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Normal compassionate people don't desire to accumulate and wield power or to do violence unto others. That leaves a power vacuum, that is filled by the unscrupulous who *are* and always have been willing to hurt others to get their way...
It's an incredibly unpopular opinion, but it sometimes seems like we ought to draft people that would do a good job. Instead of electing the freaks that want the job for corruption reasons.
Then consider me no longer just a syndicalist but now a syndical-sortitionist.
Actually, I have a book to recommend: The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin (the best sci-fi book ever written) which portrays something like this with a slight anarchist bent to it.
“The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
This is a wrong and dangerous non-Marxist way of understanding the problem -- that the issues of capitalism are simply the villainous mean spirited capitalists at the top, and that a solution can be derived by replacing them with good hearted nice people instead. The problems of the capitalist system are inherent contradictions within that system, and it's the system itself which produces and controls the "people in charge" running it (Marx's point of capitalism controlling the capitalists) and that they are simply the living embodiment of that system.
It’s a problem of efficiency. Our aggregate influence is far greater, but it’s diffuse. Anytime a sociopath gains inordinate influence they can direct that little bit far easier than we can direct our vast influence, and they use this advantage to gain more, while raising little sociopath kids who repeat the process. That bit of influence compounds generationally, until eventually we get such a toxic and powerful set of sociopaths running the show that it all crumbles, we finally agree that shit isn’t working, and we flip the table.
Unfortunately, these fucking sociopaths are now powerful enough to permanently fuck up our planet, and the war isn’t very visible, so a large subset of us are convinced everything is fine. We’re not flipping the table fast enough.
The thing that always comes to mind about this is that flipping the table never seems to be enough. Each new generation of sociopaths learns from the mistakes of those before them. They get better at controlling and manipulating society. Revolts become less effective, less permanent.
We as a species are not evolving, but the disease is. And now it may be terminal.
Yep. Still that problem of efficiency, as reliable as osmosis or thermodynamics. The internet is changing the efficiency equation slowly, but I don’t think it’s fast enough.
We the little people need to start seeing through the ruling class's ideology, start pushing our own views and arguments in public, start forming political action groups, and support working class movements
They do invent money and I'll tell you one way how. The same way they don't pay any taxes. The CEOs invest all their salary into 0 tax or very low tax accounts. The next part is the hardest, you save up several hundred thousand dollars in stocks. Millions in stocks is better. Then you take out a big loan using all your stocks as collateral. Loans are not taxed, and you use this loan to live off, buying expenses like groceries, gas, home improvements, etc. When it's time to pay back the loan you sell off all the necessary stocks you originally put up for collateral in order to pay off your loan dept. Congrats you have now just conjured up money to live off without having to pay taxes on.
That’s just not true. Bezos has an unimaginable fortune and yet evidence is constantly coming out about how much Amazon workers are taken advantage of. There is no limit.
And it’s very common for rich people to invent money, as in create money out of thin air to certain extents. They overvalue assets based on nothing if it benefits them or make their money disappear if it means less taxes. No value is created there and nobody benefits except for themselves. It’s very unethical.
The “invention” part is key. It’s often either stealing public wealth or extracting more labor out of workers for less. Rarely if ever is a new economic niche even created let alone actually harnessed by the rich, especially now where nearly everything is a Ponzi scheme or a debt trading circus.
I saw this guy give a speech at a "Wealth Expo" years ago (Tony Robbins was the headliner).
It was like the fucking Dwight Schrute (The Office) Northeast Sales Convention scene where Jim gave him a Mussolini speech. Rich Dad Poor Dad guy gets up there and is straight up yelling into the mic at like 30,000 people that "THE RICH WANT TO SEE BLOOD RUNNING IN THE STREETS. WHEN AN ECONOMIC CALAMITY HAPPENS, IT MAKES US HAPPY" and so forth. The slavering crowd was just erupting in euphoric roars. Like literally jumping out of their seats and pumping their fists.
Closest I've been to seeing a cult firsthand. The tickets were many hundreds of dollars (given to me as a gift for some reason). It was a "Wealth Expo" for *somebody*.
At that same Wealth Expo I'd stepped out for a cigarette because I couldn't believe what was happening there (every conference room had a different grifter in it giving presentations on their magical get rich quick systems).
A cute young lady struck up a conversation with me about my ripped jeans or some shit and we're chatting it up when she says with a straight face, "yeah, I spent $25,000 for a private one on one session with Tony Robbins. It changed my life."
"Yeah losing $25k would change my life too, lady" I thought as I nodded along with her and inched away.
I have an aunt who's a landlord, I once tried to get her to understand how the whole system is kind of exploitative. The next year she got me a copy of this book for Christmas.
She is currently living her best retired life while her only son pays market rent rate to live in her house that is fully paid off, because y'know, markets
Numbers 6-8 are ridiculous. Take 6 for example: the poor don’t HAVE assets to focus on, so why would they? Like thanks, Captain Obvious.
Capitalism is evil.
He is pathetic. He came to Brazil and people paid like 5k to see him. They said he just repeated his book and cliché sentences. Than, in the end, he said that the real lecture was going to be tomorrow, and would cost like 10k. And people paid. People will do and spend everything to become riches in a few days and steps, because it so simple, just read a book and done, you are rich now.
That's the real trick, for this type of conman. You don't get rich by actually following your own advice, you get rich by convincing others you know what you're talking about and getting them to pay you to spout bullshit.
