Eat the Rich! Stories About the Wealthy, Explained
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- We’ve long been fascinated by stories about wealth and the wealthy, but lately it seems like that fascination has curdled into revulsion-even anger. From the recent crop of movies like Parasite, Knives Out, Hustlers, and Joker, to shows like Succession and Billions, class warfare is suddenly everywhere, feeding off a growing dissatisfaction with a world that revolves around the rich. Here’s our Take on the long and often fraught relationship we’ve had with wealth onscreen and why lately, it seems like the revolution has begun. If you like this video, subscribe to our channel or support us on Patreon: / thetake
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Clueless (1995)
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The Laundromat (2019)
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
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"Money does not make you happy, but it is very relaxing." Erich Maria Remarque
Preach, I'm living for all of these insightful quotes! 👏🏾💯♥️
@@trinaq Thank You.
No it definitely makes me happier
@@yoursisterisgoingtojail5672 If it makes you happy, I don't mind.
It just a tool which provides you choices, simple as that
I imagine The Take is that one girl in class who is always giving a controversial presentation and I’m like yes queen you better get it.
Nothing better than a controversial opinion, in my opinion. (I'm not saying all controversial opinions are good.) But that what you said of the take accurate.
This channel is literally the opposite. It exlores the most common theories and thoughts in America.
The Stammering Dunce That is because we have been socially conditioned to believe that the system we have right now is ‘just the way it is’. It should be obvious that people shouldn’t get to have literally more money than they could possibly spend while people starve but you only have to go to Twitter to see how people defend these billionaires despite the fact that they do not benefit from the system. It should be obvious, but it isn’t. So pointing it out is controversial.
I'm the asshole freak that refutes all their point whit facts and lógic but no one cares about me
vanferuli3 Oh god pls be ironic
I think "Parasite" is the best movie addressing wealth inequality because of the way it depicts the Park family. they aren't caricatures of evil, heartless millionaires. they aren't mean, they aren't malicious. they are APATHETIC, which is the true crime of the wealthy. they don't care about the lives or the rights of families like the Kim's. I love Parasite because it doesn't let "nice" rich people off the hook.
yes, that's so important. They're ignorant and apathetic and don't even think about poor people. But their interactions with the Park family are nice because the Park family offers them services and helps them. But they don't really care about anyone else.
Very well put . The hubris and hypocrisy is almost laughable.
And the dynamic between the Kims and the older housekeeper's husband and her adds another layer to this complex yet common occurrence
Well, "Parasite" also depicts the Kims as people who are apathetic about the family of a previous housekeeper. When she begs them to help and says they're very similar, the Kims refuse and act as apathetic and entitled as the Parks act towards the Kims. "Parasite" is a genius movie that shows how everybody is apathetic to everybody else. It's very tempting to believe somebody is to blame for our misfortunes: the rich, the government, the previous generation, etc., but the reality is - we all make our society to be as it is, we are all responsible - and the movie shows it perfectly. Maybe Jeff Bezos doesn't give away his billions to those who are less fortunate, but most of us don't share our home with the homeless or give away our savings to those who are poorer than us either. 🤷♀️ There's no villain - because we all are.
@@EllenDaybow interesting take, but i think the Kim's "apathy" towards the housekeeper and her husband stems more from a place of the Kims wanting to be "in" with the Parks. i read that relationship as a demonstration of the way that oppressed groups often turn on one another in the hopes that they will be better accepted by their oppressors. and i have to disagree, i definitely think there is a villain. i don't think you can compare the average family to Jeff Bezos. yes, everyone could probably afford to be more selfless, but the excessively wealthy have usually gained their wealth by outsourcing their labor, degrading/polluting the environment, and mistreating their workers. i get what you're trying to say, but i will have to agree to disagree
@@EllenDaybow thank you for that comment.
The Take is getting far more and more aggressive the more time is going...
I like it
It's v hard in late stage Capitalism when the absolute failure of a system on its dying legs is now *impossible* to ignore (especially during a pandemic when the oligarchs have literally told us to sacrifice ourselves to the altar of the Mighty "Economy") to continue pretending to "straddle the line" when criticizing depictions of it.
Like... when we've resorted to sacrificing the damn CHILDREN just so that our wage slaves can go back to work, you have to pick a side. Not picking a side just means siding with the oppressors.
@@thakatspajamaz Exactly 👏👏
I love it! They've really risen to the moment with their relevant social critiques and analysis!
PROGRASSIVE!! :D!!
(though they have always been that, but stil)
No The Take has just gone Blue Check Mark Twitter Woke. They pretty much exclusively talk about feminism and problematic male behaviors .
Honestly, many people despise the rich, but can't help dreaming that they will someday become rich. It's strange because while we know that money corrupts, we still wish to have a piece of the pie. But I suppose that's just normal human longing.
That's why overthrowing the "rich dictators" always results in the rise of new "rich dictators". Always has, probably always will.
@@ninavinterova9875 Umm no? Every country has had rich dictators...that's how all countries start. Wtf are you talking about?
Not everyone. A lot of people want love, family, meaning, or to simply quit struggling just to survive.
@@dnlgrc28 Exactly. And while money doesn't buy happiness, it does provide comfort and convenience. Not having to worry about those things are worth it to some people.
@@HumanTypewriter You didn't get it. People always want to overthrow those rich dictators, but when they do, new ones emerge.
The table is large enough to accommodate everyone, there's enough food for everyone to eat. But somehow, there are people starving and others overconsuming.
Thats not true, for one to be at the top, there has to be a bottom, just cause your not rich dowsnt mean your life isnt rich to others
@@darkskingirljojo5179 Yes there's enough resource for everyone, but not if everyone wants to live like first world and or godforbid the 1%. If we are all modest there won't be so much unseen suffering.
@@darkskingirljojo5179 why do people assume that those who say things like 'eat the rich' want to be in the 1%? No, we don't want there to be a top, nor a bottom. We want the rich gone so that we can all live instead of a percentage of us suffering, and then the other percentage living in luxury. We should all have the right to water, clothes, food and shelter. It shouldn't need to be earned but alas, it is, because some people are taking way more than there fair share
Late to the party butt.. There is a movie basically explaining what u just said!!
It's called platform
Also, seeing J-Lo speak these damning lines about the rich while she herself is a multi-millionnaire opportunist know to have made her name on the backs of other singers by verbatim stealing their vocals for her tracks (Amerie, Ashanti) is truly perverse. Especially since she used the movie as a vehicle for an oscar campaign, which itself is mired in problematic power dynamics.
Literally scrolled down just to see if anyone would comment on this, or just the fact that the actors in these movies are, in fact, upholding (and a part of) the class their characters speak out against. It's interesting.
J Lo suuuuucks!!
I find these contradictions fascinating as well. Capitalism takes hold of everything, including leftist ideas (or some watered down version of them), because hey, leftists watch movies too.
I thought that was a little hypocritical
exactly! and in my opinion constance wu gave the superior performance compared to jlo
Schitt’s Creek has a very interesting and brilliant take on the “Eat The Rich!” trope with the Rose family.
While the story takes place after the family’s downfall, it goes out of its way to show how people who define themselves by their wealth need rehabilitation. The Roses aren’t necessarily bad people at the start, but they had to unlearn their selfish, arrogant, and cold ways in order to actually be happy, loving people.
