Millionaires Gaslight Middle-Class Into Hating Poor People 

Hell, I would go as far to say that the more you read, and reflect about our material relations, the more radicalized to the left you'll become.

@@wellersonoliveira5334 BINGO!

Well you're definitely reading the wrong books then........... It worked the other way around for me. 😂

Similar to my comment. Once you gain critical thinking skills less likely right-wing leaders can mislead you.

​@cfrey1988 isn't really the reading of books it's the ability to process the information. Plus learning how to detect fallacies allows you to ask the right type questions and not just take someone's word for it.

He’s just pissed that those guys were liberal and could say anything😆

Absolutely they shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence

That is so true! I never thought about that!

Whenever someone says this, I know they are a complete hack or worst, they let right wing dorks do their thinning for them

And the London School of Economics which literally was a cell for the Taliban and Isil and basically the hot bed for fundamentalist fascism in the ME. Which now translates to Islamophobia in England and the left wing as reductionism (anti-socialism) continues. eh really

University of Chicago trained economists are much more liberal since the 70s because that's where the evidence increasingly points.

You don’t have to be mad at anyone. You focus on better yourself. College isn’t the only choice for social mobility. Learn a trade or two but if you have to hate don’t hate the player, hate the game.

​@@rodolfo7441Wow, that's a load of nothing. If you can show you EVER said the "don't be mad at anyone" nonsense to someone who's argued that we should force the poor to do minimum wage labor, I'll eat a turd. And yes, I hate the "game". I want to change the rules so they're more fair. I also hate the people who wanna keep enforcing the current unfair rules, rules that none of us ever agreed t but are forced upon us nonetheless, rules set by a small minority who just so happen to be favored heavily by these rules.

@@NecRockdoes the mass illegal immigration concern you at all? From one person to another I am honestly curious what your view is on this. Peace and love friend

@@-Believeinyourself-It concerns me that there are so many people who feel the need to uproot their entire lives in exchange for a very uncertain future, though I guess that's more the cause of the mass migration that concerns me than the mass migration itself.

@@NecRock that makes sense and I agree. I am also just as concerned about the values and love these people would have for our country. If they have different core values and less respect for our nation and it’s people I think in the long run this will be detrimental to the culture of our people. I think if you want to move to a country, regardless of which one, there must be a natural inclination to want to respect and learn about that culture and integrate with its people. It reminds me of the JFK quote. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for it. Does that make sense?

Now how would that idiot know about any of that. 🤣

So they say

His special in the 90s about how rich people don't give a fuck about the rest of us is even better.

@@LinkRocksThanks, I’ll have to look for that one!

& the homeless are ignored to scare the people living paycheck to paycheck

@@aaronisacomedian So true... and I say that as someone who's 'been there; done that!' 🤔

'What happened to Barry?' My favourite line of this whole segment.

Oprah is a scumbag in her own rite…

1,000,000%

She even planted the seed that Trump could be president. All that positivity manifest BS.

From fire factor

But but but Joe's dad was a construction worker in the 1980s so he knows all about having a real job.

Exactly!!

Millionaires and billionaires need to be required to work at least 40 hours in a job that pays between minimum wage and 12$/hr.

It’s called divide and conquer-the Plebs don’t want to get organised -they’d rather worship at the feet of the rich and powerful-many who’ve never had to do an honest days work in their lives

To ''keep them showing up at those ''JOBS''.

Wealthy folks think we should work for free.

Yup i see it. I think that was the largest message from slavery. That mindset of the owner never died.​@ToxicAudri

​@@ToxicAudriThe capitalist class will bring back slavery tomorrow if given the opportunity. They will gladly make poor people slaves until they die.