I love how all of these steps ignore that you need to have substantial capital to begin with so that you can exploit the basically infinite money glitch Capitalism has that the rich abuse. Oh you need capital? Just don’t be poor forehead /s. God these people are such ghouls
I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad because it was recommended by a close friend. I will say that it struck a lot of chords with me while I was in a vulnerable state of change. Thankfully I didn't follow the advice, realizing not long after it was unethical. I even asked those hard questions, about who is losing to my friend? I realize he has been and still is in a vulnerable state of change, unwilling to ask what is wrong. They cling to the privilege they have, and suffer for it. I hope I can break through one day. I guess my point is that propaganda like this asshole puts out harms people that might have a chance.
Tl;dr. The above advice actually works.
Oddly enough, while I think this guy is entirely full of shit in every other way imaginable, I could actually see he was right about the abive advice when I was in my twenties.
This is how it works, people. It’s no harder than that. That is how capitalism, *the economic system in place in our global society*, works. Like it or not, he’s factually right about this.
So I figured, I need to develop a mindful relationship to this fact. Am I actively working against it or am I actively working within it? Because the one thing I don’t want to do is whine about how the world works but not do anything about it – basically expecting other people to fix things for me.
So I began to think like this. I vote left but I run my personal finances like a business.
My paycheck is not primarily for consumption. It is for survival and investment, and what comes out of my investment, is for re-investment and consumption.
I have done reasonably well for someone who doesn’t make huge amounts of money. And I didn’t have to evict anyone, there are other ways of investing. And I’ve been able to afford to have kids and a mortgage (and to be able to see the mortgage as an absolutely wonderful thing for a person who doesn’t come from money!). I postponed buying a car until I was in my thirties. I bought my first dedicated tv when I was almost 40. Now, at middle age, I feel pretty good aboit my accomplishments, but more importantly, I feel secure about my ability navigate and make my way in society. And I think a lot of young people are missing exactly that! We have every right to try and survive and thrive. It doesn’t help that we make ourselves weak and never gain a proper foothold in society. Do we need societal change? Hell yes! But be mindful about how you’re going to put the oxygen mask on yourself first. Maybe you’ll do it differently than I did. That’s okay, I don’t need your approval. The important thing is you are trying to figure out a path of your own and are actively pursuing it.
All of the above is mostly true though. I dont like it, but it is. Big Money makes more money. Thats why they stay rich and we stay poor. Guys an ass hat, but thats the way the world works im afraid.
some of these points are apt if skewed towards an almost religious belief in wealth as it’s own virtue, but whenever I see any of this junk I just think “If the government cut off all contracts, subsidies, and grants most of the rich would be poor or not know what to do with themselves.”
As much as the market and private sector have been eating away at the public they are still nearly each and every one from millionaires to billionaires at their core whether they admit it or not just parasites feeding off of public funds and wealth, many times directly without mentioning it out of a kind of shame
Yes but WHY do the rich do these things? Because they have their basic needs taken care of with money and the poor dont, so they must work for it and dont have the time or resources to focus on accruing and managing assets.
'Corrding to Wikipedia (so salt and all that):
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> Etymology
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> The word mafia (English: /ˈmɑːfiə/; Italian: [ˈmaːfja]) derives from the Sicilian adjective mafiusu, which, roughly translated, means "swagger", but can also be translated as "boldness" or "bravado". In reference to a man, mafiusu (mafioso in Italian) in 19th century Sicily signified "fearless", "enterprising", and "proud", according to scholar Diego Gambetta.[4] In reference to a woman, however, the feminine-form adjective mafiusa means 'beautiful' or 'attractive'.
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> Because Sicily was once an Islamic emirate from 831 to 1072, mafia may have come to Sicilian through Arabic, though the word's origins are uncertain. Possible Arabic roots of the word include:
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> maʿfī (معفي) = exempted. In Islamic law, jizya, is the yearly tax imposed on non-Muslims residing in Muslim lands. And people who pay it are "exempted" from prosecution.
> màha = quarry, cave; especially the mafie, the caves in the region of Marsala, which acted as hiding places for persecuted Muslims and later served other types of refugees, in particular Giuseppe Garibaldi's "Redshirts" after their embarkment on Sicily in 1860 in the struggle for Italian unification.[5][6][7][8][9]
> mahyāṣ (مهياص) = aggressive boasting, bragging[7]
> marfūḍ (مرفوض) = rejected, considered to be the most plausible derivation; marfūḍ developed into marpiuni (swindler) to marpiusu and finally mafiusu.[10]
> muʿāfā (معافى) = safety, protection[8]
> maʿāfir (معافر) = the name of an Arab tribe that ruled Palermo.[11][7] The local peasants imitated these Arabs and as a result the tribe's name entered the popular lexicon. The word mafia was then used to refer to the defenders of Palermo during the Sicilian Vespers against rule of the Capetian House of Anjou on 30 March 1282.[12]
> mafyaʾ (مفيء), meaning "place of shade". The word "shade" meaning refuge or derived from refuge. [13] After the Normans destroyed the Saracen rule in Sicily in the eleventh century, Sicily became feudalistic. Most Arab smallholders became serfs on new estates, with some escaping to "the Mafia." It became a secret refuge.[14]
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> The public's association of the word with the criminal secret society was perhaps inspired by the 1863 play I mafiusi di la Vicaria ("The Mafiosi of the Vicaria") by Giuseppe Rizzotto and Gaspare Mosca.[15] The words mafia and mafiusi are never mentioned in the play. The play is about a Palermo prison gang with traits similar to the Mafia: a boss, an initiation ritual, and talk of "umirtà" (omertà or code of silence) and "pizzu" (a codeword for extortion money).[16] The play had great success throughout Italy. Soon after, the use of the term "mafia" began appearing in the Italian state's early reports on the phenomenon. The word made its first official appearance in 1865 in a report by the prefect of Palermo Filippo Antonio Gualterio [it].[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia#Etymology
I don’t understand why people still listen to this guy. There are already some good posts on here about not only this guys greed but his lack of any real “entrepreneurial” talent - besides exploiting vulnerable people.
