Real Time with Bill Maher: The Sick Culture of Wealth (HBO) 

And that includes some who "earned" their wealth. The worst of them are born with it.

Well-said. Period ✅

@@RoastedLocust 90% of millionaires and billionaires are self-made my friend!

@@karlalan3806 , that number is closer to 80%-88%, and that's discounting their education and better-than-average childhoods. Even among self-made billionaires, it takes a good deal of luck to get there - not getting sick or having a family member get sick when you need that money to invest, getting in market at the right time, being born with the right genes, living in the right place to start your business, knowing the right people - I'm not discounting their hard work, but nobody gets where they are without help. Think of all the variables that make a person who they are, and there are an infinite number of things they didn't control to become who they are.

@@RoastedLocust Man you are just looking for ways to explain the fact that you never tried anything. The majority of billionaires don't even have a college degree. Many of them didn't have a great childhood. Do you think "Oprah had a great childhood? Warren Buffet grew up during the great depression. Sergey Brin fled Russia and created google. Instead of sticking your head up your butt, get some education, read books. Nothing is easy in life. If you want, try reading the communist manifesto and then the wealth of nations and you'll see which one makes sense.

JATINDER PAL SINGH SINGH And "wanted" by the LAPD. lol

Harold Davidson My hero...

Harold Davidson Robin Hood

Harold Davidson Finally! The concept works!

Harold Davidson Slow Clap

George Lucas.

Good idea, George ... :)

never heard that story but of true its cool

Thats what you should do when you have fuck you money.

Leanne Faith how cool is that?? If true!👌☺

*Jon Stewart

A rich asshole making fun of other rich assholes. Yep...hypocrisy is funny. 😉

Jeremy Snow Comedians make fun of people. Welcome to earth.

@@theshreksorcist4571 like I said, hypocrisy is funny 😉

Jon Stewart’s still around, advocating health benefits for 9/11 first responders and veterans (with the occasional appearance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

He went from poor to rich?

Fuck him

"single-handedly" ? As in no one helped you observing that? You did it all by yourself? 😏

Ultimately, greed devours everything, including itself

@@ernesthill4017 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1EwaLys3Zak.html

Sid James Yeah they are some of the worse whiners out there. Just like the "open carry" ASSHOLES won't go over and fight ISIS. I have seen articles of some groups from Europe putting their money where there mouths are are putting their lives on the line and fighting ISIS.

Sid James ISIS will shoot? No... they will behead & have the head hang as their 'trophy'.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. Ernest Hemingway He will like it like Hemingway said.

Sid James Yep. Life can be a bitch sometimes!

***** But he used a crossbow. And crossbows can maim, you know.

SeaBass Gorka What makes you such a wonder Seabass

SeaBass Gorka being a snobbish dick is kinda his act.

I wonder how much bill is worth

@@kipstockton426 over 150000000

Shut the fuck up, Obrien. If we were on fire, this prick and his elitist guests sitting around him wouldn’t piss on you or me to put out the flames. “A good person”? Did you wake up stupid this morning, or is it a permanent state of mind?

@@Dark89Avenger Why would you say that to someone? He is pointing out a thought from a famous American author. Please be better to people.

@@MegaConradJ Because I hate socialism, but yeah I wash rather harsh.

@@Dark89Avenger why do you hate socialism? I can understand Communism, that system has been twisted and broken where dictators prey on the weak. But socialism in it's purist form is just community.

@@Dark89Avenger also that is really badass of you to own up to that, especially on the internet where you don't have to!

@@MegaConradJ Hah, thanks, but it is common manners. it's what grown people do. Besides, being on the internet is not an excuse, not to mind your words.

It's just sad how entitled these rich folks. I appreciate their success but have some decency. Bill gates doesn't act like this

David King Isn't that what the Zionists want? All the fucking water?

***** But, of course, what is your minimum wage???

"The knockout game"? Is that supposed to sound hard or badass?

***** "That's what Sweden does, if you make minimum wage you legally pay more then 1 third in taxes as corporations," yes and gives you free healthcare, free education/unoversity and free coverage

DynamicUnreal Who is this family you speak of? The richest man in the world right now is Carlos Slim at $53.5 billion.

That would be the Walton family. Owners of Walmart, they are worth ~144 billion.

