How Wealth Influences Health

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How Wealth Influences Health

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Why do more people die from heart attacks on Mondays than any other day? Especially in the employed. Especially in the USA, UK, and Australia. Especially in January? Why does Baltimore have a male life expectancy equivalent to Syria, and San Jose have a male life expectancy equivalent to Japan, when they're similarly sized cities in the United States?
In this Bizarre Summary, I briefly explore research regarding the relationship between relative inequality, stress, and health disparities in wealthy market democracies.
*This video has been demonetized- consider checking out my Patreon if you like what I'm doing:
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Further Reading:
www.equalitytr... (tons of info here)
Wilkinson, R. G., & Pickett, K. (2009). The spirit level: Why more equal societies almost always do better. London: Allen Lane.
Wilkinson, R. G., and Pickett, K. E. (2017) The enemy between us: The psychological and social costs of inequality. Eur. J. Soc. Psychol., 47: 11- 24. Web: www.law.nyu.edu...
Dickerson SS, Kemeny ME. Acute stressors and cortisol responses: a theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research. Psychol Bull. 2004 May;130(3):355-91. Web: www.researchga...
Lê-Scherban, F., Albrecht, S. S., Bertoni, A., Kandula, N., Mehta, N., & Diez Roux, A. V. (2016). Immigrant status and cardiovascular risk over time: results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Annals of epidemiology, 26(6), 429-435. Web: www.ncbi.nlm.n...
I also highly recommend anything from Dr. Robert Sapolsky- "Stress: Portrait of a Killer" is on KZfaq, as well as many of his lectures from Stanford.

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@overhang88 3 жыл бұрын

Now I am stressed about being stressed.

@VEGANzUmebies 3 жыл бұрын

Your comment stressed me out!

@spiralmewtrix 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@MadnerKami 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats for getting to the grave even faster than before.

@grantdillon3420 3 жыл бұрын

@@MadnerKami yay we're all going to die!

@AdobadoFantastico 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect

@iain2080 3 жыл бұрын

Remember folks you can't take a cent with you to the grave. You can however build a large grave monument to preside over your patch of ground as a middle finger to the indifferent cosmos. That'll show the serfs.

@josephmarble2371 3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that a horrible Goth band will use your immaculate tomb for the cover of their EP.

@ericgrajeda9916 3 жыл бұрын

Yes but you can leave a family and legacy that will be effected.

@RCAvhstape 3 жыл бұрын

@@ericgrajeda9916 Only if you manage to reproduce.

@Ayzklymbr 3 жыл бұрын

@@josephmarble2371 This is the primary argument for capitalism.

@KnuckleHunkybuck 3 жыл бұрын

@@josephmarble2371 And they'll name their band "Immaculate Tomb".

@Drewsel 3 жыл бұрын

Never thought I'd see my boy Georg discussing how human psychology affects our physiology. Proud of you, my boy.

@Bestialce2007 3 жыл бұрын

I just read your message. I read Georg. I thought you made a mistake spelling his name. I double-checked with his channel name. It is in fact Georg. I've been followong this dude for 2 years now. My mind is officially blown.

@DogsaladSalad 3 жыл бұрын

Good profile pic. Watership down is cool as heck

@Drewsel 3 жыл бұрын

@@DogsaladSalad I haven't changed it since I made my youtube account more than a decade ago lol

@ireneuszpyc6684 3 жыл бұрын

@@Drewsel it's the other way around: our physiology affects our psychology

@Drewsel 3 жыл бұрын

@@ireneuszpyc6684 it actually works both ways. Either can affect the other. Think of a stress response to publically performing. When you need to speak in front of an audience most people become nervous. They sweat, their mouth goes dry, you become tense, and you usually feel like you need to go to the bathroom. No one would label you sick, and you aren't suddenly coming down with something, but miraculously in a few moments sick you suddenly feel. That's an entirely psychological related state affecting your physiology. Your mood affects your nervous system. It's well known and well documented. Don't take my word for it tho, go look it up if you don't believe me.

@MrBendybruce 3 жыл бұрын

It's like a sharp, edgy movie and cinema critic spontaneously transformed into a gifted and articulate science communicator. Color me impressed.

