July 18, 2025 • 12 mins
Most of us have an opinion on something we really have no knowledge of. I'm gonna just give an example of when you actually take the time to read something beyond the headline, it might actually be different than you thought.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Calls media. Okay, you are more than welcome to. As
a matter of fact, I'm begging you to send this
to the homies. Okay, that's why this one's on video.
There's another hood of politics tapping, you know how well,
let me say it better like this. When I was
a kid, especially in high school, you know, during the
(00:25):
height of my back, my rapidy, backpacker, underground years. The
thing is I would feel really embarrassed about not knowing
a group they was talking about, or had not heard
the album that they were talking about, and I would
just lie, just be like, oh yeah, nah, I heard it.
(00:45):
That one slaps. I still think people do that now,
But I remember feeling like if I didn't know this
song or that song, and I would pretend like I
knew the words. I tease. People are real about people
not knowing the words of songs, you know what I'm saying,
Like it was some sort of sign of your part
(01:08):
of the end group. On the other hand, you know,
there are groups, bands, whatever that you was just not
supposed to like, like this whole absolute disdain for Nickelback.
I know I'm old, but I don't know of any
new bands that you absolutely absolutely are supposed to despise.
(01:30):
The point I'm trying to make is you ever really
heard a Nickelback album. So it's okay if you haven't.
It's just before you make your decision. I'm just saying
you should listen to it. I feel the same about politics.
(01:53):
The worst thing you could be in America is a
communist or a Marxist. Now let me ask you this.
You ever read any Karl Marx? Do you really understand
his position on labor? Tap in with me. So this
(02:22):
is my encouragement maybe to just do a little bit
of homework. Okay. Now, I'm not asking you to become
a chairman, mile out this mug. I'm not asking you
to stop momentum in the ways for which you have
been growing and feeding your family or yourself. I'm not
asking you to do that. I'm just saying, before you
start deciding what this boogeyman is, just read a little bit. Now.
(02:45):
What I don't want to do to Carl Marx is
what Donald Trump has done with the Big Beautiful Bill Act,
which is saying you have to take everything on this
menu or none of it. My grandma was like that.
When she used to cook, she would say this is
what I'm made. You either have this or sleep. I'll
(03:05):
be like, Okay, first of all, it's like ten of
us here, so like, I don't understand why I can't
just have the ribs and hold off on a mac
and cheese. You either had a whole plate or none
of the plate. I'm not gonna do that to you.
About Karl Marx. K that's what Trump did with the
big beautiful bill. You had to take everything. I'm just
going to drop in on, let's just say some of
(03:29):
his labor theories. Okay. Essentially Marxism kind of works like this.
The workers own the means of manufacturing, meaning if I
made it, I should own a piece of you. See
how simple that is. Now, if you grew up in
any sort of church, you were supposed to believe that
Marxism was godless. I'm not gonna make you take the
(03:51):
whole menu. I'm just gonna like, have you just consider this. Okay, Feudalism,
you guys, Feudalism surf dumb, the thing that was before capitalism. Now,
please don't confuse which I've said this before. Capitalism with commerce,
Commerce is just buying and selling stuff. You make something,
(04:12):
you sell it, that's commerce. Capitalism is a whole different infrastructure.
But let's go back to feudalism. Right. You live on
this vassal of land owned by some sort of noble right,
And none of the main characters in any of our
medieval shows or turn of the century shows are the
(04:32):
people that live on these lands. The main characters are
the owners of the lands, right, the network of incestuous
born children who believe that because they born in this situation,
that they somehow divine and supposed to be owning this land. Anyway,
(04:53):
it works like this. You got some pigs, you got
some animals, you got some vegetables. You grow your vegetables
as your herds. You live off what you created. But
remember you don't own these lands. These lands are owned
by some sort of noblemen. Right, So what you do
is you pay a little bit of tribute to that
noble person. Right. Sometimes those tributes were predatory, right, you know,
(05:20):
but generally speaking it worked like I was feudalism. Right.
You have all these different lands. You work the land,
the lands owned by a certain person. That person takes
tribute for our percentage of whatever you've grown, right, whatever
you were able to take to the market and sell. Right.
