewed we have a lot of mooching generational welfare recipients that are not even trying and at the same time we have a lot of thieving rich corporate welfare recipients. The middle class and the working poor are sandwiched in between a bunch of trifling thieves.
cathylake1 1 year ago
You are 100% right man. The poor are held down by the structural inequalities intentionally built into the system by the most advantaged. The genius of their production is that so many people are made to believe that it is otherwise. The culture machine is very powerful.
I have an MA but cam from a poor backround and now the student loans I carry are so heavy that I still can't succeed.
metajason418 1 year ago
The beauty of capitalism is has the ability to create wealth. Govt run anything does not. If you build a house and it cost you $200,000 and then you sell it for $250,000 then you created $50,000 from nothing. Not only that you funded workers salaries and paid stores for products which all support many, many families from your original $200,000. All and all you probably created $400,000 is society wealth. Pretty cool huh?
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
@aSingleDallasGuy can't create wealth without labour & materials. Capitalism hasn't done any better than socialism in this regard. Doesn't require government, merely co-operation and putting group needs ahead of personal needs. One person is NOT more important than the group, should never be. Capitalism is great at MOVING wealth but this has entropy, it isn't creation and often includes loss. "profit" is inefficient. Your math doesn't add up.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
Demcad....let's say I have a combination of hard work & good luck, and I make lots of money. I have some kids, & spend my money getting them A+ educations. Then when I die, I leave them the money I earned as well.
What's wrong with that? It's natural to care about one's own family & progeny more than other people's. For instance, I love my siblings more than I love your siblings. I do care about what happens to your sibs...but I care about what happens to my sibs MORE. Favoritism is natural.
sideways586 1 year ago
Demcad, many of those that work hard never save anything, they think they have to have everything under the sun. They think they have to have new cars,big houses, go out to dinner ever night, smoke, drink, gamble. All those thing make people poor.
RugerFan777 1 year ago
I agree with you the system is skewed, but I think that it is natural and it will always be that way in this type of govt. Competition today is so competetive, and the economy is week, I feel that this creates a natural competitive advantage for people who have a silver spoon in their mouth.
c130fonz 1 year ago
Finally, someone has put the words right... "government is stealing from the working poor and other taxpayers and giving the money to the "thieves and crooks" on Wall Street!" HELL YES!
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1776SonofLiberty 1 year ago
well said demcad your speaking truth brother keep up the fight your friend darksied50
darksied50 1 year ago
Anyone can become "rich" but only the children of the rich can become the "elite". The reason is because children of rich families are born into behaviors and ideologies which suit them for the elite lifestyle, where as those who do work to become rich still have their roots contaminating their minds in "elite" societies.
OutreAnima 1 year ago
I'd rather learn the skills of the rich and elite but remain making a middle class wage. Using money more wisely will enrich your life better than just having more money regardless of how much you make.
OutreAnima 1 year ago
trading places
Bux7777 1 year ago
It is not skewed at all dude. This is typical nonsense that just because some people become more successful then others doesn't mean it's skewed. Most people have the same opportunities as anyone else. Just because some people take more advantage of these opportunities doen't take away from them or those who have not. The idea that everyone someohow should have the exact same results in life in socialist nonesense. get over the jealousy of others!
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
@aSingleDallasGuy You're living on another planet.
DEMCAD 1 year ago 6
@DEMCAD .... Sorry DEMCAD I often will agree with you but definitely not in this case. In capitalism some people will be more successful than others. It has NOTHING to do with unfairness. It has everything to do with self initiative, drive, passion, willpower and forsightness. People out there who have none of these qualities tend to fall behing those that do. So what? You want the govt to rob these successful types and hand it to the less successful types because you perceive it as unfair?
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
@DEMCAD yeah, he is living in the world of reality.
sharinganclan213 1 year ago
@sharinganclan213 not even close to reality for aSingleDallasGuy. Not even close. LSD-induced hallucination love-in of slavery is more like it, because that's all this capitalism is bringing us.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago 2
There aren't any unions anymore therefore the average American worker can't demand a decent wage,most of the jobs that created a "middle class" in the 1950s have been outsourced.Most Americans can't afford the simple luxuries they had in the 90s, that's why business struggle and houses go under foreclosure,now college is even harder to afford ...so "the opportunities" are slimming.Get out in the world buddy.
