Speaker 1: Media. Okay, this is who politics will props say, what's up? Soul?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 1: Say it louder Hi, that's my daughter's soul. This is
Speaker 1: us finally taking a break. We're about to have a
Speaker 1: rewe a rewe a rerun rewine selecta, which means daddy
Speaker 1: don't got to record next week. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about that? Yay? Yay? What are we doing right now?
Speaker 1: Are we popping your popcorn? Yeah? We are so uh
Speaker 1: so today's rewe. I keep saying re one it's because
Speaker 1: of you. Yeah, it's your fault. It's not your fault anyway.
Speaker 1: So the one we're running is is one about the
Speaker 1: ending of world powers? How world power stop? You have
Speaker 1: any idea why? That's funny? So no, I didn't think
Speaker 1: you did it, which hopefully you won't have to worry about.
Speaker 1: But this is book by Ray Dalio And yeah, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about how and when empires fall. And
Speaker 1: right now while you're listening to this, I will be
Speaker 1: knee deep because I put my foot in them collar
Speaker 1: green y'all all right, hood politics. Hey, look, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give it to you the way that gave it to me.
Speaker 1: Lehemmy ain't nothing changed but the weather ain't shit changed,
Speaker 1: but the weather. Listen, you could control CV this to
Speaker 1: any any decade. Fam This is third in Brooklyn, This
Speaker 1: is seventies and eighties in LA This is Detroit, this
Speaker 1: is New York, this is Russia, brud China, anywhere, tailor
Speaker 1: is all this time. I sat in a poem once
Speaker 1: that history got bars. What I'm trying to say is
Speaker 1: that it rhymes get it. You and your boys, You
Speaker 1: and your homies. You know what I'm saying, y'all tired
Speaker 1: of not being up. You tired of them being kids,
Speaker 1: picking on y'all man, taking your bikes, taking your lunch money,
Speaker 1: always running around here like they run this whole city,
Speaker 1: like they run this whole town, like they run the school. Man,
Speaker 1: it's just getting old, you know what I mean? You
Speaker 1: just watching them like, man, like this can't this can't.
Speaker 1: This can't be what the rest of my childhood are
Speaker 1: gonna be. Like, you know, and one day you decide,
Speaker 1: you and your homies decide, like, look, man, at some
Speaker 1: point we're gonna have to do something about this, Like
Speaker 1: you're not finna chase me home every day. These these
Speaker 1: fools got all the girls they coming into school, dipping,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like the new Feelers, you
Speaker 1: feel me, the new Rebox, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They got the neatest tracksuits, you know auto you know
Speaker 1: they they got the pure player kimonos. You know. Wherever
Speaker 1: we are and food's always dipping, got the baddest girls.
Speaker 1: It's just like, man, I'm tired of this dog like
Speaker 1: I want to be up. I'm tired of being not
Speaker 1: being up. One of your homeboys is really charismatic though,
Speaker 1: you know, he he know how to talk, and he
Speaker 1: and you could see him that that that fool just
Speaker 1: fuming he like, and you could tell he's scheming, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, Man, man, I'm tired of
Speaker 1: all this, Like you know, we're gonna do something about this.
Speaker 1: And then he go talk to the homies down the street,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And even some homies on
Speaker 1: the other side of the on the other side of
Speaker 1: the tracks. You're looking at them like, hey, man, like,
Speaker 1: ain't you tired of this? Like while we gotta live, like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not finna live like this no more, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like, so you got to wait for
Speaker 1: the right place at the right time, where you decide, listen,
Speaker 1: you're not taking my bike no more. You know you
Speaker 1: put the put the monkey wrench in the backpack, or
Speaker 1: the or the or the burner in the backpack. You
Speaker 1: know you got you got the blaky whatever it is.
Speaker 1: It's like, listen, dog like, this is not happening no more.
Speaker 1: And this real charismatic friend of yours, you could tell
Speaker 1: he don't look scared like the rest of us. He
Speaker 1: paying attention that nigga watching and he's watching for the
Speaker 1: things that I told y'all you're supposed to watch for.
Speaker 1: In the same way, when you're about to get jumped,
Speaker 1: you need to look at who's really in charge, Who
Speaker 1: really could take a punch, who can't take a punch, right,
Speaker 1: Because if you're about to get jumped, like I said,
Speaker 1: you probably gonna get mopped. But the one thing you
Speaker 1: can't do is nothing. And what you need to do
Speaker 1: is you need to fire on one of them and
Speaker 1: get out of there. But what you need to pick
Speaker 1: is if sometimes it's the loudest dude, right. But what
Speaker 1: you need to do is you need to pay attention
Speaker 1: to who really in charge. A lot of times it's
Speaker 1: the man standing on the side of the street that's
Speaker 1: not in that circle with you. That's the one standing,
Speaker 1: that's the one in charge. But you need to pick
Speaker 1: one of the biggest dudes, one of the ones that
Speaker 1: you like, okay, and if you fire on him hard
Speaker 1: enough on her, let's be real, you fire on her
Speaker 1: hard enough. You got to pick one that's gonna make
Speaker 1: the other ones question. Because if you show you not
Speaker 1: scared and you pop the one that they all think
Speaker 1: is the best fighter, the rest of them gonna think twice.
Speaker 1: And that's gonna give you that split second to get
Speaker 1: out of there, you know what I'm saying. But he watching,
Speaker 1: and when he watching, he watching close, and then he
Speaker 1: started noticing. You know what, they don't all get along.
Speaker 1: That man crew, that crew that's up, they don't all
Speaker 1: get along. One of them don't like them other niggas.
Speaker 1: And then you start noticing, as you're watching, like you watching,
Speaker 1: paying more attention, you start noticing, and you know what,
Speaker 1: a lot of them niggas can't fight. You know, these
Speaker 1: parties ain't what they say they are. You know, we
Speaker 1: pulling up to these parties were thinking, man, they balling,
Speaker 1: They got everything up. You know, they got money, they're
Speaker 1: getting money they're getting the girls. You start noticing, you
Speaker 1: know what, some of this don't don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: this is what they say it is. It might have been.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you got an older brother, you got
Speaker 1: an older sister, you know what I'm saying, Like me,
Speaker 1: for me, I my sister was six years older than me,
Speaker 1: So like maybe maybe they was hot when she was
Speaker 1: my age, you know what I'm saying. But I'm looking you.
Speaker 1: You they little brothers, you they little sisters, and like
Speaker 1: y'all not okay. You know, I'm starting to see cracks
Speaker 1: in the armor here. Maybe it's not what Maybe it's
Speaker 1: not what y'all say it is. So you pick the
Speaker 1: right day, and you know, any given Sunday, any day,
Speaker 1: anybody can get it. It's anybody's game. You pick the
Speaker 1: right party where the right people are there, and you
Speaker 1: and your crew roll up and you decide, listen, it's
Speaker 1: some new bosses in town. We done with this. And
Speaker 1: you know you weren't even invited to this party because
Speaker 1: you're not cool enough. But you know what, you don't
Speaker 1: get to decide who's cool and who's not. You crash
Speaker 1: that party, mop them fools. Just that day. That day,
Speaker 1: that was just y'all's day. You moped them fools right
Speaker 1: and now, and everybody saw a whole hood. Was there
Speaker 1: even some mother hoods down the street, nigga, everybody saw
Speaker 1: them dudes. It was like, and then now they start questioning, like, hey,
Speaker 1: who these young who these young boys? Do y'all be
Speaker 1: throwing parties? Yeah, we be throwing parties. Yeah we be
Speaker 1: kicking it, you know what I'm saying. And now and
Speaker 1: now everybody else going, wait a minute, now, y'all, you know,
Speaker 1: we was only rolling with these fools because they was up.
