If you like that sort of thing, you may wish to check out old songs like "We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer and the Elizabeth Bordon song by Tom Lehrer [edit/correction: I meant Elizabeth Bordon song by the Chad Mitchell Trio]
@lethargogpeterson4083 Tom Lehrer's "That Was The Year That Was" live album full of songs about american politics and culture of 1965, is in a similar caliber of quality as well
What I like about the factory downsizing part at 1:08 is that honestly the faces they used really do look like people who are about to lose their job and community. It perfectly nails rustbelt midsized towns falling apart and this was 2004!
Lisa Eva thankfully I don’t work there anymore. I was fired last June, and I’m grateful because if they hadn’t, I probably would’ve been there forever wanting to shoot myself.
Today I had to listen to this song for a college American History homework assignment and answer questions about it and this song is so addicting to listen to. I love the satirical nature of it, the tune, and the guy singing reminds me of a South Park vibe.
@@SailorV1234it's unquestionably Walmart. Not that those companies are any better but Walmart is famous for moving into small towns and wrecking the local economy
"I'd always dreamed of running my own local grocery store, then Big Box Mart came and set up shop, and my dreams went through the floor." "I can't afford to lower costs, cause I have to make my rent. When competing with Big Business, you can't hope to make a dent." "Ooooohhhh, Big Box Mart, why can't you leave us be? You've stolen all our business, wrecked our town's economy."
My Grandma used to run a thriving little wholesale business until Walmart came around and threw it in the trash. At least she's still doing great but that must've hurt.
I remember first watching this in kindergarten thinking it was just a hilarious song. Now I'm 15 and I just watched it for the first time in many years and it while still hilarious, has a completely different meaning to me now that I understand the message.
Deeply moving. Inspired me leave many abusive marriage and move to Brazil. I now own a Walmart store and have 7 amazing children and a dog. God bless! 🙏
The damage is irreversible. Factories will always go to the lowest bidder and China also has the know-how to make cheap crap. We stopped being a industrial country long ago. Now we're a more information and service based country. Also unfortunately its striking millennials hard too. There are a lot of old people being forced to start over with a new career or being pushed out for younger talent, but a lot of people my age cant get a job with their degree, me especially. I think the number is 44%. So the 5% unemployment is a lie. Most of us are forced to work jobs paying 25k or less per year.
+C A S Best recomendation is to join the military for 3 years so you can have a shot at government jobs. In the future India will be the new China and im not sure if that is an improvement or not.
@@theodoredalton3355 tariffs literally are the only form of protectionism that doesn't work, it only increases prison for consumers. If you actually wanted to solve the problem you'd put strong arm penalties on businesses that move overseas.
Now Big Box Mart has been superceded. Ali Express, Temu and Shein have replaced it. Get your stuff shipped straight from China to your door. and the BBM workers are now delivery drivers.
^tell that to china and the 3rd world. they still use coal. if corporations can't bring the work back, we should bar them from the country. the problem with capitalism is that corporations chase capital at the expense of the nation no matter who they screw over. time to give them some consequences for once.
@@MusicandGamesandStuf >speaking as if all countries have equal levels of industry comparing other countries to America is a moot point, every country's industry and economy is different. the key to stimulating the economy and filling the job market is not forcing industrial America to stay, but creating a job market focused on a new America, one based on information and service jobs rather than industrial and building ones. robots and foreign labor will rule the industrial world until foreign labor ceases to be cheap and robots cease to work. The problem is these spoiled boomers are too stubborn to accept that their ways of life are disappearing and don't want to adapt to a new way of life, a new industry. the key to prosperity is to accept change and adapt to current times. the way we're going, it looks like technology and computers will rule the market for a very long time. they should learn how to use a computer, the current generation seems to have that down. forcing an obsolete industry will not stimulate the economy, it will cause it to chug and eventually flatline while many other countries find their way ahead of us. we don't want to be like China anyway, they barely have an economy.
