Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "How The Wealthy Gaslight America" video.

I'm so sorry your brother repeated the same mistakes your father made. I hope he gets some help and can find his way to sobriety. It's never too late!. God bless you for being there for them!! That's the true meaning of family! If only family cared for each other, even if they couldn't afford much, love doesn't cost a thing- SO many problems could be avoided. Unbelievable how some people treat their own flesh and blood to me. In my mind, only true heartless people, people who are evil at heart, and/or are narcissists could put people through the stories I've heard and to some extent have experienced myself. Those in government could always be doing better by us, but if we don't love each other or look out for each other than DAMN I mean it's a sad sad world and a sad day. A very sad day.
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@benjicharlie5823 do I need to explain why this fallacy is both factually and ethically wrong? Anyways we can debate until the cows come home maybe I would convince you maybe I won't but the bottom line is this: the federal minimum wage needs to be MUCH much higher and all other wages need to rise comfortably as a result. The bare bones federal minimum wage for most businesses should be no lower than $24/hr with a legal exception made for small and very small businesses who genuinely might not be able to pay that. In that case I would set the limit at $15-18. Also: aggressive rent control in every single zip code on non-luxury units plus full comprehensive public healthcare. And that's just the beginning. Do you not find it shameful shocking and disgusting that we have something like 50% real poverty rate in a country supposedly as wealthy ours?? I know I do.
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Interesting that some of these employers don't think that "temp" workers need to eat, pay rent and exist outside of the workplace. I didn't know life was free if you only worked somewhere less than 12 months. Gosh I now know what I've been doing wrong!
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@kevykevTPA I'm afraid everyone is worth a wage of dignity. Imagine demanding higher standards. We don't have to accept the status quo.
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I think it goes without saying that every type of welfare and public assistance program in this country needs to be redesigned or greatly refurbished from the ground up. Nobody should be forced to live in abject poverty just because they have a disability they cannot do anything about or for any other reason. No public policy should have as its intent the desire to keep someone in extremely impoverished and disempowered circumstances. This is unethical, immoral and wrong.
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@drcatrinaking I'm not sure about that. Increasing the minimum wage to a strong level is step one. Forcing some level of rent control is step two. Employing a full suite of food repurposing, redistribution, supplemental and food saving programs is step 3. Having price controls, limitations on executive pay, market share limits, markup limits, anti-monopoly limits and such is step 4. Employing full public healthcare is step 5. Placing a strong full suite of Labor protections into law is step 6. Guaranteeing a limited amount of UBI for those under a determined income threshold based on household size is step 7. And so on..... Poverty and insecurity is what happens when the ruling class is unchecked and the 99% don't matter- in short it's a policy failure. It's the me-first ideology, where nobody and nothing else matters, all workers are disposable, and only money matters. It's bogus and destructive. I'm not against the business sector but the worker HAS to come first; as do our communities, as do our environment. Without that our lives don't have much value & companies can do whatever they want (which they do) and I'm sorry I cannot support that.
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@kevykevTPA that is unfortunate PH chose to be a c unt but everyone deserves to make a living wage. LW /=/ "high". Sometimes thru no fault of one's own one needs to take a low skilled job. The reasons could be anything. Either we let the the oversized corps set the rules or we get comfortable being their b itch. Which would you prefer??
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@morighani @morighani it's because there's no national healthcare here and people are forced to practically mortgage their home and give up a kidney to be able to afford rip-off health insurance. It's very shameful. There are other things too that push huge numbers of people into financial precarity and/or poverty but that's a big one. There's a long list and it's shameful and it shouldn't be that way, but I would say lack of a publicly-funded healthcare system would be number one because it only takes one serious illness without health insurance or coverage to wipe out one's entire life savings, and it shouldn't be that way. It would easy be easy to provide basic financial security for every man, woman and child in this country but it will never come from the red or blue team. They are two sides to the same duplicitous face. The "duopoly" isn't here to help anyone but themselves. The Dems are as profligate liars as the Repubs are. They claim they want to do all these wonderful beautiful things for average americans, and then the moment when they get into the majority where they don't have to worry about GOP obstruction, most if not all of them never come to pass. I've realized by now that's all part of the plan, and I don't fall for their lies anymore. They've had 60 years to back up what they say and they haven't and I don't believe they're even trying. To continue to vote for these assholes after all these decades of intentional failure on their part would be extreme naivete and foolishness on my part. I resolved several years ago that the only people I will be voting for in any election, local, state or federal will be independent candidates, hopefully from the Left. If there are none in any particular race then I just won't vote because as far as I'm concerned it won't make much difference whether it's Red or Blue candidate who ends up taking that seat as the policies won't be meaningfully different.
