Succession: Is Being Rich Worth It?
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Why does Succession make being rich look like such a drag?
The family at the center of Succession has it all: power, private helicopters, and more money than Scrooge McDuck. So why does watching them feel less like an episode of Cribs, and more like a festival of depression? Let’s find out in this Wisecrack Edition on Succession: Does Money Make You Miserable?
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Directed by Michael Luxemburg
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Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can make misery comfortable.
That's a very witty, quotable line
Damn skippy!
this is the one this is the absolute one
@@captainhaddock6435 but even that in reality has exceptions, the idle rich who died young from drugs or drink or extremely dangerous hobbies. The greedy old person excluded from their families, complaining about loneliness. Or using the bible again (I am not religious but was raised in a bible reading family) What does it profit a person if they gain the whole world but loose their soul. Having just quoted this I am reminded that one of the tricks the wealthy elite have used is pointing to the bible so the poor can be smug about being Godly instead of immorally wealthy, without pointing out that one can become financially stable if not wealthy honestly- I think it’s because they broke laws, mores & customs to get rich or grandpa did so they have little knowledge of moral honest hard or better smart workers gaining comfortable if not fabulous wealth.
It's more that the only people who make money are the people who are predisposed to being miserable anti-humanity people. Only sociopaths can thrive under capitalism.
I recently read a book on Pablo Picasso. He never really succeeded financially, until he realized the rich love buying art that depicts poor people as lonely.
Writing this one down...
man, i love it. do you have sources?
Welp
You could also look at that the other way around. Why some people don’t want to better themselves financially because they believe it’s a better life than having more money
If that is true, that is a profound observation.
Kendall rides the motorcycle because of his trauma from earlier in the season. A car got him stuck in traffic and literally destroyed his no confidence bid, and the first time we see him actually drive a car he ends up killing a servant.
wow i never thought of it that way, i gotta rewatch it now! thanksss!
Just remember, Connor Roy was interested in politics from a very young age
😆
I was just looking for this comment🤣
An he is the eldest boy!
The late Robin Williams is often cited as the one who said, "Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money." When the cocaine offers start coming in, that's your sign.
Loll
Not really, everyone and their nan does coke in the uk
@@jordkinsmith3588 The Learning never Ends!
And also, tbh, I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
@@jordkinsmith3588, still?!? We gave it up in the '90's. What a money pit.
@@jordkinsmith3588 Hi fellow UK resident here ......sorry to burst your bubble but I'm yet to even hear anecdotally of more than 1 person who takes cocaine. If everyone and their nan is taking cocaine around you its not because you live in the UK its because of the company your keeping. Most people have far too much sense and nowhere near enough money to be tempted by drugs.
As someone who is from the poorest neighborhood in DC. In addition, I've worked in catering as a bartender for high end events for celebrities and the richest families in the DC and NY area. the only difference between rich and poor is money. Rich or poor if you're toxic, you're toxic. Money can either amplify your toxicity or mask over your toxicity. Happiness is relative and subjective.
nah
EXACTLY, that's why I never understood what Mrs. Kim was talking about from the movie Parasite. She was saying that she would be a "good person" if she were wealthy as the Park family, but if you're willing to kill and sabotage people just for a cushy gig to work at a rich family's home, pretty sure it wouldn't make you automatically "nice" if somehow you became wealthy. If the Kims are willing to go as far as to commit murder just to keep the facade going for them in the Park home, who's to say that they wouldn't commit murder if they were as wealthy as the Parks of the Roys?
That is true. Money just amplifies who you really are. It lets you be that person, because you stop caring so much about what other people. You can be more authentic, and that could be being a better person or a toxic one, the money doesn’t make you any of does it just amplifies it
I would rather be rich and have personal problems instead of being poor and still having problems.
True, we - poor - we also have a lot of problems - mostly because of these existencional.
Both states bring their own set of miseries but being poor sucks more
@@LuisSierra42 I also think that this media tends to assume that everyone who gets that much money will actually spend it that way. I would much rather be rich, but there's not enough in the world that I want to spend it on to that extent. If anything, it would just be an excuse to get a hobby and not have to work.
I doubt you would. poverty sucks. But that powerlessness limits the harm you can bring on to others, and solidarity is uniquely available to victims of injustice and the poor.