Pixelanon also China’s economy is based on unsustainable debt. 300% Debt to GDP ratio. And that is according to official figures. according to an official from the finance ministry china’s 7% growth rate was entirely fraudulent based on inflating the figures. He said he say trillions of dollars being added to the numbers, with no backing. It wasn’t empty growth like ghost cities or roads that failed, it was non existent growth.
This is so true. Plus, all those Chinese workers are barely paid, worked like slaves. It also hurts usa/china relations by raising the trade deficits. And Walmart has sold out long ago. So many of the stores are dirty and depressing now. One stop shopping, yes, but poor service. They drive out all the other local stores and monopolize the area.
China’s not the problem. Unfortunately it’s not that simple. Production is already shifting from there to places like Vietnam Bangladesh because labor is already getting too expensive to manufacture there.
as someone who works for a japanese company, i almost feel like i'm on the other side of this they outsourced their jobs to US, sure it's yamazaki and akihiko at the boardroom back in nagoya but in the actual factories it's bill from iowa and paul from ohio running the machines
It truly is heartbreaking to see someone who has devoted their life to work, especially in their golden years. The image of that sweet old man at the Walmart, tirelessly scrubbing toilets and sweeping aisle nine, tugs at the heartstrings. It's a poignant reminder of the harsh reality many face: sacrificing their time and health just to make ends meet. The fact that you tip him so generously speaks volumes about your compassion for those who are often overlooked. His endless dedication and innocence deserve recognition and respect. May we all remember to honor and support those who give so much, often without acknowledgment.
@ I agree with you. That store has 94+ isles in there. If you watch the part of the video where they say “we used to be your customers, now we’re your employees” and look closely you’ll see what I’m talking about.
God, over 13 years later and i still have this song memorized! I really must have played this a lot when i was young. This website was so good back then!
🎵 Oh Big Box Mart What have you sold to me? We used to be your Customers now we're your Employees Oh Big Box Mart My paycheck reminds me Your everyday Low Prices Have a price 2:09 They 2:10 Aren't 2:12 FREEEEEEEEE!
I Just found these guys and I'm glad I did!! They have amazing political humor that puts me on the floor every time!! This video is a perfect example of how big corporate businesses like Wal-Mart and Target have completely destroyed American industry, but the blame isn't 100% on the corporates which is why I'm glade they added the ginger meant in this video. It was a great representation of how our government is powerless to and/or never attempts to stop them. There are one too many broken, run down, and deserted factories across the state. We rely too much on cheap international labor, and it's secretly crippling our country. I say secretly because we haven't even see the true nature of the said crippling. We only need two countries to embargo us; China and Saudi Arabia. If those countries embargoed us, we buckle in faster then a burning building. It would destroy us. It's time to stop the madness Washington. Either limit the trade or force big businesses to give better pay to the broken spirited but still hard working Americans. Let's get the nation back on track.
Key_Of_Destiny47 aye, unfortunatley no one in govt. will ever read this post and even if they did they wouldnt care cuz wal-mart gives them tons of money to not care
No wonder employees are protesting. This is why I hate capitalism. It gives superstores, corporations, and cars more rights than people. Business is meant to serve people, not rule over them.
@@melon10177 List of capitalist utopias: Somalia Syria The Democratic Republic Of Congo The Central African Republic South Sudan Afghanistan Belarus Iran
@@godzillavkk you don't hate capitalism you hate corporatisism. Corporatism is monopolizing your company and all taking all the rights from the people for personal money and gain. We live in corporatism now
Watching this now that I've spent a year in retail, I actually get it. As a kid, it was just oh, he bought a lot of stuff, ha ha. Oh how innocent I was.
Before tge firewall came down in China i remembered finding this video and showing to my friends. It was morbidly grim, it was reality for many of us in our small city. We laughed but we knew we would join our parents at the plantation or factory someday. A decade and a half later all my classmates are in a stonemason factory but i was spared. I got a chance to study overseas and work with an english company and see the opposite of that reality of retirees in the west working their golden years away.