Ethel Mertz Richest US Families: Walton Family 144 billion Koch Family 104 billion Mars Family 80 billion Cox Family 60 billion S.C. Johnson Family 51 billion Pritzker Family 47 billion Google "BBC finds the US is an oligarchy, not a democracy."

Ethel Mertz It's not Carlos Slim, it's actually Bill Gates again. As for the wealthy families someone else responded to it.

Please tell me how do you blame the family who owns Wal-mart for people buying their shit? for the cities that allowed them to come into their neighborhoods and run small business owners of work and make absolutely illogical to even compete. please tell me

Joe Hill And you can bet your ass that on Halloween night the doors at Bill Maher's house are not flung open for all the kiddies.

Joe Schwartz The doors are flung wide open and he's handing out dimebags!

Joe Hill Did you know he gave the Obama administration a million dollars! Love him or hate him, Maher is a hypocrite!

Brian B. Why is that hypocritical? He's putting his money into supporting worthwhile causes not using it to indulge himself on worthless ego-gratifying hunting trips! Perhaps you should think a bit before posting

+BigDeanoSyd He complains about elections being bought off yet he's the one buying them off! Wothwhile causes? LOL

One might even arrive at the conclusion that a system which allows such inequality is a very poor way to organize society!

@@gking407 And how would you organize society? Be specific.

Wonder why my country, Finland, is not already selling there water

Damn well said. The USA has a religion alright, and it worships money, not God. This is the "all about me society", and the beginning of the end of humanity.

True, but

People have always said that the current generation is the selfish generation

Its what we're taught......

I think Trump has got the deadly sins mixed up with the ten commandments.

Ah no... No he doesn't.

Sprin Draconis Ah, yeah... He does.

Javier Lorenzana nope, hes a self centered elitiest who thinks hes doing right results be damned.

Mackdaknife6669 you have a slightly outdated definition of "a ton of wealth". He's worth like 30 mil after over a decade on HBO. It costs more than that to create fifteen minutes of dragon footage for each season of Game of Thrones. There are 35+ year old washed up nba players whose annual salary is more than his entire net worth, and that doesn't even include endorsements. Nobody with 30 million dollars is using their "ton of wealth" to rewrite policy on any level higher than their local school board. Yeah he's doing better than your average dentist, but unless you have footage of him using that wealth to shoot a panda, I fail to see the hypocrisy.

Brett Perry 30 mils is actually more than enough to start a movement but if you are efficient and smart about it.

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OldskolFan At least in UK we have a choice; 'cheap' NHS or extortionate private. That is until our Conservative Government gets it's grimy little paws on it. They will give you the choice of getting a loan or dying of starvation because eating has become impossible. But then, they have to pay for the wealthy's tax cuts somehow.

+John Benton hey is this saying true? Europeans work to live and Americans live to work? I am American. Just heard this the other day from another Anerican. Don't know if he's being whinny or if he's actually right.

Close enough. In UK we have lots of holidays, A guaranteed 35-hour working week, and oodles of paid leave for all sorts of unlikely things.

+John Benton 35 sounds a lot better than 40 + mandatory overtime.

The EU has a statutory working-week limit of 35 hours over 5 days. Individuals can 'volunteer' to exceed this limit, but they are paid overtime (1.3 x normal pay) for the extra hours, or double-time for Sunday working if this is not part of the normal working week. There are some professions where this is not possible (truck drivers, doctors, etc) but agreements on standard hours=overtime must be in writing and signed by both parties. UK workers work longer hours than (eg) Germans, but productivity can suffer from working too long. Uk workers retire (ATM) at 65, but in certain circumstance can work beyond the normal retirement age but this is not compulsory. Lorry (truck) drivers like I was until retirement usually work 12 hours per day, 5 days per week, but are paid for 50 hours, the extra hours being paid at the higher rate -up to a maximum of 60 hours per working week. The rules and regulations limiting Heavy Goods Vehicle driving are very complex, and open to interpretation. I'm glad I'm no longer part of it. Retirement means a significant reduction in 'salary', but retirement pay is considered enough to live on. I hope I've covered as much as possible, and I hope I've made a complex system relatively clear.

Still the same, less water now

I suppose socialism (ie distributed poverty) is better. Your comment is dangerous, and I won't let your political ideology be normalized.

