4.6 • 682 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. There's a viral video that I want to have you guys weigh in on. So James, set this up for us because we've not seen it yet. So what's going on? Yeah, I came up in one of our content meetings this morning, and it seemed like the perfect thing for you because it revolves around work. |
0:22.6 | Okay. |
0:23.6 | And it's one of those things that you watch it once and you have a certain reaction and then as it sinks in you're kind of like, there's a deeper thing there. |
0:28.6 | So I didn't want to set it up too much more than that. |
0:30.6 | Great. |
0:31.6 | All right. Let's roll it. |
0:33.6 | Work until we have to die just for the privilege of being alive. We have to work somewhere just to afford a house that we're never at because we're working to afford the house. Is the meaning of life to work and pay taxes and then die? On top of that, we also have to work to afford our vehicle to get to work in other places and afford gas just to get to work. And we also have to pay taxes for our roads to drive on to get to |
0:55.5 | work and then we have to work for our children to go to school to learn how to work so our children |
1:01.1 | know how to work for their children so that their children can go to school and go to work like somebody |
1:05.7 | tell me that this is fair like is it lazy to just want to enjoy life like Like, why do we have to work? Why? I'm stressed. |
1:14.2 | I just check my student loans because I need. Interesting. So this went viral, you said? Yeah, okay. |
1:20.7 | Well, okay, couple things. John, I can see the tendency for some to just, you know, lay into this young lady and the snowflakeery and |
1:32.2 | these things. And I've seen some of these before and have made those comments, but I got something |
1:37.8 | a little different here. I don't see lazy, spoiled entitlement, although I could understand if some see that. I see a little |
1:49.9 | bit of desperation, and I think I see a whole lot of no understanding. And that's not her fault. |
1:56.3 | Here's what I mean by that. I don't think the adults in her life, and I'm not just laying out the parents here, |
2:02.7 | but we adults in her life, whoever we is, we've not done a good job of explaining that there |
2:09.5 | is contribution that is involved with work. Yes, we've got to work for provision. Does that suck? |
2:17.7 | Sort of, kind of, if that's the way you look at it, right? |
2:21.6 | But I didn't see, I saw sadness. |
2:24.9 | I saw a lack of, what is the whole point of all this? |
2:29.0 | I want to enjoy it. |
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