Speaker 1: We thought this was maybe you know, we was kind
Speaker 1: of wondering if they really wasn't as up as they
Speaker 1: say they were, you know what I'm saying. Maybe, Still,
Speaker 1: let's start what's up with y'all. What y'all got going?
Speaker 1: The problem is you ain't got nothing going. You was
Speaker 1: just tired of getting bullied. But now it's time to build.
Speaker 1: Oh man, what you need to build? Okay, you need
Speaker 1: to sit down with your boys. It's like, all right, now, okay,
Speaker 1: we we got we got a victory under We showed
Speaker 1: we weren't no punks. We showed we ain't no easy
Speaker 1: come ups. All right, now we need to get out
Speaker 1: in the field. You know what I'm saying, Like, you
Speaker 1: gotta get out in the field. You know, we gotta
Speaker 1: make money. We need to go get this money. What
Speaker 1: we're doing, what we're doing. We were pushing pe you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We're doing We're getting these we're
Speaker 1: selling these guns, were selling these pills, were selling these,
Speaker 1: these bricks. What we're doing. You know what I'm saying, Well,
Speaker 1: you I mean we were breaking into cars, We're doing
Speaker 1: home evasions. And your charismatic leader going, you know what,
Speaker 1: it gets all of the above. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: by any means, and that's all money. And you feel
Speaker 1: me like we're gonna make it. We're gonna get this,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get this right. But we're gonna do a
Speaker 1: different you know what I'm saying, Like, we're gonna get in,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get out, you feel me, We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna establish all kinds of other stuff. We're gonna make
Speaker 1: sure everybody eat, you feel me. But but if we're
Speaker 1: gonna do that, we need these people to understand that
Speaker 1: we are not to be fed with. I need a shooter.
Speaker 1: Some argue that you need a sociopath in your circle.
Speaker 1: I mean going back all the way to Hunter Gather
Speaker 1: African Savannah. You need somebody in your crew that is like, listen,
Speaker 1: uh a Carolyn slowing us down? Are Caralyn gonna get
Speaker 1: gonna get us all ate by lions? We need to gone,
Speaker 1: We need to gone leave on Caurland because we all
Speaker 1: gonna die. You need somebody that just like that just
Speaker 1: has no moral compass. You're in said, I'm saying that's
Speaker 1: like I hop out the whip right now. Shoot this
Speaker 1: nigga in front of his child and his mama. You
Speaker 1: need somebody that's like, listen, like this nigga in and
Speaker 1: out of Juvie, I'm not afraid of nobody. You know
Speaker 1: the kid that's like yeah, that's jumping off the roof
Speaker 1: into the pool, that never thought twice about it when
Speaker 1: we was kids, just that just you just looking at
Speaker 1: them like you don't fear anything, do you. So you
Speaker 1: need some shooters, somebody that's like all right, nah, but
Speaker 1: that shooter need guns. How you're gonna get guns, nigga,
Speaker 1: y'all junior hires, How you gonna get this work? How
Speaker 1: you're gonna get this weight. You know what I'm saying, Well,
Speaker 1: you need some big homies, you need some help. So
Speaker 1: you need to start looking around at like some of
Speaker 1: these other crews around here, and it's like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: like listen, if we just roll together, man, let me
Speaker 1: do Look, look, I got the juice right now. Let
Speaker 1: me just you feel me. Let's just let's just see
Speaker 1: what we could do. And them nigga's on the side,
Speaker 1: like y'all got guns. Man, all right, I'll be on.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, like you could borrow
Speaker 1: from us. You feel me like youre gonna pass packs
Speaker 1: Like yeah, nigga, we got it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We all start throwing these dope parties, getting fly girls.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like everybody, now, you up,
Speaker 1: you feel me? You up? You know you up? Get
Speaker 1: money coming in. You know what I'm saying. You got
Speaker 1: foods on every corner. You started like sending people across town. Look, look,
Speaker 1: one of the homies got in trouble with they mama,
Speaker 1: and they mama moving them to another state, to another dynasts,
Speaker 1: you know, to another province. You feel me, and you like, yo,
Speaker 1: just take the work over there. You feel me like,
Speaker 1: we'll make it work, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: we up though, but sometimes that up to stay up, man,
Speaker 1: you need that violence, need that violence, You need that money,
Speaker 1: and you need that dedication. You need to start teaching
Speaker 1: these young dudes like, yo, we building something. It's our block.
Speaker 1: Man like, ride or die? Is you a rider or not?
Speaker 1: Man like? So then you start doing stuff like branding them,
Speaker 1: like giving them tattoos like let me help you feel
Speaker 1: like you in you know what I'm saying. But after that,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna get old. Y'all gonna get popped. Y'all gonna
Speaker 1: start dying. So you need some new booty. You need
Speaker 1: some young niggas. You need some young you know, some YG's,
Speaker 1: that's what that stands for, a young young gangster. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You need some YG's. You got ogs,
Speaker 1: You need yg you know what I'm saying. You gotta
Speaker 1: convince them like they buying into something bigger than them.
Speaker 1: You gotta start for using academic You gotta start mythmaking,
Speaker 1: gotta start legend there. You gotta start telling these war stories.
Speaker 1: You feel me because you building something, you part of something.
Speaker 1: You give them flags man put that rag on their head,
Speaker 1: you know, initiating ceremonies. You know what I'm saying, bar mitzvahs,
Speaker 1: Inner city, bar mitzvahs. You feel me like, that's when
Speaker 1: you get jumped in. You know what I'm saying, You're
Speaker 1: getting jumped in. Man, It's family. It's my grandma, my daddy.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, My uncle, everybody like, this
Speaker 1: is what we do. Man, we been up. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, You out hold down the fort. But
Speaker 1: eventually what's gonna happen is once you start birthing people
Speaker 1: who wasn't a part of the build. Man, all they
Speaker 1: know is up. All they know is money coming in.
Speaker 1: All you know is this stuff working. All you know
Speaker 1: is you the bullies on the block. You don't take nobody, sirius.
Speaker 1: You don't understand why they all hear is all talking
Speaker 1: about May and mud Day. We used to knuckle up.
Speaker 1: Not all this shooting y'all. Internet bangers, y'all little corny
Speaker 1: ass niggas. Y'all out here trying to rap. Y'all niggas
Speaker 1: is rappers, nigga week gangsters. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: and you're like, yeah, we rappers, Like what did you?
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, we're getting this money. Nigga, y'all, y'all
Speaker 1: net bangers, y'all. I don't understand you niggas. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, y'all just talk man, that's look look
Speaker 1: in my day, Nigga, we rolled up on it. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Nigga, we hopped out the whip. Shoot.
