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Fame, Fraternity Gangs, Afrobeats, and Civil War | @eldeethedon | Ep. 3 [No Man's Friend]
Today, I spoke with rapper, label owner, and Afrobeats pioneer eLDee the Don. We discussed the post-colonial history of Nigeria, being raised in the generation following a civil war, the origins of Afrobeats, moving to the U.S. without celebrity, and how quickly security lapses when morality is relative.
We also discuss multiple stories that are fully told on the "Nigerian American" Podcast. I highly recommend a listen - link below.
| Links |
For eLDee:
On X x.com/eldeethedon
On Insta eldeethedon?hl=en
On Tik Tok www.tiktok.com/@eldeethedon
"Nigerian American" Podcast open.spotify.com/show/0pn5ATq6eV7xtFripZywHV
Link Tree linktr.ee/eldeethedon
| Chapters |
(0:00) Intro
(0:51) Nigerian independence from Great Britain, the main tribes
(4:13) Forced relocation and civil war
(7:44) Growing up in Kaduna, an American education
(11:15) Relative safety, religious protection
(13:28) Home invasion - why you don’t call the police
(20:59) Moving to Lagos: “New York on steroids”
(24:13) Con frats and militant cults
(28:56) When you unknowingly beat up a gang member
(33:47) Where the name “eLDee” comes from, a passion for music
(37:25) Why there was no music industry in Nigeria post-colonization
(39:13) Integrating a traditional sound and Pigeon English with modern hip hop
(42:43) The Busta Rhymes blueprint: self promotion and building infrastructure
(44:28) What eLDee’s parents thought about his early career
(47:09) Afrobeats and Afrobeat: know the difference
(48:54) The trybesmen years, moving to the U.S., going solo
(52:32) From rap to IT: dual lives of fame and normality
(57:24) How eLDee’s American coworkers found out he was famous
(1:00:44) Culture shock: the outside perception of American racism
(1:04:16) A Nigerian American’s perspective: “this is by far the greatest country in the world”
(1:05:51) You can’t trust mainstream U.S. media
(1:07:22) Nuance: A call for realistic reporting is not a dismissal of the problem
(1:10:39) Soundbites, algorithms, AI as a search engine
(1:13:04) Advocating for responsible intent, not regulation
(1:16:16) Safety is about perception
(1:17:07) Civil War film: the propagation of ideas
(1:19:12) Nigeria in the modern day: no limits on corruption
(1:21:38) When there are no consequences, there is no morality
(1:25:22) eLDee’s message to Nigeria
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Found in the Abandoned Medical School | Piotr @TripHunterPL on [No Man's Friend]
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This clip comes from episode two of "No Man's Friend," wherein Piotr Niemczewski recounts his exploration of an abandoned medical school in Poland, and what he found there.
Movies From the Wrong Side of Hollywood | Piotr @TripHunterPL on [No Man's Friend]
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This clip comes from episode two of "No Man's Friend," wherein Piotr Niemczewski and host Garrett Van Tiem discuss their time spent in B-Rate Hollywood working on the 12th sequel to a beloved franchise and a weed-themed spinoff you won't believe exists.
Polish Exchange Student Lives with Southern Christians | Piotr @TripHunterPL on [No Man's Friend]
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This clip comes from episode two of "No Man's Friend," wherein Piotr Niemczewski recounts his experience as a foreign exchange student (and lapsed Catholic) who ends up living with orthodox southern Christians.
Finding a Corpse | Piotr @TripHunterPL on [No Man's Friend]
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This clip comes from episode two of "No Man's Friend," wherein Piotr Niemczewski recounts an urban exploration story where he stumbled on a corpse, and the chilling effect it had after.
Urbex Horror, Stoner Cinema, and Culture Shock | Piotr @TripHunterPL | Ep. 2 [No Man's Friend]
