Why Rich People Love Pretending to Be Poor

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[@HorsesOnYT]

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[@aznrhmn]

The video is too simplistic

[@cutstring]

then make a better one@@aznrhmn

[@UnfinishedSwing]

It seems like this vid is a jealous rant rather than valid criticism. The family does seem like a wealthy family, not poor at all... I mean, poor people like me can't afford a farm or any fresh farm products they use for their recipes. Are they pretending to be poor? Hell nah, they're just living the FARM life. Lol By the way, farmers are rich AF nowadays, most of them are heirs! We're not in the 30's anymore! 😅

[@Americansikkunt]

Beginning of the video, I am asking, “Why does living on farm equate to poverty?”

[@motwhom3230]

@@UnfinishedSwing the fuck you mean "living the farm life". living the farm life is being up at 6 every morning tending to your cattle or produce. slaving away hours on end. "farmers are rich af nowadays", no shit, the farm owners have inherited it. but they aint farmers, they have workers. Influencers like them are soul searching for a purpose, as he said the "respect" from others. also the farm analogy was clearly metaphoric, whilst deliberately highlighting there complete lack of awareness from the lives of working class people. If you cant grasp that, its ok, i dont know you. You're probably young, or stupid, whatever goodluck

[@coledavidson5630]

There's a difference between using your money to live the way you want, and "pretending to be poor". If living on a rustic farm makes you happy, go for it. When you turn it into a brand or act like you are struggling when you aren't, that's when it becomes appropriation

[@XOPOIIIO]

Commies just hate people more successful than them, it doesn't matter how they live, they would hate them anyway.

[@alexbarry2497]

My thoughts exactly man, his initial point rubbed me the wrong way and made it difficult to appreciate the rest of the video. If rich people are being criticized for wanting to live a simpler life what are they supposed to do? Just live in a way they don’t want to? They have the luxury to live on a farm and have a safety net yes but that doesn’t take away from the effort.

[@azarshadakumuktir4551]

@@alexbarry2497 The issue is they are putting it out on the public in a theatrical way. If they were simply "living the way they want" we wouldn't hear about it.

[@alexbarry2497]

@@azarshadakumuktir4551 Yeah I totally see your point. And that makes sense that it can glamourize a life that isn't as attainable as they make it out to be. But I feel his criticism of these people in the video was either misguided or poorly laid out, it made it feel more like these people were going out of their way to feel poor

[@christrew8012]

I think that they are teaching their children not to be spoilt brats and showing them how much effort it requires to run a farm. All good things as far as I can see. A much better use of their money than giving their kids anything they want with no responsibility. I don't care that they put this life on KZbin... far better content than idolizing the Kardashians.

[@aasalaha]

I was a private chef for a rich couple. They were the most out of touch people I have ever met. They would boast about how "long" their Costco receipts were, all while trying to exploit me by attempting to get me to do work that did not pertain to my duties, for no pay. The last straw for me was when I was told to polish shoes right before a dinner guest were to arrive. There were cases and cases full of Evian water everywhere throughout their home. They drank nothing else. It felt so dystopian.

[@pathofthetrickster]

How much were they paying you? 🤔 If they wanted to treat you like their butler, you could have asked for more pay 😂

[@littlebrothermoneywithmich6178]

Just sprinkle the word “dystopian” on everything. Must be a bunch of high schoolers in these comments 😂 Those are just typical Americans.

[@Justin-lc8wk]

@@littlebrothermoneywithmich6178 2 weeks vacation is a lot of vacation time here in America. 50/50 on being fired on getting sick or having a medical accident depending on if you've been there for multiple years. at my current employer its taken my coworkers, which have been treated well with benefits, just got 4 weeks of vacation for being there for 10 years.

[@Floral_Sun]

​@@littlebrothermoneywithmich6178 Well, it definitely is fucking Utopian, now is it?? 🤣🤣🤣

[@meowwsus]

@@littlebrothermoneywithmich6178those are NOT typical americans

[@lucasspeirs]

"There are many poor people who work hard every day and will still be poor forever" this is the #1 thing a lot of people don't understand when they say you just have to "work hard" to be successful and wealthy. Everybody works hard, but working hard and still being poor is so depressing. I think there is a lot of luck and other factors out of most peoples control when it comes to who is successful and who is not. The world shouldn't be this way.

[@fleurviverre7097]

OR you need to learn how to work with wisdom, not just go working to work hard. Reach for the higher opportunities, pursue higher education, gain more skills, be flexible, be versatile, seek excellence, get better at making connections and networking, make good lifestyle choices and establish good habits, delay gratification, pray, be grateful, be selfless, etc etc. This takes sacrifice. Speaking from someone who came to this country as an immigrant’s daughter with no money, living in a cockroach infested small apartment, to now owning my own home in a good area. My family is a testament that it can be done without prior financial help. This learned helplessness is a fool’s mentality. ALSO, being rich is so relative. Do you have someone who loves you? A roof over your head? Food on your table? Shoes on your feet and clothes on your back? Count your blessings. You are rich. There will always be someone who has less than you.

[@gioumris2423]

How much money you get compared to how "hard" you work has to do with how much the products of your work are worth to the job market. A construction worker could be working as hard or even harder than a top performing athlete, let's say Ronaldo, but that wouldn't even matter, because the "context" of his labour is in a whole other category. There are possibly tens or even hundreds of millions of people that can replace or do the exact same task as the construction worker, but Ronaldo is at best only replaceable by a handful of other top performing players.

[@GasGrassOrAssetto]

If hard work paid off, donkeys would be covered in gold ✨️

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@fleurviverre7097 LMAO Did you really say people's struggles don't matter because someone has it worse? Oh wow, you sound so out of touch.

[@KO-sx9uy]

the world should be this way, it’s natural

[@nonamedbuc]

One of the most known Greek rappers wrote some lyrics that can be loosely translated to "The pain of the impoverished becomes the art of the ruling class" and I find it quite fitting here

[@hunni2968]

Rappers? Who?

[@nonamedbuc]

Greek rap can be deeply political and/or social.The artist's called Lex,and the lyrics are from a song named "korakia"

[@Limonene788]

I used to know some kids a few years ago that travelled the U.S. in a car on their own time, did whatever they wanted to do, woke up whenever they wanted, and claimed that they were making it all on their own without any help or jobs. They also looked down on me and said that I was a loser because I held down a job and gave into, "what the man wanted me to do". For a little while, I took them at face-value and tried to understand why I couldn't be like them However, everything made a lot more sense when I overheard one kid making a phone call to his grandma asking her to send him some money via wire transfer. I'm truly amazed that people even have the audacity to look down on others for not living like they do when they themselves don't even live the way they claim to.

[@j_jizzle_6934]

Bruh I always feel guilty when my parents or grandparents gave me money even for my birthday. I never understood how someone could freeload like that without feeling like an asshole

[@_Chessa_]

@@j_jizzle_6934 it makes one want to die. They are depressed and feel like a loser, they simply wish they never existed. Because they are too stupid to find a job and yet too wanted to be let go to the streets from a caring and wealthy family, so the person slowly dies on the inside feeling like a failure a loser and someone that simply wants to end themselves but knows the financial burden of taking their life would put their family at risk of being less wealthy and an embarrassment so they continue to live trapped hating themselves forever more and with such a brain disability they forget what they had learned. Lol

[@monicacastro3751]

thats so messd up

[@erintheautie]

@@j_jizzle_6934probably because the grandma is rich so it’s only like giving them 20 bucks to her.

[@tannaeros]

@@j_jizzle_6934 My nephew did the 'rich kid acting po' " for a while. Too bad he came from a family with not too much money. He told my father he needed money for college, my father co signed to loan, the kid didn't even enroll, and just blew the funds hanging with kids whose parents were well off.

[@SLABMONTY]

“In a world driven by productivity…. Producing nothing means is the most exceptional elite thing you can do-“ what a beautiful quote.

[@_Ari_888]

I found it less beautiful and more disgusting. That rich people feel elite for producing nothing. That they feel happy when they sit on their bum and make the world a worse place by raking in money from doing nothing

[@cako666]

Beautifully haunting, all things considered.

[@duduvec5971]

Doesn't it also mean that not producing equals to not being valuable?

[@leopaldbarnibus3434]

@@duduvec5971to them it means they’re so above it that they don’t have to produce

[@ryankerekes1389]

@@duduvec5971 That's the point; the rule applies to us, but as the rich are the exception, they have the luxury of still being "valuable" while not producing anything.

[@xande5345]

The reason I always wanted to be rich, is because I always wanted to NOT have to worry about money, jobs and the future. I never cared for fancy clothes or flashy cars, I'd just lay down in bed until the moment I thought of something nice to do, every day. To me, that's true freedom.

[@UnfinishedSwing]

It seems like this vid is a jealous rant rather than valid criticism. The family does seem like a wealthy family, not poor at all... I mean, poor people like me can't afford a farm or any fresh farm products they use for their recipes. Are they pretending to be poor? Hell nah, they're just living the FARM life. Lol By the way, farmers are rich AF nowadays, most of them are heirs! We're not in the 30's anymore! 😅

[@Amila-ym7ny]

@@UnfinishedSwingdefinitely lol also who sees a shit ton of land and a beautiful farm house and think “poor” you have to have money to do that

[@teresamckeown5594]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Yes!!

[@Ocaveiradoze]

Ngl that would be a pretty good way to live

[@dysmissme7343]

Yeah… same I think some of this video needlessly assumes the worst of people

[@camystar129]

While watching this video, this is crazy realization is there. When poor people want to escape they are called lazy, and self unaware. When rich people do it its okay. wow

[@kaazmire5358]

Since when was poor people escaping their current life considered lazy?

[@yulurkinbrah]

@@kaazmire5358fr, i thought that was the goal lmao. the american dream. quite the opposite of lazy tbh.

[@samuelmalar8527]

like on a farm? never heard anybody say people like that are lazy

[@camystar129]

@@samuelmalar8527 I don’t know why people are acting so oblivious this is common in America anyways. When meaning “escape” by going to get yourself something nice or when wanting to take a day of rest, when your scheduled to work. Some people have dealt with trauma, many experience death of a love one and it’s still affecting them personally. Are they lazy? Cause they simply don’t feel the motivation to do something for their work that day. NO This is common in the USA, whereas politicians think the new generation is lazy and buys too much “Starbucks.” Always putting down the working class for wanting something else then, saving all their Pennies to maybe a home one day if it’s even in their “price-range” prices of homes are through the roof. When someone doesn’t have a good paying job, people say go out and get a better job. They say Stop being lazy, say should of went to college and not sat around! When many families simply are on the scale to not afford universities and such as college books. So yes this is common, I don’t believe it’s right and it’s definitely a two sided issue. People will always argue with those problems.

[@camystar129]

@@samuelmalar8527 he also says this in the video, so yes it’s a thing 😅

[@kriztincruz6012]

I think the bigger analysis of this should be "why is the quiet and simple life so unreachable for the poor?" It's a weird, dystopian question that really shows you the disparity between the rich and the poor. Living a simple life should not be out of reach, and it's wild that it is. Housing is out of reach, food is getting out of reach...living is slowly becoming a testament to privilege and it's so twisted that it is. Every human deserves to live a simple life. Yet farmers would not want to be born in the generations of strife they had faced. But it's undeniable that so many people (including me) WANT to be in a cottage and live simply. I have been poor and struggled, yet I dream of forging a sustanable life for myself. I rage at how unreachable that's becoming.

[@amakiethagod5622]

totally! very much agree and i’m glad someone else has this perspective. we should all be able to have a peaceful day to do nothing but bake a loaf or two of bread, topped off with wholesome and precious moments with our family. it is terribly sad that this is so unthinkable and unattainable for many

[@VV-cy9gf]

​@@amakiethagod5622 Peace and free time with your loved ones is not a given. It's an incredible privilege that has to be paid for with blood, sweat, tears and sometimes life itself. It is this way now, has been this way for the past 200 thousand years of humanity and will be this way for the next million or two.

[@halfmutanthalfjapanese3113]

Actually you can sign up as farm worker right now. It's available online and a lot of young people use it to earn money and explore other countries. Do you want a simple life or just want to OWN a huge farm which need a lot of money investment every year? No one is gonna give you electricity, water, etc. as if you lived in a flat. You will have to manage all the basic supplies. And also it would be much more expensive because for the town buildings all this costs are divided by all users. Even fixing roads to your place would be your responsibility. That's why it's hard to effort functional country house. But farm is also about production of plants/animals. And it's a tough business which could be ruined in a moment and only a few actually want to make it. People what to have their own bar or beauty service, no one want to go away from comfort and risk their ass all the time. That's why government support farmers and there's a number of programms to finance those who dare to start. If you really want to face the reality of this job - go on. It's not that hard to begin.

