How Ego Kills Consumer Rights-and Hurts Us All. DON'T BE LIKE THIS GUY.

[@xerpenta]

When they came for Apple's repairability, I laughed because I wasn't Apple user When they came for Samsung's mini-jack, I laughed because I wasn't Samsung user When they came for Ford's privacy, I laughed because I wasn't Ford user When they came for John Deer's reliability, I laughed because I wasn't John Deer user When they came for my product, I didn't laugh But everyone around me did, as they asked, "first time?"

[@rossmanngroup]

If you don't stand up for the rights of the purple ricemobile, there'll be no one left to stand for you...

[@Amaltator489]

based comment

[@ares395]

This selfish mindset is hurting the world so much. Same with laws that guarantee new rights. Every day I see people that are against rights. Rights. Aka more options for a citizen, not more responsibilities. Where is the logic in that? Same with being against something because other people might benefit from it and not you. Why. It doesn't change anything for you, not a single thing but for others it can be life changing. Yet people are vehemently opposed to things like that every single day. I'd understand being indifferent, but why in the world would you go out of your way to be against things like that. How pitiful are people nowadays... It's just sad

[@melodyqueen6432]

​@@rossmanngroup the purple fuckin ricemobile, I cant 😂

[@shang0h]

It applies to so many other areas in life, people see someone broke or in a lot of debt, or pregnant and single, or divorced, and say "look at that loser, that could never happen to me". Empathy didn't evolve for people to pat themselves on the back and say how virtuous we are, it evolved because something bad WILL happen to you, at some point, and we improve and survive personally by trying to understand and make bad situations better to handle for everyone broadly.

[@RambozoClown]

“A house divided against itself cannot stand”.

[@jeremydale4548]

Someone tell that to the government. Seriously, whoever came up with the 2 party system that allowed for the traitor red party to take power behind Trump needs to be ridiculed.

[@Gaaaaaame]

Trusses would like to know your location

[@Ibr4-c]

Worlds are colliding

[@A3Kr0n]

A Republican House eats itself.

[@ChellSneed]

Mark 3:25 God bless you.

[@JjSquared-bw8ei]

He is right. Our inability to mobilise against blatantly pathetic things is a damn shame

[@integerofdoom69]

We can. As we've witnessed. CEOs aren't bulletproof.

[@grogcito]

@@integerofdoom69 I'm sure Andrew Joseph Stack thought the same, and so did the people that agreed and approved of what he did.

[@JorgetePanete]

I learnt from games and TV that mafias are destroyed from the bottom-up, not from the top.

[@aussieglizzy]

@@integerofdoom69 Yeah, but Louis isn’t either. We’ve got to be careful and wise.

[@gracenote108]

​@@integerofdoom69that was just one guy who did everything

[@joeyjumper94]

when you pay 2,300$ for something, or a lot of money for anything, i EXPECT it to last, i DON'T expect the manufacturer to brick it in a year. also the mindset of "your an idiot for buying X" is bad because if you won't speak up when company Y does some shit, then why should someone speak up when the company you rely on does the same shit. when people ask "how will america die?" i say "America is dying already because people would rather make fun of each other than take a stand against injustice"

[@SenileOtaku]

Precisely. If these companies are ready and willing to screw over people who can *afford* $2,300 headphones, then they are definitely going to be screwing YOU over.

[@Kane0123]

I wonder how many of the comments that fuel these videos / arguments are bots…

[@davidwhatever9041]

it is literally Americans who are dying, not just the nation

[@hubertnnn]

@@davidwhatever9041 Its not just America and Americans that are affected. Other countries are affected too..

[@davidwhatever9041]

@ i do agree, but in the united states seems a core cultural value, along with strange faith in the ‘philanthropic billionaire vs the corrupt government’ though i think the latter might be fade over next decade

[@ViaScientifica]

It’s the age old problem of it’s not a problem until it affects ME.

[@TheDeceptiveHero]

The fact that it’s not an ‘ish-me’ does not mean it’s not an ‘ish-you’.

[@Minatory-Skinless-Skinwalker]

EXACTLY

[@signalcabin]

A Particular Blight that is rampant in Ireland

[@nuarius]

solidarity and self awareness in the modern age are hard to come by. and its a damn shame, because those 2 things are the things we need the most right now.

[@duh-vn9jo]

Sponsorblock's most replayed segment was the cat jump. I liked that

[@rossmanngroup]

Based sponsorblock. It's starting to grow on me!

[@theflyingspaget]

​@@rossmanngroupwill you post a retraction? 🥺

[@corey7219]

Highlight starts when Louis starts feeding Clinton

[@MikeTrieu]

SpinsterBlock. Now there's an interesting AI edge case 😂

[@GregorianMG]

​@@MikeTrieu Spinserblock is just a typo since "O" key are beside the "I" key on standard keyboards. It biund to happen.

[@eric7591]

Holy crap, Louis went hard. The impression I got from him in this video was the same impression I got from the character John Coffee in the movie "The Green Mile." Near the end, when John was about to be executed, and Tom Hanks was trying to convince him to escape. John Coffee just looked at him and said, "I'm tired boss... I'm tired of people being ugly to each other, all the time." He had that same look on his face. Utter, bone deep exhaustion. I feel for you Louis. Thank you for what you do.

