Taken from the south park (1997-present) episode: cash for gold (2012) from season 16. this episode originally aired on March 21st 2021 on comedy central!
Really just drives home the point about how stupid this whole system is, nothing but wheel spinning to keep the price of things like gold artificially high
ikr, this is how western consumerism works, all our shit gets produced by child labour in 3rd world countries, then gets shipped to the west on planes and cargo ships, we then buy the product for like 50 times what it cost to produce, we then throw away the product when we no longer need it/some new product is out, rince and repeat. It's an endless loop.
@@pemuda7075 You're both right! Beatboxing is a form of a capella. A capella is music without instrumental accompaniment, and beatboxing is a specific form of vocal percussion, which is itself a type of a capella music.
Ok first off it's called an Occapella, secondly that's the component of a song that is only the vocals. It can be any form of vocal composition from singing to beatboxing. When constructing music you match your harmonies with your occapellas. If you want to know more than that I would suggest checking out an artist who will show you his/her composition. South Park even joked about how that's done (on a basic level) in the Randy is Lorde episode.
And this is why you just happily accept whatever jewellery you get from your older relatives even if it's something tacky that you'll never wear. Because the last thing you want to do is end up having to deal with all the bulshit the boys went through just to get to this point. Same thing applies to itchy tacky sweaters
@@MoonLoonie69 No the real lesson is you either accept the gift of the elderly or you stop them from buying jewellery crap entirely. If you don't support child labor.
Well, the song really. [Pre-Generated Pre-Emptive Response 4 U]: The moral compass they demonstrated thus far would preclude them from laughing at elderly people getting robbed, their relatives getting greedy, and the children getting exploited.
@@commentsCONTENTteeShirts I agree, the actual tone been portrayed here is very heavy with human greed and not much comedy can actually be found but I think they nailed it
@@Bubbble_Bear basically, real life China and (maybe) Russia do not own that much land, and most countries except Canada and Africa even look like they have alliances with eachother due to having the same colors.
I think the idea is just that they’re showing large, general world regions but there’s not really a proper name for that specific region so they just labeled two larger countries. Notice how two different countries are labeled in the same region
I heard that the music was only supposed to be a place holder until the real song was written but the executives liked it so much they just told them to keep it in the episode.
I like how the only countries labelled on the map are Canada, USA, Russia, India, Australia, and then for some reason, Saudi Arabia. I love how the map males no sense for Asia in general.
@@TheMaxCloud yes but their culture is evolved english culture which is western culture no one calls a aussie or kywi a easterner they aint russian or Chinese lol
Kyle’s Mom’s a Bitch and Cartman’s Pokerface (the official one that was copied by Lady Gaga (and uploaded to RU-vid before Gaga’s version 😂)) would like to have a word with you.
Bit wrong nowadays. It used to work exactly like this and then COVID happened. Now there's extra steps involved in between and no direct recievals. Now the money involved in the trade is even less.
Because they know their parents are getting scammed at that point. They know their parents spent hundreds or thousands of dollars for something they only get maybe tens of dollars for. So, it's frustrating and disheartening when they go there.
Take a minute and think about this: Two ordinary friends from Colorado got together and said “Let’s make this stupid (in a good way, obviously) show where we make fun of various things and make weird noises,” and here we are today. There’s your daily inspiration.
I just Saw an ad on Facebook for sustainable engagement rings made from recycled material and immediately wanted to see this video. I should have left Facebook open so I could have posted this link back over.
If I get it right....then the USA keeps the melted gold that is either from India or that for whatever reasons arrives at India, while India only gets those decoration stones that are used only for the jellery creation purposes and then the cycle continues?
No, effectively this is pointing out how the cash for gold system is a inefficient loop that exists for the sole purpose of keeping economic productivity high and to keep the price of gold high (as most gold sits in vaults it doesn’t really accumulate in value, so all this does is keep the price up). The cash for gold system starts with selling jewelry on the market mainly through shopping channels and jewelry stores, in which people buy jewelry for themselves and others. Jewelry is often purchased by older relatives or romantic partners as gifts. However, jewelry often doesn’t do a whole lot, and individuals may not like the piece they are given. So jewelry often sits in a box somewhere until it gets sold (often due to economic want or need), forgotten about (until it is passed down), or stolen. Either way, the jewelry worms its way back into a pawn shop or cash for gold store where it is purchased for less than its raw components. The jewelry is then taken to an industrial smelter, where the jewels are then separated and the gold is smelted down into various forms (often other kinds of jewelry). The components are then flown to some third world country with no labor laws (such as India) where often child labor is employed, the jewelry is then assembled and flown out to the first world countries where the cycle starts again.
@@Sahil_Antil Careful, if you project your insecurities any harder you’ll be classified as a hologram. India is a third world country in many places, a lack of labor laws, over 18.3 million people living in India living in a form of modern slavery, extreme pollution and poverty, high density, lack of urbanization or industrialization in many places, and low quality of life classify it as a third world country. You can pretend that you are better all you want, but it isn’t reality. Sure, a few hundred people in America have died in mass shootings in a decade, but is that really comparable to the thousands of people who have died of CHOLERA in India in the past decade (889 people in India died of it in 2015 alone!)? Not to mention the plentiful amount of children who die from being overworked in factories?
@@courier6960 I am sorry. I just felt bad when someone called my country, 3rd world country. But yes, you are right. It's how it's. I can't do anything to make things better. I think i should leave my country and settle somewhere else where things are better. Thanks for replying BTW.
The way the song just got more louder and louder gave me fucking anxiety 😂 my volume wasn’t high and all I hear is “quaquauaauuauauaQUAQUQUAUAUAAUUAUAUAUAUAUAUAUA
I like every comment reply thread devolves into people trying to argue that gold is valuable because it is useful. It is, but it is costs 2x as much as platinum, and is 30x more common, despite being considered less useful for industrial purposes. Gold should cost $50-$150 an ounce if the value was actually based on how useful it was. Keeping in mind, if you think platinum is expensive, that means it is also overvalued. Another element that is in extreme demand (very useful) and is also aesthetically pleasing is rhodium, it is used in converters. also 30x less common, trades at only 2x the cost of gold. So you can kind of see, the reason gold as a standard doesn't really work either, and frankly I think the value could nearly as easily be adjusted as a fiat currency. Probably less stable. Rhodium went through a tulip mania like event before crashing down to a fifth of its all time highs, and it isn't even a particularly well known metal.
