Succession: Is Being Rich Worth It? 

That's a very witty, quotable line

Damn skippy!

this is the one this is the absolute one

@@captainhaddock6435 but even that in reality has exceptions, the idle rich who died young from drugs or drink or extremely dangerous hobbies. The greedy old person excluded from their families, complaining about loneliness. Or using the bible again (I am not religious but was raised in a bible reading family) What does it profit a person if they gain the whole world but loose their soul. Having just quoted this I am reminded that one of the tricks the wealthy elite have used is pointing to the bible so the poor can be smug about being Godly instead of immorally wealthy, without pointing out that one can become financially stable if not wealthy honestly- I think it’s because they broke laws, mores & customs to get rich or grandpa did so they have little knowledge of moral honest hard or better smart workers gaining comfortable if not fabulous wealth.

It's more that the only people who make money are the people who are predisposed to being miserable anti-humanity people. Only sociopaths can thrive under capitalism.

Writing this one down...

man, i love it. do you have sources?

Welp

You could also look at that the other way around. Why some people don’t want to better themselves financially because they believe it’s a better life than having more money

If that is true, that is a profound observation.

wow i never thought of it that way, i gotta rewatch it now! thanksss!

Loll

Not really, everyone and their nan does coke in the uk

@@jordkinsmith3588 The Learning never Ends! And also, tbh, I am worried about Anti-Science, so i go around and recommend people randomly Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka Teaching-as-it-should-be). Mind if i do?

@@jordkinsmith3588, still?!? We gave it up in the '90's. What a money pit.

​@@jordkinsmith3588 Hi fellow UK resident here ......sorry to burst your bubble but I'm yet to even hear anecdotally of more than 1 person who takes cocaine. If everyone and their nan is taking cocaine around you its not because you live in the UK its because of the company your keeping. Most people have far too much sense and nowhere near enough money to be tempted by drugs.

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An he is the eldest boy!

nah

EXACTLY, that's why I never understood what Mrs. Kim was talking about from the movie Parasite. She was saying that she would be a "good person" if she were wealthy as the Park family, but if you're willing to kill and sabotage people just for a cushy gig to work at a rich family's home, pretty sure it wouldn't make you automatically "nice" if somehow you became wealthy. If the Kims are willing to go as far as to commit murder just to keep the facade going for them in the Park home, who's to say that they wouldn't commit murder if they were as wealthy as the Parks of the Roys?

That is true. Money just amplifies who you really are. It lets you be that person, because you stop caring so much about what other people. You can be more authentic, and that could be being a better person or a toxic one, the money doesn’t make you any of does it just amplifies it

True, we - poor - we also have a lot of problems - mostly because of these existencional.

Both states bring their own set of miseries but being poor sucks more

@@LuisSierra42 I also think that this media tends to assume that everyone who gets that much money will actually spend it that way. I would much rather be rich, but there's not enough in the world that I want to spend it on to that extent. If anything, it would just be an excuse to get a hobby and not have to work.

I doubt you would. poverty sucks. But that powerlessness limits the harm you can bring on to others, and solidarity is uniquely available to victims of injustice and the poor. The elites MUST exploit and destroy others to stay buoyant. It is impossible to achieve or hold vast wealth without sociopathy and sadism. They metabolise the suffering of others. Extreme wealth generates a force field of individual isolation and compels everyone it touches to reveal the most transactional and predatory/cannibalistic extents of their nature, in much the same way that Wonder Woman's Lasso compels honesty. Poverty exposes you to the actions of people in desperation but also surprises you with the power and abundance of empathy in 'strangers' (and that there are no strangers) and the depths of your own wells of perseverance and resilience. I'm not trying to glamorise poverty. poverty sucks and is unjust... it's just emphatically superior to being excessively wealthy. Survive poverty and it is overwhelmingly probable that you will emerge a well rounded, compassionate human with empathy and a capacity to love that will endear you to others, enabling you to healthily bond socially and form compassionate communities of respect and gratitude. The rich eat their young, even the most intimate of relationships are sterilised by greed and envy and wildly miscalibrated desires. Nothing is given freely, you are entirely emotionally independent. Everything is recorded in internal ledgers. The most freely given 'small' act of generosity or consideration that is unconsciously dispensed in a family free from wealth, is measured and recorded in the minds of the Financial elites and must be recouped. Unjust wealth dissolves humanity.