Phil and Rogan nearly got there on their own. If the jobs at the bottom of the pay scale compensate their workers so poorly that people are "quiet quitting" rather than trying to fight up through the ranks, maybe it means the incentive structure is broken. MAYBE people wouldn't be content to "shrink their world", if it meant they could still spend time with their families or afford to go on vacation with them. Multi-millionaires wouldn't know anything about that kind of calculus though. Or the reality of having food taken from your mouth, because millionaires and billionaires thought benefits for our worst off are extravagant. I really hope the poor in America figure out just how poor they are. All that pablum about "America's poor are some of the richest people in the world" can only carry you so far. It'll probably take some of these ghoulish policies making it into law to actually shock some of these people into realizing that they aren't temporarily embarrassed millionaires themselves.

ofc these are the same people that complain about "burger flippers" striking for higher wages claiming they should have "gone to college at got a real job"

"I had to compete with my siblings for my nepotism!"

Lmfao i didnt know that that's hilarious

Thank you. I never add the “Dr” to Phil’s name either. I have more regard for Dr. Pepper than a grifting crybaby like Phil McGraw.

Exactly, he knows nothing about being born in some projects somewhere.

He had been Mr for years as he gave up his Dr license years ago because of how his business was questionably run

They know. They just don't care.

Look through history what ends up happening be smart ass Republican Elites get greedy take away opportunity until people are desperate then they throw in the castle and cut their heads off when I got out of high school in 1973 they were plenty of jobs decent jobs his greedy as a corporations were they were still loyal to America but then it changed and they squeezed out every penny of profit agreed of the bridge through history has been there downfall

Like supremacists, they are selfish entitles idiots who think for some reason that life owes them more whilst others deserve less

Exactly

😂 Funny and sad...and true.

Dr. Phil owes everything to Oprah. He makes $95 million/year.

We all owe everything to Opra. Your account is overdue.@@hagnuj1070

Also known as slavery...

Not exactly they still need poor people to spend money on products.

Yes indeed, and they are hoping to literally bring back slavery.

And said, "Ow, my head!"

@@FrozEnbyWolf150 Yep! 'Cause it was an iron bar! 😉

The Lovely Robin's an heiress?

And was given a break by Oprah if he hadn’t gotten that break, nobody would know his name.

@@princequestly2218 Many people have breakthroughs in their lives. Marianne Williamson had hers on Oprah as well and many others.

Which marriage? I think he's had three of them?

The audacity Phil😮😮😮😮

And also, they're dumb

Rogan is just discovering 2015. It’s beyond embarrassing.

They're like officers who weren't enlisted first.

I mean they still think trump is a blue collar worker so never

Never- they adore and love rich and famous people

Paying him to shut up would actually be a decent investment in improving society.

Then that person needs to find a better paying job or learn a trade to boost it.

@@rodolfo7441 and for those not capable of that as an option? Let me guess, not my problem?

@@kevinpolson1958 You help them then. I guess is your business.

@@rodolfo7441 or…. As a society, we can help those who aren’t able to help themselves in the same way that you and I are. Way better than being hyper selfish

I literally don’t even hear anyone defend him anymore when his name is brought up, even the people who still watch him know he’s lost. Calling himself an Ape and the apes roll their eyes

Yes as he gains more dollars he loses more of his senses !

Agreed.

really? I thought he generally finished getting worse about two years into the panda event.

​@@Nick-cs4ocKyle and Breaking Points still defend him. You won't hear a peep about this from them

Tell your brother I said he’s an idiot

And that's what capitalism rewards. Our very system is perverse by design.

To be rich and successful means to look at a grandmother who missed one mortgage payment and tell her, "The house that you've called 'home' for the past 30 years is up for foreclosure." To be rich and successful means to make the price of insulin 300% more than what it costs to produce it, even if it means people dying. The cost of material wealth is empathy.

@@gershomkoinei8256 "The cost of material wealth is empathy." I'm using this for now on.

Sociopaths aren't aware of the suffering they cause, they just don't care. Their only goal in life is to accumulate wealth and power.