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Today I spoke with vlogger and filmmaker Piotr Niemczewski. I met Piotr in college where we both studied filmmaking, and from then on became good friends. In this episode, we discuss Piotr's beginnings as an Urbex explorer, his move from mother Poland to the United States, his experiences living with southern Christians despite being a lapsed Catholic himself, our shared adventures in the world...
Starter Jobs Are Not Meant To Be Your Career | Warren Smith on [No Man's Friend]
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This clip comes from the first episode of "No Man's Friend," wherein Warren Smith and host Garrett Van Tiem discuss equal outcome, starter jobs, and aspirational goals.
The Perception of Value | Warren Smith on [No Man's Friend]
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This clip comes from the first episode of "No Man's Friend," wherein Warren Smith discusses the responses, positive and negative, to his viral clip and youtube channel. Contrapoints video on J. K. Rowling - I was not too familiar with this creator. Please use discernment when considering our discussion, and always see for yourself: ua-cam.com/video/EmT0i0xG6zg/v-deo.html
Betrayed by His Best Friend | Warren Smith on [No Man's Friend]
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Betrayed by His Best Friend | Warren Smith on [No Man's Friend]
The Space Between Objective and Subjective | Warren Smith on [No Man's Friend]
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The Space Between Objective and Subjective | Warren Smith on [No Man's Friend]
Going Viral, Getting Fired, & What’s Beneath the Surface | Warren Smith | Ep. 1 [No Man's Friend]
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Going Viral, Getting Fired, & What’s Beneath the Surface | Warren Smith | Ep. 1 [No Man's Friend]
Road Trip To VEGAS, Zion, and the Grand Canyon! (Ft. Triphunter, Wiktoria, Radu)
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Road Trip To VEGAS, Zion, and the Grand Canyon! (Ft. Triphunter, Wiktoria, Radu)
MEGA COMPILATION - Eastward 66 - EVERY Episode (2 hours)
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MEGA COMPILATION - Eastward 66 - EVERY Episode (2 hours)
Let Me Tell You About Joe Palooka
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Let Me Tell You About Joe Palooka
How did this get here? | The Ruins
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How did this get here? | The Ruins
The Mysterious Tower | Kokomo
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The Mysterious Tower | Kokomo
This Hill Defies Gravity (Tested) | Mooresville
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This Hill Defies Gravity (Tested) | Mooresville
I'm Garrett Now.
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I'm Garrett Now.
Eastward 66 | Finale | The Last Leg (Feat. Triphunter)
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Eastward 66 | Finale | The Last Leg (Feat. Triphunter)
Alien Hunters: Vasquez Rocks
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Eastward 66 | Ep. 10 | Broken Down In St. Louis (Feat. Triphunter)
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Eastward 66 | Ep. 9 | The Belly of the Whale (Feat. Triphunter)
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Eastward 66 | Ep.8 | Tunnels Under Tulsa (Feat. Triphunter)
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Eastward 66 | Ep.7 | Texas (Feat. Triphunter)
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Eastward 66 | Ep.6 | Where People Don't Go Anymore (Feat. Triphunter)
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Eastward 66 | Ep. 5 | Breaking the Law In Three States (Feat. Triphunter)
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Eastward 66 | Ep.4 | A Monumental Stop (Feat. Triphunter)
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I Was Asked To Make Triphunter An XMAS Card - This Is What Happened
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I Was Asked To Make Triphunter An XMAS Card - This Is What Happened
Eastward 66 | Ep.3 | Ghost Motel (Feat. Triphunter)
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @AJ_411
    @AJ_411 3 дні тому