[@RamonInNZ]

that was a hard movie to finish, so on the button, I have seen that look on people about me, even wore it for a time!

[@josephlh1690]

@@RamonInNZ That movie was a pretty accurate depiction of possible real life scenarios in which a good person is at the wrong place at the wrong time. Where raw emotion leads to iron clad convincement that there is no point in digging deeper to make sure they had the right person. The most impactful scene to me in that movie was when that one cruel prison officer is told by the real culprit that they did it, in extensive detail, to which point that officer, I believe his name was Percy? Pulled out his ,357 revolver, pumped that bastard with all 6 .357 magnum chambered bullets in quick and lethal fashion, knowing that it was too late for John Coffee to have his execution delayed. It was against protocol but it instilled a form of vindication to the viewer. Even if the real culprit lived, there was no smoking gun to establish that the man did it out side of confessing to a prison officer off record. Ask your self, what would you do? Play by the rules and allow the criminal to circumvent proper punishment? Or ignore the rules and make sure the real culprit doesn't get off on a technicality? Sometimes justice will and does require that unethical actions be taken in order to prevent further unethical outcomes occurring. Vigilante justice is frowned upon, yet it can at times be the only route to the best outcome long term, just look at it history, it took vigilantism to bring down the roman empire. Rome would not have fallen any other way.

[@Anonymouseyoutuber]

Man, I forgot about that legendary, but heartbreaking movie 😞... Truth is we gotta do our best to make the world a less "ugly" place

[@asquirrelplays]

the quickest, most guaranteed way to get to that point of exhaustion is to try and do good in the world.

[@Anonymouseyoutuber]

@@asquirrelplays I'd rather be exhausted then friend, if means someone else won't have to :)

[@JustinVodden]

I did learn something. I have been called out. Thank you for calling out this behavior. Im going to do better. Thanks again

[@OGJeff685]

Are you the one who made one of the comments on the other video??

[@JustinVodden]

@@OGJeff685 not that I know of

[@JustinVodden]

@@OGJeff685 I don't think I do this a lot, (I hope) but it's a non zero amount, so I can do better.

[@gamingbud926]

Salute!

[@StardustLegacyFighter]

You're definitely not the only one on this comments section. I'll also try to do better. 👍

[@JaymanJuuzou]

It's a form of catharsis hearing you talk about these kinds of people. It's just so true.

[@gigglybeast]

It's also catharsis seeing Mr. Clinton happily eating Greenies.

[@JaymanJuuzou]

@@gigglybeast Indeed it is😺😺😻

[@akosv96]

Nice profile pic. Black Sabbath is amazing

[@JaymanJuuzou]

@@akosv96 Hell fucking yeah they are🤘

[@edwardallenthree]

Truth, and hopefully it helps each of us watch what kind of joy we take in feeling superior to others. I think he has identified a dramatic problem in all of our online discourse, as well as offline. This affects all types of activism.

[@IronMeDen1]

"Look at that, he jumped, he hasn't done that in a while." As a person with some "troublesome" cats, this was my favorite part of the video ❤

[@phenyl22]

Thanks! Society would be better off with some compassion for the other people and their plight instead of the Homer Simpson " ha ha loser". Thank you for putting it so eloquently and pointing out that everyone can end up at the receiving end. Thank you very much from someone who likes repairing/fixing stuff, from my Kenwood stand mixer with broken transmission to the oscilloscope at work with a NAND corruption flaw to replacing my phone's battery.... to keep them working and out of the landfill for that bit longer. I hop I can keep doing that in the future, also thanks to you! Hi from Switzerland.

[@bombermanbart3858]

The wake-up call of something so simple, yet so overlooked, is really comforting to hear. It's easy for us humans to complay and down play other people's problems or blame them, but justice is justice, no matter who we are talking about. Have a nice day dude!

[@Psyadin2]

Damn, I love your take and completely agree. This is the main problem with the whole 2 party system, everyone trying to convince themselves that they picked the right super rich guy club to back, cuz unlike the other guys' club, these ones really want to help me!

[@gfys756]

​@@balsalmalberto8086"Your blatantly corrupt party is more blatantly corrupt than my blatantly corrupt party!" --- Average midwit American 😂🤦🏿‍♂️

[@meherenowmaybe]

It's not so much that for a lot of us, it's that they aren't actually trying to create a christo-fascist dystopia, like the "people" who won the latest US presidential election.

[@GLHerzberg]

Agreed. What Louis is describing is what advertisements (sub)consciously instill in viewers. It's neural programming and it becomes more effective the more times it is seen/viewed/heard/recalled/recited/repeated/re-Tweeted etc.

