Comments by "Joe Swanson" (@joeswanson733) on "1M" channel.

1.) average guy can't be lazy by definition as they are the average. C/C+ grade. not poor not good. just the bare minimum of acceptability you would want as a worker/performer. now of course compared to a workaholic the average guy is lazy but compared to a lazy person that average person is a hardworker. but the average person is making average money and average money is not enough to fulfill this purpose of being that "provider" we're well past the days of being average and able to make good money working a 8 hour day... 2.) obesity rates are on the rise because of our ease of accessing calories. eating fast food for example is actually cheaper than eating healthy. when people just focus on chasing for cheapest prices the unhealthiest options are all they got which is too many calories 3.) male depression is basically your expectations and reality do not sync up. if your expectations are too high and above your reality than of course you're prone to depression. you bring your expectations down and depression goes away in a heartbeat. actually the lowest era of competiton is when feudalism was in full effect because most men would be serfs working the fields.. and that's all you're ever going to do while the upper classes of men like the vassals/merchants/warrior classes/ministers/clergy etc they basically have a wide open field.
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if people can't reach it than so be it. just don't complain about it. that's another issue i have with people. if you can't do it. fine. but if you can't do it than don't complain. the world is very fair. or at least more fair than what we give it credit for.
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@achase-1097 if you watch another one of 1st man videos he did 1-2 years ago he mentioned that because women can basically compete with men now in terms of being able to obtain financial resources on their own and also able to go to the gym and workout and all that. it boosts theier ego more than they normally would have if compared to past eras.
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life is a struggle and grind.. this is nothing new. the only thing new about it is we're trying to sugar coat it and tell the kids don't worry everything will turn out ok. no it will not turn out ok. no one is going to save you. you're on your own. but that doesn't sound good to people.
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basically in order to make good money now you need to work difficult higher level jobs that pay well above average money. but there's a reason why they pay so much is because there's not many of them and the skillset required of them is not easy to attain. to make good six figure money you need to be good at investing/trading, own your own business... period. there are very few jobs that pay you good six figure paychecks.
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london skews everything. it's like saying you gotta make new york money but living in the middle of america
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hard work and hustle culture is now kind of going hand in hand.
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our financial benchmarks and aspirations are on a multi decade lag. what i mean is $100,000 being good income was from the 1990s to early 2000s. that is no longer the case if you reside in major metro areas. as $100,000 now is can only get you a middle class lifestyle if you know how to stretch your dollars.. to enjoy the "good life" you would need to make at least $250,000 a year if not more.
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you need food and a roof over your head... and thats' about it.
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applause
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100,000 is enough... to live a upper working class life. or low middle class life. it's nothing to brag about. even in america $100,000 can get you a decent middle class life but nothing to write home about. when i was growing up $100,000 was like da shitz but now.. inflation and currency devaluation it's nothing.
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@enrater123 if humans didn't need to sleep that would be great we can work 24/7 and imagine this a regular joe making average money could triple their income by working all day every day 365 days a year. but no warren buffett was right if you can't earn money while you're sleeeping you're gonna work til you pass away
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@joebond545 have you seen how many distractions there are nowadays designed to split your attention and divert you to superfluous activities. if everyone worked 8 hours a day and after work they had a side job or hustle or business or something else and if all you're doing is focusing all your efforts on making money a lot of men would be pulling $100,000 a year easy. but that's exhausting though
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@Anonymous-wu4rw i know that $100,000 benchmark was back in the 1990s maybe early 2000s. so i also kidn of did a quick number crunch if you buy a car $30,000 (this is just a normal car now nothing fancy due to chip shortage and other stuff that drove car prices through the roof) you would need at least $60,000 a year to afford this car (6 month of salary at most) then the house thing. if you want to buy a house and in socal the average is like $600,000 for a starter home.. since traditioanl financial benchmarks dictate that you should not get a house more than 5x your annual income you would need bare minimum $120,000 a year then you mentioned taxes, tuition, bills, etc. insurance, food, any kind of emergency expenses that just pop up. you would need to make at least $150,000 or more just to afford that traditional middle class life style in the coastal states. im stressing normal middle class life. if you want to truly be comfortable you would need to make at least $250,000 or more. and this puts you in the top 3% income percentile. depending on region. IRS in the USA said you want to be solid 1% you better make $600,000 a year or more. heck even $120,000 a year only puts you in the top 13%... that's insane. compared to men from the 1950s where they can buy a house for $10,000 and get a car for $2200.00 when they make around $5000.00 a year...
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@Anonymous-wu4rw and let's not forget that kris himself said that women are directly competing with you for good paying jobs business opportunities etc. i mean everyone knows that one of the reasons you have such lousy wages now is because whomen entered the workforce in masse in teh 1970s and has been driving down wages since.
