1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Okay, so it kind of happens faster than you think. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: It's real subtle. And of course everybody's story is different, 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: everybody's entries point different. But I'll tell you my experience. 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: My sister is so much older than me. She kind 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: of liked her dudes a little thuggy, but we were 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: really close. And oftentimes when she was making a run 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: going to check up on her dudes because she had many, 8 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,319 Speaker 1: I would be just along for the ride and her 9 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: alibi and sitting in the living room. And while I'm 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: sitting in the living room, there's bricks and packs being 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: broken up and repacked and getting prepped, you know, while 12 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: she's you know, checking up on her man's or one 13 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: of her man's. Are you sitting there? And one of 14 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,319 Speaker 1: the big jee's would be like, hey, little man, what's 15 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: your name? You're like Jason, you know, your little brother 16 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: Like yeah, it's like, hey, you wanna make a hundred dollars? 17 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: And when you were a kid, a hundred dollars that 18 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: hundred dollars that sounds it's not a real number. Your 19 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: hundred guy pulls out of hunted out a bill or 20 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: five twenties. Most money you ever seen in your life. 21 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: He's like, hey, look and listen. This man is shining. 22 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: I mean, Jules. His gear is dupe, he got the 23 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: you know, I'm from the nineties and you got the 24 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: starter jacket. Like, Homie is crisp man. His car outside 25 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: is dep you know what I'm saying, Like, it's the 26 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: person you want to be. Then he say this, take 27 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 1: this bag across the street. We're gonna be right here, 28 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: so all you gotta do take it across the street. 29 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: See them standing over there, Take it across the street. 30 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 1: Sit like a hundred. That's it to just walk across 31 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,199 Speaker 1: the street. Yeah, And you know, I'm trying to be cool. 32 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: Lucky for me, my sister comes running out from them 33 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: back being like hey, hey, hey, hey hey, and then 34 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: she starts checking the dudes, don't be asking my brother 35 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: to be a part of all this. She coming and 36 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: defend me. And then they're like, hey, man, let the 37 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: little man talk. He all right, he all right, hey, 38 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: little man, can you speak for yourself or your sister 39 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: gonna tell you what to do? You know, And obviously 40 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: I'm frozen because I got to go home with my 41 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: sister and I'm like, no, I'm good, and they're like, 42 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: now you're cool. Hey, look I saw good, honey, here's 43 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: twenty dollars. They still give you twenty dollars, They say, 44 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: are you little wrapping as nigger man? You got flow? 45 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: And then you know, I try to wrap for him, 46 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: And so I got out of the situation. You know, 47 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: I ain't make the hundred, but I got the twenty. 48 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: And my sister looking at me like lot n if 49 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: you do not, And I'm like, all right, well, I 50 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: trust my sister more than EAST make it with that 51 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 1: hundred dollars. That seemed real easy. I think I may 52 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: want to be a corner boy, but every corner boy 53 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: needs a plug. Every plug needs a corner boy. Politics, y'all, 54 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: it's so good right now, little politics, y'all so good. 55 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: So today has a lot to do with economics and 56 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: the role economics plays in policy and how that relates 57 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: to us and what we can do in a system 58 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: that we exist in. I'm gonna talk about unemployment, unions, 59 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: Amazon jobs reports, and really wighs that you and I, 60 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: as just regular folks, interact with all these things. A 61 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: corner boy is I mean, it's a drug dealer, but 62 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: he's the guy standing on the corner. Now it's a 63 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: it's an East Coast term. We don't necessarily use it 64 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: out here what we do now because you know, the 65 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: world is so connected. But as you probably know, because 66 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you've seen a movie, you know, the 67 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: corner boy don't have He has to get the product 68 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: from somebody, you know. And I know you've listened to 69 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: rap music, which probably makes you think you know how 70 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: this works. And I mean, shoot me too, you know, 71 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: But I know enough to know by being around here 72 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: and know enough guys who pushed a weight. I knew. 73 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: I had a friend in high school always had cash. 74 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: Didn'tybody know he got his cash from I just always 75 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: had money in his pocket. He would never tell us. 76 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: He would always be like, man, if I tell you, 77 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: I gotta kill you. I'm positive he was moving real 78 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: silent and was probably somewhere around the city getting product 79 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: into people's heads. But the product gotta come from somewhere, 80 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,119 Speaker 1: and the product comes from the connect or the plug, 81 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: and and and and sometimes those can be two different 82 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: people like the connect oftentimes is might be in Mexico, 83 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: might be a cartel, might be in Colombia, like somewhere 84 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: far away. And then there could be a middleman, but 85 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: most of the time the goal is to not have one. 86 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: I mean, we can use pimps and house as a 87 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: as a motif. Now, obviously I've never in my right 88 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: mind ever referred to a woman as all. I'm just 89 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: saying for this explanation, there's a product being moved, and 90 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: there's someone that has to move the product. And in 91 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: prostitution and the really interesting it's not necessarily the woman 92 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: that's the product. It's the the feeling of being aroused 93 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 1: and satisfied is the actual product. Like you could talk 94 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: to I'll talked to a number of women who kind 95 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: