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    Nicolas Framont, Parasites, 2023
    Pierre Kropotkine, The Conquest of Bread, 1892
    David Graeber, Bullshit jobs, 2018
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  • @smalltittycowgirl
    @smalltittycowgirl Рік тому +2597

    “We can survive without the rich, but they cannot survive without us.”

    • @comosediceesoo681
      @comosediceesoo681 Рік тому +13

      I don't understand your mentality

    • @C4MNOTICS
      @C4MNOTICS Рік тому +235

      @@comosediceesoo681 the rich need consumers and workers to maintain their financial position in the hierarchy

    • @comosediceesoo681
      @comosediceesoo681 Рік тому +18

      @@C4MNOTICS but how can you supply resources ("EFFICIENTLY") without a profit driven industry.

    • @genesissmg
      @genesissmg Рік тому +46

      @@comosediceesoo681 de alguna otra manera tendrá que ser porque no queremos seguir, hm... como se dice eso... EXPLOTADOS DE MANERA DESPROPORCIONADA :)

    • @bgiv2010
      @bgiv2010 Рік тому +161

      @@comosediceesoo681 interestingly, the rich aren't the ones with the knowledge to gain efficiency nor are they the only ones driven by profit. otherwise, why does profit driven industry waste upwards of 40% of the food it creates? if resources become so abundant that they can be efficiently distributed effectively at no cost, why do capitalists destroy inventory just to maintain demand? is that efficient?

  • @nathanbrady8529
    @nathanbrady8529 Рік тому +793

    The most brilliant thing capitalism has ever done is convincing poor people that other poor people are why they're poor.

    • @myfriendgoo2816
      @myfriendgoo2816 Рік тому

      That's the whole job of FauxNews - keep the 99% divided. Convince those who have little that the blame for that lies in those who have nothing, and their awesome political power. As if that were how the world works.

    • @tothboy01
      @tothboy01 Рік тому

      This reminds me of a quote I heard from a guest on Faux "News", I forget his name, but he said "Fox is a billionaire who hires millionaires to tell middle class people to blame their problems on poor people."

    • @aaronbastianstudio4910
      @aaronbastianstudio4910 Рік тому +10

      Have you experienced socialism?

    • @myfriendgoo2816
      @myfriendgoo2816 Рік тому +46

      @@aaronbastianstudio4910 Not directed at me, but Social Security, Medicare, the VA and the ACA are all forms of socialism. As are the many programs for business, the bailouts if you're too big to fail, and all manner of agricultural subsidies. If you go by a strict definition of socialism (government controlling means of production) then you'd need a country like Venezuela as a model, but not even Bernie is proposing nationalizing the oil companies.

    • @nathanbrady8529
      @nathanbrady8529 Рік тому +33

      @@myfriendgoo2816 Quick point, "government controlling the means of production" isn't socialism, that's communism.
      In socialism, it would be the workers (the actual people doing the work, not a millionaire executive on a golf course) themselves controlling the means of production.

  • @_maia_m
    @_maia_m Рік тому +1006

    People always say we need rich people because they make jobs, but that idea always makes me think of Cinderella's step mother, pouring out the lentils and the beans on the floor so that Ciderella has something to do..

    • @chamberv5261
      @chamberv5261 Рік тому +51

      People who say that really have no idea...like at all

    • @zmojofoot76
      @zmojofoot76 Рік тому

      they make bullshit jobs lmao that don't neeed to be done just to be annoying

    • @effexon
      @effexon Рік тому

      uh I thought we have magic red button in some central bank computer to make money, why need rich people.... it goes other way round, they congregate around this red button to keep staying rich.

    • @mattwong5403
      @mattwong5403 Рік тому +71

      I always hear about how poor people don't deserve to have their basic essentials guaranteed because they'll be lazy. But when CEOs get paid $20M salaries, I never hear anyone say "they don't deserve it because they'll just waste it on a third yacht"

    • @infjinfj1900
      @infjinfj1900 Рік тому +2

      💯🎯

  • @Billy_shears
    @Billy_shears Рік тому +4049

    I love how each vídeo is getting more and more anti-capitalist

    • @AliceCappelle
      @AliceCappelle  Рік тому +1102

      I’m adopting the #frenchrevolutioncore aesthetic lately :p

    • @Danuxsy
      @Danuxsy Рік тому +43

      it stepped on her toes recently

    • @Billy_shears
      @Billy_shears Рік тому +2

      @@AliceCappelle be careful not to cut yourself with the guillotines!

    • @rozinant1237
      @rozinant1237 Рік тому +57

      Name a time when a communist society worked?

    • @shakenbacon-vm4eu
      @shakenbacon-vm4eu Рік тому +1

      @@rozinant1237 socialism fails… blame socialism! Communism fails…blame communism!! Capitalism fails and continues to fail…blame the poor, minorities, immigrants.

  • @Spacellama117
    @Spacellama117 Рік тому +1459

    I just found this channel and I just wanna say that the discussion of biological parasites followed by the absolutely deadpan delivery of a picture of Jeff Bezos made my week.

    • @AliceCappelle
      @AliceCappelle  Рік тому +71

      😂

    • @love__and__hope__
      @love__and__hope__ Рік тому +6

      @@AliceCappelle parasitism it natural way of living as well. Full of envious folks there

    • @imurt3417
      @imurt3417 Рік тому

      ​@@love__and__hope__ so they're really parasites, right?

    • @tymondabrowski12
      @tymondabrowski12 Рік тому

      @@love__and__hope__ there are plenty of natural poisons and synthetic edible/harmless substances. Natural doesn't mean good.

    • @jowalnab9498
      @jowalnab9498 Рік тому

      ​@@love__and__hope__ not everything that is natural is good. Nature doesn't have a moral compass, nature doesn't care about ethics either.

  • @MsAuriauri
    @MsAuriauri Рік тому +578

    as someone who works in one of the most expensive hotels in the caribbean, i live this on a daily basis. i have such complicated thoughts on this matter. for one, i’m able to make a living from the ultra-rich spending money in the hotel, giving me tips, etc. on the other hand, until working here, i had never experienced so much classism and shameless entitlement. i went to an ivy league and i am arguably as educated or more than many of the people i work for, but they (not everyone, of course) somehow manage to make me feel incredibly inferior and responsible for the fact that, despite my education and familial upper-middle class “status”, i have to work for a living. obviously, i dont want to discredit the wonderful people i’ve met, but it’s important to point out how, despite all the similarities we might share, we will always be othered.

    • @crossovermultiverse3882
      @crossovermultiverse3882 Рік тому +30

      I also think it could be the "I am special" syndrome that warp their minds to treat others bad, no one wants to do a job that they don't want to and thinking because they "worked hard" they "deserve" such luxury, which is entitlement. Wish they have some emotional intelligence lessons since they can afford that.

    • @myfriendgoo2816
      @myfriendgoo2816 Рік тому +7

      Maybe you could be a consultant for "White Lotus."

    • @roykong7024
      @roykong7024 Рік тому +7

      My step father worked as a bell boy when he was a tenager in his summer holidays for some extra cash. He developed his facination with foreign cultures from that. Which lead him into the oil industry and traveled a lot. He has a fond memory of those times, and makes sure to tip generously when he brings us to holidays because that reminds him of his root, and initial inspiration of wanting to travel.

    • @outboardgull5285
      @outboardgull5285 Рік тому +2

      I've also worked in an expensive hotel in California and can relate to this very well. Like that Hotel really only had either New Money, Old Money or those who had spent time saving up. Lots of people came in driving fancy cars, clearly in the Ownership Class and those who had Generational Wealth. Got tipped better there than anywhere else I've worked, would often come home with one (or a few) $20 bills tucked in my pocket. Was really great in that regard.
      However, I noticed a vast difference in the people & the way they (Guests/Customers) treat you as compared to working in a Hotel that caters more towards folks who actually have to work for a living. Working there was like being in a pressure cooker in some ways, fast paced workplace when busy, very high expectations and management was generally pretty high strung. Ironically I now make more an hour with great benefits and do a much less demanding job working in Retail.