The elites MUST exploit and destroy others to stay buoyant. It is impossible to achieve or hold vast wealth without sociopathy and sadism. They metabolise the suffering of others.
Extreme wealth generates a force field of individual isolation and compels everyone it touches to reveal the most transactional and predatory/cannibalistic extents of their nature, in much the same way that Wonder Woman's Lasso compels honesty.
Poverty exposes you to the actions of people in desperation but also surprises you with the power and abundance of empathy in 'strangers' (and that there are no strangers) and the depths of your own wells of perseverance and resilience.
I'm not trying to glamorise poverty. poverty sucks and is unjust... it's just emphatically superior to being excessively wealthy.
Survive poverty and it is overwhelmingly probable that you will emerge a well rounded, compassionate human with empathy and a capacity to love that will endear you to others, enabling you to healthily bond socially and form compassionate communities of respect and gratitude.
The rich eat their young, even the most intimate of relationships are sterilised by greed and envy and wildly miscalibrated desires. Nothing is given freely, you are entirely emotionally independent. Everything is recorded in internal ledgers. The most freely given 'small' act of generosity or consideration that is unconsciously dispensed in a family free from wealth, is measured and recorded in the minds of the Financial elites and must be recouped. Unjust wealth dissolves humanity.
@@sisyphusvasilias3943 Ok but I’m not tryna be the 1% I just need like 10 mil and I’ll be set to retire
I'd rather be rich and miserable than have $75 in my bank account and be miserable like I already am.
Golden Rule, meet Golden Mean.
@ModernNetMonk777 Yes, but that idea, while correct, covers a deeper truth. That the more you have, the more time, attention, worry it takes to keep it. This doesn't mean it costs money to keep money, but it does require *attention*. Tom Paine was fond of saying that the rich are rich by being possessing a unnatural attentiveness to money.
@ModernNetMonk777 No, I think it's probably a couple of interlocking factors. The more you have, the more noticeable it is. The more protective you'll be. It's not just about what you have, it's also about what others around you have. There's a reason all these guys live in their own gated communities and not in down town next to the projects.
I think you could go quite a ways from 35k to a couple of million a year before you became "too big not to be paranoid"
@@doctormo Agreed
Here, here.
Next "Failure: Why Being Poor Actually Sucks."
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and the sequel "Existence is Pain"
@@jimmylin1851 featuring Mr Meseeks LOOK AT MEEE!
Succession is not the same as success.
Any life sucks without Jesus
Low income people have depression and mental issues, at least when your rich you can hire a professional to help you deal with them.
The Learning never Ends!
And also, tbh, I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
Even then, that’ll induce therapists to see you as a meal ticket and want to keep you dependent. Happened to a beach boy iirc.
I think the point is not about “whether” you can afford to hire a shrink it’s about how you relate to the feedback, and how the insulating power of wealth can exacerbate the tendency to dismiss criticism
That is very true, but therapy is no surefire fix for life issues. But sure, help is better than none.
I've never met one person that admit therapy fix their problem. Short term issues,yes, if you're miserable, no one can help you.
If everyone has the same problems, you might as well have that breakdown on a yacht.
We don't all have the same problems (thankfully). We all have problems, but if you follow a few basic rules in life - and don't be a dick to everyone around you - there's no reason to end up with a breakdown.
I genuinely disagree. The excess of the ultra wealthy makes me ill, and the constant grappling for status and the maintenance of it would drive me nuts. I’d take a cottage in the woods over that stuff.
@@Sarah-eh7bw In 2021, owning any property anywhere makes you at least reasonably wealthy
@@willvince7777 unless you build it yourself from the ground up.
@@michaellancina667 when Bezos is on the biggest most expensive yacht or the little support yacht he is having built, he will still be an a$$hole.
Entitlement will make anyone miserable. Contentment is true wealth.
That's why all those "EAT THE RICH" people are so miserable.
No matter how much they try, "Raid: Shadow Legends" will never be a thing.
If I had a doller for every raid Shadow Legends. I'll probably be rich
I swear that 20% of all UA-cam videos are just adverts for raid shadow legends
You can not start a discussion about Succession: Why Money Makes You Miserable with a Raid Shadow Legends ad!!! If you were trying to get us the mind set of being miserable, you succeeded!!!