of came out that life. I got some we got 96 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 1: some homies that work with girls transitioning out of that, 97 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: and they're like, yes, some nights is just like they 98 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: just wanted somebody to talk to. You know. Some dudes 99 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: just I want to be cuddled, you know, but they 100 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: have to have a connect. You gotta have a supplier, 101 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: and the supplier is the pimp, you know, and the 102 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:37,840 Speaker 1: pimp lives a very interesting life. There's there's In my opinion, 103 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 1: obviously I'm not one, but in my opinion, um, the 104 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: process of breaking your ho just the type of si 105 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,359 Speaker 1: up you have to do to get a woman to 106 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: function against her own best interest is you know, enough 107 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: talking too much, talking, not enough while getting you know, 108 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: the pimp hand, you know, backhand is pimping, pimping, you know, 109 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 1: using fear and danger to make sure that this person 110 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 1: keeps doing this is a very interesting I just I 111 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: think some part of you gotta you gotta have a 112 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: little bit of sociopathy, I think to actually do this job, 113 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: because it requires of you to look at this person 114 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: and be like, your job is to walk these streets, 115 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: give me my money. But back to the motif. The 116 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: idea is what keeps a kid on the street because 117 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: the cornerboys is a very dangerous your imminent danger all 118 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: the time. One from the outside might ask themselves like 119 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: why a kid could choose this? I actually understand, can 120 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: empathize as to why somebody would choose to do this, 121 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: because again I'm, you know, just from here. Obviously I 122 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: didn't choose it, but I understand why some did. And 123 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 1: I think there's two things. There's fear and there's the dream, 124 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: like the possibility. There's a possibility to become the cartel boss, 125 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: to become Escobar, you know, to to have those you know, 126 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: million dollar planes and you know, in your jets, and 127 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: and you know, because because because the connect be shining, 128 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: you know, this idea that like if I do this, 129 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: I could move up in this in this game, you know, 130 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: and put and put young dudes under me, so that 131 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: I don't have to be out here three days under lightpoles, 132 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: you know, no shower, you know, serving these fings. I 133 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: don't have to be running from the police, hiding hiding 134 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: stuff in my pocket, like no, I could say lovely 135 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: out in the valley, you know, and just have a 136 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 1: little homies out on the streets with me, so you 137 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: I could be shining. You. Let the jay Zs and 138 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: Nipsies of the world start convincing you that that might 139 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: be you. You know what I'm saying, because it worked 140 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: for them. They got in, got out, and they became starts, 141 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: and you start thinking maybe I can do this. You know. 142 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: It's kind of like the kid that I swear he 143 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: going pro. You're playing basketball, I'm going pro, and it's like, well, 144 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: there's not many slots there just everybody don't make it, 145 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: you know, But the possibility is alluring. But before that, 146 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: like I said, this man said, I just I could 147 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: have made a hundred dollars for two minutes of work. 148 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: I mean that's basic economics. Like you want me to 149 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: go work at some job slaving for some white man 150 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: you know, he don't respect me, and I'm making pennies. 151 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: Y'all know what the minimum wage? You know, the minimum 152 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: wage has not changed in a long time. Hey, And 153 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: if you're if you're in a job that it has tips, 154 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: minimum wage still two thirteen cents an hour. It's not 155 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: a it's not a lot. You know. President Biden ran 156 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: on changing this. He ain't done it yet, which means, look, 157 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: we need to put his feet to the fire. You 158 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: said you was gonna raise minimum wage. It has not 159 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: raised minimum wage. We did a little bit, but that's 160 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: not what we asked for. So it's like, if that's 161 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: the other option, you mean to tell me I could 162 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: stand out here and just stand here and the product 163 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: sells itself. They addict. These people are addicted. All I 164 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: gotta do is just have it on me, lay it low. 165 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: And you're telling me I can walk home with a 166 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: percentage of the twenty dollars that's in my pocket right now, 167 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: I'll just pay you for the product, pay you your 168 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: your cut. Let's just say your cut is ridiculous. Now again, 169 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: I'm making these numbers up. But your cut is you 170 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,719 Speaker 1: get to keep fifty. So you're telling me one night 171 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: I made ten dollars, Why in the hell would I? 172 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: Why would I? This is well, this is ridiculous. But 173 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: there's also a possibility that if I play my cards right, 174 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: I couldn't make fifty dollars tonight because I got five 175 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: little vatos on the corner doing this for me, and 176 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: they just bring me the money. But this is glorious 177 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 1: to the possibility. But why would you just accept this? Danger? 