The formula shortage is so worrying for me because I'm seeing people on Facebook advertising alternatives like *unpasteurized goat's milk* and instead of people commenting about how this is not only dangerous but illegal in our state, they're just like "This is how we did it before Big Pharma created formula to steal all your money!" Like, yeah Karen, we used to not wash our hands before sticking them inside a person's body to yank out their internal organs to figure out why they had headaches - there are reasons we *used* to do it and *don't* do it anymore.
I know someone whose child almost died from E.coli poisoning, from drinking unpasteurized cow's milk. She ended up with kidney failure, and a massive stroke, that left her nonverbal, and in a wheelchair.
There’s a half truth is the worst part. It is in fact evil that formula became the universal replacement in people’s minds. But big pharma didn’t do it, Nestle did. It IS kind of evil that they convinced a whole society that their PRODUCT is better than what we can produce for free. Not denying the importance of formula for peoples specific needs, but really it’s a bit screwed up that companies made us all dependent on a product for such an important thing. And of course feeding your child goats milk is insane.
@@reeveetalk1907 true, but this is one emergency that happened because of a capitalist just in time system, it could have been avoided if several things were done differently. (a larger emergency stockpile of formula, more factories/companies that produce it, nationalizing formula production and ensuring that every single child is provided enough to survive till they no longer need it)
I'm glad they're trying to do something about the formula shortage, but one of the biggest issues with it right now are the scalpers. My older brother has an 8 month old and he and his fiance have been struggling to the point he decided to look online and try to find some and just found people with piles if it selling it for exorbitant prices. Literally exploiting parents who are trying to feed their babies. It's disgusting.
I'm sorry they're going through this. I imagine this is really scary for them. Places like FB, Amazon and eBay need to take responsibility, shut that shit down and report them to their state's AG. I mean, people that find them can screenshot everything, report them off the platform and then turn all that over to their state's AG. But they shouldn't have to, especially not when the platforms are making money off those sales too. They're just as bad. There's laws to stop this and this is the kinda thing AGs *love* to prosecute. The fines or possible jail time can at least tide these predators over before they go to hell.
@@donniebao Formula *IS* the alternative. I can't even be bothered to explain to you how braindead this take is, go watch an Adam Ruins episode about it or something.
@@lunacouer I'll have to let my brother know! He was talking to us about how he's seeing them and almost bought some just out of being desperate but his finances mom found some. Especially because his fiancee struggled to breastfeed, and while they did freeze and save what she managed to pump, the baby refuses it when they try to use it. It was a real struggle for them to finally find something he wouldn't refuse when he was younger so it's been really tough for them now that there's this shortage. Thank you for the info!
Re: The formula shortage It's fascinating to me that the people who grab three slices of pizza and the people who grab only one both do it for the exact same reason: "I was afraid they were going to run out." Why wouldn't retailers put a limit on how much formula you can buy the same way they did during the pandemic? They wouldn't let me get two boxes of tampons in different sizes, they could easily enforce a limit on formula.
@@D9xAbstract it worked in the pandemic. Worse case scenario some people need to go to several shops. It's still better than the lady with a full cart in the video
We have limits in my company as standard for formula. Like, there isn't a shortage, but the stores only stock so much so we limit purchases to 3 units (I think its three).
My mom is a recovering gambling addict and she made us homeless when I was like 15 and it tore my family apart. Streamers and UA-camrs should not be promoting or glorifying it on their streams. I completely agree with ludwig. No sponsored gambling streams. You wanna gamble do it with your own money.
My family is poor and full of gambling addicts. I don't think people give gambling addiction the weight it deserves. For my 18th birthday (gambling age where I live) my mom dragged me to the casino, despite me telling her I refuse to gamble, because I've seen what it did to my relatives. I sat in the hotel room and cried on the phone to my boyfriend while my mom gambled. On my birthday. When my mom came back I was screamed at and told that I had to return any gifted money I received for my birthday because it "was for gambling" I've never forgiven my mom for that. She probably doesn't even remember it happening
So... it's other people's fault that your mom made bad choices? Please. "Gambling addiction" isn't a thing, it's an excuse for poor decision making. People are responsible for managing their impulses, and that includes "gambling addicts".
@@wmdkitty bro what. What you said applies to literally all addiction. It's easy to say from the outside, to belittle the impact of it. I'm from a super rural, conservative, and poor area. So many people there live on the idea that they'll 'make it big one day' by gambling or winning a lottery. A lot of them don't realize how toxic their gambling habits are.
This baby formula story is just another reason we need to break up these oligopolies and force situations where companies can't push all of their competition out of the market anymore. Make a law that states that you can't merge with or acquire any company if there are less than 20 companies holding at least 2% of the market or more within the market that target company is apart of.
Formula is useful. For some people, it's 100% necessary, baby would die without it. But the fact that Nestle or P&G has managed to put women's breast out of work shows how totalled our civilization is. Mothers, with babies, and a healthy pair of breasts...have starving babies. We are a laughing stock.
Chinese citizens are buys up formula because they don't trust their own countries formula due to death by lead poisoning..they're also reselling it online
@Squad wipes™ we aren't talking about candy and children. This is an issue involving Corporations that we allow to have too much market. It isnt a socialism sort of idea to desire multiple companies available in order to make things like i dont know, Food For Infants, a more stable and readily available product rather than making it so if one company has an issue then there will be enough competition to compensate for the decline of supply.
I cried hearing how Benji's heart softened and he gave away the formula for free. God bless him and his family, and all those he helped as well. SO MANY would have sold it for a profit and exploited starving families.
And he was ALREADY doing the right thing, reselling at cost. To go from an unusually moral act to a genuine act of compassion and charity earns him his bamf of the day. A good man.
I don't want to shove politics down your face, I just really like the idea: Marx comments on how capitalism isn't just bad for the workers, but also the capitalists, who are conditioned to act less naturally and more unnaturraly, and we should free them too. I guess what I am saying is: Benji in that moment freed himself from monetary value tracking and realised that the work we do, the accumulations we make, pales in comparison to the human actions we can take. And he is a much fuller man because of it. Again, don't walk out a socialist lol, but yeah, Benji will die a happy man, we should also wish to emulate him.
@@roberthorne9597 I have to disagree about the Marx comments. There is a reason why capitalist nations are some of the most charitable in the world, with the US donating billions in charity across the world alone. When people have a surplus of wealth or material, they tend to be a lot more charitable, even if it's by a little. The main issue is that charity isn't being pushed as a social norm, which it should be. Some of the most charitable people I know are from extremely wealthy families, because they are able to donate more. Socialists also tend to support the Government providing support, and even when they personally donate they will not differ much at all from capitalist donators. Also, Marx himself wasn't exactly great with money. In fact, he was frequently overspending when he was in university to the point his father struggled to pay for him and ended up having to put his foot down. But Benji is the man! Absolute angel among men, the fact he changed his mind of his own choice is what truly reveals the person he is deep down. He set out to make extra money in this situation but had a complete change of heart. We need more people like him!
I think gambling appeals to us more when we have less money. When you’re poor the idea of one big win changing your whole life is almost irresistible. When your whole day to day life is stress about money, the idea of winning that lottery or whatever it may be is just too appealing. It’s an emotional and irrational decision, but people probably wouldn’t do it if we were already well enough off.
I agree with Ludwig that Sponsored Gambling Streams should not be allowed. And for my own opinion, I think all Sponsored Gambling Content should not be allowed (this includes Draft Kings cough cough).
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The problem is the example he uses is nonsense. Do you think the channels showing poker don't have ads? All gambling shown on TV is sponsored. At least be consistent if you're going to whine about something. Whine about the channels showing ads or you are a hypocrite. And before you try to argue it, yes, the advertisers get to okay what shows they happen during on TV. What blocks of time an ad is to get shown is bought and paid for so they are intentionally sponsoring those shows by selecting those ad blocks.
I mean gambling shouldn't really be allowed at all, especially when it is easily accessible, by children and ill people. Keep the games free of any prices and money. Card games, chance games - anything, doesn't need to include money. Gambling is like drugs, it could be ok with moderation and when done by consenting and knowledgeable adults. But gambling with real money is like hard (and also low quality) drugs and as much devastating and exploative.
@@TessaBain Thanks for the reply. You actually made me back up and think. I think that policy should be different for people's individual country or state/province of origin. Where I live, my community would be up and arms for people skirting the line like this, but where you or other commenters live, this is the norm. I have no problem with XQC being the face of Twitch and gambling, but if you live in my district where I vote, I would want XQC blacklisted on the website. If you dont live where I do, then my comment is merely an opinion and I dont have any control over you :P
@@TessaBain The people playing poker on TV don't see the profit from commercials shown on TV. Are you slow? Directly sponsoring a single streamer for a block of time is entirely different from a broadcasting station having commercials play throughout the programming. Your line of thinking is similar to LTT saying using ad block on UA-cam is equivalent to torrenting movies
Creators are never to blame for what addicts do. I'm a computer games developer. I'm not accountable for computer game addiction. That's someone's personal problem. End of story.
@@Reksaurian Actually you may be responsible for inducing them to gamble more. Hence why loot boxes have come under such scrutiny across the globe. Loot boxes that return cosmetic items are generally regarded as okay, but when they are paid for in real money and can return game changing items the story changes as that incentivizes people to buy them and for the developers to play with the odds. Give the player just enough 'wins' at the loot box to keep them buying.
Sponsored gambling is like influencers vaping just water saying "vaping is cool". Advertising the rush or "coolness" of something with no risk to themselves while anyone else who does could lose everything.
The story for the BAMF legit brought tears to my eyes. I'm not a parent or anything like that, but it's so nice to hear a good story every now and then
Is it a BAMF though? He bought 56 cases to resell.. granted he changed his mind and gave it away for free, but he originally was gonna sell it, and stockpiled it, stopping others from getting it.
@@MarkOfTzeentch But even when he was going to resell it, he was going to sell it at cost, which is probably much lower than it would be if it ended up on a shelf in a store. The people just have to drive to a different location to pick it up.
@@MarkOfTzeentch also parents were struggling to actually find it in stores - probably due to people like the lady who cleaned out the shelf. He actually advertised that he had formula in stock so people knew they would find it. And i feel like you’re underestimating how much less selling at cost is. These stores markup things ridiculously high!
@@mak97fury The person he bought the 56 cases off would have supplied the entire state.. instead he bought it and only sold it in his store.. It isnt exactly a BAMF move because while he did give it away, i 100% bet he sold more stuff that day than he would have all that week, plus he has been given so much free advertisement by the press. He would be a BAMF if his original goal was to give it away free to a charity that could have supplied this to in-need families, and not just whoever turned up to his store.. and did so anonymously..
Panic "Stocking up" has been one of the more disappointing aspects of society the past few years ESPECIALLY when they resell at astronomical prices on social media marketplace groups taking full advantage of others panicking but not being so selfish. During a snow storm in Memphis people bought up all the cases of water in stores and tried selling it at 4 times price to people desperate for clean water. I personally reported over 30 of these. Makes me sick. So glad you covered that wonderful BAMF!
Can you please bring forward the fact that it's not just parents and their babies being seriously threatened by this shortage?? Adults and those with feeding tubes are now being left with no options for our enteral formulas too.. but at a greater impact since many of us can't swap to other formula brands like a baby can. Our formula is made by the same people as baby formula. Parents need help with the shortage AND enteral patients. Im also very concerned that the senate is deciding to "investigating Abbott" for BEING RESPONSIBLE and doing a voluntary recall and refund out of fear of contaminated stock?!? Like what? That's how you end up getting companies to sneak around instead of protecting consumers. This is crazy.
They’re investigating Abbott because they should be doing QC all the time to prevent the contamination from occurring. As you said, this formula is a medical supply, and is supposed to be sterile. I suspect that Abbott was skimping on their QC process. When a single company makes 80% of all formula, they have incredible leverage over regulatory organizations because “what are they gonna do, shut us down?” It would result in the crisis that we’re seeing right now.
@@SmileyxKyley nope. You're wrong. And severely misinformed on the full context. Abbott's CEO"s own daughter has EoE and she relies on their elecare, Jr formula to get her nutrition. It wasn't a QC thing. ABBOTT, not the FDA, shut the factory down precautionarily and reported to the FDA for clearance to make sure it was just the protein supply. Which it was. The protein supply was contaminated. But Abbott FUNDED the FDA to clear the factory for the possibility that it could've possibly been the factory itself. It's still shut down because the FDA hasn't completed the inspection still. The CEO did a voluntary recall with in 3 kids getting sick. He did the right thing. The reason they make "80%" of the formula is because the sourcing and chemist requirements are very complex. Most of the effected supply was that of semi elemental or fully elemental formula chemically broken down to amino acid peptide bonds so that the body's gi system doesn't need to break it down itself. It's also sometimes difficult to test for certain strains of rare bacterial contamination like that of what was found in the ONE formula ingredient used in several elemental protein bases in powder elemental formula like elecare infant, Jr, alamac Jr, and several rx only enteral formulas labeled as "infant" or "junior" but.used by many adults like me who are fed by tube and need higher calorie artificial nutrition and have severe anaphylaxis to all "normal" food. This isn't the first time Abboyts CEO has done this, either. he has done voluntary recalls several times in the past because of formulation ingredient changes that had caused people with idiopathic anaphylaxis like me, start reacting all of sudden. Thats why they make such a huge chunk of the fully elemental formulas; theres extremely limited protein sourcing that can be confirmed and modulated into an elemental/ peptide formula. Just like this incident and the ones before, Abbott under his leadership has continuously taken the RARE proactive means and extra precautions to actually protect THE CONSUMERS by acknowledging that it's not worth risking the health of those using their formula for financial gain. The company did the right thing. It was the right move. Unfortunately with the recall and the shortages from Nutricia upon COVID needs of enteral support for those on vents, it wad the perfect storm of unfortunate events that led us here.