Deepstarr7020 1 year ago
@Deepstarr7020 ... Geez, this is the same nonesense DEMCAD is saying. For heaven's sake. Where do I start? Anyone, yes anyone has the right to find a different job anytime they want. The idea as you imply they are trapped in a low paying job is a joke. Move on if you don't like it. Who needs a union? I never belonged to a union in my life and I have no complaints and glad of it. Watch the DEMCAD response video above and learn something.
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
@aSingleDallasGuy No one has a right to find a better paying job. The elite create and destroy jobs and markets for jobs and also choose who may work based on who they know and what nasty evil things they'll do to anyone else. That's it. If you refuse to do evil to people, to lie about them or to them or steal from them, you don't get ahead, and if a group of people insists on honest wages the entire company LEAVES. No job. No rights. No opportunities. Real capitalism is all this slavery
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago 2
@ytgv3fc7 hogwash ytg, people leave jobs for better ones all the time, especially when the economy is not in recession. You're trying to set up a nanny state dependent society where the pathetic, useless and stupid sit around waiting for someone to give them a job, or better yet a free handout. It's up to you how well you do. If a corporation is rotten, move on. If you're a good worker, you're valuable.
RuflessRecords 1 year ago
@RuflessRecords hogwash, people keep getting moved to lower grade jobs en masse because higher paying jobs cease to exist. That's what free trade is doing in the international markets. If you're a good worker you're enslaved or thrown out the door. It's a choice : choose to be free, choose not to be enslaved, not to work harder for less money and you will be thrown out the door every time. EVERY TIME. I don't want a nanny state. I want a state where elite richness is a crime and so shall it be.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@ytgv3fc7 "if you're a good worker you're enslaved or thrown out the door" don't think so, good workers are making at or above the average compensation in the US which as of March this year was $27.42/hr, $19.41 in salary on average and 8.01 in benefits, according to Bureau Labor Stats. Doesn't sound like slavery to me, didn't they have to work for free?
RuflessRecords 1 year ago
@ytgv3fc7 ... WHAT? I don't know what Marxist propaganda you read but you are living in a different country. The Elite has every right to create and uncreate jobs. It's their businesses. Is it not? You think a job is some god (or Obama) given right when it is NOT. If it wasn't for the elite you would be a peasant in the rice fields. You really need to get a grip. Our public education is really a mess. You are exhibit "A". God help us all!
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
@aSingleDallasGuy "God" is a lie to enslave humanity. "Elite" are the enslavers. Peasants only exist when there is an elite - freedom is what happens when the elite are gone. We have the right to kill all elite in all the world to protect our survival. The elite are nazis, are religious insane nutters, are controllers, are mafia, are thieves. Death to them all, I shall see it in my lifetime.
SHAME ON YOU. This isn't marxism this is SURVIVAL. ELITE = KILL ALL THE REST OF US.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@ytgv3fc7 .... LOL... So now you nutjobs believe anyone who believes in God part of a conpiracy! Yeah keep on taking your meds my friend. I'm sure the doctors will release you from your rubber room someday. How about you go out and get a job? Oh I forgot, your hero Obama alkeady made that impossible. I hear the Census is hiring. Should be a great 6 month gig. I know, I know... Why work when you can sponge off of people who do... right?
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
@aSingleDallasGuy I work for a major cell phone carrier. I bet you are jobless and posting this crap from the library. Religion is a conspiracy to enslave humanity and has many times. This world SHALL BE CLEANSED of the EVIL OF RELIGION. It is the same evil as murdering children and eating them.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@ytgv3fc7 .... I see, so you are a capitalist pig for working for a business overcharging customers to make a profit. That's how it works right? Or is it only other people who are capitalist pigs to forever exclude yourself? You have some issues my friend, I suggested that you start taking your neds again remember? Did you not take my advice? I won't comment about your eating children analogy as I'm not a psychiatrist and am not qualified to speak in regards to someone in your state of mind.
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
@aSingleDallasGuy anyone making unfair trades for profit is a capitalist pig. Anyone making a fair deal to replace materials & keep the business running, feed one's self, is not a capitalist pig.
ytgv3fc7 7 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 ... Fair? Unfair? Those are very opinionated words. According to liberals the rich should pay much more in taxes, and that is called fair. While to me I have to ask why does the rich need to pay even a dime more than anyone else? That would be real fairness. Why doesn't society have smart cash registers in stores that checks you bank account balance and if your are "rich" that loaf of bread will cost $75.50 and if you are poor it costs you $0.25? Fair? What a funny word!
aSingleDallasGuy 7 months ago
@aSingleDallasGuy that's a good question. Why do corporations, businesses, not do a sliding scale of fees?