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Yes well if I'm ever in a position to change this I'll do my goddamnest and that's a fact.
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@MeryOnTheRun yeah agreed. That's when a lot of it really started taking off.
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@katelyndefreitas2810 you mean you wish you could give them the standard that you grew up with but you are finding it difficult even tho you're working?
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@riunikii of course he does. Thank you so much for caring tho. That's more than my bizarre trash older only brother of ten years (I'm now 40, he's 50) ever did for me. I have very dysfunctional narcissistic (I think) older parents (weird sad very bizarre backstory there) and I wouldn't know what a friendly, kind or loving sibling was if it slapped me in the face. I think I'm a pretty decent person, I have empathy for others and have always worked hard. I'm by no means perfect, but I've never ever felt an instinct to harm another person or even say something cruel. I will never understand why my own blood hates the ground I walk on. They are just so confused... It's unfortunate for me because the older I get doesn't seem to helping me understand it any better. It's such a waste. I'd like to know what a nice, reliable, stable, rational, caring non-dysfunctional bio-family feels like before I die, maybe I will someday; just not mine I'm sure. I really appreciate you being there for your brother. My only living sibling has treated me like absolute trash and feels no guilt about it so I can't even fathom what it would feel like if I had somebody close to me that not only didn't treat me like trash but was actually kind??? Wanted to give me help was actually there for me if I had a problem? I mean what is that?? I have literally no idea what that feels like. Yeah not sure how I would react to that bec I don't know what that is. The parent situation is a little bit more complicated, I would say in my adult years they have been there for me a little, a very little, but yeah, that's the sibling situation. Maybe I appreciate it more than he even does. Who knows what the future will bring? It's never too late to make a positive change. Thank you so much for being good. I hope it's not too rare.
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@LovesNeverEnding oh true?? Well there's a slight silver lining I suppose then.
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@aellaaskew4263 did yt post my replies to you? Just checking bec a lot of my posts don't show up when I make unreserved criticisms of government policy.
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@laurent3415 yes I always do a copy paste to my clipboard before posting now. That's worried about your second paragraph but yeah you might be right. Damn aggravated yt trolls do be finding the ways to work off all that extra time on their damn hands.
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@mikemccarthy1638 I can't even tell if yt posted my reply to you. I can see it but I don't know if you can.
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YouTube is a strange kind of trash these days. Some comments criticizing the status quo get through but so many get blocked, like mine right now, for the last four times.
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@morighani it's because there's no national healthcare here and people are forced to practically mortgage their home and give up a kidney to be able to afford rip-off healthcare insurance. It's very shameful. There are other things too that push huge numbers of people into financial precarity and/or poverty but that's a big one. There's a long list in fact and it's shameful and it shouldn't be that way, but I would say lack of a publicly accessible healthcare would be number one because it only takes one serious illness to wipe out once entire life savings, and it shouldn't be that way. It would easy be easy to provide basic financial security for every man, woman and child in this country but it will never come from Republicans or Democrats. They are two sides to the same duplicitous face. The "duopoly" isn't here to help anyone but themselves. The Dems are as profligate liars as the Republicans are. They claim they want to do all these wonderful beautiful things for average americans, and then the moment when they get into the majority where they don't have to worry about GOP obstruction, most if not all of them never come to pass. I've realized by now that's all part of the plan. I don't fall for their lies anymore. They've had 60 years to back up what they say and they haven't and I don't believe they're even trying. To continue to vote for these assholes after all these decades of intentional failure on their part, would be extremely naive and foolishness on my part. From I resolved to myself several years ago that the only people I will be voting for in any election, local state or federal will be independent candidates, hopefully from the Left. If there are none in any particular race then I just won't vote because as far as I'm concerned it won't make much difference whether it's Red or Blue who ends up taking that seat. The policies won't be meaningfully different.