Yes, I absolutely concur with your point! 👌 It highlights how the Roses learn to be more loving and happier after losing their wealth, and proves that success and riches don't necessarily lead to long lasting happiness. 🥰💸💕
I like how the people of Schitt's Creek were not the butt of the joke either. The Rose's were considered the weirdos
Oh it sounds like Arrested Development with actual character arcs. I am intrigued
Yes, a very awesome show.
Such a good point!
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
--Edward Abbey
How about growth for the sake of comfort?
@@haileygiabiconi8830 When is enough enough?
@@teenkitsune good question
I think when our growth begins to build on/is only maintained (by ignoring) others suffering..?
@@haileygiabiconi8830 I think humans are animals and need to feel uncomfortable. Heat, cold, hunger (not starvation). Some folks have more "comfort " than they can use. And those who have very little to no comfort.
Also, since we started with Abby, I'm pretty sure he thinks human need more uncomfort.
Look at our ecological issues, many are caused by convince. And some by comfort.
@s1 We need to just let growth happen on its own, what we have is forced growth and the opposite isn't no growth but rather just not worrying about it when we don't need it, It's not black and white or zero sum.
"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they shall eat the rich." This is feeling more and more like a reality lately...
Why didn’t it happen in the movie “The Platform”?
Thats the goverments job.
Trick them into signing a legal contract and cannibalism is legal.
how...everyone lives in excess, even the poorest.
As they should, parasites hoarding money at the top
The glutton part is probably true in real life. The food rich people eat tastes very good/they actually have time to slowly eat it.
At the same time, they have access to healthy foods (fresh produce etc) that many of the poor do not, as well as things like personal trainers. Thus they can point at the poor and claim that WE'RE the gluttons, not them. It's so messed up.
PhiendishPhlox you’ve put it so well. The typical image of ‘gluttony’ as a sin is more reflective of poor people who eat what they can afford - processed, fatty foods - while the real gluttons appear healthy and dainty.
The food is true because the expensive foods are more often GMO free , organic and moor healthy overall to eat.
Move out of the city and plant a garden.
Matthew Kornder not everyone is privileged enough to be able to do that.
"Money doesn't change people, it just helps them be who they really are."
-Grandpa Simpson
doubt a 'real you' exist, it is more complicated then that. sounds so existencialist
Eternal life in heaven is a free gift from God. No human being deserves it due to his/her good works. We have all sinned and fall short in glory of God(eg.Jesus says if any man looks at woman with lust he has committed adulterly with her in his heart..No man is that pure😅). So how did God give us this free gift🤔? He sent his only begotten son to be betrayed,humiliated ,beaten and die as fine/payment for our sins and rose from the dead on the third day. Since he is a just God and has to punish sin. All you have to do is humbly repent of all your sins(read the 10 commandments) honestly turn away from them. Believe in/trust that Jesus did that for you. Confess with your mouth that he is your lord and saviour..You will be saved from hell🔥. The holyspirit(his omnipresent spirit) will in dwell within you and convert your cold heart of stone into that of flesh that can truly love God and be a slave of righteousness and not of sin. This might be the last time you read the true gospel of salvation..look around 🔥🔥 the end is nigh. Please don't reject God's gift. Your soul is on the line.Jesus loves you❤
@Punk Shark its not about going to church. He is real . He came to the world after we sinned away from The father. To reunite our relationship with God(our sins keeps us away from him since He is a holly God). "For God loved the world that he sent his begotten son who ever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life". Jesus was sinless in his life on earth when he died and rose on the third he paid the price for the sins of the world. If you repent and believe that he did that for you. And confess he is your lord and saviour. he impudes his righteousness to you. So when God sees you he doesn't see ur sins cause they are covered by the blood of christ. This is a gift from God . Jesus is called son of man and Son of God. He is man and God. So that you can relate with God. U become a church when the holy spirit (His omnipresent spirit)is in dwelled within you that will convert your heart of stone to that of flesh that would make you a slave of righteousness and fully love God and neighbor and grant you eternal life in heaven. Their is no other religion that has that and after all Jesus didn't come to start a religion but a relationship. Men made religions...Jesus loves you❤️. And he is coming sooooon. The end is nigh🔥🔥
I agree! I hate when people say… “money makes you evil.”
Wrong. Being evil makes you evil. Money is an inanimate object. Just a tool to manifest an individuals core values.
It is not that the rich are smarter. The rich are rich because they lack scruples and a moral compass.
The ironic thing about this is that the majority of the people involved in making these films about eating the rich (actors, directors etc) are actually very very rich themselves. I’m looking at you J-Lo
Hollywood is so out of touch as usual. We taking these celebrities out as well.
Rogue[All Cops Are Bad] X mood
@@lizziegoodall7044 Except Alex Murphy.
True, but let's remember that they exchanged their labour for money (getting paid for acting or directing etc). They're not capitalists who hire people to work for them and then take a part of the value created by the employees' labour even though they never worked for it themselves. These people are very rich, sure, but they did work for their money. We don't need to eat them, we need to eat the capitalists.
Visa Kujala I mean yeah I get what you mean by this I don’t hate actors in the same way that I hate Jeff Bezos but you can also say that celebrities hoard millions and billions live in gigantic mansions and give the bare minimum to charities which to normal folk seems like a lot of money but for them is the equivalent of £10. I think being any sort of billionaire and hoarding your money is inherently wrong due to all the things they could use the money for and actively choose not to
I agree with the messages these movies make, but my problem is kind of with the source. Because all of these people behind the movies are incredibly wealthy themselves. They’re showing a movie about how horrible and monopolizing the 1% have become while taking consumers money and making themselves into the 1%. Idk it just really bothers me. But again, wholeheartedly agree that class disparity has grown far too much in America. I understand that these kind of stories highlight this fact and that’s incredibly important to point out inequality in America that some people may be blind to, but it just feels very hypocritical that wealthy people are lecturing lower class people on the inequality they enforce. Idk though that’s just my two cents.
Again, that's a product of the system. A regular person could make a film like Parasite but how many people would it reach? When an acclaimed filmmaker makes it, hundreds of thousands of people can see it. That being said, I would rather these stories exist than continue to be be buried under the rug just because a writer or director is not poor.
Keep in mind too that most of the people who work to make films (the camera operators, stunt performers, lighting operators, non "name" actors, make up artists, production designers, etc) are not wealthy. Even the average actor often has a second job because they don't make enough money to live just off of that. We just assume actors are rich because the most famous ones we know are.
My thoughts as well.
K W I definitely agree that if established people in the industry didn’t share these stories then it absolutely wouldn’t reach as large of an audience as it is now. The only thing I’m saying is that it’s a bit hypocritical of those people in my opinion to critique a system that they actively benefit from. Also it’s absolutely true that you can’t assume whether actors in those films are wealthy or not, but the big ones from 2019 are mostly made up of famous wealthy actors that are well established in Hollywood (Ex. Knives Out: Chris Evans $80 million net worth, Jamie Lee Curtis $60 million net worth) even Parasite’s director and story writer which has the best criticism of the 1% has a net worth of about $30 million himself. So while I totally agree that these stories are necessary to show a wide audience the growing disparities in economic classes, I’m just saying that I think the main people behind the larger films are pretty hypocritical
@@KW-vy1rf yep thanks for pointing that out. Plenty of scripts are written on an empty stomach, and filmmaking us back-breaking work. It's really only the executive producers and studio heads and possibly some actors who are from an elite background; most other parts of the crew are middle or working class. It's a gig economy, you can make $60,000 in 6 months and then not find work again for 12 months. It's an industry extremely dependent on the economy and consumer confidence.
