Hey, look, I'm gonna give it to you the way they gave it to me. Hi, ain't nothing changed, but the weather. Ain't she changed, but the weather. Listen, you could control CV this to any any decade. Family. This is thirties in Brooklyn, This is seventies and eighties in l A. This is Detroit, this is New York, this is Russia, brod China, anywhere, tailors all this time. I said in a poem once that history got bars. What I'm trying to say is that it rhymes get it.
You and your boys, you and your homies. You know what I'm saying. You're tired of not being up. You're tired of and being kids, picking on y'all man, taking your bikes, taking your lunch money, always running around here like they run this whole city, Like they run this whole town, like they run to school. Man. It's just yeah, oh you know what I mean. You're just watching them like man, like this came, this came. This can't be
what the rest of my childhood gonna be. Like, you know, and one day you decide, you and your homies decide, like, look, man, at some point, we're gonna have to do something about this, like you're not gonna chase me home every day. These these fools got all the girls. They're coming in school dipping, you know what I'm saying, Like the new Feelers you feel Me, the new Rebox, you know what I'm saying.
They got They got DDI's track suits. You know I don't you know, they got the Pure Player kimono's you know, wherever we are, and foods always dipping, got the baddest girls. It's just like, man, I'm tired of this dog like I want to be up. I'm tired of being not
being up. One of your homeboys is really charismatic though, you know he he know how to talk and he and you could see him that that that fool just fueling he like, and you could tell he's scheming, you know what I mean, Like, Man, I'm man, I'm ai to all this, like you know, we're gonna do something
about this. And then he go talk to the homies down the street, you know what I mean, And even some homies on the other side of the on the other side of the tracks, You're looking at them like, hey, man, like, ain't you tired of this? Like why we gotta live? Like I man, I'm not gonna live like this no more, you know what I mean. Like, so you gotta wait for the right place, at the right time where you decide. Listen,
you're not taking my bike no more. You know you put the put the monkey wrench in the backpack, or the or the or the or the burner in the backpack. You know you got you got the blaky whatever it is. It's like, listen, dog, like, this's not happening no more. And this real charismatic friend of yours, you could tell he don't look scared like the rest of us. He paying attention and then watching, and he's watching for the things that I told you all you're supposed to watch for.
In the same way, when you're about to get jumped, you need to look at who's really in charge, who really could take a punch, who can't take a punch, right, Because if you're about to get jumped, like I said, you're probably gonna get mopped. But the one thing you can't do is nothing. And what you need to do is you need to fire are on one of them and get out of there. But what you need to pick is is sometimes it's the loudest dude right. But what you need to do is you need to pay
attention to who really in charge. A lot of times it's the man standing on side of the street that's not in that circle with you. That's the one standing that's the one in charge. But you need to pick one of the biggest dudes, one of the one of the ones that you like. Okay that and if you fire on him hard enough on her, Let's be real,
you fire on her hard enough. You gotta pick one that's gonna make the other ones question because if you show you not scared and you pop the one that they all think is the best fighter, the rest of them gonna think twice. And that's gonna give you that split second to get out of there. You know what I'm saying. But he's watching, and when he watching, he watching close. And then he started noticing. You know what, they don't all get along. That man crew, that crew
that's up, they don't all get along. One of them don't like them, they're other niggas. And then you start noticing as as you're watching, like you watching, paying more atention, you start noticing, and you know what, a lot of them niggas can't fight, you know this party is ain't what they say they are. You know, you we're pulling up to these parties. We were thinking, Man, they're bawling, they got everything up. You know, they got money, they're
getting money, they're getting the girls. You start noticing, you know what, some of this don't. So I don't. I don't think this is what they say it is. It might have been. You know, maybe you got an older brother, you got an older sister, you know what I'm saying, Like me, for me, I my sister was six years older than me. So like maybe maybe they was hot when she was my age, you know what I'm saying. But I'm looking you, you the little brothers, you're their
little sisters, and like y'all not okay. You know, I'm starting to see cracks in the armor here. Maybe it's not. Maybe it's not what y'all say it is. So you pick the right day, and you know, any giving Sunday, any day, anybody can get it. It's anybody's game. You pick the right party where the right people are there, and you and your crew roll up and you decide, listen, it's some new bosses in town. We're done with this. And you know you aren't even invited to this party
because you're not cool enough. But you know what, you don't get to decide who's cool and who's not. You crashed that party, mocked them fools just that day, that day, that was just y'all's day. You mocked them fools, right and now, and then everybody saw a whole hood. Was there even some motherhoods from down the street that everybody saw them due, So it was like and then and then now they start questioning, like, hey, who these young