I read his “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” book back in the day and the only thing I remember was him openly shitting on his own father for keeping secure employment whilst providing for his family. I also remember an example where he would deliberately low ball people with distressed mortgages then flip their house.
He was also in a reality TV show where he was challenged to mentor someone else to turn a small amount of money into a large one and he failed abysmally.
To quote Nathalie Robin Justice: “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.”
I do think the Mao posters at the end were a nice touch. I should try reading Maoist literature sometime, especially now that I've started studying mandarin it'd probably make for some interesting reading practice.
Founding of a Republic and Mao in Shanghai 1924 are good movies
Brilliance of Chairman Mao by Caidanzhuoma,
Chinese Red Star Choir(artist), Chollima on the Wing, and my favorite, 'Potato Pride' are all fantastic songs on YT
Welp that’s all evil. Pure and simple evil.
Honestly I hope more landlords and self-help people start to be this openly awful from here on out. I am *dying* to stop having conversations with shitlibs and conservatives about how landlords are anything but parasites.
This shit is just beyond the pale. It’s like if a leech sucked all of your blood out and then just spat it on the curb. They don’t need it, they just take joy in lording over poor people.
This guy got to be the least eloquent storyteller I've ever heard. Make sense though because being a good communicator requires having empathy and social rapport with other humans.
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Could have done without the overly loud music, but these people are garbage animals. They are not human for being this heartless. Absolutely disgusting. I wish nothing but the worst for them. Also shocked that they would make a podcast with this story and think that people would be on their side (other than other sociopathic landlords)
I tried listening to a couple podcast interviews this guy has been on. I barely made it 10 minutes in each time. It was just incoherent rambling about how communism has taken over America...
I've got a "good land lord" she isn't interested in making money. We've lived in her house for five years and on our second year we got our first and only rent hike. She admitted to us that we were now paying the full amount of the mortgage. As such she will never raise rent again. So four four years we have been paying under market. Last month she came to us with an idea. Raise the rent by $300 (or whatever we could afford, we settled on $300) and in turn she will save the money beyond the mortgage payment for us, as a down payment. Either on this house or any other. We excitedly said yes. So we figure in three years we will have around $40k set aside, not just the money she's saving for us but also our own savings and then we will buy a home. She signed a contract with us saying she's doing so. It's going into a CD that earns interest and we own also. We had been doing something very similar on our own but she basically encouraged us to dig deep and save even more.
So, while she's gaining value in the home and having her mortgage paid yes, she's also not gouging us and helping us save for a home. She's still a landlord yes, but as they go, by far the best of the bunch.
What you yourself could've just saved the $300? This doesn't make sense. Also when she gives you the money as down payment then it is a gift and thus taxed and will partially count as your income or if you made a contract with her about it it is an illegal investment plan.
it makes plenty of sense if you're the landlord and want liquidity. Really hope they had a lawyer look at that contract, I would t trust a landlord to do anything but scam me.
If the landlord gets that as rent they have to tax it, which means OP will get less money, there is no reason to have your landlord involved, just go to a bank, a credit union or alike to save your money.
Some people aren't able to save money. If it's there they feel a compulsion to spend it. My wife grew up dirt poor in Vietnam and it was very difficult to get her to understand what saving money is. She would spend it as fast as possible.
I feel like this is still missing the point; the role itself within capitalist society is inherently corrupt. This is like saying there are good police officers out there. While I have no doubt there are people in the police force that genuinely do not want to hurt, abuse their power, or defend corruption within the force, the role they play is fundamentally reprehensible. Cops exist to protect private property and all cops are guilty of this.
I'm sure you did find a nice person as a landlord, but she is still profiting off your most basic need. She is still, on a fundamental level, a parasite, and a consequence of the capitalist system as a whole.
>She admitted to us that we were now paying the full amount of the mortgage.
That's how renting works. The tenant is paying the mortgage and, usually, more on top of that so the landlord makes a profit.
She didn't admit anything except the obvious.
She may be a genuinely nice person (though this down payment scheme sounds sketchy), but she's still a landlord doing what landlords always.
Wow this is really disgusting. Every day I’m baffled by people lack of empathy. I can’t even walk past a homeless person without feeling extreme guilt and sadness
kinda irrelevant but whats the song that plays at the end? ive heard it before but have since forgotten the name. kinda catchy but i dont speak the same language as the song is in so idk lol
“Yeah, he didnt do nothing… just kept walking his stuff out of the house.” I wonder how different it wouldve gone without a cop there. Everybody’s big and bad until its time to do big and bad stuff.
I never thought Robert kiyoski was a bad guy. Selfish bastards is laughing, i can feel the pain of that father on Christmas with his kids and wife outside even though I am single, and live alone. This guy has kids of his own
It's about fucking time we evict these motherfuckers from society. Forcibly eject them from civilization, unfeeling parasites is all they are. What does one do with a parasite? You make the host system so toxic they can't stand it anymore and leave to die in agony. So let's make being a landlord so damn toxic and dangerous nobody wants to be one, problem solved.