Its literally in the name capitalize 😂. It creates winners and aloot of losers ( most of us)​@@ToxicAudri

republicans live in an world of alternate facts. its astoniiiiiiiiiiishing. i explained this recently to an couple life long friends who vote republican. and like trump somehow. i went through heropin addiction some years back..2014-2018...when i got sober and changed my life i needed assistance at first. i believe they gave me 235 dollars welfare assistance and 190 food stamps. i live in california, the most liberal state. they aLSO REQUIRED PROOF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN JOB. this is one of the biggest lies the right sells. that miiiiiiillllions of people sit at home all day living off the government. even single mothers who get welfare are given the equivalent of someone who lmakes well below minimum wage. to say these people are getting to much is ridiculous. they dont work as much because they are either teenagers with side jobs or parents. to act like there are millllions of 30 year old men working 20 hours an week and having their lives subsidized by the government is just an flat out lie,

same here i am german and i have mental disabilitys that make it near impossible for me to work i make only 300 euro a month and the only reason i get by is because my mother was so kind to let me live with her even though i am already an adoult i think universal basic income would be a great thing for poor people that and much more ☺

They are creating a cohort who will be interested in euthanizing anyone who can't be productive or used in some way to generate money. I know that sounds harsh, but the selfishness being promoted now is more like psychopathy I think.

Not me, hell no. I am on SSI myself. People like me and your brother are treated like a criminal slave class. The USA, like a dysfunctional family, has not dealt with its sins (slavery and genocide), and therefore keeps repeating the neglect and abuse. I HIGHLY recommend the book CASTE: The Origins of our Discontents talks about caste in the US, India, and Nazi Germany.

And entirely non-competitive, right? Famously, academics are not competitive. 😂

Absolutely correct!

There's another way of looking at what you just said which is far less flattering.

@@johngammon963elaborate

@jayjason7570 Through the power of dishonesty, you can frame anything any sort of way

😂😂

To be fair, it would fit through a pinhole.

He never had one in the first place though

Because Joe Rogan's wealth depends on his being willfully ignorant. He would have learned some of that from his billionaire brother.

​@@FrozEnbyWolf150I'm dying 😂

imagine having a mortgage and still complaining

Psychology doesn't understand money or rules I know this as fact but I'm a problem they can't solve but I'm a human we are all different I'm not a real man .... because I'm not making money obviously.

He’s not a real psychologist because of how he talks about working class people and pretends to not understand how difficult their lives are

@@oliverwilson5957 Whether he's a "real" psychologist is neither here nor there. The issue is whether he's a decent human being, and no degree will produce a decent human being where there was none before.

I personally knew one of his guests: a woman who had gotten pregnant through date rape, had been drugged, and he did the "You weren't a good enough victim so I think you are lying" crap. The RAPIST got custody of her child because they didn't believe a person who was drugged and raped could possibly not realize what happened to her in five minutes. He "both-sides" her viciously and ignored it when she started to literally dissociate on stage. He blamed her for the whole thing. I never looked at Dr Phil the same again.

he hasn't been licensed in 20 years, it's ok to say he's not a doctor because he simply isn't

Facts

The more the super rich squeeze on the less fortunate the more we're heading for a French Revolution moment it's happened many times in history the super rich get greedy

As an engineer, I left academia for the private sector BECAUSE academia is so, so much more competitive. It's pretty much impossible to get a tenured position at a decent university unless you have a 4.0, score high on GRE and hopefully get your name on some research papers so you can get into a top school for your doctorate, work your ass off making very little pay for several years and hope to get a decent post doc, then work your ass off for a few more years for very little pay and then MAYBE you can compete for a small number of adjunct or associate professor positions which MIGHT later turn into a tenure and even THEN you still probably won't even break into the six figures. Life is so much easier in the private sector.

@@dckuhaits because academia is over saturated. How many PhD students are going through a particular program to become a professor? Compare that to openings, and a lot of the current profs arent going anywhere. Schools still make money, but what do you get as the student? This can be said for the education system as a whole, so many going to school paying $$$$ for degrees they will most likely never use.

@@darex0827you mentioned in another comment you went to uni for engineering after leaving the military. I very much doubt this to be true. You seem like a person who didn’t go to uni who has a chip on his shoulder towards people who did.

When Phil said that aloud, my jaw dropped. He doesn’t know what the flying fuck he’s talking about. I got secondhand embarrassment watching him talk, thank god his hideous mustache embroiled me with enough disgust to serve as a distraction.

Facts. Everyone I know who initially wanted to get into academia left as soon as they found out how insanely COMPETITIVE it is. These people are so ignorant it's embarrassing.