[@iggysixx]

/regurgitated "Have your opinion; don't let your opinion have you." -_(Patrice O'Neil)_ And you are correct: Pepsi vs Coca Cola... Apple vs Microsoft... BMW vs Mercedes... (All these have been advertising campaigns) The main problem with this way of thinking/advertising... ...is that it works. It's an evolutionary response. We used to rely on groups for safety and survival (against predators, against other groups, to survive food scarcity, etc). Humans are extremely good in making groups, and recognizing who belongs to that group and who does not. (That's why the 2 party system in the US got so engrained. And why blaming immigrants for problems in society is so persistent. And why football hooligans exist, etc.) Within people's social group - the group they feel they belong to - there are always certain rules and maneurisms that the group adheres to (accepted and approved behaviors, that get strengthened over time through affirmation of group members)..) - This whole thing is called 'Group Theory', which is an area of study in Psychology, Social Sciences, and Linguistics. Particularly interesting in combination with social media (how we behave on Twitter and Facebook and such). There's a massive difference between language and behaviors used within the group versus communication with people (and the world) outside of the group. Particularly people on the far-right have become extremely adept at using certain signal words and emoticons to recognize eachother without having to say anything... (Did you know you can search for a single emoticon on Twitter, btw? It's a very effective way to find people 'like you'. And can look completely harmless for people outside of that group). Anyways - if you're interested: you can find some pretty interesting research papers about this subject via Google Scholar

[@ventilate4267]

Samsung vs iphone ads have been doing this "making fun of the others" directly for years. They're running one right now, actually. EDIT: it's called the "Simon Says Upgrade" Ad

[@Marynicole830]

@@ventilate4267 which doesn’t make sense because Samsung also does the yearly, super incremental upgrades every year. They had a good couple of years starting in 2019 and ending in like 2022 but they are now the same phone every year as well. I don’t care if the phone looks different, I need the internals to be different. I need a good refresh rate for games, I need a smooth processor. I need as good of a camera they can fit in there and heck, make the phone thicker for a bigger sensor. Even going up half a size makes a huge difference (camera sensors come in standardized sizes usually) and put it all in an iPhone 11 case for all I care. I hear people complain that the phones look exactly the same every year but who cares? There used to be a huge difference in internals every year in a similar case and that’s not the case anymore and thats what we should be complaining about. I liked it when there was an every two year big upgrade with smaller incremental upgrades in between. There would be a smaller upgrade for people who hadn’t gotten an upgrade in a while so they wouldn’t be buying old tech that was about to be obsolete (sometimes you can’t choose when you have to replace your phone) but people with the iPhone 5 for example wouldn’t feel the need to get the 5S. The upgrades in phones now are even less than the increments from the # S were from the main number. It’s insane.

[@DingusBatus]

I hadn’t thought of it like that. You’re absolutely spot on. The enshitification of our rights is, in part, blamed on the growing enshitification of social attitudes.

[@meherenowmaybe]

@dingusBatus The whole idea that interacting online is a "social" activity is a huge problem. It's terrifying that people believe that it's any kind of substitution for actual social interaction. That it somehow reflects reality. A Facebook "friend" is not a friend.

[@edwardallenthree]

So much joy seeing you with your cat. My peanut butter, an all black cat, is in his last days. He still eats, but his lungs don't fully inflate. He still greets me with a happy meow, even if it is no longer voiced. There's a quiet strength and dignity in him as he dies of cancer, and an appreciation of life. It very much reminds me of the last days of my mother in law, the kindest person I ever met. Thank you so much for everything you do Louis.

[@brittanywhiteley9303]

Bookmarked this right away. The sooner we side with our neighbors over massive corporations that don't give a sh*t about us, the better off we'll all be.

[@TurfShifter]

When you destroy some, you really destroy someone. Your response was brutal, accurate, honest and an amazing example of how to get a point across.

[@VitriolicVermillion]

"Brutal" was the one thing it wasn't, though. It was incisive and it wasted no time, though. To call it "destroy[ing] someone" misses the point. It wasn't meant to be about attacking some type of *person* -- we're almost all more or less the same "type" of person, in that we're closer to the bottom than the top, and we buy crap products because that's what exists. Some of us are just running around with randomly directed anger and are more dangerous to our neighbor than to the real threats out there, and need to be stopped for even just a moment.

[@TurfShifter]

@VitriolicVermillion thanks for clarifying. Now listen to the video again and wonder about what you just did. Oh the irony....

[@VitriolicVermillion]

​@@TurfShifter I didn't intend to call you stupid, and if I did, I don't see it, but if you do, let me know where it was and I'll do better in the future. I do think you misunderstood, though, if you classify the video as "brutal" and an attempt to "destroy someone." Yeah, a specific person or people performed the behavior that prompted the video, but he was pointing to a behavior and inviting people to fix it within themselves. He wasn't saying that the behavior means that the people who do it are bad, but that we all lose when we direct our scorn at each other when consumer products fail. Please do let me know if I still don't seem to understand you correctly. I have replied the best I could based on trying to guess what you were pointing to, but plain text is a low-bandwidth medium, and clarity suffers.

[@davidr1122]

We have the exact same cat. It's so strange. Iggy, my cat, was living under my car for a few weeks when one day I noticed him enjoying the sweet taste of leaking antifreeze from my 98 ford Taurus, so I reached under and grabbed him saying "don't you know your going to die if you keep drinking that!!!!", I tossed him in my apartment, went to work, and came back to find him very comfortable looking... I never looked back, to this day, one of my best decisions ever.

[@LabelsAreMeaningless]

I only wish the people you're telling off would actually listen to what you're saying. You're completely correct, and those people are part of the problem. They enable the behavior while also mocking to shut up others. The companies may as well have hired them to derail the real topic as they do.

[@theimperialist2686]

The cat is the centre piece of this presentation.

