Imagine a guy worth 10 billion saying he needs a bank so he doesn't have to rob one. I don't think he has to worry about money at all but he's the true addict.
It’s not about worrying about money, an 11 figure billionaire can buy almost anything on planet earth, his needs are met. It’s about sending a big f*ck you to the system, profiting from it, and doing it all on his own, not being born into it or given billions of dollars from special interest groups/sponsors. It’s an achievement to attain, not a need.
It's funny Trump did exactly this with his Atlantic city casinos. He over leveraged them on purpose so they couldn't foreclose because if they did they basically bankrupted all of Atlantic city.
With the collapse of commercial property as leases expire in the next few years and more people seeking alternatives to save their money in... Yeah a lot more banks are gonna die.
It's not genius. Billions is a fickle, complicated property. It has the potential to be a captivating show, no doubt, but the problem with the overall narrative and structure is quite simple: it's way too hyper-dramatized and nearly EVERYONE delivers their lines in the exact same way. Think about it? Quite literally every character is acted congruently to the other. With the exception of Lewis and Giamatti, the characters speak too rigidly, with the dialogue reading like a bad play, it's forced, almost to the point where it's unrealistic and cringey. Nothing in Billions feels real or natural. It's just a constant regurgitation of pop culture references, stoic exchanges with supposed depth, self-righteous homilies, pontifications, and nonstop recycling of classic plot lines found in most finance drama. Above all else, it really doesn't know its ending. You can sense this from the later seasons. To combat this challenge, it tackles way too many side conflicts and plots while ignoring the main rivalry that gave this show its footing in the first place. It's Axe versus Chuck, and that's what should be holding the show together, but that all changed later on. Now, if you ever want to know why it doesn't win awards, why Lewis walked away but had to come back to finish, and what's really stopping the show from being genius, see the following reasons. Once you think about it, you see how accurate it really is.
you should use khan academy and these things, then get a ticket out of there to a more stable country and set up something. If you have access to the internet, you can do it
I wonder how many people that regularly watch this show can name at least one Supreme Court justice or know how their state reps are. My guess is that the number is very low.
@@fftere oh how much of a scam it is...as a trader who owns a private asset management firm I will tell you that I definitely would never recommend people to keep their money in the bank
@@gamersquadlifestyle Not to be pedantic, but as an ignorant person on the subject interested in finances, could you elaborate or give some sources/insight? I have a friend who is getting his PHD in economics in Tenessee and I was wondering if it was worth it to pursue the private banking sector career instead
I actually enjoyed Axe’s rants about being a monster. He seems kind of like a cold blooded killer in business and otherwise cold with people in general, but he just feels so real, like he has integrated his shadow and he doesn’t try to hide what he is. It’s that raw, genuine part of the character that makes his magnetic presence feel very real to me. Personally he’s one of my favorite actors on the show. He just feels very real to me, regardless of how evil he can be.
This is exactly why Axe had to lose to Price and over weed due the legality of trafficking from state to state.... This character 'Axe' is too good because he's smarter than everyone else but Chuck Rhoades is his 'missing' link.
This was a great series until they completely ruined it by having Axe & Wendy fall in love. One of the best aspects of this show (for me at least), was that they never took their relationship beyond anything more than platonic. Until they all returned from the COVID hiatus, and fkd up the entire script. As soon as Axe professed his love for Wendy, I turned it off, and haven't looked back. Great show up to that point.
Axe: There's only one thing better than being a gambler at a casino. Wags: That's being the house. Sobel: That is incorrect, Lieutenant. Your weekend pass is cancelled.
It's funny that banks are always seen as bad things. The purpose of a bank isn't just to store your money for "protection", it's to make money more accessible to those who don't have it. In that sense, it's pretty harmless, and somewhat necessary for a finance based economy. However, when you realize that banks only exist because capitalism is so easily corruptible (stolen money), it looks a little less innocent (it allows a bad system to perpetuate). Without banks, loans would be "nearly impossible" to get. People would either have to save up their money for purchases in full, or simply enter into binding agreements to make payments over time (not much different than a bank loan 🤔). One way banks go wrong is through bad investments. This can be either intentional or not. In the case of the financial bailouts in 2008(?), the money was paid back with interest (supposedly). I'm not sure how they lost all their money, or how getting a loan would help with that though. They called it the "bailouts" because it was implied to be essentially a handout or monetary grant to prop up a corrupt or failing industry. It's interesting that private banking even exists. It's sensible for people to be able to make decisions on a local level, without needing permission from Washington, New York, etc but that is actually basically what's happening anyways with these large banks. I think private banking is born out of a bygone era, with no telecommunications or digital transactions, but perhaps even more relevant today is the capitalists preference for lack of governing oversight (aka freedom, for better or worse). Pottersville, if you will. In the modern age, it's entirely conceivable that private banking would cease to exist, but it is such a large and powerful industry, so it's unlikely to disappear. It's probably more of an ideological reason than anything. The US economy "thrives" under the profit motive. So private industry will always be the preferred way of life, especially from those who benefit the most from it. I call it slave culture because profit is getting more than something is worth. This is usually done through some kind of exploitation, which is a form of slavery. Do I think banks are only bad? No. They are a convenient store of money that can even help finance big purchases. Do I think that they are necessary? No. They only serve to enable and protect a system that is inherently corruptible. Instead of governments organizing and coordinating society, they created banking as a safeguard to protect an inherently vulnerable and exploitable system (the use of tangible money). Banking primarily exists to protect your money from theft, and money primarily exists to protect inequality.