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@morighani @morighani it's because there's no national healthcare here and people are forced to practically mortgage their home and give up a kidney to be able to afford rip-off healthcare insurance. It's very shameful. There are other things too that push huge numbers of people into financial precarity and/or poverty but that's a big one. There's a long list in fact and it's shameful and it shouldn't be that way, but I would say lack of a publicly accessible healthcare would be number one because it only takes one serious illness to wipe out once entire life savings, and it shouldn't be that way. It would easy be easy to provide basic financial security for every man, woman and child in this country but it will never come from Republicans or Democrats. They are two sides to the same duplicitous face. The "duopoly" isn't here to help anyone but themselves. The Dems are as profligate liars as the Republicans are. They claim they want to do all these wonderful beautiful things for average americans, and then the moment when they get into the majority where they don't have to worry about GOP obstruction, most if not all of them never come to pass. I've realized by now that's all part of the plan. I don't fall for their lies anymore. They've had 60 years to back up what they say and they haven't and I don't believe they're even trying. To continue to vote for these assholes after all these decades of intentional failure on their part, would be extremely naive and foolishness on my part. From I resolved to myself several years ago that the only people I will be voting for in any election, local state or federal will be independent candidates, hopefully from the Left. If there are none in any particular race then I just won't vote because as far as I'm concerned it won't make much difference whether it's Red or Blue who ends up taking that seat. The policies won't be meaningfully different.
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@katelyndefreitas2810 you mean you wish you could provide more but you can't?
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Yes people just don't understand how much has been stolen from the majority of citizens over the past 60 years. The amount is truly staggering. Everything has gone to the top 1% in corporate executive profit and so many people have fallen out of the middle class or have been baked in to the poverty class as a result. Just insane. A lot of this can be reversed with thoughtful, moral, honorable upstanding people in politics but good luck getting THAT here in this country. The shit always rises to the top in politics in America, not the other way around. Anybody that wants to run on an unapologetically people-first ticket would be smeared and called a communist. I would do it but I don't think I would win because people are brainwashed into voting Red or Blue and then acting shockedface wondering why nothing ever changes, other than the stock returns for the 1%.
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And the worst thing is our government is full of criminals who work FOR (in the sense of protect) the wall street or banking criminals who do these things. The REAL white color criminals that cause harm from coast to coast will never be brought to justice. Meanwhile if an average-income or poor person commits some kind of a crime even a minor one you can better believe if they're caught they're going to face an unfair court where they can't even afford a good defense because public defenders can't afford to care or actually don't care because of burnout. Our systems are so inside-out and backwards at the moment.
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Yes, people just don't understand just how MUCH has been stolen from the majority of citizens over the past 60 years. The amount is truly staggering. I'd wager it's in the high billions maybe low trillions idk. Everything has gone to the top 1% in corporate executive profit and so many people have fallen out of the middle class or have been baked in to the poverty class as a result. Just insane. A lot of this can be reversed with thoughtful, moral, honorable and upstanding people in politics but good luck getting THAT to happen in this country. The shit ALWAYS rises to the top in politics here, not the other way around. Anybody that wants to run on an unapologetically humane people-first ticket would be smeared and called a communist. I would do it but I don't think I'd win because people are so brainwashed into voting Red or Blue and then acting all <shockedface> wondering why nothing ever changes other than the stock returns for the 1%. Crazy. Maybe voting harder for those same red/blue political party duopoly crooks who got us into this mess in the first place will help!.... says the voting public year after YEAR and thoroughly predictably, it never does.
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@listeningatwork8719 sounds to me like she should have tried to sell the home to someone and then put the money in a separate account and just not tell them. They're not the eff bee eye I doubt they would have any legal right to go searching through her financial records.