@M2Mil7er 3 жыл бұрын

impressed isn't a colour, so that's going to prove impossible.

@MrBendybruce 3 жыл бұрын

Even more perplexing is that color isn't a color either. It's just electromagnetic waves across a frequency spectrum we call visible light.

@FloorFerret 3 жыл бұрын

Probably all the hiptang. That stuff is crazy

@fredbloggs5902 3 жыл бұрын

I still get (occasional) nightmares today, about having my A-level exam tomorrow when I’ve spent 2 years doing nothing... ...And I’m 62 😳

@rogerroger9952 3 жыл бұрын

It's insane how many people have stress dreams about school all the way into their 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. It's almost like maybe we shouldn't be putting so much stress on literally every child that is a part of our society and teaching them to put their self-worth in the hands of those more powerful.

@skunkrat01 3 жыл бұрын

Hey man, your education isn’t “nothing” no matter how late in life it may occur. Good luck on your A-levels tomorrow

@londonoverground 3 жыл бұрын

@@skunkrat01 No he meant he still has anxiety nightmares about his exams he took 44 years ago. He's not doing them now.

@Whatever-mx3bt 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I still have reoccurring nightmares of failing in school/college, even though I got my masters already. Unemployed 5+ years due to lack of jobs for my career level in my area, and not enough money or resources to move away.

@PoptartParasol 3 жыл бұрын

@@rogerroger9952 "this makes too much sense, I will now stick my fingers in my ears lalala" - every government ever on education reform

@GeorgRockallSchmidt 3 жыл бұрын

I just discovered that my account was "hacked" in the last hour, and some moron is posting the same comment about Bitcoin over and over- I am deleting them, and changing all of my login credentials. Please accept my apology for this- and I assure you that I will do everything in my power to correct it. Also, please do not invest in Bitcoin.

@Xoais 3 жыл бұрын

should pin this comment also so the masses can see it first and foremost

@ivanriskin1167 3 жыл бұрын

Georg you're a light, love your vids man 💜

@SimGunther 3 жыл бұрын

@@trienos3040 So real estate and stocks is the answer?

@Naptosis 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to run a malware scan on all your devices, or there won't be a point in changing your credentials if your device is compromised; it'll just get hacked again. Screen all email links and attachments too; many KZfaqrs get sent a 'sponsorship offer' email or direct message, that has a link to a 'sample' video or software that the 'sponsor' wants you to watch first, and in reality it's a screengrabber and keylogger. Loads of KZfaqrs get got this way. Best of luck G!

@GeorgRockallSchmidt 3 жыл бұрын

@@Naptosis Already on it. Cheers mate :)

@note4note804 3 жыл бұрын

Oh no, now that I know I'll die from stress, I'm even more stressed. Thanks George!

@Thessalin 3 жыл бұрын

If you're interested in more information, please see Stress: Portrait of a Killer. Dr Robert Sapolsky's video is pretty amazing on explaining this how terrible it is. It's found "free" on youtube, but if you have to means to buy or rent it, please do. Edit: Why did I doubt my boy Georg wouldn't mention this documentary. Well done sir.

@catriona_drummond 3 жыл бұрын

I watched a series of lectures Sapolsky gave some years ago to students on youtube as well. VERY interesting stuff. Hope they are still out there...

@badwolf4239 3 жыл бұрын

@@catriona_drummond I've been watching through it lately myself, so it's still around (assuming it's the same one, of course).

@jackwilson5542 3 жыл бұрын

I have very high natural anxiety level (was stressed for no reason all the time as a kid), hence why I take Xanax. It may be healthy in my case.

@PoptartParasol 3 жыл бұрын

@@jackwilson5542 could be your mother was bery stressed during pregnancy, stuff like this can make anxious children. Could also just be that you were brought up in a way where stressors where more present around you- subtle things your parents would stress you out with. Usually this includes over sharing or venting to their children about their problems. Talking about money and how little there is of it too often etc Doesnt come from nowhere, but i hope one day you figure out why and get to the root of the issue. (Too much anxiety to the point of having to take drugs to keep it in check is by definition a disorder, I doubt it's healthy.)