    That's crazy they left people's personal records... :/

  • @AJ_411
    @AJ_411 5 днів тому

    ...they sing...lol. ♫⋆。♪ ₊˚♬ ゚ And know that your particular church experience would be a culture shock for most Americans, too. ;)

  • @usdrealmano9897
    @usdrealmano9897 5 днів тому

    That is true what Piotr said, in Poland, u can find church almost in every village, but people more and more often don't want to go there, usually they still believe in God but don't believe in church, guilty are just priests, most of them like to say only pessimistic sermons, they don't know how to speak with current teenagers

  • @AJ_411
    @AJ_411 6 днів тому

    Loved that she stuck her arm around the corner with her camera to "see", instead of looking direct to confirm it was a body. That's called "photo distancing". Phycologically it creates distance to protect us. And understandable why as kids you didn't tell anyone, but I do hope the police did eventually find and identify this person for their family. ♥

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 6 днів тому

      Thank you for your thoughts!! Really interesting to learn about "photo distancing," seems like an inverse of exposure therapy which uses images to first acclimate patients to their fears with that same degree of separation - and me too, I hope he is resting more peacefully now!

  • @AJ_411
    @AJ_411 6 днів тому

    So many points of interest - Urbex: don't you worry about old toxins? And why hasn't there been a movie/book that centers on this and the places discovered? Religion: the differences between Poland and US and how the schools there teach religion (but only one) while here, we've stripped religion out, even by removing the pledge of allegiance. Loved the hollywood industry behind the scenes insights. Great stuff, enjoyed this.

  • @gracekaminska28
    @gracekaminska28 6 днів тому

    Garett very interesting interrview whih Piotr. Congrat.

  • @kristynageorgiew4252
    @kristynageorgiew4252 7 днів тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Nnice vlog!!!!ogladalam Piotrka vlogi z L.A.

  • @kfstreich4787
    @kfstreich4787 9 днів тому

    This is completely out of touch with reality, actual kids aren't working in fast food any more and young adults with ambition have better jobs. Higher wages will drive more automation and hopefully allow the business to hire better employees for the jobs that exist. The biggest issue is a lot of places pay about the same to a lazy employee as a highly productive hard worker.

  • @sixy69
    @sixy69 9 днів тому

    You get some of the best food service in Italy. C''mon!

  • @Genocrush
    @Genocrush 9 днів тому

    wtf wold you have a job that you cant liv on?

  • @lefteriseleftheriades7381
    @lefteriseleftheriades7381 9 днів тому

    If they need employees they will hire them. They are not going to say oh the employee is too expensive. Cheap labour is exploitation and be sure that if they could do it with less people they would, they won't be hiring more if the employees are cheap. Now you can argue that the company will become unprofitable and close, but why keep a company afloat if you have to exploit your employees to sustain it? Owners make 10x to 100x what employees make

  • @arturraimundo7158
    @arturraimundo7158 9 днів тому

    Sooo, fast food service in Italy is worst than service in USA. Travel much?! Do you even have a passport?

  • @gregdennis3523
    @gregdennis3523 9 днів тому

    Minimum wage was introduced to combat low skilled black labor taking the jobs. When the companies had to pay more, they hired higher skilled white people. Minimum wage now does basically the same thing. The higher wages force companies to exclude unskilled individuals. That primarily targets younger individuals and lower income communities. My ultimate opinion is that we should get rid of minimum wage and let the market decide what a fair wage is.

  • @carltwelve2170
    @carltwelve2170 9 днів тому

    In Italy? Have them move to Italy.

  • @calvinsimpson1301
    @calvinsimpson1301 9 днів тому

    Literally none of this is true whatsoever. Yall don't understand economics. The prices go up regardless. Federal minimum wage has remained the same since 2009, yet prices have gone up 70% (theyve more than doubled in real estate and college). This is corporate propaganda to try and avoid pay raises for their minimum wage workers. CEOs giving themselves 40% raises and reporting record high profits and executive bonuses cause the prices to go up, not paying their cashiers an extra $2/hr. Raising your wages by 20% for all minimum wage workers would cut profits by maybe 1-2%. They can afford to pay them twice as much easily without raising prices- they just won't because that would cut into their bonuses and record profits.

  • @zealot912
    @zealot912 9 днів тому

    Fast food pay should be capped at 12 dollars an hour as these jobs are created for American children to learn responsibility not feed a family of immigrants because they came here with no marketable skills. Learn skill or get an education and make something of yourselves kids

  • @Dani-it5sy
    @Dani-it5sy 9 днів тому

    I was amazed when I read that in Norway, McDonalds won the employer of the year award 3 times in a row. It is perfectly fine to be a working class person. You shouldn't even be interested in people that are so shallow they believe otherwise. They really believe that everyone wants to be like them. I have no desire. I am a construction worker and operate all kinds of machines and I love working. Would be nice to get slightly more payed but I have one thing that career hunters will never get: Enough. O yes and a sh't load more confidence.