[@devinkipp4344]

I would like to point out that it isn't all that expensive and you can do it if you look in the right v places though.

[@devinkipp4344]

​@@VV-cy9gf you can tell the future?

[@thethirdchimpanzee]

To be honest, if I suddenly found myself rich, like I won the Powerball or something, *I* would buy a small homestead here in Arizona, and garden and raise - and rescue - animals and make bread snd cheese all day. Not to imitate poverty but because I *am* poor and being rich is the ONLY WAY that I could AFFORD to live that dream of mine. :/

[@stinky-smelly]

Bro that's my dream too. Have a lil house and foster dogs. That'd be so sick.

[@liv.s.]

i hope you can get there one day, best wishes man

[@MrCaesar2u]

I don't think that's unusual. What's so obvious about these examples is the VIDEO!! The mere fact that they record themselves and broadcast it says it all. I too dream of a small farm and a little lady with a big butt.

[@Hex4rr]

success isnt a number, it is a state.

[@bernadetteobaglietto5923]

@@Hex4rr but that number sure as hell plays its role in getting that state.

[@user-fu7eh2mk5n]

Ive got a friend who has made it extremely well off for himself, (upper 6 figures type) but he lives extremely modestly. Drives an older ford explorer and gets all his clothes from costco basically. I asked him about it and he said that he lives this way because when you have money people look at you differently, they automatically thing your boujee or a snob which makes it hard to have healthy relationships with people. He also said that its a key to also sustain wealth, as the quote goes “the rich stay rich by acting poor, and the poor stay poor by acting rich” and from what hes told me, its a pretty common overall consensus amongst his coworkers to live modestly. Just keeps you grounded i guess.

[@pnkdrmz]

rich people love saying that shit but it's all bullshit. the rich can stay rich by acting poor, but the poor will never become rich by "acting poor". as you said, it may be the key to sustain wealth. but if you as a poor worker are being exploited at every turn and barely given enough to survive in exchange for your labor, it doesn't matter how frugal you are - you will always stay poor. it's a pretty arrogant thing to say too, basically blaming the exploited for letting themselves be exploited instead of the exploiters

[@user-fu7eh2mk5n]

@@pnkdrmz Not every profession is built off explotation. And then again, many peoples idea of “explotation” are minimum wage jobs meant to be done my HighSchoolers, not genuine careers. Nobody ever said the poor would get rich by acting poor, living a unsustainable lavish lifestyle is what “poor acting rich” is, call it bull shit if you want, but id take the solemn advice of someone who drives an Auddi R8 over the one calling out bullshit.

[@pnkdrmz]

@@user-fu7eh2mk5n another common fallacy is to listen to successful people telling you how to be successful. odds are, they did things much the same way as a lot of unsuccessful people and have the same advice to give, but they were just lucky or born into better circumstances. of course most of them won't admit this and instead attribute their success to hard work or smarts or networking or whatever, and idiots will listen to them and delude themselves into thinking we live in a meritocracy

[@zCopyCatz]

​​@@pnkdrmzYep, you can still stay rich by buying modesty quality items, not everything has to be Gucci, I also love it when they say how frugal they are, and suddenly out of nowhere, they have a new car/house/boat or any luxury item.

[@sircar4876]

@@user-fu7eh2mk5n Well, then take the advice of someone whose family makes six figures as well. If a person drives audi or even the money of buying one, they aren't living a modest lifestyle in the first. It's a very useful tactic to make people without money to go "oh, he has all this money, but he just like me frfr". And clowns fall for it. The "unsustainable lavish lifestyle" is similar to boomers telling the younger generation that they are eating too much avocado toast and that's why they are poor. I can go a very long discussion as to why whatver is being peddled here is exactly the manipulative crap they want you to believe. That the fault is yours. But, I'll keep it short- the rich stay rich because of their connections and nothing else. If the rich overspend or spend badly, they get bailed out, due to their connections. That's what happened during the financial crisis. The poor could save all their life, work hard as much as they want and never see close to a million or even a good life in their entire live.

[@Killjoy0329]

I know a lot of millionaires (family friends) who could buy anything they want. But instead they live in a relative nice house, a couple decent cars, they buy more investment properties but not flashy stuff When my siblings and I are attending college, my mom was stressed about the tuition, but god bless them, they lend all 3 of us our college tuition and more for the term (All the of us work, but sometimes school literally takes all the time as 2 of us are designers and 1 of us is a pilot, so things gets pretty hectic) My personal view is that being rich doesn’t mean you have to live a flashy lifestyle, being rich and wealthy just means you get to live the way you want, how you want it when you want it. If you’re a good person, money becomes a tool to help others and make you even better. If you’re a bad person then money is only going to reinforce the bad behaviors

[@JackZoe-bf3zq]

"They have a safety net" This is it. They have the freedom of choices. There is nothing wrong with that. However, not respecting the differences and monetizing them creates a dystopian nightmare.

[@jerryrikki9466]

Safety net is one thing, part owning the factory that makes safety nets is another

[@SofaKingShit]

Then there's the safety net of having a loving family that gives support. That's an emotional benefit that when coupled with material resources can lead to a well adjusted individual being able to write a beautifully worded newspaper article about how the government really should do more to remove these homeless encampments of ne'er-do-wells who somehow just keep making the wrong choices in life.

[@spacewad8745]

Absolutely true!

[@loaflad]

True

[@FalloutUrMum]

I don't think you know what a dystopian nightmare is

[@roberthamilton1063]

There's an old Moomin comic strip where the dad meets an artist in France and hes rich. He starts following the Moomins around because he says that they live like "lillies in the grass" meaning that they are really poor. He romanticizes their entire family and when they were low on food and the roof started leaking, the artist bailed and went back to his penthouse. That comic was written in the 1950s!!

[@Blooodhail]

gotta love Moomin

[@gorgo4910]

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” It means to live without worrying about the next disaster but to trust God, who is steadfast and loving.

[@loco_tom]

@@gorgo4910 Ok, so why does a "loving" god allow people to die in natural disasters?

[@MBFinancial170]

@@loco_tom This has been discussed endlessly for 100s of years. Why do you expect a random KZbin commenter to have the answer. Stop being condescending.

[@loco_tom]

@@MBFinancial170 Who put salt in your coffee? It's not condescending to challenge the idea that god is a "loving being" or that you should "trust him" in any way... I don't trust anyone that allows innocent children to drown in floods.

[@0liva__]

My mom once told me: for the rich to keep getting richer, the poor have to stay poor. I think that explains why they make us believe it's normal for poverty to exist and why they try to convince us that they're just like us. This way, we don't question the system or them; instead, we end up questioning ourselves, thinking it's our fault for not putting in enough effort.

[@TheGreatOutdoorsLLC]

The rich get richer and the poor stay poor because of poor decisions made. I disagree with a lot of this video. When people say “go work your ass off” as cheesy as it sounds that’s totally true. That doesn’t necessarily mean go work a har dony sucks 9-5 job although maybe that’s your best option at the moment but you need to use your brain and make smart decisions. I’m fortunate enough to have a great life, but I was working as a regular associate at Home Depot 9-5 and was able to quit from an online business I started and have done that full time for over a year now making more $ than I was an I plan to continue going up with it. God willing most people absolutely have the choice to change their life financially for the better you just have to get up and put the time in.

[@markusnystrom852]

@@TheGreatOutdoorsLLC Congrats on your good furtune, but just to be clear, your argument could just as well be stated: "poor people deserve their poverty because they're lazy". That's the other side of the "rich people deserve their wealth because they work hard"-argument. That's a pretty fat slap in the face to basically anyone actually working hard to survive and feed their kids. It's hard to know what a good economic decision is, what to invest in, what jobs will be worthwhile, what education to get. Not all online businesses take off, just to take an obvious example. So I think it's so much more complex than just telling people to "get up and put the time in".

[@zyna6251]

⁠​⁠@@TheGreatOutdoorsLLCthe american dream is just a dream, there is a system that makes it very hard for poor people to get rich. I live in the philippines where poverty is bad and the government is worse, how do you save up for money when you have a hard time just being able to eat? This is not a black and white situation where poor people just don't work hard, please be more educated and empathize with those who suffer. Bless your heart, being kind is free.

[@johnmilhem5660]

*This way, we don't revolt against the system or them. We are a larger cohort by numbers. But if you keep the hogs at bay, they won't come for the castle.

[@CRKramics]

​@@zyna6251 very true. I could say same happen around South East Asia. When "poor" Is trying the system always come back with something harsh. For example more high taxes and more expensive stuff.

[@barfingonurcouch]

My grandad grew up in Arkansas dirt poor. For him growing up, it was either an education in a one room school house or working all day on the farm, and even if he and his siblings chose education, they’d still have to wake up every morning at 4 am to help with picking cotton and other farm chores. I loved hearing stories of how he grew up because it made me appreciate everything I have and made me so thankful for all the hard work he’s done for our family to make living comfortable for us. And the way he grew up made him the most humble and giving person I have ever known. Real hard working and poor farmers and people in general don’t post on social media romanticizing the state they’re in because they don’t have the TIME or the MONEY to. Social media really is the definition of fake.

[@MVBNov]

Exactly this!!

[@bonnsterthemonster]

Aren't you fortunate that they held onto their dirt? Dirt poor is rich with land but too poor to pay others to develop it so you have to DIY. Bet you don't have to DIY bc land is wealth even if you're poor.i say this bc most think dirt poor=dirt floor when in reality it means stakeholder looking to develop their land.

[@barfingonurcouch]

@@bonnsterthemonster yes Im so thankful that his family kept their land and I understand that land is an investment that will ever only go up in value. I’m also curious how they acquired their land, which I’m currently researching! They used that land in order to provide themselves with resources, whether that be growing crops, raising their own animals to eat, or trading what they had cultivated with neighbors for other resources. That land and the weather determined whether or not they were able to eat, financially support themselves, or survive in general. Influencers can show off a romanticized “simple, farm-like” lifestyle, but at the end of the day, with prevalent consumerism, they don’t rely entirely on their farm’s crops/livestock to live.

[@VintageAviation737]

Honestly, if I was rich. I’d like to live a simple life on a farm like them. Not act poor but to live simple and not flashy

[@socialmoth4974]

Same here. It would be a good way to keep yourself busy without over consuming and be close to nature.

[@SpaceCattttt]

Indeed. And these people weren't "acting poor". I don't know where this guy got that idea from. I hate judgmental videos like this one.

[@korstiaanakse1]

Me too

[@lyxthen]

If I won the lottery tomorrow I wouldn't change anything. I would live the life I do now, but at peace. I don't have to worry about rent or healthcare or having to work my ass off in a work I don't like. I would stay at home and bake. But I don't feel only the rich should be able to have a lifestyle like this. The fact that only a fraction of the population can live not having to worry about starving or getting evicted is unfair. That they can *afford* a simple lifestyle.

[@johnindigo5477]

​​@teppolundgren people who don't know anything about agriculture and associated wealth with material.

[@Rebeccas_penmanship]

I grew up extremely poor. I'm not rich now. The example of van vloggers adds up, but when you speak about a family living simply on a farm..anyone with a real understanding of poverty knows this is a luxury. Land is a luxury. Having time and energy to bake homemade bread is a luxury. The ability to live close to nature is a luxury. All of which the daily grind and struggle to make ends meet will not afford. While they aren't hiring cooks and farm hands to do the labor for them, I'll allow that might imply they can't, or it could just mean they love how it feels and want to instill those values to their kids. Being there in the first place takes a great deal of wealth or inheritance, anyone who's been without recognizes. Who are they supposed to be deceiving? Other rich folk?

[@annar8241]

i agree. i’m not sure what people would have seen as better-them keeping the same silence about being billionaires but signaling that they’re rich by flaunting their money by buying expensive luxury goods? i have a strong dislike for billionaires, but to me, this is the most ethical way to live, despite how much money you have. i feel it’s already clear that someone in poverty wouldn’t have access to these resources or land, so i’m confused as to why people think they’re devoid of their humanity, not for being billionaires and hoarding money, but instead for not revealing that they are.

[@Real_Iron_Smith]

Exactly. If anything, having a farm, I think, is far more respectable than buying expensive mansions and jets and boats and the like.

[@ambienceandmusicstudios]

I was looking for a comment like this. Here in the UK, nice property in the countryside can be expensive. Farms are expensive. To me, living a quaint cottage life IS living a wealthy life. Being able to home-cook all of your meals is a luxury. Owning chickens or goats is a luxury. And it's a lifestyle I aspire to have one day if I ever became rich myself.