who these young boys? What do y'all be throwing parties? Yeah, we'll be throwing parties. Yeah, we'd be kicking it, you know what I'm saying. And now and now everybody else going, wait a minute, now, y'all, you know, we was only rolling with these fools because they was up. We thought this was maybe we was kind of wondering if they really wasn't this up as they say they were, You know what I'm saying. Maybe still, let's start what's up with y'all? What y'all got going? The problem is you
ain't got nothing going. You was just tired of getting bullied, But now it's trying to build. Oh man, what you need to build. Okay, you need to sit down with your boys. It's like, all right now, okay, we we got we got a victory under We showed we weren't no punks. We showed we ain't no easy come ups. All right now, we need to get out in the field. You know what I'm saying, Like, how you gotta how you gotta get out in the field. You know, we gotta make money. We need to get this money. What
what what we're doing? What we're doing. We were pushing Pete. You know what I'm saying. We're doing We're getting these we're selling these guns, we're selling these pills, we're selling these these bricks. What we're doing. You know what I'm saying, Well, you mean we we're breaking into cards, we're doing home evasions, and your your charismatic leader going you know, and it gets all of the above. You know what I'm saying, by any means, and that's all money in You feel
me like we're gonna make it. We're gonna get this. We're gonna get this right. But we're gonna do a different you know what I'm saying, Like we're gonna get in, We're gonna get out. You feel me. We're gonna we're gonna establish all kind of other stuff. We're gonna make sure everybody eats you feel me. But but but if we're gonna do that, we need these people to understand that we are not to be left with. I need a shooter. Some argue that you need a sociopath in
your circle. I mean, going back all the way to Hunter Gather African Savannah. You need somebody in your crew that is like, listen, uh, Carolyn slowing us down, Carolyn gonna get gonna get us all eight by lions. We need to gone. We need to gonna leave on curling because we're all gonna die. You need somebody that just like that, just has no moral compass. You understand I'm saying that's like I hop out the whip right now. Shoot this nigger in front of his child and his mama.
You need somebody that's like, listen, like this, digget in and out of juvie. I'm not afraid of nobody. You know, the the kid that's like, yeah, that's jumping off the roof into the pool, that never thought twice about it when we was kids, just that just you just looking at him like you don't fear anything, do you. So you need some shooters. Somebody that's like, all right, nah, but that shooter need guns. How are you gonna get guns? Nigga, y'all junior hires, How are you gonna get this work?
How are you gonna get this weight? You know what I'm saying, Well, you need some big homies. You need some help. So you need to start looking around and like some of these other crews around here, and it's like, hey, man, like listen, we just roll together, man, let me do Look, look, I got the juice right now. Let me just you feel me. Let's just let's just see what we could do. And then Nigga is on the side like y'all got guns? Man, all right, I'll be on. But you know what I'm saying,
like you can borrow from us. You feel me like you're gonna us back. It's like, yeah, nig we got it. You know what I'm saying. We all start throwing these dope parties. Canna fly girls. You know what I'm saying, Like everybody, now, you up, you feel me? You up? You know you up? Get money coming in. You know
what I'm saying. You got foods on every corner. You started like sending people across town and look, look one of the home he's got in trouble with their mama, and their mama moving them to another state, to another dynasty, you know, to another province. You feel me and you're like, yo, just take the work over there. You feel me like, we'll make it work, you know what I'm saying. But we up though, But sometimes that up to stay up, man, you need that violence. You need that violence. You need
that money, you need that dedication. You need to start teaching these young dudes like y'all we're building something that's our blocked man like ride or die? Is you a writer or not? Man like? So then you start doing stuff like branding them, like giving them tattoos, like let me help you feel like you in you know what I'm saying. But after that, y'all gonna get old. Y'all gonna get popped, you'all gonna start dying. So you need some new booty. You need some young niggas. You need
some youngs. You're some ygs. That's what that stands for, a young young gangster. You know what I'm saying. You need some y g s. You got o gees. You need y g You know what I'm saying. You gotta convince them like they're buying into something bigger than them. You gotta start for using academic. You gotta start myth making. You gotta start legendary. You gotta start telling these war stories. You feel me because you're building something, You're part of something.
You give them flags, man, put that rag on their head, you know, initiating ceremonies. You know what I'm saying, bar Mitzvah's Inner City, bar Mitzvah's. You feel me like, that's when you get jumped in. You know what I'm saying, You're getting jumped in. Man. This families, my grandma and my daddy. You know what I'm saying, My uncle or everybody like, this is what we do. Man, we've been up. You know what I'm saying. You out hold down the fort.