Reap what you sow america. This parody was made over a decade ago and you see the price you pay for shipping manufacturing overseas. As long as our government including our presidents are in bed with big money corporations this will be your life.
Trump grew manufacturing the fastest since the 90s until Covid. His policies of low taxes and regulation while having tariffs to have incentive to stay seemed to work
@@someedgyaccount3589 actually trade deficits are a bad thing. they make china grow and grow and grow. also with trumps politic of sanktioning evrybody he hit the american indutry and the european pretty hard. we should work together against china, even with russia.
There is a old cree Indian proverb or saying Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.”
You know, one of the reasons the Roman Empire fell, was because the gap between the rich and poor grew so vast, that roman farmers became medieval serfs. And the employee/client relationship transformed into the lord and vassal relationship. Sound similar to what the bourgeoisie are doing to proleteriat's like me? I would rather die then be a serf who's owned by my landlord.
You're correct. He would've been born in 1952, definitely in the boomer range. Also, he would be a few months younger than my mom. She was born at the end of 1951.
You need to strike at the source of the problem and the source of the problem is consumerism. Americans on average spend two-four times as much on cheap crap as Europeans or other nations do. Additionally, American’s aren’t that good at saving their paychecks like people in China are.
What is friegtening to me is now you have companies like Temu, who hace completely cut out the intermediaries and will leave everyone unemployed just to get those impossibly low prices. Literally from sweatshop factory to your door.
I did not laugh because it really disturbed me when I thought about it and realized that this is essentially what is happening. People using credit cards and racking up debt, shopping at the very places (not just walmart) that destroy their jobs. Very good satire.
@UncleIrv Thank you for posting, I was going to go into a diatribe about how this is not substantiated in actual modern economics, but you've taken care of that. Man so glad to see not everyone out there is a lemming. "Blarg, Hate Wal-Mart", "Blarg, Free Market Bad", "Blarg, Competition Hurt"
You know what they do? They pay their employees minimum wage then teach them how to get the government to support them with this trust fund or something. Yet even with that its still not enough to live on.
Whoever sung this actually has a decent voice and was perfect for the look of this guy.
paul16451 I think his name is Jim Meskimen.
@depression is for the rich Oh really?
@depression is for the rich While that could be true, I wouldn't trust it 100%.
@@dogman15 he looks like the dude from super size me
He looks like an old Ben Shapiro @@dogman15
Never heard a song so cynical yet so happy sounding... it's the most epic form of irony.
It’s a parody of Oh Susanna in fact almost every song of jib jab parody’s old folk songs from America
If you like that sort of thing, you may wish to check out old songs like "We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer and the Elizabeth Bordon song by Tom Lehrer [edit/correction: I meant Elizabeth Bordon song by the Chad Mitchell Trio]
A lot of their early stuff is like that.
@lethargogpeterson4083
Tom Lehrer's "That Was The Year That Was" live album full of songs about american politics and culture of 1965, is in a similar caliber of quality as well
What I like about the factory downsizing part at 1:08 is that honestly the faces they used really do look like people who are about to lose their job and community. It perfectly nails rustbelt midsized towns falling apart and this was 2004!
Yeah good mention :D
The music video here was released in 2005, Not 2004. Get it right.
@@larrywarner9684who cares
@@larrywarner9684 Close enough
@@larrywarner9684 be quiet dude LMAO
I really do want to laugh at this but it's so true it just makes me want to cry
This is actually one time Jib Jab was trying to send a serious message, so it is hard to find funny, honestly, but I still think it was well done.
This actually made me tear up
I sing this whenever I go to walmart
I cant miss the low prices
I hum it while I work...there.
+David Clinton same.
Like the song says "they have a price, they aren't free"
Lisa Eva thankfully I don’t work there anymore. I was fired last June, and I’m grateful because if they hadn’t, I probably would’ve been there forever wanting to shoot myself.
240p, right in the nostalgia.
Nolstalga-riffic!
1080p, right in the nostalgia.
Back when you can shop normally
Nostalgia
After working for Walmart, this video has become more profound.