@jackwilson5542 3 жыл бұрын

@@PoptartParasol Yeah, but if I wasn't taking them I would have nearly constant anxiety/high stress level. (Which would probably lead to heart problems in like a decade, so taking pills is lesser evil)

@thejudgmentalcat 3 жыл бұрын

The relationship between health, happiness and consumption of Hiptang should be covered next.

@elmonko5068 3 жыл бұрын

HIPTANG! Do you know where your organs have been?

@Mariathinking 3 жыл бұрын

STOP INDORCING HIPTANG THEY EXPLOIT BLIND DYSLEXIC ORPHANS!!! *endorsing. I'm one of the dyslexic orphans you see..

@creamcannon825 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mariathinking HIPTANG BAYBEE, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, YOU CAN GET OUT

@mbe102 3 жыл бұрын

I love your movie stuff, but, I gotta admit, these are my favourite.

@cookie2000ad 3 жыл бұрын

Came here to say exactly that.

@nagualdesign 3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@NSGrendel 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic work. Sound conclusion. 10/10. I shall send it to friends who will see it is 20 minutes long and thus ignore it and go back to watching Tiktoks.

@tlamiczka 3 жыл бұрын

It's great to know the governments in so many of our countries are working day and night to increase chronic stress as much as possible in last year and a half. It definitely doesn't affect general health, not at all :-)

@samurguy9906 3 жыл бұрын

youth suicide up, depression up, domestic abuse up... but you know, continue the shutdowns so long as it saves just one life, right?

@tlamiczka 3 жыл бұрын

@@samurguy9906 Yeah, their logic is absolutely bulletproof :-D It's like the famous quote from Spock in Star Trek: "“The Needs of the Few Banksters Outweigh the Needs of the Many”...or something like that.

@nagualdesign 3 жыл бұрын

@@samurguy9906 Considering that millions have died from COVID it seems like a good idea to try and nip it in the bud. If you look at the data, the lockdowns have undoubtedly saved more than one life.

@samurguy9906 3 жыл бұрын

@@nagualdesign the lockdowns were about flattening the curve to ease hospital capacity, not stop cases in the long term. We flattened the curve, and there were specific hotspots that still went over capacity. We could have done more targeted assessment. There is also little evidence that children catch or transmit the disease at significant rates, and most healthy young people weren’t at risk. The lockdowns killed more than they saved, in the third world at least (due to the global supply chain shutdown).

@nagualdesign 3 жыл бұрын

@@samurguy9906 Do you have a source for that last sentence?

@suakeli 2 жыл бұрын

Anu Partanen's book "Nordic theory of everything" tells her story of moving from Finland to USA. Compared to USA, living in Finland is incredibly stress-free. Finland has free education and free healthcare so there are no student loans or insane hospital bills to burden you. Maternity leave and paternity leave give you time to raise your babies right. Taxes are simple, because the tax office sends you a pre-filled letter. State-funded news have no need of fear-mongering, so the news are polite and calm. The Finnish culture frowns upon bragging about your wealth, which reduces the social evaluation stress. There are basically zero homeless people, which promotes overall safety for everyone. Yes, we do have fewer billionaires because our progressive tax system punishes the ultra-rich, but I'd rather be a millionaire in an equal society than a billionaire living in a gated mansion worrying about law suits and kidnappers.

@pjaworek6793 Жыл бұрын

This makes me want to cry, sounds so good. Thanks for sharing. I ❤ Finland, i have to visit one day. Canadian here.

@francisdec1615 11 ай бұрын

Here in Sweden I get my pre-filled letter from the tax office, and I only check that the numbers are correct. If they are, I simply send a pre-filled number in a text message to the tax-office and it's done.

@shanekimberlin 3 жыл бұрын

I've been enjoying the direction of your channel, and respect the fact that you've never dumbed down your stuff, never tried to clickbait folks. I can't wait to watch your movie! Also, please bring back "Selling Stupid!" Cheers.

@PhantomFilmAustralia 3 жыл бұрын

Before he slipped away, Prince Philip, aged 99, approved this message.

@tubeguy4066 3 жыл бұрын

You mean the andrenochrome addict?