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@aellaaskew4263 yeah that's shameful. That is not right. And where tf are the COLAs????? 2007 it was the same! $900 in the state of CA. I would say I'm shocked it hasn't been increased in almost 20 years but unfortunately I'm not. These criminals who get in office have no intention of doing better by those in the very bottom. Unless you're able to rent a cheap room or find subsidized housing, who the hell can live on that??? It would be one thing if the law mandated that no one could charge you more than 15 or 20% if your income for rent, which really needs to be universal, but there's nothing like that. Disability as it currently stands is a disgusting program that needs to be completely changed. I'm sorry for those who have no choice but to take it who are then forced into constant poverty. These rules are vile and wrong. Lawmakers from both parties but esp the GOP are shockingly evil people. They will do everything possible make sure their rich buddies and the wealthy interests who fund their campaigns can skim more and more off the top and get richer and richer while bending over backwards to make sure the poor and average income can never move up the income ladder, and stay as poor as possible. Their intent is clear, ugly and obvious. No one should be forced into abusive poverty just because they need assistance! Everybody has the right to have savings. Savings are there to prevent you from losing everything due to an emergency and to make you life a little better. The point of savings is NOT TO LIVE ON day in and day out! Just because someone has modest savings doesn't mean they don't need assistance if they have a disability! It's because the blood-drinking demon savages we elect hate the poor with a blinding passion; they want of them to go off and die, they hate the very thought of helping those that genuinely need it; they only want to give money to those who are already wealthy or very wealthy. It's corrupt, gross and perverse. I don't understand it, I don't know why these are the same kinds of filth that get elected and reelected over and over again, but it never seems to end. The same exact kinds of criminal hateful ignorant short-sighted scum that have pushed for the same terrible public policies that have impoverished not just those on public benefits but huge chunks of the population again and again keep getting elected and it's sad. There doesn't seem to be any other option right now. I absolutely want to change this but so far it's been impossible.
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@aellaaskew4263 just a question - if you opened a bank account and started making regular deposits, how would anyone know unless you were under some kind of investigation or you told them? Same thing for keeping/saving cash on hand or using one of the other banking alternatives out there like Chime?
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Whatever the details, the facts are that those animals who get into public office in this country want all the money for themselves and their super rich friends in business who fund their campaigns. If you start out in poverty they sure as hell don't want you getting out. If you make it into the middle class they don't want to give you ANY protections from falling out of it. They're amazing- amazingly amoral. Once you see their agenda for what it really is you can't not see it. Nobody's life out here matters to them they just want to get as rich as possible serving the deepest pockets in their state, while going out of their way to to use public policy to entrap millions in serious poverty, bankruptcy, destitution, and/or homelessness. Absolutely amazing. And they sleep extremely well at night that's a fact. These cruel policies won't change until we get people in office who don't embrace cruelty, idiocy, unfairness and neglect towards the average citizen, and so far that seems impossible.
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@mikemccarthy1638 this isn't craigslist. I doubt people are reporting me. I can tell when I'm being blocked by the AI censoring algorithm and I'm hardly the only one. Thanks for your patronizing response but I disagree with you that that is what's happening in my case. This isn't a single community. This isn't Reddit idiocy. We are all here with a variety of viewpoints and difference is to be expected. Very few people report comments on yt. I doubt anyone is reporting me. This is YouTube's AI bot all the way. As annoying as YouTube's censorship is, I would say amongst all the social media platforms YouTube is one of the freest.
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@listeningatwork8719 do you notice 4-5 responses of mine?
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@AnimalFarm341 right, but it's wrong either way. It's enforced extreme poverty. Just so morally wrong. Those who I've come across who needed it due to mental or physical disability never got more than $1000 a month. It would be one thing if rent was super cheap or a function of income, or if there was plentiful public housing or section 8 actually worked (it does but waiting lists are often long and it's getting harder and harder to use the voucher because of the dumb rules), but in most cases that's not true. So if you have to live on SSI you better hope you live in an area where you can find really cheap rent or if you have a family member to help you out or you can rent a room for hopefully not your entire paycheck, otherwise you're going to be facing homelessness all the time. I mean our policymakers are just blood-drinking demon ghouls and it's just time for the deliberate abuse to stop. Make no mistake all of this was intentional. These people are that stupid. They know what they're doing to people out here, they just don't care. I'm surprised we haven't hit a second Great Depression yet, the way poverty is exploding things to both parties actions. They only serve the rich and the very rich. I don't know what made them as trash as they are but something did. They're allowing basic costs of living to explode out of sight while while joyously refusing to raise the minimum wage or do any kind of controls on the private sector whatsoever, including providing accessible healthcare. It's stunning really. But we have to understand that nobody in the duopoly cares about us. That has nothing to do with why they're in office. It's all a performance for them. As always, they are 100% creating the very problem they complain about, poverty and homelessness. At this rate we'll be a tent city America in no time.