Wisecrack have always been really tone deaf about selling us shit. They used to hock online therapy until people complained it was a grift.
They need to pay the bills...
@@thelight3112 The Learning never Ends!
And also, tbh, I am worried about Anti-Science, so i go around and recommend people randomly Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
@@nenmaster5218 No one is anti science, people are anti [your stupid beliefs].
‘I’m drinking a Rose..it’s not my favourite’, Cousin Gregg 😂😂😂😂
“Here at Wisecrack, we’ve been playing Raids for a while” = We all played one 15 minutes session each so collectively that can equal “a while”.
I've played exactly enough to reach mission like 5 or whatever. Enough that the channel I wanted to support would get the kick-back from Raid for me having played that far, haha.
the base minimum time requirements to meet the contractual agreement.
That "throwing out the expensive food" scene is why I cannot watch the "Summer Palace" episode that starts S2. The very sight of that waste, whether it's for a fictional family or not, just grinds my gears.
You should see the food waste in the hotel business
God, the food waste on Succession kills me. Thousands of dollars' worth of buffets and 5 course meals and trays everywhere that the family pretty much ignores or picks at before throwing away. Only Tom and Greg appreciated any of it. I legit shed a tear when they dumped all those lobsters in the bins...
It was sitting in the stink tho.
It is how Logan paid for screwing over the help. He got dead raccoons as payback.
"Being rich doesn't make you happy. So see? There's really not a reason to question or challenge the systems designed to keep you from material security. You'd be no happier now."
Of course the ultra rich don't have decisions like "do I get meds or pay bills" or "can I do without eating lunches to make sure my kids have dinner" or "do I let electric or water go behind this month because I can only pay one" to compound the usual misery we all feel.
They also get trusted by richer people more. If I started a business, nobody cares. If Elon Musk started a business, INNOVATION INVEST!!!
@@nikhilpranav6915 With all due respect, I kinda disagree. There are a lot of factors in making a business of course nobody cares if you start a business because they don't know you yet. So you have to make yourself known and your service or product should be good that's why people invest in Elon Musk because of his business & his achievements.
@@cheesebuggadarren9728 YEah, there are a lot of factors, but Elon Musk has PROVEN he is capable. I have not. So, regardless of the idea, Elon will have more support from investors, purely because of his success. Same way, Carlos Ghosn would be invited to take over any failing car business.
@@nikhilpranav6915 Yeah like I said if you let people show your capable then you'll be very successful thoooooo
@@cheesebuggadarren9728 And money does not only helps with that, but you can actually do stuff. See a business you see potential in? Now, buy from them. If you were a business magnate, invest in it, and tell your billionaire friends about them.
'All I ask for is the chance to discover that money can't buy me happiness.' - Spike Milligan
As I once heard someone say (this someone could be me high on my anti-depressant pills because my life is a mess), I just want enough money not to worry about the lack of it, but not so much I have to worry about what to do with it. In short, enough money so that money stops being an issue one way or the other. Now that'd be living the dream.
If you have enough then it will be enough, but if you have more than enough you will need more
so, communism
I said that. That’s my quote.
Star Trek socialism
You know that society has gone off the deep end when a show depicting the ultra wealthy needs an on-site wealth advisor, one that in all likelihood makes more money off a single episode than most make in a year, to be authentic...and life still sucks for them.
How can you advise about wealth unless you have it? ;)
@@kevinbooth- watch Brewster's Millions. It is not difficult to act or be wealthy...just to become wealthy.
@@nohbody369 you can give advice on the appearance of wealth but not actual wealth
You will know the publicly know things wealthy like but not the shit they don't talk about, that is in their circle only, until it becomes mainstream.
To be a true wealth advisor in this context requires one run in those circles.
Sounds like a lazy person to me 🤷♂️
@@kevinbooth- such as? Enlighten us unworthy poor scum of the earth how our betters act.
You know what makes me miserable? Raid Shadow Legends ads
Yes, but Plarium Games made Wisecrack a golden cage and fucked them with a silver dildo, and now here we are.
@@genentropy Wisecrack is real nice,
but i think the best UA-camr i know must be 'Hbomberguy',
cause he's so incredibly unbiased.