@Olebull93 3 жыл бұрын

@@tubeguy4066 Ah the adrenochrome conspiracy. It’s got a cool name, and some medical uses, but by and large it’s not a very exciting compound. Sorry.

@henryglennon3864 3 жыл бұрын

Well, we think he was approving this message, but he also might have been making an off-colour joke about a black person. It was difficult to tell there, at the end.

@dropit7694 3 жыл бұрын

Poor uncle Phil he died so young. And poor Lizzie, losing a husband and a cousin on the same day

@tisFrancesfault 3 жыл бұрын

@@dropit7694 they're not cousins

@William-Morey-Baker 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't realize you made this kind of content, but I'm incredibly happy to see that you do. ..

@haldir108 3 жыл бұрын

As a low-status male, i'm now aware i am now about all the bad things that come with being low status, such as stress. Thanks.

@laurioho2041 Жыл бұрын

Yep, gotta start taking xanax

@jamesstafford3172 3 жыл бұрын

I came for the film videos, I stayed for the social commentary. Awesome work

@MrMultiPat 3 жыл бұрын

In an Anthropology class I took we had a lecture on Biological Anthropology, and we covered this. They referred to it as the "health-wealth gradient" and talked about those studies of UK civil servants. I remember asking a lot of questions about it, seems like a fascinating topic to me.

@IDidntSetAHandle 3 жыл бұрын

The stress of watching this video took 5 years off my life.

@Fr3unen 3 жыл бұрын

Can relate

@TheMitch485 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Georg, great content as ever. As somebody living in Japan I'd add that here the social gap isn't the same as the West. Wealthy people will mix with commoners, for example by taking language classes together, and such people generally see themselves as parts of society rather than Randian heroes taking Japan into a future of their own design.

@slipperysloop 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you georg, for reminding me of my impending doom

@Kill3rballoon 3 жыл бұрын

We all know that Georg’s life is powered by his lava lamp so as long as it continues to appear in videos, he will survive.

@azmodanpc 3 жыл бұрын

Weird proof of life. Then again never thought of the fella as "ordinary".

@stuffandnonsense8528 3 жыл бұрын

This video was superb. I lecture on inequality at a Russell Group university (as if the RG bit were important) and this is the best presentation on the topic I have ever seen. I’ll recommend it to my students.

@TheMightyPika 3 жыл бұрын

The stress being deadly is true shit. It gave me arrhythmia and I needed emergency heart surgery at 29 because of it. Take care of yourselves, folks.

@raycearcher5794 3 жыл бұрын

I can't speak to my own inescapable death, but I do have a story I can tell. For most of my adult life, I have suffered from painful headaches and IBS. These worsened as I got married, bought a house, had kids, and so on. Then last year I got an extremely non-trivial raise, and at the same time finally paid off a pretty major bill, resulting in suddenly having an extra $400 of padding money every month. And in a week - A WEEK - my overall health has improved DRAMATICALLY. No more stomach upset, way fewer headaches. So it's pretty easy to believe that even greater financial insecurity could absolutely kill someone.

@Jesse__H 3 жыл бұрын

I came for the variety, and I fuckin stay for the variety.

@RuYevon 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the algorithm only brought me here for the Teddi and Girardi videos, but I'm glad, what a great channel

@Olebull93 3 жыл бұрын

There are a few self defence tactics to relife stress, own a pet, humor and meditation. There are some interesting study's that suggest that laughter can help you live longer.

@mookfaru835 3 жыл бұрын

Lol really now? Lol You never were ever happy and laughed? Childhood? I could of told you that.

@SQTOS 3 жыл бұрын

@@mookfaru835 Yes, but what if all that laughing, is the reason you are old now? Is there escape?

@richteffekt 3 жыл бұрын

So what you're saying is that an individual should be taking time out of their life and money out of their pockets so that the systemically imposed stress on them will not hamper their productivity quite so much?

@rogerroger9952 3 жыл бұрын

@@richteffekt that's an overly-cynical way of looking at some solid advice on combating the stress brought about by our society. You don't have to even be employed to be stressed, y'know.