178 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: Is also the fear? What else you're gonna do? What 179 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,319 Speaker 1: are you gonna You gonna stand up to a boss? 180 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: You're gonna stand up to your plug. You'll connect, You're 181 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: gonna stand up to this this have you Dan dangling 182 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: your bodies off the cranes and San Pedro you better 183 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: get his money right? That man tell he tell you 184 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: the numbers. She tell you the numbers because sometimes to 185 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: connect them trying to plug a she she tell you 186 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,839 Speaker 1: what it is. Sometimes to connect with the connect you 187 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: got to go to another city. A lot of times 188 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: when you get involved in this sort of life. The 189 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: gang banging kind of like slows down because we were 190 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: protecting the bag. You're securing the bag, So you may 191 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 1: have to go over there with them, vatos. You if 192 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: you black person, you may have to go over everything, 193 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: Vatos because the connect coming from Mexico, right or the 194 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: other way around. Like, if y'all really want to move 195 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,559 Speaker 1: this weight, if you you know, as a you know, 196 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 1: if you're a lot, you know, you're like, man, I 197 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: gotta go mess with these black folks. You know that 198 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: you usually don't really don't really mess with them, but 199 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: let's get this money. Why would you just allow yourself 200 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: to be treated well because you're scared? What else you're 201 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,319 Speaker 1: gonna do? You haven't signed up for this. I mean, 202 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: if you want to get out, you're gonna what you're 203 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: gonna tell the police? Oh, your whole family diet. Yeah, 204 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: you know. But the only way for you to actually 205 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: get out of the situation is to become the plug. 206 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: You have to become the connect, right, That's how you 207 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: get off the corner, or you go to prison. And 208 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,199 Speaker 1: you don't want that's gonna go to prison. Plug and 209 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: going to prison unless they run some sort of rico thing, 210 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: but they're gonna be fine, So the goal is to 211 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 1: become that right. Or let's say that's not an option, 212 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: and you just start figuring out this is super hypothetical. 213 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: You and all five of the other corner boys start 214 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: to organize and say, hey man, we're gonna make sure 215 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:35,719 Speaker 1: this man treat us right now. You're you'd informed the 216 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: drug dealer union. Wow. Or you figure out ways to 217 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: wash the money, to launder it until it becomes legit, 218 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: you know, and uh, move away like that because you've 219 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 1: you've figured out a way out where you you don't. 220 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: But basically what you're saying is it's almost like I'm 221 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: buying my way out, like you bought your way into 222 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 1: a position to where now you don't have to do 223 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: these things. But if you've existed under a code that 224 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: says that there's a lot of stuff you just have 225 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: to keep to yourself or everything goes wrong. But the 226 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: way that the business works is it's one way. If 227 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: you're a worker, be you're a worker, be. That's how 228 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: it works, and you better stay in line. There is 229 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: no one you can call, but to actually succeed in 230 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:34,439 Speaker 1: this business, you have to be remarkably good businessman, unbelievably terrifying. 231 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: There has to be a part of you that's like, 232 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not afraid of this danger, and I 233 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: will defend myself two the death. You know, if you're 234 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: gonna if you're gonna make it out. You know. So 235 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: anybody that like I know now who either swareed in 236 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: there or was like, really did it? Did a bid 237 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: came out? Our homeboy, um right from Grateful Apparel. He 238 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: this is a clothing line of you know, one of 239 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: my friends out of New York. He was his story 240 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,239 Speaker 1: is super amazing. He was like, yeah, I was a businessman. 241 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 1: I had the tools and he was like, I mean 242 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: he was doing all right. You know my homeboy Fern 243 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: from the school calls Social Club, Yo, he was, he 244 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: was working. You know what I'm saying. And these both 245 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: of these dudes are like, yeah, they're incredible, incredible businessman. 246 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: But what I want to land on is this symbiotic 247 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,599 Speaker 1: relationship between the worker and the boss, the corner and 248 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 1: the plug. I think the corner boy knows they need 249 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: to plug, but what the plug don't ever want to 250 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: acknowledge is you actually need the corner board. And there's 251 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 1: a thing In economics theory, it's called elasticity, which has 252 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,319 Speaker 1: to do with like how how high of a price 253 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 1: you could charge for something. And I think I'm gonna 254 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: stretch that idea to your worker. You can only push 255 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: your worker so far before make their calculation that this 256 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: is not worth it anymore. But that relationship is symbiotic. 257 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you all about unions and 258 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: unemployment benefits. You're ready to pivot, all right after the break, 259 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: all right back, So I'm gonna connect something for you. 260 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: Back in April, there was this huge thing that the 261 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: news was watching about Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama, of all places, 262 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: that was voting on whether they were going to unionize 263 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: or not. And I used to always wonder, like why 264 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: who cares? Like why is the union such? And why 265 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: is this such a flashpoint in culture? It's it just why? 266 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm running a business and somebody say, hey, 267 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: can you pay me this? And then I tell you, now, 268 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: I can pay you that, and I know my upfront cost, 269 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: I know my cog like how much it costs to 270 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: get the widget and employ everybody, And if I'm businessman, 271 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: I feel like I'll be transparent about it, like Yo, this, 272 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: how much this costs me? This? How much I gotta 273 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: pay this person? If we're on the street, I gotta 274 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: pay your muscle to make sure you don't die. I'm 275 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: paying them this. That's why I can only afford to 276 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: pay you that. Now you're trying to do this or not, 277 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So with the job, I 278 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: feel like it's the same thing. But for some reason, 279 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: corporations find themselves businesses find themselves to be very opaque 280 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: about their numbers. Obviously, I