But yeah I get the original point. These stories are fantasies after all. Even documentaries can be expensive to make - often they take 5-8 years to finish because funds keep running out.
@@aidanfuentes2417 True. As someone starting out in the entertainment industry in a major studio, but still only making part time minimum wage, the people green-lighting, producing, and marketing these films are hypocritical. I had to sit through a lunch hang out at the office where a high-level executive was making jokes at the expense of low income people, blatantly demeaning someone that could come from a socio-economic background like mine. It was like she's never met a poor person in her life. I had to shut up and play nice to avoid tension in the office and keep my job.
On the other hand, it's a necessary evil since films cost a lot of money to make and distribute. You need resources to make something that will impress and capture audiences, and that's the only way the message can come across.
Ironic that J lo is saying that when she stole so many artist's songs and claimed that she has sung them even though she clearly didn't
And she's pretty rich herself...huh
we dont know her
Celebrities complaining about money when they're so disconnected from poor and middle-class Americans is hilarious as well as laughable.
Hollywood making movies about rich evil people is the epitome of hypocrisy
@ I would rather them being hypocrites than not acknowledging this issue at all. Plus you're assuming everyone in Hollywood is some rich greedy hypocrite.
She didn’t steal any of her songs. In the industry people record songs and other artists but it. The iconic Britney song toxic was made by some British lady named Cathy. Look it up. It’s called buying the rights. And there’s also sampling.
Once again, I request a look at the Hunger Games Trilogy. Because if a story with the basic premise of a bunch of wealthy elites making the children of the unwashed masses fight to the death for a chance at food and security isn't class warfare....well, I don't know what is.
(I mean, c'mon, you used a clip from Catching Fire to close out the video....you're *almost* there)
unfortunately I feel like the final part of the trilogy (speaking bookwise) hella muddied the waters and confused the message. though tbh I've only seen the first film adaptation so I don't know how many liberties they took with the later instalments there.
@@kaitlyn__L No, honey, I think you just didn´t get the message the ending was trying to convey. The thing is that both Snow and Coin are monsters. Coin portrayed a corrupt leader that was supposedly fighting for equality when all she wanted was power. And this happens a lot. Hunger games is not a story about eating the rich, it´s more of a story about revolution and corruption. Had Katniss not killed Coin she would have turned out to be exactly like Snow. And this happens in reality: Socialist leaders who are supposedly good can be even worse than capitalist leaders. And all of this corruption happens beacuse people don´t know how to think for themselves, because they follow bastard leaders like a bunch of sheep into an abyss.
@@danin2013 uhhh nope that's not what I'm referring to. I'm referring to Katniss living comfortably in her home town and considering becoming just like the other previous winners, complacently doing her winner duties and then living the rest of her life as a housewife with whatshisname, the boy. I'm fine with the "we'll have one last hunger games to punish the old regime" "no fuck you I'm shoot with my arrow" stuff. I don't like the way she acted at the very end of the book, after that was over. How she stopped being politically involved and just had that settled life. Now, again, I only read it once, you seem to have read it much more. I just felt like Katniss in the third book is not the same character as we saw in the first two, and that's how I felt the whole time I was reading it. It's one thing for someone's traumatic experiences to change them, but it's another for her to consider being a collaborator in exchange for the new build house in the winners district. I don't recognise her to be the same person who volunteered to save her sister, or who shot at the spectators in training. That's all.
Like, don't get me wrong, I don't like how District 13 (or whatever it was called) was portrayed, with their highly regimented life and autocratic leader. But I do believe you're projecting on me there. My point wasn't "it betrayed eat the rich", it was that the revolution she assisted in was obviously skeevy from the get-go and then she's surprised at the end with the "one final hunger games" (yeah right, there'd have been more)? She was so savvy in the first two, she understood the thought processes of those in charge. But she gets swept up in the obviously power hungry revolution, hoping that any overthrow of power would be better than the current situation. And I could've even supported THAT as a dramatic obstacle for her to overcome, for her to make the revolution actually righteous and not commit unnecessary atrocities, but after assassinating the lady in charge she just goes and retires and makes lots of babies?? No thanks.
(Again, I read it like 8 years ago, so I'm just going by my memories. You can say I misremembered scenes or whatever, but condescendingly telling me I took the wrong ultimate message when.. that's.. not my criticism at all, just makes you look foolish. "Actually most leaders of revolutions are just power hungry" isn't a huge revelation, and wasn't even back then to me, I just hated that she seemingly couldn't see it for most of the book? I remember finding the entire experience of reading the third book very frustrating because of that. You seem to think I found the "revelation" a surprise and didn't like it?)
@@kaitlyn__L and how was she supposed to act after the two most cruel, manipulative dictators and systems continue to oppress people through class warfares ? Her job was done once she offed Snow and Coin, a job she never, ever asked for. None of the winners or fighters of revolution did. Is it so hard to consider that from the traumatic losses she's experienced, and handling her mother's depression, the loss of the family she was trying to protect and the PTSD that came from being sent to kill children in the name of entertainment for the wealthy, that she'd want a quiet life in the end. I believe the author did an amazingly researched take on these issues and for what Katniss and Peeta experienced, I think us readers shouldn't be so fast to jump our projection of a revolutionary leader when in fact it was a story of a girl subjected to the most traumatic dystopian upbringing. Because that makes us readers no better than Coin or Snow
@@Amrithril sure, I mean, I have a fuckton of personal experience with PTSD. survivors aren't a monolith. but speaking as someone with these experiences, I haven't been able to settle down after escaping. I tried, and it didn't work. I now spend my time trying to help others in situations akin to how I grew up.
If the ending of the book had bothered to go into the stuff you said, maybe I'd have felt different. But we just had this epilogue where she settled down and had a bunch of kids. It's that last bit that really bothers me. She has all this trauma, all this knowledge of how kids are fucked up by their world, and she doesn't get physically sick at the idea of having kids of her own? That's extremely unusual for survivors of childhood abuse.
It's not presented, to my memory, as Katniss being burnt out from all the work and having to take some time to recover. It's presented as "well that's my work done, time to just have a comfortable life and not get involved with anybody else who might be suffering". I don't understand how she could live in those luxury houses in the winners district without constant flashbacks. I don't understand how she can have safe relationships with anyone else in her life. And the book just glosses over all that!
Perhaps it seems deep if you've never had to go through a traumatic upbringing. Perhaps it seems like she's finally got her reward for struggling. I don't know. But that's just not realistic, for me, someone who was already a survivor of 5 kinds of abuse when I read those books in one big go. I loved the way the second book analysed the ways the winners are still fucked up by the system. How it further fuelled Katniss's desire to fight.
But I just don't see how she could actually permanently settle down after that. And the book doesn't exactly leave it open-ended. She's never going to be able to get away from thoughts and flashbacks about the Games, or the revolution. I don't see how she would be wilfully ignorant of anything else happening in her country, just for the sake of being Peter(? as I said, I don't super remember people's names)'s housewife. That's why I don't recognise Katniss in the third book. The solution is presented as too complete and easy after all of her struggles, which is never how it is. She doesn't seem interested in who replaced the lady she assassinated. Or how they're continuing to run things. There's plenty of ways they could be corrupt.
So Katniss, who was willing to sacrifice herself to the Games for her sister, who was willing to stand up to everybody, who was getting non-ration food for people she cares about.... just decides her work is over? Nah.