He thinks of himself as a Fool and preaches that 'If I, a total fool,
can sit down and inform myself, then you can too.' I love that.
He is known to NEVER 'assume around' but instead do this revolutionary
new thing called 'informing himserlf'.
@@nenmaster5218 hey mane. I think you like that hboberguy fella
This show and White Lotus show me that "awkward rich people" is the genre I didn't I needed.
Succession is miles ahead of White Lotus though. The first is a masterpiece, the latter would be entirely forgettable if it wasn’t for the soundtrack.
@@sonchik6324
False
@@jhmvjhvg well it’s my personal opinion, coming from someone who’s not a big fan of awkward rich people. Succession is a show that surpasses this trope, White Lotus does not.
@@sonchik6324 Would you still recommend the show? It’s on my list to check out
@@gianni206 absolutely!
All the riches in the world can't buy self-esteem, taste is not measured by a price, and a family does not have to be wealthy to help you learn what makes you and those around you happy. I'm so glad I grew up in Italy. 🙂 Emotional health is priceless.
I recently heard an interesting saying: "The poor have only one advantage on the rich: they can hold onto the delusion that all their problems would be solved if they only had more money."
I think a lot of people would rather get a chance to test out being rich before actually taking someone's word for it that it sucks 😂😂
just search for millionaires that lost all there money
look up people who actually won lottery, see where they ended up now.
"Shaq is rich. The white dude who signs his checks is wealthy...You can't get rid of wealth, that sh^t stays with you for life, no matter what you do, whereas with 'rich,' you can lose that with a weekend in Vegas and a drug habit." - Chris Rock
@@DavidRichardson153 Wow, Chris hit that spot on!
Truth be told, getting rich is probably the worst thing that could happen to you.
Because at least now you got hope, thanks to the delusion that maybe you'd be happy if you could just get your hands on a big payday.
But money's like everything you were ever happy about when you first bought it, like your car, your brand new TV, etc. You get used to it within a week or two and you're back to square one.
My wife has an aunt and uncle that are obsessed with money. The aunt always wants more and blows everything that she has, and the uncle has close to a million in the bank, and he makes Scrooge look like a spendthrift. 2 totally miserable people.
The wife and I don't make a lot of money, and when we retire next year it'll be on a very modest income with a 15 year old car, but we are happy. Just seeing her aunt and uncle just makes me shake my head.
Congrats
The wealthiest people I'm my family are some of the most miserable stressed out people I know. While my poor family members are lit always trying to have fun, party, joke around. And despite being poor are generous as hell. Also I'm on the poor side and the fact that there's ppl in my family worth millions while others live in the ghetto is insane to me.
Raid as a sponsor, how meta.
The Learning never Ends!
And also, tbh, I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
“Ask the rich man, he’ll confess, money can’t buy happiness. Ask the poor man, he don’t doubt, but he’d rather be miserable with than without”
This is so right on the money! My wife and i watch this and it definitely shows the dysfunction and loneliness that surrounds the problems of the rich. Its like trying to be saved by a 180lb platinum life preserver with no one strong enough to pull you out of the water but don't worry we have a Craine coming so hold your breath and wait.
All the more reason to tax the rich and give that wealth back to the working class.
Or crush the class completely and for there to only be a working class
Get used to staying poor forever because spoiler, you will be, forever.
Yeah...sure commie🙄
envious poor boy get your bread up
If the whole 1% got de-kulaked, that wouldn't be enough to even pay for the infrastructure bill that got passed recently.
What do you think? Can money buy happiness, or are we all doomed to the rat race?
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Look guys if you don't want the money I will take it.
*Looks over at my encroaching student loan debt*
Imagine having student debt. - worked during uni to pay off debt gang
The Roy's are 3 Billion dollars in debt.
Perspective mon amii. 🙂
As Mrs. Howe once said, "Those that don't think money can buy happiness just don't know where to shop."
I don't think its entirely about us living vicariously through rich people. I think it's more simpler than that. The wealth is a device which provides for interesting stories to occur. Much like period dramas, science fiction, and superhero films.