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, man, you know what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 1: thennis it start getting Oh you don't want whatever? Nigga,
Speaker 1: we up. We're getting money. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You got dudes wearing opposite colors. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: You hanging out with other people's Like, man, what's wrong
Speaker 1: with y'all? This don't work like this? Like, man, we
Speaker 1: getting money, Man, don't worry about it. Dollar getting money? Well,
Speaker 1: are you getting money? Is that real money? Because a
Speaker 1: lot of the work you selling was fronted, and it
Speaker 1: was fronted because of the work of the ogeez. When
Speaker 1: I say front of the work, that meant that, like
Speaker 1: I gave you this brick on credit. You ain't broken
Speaker 1: that deal with them vothos. You wasn't in the pen
Speaker 1: with that lion May dude where you made friends with,
Speaker 1: like Carlos Martinez over there, you know, on the East side.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, he get it from Mexico,
Speaker 1: from the cartel down there. You ain't broken that deal,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. One Carlo don't know you. Oh,
Speaker 1: he trusts your big brother, but you don't know you.
Speaker 1: You wasn't tapped in with them Russians, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, don't know Vladimir, Nigga, You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pay the stuff back. You just been paying installments. At
Speaker 1: some point somebody gonna come and be like, with my money.
Speaker 1: You're gonna mess around and confuse a Mexican for an
Speaker 1: El Salvadorian. You go, you gonna mess with Marucha, mess around,
Speaker 1: step into a whole war on some stuff you don't
Speaker 1: understand because you just thought they both spoke Spanish. Nigga,
Speaker 1: you like, listen, y'all too busy partying, y'all balling out.
Speaker 1: You're not paying attention to the streets. It's some Hongry
Speaker 1: dudes out there, are you, good man? Look, Look, look,
Speaker 1: give me one more break. Let me push that and
Speaker 1: I'll give it, I'll give it all back to you. Well, no, homie,
Speaker 1: I need my money. So then what do you usually do? Well,
Speaker 1: if that's the case, somebody say, oh I need my money. Like, look, look,
Speaker 1: let me get real hood on you. You know your
Speaker 1: mama used to write a check and then say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: don't don't. Don't cash that till tuesday. Yourself said why
Speaker 1: because the money ain't in the account. You cash it
Speaker 1: right now. The mug gonna bounce, you, feel me. Or
Speaker 1: they start putting the electric bill in their kids' names.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Kids grow up because the
Speaker 1: elect your building turned off by your name. So now
Speaker 1: like niggas grow up they sixteen years old with bad
Speaker 1: credit because the light build been in their name three times.
Speaker 1: You ain't got it. Let me give you something a
Speaker 1: little more modern, you know what I'm saying. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: you out with your homies y'all at dinner, you're gonna
Speaker 1: swipe your card. You swiping your card, praying that mug
Speaker 1: go through cause you know good and dog on, well,
Speaker 1: you ain't got money in that account. That swiper not real.
Speaker 1: It ain't real money in there. That swipe is only
Speaker 1: as good as the bank say it is. And sometimes
Speaker 1: the bank will be like, just like to connect, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll front you that it's gonna cost you. Though it
Speaker 1: cost you in overdraft fees, it cost you in compound interest.
Speaker 1: That's all I mean. That's how credit work, right, Like
Speaker 1: you swipe that card, it's like, yeah, I got you,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna need it later. So what do most
Speaker 1: people do when they get in trouble with credit? They
Speaker 1: borrow from some somebody else to pay the first person back,
Speaker 1: and then that other person they borrowed from. They borrow
Speaker 1: somebody else pay the other person back. At some point
Speaker 1: they gonna need they money. Somebody in your crew ain't
Speaker 1: liking what you do. They start noticing, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, hey, it's getting a little y'all. Y'all
Speaker 1: love sloppy. I don't like how you running this. It's
Speaker 1: a little you know what I'm saying, Like matter of fact, man,
Speaker 1: it seemed like it seemed like the only people getting
Speaker 1: money is y'all old niggas we out in the field.
Speaker 1: These young dudes is out in the field. We don't
Speaker 1: want Dodger bullets. We don't want out here recruiting these
Speaker 1: We don't want to break it in the cars. We
Speaker 1: the ones getting misdemeanor charges, we do want doing five years.
Speaker 1: We the ones were the ones on probation, We the
Speaker 1: ones on house arrests. You niggas is sitting nice out
Speaker 1: in at Hills just collecting checks from us. The shit
Speaker 1: ain't gonna work no more. And guess what some other
Speaker 1: little niggas is watching. They watching this happen. Y'all got
Speaker 1: this wealth gap inside of your own crew, and it's
Speaker 1: somebody who y'all been bullying, Who y'all been running up on,
Speaker 1: who y'all been hitting licks on, who's about tied to y'all?
Speaker 1: And the cycle continues, Empires come and go, y'all, how
Speaker 1: much a dollar cost? Hood politicics? All right, So welcome
Speaker 1: to another how much a dilo cost episode, which is
Speaker 1: essentially just economics. Today, we're gonna talk macroeconomics. Y'all know.
Speaker 1: I have an education back, I said all the time,
Speaker 1: specifically in history and social scientists. And I loved thinking
Speaker 1: a lot of ways like ancient history for a number
Speaker 1: of reasons. One, I just thought this stuff was cooler,
Speaker 1: like the fact that it was just left familiar. But
Speaker 1: there's one thing that every historian, anybody that studies history, politics, economics,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, in a macro sense, understands. Nobody stays up.
Speaker 1: No one. I've said once history got bars in a
Speaker 1: rap You know what I mean is like it be rhyming.
Speaker 1: It's not the same. Of course, there's differences, but things
Speaker 1: take on particular patterns, and when you're looking at stuff
Speaker 1: from a macro sense, from a whole history perspective, you
Speaker 1: can essentially start graphing things that buy and large kind
Speaker 1: of fit this pattern. A lot of times, that's what
Speaker 1: history and economics are doing. They just look at the patterns.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that it's always going to go this way,
Speaker 1: but it means that you can. It's a safe bet.
Speaker 1: And here's what I know about empires. They come and go,
Speaker 1: they got about. I know I've said this before, and
Speaker 1: please please please go pull my receipts. Empires run about
Speaker 1: two hundred, two hundred and fifty years. They crash, Empires fall.
Speaker 1: And if you think America ain't an empire, you trip it.
Speaker 1: And if you think we can't fall, you don't believe
Speaker 1: that the propaganda pun intended. If you think you if
Speaker 1: you think America ain't gonna collapse. You believe a cap
Speaker 1: because that is all cap. They all fall, every empire
Speaker 1: falls it aloud. I'm telling you maybe I should change
Speaker 1: the name. First I was calling this episode ain't nothing
Speaker 1: changed but the weather. But I think the idea of
Speaker 1: it all falls down, it might be better. Yeah, it continues
Speaker 1: like they all do it, and if you are willing
Speaker 1: to like really look at it and understand sort of indicators.
Speaker 1: And that's what a lot of like economists doing. They
Speaker 1: looking for indicators. They're not saying this is what always
Speaker 1: gonna be in a lie. Again, they all don't agree.
Speaker 1: We said that in the first how much a dollar
Speaker 1: costs episode? Everybody don't agree. But these indicators are just that.