    • @tyh3120
      @tyh3120 Рік тому

      Without the fear of God and the sacrificial exemple of the Christ for all human, a man doesn’t know how to treat well the other. With the Great Apostasy of the Christendom, the world will turn back to it’s barbaric nature. The tyranny is the only way that the barbaric could choose as way of life. Who can come after the Christ, but the Antichrist? It’s Islam + Communism. The Era of the Great Slavery is coming upon you.

  • @MrLegHair
    @MrLegHair Рік тому +764

    Instead of calling it "passive income" I always try to refer to it as unearned income ever since reading the book Why We Can't Afford the Rich. These parasites are extracting earned income from working people instead of lifting a finger themselves.

    • @sweetie_babie
      @sweetie_babie Рік тому +84

      That's not always applicable. If you just have a generic dropshipping store, sure, but if you make all the designs yourself and use print on demand, there is work and intellectual property involved. Even the woman we're watching right now makes passive income on the videos that she's previously made being watched, but that doesn't mean she didn't earn it.

    • @MrLegHair
      @MrLegHair Рік тому +49

      @@sweetie_babie Fair! Mostly referring to the landlord class but that's def a valid point.

    • @OrdinaryCritic
      @OrdinaryCritic Рік тому +5

      Yeah, if I were rich, I’d never do these things. I’d even give my source of income to the poor. In the hands of the poor, creating value is ensured. ❤

    • @celialusma4618
      @celialusma4618 Рік тому

      ​@@sweetie_babie even if you on the intellectual property of something you will still benefit from the labour of others to materialized the thing you create, the vicious things with capitalists is that the will hack this to the extreme where increasing profit matters more than human basic needs to survive.

    • @Conval-wi5eh
      @Conval-wi5eh Рік тому +37

      @@MrLegHair I might get a shitstorm for this, but at least where I live even the job of a landlord is not passive income from my point of view. There is so much to take care of. If something is broken you need to send and pay a handyman (they are rare where I live and expensive), during the last few years the houses mostly got insulated (big investment!), the heating system has to be upgraded (huge investment), windows have to be exchanged from time to time and the rooms themselves have to be renovated. Either you do it yourself (a lot of work, many many hours) or you pay someone to do it (very expensive at least where I live). Additionally a lot of the renting costs actually goes to services you have to pay for (garbage collection, street cleaning, lease if you don't own the land and you rarely do where I live, insurance, property management if you bought an apartment in a building with multiple living units, ...). I know there are landlords out there who slap absurd prices on literal rat holes, and I guess this is what is being critizised. If you do it properly and take care of the renters and your houses / apartments, there is a lot of work and hours that go into it and I see no problem getting paid for this work, if you do it properly and don't exploit it.
      Now, in an ideal world each of us would own their own home. But we can see in the US, where a lot of people build their own homes that these homes are such low quality, they are held together by string and duct tape and don't last more than twenty years, because people cannot afford materials of higher quality. As an European, I don't think this is the way to go. If there is a change in laws and you have to install insulation, new heating etc, home owners who barely have any savings might not be able to pay for upgrading their homes.
      But again, this is based on the situation in Germany.
      I generally don't like the term "passive income" at all. Few income really is passive. Even when you write a book or build a course, that's work you put in upfront and you don't know if it pays off. "Delayed income" is a better term. Stock market and other gambling can be regarded as passive income, I think. The real problem is focusing on making money instead of focusing on creating value for other people or your community.

  • @gamewrit0058
    @gamewrit0058 Рік тому +780

    11:00 "Class traitor" is a classic term we might want to bring back.

    • @TheSorrel
      @TheSorrel Рік тому +29

      But we want capitalists to betray their class.

    • @thekajalflaneur
      @thekajalflaneur Рік тому +20

      I say this all the time to ticket inspectors fining old ladies and students and well... Me also.

    • @CA999
      @CA999 Рік тому +4

      Labor \ labour parties in many countries ...

    • @mattwong5403
      @mattwong5403 Рік тому +18

      He has a lot in common with Andrew Tate. Recognizing that a system is unfair and that there are a few rich people hoarding wealth at the expense of everyone else, but instead of attempting to change it, he simply tries to take advantage of the unfairness and becomes the rich person exploiting poor people.

    • @juicyparsons
      @juicyparsons Рік тому +5

      yeah it's hard because I completely understand why we (in America) live in such a scammy place where everybody is trying to get over on each other- but it's a bigger frustration to see rich celebrities who don't have to steal to eat peddle nonsense to us constantly. And you're right I haven't heard the term class traitor since before the pandemic lol

  • @trinktmalnent7744
    @trinktmalnent7744 Рік тому +284

    I love that you mentioned the movie.
    While people will miss it, Bong Joon Ho actually made it very clear that the rich family are Parasites. Here are some instances I noticed:
    1. The rich mother is introduced sleeping in the middle of the day. Later in the movie she is sleeping again, when her husband returns home.
    2. The rich father says, his wife "has no talent for housework" - as though that would be a thing
    3. The rich family seems to have no understanding of less wealthy people:
    The movie puts the viewer into the shoes of the poor family, when they prepare the party for the rich family. The rich family is carefree, while the poor family (especially the father) is getting very annoyed. The rich family simply answers with extra pay on weekends.
    At another point the rich father says "There's this unique smell that subway commuters have" - as though that would not be caused by their circumstances.
    [HEAVY SPOILER] It also becomes clear that Bong Joon Hoo is critiquing the whole system, when the poor family doesn't want to help the couple in the hidden basement. As soon as they are on top, they don't want that inconvinience.
    Nice Video.

    • @tymondabrowski12
      @tymondabrowski12 Рік тому +9

      I would argue that despite the rich having its flaws, the poor are shown way worse. I understand what you're saying but that's details that imho disappear when looking over the whole movie. I don't see the meaning that people seem to apply to it in the movie itself (when watchinh without trying to fish out all the moments that agree with that supposed meaning), and I really disliked it. I don't see it as helpful to the working class. Interesting piece of cinematography, but not something making a meaningful statement, in my personal opinion (which I know not many people share).

    • @trinktmalnent7744
      @trinktmalnent7744 Рік тому +12

      ​@@tymondabrowski12 I didn't want to argue that ONLY the rich family are Parasites or that they are WORSE than the poor family. In the video Bong Joon-ho was quoted: "So at first glance this film seems to be a satire of how the poor family are Parasites". And I wanted to show that people who don't see anything beyond this are wrong. But my phrasing might be misleading.
      I too dislike cherry-picked information for a movie analysis and therefore I regularly disagree with these kinds of analyses. However, now that I clarified, what I'm trying to say, you may even agree with my points. I think especially point 2 and 3 are hard to explain in any other way and seem very deliberately chosen. The rich family lacks understanding for the poor.
      If the rich family were depicted as having a good understanding of the poor the whole time apart from these instances, the few instances I pointed out would need to be attributed to chance.
      Concerning the rich parents and the poor family, I find it interesting how their questionable understanding and decisions seem to result from being stuck in their classes. In this way the movie might be meaningful. How much the movie actually helps, is hard to say.

  • @tenguyubs1919
    @tenguyubs1919 Рік тому +495

    I feel like there is a massive mismatch in contribution and return at the moment, celebrities that are not making real contribution to the society are getting it all, and real contributors like teachers and social workers are underpaid. It could be because there's this unhealthy level of obsession with social media and the internet-famous. The root of the problem seems to be misplaced attention. This is just a general observation from my side, so take this with a huge grain of salt. 😅

    • @troywalkertheprogressivean8433
      @troywalkertheprogressivean8433 Рік тому

      Misinformed people and their unhealthy obsession with their egos.