@richteffekt 3 жыл бұрын

@@rogerroger9952 I do not argue with the soundness of the advice in the commentary. Nor with the fact that stress will occur wherever it will occur. In the context of the video under which we're posting however it is necessary to point towards an obvious flaw in the assumption that individuals should be working towards mitigating stress which gets imposed onto them so that they function better as a workforce to begin with. So now one just has to work another hour more in order to fix oneself after one's actual hours of work and commute. That's what I deem problematic as it hands the issue to the affected instead of those causing or profiting from it.

@annakarinaalves 3 жыл бұрын

I honestly blame my lymphoma on the stress that my ex-boss put me through due to moral abuse.

@tropezando 3 жыл бұрын

Twelve years ago, after being diagnosed with kidney failure and lupus the same day at age 23 (whee!) I started looking into why. I thought maybe I had failed somehow and deserved it - I wasn't in the head space to tell myself it was a matter of luck or anything like that, I needed to know how to blame myself the right way. You can probably already guess my social status... I found several studies detailing the increased prevalence of autoimmune disease in people who were exposed to traumatic experiences. I'd been dealing with PTSD for years. My mom was unwillingly pregnant with me when my parents were fighting and considering divorce. And yes, I did grow up poor, have weight issues, was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and have been considering anger management therapy. So thanks for killing me softly with this video Georg lol. As depressing as it is to think that there are millions of people who are ticking health time bombs, it is inspiring to know that the contributing variables can be changed for the better.

@tropezando 3 жыл бұрын

Oh and I recommend The Body Keeps the Score for anyone dealing with trauma.

@jamjox9922 3 жыл бұрын

@@tropezando I also recommend any books by Dr. Gabor Mate. He worked closely with many addicts and figured out that many addicts, don't really have an addiction problem, really. Addiction is their biggest symptom that something else is wrong, or as he puts it, "behind every addiction is usually some large unresolved pain." He also states that one can be addicted to anything, though society doesn't see it as harmful. Television addicts, phone addicts, work addicts--the result is always the same: destruction of personal relationships and and a loss of the individual as well. Of course, addictions can also hide other health issues, and addicts are *initimately aware* that their addiction will kill them. It's not rational. But as Mate has learned, "The addiction is what keeps them from going over the edge. The addiction is what helps them cope with life; it's the one thing that lets them feel normal, wanted, and human." When you learn stuff like that you really get the image of how destruction and regressive the War on Drugs has been on the WORLD. It hasn't helped the poor stay off drugs, it hasn't helped kids stay away from drugs, and it hasn't helped drug criminals and addicts deal with the problems that drive us toward drugs. It has been just another tool from powerful people to pretend they care about the issue, when in fact, they only care about pretending to do something about the issue. FUCK Nancy Reagan and the DARE program. What a fucking waste of money for Americans that was.

@J_Stronsky 3 жыл бұрын

That conclusion had me in stitches. This is the dark humour I come here for

@viktorpoulter8184 3 жыл бұрын

"The Platform" was on my mind all the time

@jamiepratt9247 3 жыл бұрын

A must see.

@glenforest9658 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible flick

@DMWayne-ke7fl 3 жыл бұрын

A stupid film.

@MrmorpheuZ 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, this is my favourite channel on KZfaq ❤

@SimGunther 3 жыл бұрын

From the graphs, it sounds like we need to be like Japan with a Finland education system 😏

@CatsMeowPaw 3 жыл бұрын

The message is clear. To achieve and maintain better health, have someone below you to step on. You'll feel so much better in many ways.

@QellOmnyhydrax 3 жыл бұрын

The sound editing from 7:10 on is just unreal. The subtle music bg- love it. 😂❤️🤌

@lukenardoni2454 3 жыл бұрын

The guy that looks back at the girl in the street is from the New York 1993 HD video (which is well worth watching - It’s quite surreal to see every day life from almost 30 years ago looking like it was recorded yesterday on an iPhone). The guys name is Robert Knupfer, years later he saw the video on KZfaq and recognised himself. Anyway, good video Georg!

@freedomschaffer8264 3 жыл бұрын

George, I would just like to say that I've been watching your content for about 4 years now. I subscribed for film analysis and other various curiosities, but these recent videos where you're spitting hard ideological points have truly been knocking it out of the park. I love this look for you! Keep up the good work! Cheers, mate!