Actually some used to back in the day. I know I've traded paper for goods at a loss to a friend or two to help out. Sometimes regretted it as the person turned out to be a fraudster, not poor as presented, but that's my risk & my choice.
ytgv3fc7 7 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 "Why do corporations, businesses, not do a sliding scale of fees?" Because in your liberal fair unfair world that would be discrimination. LOL I broght this up to show how stupid liberal thought is and you of course thought it was a serious suggestion! You left-wing kooks should be committed! There's no one stopping anyone from succeeding in life, but yourself. Yet, you blame those who take chances, educate themselves and make a few extra bucks. You feel so entitled to their hard work!
aSingleDallasGuy 6 months ago
@aSingleDallasGuy I'm not left-wing or right-wing. Both such "sides" are zombie sheeple.
As I wrote, some corporations used to do such sliding scales back in the day because it was socially right & good for long-term business. If you don't care about repeat-customers, don't bother.
ytgv3fc7 6 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 ... "I'm not left-wing or right-wing".. Yeah right. I love how people claim to be independent then open their mouth and prove themselves wrong. You are clearly far left-wing whether you admit it to yourself or not. Your comments speak for themselves. In Capitalism corporations are not in business as a welfare service. They are in business to make money, period. Harsh? Sure, but it's reality. In the process of making money they hire people which allows them to prosper. See how it works?
aSingleDallasGuy 6 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 Who are the elite? The rich pay most of the taxes for America, so we should be thanking them for providing a large chunk of our government's revenue to serve social programs that we need every day. Greedy they are not, since they get involved in philanthropy, funding for other projects, and creating organizations. In fact, the average person is greedier than the rich. I see a woman with a child begging for money on the street and most people are not kind enough to give them $1 dollar.
GunsNRosesbitches 7 months ago
@GunsNRosesbitches who are the elite? The banksters & paid off politicians are the elite, as are all the royal families left on the planet. The rich pay the least taxes, the majority are paid by the people who are poor. Some nations are allowing the poorest to pay no tax but then the next level up still pays the majority of national taxes. It has never been any other way. We need to philanthropy of the rich if we stop them from robbing us initially (same for taxes too).
ytgv3fc7 7 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 Check your facts, the top 5% in the US pay 60% of the nation's taxes.
GunsNRosesbitches 7 months ago
@GunsNRosesbitches check your facts: before all the unemployment it was definitely the bottom 95% of working Americans. NOW so many are not working it may very well be different but times are changing, taxes are being raised in every direction & the top 5% are getting tax-breaks not taxes paid.
ytgv3fc7 7 months ago
@GunsNRosesbitches /watch?v=KXm3TvVcsLI
GE paid no tax on 14 billion in profits. None. Got a refund in fact.
ytgv3fc7 7 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 But the bulk of the government's income comes from federal income taxes. You'll then see that the vast majority of federal income taxes comes from the top 5%.
GunsNRosesbitches 7 months ago
@GunsNRosesbitches no I see it being the other 95% paying the bulk, not the top 5%, in dollars or in % terms.
ytgv3fc7 6 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 Check the stats and see where most of the federal income taxes come from...then talk
GunsNRosesbitches 6 months ago
@GunsNRosesbitches Ya, the stats show that the corporations pay the smallest taxes compared to the population. that's what I said before.
ytgv3fc7 6 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 Corporations are not some monster entity. Corporations are people. A corporation consists of a CEO, shareholders and employers.
GunsNRosesbitches 6 months ago
@GunsNRosesbitches Corporations are monster entities composed of hierarchy, giant cash reserves, exploitation of lowest-ranking members/entry-level employees, with many shareholders being greedy bastards who are themselves getting ripped off when they're not looking. Corporations are not people. Never can be.
ytgv3fc7 5 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 Exploitation of lowest-ranking members? Who forced those poor suckers to work for that corporation? Nobody did. Shareholders are greedy? Who isn't. You are greedy too. Nobody gives homeless people any money when they actually have money. Whose fault is that? It is a fallacy to think that corporations and other large entities are sinister and evil, while we are the good ones. Bullshit. Keep your pessimism....people like you don't get anywhere in life. Bill Gates oughta lecture u first
GunsNRosesbitches 5 months ago
@GunsNRosesbitches You're just full of lies, aren't you? Corporations once they take over a city change it: you work for them or you die. That's force. All around those corporations lie & steal, then act like that's not lying or stealing. I'm not greedy. I absolutely give money to homeless people when I have it, $20 at a time. Your entire comment is 100% bullshit. These are the facts: corporations systematically steal, all of them, and actual human persons systematically DO NOT.
ytgv3fc7 5 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 CORPORATIONS ARE NOT MACHINES, THEY CONSIST OF PEOPLE! Its not the corporation that is doing the "stealing", "lying" and "deceiving", it's the people who work and run the corporation that are doing it. In other words, people are stealing, lying and deceiving others. No big deal, it happens all the time. Besides, corporations have only one goal...profit. The CEO has only one obligation....to make everyone happy so the shareholders can get that 10% return. Simple as that.