    • @randomstuff-qu7sh
      @randomstuff-qu7sh Рік тому +55

      In theory, capitalism is supposed to pay people what they're worth. The problem is that assumes a completely fair marketplace where everyone has equal power. However, those at the top have more power and influence than the rest of us, and as a consequence, the system has been distorted over time to favor those at the top at everyone else's expense.

    • @aishahshamsul8642
      @aishahshamsul8642 Рік тому +72

      IMO entertainment being such a main thing is the result of a deprived society. By making the average worker work hard and long, when they got home they don't have remaining energy for themselves, own projects or dreams.
      So they will turn to distractions which fuels the entertainment industry. Further distractions make them want to consume even more as most people nowadays have no idea of activities outside being on their phone and / or consuming.

    • @IshtarNike
      @IshtarNike Рік тому

      It's important to remember that the celebrities are only the ones we see. They're not actually the ones getting it all. The ones getting it all are the bankers and hedge fund types. They make far more than most of the people we've heard of. The rich are like an iceberg of parasites. Far more below the surface than above.

    • @IshtarNike
      @IshtarNike Рік тому

      ​@@randomstuff-qu7sh Actually the system started off distorted. In the early years it was 100% controlled openly by the rich for the rich. It was only for a brief period in the mid twentieth century with the threat of communism and strong unions that we had a fairer system (and then only in the rich countries). It was rotten from the start.

  • @tommivalgma2725
    @tommivalgma2725 Рік тому +572

    at some point in the video i thought she was going to create a system of parasites like "jeff besos is a stage 4 parasite and andrew tate is a stage 3 parasite" or smth. would have been really funny. great work as always

  • @jvillanueva7707
    @jvillanueva7707 Рік тому +49

    " What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks 'where's my share?' ..."

    • @xXMindfireXx
      @xXMindfireXx Рік тому

      Apparently this quote is from Bioshock but I think it's a really stupid quote.
      Should we all start buillding everything by ourselves instead?
      If you require someone's help at some point (and you always do eventually ) of course that person demands a share.
      Maybe not if you are friends with that person, but even among friends you can only push this so far until the helping person complains and refuses.
      Especially if you scale this to an entire population / society.
      If you want to bring people onboard with something that is clearly risky and demands a lot of skin in the game, then paying them in shares is a sensible thing to do.
      Which is the entire point about investing...

  • @alancham4
    @alancham4 Рік тому +490

    “Capitalism really fucks up your brain”…. So true.

  • @garrbageboy
    @garrbageboy Рік тому +323

    I work as a poker dealer, and while I genuinely enjoy the job and most of the people I work with, I've found that there's a higher percentage of my coworkers who are big on hustle culture than I've seen in any other job I've had. It could be because we generally make pretty good money, so I'm just around people with more disposable income than I'm used to. But they talk about crypto and renting out houses and playing poker for income like you'd be crazy for just working for a living. It's this mindset some people develop where they're really just going life trying to hit big on one thing so they never have to work again. Insane

    • @jeffengel2607
      @jeffengel2607 Рік тому +51

      And note that all of these income schemes add no value to anyone else's life. It's not the wanting money in plenty fast that really bothers me - it's (1) that we allow the system to generate the money for doing nothing useful, and (2) that people are a-okay-fine _being_ the ones raking in money for no value produced.

    • @garrbageboy
      @garrbageboy Рік тому +50

      @@jeffengel2607 very good point. It's natural for people to want to pull in money and be comfortable. But the fact that our society has normalized unethical and worthless ways of making money is the real issue

    • @harriet.z
      @harriet.z Рік тому +8

      Some of my coworkers are exactly like that. It is mind boggling to me.

    • @artorhen
      @artorhen Рік тому +5

      @jeffengel2607 the problem with it is that on top of the money that people make off of these schemes, even more goes to corporations off of these people that think they are winning a lot of money.

    • @YevOnegin
      @YevOnegin Рік тому +2

      This is only true for probably 5% of people who talk about it, but if you have a talent for probability and money management, and are genuinely good at poker, and you can make money 4-tabling without ever getting out of bed, you would have to be extremely passionate about a career in whatever else to actually give it up. And to be fair, poker if taken seriously enough to be a winning player, is a full time job anyway.

  • @battragon
    @battragon Рік тому +254

    In the Netherlands, there are roughly 3 million empty square meters of office space, while there are around 30.000 homeless people. So that's around 100 square meters per homeless person. [Source: Dutch government website]
    (And that's only office space.)

    • @GabrielHellborne
      @GabrielHellborne Рік тому +31

      Capitalist efficiency, ladies and gentlemen!

    • @niewazneniewazne1890
      @niewazneniewazne1890 Рік тому

      If it wasn't possible to manufacture consent on an individual level(not talking about the book which touches on mass media). Then I would have an idea on the matter.
      Giving up properties to the government for public housing use(considering someone would make law without major loopholes or think of a better idea).
      On the voluntarily level, it would still be horrible, because consent can be manufactured within the individual.
      This idea in practice would bring about a lot of pain to the world, maybe even more than it would bring back, whether immediate or in the future.

    • @battragon
      @battragon Рік тому +4

      @@niewazneniewazne1890 That's actually bullcrap. Public housing is an old and proven method for providing people with affordable housing.
      That, and it wasn't such a problem when they took it from the people and gave it to the rich folks.
      And I've known some Polish people. And they would have been in A LOT better condition, had public housing been available to them.

    • @battragon
      @battragon Рік тому +6

      @@niewazneniewazne1890 Speaking of loopholes; You can actually just tax the rich and buy the empty properties from them.
      (Never change a winning formula.)

    • @niewazneniewazne1890
      @niewazneniewazne1890 Рік тому +1

      ​@@battragon Yeah but what if you get rich off of just building empty properties to be bought off by the government.
      You get easy and safe money.
      Whether small scale or big scale, people will make money off of that.

  • @amoraslucha
    @amoraslucha Рік тому +252

    wish there were more channels like yours T^T so refreshing and necessary

    • @humanwithaplaylist
      @humanwithaplaylist Рік тому

      There are a lot of channels like this. Not as big as insane right wing UA-cam which is literally funded by billionaires. But a good amount of leftist UA-camrs exist

    • @Kizarat
      @Kizarat Рік тому +17

      Hakim, Second Thought, YUGOPNIK are great similar channels. But Alice has unique essays and analysis.

    • @taginefc3189
      @taginefc3189 Рік тому +1

      OMG YES! to this video because I CANNOT STAND 1. Let’s ask mansion & Tesla owners what they do or for advice ( like their possessions makes them oracles) 2. How not to pay taxes like the rich videos 3. Get Rich during recession 4. Shame the poor to promote your wealth building training. & How I became a millionaire (without mentioning your privileged head start) #parasitecontent has taken over..

    • @liamh1141
      @liamh1141 Рік тому +2

      Epoch philosophy and Then & Now are also good ones

    • @PlessyFerguson1
      @PlessyFerguson1 Рік тому

      Cappelle PLEASE get a Brain! Acquire Your own Knowledge!
      Discover Your own Conclusions & Stop READING others' Words!

  • @eti-iniER
    @eti-iniER Рік тому +154

    The more of this type of content I watch, the more I feel like the world is ending 😅 or that our current economic system is about to implode and cause decades of suffering. As a resident of a third world country, I expect to bear the brunt of it.

    • @iridiscencia5390
      @iridiscencia5390 Рік тому +27

      capitalism has made people feel like it would collapse since it began. marx was talking about its inevitable death in the nineteenth century! im also from a third world country… we have suffered since the beginning, and there are people suffering right now. the world wont end, but capitalism might. would it be so terrible if it allowed us to build something better?