So I created this product. I'm a blacksmith. I made
(05:41):
this product right. Or I got these animals. I grew
these animals. Right. I pay a percentage to the nobleman,
and then I go to the bizarre or the market,
and I buy and sell and trade and whatever money
I make, right, I may pay percentage back to the
(06:01):
to the nobleman. But the thing is the fruit of
my labor was the product, and I own the product
because I worked for the product. Now granted it came
out of somebody else's land, and I'm paying for the
usage of that land, if you will. But what I'm
(06:22):
selling is the object that I created or that I've grown.
Makes sense, It's feudalism. Now what capitalism came in and
did is said that. Okay, listen, I am not buying
the product you created. I am purchasing your time. Does
(06:45):
that make sense? And the market says your eight hours,
your hour of time is worth a dollar amount. I
put a dollar amount on your life, yo, yo, time
is worth this much, and that is what I'm buying. Right.
You go to work and they pay you not for
the product you created, but for your time because you
(07:07):
don't own the product the company does. Does that make sense?
You are getting compensated not for the product you created,
but for the time it took to make that product. Now,
the return on that investment for the owner the corporation
is ten times yours what your eight hours produced. If
(07:31):
you just let's say you just work in a retail store,
you made two hundred three, three hundred and fifty dollars.
They made thirty thousand dollars based on all the products
they were. Well, they were the ones that paid for
the pieces, the materials and stuff like that. Okay, fine,
I'm just saying what capitalism says is what I am
(07:55):
buying and trading is not the product but the person's labor.
I am buying your labor, and what you are getting
out of that is your paycheck. This seems a bit
unjust to Karl Mars, because he's like, well, then how
(08:15):
come workers got to work check to check and I'm
actually working harder, right, but owners are in private jets.
What he was saying is there's got to be a
way to fix that discrepancy. It seems like for the
same product, which is your time, they are making billions.
(08:40):
You are making a couple hundred, but it's your time.
You sold your time to this company. He was saying,
this is a flaw on capitalism. He was like, look,
capitalism has requires people willing to sell their time. You
have to have someone here that's willing to now check
this out. If you were the business owner in the beginning,
(09:05):
you were selling your own time right in hopes to
get a return on your work, and the return is
the success of your business. But when your business started succeeding,
you had to buy someone else's time. They are not
getting the same rewards as you are because you worked longer.
It's because you work harder. I don't know. All Karl
(09:26):
Marx was saying is I think this is unjust because
you wouldn't be that wealthy if you weren't buying at
a fraction of the cost these people's time. Does that
make sense. I'm buying your time, Daddy, come home exhausted,
(09:49):
You barely know your children. You missed out on all
these things because you had to go work, and most
of us got to go work two three foe jobs. Right.
He was saying, this is a flaw in this. So
one of his suggestions was I don't know the answer,
but just maybe maybe the workers should get more of
(10:14):
an incentive on their time. Maybe they should own a
part of the product that they made, because I mean,
they didn't make it. You wouldn't have a company if
nobody was making your products. Sure, you bought the materials,
but that's what you did. You paid for those materials,
and you gotta return on your investment. Okay, Well, what
(10:36):
you're gonna do with those materials unless you got people
to work your factories? Okay, so you gave me the product,
and I'm gonna work the product. But I don't own
what I just made. And I don't think Mark is
saying I should own all of it. He's just saying
it just seemed like this, the gap between the two
just feel a little like this is this is only
(11:03):
going to cause problems in the future. You are going
to inevitably have people periodically rebel because they see how
well you live in and how hard they live in.
That's just it's just one of his theories. Now again,
(11:25):
I'm not saying I'm really trying to radicalize y'all into
becoming Marxists. But what I am saying is, before you
decide this is a great evil, you should read something.
That's all I'm saying is just is read it. You
(11:46):
know why I understood Project twenty twenty five because I Reddit.
You know why a lot of these Republicans were surprised
on this big, beautiful bill it will act because they
ain't read it. Now. Granted, did I read it all? No?
(12:08):
Have I read it everything Karl Marx has written. No.