The worst part is, working for Walmart after you've worked fast food makes it seem like a blessing of a job.
It's sad that they stopped posting. They used to do very good videos with political humor.
Magy09able and not only that, they took shots at both sides as well equally. Nowadays it is only right-Wing bashing.
Why is this channel dead?
facts
Another business owns them now, and concentrates on the e-cards.
You can only go far with that before you start running out of ideas.
When 15 year old satire 100% accurately predicted the state of the US in 2021
Actually, it came out in 2005.
@@finchborat it says 2007 on the description, but idk if they posted it somewhere else first
@@kingcrimp7106 JibJab wasn't on UA-cam at the time this actually came out.
@@finchborat ah ok gotcha
@@finchborat UA-cam wasn't really a "thing" until some time in 2006
Today I had to listen to this song for a college American History homework assignment and answer questions about it and this song is so addicting to listen to. I love the satirical nature of it, the tune, and the guy singing reminds me of a South Park vibe.
Early jibjab stuff is always parodies of very old songs. This is a parody of 'Oh susanna' written in 1848. It has some racist lines so be warned.
@@MinkMonkthanks for giving me the name of the song
I am happy this is being taught in curriculum. I personally just found this again randomly, and I work for the big W, it really resonates.
1:28 this bar is so good I can’t describe why it’s just so good
Hi Vanelope
Funny how this was Walmart at first, but this is Amazon on steroids.
I was gonna go with Costco or Target but I like yours better
No, you dumbass; Amazon, (or the warehouse system used by many companies), is Walmart on steroids.
@@SailorV1234it's unquestionably Walmart. Not that those companies are any better but Walmart is famous for moving into small towns and wrecking the local economy
@@SailorV1234 any 50k square foot building based store
If anyone is wondering, this song is done to the tune of "Oh, Suzanna", a classic folk song
There's also a weirdly high amount of international translations of Oh Susanna, from (Communist) German to Japanese, look it up here!
And it's racist too
@@maozedong69420 based
@@maozedong69420makes it even better
@@maozedong69420 false
"I'd always dreamed of running my own local grocery store, then Big Box Mart came and set up shop, and my dreams went through the floor."
"I can't afford to lower costs, cause I have to make my rent. When competing with Big Business, you can't hope to make a dent."
"Ooooohhhh, Big Box Mart, why can't you leave us be? You've stolen all our business, wrecked our town's economy."
Lol nice.
The prequel
Me vs Roblox Shorts Tubers
I miss these! It’s funny in an ironic way how accurate this was.
My Grandma used to run a thriving little wholesale business until Walmart came around and threw it in the trash. At least she's still doing great but that must've hurt.
As someone who lives in an infinite Costco, this is very accurate.
At least you get hot dogs and pizza cheap, if you don’t get lost that is
Hey, better than the infinite IKEA
Do they have the same employee things as an Infinite IKEA?
this guy was 53 in 2005 when this was released hes 71 now and probably still sweeping ilse 9
Nah he’s probably dead because he couldn’t afford a medical bill. The United States of America.
@@michaellyga4726eww millennial🤢
@@michaellyga4726His kids now probably work at Big Box Mart to pay for the funeral 😂
“OH BIG BOX MART!” lives in my head rent free 17 years later
Right there with you.
I remember first watching this in kindergarten thinking it was just a hilarious song. Now I'm 15 and I just watched it for the first time in many years and it while still hilarious, has a completely different meaning to me now that I understand the message.
How does it hit at 24
Video still relevant all these years later..
Deeply moving. Inspired me leave many abusive marriage and move to Brazil. I now own a Walmart store and have 7 amazing children and a dog. God bless! 🙏
Amen sister! 🙏-your ex-husband 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
@@anneregan4432what the hell
The damage is irreversible. Factories will always go to the lowest bidder and China also has the know-how to make cheap crap. We stopped being a industrial country long ago. Now we're a more information and service based country. Also unfortunately its striking millennials hard too. There are a lot of old people being forced to start over with a new career or being pushed out for younger talent, but a lot of people my age cant get a job with their degree, me especially. I think the number is 44%. So the 5% unemployment is a lie. Most of us are forced to work jobs paying 25k or less per year.
