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I was jus think the exact thing. Like how does a person sleep at night knowing some of their staff work 2+ jobs and are still having a hard go

Amen!

I totally agree, but I don't think it's really a problem with Capitalism

@@andyroo2334 how so?

Clever and profound, here’s my like.

Some of the boats are yachts, and others are row boats with water rushing in...

Aila B. Some have rafts and debris

BINGO

This is a great post!

Well, rich people created and perpetuate said system, so fuck 'em.

@@hobbitilius No... EAT'EM

But wouldn't the same system if you work hard enough, help you get rich too in the end?

I disagree to a level. Those rich people, more often then not worked hard for there money. If you also got. Into the system and got rich I *doubt* you would hate it then.

@@MandyJonas97 Hmmmm... Please calculate how much time you'd have to work at a median salary to reach Bezos's fortune.

i smell merch

I’m down. 😹

And then says it

I don't fancy dying today, I'll pass 😅

Brooke Ross accurate 😂

someone do a contemplation of ben's chuckles please

* Cristine adding in a quick footnote to clean up possible mess *

Brooke Ross lol

Peak Aries energy

Really?

i'm actually looking froward to them bringing on a professional financial advisor and actually talking about money management

And we can't complain

Students though have no right to be angry. The student CHOSE that school. He or she knew the schools tuition rates, dorm rates, and other expenses BEFORE he or she accepted. And if they didn’t see a way to AT LEAST have a manageable tuition and a reasonable Debt to Income ratio that’s on them. No one forces people to go to college it’s an investment that STATICALLY has proven to increase POTENTIAL income rates. It is no guarantee. No one hands you a key to a house or a family when you graduate. A degree only proves you are willing to stay and work for 4+ years and can take instruction. They drowned themselves. Community Colleges and State Universities offer reasonable tuition prices. Most Cal States for example are around $7000 (rounding up) for tuition, way less for community colleges. The education quality is there. Those are VALUABLE options to go until he or she are financially more stable. If you cannot afford a $40,000 tuition why the hell are you taking out $40,000 in loans for a job that only makes $60,000 a year. That’s not the systems fault that’s the students fault for not making the adult decision for financial security. They choose that five figure debt because they wanted a fancy education that had no guarantee to get them an job.

Love Lost I agree somewhat with what you’re saying on the point of it’s ultimately people’s choice on whether they go to schools with high expenses same way it’s peoples’ choice and responsibility for choosing an expensive car over an affordable one. However, the education system primarily in the United States of America is in my opinion somewhat broken and unfair for many. So many countries around the world, higher education is little to no cost to their citizens. The only reason America doesn’t do it like other countries is because the people who benefit the current system are greedy and corrupt.

Ivan I do agree in many ways. I just want to make it clear I was in no way claiming the system is fair nothing is fair that’s a fact of life nor was I claiming that the higher education system isn’t broken FASFA is so broken it’s funny, dorm room prices for some, the monopolies of College board and college texts book companies are a few examples but the true problem is America’s failing primary education system. My comment was more towards the delusion that ALL the blame is on the price of college and less the ownership of a decision that is ultimately the choice of which college. Plus the privileged notion that us as Americans have that it is our right to higher education when it’s a choice and an investment and not mandatory to be successful. (Or even the less know reddit rants on how the rich should pay for others colleges ‘which is classist and if everyone was taxed it would fall HEAVILY upon the middle-class’ where instead i think after you make more than a million a year you should just be disqualified from fasfa. But it is still no ones responsibility to pay for your college but you) I personally, was taught America was built for people to help themselves. And I agree that people are greedy and other countries have HIGHER education at lower coast but through my research, which I admit is most likely bias so grain of salt, their primary education systems are so much more developed leading for higher education to be more successful. I am no Darwinist and I believe in equal opportunity which everyone has the equal opportunity to spend four years of high school to meet the standards and expectations to race to the finish line. Like in a race everyone is not starting at the same place but those who don’t give up and push through have a statistical better chance of success. America’s higher education is a very good one getting high test scores and brings people in across the world but it cost a lot for, especially, the more prestigious the university , which those are usually private institutions that are so expensive, the individual chooses and can go affordable. Where compared to America’s PRIMARY education system that is mostly free government funded (mostly) but public students are testing way below other countries. And with a free or cheaper higher education there is no guarantee that like Public schools standards won’t fall or every institution will privatize leading to not only a primary teacher crisis but a higher one too. Plus, with America being number 1 in college drop out rates and number 20 in graduation rates it isn’t a great investment for the nation to make. But if America works on funding and improving the failing primary education systems and teaching the youth of America that community college and state universities are valuable options, teach them to make financial decisions to yes invest in their future but not by burying themselves in future debt. But the reason other countries higher education for less goes toward their PRIMARY education system more than their higher levels. Other countries such as France or Sweden Offer concentrations of literature, science, math etc where in college the subject concentration is further developed. America is built on a generalized education system to produce well rounded individuals right outside of high school to be ready for, in the past it was factory work, any general job. It also allows further specialized education or higher education for specified field I.e. ones major. general education was America not expecting a 14 or 15 y/o to know what they want to do for their entire lives and allowing them to be able to do simple factory work while ‘in the pursuit of happiness’’. Where other countries high school is configured almost exactly like college making the transition more fluid, and the higher education system is more educated within the primary system where things like the debt to income ratio is taught. where in America it’s really not mentioned to motivate that cycle which is up to the individual to identify. If you teach the youth to manipulate the greedy and corrupt in primary the won’t fall for their traps. So, in the end yes greed is a motivator but it is not the only reason America doesn’t do it like other countries.