I'm just saying, before you decide something is incredible or
you're a fan of, or it's the great evil, just
read a little bit. Tap in with me.
Calls media. Okay, you are more than welcome to. As
a matter of fact, I'm begging you to send this
to the homies. Okay, that's why this one's on video.
There's another hood of politics tapping, you know how well,
let me say it better like this. When I was
a kid, especially in high school, you know, during the
(00:25):
height of my back, my rapidy, backpacker, underground years. The
thing is I would feel really embarrassed about not knowing
a group they was talking about, or had not heard
the album that they were talking about, and I would
just lie, just be like, oh yeah, nah, I heard it.
(00:45):
That one slaps. I still think people do that now,
But I remember feeling like if I didn't know this
song or that song, and I would pretend like I
knew the words. I tease. People are real about people
not knowing the words of songs, you know what I'm saying,
Like it was some sort of sign of your part
(01:08):
of the end group. On the other hand, you know,
there are groups, bands, whatever that you was just not
supposed to like, like this whole absolute disdain for Nickelback.
I know I'm old, but I don't know of any
new bands that you absolutely absolutely are supposed to despise.
(01:30):
The point I'm trying to make is you ever really
heard a Nickelback album. So it's okay if you haven't.
It's just before you make your decision. I'm just saying
you should listen to it. I feel the same about politics.
(01:53):
The worst thing you could be in America is a
communist or a Marxist. Now let me ask you this.
You ever read any Karl Marx? Do you really understand
his position on labor? Tap in with me. So this
(02:22):
is my encouragement maybe to just do a little bit
of homework. Okay. Now, I'm not asking you to become
a chairman, mile out this mug. I'm not asking you
to stop momentum in the ways for which you have
been growing and feeding your family or yourself. I'm not
asking you to do that. I'm just saying, before you
start deciding what this boogeyman is, just read a little bit. Now.
(02:45):
What I don't want to do to Carl Marx is
what Donald Trump has done with the Big Beautiful Bill Act,
which is saying you have to take everything on this
menu or none of it. My grandma was like that.
When she used to cook, she would say this is
what I'm made. You either have this or sleep. I'll
(03:05):
be like, Okay, first of all, it's like ten of
us here, so like, I don't understand why I can't
just have the ribs and hold off on a mac
and cheese. You either had a whole plate or none
of the plate. I'm not gonna do that to you.
About Karl Marx. K that's what Trump did with the
big beautiful bill. You had to take everything. I'm just
going to drop in on, let's just say some of
(03:29):
his labor theories. Okay. Essentially Marxism kind of works like this.
The workers own the means of manufacturing, meaning if I
made it, I should own a piece of you. See
how simple that is. Now, if you grew up in
any sort of church, you were supposed to believe that
Marxism was godless. I'm not gonna make you take the
(03:51):
whole menu. I'm just gonna like, have you just consider this. Okay, Feudalism,
you guys, Feudalism surf dumb, the thing that was before capitalism. Now,
please don't confuse which I've said this before. Capitalism with commerce,
Commerce is just buying and selling stuff. You make something,
(04:12):
you sell it, that's commerce. Capitalism is a whole different infrastructure.
But let's go back to feudalism. Right. You live on
this vassal of land owned by some sort of noble right,
And none of the main characters in any of our
medieval shows or turn of the century shows are the
(04:32):
people that live on these lands. The main characters are
the owners of the lands, right, the network of incestuous
born children who believe that because they born in this situation,
that they somehow divine and supposed to be owning this land. Anyway,
(04:53):
it works like this. You got some pigs, you got
some animals, you got some vegetables. You grow your vegetables
as your herds. You live off what you created. But
remember you don't own these lands. These lands are owned
by some sort of noblemen. Right, So what you do
is you pay a little bit of tribute to that
noble person. Right. Sometimes those tributes were predatory, right, you know,
(05:20):
but generally speaking it worked like I was feudalism. Right.
You have all these different lands. You work the land,
the lands owned by a certain person. That person takes
tribute for our percentage of whatever you've grown, right, whatever
you were able to take to the market and sell. Right.