The series is good just because unlike the wolf of wall street and others it doesnt lie you about wealth and it s real power to escape your own misery: none.
id rather be rich and miserable than poor tbh hahaha
To quote the philosopher K. West, "Having money ain't everything, not having it is"
It's like a dog chasing a car. Ok, you caught it; now what? World domination? Ok, you caught that, now what??
The Sisyphus Complex. The struggle is real. 😬
Another interesting point about Willa and Craig, is that you see how Craig began and now how he is doing, how he got money and how the most richest tells him "Yeah you are the richest more poorest", and how he has began to act like the Roy's and it's more obvious after the trial of the second season, how he brags about "winning" in some extent, and in the case of Willa, she slowly had began to act like a "shepherd" of Connor, he thinks that he had control but she has the control and in this 3X1 chapter is a little more obvious that she understands that she needs to "move" or put Connor to do something so he cant interfere at all because he is really dumb and this could affect her or maybe she began to really like, at least the family or at least sympathize with them, that's another thing of the series, the characters are not fully showed.
(I'm waiting to see Willa say something like "You are all dumb people, you had all and because you want more you break up everything" or something like that)
Power is a magnifying glass to the wielder's character and money is the means to prevent accountability, which enables irresponsibility. This I regard as the primary reason that wealth is so rarely sustained down the generations.... that plus the hedonic treadmill. And with wealth, its the curse that in we often want better than normal and normal is always what you have now.
Yes, exactly! That's a more nuanced take than "power corrupts" or "money is the root of all evil". Some wealthy people do have character and wield their money responsibly, they're just a lot less visible than the pricks.
@@genentropy Exactly. There are good kings. The problem isn't power, it is character. The other problem is inheritance: character isn't often handed down. Often, it is the struggle and overcoming that builds the character... something those who inherent the rewards of that struggle rarely have to go through.
From a governance standpoint, you give power to an office, not a person... offices are seated by many different people who all wield the authority of that office. To curtail abuse, you must limit the power of the office since you cannot guarantee the character of the one who possess the office. Its like Schrödinger's cat: power only magnifies what it magnifies once possessed, you can't look under the hood until its too late.
Really interesting video! However, the $75k figure was concluded a few years ago. The inflation-adjusted figure is closer to $90k.
Also, it’s important to note that this is an average. Obviously, mileage may vary depending on where you live and how many people are in your household.
It depends on where you live.
It's just an actual living wage based on the cost of living in your area. The tragedy is the current schism between minimum wage and living wage when they were originally meant to be the same thing. 😕
$75k is broke territory
It wasn’t that long ago that that figure was 60k. Maybe 10 years. That is a precipitous inflation in the cost of happiness when real wages have been stagnant to dropping for three tomes as long
So the rich aren't happy and money can't buy happiness, and all the comments are poor people saying they would rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.
No one adds two and two together: neither the poor nor the rich are happy.
Perhaps... the system is broken?
Exactly. People don't need to be rich to be happy, especially considering there's no riches without exploitation of other human beings. Neither people should live in poverty. We have all the resources so all the people can have all they need for a comfortable life, yet we live in a system where some not sure which yachts to buy and some not sure where to get water and medications.
Excellent video for an excellent series. One thing I love about this show is its blending of genres; it's simultaneously a political-esque drama, black comedy, and (whenever we focus on Kendall) film noir. He spends more time alone on screen than anyone else, his shadow right beside him everywhere he goes (an apt literal metaphor from the cinematography), and there is just overwhelming sense of doom following him at all times. And if you pay closer attention to some of the shots, you'll see plenty of commonalities to film noir of old and new. For example, when Kendall and Gerry meet on the roof of their company building, they look out at New York, specifically one of the bridges, and the camera places them firmly above the bridge. In films like Blast of Silence and State of Grace (as well as Serpico and John Wick, although I wouldn't call those noir films) this is used as a device to showcase a desire to escape that is completely out of their reach. The twist is that Kendall stands above the bridge with all his money; in all those other examples, the characters are underneath it. Clever, Succession. Clever...
Heck yeah! 'tis the season to start singing Succession theme songs again... with lyrics 😂
This is the best show I have seen in a very long time. Hope word keeps spreading!
a great example of how ludicrous amounts of money can make one really miserable is Notch
his life-story seems like well crafted cautionary tail
Stop lying. You haven't played Raid at all.