Speaker 1: They're like indicators symptoms. You know, person's a heart rate
Speaker 1: is way too high when they're resting. That's an indicator
Speaker 1: that this person might not be in shape or some
Speaker 1: something not right. You know what I'm saying. Person's left
Speaker 1: hand be tingling, that's an indicator or something. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Somebody, you know they digestion be weird.
Speaker 1: That's an indicator or something. You know, I can't predict that.
Speaker 1: That means you're gonna die in six months, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But there are things that would make
Speaker 1: us say that, Like, yo, unless you make some changes,
Speaker 1: it's been a crash quicker. Now, whoever up always comes down,
Speaker 1: and the question ain't will you come down? The question
Speaker 1: is how fast and how long you're gonna stay up.
Speaker 1: All you can do is postpone it. So today I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give y'all some some macroeconomics. Ray Dalio, I don't
Speaker 1: even know if I'm saying his name right, but he has.
Speaker 1: He's an economist, a brilliant, brilliant dude. He has a
Speaker 1: book out called Principles of Dealing with the Changing World
Speaker 1: Order adupe. Like. There's actually like even a short like
Speaker 1: maybe like a forty five minute like animated YouTube video
Speaker 1: breakdown of what he's talking about in the book. But
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring it to y'all, you know, in
Speaker 1: my voice, cause he gave actual numbers to the stuff
Speaker 1: I was trying to tell y'all. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When I'm like, yo, it like read the tea leaves,
Speaker 1: cause like every historian is I said before, it's flaring
Speaker 1: their arms around, going guys, yo, this is These are
Speaker 1: the things. These are the indicators. We're here. We fit
Speaker 1: a crash and burn. Now, Like I said before, there's life.
Speaker 1: There's such thing as There is such thing as the Dutch,
Speaker 1: there is such thing as Britain. In the UK, they
Speaker 1: used to be up. They're not up no more. There's
Speaker 1: such thing as Russia. They used to be up, They're
Speaker 1: not up no more. They fighting to get back up
Speaker 1: right now. But life goes on after an empire crashes.
Speaker 1: There are such things as the Greeks, Joe said, But
Speaker 1: you need to pay attention to what's happening now. Why
Speaker 1: when you're experiencing these, living through these, like empires rising
Speaker 1: and falling, you feel like you special, just like when
Speaker 1: you're in a hood. Remember I said, like, oh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do things different. It feels like the things that
Speaker 1: are happening are so new and exciting or so terrifying
Speaker 1: and shocking. Is because it just ain't happening in your lifetime.
Speaker 1: I don't know, do you how many of y'all was
Speaker 1: alive during the Great Depression? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many who listen to this remembers
Speaker 1: World War One? You know what I'm saying, if we
Speaker 1: don't none of us was here for the Revolutionary War,
Speaker 1: none of us was here for the Civil War. That
Speaker 1: stuff seemed it's so ancient, and you just think, nah,
Speaker 1: it's different. It is, but it be rhyming. So today
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a few indicators that this
Speaker 1: book kind of lays out to help you get your
Speaker 1: brain around what I mean by this. So this is again,
Speaker 1: this is some this is some game. It's some economic stuff.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I still want you to understand why everybody bugging out
Speaker 1: about stock markets, inflation, all this stuff that to me
Speaker 1: for most of my life just flew over my head.
Speaker 1: All right, take a break, bring the track in. Okay, dope,
Speaker 1: now we're back. Check it. So, of course, to the
Speaker 1: content that I'm giving y'all from, like I said, Ray Dalio,
Speaker 1: changing in the world order. First of all, let me
Speaker 1: lay out what I mean by the world order. Who
Speaker 1: we mean is like empires who on top. Now I'm
Speaker 1: saying this from a black perspective, which means that like
Speaker 1: most of the time, anybody can anybody counting on Africa
Speaker 1: right now, because that's how y'all, do you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? White supremacy abounds. We're not talking Ghana, Mali's Songhai,
Speaker 1: were not talking Egyptian, Ethiopian, Dogans, We're not talking any
Speaker 1: of those empires for this particular talk. But I would
Speaker 1: bet that they run. If people are people, they probably
Speaker 1: run on a similar story arc. But that's not what
Speaker 1: we talk about right now. We're gonna go back and
Speaker 1: talk to like the last like five hundred years. The
Speaker 1: way we can understand that has to do with the
Speaker 1: concept of capitalism as we know it, where commodities, the dollar,
Speaker 1: whatever dollar, whatever version of your nation or your empire's dollar,
Speaker 1: is the way y'all was getting money, how y'all mean
Speaker 1: maintain money, and how y'all maintained power, and then how
Speaker 1: that power started waning and falling, and then how the
Speaker 1: next nigga got up. So world order basically means which
Speaker 1: empire is up. We've been calling ourselves in America superpower.
Speaker 1: Now that's really just because we just own now. And
Speaker 1: that's the point we're trying to make here. And as
Speaker 1: you know, we wasn't always owned it. We ain't gonna
Speaker 1: always be on which is what we're talking about. You know.
Speaker 1: How we know because at one point the Dutch was on.
Speaker 1: Who knocked the Dutch off? The British? Who knocked the
Speaker 1: British off? Us? Who gonna knock us off? Some people
Speaker 1: think China. I don't know. Let's get to it though.
Speaker 1: Now what constitutes being up? A lot of it has
Speaker 1: to do with Again, we use an economic theory. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It has to do with your currency?
Speaker 1: Is this the currency everybody mess with? Is your currency
Speaker 1: dominant over everybody else's currency? Is your weight weightier than
Speaker 1: everybody else's weight? And do you got the muscle? Do
Speaker 1: you got the goons to make sure that that's what happening.
Speaker 1: Don't nobody run through this city unless they run through us.
Speaker 1: You gotta tap in with us. No matter what you're
Speaker 1: doing across the world, you gotta tap in with us.
Speaker 1: No matter what you're doing across the hood, you gotta
Speaker 1: tap in with us. You ain't co signed with us,
Speaker 1: if we ain't stamped you, it don't matter. Now it's current,
Speaker 1: this current order we end. Like I said, who up?
Speaker 1: America became top of the food chain. Everybody you gotta
Speaker 1: tap into after World War Two for a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: One because Britain was broke who were up at that time.
Speaker 1: Y'all remember that little island colonized everywhere they was up,
Speaker 1: they pound, the pound ruled everything. Eventually it took us
Speaker 1: that long. But at the end of World War Two,
Speaker 1: after they was broke, we showed that we got our squabbles,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And then at Britain Wood's
Speaker 1: Agreement nineteen forty four, they agreed that like listen, man,
Speaker 1: currency got to Look, if you gonna use currency, let's
Speaker 1: just use ours. Ours got the tallest. So then we
Speaker 1: got to control the central bank of the world, which
Speaker 1: we still control now. It's called the reserve currency. It's
Speaker 1: the currency that's pretty much accepted everywhere wherever you go,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, gonna take your dollar mostly.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't always like that. So according to this book,
Speaker 1: there's this thing that that Ray is calling, call him
Speaker 1: Ray like he calling the Big cycle. And the Big
Speaker 1: Cycle is again a rough estimate as to this two
Speaker 1: hundred to two hundred and fifty year life cycle of
Speaker 1: an empire. You can lay this on the Dutch, the British,
Speaker 1: and ourselves and probably who coming next. Now that story
Speaker 1: I told you in the beginning of it. In the
Speaker 1: beginning of this podcast about that hood getting up, it's
Speaker 1: that it's the same cycle. What starts off is, you know,
Speaker 1: you got these you got this this rough upstart of
Speaker 1: a country, a civilization, you know, a real charismatic leader,
Speaker 1: ila George Washington, you know what I'm saying, in the
Speaker 1: founding fathers who realized that like listen, man, we're not
Speaker 1: taking all this shit from from the British no more.