think it's because transparency worker 281 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: works against them. Then we can't maximize our profits because 282 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: maybe you could possibly pay somebody more. And of course 283 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: there's some exceptions. Some companies understand that, like a happy 284 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: worker works harder, a happy worker stays. If we treat 285 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 1: people right, they're gonna stick around, and then you make 286 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: more money. I mean, I don't whatever. Either way, apparently 287 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: that's not the norm. But yeah, Amazon Bessemer, Alabama. Before 288 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: I go to that, you know what a union is. 289 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: So union and its history began in the nineteenth century 290 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: in the response to like the social and economic impact 291 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: of the Industrial Revolution. Basically, it's like this, we got 292 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: all these factories and we got all these workers and 293 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: we can pay them whatever the hell we tell them. 294 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: We want to pay them, and you're gonna do whatever 295 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: the hell job I tell you to do because you 296 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 1: need a job. Right post civil war, and now we 297 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: got to pay the workers because the slaves is free 298 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: and people need to make money so they could survive. 299 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,719 Speaker 1: Now as a derailing, but I think it's important understand 300 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: like what the industrial revolution did, like how that really 301 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:22,719 Speaker 1: changed culture. Remember when we lived in farming agrarian society's 302 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: you grew your own food, grew your own potatoes, you 303 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: made your own clothes, you did all your own stuff. 304 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: There was no what's called specialization. So you didn't go 305 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: off to a work to take care of yourself. You 306 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,199 Speaker 1: went outside in your own land to care of what 307 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: you did. If you need the tools, you went to 308 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: the corner store. Right. Culture is different. There's a specialization now. 309 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 1: Now you don't grow potatoes, you go to the store. 310 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: The store got potatoes. Right, So rather than working your 311 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:52,239 Speaker 1: own land, now everybody went off to work, so we 312 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 1: have to go buy those things that like, like it 313 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: terror formed the world so much differently. Eventually the people 314 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: working here was like your I can't even afford this job, 315 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: like you, it's not even enough. I have to go 316 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:09,959 Speaker 1: do something else so I can afford the food and 317 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: buy the clothes, so I could come to your store 318 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 1: and work for nineteen twenty hours a day and there's 319 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 1: nobody to tell you what to do. Because I'm in 320 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: a situation where I need this job. It's not enough 321 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: jobs for me to have, right, So you need to start, man, 322 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: you can't just be treating us like this. Now. This 323 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: is the labor unions of the United States. There's a 324 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: lot of different types of unions. Um, the police union, 325 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: which is one that we always see in the news 326 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: because they're the ones that guarantee after after the officer 327 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: had this failure and conduct and probably kill the person 328 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: the color, that they still get their golden parachute or 329 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: don't lose their job. It's the union. So ultimately the 330 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: union in that sense is not doing us justice, but 331 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 1: they're doing their role, which is protect the worker. And unions, 332 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: I think America has had like a love hate relationship 333 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: it with them because they seem to be tied to 334 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: communism and socialism, and you know, America sweared that like 335 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: those are two of the four pale horses. You know 336 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: what I'm saying that of the apocalypse that are You know, 337 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: if we have any sort of semblance of that, then 338 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: that mean that, like democracy and capitalism, is is collapsing 339 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: because we believe our own propaganda pun intended that if 340 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 1: you work hard, you'll succeed. This is the land of opportunity. 341 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: You just you know, by the sweat of your brow, 342 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 1: you you you go get it. But all of us 343 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: who have existed in the real life knows that it's 344 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 1: not that simple. You were you're telling me the person 345 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: right So now outside mo and yo law and ain't 346 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: working harder than you. You listening to a podcast you 347 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: find we've believed that this idea of this unionizing thing 348 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: undermines that. Now, that's one way to look at it. 349 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: This conservative, free market economy. The best rises to the top. 350 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 1: Competition drives innovation. If you just let the market have 351 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: the competition, it's going to drive in a vation to 352 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: which I would respond, then how come every fast food 353 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: restaurant got the same chicken sandwich? It don't seem like 354 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 1: it's innovated to be anyway. On the other side of 355 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: that is no one's gonna move your product if your 356 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 1: workers aren't happy if you're if they're not treating you 357 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: don't have a factory if you're treating if you're not 358 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: treating your workers well, So the workers could get together 359 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: and be like, well, listen until you do right by us, 360 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 1: we're not coming to work, to which the company men respond, okay, fine, 361 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: go home. There's a trillion person line outside looking for 362 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,479 Speaker 1: this work. We're gonna find somebody to do it. If 363 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: you don't want to, Okay, they're not pressed for workers, 364 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,679 Speaker 1: but we press for jobs. Now. Obviously, throughout American history, 365 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: the unions have been exploited by organized crime to make 366 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: sure that certain jobs go to certain groups. And if 367 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,479 Speaker 1: you get a guy from your said, from your you know, 368 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,360 Speaker 1: crime family into that, you can start muscling the city 369 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: to make sure. This is how this stuff gets mixed up, 370 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: where you can