[@Rebeccas_penmanship]

@@ambienceandmusicstudios I too!

[@chulo9454]

Living like that while still hoarding billions which prevents other ppl from being able to live like that. Disgusting people

[@enolp]

I’m not so sure it’s all based in wanting to “act poor,” I mean if I was rich and well known I’d feel the need to find some way to tether myself to the Earth to maintain some amount of humility and connectedness to reality even just for my own mental/emotional/physical well-being. And I acknowledge that it often is “acting poor” that people feel drawn to in order to achieve that way to cope with their level of fame and abundance, but I also think it’s reasonable to wish to be able to simply exist sometimes and have that be a sustainable option. The simplicity of a life like that sometimes just sounds like a better option until you realize it goes hand in hand with actual poverty. But then you’d have to find a different way to cope with your reality of being out of touch.

[@zatrat5696]

Truw I was thinking that something similar, perhaps they are trying to escape that superficial glam life to something more humble and comforting without all these expensive materaliatic things starring back at you

[@MiniChickpea]

I used to follow someone on social media who liked to say that people who work a 40 hour week are brainwashed into thinking that is normal. Meanwhile, he was raised in an affluent neighborhood and doesn’t have to work a 9-5 job and chooses to live a simple life, raising ducks and chickens in his backyard. The man has money, plain and simple. I believe that most people, had they had the means, would choose to live a simple life. We don’t need to be lectured or shamed by those who think they know better than those aren’t living the way they do. Also, there is nothing cool about branding a “lifestyle” that a large portion of the population is struggling through on a daily basis.

[@chrisvids1820]

Sometimes once we get the luxurys that we sacrificed so much for, we realize that we don't even like them

[@JohnM0rris]

I mean he's right though what the fuck?!?!😂 I work over 40 hours a damn week. And on salary!! This shit ISN'T normal. We shouldn't have to work like damn dogs to barely make it. Bro you need to get your head out your own ass and learn to humble yourself and LISTEN. That dude was trying to impose wisdom on you, but all you thought was poor me. You really are gonna stay poor. I saved over 20k in investments like 401k and savings over 4 years. Not crazy, but man, better than 4 years ago. Working 40 hours is not fucking normal tho!!! Break the cycle

[@starbean9]

Well, people ARE brainwashed into accepting the 40 hr work week as normal. If we weren't, we would be seeing a labor rights movement. But most people (myself included) would rather work the 40 than stir the pot and risk their lively hoods for the chance of a better quality of life.

[@Smenchevieve]

@KCE3 I was a 'gifted' kid as well, but I somehow managed to be lucky enough to be born to two parents that had degrees and made enough money that we could comfortably house and feed me and my 3 brothers and help us pay for college. I fortunately had a passion for computer science, so even though I really struggled in school, my parents' and brothers' support and my relative financial comfort was a safety net I truly don't know if I would have graduated without. I would love to tell you that anyone can overcome the struggles that come with, in my case, autism and adhd but I know if I was in any other situation I don't think I would ever have been able to graduate or move out

[@salasyk8708]

​@@starbean9idk man with the Latinos in the workforce idk. We always just want more hours. I'm talking about illegals and most of them come here for better lives and work. Out there in the hot sun, it's hard sometimes and it's not as easy getting a job somewhere else sometimes and you gotta be lucky on who the boss is too and hope he doesn't like see you killing yourself and giving it your all for just $10 an hour. Not only that but I don't think large protesting about wages would do anything bruh America is already a declining country, it's just gonna start getting worse on from here

[@iwillhaveanorder5000]

Calling a farm with plenty of resources and food ‘poverty’ is a bit stuck up; having a well-fed and happy family is 100x more valuable than money.

[@toshland5687]

Did the family call it poverty or this KZbinr guy call it that?

[@OmaticayaWarrior]

Modern day farming requires a lot of money. It also has a very high suicide rate. Its kind of a gamble with your profits because you never know exactly how much your going to make that year.

[@vibaj16]

Having a well-fed and happy family requires money

[@sakuraesther6309]

They have a billiona dollar empire .Yes its good to feed your children and love on them regardless but they have waayyyyyyyyyyyy moooooorreeeeeee moneyy. To make that easy for them

[@leoprg5330]

To me they are not fetishizing poverty, they are teaching their kids a valuable life lesson, and to me what they do is luxury -eating food without chemicals, being in touch with nature.. During history that lifestyle would not be considered poverty. They are just monetizing their lifes the same way the Kardashians monetize their narratives. Nothing wrong with that, at least others can be reminded they can grow or bake their own food too.

[@samridhi1937]

This is the first video I am seeing on this channel and within first few seconds I fell in love with your voice and your content, so glad to have found you

[@vervex]

Beautiful video. Love the art style and the message. Great work. Thank you for covering this topic with respect!

[@mamamia3765]

The art is ai generated

[@samuelmalar8527]

what was the message that 2 wealthy people live on a farm kim made a costume and companies sell weird things to stand out

[@izabela5234]

I’d seen her videos before and never thought she was poor. In fact, it was clear they’re quite wealthy to be living a life like that. Like many said here, if I were rich, I’d love to live like her!

[@lawrup]

If I was Ritch I would hit the gritty

[@dingledongle455]

There’s a difference between wealthy on a self sustaining farm and literal billionaires

[@unknownv8462]

Its useless

[@harisatayyaba7730]

I was shocked when I learnt they are billionaires, I always thought they have enough to live never thought they are heir to such a huge company

[@sohpiepink80]

i thought so too. her clothes were always so nice. but many people think they're poor that's why someone had to point out that their stove is so expensive.

[@xtremememestv1717]

This video really strikes a chord with me, especially the van living segment. I’ve been saying the term “gentrified homelessness” for years. When I first started living out of my car, it was out of necessity, to escape the “grind.” I had no other options. My friend, who came from a very wealthy background, took that as “inspiration” and decided he wanted to do it, too. So his folks bought him a fancy truck, kitted it out, and sent him on his way. He and his other wealthy friends proceeded to cast judgment on me later on for not having the nicest, most up to date equipment and gear. They now congregate in Moab, UT, a city that used to be a hotspot for people authentically living that lifestyle. Many of the locals and all the poor folk have now been priced out because of the intense gentrification. I no longer speak to him because in every conversation he “relates” to the struggle. But for him, if he ever gets tired of doing such, he can escape back to the city and stay at home, or in an apartment bankrolled by his folks. I can’t. And I never will. Thank you for making this, man.

[@youtubename7819]

Similarly, FUCK these rich kids who resell stuff they buy at goodwill for a profit. I hate that trend. It’s the first thing gen z has done that has truly pissed me off. I guess I’m officially an old lady now that I’m pissed at the kids these days.

[@goosewithagibus]

Is it wrong of me to do the vanlife thing because I prefer to pay for my own living space instead of rent? I'm also a minimalist and I am at a point in my life where I really need my own space. So I got a Ram Promaster and put in (currently working on it actually) all the cool stuff. I have the $1000 composting toilet, the solar panels, 2000wh battery bank. I'm really excited to do this. I just stock shelves at a one of the major retail stores. I just want freedom to move cities, camp with ease, and just work simple low skill jobs. I hope I'm not doing anything wrong or hurting people.

[@meltycheez]

Your ex friend was an absolute twat, and I hope you're managing much better now, on your own. May not be much coming from a stranger, but sending love to you across the world.

[@yummico]

I'm so sorry what an ahole that guy is. Inspiration! That's just cruel

[@makutas-v261]

God's judgement will be a special one for that one lol

[@sungrovemetaphysical8564]

Thak you!!!!! I have been living in my minivan out of economic desperation for 8 years. In this time, i have seen the yuppies in sprinter vans, school busses, rv's, campers, etc come out like an occupying force! The result of the yuppies coming out is a changed recreational experiance manycpeople have. I have a popup booth where i sell crafts i make for money. I make maybe a bit more than minimum wage after expenses. I cant choose to leave this life. However, the yuppies can go home any time they want!!! I love this video so much. Thank you for making it!

[@Elizabethgreen779]

This is beyond amazing. I will tell you how to be rich.

[@Elizabethgreen779]

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[@Elizabethgreen779]

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[@Elizabethgreen779]

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[@Elizabethgreen779]

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[@AmeliaLiam01]

i’m amazed to partake on this, it has rekindled the fire to my finance goal.

[@ellieaylen337]

I grew up poor on a farm. My mum baked and cooked from scratch out if necessity and our favourite weekend activity was blackberry picking- free food! It blows my mind when I see people idealising what was an incredible struggle for my parents.

[@adamm2091]

Oh man, blackberry picking, nostalgia trip

[@arisu_6635]

I mean true but many people who live on a farm are not poor? some are but some aren't how is baking bread and doing fun activities like that idealising struggles?

[@afreedahossain686]

⁠@@arisu_6635That’s why they said they “grew up poor on a farm,” not that they were poor because of the farm. Yet ironically the point flew over your head. Baking basic foods to you is “fun”, while for other people it’s out of necessity because they can’t even afford to throw down 3 dollars on a loaf of bread.

[@arisu_6635]

@@afreedahossain686 Alright, im sorry if i sounded rude or smth in my comment but let me try again. Cause i think MY point flew over YOUR head. I understand that some people are poor and some things some people do out of necesity but honestly you could say that about averything. Yes some people bake bread becouse they had to but it does not change the fact that that is a hobby of many that people do for fun. What i was trying to say that living in a cottage and baking bread is not idolising struggles that op's parents had. Becouse it sounds that only people with fianancial struggles live like that and it's simple not true, many people who were fiannancially stable lived on farms too. Living in a cottage and baking bread is simply fun it's in no way idolising proverty becouse how in the world would it be? It's like saying all people who bake bread as a hobby are idolising proverty becouse they bake bread. Or all farmers that are not poor are idolising proverty becouse they are not poor. I hope i made my point clearer becouse i meant no offense

[@johnolson5482]

The problem is talking about how looking poor and saying everyone struggles- for acceptance and to look cool- is ignoring the genuine struggles of poverty. The bread and farmhouse examples are just some of the ways rich people try to look cool and avoid criticism of the wealth they have. Baking bread can be fun, as well as living on a farmhouse, but not all the time if you depend on that to literally survive.

[@prodfauxes]

My parents are absurdly wealthy and desperately try to live like they don’t. My dad especially: never invites his friends to their house, always dresses down, only drinks shitty liquor store beer, the whole thing. Both of my parents grew up extremely poor and I wonder sometimes if he doesn’t want to lose the simple happiness that came from not having everything all the time.

[@prodfauxes]

For the record I’m poor as shit lmao but I’m self sufficient and more importantly any success I get will be mine. I ain’t takin no old people money.

[@turtleanton6539]

​@@prodfauxesit slinds like one say ypy will. Unless tjet give it anyway

[@summerbrouwer4258]

Do you think there’s a reason they do that? What did they save the money for, just stability?

[@TjoaWeiHan]

​@@summerbrouwer4258my parents were also from a poor family, it's like a thing of habit to not spend so much money. Or... It's just Chinese things in general

[@zoya5331]

if they were brought up poor theyre probably just used to living like that

[@muziqreactandreviews9354]

I think theres a huge difference in wanted or deciding to live a simpler life...then living poor...or in poverty...Theres plently of ppl loving simpler lives and for what Ive seen or usually much happier then chassing riches..

[@samirmmdv]

This is the most beautiful, most artful video I have ever seen. The background music, the context, the images. I don't have the words to describe the feelings I got from this piece of art. And I am sure that no other video could have delivered the message as you did with this!

[@melc7301]

It’s AI art but otherwise agree

[@kingkooki7761]

i’ve never seen this as poverty or poor, if anything being able to afford to spend the time milking cows by hand and baking bread is a sign of wealth. someone with a ranch or cottage and all the time in the world is doing better than someone renting a house and buying groceries when they can

[@Luciana_McC_99]

Exactly

[@misaelcruz8984]

Bro exactly

[@jwa7241]

it's like the posh people in England. Most could afford to do so with their old money.

[@Luciana_McC_99]

@@jwa7241 so who cares what they do with their money, is there a rule somewhere rich people can't live on a farm. Who makes these rules where rich people are allowed to live. If I could afford to buy land and a farm I would an I wouldn't care who didn't like it. I live in the inner city of Baltimore I see these white people that have money but choose to move to the inner city, when the people who lived here all their lives would kill to move somewhere else. That's pretending to be poor. Having money to live anywhere but living in a tiny row house in Baltimore. Then they put up their BLM and love is love signs . Everyone that lives around here knows those kinda people are fake as a 3$ bill.