@@sisyphusvasilias3943 Ok but I’m not tryna be the 1% I just need like 10 mil and I’ll be set to retire

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and the sequel "Existence is Pain"

@@jimmylin1851 featuring Mr Meseeks LOOK AT MEEE!

Succession is not the same as success.

Any life sucks without Jesus

We don't all have the same problems (thankfully). We all have problems, but if you follow a few basic rules in life - and don't be a dick to everyone around you - there's no reason to end up with a breakdown.

I genuinely disagree. The excess of the ultra wealthy makes me ill, and the constant grappling for status and the maintenance of it would drive me nuts. I’d take a cottage in the woods over that stuff.

@@Sarah-eh7bw In 2021, owning any property anywhere makes you at least reasonably wealthy

@@willvince7777 unless you build it yourself from the ground up.

@@michaellancina667 when Bezos is on the biggest most expensive yacht or the little support yacht he is having built, he will still be an a$$hole.

The Learning never Ends! And also, tbh, I am worried about Anti-Science, so i go around and recommend people randomly Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka Teaching-as-it-should-be). Mind if i do?

Even then, that’ll induce therapists to see you as a meal ticket and want to keep you dependent. Happened to a beach boy iirc.

I think the point is not about “whether” you can afford to hire a shrink it’s about how you relate to the feedback, and how the insulating power of wealth can exacerbate the tendency to dismiss criticism

That is very true, but therapy is no surefire fix for life issues. But sure, help is better than none.

I've never met one person that admit therapy fix their problem. Short term issues,yes, if you're miserable, no one can help you.

Golden Rule, meet Golden Mean.

@ModernNetMonk777 Yes, but that idea, while correct, covers a deeper truth. That the more you have, the more time, attention, worry it takes to keep it. This doesn't mean it costs money to keep money, but it does require *attention*. Tom Paine was fond of saying that the rich are rich by being possessing a unnatural attentiveness to money.

@ModernNetMonk777 No, I think it's probably a couple of interlocking factors. The more you have, the more noticeable it is. The more protective you'll be. It's not just about what you have, it's also about what others around you have. There's a reason all these guys live in their own gated communities and not in down town next to the projects. I think you could go quite a ways from 35k to a couple of million a year before you became "too big not to be paranoid"

@@doctormo Agreed

Here, here.

If I had a doller for every raid Shadow Legends. I'll probably be rich

I swear that 20% of all RU-vid videos are just adverts for raid shadow legends

That's why all those "EAT THE RICH" people are so miserable.

I've played exactly enough to reach mission like 5 or whatever. Enough that the channel I wanted to support would get the kick-back from Raid for me having played that far, haha.

the base minimum time requirements to meet the contractual agreement.

Wisecrack have always been really tone deaf about selling us shit. They used to hock online therapy until people complained it was a grift.

They need to pay the bills...

@@thelight3112 The Learning never Ends! And also, tbh, I am worried about Anti-Science, so i go around and recommend people randomly Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka Teaching-as-it-should-be).

@@nenmaster5218 No one is anti science, people are anti [your stupid beliefs].

How can you advise about wealth unless you have it? ;)

@@kevinbooth- watch Brewster's Millions. It is not difficult to act or be wealthy...just to become wealthy.

@@nohbody369 you can give advice on the appearance of wealth but not actual wealth You will know the publicly know things wealthy like but not the shit they don't talk about, that is in their circle only, until it becomes mainstream. To be a true wealth advisor in this context requires one run in those circles.