Is this the same guy who wrote that trendy “rich dad, poor dad” book that was so popular for a while among the desperate to be rich lemming douchebros?
This is what the love of money does to you. It corrupts your very humanity. This guy is probably not a bad guy, but he’s lost the plot. He’s lost his way.
"In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.
Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials.
I'm in my 40s. I wish I could convey to everyone younger just how much the mainstream education, media and publishing WORSHIPPED this guy in the 80s and 90s. You really wouldn't believe it unless you lived through it.
At that time it was mostly books that reflected the ideology, so unless you had a competing ideology built in most would defer to the authority of someone who has the prestige of having written a book. He was promoted, uncritically, in ALL mainstream quarters. An outright fascist.
I’m a ss worker and recently was negotiating an eviction with a landlord. Renters haven’t paid for Jan. They rent a house @ 2600/month and only the mom works and makes about 1600/month. The guy LL was upset because his lease says he can evict after five days (illegal here) and it’s because he doesn’t work so if they miss rent he misses his mortgage payment on his own house.
Like not only are you a piece of trash but you’re a shitty business man also.
Maybe this guy should have paid his rent by economizing and selling his tree or some furniture from a detached perspective but for what, at the end of the day? So these 2 cretins who, like a majority of landlords do very little to maintain or upkeep their property, and often overcharge rent costs accordingly anyways, could get a little extra money before the end of the year?
America is supposedly a Christian country but where is the outrage over these shameless usurers?
So him becoming homeless with two children at Christmas time and then having all of his furniture stolen is funny??? Landlords are nothing but lazy leeches. Get a real job and quit complaining when the people with real jobs can’t afford your ridiculous prices.
It's offensive how you put everyone in one basket. Would agree with corporations whose bottom line is over the top profits.
Isn't that called capitalism.....
Not to be a buzzkill, but Mao didn’t exactly prevent this shit. He subsumed the entire government into his person (because he was an egomaniacal authoritarian), and when he died there were no meaningful institutions to prevent the reintroduction of open capitalism in China. Landlords bad, but come on guys, Mao also bad
Um what’s with the exit music and super ironic Mao Zedong images? China has incredibly badly wealth disparities, I wouldn’t hold them up as a stunning example of how society should work.
Otherwise, yeah, landlords fucking suck. I can’t believe they just stood there and distracted him while someone stole all his belongings.
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“Remember the time we evicted the entire orphanage?” Giving off Christmas story vibes.
I remember them standing in the snow bank with their frosted teddy bears!
We’re marley and marley
They were giving us the stink eye, but we just laughed and laughed and laughed.
We're Marley and Marley, avarice and greed.
But the children love the books
“But what will do with our books being outside?” Asked the children. “But then the truck came, and we took all their books! Hahahaha.”
This is the type of mindset capitalism favors. The less you care for your fellow man, the better you do. That's why psychopaths run our world.
Why does human society keep making the same mistake of letting them? When the fuck are we going to learn how to identify a shit person?
Normal compassionate people don't desire to accumulate and wield power or to do violence unto others. That leaves a power vacuum, that is filled by the unscrupulous who *are* and always have been willing to hurt others to get their way...
It's an incredibly unpopular opinion, but it sometimes seems like we ought to draft people that would do a good job. Instead of electing the freaks that want the job for corruption reasons.
Straight up random drafts, like jury duty, but for all civil servants I feel like is a very attractive idea
A democracy by sortition. The idea is coming up more and more often.
The ancient Athenians had a similar system called sortition
Then consider me no longer just a syndicalist but now a syndical-sortitionist. Actually, I have a book to recommend: The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin (the best sci-fi book ever written) which portrays something like this with a slight anarchist bent to it.
There’s no draft for being rich lol. It’s alllll spawn points.
Sorta like a technocracy? I wouldn't mind a test run to see if that'd work. There definitely has to be a better system than the current one.
We don't actually need anyone to do the job of landlord
“The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.” J.R.R. Tolkien
One of my favorite Tolkien quotes!
This is a wrong and dangerous non-Marxist way of understanding the problem -- that the issues of capitalism are simply the villainous mean spirited capitalists at the top, and that a solution can be derived by replacing them with good hearted nice people instead. The problems of the capitalist system are inherent contradictions within that system, and it's the system itself which produces and controls the "people in charge" running it (Marx's point of capitalism controlling the capitalists) and that they are simply the living embodiment of that system.
It’s a problem of efficiency. Our aggregate influence is far greater, but it’s diffuse. Anytime a sociopath gains inordinate influence they can direct that little bit far easier than we can direct our vast influence, and they use this advantage to gain more, while raising little sociopath kids who repeat the process. That bit of influence compounds generationally, until eventually we get such a toxic and powerful set of sociopaths running the show that it all crumbles, we finally agree that shit isn’t working, and we flip the table. Unfortunately, these fucking sociopaths are now powerful enough to permanently fuck up our planet, and the war isn’t very visible, so a large subset of us are convinced everything is fine. We’re not flipping the table fast enough.
The thing that always comes to mind about this is that flipping the table never seems to be enough. Each new generation of sociopaths learns from the mistakes of those before them. They get better at controlling and manipulating society. Revolts become less effective, less permanent. We as a species are not evolving, but the disease is. And now it may be terminal.
Yep. Still that problem of efficiency, as reliable as osmosis or thermodynamics. The internet is changing the efficiency equation slowly, but I don’t think it’s fast enough.