+C A S Best recomendation is to join the military for 3 years so you can have a shot at government jobs. In the future India will be the new China and im not sure if that is an improvement or not.
Notice how JibJab isn't replying. They are now bought out, cheerleading this very fucking thing.
Well, in fairness to Jib Jab, I think they stopped making videos in 2014.
They got big boxmarted.
Basically slave labor at the expense of our paychecks.
shits not even political and its wayyyyyyyy better than what jib jab uploads today
It is political
Not overtly, but it is. In 2005, outsourcing and the growth of massive retail chains like Walmart were national political talking points.
This was made before the crash of 2008, oh God.
i remember watching this in high school when it came out
Same.
Bro they still show this to schools 😭
I saw it when I was in 4th grade
"my dreams of retirement has gone up in a blaze
and ill be scrubbing toilets till they stick me in the grave"
*sniff sniff*
Should be a video for every high school economics class. It would teach us about the modern American economic system and how screwed up it is.
Nicholas Mocalis I don’t live in America.
Yeah! This coud be very educatinal!
I coud imagen kids singing everywhere!
@@TiyaKSahay don't worry, your economy is exactly the same
This video is proof why we need tariffs to defend American workers.
@@theodoredalton3355 tariffs literally are the only form of protectionism that doesn't work, it only increases prison for consumers. If you actually wanted to solve the problem you'd put strong arm penalties on businesses that move overseas.
I remember back in April 2020 when I had to watch this for my college history class and answer questions about it. Such an addicting song
I am so glad this piece of history is still up. It is little wonder populism made a big comeback
And with it a new wave of authoritarianism. This crap starred with 9/11 and was set in stone by 2008.
I remember doing JibJab and when it had an error it showed a picture of this guy cleaning the toilets 1:48
Now Big Box Mart has been superceded. Ali Express, Temu and Shein have replaced it. Get your stuff shipped straight from China to your door. and the BBM workers are now delivery drivers.
this video is why Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are so popular
^tell that to china and the 3rd world. they still use coal.
if corporations can't bring the work back, we should bar them from the country. the problem with capitalism is that corporations chase capital at the expense of the nation no matter who they screw over. time to give them some consequences for once.
@@MusicandGamesandStuf >speaking as if all countries have equal levels of industry
comparing other countries to America is a moot point, every country's industry and economy is different. the key to stimulating the economy and filling the job market is not forcing industrial America to stay, but creating a job market focused on a new America, one based on information and service jobs rather than industrial and building ones. robots and foreign labor will rule the industrial world until foreign labor ceases to be cheap and robots cease to work.
The problem is these spoiled boomers are too stubborn to accept that their ways of life are disappearing and don't want to adapt to a new way of life, a new industry. the key to prosperity is to accept change and adapt to current times. the way we're going, it looks like technology and computers will rule the market for a very long time. they should learn how to use a computer, the current generation seems to have that down.
forcing an obsolete industry will not stimulate the economy, it will cause it to chug and eventually flatline while many other countries find their way ahead of us. we don't want to be like China anyway, they barely have an economy.
Pixelanon exactly. Labor is going up in China.
Pixelanon also China’s economy is based on unsustainable debt. 300% Debt to GDP ratio. And that is according to official figures. according to an official from the finance ministry china’s 7% growth rate was entirely fraudulent based on inflating the figures. He said he say trillions of dollars being added to the numbers, with no backing. It wasn’t empty growth like ghost cities or roads that failed, it was non existent growth.
Pixelanon also we get cheap labor from India, indoesnia, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
17 years later this is still relevant
0:43 That guy in the middle is a legend we must protect him at all cost comrades
Being a big fan of this when it is modern just made me a weirdo back then, but a dozen years later I'm right.