start muscling the city to make sure 371 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,679 Speaker 1: that like who's gonna build this skyscraper. You're gonna make 372 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: sure we build this skyscraper because we're gonna run this 373 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: twenty million dollars to the hood, but we're gonna get 374 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: it this clean way, like rather than us just pushing 375 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: way dying on the streets. It's like, nah, we're gonna 376 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: get it. We're gonna get it nice. In corporate organized 377 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: crime kind of figured it out. They just that was 378 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,920 Speaker 1: the end to make sure that the government does whatever 379 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: the hell they want them to do and they keep 380 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: this money going. But that's a certain element of it. 381 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: The other hand is, I mean, the system don't work 382 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: if we don't work. I you're gonna pay me a 383 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: fair wage, and there's power and numbers if none of 384 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 1: us show up. Right, it was a way for those 385 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: out of power, the corner boys, the workers, if you will, 386 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: to respond to those in power. It was our only, 387 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: our only way to get our voices heard was a 388 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: collective work. So there's things called collective bargaining to make 389 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 1: sure that, like you're paying us a fair wage. You know, 390 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: unions are the reason why you have a five day 391 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 1: work week, why it's eight hours a day, why you 392 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: have to have a lunch break. Those as unions. We 393 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 1: can get into some of those stories. Is Behind the 394 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,360 Speaker 1: Bastards episode about the Virginia coal miners and they had 395 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: a government responded to that, but that's all other story. 396 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: The Pinker Tins, we did an episode on the Pinker 397 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,640 Speaker 1: Tins with the Behind the police situation where when these 398 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: poor white Northerners who were working for Carnegie and the 399 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: steel mills decided that this was unbearable. Carnegie and him 400 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 1: was like, listen, we'll just go get freed slaves. They'll 401 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 1: come work. And that was their way of breaking a power. 402 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 1: Breaking apart the union's power. They used somebody who was 403 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 1: poorer than the poor, who was like, damn, that's a job, 404 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 1: y'all bugging, I'm gonna go get this job because we've 405 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: been working for free for so long. At least I 406 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: have the dignity of a paycheck. It was just a 407 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 1: way to keep poor people down and you know, divide 408 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: and conquer. It's the same same bag. But anyway, they 409 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 1: have these things called union breakers, where they would hire 410 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,480 Speaker 1: people to just beat the crap out of folks. Since 411 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,679 Speaker 1: the history of unions is to make sure that the 412 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: worker is treated well, and unions really only exist because 413 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: there's such thing as capitalism. Now let me talk about capitalism. 414 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to bestum or I promise capitalism is 415 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: a moral, not im moral. A moral it's not concerned 416 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: with morals, good or bad. The morality of capitalism is 417 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: how you do it it's not the what, but the how. 418 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:37,439 Speaker 1: Capitalism is math. It's input output least amount lower the 419 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: investment to hire the rewards. What's the least I can 420 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: put into to yield the highest rewards at the lowest 421 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: cost for myself. It's numbers, it's profit. So if there's 422 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: a higher risk in my investment, then that means the 423 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 1: rewards need to be that much more. It's concerned with yields, 424 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: return on investment. That's a r O. Why. That's what 425 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: capitalism is. There's a product that you want, I'm gonna 426 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: be the guy to get it. I'm gonna get it 427 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: at the lowest cost to myself, and I'm gonna sell 428 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: it if I'm doing capitalism right, because again, it's a 429 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 1: moral at the highest price that possibly can to maximize 430 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: the numbers and get the greatest yields. So the system 431 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 1: by definition says, I want to be the best product 432 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: and the only one. I need to get a lot 433 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: of them to the market, and I need to be 434 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: the only place you can get it or the best 435 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,159 Speaker 1: place to get it. How do you get yourself to 436 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: get a profit on something that means the product had 437 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: to cost you nothing, which means you don't pay the 438 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: workers or for the raw materials. That's I mean, if 439 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: I'm doing capitalism, the way the numbers work, the best 440 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 1: labor is free labor. I mean, that's just how the 441 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: numbers work. Because the more I pay my employees, the 442 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: lower my profits are. I'm incentivized to pay them less. Now, 443 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,479 Speaker 1: once you add humanity to it and the reality city that, 444 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: like capitalism exists among people, you can't just treat people 445 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: that way because they'll stop working. Right then you have 446 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: to come to a place of understanding that here is 447 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,159 Speaker 1: what's called a fair minimum wage. Follow me, But if 448 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: that minimum wage is only decided by the owners, by 449 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: the plugs and the corner boys, us don't ever get 450 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: no saying it. We're just subject to whatever you tell 451 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: us to do. Because what's the alternative to be unemployed? 