Why People Are Freaking Out About Kylie Jenner, Elon Musk, & Hank Green.
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Date: 2019-11-01
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Syl
People don't often realize how much money a billion dollars is. It's such a big number, that we can't even comprehend it. We often think being a billionaire is just one step up from being a millionare. Here's a little comparison to help understand how much a billion dollars really is. If someone gave you a million dollars and you spent 1, 000 dollars a day, it would take you almost three years to run out. If you had a billion, it'd take you 2, 740 years to run out of money. Elon musk as TWENTY billion. With that much, it'd take 54, 800 years to run out Nobody needs that much money. Nobody deserves that much money. You could work hard all you life and never earn that much money. You can't get that money on your own. You get it by profiting off of the work of others, it comes form work you didn't do. You might be paying your employees, but you're taking most of the wealth they earn form their labor. You aren't helping them so much as they're helping you. Nobody is doing anyone a favor by being a billionaire. Yeah they donate, but only to make themselves look good and they have so much money donating a couple million is nothing to them, it seems like alot to us, but in proportion if I donated just a couple dollarsit'd be way more in proportion to my wealth than if they donated a million. It's alot to us but nothing to them. They have so much left to give and they keep it all, leaving less for others. The richer the rich get, the poorer the poor get. It's just basic logic, because they have so much there's not enough to go around. If they really cared they'd give it all away and just keep what they need.
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People don't often realize how much money a billion dollars is. It's such a big number, that we can't even comprehend it. We often think being a billionaire is just one step up from being a millionare. Here's a little comparison to help understand how much a billion dollars really is. If someone gave you a million dollars and you spent 1, 000 dollars a day, it would take you almost three years to run out. If you had a billion, it'd take you 2, 740 years to run out of money. Elon musk as TWENTY billion. With that much, it'd take 54, 800 years to run out Nobody needs that much money. Nobody deserves that much money. You could work hard all you life and never earn that much money. You can't get that money on your own. You get it by profiting off of the work of others, it comes form work you didn't do. You might be paying your employees, but you're taking most of the wealth they earn form their labor. You aren't helping them so much as they're helping you. Nobody is doing anyone a favor by being a billionaire. Yeah they donate, but only to make themselves look good and they have so much money donating a couple million is nothing to them, it seems like alot to us, but in proportion if I donated just a couple dollarsit'd be way more in proportion to my wealth than if they donated a million. It's alot to us but nothing to them. They have so much left to give and they keep it all, leaving less for others. The richer the rich get, the poorer the poor get. It's just basic logic, because they have so much there's not enough to go around. If they really cared they'd give it all away and just keep what they need.
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Jess T
Forbes is a financial magazine. When they say self-made, they know what they're saying. They mean not born a billionaire, i. e. someone who earned their fortune regardless of the level of effort it took to get it. They can't say that she's the world's youngest billionaire (without specifying self-made) because every child born to a billionaire is a billionaire. So the world's youngest not-self-made billionaire would be the most recently born child to a billionaire family. The Kardashians, however untalented and privileged you think they are, were never billionaires. Not even close. Even Kim, who made Kylie famous in the first place, is only worth 350 million. So with all the privilege and opportunity Kim has-which is more than Kylie considering she's the one who put her family on the map and is also married to a super famous multimillionaire, and also has the advantage of age and wisdom over Kylie--has only been able to garner 1/3 of Kylie's net value. And Kylie has done it over the last 3 years with her cosmetics company. Kim has been famous and rich for over a decade and in that time has not been able to get to billionaire status. Kylie's self made. Was she INCREDIBLY privileged? Absolutely. But she wasn't born into the money. Her father was, at best, worth 5 million when she was born. And her mother was relatively unknown and had no speakable worth until after Kim blew up. Even if Kaitlin Jenner gave Kylie every cent she had, going from 5 million to a billion is a 20, 000% increase. That's just math, people.
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Forbes is a financial magazine. When they say self-made, they know what they're saying. They mean not born a billionaire, i. e. someone who earned their fortune regardless of the level of effort it took to get it. They can't say that she's the world's youngest billionaire (without specifying self-made) because every child born to a billionaire is a billionaire. So the world's youngest not-self-made billionaire would be the most recently born child to a billionaire family. The Kardashians, however untalented and privileged you think they are, were never billionaires. Not even close. Even Kim, who made Kylie famous in the first place, is only worth 350 million. So with all the privilege and opportunity Kim has-which is more than Kylie considering she's the one who put her family on the map and is also married to a super famous multimillionaire, and also has the advantage of age and wisdom over Kylie--has only been able to garner 1/3 of Kylie's net value. And Kylie has done it over the last 3 years with her cosmetics company. Kim has been famous and rich for over a decade and in that time has not been able to get to billionaire status. Kylie's self made. Was she INCREDIBLY privileged? Absolutely. But she wasn't born into the money. Her father was, at best, worth 5 million when she was born. And her mother was relatively unknown and had no speakable worth until after Kim blew up. Even if Kaitlin Jenner gave Kylie every cent she had, going from 5 million to a billion is a 20, 000% increase. That's just math, people.
