Comments by "Taylor Griffith" (@taylorbug9) on "Living Rent-Free Next to Millionaires" video.

@JohnM-sw4sc people like me and you produce them. Rich people don't work on factory lines. They don't do any physical labor. They don't produce anything. Ideas are nothing without labor. Money is not made without labor. Therefore the laborer is more important than the idea maker.
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@tyson9419 I'm just wondering if that makes him not a human being.
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@JohnM-sw4sc until what? Until one part of America is one giant never-ending slum and the other part is a gated community with multi-billion dollar homes and trust fund kids?
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@netglitch_ so why are big oil companies allowed to do it? For profit.
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@MEAT_CANNON money isn't necessary for society to run. You do understand that societies existed well before money did right? It's literally just pieces of printed paper. We actually lose a penny every time we make one too just so you know. It costs two cents to make a penny.
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@parillascrambler8492 yeah, annoys me that they always pick the person that is homeless for the most obvious reasons. A few years back I met a man while waiting at the bus stop to go to work, he was homeless from a divorce trying to make it down to his kids in florida. They were also pretty poor so they couldn't help him financially. One day while we were sitting chatting while I waited for the bus someone stopped in their car and gave him a bunch of coupons for free meals at a local fast food joint. This man tried to hand me half of them while I had a home and food on my shelves. Of course I refused. But you really don't know why someone is homeless until you talk to them. In my hometown of lake Orion there is a homeless War veteran. Been that way for many many years. He goes somewhere in the winter, chooses to be homeless because of mental health issues that are going untreated. There are people who are homeless because of bad family situations. People who are homeless because they trusted the wrong people to rent from. Had me and another girl who rented a room from her, fired and then at 11:00 p.m. that night told us we needed to be out by the weekend. Which isn't even legal but we weren't going to stick around and put up with her and her alcohol addicted baby daddy. I paid for a campsite for 2 weeks and lived in a tent. Then I lived in my mom's camper in her backyard for 2 months before getting the apartment I've now lived in for 3 years. Homelessness can happen to anyone at any time. You need to remember that you are far closer to being homeless than you will ever be to being rich like the people who add nothing to society, and only profit off your hard work.
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@Mandatoryuser so let me ask you; what happens when those of you who can afford these high costs of living have to drive 45 minutes to get groceries or gas or to get fast food or to use your bank because none of those people who work those jobs can afford to live in your area anymore? Resulting in the closing of those businesses in your area?
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@Mandatoryuser I just love it when people with no understanding of economics try to give unworkable solutions to our country's very serious problem.
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@JohnM-sw4sc how can anyone take you seriously when you're being so dramatic? You do understand that the people who live in mansions don't actually produce anything for society right? It wouldn't be so many drug addicts either if people had fulfilling jobs and lives. But when you're forced to slave away for the benefit of someone else your entire life s*** gets depressing. I would never do hard drugs, but you must be doing them to think that the current economy is sustainable.
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@Kai-ky6tf then why do they get away with it? Allowing someone to get away with something is allowing it.
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@Kai-ky6tf they literally dump hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into our oceans. What the hell have you been smoking?
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@JohnM-sw4sc 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 omg you're a joke
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@Kai-ky6tf so if you ever lose your job we're allowed to just throw you out on the streets. Okay.
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@MEAT_CANNON those people were taxpaying contributing members of society until all the wealthy, bad people kicked them out of their homes so they could have the area. You really do not understand how gentrification works do you???? It must be bliss being so ignorant.
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@Jason-33W a millionaire isn't that wealthy compared to the people we're talking about. Please refrain from bothering me with foolish comments.
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That's the thing now. I'll rich people are sociopaths. Because you can't be that kind of rich without exploiting other people for it. It is not physically possible to make the kind of money these people make. They sit on their asses and they steal it off the hard work of others. And yes that is every single ultra wealthy person. Jeff Bezos has never done hard work. His Mommy and Daddy got them everything same thing with Elon Musk and any other big name you can think of. If you meet a wealthy person guaranteed their sociopath and they don't work hard. They might think they work hard because they text a lot and email a lot and take phone calls but that's not hard work.
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@DragonsFrogs that's only because a long time ago people decided that certain people were inherently dumb and certain people are inherently smart. And then they blocked access to education for the people they believed to be dumb. Creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. If everyone was educated we would be way ahead of where we are now.
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@joniboulware1436 for some reason they still need plenty of people.
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It's so sad that the hard-working people who make this country run are the people who are poor. And the people who are rich are the ones who do nothing and sit on their ass all day.
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So what about the oil companies that make billions off polluting our water? When are we going to destroy their oil rigs and kick them out??
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@adamemedia3139 okay but the shareholders don't contribute to local economies the way that even poor people do. Wealthy people like shareholders and CEOs like to spend their money overseas and on luxury items that don't really produce that much for society. The average Joe spends all of their money in society. Almost everything they get goes back into our economy, making the economy itself grow. This creates more jobs. Rich people don't do that, in fact they usually do the opposite. When rich people decide they like a town and start moving in all the home prices become unattainable to the local people. But the jobs don't start paying enough to keep up with that so now you have a bunch of rich people and no one to run your service industry. It's happening all over this country it was happening in slow motion before the pandemic, but covid kicked it into high gear and we're about to start seeing the consequences of the negligence to this part of our. You cannot sustain a system where a bunch of rich people go around raising prices wherever they go but keeping wages the same.
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Then he clearly doesn't feel empathy he's just pretending. I'm a very empathetic person and I can't even hurt people I greatly dislike. It makes me feel too bad inside. People who say they have empathy but do bad things anyways are just liars.
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It reminds them of the people they exploit to make the money that they have. You don't get to be that kind of wealthy without exploiting others for it. And if they're forced to look at the poverty they create they might actually feel something in that cold heart of theirs and they don't like that.
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Literally everyone buys a house these days for the value and not for it to be a home. So yeah it is actually our fault too not just the state. You and the rest of this country need to let go of this attitude that you are incapable of blame in this situation that we have created in our country. We have all contributed to what we are living in today. None of us are free from guilt of this. We allowed this to happen. We all stood by and let it happen. This is exactly like standing around and doing nothing when the school bully beats up on other kids and then being upset when it starts happening to you. We all stood around and let the school bully beat up on the weaker people. Now the school bully's moving up the food chain and there's no one behind us because we didn't stand behind anybody else. That's how life works that's how this country works that's how everything works. You don't stand up for others, when it comes to your time you stand alone.
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@jaredroussel right? Lol people don't understand we are literally on the edge of a dystopic future that we see in movies.
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Actually no I wouldn't be. Why does the government deserve money for property that they don't maintain when you're not living on it? They don't maintain that property at all so why should they get money year after year for it? Why should the bank get money for it they didn't maintain it? If a homeowner isn't in a home it rots into the ground so why does anyone but the previous homeowner deserve money for it???
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And exploits other humans for his wealth. You know he doesn't do actual labor to make the money he makes. He gets it from somebody else who does labor.
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You don't listen very well do you? His boat took on water after a storm and then they stole his boat from him and trashed it and left it out in the elements. What's wrong with your ears do they not work? Turn on subtitles!
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