Speaker 1: We tied all this. We want our own. And then
Speaker 1: you start scrapping, and then you establish your own place,
Speaker 1: like look this who we are. So that's the establishment.
Speaker 1: The next step is a part of what we would
Speaker 1: call the peace and prosperity era. And then the next
Speaker 1: is like you know, then you start producing a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff. And and when you start producing, you start
Speaker 1: borrowing too much money. You start borrowing too much money,
Speaker 1: you start creating a big old wealth gap. Right. Once
Speaker 1: you create a big old wealth grap, you got you
Speaker 1: realize it like, yo, I'm spending more money than I have,
Speaker 1: So that means I gotta start printing money. And once
Speaker 1: you start printing money, you know what I'm saying, Now,
Speaker 1: the cost of stuff go up and the wealth gap
Speaker 1: starts growing, and when there's a wealth gap, then the
Speaker 1: natives get restless, my nigga, And at some point you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to pay them debts back, and when them
Speaker 1: debtors come for their money, then you have what's called
Speaker 1: an economic downturn. And the way to fix and pay
Speaker 1: them debts is you got to pretend like you got
Speaker 1: the money. Oh I got it. I'm just gonna keep sweeping,
Speaker 1: keep swiping my car. I'll pay this food to pay
Speaker 1: that food. I'll borrow from there to borrow from there.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But the only way to
Speaker 1: protect your money in the hard time, you got to
Speaker 1: start building up. You got you need some goons. You
Speaker 1: need some goons to build up and protect everybody because
Speaker 1: while you up, you know, when you're on top of
Speaker 1: the hill, everybody coming for you. So you got to
Speaker 1: make sure you got this big problem. You're spending most
Speaker 1: of your money on your defense and on your luxuries.
Speaker 1: And then they become this political infighting, and usually what
Speaker 1: happens is somebody leads towards a populace or a totalitarian
Speaker 1: ruler that can like, look, I'll calm everybody down. I
Speaker 1: get this stuff together. But everybody outside, who you've been
Speaker 1: stepping on for this whole time, is watching, y'all, And
Speaker 1: while we going through all these in house debates, we
Speaker 1: can't get our shit together. The enemy watching, and they
Speaker 1: getting strong, and they about to start the same cycle
Speaker 1: that we own. You got it. Now, let's put the
Speaker 1: pieces on the puzzle. How do you measure how up
Speaker 1: a nation is? How you measure how upper empire is? Well?
Speaker 1: According to this this here go your markers for it.
Speaker 1: Your education a y'all schooling the youngins? Are you innovating?
Speaker 1: Are y'all building dope shit? And that type stuff creates
Speaker 1: good myths, good buy ins, good feelings of belonging. Are
Speaker 1: y'all competitive in the market? Can anybody mess with your stuff?
Speaker 1: You got the best product or not? Are y'all out
Speaker 1: putting it like y'all putting it in the streets? It's
Speaker 1: getting everywhere you feel me your role in world trade?
Speaker 1: The strength of your currency as far as like world trade?
Speaker 1: Is your dollar worth more than everybody else's dollar? And
Speaker 1: how well y'all shoot? How strong your military? Now? If
Speaker 1: you could average out these numbers, you could tell who
Speaker 1: really up and who not? According to this thing, again
Speaker 1: and yo. And since these are measurable numbers like you
Speaker 1: can you could look this stuff up. Then you could
Speaker 1: tell if an empire rise and or falling, you could
Speaker 1: tell where they are in this thing. You can tell
Speaker 1: how long you gonna be up. Of course, it's not
Speaker 1: like it's a it's not a DeLorean, my nigga. Like
Speaker 1: you can't really tell the future, but you can measure
Speaker 1: these things like yo. I mean, are y'all strong? Is
Speaker 1: your work really that dope? Is people really buying your product?
Speaker 1: Are y'all really educating your are y'all really innovating? I
Speaker 1: mean you were? Are you still? And hopefully you can
Speaker 1: see how that stuff is interconnected. Better education, you schooling
Speaker 1: the kids means you probably gonna innovate a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: And if you innovate in a lot of stuff, that
Speaker 1: means you creating the best product. If you creating the
Speaker 1: best product, you're gonna make the most money. That I mean, dug.
Speaker 1: So let's go back to the beginning. An establishing of
Speaker 1: a new empire, a new up, a new world order
Speaker 1: usually starts with some sort of big cataclysmic war conflict.
Speaker 1: If we're gonna use America, then let's do that. America
Speaker 1: started actually as a war, duh. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: That's where we started our in client, we started at
Speaker 1: a war, and Nigga, we won, and we wasn't post
Speaker 1: to win because y'all you got I don't think y'all
Speaker 1: understand how big Ball and Big Boss Great Britain was.
Speaker 1: I mean, like that little teeny Island almost conquered the planet.
Speaker 1: And it's because if you know your history, nigga, the
Speaker 1: Navy didn't play like they listen, they had wealth coming
Speaker 1: in everywhere you talking about. You talk about Mongolian silk
Speaker 1: with Indian spices and sugar from sugar from Haiti. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. In at that they got from Persia, Nigga,
Speaker 1: like everywhere. We wasn't supposed to win. I'm saying we
Speaker 1: because I'm American, Because no, Nigga, that wasn't me. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I would that wasn't my fight,
Speaker 1: cuz you know what I'm saying because I'm black. But
Speaker 1: you understand I'm trying to say America wasn't supposed to win,
Speaker 1: that you ain't supposed to take them out. Go again,
Speaker 1: going back to our first example, you love. Niggas ain't
Speaker 1: supposed to win this, but you did. Now, since you
Speaker 1: won and everybody saw it, people are like, like we
Speaker 1: said in the beginning, oh man, maybe maybe there's a
Speaker 1: new boss. Maybe everything cool, and don't nobody want to
Speaker 1: mess with you. Remember I told you before again, it's
Speaker 1: just like when you jumping somebody, you got a molly
Speaker 1: whopp them when you get when you getting beat, you
Speaker 1: got to mollywop these foods so they know, don't come
Speaker 1: back again. But this was a theory we talked about
Speaker 1: a long time ago. With dropping these atom bombs on
Speaker 1: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was like, this is the wrong
Speaker 1: thing to do if you have any sort of moral compass.
Speaker 1: But if you just talking war, what you're trying to
Speaker 1: say is like, listen, we crazy. Don't listen. Try Jesus
Speaker 1: not me. I throw hands. I'm crazy. Do not come
Speaker 1: over here. It's terrifying you, Like, damn, the niggas is crazy.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna mess with them no more. So that's
Speaker 1: what happens as a nation. It's like, okay, cool, So
Speaker 1: there's a relative moment of peace and prosperity. What was
Speaker 1: happening in America all nigga, we was building cities. I mean,
Speaker 1: we was getting free labor from slaves. And you got
Speaker 1: to understand how much money. Listen, I don't think y'all. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set aside the actual human atrocities that slavery
Speaker 1: was for a second. I'm just gonna talk money with you.