I work in the IT dept at a liberal arts college and half the profs here are conservatives. I did a screen share with a guy a few weeks ago and his email inbox was loaded with "Eric Trump is Coming to Michigan!" spam LOL there was so much of it, very very corny.

I have a relative who is an incredibly talented graphic designer who has worked his ass off delivering top quality work to brands who have made millions off his designs while he wallows just above the poverty line, and he still believes “poor people” are just lazy.

Even more so since those people *think* they're middle class but are actually living paycheck to paycheck

​@@danielwilliams8183😂😂😂 Yupp. I have a right wing uncle whose ENTIRE education was paid for by a rich benefactor. The dude's been receiving handouts his entire adult life and yet still believes poor people are only poor because they don't work hard enough. 😂😂😂 When I point out that he himself was wallowing in poverty before he got a ton of money that he DID NOT WORK FOR, which gave him the biggest get-out-of-jail-free-card ever, he just gets angry and points out that, unlike many people, "he took advantage of the opportunities given to him." Conservative ethics, when you deconstruct it with any rigor, is simply the intellectual justification for selfishness. End of story. The rest is irrelevant.

These guys are bad for society because they reinforce the whole misconception that if you work hard enough you'll end up millionaires like them! When what they really mean is: listen to their podcasts, buy their products, buy their books, spend your money and time on THEM in the false hope that YOU can become like them!

They did sports in their youths.

These 2 won the lottery. God bless them. But their ideas didn't win a meritocracy contest.

@@larryforbes6718 Exactly, a lot of luck involved too.

​@@larryforbes6718Dr. Phil won Oprah

People have freely chosen to listen to Joe Rogan in higher numbers than others so yes he does merit more money. About as meritocratic as it gets

@@xxHonkxx Yeah, most people are stupid, so....

Ahhh, yes. Everyone must be miserable.

It gets worse than this tbh. It's a fun hate listen

@@reedtheroom9580 interesting thought, not sure i could manage. Maybe at Matts trademark 16x speed lol

@@TwistedwithPower If you can't not be miserable without being a billionaire (which you are not and never will be anyway) that is no one elses problem.

@@TwistedwithPowerno dimwit no one person should ever have that much money and power .

He likes it that way because he's an ultra rich POS.

Yuio

Worst part is, he absolutely knows what he's doing. He benefits when we the working masses are divided. The longer we argue about if millionaires and billionaires should exist means they get to continue to exist while we "debate".

Dr. Phil didn't gaslight anyone. All he did was fart in a room and convinced nobody that it was a hurricane. You have to be dumb to be gaslit by this guy.

Rich people built this country. You little people do nothing except take from us.

As a mild correction: Joe Rogan is Gen X. So am I, but I’m eleven years younger than him (and I certainly don’t think like him!). Your point still stands.

Exactly and don't mouth off boy good example how the rich in their greed lose all compassion for the humans

I keep reading and hearing about rising wages keeping inflation up. I don't know anyone whose making more at all, unless they work longer but the per hour is the same.

@@kurtsnyder4752 they constantly say if you raise wages the costs of everything else will go up. So what are we supposed to do? It’s like you’re admitting we’re being held hostage. Are we just supposed to watch the cost of living outpace the wages at the rate it is? Profits are way up so why aren’t wages? We’re wage slaves at this point.

Okay champagne socialist

@@jt_rooster3228 As if being a socialist is a bad thing in itself. It depends on the type of socialism, but I don't know if nuance is your cup of tea if that's your argument.

@@mism847 you can easily look up the definition of champagne socialist. It's not rocket science.

Also being in lockdown made people realize they were getting screwed over by a system that doesn't care about them. When you're drowning in work you don't have time to come up for air, suddenly people had time to think about what was going on.

Exactly, honestly a pretty intresting conversation if you look at the real reasons people didn't go back to work. Can't recall any study on UBI that didn't show people spend the money on essentials or improving their lives like education or house improvement.