[@kess1en]

the real point of this video is to show the fact that being poor or in poverty doesnt allow a quiet life like this that the average person might assume. this type of living is ONLY achievable with immense amounts of wealth

[@tobeseve4020]

"Poverty isn't a necessity" SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!

[@TheJingles007]

Depends on if you define if as a minimal amount of wealth or in comparison to the rich. I’d agree with the minimal amount, but in a broken world with money, someone will always end up with more than others

[@smurxxx0910]

Unless you're filing for disability.

[@josephcoates8591]

I understand. And I will preface this with saying that a lot of poor people aren’t lazy. But there will always be lazy people

[@FalloutUrMum]

Poverty isn't a new thing, poverty is the human norm. Our ancestors have always lived in mud huts, hunted and raised their own food, and lived "simple" lives with their immediate family. What's not normal is the modern world, it's us that are the exception with running water, wifi, electricity, smart phones, the ability to just go out and buy some food, and A/C units. The wealthy are the abnormal, and the true marvel is the economic system we've developed that has created this world we live in today. It's rare to have to build the house you live in today, historically building your home is what's normal

[@rawlsrules]

@@josephcoates8591 No kidding. Some of the laziest people I have known have been "well off", and not just relatively.

[@cokaaa8689]

Marie-Antoinette was trying to escape the unbearable etiquette of the palais. She was also very found of the new generation of writers of her time ; Les lumières, who preached the reconciliation of humans with Nature. She wasn’t playing poor. To my opinion. Saying that, did you do the drawing ? This is really good, I was surprised by this aspect of the video and truly liked it.

[@meribau]

The pictures are AI generated, I'm not a fan of AI "art" but I have to admit that the video looks great.

[@mariaanjonker6195]

I also thought of her when I heard about this story.

[@lostkittenxx]

yes, I think it's important to consider that she was probably mentally unwell. She was pushed into marriage, having s*x , living in a country and with people that were foreign to her when she was only a young teenager. She was often labled as "difficult", "selfish", "immature" but I mean...she was a child! Sure, as an adult, she seemed oblivious or downright indifferent to her political responsibility, but honestly it's not hard to imagine as to why that could have been.

[@mlemmleppy]

I think we are analyzing (english is not my first language, sorry for any mistakes) Marie Antoinette's story wrong. If we take a look at her life, she was always seen as an outsider by the french monarchy because she was from Austria. She found comfort in escaping from her complicated life, and I don't think that's a bad thing.

[@zurazura3118]

And? What of the starving peasants and all the people suffering under her and her husband while she indulges in parties and wealth and fashion just to once a day be sad about how “complicated” being a queen was? We romanticize the struggles of the rich too much. The average and often poor person has as complicated of a life

[@giovanniandrenelli4507]

@@zurazura3118We’re not arguing that the French royalty have lived with no regard for those below them (royalty in general, not just limited to France). But if we’re going to analyse and criticise a person, I think it’s fair that we also give possible reasons for their actions. Simply placing her in a stake and demonising her, for being rich, and anyone who provides a logical reasoning as to why that is (not even a counter argument ) is too extreme. Imo.

[@perplexetic]

I agree, she has always been a scape goat since she was killed and its so strange that even today shes talked about the way she is.

[@hannahwatkins7992]

And her escape was still cosplaying poverty. Why she escaped doesn't really matter, it's the fact that she chose to replicate the life of a peasant, all the while upholding the very system that oppressed and created peasants to begin with.

[@Samantha-qf5ee]

Like how I enjoy camping with friends but have a very comfortable home that I own. So nice to escape a few times a year

[@FischerFilmStudio]

I wouldn’t call it poverty, I’d call it simplicity. Many people dream of a simple life where money isn’t a worry and people can just live simply. Unfortunately, this is a rare lifestyle in capitalism and thus only the rich can afford it. It isn’t “cosplaying as the poor”, it’s a longing for a more down to earth existence.

[@shorterstax]

I was thinking the same thing too. I agree with the overall sentiment of the video, but the examples I felt like were reaching.

[@gooodels]

i agree

[@dreamwithinadreamfilms]

It’s both.

[@bleeem]

@@shorterstax Ofc it is reaching, the creator of the video itself is not connected to actually simple people that live simple lives, i would even guess he is a rich person that feels a good feeling when he trashes other rich people, if he knew anything about people that live in the rural parts of the world he would know thats how they live, yes that life they show on their channel is way too pretty, but what they do its the exact same thing as poor rural people do. Even his comments about "the world now its all about produtivity" doesnt apply to rural parts of the globe, because they live in their own communities, they are self sufficient and dont need to overwork themselves the same way we do in the big cities

[@Kar98kdog]

I agree with this, it even ties into some of his points, with the hate of the rich, or at least, the super-lavish lifestyles they live growing, the simple homestead is charming and, depending on who you ask, a happier lifestyle.

[@theprecipiceofreason]

I am reminded of the executives of my company paying tens of thousands of dollars in order to be homeless for 24 hours as an exercise in empathy. They came back, one by one, touting how eye-opening and enlightening the experience was, using language that highlighted the sacrifice they made in order to achieve this new understanding. They slept on concrete, for goodness sakes! We lost 18 jobs to AI last month and 35 jobs to foreign outsourcing this month.

[@tessarae9127]

Ha - “sucks to be you!!!”

[@ManiyaVinas]

It is better being a homeless man than a homeless woman

[@RobotronSage]

Pretty soon everyone will be working for AI

[@marsh346]

"we lost eighteen whole jobs positions!" we lost thousands of potential job positions after the industrial revolution. progress is imminent. now you have tw- three choices actually. first one being: revolt, make a noise. efficiency starved corpos cant ignore you from their skyscraper if you cry loud enough, it worked in the industrial revolution what has changed? second choice: accept the inevitable progress, it would have come anyway, so take advantage of your power that a shepherd in the 1309 could not have imagined ever wielding. third choice: stay ignorant, nothing can affect you if you simply dont care. did you lose your job to a set of ones and zeros or did you lose your job due to the people? all of us hate each other, we love our nature's programming: "survive and procreate", we are not very much different from a program.

[@theprecipiceofreason]

@@marsh346 You know I wasn't speaking about the entire planet, or about technology, right? This was an anecdote about one company. Thank you for your AI agenda though. Industrial revolution didn't finish getting rid of things for 200 years. Relax.

[@rimamondal0405]

I saw someone suggetion this video on a insta reel, glad I came to check this out.

[@lenz5362]

This video just epitomize what I had in my head and couldn t conceptualize for many years! It is frankly amazing, and should have a greater audience.

[@MP-zi1tl]

One thing I would add is that literally everything is considered cool when you are are rich and trashy if you are poor. having a phone. having no phone. having an old phone. having the newest phone. big TVs. small TVs. No TVs. secondhand clothes. expensive brand clothes. DIY clothes. perfume. no perfume. doing drugs. minimalism. makeup. no makeup. you get the point.

[@canterswithyou]

Exactly.

[@Icewallow2]

Id like to see rich people make going to the dmv cool

[@juannavarrete9647]

maybe im imagining or misremembering but i remember when i was younger, the brands Croc and/or Champion were considered "not good". If you had those items/brands in your closet, it wasnt a good look. BUT now?? There are Crocs over $200, everyone wants one and champion is now one of the brands people want.

[@robertobavarese]

Maybe i missed this as a non native English speaker but the fact that most of the wealth nowadays simply is inherited, hence gifted, removed rich people from reality. I once met a lady in paris and she told me she had too much stress at work. When I asked her what makes her schedule so busy she replied „looking for a dentist“ and „organising her trip in Europe“. That wad her stressful „work“ life.

[@bpj1805]

Most wealth is NOT inherited, at least not in the USA. The USA is one of the most economically mobile countries in the world, at least at the upper end. The wealth decay "time constant" is only about 3 generations. While there are of course many people who did inherit their wealth, this is not a representative sample. If you weight it by wealth, it's even more stark. Look at Elon Musk, Larry Page, and Sergei Brin. While (some of) their families might not have been poor, they were certainly not the upper echelon of rich people. Multimillionaires at best, not billionaires. 99% or mor of their wealth is therefore *not* inherited.

[@chumbucket4166]

I don’t think it should be considered as rich people being removed from reality. That is just their life and what they’re used to. Their struggles are just as valid as another person’s struggles. Albeit, their struggles generally take less of a toll on themselves. The point is, you can’t argue that someone’s reality is wrong. You can argue that they don’t have the perspective of a less fortunate person, but we still shouldn’t look down on them for that. You could argue that all of us are detached from reality, as we all come from different lives. Sometimes we even say ignorant things without realizing it. People grow and change to realize that their lives aren’t in one tiny bubble, and some don’t.

[@dianasailaubayeva]

Also some people tend to just blab about things when they meet people they don’t know what to talk about. And also sometimes people tend to say they’re exhausted from the planning/appointing, while actually what exhausts them is non-stop thinking about errands and maybe even thinking of other things, and they are not in a good contact with their analysing self enough to realise that it’s thinking itself that makes them tired, not the matter of thinking. So what they need is to be connected with themselves more and know when to stop. I don’t deny a matter of neuro divergency, too.

[@Beissi-nb9hi]

​@@chumbucket4166sorry but I have to disagree. Not all struggle and experience is equal. If you are hungry or you can't pay rent or medical bills that is absolute horror. If you worry about buying the 23rd dress... It's something else

[@Ironashman26]

​@@chumbucket4166Maslow's hierarchy

[@LynaGalliara]

Thank you so much for saying what you said about poverty. I feel strongly the same way, and it hurts that often, when I explain my views to others, they so passionately defend the current system. It hurts so much to know that so many believe that one must earn the right to a roof over their head. The world needs people like you, who can convey such an important message, about how this should not be the accepted state of things, as eloquently and as intelligently as you have here. Thank you Horses, you have made a difference with this video, through your outstanding art, philosophical, and communication talents.

[@uniqueusername69]

The moment you complain about the system, it's either you're lazy or a commie. Sometimes both. Ugh.

[@lebe220]

@@uniqueusername69 Being connected with God is not to be part of the system

[@thatsacoollookingmissl-]

I feel as though you do need to earn your rights and that nothing is given from nothing. But, I can agree that without fair compensation for your work in life, life gets dreadful. It is the biggest issue of today. Where costs go up and your wage does not go with it.

[@Fealasyrm]

It's a "grass is greener" issue. Imagine Marie traveling the French country side to her summer palace in order to attend yet another overblown social obligation. She sees peasants under the sun, tending to lamb and wheats, resting under the shade of a tree and she finds it... Peaceful. They seem to love and live more freely than she, seem to have no complex web of courtiers to navigate. She is very similar to modern backpackers traveling to the Himalayans, or tourists living in straw huts in Bali. It's a desire for simplicity.

[@justze6710]

Poor people pretending to be rich and rich people pretending to be poor What a world we live in

[@ffnovice7]

The horseshoe meme is real

[@rayesafan9628]

Yeah, playing pretend is not reserved for either side of the class spectrum

[@gremlin623]

This is technically true?- but one side isn’t a mockery and the other is. The rich imitating the poor is insulting and distasteful. The poor pretending to be rich is just trying to seem “””put together””” to be taken more seriously. It may also be to cope.

[@wc1937]

​@@gremlin623Generally, "the poor acting rich" don't face mockery until they run into someone who is actually well off/in a better circumstance. It's just usually a quieter matter where they're mostly laughed at behind their backs. Where I live, plenty of people will spend their entire savings or even go into debt for some luxury brands or the newest iPhone, just to maintain appearances. It's very sad.

[@letsomethingshine]

@@gremlin623 It's kind of like the whole "cultural appropriation" thing. But I don't believe life-styles nor cultures are real-natural/consequential things nor sacred things, just synthetic things. I think the rich who try to "blend in with the normies" are just trying very desperately to fit in with wider culture. Even fashion had to adjust to "look ghetto" at one point.

[@RRM13]

Living like a poor person but knowing being rich doesn't give the same mental stress as actually being a real poor person. One can leave the situation at any moment. It's like an emergency drill compared to a real emergency. It's all theater, make-believe or looking good to the cameras... Hello from São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷.

[@subjekt5577]

Yup. None of these rich people ever faced food scarcity, had their power or water shut off, rely on broken down vehicles to get to work, or have to put up with life in the customer service industry

[@donaldlyons17]

@@anti-islam9569 Strange why not just do whatever rather than look and live poor? I don't know some of them likely have serious disorders.