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      I like your take! And I have nothing against the working class, just a mindset that would want to be a part time fast food worker and be entitled to a house and two cars.

    • @Dani-it5sy
      @Dani-it5sy 9 днів тому

      @@aGVTfilm The rich should be smart and listen to the old Romans and give the people enough to keep them happy. Food and entertainment. We need a difference in wealth to keep the economy going so that's ok. We can't all buy. A lot of people need to have reason to produce to make it work. But make sure the poor have enough to keep them from complaining. Stop the greed.

  • @GodhandPhemto
    @GodhandPhemto 9 днів тому

    Mcdonalds admitted to price gouging while raking in BILLIONS in profit and this dude is tying to defend paying their workers slave wages..... what a shill.

  • @jasonkutlik2414
    @jasonkutlik2414 9 днів тому

    This is bullsh*t. In 1965 when money was backed by gold, the federal minimum wage was $1.15 per hour and gold $35 per ounce. So every 30.5 labor hours were equal to 1 ounce of gold. You could literally buy a gold coin every single week for under a full 40 hour work week. MINIMUM WAGE. Folks obviously also made far more than minimum wage then too but we'll keep it strictly minimum wage right now for this discussion... Today, the same ounce of gold that your grandparents afforded is as of this post $2336.90 and the federal minimum wage $7.25 per hour. That means it takes 322.2 labor hours for that EXACT same gold coin/bar. That's a helluva far cry in disparity as opposed to 30 labor hours. Even if they bumped the federal minimum wage to $20 an hour it still requires 116.8 labor hours for that exact same gold coin or bar. Your grandparents minimum wage was DRASTICALLY more money. In order for the math to math and the ratios to ratio the federal minimum wage would need to be $76.62 for 30.5 labor hours to equal what your grandparents actually made. The real problem is FIAT and the printer while being backed by literally nothing

  • @agraleauto5593
    @agraleauto5593 9 днів тому

    If someone’s working 40 hours a week they should be able to support themselves comfortably, if you disagree you’re a bad person. End of discussion. Minimum wage isn’t “for a kids starter job” it’s the minimum requirement to live on

    • @arsenypogosov7206
      @arsenypogosov7206 9 днів тому

      Guess I am bad then...

    • @jceddy1
      @jceddy1 9 днів тому

      Take a minute to think about what your proposing. So in San Jose CA, poverty line for a single person is about 120K. So you think a fastfood worker should make ~$60/hour? Are you insane? What if they have four kids? You will pay bottom tier jobs 180K plus? Will you eat fastfood when it's $50 for a single meal to support this? Do you even think before you speak?

    • @agraleauto5593
      @agraleauto5593 9 днів тому

      @@jceddy1 I think we should reform the pay/profit structure of economics. It has never and will never trickle down and we’re constantly seeing shareholder and CEO’s get richer while the people who earn the profits struggle to survive. Companies treat employees as cogs in a machine to be used up and replaced instead of people to be respected and valued

  • @YTho-ev1ej
    @YTho-ev1ej 9 днів тому

    The good thing about liveable minimum (unlike America’s) is that people then spend that money back into the economy. Someone on minimum wage in Australia, which is much higher than America’s, will put that money back into the economy. Secondly, minimum wages should be based on age and job role. In Australia 15 year old MacDonalds workers get paid a third of that which an adult takes home. Thirdly, Italy’s employment laws are a good thing. You should not be able to take away someone’s means of providing for the family at no fault of the employee. In Australia you can terminate someone’s employment but you would face a lawsuit, as it should be

  • @KendallLitwin
    @KendallLitwin 9 днів тому

    Mega corps raking in billions in record profits every year pants this clowns claim.

