Comments by "André" (@Andre-qo5ek) on "Ben Durham" channel.

  1. (pre-watch comment) well ..... 1) credit, loans, leases, mortgages. in America it is normalized to live off debt , we jsut call it these other things. 2) most people live pay-check-to-paycheck 3) corporate greed price gouges people to FORCE them into debt 4) PAST credit, loans, leases, mortgages, and speculative markets ( aka, the entire stock market. including everyday commodities and luxuries) ALL STOLE FROM THE FUTURE.. that future is NOW. so by definition we are in the pasts-debt. 5) debt is the bases if modern capitalist profits. 6) wage theft 7) keeping up with the joneses.. marketing .. celbrity
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  2. socialists talk about all of this.... ( normies do not like the Scawy "socialism" though )
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  3. YES... i have tried to explain to people what "afford " means.. and they CAN NOT GRASP IT
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  4. "Afford" to me is not today, this week, this paycheck, this month, this year ... afford is for LONG TERM GOALS, for survival. so many people live in survival mode that looks out in minutes or hours.... my survival vision is years and decades.
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  5. re: high income.. people laugh at me when i say that UBI ought to be 100k per person as a START. they do not grasp that 100k is NOT that much when you REALLY look at the lifetime BASIC needs of people. i have actually been told... " but i dont need that much" 🤣 but in reality they REALLY just didnt want OTHER PEOPLE getting that much, it was really sad. i feel bad for people that would be ok with accepting less themselves specifically because they want to take away from others. i paid it out that 100k across the board for UBI would get all people out of poverty, some people ( like he said for himself) would be getting an abundance... and others, 100k is just assistance. and that is OK for something like UBI... the point is to get ALL PEOPLE afloat. for ALL PEOPLE to gain dignity in their existence.
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  6. oh yeah.. i have tried to explain % vs raw # to people... and again, right over their heads. they do not undersatnd how the uber wealthy do not pay their fair share. they scream "but the rich pay so much in taxes" but they mean in Raw $$ not in %. so i try to explain. 20% of MY years wage( say 40,000) is $8000 leaving me $32,000($2,666/m) do what i need these people are OK with the uber wealthy to pay a flat rate... so lets go with that... yes a millionaire at 20% $200,000 in taxes.. that a big Raw $$ ... but it leaves the, $800,000($16,666/m) they essentially value a millionaire 6x other people... ..... that is INSANITY to me... i think it is more than fair to tax the wealthy to a point that they take home comparable money as anyone else. ( give or take ) someone making 40k and someone making 1M lets say we want them to be able to take home 3500 a month. this means we would not tac the 40k person, and in fact provide them a small subsidy every month the 1M person would be taxed 95.8% of Couse this is napkin math. but it is to illustrate that % demonstrates that a millionaire can still live, like any other person , at 95% taxation. laypeople do not seem to understand this.
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