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Pewdiepie meme
Great show, nice video plus content 👏
Thank you so much for this Video!!
Man! What excellent analysis of my favorite show on TV! Can’t wait for season 3
Succession is barely about money. That’s the backdrop, but it’s not about being rich. They stay rich throughout. They are a stand in for family and ambition and dreams and purpose and truth. Money has little to do with the story.
“Does money make you miserable?”
*Immediately cuts to unskippable ad*
Superb video. Thank you.
I was wondering the same, as to why Kendal needed a driver for his motorcycle. Until I realized this is right after he has been in a car accident, which he was driving, a stick shift, after ages… so it made sense to me then
Haven't watched the show but this got me interested so will check it out.
Wait above a $75,000 salary you stop purchasing happiness? I am laughing my ass off here in the Northeast.
They didn't buy out that theme park for the day, they already owned it.
technically yes, but if you are the owner and are willing to close it one day, basically you are losing money, it is like renting it to yourself for a day
It's also that being rich makes you second-guess all of your relationships where there exists a wealth gradient or disparity. You're isolated because anyone not in the circle makes you wonder what it is they want from you, and makes you wait in tired anticipation of the inevitable time that whomever you're talking to will want a favor or angel funding or want to make their pitch, and it's constantly reinforced by the fact that they do, inevitably, 100% of the time. People don't like you for who you are, but that your relationship with them represents an opportunity for personal advancement. It's kind of like being hot: you know the proposition is coming, it's only a matter of when. All flattery and interest winds up being fake. This is where their resentment for the poor comes from.
The Learning never Ends!
And also, tbh, I am worried about Anti-Science,
so i go around and recommend people randomly
Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka
Teaching-as-it-should-be).
Mind if i do?
You won't get everything in life. You can be rich guy or a poor guy. When you are a rich guy you can buy lot of stuff and have many privileges and do many things. But it have its negative such as you mentioned. When you are poor you don't have much privileges but nobody will try to use you, if someone cares about you ( big if) thats genuine.
When you get one thing you will have to sacrifice something else, thats life. You won't get everything. Its our responsibility to make choose what we want
$75000 is the right amount for the game to be interesting.
You're not grinding every day for coins, but also not using your mom's debit card on that PTW
I think the misery part only really hits home when you get old. You got all this money, these women, your children etc. but that's when you realize that you'd be feeling the same misery you're feeling right now even if you were sleeping by the gutter every night.
That's simply because of the regrets and sacrifices we accumulate throughout our lives. We don't "take out the trash" properly so to speak, and it piles up and bleeds into everything in our lives. You WILL feel this, no matter where you are or even who you are.
All beings' last thoughts will be one thing, imo: "I'm glad I was me". Humans only figure out a thing's or person's worth when they lose it, and only when you lose your life can you truly appreciate who you are, and take solace in the fact that all these things you worried about when alive were lies and distractions, as you never really needed anything as much as you needed yourself in order to be truly happy. Everyone dies alone, and because of that we appreciate and become grateful for even being ourselves, no matter what other curses or blessing we might've had. We had the greatest blessing of all, and that was ourselves.
But we also had the greatest curse of all: being alive.
One friend of My wife used to work for a Big company as a psycologist and coach. And at first i was like "ok, i Guess making easier for your employees to access to mental health pros is good for them" later told me that he's only there to threat high executives and directors cause sometimes they feel they work to much and need motivation. You can't make this shit up.
I don't understand how there are not many views on this video, this show is the best in the world
Wow, I think you just sold me on watching this show. Thanks!
Sounds like transitioning from Rich-porn to Eat-the-rich-porn.
"May God smite me with this curse. And may I never recover!" - Tevya, Fiddler on the Roof.
I couldn’t agree more. I usually hate shows and films about the rich because they parade their wealth when in reality it’s us, the poor bastards, who usually contemplate money.
But I am obsessed with this miserable family and how they never needed to think about money as It has always been there since ever, just like air. Besides Tom and Greg (who came along but we’re not raised as the 1%), for them the wealth is Just background noise. Everything is bleak. They don’t give two shits about material possessions and it’s all about the POWER. Power is the only force that keeps them going…
11:35 Saito says "it seemed neater" referring to it being neater or easier to just buy the airline instead of doing their plan sneakily
I would enjoy being in the 1%, but that's because Im not broken on a fundamental level.