  • @danielmorley2534
    @danielmorley2534 9 днів тому

    It’s not that mcdonalds can’t, it’s simply that they won’t, honestly the argument that it’s apparently completely unreasonable for a multinational corporation to make, dear god, LESS billions of dollars a year? It’s moronic

  • @mymindsecrets
    @mymindsecrets 9 днів тому

    When the heck did you went to a McD in all Europe and got a bad treatment ? You have no clue what you are talking about. Do your research and stop throwing shit around you don’t even understand. Pd: in Europe there are law’s protecting the worker, but not treating well the customers is a legal reason to be terminated or demoted 🎉

  • @jamessteele7556
    @jamessteele7556 9 днів тому

    Talking shit about Italians and how the serve you and the food….lol

  • @Baked42L0ng
    @Baked42L0ng 9 днів тому

    Ah this is some interesting logic …… if mc donalds cant get kids to work for cheap they wont hire them at all….. congrats but like u still need employees 😂….. min wages are just nationalized unionized jobs and businesses dont like when they get a raise…..its honestly not that hard to adjust for though….. and if it is hard for the business to survive then it was barely making it by as it was n they needa rethink their plans

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      They are trying to replace their employees with ai and robots currently...

    • @Baked42L0ng
      @Baked42L0ng 9 днів тому

      @@aGVTfilm i mean yeah i dont see a reason why not, but that’s happening regardless…. Industrialization of everything will happen sooner or later and automation closely follows

  • @Jeremy-wh4di
    @Jeremy-wh4di 9 днів тому

    I mean minimum wage in America is borderline criminal. Not even close to the rest of the world. Do what they do in Australia, where the minimum wage actually changes depending on age. It's not much but a 15 year old will earn less then let's say a 30 year old even if they are doing the same job

    • @aiwaiwou3556
      @aiwaiwou3556 9 днів тому

      Why is that fair? If they are as productive as older employees, they should get paid the same. Or do you think that older people have less time left, so it's more valuable?

  • @hahahano2796
    @hahahano2796 9 днів тому

    Yet wages have not been keeping up with costs since ~1971. Also, economists argue less about absolute cost/wage/etc. and more money flow yet money is not flowing. It used to be minimum wage meant you could buy a home, at least one car, and support a family of 4. 'minimum wage' arguments are arguing about symptoms. Not the disease.

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      I think you are on the money with that last point... thanks for commenting :)

  • @user-cy5xt2me3s
    @user-cy5xt2me3s 9 днів тому

    In Germany they go to school for 2 years to work at McDonalds.😐

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      Wait what does that mean? Please explain McSchool...

  • @nairobie755
    @nairobie755 9 днів тому

    Imagien gaging this hard on corperate dong.

  • @user-ob7kn1fg8m
    @user-ob7kn1fg8m 9 днів тому

    You’re dumb dude. Dumb guys trying to act like academics on UA-cam is one of my favorite things to watch, love it

  • @PubRunner
    @PubRunner 9 днів тому

    Why aren’t a higher minimum wage an issue here in Australia? It’s this attitude is why I don’t buy Made in America if I can possibly avoid it.

    • @jimmy_james0007
      @jimmy_james0007 9 днів тому

      They are, let us not pretend otherwise. But thankfully, Australians had the sense to say that if your business can't sustain a livable wage for your workers, then you simply shouldn't be in business. It's insane to me that billion dollar companies have workers on such a low wage that they require handouts from the government just to put food on the table.

    • @calvinsimpson1301
      @calvinsimpson1301 9 днів тому

      Honestly it shouldn't be an issue here either. This is corporate propaganda. You do not drive up the cost of production by paying your lowest ranking employees an extra $2/hr. Those executives just want to maintain those record profits and 20% annual raises. We know beyond all doubt prices raise regardless of wages. It's why prices have gone up 70% since 2009- the last time the Federal minimum wage was raised. The statistics on the economic impact when minimum wage goes up completely refutes the claim its bad for anyone but those executives and massive companies record profits.