Well this is usually a working-class issue, most people who are extremely successful are doing something they genuinely love. Ofc. you can learn, know and become a master of your favorite hobby or greatest interest. However if you are working as a garbageman for example, i rarely see someone who genuinely wants to be there. Sure they might say they like their job, are able to pay the bills and they have nice colleagues or w/e but given the option they would probably rather not go back to pick up other peoples garbage. There's probably someone out there with a genuine interest in dealing with garbage, but since they have such a massive genuine interest they will soon sit at the top ordering people around or perhaps be at some university researching how to create energy out of old diapers etc.

In Australia we got checks every month & most people went back to work afterwards. Lots had different jobs after tho.

​@@LinkRocksI made pretty decent money, but the lockdowns gave me time to reflect.

Dr. Phil actually still has a license. Hence he knows more about Psychology than you do.

@@johnantal2014 he actually doesn’t and hasn’t for years but nice try

"Dr. Phil actually still has a license." Care to provide a source for your claim?@@johnantal2014

@@jewsco Dr. Phil has a PHD in Psychology, which allows him to talk about the subject. It also allows him to almost be like an actually Psychologist because he knows a lot about how to diagnose a mental disability. I will agree with you on the fact that his actual license did expire, because he let it expire. That is not the same thing as being forced to give up his license at all.

@@johnantal2014 and no license as he had to give it up but keep making yourself look dumb

I’m one of them 😂

The fact that Rogan has so many listeners makes me very concerned.

Yes, I thought that took.

Not sure if he's thinking like OF cam girls on welfare - or what I have seen this in person at my IT software company. While the nerds (mostly men) come into the lab to set up test equipment and build customer systems from complex deployment guides ... sometimes flying out to customer sites to fix issues ... many women in the office took "Cost Adjustment Manager" jobs where they almost never have to come in - and wind up taking off at 3pm every day to take care of the "kiddos" earning a comfortable mid-$100K salary (nobody dares question their contribution). Meanwhile, the nerds in the lab are working 10+ hours a day - barely breaking six figures (this is in a market where the average price of a home is $600K).

Yes, let’s cancel Dr. Phil.

No body mentioned his Lazy wife riding his coat tails and hawking her crap on his show 😂

​@@wuffy68 definitely factual if wuffy says it from his one job experience. God forbid the manly nerds take a break from work to raise their kids instead of leaving it to the lazy, incapable women.

Wow, what a scumbag. So many rich people are complete sociopaths. I'm sorry you had to go through that. At least the DB lost his restaurant in the end 😂😂.

@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 That restaurant was nasty and should have been shut down by the health inspector several times while I worked there, but in my town, restaurant owners are known for bribing health inspectors. I also ran into that douchebag recently while I was out making deliveries with my new job. When he saw me, he started bad mouthing me to the manager of the restaurant I was delivering to. He's lucky I was on the clock.

There is a future. You just have to look at how to cut your costs and use the internet to your advantage. There are people making hundreds of thousands from simple short-form videos. Perhaps get a higher education, get a job that pays way more and live comfortably. Like with many doctors. There are definitely options.

I'm 70 I'm sorry but you don't even know in 1973 when I got out of high school they were jobs that you could go to and move up they've all been for offshore because of the green of the corporations

He went to the school of hard knocks and majored in anecdotal studies.

or as Dave Rubin would call it 'antecdotal' evidence

Remember when Phil was on rogan saying the cartels were going to spike candy on Halloween with absolutely zero evidence!👹👺

Also feelings based statistics based on no real data

This is the kind of guy who invented the term "anecdotal evidence", to cover up the fact that anecdotes ain't evidence.

Yet they are admired, quoted and relied upon as authorities. Dsnt look optimistic.

This is an underrated comment!

Higher taxes they were paying until Nixon came along.

Dude's been living on Oprah's welfare for decades

You know money doesn't take away people's scumbag Factor him and Dr Phil couldn't scrub their ugliness off with a trillion dollars

I'm sure Joe feels qualified to determine how many bathroom breaks someone should get, based on his extensive knowledge of ...WTF has he done? Pro-wrestling, then he had a show on TV where he would get people to humiliate and harm themselves for cash, then his podcast made him rich because he was willing to feature disinformation and lies about the pandemic during a pandemic since there aren't any regulations on podcasts, or they aren't enforced.