Comments by "Incurable Romantic" (@incurableromantic4006) on "How Money Works" channel.

  1. "People are no longer being greedy, they're being desperate" Damn. That sums up just about everything.
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  2. I've got more respect for creators who are sharing a genuine passion for a particular hobby or subject rather than the one's who are selling a lie of a fantasy "lifestyle". But that said, we need a social shift so that people understand that an "influencers" job is always at least in part to sell you stuff.
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  3. It's interesting to see footage of cities 100 years ago - and notice that not every square inch of surface is covered in advertising.
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  4. The thought of being dependant on strangers for everything is the number one reason I fear getting old.
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  5. "WTF is BlackRock (actually) Doing In Saudi Arabia?" I don't know - but I bet it's really, really evil.
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  6. My experience of hiring and firing is that it almost entirely comes down to who you know. I have a friend who got catapulted into an unbelievably desirable position he was is NO way qualified for - because he was in a social club with the person doing the hiring. It wasn't even a club with anything to do with the industry in question. Honestly it's why I wanted to strike out on my own, I hate schmoozing.
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  7. The more I see of modern capitalism - the more convinced I become that the system only works if companies are allowed to fail. The current system of bailouts, low interest rates, money-printing, lobbying and massive government intervention in the economy: entrenches corruption and incompetence.
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  8.  @lukabosanac2671  Actually we've had capitalism for centuries - we've had a housing crisis since interventionist big-governments provided the financial industry with infinite amounts of printed money at zero interest rates for nearly 20 years: and also allowed open borders that spiralled the price of housing stock.
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  9. Just understand that Cramer isn't a financial advisor anymore than Jerry Springer is a family therapist.
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  10. So workers are going to have to suffer so Blackrock and Goldman don't have to take a drawdown on their real-estate investments. What an inspiring pitch.
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  11. "You will own nothing" Brought to you by private equity.
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  12. It's really true - the only job my father ever loved was being seconded to work in a local government bureaucracy. That's got to be the most boring work imaginable, but he talked all his life about all laughs and good times he had with the people he worked with there.
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  13. I don't wholly disagree with that - but I'm also noticing a slow but definite increase in indifference and even hostility towards "celebs". Witness the slow death of the Oscars, and how during Covid when all those celebs were telling us they felt our pain from their multi-million dollar mansions the response was highly negative. Pretty much every time a celeb starts telling people what to do or think now, a large and growing number of people are typing - "STFU".
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  14. "There is a shortage of cheap labour" Which is also a big part of why the elites love open borders.
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  15. People are naturally drawn to the idea of easy-gains: and they become more attracted to it the poorer they are and the less chance they have of ever climbing out of it. E.g. Lottery tickets being mostly bought by the poor.
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  16. Get into congress - then you can do insider trading, and it's legal.
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  17.  @bornkinggamer3347  Quoting Marxist ideology is not an argument. Any more than quoting astrology is an argument.
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  18. While simultaneously being told they are "the problem" and they are "privileged".
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  19. "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual would believe them" - George Orwell You see this phenomenon all the time. Smart people tend to over-complicate and over-think things that don't really need deep thinking.
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  20. If it was only about making money - that would be less concerning. What's really scary is that data is increasingly being used as a tool of repression and control.
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  21. "It’s about breaking and degrading the people" Sadly yes - they want only the people who can be easily bullied.
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  22.  @bornkinggamer3347  Then you clearly don't know any history.
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  23. People (some of them) also fell for the slick PR of the tech companies that these were hippie bros who wanted to make the world better. Rather than psychopaths who wanted humans to be as controllable as their machines.
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  24. Student loans are quickly getting to the point of being debt-bondage.
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  25.  @sprinkle61  So if an activity makes money. . . . . . by definition it can't be evil? Don't think that makes logical sense.
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  26. Great video - I could never understand how something like this could happen, and now it seems a bit more comprehensible.
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  27. The thing with all these "values" projects is they're vague and lack accountability - at least when a company is solely interested in profits, its behaviour is predictable and easier to regulate.
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  28. From what I've heard it sounds like these companies got incredibly bloated during the long, long years of rising stock prices and limitless credit. Now that the good time are ending, they don't need quite so many 20 something's making TikTok's about the free juices and meditation rooms.
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  29.  @scottandrews947  "China is a capitalist country" Not really no. China has more government control over their economy than almost any society on earth, and it's been steadily increasing over the past couple of decades: the massive bloat in "infrastructure" spending that's created so many ghost cities, being a prime example. You don't seem to be in much of a position to sneer at someone else's knowledge of the place.
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  30. They will be only too happy to terminate you.
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  31. Well - have you heard of "debt slavery"?
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  32. "Good investing should be boring" This cannot be over-stated. The times I've made money trading are when it was about as exciting as staring at a wall for a month.
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  33. Welcome to the world of being a "conspiracy theorist" - you'll be proved right all the time, and no one will ever acknowledge that you were.
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  34. Every party needs "that guy" who says, "it's getting late and you're all drunk, I'm taking away the punchbowl". No one likes that guy - but we need him there.
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  35. I honestly hoping that by the time I'm old we'll have robots who can do most of the work of looking after the elderly - robots are less likely to abuse you or cut corners.
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  36. Why do you think they're pushing for medicalized self deletion? It's not for your benefit. . . . . .
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  37.  @robert2690  "What history?" I was thinking the 100 million plus people who died as a direct result of your "alternative" to capitalism. And the vast misery inflicted on the survivors. But yeah - Iphones are over-priced, and that's really the same thing. . . . . .
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  38. I genuinely worry that could unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum. Or at least, make for some very confusing headlines in the financial press.
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  39. "Then why your seats don't also come 'in all sizes'?" Ohhhhhh - headshot!
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  40. I've heard SO many professional traders who "fade" (trade in the opposite direction) to Cramer. Just treat him as an entertainer, not a serious analyst.
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  41. At least in most places though there are laws regulating rents and giving tenants some protections. And there used to be a lot of landlords - now we're looking at the Blackrock's of the world owning every apartment in the city and calling their rent a "subscription". That's a dark world.
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  42.  @baller84milw  Shadow-banning: very nasty, manipulative invention.
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  43.  @LadyMontane  I agree completely. I've started going to the gym over the last few years in the hope of avoiding needing personal care when I'm older.
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  44. Call me sentimental if you like - but I feel an economic setup that requires you to spend a lifetime alone and childless in order to make ends meet: is one that merits major reconsideration.
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  45.  @SilentShiba  "we gave up the wrong things and called it prosperity" Agreed. We keep telling ourselves how rich we are, and yet everything that matters is broken and rotting.
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  46. "it's next to impossible to get a consistent answer on what "woke" actually means" It's just cultural Marxism. People over-complicate this.
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  47. The games industry has essentially learned all the dark arts the gambling industry has perfected over the years about manipulating human weakness. Most of them deeply unethical, and which caused gambling to be regulated in a way that the games industry isn't. "Free" is always the most expensive type of game.
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  48. It really pissed me off in that film where the Belfort character says something like "Ah you're not interested in any of this - here's more drugs and hookers". I don't mind the character being a patronizing asshole, but when he's breaking the 4th wall and speaking directly to the audience, then it feels like the film is patronizing me.
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  49. And his writers have the easiest job - just repeat the same half dozen leftist clichés every week and radiate smugness.
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  50. I love that you ranked lobbying as bellow fraud and drug dealing in ethical terms.
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