@@lovelost442I agree! As a high school student myself, I have many peers who feel entitled to higher education. But in a way, I do sympathize with them. Unlike countries like France and Sweden where it seems like one can have a decent quality of life without secondary education, many of my peers believe that healthcare will be inadequate and inaccessible without higher education. Maybe I'm going on a whim here but, I felt insecure about my future if I would attend a community college or state university considering that the job market is saturated with highly competent and educated people and perhaps many of my peers shared the same fear. Of course my view on community college has changed, but I think many of my peers still believe that attending a prestigious university will help them stand out which would lead them to take out unreasonable loans. But idk🤷🏻‍♀️

yoinks you are totally right the matter of the fact people all around America are pressured to be accepted into the most prestigious schools they can with no plan to pay for it. And there is such a stigmatism about community college that’s just so wrong. Health care is tricky it either depends on the job you have or how much you make and while I personally find flaws in many free systems the healthcare system is another so broken that needs to be fixed. But many jobs look these days for the experience and qualifications in skill where education doesn’t necessarily prove that. For example my friend who went to cal state Fullerton interned her entire four years there at multiple tax agencies and when she went for a job where a BA student from UCLA was also there bragging she beat her out for it. The times are changing and yes the stigma is still there and may always be there but that’s why people need to shut it down. Don’t get me wrong those schools you’re paying for networking and getting opportunities but you can find other ways then kissing up to a guest speaker then paying 40,000 a year

Renee Clark yeah don’t stop talking about donating it motivates others to do so ..it might not be something they think about all the time but being reminded that they can help by donating is a way to get more people to help.

It also makes me happy to see people and animals getting support they need!

Yiying Sui yes!!! it was very satisfying

Yesssss!!!! I was thinking exactly the same thing! Adore the colour 😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌 Except I'd want it with a zip and not over the head.

Same gurl same

Yessss

He's Ben-nanas

Tiffany your personal finance videos over the last few months have been incredibly helpful! I'm an accounting and finance major and started professionally preparing taxes 4 years ago. Personal finance content like yours helps there to be less stigmas about taxation, I really appreciate it!

Tiffany, I'm a big fan of your Internet Analysis series and I was so excited to hear that Cristine and Ben also appreciate it as much! You're doing great work :)

Shauna Corrigan I like that description. Do you know whereabouts you heard it?

I can't remember, it was awhile ago. I think it was an NPR story about Bernie Sanders supporters or something. The idea goes back to Clause IV of the UK Labor Party, but a more modern take on it that doesn't involve straight up socialism with common ownership of industry. Kind of a capitalism-with-a-conscience system instead

I'm the some people

@@jennas9033 I think you should pay it in taxes. If everyone paid their fair share of taxes (obviously with tax free for those on such a low income as to make it nothing but penalising, so their fair share is zero - fair as in each according to their means) then you wouldn't need charities because everything would be able to be funded properly from the get go. Obviously assuming a non-corrupt government of course. I mean 1 billion dollars is equal to 7,631 years of constant work at $15 per hour wage (which Bezos refuses to pay his staff). So hundreds of billions is just plain ludicrous. It is simply unethical for one person to have that much money as the only way to accrue it is to exploit others and the environment. You can not be an ethical billionaire.