@@frankied.roosevelt6232 Abbott choose to issue stock buybacks worth 5b while a whistleblower claims the Sturgis plant’s equipment was in need of repairs and maintenance. The only reason for the recall was to minimize company liability in the deaths of those infants or any others that might occur. To pile onto the problem, Abbott doesn't have the capacity to ramp up products due to the lack of any emergency plans in case anything happened. Because to do so would cost money and not directly increase profits. This whole shitshow is another example of how the system is rotten to the core.
@@nobodystaco7366 the "stock buybacks" were to investors so that there were funds so the parents could get full refunds for the recall and buy other formula options. And yes.. a company *SHOULD* care about infants deaths. You really think filling the shelves with contaminated and DEADLY bacteria filled formula is truly better than a voluntary recall and the shortage instead? Cause only one of those things has occurred in the death of children. Your bias in approaching this situation wreaks of capitalism BS and full ignorance on anything.of this topic. Especially when considering that the "emergency plan" would've never been substantial with COVID. We didn't even have a national stock pile for covid. So stop. You shouldn't open your mouth on a topic you don't seem to understand at even the bare minimum. It's embarrassing for you.
@@nobodystaco7366 ps: the whistle blower was that aforementioned exc. He "blew the whistle" on the FDAs slow movements around clearing the plant. "We know parents depend on us to provide them with the highest quality nutrition formulas," Joe Manning, executive vice president of nutritional products at Abbott, said in a statement. "We're taking this action so parents know they can trust us to meet our high standards, as well as theirs. We deeply regret the concern and inconvenience this situation will cause parents, caregivers, and health care professionals." Back in Oct.
Very on track for Phil to start something, run with it for a few eeks, then forget/abandon it until he's like "oh yeh, I like this thing, I should do more of that"
I'll add that what Ludwig said about gambling addiction pretty much applies to all addictions. People addicted to drugs know they are bad. People addicted to junk food know it's bad. But that is it. That IS the addiction. It's continuing even knowing it is bad.
I'd argue that a lot of people that are addicted to something don't even acknowledge their addiction, and therefore is not a condition to be addicted. Take video game addiction for example, I personally know a number of people that play video games at the expense of their own well-being (not eating or sleeping well, suffering at work or school) yet they deny they have a problem. I'm not disputing your original point though, just adding to what you said with my own experiences.
yeah its similar to banning weed or alcohol (though probs a better argument for it even though I personally enjoy smoking). these are adult activities that are adult cause you need to be responsible for yourself and if you can't handle that responsibility they will/should be revoked (like when DUI's lose their license cause of not being responsible) or you need to ask for help
@@blakegandalf8753 I don't believe it is useful to ban smoking or alcohol consumption, it just creates more stigma.. However I do think it is good to enforce rules about these types of companies (tobacco, liquor, gambling sites etc) not being allowed to sponsor streamers. There's no longer tobacco ads on TV or anywhere on the internet, ads for gambling sites shouldn't be allowed either in my opinion.
@@eev14 I def agree and I think a warning on stream for the addicts and children that read similar to one trainwrecks uses on stream. funny enough I also think xQc was right where people don't care about if the streamer did it they care more that a specific streamer did it. which is a sad reality to peoples paper thin morals
Some people just have addictive personalities, you can get addicted to just about anything, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, work, sex, gambling, shoplifting, Exercise, junk food, adrenaline, video games, and so on so forth. And then many people in a effort to stop their particular addiction inadvertently begin to trade addictions. No matter what you're favorite flavor is addiction is a more complex problem than a lot of people think. I hope any out there struggling with this monster stays in the fight, you can do it.
Forgive me my ignoranceI do have a question about that. In an emergency why aren’t distributors selling directly to mothers? It sounds like there is plenty of stock at the distributor level but the stores for us individual cannot keep stocked!
@@madhippy3 as coraline put it. These companies don't ship the tub you'd find on a shelf in the store. The ship huge boxes/pallets of products. That is a huge cost, and some places won't even sell to the average consumer without a license or qualifications. Quite frankly it's expensive. Distribution doesn't really care about whether it's an emergency case or not.
@@madhippy3 distributors can only ship out in bulk, and parents can’t buy in bulk! It’s basically a distribution issue right now, stores have to source from elsewhere than they normally do and with the shipping times that pushes getting their stock back by a few weeks- the problem started when expected shipments couldn’t be fulfilled and other factories hadn’t yet increased production to fill that void. The increase in production took a few weeks, then the distribution takes another few weeks. Distribution takes a long time- tho you wouldn’t know it with how online shopping shipments seem! Even to order online the large distributer has to get the product out to smaller centers closer to where different consumer bases are, and the shipment time is from *that* center not the factory. It’s an unfortunate effect of large-scale production- tho different production models all have their pros and cons.
@@madhippy3 The logistics of distributors are likely geared toward wholesale in which the product is packaged and sold in large quantities meant to fill stores. A distributor cannot, on a dime, change to selling to individuals because the manufacturer transports units at a massive scale which have to be broken down to smaller units, via a distribution network, to sell to the individual. The likely problem for a family buying from the distributor is buying an excessively large minimum order and then storing it and/or the distributor cannot/will not fulfill delivery for residences.
As tough as it has been working in childcare and watching parents struggle to find formula as we go through the same struggle trying to find it for our center, its also amazing watching parents come together to try and help out. We ended up creating a sort of master list of all the different formulas used by families at the center so that anytime someone finds the formula they can buy it and either trade it, sell it, and some parents have just offered it for free. With stores placing limits (as they should) we have to send at least 3 people every week just to maybe get enough formula for the center. To all the parents out their struggling to find formula, please reach out to your community, your doctor, the only way to get through the next two months is together.
I worked in a casino and I know how predatory they're designed to be for addicts... I honestly think more regulation is needed. Once you see people losing their entire lives, it really changes your perspective
I do agree with Ludwig on this, ban sponsored streams, if the streamer actually has to put up their own money, gamble streams will quickly die cos the house always wins.
no. there are many unsponsored gambling streams, and gambling streams need to be banned fully. gambling streams inherently are extremely problematic because they make the streamer money from donations or subscriptions or whatever while suggesting to ignorant viewers that the streamer's job that's making them money is the gambling. viewers see people "professionally gambling" and doing well for themselves and their takeaway is that if they start gambling, they will make money too, because they don't understand that the job of the person they're watching is the streaming, not the gambling.
@@Ass_of_Amalek are you saying the common person is to stupid to understand risks? What gives you the idea that banning something is the way to go about things, couldn't they just implement a tool to hide gambling content and have creators mark their streams for such content?
Prusak J of course banning gambling streams would solve the problem of gambling streams. and what would be wrong with doing it? it's not something worth preserving. yes, of course people are too stupid to understand risks. many, many people. otherwse nobody would gamble without streaming it for profit.
L-wig droped the ball on this one, how would you prove that it is a sponsored stream, the companys would just make the streamers brand ambassador and pay them for that so its not a sponsored stream anymore, just do a full ban for steaming gambling, they use websites that aren't even legal to use in the US
@David The problem is that most of these industries are not monopolies, they're oligopolies. It's not one company that owns the market, it's a small group that owns the market and specifically hand off control to each other. It's a separate enough term that all the rules that we have against monopiles don't work against them.
The formula shortage, as of right now(to my knowledge as a retail employee who works the baby dept), is projected to last until September. It's scary restocking what little formula we get in right now only to see it all disappear the next day, even with purchase limits quickly being enforced. As well and numerous stories of infants being admitted into the ER and ICU with seizures related to watering down formula. Crazy to know that half this country is trying to ban abortion when we can barely feed the infants currently living and breathing in our country.
As someone who actually had a gambling addiction at one point I am very much against gambling. It prays on poor people and makes them infinitely poorer. It's a pretty horrible business.
@Jessie Idk, where i live a pack of cigarettes costs over $30, because the tax on them is something like 3000%. How is that a tax? Its just a stupid choice to buy cigarettes
i’m just surprised that the interaction between the moms happened at a target because i currently work at one in Lexington, SC and our target has a 4 unit limit right now for all formula and we STILL can’t keep it on the shelves. that was so sad to watch and i really hope someone at that target considers putting limits especially after that lady bought a whole cart full
That Chinese woman was likely not a mum she was likely selling it online to desperate parents. Australia had to put a 2 can policy in place bc of Chinese ppl buying ALL the formula and selling it online. Now they go in big sneaky gangs buying all the formula to sell to desperate Americans. As an Australian that makes me so effen mad because I hade greedy ppl.
They even clearly had notices posted on those shelves most likely communicating some purchasing limit. She has all that in her cart but she's not at the front end yet and we don't know if she was allowed to purchase or walk out of the store with all of that merchandise. Tbh I kinda would have loved to be the DBO to tell her "Yeah, ummm no!"
@@anthonynelson6671 i didn’t even see the signs at first!!! i figured they had to be limiting purchases cause target is strict about having their stores on the same page so hopefully the mom filming ended up being able to buy some!
@@jillie-rie I had to play it back to confirm, but after having seen limit 7x11s for PAPR/CHEM products for so long limiting signage has become recognizable.
in australia gambling ads are banned on broadcasts between certain times but you'll walk past about 50 posters in a row at the train station and it's like 👏👏👏 well done, i can see how committed you are to fixing this problem
My toxic trait is that I would’ve taken what I needed from her cart. They’re not hers if she hasn’t bought them yet. I don’t even have a baby yet and I’m ready to throw hands with these kind of selfish people.
Break up the formula company. A recall of one company's product/s shouldn't run the risk of nation wide formula shortages. If they control that much, it's a monopoly.
It's also a baby boom right now. Quite a large one, so demand is very very high compared to normal. This isn't just a USA problem. It's a Canada problem as well right now.
Can't lie I will never know why Twitch is going to act like a kid friendly site when they allow gambling streams and soft core pornography on the site.
Phil (a couple of weeks ago): "I've been having health issues. I had to go to the emergency room." Me: "Oh no. That sucks." Phil: "I married into a family of Alabama fans." Me (audibly gasps): "Bless your heart, that's terrible."
The formula shortage was a problem here in Australia a few years back, and I remember when major grocery chains started to limit the number of purchases to two at any one time, you'd go into a supermarket in the city and there would be coordinated groups of people who would bulk buy but check out individually, so they had TECHNICALLY followed the guidelines. It was a nightmare trying to get just enough to feed my daughter. I feel for the parents and carers that are going through this.
As someone from a family of addicts and that came dangerously close to gambling addictions myself, I don't think I could watch a gambling stream without wanting to throw up, honestly. I agree with Ludwig - no sponsors. See how willing people are to throw their own money at a rigged game. And I would also require the number for a gambling addiction hotline to be on screen at all times if I was making the rules.
The games that are sponsored are usually shady offshore casinos that rig the games in the favor of the streamer to show more "winnings" so gullible people throw their money at that site using the real odds. I don't think the really big gambling sites would rig anything, they get enough from rake and ante's plus the games of chance that always lean a pinch towards the house. Like roulette, betting on red is right 16/33 times, essentially a 3% edge to the house. Rigging beyond the displayed and declared house edge gets every agency to throw fines your way plus a tonne of bad press, they never would. But those unregulated crypto casinos hosted in some tax haven with barely any gambling laws, yeah, being sponsored by one of those should automatically get you banned imo.
Yes but it was YOUR choice to gamble, it wasn't out of your control. You had every opportunity to stop but didn't. That is YOUR responsibility, not the casinos or wherever you dumped your money on. I know we throw this addiction word around to justify bad behavior but at the end of the day, it's on you. You have yourself to blame.
@@ter6501 You clearly don't know what ADDICTION is. Your brain and body literally works against your best interest because it is addicted to a certain feeling or chemical. It is not just ''Oh just don't do it''...GEE why did NO ONE THOUGHT OF THAT. All the while these gambling sites and all the other addiction crap use all the tools in their disposal to target the TRIGGERS in Addicts to get them to relapse. It is a literal industry from Streams to Mobile apps to gacha games. Unless laws are passed to prevent this, the suffering will continue and only enrich the assholes who exploit addicts that they try hard to create.
yeah, addiction is NOT just a lack of self-control, and until our culture understands and respects that, the situation at large and the talk around it won't get better.
It is still just a lack of self-control though... it doesn't matter how difficult it is, at the end of the day you are the only one who can control yourself.
Imagine being scared and desperate for baby formula meanwhile the republican representative you voted for says no to an emergency bill that could save lives. At what point do we start holding representative responsible for obstructing bills just because they hate the opposition.
It's ok, I didn't UNEXPECTEDLY and ABRUPTLY start crying when you told the story of Benji in Texas. It's just DUSTY OKAY?? (my youngest just turned 2 and luckily eats solid food. I've scoured my house for leftover formula for friends the last few weeks. This hits 💔)
My son was very sick when he was younger. Until he was almost 5 years old he was exclusively on a feeding tube formula made by Abbott, it was the only thing he could have. Thankfully he went into remission and he now can have solid foods. It’s a nightmare scenario for the parents that depend on the formula for their sick and very young kids.