Sounds like a lazy person to me 🤷‍♂️

@@kevinbooth- such as? Enlighten us unworthy poor scum of the earth how our betters act.

If you have enough then it will be enough, but if you have more than enough you will need more

so, communism

I said that. That’s my quote.

Star Trek socialism

Succession is miles ahead of White Lotus though. The first is a masterpiece, the latter would be entirely forgettable if it wasn’t for the soundtrack.

@@sonchik6324 False

@@jhmvjhvg well it’s my personal opinion, coming from someone who’s not a big fan of awkward rich people. Succession is a show that surpasses this trope, White Lotus does not.

@@sonchik6324 Would you still recommend the show? It’s on my list to check out

@@gianni206 absolutely!

You should see the food waste in the hotel business

God, the food waste on Succession kills me. Thousands of dollars' worth of buffets and 5 course meals and trays everywhere that the family pretty much ignores or picks at before throwing away. Only Tom and Greg appreciated any of it. I legit shed a tear when they dumped all those lobsters in the bins...

It was sitting in the stink tho.

It is how Logan paid for screwing over the help. He got dead raccoons as payback.

They also get trusted by richer people more. If I started a business, nobody cares. If Elon Musk started a business, INNOVATION INVEST!!!

@@nikhilpranav6915 With all due respect, I kinda disagree. There are a lot of factors in making a business of course nobody cares if you start a business because they don't know you yet. So you have to make yourself known and your service or product should be good that's why people invest in Elon Musk because of his business & his achievements.

@@cheesebuggadarren9728 YEah, there are a lot of factors, but Elon Musk has PROVEN he is capable. I have not. So, regardless of the idea, Elon will have more support from investors, purely because of his success. Same way, Carlos Ghosn would be invited to take over any failing car business.

@@nikhilpranav6915 Yeah like I said if you let people show your capable then you'll be very successful thoooooo

@@cheesebuggadarren9728 And money does not only helps with that, but you can actually do stuff. See a business you see potential in? Now, buy from them. If you were a business magnate, invest in it, and tell your billionaire friends about them.

Yes, but Plarium Games made Wisecrack a golden cage and fucked them with a silver dildo, and now here we are.

@@genentropy Wisecrack is real nice, but i think the best RU-vidr i know must be 'Hbomberguy', cause he's so incredibly unbiased. He thinks of himself as a Fool and preaches that 'If I, a total fool, can sit down and inform myself, then you can too.' I love that. He is known to NEVER 'assume around' but instead do this revolutionary new thing called 'informing himserlf'.

@@nenmaster5218 hey mane. I think you like that hboberguy fella

just search for millionaires that lost all there money

look up people who actually won lottery, see where they ended up now.

"Shaq is rich. The white dude who signs his checks is wealthy...You can't get rid of wealth, that sh^t stays with you for life, no matter what you do, whereas with 'rich,' you can lose that with a weekend in Vegas and a drug habit." - Chris Rock

@@DavidRichardson153 Wow, Chris hit that spot on!

Truth be told, getting rich is probably the worst thing that could happen to you. Because at least now you got hope, thanks to the delusion that maybe you'd be happy if you could just get your hands on a big payday. But money's like everything you were ever happy about when you first bought it, like your car, your brand new TV, etc. You get used to it within a week or two and you're back to square one.

Congrats

The Learning never Ends! And also, tbh, I am worried about Anti-Science, so i go around and recommend people randomly Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka Teaching-as-it-should-be). Mind if i do?

Imagine having student debt. - worked during uni to pay off debt gang

The Roy's are 3 Billion dollars in debt. Perspective mon amii. 🙂

Or crush the class completely and for there to only be a working class

Get used to staying poor forever because spoiler, you will be, forever.