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@Anonymous-wu4rw if you make it congrats for the rest that don't win it's a 7 x 3 box six feet under
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competition exists because of finite resources and people all wanting the same resources. (money, land, raw materials, women etc) in order for competition to not exist there would have to be enough for everyone no gatekeeping and people are not inherently greedy being content with just having enough. until that day competition is just a inevitable outcome of finite anything on this planet.
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capitalism is not bad or good. those who perform well win those who don't perofrm well die. so as you can see if a lot of people don't perform well, it's not hard to guess how they will feel about their fate. socialism isnt bad or good but those who do perform well are capped those who don't perform well are at least given a wider safety net. so the winners don't like seeing hey im working so hard for what. there should be a balance of the two. winners should reap their rewards of their effort but the lowly performing folks should at least get some kidn of assistance to make sure they don't fall to death. it's quite complicated here. humans are complicated because of human emotions and jealousy and envy and desire. if humans weren't jealous or envious then ...a lot of issues we have now would be a moot point
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UBI by design fails to account for the elements of life that make families more or less in need of government support — such as having a child with a serious illness or a work-limiting disability oneself — and as such would result in a highly inefficient allocation of resources.
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paradox of choice youre told from the get go at least from millennials nad on you can be anything you want to be vs how in generations past your father was a blacksmith your fathers father was a black smith etc so you're going to be a blacksmith. that's just one example. for example just 120 years ago so you could work in the factory or the farms or if you're really smart you can work in white collar jobs... well now im sure i don't need to bring up that your career options at least on paper... have expanded by leaps and bounds.
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i think a reason why people complain is because for example they read history and notice hey how come back then the bar was lower.. and the bar is so high now. but the effort to reach the new bar seems much harder than it should be. that's the complaint or frustration with a lot of people you hear cocmplain. and some ofi tis their fault and some of it is macro forces beyond their control. and regarding easy way to make money like you said online. is it sustainable in the long haul. because you have to keep in mind your needs in you 20s vs 30s and beyond change decade by decade. don't fall into the same trap thinking your needs in your 40s is the same when you're 23.
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@EddieLovettClips I was just curious if you will constantly need to get new online businesses or what the landscape will be like in the future because you're not the only one in this space. As other countries get richer over time...wouldn't all online people be chasing the same dollars? Also do you think online businesses today can last 100 years?
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@EddieLovettClips the only online businesses im aware of at this point is online retail, social media influencer, blogger, videographer， drop shipping, podcasting ，affiliate marketing. Are you in any of these?
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@EddieLovettClips I'm sure you are aware that most people attend public schools and they don't teach you anything. Then you would need to undo 17 years of schooling and learn on your own...so basically imagine having to relearn everything and find something that works for you
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@EddieLovettClips I'm just trying to write out reasons why people complain that was one I heard of
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well you talked about it he average worker lifetime earnings is maybe 1.4 million dollars... that's before taxes and before spending it on anything... hence the average bee don't got much money and that sucks.
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$100k a month or $100k a year. if you make even $100,000 a year according to the IRS this puts you at the top 20% income percentile. this is coming from a person (kris) saying bill gates is a low smv person. lol
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there was a time wheer if you knew how to play the system gave you a positive return... well we're past those times now.
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if you want to live on a $100,000 lifestyle per year.. and you are going to live for 50 years for example you need $5000000 over the course of your life time... it adds up fast. so unless you have money rolling in year after year for decades or you come across a huge windfall.. there's no room for mistakes.
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vancourver is very expensive.
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if we use business analogy everyone wants to be the monopoly. the standard oil. the john d rockefeller where im on the top of mt olympus towering over everyone. but it's just another sad reality we live in where we have to compete just because it's part of life.
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@enrater123 you didnt catch my sarcasm there. I mentioned warren buffet quote for a reason. Theres only 2 kinds of income. Earned income or investment income
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if we use business analogy everyone wants to be the monopoly and not have to compete if they had the power to make it happen.
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basically he got too big for his britches.
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and $75k USD in vancouver or ontario isn't that much
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average life expectancy is around 78 for males. if you are super fit like jack lalanne (he's arguably one of the fittest people to have ever lived) even he only lived to be 96
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i know right. sh-t is expensive. has been expensive for some time. i remember folks telling me that the stay at home housewife thing was pretty much a dying thing even going back to the 1980s.
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@Anonymous-wu4rw I could whine but what's the point either make it or bite the bullet
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i think people always use the governemnet retirement number of 65 as a benchmark like ... i should be done by 65. going by that figure... a 30... you're already halfway through... O_O
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that's 1% right there. very few jobs pay that except for the top echelon jobs in corporate or government. most folks that make that kind of money would need to be business owners are crackshot investors.
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basically you want to exercise and that helps with your hormone levels.
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people still play fifa?
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competition is a part of life whether we like it or not due to finite resources and people all wanting the same resources. if we had infinite resources.. and no gatekeeping competition would cease.
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@vikingaxe2702 but then would you like it if there was no competition because Kris can't live in a world with no competition
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