When it comes to the entire NCAA debacle, I find it so telling that multimillionaire coaches are bickering over college players getting pennies compared to what they get. I have NO issues with students finally getting paid for their hard work
If Twitch could create better preference options, so you could choose "ignore" or "don't show me" stream categories, it would fix a lot of the moral policing.
My mother tried stabbing me to take my lunch money to go gamble when I was 15.- Some context; My mom is a hardcore gambling addict, she began when I was around 10. At first it was small things, she would arrive late to the house or somedays just never show up. It only really started getting bad when she stopped picking me up from school. (my dad worked outside the country at the time so she was the only one available to pick me up). so she would often leave me at school till around 10 when my older brother would finish his night courses so he would pick me and my sister up. around the age of 14ish (I'm 24 now so the memory of ten years not that great) my dad had finally gotten wind off what was going on so he came back to our country to help out and try to find a solution. During this time he stopped giving my mother money and because of desperation she started asking me and my siblings for our lunch money to go gamble, dunno what my siblings did but I used to give it to her, I ended up loosing around 15 pounds cause I simply wouldn't have money to eat, I began eating the the oranges from the trees around my school to try and eat since didn't have many other choices. By the time I was 15 I was a little smarter so I began Holding my ground more. However my mother came home one night when I was at home by myself just me and her and she asked for my lunch money for the week, I said now. she asked again, I said no, she asked one more time and this time I yelled no. She then proceeded to scream vile things to me that I will not honor by sharing here, long story short it culminated with her grabbing a knife and threating me more the money, This time with anger and sadness I still said no, she moved up to me with her knife over her head.... I punched her with all my might and ran into my room locking the door, she then left the house and I did not see her for around 3 weeks. Moral of the story, Gambling addictions break families and if you do gamble do it responsibly.
A bunch of years ago we had a mother weeks after giving birth with her newborn stopped at a poker machine parlor and left the kid to die in the car after hrs in the SC sun. A lot of stories of children of all young ages being left in cars when parents go to casinos and the kids die.
xQc doing gambling steams when he has admitted to having problems with gambling seems like a bad idea... but I agree that Twitch allowing it is the problem. Also he should banned from calling it "Gamba"
I mean it's literally allowing on the platform people basically wasting their own lifes to the addiction. What next - pro-ana streamers and heroine addicts being allowed to spread their illnesses to other people?
Usually when someone insists that "no laws were broken and no rules were broken" means that they may have done something or have knowledge of something that that may be unethical per say or a loop hole. But it breaks no rules or laws. IMO 🤷
It reminds me of those annoying kids who kept saying that "the air is free" while being all up in your face. They know they are being an asshole but since they "technically aren't breaking any rules" you supposedly have no right to be angry at them.
Their overly aggressive reactions to a man saying calmly "they're doing this, they're bragging about doing this, we won't do that, we might not keep our place" is a very clear tell, they're not mad he said it, they're mad it's true. Notice jimbo went for personal attacks, thats a man who just got called out on his bullshit and is not happy about it
@@Zanderevans141 exactly, this whole situation screams of people praying in their heads "please let this blow over, please don't let anyone dig deeper." Although all of this super reacting is just making people pay more attention.
Man I’m in three minds about the gambling. 1.) Gambling can/does straight up ruin lives. 2.) do parents not have to parent anymore? 3.) it’s up to Twitch to solve the issue and maybe address other controversial topics/categories too
1) everything that is considered fun, has the capacity to ruin lives. 2) this is a based point. 3) If Twitch wants to crackdown on it then thats their choice, but I see no problem with it.
1) Correct. 2) It's harder to parent now than in the 80/90's. Social media and always online is way harder to limit or control than telling a kid to be home at 10. 3) Twitch cares about kids watching more twitch content and that's it.
4:39 SHAME. Shame on the woman who cleared an ENTIRE SHELF of baby formula for herself. And double shame on the store that ALLOWED this. Holy shit. Whatever store that is, the manager ought to be fired. That is pure negligence to allow ONE customer to buy a stock meant for a COMMUNITY of mothers. If I was the cashier, I would have flatly refused to process this transaction. The worst they could do is fire me for it. Even if lost my job that STILL WOULD BE A BETTER OUTCOME THAN THIS. There absolutely, absolutely needed to be a limit x number per person rule in place. Unbeleivable.
This wasnt like the store only had 4 cans and she graabbed them all. There was atleast a dozen in her cart! Thats like at the very least weeks worth of meals for a single baby. Because god forbid you only buy a few and take a more trips to the stores to get more cans once you nearly run out, to save some for others whos baby's gonna starve real soon. That woman better not be selling them eaither.
Phil, I think you inadvertently hit the nail on the head when you said that when you were younger and had less money you gambled more, because you had a very small chance to gain so much money you gambled your money. now that you have much much more to lose, you're more hesitant
Sponsored gambling streams are downright evil. Stakes, the one usually sponsoring these streamers, straight you gives you a % of your fanbases loses if they use your referral code. At the very least, that is unquestionably immoral and shouldn't be allowed on Twitch.
Often times we hear stories of people aiming to do something with the best of intentions only to be misguided and doing something horrible, but the story with the restaurant owner is a rare example where the exact opposite happened. A man made a business decision that was meant to help no one else but himself, only to realize the right thing to do was philanthropy and providing for his community free of payment; what a fucking legend
Well, he was originally going to sell it at cost, so it probably wouldn't have directly benefited him like selling it for profit would have... it's even better to see that he gave it for free though.
Yeah but I'm fairly certain legally you can't bribe a player to go to your school. That's against more than a few guidelines. It's also just unfair for schools that make less than others. I'm not even a football fan and I see the issue. I disagree with the bribing to play bit.
@@Random_dud31 and #All A scholarship can be bribery depending on how it's sed, yeah. Thats called "context" and its important. Usually scholarships are used to give someone with acceptional athletic or academic ability the chance to go higher even if they cant afford to. Theres a massive difference between that, and directly paying someone and their family money to go to your school. Scholarships are options and not only for sports, and can be used maliciously, but straight payment is a bribe and not fair to poorer schools, and nothing more.
@@thedarksalmon9893 Thats how how it should be, but a lot of scholarships do also go to people who don't deserve it. The context doesn't matter. Have a lawyer and BAM, you can give a scholarship to whoever you like
Thankfully the grocery store I work at has been keeping any and all baby formula behind the customer service desk for the past several years, nobody's been allowed to buy more than what they need
As a gambling addict and Twitch streamer, It's insanely hard for me to go on the site without getting triggered into gambling. I have gambled all my money away and taken out huge loans due to twitch not letting me just hide the content. I don't care if they gamble, they are destroying lives but at least let me block all the stream that have gambling in them because I know I'm weak and this would actually help me. I actually relapsed watching trainwrecks.
@@kettlebot3610 hey, if I didn't make money monthly that helps me live I'd leave in a heartbeat. UA-cam doesn't help streamers and it makes everything a lot harder to grow and make money which sucks. I hope one day I can make enough of a audience to jump ship to UA-cam and I'll be happy but for now, I literally cannot stop even if I wanted as my life would be a lot worse.
As someone who works at a casino and seen the damage it causes, I'm torn on it. Personally, I don't mind because I know better than try to gamble. But I see how this is hard on so many. Unless the platform steps in, it will not go away.
Xqc thing is just ridiculous. He already apologized and stated he won't do it again, but now decides to go back up. If he loves gambling so much, he should do it without an audience.
Or shit parents can actually monitor their kids like they are supposed to? It is not a public figures responsibility to make everyone in the crowd safe, the platform used to distribute has no qualms with the act. I would like to have actual numbers on who it affects instead of all virtue signaling from people not even interested in the creator or their content.
@@prusakj1425 do you understand how difficult that is to do with being a helicopter parent? And every creator has a responsibility to be decent to their audience.
There was also a clip with xQc where someone in his chat was concerned about how easy it was to sign up for a gambling site. Pretty much saying there is no verification process and kids could just sign on after stealing their mother's credit card. xQc said he didn't see a problem with having a gambling site that was easy to sing up on.
I’d say a key difference between gambling streams on twitch and seeing gambling on tv is the level of control the viewer has- algorithms thrive on addictive content and I imagine gamblers trying to keep themselves away from that sort of content are probably going to inadvertently wind up the target of it in their feeds without being able to do anything as simple as changing the channel
For me the difference between people like XQC and other streamers getting paid to promote gambling and poker on TV is that TV poker shows don't spend years directly cultivating a parasocial relationship with their audience. Streamers do.
I work for a pediatric dental office and I had one mother come in with 9 month old twins. She's booked a flight to Mexico, where she has family, to stick up on formula there and bring it back with her since she heard that there isn't a shortage there. It's getting so crazy. Even then she was scared that TSA would give her a hard time about bringing the formula back.
Poker on TV isn't exactly gambling in the same way that people on twitch streams gamble. Professional poker players aren't gambling insofar as putting up money and leaving the outcome to pure chance. There is a lot of skill involved in playing poker properly, and while there are often substantial amounts of money involved, that doesn't make it any different than any other game played for a piece of a prize pool.
Benji is a good human! That’s what you do when you have money, help other people when you can. To ease so many caretakers minds is a gift that can’t be imagined! They know their babies are fed and happy which takes so much stress off of their minds.
@@alienboy1322 Phil covered it sometime this week, but there's been a baby formula shortage in the US for weeks. Think the toilet paper shortage in 2020, but instead of worrying about your butt, it's your starving infant. Tends to make the panic a gazillion times worse, but also makes the hoarding and insane price-gouging a gazillion times more evil.
Target should also be monitoring their inventory. Anyone who comes up to the check out should be maxed out at 2 of any baby formula. If you feed your baby as doctor recommended that should last a week. Long enough to wait to buy more.
Limiting numbers went away in most stores. They had signs and told people 1 per or 2 per customer but if the person argued they let them buy it all. Like mask mandates and any rule. In the end it is about sales and can't upset the customer or cause any confrontation. Target was the worse at bending to the hoarders. We have a couple grocery chains near me that is making you go to customer service for baby formula and not stocking shelves so you get 2 cans/boxes etc. and that's it. Putting it out for the mob to grab is going to cause problems.
@@samhainnc9416yea but why not do it like in Australia, 2 maximum scanned, the register will take no more. Sure you can pay and scan 2 each time, but by the time you can call security
Yesterday I was interviewed for a segment by my local news. I have 7 month old twin boys with a dairy intolerance. They are on a specialty formula that we can’t find anywhere…we have about 3 weeks worth but after that we have no idea what we are going to do….it’s heartbreaking 💔
We had issues here in Australia pre/early in the pandemic with Asian-Australians buying trolleys full of formula and then sending it back to their families in China or possibly selling it back home for an exorbitant price. This resulted in most supermarkets locking the formula behind cabinets, and making a maximum two tins of formula per sale.
People were limited in the amount of toilet paper they could buy pretty early into the pandemic, so I'm confused as to why the same thing didn't happen to baby formula as soon as retail stores learned about this shortage.
Right?! You can wipe your ass with a wash cloth, get a bidet, or just jump in the shower after you poop, but there is no easy replacement for baby formula. When I had my son I breastfed for as long as I could, but he had a latching issue and I just couldn’t keep up my supply with pumping. Formula was our savior. He also had to be on one consistent type of formula or else it would mess up his tummy. I can only imagine the stress of having him now and not being able to find the formula he needed, or much less ANY formula to feed my baby at all.
As someone who struggles with addictions to both, I feel that gambling streams and drunken streams fall into similar categories. I can't watch either type of stream for very long before I get the urge to break my sobriety to both.
today someone commented i should delete all videos :( people can be so mean. but i dont care. i know im the best. i never give up. i am age 80+ and will never stop. thanks for caring, dear dea
Just wanna point out that Target has a limit of 4 on the formula, which is stated on the signs behind them. That lady wouldn't have been allowed to buy all those. And if she tried to fight it security would've hauled her off without any formula.
Why as a house representative would you vote against a bill that helps address a huge bipartisan issue? I have no clue what the "usual suspects" are thinking, as if that won't come up later when they are up for election.
As a sports fan when Nick Saban said that they didn’t pay players, this year, I almost laughed. Bc there as a point and time when half of the conference hes apart of was doing so. And he started it. Even if the school didn’t. There’s nothing stopping a coach or the directors from saying, “you need something replaced or some holiday money talk to *******”
all of those allegations you made against saban have been proven false and are against NCAA rules. But when someone wins so much, I guess you have to go after them.
@@robertstone9988 disagree. They shouldn't be payed, unless the school is using their name or image in adverts. If Nike or someone wants to sponsor a college athlete, im cool with that as well, just feel the schools shouldn't be paying athletes. It would drive tuition for everyone else up more and it's not like that isn't insane enough already.
@@Tikimohn what do you thank a scollership is? They give the athletes a free collage education. Not sure if you have seen how much it cost a year to go to some of these schools. Athletes tend to get more free perks as well. When you start adding up all the free stuff food room some of the best trainers and training facilities they are "paid" well. If they want paid so bad fine cut the scollerships and all the free shit other students would have to pay for and just cut them a check. Im sure they will spend it wisely.