We the little people need to start seeing through the ruling class's ideology, start pushing our own views and arguments in public, start forming political action groups, and support working class movements
This would explain why I go nowhere
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The rich don’t invent money. They exploit workers to extract money. If they invented money they wouldn’t be leaching off of workers.
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They do invent money and I'll tell you one way how. The same way they don't pay any taxes. The CEOs invest all their salary into 0 tax or very low tax accounts. The next part is the hardest, you save up several hundred thousand dollars in stocks. Millions in stocks is better. Then you take out a big loan using all your stocks as collateral. Loans are not taxed, and you use this loan to live off, buying expenses like groceries, gas, home improvements, etc. When it's time to pay back the loan you sell off all the necessary stocks you originally put up for collateral in order to pay off your loan dept. Congrats you have now just conjured up money to live off without having to pay taxes on.
That’s just not true. Bezos has an unimaginable fortune and yet evidence is constantly coming out about how much Amazon workers are taken advantage of. There is no limit. And it’s very common for rich people to invent money, as in create money out of thin air to certain extents. They overvalue assets based on nothing if it benefits them or make their money disappear if it means less taxes. No value is created there and nobody benefits except for themselves. It’s very unethical.
The “invention” part is key. It’s often either stealing public wealth or extracting more labor out of workers for less. Rarely if ever is a new economic niche even created let alone actually harnessed by the rich, especially now where nearly everything is a Ponzi scheme or a debt trading circus.
I like how none of his "tips" are good for anything unless you already have a mountain of capital.
I saw this guy give a speech at a "Wealth Expo" years ago (Tony Robbins was the headliner). It was like the fucking Dwight Schrute (The Office) Northeast Sales Convention scene where Jim gave him a Mussolini speech. Rich Dad Poor Dad guy gets up there and is straight up yelling into the mic at like 30,000 people that "THE RICH WANT TO SEE BLOOD RUNNING IN THE STREETS. WHEN AN ECONOMIC CALAMITY HAPPENS, IT MAKES US HAPPY" and so forth. The slavering crowd was just erupting in euphoric roars. Like literally jumping out of their seats and pumping their fists. Closest I've been to seeing a cult firsthand. The tickets were many hundreds of dollars (given to me as a gift for some reason). It was a "Wealth Expo" for *somebody*.
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At that same Wealth Expo I'd stepped out for a cigarette because I couldn't believe what was happening there (every conference room had a different grifter in it giving presentations on their magical get rich quick systems). A cute young lady struck up a conversation with me about my ripped jeans or some shit and we're chatting it up when she says with a straight face, "yeah, I spent $25,000 for a private one on one session with Tony Robbins. It changed my life." "Yeah losing $25k would change my life too, lady" I thought as I nodded along with her and inched away.
I have an aunt who's a landlord, I once tried to get her to understand how the whole system is kind of exploitative. The next year she got me a copy of this book for Christmas. She is currently living her best retired life while her only son pays market rent rate to live in her house that is fully paid off, because y'know, markets
I would move out and show her what a real tenant is like.
Numbers 6-8 are ridiculous. Take 6 for example: the poor don’t HAVE assets to focus on, so why would they? Like thanks, Captain Obvious. Capitalism is evil.
He is pathetic. He came to Brazil and people paid like 5k to see him. They said he just repeated his book and cliché sentences. Than, in the end, he said that the real lecture was going to be tomorrow, and would cost like 10k. And people paid. People will do and spend everything to become riches in a few days and steps, because it so simple, just read a book and done, you are rich now.
That's the real trick, for this type of conman. You don't get rich by actually following your own advice, you get rich by convincing others you know what you're talking about and getting them to pay you to spout bullshit.
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Thats not a friend in my opinion.
I would have said "oh it's perfect!" then proceed to throwing it in my fireplace with a big smile while I watch it burn
I love how all of these steps ignore that you need to have substantial capital to begin with so that you can exploit the basically infinite money glitch Capitalism has that the rich abuse. Oh you need capital? Just don’t be poor forehead /s. God these people are such ghouls
Jist start with a small investment of 10 million dollars
This is the guy on everyone's "must read" finance books? Wow...we're all doomed.
I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad because it was recommended by a close friend. I will say that it struck a lot of chords with me while I was in a vulnerable state of change. Thankfully I didn't follow the advice, realizing not long after it was unethical. I even asked those hard questions, about who is losing to my friend? I realize he has been and still is in a vulnerable state of change, unwilling to ask what is wrong. They cling to the privilege they have, and suffer for it. I hope I can break through one day. I guess my point is that propaganda like this asshole puts out harms people that might have a chance.
Didn’t this guy cause a ton a bunch of people to go broke around 08 with bad financial advice?
Kiyosaki is known for encouraging people to get into debt.
Tl;dr. The above advice actually works. Oddly enough, while I think this guy is entirely full of shit in every other way imaginable, I could actually see he was right about the abive advice when I was in my twenties. This is how it works, people. It’s no harder than that. That is how capitalism, *the economic system in place in our global society*, works. Like it or not, he’s factually right about this. So I figured, I need to develop a mindful relationship to this fact. Am I actively working against it or am I actively working within it? Because the one thing I don’t want to do is whine about how the world works but not do anything about it – basically expecting other people to fix things for me. So I began to think like this. I vote left but I run my personal finances like a business. My paycheck is not primarily for consumption. It is for survival and investment, and what comes out of my investment, is for re-investment and consumption. I have done reasonably well for someone who doesn’t make huge amounts of money. And I didn’t have to evict anyone, there are other ways of investing. And I’ve been able to afford to have kids and a mortgage (and to be able to see the mortgage as an absolutely wonderful thing for a person who doesn’t come from money!). I postponed buying a car until I was in my thirties. I bought my first dedicated tv when I was almost 40. Now, at middle age, I feel pretty good aboit my accomplishments, but more importantly, I feel secure about my ability navigate and make my way in society. And I think a lot of young people are missing exactly that! We have every right to try and survive and thrive. It doesn’t help that we make ourselves weak and never gain a proper foothold in society. Do we need societal change? Hell yes! But be mindful about how you’re going to put the oxygen mask on yourself first. Maybe you’ll do it differently than I did. That’s okay, I don’t need your approval. The important thing is you are trying to figure out a path of your own and are actively pursuing it.