    • @aiwaiwou3556
      @aiwaiwou3556 9 днів тому

      Agree, don't support modern slavery

    • @joecuddington3205
      @joecuddington3205 9 днів тому

      Well don’t buy stuff made in Mexico, Philippines, India, or just about any country really because how many countries have businesses that pay their people pennies per hour and have child labor? It’s not just the US that’s guilty of being full of greedy people, every country has them.

    • @PubRunner
      @PubRunner 9 днів тому

      McDonalds California policy is affecting my buying decisions here. I haven’t been to Maccas since this story broke.

  • @thirteenthangel6482
    @thirteenthangel6482 9 днів тому

    That is complete and total bull shit, if some one is trying to provide for their family why risk it

  • @kmkcowboy1
    @kmkcowboy1 9 днів тому

    Italy is also completely homogeneous, with a population less then half of the us,a military budget less then 1/17th of the us, they don't need to focus on things like supporting Ukraine with billions of dollars, sending aid to Nigeria, their military is basically all foreign lended so much like most of the european countries the United States pays them to survive and protects them from aggressions, so they can afford social safety nets

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      I personally don't know much about Italy, thanks for the extra info!

    • @GodhandPhemto
      @GodhandPhemto 9 днів тому

      Italy isnt doing so well, wtf you talking about?

  • @shiir440
    @shiir440 9 днів тому

    That is complete bullshit! Most countries in Europe have minimum wages and the whole thing about incentives is even more crap... You are full of sh*t guys...

  • @Squishy9387
    @Squishy9387 9 днів тому

    With inflation I was making just as much as a waiter in a pub as my after school job than I do now in 2004 my 13.50 is equal to 22.39 which is close to Australia minimum wage now 24 something for full time and in 2004 I was 16 turning 17 I worked like the adults I got paid as an adult in the owners view I should not have had to deal with drunks for under 8 an hour for my age i also would make tips some nights best one was a table of 10 plus Texan's was a pineapple aka 50 bucks so double wages and another table that night also tipped 20 i probably would have not lasted as long if I was paid less and not able to take tips as some patrons were a little depraved with their jokes but nothing to in appropriate for a pub so regardless of age after probationary period if a junior aka teenage worker works as hard as a senior aka adult they need to be paid the same or you should only expect what you pay for in America pay a kid 3 and hour I can't expect much out of them compared to an adult on 10 plus I would expect to 3x less out of a kid to myself

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      I have always wondered why waiters specifically can be paid so little. The reason I hear is that tips make up the difference, but the potential generosity of your customers is a weird excuse to pay less as the employer... you seem like you had a decent wage! I knew people who waited for 3 bucks an hour... insane. Also, we were talking full time versus part time, not pay based on age. It just happens that young people take up mostly part time jobs.

    • @Squishy9387
      @Squishy9387 6 днів тому

      @@aGVTfilm it generally is the young in most industries that get taken advantage of especially the hospitality and retail industries I was working for Woolworths as a trolley boy floor sweet and I had to also keep all milk topped up and sugars on the shelves I was getting paid around $7.50 so when I got offered the job at the pub and I found out what I got paid on first payday I quit the 3 hour a week job for one that had me on Wednesday Friday dinner Saturday Sunday lunch and dinner and good Bob always said you get paid what you are worth

    • @Squishy9387
      @Squishy9387 6 днів тому

      @@aGVTfilm I have also wondered myself how the Americans who work hospitality can live especially in these economic times even if the American minimum award wage was $20 Australian dollars equivalent everyone would be better off and it wouldn't affect prices by much and the minimum of it has to USD could have been an annual increase over the next 5 years not over night our frontline workers are getting a 20% increase over the next 3 years

  • @Acclaim93
    @Acclaim93 9 днів тому

    Saying Corporate greed is just another way of saying you have envy.

  • @tobiaswhaley7030
    @tobiaswhaley7030 9 днів тому

    The employment law doesn't make it hard to sack incompetent staff, it makes it hard to sack people for no reason.

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      How open is that law to exploitation? And what determines a firable reason?