My heart goes out to the parents struggling to find formula for their babies. My family lived in Indonesia during the Reformasi when my brother and I were babies and my dad said that one of the scariest experiences he had during that time, alongside walking amongst the violence on the streets, was having difficulty baby formula for the two babies waiting for him at home. My mom couldn't breastfeed so we relied on formula.
Personally I think college athletes should be treated like pros. Get paid, have health insurance, life insurance, all that. They are putting their bodies and their minds on the line to bring notoriety to their schools. They have sustained life altering injuries, they've taken their own lives, the course of their lives are fundamentally changed. There should of course be a limit as to how much a school can pay an athlete in order to keep the mega schools from scooping up everyone. And there should be regulations to close the gap between how male and female student athletes are treated.
The solution for the gambling issue is two-fold: First as people are suggesting, no sponsored gambling streams; Secondly the platforms should implement an opt-in option for gambling categories. If people have to go out of their way to enable the category it gives another layer of protection to those who are addicted. I mean yeah it's going to hit the gambling creator's numbers pretty hard to implement those changes, and is definitely going to hurt the bank accounts of the streamers, but at some point you have to weigh societal safety versus monetary gain for a minority which given the capitalistic society we live in that's not going to happen. Proof that protections need to be put in place is the fact that xQc is back to gambling streams. He knows, and admitted he has a gambling problem and yet he's back at it. Sure some/all of the financial burden is removed since he's sponsored to do it but someday he won't be, and will that stop a gambling addict from gambling? No. Just as financial responsibilities will not stop his gambling addicted viewers from gambling.
@Route Zero Putting it in it's own opt-in category by definition removes it from "public space". Gambling in and of it's self is not an addiction. Gambling IS predatory but so is everything else. Gaming is full of predatory tactics, Twitch as a platform is predatory as is streaming itself. Advertisement is predatory, you will find a hard time finding anything that is not predatory in some way. Gambling is a form of entertainment, that is it's "redeeming value".
@@xxfloppypillowxx Exactly what you said. People have argued for a long time that things like loot boxes and such more or less classify as gambling as well, and are built into almost every AAA multiplayer title that's released now. The gaming scene I would argue is mostly predatory capitalism at this point, we all just have to navigate it with caution and not get addicted to that "new car smell" that new games we won't play can often entice us with. Same can be said for promoted gambling on Twitch. Sure, xQc isn't losing anything due to sponsorship, but what about all the people he's streaming to who may have compromised decision making due to the way he promotes the content and how it portrays a falsely high number of earnings/winnings?
@@ReanuKeevesAus He basically has infinite money to throw at the games, so he wins much more than other people typically would, which (whether directly or indirectly) gives a false sense of probability to the viewer who is not a filthy rich Twitch personality with multiple millions of dollars in sponsorships. The games are not adjusted in his favor, but if you are playing at 0 risk it inflates your profits quite heavily and can make it seem like you would win a lot by playing. Gambling addicts especially are very susceptible to these false notions of favorable odds and probabilities.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I feel like influencers have a duty to go above.and beyond and at least appear to be held to a higher standard Sponsored gambling streams proves that their morality has a price
Agree, the argument that "they're just normal people too" only works to a point. I'm a normal person, but I also don't have thousands to millions of impressionable people watching me on an, almost, daily basis. You can’t blame them for everything their audience does in their personal lives that might have been swayed by said streamer. However, they need to be more responsible, or at the very least, more socially conscious that what they do could have a big impact on people. Some streamers can mention a hair care product that they use, said in passing, and their audience will go out and buy all online store's supplies in less than an hour. They have a lot of power, so they need to be more careful.
Let’s be honest about college sports…all these big school are corrupt when it comes recruiting talent. I don’t believe for one second that Alabama doesn’t participate is paying player to come play for them. A way to fix this problem, pay those players and or just kill college sports. It’s a corrupt system that should be abolished.
no lots of athletes dont get that much money out of it, but many of them get a good education without the sports bringing in the money they wouldnt be able to over full paid scholarships to them, most college athletes never make it to the pros and college is there last chance to get to play why take that away from them
@@redred222 sure, you are not wrong. That being said, those athletes should be focusing on their studies first and foremost, which they don’t, at most universities your sport comes first. You have to have be at the gym for your morning routine, then class, the practice. There is to much emphasis on the sport and not education. That is the real problem.
@@wadeflores6978 Are US universities even worth the name anymore? So much talk of charging excessive fees for worthless degrees, and then this focus on jocks. It's not world beating geniuses like Bohr on the football team anymore.
@@johndododoe1411 given that college graduates in the US earn 2.5x more than people who don’t have college degrees the short answer is…yes. College degrees in the US are 100% worth their weight in gold.
Gambling is just as bad as an addiction as doing drugs. I sat threw GA meetings and the stories I heard from people who lost everything out there houses up to cover bets. It’s amazing to me that it’s so excepted now they have casino and sports betting commercials being shoved down peoples throats
It's about access right? When you walk into a mall... you might be there for 1 specific thing... but you'll have access to everything there without restriction. Forever 21 might have a young girl "demographic"... but any creepy old man can walk in and nothing stops them. You don't even have to walk in anywhere just go window shopping and you'll see almost everything. The internet is the same kind of place but much much worst... Chappelle's Show: Season 2 - If the internet were a real place.
As the child on a gambling addict. It hard to see your parent who makes over 100k a year throw it all away. While people have every right to gamble sadly too many state governments depend on casinos and betting for revenue.
In terms of college football, the NIL rules just favor the huge schools even more, creating an even bigger divide in the competitive gap. Saban is 100% right here unfortunately. Pre NIL A&M was lucky to get 1 or 2 five star recruits. This year they got seven. SEVEN. The more money you have as a school (and from graduate donors) the better players you get, it’s just a fact that was true before NIL and now it has just increased to the nth degree. The rule itself is great for the kids but there are not enough regulations in place to handle it just yet.
exactly. TAM did nothing wrong, but they sure as hell bought that class. I like the way College Football Nerds discussed handling it like a clearing house.
I like the way the one guy framed it as an attack on 17 year olds and their families, instead of a critique of the system and an accusation of buying players by proxy. Sounded like his school definitely wasn’t taking advantage of the changes in the system.
On gambling: I stopped talking to my ex in Feb 2021, in June, she called me to tell me she hadn't been to work in 2 weeks, was 50k in debt, didnt know if she had a job, and was moving 300mi away. She is now making $150k a year and living with her mother. Gamblers have no control. The are addicted to the buildup, not the chance of winning or even getting their money back. But the issue is, they cant stop, and there's nothing in place to prevent them from chasing that "high". Whether or not you like to gamble, you can't understand what they go through.
@@chrys9256 came here to say this. As my dad says "not every lawyer/doctor had straight As but they did graduate" and also you can take MCATs and the Bar multiple times, it just gets more expensive to have to retake
I would disagree that he was ever a d-bag. His original intention was to buy out the formula and selling it at cost (at the same price he bought it for, yielding no profit to him or his business.) Which already is a pretty good guy move. He just decided to say fuckit, we dont need the money, and decided to hand it out for free instead (putting him and his business at a loss, not even, which was the original idea).
ah, the good old "here's my two cents on a story i'm not gonna bother reading up on in the first place" what's so dbag about what he was doing initially? he wasn't a scalper; he was already selling them at cost, meaning he was making no profit on it in any way. all he was really doing was ensuring people have actual access to baby formula because he was only allowing a person to buy one can each so that you don't end up in a situation where one karen is walking off with a hundred cans all to herself. and then he goes the extra mile and just gives them away for free, only for people like you to call him a dbag lol.
I presume his original intent was to offer an emergency solution to people who only found empty shelves because retailers were too greedy to limit purchases.
The problem with the gambling argument is so many games that kids play pretty much have it, it’s just hidden behind a veneer of “loot boxes” or “packs” and we all pretend that’s fine but the second some dude plays some blackjack with some kids watching we lose it.
I have a one year old and luckily I no longer need baby formula. But if I was at target and I saw this woman I'd take them right out her cart. I could care less. That is outrageous that she had all them bottles in her cart.
I couldn’t agree more. I got so enraged at her. She doesn’t own them. They’re still store property until somebody buys them. Taking something out of someone’s cart is simply against etiquettes but fuck etiquette is this woman is reason my child might die..
To be clear i think any gambling stream is exploitative and targetted. I do think twitch should intervene but as well streamers need to also be held accountable simply passing the buck saying its twitches fault they are unclear is a bs excuse they know its wrong and are selling gambling to minors.
My D3 university lost several years worth of wins and Championships because our coach let a player use a 30 year-old beater to get around when the player’s car broke down. The university found out about it and self reported, and the NCAA hit them HARD. And now another football player is about to be homeless and they can’t do anything to help him without being in violation. The whole NCAA system is just… so whack.
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The man giving away the formula made me cry. Touching. Totally deserving of the BAMF of the day title.
Get some rest! We appreciate the extra long shows this week and you deserve some R&R with your family!
The formula shortage is so worrying for me because I'm seeing people on Facebook advertising alternatives like *unpasteurized goat's milk* and instead of people commenting about how this is not only dangerous but illegal in our state, they're just like "This is how we did it before Big Pharma created formula to steal all your money!" Like, yeah Karen, we used to not wash our hands before sticking them inside a person's body to yank out their internal organs to figure out why they had headaches - there are reasons we *used* to do it and *don't* do it anymore.
I know someone whose child almost died from E.coli poisoning, from drinking unpasteurized cow's milk.
She ended up with kidney failure, and a massive stroke, that left her nonverbal, and in a wheelchair.
There’s a half truth is the worst part. It is in fact evil that formula became the universal replacement in people’s minds. But big pharma didn’t do it, Nestle did. It IS kind of evil that they convinced a whole society that their PRODUCT is better than what we can produce for free. Not denying the importance of formula for peoples specific needs, but really it’s a bit screwed up that companies made us all dependent on a product for such an important thing.
And of course feeding your child goats milk is insane.
Duhhhh
In an emergency ask your doctor which sub par alternative will keep your kid alive.
@@reeveetalk1907 true, but this is one emergency that happened because of a capitalist just in time system, it could have been avoided if several things were done differently. (a larger emergency stockpile of formula, more factories/companies that produce it, nationalizing formula production and ensuring that every single child is provided enough to survive till they no longer need it)
I'm glad they're trying to do something about the formula shortage, but one of the biggest issues with it right now are the scalpers. My older brother has an 8 month old and he and his fiance have been struggling to the point he decided to look online and try to find some and just found people with piles if it selling it for exorbitant prices. Literally exploiting parents who are trying to feed their babies. It's disgusting.
Chinese ppl buy it all and sell it to desperate ppl online for a huge markup.
I'm sorry they're going through this. I imagine this is really scary for them.
Places like FB, Amazon and eBay need to take responsibility, shut that shit down and report them to their state's AG. I mean, people that find them can screenshot everything, report them off the platform and then turn all that over to their state's AG. But they shouldn't have to, especially not when the platforms are making money off those sales too. They're just as bad.
There's laws to stop this and this is the kinda thing AGs *love* to prosecute. The fines or possible jail time can at least tide these predators over before they go to hell.
I mean, it costs money to eat. Pretty sure there are alternatives to formula considering humans have existed for millions of years and formula hasn't
@@donniebao Formula *IS* the alternative. I can't even be bothered to explain to you how braindead this take is, go watch an Adam Ruins episode about it or something.
@@lunacouer I'll have to let my brother know! He was talking to us about how he's seeing them and almost bought some just out of being desperate but his finances mom found some. Especially because his fiancee struggled to breastfeed, and while they did freeze and save what she managed to pump, the baby refuses it when they try to use it. It was a real struggle for them to finally find something he wouldn't refuse when he was younger so it's been really tough for them now that there's this shortage. Thank you for the info!
Re: The formula shortage
It's fascinating to me that the people who grab three slices of pizza and the people who grab only one both do it for the exact same reason: "I was afraid they were going to run out."
Why wouldn't retailers put a limit on how much formula you can buy the same way they did during the pandemic? They wouldn't let me get two boxes of tampons in different sizes, they could easily enforce a limit on formula.
I'd say cause there is not a limit on how many kids you can have. Ik dumb but it seems logical
@@D9xAbstract it worked in the pandemic. Worse case scenario some people need to go to several shops. It's still better than the lady with a full cart in the video
@@DaniStarEngland exactly! Even before the pandemic, some retailers set daily limits due to the the high amount of people exporting it.
We have limits in my company as standard for formula. Like, there isn't a shortage, but the stores only stock so much so we limit purchases to 3 units (I think its three).
Phil: I gambled when I was younger.
Also Phil: I lost a bunch of money on Peloton.
Oh Buuuuuuuurn!!! XooX
Yep, the stock market is gambling for the rich.
My mom is a recovering gambling addict and she made us homeless when I was like 15 and it tore my family apart. Streamers and UA-camrs should not be promoting or glorifying it on their streams. I completely agree with ludwig. No sponsored gambling streams. You wanna gamble do it with your own money.
It's a bit like having a sponsored Oxycontin stream.
My family is poor and full of gambling addicts. I don't think people give gambling addiction the weight it deserves.
