Jeffrey Bezos - Safety Third #10 

Some of yall need to chill. The idea of turning down $100 million is largely based on the "lottery curse", where 70% of people who win very large sums end up destroying their lives. These discussions aren't to prove who has the better opinion, but to try and explore ideas and topics that we find interesting. Debating in the comments is more than welcome, but if you leave any reply attacking or insulting the hosts/guest you will be shadow banned.

My man Nigel drank a gallon of milk every day. You can't bully someone that powerful

Can't bully someone who drinks a gallon a milk a day

Nigel continues to be the most relatable host of the podcast.

Nigel is the Canadian hotdog pocket guy and the podcast wouldn't be the same without him.

I love how Nigel's only concern with teaching children how to make meth is that it'd be too boring

It's amazing that this podcast can bring people from so many different countries together; Australia, America, Canada...and Florida.

Really digging the start of the Dark Kevin Story Arc - "think of how far we would be without morals."

Will's inability to comprehend reasonable housing prices really highlights just how fucked up the housing market is in California

Every episode Nigel gets closer to becoming my favorite person.

It's honestly hysterical how off base Will is on how expensive homes are elsewhere in the states

Individually not so much. But all together, these fellows sound kinda intelectual.

Goddamn, this whole conversation makes me realize how fucked my perspective is from poverty. The three people that live in my house total we make something like, $3k a month.

The backdoor scientist: Is the plant behind you real or fake? Nigel: YES!!

"The only way to become a billionaire is by the mass exploitation of people, so why would you give your money back to social causes?" is my new favourite quote

Can just feel Alex attempting to subtly point out the flaws in the system all the while Will is trying to figure out how to win at it

California is one of the most expensive places in the country. Living in Illinois I can tell you that with 100,000 a year you could live an incredibly nice life in a very nice house with several nice cars.

I like the part where I Did A Thing did a thing

William was like "You need 100K$ a year for minimum living standard." I was like wow... It only take 30-40K$ a year to live that kind of standard (more than minimum) in my country.

What to take from this episode: - money, money, money - adding pseudoephedrine to the shopping list - starting a business in Bermuda

Wills argument against 100 mil summed up, “It seems inconvenient”

Man i love it when nileblue is on the podcast

William Osman: "I would turn down 100 Million Dollars" Also William Osman: "Why would I turn down an opportunity?!"

Nigel is SO relatable. Like I get in to something fun and do it for a few months, maybe a few years, and then it’s time to move on and figure out the next hobby.

7:18 The controversy isn't that billionaires are wasting their money by recreationally going to "space", it is that they are doing shit like this instead of paying their fair share of taxes or having policies where their employees receive wages they can live on.

Why not just call him NigelRed?

Can we rename this episode to “Australian man has mind blown after finding out you can buy a house for under $100,000 in parts of America rather than minimum 1.5 million dollars”

"Phew close one" Lmao Kevin is so low key funny af

I never expected Nigel to have done more insane shit than IDidAThing just based on their videos

I think that Nile forgot to drink his milk before the podcast so he urged to chug it off-camera.

man, Will's idea of how much stuff costs is so incredibly skewed from living in cali. I make less than $50k/ year and i bought a 2,000sqft house on 3 acres of land for $100k - 20% down payment so my mortgage was only for $80k. my mortgauge payment is only $350/mo, + $1,200 /yr home insurance, + $4,000 yr prop taxes so just under $800/mo

I can't believe you got Jeff Bezos as a guest!

So glad you had IDAT on! I only discovered his channel and “Boy Boy” like two weeks ago. I’ve already binge watched all of the videos….

Y'all are right. No one can become a billionaire ethically. Becoming a billionaire requires a lack of empathy allowing you to exploit employee and consumer alike, and profit it all. Simply put, billionaires do no "work" the way a laborer does, they own, and profit from ownership.

Screw meth, I want to see Nigel synthesize LSD exclusively with non-restricted precursors.

Nile "I almost OD on sudafed cause I had a cold" Red Fucking love it

There's a difference between going to space and going to space to _do something useful._ Bezos' endeavours count towards the former when you compare them against other private space companies.

They got closer to talking about Hasan's house than Branson did to space

"Bezos wouldn't be excited about a tungsten cube." "Well...we bought them from Amazon...so..."🤣🤣🤣

For the vast majority of people, the IRS knows exactly how much you make every year and thus exactly how much you owe in taxes. They aren't allowed to tell you that number because of lobbyists from places like TurboTax that literally make it illegal for the IRS to help you prepare your taxes.

When people are starving, they'll eat the rich. In the same vein, when people in your business can hardly survive, it's immoral to go for a joy ride to space.

Nigel won me over with his Nile red channel and now, gosh, Nigel you are so real and relatable. Keep being you, you are so good

I feel like Will's argument boils down to Bezos is a fundamentally bad person and therefore you can't get mad at him for doing bad things

The interaction with Nigel is my favorite part on the whole podcast.