I wish it felt better
JIbjab of all channels created a more succinct depiction of the American experience of globalization than anyone else.
not globalization, post-reagan america and car centric suburban sprawl
This is so true. Plus, all those Chinese workers are barely paid, worked like slaves. It also hurts usa/china relations by raising the trade deficits. And Walmart has sold out long ago. So many of the stores are dirty and depressing now. One stop shopping, yes, but poor service. They drive out all the other local stores and monopolize the area.
That's what happens in capitalist society's where company's have more rights than people.
Walmart has a big enemy now though. It’s called Amazon.
China’s not the problem. Unfortunately it’s not that simple. Production is already shifting from there to places like Vietnam Bangladesh because labor is already getting too expensive to manufacture there.
@@pizzajona China is now outsourcing labour from Vietnam, kinda ironic isn't it?
@@bumperbonnie5721 yup. That’s why they’re racing to shore up a self sustaining domestic consumer and high tech economy
1:00 Oh look!! Actual cashiers!!! And now they've been fired and replaced too...
20 years later, still totally relevant... sadly.
for 2007 this is an amazing skit
as someone who works for a japanese company, i almost feel like i'm on the other side of this
they outsourced their jobs to US, sure it's yamazaki and akihiko at the boardroom back in nagoya but in the actual factories it's bill from iowa and paul from ohio running the machines
And nobody but corporate is making the money they would be if they were manufacturing within and for their own countries.
If he was actually 53 when this video was made that would make him 70 now
He is probably still there working
It truly is heartbreaking to see someone who has devoted their life to work, especially in their golden years. The image of that sweet old man at the Walmart, tirelessly scrubbing toilets and sweeping aisle nine, tugs at the heartstrings. It's a poignant reminder of the harsh reality many face: sacrificing their time and health just to make ends meet. The fact that you tip him so generously speaks volumes about your compassion for those who are often overlooked. His endless dedication and innocence deserve recognition and respect. May we all remember to honor and support those who give so much, often without acknowledgment.
@ I agree with you. That store has 94+ isles in there. If you watch the part of the video where they say “we used to be your customers, now we’re your employees” and look closely you’ll see what I’m talking about.
I don't know why it took me so long to think this...
Is that Paul Blart?
God, over 13 years later and i still have this song memorized! I really must have played this a lot when i was young. This website was so good back then!
At American Industries, you're either in management or in CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR.
YES. Or in the line between management and cheap foreign labor ie the supply chain/truck driver
@@the_expidition427 naw that is outsourced
🎵
Oh Big Box Mart
What have you sold to me?
We used to be your Customers now we're your Employees
Oh Big Box Mart
My paycheck reminds me
Your everyday Low Prices
Have a price
2:09
They
2:10
Aren't
2:12
FREEEEEEEEE!
For anyone who wants to know the song they parodied was "Oh! Susanna"
I Just found these guys and I'm glad I did!! They have amazing political humor that puts me on the floor every time!! This video is a perfect example of how big corporate businesses like Wal-Mart and Target have completely destroyed American industry, but the blame isn't 100% on the corporates which is why I'm glade they added the ginger meant in this video. It was a great representation of how our government is powerless to and/or never attempts to stop them. There are one too many broken, run down, and deserted factories across the state. We rely too much on cheap international labor, and it's secretly crippling our country. I say secretly because we haven't even see the true nature of the said crippling. We only need two countries to embargo us; China and Saudi Arabia. If those countries embargoed us, we buckle in faster then a burning building. It would destroy us. It's time to stop the madness Washington. Either limit the trade or force big businesses to give better pay to the broken spirited but still hard working Americans. Let's get the nation back on track.
When it says "ginger meant" in this comment it's cause my damn phone's autocorrect hates me!! GOVERNMENT is what it should say
Key_Of_Destiny47 The 'eat up martha's' are still quite present (Simpsons referecen)
Was already thinking; ginger meant?
Key_Of_Destiny47 aye, unfortunatley no one in govt. will ever read this post and even if they did they wouldnt care cuz wal-mart gives them tons of money to not care
+Key_Of_Destiny47 A Chinese embargo would not cripple the US, it would spur re-industrialization.