I dunno why but I read hummus as humans.

@@VicAnthropy eat your humans

Ask long as it's just the rich 🍴

Goat Mermaid omg me too!!! And I was like “I really don’t think eating the rich will solve the problem...”

Goat Mermaid omg me to

that’s rich coming from corrupt Disney🙄

@@RM-ks8hz I really get your point but I think the point of the lesson mentioned Robyn mentioned here can be applied even to Disney. Just because Disney as a corporation has plenty to be judged on doesn't mean that the shows they've produced in the past don't contain valuable lessons that are worthy of applauding & sharing the lessons of! Not everything needs to be a moment for tearing things down, you know? We can tackle the problems with companies/life/people while also applauding the good that exists simultaneously.

There are better charities. Ones that are more effective, ones that use the money for their states cause and not 50% or more on ads, ones that don’t have strings attached like “no abortion if you want our money”. Ones that aren’t exclusionary (no hep if you’re gay, etc). There are objectively better and worse charities. Causes are the ones that aren’t necessarily better.

Robyn B I just rewatched Lizzie McGuire on Disney+. So many great life lessons. From Disney in general, too.

I’ve always been in the mindset of supporting what you care about, and if you want to bring awareness to something you think should get more attention, then it’s your responsibility to champion that cause. Spread positive awareness and raise you own money for it. Only shamming other for being charitable is short sited immature response and not doing anything about it, and saying “you should have donated here or there”, doesn’t help.

Busy Honey Bee boom yes. The top can’t make more than 75% more than the lowest paid employee. Something like that.

@@libbykeiser801 that doesn't help in all instances - Bezos salary is $80k/year. The stock market is what makes him rich. We should definitely reel in the BONUSES these people earn, however. Places like Walmart give their leaders over 100% their annual salary in yearly bonuses, meanwhile hourly employees are lucky to make what amounts to an extra paycheck/year.

At the grocery I work at, the put "high theft" smaller items, behind the plexiglass with us. So people just reach around to touch and look at the things. It is terrifying having visibly sick people coming within 6 inches of me.

Liz's everyday life It’s honestly so scary I hate it

Even when there isn't a global pandemic people should be respectful to grocery store workers. I'm sorry you're having to deal with all of this shit.

dexa aww thank you ❤️❤️

Chocolate Chip thank you 💜💜

it's Taco Tuesday!!!

Except when they posted on a Thursday 😆

Same! When I look at KZfaq in the morning and I see a new episode I’m like “oh, it’s Tuesday.”

I cant even keep track of when this comes out

Hikari Studios コピック tbh don’t really like it when people promote themselves in comments of other vids but I’ll consider subscribing

yes definitely also some entrepreneurs make donations and talk about it all over social media or ensure people somehow find out that they made a donation but when you calculate their donation vs their income it comes down to it only being around 1% of their income. Bill Gates does this frequently and his donations sound amazing but compared to how much he earns it goes to prove he only did it for a tax right off or to be favoured in the eye of the public. We cant force rich people to help others but when they are clearly doing it for selfish reasons it rubs the public the wrong way.

thank you for saying this

So well-said. Ben and Cris make a good point about the system that enables billionaires and wealth disparity being the real issue here, but the rich are actively complicit in engineering and maintaining that system to best allow them to profit, almost always at the expense of the broader, poorer community.

Thanks for this comment! The entire time they were discussing, I was like "yessss, buuuuut..." because billionaires are complacent in keeping the system the way it is. Just as Ben mentioned, the older we get, the more money we end up having, the more conservative (generally fiscal) we end up being. And when you are a billionaire, and you have this foundational belief that this company was built on your back alone, you feel entitled to keeping all of your money without blinking an eye and that prevents you from realising your hard work was supported by millions of people supporting you. Then you end up wanting to keep the system the way it is because it made you the money you have (and will continue to get). And honestly, I get tired getting angry at the systemic issues because that's harder to fix; whereas getting angry at a single person means that single person has the power to change and improve themselves and you feel like maybe it's an easier problem to fix. (Although, I do have a friend who works at Amazon, and she's been very happy at her job, but it's simply because she's being paid better than all of her previous shit jobs and she's grateful for the one she has now. But that's an issue for another day...)