452 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 1: And I mean where you're gonna go. We'll talk about 453 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: unemployment later. But Bessemer, Alabama. This was very special because 454 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: for a long time, somehow or another, Amazon was able 455 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: to dodge the need to have a union, mainly because 456 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: they pay very well and their argument is we treat 457 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,640 Speaker 1: you all right. I don't understand why you would need one, 458 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: but it was a big push and they were like, yo, 459 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,919 Speaker 1: if if this happens. This was back in April, like, 460 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 1: if this happens, this might be a big watershed of it. 461 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 1: Because what's bigger than Amazon right now? So if they 462 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,479 Speaker 1: have to go the way of union, this may tell 463 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: us something about our economy later. Right, So look this 464 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:10,120 Speaker 1: one spot at Bessemer, Alabama voted. They voted eighteen hundred 465 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 1: no to seven hundred yes. So they shot the union down. 466 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: And it's always interesting to me where maybe this is 467 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: just my cynicism. I'm generally like not on the corporation 468 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: side because I just feel like you're just trying to 469 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: maximize your numbers. But this was very interesting when you 470 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: listening to the people. There were workers there that was like, listen, 471 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: this is a great job. I mean, I don't see 472 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: anything wrong. And they have this view of unions as 473 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 1: being you know, corrupted money grabbing. Maybe now listen listen. 474 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:49,239 Speaker 1: Amazon went extra hard though a loss, but like that 475 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 1: loss is questionable. They did some stuff like his thing 476 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 1: when you're dealing with bosses like this. They got pulled 477 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,199 Speaker 1: with with the city, with the state. There's like a 478 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: little best of Alabama. They ain't but like four five 479 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: street lights. They got the street light that was in 480 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 1: front of their building. They got the pattern changed because 481 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 1: that's where labor organizers were organizing. People would stop at 482 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 1: the stop like they were passing about flyers like hey, 483 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: this is what's going on. We're going on the strikers, 484 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 1: and they got the lights changed so you wouldn't be 485 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: long enough to do that. Crazy. You know what else 486 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: they did, Look, it's supposed to be one of those 487 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 1: blind votes where you mail in your ballot for whether 488 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna vote for unionizing or not unionizing. Amazon had 489 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: to nerve hit the post office and was like, look, 490 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: put a box in front of our place. And then 491 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: it would harass people like yo, you put your you 492 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: put your vote in, put your vote in, put your 493 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: vote in, Like this shouldn't be legal. They was doing 494 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: things calling mandatory meetings during the work day and would 495 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 1: hire these people that was like anti union people. They 496 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: were saying, he's other facts. We're just gonna give you 497 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 1: the information. They make their work or sit around and 498 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: listen for hours the people telling them union is wrong. 499 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: They just look, these are just bullies bad. This is 500 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: corporate bullies. Dog so you should already have your antenna's up. 501 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: When a company is so hell bent on you not 502 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: doing something, that should make you think, okay, now, wait 503 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: a minute, now, why why is this so bad? And 504 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: there is a collective term for trying to stop companies 505 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: from unionizing, and it's called union breaking. Under the the 506 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: laws for you know, labor in America, there's a lot 507 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: of a lot of leeway, a lot of wiggle room. Yo, 508 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,120 Speaker 1: get this right down the street. We're not right down 509 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: the street. Further into the sticks is a coal mining 510 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: strike having it right now. It started April one. I 511 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 1: listened to this this sister Kim Kelly Man she um, 512 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: I think she was on worst year ever recently. She 513 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: had this reporting on it on the same thing that 514 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: there's this this coal mine down there way out in 515 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: the stix. Ain't no cell service right. They've been striking 516 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: since April one. And then look look here, how gangs 517 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: to this situation is there was a coal mining company 518 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 1: down there that ran out of money. It went belly up. 519 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: This venture Capitalless company bought it. Now, since the company 520 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: went belly up, they just fired all their workers. And 521 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: then then these new people came in and was like, yo, 522 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: we got you now we all now, yeah, we'll hire you. 523 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 1: Here go your contract. And the contract was awful. They're 524 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: making way less, way way way less. You gotta work 525 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: six days a week, twelve hour days, but what you're 526 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: gonna do not work. So they signed this horrible contract, 527 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: was working on it for a while. Then finally they 528 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: was like, Yo, this is wild, doc. We can't be 529 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: working like this. We're striking. So they unionized and strike. 530 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: But why this story ain't so sexy is these is 531 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: like sticks redneck white dude Trump folks who are pro union, 532 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: and I don't fit the narrative right because the Republicans 533 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 1: is supposed to be, you know, anti union because in 534 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 1: our stories out here, union is all commy right. But no, 535 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: it's just folks saying you can't just treat me however 536 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: you want to treat me. This ain't no common like 537 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: damn man. And so it's like is baffling the sea, 538 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: these right wing Trumpers all about this union, but it 539 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: shouldn't be. If you just understand what it's like to 540 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: be po to be up under somebody's power, you just 541 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: can't let nobody work you like this. And listen, since 542 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: they way out there in the sticks that company do 543 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: what they want. Man, They've been driving cars into picket 544 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: lines and carrying on harassing people. They got drones floating 545 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: over and you can't say nothing because you pour what 546 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: you gonna do. Look pimping. Let's talking more walking. Get 547 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: your ass back on that curb and go give me 548 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 1: my money. I mean, what else you're gonna do. I 549 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: don't understand how this ain't red meat to the Fox 550 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: News in them, And like why if I'm Johnny red State, 551 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: I'd be out there right now because this is a 552 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: great story, these these hard