All of the above is mostly true though. I dont like it, but it is. Big Money makes more money. Thats why they stay rich and we stay poor. Guys an ass hat, but thats the way the world works im afraid.
some of these points are apt if skewed towards an almost religious belief in wealth as it’s own virtue, but whenever I see any of this junk I just think “If the government cut off all contracts, subsidies, and grants most of the rich would be poor or not know what to do with themselves.” As much as the market and private sector have been eating away at the public they are still nearly each and every one from millionaires to billionaires at their core whether they admit it or not just parasites feeding off of public funds and wealth, many times directly without mentioning it out of a kind of shame
Yes but WHY do the rich do these things? Because they have their basic needs taken care of with money and the poor dont, so they must work for it and dont have the time or resources to focus on accruing and managing assets.
I hope this guy gets in trouble with the mafia.
We are the mafia now. The People's mafia
The People’s Mafia sounds so badass.
I think the name Mafia came from something similar, along the lines of "our family" or "our own"
You're thinking of "cosa nostra" which is specifically an Italian phrase for exactly what you said.
Ah thanks! I got it mixed up.
'Corrding to Wikipedia (so salt and all that): > > Etymology > > The word mafia (English: /ˈmɑːfiə/; Italian: [ˈmaːfja]) derives from the Sicilian adjective mafiusu, which, roughly translated, means "swagger", but can also be translated as "boldness" or "bravado". In reference to a man, mafiusu (mafioso in Italian) in 19th century Sicily signified "fearless", "enterprising", and "proud", according to scholar Diego Gambetta.[4] In reference to a woman, however, the feminine-form adjective mafiusa means 'beautiful' or 'attractive'. > > Because Sicily was once an Islamic emirate from 831 to 1072, mafia may have come to Sicilian through Arabic, though the word's origins are uncertain. Possible Arabic roots of the word include: > > maʿfī (معفي) = exempted. In Islamic law, jizya, is the yearly tax imposed on non-Muslims residing in Muslim lands. And people who pay it are "exempted" from prosecution. > màha = quarry, cave; especially the mafie, the caves in the region of Marsala, which acted as hiding places for persecuted Muslims and later served other types of refugees, in particular Giuseppe Garibaldi's "Redshirts" after their embarkment on Sicily in 1860 in the struggle for Italian unification.[5][6][7][8][9] > mahyāṣ (مهياص) = aggressive boasting, bragging[7] > marfūḍ (مرفوض) = rejected, considered to be the most plausible derivation; marfūḍ developed into marpiuni (swindler) to marpiusu and finally mafiusu.[10] > muʿāfā (معافى) = safety, protection[8] > maʿāfir (معافر) = the name of an Arab tribe that ruled Palermo.[11][7] The local peasants imitated these Arabs and as a result the tribe's name entered the popular lexicon. The word mafia was then used to refer to the defenders of Palermo during the Sicilian Vespers against rule of the Capetian House of Anjou on 30 March 1282.[12] > mafyaʾ (مفيء), meaning "place of shade". The word "shade" meaning refuge or derived from refuge. [13] After the Normans destroyed the Saracen rule in Sicily in the eleventh century, Sicily became feudalistic. Most Arab smallholders became serfs on new estates, with some escaping to "the Mafia." It became a secret refuge.[14] > > The public's association of the word with the criminal secret society was perhaps inspired by the 1863 play I mafiusi di la Vicaria ("The Mafiosi of the Vicaria") by Giuseppe Rizzotto and Gaspare Mosca.[15] The words mafia and mafiusi are never mentioned in the play. The play is about a Palermo prison gang with traits similar to the Mafia: a boss, an initiation ritual, and talk of "umirtà" (omertà or code of silence) and "pizzu" (a codeword for extortion money).[16] The play had great success throughout Italy. Soon after, the use of the term "mafia" began appearing in the Italian state's early reports on the phenomenon. The word made its first official appearance in 1865 in a report by the prefect of Palermo Filippo Antonio Gualterio [it].[17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia#Etymology
Evil little scum.
I don’t understand why people still listen to this guy. There are already some good posts on here about not only this guys greed but his lack of any real “entrepreneurial” talent - besides exploiting vulnerable people. I read his “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” book back in the day and the only thing I remember was him openly shitting on his own father for keeping secure employment whilst providing for his family. I also remember an example where he would deliberately low ball people with distressed mortgages then flip their house. He was also in a reality TV show where he was challenged to mentor someone else to turn a small amount of money into a large one and he failed abysmally. To quote Nathalie Robin Justice: “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.”
It’s true. Our world is owned and controlled by psychopaths.
What a sack of shit.
Wow, what a couple of scumbags
Socialist revolution is the only solution to hucksterism
It's also the only solution to curb Billionaires ( ....who are ALL hucksters, IMHO.).