But eventually what's gonna happen is once you start birthing people who wasn't a part of the build. Man, all they know is up. All they know is money coming in. All you know is this stuff working. All you know is you the bullies on the block. You don't take nobody serious. You don't understand. Why then, why the all heads all talking about Marry mud Day. We used to knuckle up. Not all this shooting y'all. Internet bangers, y'all, little corny as nigged y'all out here trying to wrap y'all.
Niggas is rappers, nigga weak gangsters, you know what I'm saying. Like, and you're like, yeah, we're rappers, Like what did you I mean? Yeah, we're getting this money, nigga y'all. Y'all net bangers, y'all. I don't understand you. Nigga. You know what I'm saying, y'all just talking and that's Look look at my dad. Nigg We rolled up on it. You know what I'm saying. We were hopped out the whip. Shoot.
It's like all right, man, oh lass, you know what I'm saying, Like then this is start getting Oh you don't want whatever, nigga. We up. We're getting money. You know what I'm saying. You got dudes wearing opposite colors. You know what I'm saying, You're hanging out with other peoples. Like, man, what's wrong with y'all? This don't work like this? Like, man, we're getting money, man, don't worry about it that we're getting money. But are you getting money? Is that real money?
Because a lot of the work you're selling was fronted, and it was fronted because of the work of the o GS. When I say front of the work, that meant that, like I gave you this brick on credit. You ain't broken that deal with the Vatos. You wasn't in the pen with that lionmate, dude, when you made friends with like Carlos Martinez over there, you know, on the East side. You know what I'm saying, He get it from Mexico, from the cartel down there. You ain't
broken that deal. You know what I'm saying. Want Carlo don't know you. Oh, he trusts your big brother, but you don't know you. You You wasn't tapped in with the Russians, you know what I'm saying. You don't know Vladimir naked. You do have to pay this stuff back. You've just been paying installments. At some point somebody gonna come and be like, with my money, you're gonna mess around and confuse a Mexican for El Salvadorian. You go, You're gonna
mess with my throot. You mess around, step into a whole war on some stuff you don't understand because you just thought they both spoke Spanish, and you, like, listen, y'are too busy party and y'all bawling out. You're not paying attention to the streets. There's some hongry dudes out there, are you good man? Look? Look, look, give me one more brick. Let me push that and I'll give you. I'll give it all back to you will No, no, homie, I need my money. So then what do you usually do? Well,
if that's the case, somebody say I don't need my money. Like, look, look, let me get real hood on you. You know your mama used to write a check and then say, hey, listen, don't don't don't cash that till tuesday. Yourself said why because the money ain't in the account? You cash it right now? That mug gonna bounce you, feel me. Or they start putting the electric billing their kids names. You know what I'm saying. Kids grow up because the electric
building turned off? Uh by your name? So now like niggas grow up there sixten years old with bad credit because the light bill been in their name three times. You ain't got it. Let me give you something a little more modern, you know what I'm saying. Like you you you know, you out with your homies, y'all at dinner. You're gonna swipe your card. You're swiping your card praying that mug go through because you know good and dog on, Well, you ain't got money in that account. That's swipe are
not real That ain't real money in there. That's why. Is only as good as the bank say it is. And sometimes the bank will be like, just like to connect, yeah, off front you that it's gonna cost you though it cost you an overdraft fees, it costs you in compound interest. That's how I mean, that's how credit work, right, Like you swipe that card, it's like, yeah, I got you, but I'm gonna need it later. So what do most
people do when they get in trouble with credit? They borrowed from somebody else to pay the first person back, and then that other person they borrowed from, they borrowed somebody else, pay the other person back. At some point they're gonna need their money. Somebody in your crew ain't liking what you do. They start noticing, you know what I'm saying, Like, hey, it's getting a little y'all. Y'all, y'all little sloppy. I don't like how you running this.
It's a little you know what I'm saying. Like a matter of fact, man, it seemed like it seemed like the only people getting money is is y'all. Old niggas were out in the field. These young dudes is out in the field. We don't want to dodge your bullets. We don't want out here recruiting these We don't want to breaking into cars. We don't want is getting misdemeanor charges. Weren't one doing five years? We don't want We're the
ones on probation, were the ones on house arrest. You niggas are sitting nice out in at the hills, just collecting checks from us. They said, ain't gonna work no more. And guess what some other little niggas is watching. They watching this happen. Y'all got this wealth gap inside of your own crew. And there's somebody who y'all been bullying, Who y'all been running up on, Who y'all been hitting
licks on, who's about tired of y'all? And the psycho continues, empires come and go, y'all, how much of dollar cost hood politics. All right, so welcome to another how much a Dillar cost episode, which is essentially just economics. Today, we're gonna talk macro economics. Y'all know. I have an education back, I said, all the time, uh, specifically in history and social sciences. And I loved thinking a lot of ways like ancient history for a number of reasons.