[@Petitedelight87K]

Exactly, I watched the farming lady video and had no idea she was well off like that. It makes her video disengenious. Yeah, it’s different when your really don’t have resources, especially when you’re sick or have a sick love one…

[@DawidDgk]

​@@anti-islam9569because it is all a game. You not gonna be rich long time if you flashy

[@DawidDgk]

​@@subjekt5577most of the millionaires are self made but you have no idea how much work they've put in to be at that place.

[@jseeves]

Such a good video. It brings a rly important topic into the conversation that some people don’t want to have🙏🏼

[@0aghost0]

the weird thing is that people who have money just buy more and think they need more. i saw a recent study was asking people how much they thought they needed to live COMFORTABLY and most people said they needed something over six figures. I saw people in the comments saying that they currently made over six figures who thought they needed to make at least $250k a year to live comfortably. Not in luxury, comfortably. Those with money don't understand the value of it. I had a boyfriend who had two parents who had a combined salary of well over $300k a year, living in north Florida (not a particularly expensive area) and had three kids. He claimed they weren't rich and struggled with money...and if they did, it was probably because they bought a new car every year or so, went on two expensive vacations every year (skiing, cruising, out of country), sent every kid to private school since pre-school, had a beach house and a time share at mountains a 12 hour drive away, etc - luxuries most families can never afford, yet he claimed they were struggling and poor.

[@nat_to_world]

This is it. As someone who is getting a business minor, this is something I have noticed in both the classes I have taken and in business/financial focused media such as Bloomberg, that there is a real disconnect between the rich people who run our financial systems and governments and the reality of everyday people. One time there was a guy on Bloomberg talking about “household balance sheets”, which (unless you are an account for a living) most people do not have. Another time I was watching an interview from like last year with a representative from one of the US federal banks and he was saying the unemployment needed to *rise* to 4%-5% to stop inflation. The interviewer had to ask him “do you understand that means millions of people will face poverty and potential homelessness?” and the guy just didn’t respond.

[@lccsd2392]

Yes this is the actual point.

[@RedScareClair]

Neoliberalism and capitalism are horrid models and we just accept it as if it's the only way to live

[@Marie-di5gl]

Let the rich be unemployed. Eat the rich

[@copykaktus4193]

Unemployment under Capitalism is not a bug, it's a feature, as a capitalist you need unemployed labor pools to hold leverage over your workers and be able to underpay them

[@EricLeafericson]

The fact that they don't respond the the plight of poverty shows this isn't a political difference. This is a moral difference. We care about society & they don't.

[@JaySlay69]

Soul-crushing how in our society a minimalist and an ascetic lifestyle is misinterpreted by the upper middle-class and wealthier as poverty. "Hey, I lived in a van without Internet for a week, therefore I deserve as much respect for my hard work as poor people!"

[@hunterkauffman9400]

Seemed like the author interpreted the situation like that by portraying rich people living minimal lifestyles as fake playing poor

[@sbesbesbe]

@@hunterkauffman9400 It's not an interpretation, it's a fact. They are pretending to be poor. There is a reason why voluntary ascetism is a lifestyle dominated by people with generational wealth.

[@sbesbesbe]

Living in a van is not minimalist, it's environmentally disastrous and very expensive. Living in a studio apartment in a city with public transportation and relying solely on that public transportation is far better for the environment than living in the woods. It's wild that people actually think living in nature is something poor people can do.

[@JazzerciseJustice]

​@sbesbesbe living in your car is exactly what real homeless people resort to though so how is it expensive. Maybe its more expensive in the way that being poor is expensive because "cheaper" options are often more expensive in the long run but poor people are forced to buy them anyways.

[@sbesbesbe]

@@JazzerciseJustice OK this is hilarious, you think homeless people live in their cars because it's affordable? In the deep summer and winter the car has to run most of the time to keep you from dying while you sleep. Homeless people live in their cars because they have nowhere else to go.

[@CharmagnCody-mw6zr]

Very well done, thought out and produced. You are a diamond in the rough for sure... TY

[@gabriellypalma6517]

This video is perfect. And your voice is just so calming.

[@emmettyoung7603]

i work 2 jobs and some of my friends don’t understand that i’m one missed day away from losing my house and car. i don’t blame them, they’re 20 and have a rich family. i work on a farm, my dad worked on a farm, my granddad worked on a farm, my great grandfather was a sharecropper in georgia. my family is lower middle class through tenacity and frugality. the rich people buying up land people need to make enough money to put food on the table is a huge problem where i live. people buy up hundreds of acres of land and just let it sit producing nothing. people put millions of dollars into land they don’t need to show their status and pretend to be farmers

[@vodkaboy]

Exactly, this is just a new status symbol.

[@yoeyyoey8937]

Yeah these mega corporations working with the govt to devalue and buy your property is the downfall of America

[@jamesphillips2285]

@@vodkaboy I heard it is also a way to park money tax-free. Unlike most commodities, no new land is created when prices rise. This results in a market failure: where the price can only go up over time. Adam Smith Discussed this in The Wealth of Nations. The Monopoly game is based on Georgist propaganda designed to show how bad letting people buy up land is. (Georgism involves high land taxes and Basic Income (Pass Go, collect $200)).

[@Otyrr]

Modern Americans don't realize how close generational farms are from shutting down. One bad harvest season, a couple of dead cows on a milking plant, or even worse a sickness that runs through them. It can bankrupt a lot of farmers.

[@beth1979]

Yes I am worried about the land being unproductive, it could have terrible consequences for food security.

[@bengjie]

I'm editing my post because we cant just have a conversation without acting like we each know each other and that gives each the right to just be a little too judgemental. The internet was great before the people arrived. Peace out.

[@StephanieBravo-90]

That is why he said that they are so detached from the reality of being poor that they cannot even fake it well.

[@scottishdmck2875]

@@StephanieBravo-90 They’re not trying to fake it, God forbid that someone born into money just wants to be farmers

[@xpusostomos]

What do you mean by poor, certainly farms cost millions of dollars, but it's usually all tied up in the land that may have gone back generations, and a big bank loan too, thus a lot of farmers (not all) do live modest lives.

[@bengjie]

@scottishdmck2875 point being the aren't living the poor farmers life.

[@bengjie]

@xpusostomos agreed. The big difference to me is, all that retro old school stuff they bought wasn't cheap. Unless they inherited the stuff which is usually the case with farm families

[@leonasceramics]

This is brilliantly explained and illustrated. Thank you ❤

[@mariaeduardadafonsecasilva6535]

This video is very important, I think about it often, and I really enjoyed finding it

[@theeNappy]

I get your point, but a Kardashian dressed as a 17th-century milkmaid in the 21st-century isn't a good example of performative pseudo-poverty. It's a costume that shows off her rack; it's a pun.

[@dixonhill1108]

Ironically it's insulting to suggest poor people would ever dress like that now.

[@0037kevin]

Its the only thing she good at. Amd her "hard work" over the years, was being born rich and making a sex tape. Opinions about hard work from a Kardashian, gtf outta here

[@kaylamcghee14]

As someone who grew up in one of Americas poorest zipcodes. Being able to provide for yourself from the land is wealth in itself. I never saw Hannahs video as pretending to be living in poverty this is simply her living life with nature. I watched her videos thinking wow this is wealth so i think its pretty interesting you saw it pretending to be poor.

[@sarahmchugh4169]

I agree. The clips he showed didn't make me think they were trying to look poor. Maybe there are other videos, but he should have shown them in the video if so. It makes me think he has some strange views on what poverty is.

[@rphb5870]

indeed, it cost a lot of money to buy a farm. I don't know how it is in America, but in my country its an idiom. "det koster en bondegård" (it cost a farm) meaning this is expensive as hell. Owning a farm is wealth, pure and simple

[@woadblue]

It's dishonest in that they aren't truthful about their true capabilities. If they said "hey we're disgustingly rich but we choose to live quaint lives" it wouldn't be as bad. And honestly it's gross to think people with more money than they could spent in 100 life times choose to live like regular folk yet contribute nothing to society aside from "look at us". They didn't even work for the money it's inherited. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't try to hide this about themselves, but the do. Not giving all the facts still counts as lying.

[@rphb5870]

@@woadblue there is nothing modest or poor about living on a farm. Since time immemorial farms have been synonymous with wealth. Beyond that, people can spend their money as they like. It is important to not get cut up in the mentality of envy. Inheritance isn't an unfair way to get wealth. its called pedigree

[@woadblue]

@@rphb5870 I never said it was "unfair" and I never implied envy of any sort. Making shit up and then counter arguing whatever it is you assume isn't making a point, you're just debating yourself at that point. Reread my comment, all I said was they're imposters. I don't need randos online to explain to me the intricacies of agriculture. I've been a participant for almost two decades. Lmfao at "since time immemorial farmers have been associated with wealth. Yeah, the orchards I worked at last time made about three million dollars and then put about 90 percent of that back into the farm. Your comment makes no sense. It's extremely naive and narrow minded to assume all human beings strive for riches. Basic indeed. It's not like I would turn the money down but to assume that's anyone's only goal is to be stinking rich is kind of depressing man.

[@katholloman1922]

loved the use of art to tell the story. very much!

[@otysb209]

What an outstanding perspective and video. Thank you!

[@mymommy]

this reminds me of how elon musk pretends to be a funny reddit memelord teenager for people to like him

[@normanclatcher]

I mean, that's just good fun anyway.

[@smurxxx0910]

I heard he sleeps on friend's couches to feel like he's couch hopping. I wonder how much he pays his friends?

[@laxg64]

​@@smurxxx0910to be his friend? Probably a lot. Dude is annoying, I'd ask at least 40k a week to pretend to be his friend

[@thepotatoofheaven]

that's less annoying than when rich people look down on others

[@esterhudson5104]

Uh. Elon produces extraordinary things. He doesn’t pretend to be poor.

[@goobz4446]

my friends i were talking and one said “i started thrifting a few years ago when it became trendy” i responded with “i’ve been thrifting my whole life cuz i couldn’t afford anything else” it’s sad that ‘looking poor’ is a trend now. especially since these people are buying all the clothes so now people who have no other choice but to thrift don’t have as many options, if any.

[@durpnurp7859]

oh especially rich people who buy from thrift stores just to resell (at a ridiculous price) on depop for pocket money/Instagram aesthetic. 🙃I had a classmate who was a millionaire do that.

[@whateverrandomnumber]

You need new friends.

[@catalinacaro8183]

And they made it more expensive

[@ChemistTea]

Lol what? I'm pretty sure there's enough clothes to thrift for everyone. Isn't it better to reuse them anyway, regardless of who does it.

[@fatemad4012]

​@@durpnurp7859she got milioner just by doing that?

[@scrap.nostalgia]

Seu vídeo foi cirúrgico! Tem boas reflexões, principalmente sobre a real problemática envolvendo essa influencer bilionária... Mas existem pessoas que nem abrindo os olhos querem enxergar além de seus próprios narizes, ou simplesmente refletir sobre o que está assistindo. Parabéns pelo vídeo 👏

[@vincentharvey6133]

Amazing video essay, in only 12 minutes too you conveyed so much, truly remarkable

[@samuelmalar8527]

he talked about a legend, person on a farm, kims ig post idk thats nothing crazy

[@BooksAndShitButNotLiterally]

Yeah, the real struggle of poverty is not aesthetic or instagrammable. It's a turmoil deep in the soul and affects your entire outlook on life. I grew up poor in the UK, and it could always have been worse, but the stark difference between the middle class and the poor is mind-boggling. At university it became clear - they could ask their parents for money, they somehow knew all the internships they could apply for, and it was possible for them to do unpaid internships. They just knew things that I had no idea about. It's not just a monetary issue, it's the fabric of society that is the problem.

[@danielmart7940]

The real struggle is when you work hard and take pride in your work and just feel financially beat down, with people, or corporations just trying to "steal off your plate", through greedflation ect. You ask yourself everyday "what's the point". Yet, you keep soldiering on because you were raised to pay your own way, provide for yourself, and take responsibility for your existence.

[@maschaorsomething]

I noticed the higher I climbed in education (primary, secondary, etc. all the way to uni), the less relatable people around me became. I grew up in an immigrant ghetto full of crime. Every child in primary school lived in social housing, so I always only saw small apartments. Seeing parents divorced and on welfare was normal. Then the higher I went, the more I saw how different most people apparently live? They had houses and could afford trips to foreign countries? They had a healthy relationship with their families and talked about mental health and sex ed? They weren't beaten and could always rely on family members to get them jobs? It was....so sad?