@trippymchippy8586 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine dying in a terrible smelting accident while eating a terrible sandwich.

@RedMeansRecording 3 жыл бұрын

You're amazing and thank you for this

@magentasound_ 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome seeing you here, thanks for the amazing music 😊

@OfficialFidget 3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Rockall-Schmidt, I must say your latest videos are most delightful.

@kyonkochan 3 жыл бұрын

16:12 This is one of my favorite songs ever. I'm so glad that whoever was coming up with music for Fallout 3 decided to put it in. Playing through the game the first time I heard the song I couldn't believe some old-timey jazz song like that could be so self-aware and critical of the insane nature of human civilization and modernity. Good on you for including it.

@666Blaine 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not saying I own a guillotine... but you know how it is: you make a New Year's resolution to get in shape and so you buy a guillotine cause it seems like it'll be fun enough to motivate you into actually exercising this time... and the flat-pack model you buy ends up having extra piece so it just sits around like an expensive, half-assembled clothes hanger, gathering dust and mocking you for your lack of motivation just like the picture of Robespierre with the disapproving expression that hangs near it (cause it fit the theme of the room) and at this point it's either revolution or Craig's List.

@mookfaru835 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t exercise. I first starve myself eating only 50g meat a day(idk the minimum to not lose muscle) and drinking water. If your stomach hurts drink some London juice it helps me. After you’re light enough it will be easier to expertise.

@alexcarter8807 2 жыл бұрын

Nah hang onto it, we'll help you put it together when it's needed. Plus we can use it as a model to build more. We'll need 'em.

@BlazePiffington 3 жыл бұрын

No dying man asks for more money, just more time. Money, the bane of our existence. Thank you Georg for the upload

@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 3 жыл бұрын

That's a beautiful observation, but sadly it takes a deathbed for most people to come to that realisation. It's very fucked up how many people value money over human life.

@nagualdesign 3 жыл бұрын

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 Very fuckef indeed!

@LucBoeren 11 ай бұрын

This is one of the most criminally underwatched videos on this whole platform

@Football__Junkie 3 жыл бұрын

One little nitpick, epinephrine is the fight or flight hormone. Raises your blood pressure, heart rate, etc. Cortisol is the hormone to signal the body to hold onto calories and eat more to store up calories

@ringsroses 3 жыл бұрын

Though Sapolsky's work can, at times, be stress inducing, his storytelling is always soothing to me. Kudos for including him in this 👍

@citycrusher9308 3 жыл бұрын

@4:44 - ''Fewer social relationships'' Yeah, women don't deal with low status men. And the girls hold the keys to social circles

@alexcat6480 3 жыл бұрын

This. Having a low income as a man means women don't want to interact with you, and therefore society doesn't want to interact with you. To society and women you are to be dehumanized and discarded.

@dropit7694 3 жыл бұрын

There is a such thing as low status woman by the way. You probably haven’t noticed them through your own social hierarchal blinders

@citycrusher9308 3 жыл бұрын

@@dropit7694 Dear genius: As the original comment says - ''The girls hold the keys to social circles'' - they do not suffer from low status like guys do. That's why they live longer than men on average

@alexcat6480 3 жыл бұрын

@@dropit7694 Low-status women want nothing to do with low-status men. Also notice there are basically no homeless women compared to men? That is because women get taken care of no matter what.

@waterandafter 3 жыл бұрын

Georg & Renegade Cut both blowing my mind.

@laurioho2041 Жыл бұрын

@mtate 3 жыл бұрын

I really like this more overt messages in your videos and I hope it can continue to try and represent more working class individuals like myself in KZfaq media. Thanks!

@jamjox9922 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate you expanding your essays from cinema toward broader topics at large. I think when you done enough cinema essays, it's hard not to go back to the culture that sprouts said films. Art is not made in a vaccum, after all. I think we'll be seeing more "revenge films against the rich" in the next 20 years. Specially from Hollywood. Whereas in the 1920s we saw films that portrayed the poor as powerless and grieving for their own existence, I think this next wave will focus on how empowered the poor have become due to technology and overall, how much the poor can create their own networks outside the pre-established mediums that were once exclusively owned by rich elites.