Especially since she ended up in a relatively privileged position at the end of the third book, she should be utilising that privilege to continue to push for change, to continue helping other kids who might be growing up in situations like she did. Like, let's not kid ourselves here, substituting the leadership didn't immediately make the towns all super livable or anything. There's going to still be poverty and kids poaching like she herself did. At least for a while. And she's not involved in any of that?
I'm sorry, but it's just not possible to turn parts of your brain off like that. Not unless she was soaked with wine or something every day. But then that wouldn't exactly be a happy ending either.
And that's why it feels dishonest to me. You don't get a clean or happy ending after the kind of stuff she went through. But the author decided the third book had to end clean and pat like that. At worst, it's a little bittersweet. It's just not honest.
You say the author did a bunch of research into traumatized kids? I'd believe it, I really identified with the first two books' Katniss. But I did not recognise the third book Katniss at all. The entire tone of the third book felt off to me. Some of it was in service to the fucked up government of District.. 13?, I'm sure. So the readers feel uneasy just as Katniss did at first. But beyond that... I just disagree with the choices that were made in the third book. It feels as if she threw away her research into traumatised kids and focused more on the narrative. Because the third book is all about a shakeup of their society, with very little of that going on in the first two.
Now, I said survivors aren't a monolith. Maybe some survivors are able to switch it all off and just look after themselves after reaching some milestone. But certainly no one I've talked to who have had similar experiences to me. Some of them are in their 50s now. No one can escape it. Even when they think they have, some sound or smell will pop up and they're right back in the abuse again. People's behaviour is forever altered by their experiences. People still engage in appeasement behaviours even when living on their own. There's no way Katniss fully trusted the security of her new life. It's almost impossible from people to avoid thinking about their fucked up childhood, and all of the authority figures who ignored all the warning signs and red flags. Being haunted in that way is what pushes us to try and take action to help future generations - since we're stuck thinking about it anyway.
It COULD have been good. She could've gone into detail about the struggles Katniss still had, and always struggled with. Teaching her kids to hunt animals too, just in case, and so on and so on. But it all felt very perfunctory and like trying to tie stuff up into a bow.
It's cute but unrealistic to expect people who went through trauma like that to be able to just move on once that period in their life is over. And that's exactly the problem I have with the ending. I identified so strongly with Katniss' anxieties and thought patterns.... up until I suddenly couldn't recognise her. The needs of the narrative displaced all of the naturalistic reactions she'd had before.
*"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart"*
- Jonathan Swift
What's that mean? 'Money in the head or the heart?
IAmTheAce5 It means money is a means to an end, not an end in itself, and so many of these businessmen love possessing money more than the good they could do with it.
Like Al Pacino said as Willy Bank in “Ocean’s 13,” “Last time I looked, and I look every morning, it was my name listed on more real estate in this town than anyone else in history.” He loves the idea of being able to wake up and see how fat his holdings are. Watch what happens to everyone he fires or isn’t trying to kiss up to. He talks down to them, treats them like things, and tosses aside any notion of empathy.
I make the money, the money doesn’t make me ..... but.... cash rules everything around me
We live in a culture in which there is no such thing as "enough". Bigger is better (though it's often "badder").
Bigger is badder. The more you show your wealth, the less you use it, the further it drags you into the abyss, and the closer you are to having the cord that keeps you in the real world snap! Your reality is not the one you were born in. Your new reality is made out of your ego, nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. You don't know you're in Hell, because you are not yet dead.
@@gamehero6816 The undead?
@@ferociousgumby no. A living, breathing, human.
That's not our culture. That's the human spirit. Remember the tower of Babel? To be human is to want more.
The problem I have with just about all of the "anti-rich" stories I've seen (and I haven't seen all of them) - including my favorite which wasn't mentioned here, _Trading Places_ - is what "victory" looks like, what constitutes the "happy ending," is always some sort of inversion, "trading places," where the wealthy are cast low and our protagonists glory in their suffering and take their places at the top of the same old power structure.
There is some value in fostering a healthy disdain for the owning classes among the working classes, as the latter are trained to worship and submit to the former in just about every social interaction and cultural message. Likewise, it's good for the rich to have some fear mixed in with their contempt for the poor. They need to be reminded from time to time that "social safety nets" are not just a matter of basic human decency (which is not, apparently, a major motivating factor), but also ... guillotine insurance.
But this narrative also suffers from a failure of imagination, and a fundamental misrepresentation of what victory, for those of us who seek to replace capitalism with a fundamentally different organizing principle, really looks like. And that's a shame, because what we want is not death & destruction & revenge - but, simply put, freedom. The freedom to do what we do because it's one of the things that needs to be done that's the kind of thing we're into, rather than "working for a living".
It's been said that "James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does _for_ James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does _because_ James Cameron _is_ James Cameron." And that's super-cool. James Cameron gets to simply _be_ James Cameron because he's super-rich. I want that for _everybody._ And then James Cameron can keep doing James Cameron things, as long as enough of the thousands of people who have to do the things they do to make those James Cameron things possible are into doing those things as well.
James Cameron.
Might seem an out of place example but this is Hunger Games exactly. I remember reading the books and having a mental explosion that Katniss killed the person who overthrew Jon Snow and spearheaded the revolution. But Katniss said it herself - the districts would just become the Capitol, and forcing the Capitols children to go through what she did was equally evil. It was a shocking twist especially for the last book, but one of the many reasons why it was the most successful dystopian YA book and film franchise, and a strong message for my 12 yr old self. (I’m now 20).
@@sharon-bp9pk I've heard good things about _The Hunger Games_ (books and movies both), definitely on my list of things to read/watch
dwc1964 I suggest starting with the books. The major issue the movies have is the same issue any movie has when the protagonist might have a very rich inner life, be very internally emotional, but works to be outwardly stoic.
That’s the major problem with the movies, imo. JLaw plays Katniss as Katniss plays herself- extremely stoic and cold. But, the books give us what is happening in her mind, and there is a lot going on in there.
It’s also a very harrowing look into why it’s like to have severe PTSD. So if that’s something you might have an issue with, I suggest avoiding them. The books are pretty brutal when it comes to that.
Guillotine is still a good start nonetheless. And the planet could not survive 7 billions James Cameron. Freedom is to take our share of responsibility and therefore our share of unpleasant choirs and duties. We need to choose between water for everyone or champagne for the few as Thomas Sankara used to say before he was murdered. The rich and powerful have no problem with revenge and killing, remember that. They show no mercy at all and therefore deserve none.
i don't think Joker is a good example, it's more like a warning. The Joker is not some kind of working class hero, he's a broken man who lost it and now wants to destroy and burn everything, the people of Gotham mistakenly view him as some kind of revolutionary hero and well... you can see how that ended. Horrible monsters can take advantage of
the discontent of the masses and use it to their benefits, that's how dictators like Hitler or Pol Pot managed to take power, they presented themselves as heroes to the lower class.
The movie itself shows him as a man in poverty who can’t afford the psychiatric help he desperately needs. It’s part of the catalyst that leads to his mental demise, his social worker saying she can’t see him anymore. Gotham is also shown as a crime ridden hell hole, while Batman’s dad is just vibing and pretending he gives a shit about the conditions of the city...
Yes! Took the words out of my mouth!