Billionaires and tens of millionaires have the money, power and influence to change the system that keeps millions of lives an inch from poverty. But they don't use their wealth to change our society, systematically, for the better because it means making a sacrifice. So yes, we should be angry at the system which creates wealth inequality but also, yes, we can be angry at the people who perpetuate it.

@purplerains but that falls to the education and practice. Not the skill. Plenty of trainee medical staff drop out because it's not for them and plenty of people could make wonderful medical staff should they have received the opportunity. I work in what is deemed a "low skill" job in a hospital and yet I work with plenty of doctors who know fully well they couldn't do what they do without me and my colleagues. I'm no lower skilled, I just have different skills with a different level of education. If you happen to become rich with minimal education, people won't ever call you low skilled because they assume that money some how means you've done something better, wherein you may have just got lucky. It's why I think low paid should be used. But people won't use that because there would be a level of guilt that people feel where they might feel people should be paid more. Low skilled implies they just didn't "try" hard enough and therefore its not their problem. It's amazing how different language makes us view things in a different way. This isn't me having a go btw! Its always hard to have a nuanced conversation via text.

Kay I call those idiot vlogger families "low skilled" all the time. They rake in millions of dollars a year by posting home movies of their kids online. Exploiting your child's privacy for cash isn't a skill, it is a personality defect.....and should be a crime.

Kay this is what I was trying to explain on Twitter with ben’s use of the term “low skilled” in the categorization of workers. Like you said, it implies that these people didn’t try hard enough, when in fact, I see my fellow employees trying their very best every single day, especially during this pandemic. I’m an essential worker at target, but I’ve been there for a good amount of time; today, I had my employee evaluation, and all of my leads talked positively about my accomplishments at work and the growth I’ve made since I started. I went from someone who didn’t know the sales floor to being able to directly contact our shippers about inventory stock up, especially for all the out of stocks we’ve had in our department during this pandemic (nail care, spa items, soap, hair dye, etc.) All these accomplishments led to a small pay raise, which is actually outstanding since I’ve haven’t been with the company a full year yet. I’ve learned so many new skills at work, and the paid training is the true investment target makes taking me in, and I’ve proved myself as an exceptional member of my team. I’m proud of my work, and this evaluation gave me a better vision of what my work means. I’m more than just the girl that stocks up the drugstore mascara, but an employee that assesses their sales floor for what the public needs for beauty/personal care during these hard times. It take a lot of skill, both physical and mental, to take in the hardballs retail can throw at me, so to say “low skilled” now would be an understatement of my capabilities. There are other jobs within my employment that I’ve seen do amazing and do deserve more than me, such as Human Resources and Asset Protection, not to mention Guest Service dealing with all those returns, but I’m glad I’m recognized for my work in the company, no matter what domine on the internet thinks of it.

@@Delight101ful completely agree. There is nothing "low skilled" about being the employee who can calm down an absolutely furious customer, and it certainly isn't something an education can teach you. Your "place" in the world sets you up before you ever even get a look in at other options. By his own admission, Ben has said he grew up, by all accounts, in a middle class household. That automatically gives him a foot in the door because he has financially stability behind him in the form of parents who can bail him out if needed. It doesn't mean he worked any less to get where he is, but that he didn't have the worry of losing everything if he didn't succeed. I maintain, there is very, very little that actually classifies as low skilled. You just have different skills that are learnt via different avenues.

Yes, this! (I realize my comment is late, but this stays relevant haha) I work in vocational rehabilitation and do quite a bit of vocational testing. Jobs like cashier are quite highly skilled. They require mental math, significant memorization of codes and product location, mental flexibility to switch from checking someone out to helping (for example) clean up a spill, social knowledge to deal with difficult customers, ability to deal with high stress high pace environment, ability to use technology, decision making to decide if a product should be returned, etc.. Yes, not a lot of education is needed, but if someone can be a good cashier that bodes pretty well for training to a new area of work and general learning ability. For "low skill" clients I'm looking for highly repetitive work with no independent problem solving or significant time stressors and very clear instruction. It's actually quite hard to find jobs which are suitable for folks with new disabilities who are also low skill because so few low skill jobs exist! (As someone said above, low skill is often a destination for training requirements, but it's important because language impacts how others are treated, so moving to different language in non technical environments is important.)