@dropit7694 3 жыл бұрын

I think in a post covid world I no longer want to be commuting everyday to an office to work in a stressful environment surrounded by people I barely know. If you are in this situation, do not let it slide, working flexibility is one of the opportune wins we can have across an unequal society

@waterandafter 3 жыл бұрын

I'd like to no longer commute to my retail job.

@hazardeur 3 жыл бұрын

tell that to the guys who are actually doing handywork or labor intensive jobs. hard to build a house when you're at home in your pyjamas

@LddStyx 3 жыл бұрын

I'd bet it'll be paradoxically worse. Imagine that you desire a promotion: How do you know where you stand in relation to your coworkers? Are you working enough? How do you prove that you are a more valuable employee than the competition? The stress from not knowing starts piling up and you'll spend more time on your work never knowing if it's enough. Work starts to intrude on your free time as both occur in the same environment until there is no time and no place where you aren't stressed...

@jamesabernethy7896 3 жыл бұрын

I know i said something similar in on of your other recent videos but I'll say it again. I love the Variety of your channel, gut busting tour-de-farce's with Damien or these informative, thought provoking, videos. We delivered with a great use of older and newer film footage which all has a sense of candidness rather than the glamourized version. Cutting through complex statistics and numbers to get to the important stuff and making it easy to take in. You look good with your more svelte appearance but i have to admit...I miss the beard.

@onemorechris 3 жыл бұрын

this was a particularly good if only for the pronunciation of ‘stress-iga-ga’ and the brilliant conclusion. nice work, more please

@M-1996A1 3 жыл бұрын

I’m not glad I listened to this at work, but I’m glad I heard it. Thank you for your work.

@davidhofberg5029 3 жыл бұрын

Georg, I love your movie analysis, but this is supreme. I loved this.

@hibryd7481 3 жыл бұрын

I really like your videos, I feel like you gently prod at issues. Gently prodding at them let's them keep their shape and let's them be examine more as they are. The alternative method favored by so many others involves hyping and yelling and villainizing, which only distorts and magnifies things.

@vaughnamir.6457 3 жыл бұрын

Content like this is why me and so many other people my age (teens and 20s) have cut cable.

@bollocks9981 3 жыл бұрын

Poor people don’t go to the dentist regularly. They only go when it’s time to pull out their rotten teeth. They spend their entire lives fighting these infections and it negatively affects their overall Heath. Good teeth is also an indicator of status.

@RCAvhstape 3 жыл бұрын

Well, it also helps if you brush regularly, which many people do not do. Hate to know what the insides of their virus masks must smell like.

@jamjox9922 3 жыл бұрын

There is a couple of non-scientific sources that say toilets themselves are an indicator of status. One friend said that in Argentina, bidets are in higher income homes (the two-toilets situation). I believe there's even a youtube TED talk that dives into this. Not long ago in history, indoor plumbing was also an indicator of higher status. Crazy.

@Cheezilla79 3 жыл бұрын

"... thank god for civilisation" that was the funniest and most tragic line I have heard in a while. I am delighted and depressed at that, thank you.

@m.g.3013 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so delighted you've returned to topics such as this. Cheers man!

@christiandaugherty6339 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting topic.

@_0______00__________0_______0 3 жыл бұрын

Adopting a sort of optimistic nihilism has definitely helped my outlook. Nothing I'll ever do will matter, and that's pretty cool!

@EverydayMusician 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Trio's "Da Da Da" really takes me back.

@Spudcore 3 жыл бұрын

Magic Computer is my favourite statistics application.

@superspecky4eyes 3 жыл бұрын

Equally fascinating, illuminating and terrifying.

@LucBoeren 3 жыл бұрын

This is an extremely important video

@buriedstpatrick2294 3 жыл бұрын

Great work. Very happy to see that you don't mind engaging with the politics of broad systemic issues.

@someguy7842 3 жыл бұрын

don't stress out about how your stress levels are killing you...dont think about onions either.

@samk522 3 жыл бұрын

This video makes me want to go out and conquer some bread.