I wrote a thesis on Joker for my psychopathology class and I think you're right. Joker is a weak individual who has been a victim to his system since his childhood, but it wasn't the rich who caused his downfall, it was all the people around him. Obviously he was also mentally ill, but that isn't as important now. He has been bullied, abused, ridiculed and lonely his whole life, not by the rich, but by everyone. Then he stopped taking his medicine, and in his destructive glory, he finally found a following and admiration, which he wanted his whole life. That encouraged him to continue.
@@ninavinterova9875 But why didn't he have any support systems? Why didn't the government have any system in place to help him? The whole point of the movie is that money doesn't just corrupt the rich, it corrupts everyone, even those that would be good. It's about how corruption and the media poisons society until only the mentally unstable are ''crazy'' enough to make a change.
You forgot to mention Donald Trump.
I find interesteting that these types of stories and films are being embraced by the Hollywood elite, films like Parasite, Joker, Us etc. getting recognition at award shows. Makes me wonder, if those films are antagonistic towards the upper class why are they embracing them and recognizing them? I think the answer is quite simple: these films present a commodification of class warfare, a way for the rich to "endorse" stories with a class strugle narrative, as if they support such a message, but in reality they're just endorsing a product that presents and sells this class warfare, or rather the thrill of it, which you can be part of for two hours and then you get to go back to your comfy bubble life. Not to sound like a marxist or anything, but I think that the reception of this class warfare stories reflect a more insidious aspect of capitalism and the elites, the commodification of those struggles, something similar to stamping the face of Che Guevara on a t shirt and selling millions of those across the globe.
@ULGROTHA that's not what I'm saying. I think its a positive thing that these films are being made, especially by high profile filmmakers who use their platform to shed some light on these type of struggles. The problem I see lies rather on the reception side of things, not from general audiences, but from the Hollywood elite that seemingly support these types of narratives but that support is just another facade to appears as if they care, and like I said so they can sell the "thrill" of class struggle without actually being part of it.
@ULGROTHA Oh yes, I agree with that, I'm just saying that there's another side to the reception of these films that makes the whole public discourse surrounding these types of stories somewhat questionable.
You hit the nail right on the head! This is applicable with every type of socioeconomic movement. Capitalism is so insidious because it ALWAYS finds a way to commodify these movements for our consumption and their profit. And the people delivering the message go back to their bubble lives as you said, continuing to benefit.
Spot on Camilo! Marx did write that about the need to ever conquer new markets in order to survive. Also the theory of false class conscience also plays a part in your interpretation of the 'commidifaction of Revolution'
@@johncharlton199 You should remember that for Marxist policies, the ones in control become the new rich. Animal farm some, the destruction of cash and value aka money is the only way to reach true equality. If people are unable to ask for other people to work for them unless producing work themselves, is the only way to prevent the existence of millionaires and billionaires. Thus everyone has to work and produce perishable goods and use all accumulated wealth in limited time is the only way.
Aka anarcho-capitalist without a state.
Please cover "The Girly Girl" Trope, and how they're usual stereotyped as airheads, and dismissed as less capable opposed to their tomboyish counterparts. Elle Woods is a superb deconstruction of this! 💖👠👗
They've made a really good video abut the stereotypes of blondes that touches on this subject, can highly recommend :)
YES YES YES! It works like that in real life too, I have always been bullied for being "such a barbie", because I'm blonde and I wear pink all the time. Now I've embraced it like Elle, she's such an icon! I confidently walk into my university building in my high heels every day.
There's an under-used term "Burikko" which is Japanese term for exaggerated cutesiness that's fake
I think they covered it in the legally blonde video but they can concentrate on just that in another video though
@@ntgyamfi7793 They did cover that
money doesn’t buy happiness but it sure does make life more comfortable
This is scientifically true. Money does increase happiness up to a point where your basic needs and some extras are secured. Then a lot more and people start being less happy.
@TheAntagonista what if we destroy money directly and use our own ability for production as means to purchase.
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” Dorothy Parker
I go more by what Jesus said in the new testament than assume God gave a-holes billions of dollars. If anything I say it was more a contract with the devil, like the family in Ready or Not.
if that'll make you feel better
@@teenkitsune Good point, but obviously Dorothy Parker wasn't necessarily meaning this literally, just making a broad point in her own inimitable style!
@@brianmeade1831 What was she trying to say then?
@@teenkitsune Hi again. Not knowing how familiar you are with Dorothy Parker ( and also wishing not to patronise you!), she was an exemplar of the witty aphorism. In this example: Possession of wealth in itself is usually corruptive. An obvious point maybe, but then all truisms basically are!
Awkward asian male trope please. Sixteen candles and movies like that.
The asian character in the show billions 🤦🏾♀️ I also want to see a video on this trope
Yep, how Asians are typecast as highly adept at schoolwork, or who have overbearing parents.
either awkward and weird or badass with a dyed streak in their hair
Is it truth in television? Maybe, but an analysis would be interesting.
Also "only east asians showed as asians" trope. People from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, etc are also asian.
A take on Thomas Shelby’s story from Rags to riches would of been a nice addition to this vid
I'd really like a separate take on his story.
bic that would be nice 👍🏾
Exactly!! The Take needs to make a video about Peaky Blinders
*would've
omg
I'm so living for this channel starting out as fun for fandoms deep dives turning into thoughtful and insightful social commentary.
I've also noticed that when movies and shows have a single theme they want to focus on, the characters are rich by default. A lot of horror movies (Get out, you should have left, hide and seek, the orphan, lady in black, etc) all feature rich protagonists. I feel like it's because they need an excuse to isolate the characters and it's always in a castle or private house up in the woods where the spooky stuff can play out. Harder to isolate a person who lives in an apartment complex. But even in comedies and sit coms (like home alone and friends) the characters are noticeably, but unexplainabley rich. Being poor has inherent social and personal consequences that a lot of writers seem to think they can ignore by just making the characters rich. A landlord knocking on your door to collect rent would disrupt the action so no landlords here. An arch of losing your job would distract from the will-they-won't-they plot so have an extra few grand lying around and take your sweetie on a vacation. It's like poor characters are a nuisance to streamlining the plot so writers opt to ignore it by making them rich. Not a value-judgment, just something I noticed.
Beautifully articulated! That's what I was thinking that writers treat being poor as a burden nd focus on the single track story in which character doesn't have stigma attached to him after all it will be hard for a janitor to be in romantic comedy or a security guard to have his adventure
I love the fact that Scorcese was honest enough to implicitly acknowledge in Wolf of Wall Street that as much as we hate the mega rich, we desperatley want to be them.
Waiting for all the "devil's advocate" guys in the comment section calling us sheep and saying that "everyone has the same 24hours!!11" 🤡
What does the same 24 hours mean?
@@djervalevy9784 It essentially means that you have as many hours in the day as a rich/famous person, implying that you can achieve the same level of success & social mobility as them since they had the same amount of time each day as you to work towards their goals/position in life. In reality it's a pretty tone-deaf statement, as it doesn't mention how money can allow rich/famous people to outsource the menial tasks of their day that ordinarily takes up time for a normal person to do (cooking, cleaning, etc.)
@@djervalevy9784 it's something like saying your misfortune is your own fault and it has nothing to do with how the system is built, people who, while also struggling, defend the rich and condemn the poor because they "don't work hard enough". In my country those kind of people say "El pobre es pobre porque quiere" which translates to "poor people are poor because they want to". It's a really ignorant and frankly stupid view of the world.