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@rachaelpino6914 asset limitation is grossly unjust and far too low. So wrong. It's enforced extreme poverty which is morally reprehensible. But cruelty is what these demonbags love best. But what else would you expect from these blood-drinking vampire bat ghouls who make these laws in the first place? They'll gladly rub all of us blind and bleed us dry so their rich and ultra-rich friends from the elite ranks can make a cool new billion or million. THIS is who we elect. Whether it's red or blue at the end of the day it doesn't matter. They work for the 1%, together. This is just one of them. Extreme poverty and hardcore abusive rugged individualism for us, massive handouts, special rules and the ultimate in protection for their 1% friends and interests. The finest political and legal protection money can buy, that's governance in America.
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@rachaelpino6914 @rachaelpino6914 asset limitation is grossly unjust and far too low. Just because you're a disabled person it doesn't mean you don't have the right to build up a small amount of assets yourself including a home a personal vehicle or some savings. It is disgusting what does vampire bats are doing to the most vulnerable in our communities. So wrong. It's enforced extreme poverty which is morally reprehensible. But cruelty is what these douchebags and douche canoes love best. But what else would you expect from these blood-drinking vampire bat ghouls who make these laws in the first place? They'll gladly rub all of us blind and bleed us dry so their rich and ultra-rich friends from the elite ranks can make a cool new billion or million. THIS is who we elect. Whether it's red or blue at the end of the day it doesn't matter. They work for the 1%, together. This is just one of them. Extreme poverty and hardcore abusive rugged individualism for us, massive handouts, special rules and the ultimate in protection for their 1% friends and interests. The finest political and legal protection money can buy, that's governance in America.
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@listeningatwork8719 I'd like to talk more to you about this situation but I'm being hyper censored by YouTube right now.
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@listeningatwork8719 would love to talk more about this situation you observed. I never knew YouTube had such a hard on for preventing people from criticizing current public assistance policies. They suppress a lot of criticism- some still makes it through but I could write a novel with the comments of mine on bread and butter issues that were in no way abusive that have been blocked. It's not people complaining about it like that genius seems to think it's the AI chopper bot. How do we not know this by now?
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@MyLoganTreks 100%. Every time I talk about my feelings on this issue on this thread my comment gets completely censored.
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@BigRon-e4k it was indeed. ALL scarcity on the planet is human-caused and EASILY fixable. But the people with the power to change it don't want to. That's all it comes down to. This is the source of all of our material problems. That's why I'm now a militant communist but you know to each their own.
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@DimaRakesah right. Just an excuse to pay crap pay. Look no one is saying to pay low skilled jobs like a surgeon, we know there's a difference, however - we all need to live. With or without rent control, min wage should be at least $18+. I prefer 25 for most. Come on. I'm disappointed this is still an issue we have to fight over. Business elites who buy all the local/state/federal lawmakers really are shameless. - proper pay/COL adjusted benefits - full public healthcare - rent control & foreclosure protection - bonus: some UBI > the three pillars of poverty when not ensured. Fix these and 99.999% of all material insecurity goes away. UBI even more so.
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@drcatrinaking lady, are you dense? Ive thought more about this than most and I'm not saying overthrow anything I'm saying to better regulate the private sector, mostly at the top, while providing a better public sector to all. Try to read what I'm saying a little more carefully, and less patronizing if you don't mind thanks. I'm 40 and I think I get it. You also seem to think supply and demand is some holy concept handed down by god when it's nothing of the. You act like there's no place for regulation and laws. Ok that's your view but mine is different. Stop worshipping this nonsense handed to you about a so-called free market. First, there's no such thing as a "free market", our private market is quite rigged for the top 1% and business elites, all I'm suggesting is that be changed through intelligent and proper regulation to protect all workers from entry to PhD, our communities, and our environment; along with the beefing up of the public sector to include better guarantees such as modest UBI for lower-income households, better family and early childhood programs, and comprehensive national public healthcare (and much more but that's just to name a few). This could all easily be financed by better taxation at the top and greater federal funding. The solutions are simple, but they won't come from this current government, the two main parties are shameless and proud corporate servants and all fully bought and paid for down to a man. It would have to come thru electing better people (nigh impossible here for whatever reason, but maybe more possible in the future) or public ballot measures (much more possible imo).
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@drcatrinaking I did reply to you but I don't know if yt posted it
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