Dawnagon Sapphire honestly seems relaxing ngl

Crochet rocks

Omg I'm crocheting too haha

Oh my goodness, same! What are you making?

@@Emily-wq6wu I got lazy and haven't finished it but since I only learned the basics of it that day, I can say that it looks uh... Crappy kind of. 🤣😅

That’s merch from threadbanger after Rob had his health scare in summer of 2019, so she wouldn’t have had it😊

I would have but the video was sponsored so it wouldn't have been the best idea. A topic for another podcast😜

@@missdaniliz she broke it again last month :P

Wait no..... FOR HER WILL

@@simplypodlogical That actually is something id want to learn more about. Do sponsorships change what type of video you make, do they change aspects of the video based on what sponsor is?

I really hope they do it. I just turned 30 and I barely got an idea of why inflation can eat my money away 😱

i think everyone needs this

I hope they do it too, but if you need help, the financial diet and Graham Stephen are some good youtube channels for money advice.

One way I figured out to save money is to take out a portion each week into a separate savings account. Mine is a rainy day fund for emergencies and I take $75 each week. I'm glad I did because I saved up $2000 and its saving my ass during unemployment.

Don’t put on a credit card what you can’t pay off each month. If you watch hauls, stop. THINGS can’t actually make you happy.

As someone who attends the second most expensive University in the United States (on financial aid, but regardless), I second this wholeheartedly. They hide behind the fact that their multi-billion dollar endowments and fundraisers are strictly enforced and therefore cannot go towards the important and immediate causes that need money, like student aid or teacher salaries, but are perfectly fine with this reality. Assistant professors and graduate students especially take a huge hit in trying to stay afloat with the system they are caught in, having to work for nearly free while maintaining self-funded research all while having a barely functioning union, if they even have one. These schools are run like businesses, especially private schools like mine, and despite having immense political connections and influence, would never fight or lobby for a change that would take less money from them. "Non-profits" lol

not everyone can be management, there needs to be those who actually do those 'low level' jobs..

I tried to watch it but the way she talks excitedly kinda made me anxious. The contents seem interesting but I just couldn't watch it all the way through.

She is pretty great .

It's a great video! I would also recommend it!

Goat Mermaid same! I tried to watch it with the captions and no sound but it wasnt working.☹️

That's pretty neato. Thst was super great of you to throw her name out there. ♡♡♡

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If you also got. Into the system and got rich I doubt you would hate it then.

Zaira Bandy That would make me a hypocrite then. I stand firm in my beliefs and I will make sure to keep on doing so no matter what level of financial freedom I achieve. People who ram on the rich when they aren’t rich, but then join the "squad" when they make it big, were never in for anything other than themselves.

@@zairabandy8695 Therein lies the big fallacy that capitalism requires to continue thriving. There is this belief people have that there is a chance that they too might one day become a billionaire so they will fight to keep taxes from being high for billionaires on the chance that they may one day become one themselves. But its just not going to happen unless you are willing to exploit other people and the environment. No one amasses billions through their own hard work. They do it by underpaying others and reaping the rewards. You're much more likely to be 3 paydays away from homelessness than you are to become a billionaire. And there is this misconception of how much a billion even is. If you earned the "living wage" in America of $15 an hour, you would have to work for 66,666,667 hours (rounded up to avoid the decimal places) to earn that much. But that's still a big number, how do we make it easier to think about? Lets divide it by 24 to get the number of days you'd have to work. 2,777,778 days (again rounded up). Ok now we are in small millions of days. But still quite big. Lets divide by 7 to get weeks. 396,825 weeks. Ok, but how many years are we talking? There are 52 weeks in a year, so lets divide by that. That's 7,631 years of work at a living wage. With no breaks for sleep or anything of course. That's a wage which people like Bezos are refusing to pay his staff just so he can keep on earning more and more billions just on the interest on the money in the bank. Lets be kind and say you work in a job earning 50 dollars an hour (average American earns $27.16 an hour, so I'm being very kind!). That would still be 20 million hours of work, or 833,333 days, or 119,048 weeks, or 2,289 years of constant work. I don't know about you, but the average human lifespan is only 79 years and that with getting sleep and time to eat and you know, not work. So for the $50 an hour you're looking at 28.9 human life spans to earn 1 single billion dollars with continuous working. For $15 an hour, that would be 96.6 human life spans. So if you are ok with the idea of one person having the amount of money that nearly 100 people could earn if they worked constantly for 79 years (ignoring how child labour isn't a thing in most countries now) then I don't really know how to explain to you that you are a monster, but you're a monster.