    • @Jkjoannaki
      @Jkjoannaki Рік тому

      I know, I know. I'm greek, last month due to privatization of public transportation (train) my friends gf and many people my age (gen z) that are poor and chose the poorest option, DIED. LITERAL CAPITALISM AND STATE MURDER. THEY HATE US. They kill us. They kill the planet. They get away with huge drug dealing (navy asses, marinakis in Greece for example), they end up mich of the working class and some even rich people to heroin while they try to ban weed and kill black people when they sell some weed to buy some more. In Greece we had many many protests, I participated in 2, we got beat up. For defending our murdered friends from the parasites (influencers like politicians, aka the government). I'm also a med student and the way the system pushes drugs to numb people's frustration from the systems that oppress them is disgusting. And we are forced to cooperate with this system and the ones with dignity don't want to benefit from patients suffering and we are fine even with small amount of money,out of dignity. But the parasites don't have dignity

    • @Jkjoannaki
      @Jkjoannaki Рік тому +5

      @iridiscencia the world might end if nuclear war is involved :) gotta love nationalism and fascism right?

    • @dionysus2003
      @dionysus2003 Рік тому +4

      It's not going to collapse, it'll change. and it's already changing!

    • @SI0AX
      @SI0AX Рік тому

      @@dionysus2003 How is it already changing? Or do you mean it's changing for the worse? We are delving into a Dystopian society where the ultra rich are controlling more than every before and our society will look like the original Robocop series and Cyberpunk?

  • @schtuff.8207
    @schtuff.8207 Рік тому +293

    Love this way of describing it. I've been trying to find the right word for my former landlord (who ruined my business and my ability to live in Toronto). Parasite seems more fitting somehow than 'sociopath'.

    • @Danuxsy
      @Danuxsy Рік тому +1

      my family calls me a parasite cuz I still live at home 🤷‍♂

    • @jeffengel2607
      @jeffengel2607 Рік тому +2

      Both may work.

    • @jeffengel2607
      @jeffengel2607 Рік тому +37

      @@Danuxsy Sheesh! Adult offspring can live at home without parasitism - you just contribute reasonably to the household. Our son's recently moved out, but I'd've been so much happier if he'd stayed here rent-free and just (e.g.) done dishes. (Which he is now doing ANYWAY.)

    • @humanwithaplaylist
      @humanwithaplaylist Рік тому +37

      ​@@Danuxsy you aren't a parasite for living at home

    • @Danuxsy
      @Danuxsy Рік тому +12

      @@humanwithaplaylist thank you 😊, i'm unemployeed right now so I cannot afford to move 😔

  • @EroticInferno
    @EroticInferno 11 місяців тому +22

    If everyone survives on “passive income” then no one survives because no work is done

    • @tobiastobias2419
      @tobiastobias2419 10 місяців тому

      Eroticinferno hahah your name is so cool !

  • @elixorvideos
    @elixorvideos Рік тому +123

    I love how you can tell just how pissed off Alice is at the state of the world, I can hear the venom in her voice and I’m here for it

    • @TheKenpachiBankai
      @TheKenpachiBankai Рік тому +4

      what about the irony in using capitalist systems to capitalise on the viewers blaming capitalism for the current state?

    • @Hubcool367
      @Hubcool367 Рік тому +18

      @@TheKenpachiBankai really not as smart as you seem to think it is. Literally the "We should improve society somewhat" "Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent" meme.

    • @TheKenpachiBankai
      @TheKenpachiBankai Рік тому

      @@Hubcool367 what? :)))

    • @Hubcool367
      @Hubcool367 Рік тому +2

      @@TheKenpachiBankai google "We should improve society somewhat", any of the links will show you the meme

    • @ashtangaxashtangapranayama8526
      @ashtangaxashtangapranayama8526 Рік тому +1

      ​@@TheKenpachiBankai lol 🤦🏾 "what?" 😅😂😂

  • @forg6649
    @forg6649 Рік тому +38

    this is so real. i know someone that is a landlord among other things and subscribes to the idea “you can’t retire until you’re at least a millionare” despite the fact that he is actively preventing people from even advancing past much lower milestones, keeping them trapped in that “i’ll retire when i’m rich enough” mentality and allowing him to reap the benefits of that. great video btw can’t wait for the landlord saga to continue

  • @salvadorfonseca7
    @salvadorfonseca7 Рік тому +44

    “The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.” - Voltaire

  • @thelostcosmonaut5555
    @thelostcosmonaut5555 Рік тому +44

    I like how next to Graham on his desk is a book titled "Double Tap". It's ironic cuz in the military world "double tapping" (ie shooting a downed enemy an extra time to make sure he's really dead) can be considered a war crime.

    • @KawaiiStars
      @KawaiiStars Рік тому

      why a war crime?

    • @thelostcosmonaut5555
      @thelostcosmonaut5555 Рік тому +1

      @@KawaiiStars because the combatant is already down and out of the fight. If they are injured beyond the point of being combat capable then they are now an injured noncombatant who needs treatment from the medics.

    • @KawaiiStars
      @KawaiiStars Рік тому +1

      @@thelostcosmonaut5555 ahhh, i see, thanks, forget sometimes that even war can be bureaucratic so many rules, but i guess they're all necessary tho

    • @thelostcosmonaut5555
      @thelostcosmonaut5555 Рік тому +1

      @@KawaiiStars no problem!

  • @aeolia80
    @aeolia80 Рік тому +34

    oh man, when you started talking about the movie Parasite, it reminded me when I was living there (in Korea) when the movie came out, there were these upscale lux furniture companies in Korea that were promoting their furniture through the movie, and I kept asking myself "had they not watched the movie? do they not know what it's about? Did Bong Joon Ho actually sign off on this form of advertisement? ", lol

    • @JanusTroelsen
      @JanusTroelsen Рік тому

      It is nice furniture. If you have an affiliate link, please send me one and you'll get a kickback from my purchase.

  • @TheYasmineFlower
    @TheYasmineFlower Рік тому +113

    It's so hard to not fall into those hustle culture spaces. Thank you for reminding me to fight the temptation harder.

    • @usersdksdfg
      @usersdksdfg Рік тому +5

      if you hustle you can get richer, but money is not the purpose of life, it's loving others

  • @JamesMcS
    @JamesMcS Рік тому +20

    This is wonderfully put, thank you. There is something distinctly soulless and low-vibe about so much mega-hustle content, despite the high energy.

  • @oeckstei
    @oeckstei Рік тому +30

    The sad truth is that even love and relationships are tied to capitalism. If you’re working two jobs to get by you don’t have time to develop quality relationships and experiences.

    • @tobiastobias2419
      @tobiastobias2419 10 місяців тому

      and woman don't want you, when your poor....

    • @weirdflex8158
      @weirdflex8158 6 місяців тому

      You own your own life there 168 hours in a week even if you work 70 there's tons of time left manage it better.

    • @weirdflex8158
      @weirdflex8158 6 місяців тому

      ​@@tobiastobias2419some may? It's better if your rich though obviously which makes perfect sense they want a better life just like you do

  • @chelseashurmantine8153
    @chelseashurmantine8153 Рік тому +78

    You have really changed my life by calling political work unpaid work like housework is unpaid work. Thank you for that. It’s changed how I feel about my role in this world. I want to change things and I subscribe to activism because it is just plain something that has to be done in these outdated political systems

  • @nightrain1121
    @nightrain1121 Рік тому +294

    The guillotine is my personal favourite parasite-exterminator 😊✨

    • @Catthepunk
      @Catthepunk Рік тому +14

      You're joking right? The French revolution was great, but that attitude is what caused the reign of terror.