GunsNRosesbitches 5 months ago
@GunsNRosesbitches Absolutely wrong. Corporations are machines of rules & regulations, including corporate theft culture. Their purpose is to lie and they do. I got someone fired in my last corporation because of this. It is their MANDATE to cover up fraud & steal money. It is only by alerting the NEXT corporation being stolen from that this was stopped. All management was 100% aware, It is their purpose to steal. It is a big deal, it is the ruination of all economies. The CEO? You're nonsense
ytgv3fc7 5 months ago
@GunsNRosesbitches your nonsense doesn't fly with me. The CEO's one simple job is take all the money. Nothing else. Not making anyone happy. Just take all the money and run. The shareholders aren't getting any 10% return. They're getting told lies and told to wait and then stocks are diluted and prices drop, dividends are cut or never exist. It's all theft. Wake the hell up
ytgv3fc7 5 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 Stocks are diluted? Prices drop? Dude do you even know anything about finance and investing? Or are you just being told lies by some brainwashed activist group?
GunsNRosesbitches 5 months ago
@GunsNRosesbitches Are you an idiot? These events are publicly reported.
ytgv3fc7 5 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 You are being naively pessimist with your anti-corporation ideals. Corporations are a major vehicle for the global economy and a major vehicle for human prosperity and progression. No one will work for free and the rewards you get is correlated to the sweat you've accumulated. Why? Because we do not have infinite resources. People have to compete for resources. Corporations provide jobs and pay workers based on supply and demand (unless its under minimum wage).
GunsNRosesbitches 5 months ago
@ytgv3fc7 So exactly what should we do since corporations are "killing us alive" and "robbing us of wealth"? More government regulation? Haha...that will probably make it even worse.
GunsNRosesbitches 5 months ago
@aSingleDallasGuy You get what you put in to eneythang
1inkdaddy 1 year ago
@aSingleDallasGuy If what you say were true we would all be rich business owners. Sorry, you're wrong.
freedom4kaz 1 year ago 2
@aSingleDallasGuy thats not true its skewed because Rich people have powerful people in power. Therefore they have people who have money and therefore it would be easier for Daddys daughter or son to get a job because of this. On the other hand the people at the bottom who don't have the economic status. Have to try double to get into the door where there is even a decent paying job. Its who you know not what you know . that in itself does skew alot of this American dream.
EmeterioBetances 1 year ago
@EmeterioBetances the true form of capitalism. One person gets to a pile of food before the others and eats. Gets stronger and then kills anyone else who gets close to the food. A few shall be allowed the smallest scraps to survive so long as they promise to be slaves forever. Refusal is met by death. Capitalism is this most heinous evil.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@ytgv3fc7 I'd like to revise that: so long as capitalism is balanced at the personal level with socialism at the collective level, an optimal balance can be attained. The fraud & killing is the most heinous evil. I have seen now that the rich thieves and poor thieves are the same except for what they start with. May they both be killed judiciously for the rest of us to survive. "popular conceptions" of socialism & capitalism are frauds: the pushers of these frauds merely want to steal.
ytgv3fc7 5 months ago
@aSingleDallasGuy socialism is the one true path of humanity's future. Anything else will end in murder, war and capitalistic evil. Capitalism is an epic fail and we must be rid of it before we are all slaves. Every piece of capitalism in this world right now is geared to one thing: drive down wages, drive up cost of living, turn everyone into a slave. That's it, nothing more.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@aSingleDallasGuy You can't be serious...
stayfresh06 1 year ago
@aSingleDallasGuy There are two possibilities here. 1)Your name says it all. Single + guy = you don't know shit about being married or divorced, or being a woman, or having a family to support - and you sound a lot like a white guy, so you probably don't know shit about being anything other than instantly privileged. Or 2)You're a fucking troll.