[@BooksAndShitButNotLiterally]

@@maschaorsomething Yeah, it's crazy, and more than a little unsettling. Even primary school had people talking about their trips to Tenerife and I'd just be thinking about our trip to Whitby. My best friend in uni had a mum who's a tv producer and a dad who makes documentaries. He'd met Chris Morris and Richard Ayoade... different worlds

[@mazzy_vc]

I had the same experience at university. A close friend of mine would constantly complain about being 'broke'. What she really meant was she had no money in her account to buy a new outfit. What was the new outfit for? An event (ticket paid for by dad) hosted by a society she was in (membership fees paid by dad) at the university we were attending (her tuition and living costs paid for by dad so she wouldn't have to get a loan). And of course in the end, she just called her dad to top off her bank account with more funds. Crisis adverted, she bought several dresses to pick from for the event. Things like this were a regular occurrence. She is 21 years old and never worked a day in her life, other than unpaid internships like luxury event planning for foreign royalty, but she has spent plenty of time complaining about having no money immediately available to her. It was infuriating to listen to and realise just how disconnected she was from what it actually is to be 'broke'. What's worse is knowing there are so many more people like her.

[@enlightenmentworldunited8545]

True

[@lych2102]

This phenomenon can be seen in the art world. Van Gogh only sold a single painting in his life and he offered his ear as a present to a prostitute, but his paintings are worn on fashion accessories that cost a fortune by rich people, today. His work has now become a pretentious staple of expensive enthusiasm for art, while it could be a means of bringing sympathy to/portraying a true picture of what it's like being poor.

[@ABCDuwachui]

That’s not true about Van Gogh.

[@helegis]

Not true at all lol

[@lych2102]

@@ABCDuwachui my bad :-) I tried to correct it a little bit and I should have refreshed my memory, but the general sentiment stays. A poor humble artist being used as a token by rich people.

[@lych2102]

@@ABCDuwachui It is also seen with other artists too. I'm a painting student and deal with this stuff alot, I'm just really distracted. Sorry about the confusion, I hope it helps

[@LuminaNinetales]

Simply because the artist industry and the "art trading" industry are two different and separated things: - Artists struggle to sell their art to a publisher or comissionners. - Art galleries offer any art that would help rich people do tax evasion/money laundering, but also sell art to collecors. Rich people never liked art more than ordinary people. It's just a conveignant way to trade money.

[@ugly7405]

I feel like this concept also confuses middle class people. Lower or higher, not poor not rich. Never needed to worry too much about food or housing, but not being spoiled (to an extent) or behave like a rich person. I grew up with poor immigrant parents that worked their way into middle class and their upbringing is so different than mine yet it is a part of who I am. I feel like many of us get stuck in a cycle of im not poor but im humbled by not being rich, and that humbleness is comforting. it not only makes us feel accepted, but sympathized with.

[@rust7012]

this

[@citlallicontreras1879]

I lived in poverty during middle and high school, my mom worked her ass off so I could go to college. Once I graduated I worked my ass off so I could get employed. It took me almost 3 years and finally have a job that makes me have a decent life. My mom also has a business that lead my family out of poverty. But that feeling never goes away, the guilt of spending too much money, the feeling of always having to save because you don't want to be broke again, the constant worrying, it's a trauma living through it and it's so hard to grow out of it.

[@elizabethstein9698]

I honestly never questioned if the woman in the videos was poor or not. I was just mainly interested in seeing her make food entirely from scratch.

[@annerigby4400]

For Marie Antoinette's farming moments, there was a term for it: "batifoler dans les champs" which would translate to "playing joyous fun games in the fields". She did not do this alone (real farmers wouldn't have counted). Her following would also dress up and participate (voluntarily? not sure) in the joyous field games. All fun and games, as everyone knows was the peasant lifestyle of the 1700s... lucky them, right? Apparently, it was viewed as healthy and they would pretend to work in the fields. I wonder what that looked like. I also wonder how it would have made the local peasants feel... A person once told me that my painting jeans would be worth a few hundred dollars in New York.... I guess that was true. I thought she was joking. The jeans in question are about twenty years old, shapeless, have several holes and are covered in paint stains from when a rag was out of reach, which happens a lot. I knew someone who had grown up in very modest circumstances, during WWII in the UK. As a young adult, they were not rich, not very educated, but they were hard-working, keen learners of everything, and got really lucky in that the people they worked for recognised their abilities and this person was given a lot of chances, which they took. So this person's financial circumstances went from being 'paycheck to paycheck' mode to being able to invest money - nothing extravagant, just much better than before. By the time this person retired, they were comfortable. They invited some members of their family to come and visit and informed the potential visitors that they could rent a house nearby for 'only' a thousand dollars a week. The invited members had to laugh because of the person's total disconnect from what life was like for mere mortals such as the invited family members. A thousand dollars was a tremendous amount of money for them and they certainly didn't have it handy for a week in a house. My point here is that people who used to be poor, but then improve their circumstances financially can rapidly forget the value of money for those who have less than they do. Those who have never been poor are totally clueless.

[@valerie_420]

Wow, reading that really makes you want to eat rich people! 😋

[@justwaiting5744]

You made some great points. Thank you.

[@Rainkit]

The worst part about Marie Antoinette is that likely didn't even happen. Many news papers made up stories to justify hatred for her and her eventual death. Its almost impossible to know what she actually did because of it.

[@thecolorjune]

Well, in their defense, would they be able to find cheaper accommodations? Besides staying with the relative, which may or may not be possible. In the UK, the average hotel room cost is $120 per night. This would fit at most 4 people, so if a large group of family visited they may need more space. That means a week’s cost would be $840 for 4 people, or $1680 if they needed two rooms. Sharing a house for $1000 could then potentially be more affordable. That all being said, a week in hotel rooms is quite expensive and not a small deal. At that point, a visit would need to be shorter or not include over night parts. That, or they will have to find hotels with good deals and low ratings. Perhaps then it would be possible to find cheaper accommodation depending on their exact location. At least where I am from it is very unlikely to find accommodation for 4 people under $100 anymore. Sometimes a motel in the middle of nowhere will cost $60 if it has bugs and sketchy locks. Also if they rent a house they could cook all their own meals and not spend any at restaurants. If it’s a large group that could save a lot of money. Still could be a huge expensive trip regardless.

[@annerigby4400]

@@thecolorjune They all lived in the US and typically, the family would accommodate visitors in their own home. This particular relative simply thought it'd be nicer to rent a house for a couple of weeks.... totally not possible for the potential visitors. The cost of other accommodation doesn't even come into it. The potential visitors were not the stay-in-hotels type because of cost and the inviter would have realised this if he remembered that just twenty years prior he had also been in the same mindset. My point was that even people who have known living from paycheck to paycheck can forget what it was like and what the value of money is when you don't have anywhere near more than enough.

[@tsbrownie]

Had a friend in an MBA program. He was broke, really broke. He'd paid for his whole education and was $30K in dept. A female friend came from a wealthy family. How wealthy? Her monthly car insurance payments were more than he spent in total to live for a month. She had a grant to go to school. She asked if he was going to Africa on safari with them after graduation, he said he had no money. She told him to go to the ATM. He said it was empty. She rolled her eyes and told him to have his parents put more money in (boy was HE stupid!) Her family owned acres of land in the most expensive region of the US. I was not shocked by this, I've gone to school with, taught, worked with and for these people. They truly have no idea about money except 1 thing: THEY EARNED IT AND NO ONE HAS A RIGHT TO TAKE IT. I've seen doctors, lawyers, judges, executives, ... people whose families bought them positions of power pushing out people of merit. Not one lived on their (significant) income. What's really disturbing, is they take positions of power across the board and have no idea how things really work, but they know they are the superior ones who are rightfully there to rule.

[@igora2714]

Who owned the most expensive acres of land? Her family or the guy?

[@durpnurp7859]

It annoys me so much. When I was a sex worker (for survival) most of my clients were these rich lawyers etc. It was so obvious they never faced any real struggle. And they don't understand its easy to do 'hard work' and education when you have a safety net, housing and don't have to worry about basic needs. They weren't necessarily smarter than me either (apart from access to higher education). The idea of more debt terrifies me. But the rich can take it on because it doesn't equal endless labour. Nepotism is real.

[@Avaricumstudios]

​@@durpnurp7859you know something, it's really interesting... I come from Kenya, my friend and I aren't from moneyed families or anything like that ,far from it even but we aren't exactly dirt poor and I can remember there was a time we were talking with a girl from our class and she was talking about her family and she told us that they lived in a rented apartment and at first we couldn't understand her (most people in Kenya live in homes especially families or at least they have a home at their ancestral village) and that's when it dawned on me like 'You are really privileged ' to have a place where you call your home and such and it really got me thinking alot ...sometimes you are privileged in ways you cannot imagine... you may take 1 year to save for that trip to wherever or to backpack and see as if you are really struggling but to someone else they can't even have even the opportunity to save up ...some people are supporting their families , you may drop out of school to start your own business and sneer at the people who didn't do that call them 9 - 5 slaves but some people couldn't afford to take the risk, your parents weren't as rich but they weren't in a position where you are their only hope...and that afforded you a chance to risk it... and so on

[@maureenobrien4807]

Masonic bullshit.

[@maureenobrien4807]

What I mean by that is the club and we're not init

[@maria651]

Love how you broke it all down. Thank u for this

[@lorenzbroll0101]

A superb and thoughtful analysis. Just so awful that in a consumption society that people believe they can only have any meaning in life or self-worth is when they endlessly consume on the runaway commodity train...

[@egg7739]

I had a friend in school who was rich. Her father was a military man and was well off enough that the mother could just do whatever she wanted. Me and my sister had a very poor background with my single mom struggling to make ends meet. I would be fuming at this friend of mine for even comparing our lives, or making light of my struggles. She would say that she'd often rummage through the garbage like me in search for clothes because "it's better than wasting money right??" or how little they'd spend on everything and go literally nowhere to not spend a cent like me, when they could and I couldn't. When we felt trapped and they didn't because they knew they had that choice. She would make it seem like my problems were things I chose to do to save up money like her instead of what it actually was: desperation due to lack of financial stability. Even today I can say I never want to see her again or hold a conversation with her, it just boils my blood to remember how angry I felt as a little girl/teenager for having my struggles so coldly denied or broke down so she could be seen in better light or use it as an aesthetic.

[@nmo3148]

Hugs! For some people everything is a competition. including suffering.

[@RevShifty]

We used to call people like that 'tourists' growing up. They like the aesthetic of what they think they see, or the attitude they like to see underlining it all, or a million other things that may or may not actually exist. Just emotional tourists hitching a ride along with something they find interesting for the moment. And bonus points if it feeds their superficial need for fake intellectual depth or substance.

[@abbsbrady7264]

it sounds like your just a jealous friend who hates her for her parents having money. From what you told, it’s clear your in the wrong.

[@justjackie4394]

​@@abbsbrady7264garbage human.🙄

[@egg7739]

@@abbsbrady7264 i understand it might seem that way, but there is a lot I have not disclosed like manipulation, bullying and physical violence. It's ok if you think that, at the end of the day i know what i went through as a kid and how that affected me, so much so I'm in therapy today. I don't want anyone to go through those types of toxic friendships like I have so I will share them when I see fit or when it helps me or whenever I want because its nothing to be ashamed of, if anything its a discussion to be had about how different socio-economic classes can affect kids behaviour and interactions, and could be a trigger for bullying. Trust me (or not) when i say i am not jealous of her, I am aware she had and still has a lot going on in her life, as we all do. I will keep my distance tho, she never respected my boundaries or myself, and I don't want that in my life anymore.

[@surfsup4019]

I used to take an exercise class and this girl who I knew (or thought I knew) had a really old phone, clothes, etc, I thought she was, maybe not poor, but just student poor. She got injured in the class once and I got her an Uber to her home, since she could hardly walk. The Uber was fairly expensive from my view. She never offered to pay me back, which I just ignored, but then she was gone for a while, and someone told me that she was away at her family's castle and that she was incredibly rich. I'm guessing the Uber I paid for her probably would seem like pocket change and that's why she never even considered paying me back or even just thanking me? I thought it was interesting that she gave the impression that she was poor, but was literally a generational wealth kid. I've obviously not let it go! haha EDIT: THIS IS SIMPLY AN ANECDOTE AND NOT MEANT TO SAY THAT I HATE THIS PERSON (hence the "haha" at the end). Please read the dictionary definition of an anecdote before responding "I can't believe you expected the money back!" Not my fault you are a rude person. Go project somewhere else please.