I agree on the more money thing, but Walmart does have healthcare benefits? I'm not really sure why you think they don't.

@@molliemon222 perhaps they mean health insurance for ALL employees (not just full-time) and fully-vested by the company (versus premiums paid by employees.) GoDaddy, for instance, pays the premiums for their workers.

Ashley Santoro the last sentence is revolutionary in the simplest way. Well said! If many people realized these people wouldn’t say much without the Internet, imagine how much shitstorm wouldn’t even occur in our brains.

And the internet is like real life where the stupidest people tend to be the loudest, so those are the voices that tend to be heard, drowning out the more rational masses

I concur! How do you even find a KZfaq lawyer, anyway?

@@RebeccaMundschenk right?!

I would love a podcast on this!

Yeah! Although they don't have a legal team, they might know how it works

It would be so cool to see a podcast about this with maybe Legal Eagle or another lawyer on KZfaq!

This makes so much sense!!! I completely agree that seeing others do nice things makes one more hopeful! Let's increase positivity and focus on the good things people do!

Well said.

Yeah forgive me if I'm not praising the guy for donating money that he gained by exploiting workers.

Its worse than that. He could be taxed 90% of everything he currently has (171.6 billion) and that would still leave him as a billionaire with 17.6 billion. You could take 99% of what he has and he would still have 1.7 billion. At this point, other than taking all of his money, there is no way for him to stop being a billionaire at this point even if taxed super heavily.

He's a benana

Aysha Anwar Bennenana

Benana, ok I'm out

I love his subtle KZfaq shade!

Hell yea 👍

Thats crazy, I never knew that, and you make a good point too

Not necessarily though. Some celebrities come from very poor or middle class backgrounds. Not all, but I think it's a case by case basis.

That’s a good reason because yes they have some money but they keep getting animals and they keep needing money

Possibly. I know a big giver who told my organization that they would cover a yearly defect up to 80K, but nobody was supposed to know that. They would rather not have to fill the gap for basic operating expenses and instead do something like build an elevator. Even though I am on the finance committee, I do not know who that person is. Orgs don’t always know how to deal with giving to the point that it could keep them afloat. Much of the time it is slated for matching donations. I don’t know the situation on their end, but they also didn’t know your situation. I’m glad you worked it out :)

also the quote from Hamilton: “if we try to fight in every revolution in the world, we never stop. Where do we draw the line?” Apply that to trying to help every person struggling right now in regards to some of the donation shaming concerns.

I LOVE 'The Good Place'! I love the idea that you could know all about ethics but be hindered by it and end up with a net negative life score--it's about the actions you can take within your means, but also you don't have to be perfect to be 'good'. I think it's important though that intentions mean a lot in 'The Good Place'. *glares at Brent*

Rachel Palmer, there’s an exception where too much help or the wrong kind of help can hurt the person you’re trying to help. For example: enabling an alcoholic. Ethics is a tough thing in practice and that’s why I hated it in college- it can seem arbitrary and the professors end up sounding like Chidi.

Also, there is a huge emphasis on unintentional consequences. If you donate to charity, there are gonna be people who are bitter, who complain you donated to the ‘wrong people’. The Good Places is actually a really meaningful show and I’m interested in reading ‘What We Owe To Each Other’

I love seeing random mentions of this show when I browse social media or watch completely different and unrelated content. It is a pleasant reminder that this show that I love so much exists and that some of the things that resonated with so much resonate with others as well. It makes me feel part of a collective consciousness of human beings that care about our actions and doing good in the world.

same

#relationshipgoals

@@usagihika if u almost have 300 subs u arent small

Hikari Studios コピック Your channel looks good and I like your art, but you shouldn’t use other people’s videos / comments to advertise your channel. That said, good luck with your channel!