    • @Rig0r_M0rtis
      @Rig0r_M0rtis Рік тому

      @@Catthepunk You don't get rid of a parasite with a slap on wrist

    • @RicardoPetinga
      @RicardoPetinga Рік тому

      @@Catthepunk reign of terror is what we're living in now, sucked dry by the parasite class under threat of starvation, homelessness, disease and death if we don't let them.

    • @jakejanssen4319
      @jakejanssen4319 Рік тому +24

      @@Catthepunkit’s almost as if most socialists don’t care for the poor, they just hate people who have more stuff than them

    • @Catthepunk
      @Catthepunk Рік тому +4

      @@jakejanssen4319 that's quite a pessimistic outlook tbf.

  • @LeoLioriXD
    @LeoLioriXD Рік тому +188

    Man i love how the anticapitalist movement is growing everywhere recently. Here in Brazil, the revolutionary left is at its stronger form in like 50 years or so. I love channels like yours, Hasan and Second thought propagating the message. Here, we have some comunist youtubers (in lack of a better therm) as well. I recomend seeing the video "Princípios básicos do comunismo" (Basic principles of communism) from the channel "História Pública". There are english subtitles to help you guys. Thanks for the video, Alice

    • @genesissmg
      @genesissmg Рік тому +18

      This brings me hope for latin america. I highly love how Alice and the rest of those UA-camrs you mentioned are reaching our people too. Thank you for the suggestions, I'll check it out.
      Kind regards from Perú

    • @LeoLioriXD
      @LeoLioriXD Рік тому +14

      @@genesissmg hey, hope things get better in Peru. Latin America needs to unite against the imperial USA. Venceremos, não temos outra opção!

    • @genesissmg
      @genesissmg Рік тому +6

      @@LeoLioriXD com certeza será assim

    • @finyafuxfell3031
      @finyafuxfell3031 Рік тому

      I wish I could say the same. 😞 I'm from Austria and the capitalist and straight up nazi party. Just a few weeks ago of our states chose a racist and capitalistic givernor and literal nazi as deputy govenor. There are pictures of him with the Hitler Greeting.
      Austria used to be a coutry where socialists where prominent, but ever sicne 2020 the other parties get more and more votes. They're destroying so much and people are voting them over and over again. Ffs. 😞

    • @craxo8796
      @craxo8796 Рік тому

      Hasan Piker, the socialist that lives in a 3 million Hollywood house.

  • @Patchouliprince
    @Patchouliprince Рік тому +23

    Right? I’m very poor, like I’ve been homeless more times than I can count since I was a baby, and this winter I had to survive with no electricity I rigged everything to extension cords it was stressful when I was cold but didn’t want to start a damn fire! Anyways I fall down the trap of watching this genre of content sometimes and it’s always extremely disheartening when I do. I can never follow the advice because I have no capital to begin with I have no way to toss my hat in the ring here. And saving your money isn’t a tip, I try so hard but then suddenly groceries just got so expensive and now I haven’t been able to save a penny in months!

    • @weirdflex8158
      @weirdflex8158 6 місяців тому

      Well work more hours or learn a skill that can get you a higher paying job lots of people had no capital to begin with most I would imagine actually. Build and emergency fund and after that start investing in index funds or something and let it grow you will be stuck in the cycle forever if you don't. You have to make sacfrices and if it works out you can have a far better life in the future

  • @alealaurence6321
    @alealaurence6321 Рік тому +27

    I think a distinction needs to be made about corporations and individuals. I used to work in property management in a rural area, and for individual owners that take loans in order build the property, often the margins a small. Often a property does not become profitable for several years. They have to pay the mortgage, maintenance and repairs, taxes. If a tenant trashes the place (which happens often), they have to pay repairmen to fix the damages.
    However, I think it’s fair to be upset when banks or argue corporate property investors have shady practices.
    In short, I don’t completely disagree, but I don’t think portraying individuals as parasites is fair or accurate.

  • @Anya-Prime
    @Anya-Prime Рік тому +149

    This is a very interesting and thoughtful video, and I appreciate the direct line you draw between biological parasites and the economic types.
    I’ve actually spent some time in the FIRE community because the idea of it appealed to me, and I did feel very uncomfortable with how a lot of the people spoke about other people who didn’t have their opportunities, about the way hustle culture was promoted so heavily, and how many were happy to exploit and game people for their own profit.
    It’s actually one of my biggest internal conflicts because I’m still on a sort of path to earlier FI than most people through my own privilege, my higher than average income, and by investing early. But at the same time, in this American system where if you don’t build retirement investments you’re liable to end up homeless in old age, I wonder where the line between preparing for the inevitable and parasite is. I’m unlikely to be able to retire much earlier than 60, and while I’ll be better off than a lot of people, i don’t think that’s a ridiculously young age to try to exit the toxic workforce to try to enjoy what’s left of life.
    Is that so wrong for me to want to try and achieve? I’ve struggled to reconcile this with my progressive and hopefully socialist ideas because I know I live in the most capitalist country that’s least likely to undergo a revolution any time soon. Should I not plan for inevitable old age, having to take care of my disabled partner, and participate in one of the only ways I can try to guarantee I’m not homeless and impoverished once I can’t work anymore? I’ve thought about this a lot and I think this is a situation where I don’t have much of a choice but to participate in capitalism to have a semi decent life. I know I should do more to push progressive and socialist ideals beyond the voting I already do, and I at least truly believe that if we transition to a socialist economy, I’d be fine with giving up my unstable wealth in exchange for a socialist retirement, universal healthcare, elderly care, etc. But seeing as i don’t think that’s by any means guaranteed in my lifetime in this country, I find it hard to not be anxious if I don’t try to plan and prepare to age in this current society.
    So also what I will say is that there is a difference between those in the fire community that push side hustles, sell advice, and promote landlording, compared to those that simply focus on budgeting their decent income to be able to save more in their retirement accounts. I don’t know where the line is, but I have always felt uncomfortable with those bloggers that talk about starting rental empires or “house hacking” to live for free. But is there a line or significant difference between the fire people that max out their retirement accounts and the regular people who save 5% or whatever to barely be able to afford assisted living after they retire at 70? I guess you could argue that investments in general are parasitic, but I don’t know what else I can save in that would be ethical and actually leave me with enough money to survive in retirement. Or is the only ethical choice to push for socialism and hope that it’s implemented by the time I need those social safety nets? Because that is a scary proposition for two marginalized people in a quickly declining country…
    I’m sorry I latched onto the FIRE thing so much, because the rest of your video was very salient and informative, and I agree with pretty much everything you said about the hustlers and parasites. I’m just struggling to reconcile my own desire to try and have a decent financial future in old age and maybe even get to clock out of the workforce a couple years earlier than most.
    I truly truly hope that by the time I’m 50 or 60 I won’t have to ask those questions any more or worry about being homeless when I can’t work, but I struggle to see that future in our dystopic capitalist realism world.

