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Mr Rule (files.catbox.moe)
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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 8 points 7 hours ago

This feels like its taken out of context

But he also said dumb things like the youtube algorithm being perfect so maybe its not taken out of context

[-] wisely@feddit.org 57 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Life is much simpler being a regular middle class kid living with your parents than an adult millionaire everyone knows and expects money from. He never knew what actually being broke and responsible for yourself or a family as an adult was.

[-] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 37 points 14 hours ago

Ha. He told us he's never been broke without telling us he's never been broke.

[-] BillWigly@kbin.earth 43 points 15 hours ago

if it's so much easier then just give away every penny why dontcha? oh he only 'gives' for content

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

He gives for profit.

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 107 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

He could sell all his assets, purchase a middle class house in cash, and probably retire and have absolutely nothing to do if he wanted to and be set for life

This guy can go fuck himself

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

no such thing as middle class, never has been. that's a fairy tale told by the ruling class

[-] prole 40 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The petite bourgeoisie is/was real. Not sure if it's the same thing as what people refer to as "middle class," but it is a separate "class" of people who's interests mostly lie with the proletariat, yet their small business or whatever makes them believe and act as though they're part of the owner class.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

it is a separate “class” of people who’s interests mostly lie with the proletariat, yet their small business or whatever makes them believe and act as though they’re part of the owner class.

We are saying the same thing. It is a con the ruling class run on us to make us betray our interests. It's a lie we tell ourselves because we don't want to believe we're in the "lowest" class. It's a wedge intending to cleave our solidarity.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

The merchant class was certainly a thing after the black plague.

They had enough wealth that they had political influence.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 13 hours ago

here in sweden at least we specifically had 4 classes around that time: Nobility, priests, bourgeoise/merchants, and farmers. Bougies were defined by being allowed to run businesses in cities, as farmers in sweden largely kept to themselves outside of cities and basically only interacted with the other classes during specific occasions like selling/buying things in the city or doing legal stuff or more significant religious things.

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 14 hours ago

Middle-class didn't even used to be defined by wealth, it was the class of people who worked for themselves, so anyone from a blacksmith to a doctor, tradesman to professional. The idea was that they didn't have a "boss" to report to, do they were more free to speak thier mind.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 17 points 15 hours ago

There's a strata of workers in the imperial core that are elevated above other workers by the distribution of superprofits. A white collar supervisor isn't bourgeois, but they aren't proletarian either. Hence, middle class.

[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

That white collar supervisor is part of the proletarian. They are selling their labor to make a living.

You're right about stratification of society based on income when it comes to us proles though. Some of us have nicer toys and living places but we still need to work to survive unlike the bourgeois that make their money by capital investment (ie: they make more money with the money they have and don't actually need to labor).

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

That supervisor has a distinct relationship with the means of production compared with other workers. His job (you'll notice this strata of workers are almost always white men) is to extract the surplus value from other actual workers, and because of this he is actually being paid the full value of his labor. This makes his class position distinct from other workers.

That's why you don't tell the supervisor about the union until it's too late for him to stop you.

[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Yeah I hear you I'm just saying those dudes are part of the proles and you need necessary to buy in from them in an organization for anything to really change.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They're bourgeoisified by their relationship to the means of production. They are paid the full value of their labor through bonuses and high wages and stock option, they don't need unions and we don't need them.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 22 points 14 hours ago

Well you know what they say: mo money, mo problems.

Which can be extrapolated to no money, no problems. Right?

Right???

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 45 points 16 hours ago

Even if I were being charitable to say what he meant was not being famous is easier, it's still such a backhanded remark to make - I'd rather deal with the problems of fame than the looming threat of the poverty line any day of the week.

[-] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 12 hours ago

The thing is, in this age, fame is a choice (to those it is given to). He has enough money to retire into obscurity, living a simple life of comfort. He chooses not not to.

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

What he means is it would be a lot easier for him to have adult conversations with underage children on the internet if everyone wasn't always watching him. How's he going to buy and hang cartoon CP on the walls if he's poor though?

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 points 13 hours ago

Where I'm from, if you're evicted at any time during the 9-10 months of winter you'll probably die unless you find another place in time which can be incredibly difficult and risky depending on why you were evicted.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

Learning about idol scenes and how hardcore it is to be an idol makes me feel very uncomfortable, but I somehow find Mr Beast to be a fish worth this ocean. He's somehow uniquely compatible with what youtube wants now, and I doubt it's stirs him wrong. In my mind, he echoes what other creators feel about all that bs.

[-] PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago

Top tier punchable face

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 84 points 18 hours ago

Real "Marie Antoinette having an entire fake rustic village built to pretend to be a peasant for a day" energy.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 29 points 16 hours ago

Honestly less relatable even than that. At least Marie Antoinette had very little contact to the outside world, so her sheltered life makes sense. Mr. Beast has no such excuse.

[-] spooky2092 41 points 18 hours ago

"Living is so much easier when you've been stabbed 37 times"

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

A man after my own shiv

[-] SnotFlickerman 4 points 14 hours ago

37... In a row???

[-] hungryphrog 134 points 21 hours ago

Quick, let's help him out! Take all his money to make his life easier!

[-] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 7 points 16 hours ago

I think Good Charlotte published a how to guide a few years ago

[-] Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world 61 points 20 hours ago

"ah yes there goes Sisyphus rolling his solid gold boulder up his hill, that he owns btw.."

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 14 points 20 hours ago

Sisyphus was a king so this is probably accurate

[-] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 34 points 19 hours ago

The only thing making his life difficult is his constant need for attention

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 19 hours ago

Literally this. He could retire comfortably at literally any time. He's choosing not to.

[-] FMT99@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago

This is why he keeps running his crypto scams. He's hoping that will lose him money so he can be poor again.

[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 17 hours ago

Nope, not at all. He wants all of us to be broke, and therefore live on easy mode. A true altruist if ever there's been one.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 9 points 16 hours ago

lol. This is exactly what rich people say. I take it this guy's a millionaire ?

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

Its not the money that makes it harder its the being known by everyone. But having too much money can be more of a burden in theory. (I'll let you know when I make it if its that bad chat.)

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 19 hours ago

Hey, isn't that one of the five guys? Or is it a different Nathan?

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 18 hours ago

This is game journalist and co-founder of aftermath.site Nathan.

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