[@Yewtewba]

I saw no cat in the thumbnail at first, so naturally I assumed it was a cat-focused video regardless

[@AidanLong-s5n]

THE RETURN OF THE KING

[@MikeTrieu]

Sure, but didn't be a dick and mark the cat as the highlight in SponsorBlock.

[@SyntaxDaemon]

You've spoken about this before, but i think this is your best video about it yet, and consequently, perhaps one of your most important ones yet. This is the message more people need to hear.

[@phantomreaver85]

Every company is out there to bend you over a barrel. We ALL have made bad purchases. You go cheap you get screwed, you go expensive you get screwed. No one is immune to it. Also trying to convince someone else to change their purchasing habits is an exercise in futility. I learned that lesson after trying to convince my mom that she was basically throwing away money on store brand garbage. As an example, to save a dollar on paper towels she buys the store brand that takes 3 times as many sheets to actually absorb anything, leave lint everywhere, has the scrubbing capability of printer paper, and falls apart instantly. That wasn't about stroking my own ego either that was simply about saving her money since she is on a fixed income.

[@KopperNeoman]

"if less valuable then why cheaper?" has the same energy as "if God then why evil?" tbh

[@ali32bit42]

its the age old "impossible to convince someone they have been fooled" problem. i know my own parents spend way more money on gas and other things so they can buy things 1 or 2 % cheaper on a specific store thats on the other side of the city.

[@WrottJackson]

I also still have yet to be assaulted by an independent vehicle repair shop. I HAVE however been stolen from nearly a dozen times from nearly a dozen different corporations.

[@Gandhi_Physique]

Yeah, I went to one and they fixed my hood latch for free. Can't believe they would do such a thing!!! An authorized repair center would have the decency to charge me!

[@SplitScreamOFFICIAL]

I always remember the IPhone removing the aux, it is an excellent example of one company does something bad, then they ALL unite and and do it

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

The sad thing is, we have the power to change the world but we have been conned into thinkng that one person cannot make a difference. One person CAN make a difference and millions of people acting together CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!

[@ArmadaAsesino]

This is the biggest issue in society currently. Like you said, people would rather take a 2 second dopamine hit by feeling superior than to help society improve as a whole. It applies to everything. Not just consumer goods.

[@CarrotConsumer]

Why currently? This isn't new, it's baked into the species.

[@Window4503]

@@CarrotConsumerTrue but it was kept at bay in various forms, whether a general idea of public decency or religion or social and legal consequences. There have always been ways to skirt around that, but there was a general basis for critique and condemnation more than there is now. Now just saying “Who cares? It’s my life” gets more mileage because there is no respected authority or social contract to check it….our society has agreed that yes, you are your own person regardless of what you do, so arguing against any negative applications of that idea is harder because we’ve rejected the basis for reasons against it (absolute truth, God, social duty, etc.). Many moral arguments now just come down to “because everyone else says so,” which isn’t a sustainable model. The philosophy of one generation is often realized in the third or fourth. We’re finally seeing the results of modernist philosophy, and sadly people think that doubling down on those philosophies will correct the issue.

[@bradleyp3655]

This is the result of hyper individualism. Ego and self-centeredness reign supreme over compassion and empathy.

[@axeman2638]

And the the truly messed up thing is that even the greedy and ego driven suffer from it, it's not even in their long term self-interest to be like that. People would do well to meditate on the prisoner's dilemma from game theory.

[@Gandhi_Physique]

@@axeman2638 In the short term, they gain though. Who cares what happens to everyone else if they have enough resources to endure whatever ends up happening?

[@lbdjthethird1240]

I appreciate how even though the device ain't your bag, you sympathize with the people getting screwed.

[@hm02fly75]

This crabs in a bucket mentality fueled by jealousy and hate is so destructive and pervasive in just aboutevery aspect of life. I love that along with pointing out how companies screw consumers you point out how consumers screw each other over. Hopefully it changes the minds of some people who fall into this thinking.

[@mr_b_hhc]

I try not to engage in this type of behaviour but I have. I feel deeply ashamed because you are 100% correct. Thank you for the humility check.

[@VitriolicVermillion]

I have probably done it, but mostly I was watching like "oh shit I hope that's not me." I think I even remember the particular comments he read.

[@StardustLegacyFighter]

I've definitely engaged in this type of shitty behaviour before, and I'm not proud of it at all. But moving forward I'll try to do better.

[@ThatEgghead]

This is painfully on point. But I hope that you keep on fighting regardless.

[@MrSnoozo]

Monkey Alone weak Monkey together STRONG! Those lines just popped into my head :D

[@FarzynoMusic]

As long as monkey together no fight each other

[@nadiafairchild9369]

At the end of the day, we spend so much time defining our own superiority in the face of others when all we have in this world is each other... Imagine what this world could be if we spent more time caring for our fellow humans and animals instead of trying to gouge them for resources.

[@pianotm]

People are desperate to be right. They don't care about a conversation. They don't even care about being correct. They'll do anything to be right, no matter how despicable.

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

Exactly, and I just wonder why, what reasons make people like this?

[@Nostalgia_Realm]

This is something I only learned over the past year. Don't attack someone who just bought a product, it's not on the buyer. It's on the companies for f-ing them over.