M0US3P0T4TO 1 year ago
@M0US3P0T4TO .... Nice 5th grade response! And very judgmental to boot! So all white people are privledged? LOL...... How racist art thou? Unlike you, I don't judge other's by their gender or color of their skin. Your comments shows how uneducated you are and speaks for itself. You forgot the 3rd possibility.... That I take responsibility and blame no one for my own life choices. Try it sometime.
aSingleDallasGuy 1 year ago
Ha ha ha, that was a great laugh about Bush. Made my day... Thanx!
snarbywrx 1 year ago
Thumbs up on this video!
Before you said his name I knew who you were talking about (Bush) lol!
How many POOR fuck ups that only had a 2.0 gpa becomes president of the united States? Answer ZERO!
In today's America it's definitely WHO you know NOT what you know that determines how far you go in life!
Trying to build your OWN business is the way to go.
It's a waste of life to work for someone else, making someone else rich is not a good idea!
Work hard & smart...
scorpionkings 1 year ago
The poor are rich these days
spotthatruth1 1 year ago
One point; People not moving between classes could have more than one root cause. The "System" is one (collective View). Perhaps personal Morality is another?
Libertarianism may be our last hope but, frankly, I think it's too late. The people here are already deeply divided between the Makers and the Takers (as a result of the two parties selling their souls for power).
All free societies are temporary. I'm sad to say that this one may be over.
VerbotenDingleberry 1 year ago
@mhstz well, we need balance. The truth is there's too many people.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
@mhstz wrong.
The people will never starve so long as we have forest for all the animals, some of which are food. Kill the trees, starve the people. Save the trees, save us all.That's reality. WAKE UP.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
I completely agree with everything you said. Very very true.
MissAmyNicci 1 year ago
@HyperBorealOperator wrong, feudalism can certainly mean any dynastic power, and by its power, BECOMES government because the amassed wealth and exploitation de facto means it has all the power.
Too all the rest of us the definition of who is officially government should not be relevant.
Who is your government? It's Goldman Sachs. Do you understand?
Even with NO LAWS, MADE OR EVER TO BE MADE, this is feudalism.
You don't know what you're talking about.
ytgv3fc7 1 year ago
THE WORLD NEEDS DITCH DIGGERS & CEOs FACT SORRY
1inkdaddy 1 year ago
I LOVE CAPITALISM. The government is the problem.
futurerapture 1 year ago 2
(cont.)... Your race analogy should have not been a 2 min. head start, but instead having the poor and middle class run the race with only "one leg", that would have been more accurate! And anyone who comes from nothing and makes it, is an an anomaly! Remember, Jim Fixx, marathon runner died of a heart attack at 52. While George Burns smoked cigars all his life and lived to 95 !!!
1776SonofLiberty 1 year ago
@DEMCAD- You are right on so many points that I don't know where to begin! I This system has been corrupt since at least 1913! am 42 yrs old now. Growing up, my family would have been considered middle class. My father worked no less than two jobs(sometimes three) and there were MANY things my brothers and I did without. You are correct...this ideal of working harder will get you further is a myth!
1776SonofLiberty 1 year ago
most of the time it's not what you know, but WHO.
CelticReject 1 year ago
Demcad, we agree totally! You hit one thing I believe is the very foundation of all the inequality we see in America. That's the adage of "it's not what you know, it's who you know." That's why Bush valued loyalty so much and why Obama is cultivating the republicans..he does catch on quick. Another big one for you young people to know, is you need to find a champion, someone in power that will champion your success. Be it at school or on the job. Look for one.
Boomer1949 1 year ago
You're vloging on a tough subject b/c it'll make you sound "left". At the core, you're looking for political inequality... where a class of people have priviledges stablished directly or indirectly by state policy/force. Probably correct to say that the FED and current banking system and corporate law concentrates wealth to a few.
carlosjhr64 1 year ago
Whats up DemCadd, good buddy you re right about the the rich and the poor, and the middle class being abolished, Clinton signed nafta,bush signed the patriot act and took us to war, obama brings in corruption along socialism/communism....while keeping whites and blacks fighting about racism....when we should all be storming Washing d.c. and restoring our republic.
SSGtroy 1 year ago
The contentment of our fathers, may be the nails in our coffins. You can use that if ya like brother.
FatDaddy4Fun 1 year ago
Tell ya who I blame. Our grandparents. Some did work hard, and now are driving around in their winnebagos seeing the country, with one foot in the grave. they tolerated too much. What is tolerated in todays society, is readily accepted in the next. they let government get out of hand when the lawns are green. But hard times are here, everyone sees the shortcomings of government...but it is waaaay out of hand now. And a fix almost seems impossible. Corruption abounds, deeply.