OMG one of them is right below your comment 💀
@@technojunkie123 to buy into that line of thinking you first have to believe that everyone rich person alive was just suddenly became rich overnight through no action of their own, which just isn't true
I love most period films, but I never enjoyed Downton Abbey. The whole show is like, “we’re sitting and someone has sex outside of marriage so that’s a big deal, and we’re sitting and we find out we’ll be poor and by poor we mean we’ll be able to afford 11 servants instead of 15, and we’re sitting...”
And how they rarely ever say thank you to their workers
Cybil Grace yes!
This is creepy, I literally have that picture downloaded in my gallery
The part that read “Billionaires allowed to murder” a half second later an ad for to vote for Trump and sign the petition came on. So funny and frightening.
nmeyers92 would you mind telling me in which state do you live? Just curious if it’s a swing state.
rojeezee New Jersey
rojeezee I live in Illinois and have seen several ads as well. I am seeing more for Biden than Trump recently though.
@@nmeyers92 wow me too
Plot twist millionaires fund these type of movies to condition people to not want to aspire to wealth.
Yo this is a mindfuck lmao (but so true)
Imagine a movie that shows them funding anti-capitalist movies to discourage commoners from even competing at all. That's kinda scary.
"His self-interest is so transparent I kind of respect him" is a great line.
Every day Jeff bezos is alive is another day he decides that growing his company takes precedent over ending the poverty of every man woman and child in america
The amount of money he has...average people can't even wrap their heads around it, myself included. He could end world hunger several times over and chooses not to, it's horrifying. The fact that his wife got half of what he had and he still spent several billion on a yacht like it was nothing...make it make sense.
If you really looked at what stocks he puts his money in you'll open your eyes & see he does put his money to work in order to end hunger, homeless, while helping online education platforms.
@@maryg.9581 what he donates seems like a huge amount for the average person, but it's an extremely small proportion of what he has, compared to what average people donate every year relative to their wealth. and he could actually go a long way toward solving a lot of world problems with his money and still have plenty left over.
@LagiNaLangAko23 WOW! You people are never satisfied! If they use the money to help; you still want to decapitate them even if they're kind individuals! And YES, I DO THINK IT'S RICH PEOPLE'S JOB TO RUN SOCIETY! AS long as YOU people stay uneducated and I mean even poor people have access to education now... I mean I'm not exactly rich and though school is difficult & not everyone has the same upbringing. I'm still doing my best to earn more & start a business.
@@rislachius Okay, well if you're so perfect & self-righteous why don't you become vegan, stop purchasing plastic in all forms, & get rid of your credit card!?! Oh now think being vegan is great & totally doable, plastic is in everything, And I Don't have enough money to get rid of my credit card. This is a metaphor if you get it you get it & if you don't you're to far gone beyond help.
Imagine how selfish one has to be , to already have a hundred million dollars, and think it’s not enough , I must have 100 times more and I’ll cheat and steal from countless others if I have too
I make roughly $30k a year, and if I were able to save every penny, it would still take me about 6.3 MILLION years to have as much money as Jeff Bezos. That level of wealth accumulation while people are unable to afford housing and medical care is deeply immoral. If the wealthy are lucky, the revolution will only be as bad as the labor and progressive movements of the early 20th century. If they're not so lucky, it could be far more bloody and radical like the French and Russian revolutions. Extreme deprivations will breed ever increasing spasm of violence until it can no longer be contained.
@s1 It's the failure to uphold those anti trust laws, they work in Europe where they're actually enforced.
Who said they cheat or steal it, you must be projecting; they earned that shit are you willing to put in the work? Are you willing to put earning money & your job before your friends, social life, your useless purchases, & yourself? Are you willing to die from the inside out with the only thing keeping you alive is helping others; while your soul is only dimly lite?
Frankenviews * exactly. Nobody should be allowed to have so much money that they have multiple houses that no one lives in, a mega yacht that Has to be bigger than their neighbours , and still have money to burn! Why does anyone need multiple BILLIONS of dollars? Sure, buy a nice house, a great car and travel the world in luxury with your money, but when there are so many homeless, starving people in the world it should be illegal to waste money on crap you don’t need. Tax the wealthy!
@@jaimicottrill2831 Wealth taxes have never worked & they never will big corporations should be taxed to redistribute wealth & 21st century big corporations are tech companies. I personally love Andrew Yang's plan because it actually has a chance of working!
People really think that being rich is a personality trait lmaoooo
The dislikes are either rich people, or the sad, sad people who think they'll be rich one day. But the chances of that happening? Slim to none. You would do well to take the lessons in this video to heart.
the likes are all from people who claim to hate the rich, but actually really really want to be them, and thinks everyone else that's not rich should be just as bitter, unhappy, and stuck in a victimhood mindset as them
aDriveAway Very well said!! I used to be homeless so I know how poverty works. I made the decision to change my life and now let’s just say I’m very very comfortable. I hate when people tell other that they can’t be wealthy just because they’re too lazy to go after their dreams!! 🙄
@Punk Shark Woke? More like extremely stupid hahahaha
@@aDriveAway But if they were rich and they criticized the rich you’d call them hypocrites. It’s almost as if people criticizing the rich is what really bothers you. Stop simping for them.
@@dominiquejones6758 But why should there be homeless people in the first place when we have more than enough vacant homes, and would still have enough vacant homes if we gave everyone a place to live? Why do millions still starve even though globally we produce enough food to feed 10 billion people?
Shame there was only a tiny reference to the Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins' new book "A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" studies the relationship between upper and lower class in a much more violent and realist way. It paints Snow as an entitled yet starving young man whose noble family has fallen on hard times, eating cabbage soup and relying on free meals. Food is a MAJOR theme and plot point in the book, elaborating on the title of Hunger Games and making it make sense. It illustrates the structures that could believably lead to such an unimaginable abomination as the Hunger Games.
I don't need a movie to tell me what I can see in reality. All of the world's billionaires have absolute power which corrupts absolutely. Greed is a mental illness. Excess in a world of need is immoral.
Greed is human nature. It's in our DNA. We are greedy individually, in groups, as nations.
Didnt have to demonize mental illness just to describe selfish acts. Theyre not the same...
@@JonathanBlandino We're more than that.
@@teenkitsune ofcourse but it's not a mental illness. It's an inherent nature we all possess stemming from our self preservation
This rings true with me as a. African with Bill and Miranda Gates constantly speaking the bad Ds to Africa, but as a good knowledgeable philanthropist. No one can question him even when he's wrong and he knows he's ruining the image if an entire continent of people.
Money doesn't buy happiness, it just removes certain things in the way of happiness - but not all things in the way.
i am a simple person. i see 'eat the rich', i click.
You so unique 😱
“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.” Voltaire.
I don’t know who did the commentary this time but she sounded toward the end like she’s one moment away from starting a revolution.
people defending rich people from their 1 bedroom apartment😭😭 how do you not see the hand feeding you is the one that’s keeping you subservient???
We're not defending rich people. We just know that communism is shit and a lot of us knows that there are worse situations out there. Capitalism just needs more checks and balances but other than that it provides the most chances for upwards mobility. What you people want is to chop everyone down to be leveled. That's what "equality" is in pure commie countries. Well then. Go on. Go to those countries. Give it a try and don't even start with china.China is only commie in governance now. Economy wise it's capitalistic that's why they're not starving anymore.
@@SpiderMan-ni8ek Having a stateless, classless, and moneyless society is bad?