I'm pretty sure I found taylor swift in the red car
Now with Amazon it's the same but 20x worse, and instead of outsourced labour, it's automation.
No wonder employees are protesting. This is why I hate capitalism. It gives superstores, corporations, and cars more rights than people. Business is meant to serve people, not rule over them.
@@melon10177 You think yourself a patriot? You're a nationalist. And they bring nothing but trouble.
@@melon10177 List of capitalist utopias:
Somalia
Syria
The Democratic Republic Of Congo
The Central African Republic
South Sudan
Afghanistan
Belarus
Iran
@@godzillavkk you don't hate capitalism you hate corporatisism. Corporatism is monopolizing your company and all taking all the rights from the people for personal money and gain. We live in corporatism now
@@godzillavkk Imagine still thinking politics as Democrat vs Republican.
It's a good thing that Wal-Mart's prices are so cheap that even the un-employed and almost-un-employed can shop there!
Good ol' Big Box Mart.
Remember when Californians got asked "Paper or plastic?" Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Who tf was gatekeeping mid 2000s jib jab from me this is fire
Oh Susanna perfect tune for this
Patrick Travis I was wondering if anyone picked up on the song
+Wicked Ice King of course i did it's one of my favorite songs
I thought it was big iron 💀
omg, i watched it last time almost 8 years ago :-:
NFG: It hasn't gotten much better, has it? I always think of this song. It's as relevant now as it was back then.
God bless Donald Trump
@J Qaz I hope he wins 2020
@@jqaz722 well this one didn’t age well did it
@@franko8408Well he made a comeback
This aged well
God I miss the old internet
Watching this now that I've spent a year in retail, I actually get it. As a kid, it was just oh, he bought a lot of stuff, ha ha. Oh how innocent I was.
I like how accurately this describes modern day capitalism
tru
This has always been the case
FACT: The same year this was released, so was a documentary called "Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price."
this song should be updated with Amazon
is 8 years since first post.
yet they still never learn.
+Neotokyo6 IIRC, this was from around 2000 on the jibjab site, just uploaded to youtube in 07
@@Oblitherator28 So, it's 20 years
@@Oblitherator28 yeah in the late 90s and real early 2000s, it was popular to make fun of dumb car centric markets
I forgot I was one of the faces in this 😆
Story of how that happened?
Before tge firewall came down in China i remembered finding this video and showing to my friends. It was morbidly grim, it was reality for many of us in our small city. We laughed but we knew we would join our parents at the plantation or factory someday. A decade and a half later all my classmates are in a stonemason factory but i was spared. I got a chance to study overseas and work with an english company and see the opposite of that reality of retirees in the west working their golden years away.
Globalization has truly caused a sad state of affairs
The main difference between then and now is that now there's only one aisle open instead of a line of them.
“What radicalized you” this. I knew all the words when I was 6 years old.
I sing this every time i walk into Walmart. Every time. For almost the last 4 years.
Still?
Still?
This is what you get when you combine Wallmart, Big Lots, and all of the miscellaneous big box retailers at once.
Boomer: My dreams of retirement have gone up in a blaze. Millenial: My dreams of living have gone up in a blaze
Please just delete UA-cam
Zoomer: It's time for making some MONEY
For once the plight of boomers is a acknowledged, but you make it about millennials again.
@@realkingofwales3917 What's your plight again?
@@matthewrhodes3804 I aint a boomer. I’m a zoomer. But unlike someone I have empathy and don’t make everything about myself.
0:42
He NEEDS a garden gnome?
Uh yeah bro.
Pure Brilliance!
Its both hilarious and insightful, highlighting a major problem today...
This couldn’t have been more perfect jeez
Reap what you sow america. This parody was made over a decade ago and you see the price you pay for shipping manufacturing overseas. As long as our government including our presidents are in bed with big money corporations this will be your life.
Trump grew manufacturing the fastest since the 90s until Covid. His policies of low taxes and regulation while having tariffs to have incentive to stay seemed to work
@@someedgyaccount3589 Right and yet somehow the trade deficit hit new heights.