    • @ZachTheHuman
      @ZachTheHuman Рік тому +23

      I was genuinely shocked that I was the first person to like this comment, and I don’t really know what to say because I’ve been thinking the same way. I’m just gonna put this here as a sort of “hey, you got a great point” to show at least a little support. I’ll come back later to see if anyone has a good response. Stay safe

    • @Anya-Prime
      @Anya-Prime Рік тому +24

      @@ZachTheHuman thanks Zach. This FIRE mentality vs being socialist thing has been bothering me for years now and I legitimately don’t know what I should be doing and if I should be feeling terrible for trying to save for retirement. It makes me feel like I’m some class traitor just because I have a 401k.
      Maybe I should go to protests to alleviate my guilt… Does pride count (lol obviously not)?
      Like the thing I didn’t mention in my original comment is also: obviously if I had the power to change society, pushing through social safety nets and cutting income inequality would be the most logical, ethical, and positive thing to do. But I’m one person with little political power, so from the point of view of a person who will inevitably be too old to work some day, can I really say that not saving for retirement and being a staunch socialist/communist/anarchist is the best and smartest thing to do? I guess I could move to a country with better safety nets and functional retirement systems would make a lot of sense, but I’m already privileged to even be able to consider that a (albeit difficult) possibility.
      Edit: also it’s worth considering the context of the French protests - they’re raising retirement from 62 to 64 I think… But in the US it already 67, or more realistically 70 if you want to have a semblance of social security checks. And I’m genetically predisposed to Alzheimer’s by 70-75, so like what the fuck, am I supposed to just work til I lose my mind? And by comparison, the system has already failed my partner, who is disabled and receives next to nothing in welfare and relies on me to even survive. I’m definitely also doing this for my partner and I can’t in good conscience just vote/protest and hope for socialism to save her in some unknown future time…

    • @sweetsotaku6942
      @sweetsotaku6942 Рік тому +21

      This has also been such a growing concern for me. While I dislike the idea of feeding into the exploitation that capitalism brings, I can't just simply refuse to work with the system and risk losing my livelihood. I'm in a good position right now to enter the tech space and earn well with a job, but with the global economic condition right now, it's so important to diversify how you receive your money. You never know when you could lose your job and be left to fend for yourselves. And then in that case, what support am I supposed to rely on to bring myself back to my feet? The society we live in has pushed everyone to be individualistic, where I can't safely trust anyone outside of my immediate family to take on the burden of taking care of me financially. What about the people who don't even have the luxury of that? I agree with most points made in this video, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to risk my entire future for it.
      I agree with what Anya says about the difference between parasites and just people trying to be financially secure though. There's a certain point where you really don't need that much money to survive and buy what you want, and a lot of these hustle people are just trying to get rich without doing any work and just exploiting people. There's a big difference for sure, and in that aspect, I think you're fine as long as you don't fall into their side lol.

    • @TheYasmineFlower
      @TheYasmineFlower Рік тому +6

      Thank you, I find that you have articulated a lot of my own inner conflict. It's so hard trying to improve one's lot in life without exploiting anyone or anything. Hell, we can't even eat to stay alive without hurting other things in this world. But I don't want the world to be that way, yet I can't change it either.
      Part of me wants to become less empathetic, because why am I spending so much energy and sacrificing things in order to not exploit people, when other people keep exploiting me? But that's probably where the spiral down to becoming a parasite starts. And yet, if I don't harden myself at all, I will be crushed by this system sooner or later.

    • @keyvanacosta8216
      @keyvanacosta8216 Рік тому +3

      I'm currently looking for solutions for old age income other than government programs. Is the concept of passive income more parasitic than not? What would be examples of making passive income that don't exploit others? This is considering that my job's salary cap is not enough to retire on, and I'm in an age that switching careers is not a viable option for solving the old age retirement question.

  • @FeelKarmatic
    @FeelKarmatic Рік тому +3

    I love your references and how you use them to talk about very current subjects and people. Brilliant work !

  • @petrosstefanidis6396
    @petrosstefanidis6396 Рік тому +3

    You have such a compelling way of covering topics! You're actually offering pretty valuable, educational content here❤️‍🔥

  • @pendragon2012
    @pendragon2012 Рік тому +5

    Thank you for saying the things that need to be said! Love your videos!

  • @helenadurst5993
    @helenadurst5993 Рік тому +17

    Your video essays get better and better!

  • @pennypingu
    @pennypingu Рік тому +27

    My wife bought a little home that was quite outdated in 2020. I spent the last two years completely redoing the home with her, to make it more livable. We bought a home to raise our family and kept hers to rent out...and become landlords. I don't feel like my role is parasitic as I am providing housing for a very busy tattoo artist that just moved up and needed a place to live. He signed for 6 months and is getting to live in the home I put many hours in to make it nice. You can still save money by not owning a home and there are many perks for the tenant in that regard that they pay for. I don't think all landlords are parasites, I think there are varying levels though, and much different ethical levels between them.

    • @maudley
      @maudley Рік тому +10

      Seems to me there's a difference between offering to rent out some spare space in your home and buying a second, third or higher home for the purpose of renting it out

    • @vulpixelful
      @vulpixelful Рік тому

      I would compare it to how the same house would fair if no one lived in it. No one to mow the lawn, shovel snow, keep temperature control and water flowing in the pipes to keep the pipes from freezing and bursting, no one to flush the toilets so sewer gas starts to be released, etc.
      Even if you do some of that yourself, having a tenant means the house doesn't rot from not being used. That sounds like a groundskeeper to me, and you have a live-in groundskeeper whom you're not paying, they are in fact paying you, and they have no share in the equity from keeping the house functioning.
      The alternative are co-ops, where there is co-ownership of the property by all residents. They are hard to get into now because they are so rare and yet they get so many applicants.

    • @angiel3693
      @angiel3693 Рік тому +1

      @@vulpixelful Tenants are being paid for groundkeeping, just they need to pay more to live there.

  • @cwinchcarwash2629
    @cwinchcarwash2629 Рік тому +3

    great video. i love how blunt you're being towards these people, i respect it so much

  • @AmeyaWaikar
    @AmeyaWaikar Рік тому +9

    Marie Antoinette: let the eat cake
    Hustle bros: she's got a point

  • @MyawesumMe
    @MyawesumMe Рік тому +19

    I am loving these French nature documentaries.

  • @prakritiarchambeau4551
    @prakritiarchambeau4551 Рік тому +13

    Thank you for these refreshing ideas. As someone with lingering financial anxiety, it is very easy to fall in the traps of people like Graham. But videos like yours help to put my ideas back into place and focus on what matters in human's lifetime. Family, friends and community and how we give back to them. In mid/late twenties I felt less ambitious compared to my 'landlord' friends who had bought their first house to rent out. This video made me feel I made the right choice.

  • @CB-cq4uw
    @CB-cq4uw Рік тому +1

    Wow, I have been seeing your videos pop up on my fyp for a while now, and the titles have all been interesting to me but Ive always put it off to watch them bc I thought I would need to be in a different mind-space to be able to enjoy them. Now that I watched this video (the first by you) I must say that I am impressed. I really enjoyed it, one detail that especially stuck out to me, was that its important to draw these lines in society (bourgeoisie, proletariat/working class etc.) clearly, in order to adequatly categorize their intentions and motivations. I know its very basic and essential to people who may be politically more active and I have heard these terms before obviously, but I found it to be very thought provoking. Thank you for the video, I really liked it!

  • @vubui7831
    @vubui7831 Рік тому +3

    I'm in to the level of intensity in each recent video! Love it, make it happen!

  • @bongoseropersa5240
    @bongoseropersa5240 Рік тому +29

    We need to have a positive and realistic proposal for how a future society might work

    • @abelabel3664
      @abelabel3664 Рік тому +16

      First we need to convince people that we need change

    • @crazysquriel
      @crazysquriel Рік тому

      We have had one for quite some time now. It's called Socialism.

    • @bongoseropersa5240
      @bongoseropersa5240 Рік тому +1

      @@crazysquriel socialism is a vague goal is not a proposal of how to get there

    • @crazysquriel
      @crazysquriel Рік тому +2

      @@bongoseropersa5240 Okay then, ORGANIZING YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY, community aid, general strike, seizing the means of productions and setting up a democratic institution that oversees supply and demand of the means of production. There's thousands of things to get done with those vague steps. Find something you feel you can do (no bad or wrong answers, ableism isn't something the left subscribes to) and help where you can. Socialism is all about democratizing the means of production and returning the power back to the people. No more CEO's making decisions on our environment, etc. All hierarchies should be voluntary.