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Rayne Drops
I've never disagreed more with Phil than on his stances within this video. I don't think you can call somebody who's born into a millionaire family self-made in any sense, unless they're somehow accomplishing something they were not born into the position to do. Also, I'm glad Elon has created jobs, but he did not do so out of a place of altruism, but out of a desire to earn money. Elon trying to take on a savior-type of role would be disingenuous because if those were his real intentions, he would not still have billions of dollars to his name. He would have acted upon that altruism more fully. There are so, so many people dying and suffering daily because of poverty, diseases, and other public health issues, that it is extremely sickening to see a very select few sitting on a pile of more money than they could ever spend. What have you done? can be responded with to him: What more can you do? I don't think our definition of success should be who has the most money. It's a toxic ideology that fuels ridiculous socioeconomic and health disparities; the existence of billionaires like Elon Musk and Kylie Jenner juxtaposed next to those who are dying in complete and utter poverty, without a chance to ever really live, really encapsulates a lot of what is wrong with the world. So I'm sorry Phil, but Kylie is not self-made and Elon is not our savior being a 'job creator. '
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I've never disagreed more with Phil than on his stances within this video. I don't think you can call somebody who's born into a millionaire family self-made in any sense, unless they're somehow accomplishing something they were not born into the position to do. Also, I'm glad Elon has created jobs, but he did not do so out of a place of altruism, but out of a desire to earn money. Elon trying to take on a savior-type of role would be disingenuous because if those were his real intentions, he would not still have billions of dollars to his name. He would have acted upon that altruism more fully. There are so, so many people dying and suffering daily because of poverty, diseases, and other public health issues, that it is extremely sickening to see a very select few sitting on a pile of more money than they could ever spend. What have you done? can be responded with to him: What more can you do? I don't think our definition of success should be who has the most money. It's a toxic ideology that fuels ridiculous socioeconomic and health disparities; the existence of billionaires like Elon Musk and Kylie Jenner juxtaposed next to those who are dying in complete and utter poverty, without a chance to ever really live, really encapsulates a lot of what is wrong with the world. So I'm sorry Phil, but Kylie is not self-made and Elon is not our savior being a 'job creator. '
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Angel Villa
Honestly is this what we're going to be talking about right now when it comes to the kardashian-jenner family? Are we literally going to change the definition of self-made just to elevate someone's ego? We Are a family who thrives on controversy who made their Fortune on controversy it's not impressive it's borderline prophetic to every hard-working millionaire or billionaire who has literally made it on their own from nothing. Even if she did succeed which is very likely because at this point it becomes one of those Amy Schumerisms where if you don't support her or think this is a good thing you're a woman-hater, she can claim to be self-made but the majority of people who have common sense will always remind her you are not self-made you were born into the 1% she's literally made a living off of profiting off of insecure girls and women who think that beautiful is something that can be purchased and people are just okay with it instead of doing something about it it's become socially acceptable too literally profit off of people's insecurities.
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Honestly is this what we're going to be talking about right now when it comes to the kardashian-jenner family? Are we literally going to change the definition of self-made just to elevate someone's ego? We Are a family who thrives on controversy who made their Fortune on controversy it's not impressive it's borderline prophetic to every hard-working millionaire or billionaire who has literally made it on their own from nothing. Even if she did succeed which is very likely because at this point it becomes one of those Amy Schumerisms where if you don't support her or think this is a good thing you're a woman-hater, she can claim to be self-made but the majority of people who have common sense will always remind her you are not self-made you were born into the 1% she's literally made a living off of profiting off of insecure girls and women who think that beautiful is something that can be purchased and people are just okay with it instead of doing something about it it's become socially acceptable too literally profit off of people's insecurities.
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Nihilarity
Billionaires like Musk do hoard wealth, or at least waste it on vanity projects and flamethrowers. We don't live in a world where resources go where they are most needed, and worshipping those who are best at playing the acquisition game is something I personally find very distasteful. Whether it's Musk and his 'engineering' (he doesn't seem to have any qualifications in this field, or Jenner and her business slapping her name on something someone else made, the fact is that the system we exist in is horribly unequal and iniquitious. There are of course many extremely wealthy people (e. g. Bill Gates) who seem pretty decent and use their economic power to right some of the world's wrongs, but let's not go licking their anuses either. These just-world fallacies people use to justify extreme wealth lead to political discourses that lionise the winners of the game and denigrate the losers, and to policies that pull the ladder up to reinforce inequalities. This is the reason America has a Trump in charge.