    • @tobiaswhaley7030
      @tobiaswhaley7030 9 днів тому

      @aGVTfilm basically a system of warnings, some that can be bypassed as gross misconduct. You just can't sack someone for having a crappy attitude one day and you don't like them. The rules aren't massively different in most European nations, you can be sacked but need to have been either through a series of warnings or committed a serious infraction.

  • @daleralp9845
    @daleralp9845 9 днів тому

    Well if fast food is for kids working part time. Then have the places only be open from 4pm to 11pm so that these schools kids can go to school then work after. Who’s to run the place in the mornings, during the day and night shift? It’s adults! These places are needed at all hours to feed all the other adult workers in that area. Yet the adults that have to work there cuz kids are in school!! Min wage was established that anyone can work any job 40 hours a week and can own a home and provide for a family. It’s the government’s fault that they didn’t increase the wage which should be close to 25$ an hour right now if it grew with cost of living. The government is controlled by the deal state and big business and they are the ones controlling it. Yet fast food has gone up 30~50% and wages haven’t gone up. It all goes back into their pockets.

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      I appreciate your thoughts! I don't think fast food is just for kids! I think it's mostly for part-timers. Full-timers should have a means by which to move upward (and hopefully onward).

  • @samgoodwin89
    @samgoodwin89 9 днів тому

    Doubling the wage does not double the costs and would barely affect the cost of the food. Maybe a burger goes up 50c, sell 30 in an hour (easy) to cover one employee’s $15/hr wage.

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      I appreciate your thoughts, though I'm not sure about that take... the greatest expense for most companies is their employees. Doubling the wage may not directly increase costs. It would however double their greatest expense, which would have insane ramifications - which might include a desperate price hike, the use of ai over people, and a reduced skeleton staff which makes the entire situation worse.

    • @samgoodwin89
      @samgoodwin89 9 днів тому

      @@aGVTfilm they don’t necessarily have to reduce staff to make up that cost. They can also increase the cost of food. A large number of the customers are low wage workers and increasing their income will also increase their consumption, which is good for the economy. The incentive to reduce staff costs is always going to be there and will inevitably happen thanks to advances in technology. Refusing to increase wages from where the price was decades ago even after all of this inflation is a direct attack on the average worker. It’s done out of fear and greed, and is futile. It will only result in less income for the lower/middle class and reduce consumption in the economy which will also kill businesses.

  • @mountainbikerdave
    @mountainbikerdave 9 днів тому

    that's complete nonsense. The U.S. has a skilled labor shortage. someone inexperienced & young will always have a job. because the opposite is somebody old, fat, handicapped, stupid, slow, or just a druggy that'll steal shit.

  • @theformalmooshroom9147
    @theformalmooshroom9147 9 днів тому

    To be honest I would much rather eat in a restaurant in Europe vs America. Chances are the foods just going to be better, from it's origins to how it's cooked. They don't have to be waiting on me hand and foot but I also ain't forced into giving them 20% of the bill.

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      You are correct sir, a lot of international food is way better and healthier than American standards. I think Warren was making a point more about what happens to service standards when you make it impossible to fire people.

    • @Myaccisbanned
      @Myaccisbanned 9 днів тому

      Gee, in Australia McDonald's is fucking awful, I'm not sure if it can get any worse.

  • @johnrobertson771
    @johnrobertson771 9 днів тому

    Wanting to work at McDonald's as a long term plan what a joke

    • @GodhandPhemto
      @GodhandPhemto 9 днів тому

      even as a short term how the fuck are people supposed to pay bills and rent when costs far exceed income? If the job doesnt pay enough in a month to pay for all the bills in that same month WTF is the damn point?! Why you sucking off corporate abuse?

  • @ArchAngelAzmuel
    @ArchAngelAzmuel 9 днів тому

    Tell me when at noon during a school day you have seen a kid be working at McDonald's. If you work full time you should be paid enough to have an apartment and save for the future, it worked that way 60 years ago and we have more today

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      I don't think it's a stretch nor a debate to say teenagers have historically worked low paying part time jobs, and most fast food works in shifts with part timers. I agree full timers should have a means up, but my point was more that there are people who actively advocate for basically any job being the means by which you live a comfortable life. Fast food is a great example. The purpose is to produce unhealthy, speedy, cheap food (not lately for the third...). Trying to force that founding principle to serve other means is a bit goofy, especially when it's not Macdonalds fault that the economy has plunged. You're trying to help people who are affected by other factors by forcing a free market company to defy their purpose.

