the fucked up thing is that it’s almost true, there’s a level of wealth where people are generally optimally happy. Look at people who get enough money to buy a house and comfortably retire early on without needing to worry about affording normal things again, something like that is peak contentment in life.
I sincerely do not understand why a mentally healthy person would ever want a to be richer than that, it means you have to do a bunch of publicity shit and other miserable stuff and it doesn’t really benefit you much.
I think another important factor is how famous you are. I’d imagine it’s really annoying to get recognised anywhere you go…
unless of course you’re like mrbeast or the muskrat who seem to love the attention and in fact crave the constant validation of being recognized.
Broken people can’t afford a house… they are happy if they get through the month with ±0.
I think people will want always more.
Mr beast is an actual person?
No, the image is AI generated /s
Let’s test this hypothesis by taking away all his money and having him trip down a flight of stars, then sticking him with the resulting bills.
This feels like its taken out of context
But he also said dumb things like the youtube algorithm being perfect so maybe its not taken out of context
I can understand that he likes the way the YouTube algorithm is though
Life is much simpler being a regular middle class kid living with your parents than an adult millionaire everyone knows and expects money from. He never knew what actually being broke and responsible for yourself or a family as an adult was.
Even if it’s not about other people expecting money, people adjust their lifestyle to their money, even when it causes them to be 10 times as busy as a result. Suddenly you’re managing your house cleaner, your cook, you have contractors at your house every week, you decide you need more things, that all need maintenance, you’re constantly managing people. One day you look at that and think, why do I always have so much on my plate when I’m so rich.
If people simplified their lives at the same time they became rich, they would be much happier, imo.
Exactly this. When he was 'broke ’ he was just a kid and couldn’t by a Lambo because he was bored. Now he has an amount of money that requires responsibility, so much so that professionals are required to handle it. Sooo stressful.
He doesn’t know what Broke is. Honestly, most people that say they are don’t.
I doubt he’s ever had to pass on brunch so he wouldn’t have to worry about his check to the gas company bouncing.
Never had to pawn his stereo to cover rent so his girlfriend wouldn’t finally kick him out.
Never had to calculate whether the bus fare to and from the plasma clinic was actually worth the trip for a donation.
I consider not having “going to bed on an empty stomach” for dinner as a success
He could sell all his assets, purchase a middle class house in cash, and probably retire and have absolutely nothing to do if he wanted to and be set for life
This guy can go fuck himself
no such thing as middle class, never has been. that’s a fairy tale told by the ruling class
The petite bourgeoisie is/was real. Not sure if it’s the same thing as what people refer to as “middle class,” but it is a separate “class” of people who’s interests mostly lie with the proletariat, yet their small business or whatever makes them believe and act as though they’re part of the owner class.
it is a separate “class” of people who’s interests mostly lie with the proletariat, yet their small business or whatever makes them believe and act as though they’re part of the owner class.
We are saying the same thing. It is a con the ruling class run on us to make us betray our interests. It’s a lie we tell ourselves because we don’t want to believe we’re in the “lowest” class. It’s a wedge intending to cleave our solidarity.
The merchant class was certainly a thing after the black plague.
They had enough wealth that they had political influence.
here in sweden at least we specifically had 4 classes around that time: Nobility, priests, bourgeoise/merchants, and farmers. Bougies were defined by being allowed to run businesses in cities, as farmers in sweden largely kept to themselves outside of cities and basically only interacted with the other classes during specific occasions like selling/buying things in the city or doing legal stuff or more significant religious things.
There’s a strata of workers in the imperial core that are elevated above other workers by the distribution of superprofits. A white collar supervisor isn’t bourgeois, but they aren’t proletarian either. Hence, middle class.
That white collar supervisor is part of the proletarian. They are selling their labor to make a living.
You’re right about stratification of society based on income when it comes to us proles though. Some of us have nicer toys and living places but we still need to work to survive unlike the bourgeois that make their money by capital investment (ie: they make more money with the money they have and don’t actually need to labor).
That supervisor has a distinct relationship with the means of production compared with other workers. His job (you’ll notice this strata of workers are almost always white men) is to extract the surplus value from other actual workers, and because of this he is actually being paid the full value of his labor. This makes his class position distinct from other workers.
That’s why you don’t tell the supervisor about the union until it’s too late for him to stop you.
Yeah I hear you I’m just saying those dudes are part of the proles and you need necessary to buy in from them in an organization for anything to really change.
They’re bourgeoisified by their relationship to the means of production. They are paid the full value of their labor through bonuses and high wages and stock option, they don’t need unions and we don’t need them.
Middle-class didn’t even used to be defined by wealth, it was the class of people who worked for themselves, so anyone from a blacksmith to a doctor, tradesman to professional. The idea was that they didn’t have a “boss” to report to, do they were more free to speak thier mind.
Ha. He told us he’s never been broke without telling us he’s never been broke.
if it’s so much easier then just give away every penny why dontcha? oh he only ‘gives’ for content
He gives for profit.
Real “Marie Antoinette having an entire fake rustic village built to pretend to be a peasant for a day” energy.
Honestly less relatable even than that. At least Marie Antoinette had very little contact to the outside world, so her sheltered life makes sense. Mr. Beast has no such excuse.
Even if I were being charitable to say what he meant was not being famous is easier, it’s still such a backhanded remark to make - I’d rather deal with the problems of fame than the looming threat of the poverty line any day of the week.
The thing is, in this age, fame is a choice (to those it is given to). He has enough money to retire into obscurity, living a simple life of comfort. He chooses not not to.
What he means is it would be a lot easier for him to have adult conversations with underage children on the internet if everyone wasn’t always watching him. How’s he going to buy and hang cartoon CP on the walls if he’s poor though?
Where I’m from, if you’re evicted at any time during the 9-10 months of winter you’ll probably die unless you find another place in time which can be incredibly difficult and risky depending on why you were evicted.
Learning about idol scenes and how hardcore it is to be an idol makes me feel very uncomfortable, but I somehow find Mr Beast to be a fish worth this ocean. He’s somehow uniquely compatible with what youtube wants now, and I doubt it’s stirs him wrong. In my mind, he echoes what other creators feel about all that bs.
Quick, let’s help him out! Take all his money to make his life easier!
I think Good Charlotte published a how to guide a few years ago
Well you know what they say: mo money, mo problems.
Which can be extrapolated to no money, no problems. Right?
Right???
No money --> No ability to buy food --> Staying slim
Yeah, makes sense to me.
Top tier punchable face
“Living is so much easier when you’ve been stabbed 37 times”
A man after my own shiv
37… In a row???
‘Try not to suck any dick on your way through the parking lot!’
“ah yes there goes Sisyphus rolling his solid gold boulder up his hill, that he owns btw…”
Sisyphus was a king so this is probably accurate