For my 18th birthday (gambling age where I live) my mom dragged me to the casino, despite me telling her I refuse to gamble, because I've seen what it did to my relatives. I sat in the hotel room and cried on the phone to my boyfriend while my mom gambled. On my birthday. When my mom came back I was screamed at and told that I had to return any gifted money I received for my birthday because it "was for gambling"
I've never forgiven my mom for that. She probably doesn't even remember it happening
So... it's other people's fault that your mom made bad choices? Please. "Gambling addiction" isn't a thing, it's an excuse for poor decision making. People are responsible for managing their impulses, and that includes "gambling addicts".
@@wmdkitty bro what. What you said applies to literally all addiction. It's easy to say from the outside, to belittle the impact of it.
I'm from a super rural, conservative, and poor area. So many people there live on the idea that they'll 'make it big one day' by gambling or winning a lottery. A lot of them don't realize how toxic their gambling habits are.
@@wmdkitty gambling addiction is a thing. It's also one of the deadliest addictions
This baby formula story is just another reason we need to break up these oligopolies and force situations where companies can't push all of their competition out of the market anymore. Make a law that states that you can't merge with or acquire any company if there are less than 20 companies holding at least 2% of the market or more within the market that target company is apart of.
They are called anti trust laws, and they probably exist, but the regulatory agenceys have conflicts of interest and lack of funding
Formula is useful. For some people, it's 100% necessary, baby would die without it.
But the fact that Nestle or P&G has managed to put women's breast out of work shows how totalled our civilization is.
Mothers, with babies, and a healthy pair of breasts...have starving babies.
We are a laughing stock.
The chinese are literally taking them all, that video is not just a one time occassion
Chinese citizens are buys up formula because they don't trust their own countries formula due to death by lead poisoning..they're also reselling it online
@Squad wipes™ we aren't talking about candy and children. This is an issue involving Corporations that we allow to have too much market. It isnt a socialism sort of idea to desire multiple companies available in order to make things like i dont know, Food For Infants, a more stable and readily available product rather than making it so if one company has an issue then there will be enough competition to compensate for the decline of supply.
I cried hearing how Benji's heart softened and he gave away the formula for free. God bless him and his family, and all those he helped as well. SO MANY would have sold it for a profit and exploited starving families.
Same
And he was ALREADY doing the right thing, reselling at cost. To go from an unusually moral act to a genuine act of compassion and charity earns him his bamf of the day.
A good man.
I need to know the name of his restaurant so I can give them some of my patronage just on this alone
I don't want to shove politics down your face, I just really like the idea: Marx comments on how capitalism isn't just bad for the workers, but also the capitalists, who are conditioned to act less naturally and more unnaturraly, and we should free them too.
I guess what I am saying is: Benji in that moment freed himself from monetary value tracking and realised that the work we do, the accumulations we make, pales in comparison to the human actions we can take. And he is a much fuller man because of it.
Again, don't walk out a socialist lol, but yeah, Benji will die a happy man, we should also wish to emulate him.
@@roberthorne9597 I have to disagree about the Marx comments. There is a reason why capitalist nations are some of the most charitable in the world, with the US donating billions in charity across the world alone.
When people have a surplus of wealth or material, they tend to be a lot more charitable, even if it's by a little. The main issue is that charity isn't being pushed as a social norm, which it should be.
Some of the most charitable people I know are from extremely wealthy families, because they are able to donate more. Socialists also tend to support the Government providing support, and even when they personally donate they will not differ much at all from capitalist donators.
Also, Marx himself wasn't exactly great with money. In fact, he was frequently overspending when he was in university to the point his father struggled to pay for him and ended up having to put his foot down.
But Benji is the man! Absolute angel among men, the fact he changed his mind of his own choice is what truly reveals the person he is deep down. He set out to make extra money in this situation but had a complete change of heart. We need more people like him!
I think gambling appeals to us more when we have less money. When you’re poor the idea of one big win changing your whole life is almost irresistible. When your whole day to day life is stress about money, the idea of winning that lottery or whatever it may be is just too appealing. It’s an emotional and irrational decision, but people probably wouldn’t do it if we were already well enough off.
That’s the real danger of gambling, it preys on the vulnerable.
I agree with Ludwig that Sponsored Gambling Streams should not be allowed. And for my own opinion, I think all Sponsored Gambling Content should not be allowed (this includes Draft Kings cough cough).
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The problem is the example he uses is nonsense. Do you think the channels showing poker don't have ads? All gambling shown on TV is sponsored.
At least be consistent if you're going to whine about something. Whine about the channels showing ads or you are a hypocrite.
And before you try to argue it, yes, the advertisers get to okay what shows they happen during on TV. What blocks of time an ad is to get shown is bought and paid for so they are intentionally sponsoring those shows by selecting those ad blocks.
I mean gambling shouldn't really be allowed at all, especially when it is easily accessible, by children and ill people. Keep the games free of any prices and money. Card games, chance games - anything, doesn't need to include money. Gambling is like drugs, it could be ok with moderation and when done by consenting and knowledgeable adults. But gambling with real money is like hard (and also low quality) drugs and as much devastating and exploative.
@@TessaBain Thanks for the reply. You actually made me back up and think. I think that policy should be different for people's individual country or state/province of origin. Where I live, my community would be up and arms for people skirting the line like this, but where you or other commenters live, this is the norm. I have no problem with XQC being the face of Twitch and gambling, but if you live in my district where I vote, I would want XQC blacklisted on the website. If you dont live where I do, then my comment is merely an opinion and I dont have any control over you :P
@@TessaBain The people playing poker on TV don't see the profit from commercials shown on TV. Are you slow? Directly sponsoring a single streamer for a block of time is entirely different from a broadcasting station having commercials play throughout the programming. Your line of thinking is similar to LTT saying using ad block on UA-cam is equivalent to torrenting movies
"No sponsored gambling streams" definitely fixes the main issue.
Yeah easy to lose 100k when you're getting a million to play
Creators are never to blame for what addicts do. I'm a computer games developer. I'm not accountable for computer game addiction. That's someone's personal problem. End of story.
@@Bo_norman more like lossing a million only to get payed 9
@@Reksaurian Actually you may be responsible for inducing them to gamble more. Hence why loot boxes have come under such scrutiny across the globe. Loot boxes that return cosmetic items are generally regarded as okay, but when they are paid for in real money and can return game changing items the story changes as that incentivizes people to buy them and for the developers to play with the odds. Give the player just enough 'wins' at the loot box to keep them buying.
Sponsored gambling is like influencers vaping just water saying "vaping is cool". Advertising the rush or "coolness" of something with no risk to themselves while anyone else who does could lose everything.
This formula shortage kinda shows what happens when there is a monopoly in an industry.
Same thing with Cpaps. In many industries there are only 2 or 3 large companies, if even that many.
The big fish are allowed to gobble up the small fish, because the big fish donate to both parties.
The story for the BAMF legit brought tears to my eyes. I'm not a parent or anything like that, but it's so nice to hear a good story every now and then
Is it a BAMF though?
He bought 56 cases to resell.. granted he changed his mind and gave it away for free, but he originally was gonna sell it, and stockpiled it, stopping others from getting it.
@@MarkOfTzeentch But even when he was going to resell it, he was going to sell it at cost, which is probably much lower than it would be if it ended up on a shelf in a store. The people just have to drive to a different location to pick it up.
@@MarkOfTzeentch also parents were struggling to actually find it in stores - probably due to people like the lady who cleaned out the shelf. He actually advertised that he had formula in stock so people knew they would find it. And i feel like you’re underestimating how much less selling at cost is. These stores markup things ridiculously high!
@@mak97fury The person he bought the 56 cases off would have supplied the entire state.. instead he bought it and only sold it in his store..
It isnt exactly a BAMF move because while he did give it away, i 100% bet he sold more stuff that day than he would have all that week, plus he has been given so much free advertisement by the press.
He would be a BAMF if his original goal was to give it away free to a charity that could have supplied this to in-need families, and not just whoever turned up to his store.. and did so anonymously..
Panic "Stocking up" has been one of the more disappointing aspects of society the past few years ESPECIALLY when they resell at astronomical prices on social media marketplace groups taking full advantage of others panicking but not being so selfish. During a snow storm in Memphis people bought up all the cases of water in stores and tried selling it at 4 times price to people desperate for clean water. I personally reported over 30 of these. Makes me sick. So glad you covered that wonderful BAMF!
God, I remember people at the start of pandemic charging hundreds of dollars for a pack of toilet paper. People are sick.
You made me cry about the man giving out the baby formula. It's the first goodwill I have heard in months.Thanks Phil for covering that story
Can you please bring forward the fact that it's not just parents and their babies being seriously threatened by this shortage?? Adults and those with feeding tubes are now being left with no options for our enteral formulas too.. but at a greater impact since many of us can't swap to other formula brands like a baby can. Our formula is made by the same people as baby formula. Parents need help with the shortage AND enteral patients.
Im also very concerned that the senate is deciding to "investigating Abbott" for BEING RESPONSIBLE and doing a voluntary recall and refund out of fear of contaminated stock?!? Like what? That's how you end up getting companies to sneak around instead of protecting consumers. This is crazy.
They’re investigating Abbott because they should be doing QC all the time to prevent the contamination from occurring. As you said, this formula is a medical supply, and is supposed to be sterile. I suspect that Abbott was skimping on their QC process. When a single company makes 80% of all formula, they have incredible leverage over regulatory organizations because “what are they gonna do, shut us down?” It would result in the crisis that we’re seeing right now.
@@SmileyxKyley nope. You're wrong. And severely misinformed on the full context. Abbott's CEO"s own daughter has EoE and she relies on their elecare, Jr formula to get her nutrition. It wasn't a QC thing. ABBOTT, not the FDA, shut the factory down precautionarily and reported to the FDA for clearance to make sure it was just the protein supply. Which it was. The protein supply was contaminated. But Abbott FUNDED the FDA to clear the factory for the possibility that it could've possibly been the factory itself. It's still shut down because the FDA hasn't completed the inspection still.
The CEO did a voluntary recall with in 3 kids getting sick. He did the right thing. The reason they make "80%" of the formula is because the sourcing and chemist requirements are very complex. Most of the effected supply was that of semi elemental or fully elemental formula chemically broken down to amino acid peptide bonds so that the body's gi system doesn't need to break it down itself. It's also sometimes difficult to test for certain strains of rare bacterial contamination like that of what was found in the ONE formula ingredient used in several elemental protein bases in powder elemental formula like elecare infant, Jr, alamac Jr, and several rx only enteral formulas labeled as "infant" or "junior" but.used by many adults like me who are fed by tube and need higher calorie artificial nutrition and have severe anaphylaxis to all "normal" food.
This isn't the first time Abboyts CEO has done this, either. he has done voluntary recalls several times in the past because of formulation ingredient changes that had caused people with idiopathic anaphylaxis like me, start reacting all of sudden. Thats why they make such a huge chunk of the fully elemental formulas; theres extremely limited protein sourcing that can be confirmed and modulated into an elemental/ peptide formula. Just like this incident and the ones before, Abbott under his leadership has continuously taken the RARE proactive means and extra precautions to actually protect THE CONSUMERS by acknowledging that it's not worth risking the health of those using their formula for financial gain. The company did the right thing. It was the right move. Unfortunately with the recall and the shortages from Nutricia upon COVID needs of enteral support for those on vents, it wad the perfect storm of unfortunate events that led us here.
@@frankied.roosevelt6232 Abbott choose to issue stock buybacks worth 5b while a whistleblower claims the Sturgis plant’s equipment was in need of repairs and maintenance. The only reason for the recall was to minimize company liability in the deaths of those infants or any others that might occur. To pile onto the problem, Abbott doesn't have the capacity to ramp up products due to the lack of any emergency plans in case anything happened. Because to do so would cost money and not directly increase profits. This whole shitshow is another example of how the system is rotten to the core.
@@nobodystaco7366 the "stock buybacks" were to investors so that there were funds so the parents could get full refunds for the recall and buy other formula options. And yes.. a company *SHOULD* care about infants deaths. You really think filling the shelves with contaminated and DEADLY bacteria filled formula is truly better than a voluntary recall and the shortage instead? Cause only one of those things has occurred in the death of children.
Your bias in approaching this situation wreaks of capitalism BS and full ignorance on anything.of this topic.
Especially when considering that the "emergency plan" would've never been substantial with COVID. We didn't even have a national stock pile for covid. So stop. You shouldn't open your mouth on a topic you don't seem to understand at even the bare minimum. It's embarrassing for you.
@@nobodystaco7366 ps: the whistle blower was that aforementioned exc. He "blew the whistle" on the FDAs slow movements around clearing the plant.
"We know parents depend on us to provide them with the highest quality nutrition formulas," Joe Manning, executive vice president of nutritional products at Abbott, said in a statement. "We're taking this action so parents know they can trust us to meet our high standards, as well as theirs. We deeply regret the concern and inconvenience this situation will cause parents, caregivers, and health care professionals."
Back in Oct.
Phil: "Im doing this new thing where I talk to people I like and respect"
A Convo With: "Am I a joke to you?"
Very on track for Phil to start something, run with it for a few eeks, then forget/abandon it until he's like "oh yeh, I like this thing, I should do more of that"
Maybe the cost of running another channel isn't feasible right now
I'll add that what Ludwig said about gambling addiction pretty much applies to all addictions.
People addicted to drugs know they are bad.
People addicted to junk food know it's bad.
But that is it. That IS the addiction.
It's continuing even knowing it is bad.
I'd argue that a lot of people that are addicted to something don't even acknowledge their addiction, and therefore is not a condition to be addicted.
