Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

A financial person I follow said she was told by a wealthy person who knew lots of people who were mega wealthy that he hopes she never gets more than 300 million, because that was about the cut off where people start to lose touch with reality.
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You're assuming that they don't also make bets that if they pay off mean that people's livelihoods are better off. Investing is not a zero sum game. There's not always a winner and a loser. 100%. It's possible that they can be winners on both sides. It's also possible for there to be losers on both sides. Lots of rich people have poured millions of dollars into things that went belly up and they lost all their money and so did the people who had the jobs.
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It's absolutely like gambling. You must've missed the part where he talks about the math of gambling and how you have to understand what you're doing inside and out. That's called having more information. That's literally the exact same thing. It's interesting that you would tell a former gambler and current billionaire investor that you know more about both of those subjects than he does.
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He's taking some thing that has a tiny shred of reality and stretching it into the absurd. It's true that the pour in America have it better than a king from the middle ages. That King could not imagine dental anesthesia, nor having access to foods from all around the world 24 hours a day in your refrigerator. There are tons of things about modern life that are incredible. And it's also true that the average middle-class person will sit down and watch Netflix at the end of the day just like a billionaire. But he seems to think that's all there is. He has absolutely no concept of lying awake at night because you're genuinely worried about not being able to pay your bills for essential things.
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The union issue is so complicated because unions were an incredible advancement to worker rights, and they generally have better benefits and all of that, but they also went through in 1984 level of turning into everything they hate. They are absolute trash institutions. They are literally exactly the same as the business owners. They just wanna get the best for their side. They want to be in control of the most money. There's literally no difference between union organizers and the business owners. The union doesn't give a damn about the company or its viability. They are just trying to get everything they can squeeze out of the other side, and the business owners are exactly the same. I can tell you horror stories about how corrupt and pathetic unions are for ages, but I also recognize that there are certain aspects of them that are super beneficial yet don't rip off the taxpayer, etc. It's a complicated one.
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@peterrose5373 "You're always better off with a union," This is incorrect. I can give you several examples in my own life of people I know who've left unions because they were disgusted with them. Some people love them, some hate them. To each thier own. I 100% stand behind my point that they have turned into exactly the same thing as the business owners they fight. They are a bloated bureaucracy who have heads who care primarily about their own interests.
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Shady? He's an out of touch douche bag, but there's literally nothing shady in this video. Everything he earned was completely on the up and up. He wasn't selling pharmaceutical products that were knowingly, hurting people, or doing anything like that at all. He's just a guy who is good at math and recognizing patterns. Then he made so much money that he's out of touch with reality. Doesn't make him shady though.
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