 And I think ultimately what I would want people to take away from this video is and hopefully it's somewhat helpful to anybody who might know somebody like this. This Chinatown family is going viral right now and it is sparking an online discussion. Yeah, I think this clip was pretty relatable. Let's run it. This is Mu Yi Yu. She lives in a single room occupancy or SRO in San Francisco's Chinatown. She shares the tiny room which is about 100 square feet with five others, her husband and four children and has lived there for the past nine years. San Francisco's SROs are typically about 100 square feet with shared toilets and showers on each floor. Long story short, there is a Cantonese family from Guangdong living in San Francisco SRO housing government subsidized. They only make $700 a month. The rent is $500 a month. The dad doesn't really work and people feel bad for the kids because they got four of them. And this is sparking a ton of online discussion and debate. We're going to get into the reactions, our takeaways. So make sure you like, subscribe and turn on your notifications and let's get into it. All right, David, what's the first main comment that we're going to address? OK, the first one was like, how can we help? But then the debate sort of went into like, what does help even look like? Is it just to go fund me? Is it getting legal help for them? Does try to move them up along to get a different SRO? What does help look like? Is it give a man a fish or is it teach a man a fish? Right, like, I guess, for example, if you start a go fund me and you give them a couple thousands of dollars, I think it's going to help definitely in the short term. And also, I guess some people are saying, well, if there's any sort of free legal aid that they could give them to push them up into the process of getting more sectionate housing so they can live in a larger area or or maybe move or something like that. I guess I guess you could help a move. But the truth is that even though they're highlighting this family, they're not the only family going through this right now. There's people in multiple cities across America, obviously everywhere else around the world, but particularly America's going to get the focus because people are going to be like, America's such a rich country. Why does it happen? Yeah. And it is weird to happen in SF, which has a lot of money, but you have to remember California has a very, very high homeless rate. Of course, the second reaction, Andrew, was a little bit more judgmental. Hey, guys, I don't mean to disrespect this family, but why did you have four kids knowing that you don't have any income streams and that you're already on government assistance living in a small place? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, listen, we don't know a lot about the family. Obviously, I just know from the article that was read and the little reel that was sent out. But I mean, it looks like the kids are for the most part, healthy. They had two girls at first and then maybe theory wise, they wanted a boy because, you know, this is like tradition and everything. And then the one boy that they got actually turned into two boys because they were twins. So now it added an extra person to the family. But yes, I I mean, I mean, I'm not victim. I'm just saying moving on it or someone said, why not just move to a different city? There are so many new cities around America that even have Asian enclaves or even Chinatowns within them, St. Louis, Arizona, Central California, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Exactly. I think from this video and the press that they're getting, hopefully, maybe someone from some type of like placement program and like Arizona or something can help them out or you know, I don't know. I mean, obviously that that comes with some luck as well. But I did speak with a professional financial advisor about this video. I sent it to them. I was like, hey, man, what do you think this family should do? And he was like, you know, it's tough. They're probably on some sort of government assistance right now. If I could and I was that family and I didn't know that much, I would just try to move to a state that has lower cost of living. Yeah. And I do think it actually could be complicated in order because what if San Francisco has really bad like housing assistance, but they have really good medical assistance. So now you're making the family pick between this great doctor that they love, even though they got to live in this 75 square foot box. No, yeah, it's tough. It's tough. Somebody said, let's just have empathy for these people, man. I mean, I understand, you know, maybe they're not figuring out as best as they could. They could work more or whatever. But let's just have empathy. David, what do you think empathy? I think empathy is a key step. But what do you think that does? Because people are like, well, empathy doesn't put money in their pocket. Empathy doesn't move them out of San Francisco. So so why have empathy? I think that, first of all, it's an internet reaction because a lot of people are just like seeing something that they relate to. Maybe it's in Cantonese. It feels very visceral and like. But I think that empathy is important, but only if it translates into action, right? Because now it's really empathy about a whole system, right? This was just a highlight op ed or personal piece in the media. But that's what the power of media is. Somebody also said, don't judge her. You don't know the details, which is fair. You don't know the details. Guys, there's actually not that many details. I mean, if they have any special needs, kids, they didn't mention that. Or if one of the disability. Yeah, or if one of the husband or mother can't work for some reason. I mean, if the husband can't, because that's what it's more sounds like. We don't fully know the details. Or if there's like a secret, I don't know, gambling issue or something. We don't know the issues. So we're only judging this family off of what we know. And I think ultimately what I will want people to take away from this video is not that we're judging them. We're just talking about all the comments. And hopefully it's somewhat helpful to anybody who might know somebody like this. Now, some people in the comments said, hey, I grew up similar to this or I have a cousin that grew up similar to this, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, OK, well, great. These type of discussions are helpful so that it inspires anybody else who can help and give some advice to other people. Somebody said, this is America. Oh, shame, gosh, the richest country on earth. And we can't even provide housing. And some other people came through and said, yeah, if this family was addicted to drugs, they would have got even got treated better because they would have actually got put into the like a drug program. Oh, wow. So it's almost like we treat the drug users better than a regular family that's not doing drugs. That's a good point where they were saying, like, maybe the kids would get how placed in even a better home if their parents were like on drugs. That's crazy, man. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how the system all works, guys, but of course, other people are like, would you shame in America for you think China would be any better? This family might just be poor villages over in China, too. And at least they got free medical and stuff like that. Entirely, entirely possible. Yeah, exactly. And I think I think a question is for like the rich, I guess, particularly Chinese people who live in SF, you know, who are like tech millionaires, billion, like, I guess I'm not. It's not your job to help them out, but also like, what can you do for the city? You know, I guess if that's your community or that's where you live by. I would totally think about summer camps for the kids, like free summer camps that show them other worlds and get them in a high earning careers or just gets them to meet other families and stuff like that. Anyways, what's the last comment? Other people were basically saying, you know, I wish they would have moved to Canada instead. Canada has much better social floor systems. And somebody said, yeah, but this family probably wouldn't even have been able to get into Canada because Canada, because of their high social floor system, they have like much different barriers to entry for families and they wouldn't even want a family like this in the Canadian system, because they would view it as a drag on the economics. Somebody also said, you know, this was very common in Hong Kong in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s even. But, you know, it's just kind of rare to see in America in 2023. Yeah. I mean, this happened, dude, poverty is all over the United States. It's all over the world. But yeah, I guess this is touching home because it seems very relatable. Like everybody has met, like if you live around the Chinese community or Asian community, you've met a lady like this before. For sure. For sure. I mean, I've met many of my lifetime. I've even had conversations with them. In fact, Andrew, we used to live in a remodel tenement in New York, Andrew, where some of our neighbor's units were not remodeled. And there was like a, I believe they were from Fujian, a family of like seven living in a one bedroom, not a studio, but like a one bed next to us. And yeah, I don't know. It was definitely interesting. Moving on to the takeaways, Andrew, I think ultimately it's true that your parents really do have an impact on how your future turns out statistically speaking, right? Yeah, there is. I mean, there's obviously a lot of stats of saying your parents' income, their occupation and their locational choices has a huge impact on your life. It doesn't set your life up forever. You can owe everybody. I mean, this is America land of opportunity. I still believe that 100 percent, where you can still make almost anything of yourself or you can make a lot of yourself here. But yeah, it is tough, man. It definitely like puts you in a hole to be honest. It's kind of like having a good or bad start to your day, right? Like the rest of your day, theoretically, is up to you and the things that happen to you. But the start of your day is important. Yeah, I mean, I think that's why a lot of people use the term breaking the cycle in America, you know, moving on. And point number two, Andrew, it's true that like not everybody, at least in the first generation, is going to make it out of Chinatown. Whatever Chinatown looks like to you, whether that's an immigrant enclave or like that, I guess what I'm saying is not. You know how there are those stories of like these families that come with like five dollars and then they start Sriracha and they become billionaires. But it's like that those are more probably like less than 10 percent statistically probable. Oh, for sure. For sure. And I would say like, that's why, you know, it's important to expose your kid like all of our friends who grew up from poor families and ended up making being very successful and making a lot of money. I always remember that they told me there was a story that somehow exposed them to some other industry or exposed them to some other options, a family friend, right? A family friend or organization or a co-worker or someone through the church or the temple or the community, someone that they saw and related to and got to talk to that actually made it out of their situation. I think that's very important. So like I'm not saying like, you know, church or temple, those are community spaces. Those are important. Sometimes there's a lot of hidden factors, Andrew, point number three. What do you think about these enclaves building comfortability? But also you could say it could be an impediment because you become complacent because you're so comfortable because you're around everybody else that might even be from the same village that you're from in China. So part of moving and part of the most painful part of moving to a community that's not your own, but some of the pros of it is that you get thrown into the ocean, right? And it's sink or swim. So you got to figure it out and adapt and it forces you to learn English, right? If you're around most of the English speakers, right? And then it forces your family to go through these hard conversations of your kids adapting. Child by fire. Right. Right. But but then if you're in the Chinese community and you can just speak Chinese and still live life, there is a relatively similar to back in back in the old there's just a pro and con guys. I don't know. I think sometimes the trial by fire method, Andrew, it produces higher upside results, but possibly even lower downside results. And that's what somebody was saying in the comment section. They were like, I grew up in a home very similar to me, you and her family. And I turned out OK. One of my brothers ended up on drugs and one of my other brothers buried his head in the video games and hid from the real world for the rest of his life. So like you said, upside, downside, somebody said, as long as everybody's emotionally and physically stable and like mentally stable, is this really that bad, though? Like, like, of course, it's not ideal. But like, as long as they're together, it's all good. And it seemed like the dad and I'm not blaming him, but he seemed like way more chill about the situation than the mom did. The mom was really crying and stuff. Yeah, I mean, if you if the article tells you that the man of the house works infrequently, I mean, maybe he's doing other things. Maybe he's the one taking care of the kids, whatever it is. But I guess ideally you want both people working. But, you know, overall, you know, I know that there's a lot of different opinions. I talked to some friends about this, that they come from more of a poor background or low income background. And they were just like, man, that doesn't look like the worst situation. Guys, they still got a lot of time and a lot of chances. I'm not saying that's any situation you would wish for anybody, but they got a shot. They're in America, they're healthy, they're ready to work. And they look like there was a bunch of like alcohol bottles and like pipes around the room, right? So so, of course. But yeah, I mean, if anybody out there knows how to help this family or help families like them, I mean, we through the church, we helped our family, helped certain families that maybe weren't in this quite situation, but a similar similar where they needed help. And it's just like, dude, being around meeting other families that come from a similar background that made in America is priceless, man. So that's what they need to do to see the reps, to see the examples. I'm sure they're doing it, but I hope that they're part of a community and I hope they figure it out. But yeah, again, like this is a common story. So you guys let us know in the comments down below what you think. Like what is advice that you could give this family or what are some stories maybe that you have of your own family or a family that you knew that was kind of starting from a similar situation. So hopefully this video was just helpful. Yeah, let us know what you think in the comment section below. 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