+Astrobucks2 She never insinuated about socialism at all, she is just pointing out the obvious moral/ethical dilemmas that having obscene wealth can have on entire societies. By the way, your understanding of socialism is very lacking considering you would use a very Friedman like phrase like “distributed poverty” to describe it. Socialism is simply the workers ownership of the economy either through a variety of strategy and tactics like public ownership of assets with democratic internal management, worker ownership through cooperatives in a market economy with a democratically accountable system of management, and a socially/ common based system of ownership through the mediation of radical trade unions that actively resist the state. You version of socialism is a distorted right wing view designed to scare monger working class folks into supporting policies that are detrimental to the well being and autonomy of the working class in the long term.

@@Astrobucks2 socialism isn't distributed poverty, lmao

@@TheBoxingCannabyte Socialism doesn't lift people up, it brings everyone down

You know whats better than having a handful of "obscenely" rich people? Having EVERYONE become obscenely rich. Then we can focus on the non-material things in life. How do we accomplish that? Unregulated Capitalism

I know, that's what fucking kills me about this sketch

It doesn't hit at all. Seeing a rich person brag about buying an expensive bottle of wine that might even be undrinkable is absolutely nothing compared with watching obese women eating Halo Top ice cream and pretending they feel good about themselves.

Yes. It's time Californians treated the majority of the state for what it is. People are starting to.

And here I thought I was the only person who understood this concept.

I am an indoor person, I treat everywhere outside like a desert. XD

As he's now the Governor; and loves rich people, 3 star Michelin restaurants with a few friends (aka lobbyists), roping the poor off from everything including their jobs, ordering everyone what to do and rubbing elbows with the rich for campaign contributions.

@@zugdarr Name one example of Gavin Newsom ripping people off. I will wait.

@@camrenmugabe3062 hmph. I said roping. As in barring. Or preventing. Ripping? Only if you count his lack of governing and taking a check for it. As for your reading comp, I'll blame another governor. Which one was it? I'll wait.

@@zugdarr London Breed.

"no one can disagree with the truth"? Really? Republicans do it all the time.

Corporatism-- benito stole the term i have been using for years.

@@jeanvaljeanist you mean he posthumously stole this term from you!!

I guess you don't count Facbook, The Internet, Uber or many more inventions. People who have gotten rich have usually worked very hard, had foresight and been lucky and don't take no for an answer.

So you think Tesla, Facebook, Amazon and the like were created in the 18th century?

@@karlalan3806 LOL I don't think marilyn or syntaxed either one have a clue about our economy OR history.

Or tapping into the supply lines from China. (Amazon, Walmart)

I'm pretty sure there was competition in the early days of industrial manufacturing. Long since eliminated, of course...

Please, can we regurgitate your brain-farts, somewhere else⁉️👎😝

Knew, not new

He should have, what he did was evil!!

@@hoffer54 Um ... ever heard of two wrongs don't make a right? In this case, since he was a human and like us, made a biggg mistake ... I've made a few in my life ... have you? Yeah, we don't want to go around skinning people. Ewwwww! ;-)

@Ironic Kismet Perhaps. I'm not a medical doctor, just an anthropologist. Human behavior & our biology is my area of study, and I sincerely will never label someone with a psychiatric disorder unless I've spent time and know their WHOLE story, and even then, it would take lots of time. We do not have any of that on RU-vid. We all only know what the producers of the video have decided to show us and bias is obvious to anyone sensible. My grandmother always said the best way to live Life was to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Golden Rule --- it's universal. She was also Christian and was quite fond of a Biblical passage about not judging others. When I am rested, fed, and happy it's easy to do, but if I am "hangry" I've been known to 'rip out jugulars with sarcasm." Ain't we all the same? LOL

@Ironic Kismet You speak with the voice of little reason. Humanity is the same biologically yet most all live within whatever cultural construct found at birth. Not all do but most.

No, I'd say you're extremely liberal. Do you also believe in a flat earth? Since you also hate vaccines, I'm just wondering.

@Karl Marx No. No they're not. Almost every anti-vaccine person I know is a tree-hugging, anti-big pharma nut job from some place like Vermont. They listen to NPR, live in white-only towns in New England and Oregon, and make WAY more than minimum wage.

@Karl Marx I absolutely do. And what planet are you living on? Almost all of the anti-vaxxer rhetoric has been coming from places like Oregon, Seattle, California, etc etc. Not exactly bastions of Tea Party resistance. Just this week there was a measles outbreak near Seattle. Come on dude.