Take video game addiction for example, I personally know a number of people that play video games at the expense of their own well-being (not eating or sleeping well, suffering at work or school) yet they deny they have a problem. I'm not disputing your original point though, just adding to what you said with my own experiences.
yeah its similar to banning weed or alcohol (though probs a better argument for it even though I personally enjoy smoking). these are adult activities that are adult cause you need to be responsible for yourself and if you can't handle that responsibility they will/should be revoked (like when DUI's lose their license cause of not being responsible) or you need to ask for help
@@blakegandalf8753 I don't believe it is useful to ban smoking or alcohol consumption, it just creates more stigma.. However I do think it is good to enforce rules about these types of companies (tobacco, liquor, gambling sites etc) not being allowed to sponsor streamers. There's no longer tobacco ads on TV or anywhere on the internet, ads for gambling sites shouldn't be allowed either in my opinion.
@@eev14 I def agree and I think a warning on stream for the addicts and children that read similar to one trainwrecks uses on stream. funny enough I also think xQc was right where people don't care about if the streamer did it they care more that a specific streamer did it. which is a sad reality to peoples paper thin morals
Some people just have addictive personalities, you can get addicted to just about anything, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, work, sex, gambling, shoplifting, Exercise, junk food, adrenaline, video games, and so on so forth. And then many people in a effort to stop their particular addiction inadvertently begin to trade addictions. No matter what you're favorite flavor is addiction is a more complex problem than a lot of people think. I hope any out there struggling with this monster stays in the fight, you can do it.
What also needs to be pointed out is Benji bought direct from distribution. He's not an a-hole like people clearing shelves, the man is an angel.
Forgive me my ignoranceI do have a question about that. In an emergency why aren’t distributors selling directly to mothers? It sounds like there is plenty of stock at the distributor level but the stores for us individual cannot keep stocked!
@@madhippy3 I might be wrong but I think it cost more and most don’t have that much to put down for a bill shipment
@@madhippy3 as coraline put it. These companies don't ship the tub you'd find on a shelf in the store. The ship huge boxes/pallets of products. That is a huge cost, and some places won't even sell to the average consumer without a license or qualifications. Quite frankly it's expensive. Distribution doesn't really care about whether it's an emergency case or not.
@@madhippy3 distributors can only ship out in bulk, and parents can’t buy in bulk! It’s basically a distribution issue right now, stores have to source from elsewhere than they normally do and with the shipping times that pushes getting their stock back by a few weeks- the problem started when expected shipments couldn’t be fulfilled and other factories hadn’t yet increased production to fill that void. The increase in production took a few weeks, then the distribution takes another few weeks. Distribution takes a long time- tho you wouldn’t know it with how online shopping shipments seem! Even to order online the large distributer has to get the product out to smaller centers closer to where different consumer bases are, and the shipment time is from *that* center not the factory. It’s an unfortunate effect of large-scale production- tho different production models all have their pros and cons.
@@madhippy3 The logistics of distributors are likely geared toward wholesale in which the product is packaged and sold in large quantities meant to fill stores. A distributor cannot, on a dime, change to selling to individuals because the manufacturer transports units at a massive scale which have to be broken down to smaller units, via a distribution network, to sell to the individual. The likely problem for a family buying from the distributor is buying an excessively large minimum order and then storing it and/or the distributor cannot/will not fulfill delivery for residences.
As tough as it has been working in childcare and watching parents struggle to find formula as we go through the same struggle trying to find it for our center, its also amazing watching parents come together to try and help out. We ended up creating a sort of master list of all the different formulas used by families at the center so that anytime someone finds the formula they can buy it and either trade it, sell it, and some parents have just offered it for free. With stores placing limits (as they should) we have to send at least 3 people every week just to maybe get enough formula for the center. To all the parents out their struggling to find formula, please reach out to your community, your doctor, the only way to get through the next two months is together.
I worked in a casino and I know how predatory they're designed to be for addicts... I honestly think more regulation is needed. Once you see people losing their entire lives, it really changes your perspective
I do agree with Ludwig on this, ban sponsored streams, if the streamer actually has to put up their own money, gamble streams will quickly die cos the house always wins.
You haven't seen the stupid amounts of money that gets tossed around by viewers during any kind of spending stream.
no. there are many unsponsored gambling streams, and gambling streams need to be banned fully. gambling streams inherently are extremely problematic because they make the streamer money from donations or subscriptions or whatever while suggesting to ignorant viewers that the streamer's job that's making them money is the gambling. viewers see people "professionally gambling" and doing well for themselves and their takeaway is that if they start gambling, they will make money too, because they don't understand that the job of the person they're watching is the streaming, not the gambling.
@@Ass_of_Amalek are you saying the common person is to stupid to understand risks? What gives you the idea that banning something is the way to go about things, couldn't they just implement a tool to hide gambling content and have creators mark their streams for such content?
Prusak J of course banning gambling streams would solve the problem of gambling streams. and what would be wrong with doing it? it's not something worth preserving.
yes, of course people are too stupid to understand risks. many, many people. otherwse nobody would gamble without streaming it for profit.
L-wig droped the ball on this one, how would you prove that it is a sponsored stream, the companys would just make the streamers brand ambassador and pay them for that so its not a sponsored stream anymore, just do a full ban for steaming gambling, they use websites that aren't even legal to use in the US
The thought that people who are supposed to represent us, voting against access to baby powder is terrifying.
I mean what do you expect from republicans lol? I'm surprised more didn't vote against it lol.
But they'll go out onto their propaganda outlet and blame Democrats for not doing anything for the kids.
Conservatives are so fucking disgusting
And then they claim their pro-life 🙄
@@oomay1925
"They want live babies so they can make dead soldiers" -George Carlin
@@oomay1925 they're not. They're Pro birth... then you're on your own, kid.
Man if only there were some kind laws in place to prevent one company from being the near sole proprietor of products.
That law should probably include stipulations preventing corporations from colluding with each other as well.
If only our politicians weren't all owned, by said corporations...
There are 4 major companies that produce formula, and there's more but everyone flocks to brand names
@David The problem is that most of these industries are not monopolies, they're oligopolies. It's not one company that owns the market, it's a small group that owns the market and specifically hand off control to each other. It's a separate enough term that all the rules that we have against monopiles don't work against them.
The formula shortage, as of right now(to my knowledge as a retail employee who works the baby dept), is projected to last until September. It's scary restocking what little formula we get in right now only to see it all disappear the next day, even with purchase limits quickly being enforced. As well and numerous stories of infants being admitted into the ER and ICU with seizures related to watering down formula.
Crazy to know that half this country is trying to ban abortion when we can barely feed the infants currently living and breathing in our country.
"We didn't do anything illegal" is never really a good defense when people are using you as an example for why laws may be lacking hahahaha
As someone who actually had a gambling addiction at one point I am very much against gambling. It prays on poor people and makes them infinitely poorer. It's a pretty horrible business.
As someone who gambles randomly. There's nothing wrong with gambling. You're just weak.
That's it. Your problem is you are mentally weak as fuck.
Its a tax on people with a "get rich quick" mindset, who happen to generally be poorer members of society
You did it, so no one else should?
@Jessie Idk, where i live a pack of cigarettes costs over $30, because the tax on them is something like 3000%. How is that a tax? Its just a stupid choice to buy cigarettes
@Jessie You realise that casinos are taxed right?
i’m just surprised that the interaction between the moms happened at a target because i currently work at one in Lexington, SC and our target has a 4 unit limit right now for all formula and we STILL can’t keep it on the shelves. that was so sad to watch and i really hope someone at that target considers putting limits especially after that lady bought a whole cart full
I kinda hope the cashier was like, ‘yeah no. You get this much.’ And put a bunch back
That Chinese woman was likely not a mum she was likely selling it online to desperate parents. Australia had to put a 2 can policy in place bc of Chinese ppl buying ALL the formula and selling it online. Now they go in big sneaky gangs buying all the formula to sell to desperate Americans. As an Australian that makes me so effen mad because I hade greedy ppl.
They even clearly had notices posted on those shelves most likely communicating some purchasing limit. She has all that in her cart but she's not at the front end yet and we don't know if she was allowed to purchase or walk out of the store with all of that merchandise. Tbh I kinda would have loved to be the DBO to tell her "Yeah, ummm no!"
@@anthonynelson6671 i didn’t even see the signs at first!!! i figured they had to be limiting purchases cause target is strict about having their stores on the same page so hopefully the mom filming ended up being able to buy some!
@@jillie-rie I had to play it back to confirm, but after having seen limit 7x11s for PAPR/CHEM products for so long limiting signage has become recognizable.
I hate how normalized gambling has become. You can't listen to a sports broadcast or podcast without hearing about betting or someone's crazy parlay.
in australia gambling ads are banned on broadcasts between certain times but you'll walk past about 50 posters in a row at the train station and it's like 👏👏👏 well done, i can see how committed you are to fixing this problem
The fact that Bush hasn't had a single solitary fucking thing happen to him after what he did to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan is mind boggling.
My toxic trait is that I would’ve taken what I needed from her cart. They’re not hers if she hasn’t bought them yet. I don’t even have a baby yet and I’m ready to throw hands with these kind of selfish people.
Break up the formula company. A recall of one company's product/s shouldn't run the risk of nation wide formula shortages. If they control that much, it's a monopoly.
Yep, the mighty American capitalism
'MERICA
It's also a baby boom right now. Quite a large one, so demand is very very high compared to normal. This isn't just a USA problem. It's a Canada problem as well right now.
I agree
I guess it's just another impact of what happens when corporations are allowed to manipulate antitrust laws.
Can't lie I will never know why Twitch is going to act like a kid friendly site when they allow gambling streams and soft core pornography on the site.
And now live crime scenes!
@@iCanbEYOURrUKIA the _what_
@@almamater489 I'm guessing he's referring to the recent Buffalo shooting.
@@almamater489 Buffalo shooter livestreamed it on twitch.
Buffalo shooter live streamed the shooting, however it was taken down less than 2 minutes after the shooting started
Phil (a couple of weeks ago): "I've been having health issues. I had to go to the emergency room."
Me: "Oh no. That sucks."
Phil: "I married into a family of Alabama fans."
Me (audibly gasps): "Bless your heart, that's terrible."
The formula shortage was a problem here in Australia a few years back, and I remember when major grocery chains started to limit the number of purchases to two at any one time, you'd go into a supermarket in the city and there would be coordinated groups of people who would bulk buy but check out individually, so they had TECHNICALLY followed the guidelines. It was a nightmare trying to get just enough to feed my daughter. I feel for the parents and carers that are going through this.
As someone from a family of addicts and that came dangerously close to gambling addictions myself, I don't think I could watch a gambling stream without wanting to throw up, honestly. I agree with Ludwig - no sponsors. See how willing people are to throw their own money at a rigged game. And I would also require the number for a gambling addiction hotline to be on screen at all times if I was making the rules.
The games that are sponsored are usually shady offshore casinos that rig the games in the favor of the streamer to show more "winnings" so gullible people throw their money at that site using the real odds. I don't think the really big gambling sites would rig anything, they get enough from rake and ante's plus the games of chance that always lean a pinch towards the house. Like roulette, betting on red is right 16/33 times, essentially a 3% edge to the house. Rigging beyond the displayed and declared house edge gets every agency to throw fines your way plus a tonne of bad press, they never would. But those unregulated crypto casinos hosted in some tax haven with barely any gambling laws, yeah, being sponsored by one of those should automatically get you banned imo.
Yes but it was YOUR choice to gamble, it wasn't out of your control. You had every opportunity to stop but didn't. That is YOUR responsibility, not the casinos or wherever you dumped your money on. I know we throw this addiction word around to justify bad behavior but at the end of the day, it's on you. You have yourself to blame.
@@ter6501 learn more about gambling addiction also xqc is not going to sleep with you kid you can stop defending him
@@ter6501 You clearly don't know what ADDICTION is. Your brain and body literally works against your best interest because it is addicted to a certain feeling or chemical. It is not just ''Oh just don't do it''...GEE why did NO ONE THOUGHT OF THAT. All the while these gambling sites and all the other addiction crap use all the tools in their disposal to target the TRIGGERS in Addicts to get them to relapse. It is a literal industry from Streams to Mobile apps to gacha games. Unless laws are passed to prevent this, the suffering will continue and only enrich the assholes who exploit addicts that they try hard to create.
yeah, addiction is NOT just a lack of self-control, and until our culture understands and respects that, the situation at large and the talk around it won't get better.
Thank you
Isn't it even generic?
@@salmaabdullahgb can be
@@salmaabdullahgb addiction can be genetic, yes
It is still just a lack of self-control though... it doesn't matter how difficult it is, at the end of the day you are the only one who can control yourself.
Imagine being scared and desperate for baby formula meanwhile the republican representative you voted for says no to an emergency bill that could save lives. At what point do we start holding representative responsible for obstructing bills just because they hate the opposition.
The point arrives when people are willing to risk their own autonomy and face jail time (or worse) in order to [REDACTED]
Life only matters BEFORE birth to them smdh
Exactly, time to form a lynch mob.
Certain members of that party, have no business calling themselves pro-life. They're pro-birth. But they could give a f*** about life.
After reading all the news articles about these people I was in shock; how are they still in a position of power?!
It's ok, I didn't UNEXPECTEDLY and ABRUPTLY start crying when you told the story of Benji in Texas. It's just DUSTY OKAY??