@@JosephSullivan1979 trade deficits aren’t necessarily a bad thing
@@someedgyaccount3589 actually trade deficits are a bad thing. they make china grow and grow and grow. also with trumps politic of sanktioning evrybody he hit the american indutry and the european pretty hard. we should work together against china, even with russia.
@@JosephSullivan1979 after the pandemic struck. Overall the trade deficits started to decrease under him.
You will eat ze bugs
You will live in ze pod
You will own nothing and be happy
Big brother is watching you
That never gets old. Wish they still made political humor.. Miss the old JIBJAB.
I'm proud to say that I haven't shopped in a Wal-Mart in over 3 years. I haven't bought so much as a pack of gum there, and never will again.
Now it’s Amazon fulfillment centers with prime customers working there
They used Culver City's Target storefront (the one at Jefferson Blvd) for Big Box Mart!
There is a old cree Indian proverb or saying Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.”
This is perhaps the darkest satire ever written.
I am going to learn the lyrics. Nothing better than a happy song about a sad topic.
You know, one of the reasons the Roman Empire fell, was because the gap between the rich and poor grew so vast, that roman farmers became medieval serfs. And the employee/client relationship transformed into the lord and vassal relationship. Sound similar to what the bourgeoisie are doing to proleteriat's like me? I would rather die then be a serf who's owned by my landlord.
Globalization is built upon free movement of the capital and people. Another misguided opinion form you, please stick to the Simpsons videos.
If he was 53 in 2005, he is definitely a baby boomer.
You're correct. He would've been born in 1952, definitely in the boomer range. Also, he would be a few months younger than my mom. She was born at the end of 1951.
1:11 , now I understand why the guy who drove an SUV took it in the rump is pissed XD
"Your everyday low prices have a price, they aren't free." yikes...
I remember watching this on a field trip at a Paper factory for Boy Scouts! I’ve had it stuck in my head for years! 😂
We need to crush the big box marts between taxation and incentives for small businesses.
You need to strike at the source of the problem and the source of the problem is consumerism. Americans on average spend two-four times as much on cheap crap as Europeans or other nations do. Additionally, American’s aren’t that good at saving their paychecks like people in China are.
Absolutely should win some creativity awards, factual hilarious, and talented graphics music and just great little video. All the jib jab originals
13 years since Jibjab made great content
What is friegtening to me is now you have companies like Temu, who hace completely cut out the intermediaries and will leave everyone unemployed just to get those impossibly low prices. Literally from sweatshop factory to your door.
I feel like Temu products speak for themselves. That crap makes Walmart stuff look like expensive designer retail.
I did not laugh because it really disturbed me when I thought about it and realized that this is essentially what is happening. People using credit cards and racking up debt, shopping at the very places (not just walmart) that destroy their jobs. Very good satire.
I remember watching this on mini clip back in 2004. lol
1:13-1:27 American deindustrialization explained in 14 seconds.
now we still have big box mart domination but everything costs 4x more than it did twenty years ago
That poor poor man, I feel so sor...Hey there's a sale in aisle 9!
and then the age of e-commerce comes into the surface, and they can't even work in "BIG BOX MART" anymore but wander
I wonder why JibJab don't make anymore videos like this anymore?
@UncleIrv Thank you for posting, I was going to go into a diatribe about how this is not substantiated in actual modern economics, but you've taken care of that. Man so glad to see not everyone out there is a lemming. "Blarg, Hate Wal-Mart", "Blarg, Free Market Bad", "Blarg, Competition Hurt"
Sang this in my head when I cashiered at Wally World
Walmart in a nutshell
You know what they do? They pay their employees minimum wage then teach them how to get the government to support them with this trust fund or something. Yet even with that its still not enough to live on.
Lord Cuby"this trust fund or something"? Uhh ok
Lord Cuby What?
Okie Doki Okie Doki
This is 1 of my favorite JibJab videos.
I've watched this dozens of times and just noticed, is that OJ at 0:43?