[@ruiwatanabe9823]

Mr clinton! Nice to see the gentleman back on his seat again for this video

[@WrottJackson]

He should run for president. He’s bound to do better than the last Clinton who was in office (he got impeached).

[@Emancipatriot]

I’ve actually learned a lot from this principle. Im not afraid to call others out for similar things. I love seeing clintion comfortable

[@Alirezax64]

Clinton jumping up for treats made my day 🥹

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

I love this because it's not just some "you can do better" kind of speech, it doesn't revolve about "uniting everyone to fight the bad corpos ruling the world" nor this kinda of fantasy absurd. It felt real, true to the words and feelings, a call to action in the sense we need more empathy, be able to confort and find confort and safe in others, that we need to find ways to make our living less suferable for us and for the others. Algorithm engagement, political polarization and quick dopamine rush are slowly turning us away from humility and our human side. We need more compassion, be able to understand the others' problems pretty much like ours and be supportive instead of divisive and abrahasive. Thanks for this, Louis, God bless you every day.

[@Nullpersona]

I would argue the majority aren't cheering the misfortune of others, instead hoping the gamble they have placed with their purchases fares better. Modern spending is a warzone, with consumers huddling together in branded bombed-out buildings, praying the next round lands anywhere else.

[@clicks59]

Louis, you are a scholar and a gentleman. Thanks for all you do to try to make our world a better place.

[@RipRoaringGarage]

Im SO GLAD to see Clinton feeling better!

[@riloh58]

Louis, thank you for this Public Service Announcement. I have heard you make this point many times and I’d like to think that I don’t do this. Having said that, I am going to start paying closer attention to my thoughts and behaviour because I’m not sure that I am really blameless here. We can all be better. Thanks again and respect for your advocacy.

[@blueredingreen]

It's easier to blame one's neighbour for making a bad decision, because otherwise one has to acknowledge that there's a systemic problem, and that's a lot harder to fix. Although the biggest obstacle to fixing it is people not acknowledging that it's a problem, or not caring enough to want or try to fix it.

[@midbc1midbc199]

This needs to be said to most people because they live in a biased bubble of confort

[@DonaldDeCicco]

In this life, the only way to prove what you believe is to do something about it, not just say it.

[@balsalmalberto8086]

Luigi is a doer.

[@DonaldDeCicco]

​@@balsalmalberto8086 Yes, murder is doing. But that does not make it right.

[@cypresscustoms]

To really distill the problem down, we have been brainwashed into believing that if you disagree with someone then they are evil or Racist or whatever bad thing you can think of, instead of continuing to talk and find things you do agree on. It has gotten so bad that people will even argue about the things they do agree on. It’s nuts.

[@ochiniwa]

This video just enrages me so much, because (not but) you are so right. The jealousy and stupidness of some people just entitle the companies to screw us all.

[@Window4503]

Of everyone. We all have to own it. The masses always like comments about how the masses are stupid and gladly share videos like this because everyone else is guilty. Videos like this just become another weapon against someone else. But only a few people will look at themselves. This is why we keep getting stuck.

[@edwardallenthree]

It is a continuing source of joy in my life to see how much I agree with Louis Rossman these days. I think I must have disagreed with him in the past, on one issueni cant even remember, and the conviction he holds must have been so strong as to convince me that he was someone I wouldn't agree with on most issues. I was wrong, and I love being wrong in that way. There is nothing better than learning that the world is better than you thought it was.

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

It's the same way how Ds and Rs will sometimes drop a random comment in a video blaming the other about an issue or event being discussed for a quick self-righteous ego stroke without actually doing anything about the thing that's being complained about.

[@Sammy213]

Louis I appreciate all your advocacy work. For whatever reason our society rewards the worst behavior instead of rewarding people who are doing things for the common good.

[@roberthoffman4713]

I try to do my homework when buying stuff especially when it's expensive stuff. I kinda believed if I purchased quality up front, I would only need to buy it once. But now a days it doesn’t seem to make as much of a difference because places don't stand behind their stuff or they go out of business and reopen as a new place or they do crap stuff like chane terms of service after the fact. Heck some places keep a big database of customer information and don't bother to secure it. I guess that's why I got 6 notices from different places informing me that my information was compromised and I should get some sort of monitoring service.

[@dustinzimmerman5237]

WOW. Great take, and spot on. WE ALL SUCK! Made me think back on things I've said and done to see if I'm part of the problem or solution....I hope the solution....but I've definitely been part of the problem as well. Wonderful post bro.

[@leeross7896]

Thanks for bumming me out!

[@Wolterhon]

I admit I am the one who does that. Your argument makes a lot of sense, thank you for opening my eyes to an issue in myself that I refused to notice.

[@WillThat]

We deserve the world we live in.

[@integerofdoom69]

Awfully defeatist attitude.

[@StarCenturion]

Hard not to feel defeated at times, but the best one can do is always stick to your ideals and do the best you can to make the world around you a better place.

[@MelissaR784]

We didn't create this world we live in. It and we, have been socially engineered. Sigmund Fraud nephew, Edward Bernays learned about human behavior, the art of marketing and wrote several books on propaganda. Books that inspired Joseph Goebbels. KZbin has a piece on him called A Brief History on the Man Who Brainwashed America. One of his quotes: "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."