That or Armoured Skeptic and ShoeOnHead

Beth B right???

And the fact that Jeff bezos doesn't pay his workers properly and expects everyone else to donate for them.

Same in Australia - a lot of our billionaires don't pay taxes and are now asking the government for financial assistance to keep their businesses running during COVID-19...

I just don’t understand how it’s even possible to not pay taxes? There are so many consequences in my country if you don’t pay taxes and it all goes through a system that automatically checks whether you have paid them...

@@RutgerOfficial Same in my country and still CumEx happened. It was a huge scandal because the German Federal Ministry of Finance knew about it at least since 2002 and didn't do anything about it. Somehow 5 European countries have lost almost 63 billion dollars of taxes, imagine what could have been done with that much money.

What upsets me about Bezos paying nothing is that I'm a student just trying to make ends me and the job that I have I have to pay taxes no matter what I do, and it's just not right that I should have to pay it when I'm barely able to pay for rent

Ollie Baird Twitter is very toxic. I spent years tweeting two celebrities, praising them, telling them how they literally saved my life, etc. I then commented on a tweet that had nothing to do with these two celebrities, didn’t mention their names, didn’t @ them, but I said how I no longer support them because they aren’t the same people as they once were. Well those two celebrities finally noticed me. And my tweet. And sent all their fans to bully me. I had to delete my twitter account that I had for years, and was actually pretty proud of cause I had a lot of positive celebrity interactions on that account. I also sent an apology to their business emails (it was easily accessible) and I never heard back. Just goes to show how toxic Twitter is and how angry everyone gets on there for no reason :(

@@myfun20230 both the celebrities somehow assumed that the tweet was about them? uh that's kinda weird

best ever yeah. I mean there’s more to the story but I don’t want to give too much context and have to delete my KZfaq channel. But I don’t tweet much anymore now regardless haha

Politics is lasting on twitter unlike Facebook and snap and insta it was somewhat banned all social media platforms. Toxicity is in all social media. while Twitter stans political garbage it does does stand up to more freedom of speech unlike fb who has curbed most media bashing like left and right wing bias

I'm Canadian but I completely agree. The way he explained it made me feel ashamed to be 28 and work at a pharmacy. I need to pay my way through school. I'm sure I'm nitpicking but I'm glad you can explain it better than I can .

There is a good population of retired folks who work part or full-time at grocery stores to supplement their retirement or to give them spending money if they live with family.

As someone who has had 5 blood transfusions in the space of three months I thank you ❤️

Yes! High iron runs in my family so we all have to give blood regularly and I didn't realize until I went to college that not everyone gave blood every 6 months. It is such a simple and quick way to literally save people's lives. I always try to encourage people to give blood whenever they can. ❤❤❤

@@913zzzn Same! My mum and my dad donate blood every 6 months aswell, and then we always have a dinner which has good iron content, (such as liver and the vegetables that clesn your blood etc) Judt remembered a story my mum told me, when they people who test for the iron level said she didnt have enough, and because my mum is aware she has like actually good blood, sbe asked if she could do it again, once again they said there wasnt enough (i think the test is like something dropping idk i havent been to one) and then they had to do a different type of test to see, and it turns out my mum's iron levels were too high, and we all had a laugh about it. Always makes me happy to say to people that my parents donate blood to hospitals and, once im old enough, I can aswell (I'm 15 in july) Always thought it was normal to donate blood and thought everyone did but I mentioned it briefly in a conversation with my classmates and they was super confused. They were all just like "Wdym your parents donate blood?" and then I'd go "Wait so you don't know anyone who does?" and back and forth until we got told off by my teacher. ;-;

The Royals have private incomes of their own.

@@caitlinhs9670 and they get so much because they are representing the country (similar to footballers but they get payed way too much for doing way to little) and other countries seem to like the royals more than we do so its publicity.

I hate to be this person, but the royals are extremely active as workers - working for charities, working for the armed forces etc. They do make sure they're not just sitting around.

I absolutely agree, but in Meghan and Harry's defence - I'm quite sure that even if they wanted to have a smaller, less extravagant wedding, it wouldn't have been allowed. They're representatives of Great Britain and therefore need to at least invite certain people, or you'll have a political quarrel on your hands. That being said, I imagine an immense chunk of that £35 million went to security. It's extravagant and too much yes, but it's not their choice.

i think on the merch site itself it said how much was going to be donated and where it is going. i think it was about 1$ per album sale to a charity which somehow helped musicians or people working in the industry.