    • @crazysquriel
      @crazysquriel Рік тому

      @@bongoseropersa5240 I could honestly sit here and type about this topic for hours, but this is probably one of the most important things you will hear from an honest leftist.
      If you are sitting around and waiting for something to happen or someone to tell you the answer that will lead us out of this problem, then you will be fooled. If you blindly follow what someone says we need to do, you will be fooled. The people who hold all the power and influence in this society will never willingly give it up. They have and still actively create propaganda and misinformation to distract, confuse, and mislead anyone and everyone into submission/compliance. They will readily hand the reigns over to fascists before allowing us to take their power away. The best thing I could ever offer you isn't an answer to your question(s), but the ability to critically think about these problems for yourself and be able to discern between information and misinformation. Learn philosophy. Read books from actual philosophers or learn from trusted sources who have directly read from philosophers. You can start anywhere, the progression will always lead you to Karl Marx. If you learn anything from Karl Marx, it should be about the distinct classes and the super structure. These two things alone will help you grasp a better understanding of society and socio-economics. This will help you understand soooo much more. I wish it was as easy as googling the answers to these hard problems, but that will never be the case. The best thing you can do is to better educate yourself (not an insult) and organizing your local communities.

  • @Hiroprotagonist253
    @Hiroprotagonist253 Рік тому +85

    Worst parasites atm are AI peddling tech bros. Appropriating the creative labour of the entire online population

    • @JanusTroelsen
      @JanusTroelsen Рік тому

      Intellectual property (IP) was invented by capitalists. The fact that AI only works if violating IP becomes acceptable means that IP laws will disappear. It's undoing what the copyleft movement couldn't.
      So it's a win in the long term. Plagiarism has always been a problem and can't be solved with tech/anti-tech. It's fixed using education and culture.

    • @hugosetiawan8928
      @hugosetiawan8928 Рік тому +1

      Definitely agree

    • @Scorbutics
      @Scorbutics 11 місяців тому

      Not really. Or if you think like that, using Linux / any FOSS at the source of any help for your business is being a parasite.
      Which can be a valid point of view, but a bit "extreme".
      After all, we all use lamps. Do we pay Thomas Edison for it ?

    • @pseudonamed
      @pseudonamed 9 місяців тому +1

      @@Scorbutics that's not at all a good analogy. the people building Linux consent to their labour building it. The untold number of artists whose work was used to train AI did not consent to their labour being used for it, or for others to make profits from outputs that only exist because of their stolen labour.

  • @Mossenfresh
    @Mossenfresh Рік тому +1

    Got a little high, stumbled into your videos, so been binging, and gotta say my mind has been blown across them all. Been asking a lot of deep personal questions of my self and thinking about so many systemtemic issues.

  • @vivreavecaudace
    @vivreavecaudace Рік тому +2

    So happy I stumbled upon your video. Great content and perspective on the rich/upper class. I never thought of them as the parasites but you're 100% right. Continue le bon travail, super!

  • @maarton
    @maarton Рік тому +3

    Love the sketches! Love following your growth as a youtuber.

  • @okhipster
    @okhipster Рік тому +21

    I found this one especially brilliant! Bravo, Alice 👏 🎩

  • @juliaheaven7200
    @juliaheaven7200 Рік тому

    Thank you for your thoughts and research! It's amazing that you bring up these questions.

  • @deleteduser121
    @deleteduser121 5 місяців тому +4

    Passive income is parasitism

  • @gregoryjames165
    @gregoryjames165 Рік тому +13

    Excessive rentier activity is not healthy for any society. But I am rather shocked you targeted the small fry trying to make the best of their lives in an unfair system rather than the greatest parasites of all namely the banking and financial class. The group who make billions from interest charged on printed money via the fractional reserve lending system. Even worse, the privately owned system of central banks who charge interest on the money printed for governments that must be paid back by the taxpayer. This is the greatest scandal of all because it wasn't always this way. Governments in the past printed money interest free and lent it to business and individuals. Abraham Lincoln did this and so did President Andrew Jackson. The system of private central banks is the greatest parasitic infection to befall humanity. It must end. We need to nationalise the banks.

  • @Mcpaola1995
    @Mcpaola1995 Рік тому +4

    This is incredible Alice! Thank you for your job ❤

  • @MargaretPinard
    @MargaretPinard Рік тому +13

    Georghiou's story reminds me of Class Matters by bell hooks, and how she emphasizes how hard it is not to betray the roots of poverty, when that's what you come from. 🤔

  • @yesid17
    @yesid17 Рік тому

    the algorithm gods blessed me with your most recent video and I've binged like 10 of your other videos so far, your work is so good thank you!!

  • @bereniced7155
    @bereniced7155 Рік тому +35

    Bonjour Alice! Si tu lis ce commentaire :
    Avec la grève actuelle et les poubelles qui s'amoncellent, le rapport du GIEC, etc, je pense qu'il serait super intéressant de faire une vidéo sur le vrac et le zéro déchets!
    Voilà sinon super vidéo comme d'hab

  • @santiagomartinezpadilla4880
    @santiagomartinezpadilla4880 Рік тому +4

    not sure if this is only my idea but watching alice videos since the first ones i feel like she´s getting more radical and i love to see that!

  • @elbucles3973
    @elbucles3973 Рік тому +1

    It's great to see how you help to articulate in such a clear way what most of us are thinking but struggle to find the right words for. Spot on!
    i benvinguda a Barcelona! :)))

  • @jackmiller1209
    @jackmiller1209 Рік тому +6

    Hello Alice, your video essays provide such refreshing views on this oppressive social system that most of us are trapped in. Your videos give new ideas and even book recommendations to further my quest for knowledge and freedom. Thanks for your effort!

  • @Ronniezim
    @Ronniezim Рік тому +3

    This is so good! Thanks Alice!

  • @EsbenLykkeskov
    @EsbenLykkeskov Рік тому +8

    Love the new videostyle! Its fresh

  • @Dasharya
    @Dasharya Рік тому +1

    Alice, this video is so beautiful! Thank you!!

  • @lucaskatesfast
    @lucaskatesfast Рік тому

    Amazing video :)
    Short and wise, incisive and helpful, this'll be a useful piece to link to friends in conversations!

  • @pipermarau
    @pipermarau Рік тому +11

    i agree with you so much. especially about landlords. we might be in different regions (i'm in the usa) but the economy styles our govts have chosen are playing out much the same. out here we have this bizarre surplus of many goods, including food, that is thrown away to be destroyed while there are people clearly in need of those goods but the logic here is that people can't have them because they haven't "earned" it. this week i saw a youtube suggestion for a landlord information channel and i clicked it thinking it would be informational about new local laws but it turned out to be a guy complaining that part of california is attempting to make it illegal for a property owner to re-list a property on the rental market if they evicted their last/most recent tenants citing that they no long wish to rent the property. we apparently have to make new laws to keep people honest and this guy was crying about how unfair it is that he can't evict a renter for any trivial reason. he went on to even say a property owner should be able to evict a person for personal differences despite them paying rent on time and maintaining the property according to the lease. he is openly supporting discrimination as a means to render someone homeless 👎👎👏👏

  • @nananou1687
    @nananou1687 Рік тому +3

    This video style is getting better and better.
    It's like a mockumentary haha

  • @gabingofernandez6431
    @gabingofernandez6431 Рік тому

    Thank you for making videos like this Alice! :)

  • @MicenCa
    @MicenCa Рік тому

    I was waiting for it from you. I’m happy lol 😁 thank you for saying this out loud ❤️

  • @davidmacaart953
    @davidmacaart953 Рік тому +4

    Love your channel, look forward to every video.

  • @seanwilliams7655
    @seanwilliams7655 Рік тому +5

    One thing I've noticed when talking to a "hustle bro" person is that we always talk past each other. They use words like I, me, my, you, your, and anybody. While I use words like we, our, us, and everybody. There's a fundamental difference in how we see society, and I don't know how to get past it.