[@theeyeofomnipotent]

Well actually 🤓, Depending on your perspective, this sentence serves double meaning, Here is a little bit of optimism: If the world is good, then it allows ourselves to enjoy what we had made If the world is bad, then it allows ourselves to take responsibility for our own actions, show that we can repent our wrongdoings, It does not have to be "we deserve to be in a bad place, for we are unattonable"

[@VoxVictus]

@@integerofdoom69 How so? Defeatist would be saying things can’t change, this comment is saying things don’t change because we don’t allow it to. For example rather than giving some set of reasons why OP should see things differently we are simply here to say something negative. You came to call someone a defeatist cause obviously YOU’RE not like that and me to point this out. We don’t help each other, do we even try? To me it mostly seems like we sit on our butts and feel good about ourselves for posting some text bashing someone online, usually for something we personally think we don’t do. In fact I don’t see you saying or doing anything that could make him/her even rethink his point of view, no arguments, nothing positive, nothing constructive, just a quick one liner label about what someone else is. I feel like, as the other person pointed out, it is hard NOT to be defeatist when that is most people’s goal. To make someone feel “defeated”, to make this poster as an example feel like they have done something wrong and should feel bad for how they feel. To make it clear that’s not how YOU would think and so they should (In some way too vague to help of course) be more like you and think more like you. Why? Does what they are doing cause problems? Are they unhappy? Do you plan to monitor the situation and give praise to those with a “better” attitude or give this person credit should they do something more to your standards? I doubt it so yeah, a lot of people feel pretty defeated. Like the world and the people in it are more interested and putting people down than in helping them. That most people just assume their comments would be wasted on others who don’t already parrot back what they think is best. That even comments about how we should be more positive manage to be negative because people can’t stand the idea of “looking dumb” and trying to do a good thing. You know it’s shockingly easy to be “smart” and “right” when you predict bad things. When you “don’t waste your time” trying to make anything better or change the things you complain about, there is a 99% chance if you’d wrote something urging this person to look on the bright side you’d be laughed at, probably even by the person you were responding to. It’s easier to give up after all, easier to be defeatist too, but since that seems to bother you maybe next time try at least expressing your issue with that in a way the might make others reconsider? I’m not telling you to be everyone’s bastion of hope and love but if you ACTUALLY have a problem with people just giving up…maybe it’s worth “looking dumb” by trying to cheer up some random person online? Just a thought. Have a nice day by the way, hopefully this didn’t come off as insulting towards you, it’s just I really don’t think you’re doing anything different than OP in terms of being a defeatist, I think you just go about it in a different way and I wish we all could do better, myself included.

[@noobdernoobder6707]

This Video goes to my top highlight section in the bookmarks so that I can pull it up every time when someone asks "And what exacliy is your problem now?". Because it expresses much better than I can ever do what I felt the last past years and never was able to form it into fitting words. Thank you for that!

[@myrkat]

My only wish: That I could give this 100 thumbs up. Bravo!

[@glimps84]

I must admit that I loved the board stuff. Mr Rossman, I’m trying my best to fix my stuff because of those old videos, BUT (see what I did here…) your new content is a net positive for our common good. Thank you

[@Thesignalpath]

Well put.

[@KMO325]

I’m glad you made this video, too many people are missing the larger point of why you bring attention to these issues in the first place.

[@dethswurl117]

Can I just say how happy I am to have Louis back regularly ❤

[@KingCamilloSnufkin]

1 finger can break 5 fingers make up a fist! Love, Louis. Thanks. Well done co-moderating Clinton

[@evelghostrider]

I gave up a custom garage of 45 years because of people and how they acted towards me while I was trying to help them..... People made me close my doors...

[@Gandhi_Physique]

What sort of things happened that made you stop?

[@SArthur221]

it's not *just* us, it's the people who make the shitty products in the first place. they're also feeding their ego, you may call it bottom line or profits or another name, but they are the ones doing this. And while yes, most people are negatively helpful when it comes to this, they were not the ones who made the decision not to include a headphone jack on the iphone 7

[@gadglichtg4840]

I’ve seen people make fun of products so much meant for disabled people or when disabled or ignorant get scammed, not realizing some day that could be you.

[@TheancestorsJackson-n9q]

Car companies, phone companies, power companies, tech companies, food companies and everything in between has been given the right to financially r8pe us. It's sickening because only WE will try to fight this evil legislation, NOW they are ALL powerful and it will take ALL of us to turn this. Great video my friend.

[@lateefcarrere1649]

Thanks, Louis, for the admonishment. And thanks, Clinton, for making an appearance. I hope you have many good years ahead, both of you. As for me, I will control the urge to mock my fellow consumer when their product goes to 💩, because of that company's practices (except for Ford, I have owned and serviced their vehicles, and won't ever again). P.S. Happy New Year!

[@jasonbay13]

i have a ford ranger from 1994. still doing alright, 4wd still works even if i am afraid to use it while turning for fear of something snapping. locking hubs. got the leaf spring chained and soon the lower control arm, but still going :) after all my vehicles die what should i get? by then i doubt it'll be affordable to buy another 90's vehicle as ai and company-owned vehicles dominate.