Wealth for me would:
1) Provides security
2) Allow me to hirer people to doing boring stuff like cooking, cleaning, car/home maintenance, taxes, etc
3) Explore my hobbies more fully (machining, glass blowing, horticulture)
People who claim a salary over $75,000 won't make you happier.... are correct, regarding their own capacity to use money. 75K will cover your basic needs (Maslow's hierarchy of needs).
You need knowledge, wisdom, and insight to determine your psychologic & self fulfillment needs. You also need those attributes to determine how to use money to acquire those things. The solution to your psychologic & self fulfillment needs can't be bought; however money can eliminate the obstacles that could prevent you from achieving those solutions.
It also shows that the system is flawed. How some people can have so much money without really contributing anything, just owning there wealth generates more
Does money make me miserable, or am I just a miserable person with money?
i love how he describes a show about broken who are mean to each other, but yes i get people worry about the wrong stuff a lot
Personally I am working on becoming a success not for the purpose that most do to wear expensive stuff and be stupid rich but because both I love the career I am going after and so my family will no longer have to struggle financially
I really wish people would stop using that "$75,000 Salary = max money happiness" figure. It was based on one study, varies widely by where you live, and is out-of-date, especially after 2020.
Money doesn’t make anyone miserable and it doesn’t corrupt. It just reveals what’s already there.
A person who is shitty with money was already a shitty person but just now has the power to exercise their shit-lord muscles.
Failing mental health or missing important aspects of our lives are harder to see when we’re poor as the variables that contribute to our misery can be confounded by the concrete misery that comes with not having basic needs met.
That said, being wealthy can and does solve a lot of real problems. Just not all of them. The one thing it never fixes is character. The strength of our character exists beyond our circumstances.
i'm poor and depressed... i think it will be nice being rich and depressed
There are people everywhere exactly like who are not rich. There are also a lot of good people out there who are rich .
At this point I don’t think anyone doesn’t skip of the Raid ads in YT vids
Jesse Armstrong, who also created the brilliant "Peep Show" and wrote for "The Thick of It" also created this so it's no surprise it's good. I've never seen it sadly but after I found out he created it I'm desperate to watch it now lol not sure where to watch it in the UK though unfortunately-not for free at least
@@cybele_mullejz I thought I'd replied to you the other day but I must not have clicked send or YT didn't put it up, it was a pretty long reply too 😑 I'll keep it brief this time lol yeah I'll definitely check that article out, I actually looked it up and saved the link-just not got round to reading it yet, thanks 👍
Edit-lmao@Peter Capaldi-that would be interesting wouldn't it
@TK Wallace yep Brian Cox was born in Dundee if I remember right which isn't too far from me-mind you everywhere in Scotland isn't too far from everywhere else compared to the likes of America 😂 but it's about an hour and a half away. He was the first person to play Hannibal Lecter on film but if I'm honest Anthony Hopkins definitely played him better in my mind
@@cybele_mullejz well I've found out it's apparently on Sky (satellite TV) which I don't personally pay for but my parents do and when my mum finds her password she's giving me a call so I can watch it through her account on the Sky app lol thanks for trying to suggest some things though!
Hmmm I guess it depends really-yes if you liked Veep you'll probably enjoy Thick of it too but I think it also depends how familiar you are with how UK politics works, it's not something you need to know all the ins and outs but just understanding our dumb ass Westminster a bit makes all the difference-personally I'd go with Peep Show, not many shows literally makes me lol but this makes me laugh loudly each time I watch it lol also the novel camera work is so interesting. Hope you enjoy them both!
@@cybele_mullejz @Parisa Muller well the very first episode is here on YT (I watched it yesterday lol) so you could easily get an idea at least on whether you think it's worth going ahead with but for me at least it's one of the best sitcoms ever. Funny thing is the guys in that went on to do a show called "That Mitchell and Webb Look" and I wasn't all that keen on it and I'm sure Jesse Armstrong had a hand in writing that too-maybe because that was a sketch show and I'm not such a fan of sketch shows generally but it got great reviews too.