working you know as salt 553 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: of the Earth American Americans standing up to the corporate 554 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: elites and they're being treated now. But it don't fit 555 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 1: cause because listen, they unionized that you look, you said, 556 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: don't ride for you. I know, I know I'm not 557 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: talking to people that would listen to Fox News on this, 558 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: but I'm trying to tell you right now, you're set, 559 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 1: don't ride for you now. Uh. I am on my 560 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: side personally. I'm pro union to the extent that a 561 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: union is needed. You know what I'm saying. I don't 562 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: like being forced into it. I was a teacher forever, 563 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: so when I was a teacher. I didn't know the 564 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: union was, but I realized they told me how much 565 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: I was gonna get paid a year. I was like, 566 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: all right, cool, that's dope. And then they said do 567 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: you want to get a union rep? And I was 568 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: like what is that? And it was like, oh, they'll 569 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 1: negotiate your salary for you. And I was like, oh, word, 570 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 1: so they could get me more. Well damn, okay, I 571 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: mean I didn't. I mean, I didn't know I'm gonna 572 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: do the same amount of work. You mean I could 573 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: get paid more for it that you get a rep 574 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: that come in there and make sure they're paying you, right, 575 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 1: I mean I thought, I mean, this was all I knew. 576 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: I was like, this sounds good to me. But that 577 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: collective understanding of like nah, homie, like you don't have 578 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: to be treated this way, like you understand this place 579 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: need you just as much as you need them. And 580 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: then there's then the power dynamic shifts, because at the 581 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: end of the day, is that not what we're talking about. 582 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: We're still talking about a power dynamic again. Capitalism is 583 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: a moral so is power. Power just wants to feed itself, 584 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: and I mean socialism in the same way, it's no different, 585 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: it's a moral. It's it's still concerned with power. That mean, 586 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: it's no how you do these things, in my mind 587 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: is where the humanity panity falls. But unions exist because 588 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: of capitalism. Capitalism is a moral. Now what does all 589 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: this have to do with us? I want to talk 590 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 1: to you about unemployment and the concept of scarcity right 591 00:32:36,120 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: after this, Braine. So look, this was back in April, 592 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 1: this unionizing thing, because I don't know, if you know, 593 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: throughout the pandemic, Amazon wasn't hurting, Like a matter of fact, 594 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: they was offering a lot of jobs, you understand what 595 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And they set themselves up with as a 596 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 1: situation to say, well, we treat your fair, so leave 597 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: us alone. But the relationship I'm arguing is still symbiotic. 598 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: I'm not sure they're out the water. I think maybe 599 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 1: there might be a time that once people really really 600 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 1: realize really how much money Amazon made and how little 601 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 1: and how hard they work in these people that like 602 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: something may something may crack, but why Amazon made so 603 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,960 Speaker 1: much is something that's like a monopoly that uh. Elizabeth 604 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: Warren was kind of running on and just kind of 605 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 1: saying that like they shouldn't be able to be the 606 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,839 Speaker 1: grocery store and the groceries basically saying Amazon has its 607 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: own products and it's the store, so like men of 608 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,959 Speaker 1: because there's no you can't compete. It's it's the Netflix model. 609 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 1: Netflix is where you see movies and Netflix makes movies. 610 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,240 Speaker 1: So like, there's no it's capitalism. Where else you're gonna 611 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,520 Speaker 1: go like and of course they're going to throttle their 612 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: own stuff because of this idea of scarcity. What scarcity 613 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: means is there's only so much of something there's own. 614 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,319 Speaker 1: There's only a limited amount in a limited way to 615 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 1: get to that. Does that make sense? Now when you 616 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 1: stretch that too, jobs, there's only so many jobs available. 617 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,719 Speaker 1: So when you hear things like a job's report unemployment rate, 618 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: what we're saying is like, how many people in the 619 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: world or in America don't have jobs that want one? 620 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,920 Speaker 1: That's your unemployment rate? A percent? Ten percent? What Obviously 621 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,200 Speaker 1: when the pandemic hit, it's shot up. Nobody had worked 622 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 1: because stores were shutting down, but but the jobs weren't 623 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: weren't available. Now some would argue that this, this economic stance, 624 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 1: this this job's report, is really part of the incentive 625 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 1: to never do any prison before walk with me, y'all, 626 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:24,440 Speaker 1: because the more again scarcity. There's only so many jobs available, 627 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 1: So if there's more people competing for those jobs, then 628 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,760 Speaker 1: there's less jobs available for the children of those in power. 629 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,919 Speaker 1: I mean it might feel like a jump, but could 630 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: you imagine if all these non violent of corner boys 631 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,840 Speaker 1: who were selling weed out they backpack, got their records 632 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 1: expunged and didn't have to tick felony on their applications, 633 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,520 Speaker 1: who have all these skills as brilliant businessmen because there 634 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,720 Speaker 1: was corner boys at one time totally more prepared for 635 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 1: the corporate experience or the political experience that these kids 636 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: who just learned in school have. What's my incentive, It's 637 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,799 Speaker 1: a moral Remember, I need to keep you out the 638 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,280 Speaker 1: jobs market because there's only so many to go around. 