[@justxbreathe]

I appreciate this one especially. Doing the right thing is real easy when it pays off, but doing so when it doesn't is far more admirable.

[@xBrokenMirror2010x]

When they removed the headphone jack and SD Card, I swore to never ever buy a phone without those features ever again. I'm still using my Galaxy S8+. I will continue using it until I get a phone with a 3.5mm port, SD Card, Unlocked Bootloader, Available Replacement Parts, and a Screen without a fucking hole in it for a camera. It's literally the only thing I can do at this point, and I don't plan on changing it. I refuse to buy a phone that does not have basic features.

[@Lolwutfordawin]

I'm in the same boat. I can live without an SD card, but I use my headphone jack far too often to ever give it up. Still using my pixel 3a.

[@aavocadont]

Yup. I had an S8 for years. I smashed the screen and the battery was degrading, so I opted to get a refurbished S9+ for cheap rather than repair the S8 and have been using it for about three years now. It's a fantastic phone. I love the aforementioned features. I'm not sure why any average person would need a newer phone except for a better camera.

[@PaulaXism]

@@aavocadont I'm still on my S3 mini.. when the battery swells up it knocks the back off (instead of breaking the screen) and I just buy another and replace it in seconds...

[@ali32bit42]

god the hole for the camera is such an annoying thing. i actually want bezels back. they were a good resting place for my hands. and the physical back button was way faster then all the gestures .

[@RB-bd5tz]

I've got an iPhone 8. I'm one one of those people who keeps tape over the cameras until I need to take a photo. The camera embedded in the screen is probably a direct response to people like me. That "feature" is an absolute NOPE for me.

[@ohboiiPumba]

This makes it to one of the best Rossmann videos. The life lesson ones. Really makes you think about how blindfolded we all are to other peoples problems.

[@philhunter9134]

I truly admire your position and eloquence, unlike other stupid channels.

[@joopie46614]

Some guy on sponsorblock absolutely violated you by making the highlight the end of the video and marking the cat section as a sponsor 💀💀

[@adamphilpott1732]

Crazy cat man at it again. Love it Louis, keep it up!

[@nathenate7974]

Its nice to see your cat doing better. Even if its just a little bit. Take those victories. They mean a lot. Thank you for giving us something significant to think about. Your words are positively impactful. Dont give up.

[@jamesmeader6539]

After a dose of truth, a few minutes of Louis with Mister Clinton is what we all needed this snowy/fiery Sunday evening.

[@EnigmaBarry]

Thank you Louis for dropping facts. People should care about other people's lot in life or those other people won't care for your lot in life.

[@stevenwilliams9359]

@7:40 Just like with the UnitedHealthcare case. Nobody really cares until the health insurance company comes for them. And then it will be too late and someone will end up getting 'CEOed'

[@JadenHybrid]

Thank you for this video, and your right. Keep up the good work. I failed at this a few times, but your right. My friend at work showed me what your all about and I'm glad I looked.

[@arcalypse1101]

"...and some day, it's gonna come for you - and nobody's gonna care." 😞 Damn...

[@dry4smash946]

your pfp makes this comment funnier /light hearted

[@steveismean]

Thank you, Louis. I hope this hits home with a lot of people and opens some eyes.

[@Dan-dg9pi]

Spot-on analysis. Anyone who disagrees is just wrong. :-)

[@yotoprules9361]

@@Zerosupremo I think the joke went over your head

[@boxerchick702]

What many people don’t understand is once one company decides to do something unethical all of them will eventually follow suit. Doesn’t matter the brand or even industry, they all learn from each other and steal each others unethical practices. If we don’t stand up we will end up being screwed in every way in every single facet of life. Every fight against all kinds of unethical corporate behaviors is worth fighting. ALWAYS.

[@The_Original_Cujo]

Why can't people understand, if one manufacturer gets away with doing something shitty, sooner or later it will be standard practice with all manufacturers? It doesn't matter what company you blindly support, they don't care about you, they just want all your money, all of the time.

[@DalePatch]

You had me worried about all my yard tools. 😂 Ego's stuff has treated extremely well and it never touches the internet.

[@stevenwilliams9359]

Well said! Welcome to Texas!

[@felixman9691]

I’m glad your pointed this out, it’s important to stand up for consumer rights no matter the product, and this guys take was especially crazy cause he doesn’t even realize that there’s only like 2-3 devices that exist that can do what magic leap can do even if it’s a niche product. And it doesn’t matter how niche it is, we can’t allow thing sto just be bricked by the company to force people to buy new ones. Unbelievable, except I’ve seen it so many times lol. Thanks as always!

[@rejectconvenience]

That's why I end all my videos with "be kind and patient with each other".

[@circle_line]

This essentially is the same for politics in the US. Supporters of one party will laugh at the other party's supporters when their party does something dumb or hypocritical, but in the end, supporters of both parties are getting screwed

[@philipstephens5960]

Bravo. I was having similar thoughts reading comments from people having no sympathy for the victims of the LA fires “because they are all rich”.

[@joshallen128]

well youd be stupid not to have homeowners insurance

[@Phoenix6652]

My grandmother was one of the kindest people you could ever meet, yet she wasn't immune from being an a-hole at one time. She told me when she was young that she used to make fun of an older lady that walked with a waddle. She thought it was very funny.. That is until she became an old lady and began walking with a waddle. My grandmother didn't believe in karma, but she certainly believed "what goes around comes around."