+416mcp It is disgusting but you have to understand that the money goes towards the long term protection of the larger populations of the animals in the parks from REAL poachers. Without the money from these shoots there would be no rangers patrolling.

416mcp same here

If you're not a vegan you have no right to be angry. You're simply a hypocrite

Some of the animals are sick

Gavin is a joke It’s still the same but worse

64kimmyjo Sure, but what about if you dont work at all and have a giant trust fund that makes ridiculous Earning$?

64kimmyjo of course they should. But lets be real here. The majority of the richest people in the country did not get there through their own hard work, they did so through the capital of their parents and the exploitation of others.

I dont think the top 0.1% got half the wealth in the world because they worked 10000 times harder and contributed 10000 times more than anybody. Jeff Bezos didnt cure cancer he started a business with a 300,000 check from his parents at the right time. A lot of harder working people with better ideas didnt have that handout. Somewhere between forcing everyone to have equal income (which nobody wants) and 0.01% of people owning half of everything there must be some sweet spot where yes you can work hard get lucky and get filthy rich, but also nobody has to die cause they cant afford basic health care food and shelter. That sweet spot is called Norway.

Runstar Homer so their parents worked hard to provide for their children... maybe your kids will do better if you do the same. If someone is incompetent, the wealth will disappear. If they grow their wealth, they are competent. You’re paid based on customer choice. I don’t mind paying taxes however I do mind if others slack off and enjoy the ride while I work 60+ hour weeks.

Wondering Spirit , Trump has proven time and again that you don’t need to be competent. Look at the trump twins too (Eric and Jr)...

Yea, I know right? Soak the rich! Let's put them in camps! Yea!

zh11147 youre just being a bully if you go around killing things that have no hope of fighting back

I prefer rich dentists, the poor ones seem to do the worst work. I dunno why that is.

I went to seminary school. I'm an atheist and I'm a better Christian than most of the Christians I know No, all of them.

Yep, the hypocrisy

James Smith aww you’re just jealous

Bill, is he really worth that?

40 million? Wealthy? You are nuts. 40 million is nothing compared to what billionaires have. If you aren't worth at least 20 million you aren't trying.

What about Tom Steyer, Ron Burkle, Oprah Winfrey, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman, Warren Buffett, etc etc. Or are they all ok and on the up and up because they share you're political opinions?

Yeah, They're way over due for some Shade.

@@michaelpreston233 I thought Oprah got her wealth fair and square. She started from the bottom and worked her way up -- and had good money advisors along the way! Plus, she is as smart as a whip! Ditto some of the others. I don't know some of those names, but others, I do. And it's odd but I've read that a few of them have publicly stated, they'd go for far more taxation! Warren Buffet for one, Bezos for another.

Most us eat meat, but don't the guts to kill it. If you kill it eat it. Nothing wrong there.

Why? It's killing an animal either way. People love to think it6different but it's not.

@@neolithic3 , there is a difference, if you look at it from a natural perspective rather than an emotional one. If you hunt a prey animal that is plentiful in numbers then you're not actually affecting the balance of nature. If you hunt any animal, predator or prey, that is already declining in numbers and possibly endangered then you are having a genuine impact on the balance of nature. In the case of predators, if they were wiped out then many prey animals would breed beyond the limits that their environment could sustain and many would starve anyway, which is a far worse fate than being killed by a hunter. I'm not fun of hunting for sport but I also think that we should avoid being too emotional either way on the subject.

corey wiley Go to Merida in the Yucatan Mexico the dentists there are just as good as any other dentist and charge 10% of US dentists.

Douglas Kay In TJ they are charging just as much as American Dentists. Maybe because they are so close?

Yes, Bill, just like you do, dentists have "people" who do that for them.

Tariq Khan I approve of this message. Study the universe, it's very humbling.

Tariq Khan Earth orbits the Sun @ 107 200 km/t. Don't forget the entire solarsystem is on the move also. @ 220 km/s, orbiting the center of the galaxy. THEN the galaxy farts around @ cirka 470 000 km/t. Finally we are heading towards ''the great attactor @ 2200000 km/t.( the entire galaxy) So yeah, we are on the move.

Tariq Khan Why so emotional

Rav Enj i'm Spanish so i be doing the dicking

Rav Enj she said. Now bend over