    • @weirdflex8158
      @weirdflex8158 6 місяців тому

      My stuff definitely does not belong to "we" or what exactly are you talking avout😂

  • @legocitykilldozer
    @legocitykilldozer Рік тому

    I am so glad I just found your channel. You touch subjects I am really interested in, we share a common point of view and you explain them so well.

  • @l.zeitgeist3584
    @l.zeitgeist3584 Рік тому

    I am really happy to have found your channel! This is great content!

  • @CassieAngelica
    @CassieAngelica Рік тому +39

    Comme toujours, regarder votre videos est un grand plaisir.💖✨🔥

  • @Chrissy1312
    @Chrissy1312 Рік тому +8

    Your videos just get better and better ✊❤

  • @hope1785
    @hope1785 Рік тому +1

    OMG I have been thinking this for so long and you explained it so well!!!!

  • @timnicodemus8651
    @timnicodemus8651 Рік тому

    This was (as usual) an excellent video that articulates things I've thought but couldn't explain. Appreciate it!
    I'd love a future video that goes further into Framont's work (i.e. the lies and paradoxes of 'trickle down' economics).

  • @fullofuslessness
    @fullofuslessness Рік тому +7

    Down with this weird system we have on our backs! Scary thing is this module of parasytic dependency keeps coming back in different forms throughout times.

  • @tenguyubs1919
    @tenguyubs1919 Рік тому +46

    clicked on this in the library 😂 I'm supposed to be working but this video is brilliant

  • @mbsucks101
    @mbsucks101 Рік тому +1

    I'm so glad you covered this topic

  • @pablogrande8971
    @pablogrande8971 Рік тому

    Wonderful work, Alice! Thank you.

  • @Nedflanders666
    @Nedflanders666 Рік тому +8

    Keep up the good fight, Comrade Cappelle ✊🏽

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. Рік тому +5

    Alice with the range of Reporter Characters is always fab! I see a one woman (maybe improv) show based on this.

  • @Clubsandwichchav
    @Clubsandwichchav Рік тому +2

    I was just thinking about when she would post again. THX

  • @kellymurray6594
    @kellymurray6594 Рік тому

    Your videos were always great, but they just keep getting better. The intro 🤌

  • @bee65
    @bee65 Рік тому +11

    I guessed the person that said the quote correctly and I feel so happy. I’m sorry if this comes across as bragging, I’m going towards education and I was just excited that one of my courses had paid off in this moment! My professor was fantastic and I fully give her the credit for having such a well put together course! :)

  • @PMMagro
    @PMMagro Рік тому +3

    :) Lovely!
    I like how you mention we are all parasites (on nature/ecological systems etc). It is so easy to see others being "bad" but we are caught up in our own system/life/habits.

  • @year3thousandmusic
    @year3thousandmusic Рік тому +2

    Your best video yet. Hands down 🙌🏻

  • @turnipsociety706
    @turnipsociety706 5 місяців тому

    La meilleure video jusqu'ici, pour une chaine de grande qualité! Je suis toujours a la recherche de contenus qui identifient en termes clairs les rapports de production et les vrais antagonismes de classe qu'il faut montrer, en évitant les boucs émissaires et le misérabilisme et la haine personnalisée.

  • @Bjornwilde
    @Bjornwilde Рік тому +5

    "I need to introduce you to today's sponsor." lolz. Throws integrity out the window. Comedy Gold.

    • @Bjornwilde
      @Bjornwilde Рік тому +2

      Aren't Hosting Services exactly like Landlords? So you are advertising for a virtual landlord instead of showing your viewers how to setup there own server in their own house? That's rich.

  • @peterdemuth
    @peterdemuth Рік тому +13

    Go Alice! Tell the truth and help us find and fight the infestation.

  • @kandyviris
    @kandyviris Рік тому +2

    GIRRRRRL you are on fireee with this video ❤❤❤

  • @nikkivieler3761
    @nikkivieler3761 Рік тому

    Oh I love this video so much! Please keep going on!

  • @sevendevs2253
    @sevendevs2253 Рік тому +16

    I would like to see some layers, since I dont think full framing and them as 100% evil fits the case always. For example what about retirement? Does one have to contribute until into the more frail and tired years to be morally "good"? My parents worked for all of their lives as artists on festivals, while having an on demand shop. I grew up with my parents (for longer longer orders mostly my dad gone) pretty busy around me. I am so thankful they cared so much to work for this much more free environment for our family. They also later in life started investing, their only stable opportunity for retiring really was saved in that. I see how tired their eyes are. But they are landlords so ---

    • @marijapaskeviciute365
      @marijapaskeviciute365 Рік тому +6

      i don't see anything wrong with your parent's situation. i have a friend who rents one apartment, always takes care of everything and is in really good terms with the person who lives in his place. also when i got an apartment for myself (not for rent, just living) my landlord let me live in the old place almost for free for a couple months because he knew i really needed money for my own place. it depends on the morals of the individual. i would never call someone evil just because they are landlords, as long as they take good care of the place and the rent is reasonable.

  • @kerjojo
    @kerjojo Рік тому +5

    The meaningful question remains unanswered. What do we do with them and why haven't we done it yet.

  • @j.f.1982
    @j.f.1982 Рік тому +2

    You are so inspiring and thank you for this kind of videos

  • @usagi-z
    @usagi-z Рік тому +1

    Good stuff, thank you. This video made my morning.

  • @oleksa_niko
    @oleksa_niko Рік тому +5

    People should sometimes take the “Economics 101” class. There are good courses on UA-cam for that.
    We need to be a community to exchange goods and services. You exchange your time advertising products in your video to buy clothes. Other people produce it. And yes, it is not fair and equal, but it is more fair and equal than ever before. If companies stop working and making profit (as you suppose in this video) you yourself would have to make it. Are you ready to do it?
    And even videos you do are for profit and living, therefore we can assume that you “parasite” on your viewers?

    • @AliceCappelle
      @AliceCappelle  Рік тому +1

      Did you listen to the video? I talk about passive income not regular time for money jobs

    • @AljeanJumamil
      @AljeanJumamil Рік тому +3

      Exactly! It would be nice if she also highlighted the benefits of the capitalist system that we have right now where working class no longer have to build businesses from the ground up but only to exchange their time, effort and skills for money, and the rich will have to build the business from the ground up for years, (at least the ethical ones) so that when the business got so big, they will have to hire someone to operate the business who are the working class, thus providing jobs for them, while they focus on expanding the business further and earn more money and provide more jobs and so on. More ethical business, more ethical money, more ethical jobs.
      That is a mutual/symbiotic relationship.
      But sadly, her content is a full on one-sided approach that the rich/capitalists are parasites because they are unethical and all that, which is just a generalization and it's dangerous to boldly state that given the influence that she has on her impressionable viewers. She's like the same person that she's criticizing with, if not worse because it breeds hate and counter-productivity, and definitely no solution was offered, because she's also playing the capitalism game atm.
      She's hating the game, influencing everyone to hate the game, but unapologetically playing it. 🤦‍♀️
      If she was ethical, she should have said that her opinion is not a financial/economic advice, nor a financial/economic fact. It was purely her own understanding from the book that she read, that would make her credible.

  • @adeldell8275
    @adeldell8275 Рік тому +4

    That Sebastian guy recently got absolutely dismantled on a debate on the H3 podcast. If anyone is interested, I'd recommend that discussion, as it was not only funny, but insightful as well.

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. Рік тому +2

    J’espère que vous avez bien et en bonne santé. C’est toujours un plaisir de s’engager aux nouveaux sujets.

  • @DylanRoberts7
    @DylanRoberts7 Рік тому +1

    I'm not sure what it is about these videos but so far I love this channel.