Speaker 1: Innovation was happening up north right with industrial growth, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Technology, All that shit was happening
Speaker 1: up north. Down south, they were called a grarian where
Speaker 1: it was like, this is agriculture, Like they growing cotton,
Speaker 1: tobacco sometimes, but mostly cotton. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: Do you understand that what cottons was worth, the gross
Speaker 1: national how much money they was making on cotton was
Speaker 1: more than every other commodity in the States combined. There's
Speaker 1: so much money coming from cotton now, which meant that
Speaker 1: if you was Joe Blow slave owner, you was like, well,
Speaker 1: I know this sucks, but god damn, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of money. And I mean, what we gonna do cuz
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, damn, Like I'm just one person.
Speaker 1: I know it's I know it's awful, I mean, but like,
Speaker 1: I mean, shoot, this is just the way that the
Speaker 1: world slavery existed forever. And besides, then you start turning
Speaker 1: your brain into a pretzel because of how much money
Speaker 1: is being made. You're like, you know what, well, maybe
Speaker 1: they built for that because they show don't die, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, and if we ever let them free, look,
Speaker 1: they try to kill if stay savages, so maybe we
Speaker 1: should just gone on keep them. That's because the money
Speaker 1: too much. And if you already think these people ain't humans, look,
Speaker 1: you ain't got to listen, that's one hundred percent profit.
Speaker 1: You ain't paying your wages give or take the cost
Speaker 1: of the slave themselves. But eventually, which never happened before,
Speaker 1: once the slaves have kids, the kids are slaves. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like that nowhere else. So you multiplying and you
Speaker 1: ain't got to buy a new one. Not to mention,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked. I make the comment about the
Speaker 1: gold rush. Who really made most of the money where
Speaker 1: the shovel sales. Listen, you selling slaves, nigga, You balling
Speaker 1: out too. It's too much money. So this prosperity happening.
Speaker 1: And again again we talk in nation building here, nigga,
Speaker 1: is so much money coming in. We bought and it's
Speaker 1: so comfy. Don't nobody want to mess with us? We don't.
Speaker 1: It was the seven year War. We done fought off
Speaker 1: the Natives. We done fought off we didn't fought off
Speaker 1: the British. Like niggas start getting comfort. And of course
Speaker 1: this is not like a straight line, because there was
Speaker 1: other hats of countries like nah, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the way to go, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: as things, you know, you still an upstart, you still
Speaker 1: figuring out, but you like you balling out, like Nigga's
Speaker 1: gonna start taking you serious by the time we get
Speaker 1: to World War one, world War two, when we building
Speaker 1: shit out the brain. You know what I'm saying. The
Speaker 1: big five that built the country, you know, the carnegiese
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, the gerald Fords. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, This industrial Revolution. We killing the game.
Speaker 1: It's too much money and so food's getting comfy. Once
Speaker 1: you start getting comfy, you gotta protect that comfortable. But
Speaker 1: also it's all you know at this point, it's kids
Speaker 1: that don't want you. A few generations after the Revolutionary War,
Speaker 1: there's people that don't know war. They wasn't there for
Speaker 1: that they was born into relative prosperity. There was this
Speaker 1: phrase that you learned. I learned from Dan Carlin. He
Speaker 1: was like the stone boots and silk slippers. You got
Speaker 1: the toughest nails. People that fought for something, just WHI
Speaker 1: I was talk about, the earlier earlier fought for something
Speaker 1: to get us up. And then you have kids, and
Speaker 1: all them kids know is success. They don't know struggle.
Speaker 1: They ain't got to go through what you go through.
Speaker 1: All they know is prosperity. So they think you crazy
Speaker 1: for always being nervous because it ain't happening in their lifetime.
Speaker 1: And if it do go down, they think the world
Speaker 1: on fire, which is like current America right now. They
Speaker 1: got time to contemplate the start, They got time to
Speaker 1: envision better ways to do things. They got time to
Speaker 1: think about things like morality, you know, and if we
Speaker 1: should keep enslaving these people they got time to do.
Speaker 1: Basically the nineties, if you was white and wealthy, just
Speaker 1: buy shit. That's all they did in the nineties. Again,
Speaker 1: this is for the sake of this argument. Think about it, y'all,
Speaker 1: Like that Americana, like the invention of a strip mall,
Speaker 1: a suburb track housing. That's because they like, we fine, nigga.
Speaker 1: Everything good. You know. You remember like the when you
Speaker 1: see the white people on TV and the milkman would
Speaker 1: come and they would just they were that's clean green energy.
Speaker 1: You had glass bottles that you were cycled. America had
Speaker 1: to be taught to throw shit away because we used
Speaker 1: to not throw stuff away.
Speaker 2: There's too much money, y'all. Niggas is comfy.
Speaker 1: Now. If you know the money coming in, you're not
Speaker 1: worried about it, you can start borrowing. You can go
Speaker 1: and get the credit card. I know what I make
Speaker 1: a year. I know we got We're good. It's fine.
Speaker 1: The crops always grow. We're gonna make the money. It's like,
Speaker 1: so you can start buying more and buying more on
Speaker 1: credit because you know what you're gonna do. You know, look,
Speaker 1: we flushed, flushed, but the last with cash, it's all good.
Speaker 1: What you're so worried about. It'll be fine. Swipe that card.
Speaker 1: Were cool as an individual and as a nation. Yo,
Speaker 1: we're good. Then you start diversifying, right, so rather than
Speaker 1: just buying a car, buy how you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You buy some stocks. You feel me, you get it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Get some gold bars, put
Speaker 1: them away. You ain't just gotta be flushed with cash, nigga,
Speaker 1: Like put your stuff in some other stuff. You feel me,
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like ball out, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like, put your money in a lot
Speaker 1: of different places. And all I gotta do is put
Speaker 1: on credit because it's cool. I'm gonna pay it back.
Speaker 1: Money coming in, right, scam money don't make money. So
Speaker 1: you're putting your money in these places. And what's happening
Speaker 1: is the wealth gap is growing because the people that's
Speaker 1: producing that money, the people that's doing the actual work,
Speaker 1: they not getting none of the none of rewards of
Speaker 1: what's coming from this wealth. While they steady being told, well,
Speaker 1: it's the American dream. You could just work hard and
Speaker 1: you too can have this wealth. Well, is the land
Speaker 1: of the free, the land of opportunity, and every man
Speaker 1: who's willing to work hard can succeed. Meanwhile, Jim Crow abounds.
Speaker 1: So you creating this wealth gap right, Just like I
Speaker 1: said earlier. You know, we out here, nigga, We out
Speaker 1: here on the corners, We out here, y'all living in
Speaker 1: these nice houses up out in the valley. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, we out here on the corner,
Speaker 1: we don't want catching cases, and you're telling us we
Speaker 1: better not snitch because our life is only good because
Speaker 1: you giving us the little bit we got. You telling
Speaker 1: me I'm better off because of you. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Let me just you know, if I do
Speaker 1: go do Julie, I do go five years. If I
Speaker 1: keep my mouth shut food, that's like a vacation. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, well, make your money on
Speaker 1: your books. Everything cool. Meanwhile, you collecting dough this whole time,
Speaker 1: you getting richer and richer. It's creating a wealth gap.