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Billionaires like Musk do hoard wealth, or at least waste it on vanity projects and flamethrowers. We don't live in a world where resources go where they are most needed, and worshipping those who are best at playing the acquisition game is something I personally find very distasteful. Whether it's Musk and his 'engineering' (he doesn't seem to have any qualifications in this field, or Jenner and her business slapping her name on something someone else made, the fact is that the system we exist in is horribly unequal and iniquitious. There are of course many extremely wealthy people (e. g. Bill Gates) who seem pretty decent and use their economic power to right some of the world's wrongs, but let's not go licking their anuses either. These just-world fallacies people use to justify extreme wealth lead to political discourses that lionise the winners of the game and denigrate the losers, and to policies that pull the ladder up to reinforce inequalities. This is the reason America has a Trump in charge.
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Sp0ng3
Elon Musk used a pretty poor argument to counteract the claim that he was consuming too many resources. Sure he makes thousands of jobs and indirectly supports tons of families that way. However that still doesn't justify him having billions of dollars. He could probably get by just as well with a fraction of his current wealth. Erin wasn't wrong by claiming Elon was hoarding resources. Also just because Erin hasn't contributed as much into the world as Elon doesn't make her point invalid. Also the idea that famous people shouldn't be able to publicly criticize persons with far less fame isn't completely unfounded. I did a quick google search and according to Erin's twitter feed she has been getting hundreds of Elon fan boys tweeting hurtful messages toward her. Elon isn't to blame for his fan boys being garbage but he also should exercise caution considering the fact he probably knows they exist.
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Elon Musk used a pretty poor argument to counteract the claim that he was consuming too many resources. Sure he makes thousands of jobs and indirectly supports tons of families that way. However that still doesn't justify him having billions of dollars. He could probably get by just as well with a fraction of his current wealth. Erin wasn't wrong by claiming Elon was hoarding resources. Also just because Erin hasn't contributed as much into the world as Elon doesn't make her point invalid. Also the idea that famous people shouldn't be able to publicly criticize persons with far less fame isn't completely unfounded. I did a quick google search and according to Erin's twitter feed she has been getting hundreds of Elon fan boys tweeting hurtful messages toward her. Elon isn't to blame for his fan boys being garbage but he also should exercise caution considering the fact he probably knows they exist.
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Thevideogamechallenger
Why do people hate it so much when people don't share their money? By that logic everyone should donate to charity, and even though we should, not everyone does. Billionaires nor people with less wealth. I hate it when people say people with a lot of money are criticized when they earned more than someone else with a less fortunate job. The difference was they had the opportunity to get the job and money, and were smart about things. If billionaires would share their stuff charities and people who are dying because of money issues, cool, but they way people say it or phrase it just comes off as jealousy to me and pettiness. To me it sounds like, You got the red balloon while i got the poor blue one? Why dont you share it with the rest of us?
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Why do people hate it so much when people don't share their money? By that logic everyone should donate to charity, and even though we should, not everyone does. Billionaires nor people with less wealth. I hate it when people say people with a lot of money are criticized when they earned more than someone else with a less fortunate job. The difference was they had the opportunity to get the job and money, and were smart about things. If billionaires would share their stuff charities and people who are dying because of money issues, cool, but they way people say it or phrase it just comes off as jealousy to me and pettiness. To me it sounds like, You got the red balloon while i got the poor blue one? Why dont you share it with the rest of us?
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Tre da 5'9
I don't hate her for her success but she is not self-made. She is a member of the most famous (or infamous) family in the world, and the only reason she is selling her cosmetics is because of her family name. If she did not have that platform given to her by her sisters and mother nobody would know who she is and nobody would know about her products. Not to mention, if a regular person did this there would be no way that they could own 100% of the business because they would have had to seek investment to get it off the ground, something Kylie didn't have to do because she was born into extreme eealth. This is the exact same as Trump claiming that he was self-made
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I don't hate her for her success but she is not self-made. She is a member of the most famous (or infamous) family in the world, and the only reason she is selling her cosmetics is because of her family name. If she did not have that platform given to her by her sisters and mother nobody would know who she is and nobody would know about her products. Not to mention, if a regular person did this there would be no way that they could own 100% of the business because they would have had to seek investment to get it off the ground, something Kylie didn't have to do because she was born into extreme eealth. This is the exact same as Trump claiming that he was self-made
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Answering Machine
I liked Elon Musk in the past, but recently he have been becoming arrogant and have his head up his ass. Yes he created jobs and his company created useful products, but he would not be there without all the other scientist and engineers in his company. The credit of the success of his company should not all just be given to him. Google created so many products and services that improves all our lives and create lots of jobs, but you don't see Larry Page or Sergey Brin going around bragging about creating jobs. It feels like Elon Musk is following the footsteps of Thomas Edison instead of Nikola Tesla which his company is named after.
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I liked Elon Musk in the past, but recently he have been becoming arrogant and have his head up his ass. Yes he created jobs and his company created useful products, but he would not be there without all the other scientist and engineers in his company. The credit of the success of his company should not all just be given to him. Google created so many products and services that improves all our lives and create lots of jobs, but you don't see Larry Page or Sergey Brin going around bragging about creating jobs. It feels like Elon Musk is following the footsteps of Thomas Edison instead of Nikola Tesla which his company is named after.
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