[@onemorechris]

i know exactly the kind of person you are talking about. Some rich people can be deeply tight fisted in contrast to how generous poor people can be. weird that it’s often that way around

[@marianabernardes8931]

Man I don't know how to explain this phenomenon, but it really does exist. I'm from Brazil but living in Europe I've met people with wealth that I can't even comprehend. And I only found out they were _generational_ wealthy (like, family rings passed through generations or politically connected relationships) because after befriending the, some comments made me connect the dots. But like.... they dressed and behaved the same way as me, had kinda the same things as me, an immigrant from a family who left EVERYTHING to move abroad. I'm not poor but most definitely not rich. Struggling middle class at best. And I don't think they cosplayed. Just.. there's some rich ppl who have so much money they don't bother about it, I guess....?

[@BlackSeranna]

Unfortunately she probably didn’t think about it - people that have grown up with a lot of wealth aren’t always taught by their parents that they should make sure to pay people back. Just know you did a good thing for her, a good human favor. Maybe one day it will occur to her what you did. If not, you still did what was right and that is what matters.

[@PriscyllaSS]

The same thing already happened to me. I met a woman at a conference, just looking at her appearance you wouldn't say she was rich. At night her cell phone died, everyone was already leaving and she asked me to order an Uber for her. The price was quite expensive, and I imagined she would pay me the next day. Well, the next day she just didn't offer to pay me and I found out that she was from a wealthy family. I politely asked if she would pay me, and she replied that I should be ashamed of charging such a paltry amount 🤡

[@EvolvingLark]

Honestly, I don't understand why you expected her to offer to pay you back. It sounded like you were just doing her a favor. Most people who are granted favors don't expect to have to pay back in cash, do they? At least, that's how I understand favors and that's what we do here. I don't know where you're from, but it definitely sounds like you do things differently over there.

[@fernandocamacho1319]

What beautiful illustrations !!!!!

[@DrFunkologist]

This is an excelkent video essay. Subsscribed!

[@meetyourbakerr]

"Uneasy Street" by Rachel Sherman is a fascinating book based on interviews with wealthy individuals, many of whom are in the top 1%, living in New York. It highlights a lot of the themes from this video, including a focus on meritocracy/hard work, as well as discussion on who is deserving of wealth. What's interesting (and honestly alarming) is that many wealthy people just...don't see themselves as wealthy in comparison to wealthier peers. Comparison really is the thief of joy, and, in this case, self-awareness

[@isaac6077]

Lets be honest. Yer not poor if you live in a developed country.

[@thecolorjune]

@@isaac6077id say this take is unfair, especially in countries like the US (if you consider it developed) which don’t have many public resources. If you’re homeless in America, or living below the poverty line, you are DEFINITELY poor. Also, poverty can be relative. Someone with $15 in one place can buy a whole weeks worth of food, but in another they might only be able to afford one meal. Someone with stability and family support and housing might have to survive on very low funds but is still somewhat comfortable due to safety. Another might make a decent amount of money but it’s not enough for housing and healthcare and safety and they will be struggling intensely. This can happen anywhere. Starvation, freezing to death, heatstroke, etc, happens in all countries.

[@saltiestsiren]

Once you're at the top, there's little reason to or reward in looking down.

[@Kolibri14427]

​@@isaac6077lol lmao even

[@danbeaulieu2130]

@@isaac6077 Oh? Please do tell.

[@NelsonStJames]

To rephrase another saying, "Everybody loves looking poor, but nobody wants to actually be poor."

[@ffnovice7]

Late Paul Mooney

[@bkr1895]

Speaking from experience being poor isn’t all its cracked up to be

[@kaedatiger]

I'm tired of looking poor

[@skyworm8006]

No one loves looking poor. What an idiot. They like following fashions, which requires money, so obviously not true. What signals looking poor is being unable to consume and be fashionable. Also people who are bad with money in developed countries have a totally warped notion of what being poor is. They have no idea they're just stupid.

[@kanzatahir4836]

As for Marie, I think the idea was not pretending to be poor but to live a simple or natural life. From where I belong, owning farm animals is considered as quite luxurious yet simple.

[@Eggy-xk5so]

I learned this way of behaviour from looking at my friends. Where they would wear “normal” clothes (that are actually pretty expensive) and have this unimportant attitude to money, as if it were just some other tool. Whereas the people who didn’t have as much money as them held money in a higher perspective and protected it. But the biggest and most common and consistent phenomenon I saw with my wealthy friends were that they all denied being rich. Some of them were even so good at masking their wealth that i would be chilling in class and they would pull out one of their iPhones (15) just for taking photos and pull out the other one (14 pro max) for regular use. And then I realize all their clothes are in the multi hundreds.

[@pineappleginseng1557]

I have a close relationship with a wealthy family, and over the years, I've noticed that they never really indulged in a luxurious lifestyle. They drove only the same vehicles they bought in the 90s, and the most luxurious clothing they'd purchase would come from mid-tier places like Gap or random mall outlets. They just had no interest in designer brands or fancy vehicles. They're functional, dress like how you'd imagine a middle-class family. But I think part of the reason they do that is because they don't want to draw attention. Instead, I believe they use their money to help non-immediate members of their family with issues they incur. They're not necessarily frugal, but I think the idea of gaining wealth to them was more-so about helping supporting family members, so they struggle far less. I think that's a nice thing.

[@dixonhill1108]

You need to be self disciplined to make money. Self disciplined people are naturally cheap. Indulgent people lack the work ethnic to be well off.

[@fleur5782]

​@@dixonhill1108fr. Here in my Brazil it is common for people to go work in 1st world countries, doing really tough labour only to come back here with all the money and buy expensive things, live momentarily a lavish lifestyle only to impress others

[@Blue_Azure101]

@@dixonhill1108riiight the whole pull yourself up by the bootstraps idiocy. I see you MAGA

[@Circusbear]

@@Blue_Azure101lol work ethics is maga? Bruh did you snap your back doing that reach?

[@Blue_Azure101]

@@Circusbear sure. 👍🏼

[@sofiipote7]

When I was younger I used to work in a lot of rich people's houses, and came to realize that they would often have two sets of things, one luxurious and beautiful, and one that looked like something I owned, and they would often use the poor-looking one over the rich one. For example, they would have a huge dinning room with a beautiful long wooden table, everything looking like it came out of an interior design magazine. But they wouldn't eat or sit at that table ever. Instead, they would use the one in the kitchen, that was small and rather uncomfortable- the one that reminded me of the table I had at home. There's a lot of other examples I came across over the years, including millionaires who own mansions but spend most of their time in what they call "the cozy room", which is a small living room that looks just a little better than the one in any of our houses (I think it was drew gooden who talked about this in a video). This weird rich people impulse of owning beautiful expensive things but also having another "poor" or "common people" version of it that they use instead has always baffled me.

[@user-jm9pj3mj1k]

It helps to just think of people as people. Having money doesn't change who we are. I think a lot of people wish they had a bigger table when they are inviting guests. Or maybe a big pool to swim, a fancy dress to wear or a extravagant piece of furniture to sometimes sit in. And having money can get you that. But nobody likes to sit alone at a giant table and having to care about your look 24/7.

[@sofiipote7]

@@user-jm9pj3mj1k what I meant to say is these families would never use these things, and that counts for pools and other stuff too. Not even when I was a family friend and went to visit them (I think I mentioned but a long-time friend of mine did the same and in over 16 years of friendship we only used the living room once or twice at most). This wasn't an only person living alone, they were entire families cramming around a small table and leaving their beautiful big table (and their entire living rooms, might I add) unused. I live in a one-room apartment and I use every inch of space, so I can't relate with having beautiful and huge spaces and never using them.

[@naazahs9045]

​@@user-jm9pj3mj1kBingo !

[@zhabo3963]

​@@user-jm9pj3mj1kthis would mean they don't need those extras. Therefore it's just a waste. Hence they do not deserve those things if they don't need them. Right?

[@user-jm9pj3mj1k]

@@zhabo3963 that is the definition of luxury. Something that is not necessary. Almost everyone dreams of having something that will not be used everyday and instead brought out on special occasions

[@user-bj2sn2ff5i]

having grown up in a real , used double wide trailer where the commode would freeze solid in winter time, I really appreciate this.

[@radiantroxie-oy1jm]

Asking what someone does for a living is more than just trying to figure out what someone produces. It gives you insight into how they spend their time most days, whether they are happy with their job or not

[@tenebrae006]

The first and only contact I’ve made with truly rich people made me hate them even more. She was a friend of mine for years, we never met because she lived in another state, I never knew she had so much money until she came to visit me months ago. We spent the night talking about life and she would say the most outlandish out of touch with reality things I’ve ever heard, like how strong she was and how she struggled and suffered so much, like she deserved an Oscar, because once she had to work a little bit more than she was used to or wear clothes that were not “in fashion” a few times. I tried to keep it to myself, until we talked about our day and while I was struggling to feed myself - sometimes had to eat noodles with butter, sometimes spoiled food -, she would tell me about how she spent thousands at a fancy restaurant eating rare and exotic fruits for lunch and some expensive 200 year wine. I was fed up, but kept silence, took a deep breath… Then she would talk about how she was sent to a jungle resort thing for years in her childhood to learn how to live by herself - as a child -, how her family paid for a VERY expensive lifestyle, how her father left her a two million inheritance money and how little that was compared to her sibling’s inheritance. I kept it to myself too… Until she got inebriated enough by a expensive whiskey she brought and insulted my apartment, telling me about how cheap and “ghetto” (she used a equivalent word in brazilian portuguese) it looked. I just kicked her out, I was losing my mind with anger. Note: this apartment was a regular urban apartment in the center of the biggest city of South America, something common, something normal, but too poor to her, enough to be seen as a “poor conceptual decor”, just a concept. This “concept” was my life and 99% of other people’s too. That night I’ve learned how disconnected from reality these people are, living in a bubble with people just like them. The worst part? She said she was not rich, that she doesn’t wanted to be rich, but live a comfortable life.

[@toshland5687]

I’ve heard the same corny shit from regular young progressive folks who act like their lives are harder than their own grandparents. Very entitled and vindictive attitudes abound and it’s not only the rich kids that act like this these days

[@luna-pt2gp]

Que palavra ela usou?

[@tenebrae006]

@@luna-pt2gp cortiço 🤡

[@TheCarlocaroline]

Jeepers! 😮

[@netomoreira3525]

@@tenebrae006 cortiço é mais pesado ainda do que Ghetto. Tava pensando que era "favela". Que merda, hein...

[@jessicalovemorgan]

There is a very distinct difference between Marie and Kim K. Marie was born into nobility and married off as a prop as a young teen and sent to an unfamiliar country where people hated her. She actually needed and used escapism just like any other teenage would try to. Kim K is an adult woman who has exploited the people around her and her fans to make millions of dollars and is fully aware of the manipulation of “cosplaying the poor” that she loves to do to make herself seem more “relatable and likeable” to the people she scams.

[@h0n3ymilk]

Thank you for saying this.

[@hanadiamin6914]

There’s also the added (and not insignificant) factor of the public gaze in Kim K’s poverty cosplay and to the videos that farm-family upload. The latter are curating a deliberate image of themselves, and that also plays into those bizarre fashion trends referenced in this video as well (like the Balenciaga shoes). Whether or not that story about Marie A. is true, unless she was dressing up as a peasant and milking a cow on stage in front of an audience, I’m not sure her situation is comparable to the modern day examples.

[@abcxyz3378]

Yall it was one photo shoot 😭 Kim K does not cosplay as poor

[@persona8991]

She didn’t exploit anyone

[@hanadiamin6914]

I actually agree with you, I guess I just meant that if you want to interpret her photo shoot as something like that, it wouldn’t be analogous to the example of Marie!

[@shorebaby8959]

No dreams of farm here. Just a New York City working class gal here. Worked all my life College, Masters Degree, worked in government poverty programs as a teacher developing parenting skills and teaching children. All this while raising two children on my own. Single parenthood was harsh. Yes, I have had three experiences with poverty, once as a child, twice as a single parent adult. I will turn 68 next month still working, this time as a director of education. Will retire in two years. I am working class, but I know how to survive. No one ever paid my student loans. Yes, I have been there but I worked.

[@haneyletpajo2922]

What I don't like about them is that they are putting it all over social media and although it may not be their point, it makes me think and feel that living a simple life is only reserved for the rich because if you are rich, you have the option to live the way you want... while someone like me would be forced to struggle everyday just so I could, one day, afford that way of life.. They make me feel envious not because they are rich but because they can choose to live that way 😢.

[@theShadeslayer]

This is a wild moment for me... I spend the whole video thinking, "wow, this art style feels very unique, wonder who made it, I'd like to buy some" and then looked in the description and saw midjourney. That's the first time I've been caught off guard by AI art, this is quite the weird world we live in.