    • @ArchAngelAzmuel
      @ArchAngelAzmuel 9 днів тому

      @@aGVTfilm any job working full time should allow a person to live a comfortable life, and should not Pay less hourly for part timers. It is amazing to me that you think McDonald's does not have a hand in this economy when their ceo got a pay raise last year of 8% from 20M, and they force franchises to lease the land that McDonald's buys and pay franchising fees on top of it to the point a franchise owner take home is around 150k when his McDonald's has a revenue of 1 to 2 mill. For comparison most restaurants operating costs come to maybe 40% of the revenue, where do you think that other 40-50 goes to? By using this argument you are defending greedy corporations and executives and shareholders (most of whom are rich already) and attacking people for wanting to not have to buy into this company store nonsense that a job should not pay well as it isn't a real job.

  • @michel5856
    @michel5856 9 днів тому

    Yet you don't think that the ceos billion + salary is OK

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      Are you... asking me? If so, it depends.. How much does the company make versus what they spend and how big is it? I would not seek to artificially cap the levels of success man can reach, to me that seems like a self-defeating mindset. I am against corruption and excessive greed, but that's hard to quantify for the sake of a law - and if there was a legal cap, who sets it, and why is that ok?

  • @RandomParrot
    @RandomParrot 9 днів тому

    The question is, in Italy, what is the pay of Italy CEO, is there the huge pay gap. Like if the price goes up so does the ceo pay.

  • @markosluga5797
    @markosluga5797 9 днів тому

    That's complete and utter bullshit. Service in fast food in North America is just as shit as it is in Europe and it has nothing to do with the wage. It has everything to do with these businesses are just shit places to work at.

    • @aGVTfilm
      @aGVTfilm 9 днів тому

      From personal experience, and that of my guest, I would say societies that make it near impossible to fire employees would by logic tend to see a reduction in shits given by the employees. I agree though that fast food is a miserable job, hence my point about it being a starter job. Thanks for your thoughts man!

    • @markosluga5797
      @markosluga5797 9 днів тому

      @@aGVTfilm logic would say that, bit from personal experience living for many years on both sides, th reduction of being fired, in fact doesn't increase the shits given, rather it increases job satisfaction because you know you will have a job even when your boss and his boss and his bosses Bos has a bad day and wants to fire everyone on a whim. From running a business on also on both sides I will tell you that there are perfectly legal ways to easily get rid of employees in Europe

  • @speed284504
    @speed284504 9 днів тому

    Here's the problem: it's not just one problem. The "livable wage" argument is a mulit-layer compounding problem. People staying in their respective positions, lack of expansion, people working longer hours, people not retiring, the economy, educational norms and practices, culture, laws, and the constant drive for literally everyone to make a quick buck while kicking the bigger problems down the road for someone else to deal with while we all get screwed out of pensions social-security and 401ks long term. If you can figure all that out, we'll have stable employment and livable wages like we did in the 50s and 60s.

  • @kulturalnoize7813
    @kulturalnoize7813 9 днів тому

    Because the franchise passes the worker responsability to the store owner. It allows owners to pay the minimal legally possible and more money means more happy owners with I would dare say a seemingly unfair split for a shiny branded image. Its capitalism, is it fair investors and such take so much money their very own workers cannot financially healthy lives that can afford afford rent, which should be 1st weeks paycheck then the other 3 weeks savings, recreation, food, etc. Is it fair? Capitañist workers should learn they are repressed and demand not from the gov cause it is the social benefits hurting capitalism, workers in [SOLIDARITY] need to demand a better salary from their employers.

  • @Blighted_Ashes
    @Blighted_Ashes 9 днів тому

    The priblem is that jobs are a finite resource. Meaning they can and do have artificial scarcity.