[@superdupermax]

i refuse to downgrade from my galaxy s10 for a new phone with no storage and no jack.

[@DarkForce2024]

If you are looking for a new(ish) phone that still has both, OnePlus Nord N30 still has a headphone jack, and microSD card slot.

[@superdupermax]

@DarkForce2024 new s24 was even "free"... but i passed 🤣

[@Calvin_Coolage]

The S10 was one of the last truly good Galaxy series, good choice.

[@christoffer8301]

A small account of ego vs the world. (Apologies for the grammar or if anything is difficult to get immidietly, first time writiing this story in english. This happened between 1998 and 2014) So i grew up in a small village, rather rural with some agriculture around. The major of the municipality moved to this village just before he quit working and got on pension, to the same street which i used to live in. And one of the last places to have an improvement. He had been the sitting major for well over 12 years as very little political contest around here. Our village would see a flood every 5-7 years. basements flooded at minimum, sewage may come up in reverse, even with quite hefty foundation drains water may still come in through the walls, the streets flooded enough to use a boat some times. Now our village is quite uphill to any river, one of the nations longest rivers do run by about 1km down south and 200 height meters bellow the village location. So it was never the river flooding over. Just heavy rain over some time, and inadequate storm drains buildt for the volume of water. Now petitions and calls for a better built out drain system had been going on for years and years. Eventually a small improvement was made in some areas of the village, though still some houses got flooded. But once some houses were safe, the ones now safe, stopped helping the rest asking for better built out drainage, they did not care to help their neighbours since they themselves was now out of it. After an additional flooding the village had an overhaul of the drainage and now at worst 1-2 households have had a flooding in their basement within the last 12 years. Now the major had always been one of the opposers to build more or invest more on the drainage system (biggest problem was that the pipes were not big enough to lead away the amount of water) as it was mostly adequate... But as soon as he was on pension and out of office. (also moved to the village after the last improvement of the drainage system.) He went door to door, to try and gather everyone in the village on a lawsuit against the municipalty, for not building out the drainage system over the years. (He wanted to line his own pockets with compensation money, even though he had not experienced any floodings) Out of the 400 households in affected area 8 joined in with the hypocrite (Luckily my father, who still lives there, was at least on the fence about it and did not join in since few others were). The lawsuit did not make it to any court as there was not enough people joining in. For the previous major to be able to say he represent the village, thus he did not have the balls to go through with it. If it was just a couple years earlier, before the big renovation of the drainage system i have no doubt a lot would have joined in. Even if it was the person who actively denied the improvements. What i took from seeing this happen is: people do not care if it is not to their benefit, themselves or family. Problems must be solved all at once or you lose the momentum from having the majority, as those affected will go each to their own as their part of the problem get fixed. Hypocrites will try to benefit from anything.

[@Zerosupremo]

so you don't agree that those kind of bad practices like apple do are nothing new, they repeat again and again and again, is not right to shame to male fun, but is not more practical and useful teach the people that yes, those companies are s*** with overpriced products and you should not buy from them? i like they say "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.", and for example "fanboys" that even when they got f*** 30x in a row and still defends brands? you think is right to defend those people? waste time defending them?

[@goldenalbumen]

That exact attitude is the problem he's addressing here. Of COURSE this kind of behavior from companies isn't new; but just because it's common doesn't mean we shouldn't fight it. If you dismiss these companies bad treatment of consumers because "those people should know better", you by doing so excuse their behavior. Also, you're completely ignoring the amount of propaganda and misinformation these companies use to entice people. How about instead of criticizing those who've been duped, you put your attention to educating and helping them?

[@Zerosupremo]

@@goldenalbumen read again, maybe next time you understand, i said A you understood B

[@goldenalbumen]

@@Zerosupremo Well, I already had to read it through a few times. It's not exactly easy reading so many run-on sentences. Maybe you could try writing it again (with a few more periods in the right places), and explain what part I didn't understand?

[@kylefolger]

I don’t consider anything you’ve done to be a failure. I believe your content has given people a voice and a topic for discussion. I believe change will only come from the many and will take a lot longer to come from the top. I know your content has allowed me to push back on multiple companies. In recent years, I had a manufacturer provide me a part number and when I tried to purchase the part I was told that part isn’t allowed to be sold. I made it clear that they could essentially sell me the part or I won’t ever look at their product again as there’s no way I was going to send in a partially working unit and be down the entire unit. I mentioned the case for right to repair and they agreed. They discussed it internally and sold me the part. I have nothing but respect for them doing so. The part came in, I changed it, and I had a functioning unit again with only an hour of downtime instead of weeks and the added cost/time of shipping.

[@DonaldDeCicco]

If people understood the only 2 factions are those with power, and those without the world would be a different place. "love one another as I have loved you" - some old guy

[@bendybruce]

I agree entirely with the point being made in this video. There are just so many people who love rushing to the comments section to push someone else down to lift themselves up.

[@grabasandwich]

Hey, it's Louis Rossmeownn!

[@StubbyPhillips]

Nicely done! We encourage what we fail to ridicule.