(my youngest just turned 2 and luckily eats solid food. I've scoured my house for leftover formula for friends the last few weeks. This hits 💔)
Its even hitting canada. I am so thankful my niece is starting to eat solids more regularly cause its terrifying
My son was very sick when he was younger. Until he was almost 5 years old he was exclusively on a feeding tube formula made by Abbott, it was the only thing he could have. Thankfully he went into remission and he now can have solid foods. It’s a nightmare scenario for the parents that depend on the formula for their sick and very young kids.
Mine too
When it comes to the entire NCAA debacle, I find it so telling that multimillionaire coaches are bickering over college players getting pennies compared to what they get. I have NO issues with students finally getting paid for their hard work
If Twitch could create better preference options, so you could choose "ignore" or "don't show me" stream categories, it would fix a lot of the moral policing.
My mother tried stabbing me to take my lunch money to go gamble when I was 15.- Some context; My mom is a hardcore gambling addict, she began when I was around 10. At first it was small things, she would arrive late to the house or somedays just never show up. It only really started getting bad when she stopped picking me up from school. (my dad worked outside the country at the time so she was the only one available to pick me up). so she would often leave me at school till around 10 when my older brother would finish his night courses so he would pick me and my sister up. around the age of 14ish (I'm 24 now so the memory of ten years not that great) my dad had finally gotten wind off what was going on so he came back to our country to help out and try to find a solution. During this time he stopped giving my mother money and because of desperation she started asking me and my siblings for our lunch money to go gamble, dunno what my siblings did but I used to give it to her, I ended up loosing around 15 pounds cause I simply wouldn't have money to eat, I began eating the the oranges from the trees around my school to try and eat since didn't have many other choices. By the time I was 15 I was a little smarter so I began Holding my ground more. However my mother came home one night when I was at home by myself just me and her and she asked for my lunch money for the week, I said now. she asked again, I said no, she asked one more time and this time I yelled no. She then proceeded to scream vile things to me that I will not honor by sharing here, long story short it culminated with her grabbing a knife and threating me more the money, This time with anger and sadness I still said no, she moved up to me with her knife over her head.... I punched her with all my might and ran into my room locking the door, she then left the house and I did not see her for around 3 weeks. Moral of the story, Gambling addictions break families and if you do gamble do it responsibly.
A bunch of years ago we had a mother weeks after giving birth with her newborn stopped at a poker machine parlor and left the kid to die in the car after hrs in the SC sun. A lot of stories of children of all young ages being left in cars when parents go to casinos and the kids die.
@@samhainnc9416 yeah, it’s amazing how much the person that is suppose to love you the most will forget all about you Jaír for some quick bucks
This is why if something isn’t a crime, I don’t have the energy to care.
That was, with no hyperbole or exaggeration, the BEST Freudian Slip I’ve ever heard.
xQc doing gambling steams when he has admitted to having problems with gambling seems like a bad idea... but I agree that Twitch allowing it is the problem. Also he should banned from calling it "Gamba"
I mean it's literally allowing on the platform people basically wasting their own lifes to the addiction. What next - pro-ana streamers and heroine addicts being allowed to spread their illnesses to other people?
Why? What connotation with that word?
Twitch should also ban female streamers wearing thongs in a kiddie pool and advertising their OF, but here we are.
@@aziizrocks It sounds dumb lol
@@defiante1 Ah
Usually when someone insists that "no laws were broken and no rules were broken" means that they may have done something or have knowledge of something that that may be unethical per say or a loop hole. But it breaks no rules or laws. IMO 🤷
It reminds me of those annoying kids who kept saying that "the air is free" while being all up in your face. They know they are being an asshole but since they "technically aren't breaking any rules" you supposedly have no right to be angry at them.
Their overly aggressive reactions to a man saying calmly "they're doing this, they're bragging about doing this, we won't do that, we might not keep our place" is a very clear tell, they're not mad he said it, they're mad it's true. Notice jimbo went for personal attacks, thats a man who just got called out on his bullshit and is not happy about it
@@Zanderevans141 exactly, this whole situation screams of people praying in their heads "please let this blow over, please don't let anyone dig deeper." Although all of this super reacting is just making people pay more attention.
Man I’m in three minds about the gambling.
1.) Gambling can/does straight up ruin lives.
2.) do parents not have to parent anymore?
3.) it’s up to Twitch to solve the issue and maybe address other controversial topics/categories too
You nailed it.
Answer is *all three* of them
There should be a limit on how much of your money is allowed to be gambled, else risk your own survival
1) everything that is considered fun, has the capacity to ruin lives.
2) this is a based point.
3) If Twitch wants to crackdown on it then thats their choice, but I see no problem with it.
1) Correct.
2) It's harder to parent now than in the 80/90's. Social media and always online is way harder to limit or control than telling a kid to be home at 10.
3) Twitch cares about kids watching more twitch content and that's it.
4:39 SHAME. Shame on the woman who cleared an ENTIRE SHELF of baby formula for herself. And double shame on the store that ALLOWED this. Holy shit. Whatever store that is, the manager ought to be fired. That is pure negligence to allow ONE customer to buy a stock meant for a COMMUNITY of mothers. If I was the cashier, I would have flatly refused to process this transaction. The worst they could do is fire me for it. Even if lost my job that STILL WOULD BE A BETTER OUTCOME THAN THIS.
There absolutely, absolutely needed to be a limit x number per person rule in place. Unbeleivable.
This wasnt like the store only had 4 cans and she graabbed them all. There was atleast a dozen in her cart! Thats like at the very least weeks worth of meals for a single baby. Because god forbid you only buy a few and take a more trips to the stores to get more cans once you nearly run out, to save some for others whos baby's gonna starve real soon. That woman better not be selling them eaither.
Phil, I think you inadvertently hit the nail on the head when you said that when you were younger and had less money you gambled more, because you had a very small chance to gain so much money you gambled your money. now that you have much much more to lose, you're more hesitant
Sponsored gambling streams are downright evil. Stakes, the one usually sponsoring these streamers, straight you gives you a % of your fanbases loses if they use your referral code.
At the very least, that is unquestionably immoral and shouldn't be allowed on Twitch.
Often times we hear stories of people aiming to do something with the best of intentions only to be misguided and doing something horrible, but the story with the restaurant owner is a rare example where the exact opposite happened. A man made a business decision that was meant to help no one else but himself, only to realize the right thing to do was philanthropy and providing for his community free of payment; what a fucking legend
Well, he was originally going to sell it at cost, so it probably wouldn't have directly benefited him like selling it for profit would have... it's even better to see that he gave it for free though.
Personally, anything that gets college athletes paid is ok in my book. The fact that they haven't been up till now is just insane.
Yeah but I'm fairly certain legally you can't bribe a player to go to your school. That's against more than a few guidelines.
It's also just unfair for schools that make less than others.
I'm not even a football fan and I see the issue. I disagree with the bribing to play bit.
@@thedarksalmon9893 Isn't using scholarships to pick up star students a form of Bribery?
@@Random_dud31 and #All A scholarship can be bribery depending on how it's sed, yeah. Thats called "context" and its important. Usually scholarships are used to give someone with acceptional athletic or academic ability the chance to go higher even if they cant afford to.
Theres a massive difference between that, and directly paying someone and their family money to go to your school. Scholarships are options and not only for sports, and can be used maliciously, but straight payment is a bribe and not fair to poorer schools, and nothing more.
@@thedarksalmon9893 Thats how how it should be, but a lot of scholarships do also go to people who don't deserve it. The context doesn't matter.
Have a lawyer and BAM, you can give a scholarship to whoever you like
Thankfully the grocery store I work at has been keeping any and all baby formula behind the customer service desk for the past several years, nobody's been allowed to buy more than what they need
As a gambling addict and Twitch streamer, It's insanely hard for me to go on the site without getting triggered into gambling. I have gambled all my money away and taken out huge loans due to twitch not letting me just hide the content. I don't care if they gamble, they are destroying lives but at least let me block all the stream that have gambling in them because I know I'm weak and this would actually help me.
I actually relapsed watching trainwrecks.
@@kettlebot3610 hey, if I didn't make money monthly that helps me live I'd leave in a heartbeat. UA-cam doesn't help streamers and it makes everything a lot harder to grow and make money which sucks. I hope one day I can make enough of a audience to jump ship to UA-cam and I'll be happy but for now, I literally cannot stop even if I wanted as my life would be a lot worse.
Hearing that second coach, my mind just randomly imagined him as an auctioneer.
As someone who works at a casino and seen the damage it causes, I'm torn on it. Personally, I don't mind because I know better than try to gamble. But I see how this is hard on so many. Unless the platform steps in, it will not go away.
Xqc thing is just ridiculous. He already apologized and stated he won't do it again, but now decides to go back up. If he loves gambling so much, he should do it without an audience.
But then he wouldn't have the subs and views and donos to offset his losses. Unlike any viewers he inspires, of course.
@@foxmcld584 not to mention the alleged $4 million promotion he receives from the gambling site.
He was doing it offline. It seems he lost close to 1.9 mi USD not long ago
Or shit parents can actually monitor their kids like they are supposed to? It is not a public figures responsibility to make everyone in the crowd safe, the platform used to distribute has no qualms with the act. I would like to have actual numbers on who it affects instead of all virtue signaling from people not even interested in the creator or their content.
@@prusakj1425 do you understand how difficult that is to do with being a helicopter parent? And every creator has a responsibility to be decent to their audience.
that man just saved some parents honestly made me cried. He's amazing.
God bless Benji, what a lad. His noble actions have brought tears to my eyes
There was also a clip with xQc where someone in his chat was concerned about how easy it was to sign up for a gambling site. Pretty much saying there is no verification process and kids could just sign on after stealing their mother's credit card. xQc said he didn't see a problem with having a gambling site that was easy to sing up on.
I’d say a key difference between gambling streams on twitch and seeing gambling on tv is the level of control the viewer has- algorithms thrive on addictive content and I imagine gamblers trying to keep themselves away from that sort of content are probably going to inadvertently wind up the target of it in their feeds without being able to do anything as simple as changing the channel
For me the difference between people like XQC and other streamers getting paid to promote gambling and poker on TV is that TV poker shows don't spend years directly cultivating a parasocial relationship with their audience. Streamers do.
I work for a pediatric dental office and I had one mother come in with 9 month old twins. She's booked a flight to Mexico, where she has family, to stick up on formula there and bring it back with her since she heard that there isn't a shortage there. It's getting so crazy. Even then she was scared that TSA would give her a hard time about bringing the formula back.
A lot of Americans have forgotten just how horrible a president Bush was. But to his (small) credit, it seems even HE realizes it now.
Poker on TV isn't exactly gambling in the same way that people on twitch streams gamble. Professional poker players aren't gambling insofar as putting up money and leaving the outcome to pure chance. There is a lot of skill involved in playing poker properly, and while there are often substantial amounts of money involved, that doesn't make it any different than any other game played for a piece of a prize pool.
As a father of 2 I legit cried seeing that bamf give out the formula.
Dude, as a 30 year old father of none, I cried over that wonderful man’s efforts.
Benji is a good human! That’s what you do when you have money, help other people when you can. To ease so many caretakers minds is a gift that can’t be imagined! They know their babies are fed and happy which takes so much stress off of their minds.
I don't understand why people are panic buying baby formula.
Why?
@@alienboy1322 Phil covered it sometime this week, but there's been a baby formula shortage in the US for weeks.
Think the toilet paper shortage in 2020, but instead of worrying about your butt, it's your starving infant. Tends to make the panic a gazillion times worse, but also makes the hoarding and insane price-gouging a gazillion times more evil.
@@alienboy1322 because there is a massive shortage of it. Watch yesterday's show.
Target should also be monitoring their inventory. Anyone who comes up to the check out should be maxed out at 2 of any baby formula. If you feed your baby as doctor recommended that should last a week. Long enough to wait to buy more.
Limiting numbers went away in most stores. They had signs and told people 1 per or 2 per customer but if the person argued they let them buy it all. Like mask mandates and any rule. In the end it is about sales and can't upset the customer or cause any confrontation. Target was the worse at bending to the hoarders. We have a couple grocery chains near me that is making you go to customer service for baby formula and not stocking shelves so you get 2 cans/boxes etc. and that's it. Putting it out for the mob to grab is going to cause problems.
@@samhainnc9416yea but why not do it like in Australia, 2 maximum scanned, the register will take no more. Sure you can pay and scan 2 each time, but by the time you can call security
Yesterday I was interviewed for a segment by my local news. I have 7 month old twin boys with a dairy intolerance. They are on a specialty formula that we can’t find anywhere…we have about 3 weeks worth but after that we have no idea what we are going to do….it’s heartbreaking 💔
What's the name of the formula?
We had issues here in Australia pre/early in the pandemic with Asian-Australians buying trolleys full of formula and then sending it back to their families in China or possibly selling it back home for an exorbitant price. This resulted in most supermarkets locking the formula behind cabinets, and making a maximum two tins of formula per sale.
People were limited in the amount of toilet paper they could buy pretty early into the pandemic, so I'm confused as to why the same thing didn't happen to baby formula as soon as retail stores learned about this shortage.