@TheSchmuck2 3 жыл бұрын

It's like there's all these... means... of production... out there...... and I just wanna go SEIZE them!

@DMWayne-ke7fl 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because that won't cause mass death.

@samk522 3 жыл бұрын

@@DMWayne-ke7fl *shrug* Revolution doesn't have to mean "violent uprising," and even if it comes to that, you speak as if there isn't mass death caused by capitalism on a pretty much constant basis.

@DMWayne-ke7fl 3 жыл бұрын

@@samk522 Yeah, all those peaceful communist revolutions. Meanwhile, people die from being too well fed in capitalist countries. There is no capitalist equivalent to the CCP's cultural revolution that killed almost 100 million people. Back up your claim that ideological capitalism causes mass death, let alone on a constant basis.

@samk522 3 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bK6ah8mexKqXo3k.html

@robs9237 3 жыл бұрын

Your "bizarre summary" videos are soooooo good please make more 👏👏👏👏👏👏

@davidbrinnen 3 жыл бұрын

Not heard anyone say "tarah" since I lived in Sheffield! Miss the people, the parks, but not the gridlocked city roads.

@darrensingleton7757 2 жыл бұрын

Been looking for your channel for ages and I didn't even realize it. Subscribed.

@ScowlieMeerkat 3 жыл бұрын

This is such good work.

@snartdingus 3 жыл бұрын

scientists: "poor people experience more stress" poor people: yeah no shit we knew that heres your latte sir

@Caldinea 3 жыл бұрын

I just noticed the quick blip of K&A in this video. Used to ride the Blue Line every day to work and back. Still live in the city and yes it is terrifying.. and the horrifically sad part.. is getting worse (which I didn't think was possible). ODs are up. Druguse is up. rents are skyrocketing in the city so even those who are still paying rent we're now paying through the nose.. income has not risen in kind. Had to beg last year and explain I was on SSD (disability pension) so locked into a fixed income etc. So now this year the next lease renewal they raised the rent on the lease 15$ higher than the cost of living adjustment I got from the fed (I think they picked basically the maximum cost of living adjutsment amount). with all the talk about ppl not taking jobs im not seeing very many help wanted signs ignored in the city and ppl still screwed. a lot of folks gonna die earlier.

@k-chill8428 3 жыл бұрын

One of your best. More like this, please

@ennuied 3 жыл бұрын

Damn Georg you best(and darkest) video yet

@radspencer8187 2 жыл бұрын

This could be your finest work yet. My compliments to you, il duce.

@dwylaw 3 жыл бұрын

As always, I love your cheerful, upbeat demeanor. Your conclusion will have me smile for the rest of the day.

@Lord.PussPuss 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Georg just stopping by to say you rock

@x--. 3 жыл бұрын

Too good, Georg.

@NiacinWaterTaffy 3 жыл бұрын

This channel is amazing. If I went into detail I’d be here all day.

@ArilDae 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Georg. I have aged 20 years with the stress this video caused me, but at least I learned something. As a side note, love your videos!

@danielmurray9820 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thought there was foreshadowing there when you mentioned that in civil service everyone knew each others level in the hierarchy.

@BigHenFor 3 жыл бұрын

Loving the change in content, Georg. Keep up the good work.

@PureZOOKS 3 жыл бұрын

>stress is less prevalent at a high social status >he says while showing prime ministers whom aged 20 years per term.

@MrBritishNinja 3 жыл бұрын

I was nodding along enjoying this, and beamed when he mentioned our mutual source: Robert Sapolsky! The man is all over KZfaq, I highly recommend checking out his lectures

@Mossmyr 3 жыл бұрын

Fuck, that stuff about low ranking baboons having large guts and slouching postures really hit me hard.

@fredbloggs5902 3 жыл бұрын

Really makes you think ☹️

@understatedwalrus 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful -- it's good to see you branch out into other interesting topics, with the same polish and humor.

@daodemocracy6200 3 жыл бұрын

Highly underviewed and excellent!!

@jordanmoscovitch 3 жыл бұрын

I believe there were supposed to be lobsters in this essay, but Georg was so stressed out about being snubbed by the dominant Jon Voight that he took it out on them by cutting their scene - and consuming the flesh of their alpha.