[@elmotronn]

no because I didn’t even know until I saw your comment, I thought the style was so human

[@kaleighmoran6961]

Lol I immediately assumed it was ai generated. Mostly because few people would go through the trouble of making all these images lol. Plus, the abstracted style is pretty forgiving. It makes any inaccuracies or randomness seem intentional. It also gives the visuals a folksy style relevant to the content. With a good strategy like this, gen ai is a great tool for image making!

[@promethiamoore6462]

I wonder from what artist this Ai stole it's style from

[@soap4914]

same. was looking to see if anyone else noticed. kinda saddening

[@Jordie911]

It's very reminiscent of New Yorker magazine.

[@theresemalmberg955]

I notice that none of these folks who brag about their frugal lifestyle live in a mobile home park. Oh, no! Most of them have their own homes on their own property (which takes money), and from what I can see from their videos, they aren't living with mismatched furniture and accessories scrounged from the local thrift shop. There's a whole lot of us who were never able to get that far in life to be able to own a home. People end up living in mobile home parks because they have historically been the cheapest housing around. Because they have so few options, this is a selling point to investors who buy up these communities and start jacking up rents and fees. Because where else are these people going to go? They can't afford house payments and even apartments in some communities are out of reach. But again, I do not see any of these "cry poor" rich folks moving into any of these communities and making videos about their experience. Wonder why?

[@jansi8478]

The van-life lifestyle does have a steep entry fee, especially if you want it custom and all nicely picked out, but from that point onward it is a lifestyle which has a pretty low footprint (both financial and otherwise) compared to the average wealthy lifestyle of a large house, many cars, and frequent travel. It is a mistake to see all cases of this as a poverty LARP, they may simply be more comfortable with fewer possessions (obviously they can at any point dimply buy what they need), or they could be making a conscious effort to live a simpler, more humble life.

[@theresemalmberg955]

@@jansi8478 There is a big difference between the van-life lifestyle and living in a mobile home park. Despite their name, mobile homes are not very mobile at all. Yes, they can be moved--sometimes. So can a conventionally-built house. But the reason you don't see either moved very often is that it simply costs too much to do so, and in the case of the mobile home there are zoning restrictions and age of home restrictions to deal with. So that is why I say park tenants who own their own home often find themselves trapped when conditions change for the worse. Now I have no problem with people being comfortable with less and living a simpler, more humble life. But where I see a problem is with people bragging about living below the poverty line in circumstances that are anything BUT poor. They are NOT living in low-income neighborhoods. They are NOT living in subsidized housing. They don't have to put up with some of the crap that comes with living around people who are truly poor. Let me put it this way, there are neighborhoods where you'd better not advertise how well off you are compared to the rest of the people around you. Many years ago when I was new to both low-income and mobile home park living, I had problems with theft. The PARENT of one of the kids I caught stealing told me point blank, "This is a trailer park. If you don't want something stolen, keep it locked up out of sight." Poverty LARP's don't have to deal with that crap. They are not struggling to make their videos over the sound of loud music coming from several doors down--loud enough that you can't hear yourself think even with all the windows shut. I don't hear them talking about what it is like to live with a meth lab and/or drug dealer next door and where you don't dare say anything because it is not safe to do so. You get the picture.

[@KnjazNazrath]

@@theresemalmberg955 I used to live in a low income housing environment which went by the government name of section 9. Down the road from me a group controlled areas of this section in order to run their illegitimate businesses. They possessed no registered or unregistered firearms, but regularly used stolen vehicles and mind altering inhibitors and only used cash for financial purchases. If anyone wished to settle unfinished altercations, they would scatter and regroup in the hopes that said individuals would not ascertain the locations of their domiciles whether private or illegitimately commercial. They would imply to the local residents that they were dangerous people who regularly disobeyed the law. Eventually, they were incarcerated by an employee of the state who had been engaged in surveillance of their group for some time whilst taking the identity of a fiscally inept itinerant. This put an end to their operations, and they were deftly supplanted by another group from an adjacent low income housing environment whom did indeed possess unregistered firearms. I left shortly after this to pursue gainful employment which was not forthcoming in the area. I moved to a middle income housing area, completed a degree and a course of postgraduate training, and will now likely be homeless due to a lack of job opportunities. Thank you for reading my personalised copypasta. I felt it was relevant to the conversation.

[@Certified_door_kicker]

​@@KnjazNazrathI'd say try out the Midwest post COVID brought a surge of income increases that aren't being lowered as I've heard in moderate expense states in fact inflation has deflated by half With that said my nephew that works overnight at McDonald's at 18an hour paid off one home since the lockdown stopped and has a fixer for $9000 easy 77k home once fixed

[@Certified_door_kicker]

​@@KnjazNazrathwith a degree you'll definitely get work It ain't flyover country anymore

[@isaacnziza3094]

This just might be the best video on the internet- such a smart guy with incredible global awareness!!!

[@pervinpasali1688]

this is my first video see in your channel. you are great

[@randomtinypotatocried]

It always weirds me out rich people who pretend to be poor. I've had periods of homelessness where I ended up living in my jeep and relying on leftover food from the restaurant I worked in (keep losing housing due to landlords selling the place)

[@srose1088]

Yes, I get that feeling when I make the comparison of people living out there vehicles vs people cos-playing it. The latter will own a $900 portable air conditioner, wifi internet connection and what not... it's verybizarre.

[@mainmane]

nice

[@peterwallis4288]

​@@srose1088I don't see what's so bizarre. If you had enough money to make it comfortable, it seems like it would be a nice way to live. You can pack up and move around seeing the country.

[@chanzbaldonadi4824]

@@peterwallis4288 Yea but these people have full time jobs that dont pay you enough for a 1 bedroom. They dont have a ueen bed or a kitchen in there jeep that might break down.

[@peterwallis4288]

@@chanzbaldonadi4824 yes. I realise. But just because you chose to live in a van doesn't mean your pretending to be poor.

[@ANNIHILISTIC]

I'm am reminded of the 90's hit 'Common People' by the band Pulp. In the song a rich girl tries asks a man to show her this lifestyle and he tells her: "Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job Smoke some fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school But still you'll never get it right, 'cause when you're laid in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah You'll never live like common people You'll never do whatever common people do You'll never fail like common people You'll never watch your life slide out of view And you dance and drink and screw Because there's nothing else to do Sing along with the common people Sing along and it might just get you through Laugh along with the common people Laugh along even though they're really laughing at you And the stupid things that you do Because you think that poor is cool"

[@user-gq9qy2zh4e]

I had to scroll way to far down to see this, anytime I see this kind of stuff mentioned i think about how completely that song just perfectly captured it. "you'll never fail like common people" Jarvis cocker is quite the talent imo

[@ANNIHILISTIC]

@@user-gq9qy2zh4e It's a great piece of songwriting for sure!

[@Blullaby]

Very powerful words! I'll give this song a listen! Thank you! (: Edit: very enjoyable song ! I'm happy to have discovered this interesting band !

[@grilledflatbread4692]

@@Blullaby william shatner makes a very interesting cover of that song. Yes, original star trek shatner.

[@Blullaby]

@@grilledflatbread4692 I'll check it out ! Thank you for the recommendation (: Edit: it was nothing I was expecting, but very worthwhile;

[@felipespencer1443]

Pretending to be poor is not the worst problem. The biggest problem is having money and having absolutely no passion that makes you spend it and simply accumulate it.

[@yepkev18]

Thanks Instagram reels man

[@cinzeal]

I am a former homeless person, this video evoked emotion in me. Poverty isn't a necessity or an accessory. Brilliant video, I loved it. Thank you. ❤

[@niewieder99]

Glad you’re doing better mate.

[@dr1flush]

@@Njordin2010 under capitalism I have to put my needs above yours. That's just how it is. So instead of complaining about the players complain about the game. You're not changing anything by complaining about the people. No one owes you any favors . Poor people cosplay like they are rich all the time. In fact a lot of poor people are poor because of this. He is directly complaining about the jet Blu kids living a simple life. He is directly complaining about rich people acting poor. That implies being poor is some terrible thing. As long as you can afford necessities and a roof over your head it's really not that terrible. It only becomes terrible when you start to envy people. Personally I found my days were more interesting when I had no money. Poor people act rich and I don't complain. You can act however you want unless you're literally hurting others. This guy's feelings are hurt because he's filled with envy imo . Again he's implying it's really just terrible to be poor and yes I'll agree it's terrible if you can't afford rent or food but I doubt he's in that situation where he can't work. I don't get this perspective and it just seems like envy. The rich will always be out of touch with reality. Did you ever think that's maybe why Marie Antoinette wanted to pretend to be poor, so she could understand. I'm not saying that's a fact but it is possible right? There will always be poor people under capitalism, it literally has to be this way for capitalism to function. Instead of crying about the players you need to cry about the game because the game is what's fubar.

[@dr1flush]

@@Njordin2010 something else you might not understand is that once people know you have money they treat you differently. They will use you for their gains. So it's not evil to live a simple life or not flaunt wealth or to even act poor ( unless you're abusing it like begging for money) . You'd be surprised how many people will just use you for money and you can never really know if they are with you because you are fortunate. I don't need to act a certain way because I have money. This really just comes across as some deep seeded envy imo. If it's evil for rich to pretend to be poor that implies it's good for poor to pretend to be rich. So is it?

[@Njordin2010]

First thank you for engaging in good faith discussions. I see your point and don't want to disagree with you just for the sake of it but i still think that this is not the point of the video. You are right with what you just said but not in the context given here (in my opinion). You don't roleplay and show yourself living a poor lifestyle and faking doing manual labor on social networks to millions of people while saying 'its such a hard life tilling the fields, am i right fellow poor folks?' Privately nobody does care or get offended by.

[@squireltag1000]

​@@dr1flushI hate to break it to you, but poor people get used 'for money' just as often. Its call minimum wage employment... Also, bad doesnt equal evil. Being unnecessarily hyperbolic while misrepresenting the content isnt helpful. You seem to think any of this is personal, when it's not.

[@youtubename7819]

I had an ex boyfriend who went to private school all his life, parents bought him a car in highschool, weeks long vacations every year growing up, yada yada, because his immediate family had no less than FOUR families paying rent to them. Yet he continually tried to convince me that they were poor because both of his parents CHOSE to have jobs. It was obvious to me that he did this out of a sense of shame, but lacked the introspection to get that and respond accordingly with, you know, actually helping the poor or doing anything productive with his life. He was incredibly sheltered and stupid and I do not miss him lol.

[@mustaqimarifin3820]

ahahahha thanks for that story

[@mirinaim8836]

that’s awful, glad he’s an ex now lol that being said, I would also label myself as more privileged than others and wonder how I could be more understanding and sensitive to people with less privilege than myself?

[@youtubename7819]

@@mirinaim8836 since you are asking, I will provide pretty much the one thing a privileged person could say that would make me believe they get it. “I’ve never been poor and likely never will be. I have no idea what it’s actually like to work on my feet forty hours a week but not be able to afford necessities, never retire, and get told it’s all my fault because I’m lazy. But I’m not a lunatic. I believe others when they tell me how bad it is out there. I donate at least ten percent of my income to charity every year, I support unions, and I always vote to increase the social safety net. Ive never voted Republican because I’m not a greedy psycho. I know there’s no excuse for an unlivable wage or the exploitation of minors. I know the working class props up my entire lifestyle at their own painful expense, so it would be absurd and extremely harmful to try to evade or lower my tax rate. I was born lucky but I’ll be damned if I die evil.”

[@Dayleaf404]

Yea I had something similar and he wud look down on me for not having an apartment at 19 or money to get therapy it was so weird

[@geg754]

I also feel like that i dont have privelege sometimes but i believe that i do have it. But i am not that sheltered to believe that people just have to work hard to achieve success.

[@Palmtreeshinobi]

I think it’s less about “pretending to be poor” and more about reaching an enlightened state where you realize material things don’t make you happy. So even though you can afford them, you opt to find happiness elsewhere

[@Madamchief]

Good take 👍

[@IRLWojak]

Agreed

[@darkspacie]

YES YES YES my thought the whole video

[@GunnarMcGriff]

Was thinking the same thing. To be fair to the video creator, that rich farmer couple is still being ostentatious by broadcasting their life and building a social media following-- but the truth is, it's hard for rich people not to seek their own self-interest because that's invariably how they socialized from a young age. But even if they're not full-on selfless Buddhas, they're still following a very understandable urge toward simplicity which this video essay refuses to understand. I started off wanting to like this video, what with the cool art style and all, but his whole interpretation smacks of resentment and bad faith.