But but it was a conspiracy theory.🤭
Same. And there wasn’t even a shortage of that. Well not until people panic bought
Right?! You can wipe your ass with a wash cloth, get a bidet, or just jump in the shower after you poop, but there is no easy replacement for baby formula. When I had my son I breastfed for as long as I could, but he had a latching issue and I just couldn’t keep up my supply with pumping. Formula was our savior. He also had to be on one consistent type of formula or else it would mess up his tummy. I can only imagine the stress of having him now and not being able to find the formula he needed, or much less ANY formula to feed my baby at all.
As someone who struggles with addictions to both, I feel that gambling streams and drunken streams fall into similar categories. I can't watch either type of stream for very long before I get the urge to break my sobriety to both.
Stay strong my friend, and always remember that the most important step is the next one.
Happy Thursday Phil! Thanks for all the great news coverage this week!
today someone commented i should delete all videos :( people can be so mean. but i dont care. i know im the best. i never give up. i am age 80+ and will never stop. thanks for caring, dear dea
Just wanna point out that Target has a limit of 4 on the formula, which is stated on the signs behind them. That lady wouldn't have been allowed to buy all those. And if she tried to fight it security would've hauled her off without any formula.
Why as a house representative would you vote against a bill that helps address a huge bipartisan issue? I have no clue what the "usual suspects" are thinking, as if that won't come up later when they are up for election.
Blames coaches and teams for unethical actions.
“You’re blaming the kids”
The unethical action of paying their athletes?
I gasped when I saw Finneas, holy shit my 2 favorite people in one frame- amen 🙏🏼
Love you guys ❤️🤘🏼
As a sports fan when Nick Saban said that they didn’t pay players, this year, I almost laughed. Bc there as a point and time when half of the conference hes apart of was doing so. And he started it. Even if the school didn’t. There’s nothing stopping a coach or the directors from saying, “you need something replaced or some holiday money talk to *******”
Which is a good thing. College football is big money and the players should be the one profiting.
They basicaly pay them any way with free scollerships. Just cut the scollerships and pay them a pay check like any other athlete.
all of those allegations you made against saban have been proven false and are against NCAA rules. But when someone wins so much, I guess you have to go after them.
@@robertstone9988 disagree. They shouldn't be payed, unless the school is using their name or image in adverts. If Nike or someone wants to sponsor a college athlete, im cool with that as well, just feel the schools shouldn't be paying athletes. It would drive tuition for everyone else up more and it's not like that isn't insane enough already.
@@Tikimohn what do you thank a scollership is? They give the athletes a free collage education. Not sure if you have seen how much it cost a year to go to some of these schools. Athletes tend to get more free perks as well. When you start adding up all the free stuff food room some of the best trainers and training facilities they are "paid" well. If they want paid so bad fine cut the scollerships and all the free shit other students would have to pay for and just cut them a check. Im sure they will spend it wisely.
My heart goes out to the parents struggling to find formula for their babies. My family lived in Indonesia during the Reformasi when my brother and I were babies and my dad said that one of the scariest experiences he had during that time, alongside walking amongst the violence on the streets, was having difficulty baby formula for the two babies waiting for him at home. My mom couldn't breastfeed so we relied on formula.
Personally I think college athletes should be treated like pros. Get paid, have health insurance, life insurance, all that. They are putting their bodies and their minds on the line to bring notoriety to their schools. They have sustained life altering injuries, they've taken their own lives, the course of their lives are fundamentally changed. There should of course be a limit as to how much a school can pay an athlete in order to keep the mega schools from scooping up everyone. And there should be regulations to close the gap between how male and female student athletes are treated.
The solution for the gambling issue is two-fold: First as people are suggesting, no sponsored gambling streams; Secondly the platforms should implement an opt-in option for gambling categories. If people have to go out of their way to enable the category it gives another layer of protection to those who are addicted. I mean yeah it's going to hit the gambling creator's numbers pretty hard to implement those changes, and is definitely going to hurt the bank accounts of the streamers, but at some point you have to weigh societal safety versus monetary gain for a minority which given the capitalistic society we live in that's not going to happen. Proof that protections need to be put in place is the fact that xQc is back to gambling streams. He knows, and admitted he has a gambling problem and yet he's back at it. Sure some/all of the financial burden is removed since he's sponsored to do it but someday he won't be, and will that stop a gambling addict from gambling? No. Just as financial responsibilities will not stop his gambling addicted viewers from gambling.
" I mean yeah it's going to hit the gambling creator's numbers"
oh no the multi millionaire isnt gonna get 30k watching them promote gambling..
@Route Zero Putting it in it's own opt-in category by definition removes it from "public space". Gambling in and of it's self is not an addiction. Gambling IS predatory but so is everything else. Gaming is full of predatory tactics, Twitch as a platform is predatory as is streaming itself. Advertisement is predatory, you will find a hard time finding anything that is not predatory in some way. Gambling is a form of entertainment, that is it's "redeeming value".
@@xxfloppypillowxx Exactly what you said. People have argued for a long time that things like loot boxes and such more or less classify as gambling as well, and are built into almost every AAA multiplayer title that's released now. The gaming scene I would argue is mostly predatory capitalism at this point, we all just have to navigate it with caution and not get addicted to that "new car smell" that new games we won't play can often entice us with. Same can be said for promoted gambling on Twitch. Sure, xQc isn't losing anything due to sponsorship, but what about all the people he's streaming to who may have compromised decision making due to the way he promotes the content and how it portrays a falsely high number of earnings/winnings?
@@ReanuKeevesAus He basically has infinite money to throw at the games, so he wins much more than other people typically would, which (whether directly or indirectly) gives a false sense of probability to the viewer who is not a filthy rich Twitch personality with multiple millions of dollars in sponsorships. The games are not adjusted in his favor, but if you are playing at 0 risk it inflates your profits quite heavily and can make it seem like you would win a lot by playing. Gambling addicts especially are very susceptible to these false notions of favorable odds and probabilities.
@@ReanuKeevesAus No worries. I realize where that may have been confusing and unclear in my original comment. Have a nice day!
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I feel like influencers have a duty to go above.and beyond and at least appear to be held to a higher standard
Sponsored gambling streams proves that their morality has a price
Agree, the argument that "they're just normal people too" only works to a point. I'm a normal person, but I also don't have thousands to millions of impressionable people watching me on an, almost, daily basis.
You can’t blame them for everything their audience does in their personal lives that might have been swayed by said streamer. However, they need to be more responsible, or at the very least, more socially conscious that what they do could have a big impact on people.
Some streamers can mention a hair care product that they use, said in passing, and their audience will go out and buy all online store's supplies in less than an hour. They have a lot of power, so they need to be more careful.
How could you possibly think that "influencers" influence their audience's behavior! The audacity!
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@@jerrypickins
That last statement smells like elon musk
Let’s be honest about college sports…all these big school are corrupt when it comes recruiting talent. I don’t believe for one second that Alabama doesn’t participate is paying player to come play for them. A way to fix this problem, pay those players and or just kill college sports. It’s a corrupt system that should be abolished.
no lots of athletes dont get that much money out of it, but many of them get a good education without the sports bringing in the money they wouldnt be able to over full paid scholarships to them, most college athletes never make it to the pros and college is there last chance to get to play why take that away from them
@@redred222 sure, you are not wrong. That being said, those athletes should be focusing on their studies first and foremost, which they don’t, at most universities your sport comes first. You have to have be at the gym for your morning routine, then class, the practice. There is to much emphasis on the sport and not education. That is the real problem.
@@wadeflores6978 Are US universities even worth the name anymore? So much talk of charging excessive fees for worthless degrees, and then this focus on jocks. It's not world beating geniuses like Bohr on the football team anymore.
@@redred222 they still earn not than they would pay in education
@@johndododoe1411 given that college graduates in the US earn 2.5x more than people who don’t have college degrees the short answer is…yes. College degrees in the US are 100% worth their weight in gold.
Gambling is just as bad as an addiction as doing drugs. I sat threw GA meetings and the stories I heard from people who lost everything out there houses up to cover bets. It’s amazing to me that it’s so excepted now they have casino and sports betting commercials being shoved down peoples throats
My sister in law lost her kids, her house, her cars, everything to gambling and now steals to fuel the habit
Doesn't matter the "demographic of the audience"... on the internet EVERYONE is in the audience, and the audience is getting increasingly younger.
Oh my god, we're finally aging backwards!
Uh no. Not how audiences work
@@CoveringFish You must be a boring person.
No when you know your audience is a certain age that's your demographic not everyone watches everything
It's about access right? When you walk into a mall... you might be there for 1 specific thing... but you'll have access to everything there without restriction. Forever 21 might have a young girl "demographic"... but any creepy old man can walk in and nothing stops them. You don't even have to walk in anywhere just go window shopping and you'll see almost everything.
The internet is the same kind of place but much much worst... Chappelle's Show: Season 2 - If the internet were a real place.
As the child on a gambling addict. It hard to see your parent who makes over 100k a year throw it all away. While people have every right to gamble sadly too many state governments depend on casinos and betting for revenue.
In terms of college football, the NIL rules just favor the huge schools even more, creating an even bigger divide in the competitive gap. Saban is 100% right here unfortunately. Pre NIL A&M was lucky to get 1 or 2 five star recruits. This year they got seven. SEVEN. The more money you have as a school (and from graduate donors) the better players you get, it’s just a fact that was true before NIL and now it has just increased to the nth degree. The rule itself is great for the kids but there are not enough regulations in place to handle it just yet.
exactly. TAM did nothing wrong, but they sure as hell bought that class. I like the way College Football Nerds discussed handling it like a clearing house.
I like the way the one guy framed it as an attack on 17 year olds and their families, instead of a critique of the system and an accusation of buying players by proxy. Sounded like his school definitely wasn’t taking advantage of the changes in the system.
On gambling: I stopped talking to my ex in Feb 2021, in June, she called me to tell me she hadn't been to work in 2 weeks, was 50k in debt, didnt know if she had a job, and was moving 300mi away. She is now making $150k a year and living with her mother. Gamblers have no control. The are addicted to the buildup, not the chance of winning or even getting their money back. But the issue is, they cant stop, and there's nothing in place to prevent them from chasing that "high". Whether or not you like to gamble, you can't understand what they go through.
Gambling is destructive. It harms all it touches, even the winners. Just ban it.
The Bush clip....I die. You can't make that up 🤣🤣
This case makes me feel like I could be a lawyer. It can’t be that hard.
It's not hard at all, in fact it's incredibly easy to become whatever you want....as long as you don't care about being particularly good at it.
Do you have a good memory for law and a way with words? You're a lawyer.
@@chrys9256 came here to say this. As my dad says "not every lawyer/doctor had straight As but they did graduate" and also you can take MCATs and the Bar multiple times, it just gets more expensive to have to retake
There’s always someone that graduates at the bottom of their class, even doctors and lawyers
What case???
Benji went from d-bag, to boss to bamf. That’s called character growth. Props
I would disagree that he was ever a d-bag. His original intention was to buy out the formula and selling it at cost (at the same price he bought it for, yielding no profit to him or his business.) Which already is a pretty good guy move. He just decided to say fuckit, we dont need the money, and decided to hand it out for free instead (putting him and his business at a loss, not even, which was the original idea).
ah, the good old "here's my two cents on a story i'm not gonna bother reading up on in the first place"
what's so dbag about what he was doing initially? he wasn't a scalper; he was already selling them at cost, meaning he was making no profit on it in any way. all he was really doing was ensuring people have actual access to baby formula because he was only allowing a person to buy one can each so that you don't end up in a situation where one karen is walking off with a hundred cans all to herself.
and then he goes the extra mile and just gives them away for free, only for people like you to call him a dbag lol.
This guy has a dent in his brain
I presume his original intent was to offer an emergency solution to people who only found empty shelves because retailers were too greedy to limit purchases.
@@Uhdksurvhunter Gotcha. Thought it was to price gauge. Guess I was wrong
The problem with the gambling argument is so many games that kids play pretty much have it, it’s just hidden behind a veneer of “loot boxes” or “packs” and we all pretend that’s fine but the second some dude plays some blackjack with some kids watching we lose it.
The store I work at is limiting 5 cans of formula per customer so that one customer can’t buy them all and leave nothing for the next parent.
I have a one year old and luckily I no longer need baby formula. But if I was at target and I saw this woman I'd take them right out her cart. I could care less. That is outrageous that she had all them bottles in her cart.
I couldn’t agree more. I got so enraged at her. She doesn’t own them. They’re still store property until somebody buys them. Taking something out of someone’s cart is simply against etiquettes but fuck etiquette is this woman is reason my child might die..
To be clear i think any gambling stream is exploitative and targetted. I do think twitch should intervene but as well streamers need to also be held accountable simply passing the buck saying its twitches fault they are unclear is a bs excuse they know its wrong and are selling gambling to minors.
If you call gambling “Gamba” you are definitely too immature to be gambling.
Well this is xqc we're talking about maturity isn't in the cards for him
Lol, i thought i heard “gambLeh”
@@thedarkderp2520 Or maybe the reason he calls it Gamba is to make easy to target children.
@@leocordeiro81 that seems like a reach.
@@leocordeiro81 oh most definitely or he's just an idiot
Stores in Australia had a 2 can limit when we had shortages, no one should be able buy a trolley load of formula at any time
My D3 university lost several years worth of wins and Championships because our coach let a player use a 30 year-old beater to get around when the player’s car broke down. The university found out about it and self reported, and the NCAA hit them HARD. And now another football player is about to be homeless and they can’t do anything to help him without being in violation.
The whole NCAA system is just… so whack.