So I created this product. I'm a blacksmith. I made
(05:41):
this product right. Or I got these animals. I grew
these animals. Right. I pay a percentage to the nobleman,
and then I go to the bizarre or the market,
and I buy and sell and trade and whatever money
I make, right, I may pay percentage back to the
(06:01):
to the nobleman. But the thing is the fruit of
my labor was the product, and I own the product
because I worked for the product. Now granted it came
out of somebody else's land, and I'm paying for the
usage of that land, if you will. But what I'm
(06:22):
selling is the object that I created or that I've grown.
Makes sense, It's feudalism. Now what capitalism came in and
did is said that. Okay, listen, I am not buying
the product you created. I am purchasing your time. Does
(06:45):
that make sense? And the market says your eight hours,
your hour of time is worth a dollar amount. I
put a dollar amount on your life, yo, yo, time
is worth this much, and that is what I'm buying. Right.
You go to work and they pay you not for
the product you created, but for your time because you
(07:07):
don't own the product the company does. Does that make sense?
You are getting compensated not for the product you created,
but for the time it took to make that product. Now,
the return on that investment for the owner the corporation
is ten times yours what your eight hours produced. If
(07:31):
you just let's say you just work in a retail store,
you made two hundred three, three hundred and fifty dollars.
They made thirty thousand dollars based on all the products
they were. Well, they were the ones that paid for
the pieces, the materials and stuff like that. Okay, fine,
I'm just saying what capitalism says is what I am
(07:55):
buying and trading is not the product but the person's labor.
I am buying your labor, and what you are getting
out of that is your paycheck. This seems a bit
unjust to Karl Mars, because he's like, well, then how
(08:15):
come workers got to work check to check and I'm
actually working harder, right, but owners are in private jets.
What he was saying is there's got to be a
way to fix that discrepancy. It seems like for the
same product, which is your time, they are making billions.
(08:40):
You are making a couple hundred, but it's your time.
You sold your time to this company. He was saying,
this is a flaw on capitalism. He was like, look,
capitalism has requires people willing to sell their time. You
have to have someone here that's willing to now check
this out. If you were the business owner in the beginning,
(09:05):
you were selling your own time right in hopes to
get a return on your work, and the return is
the success of your business. But when your business started succeeding,
you had to buy someone else's time. They are not
getting the same rewards as you are because you worked longer.
It's because you work harder. I don't know. All Karl
(09:26):
Marx was saying is I think this is unjust because
you wouldn't be that wealthy if you weren't buying at
a fraction of the cost these people's time. Does that
make sense. I'm buying your time, Daddy, come home exhausted,
(09:49):
You barely know your children. You missed out on all
these things because you had to go work, and most
of us got to go work two three foe jobs. Right.
He was saying, this is a flaw in this. So
one of his suggestions was I don't know the answer,
but just maybe maybe the workers should get more of
(10:14):
an incentive on their time. Maybe they should own a
part of the product that they made, because I mean,
they didn't make it. You wouldn't have a company if
nobody was making your products. Sure, you bought the materials,
but that's what you did. You paid for those materials,
and you gotta return on your investment. Okay, Well, what
(10:36):
you're gonna do with those materials unless you got people
to work your factories? Okay, so you gave me the product,
and I'm gonna work the product. But I don't own
what I just made. And I don't think Mark is
saying I should own all of it. He's just saying
it just seemed like this, the gap between the two
just feel a little like this is this is only
(11:03):
going to cause problems in the future. You are going
to inevitably have people periodically rebel because they see how
well you live in and how hard they live in.
That's just it's just one of his theories. Now again,
(11:25):
I'm not saying I'm really trying to radicalize y'all into
becoming Marxists. But what I am saying is, before you
decide this is a great evil, you should read something.
That's all I'm saying is just is read it. You
(11:46):
know why I understood Project twenty twenty five because I Reddit.
You know why a lot of these Republicans were surprised
on this big, beautiful bill it will act because they
ain't read it. Now. Granted, did I read it all? No?
(12:08):
Have I read it everything Karl Marx has written. No.
I'm just saying, before you decide something is incredible or
you're a fan of, or it's the great evil, just
read a little bit. Tap in with me.
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