FatDaddy4Fun 1 year ago
I agree with u Demcad. ur right that the rich have the advantage, & as u said, in reality, a poor man doesnt have the pure opportunity to go from rags to riches that a free market should provide. great ie with the casino scenario. We got robbed for millions it was given it to the crooked who robbed us in the first place. smh... and they cry out against solcialism?? what do you this this is???
diah4 1 year ago
I agree with you DEMCAD with the part about the this govt. being corrupt. If it was an honest capitalistic society then things would be better. I do think though that people forget that working smart is key. You can be a hard worker but if you don't have a plan to get to point B C D then you will never get anywhere. Rich get richer because once you have a certain amount of money it can easily grow. But anyone can still be middle class without too much effort.
SylviaNCali 1 year ago
so true...good commentary
nbrown1378 1 year ago
one of the best videos you've ever done!! Bush lol
mavsguru41 1 year ago
if you can for this year and next don' t borrow any money from a bank or credit card .just try to pay cash for things you need for today . rent vs buying a house or car? and lets see what happens in a couple of years from now
swami24u 1 year ago
Did you play sports? I hear the same thing all the time from kids / parents on teams that I have coached for 20 years.
"My kid should be lead off, play 3rd, play midfield, be the QB, start, be first team .. the only reason he /she is not is because of favoritism / family / don't like us / not from the right side of town.. Truth might hurt but not everyone is a star or if you were at 8, does not mean U R at 18. More often than not, work - effort - persistence with a slice of talent - wins.
bamatecangel7 1 year ago
This is good stuff DEMCAD....I kept my nose to the grindstone too long...when I finally looke dup in 2007, I saw the monopoly game was cheating and changing up the rules. I quickly transferred out of dollars and into commodities, metals, real estate raw land. People don't understand their 401k's (yes they came back a little) will be sheared again..maybe worse next time. You can't give friday 401k money every week to widget companies that have no incentive to expand-or-grow..money disappears.
AccuracyMarked 1 year ago
Keep up the good work Demcad ...Thanks for the info
jwcashman 1 year ago
Agreed 100% Good Video!!!!!!
acechoice45 1 year ago
I see someone posted a video response which said you don't have to work hard just smart.
It is a argument that runs such that if I say, but what about all those companies set up that fail each year? Then back comes the retort, well they weren't smart! The retort is rather braggadocio because the bragger can't be sure they aren't just lucky.
There is always a risk and if you have kids to feed and have been brought up without the breaks, risks aren't always an option.
SKAMP57 1 year ago
wow, socialist much? no, its the education system that needs to be blamed. public education cannot compete with private education, and thus, the poor do not have as good of oppurtunities. so its education reform we need
zzedfg 1 year ago
Luck has little to do with success. Repetition is rather the key. Take Abe Lincoln's life as an example (you know the story). I certainly don't think that success in this country is skewed. Looking at the numbers is the best way to look at the trees without seeing the forest. Some of the most poor and unsuccesful people I know inherited riches and opportunity, and thus took it all for granted. Saying it's skewed is the best way of saying "why try?"
January132005 1 year ago
It's not about working hard.........it's abou working SMART. Big difference.
Machi74005 1 year ago 2
Amen to that. I have been busting my hump for 52 years and now I have been out of work 2 years. Because cutting staff is popular. Try being over 50 and looking for work. It just makes me crazy.
mfskinner 1 year ago
whoa, good vid! The truth is what will set us Free!
TheKeypushers 1 year ago
this is very true. I agree with alot of what you say. opportunities are shrinking for the average American.
Codylangaugesblog 1 year ago
Yep I say this to people who are of the older generation, keep on chasing that rabbit that is the American in the end you will have nothing for all the hard work. This system just simply enslaves people their whole lives.
oc5nsli341nforce4 1 year ago
@oc5nsli341nforce4 Funny, you should mention a rabbit, because that's what's going to be in my next video.
DEMCAD 1 year ago
@DEMCAD
Lucky little rabbit. :)
oc5nsli341nforce4 1 year ago
Not only is the one man two mins behind ,they have game rules to force him to have his arms ,and legs tied,with a bag over his head. The man in front changed the game rules.But He keeps telling you that you can win just work alittle harder.Because you have a bag over your head you couldnt even see he wasnt running at all , but just standing at the finish line collecting everything you was working so hard for.
zoom1234567 1 year ago