639 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 1: But that's a side note. But onto the note I 640 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,080 Speaker 1: do want to talk to you all about is this 641 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 1: unemployment rate and unemployment benefits. Now, the government does have 642 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:18,880 Speaker 1: a role in all this now pending on where you 643 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 1: land on small government in large government, which is a 644 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: whole other conversation. The question basically about that is like 645 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: what it should government be your first resort or your 646 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,000 Speaker 1: last resort. Now, traditionally, your conservatives believe that the government 647 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 1: should be the last resort. So we was in a 648 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,800 Speaker 1: global pandemic. Therefore, there ain't no jobs out there, so 649 00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 1: we need to boost the unemployment the amount of money 650 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,240 Speaker 1: people can get when they sign up for unemployment. Now 651 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 1: that the pandemic over. Remember, I don't know if you'll remember, 652 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 1: they was fighting over how much it was gonna be 653 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,439 Speaker 1: three hundred dollars a week, six hundred dollars a week, 654 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 1: you know. Then we got that funky little twelve hundred 655 00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,319 Speaker 1: dollars stimulus check that was supposed to last the whole year. Right, 656 00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 1: y'are playing games, But anyway, we still talking about this 657 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,880 Speaker 1: symbiotic relationship between the plug and the corner board, between 658 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,320 Speaker 1: the the employer and the employee, and how does power 659 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 1: game kind of work. Now, some of y'all may know 660 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,920 Speaker 1: a bunch of states actually are ending their unemployment benefits early. 661 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,240 Speaker 1: June twelfth is Alaska, Iowa, Mississippi, and Missouri. June nineteenth 662 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,120 Speaker 1: is Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South or North Dakota, 663 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,239 Speaker 1: West Virginia, Wyoming. I don't know if you notice these 664 00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 1: are clearly Republican states Arkansas June Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, 665 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:37,759 Speaker 1: South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah. June is Montana, Oklahoma, 666 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 1: July three in Tennessee, in July tenth in Arizona. Your 667 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 1: unemployment benefits are ending. Then, So if you lost your 668 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 1: job because of the pandemic or for any other reason, 669 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,880 Speaker 1: and you've been collecting unemployment and you wanted these states, 670 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 1: it's finn end. But that's only besides the point. Their 671 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:59,600 Speaker 1: argument for ending this is the idea that this is 672 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,000 Speaker 1: going to to make you go get a job. It's 673 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,360 Speaker 1: a power play. But what's been happening is, according to 674 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 1: it's so funny. According to the CEO of Indeed, he said, 675 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,799 Speaker 1: in these states that ended their unemployment early, the national 676 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 1: the numbers of clicks for job searches on their website 677 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,319 Speaker 1: really only went up a little bit, and only for 678 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,640 Speaker 1: a couple of days. And in some states it dipped, 679 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,520 Speaker 1: meaning you in and needs unemployment and people still ain't 680 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:36,719 Speaker 1: looking for jobs. Why, conservative pundits would argue, because the 681 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 1: unemployment is too high, foods is begging, there's so many 682 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,600 Speaker 1: jobs available, right, they say, we're having our our workforce 683 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:49,560 Speaker 1: is struggling because nobody wants these jobs. And their argument 684 00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 1: is it's because unemployment is too good. Why would I 685 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,080 Speaker 1: go work if I get this money for free. The 686 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 1: problem is that's just not what the data is showing. 687 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,919 Speaker 1: The data showing actually that in states where people don't 688 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 1: have unemployment, they're not clicking more jobs. In states that do, 689 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,680 Speaker 1: it's pretty much the it's the same. I saw a 690 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: thing that Applebee's was offering free appetizers if you come 691 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:17,360 Speaker 1: get this interview. People don't show up for interviews or 692 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,359 Speaker 1: apply for or actually come in and try to get 693 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:23,319 Speaker 1: these jobs because unemployment. To continue to get it, you 694 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: have to show that you're trying to get work. So 695 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,960 Speaker 1: maybe you apply, go get a thing, and then just 696 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 1: like walk away. Why are people doing this? They're saying 697 00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,120 Speaker 1: because unemployment is too high. But here's what's interesting to me. 698 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,719 Speaker 1: But I'm like, look, is unemployment high or is your 699 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,600 Speaker 1: job trash? Maybe you're not offering enough money for us 700 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:44,000 Speaker 1: to work so you can look at yourself in the 701 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,279 Speaker 1: mirror at all. Maybe it really ain't worth it like 702 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,759 Speaker 1: it used to be, standing out on this corner. Maybe 703 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,840 Speaker 1: there's other ways to do this. You know what I'm saying, 704 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,560 Speaker 1: rather than saying, okay, well let's raise the minimum wage, 705 00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,000 Speaker 1: meaning maybe we should pay people more because the relationship 706 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,200 Speaker 1: ship is symbiotic. If y'all don't want to work, is 707 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,440 Speaker 1: it because you're getting money from somewhere else that's too much? Well, 708 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,520 Speaker 1: then what should the market? What does market tell you? 709 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,360 Speaker 1: What does market rules tell you? That tells you you 710 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,280 Speaker 1: need to pay more? You can't tell them to pay less, 711 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,279 Speaker 1: or can you? Because that's exactly what happened. Government went 712 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,000 Speaker 1: in there and said, well, you need to stop paying 713 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,479 Speaker 1: them so they'll come work for me. That's a power play. 714 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,920 Speaker 1: Rather than paying more, they saying lower unemployment because at 715 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,840 Speaker 1: the end of the day, in their pocket they saying, listen, 716 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,120 Speaker 1: it's only so many jobs available. And what's what's being 717 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,960 Speaker 1: shown right now is oh crap, We've been telling them 718 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,000 Speaker 1: for centuries they need us. Turns out we actually need them. 719 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 1: Mhm right, wrong or and different. I'm just saying this 720 00:40:44,800 --> 00:41:00,440 Speaker 1: is pretty hood y'all. Do muggle with your corded and 721 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,480 Speaker 1: edited by me propaganda right here in East Low Spoil Heights, 722 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,719 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. 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