Here is the one he made in 2003 called Born Rich. Ivanka is in there along with other new and old money kids you might recognize.
The wealth class is fucked up and it spreads to society. We need that cycle to end. I have also had the privilege to be around blue bloods who agree.
But their money is controlled by literal Nazis. You won’t hear that in the media because it’s something you will only hear behind closed doors. It’s real shit. We are in for a tough time if we keep letting money win in elections.
Get involved. Get smart. Get to voting this November.
What’s crazy is that this was made in 2011 and the issue is probably 4x more extreme now than it was then. They were already painting the doom scene then. The richest men in the world doubled their wealth after covid, and the poor have become poorer. Each tragedy, each disaster, each economic downturn is a boon for the wealthy, and they use it to extract even more wealth from the societies they leech off of. They steal government funds that were targeted for people, they raise prices, they buy back all of their own stock with our tax money that was meant to prevent layoffs, and a million other unscrupulous actions. And then as you hear in the video, they pat themselves on the back for being exceptionally talented in the most moral system imaginable. Nobody will stop them because the people with the power to stop them benefit from them, and would be crushed by them if they betrayed them. The wealthy have so much power now that they operate under the same “silver or lead” principles that Pablo Escobar did. Take our bribes and let us do what we want, or we’ll destroy you. It will get much, much worse before it gets better.
Ah, okay. It definitely looks like it was made earlier. It was uploaded in 2011, so that’s what I was going off of. I just finished watching the whole video, which I didn’t expect to do. His father refuses to speak, or even think honestly about the problem. Even at the end when he finally agreed to answer questions, as soon as he started to say something about the pay inequality, he just clammed up and shut down. He seems like a man with a conscience, who has made a choice to never honestly evaluate his position in life, lest he be forced to face enormous guilt. It’s great that his son was able to do a lot more than face it.
I have always had a lot of respect for Warren Buffett. He’s a self made man, and he pledged most of his wealth to charity. His work with Bill Gates to provide low cost electricity to low income areas is well documented, and I thought was coming from a desire to actually help people and the world. But seeing his reaction to his granddaughter has completely changed my opinion of him. What a vicious and terrible person he must be to disown his own granddaughter simply for speaking honestly about who she is. She didn’t even really say anything negative about him. She just did something he didn’t want her to do and he lashed out at her in the most destructive way he could envision. What a complete asshole.
Don’t think I need to see a documentary to learn what is already obvious. Of course the 1% are obsessed with wealth and power, and have no qualms about exploiting workers. Otherwise they wouldn’t horde obscene amounts of wealth while children starve, etc.
Is absolutely worth watching. If only to validate much of what you already suspect is true.
Most of this will not be a surprise. But it’s important to have it documented on camera.
One thing that became obvious to me after watching both documentaries by this guy is that they can be pretty honest and it really has no effect on how they are perceived in public.
The sides never change. You either hate them or want to be like them.
As @infectoid mentioned, this doc is worth seeing, because they were much more candid when speaking with one of ‘their own’ than with a regular journalist. It’s incredible to see them fully ‘mask-off’ of how they truly do view us, and how deep their lack of empathy is.
This documentary does a great job of connecting the shameful racist moment of Human Zoos with the political past, the approaching fascist horizon of the time, and the present. It’s inspiring to read about the nascent civil rights struggle by Black leaders, and interesting to draw parallels to modern times.
The New York Times being quoted as saying about the protesters, “We do not quite understand all the emotion which others are expressing in the matter,” and denying the humanity of pygmy people has a sober recent analog.
Anyone who still thinks that lightbulbs are a good example of planned obsolescence needs to watch Technology Connections’ video about lightbulbs on YouTube. Planned obsolescence is definitely a thing, but lightbulbs are not an example of this, and this has been disproven time and time again.
And here is the relevant link to the specific video he did on lightbulbs and why they aren’t an example of planned obsolescence: youtu.be/zb7Bs98KmnY
The TL;DW is this: no matter what method you use, the process of converting electricity into visible light is going to generate heat. With old filament bulbs, they had to balance the intensity of the light with the rate at which the filament would burn. Those older bulbs that lasted ages gave off so little light that they weren’t practical because you would need several times as many lightbulbs. Turning up the amount of light meant the filament would not last as long, but you needed fewer of them. With newer models, we still have to play that balancing act, just with different electrical components, because making them brighter still means making them hotter and potentially frying the components inside.
I watched up to 16:04 like, and I have to admit what I saw was a technical talk about the differences of the bulbs. So it didn’t sound to me like a proof of his claims.
In 1924 top representatives from all the major light-bulb manufacturers of the time met in Geneva to found the Phoebus cartel, which created a supervisory body that would divide the worldwide incandescent light bulb market. … By early 1925, its lifespan became codified at 1 000 hours for a pear-shaped household bulb, which was a notable reduction from the 1 500 to 2 000 hours …
They limited it to that because, at the time, there was only one way to make a lightbulb and they wanted a consistent brightness. The easiest way to do that was to make a standard filament, and the easiest way to measure that was to test how long on average it lasted.
It is like saying a bread cartel was made by saying a loaf of bread has to be a standard weight and anyone selling a different weight was fined. Making an industry standard that is arguably for the benefit of the customer is not the same as planned obsolescence. Especially when you consider the fact that the 1000 standard wasn’t followed when they started making different kinds of lightbulbs that didn’t use filament.
Berlin had a long history of squatter communities. This reminded me of them. The last squatters were finally evicted some time in the last couple years after constant wars with the authorities. My understanding was that what they were doing was not illegal, because if you live somewhere long enough, you can’t be evicted in Germany. But naturally these once decrepit neighbourhoods are now the trendiest and their abandoned buildings were sitting on now extremely valuable land. So they’ll find ways to make it illegal. You’re violent to the police, you’re doing drugs, etc.
I bet went these anchor-outs started living here, there were no people living in mansions on those hills. But they moved-in and found themselves entitled to a shore free of freeloaders. There are fewer and fewer places for a free person to stay.
I think it’s so awesome they’ve done this. When you start bringing energy into the hands of local communities, it really shifts the economy towards more sustainability. The people can take care of themselves, while with green energy, doing the least harm possible to their environment. Admirable.
It really makes me so sad though too, these people are still going to be hit so hard by climate change. They rely so much on the ocean and stable climate just by the nature of being on islands. These good people deserve so much better than what’s ahead. It’s so unfair.
And, the exact same companies would be doing exactly the same things inside the US if they could -- literally the only thing that prevents it is that we have a legal and societal system that would get them in trouble for it. They're already okay with killing people through pollution or poverty, they're already okay with straight-up murdering people in other countries; it's just that they'd get in trouble for it if they were shooting Americans in the head, so they (edit: mostly) don't.
With all the propagandistic struggle porn infecting youtube, Andrew Callaghan is a breath of fresh air. People on the street deserve a voice, and to be treated as humans.
100%, and I’m glad he’s finding people like Robert Banghart, who, like the Harm Reduction worker Bill Buman, can give compelling examples of how to truly help people get out of those circumstances.
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