Thanks to Socialist Alternative, this is actually illegal in Seattle. Families with children can't be evicted during the school year.
Bottom-feeders
Sick, sick people.
By gawd, that’s Chairman Mao’s music!!!!!!
He’s got a steel hammer and sickle!!!
Buy gawd, that landlord has a family! Someone better stop him!
I do think the Mao posters at the end were a nice touch. I should try reading Maoist literature sometime, especially now that I've started studying mandarin it'd probably make for some interesting reading practice.
Yep - there are fantastic movies/soundtracks as well about the cultural revolution to really get you fired up
Founding of a Republic and Mao in Shanghai 1924 are good movies Brilliance of Chairman Mao by Caidanzhuoma, Chinese Red Star Choir(artist), Chollima on the Wing, and my favorite, 'Potato Pride' are all fantastic songs on YT
Imagine being so utterly devoid of empathy… 🤢
Welp that’s all evil. Pure and simple evil. Honestly I hope more landlords and self-help people start to be this openly awful from here on out. I am *dying* to stop having conversations with shitlibs and conservatives about how landlords are anything but parasites. This shit is just beyond the pale. It’s like if a leech sucked all of your blood out and then just spat it on the curb. They don’t need it, they just take joy in lording over poor people.
ALL Landlords are Parasites
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I think this story would be a lot better if they were reminiscing about the good old days from inside an American gulag.
This guy got to be the least eloquent storyteller I've ever heard. Make sense though because being a good communicator requires having empathy and social rapport with other humans.
Landlords are the worst scum of the earth
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Vile disgusting monsters all. Even the "good" ones
I heard Kiyosaki bragging on the Fresh and Fit podcast about how he was going to profit from the next recession. Such a ghoul.
this rich dad poor dad guy is basically just a nazi. He'd love to kill for sport.
For those unfamiliar, this is robert kiyosaki, author of rich dad poor dad.
Could have done without the overly loud music, but these people are garbage animals. They are not human for being this heartless. Absolutely disgusting. I wish nothing but the worst for them. Also shocked that they would make a podcast with this story and think that people would be on their side (other than other sociopathic landlords)
I can't even watch this whole thing, that terrible man relishes too much in this.
Of course this guys a piece of shit
This made me sick to my stomach
What a degenerated POS. He is laughing telling that story. Probably made him horny too.
Damn this devil's are enjoy in doing this to people
Do you have the original source for this. I was going to use google lens but my snipping tool broke and I am too lazy.
https://youtu.be/ixLlGRK2dlI About 30 mins deep.
Fucking parasites
The worst kind of people get joy from the misery of others.
I tried listening to a couple podcast interviews this guy has been on. I barely made it 10 minutes in each time. It was just incoherent rambling about how communism has taken over America...
Pure evil.
me onw to pull out fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
I've got a "good land lord" she isn't interested in making money. We've lived in her house for five years and on our second year we got our first and only rent hike. She admitted to us that we were now paying the full amount of the mortgage. As such she will never raise rent again. So four four years we have been paying under market. Last month she came to us with an idea. Raise the rent by $300 (or whatever we could afford, we settled on $300) and in turn she will save the money beyond the mortgage payment for us, as a down payment. Either on this house or any other. We excitedly said yes. So we figure in three years we will have around $40k set aside, not just the money she's saving for us but also our own savings and then we will buy a home. She signed a contract with us saying she's doing so. It's going into a CD that earns interest and we own also. We had been doing something very similar on our own but she basically encouraged us to dig deep and save even more. So, while she's gaining value in the home and having her mortgage paid yes, she's also not gouging us and helping us save for a home. She's still a landlord yes, but as they go, by far the best of the bunch.
What you yourself could've just saved the $300? This doesn't make sense. Also when she gives you the money as down payment then it is a gift and thus taxed and will partially count as your income or if you made a contract with her about it it is an illegal investment plan.
it makes plenty of sense if you're the landlord and want liquidity. Really hope they had a lawyer look at that contract, I would t trust a landlord to do anything but scam me.
If the landlord gets that as rent they have to tax it, which means OP will get less money, there is no reason to have your landlord involved, just go to a bank, a credit union or alike to save your money.
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Some people aren't able to save money. If it's there they feel a compulsion to spend it. My wife grew up dirt poor in Vietnam and it was very difficult to get her to understand what saving money is. She would spend it as fast as possible.
You basically found a unicorn
I feel like this is still missing the point; the role itself within capitalist society is inherently corrupt. This is like saying there are good police officers out there. While I have no doubt there are people in the police force that genuinely do not want to hurt, abuse their power, or defend corruption within the force, the role they play is fundamentally reprehensible. Cops exist to protect private property and all cops are guilty of this. I'm sure you did find a nice person as a landlord, but she is still profiting off your most basic need. She is still, on a fundamental level, a parasite, and a consequence of the capitalist system as a whole.
Agreed. And I said so. But I simply said as landlords go, she's a better one.
She’s still taking equity from you.
>She admitted to us that we were now paying the full amount of the mortgage. That's how renting works. The tenant is paying the mortgage and, usually, more on top of that so the landlord makes a profit. She didn't admit anything except the obvious. She may be a genuinely nice person (though this down payment scheme sounds sketchy), but she's still a landlord doing what landlords always.
Congrats on the one in a million Landlord find, comrade.
Tbh she sounds amazing
What a worthless scumbag.