Podcast #5 everybody literally bragging about how many Amazon packages they order a month. Podcast #10 why does Jeffrey Bezos need all that money?

"$2,000/month for a house." "$800/month for an apartment." As someone who lives in LA and rents a small bedroom from a slumlord for $875/month in a house with 7 other people...these kinds of conversations make me realize how much I need to get out of California. Apartments in my area are ~$1.5k-$2k for somewhere in a reasonably "nice" area without roaches and rats.

Nine months later and I'm still amused at how William's perspective is so fully immersed in southern California. As a Midwesterner that moved to California, I can attest that other states can build houses for like 30 grand.

Guys what the FUCK i need my weekly Safety Third or I'll fucking turn INSIDE OUT

Man was this hard to listen to. Nigel saved this episode. Big Willy I think you need to branch out a bit and see CA for what it really is. Plz no shadow ban.

Admittedly, I don't have expensive taste or high expectations, but I can genuinely do whatever I want for $40k a year(, except afford healthcare. If I had an illness, I don't think I could afford healthcare if I made $4M a year).

Fun fact about Ghadaffi’s son: In 2009 he and his wife were arrested in Switzerland for beating their two servants. In response, Ghadaffi arrested 2 Swiss businessmen, shut down Swiss companies and withdrew ≈$5 billon from his Swiss bank accounts. Additionally, he proposed a partition of Switzerland which would see its land split between Italy, Germany, and France.

Will mentioning that talking about money in public is complicated and at the same time saying that you have to live in LA or that you can't even build something for 90k is the most and least self awareness on the podcast

If you have financial security, the most unethical thing you can do with extra money is not spend it.

Nigel is 100% the best thing about this podcast

This podcast is basically a list of my favourite scientific/engineering youtube channels.

I love this podcast cause you never knew who will be on it, it's just a wild guess everytime.

I'm going to start using the Nigel-William scale to demonstrate how in touch and relatable someone is based on this episode

I can't belive space tourism was a topic and no one brought up pollution :(

I just think will is stuck in a specific mindset on the 100 mil discussion. He needs to think outside his current mindset, 100mil is a LOT but also not a lot, like Nile said, but it's enough to significantly improve maybe, your city or town. Or maybe change the course of a specific school district. Or you could do a Mr beats and set yourself up to make essentially infinite millions as you go, then you can siphon off way more than 100 million into actual people's lives to just improve people's lives at random with lots of smaller individual acts of charity. Like giving a poor person 10 million dollars may be problematic, but giving them 100,000 would be a lifechanging and manageable amount.

You guys uploading these early in the morning is genius I listen to it once while I'm at work and then I watch the actual video again later that night

The $100k a year is truly the baseline, but a family is so expensive. I was making about $100k a year as a mechanical engineer in the US and I was very comfortable. I met a girl and gained a stepson and a biological son in a year. Its very expensive for all of them to live. Now I have to pay medical debt because the child was born, my wife’s kidneys began to fail, and I had a medical emergency myself all within the span of the end of the year and the new year, so our deductibles reset. Now I work two jobs to get about about $130,000 a year, all so that the rest of my family can feel like they can do whatever they want, live in a rented house, etc. Y’all analysis on the cost hits really close to home, especially considering the costs of daycare, etc.

Today we learned the one thing keeping Nigel from becoming Walter white is interest.

I once read of a philosopher who said if the CEO of a company makes more then 20x the amount of the lowest paid employee the system of morally allowed control in society becomes too imbalanced for peace.

I absolutely love this podcast! Thank you so much for starting it!

Nigel in this podcast is a piece of gold :D

Amazing episode, your guest list is absolutely legendary

The solution to the tax thing is simple: Find a way to tax like 1% of every transaction that ever happens. No write offs, no nothing. Rich businesses and individuals will end up paying a lot more than poorer people, but it will always be directly proportional to your wealth. Too bad every time anyone has tried implementing this in various governments, they’ve been threatened or assassinated.

I love how Chelsea is on ONCE and it turns into a proper podcast with serious topics. Also, the guests thus far all were amazing!

19:28 I live in one of the highest meth use per capita cities in the world, and one of my friends used to head the meth task force. he came to my school and actually showed the class how to cook meth because he thought it was important we know WHY its dangerous to cook. he also wanted us to know what a backpack lab looks like. i've run into a few tweakers with smoking backpacks over the years, and i knew instantly what they were doing and was able to get away from them. The knowledge is always better to have i think, and the sheriff's department thought the same thing. All the precursors are controlled anyway, so the knowledge isn't going to help you cook it really. Knowing the "street precursors" is important too so you can spot someone who is trying to cook and get away from them (or report them if they live next to you). I also had a college professor that used all of the ingredients to cook lab grade meth as homework examples. he never explained the joke, and only a few people caught on at the end of the year when we were doing math with methylamine as the example lol

Is it weird that when I have a low balance in my bank account, I would be like “oh I want this and that” but when I actually have enough if not more money to actually get it, I’ll not want it anymore and just not spend the money. (Until I find something else that I didn’t even put much thought into it and go “take my money”)

I think Will is realizing how expensive California is haha.