Speaker 1: You know these ogs man, they just you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. They're not even out here in the field.
Speaker 1: We out in the field. Ohg Like you just hate
Speaker 1: me because you hate me. Little niggas is saying something different.
Speaker 1: This shit ain't gonna keep. But I'm not gonna keep
Speaker 1: standing for this. But look at eventually, all that money
Speaker 1: you spend it, all that stuff you borrowing, uh you
Speaker 1: got you keep increasing that credit limit, that black card.
Speaker 1: Eventually you're gonna have to pay that shit back. Because again,
Speaker 1: money has to be something in real life unless it's
Speaker 1: just paper. I remember I told on the last one,
Speaker 1: on the last how much a dollar costs. Money's not
Speaker 1: real no more, it's just whatever we say it is.
Speaker 1: It wasn't always like that money was a thing. It
Speaker 1: was gold. You take that dollar and I'm just making
Speaker 1: up this number, and this dollar means I can get
Speaker 1: this much gold because it was real thing. And instead
Speaker 1: of buying just the gold bar, I'm gonna buy a product.
Speaker 1: And I know this product is worth these many goal bars.
Speaker 1: And rather than me handing these, go bobbing hand you
Speaker 1: just because gold is a finite thing. We know what
Speaker 1: it is, and it sits in a reserve. But eventually
Speaker 1: you borrowing more, you spending more than there is gold.
Speaker 1: Are we good? We good? You spend it more than
Speaker 1: we got. So I said, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You put these bricks on credit. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You feel me? You promising shit you can't deliver. We
Speaker 1: ain't got it. Look look, look look again, you out
Speaker 1: with your homies, you swiping your card, knowing full well
Speaker 1: you gonna overdraft that. But you good, the bank will
Speaker 1: just charge you to thirty five dollars. You'll just pay
Speaker 1: the thirty five dollars. You keep swiping that that thirty
Speaker 1: five become seventy. You say what I'm saying, and it
Speaker 1: just keep adding up. You mess around. Check your bank account.
Speaker 1: Your last seven transactions were now declined. You now overdraft
Speaker 1: eleven hund It is like, what you're gonna do? You
Speaker 1: ain't got it? What nations do keep swiping? How do
Speaker 1: they keep swiping? What we print the money? Remember it's ours.
Speaker 1: You just print more. And what happens when you print
Speaker 1: more than what you actually got is it starts to
Speaker 1: become just paper again. That's called inflation. It's more money
Speaker 1: in circulation. Then we can actually back you just writing checks,
Speaker 1: you just swiping your card. It ain't real money there.
Speaker 1: And at some point the nation like, yo, we're finna
Speaker 1: default on our loans cuz so this what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this stimulus package. That's a nice way
Speaker 1: to say, is we just gonna make up money. But
Speaker 1: before they get to the makeup money, look, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: blow your mind right now. You know what food's due.
Speaker 1: They lower the interest rates. Oh man, hey, interests are
Speaker 1: on a low time low. Everybody go buy their houses
Speaker 1: or that's because they like damn these niggas not paying
Speaker 1: they debt. We do the loan dot it money' not
Speaker 1: paying us. Okay, well maybe if we lower the interest
Speaker 1: niggas will start paying because we're not getting they money.
Speaker 1: You could lower the interest rates to zero, nigga, because
Speaker 1: that happened if I ain't got the money, I ain't
Speaker 1: got the money. You know what you do now? You
Speaker 1: just print the money. But the money don't mean nothing
Speaker 1: because we just printed it. And that, my friend, is inflation.
Speaker 1: It's because the dollar don't do shit for you because
Speaker 1: they just printed it. So you know what the wealthy dude,
Speaker 1: when you just make up money, they know, Oh the
Speaker 1: price of everything's finna go up. And I got the bread,
Speaker 1: but the price of real shit finna go up. We
Speaker 1: do an all gonna do. I'm gonna buy the stock, I'm
Speaker 1: a body's bonds, I'm a buy this commodity. I'm finna
Speaker 1: buy this goal. I'm gonna buy it right now because
Speaker 1: I know that's real. This dollar ain't gonna be worth nothing.
Speaker 1: So let me get the dollars out of my hands
Speaker 1: because theyin't not worth nothing, And I'm gonna get the
Speaker 1: actual shit into my hands because that's worth something. The
Speaker 1: rich get richer, and eventually, once they start happening, guess what,
Speaker 1: the natives get restless, not a hood mad, not a
Speaker 1: set mad, because what is we gonna do? You done
Speaker 1: snatched up? Now? I can't afford nothing. Remember I talked
Speaker 1: about the ice cream truck. My five dollars, don't get
Speaker 1: me the same amount of ice cream and get me
Speaker 1: before all right, we'll pay me more. They like, oh,
Speaker 1: we ain't got it. We can't pay you more. What
Speaker 1: the fuck me? And you ain't got it? Now, think
Speaker 1: of this as a nation. We're telling were telling China,
Speaker 1: You telling Russia, You're telling all these not Russia. Well yeah, Russia.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you tell China, telling russa yo, you're telling China, like, Yo,
Speaker 1: let me buy let me get seven million of them
Speaker 1: car chips, them car micro chips, Japan, let me get
Speaker 1: seven hundred car micro chips, seven hundred million of them.
Speaker 1: They're like, all right, cool, Uh, that's gonna be nine
Speaker 1: trillion dollars. You're like, yo, well send a link, send it,
Speaker 1: send a square link. I'll just I'll swipe my card
Speaker 1: and you're gonna swipe your card. That mug gonna say processing, processing, processing, processing.
Speaker 1: At some point, Japan gonna be like, I want my money. Look.
Speaker 1: That's when the cartel dude from Mexico fly in and
Speaker 1: he like, Yo, where my money. That's a nice house
Speaker 1: you got. I see, I see you shining in that car.
Speaker 1: I see look, I see. I say, that's a nice
Speaker 1: car you got outside, Nigga, that's a nice house. That's
Speaker 1: a nice beach house you got. So then what happens
Speaker 1: is like, Yo, whatever wealth is here, it's not distributed, right,
Speaker 1: the top ten percent got everything. So this is happening
Speaker 1: now internally. So then some sort of like conflict happens
Speaker 1: internally where the nation is like, look, man, we like look,
Speaker 1: y'all need to rethink this stuff out because we're producing
Speaker 1: all the product and y'all making all the money. So
Speaker 1: then you have a call for the redistribution of wealth.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this shit is sounded familiar to you,
Speaker 1: But then you have an other side that says, wait,
Speaker 1: wait wait no, no, no, no no no, no, everything's fine, we
Speaker 1: got this. Y'all need to stop tripping. How about y'all
Speaker 1: work harder? Hell? I did you work harder? And how's
Speaker 1: that solved, either with a civil war or a culture war.
Speaker 1: That's going on on Twitter like we got it right.
Speaker 1: And what happens while that's happening. I know, education suffers.