Rubi B Yeah he made around 25 billion last month, he deserves all the criticism

Nevena Savic I’d encourage you to think a lot more on this. I don’t think you understand how much money this man has or how destructive his company is. Remember villains from cartoons? That’s him. It’s not an exaggeration. Some people are bad and they do bad things. Nobody should be able to hoard that much wealth when their workers can’t even afford food. It’s wrong and inexcusable and it’s because people like him would let others die to make a buck.

@Nevena Savic 'Started from zero like everyone' can everyone really get given $250,000 from their parents to start a business, because that's how he did it. The fact that so many people believe he started from nothing or even from an average background is the result of an overwhelmingly successful PR campaign.

Nevena Savic I’m not going to explain in a comment section but you can find plenty of explanations of Jeff Bezos online. And many more explanations of why billionaires wouldn’t exist in a fair society.

I'm team always same Bezos. You can't be worth over a 100 billion dollars and a majority of your employees live below the poverty line and you try to stop from forming unions and demanding safe work environments.

Yes please 100%

Same here. I just had my quarantine graduation from college. I heard it might be a good time to nab a car (I have a job secured already) since the car places are trying to reduce their inventory. Also, a good 6month-5year-10year financial plan would help. Nothing crazy, but just major things young people should be looking for/investing in before we're 35 or something

Yeees, Ben, please 💸

Another great channel for that is the financial diet. I love them!

I thought the exact same thing!

Yes, you just can't win there. Phoebe was wise

YESSS!

That is true to an extent. But when people donate and show an inflated amount on paper in order to get a tax break, what they are essentially doing is taking in more money which could have been used for better care.

@@radmoonable not in any way. O justify tax avoidance but I think on a benefit level, money to a charity probably does more good than taxes, especially to those against military spending because that is a huge portion of the Budget

It is insane that huge companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, and others have so much profit that they have it sitting in Ireland because they have no idea what to do with it all.

So true

Except if you're a hourly payed student atm with a family :) you get kicked out from work and can't apply for any of help because you study full time.

@@etnicia7973 you can still apply for help though. And student loans!

Lovisa Hänström Saying student loans is an option is saying “go into more debt!” More interest, more money to pay off. I think applying for possible government programs is a good idea but there’s also just a ton of exception SPECIFICALLY excluding university students because of our seasonal/part-time jobs and full time schooling.

AndreaNicole I second this!! I’m 29 and this year is the first time in my adult life that I’ve had a steady checking account. It’s very overwhelming researching the smartest way to invest because there’s so much info out there.

My other thinking is they are putting money back into their community. They will see exactly what that money is being used for. Rather than donating to some charity that you don't get to see the inner workings of.

Look up how many things are named for the rich from the "Robber Baron" era. Carnegie, Vanderbuilt, etc had working conditions that would be shocking for a third world sweatshop. People lost limbs and lives in their factories and they wouldn't make safety improvement. They paid in company cash instead of real money to further profit from their workers. And now they get remembered as philantropists.

If half my paycheck went to taxes, I couldn't pay rent...

Indigo Ashes Perhaps they’re making enough money to afford stuff even when half of it went to taxes

I'm a New Zealander, the highest tax rate is 33% for income over $70k/year, most people pay much less. That tax pays for more than just free health care, it subsidises everything - public transport, defence force, student loans, retirement fund, all the good stuff which creates a happier, healthier society. You're right that there are different mindsets, New Zealand is egalitarian, we don't want anyone to be left behind, whereas America prioritises the individual instead of the community.

@@astroZOMBIESattack Ah, thanks! I'm not going to lie, it seems really nice. Do you like living there? I've thought about moving there recently, as something to strive for

I just wish Contra hadn't privated her old videos, they were awesome as well :(

That and the fact many can't afford health insurance. And those that can are still getting hit with high bills. It's a broken system and many refuse to see it

To add to that because most people can't afford insurance they don't have a regular general health doctor so the ER is where they usually go but that's not really an option right now so there's people having health issues going unresolved getting worse every day further impacting then and their families. It really sucks.