@@curiouscomrade8680 moneyles yes bad
You showed Joker. I think Heath Ledger did it best, burning it after basically stealing it from the rich (in that case the mob).
Joker: It's not money. It's about sending a message.
We live under capitalism. It's power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
Oh shut up! Drones will attack you if you try!
The end of Knives Out was so satisfying lmao
Good take girls, but i can't say I'm not little disappointed because you didn't even mentioned Hunger Games, the literal class war Sci-Fi.
I dislike hating on the rich and worshiping the “morality” of the poor. Because it’s too simplistic. There are good and bad in both groups. Good and bad rich people, and good and bad poor people. It’s all individual, not group related.
When should we expect the next Avatar: The Last Airbender analysis??
Probably when a patreon asks for it
I don't want to be rich, I just want to be friends with someone who is rich 👀
👁👄👁
Ironically, that helps you *become* rich
because you still want your soul to be alive, don't wanna put in the work, & are afraid of this video.
Why? I'm genuinely curious. Is it to interact with someone who's lead totally different life than you(this is all I could think of)or something else?
@@incharak1927 yeah; I think the best way I'd describe it is how aunts and uncles love their sibling's kids but don't want kids for themselves?
I wonder if anyone in this comment section has actually come from poverty
sita1993m was wondering when this kinda comment would show up
I did! I’m upper middle class now, but I will never forget being homeless, being food insecure, skipping meals because there was nothing to eat, and feeling that level of anxiety ALL the time. Billionaires understand the problems affecting society and if they really wanted to change it or make a difference they would (just look at how effective they are when they DO want something done, they will lobby and pay off politicians with political donations/contributions/etc). They are selfish, they truly believe that poverty is a character defect and they DESERVE what they have while others are not as important. It’s the social Darwinist ideology of some people matter and some don’t. I never thought I would get selfish with money, but the science supports the link that the more money a person has the more selfish/cheap they get. I definitely notice myself hoarding my wealth, so I have to make a conscious effort not to. I can imagine that it’s the same for the very top as well.
Did you come from poverty??
@@djervalevy9784 Yeah
Yes, hi, hello
I don't think money, like power, corrupts- I forget who wrote this but I suspect money/power _reveals_ who we are.
Robert Caro in The Power Broker?
I hate instagram "influencers"
They pretend to go through what you are going through and then be comfortable in their little wealthy bubble.
Is that why there was a 2019 article about very rich non conspiracy theory people getting bunkers and houses that camouflage.
i’ve always liked the take, but this video just cemented the fact omg EAT THE RICH
What does eat the rich mean anyway?
Don't you realize, that you, as an american, are very very rich compared to most people in the world (even if you are a poor american)?
It is very funny to see your culture transition from the outside.
You are not poor. Nobody of you has to think about how to get food on their table, or how to find a bed to sleep in.
The only thing that changed is, that you don't believe that you can climb the social ladder anymore.
The same greed, that drives these bankers and CEOs drives you people.
The good old american way...
Aldous Huxley how do you know i’m american? i’m colombian, which is a third world country in south america. i’m middle class here, which everywhere else is considered pretty much poor. i am in close contact with people who have to go out during the pandemic, not for something selfish as getting a haircut, but because if they don’t work that day, their families won’t have any food on the table, or even a place to sleep in that night. so yeah, eat the rich
@@aldoushuxley5953 You do realize that not all Americans are like this right? Do really think that there aren't any American who can't put food on the table or go hungry? Telling someone that they aren't poor just because they are an American discredits their experiences and makes you seem ignorant.
Djerva Levy it’s a hyperbole that pretty much means desmantele the system that allows someone like jeff bezos to have a net worth of 188.2 billion dollars while some people are starving :)
Empathy and sensitivity. Two things that can save the world
Honestly this is why leverage is and was so popular
Thank you! I just added Leverage to my watchlist :D
Me, everytime I watch a "The Take"video essay: well humans are goddamn complex
You heard what The Take said: EAT THEM RICH PEOPLE !!!!
way ahead of ya
@@brya9681 just leave me some of Elon Musk
@@shaniceabdou910 he indeed seems to taste good
@@shaniceabdou910 only if you leave me a bit of Jeff Bezos, he looks spicy
@@nia.r5988 Bezos look like his meat would be dry and tough. You can have him, I'll stick to Musk. He looks quite juicy
After watching lots of videos from this channel, i realized different kind of patterns in movies. Thank you for your hardwork! Greetings from Argentina.
For every Tony Stark, there’s a Justin Hammer.
And for every Bruce Wayne there's a Lex Luther
Ironically, both contributed towards the military-industrial complex until Tony had a change of heart. No pun intended.
@@rickardkaufman3988 intend your brilliant pun. You weakling!!
The Take is a Comrade
seeing reality shows about people in mansions makes me angry
I love that you girls included that line from Catching Fire. I love it in the book too, and its so relatable.
"several major films in 2019 seem to convey one urgent message: *eat the rich* "
me, an aspiring gen z in my freshman-college-socialist phase: haha, yes ♥
As a social democrat: Good to hear that. Keep up the good work but be vigilant that we still live in a capitalist society and the only way to get ideas mainstream is of course through independent financing and vigilance of how we are ethical. Also, eat the rich.
@@rickardkaufman3988 noted that, comrade
On a millennial myself but I too am a democratic socialist. Though at the end of the day I don't care about the labels as those can be easily strawmanned, like the narrative that we view Venezuela as a paradise and want to emulate them. It gets particularly annoyed when we say we favor Norway's system and we get told "they're not socialist, they're just capitalist with regulations" and frankly I don't care what anyone calls them because really all I care about are the policies and systems in place and the results.
Alya, are you actually an anarcho-pacifist?
So you're an impressionable kid that doesn't understand why people who flee from commie countries and go to america instead. Got it.
Watching Jocker as an adult and realising that Bruce Wayne is the real villain.
I wonder what people would have wanted instead? Socialism? Communism? Maybe a cap of income for all the rich people? How do we solve this issue?
We're not rich. We're middle class but our neighbors who are poorer thinks of us as mean. We've been hearing rumors. I've always been nice to them, have always tried to make friends. But I feel like I'm being judged by the fact that I'm not one of them. All I really wanted was to have friends. I don't think all people who have money are corrupt same as not all poor people are nice.
I want a resource-based economy.
They say humans will always be greedy for two things: knowledge and wealth
EAT THE RICH! But don't eat me when I get rich. 🙂
*eats you when you get rich*
Once again ladies, you've made a great piece. Keep up the great work.
Money is a survival vehicle. Once shelter, food, necessities is covered, then the excess demand for money is just psychological with little lasting/tangible benefits when it is not a first time experience - like repeat travels/parties/plane. But, this psychology is created by persistent feeding by every salesman or sales co. who sell goods not needed in life. And hence, they HAVE to create the have v/s have nots. Those who have their products are classy, snooty, can misbehave with have nots and also on the side make you sick..but in the long term usage of their product. Why else is there ANY logic in Marlboro & "feeling classy, snooty". Smoke lost in thin air, really? What logic is in animal print, leather & "feeling classy snooty". Killing snakes, crocodiles, really? Many don't even like animal prints unless they don't have eyeballs on them. Try hunting & skinning one, you'll not feel classy neither snooty, lol! The problem is with sales collaboration via product placement through Media-Hollywood, period. But, that was in the times of lack of information, today with internet, people can get self-educated & debunk rat's wheel of "consumerism"-"capitalism" economic model taught to them since infancy under the garb of "economics" course, created by random people who exchanged benefits from businessmen & Nobel committee members to get themselves little eyeballs & little money.
