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Hi. In today's episode, we look at what being rich does to your perception of yourself and others, the eccentricities of the super wealthy, how they use their money to hold influence over our political systems and the dystopian future they envision for all of us.

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Are Rich People Okay? – EARLY ACCESS, AD-FREE, and UNCENSORED

Hi. In today's episode, we look at what being rich does to your perception of yourself and others, the eccentricities of the super wealthy, how they use their money to hold influence over our political systems and the dystopian future they envision for all of us. Executive Producer - Katy Stoll Directed by Will Gordh Written by Jonathan Harris Edited by Gregg Meller Produced by Jonathan Harris Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales Graphics by Clint DeNisco Head Writer - David Christopher Bell Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-more-news Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews Chapters: •00:00 - Intro •03:20 - Are Rich People Okay? •15:36 - Lifestyles of the Rich & Shameless •25:25 - Monopoly Monomania and The Luck of the Draw •32:02 - Rich Pricks and Politics •37:20 -The Pronatalist Movement aka Rich People Eugenics •43:25 - Longtermism and The Afflu-ends-a Times •54:33 - To Infinity and Beyond Selfish •58:21 - How Do We address The Super Rich Without Breaking Society? Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v6D3Ks23MZd5oXmn9w6td6y8vTBZw2j0T_9TBUeMa5Y/edit

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Burrito

Will we finally find out why the vig on that action is?

Anton Wiedermann

Expensive car is good indication of an asshole. Not strongly related to richness though. Poor assholes also get in debt to own expensive cars 😂

Matt Pierce

hahaha lol people watching Gattaca and not getting that the title was specifically chosen to imply that the world they're portraying is a prison.

April Hughes

Leave it to the wealthy to destroy the reputations of all three of my favorite pastimes.....Being weird, calvinism, and driving recklessly. Fekking killjoys. Love you guys!

Julie Scott

I grew up poor until my parents had an unexpected windfall and we were suddenly upper middle class and moved to a rich area so I had several wealthy peers in high school. Those rich kids were super effed up. One of them, the son of an investment banker, got away with carrying a gun, reckless driving, and threatening to kill his girlfriend senior year (3 seperate incidents mind you.) The reason rich kids seemingly only commit the crimes of stealing from thier peers and parents, statistically, is those are the only crimes thier parents don't bail or bribe off thier records.

CRAIG BILODEAU

The story of the Winchester Widow's house is much more interesting than the stupid ghost story. She didnt believe in ghosts. She kept building the house to help the people in her community. She wasn't crazy, she was just a nice lady who wanted to help people earn money because she knew she didnt need the outrageous wealth she had.

Tim Durbin

Regarding that 11 generations of 8 children each thing, can someone who knows demographics help me out? If my wife and I were to decide to have 8 kids, would you say that I octupled my number? Or did I only quadruple it, since it took two of us to make those 8 kids? It matters a lot over 11 generations: 8 to the eleventh power is like 8.6 billion people, but 4 to the 11th is only 4.20 million. In other words, the difference between the entire world's population in 2050 and the current population of Montreal.

Anomalocaris

I have no interest in defending the utopian eugenicist billionaires, but the Virgo super cluster isn't a place they want to go to. It's the region of the universe we are currently in. The Milky Way is part of it. They just want to fill it up with their billionaire spawn.

Steve Snyder

10 minutes in and I can tell I’m watching this one multiple times. Fuck I hate rich people.

Kevin Hengehold

Has anybody done the legwork comparing Long-termism to literal supervillain/bond villain plots? I have a theory...

Kevin Hengehold

I think that affluenza is a pretty good metaphor, if not an actual psychological condition, to describe rich people. I kind of like the term "money sickness," but we can workshop it. So, if the problem they have is that they've hoarded too much money, how do we unhoard it for them? (In minecraft, of course).

Made of Stardust

No, Cody and Showdy, they are NOT okay. I don't even need to watch, I already knew this! I mean, I'm still gonna, but.

Brian McKenzie

I watched the Ted talk. At the end, PP goes off to say how hopeful he is that rich people are pledging to give away their fortunes, but in actuality, they are just donating their own money to their own charities, paying less taxes, and still getting to choose how the money is spent

Alexandre Medeiros

hey folks, got a small suggestion / ask of you. the normal youtube video has the closed caption stuff pretty nice, but the patreon ad-free usually doesn't, me and my partner aren't native English speakers, and she sometimes can't keep up without subtitles / CC, so if there is anyway to get the nice CC (not the auto generated ones) on the patreon video as well, it would be greatly helpful for me to share it with my special someone <3

Josephus Franks

Fuck you guys! I'm a political psychologist and I could have written a journal article on this same research, but it would be boring and you guys made it hilarious! 🤬

Made of Stardust

I know this has so much nothing to do with the content, however I have no socials anymore (for my mental, ya know.) and I gotta leave a high thought somewhere to be enjoyed by someone, if at least myself later when I find out I did this cause I'm v high Oops. (I pay to access these comments, so and that's basically what twitter is now, so....) Anyway.... Next time Tucker starts crying over M & M's or any other " woke " mascot, someone needs to ask him why he's putting a false idol before Jahova the Christian god? Like it's one of the 10 things He said not to do. Then drive that home. And by Tucker, I mean any of them really, but Tucker is the one with the national new network so.

Carl P Crossgrove

So, yeah. $$$ is like booze or any other intoxicant. One can have too much, one needs to moderate, sometimes we need (as members of communities and social groups) to cut each other off. Not because one has to choose either slave or leader in their fantastic RPG fantasy, but because our society and the whole planet degrade to the point of apocalypse if we don't. So, yes. Let's do the much more humane thing and redistrubute wealth. Eating any part of Elon or Jeff or Larry or Vlad sounds, ehhhhh, just, gamey and unsavory.