Yeah...sure commie🙄

envious poor boy get your bread up

If the whole 1% got de-kulaked, that wouldn't be enough to even pay for the infrastructure bill that got passed recently.

The Sisyphus Complex. The struggle is real. 😬

id rather be rich and miserable than poor tbh hahaha

It depends on where you live.

It's just an actual living wage based on the cost of living in your area. The tragedy is the current schism between minimum wage and living wage when they were originally meant to be the same thing. 😕

$75k is broke territory

It wasn’t that long ago that that figure was 60k. Maybe 10 years. That is a precipitous inflation in the cost of happiness when real wages have been stagnant to dropping for three tomes as long

Exactly. People don't need to be rich to be happy, especially considering there's no riches without exploitation of other human beings. Neither people should live in poverty. We have all the resources so all the people can have all they need for a comfortable life, yet we live in a system where some not sure which yachts to buy and some not sure where to get water and medications.

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Yes, exactly! That's a more nuanced take than "power corrupts" or "money is the root of all evil". Some wealthy people do have character and wield their money responsibly, they're just a lot less visible than the pricks.

@@genentropy Exactly. There are good kings. The problem isn't power, it is character. The other problem is inheritance: character isn't often handed down. Often, it is the struggle and overcoming that builds the character... something those who inherent the rewards of that struggle rarely have to go through. From a governance standpoint, you give power to an office, not a person... offices are seated by many different people who all wield the authority of that office. To curtail abuse, you must limit the power of the office since you cannot guarantee the character of the one who possess the office. Its like Schrödinger's cat: power only magnifies what it magnifies once possessed, you can't look under the hood until its too late.

technically yes, but if you are the owner and are willing to close it one day, basically you are losing money, it is like renting it to yourself for a day

The Learning never Ends! And also, tbh, I am worried about Anti-Science, so i go around and recommend people randomly Science-YT-Channel and just Education overall (mostly Fun-Education aka Teaching-as-it-should-be). Mind if i do?

You won't get everything in life. You can be rich guy or a poor guy. When you are a rich guy you can buy lot of stuff and have many privileges and do many things. But it have its negative such as you mentioned. When you are poor you don't have much privileges but nobody will try to use you, if someone cares about you ( big if) thats genuine. When you get one thing you will have to sacrifice something else, thats life. You won't get everything. Its our responsibility to make choose what we want

Greg is hot

@@taureansun1501 I meant of the siblings, hey, you do you, I won't judge.

Roman is hot

@@MrPedromuriel I never judge people's kinks.

@@cybele_mullejz I thought I'd replied to you the other day but I must not have clicked send or YT didn't put it up, it was a pretty long reply too 😑 I'll keep it brief this time lol yeah I'll definitely check that article out, I actually looked it up and saved the link-just not got round to reading it yet, thanks 👍 Edit-lmao@Peter Capaldi-that would be interesting wouldn't it

@TK Wallace yep Brian Cox was born in Dundee if I remember right which isn't too far from me-mind you everywhere in Scotland isn't too far from everywhere else compared to the likes of America 😂 but it's about an hour and a half away. He was the first person to play Hannibal Lecter on film but if I'm honest Anthony Hopkins definitely played him better in my mind

@@cybele_mullejz well I've found out it's apparently on Sky (satellite TV) which I don't personally pay for but my parents do and when my mum finds her password she's giving me a call so I can watch it through her account on the Sky app lol thanks for trying to suggest some things though! Hmmm I guess it depends really-yes if you liked Veep you'll probably enjoy Thick of it too but I think it also depends how familiar you are with how UK politics works, it's not something you need to know all the ins and outs but just understanding our dumb ass Westminster a bit makes all the difference-personally I'd go with Peep Show, not many shows literally makes me lol but this makes me laugh loudly each time I watch it lol also the novel camera work is so interesting. Hope you enjoy them both!