But, the catch is. One gets rich through this model of have v/s have nots. And once in the "have" category, you want to continue fuel the wheel of have v/s have not divide in order to sustain your non-existent sense of self-worth which emanates ONLY till the time have-nots exists.
Well now all the quality shit (shelter, food, necessities) are hella expensive because of FUCKING BOOMERS!!!!
Honestly, don't want to be rich. I'm afraid of what it would turn me into. I'd like to think I'd buy a modest home, pay my school debt, invest, donate, maybe start a nonprofit, and live modestly and minmalistically, but I think a lot of people think that way, especially when they're young. That's why I was happy to go to school for a career where I'll make a modest living where I can get by and still have fun travelling (mostly achievable by my decision to not have children).
I loved US and its take on wealth and capitalism
parasite really is from beginning to end a masterpiece, I should watch it a second time
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to be ridiculously rich I think I’ve always wanted to be either middle-class or higher middle class in which I can buy good things and take care of the people I love without worrying. And I’ve always wanted to do charity work but it seems impossible without money especially without working
If that’s your mindset, then you deserve to be rich!
We need more rich people who have good values like what you just mentioned. Money doesn’t make people evil… evil makes people evil.
There has to be a middle ground. While money can't buy everything, being broke effing SUCKS.
as we should 🥰🥰😤😤😤😤😤😤
Too fat and chewy. They'd be better used as a fuel source.
@@TheChickenRiceBowl and i oop
Screen Prism always drops quality content. I would love to see a video of the whole team behind the scenes and get to know them and how they choose topics.
You mean The Take?
@@rickardkaufman3988 @Rickard Kaufman it still doesnt feel right calling them that for me
@@Chandasouk Oh, I see. You prefer calling them ScreenPrism. Your opinion, man. But I prefer The Take. It's sound artsy.
@@rickardkaufman3988 The Take makes it sound like they plan heists to me lol
@@Chandasouk To you.
Y’all should check out The Platform on Netflix! It’s another one that greatly and very literally tackles this subject
"Succession" deserves its own video.
I am surprised you didn't mentioned scarface or breaking bad which shows that sometimes the price for power and money is happiness and humanity, even thoough they had enough to buy anything everybody hated them or was afraid of them
My dream is to live long enough to see to rich finally pay for their crimes against the people.
Being rich isn’t a crime.
@@dominiquejones6758 Yes, but what they do to stay rich, is.
I like cookies Continuing their business models and being successful?!
It seems only Huger Games used the Roman reference for gorging on good only to puke it up so you can eat more but they also had human candles basically poor people dipped in wax and let on fire
Succession is not about what wealth has done to its characters, because wealth is not the issue there. Wealth is simply an enabler of the weaknesses instilled by toxic parents.
I still choose to believe class is fluid in the united states and people work their way out of poverty all the time. But i believe we need to try to give people as fair a shake as possible. We need to invest public education so the quality of s school is not tied to property taxes. Don't eat the rich! Love and support the poor!!! Love, support, create opportunities.
Please look at official statistics about the chances of a poor person becoming wealthy. I understand that you want to think positive, but that won't help in solving this problem. But I definitely agree that good, free public education is very important. Just like free healthcare.
Good essay but, as you’ve shown, we’ve been making class conscious art for a looong time and we are still yet to have some form of a revolution of the working class. Perhaps we are growing closer to such a movement, but it’s hard to not be pessimistic.
Money amplifies everything someone already is. Most of these movies reflect that.
Can we just appreciate how much effort the take puts in these videos ?
The exotic African next please. A la “black is king” etc ☺️
black is king is a fictional story tho, not centered in reality.
This is my favorite video you girls have done so far. Well done! I would love to see more videos exploring this concept.
When the illusion of wealth has become real, and the more real it becomes, the more desperate they want it.
YEEESSSSS!!!!! You two are doing incredible work. I love that you go deeper into systems of oppression and don't just leave things at surface level.
The issues mainly in America
Like they actually think Europe is far left when it's really dead centre
That's based on America's version of the political spectrum, in America you're not going far right enough, but even slightly to the left of that despite being to the right of center us always too far left. In short America has been conditioned to think any sort of leftism is evil due to Cold War propaganda and a history of racial hierarchy.
This is a problem in every single first world country, my guy. America is bad, but if you think people in Europe don't have similar aspirations in many ways, you're wrong. Source: Married a European.
@@otterpoppin And they think socialized medicine is evil despite their neighbors did it around the same time America spread that propaganda with Reagan doing commercials advocating against its creation and expansion. The U.K. at the time had both major parties wanting the NHS to be established and help the citizens. And today, there are like, "Are they takin' the piss?"
@@rickardkaufman3988 My friend from the U.K. pities me for not having access to mental health care the way she does, if my parents weren't upper middle class I'd be screwed.
@@teenkitsune I know. I'm middle class and see the privilege I have had with having access to healthcare. I once had a terrible lung infection almost three years ago and recovered within 1 week when having access to medicine. My own father works in the private sector still can't believe America lacks behind healthcare and has recently invested to make healthcare more efficient and accessible. Results are pending but it's a good step nonetheless. "Eat The Rich" doesn't mean hate capitalism as we so ironically live in one capitalistic system. Roger Ebert said it best when reviewing Margin Call, another film tackling corporate conduct and greed before the start of the Great Recession and saw a link to OWS (Occupy Wall Street) when he wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times, "I think the movie is about how its characters are concerned only by the welfare of their corporations. There is no larger sense of the public good. Corporations are amoral, and exist to survive and succeed, at whatever human cost. This is what the Occupy Wall Street protesters are angry about: They are not against capitalism, but about Wall Street dishonesty and greed. [...] [The cast] reflects the enormity of what is happening: Their company and their lives are being rendered meaningless."
*PLEASE* do a character analysis videos of Succession characters like you did with Mad Men. That show is awesome.
So many people idolise Jordan from wolf of Wall Street it’s so weird considering the story is about his greed
Just like they did with Gordon Gekko in the 1980s who was supposed to be a critique of the opulent decadence that many Reaganites engaged in.
but....? the car crashing scene? and the marriage troubles? and???
then again, I don't see how anyone can watch Mad Men and unironically say Don Draper is the coolest man and don't you wish you were him..... but tons of bros out there say that too.
@@kaitlyn__L And with the actor Jon Hamm himself hating the culture that the character endorsed and was brought up in, it goes to show viewers appropriate something that is supposed to be a critique of who the character symbolizes.
@@rickardkaufman3988 indeed :| I believe he's said he'll never play the character ever again even though some other actors from the show have expressed interest in potentially revisiting them set in like the 80s or something once they're a bit older
@@kaitlyn__L The '80s were way worse than the Madmen attitudes of the 60s and 70s. I mean, the corporate structure was only compensating the economy and because of all that excess, you saw two recessions in 1981 and 1987.
Not even a full minute in, and you've already given me a movie to check out. Thank you
Y'all are taking this so literal. You'd take everything someone has because you see them as rich and undeserving while you have plenty. Right now I'm laying in the dirt about to sleep. I'm fine with that. Socialism doesn't end when you've spent everyone else's money. It ends when people eat each other. It can happen.
This reminded me of Anne with an E, a show in which the protagonist is not only poor, but an orphan, and is her story that is the one worth to tell.