I love this pod so much, I think someone said it before but every time I turn on a ep it's like being is a small club with good friends. Keep up the amazing work all!

Where's the new episode?

William: "Can you imagine Elon Musk walking into a McDonalds, it'd be a disaster" *Me, who's seen Zuckerburg walk into an In N Out:* _"uhhhhh"_

Always jazzed for Thursdays only because of these podcasts. Thank you Will & the boys!😉 Good stuff every time😂👏👏

What!!! IM late to the party but I'm so stoked you got I did a thing on! Please don't quit RU-vid Will. this podcast brings me so much joy

Nigel just continues to show every episode that he's the only one with a brain.

My parents gave me two Sudafed every day with my allergy medication in elementary school. I remember the school nurse being surprised when I told her. Now I understand why lmao.

Something to consider about the whole billionaires to space thing is that the money spent isn't being burned, it goes to the engineers and workers and the people who provide the tools and supplies for the mission. Another argument is that this is a pioneering flight that could get space tourism started, another industry that can provide jobs to the economy

I started buying cat shirts for my husband because William 😂 I got him one that says “ hello all you cats and kittens” and has a bunch of cats and kittens.

I’m so glad you got Alex on, I’ve always wanted to see him in normal conversation

You quite literally summarized the entirety of my post civil war AP history unit. Lol.

These cost of housing discussion is insane. Living in a huge city skews perception so much on what it actually costs to build a house

Actually the most simple reason they don't give a their money for social causes when they know they can't spent it all, is mainly because moat of their net worth is due to the stakes of their company and if they liquidate it all, they will lose all their power over that company

So awhile back when I was addicted to heroin and meth, I also had bed bugs in my bed. But they wouldn't bite me, but they bit this girl who I brought over one night. So I theorized that they weren't bitting me or even dying from biting me because of the heroin in my blood (n reference to what was said around the 20:00 mark

Where's the new one I want it I need it

So when I was a high-schooler, and probably before that as well, I have noticed I did SO MUCH BETTER on tests/quizes when I was writing them while having a cold. My parents would force me to go to school unless I was bleeding from more than one orifice, so I'd just load on some cold medication and do it. And somehow the tests were super easy. About 10 years later I was diagnosed with ADHD, and seeing as medication for it is various stimulants, cold-medication choke full of pseudoephedrine was basically an additional cure xD

For me, the money William got from the house-burning-down GoFundMe is basically equivalent to $100M figuratively. Just like he cares about people judging him for spending the GFM money he'd also care too much to spend the $100M.

Billionaires going to space is the modern day version of "Let them eat cake"

I'm at work at the moment and i'm trying to watch you guys running to the toilet every few minutes. This is by far the funniest diarrhea in my life.

i find it hilarious that william cant wrap his head around that houses can be cheaper than 500k.

Man, Kevin is full tilt Florida man this episode

To comment on Will and Nile on the 100k idea, I think Will took a while to click with Nile's logic of "I spend enough to live, any money on top goes to bigger projects/one offs and does *not* go toward improving my standard of living". I'm not sure if that's a California thing or a general American thing (or maybe just a "some people" thing) but I've seen similar sentiments of "if you get an x% pay rise, you should be having an y% more of a luxurious life and be spending more all the time" (the American dream!). William seemed to be determined to say that requirement of x will outpace growth of y, whereas Nile was saying "if I get an x% pay rise, my level of luxury will remain about the same but I'll have the chance to spend big on one-offs if the opportunity arises", so it didn't seem to compute for Will. Idk, if either of them read this, maybe this makes sense to one of them, seemed to me what happened but I could be massively misreading the room.

I relate to all of these opinions so much. I've had the same thoughts as Will of just figuring out exactly what number I need to hit, and then after that, who cares. But I also live my life like Nigel in the sense that I pinch every penny.

this is getting better every ep. keep it up. banger guests on this show

I’m cracking up about the depth of meth making knowledge that just free flows on this podcast

William: Don't feel bad about spending money. Your anxiety is unwarranted, you're middle-class. Billionaires are on an INSANELY different scale. The rational folks who criticize billionaires aren't mad that they are spending money on things just for enjoyment, they're mad that they're billionaires. Billionaires own half of all the wealth in America, while their workers don't make enough to afford healthcare. I think being mad at them for investing in space research is misplaced anger; like you said, they can afford to do both. Bezos only spent 10% of his wealth on space. Your tungsten cube isn't causing systemic poverty, you're good.

I had never thought of the fact that Walmart uses the US government to subsidize their employees.

Anyone else a bit curious about what Nigel will be up to when he's done with chemistry?

I love that I Did A Thing is here, I just recently discovered him like a couple weeks ago when I was sick, thanks for the entertainment