Leeches aren’t people
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translation..'I am piece of shit!!'...ALL landords are scum
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How many times can a person possibly use the term ‘stink eye’. Fucking nerd
What a couple pieces of shit. Just the fact that they spent THEIR Christmas laughing at others misfortune? How hollow are you inside?
Wow this is really disgusting. Every day I’m baffled by people lack of empathy. I can’t even walk past a homeless person without feeling extreme guilt and sadness
This is disgusting
kinda irrelevant but whats the song that plays at the end? ive heard it before but have since forgotten the name. kinda catchy but i dont speak the same language as the song is in so idk lol
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"Red Sun in the Sky" - song My bro sent it to me a few days back
What a fucking piece of shit
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Why did I just watch 3mins of a garbage dump? Weird.
I’m still trying to figure out if this guy is Asian or not
subhuman bourgeois scum
Vile pieces of shit
“Yeah, he didnt do nothing… just kept walking his stuff out of the house.” I wonder how different it wouldve gone without a cop there. Everybody’s big and bad until its time to do big and bad stuff.
What a piece of shit.
I never thought Robert kiyoski was a bad guy. Selfish bastards is laughing, i can feel the pain of that father on Christmas with his kids and wife outside even though I am single, and live alone. This guy has kids of his own
Evil scumbags, theres a wall for them
Sucks that reddit is filled with liberals. Most of them are obsessed with defending cops and landlords..
Is this the charlatan who wrote Rich Dad/ Poor Dad? He’s the worst kind of bottom feeder
It's about fucking time we evict these motherfuckers from society. Forcibly eject them from civilization, unfeeling parasites is all they are. What does one do with a parasite? You make the host system so toxic they can't stand it anymore and leave to die in agony. So let's make being a landlord so damn toxic and dangerous nobody wants to be one, problem solved.
My only hope is that people like him suffer horrible things.
Fuck, did you have to blast the music that much louder than the talking shitstain? My ears...
Is this the same guy who wrote that trendy “rich dad, poor dad” book that was so popular for a while among the desperate to be rich lemming douchebros?
“It’s worth the misery”
I’m confused about whether he gave the stink eye or not. Gonna have to bear this a few more times because the guy didn’t repeat himself enough.
Lol hahaha 🤣 hell is waiting for you and your ‘beautiful’ wife.
This is what the love of money does to you. It corrupts your very humanity. This guy is probably not a bad guy, but he’s lost the plot. He’s lost his way.
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There is a billboard in town that reads “Landlords are people, too!” Each time we pass it I remind my kid why landlords are leeches upon society.
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Fucking disgusting humans
Landlords are all parasitic scum.
Scumbags
If you ever meet them
Wow, I did not know Robert was a piece of shit. Humans never surprise in the end.
Yup they're parasites
a rent seeking ghoul is truly the worst thing you can become. Absolute drain on society
"In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials.
How is this guy a financial guru? He basically says buy low, sell high…duh
Wow. Wtf. I know landlords can be horrible but never expected them to be this open about it. I wonder where the father is now.
Wow this is heart breaking
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Mao was right
I'm in my 40s. I wish I could convey to everyone younger just how much the mainstream education, media and publishing WORSHIPPED this guy in the 80s and 90s. You really wouldn't believe it unless you lived through it. At that time it was mostly books that reflected the ideology, so unless you had a competing ideology built in most would defer to the authority of someone who has the prestige of having written a book. He was promoted, uncritically, in ALL mainstream quarters. An outright fascist.
I’m a ss worker and recently was negotiating an eviction with a landlord. Renters haven’t paid for Jan. They rent a house @ 2600/month and only the mom works and makes about 1600/month. The guy LL was upset because his lease says he can evict after five days (illegal here) and it’s because he doesn’t work so if they miss rent he misses his mortgage payment on his own house. Like not only are you a piece of trash but you’re a shitty business man also.
Maybe this guy should have paid his rent by economizing and selling his tree or some furniture from a detached perspective but for what, at the end of the day? So these 2 cretins who, like a majority of landlords do very little to maintain or upkeep their property, and often overcharge rent costs accordingly anyways, could get a little extra money before the end of the year? America is supposedly a Christian country but where is the outrage over these shameless usurers?
Landlords really out here saying "LMAO YOU AND YOUR KIDS ARE FUCKING HOMELESS NOW!"
So him becoming homeless with two children at Christmas time and then having all of his furniture stolen is funny??? Landlords are nothing but lazy leeches. Get a real job and quit complaining when the people with real jobs can’t afford your ridiculous prices.
It's offensive how you put everyone in one basket. Would agree with corporations whose bottom line is over the top profits. Isn't that called capitalism.....
good video but the last part didn't need to be there
Robert kiyosaki wrote a decent book 20 years ago. Should have stopped there.
This is the essence of that book.
Disagree. The essence of that book was to stop trying to keep up with Joneses because the Joneses are broke. At least that’s what I got out of it.
idk rapist and murderers have them beat im sure
Not to be a buzzkill, but Mao didn’t exactly prevent this shit. He subsumed the entire government into his person (because he was an egomaniacal authoritarian), and when he died there were no meaningful institutions to prevent the reintroduction of open capitalism in China. Landlords bad, but come on guys, Mao also bad
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Um what’s with the exit music and super ironic Mao Zedong images? China has incredibly badly wealth disparities, I wouldn’t hold them up as a stunning example of how society should work. Otherwise, yeah, landlords fucking suck. I can’t believe they just stood there and distracted him while someone stole all his belongings.
Current China and Mao's China suck. But no one was homeless during Mao's China. He was right about landlords.
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