Speaker 1: I know the policing goes up because look, military, that's
Speaker 1: not protecting y'all safety, it's protecting our money. The police
Speaker 1: ain't protecting your safety. They protecting that property. When you
Speaker 1: got your sociopath in the hood, that's just shooting. They
Speaker 1: protecting their interest. It's the block. Niggas ain't worried about you.
Speaker 1: They worried about the block. They were youth securing the bag.
Speaker 1: So you got to make sure that they money good.
Speaker 1: What do we call that the military industrial complex. They
Speaker 1: need to be able to get their money. They need
Speaker 1: to be cool because everybody coming after us. And while
Speaker 1: we can't get our shit together on the inside, China
Speaker 1: watching somebody over there watching, They watching you fight inside it,
Speaker 1: They watching y'all not be as smart. They watching y'all
Speaker 1: spending y'all time with a dollar That don't mean shit
Speaker 1: no more, because y'all done got comfortable. Y'all ain't got
Speaker 1: the grit you got used to being up. Y'all kids
Speaker 1: don't even go to college no more because it costs
Speaker 1: too much, and y'all can't even get the shit figured
Speaker 1: out because ain't no way, ain't no reason on God
Speaker 1: Green Earth college should cost this much, And y'all don't
Speaker 1: know how to work no more cause you expect the
Speaker 1: government to pay y'all's debt. Y'all falling off again. This
Speaker 1: is China's perspective, or Whoever's next, And what happens is
Speaker 1: some sort of some sort of charismatic totalitarians, some sort
Speaker 1: of populist dude come up and he say, hey, listen, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fix this. I'm gonna calm everybody down. You
Speaker 1: just let's just just give me all the power. I'll
Speaker 1: fix this for y'all. I'm gonna give you some sort
Speaker 1: of peace. This is how you get the rise of
Speaker 1: these like dictators. You get the rise of these autocrats
Speaker 1: because they like, nah, it's cool, I'll fix your money.
Speaker 1: You know what we need to do. We need to
Speaker 1: muscle up. And you muscle up on your own people
Speaker 1: to get them to chill. And then you muscle up
Speaker 1: because you don't want nobody outside to think that there's
Speaker 1: problems happening. But there is problems happening because y'all not
Speaker 1: innovating no more, y'all. Donet got comfy, y'all spending y'all money.
Speaker 1: You spread your money too far. You fighting on so
Speaker 1: many levels. Look how many, how many? How many American
Speaker 1: outposts are there? Of the military cards. We can't keep
Speaker 1: spending this much money. Why because we ain't got it, Nigga,
Speaker 1: we ain't got it. The money made up, trying to
Speaker 1: watch it. China get they act together, Russia trying to
Speaker 1: get they act together because Russia used to be up.
Speaker 1: And then what happens either while we fighting on the inside,
Speaker 1: somebody come knocking on our door and stretch us too thin.
Speaker 1: Look that's what happened with Britain. Britain got stretched too thin.
Speaker 1: Great Britain got stretched too thin. At the end of
Speaker 1: World War Two, they couldn't pay their debts. You ain't
Speaker 1: got no money. All we got it. We good. You
Speaker 1: borrowed from us, but you gotta pass back though we up.
Speaker 1: So when you think about where we are in the nation,
Speaker 1: you got to ask yourself, y'all, where are we? I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, We ain't really educating our children the
Speaker 1: way we used to, Not like we ever really worked,
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I mean, look, anybody that got
Speaker 1: any sense with money then left the place they not.
Speaker 1: That's why it's like build USA, buy USA. Nigga, You
Speaker 1: losing money, Nah, hommie, Why would I do that when
Speaker 1: I can get the work from China for half the
Speaker 1: price and it's just as good. That don't make no
Speaker 1: good money? Since China been reverse engineering all of your
Speaker 1: innovation and they didne figured out how to do it cheaper.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say this as callous as possible. Y'all
Speaker 1: worried about civil rights and shit. Nigga, we tell you
Speaker 1: the work you work, anybody was since gonna get what
Speaker 1: they can get for cheaper and just as good, if
Speaker 1: not better. Keep American jobs, nigga, Why like you gotta
Speaker 1: think of it like if it's just, if it's just,
Speaker 1: if it's just raw down, you gotta think of it
Speaker 1: like that. Why this one from over there is half
Speaker 1: the price, it costs better, And y'all printing money. Your
Speaker 1: money ain't even up no more so where are we?
Speaker 1: I mean, we haven't done the big sell off like
Speaker 1: Britain had to do at the after like they printed
Speaker 1: their money. They had that great depression, I mean, not
Speaker 1: that great depression when they're their their pounds just started dripping,
Speaker 1: dripping down to the bottom at the end of World
Speaker 1: War Two when they tried to print more and then
Speaker 1: inflation got crazy and it was like, I can't pay
Speaker 1: my debts. This ain't real money. And you got this,
Speaker 1: like I said, somebody that when the when the cartel
Speaker 1: boss come in and say you all right, give me
Speaker 1: that house, all right, give me that bike, all right,
Speaker 1: give me that necklace, that's the sell off. At some
Speaker 1: point you got to you got to get rid of
Speaker 1: all your stuff cause you got to pay these fools back. Okay,
Speaker 1: that hasn't happened in America yet. We ain't got to
Speaker 1: full civil war yet, although the January sixth Joint got
Speaker 1: real close. Ain't nobody actually yet has yet to pop
Speaker 1: off on us. But the wealth gap, oh that's there.
Speaker 1: The inflation, Oh that's there. The stimulus, oh that's there.
Speaker 1: I just said, I just read that Biden given eight
Speaker 1: million dollars billion dollars, eight million dollars to uh the Ukraine,
Speaker 1: nigga where you get that money from? Because it's not
Speaker 1: real y'all. Now, can our nations leaders get together and
Speaker 1: actually do the hard things. I don't think, so that's
Speaker 1: the part I'm worried about. Like I said, every nation
Speaker 1: grand opening, grand CosIng, But don't mean we disappear off
Speaker 1: the face of the earth. It just means we just
Speaker 1: become just like every other nation, which we always work.
Speaker 1: Everybody had they moment in the sun. We'll be fine.
Speaker 1: But I think to shave off the pain of all this,
Speaker 1: there's two principles that Dali Oh presents, which I have
Speaker 1: said so many times, which makes me feel vindicated. It's
Speaker 1: pretty simple. Make more than you spend and treat people fairly.
Speaker 1: Don't spend money you ain't got. If I wrote a
Speaker 1: financial book, it would be that one page. Don't spend
Speaker 1: money you don't have that ain't even gotta worry about.
Speaker 1: None of the speculations. Shit, don't spend money you ain't got.
Speaker 1: I know, cost of living is ridiculous. That was like
Speaker 1: the one I said before. I know this is super easy.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, as a nation and as a whole,
Speaker 1: don't spend money you ain't got. And to just treat
Speaker 1: people fairly. What wealth gap is unfair? Paying people below
Speaker 1: they wages before living living wages is unfair. Just treat
Speaker 1: people fairly, pay what they work and don't spend money
Speaker 1: you ain't got. I know it's not that simple, and
Speaker 1: I know this arc we just explained ain't exactly it,
Speaker 1: and I know there's a lot to disagree with. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, though, it all falls down, y'all. Question
Speaker 1: is how hard you're gonna fall? And who did you
Speaker 1: smash on the way up? Because them niggas is watching
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