I really like the sound of that Roadkill show you mentioned, it sounds like it might be my sort of thing-although I'm not sure I'd personally put the words "compassionate Conservative" together without laughing, I don't see the Tories as very compassionate unfortunately haha but I'll leave my politics out of things lol Hugh Laurie is a gem so I imagine he will be great in this
I'll certainly keep in mind to keep watching if I'm finding the first couple episodes a bit slower than expected but that's often the way with shows like this I've noticed-for a start they seem not too great then suddenly something happens and your hooked lol I'll be glad when I get a chance to see it 😊
Oh don't worry about the length of your comment-i do it all the time 😂 keep blaming it on the coffee! Hahah
You could try the next best thing
There are very long Succession recap on UA-cam. Don't remember the name.
"It seemed neater" is the (indistinct) line from the Inception clip about the airline.
Idk, while watching this show I’ve said numerous times that I would love to live that lifestyle. I already have the depression and anxiety, so I wouldn’t mind having the money as well.
I remember when i was a kid, I overheard a conversation between my mom and aunt. MOM: "MONEY DOESN'T BUY YOU HAPPINESSES". AUNT: " YEAH BUT IT SURE HELPS THOUGH"
On the UA-cam channel, How Money Works, he talked about the financial perspective on how mergers and inheritances work. At the same time, I won't deny that the children are desperate to gain shares form their father's company as well as how seriously messed up that the father doesn't plan on giving anything to anyone even though he was talking about his "succession". Hence, the name of the show.
I have a friend who grew up in an environment like this... Not gonna lie, she's one of the most traumatized and miserable people i know
I genuinely love her so much, but i realize she in general feels imprisoned by this life
Just like the kids in this show... She really just wants some affection from her father
Beyond that there's a huge feeling of staleness in life and loneliness+isolation
In general too, i feel like she needs to get away from her general surroundings of "elite" type people. Honestly seems to kill her soul even more... Always has to put on an act and can't be herself
Tragic tbh
I think and pray for her often
I recall an interview from s1 about how they look rich and oh damn you said the helicopter thing as I’m typing….never mind
Gaining wealth is tough. Having wealth is great.
The ACTUAL Cinderella was Tom imo 😂😂
There is another point that makes the show really smart: none of the main characters is really physically attractive. Yeah, Siobhan is good looking, but does not fit in the realm of the typical beauty queens portrayed in the wealth porn movies, none of the brothers is extremely handsome, maybe Connor but his stupidity takes it away from him quick. They all wear really expensive clothes, but they dont usually fit like a glove or make them look stunning.
Greg is hot
@@taureansun1501 I meant of the siblings, hey, you do you, I won't judge.
Roman is hot
@@MrPedromuriel I never judge people's kinks.
I have dreamt of being Roy level wealthy since I was a kid hearing stories about Sumner Redstone from my grandma. The world of Succession looks very good to me. Hey, great video guys.
I just doubled my vocabulary listening to this video
Do one on Midnight Mass please
I think I now understand why I’ve always felt like it was a modern day Game of Thrones
Life is about choices and tradeoffs can't have it all.
i really hope you do a review about person of interest tv series . i found it underrated
Money can't buy happiness, but it can get you pretty far in Raid Shadow Legends
Where can I watch this show?
I think the "misery" of being rich is unlikely to be bestowed upon someone who wasn't born rich .
Idk there's a stereotype of people like this not liking to tip, disagree with giving money to homeless people, finding embarassing to ask to take home the rest of food they couldn't eat, being arrogant with people who have less money
@@SL-ze6su I couldn't say wether those traits you listed are unique to being born rich or not but, that does seem to describe people who are "selfish" and rich.
I imagine that a lot about being born rich is fantastic , the drawback I've seen in movies and reality is difficulty adhering to arbitrary family dogma that opposes the individual's desires.
Think the movie Crazy Rich Asians and real life Prince Harry; they marry who they want at the cost of being excommunicated from the family.
That's one form of it, but there are others. Other movies that illustrate this familial antagonism I can think of are : Inception , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Ready orNot, The Haunting of Bly Manor.
But nobody can choose their family right?
I wish this video had showed a little of the counter-point which is that maybe it's not money that made the Roys miserable, it's that the Roys are miserable people with money.
This is the longest raid commercial I've seen in a while
Short answer is yes, the long answer is ABSOLUTELY!