@@cybele_mullejz @Parisa Muller well the very first episode is here on YT (I watched it yesterday lol) so you could easily get an idea at least on whether you think it's worth going ahead with but for me at least it's one of the best sitcoms ever. Funny thing is the guys in that went on to do a show called "That Mitchell and Webb Look" and I wasn't all that keen on it and I'm sure Jesse Armstrong had a hand in writing that too-maybe because that was a sketch show and I'm not such a fan of sketch shows generally but it got great reviews too. I really like the sound of that Roadkill show you mentioned, it sounds like it might be my sort of thing-although I'm not sure I'd personally put the words "compassionate Conservative" together without laughing, I don't see the Tories as very compassionate unfortunately haha but I'll leave my politics out of things lol Hugh Laurie is a gem so I imagine he will be great in this I'll certainly keep in mind to keep watching if I'm finding the first couple episodes a bit slower than expected but that's often the way with shows like this I've noticed-for a start they seem not too great then suddenly something happens and your hooked lol I'll be glad when I get a chance to see it 😊 Oh don't worry about the length of your comment-i do it all the time 😂 keep blaming it on the coffee! Hahah

You could try the next best thing There are very long Succession recap on RU-vid. Don't remember the name.

I don’t think they turn into sociopaths. I think it turns them into entitled brats. I’m sure some of them can still feel, but they just think that because they have wealth that they’re better than others, and therefore should be treated better.

Please for the love of G-d touch grass

@@ling636 feels like I first heard the meme touch grass last week and it's already been over used to the point of meaninglessness. How would experiencing life outside of the internet change the fact that sociopaths are drawn to wealth/power?

@@janewildly Well I didn’t say it turn all of them into sociopaths but I do think our system and wealth certainly encourage sociopathic behaviors, take what happen in Wallstreet during 2008-2009, they sold fraud as a business model that led to hundreds of thousands (if not millions) homeless because of it. And all but one of them got away with it and in many cases got bonuses out of it. Don’t you feel like that will only encourage more behavior like that (which it did) Then you have Jeff Bezos who when the CEO of Amazon, forced his employees to piss and crap in bottles and plastic bags, while forcing them to work on unsafe work environments. Why does the richest man in the world need them to do this? Why can’t they just have bathroom breaks? So bezos and his board can squeeze out every bit of labor that they can out of their workers. I believe that when they are at the position they are, it allow them to view people lower in status not as people, but cogs in a machine designed to make them more money.

@@ling636 I do daily, but that doesn’t change the fact that wealth allows people to get away with committing crimes with little more than a slap on the wrist

It's not that they don't have the skills, it's the way he's expecting more of him in them rather than let them be. It's always about the game, the zero sum game. Instead of acknowledging that he has something normal, a family he decides to fuck them up instead and then thinks when did I made the mistake

Idk there's a stereotype of people like this not liking to tip, disagree with giving money to homeless people, finding embarassing to ask to take home the rest of food they couldn't eat, being arrogant with people who have less money

@@SL-ze6su I couldn't say wether those traits you listed are unique to being born rich or not but, that does seem to describe people who are "selfish" and rich. I imagine that a lot about being born rich is fantastic , the drawback I've seen in movies and reality is difficulty adhering to arbitrary family dogma that opposes the individual's desires. Think the movie Crazy Rich Asians and real life Prince Harry; they marry who they want at the cost of being excommunicated from the family. That's one form of it, but there are others. Other movies that illustrate this familial antagonism I can think of are : Inception , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Ready orNot, The Haunting of Bly Manor. But nobody can choose their family right?

YOUR view. There are and can be many goals. For example, you may be fine with health, strength, and martial arts training (all cool and respectable stuff). But I want to defeat math. What's my net worth? 1 trillion? Add 3 more zeroes. Just get enough money to satisfy YOUR goals. There is no one-size-fits-all.

Well he just declared a war against his father so maybe he is worthy of salvation

@@cybele_mullejz bruh hes also as manipulative and cunning as shioban mate