Banks don't give money to people jobs give money to people, people store money in the bank until they decide what to buy, then people buy what they need with that money that they stored in the bank, the money goes to the seller, the seller puts it in the bank so the bank loses nothing but the buyer loses alot. So when you start a bank your basically circulating money without losing your own. So banks are bad because they don't only take they also don't give. You go to the bank you take out a loan you fail to pay who's house are they taking, who's cars are the taking?
You have no idea what you are talking about. Utter rubbish from start to finish. I do understand what you are trying to say - but you dont really understand it yet.
Am i the only one who finds the writing in this show extremely corny? Like he doesn't unveil any information in this scene that isn't common knowledge, but its framed like he just dropped some truth bomb.
I think that they are at a conference or meeting where both bankers and investors are present. They cannot shout out everything they think. They are not the most powerful people on the conference.
that was Bobby mistake, he did not see that banks might have bailouts lined up from the government, but they also have serious rules regulations and limits.
"...serious rules regulations and limits." Which is why we continue to have bank failures. You try and foolproof the system, the system just makes a better fool.
@@aelix56 wow! They're gambling away all my money and I can't even get it back? Tell me, do you have your money in a bank or are you smart and keeping it all under your mattress?
@@aelix56 Just curious, when's the last time you went to an ATM to withdraw money, and weren't allowed to? Yeah banks have some scummy procedures but its all in the paperwork that the always greedy and sometimes desperate public signs away without even reading it. I'm guilty of it. And so are you.
@@agb1953 With greater complexity than the dialogue on this trashy show is capable of explaining. I can understand how a fan of the show might not get it though...
@@Studentofgosset Has anybody explained to you that TV shows like this are FICTIONAL dramas and not intended to be educational documentaries? Guess what? Gilligan's Island doesn't depict the reality of stranded shipwreck survivors. Not even 0.01% of what you see on Hogan's Heroes depicts as much as 39 seconds of reality in any German POW camp. It's TV. Not even the news is real most of the time.
Why did they make Bobby Axelrod's voice to sound so soft, but like he permanently lost his voice, in a slightly raspy sound? It didn't add to his overall poor character.
@@xianlo3246 no you have a point. English actors tend to overuse their mouths when doing American accents. Cumberbatch in strange, Hugh Laurie in house, same thing.
@@Primenumber19 Speaking as a non American, it’s because different accents train you to use differing mouth movements. Brits, Australians and Irishmen utilise short sharp pronunciation with clear diction and prose, whereas American accents are more elongated vowels and lengthened speech
@@alexanderthegreat1270 as an American English people sound like they are constantly sucking on a caramel while they talk and people from New Zealand all sound like they are doing baby voices. And there are like 400 American accents. Check out a true Alabama accent, doesn’t actually sound like English.
@@Primenumber19 Yep… you’ve figured out what regional dialects are. Shocker, but a Londoner, Liverpoolian and Northerner will all sound different in terms of accents with the same root origin The same way that people from New York, California and Alabama all sound different with the same root accent
-Which bank? -Most likely the impacted groups are owners (shareholders) & customers... The practical alternative to a collapse. I am not just defending banks at all costs. Just pointing out that the notion that TARP money was just a no-strings-attached handout is FALSE.
@@mikecogan5428 When you need a loan, you are miserable and the bank isn't. When the so called Bank fucks up big time, not only the bank is miserable, so is the government.
@@swanandjoshi333 - My original statement was "Bailouts are loans, not handouts....definitely not a good description of the banking industry". Not sure what your statement has to do with that. - Its worth pointing out that only a very few banks "f'd up big time leading up to 2008" - Have a good day.
It's very sad that Damien Lewis's wife passed. It's almost just as tragic that we got stuck with corey stoll ( mike prince) for two seasons insread of Bobby Axelrod. 🫡