One I just thought the stuff was cooler, or like the fact that it was just less familiar. But there's one thing that every historian, anybody that studies history, politics, economics, whatever it is, in a macro sense, understands. Nobody stays up no one, I said, once history got bars in a wrap. You know what I mean, is like it'd
be Rhyman. It's not the same. Of course, there's differences, but things take on particular patterns, and when you're looking at stuff from a macro sense, from a whole history perspective, you can essentially start graphing things that buying large kind of fit this pattern. A lot of times, that's what history and economics are doing. They just look at the patterns. It doesn't mean that it's always gonna go this way, but it means that you can it's a safe bet.
And here's what I know about empires. They come and go, they got about. I know I've said this before, and please please please go pull my receipts. Empires run about two hundred, two hundred fifty years. They crash, Empires fall. And if you think America ain't an empire, you're tripping. And if you think we can't fall, you don't believe that. The propaganda pun intended. If you think you if you think America ain't gonna collapse, you believe a cat, because
that is all cat. They all fall. Every empire falls an I'm telling you maybe I should change his name. First, I was calling this episode there ain't nothing changed but the weather. But I think the idea of it all falls down. It might be better. Yeah, it continues like they all do it. And if you are willing to like really look at it and understand sort of indicators. And that's what a lot of like economists doing. They're looking for indicators. They're not saying this is what always
gonna be in a lot. Again, they all don't agree. We said that in the first how much of Dollar Cost episode? Everybody don't agree. But these indicators are just that they're like indicators symptoms. You know, person's uh heart rate is way too high when they're resting, that's an indicator that this person might not be in shape or something something not right. You know what I'm saying. Person's uh left hand be tingling. That's an indicator or something.
You know what I'm saying. Somebody, you know they digestion be weird. That's an indicator or something. You know, I can't predict that. That means you're gonna die in six months, you know what I'm saying. But there are things that would make us say that, like yo, unless you make some changes, that's been a crash quicker. Now, whoever up always comes down, And the question ain't will you come down? The question is how fast and how long you're gonna
stay up. All you can do is postpone it. So today I'm gonna give y'all some some some macro economics. Ray uh Daily, Oh. I don't even know if I'm saying his name right, but he has he's a He's an economist, a brilliant, brilliant dude. He has a book out called Principles of Dealing with the Changing World Order. A dope like there's actually like even a short like maybe like a forty five minute like animated YouTube video breakdown of what he's talking about in the in the book.
But I wanted to bring it to y'all, you know, in my voice, because he gave actual numbers to this stuff. I was trying to tell y'all, you know what I'm saying. When I'm like, yo, it's like read the tea leaves because like every historian is I said before, it's flaring their arms around, going guys, yo, this is These are the things. These are the indicators. We're here. We've fin a crash and burn. Now, Like I said before, this life, there's such thing as There is such thing as the Dutch,
there is such thing as Britain in the UK. They used to be up. They're not up no more. There's such things as Russia. They used to be up. They're not up no more. They're fighting to get back up right now. But like goes on after an empire crashes, there are such things as the Greeks, Joe said, But you need to pay attention to what's happening it now. Why when you're experiencing these living through these like empires rising and falling, you feel like you special, just like
when you in the hood. Remember I said like, oh, we're gonna do things different. It feels like the things that are happening are so new and exciting or so terrifying and shocking. Is because it just ain't happened in your lifetime. I don't know, do you? How many of y'all was alive during the Great Depression? You know what I'm saying. I don't know how many who listen to
this remembers World War One? You know what I'm saying, Like if we don't, none of us was here for the Revolutionary War, none of us was here for the Civil War. That stuff seemed it's so ancient, and you just think, no, it's different. It is, but it be rhyman. So today I want to talk about a few indicators that this book kind of lays out to help you get your brain around what I mean by this. So this is again, this is some this is some game.
That's some economic stuff. Uh we I still want you to understand why everybody bugging out about stock markets, inflation, all this stuff that to me for most of my life just flew over my head. All rightlet's take a break, bring the track in. Okay, dope, now we're back check it. So according to the content that I'm giving y'all from, like I said, uh Ray dal Leo, changing in the world order. First of all, let me lay out what I mean by the world order. Who we mean is
like empires who on top. Now I'm saying this from a black perspective, which means that like most of the time, anybody can anybody counting on Africa right now, because that's how y'all do you say white supremacy abound. We're not talking Ghana Molly's song Hi. We're not talking Egyptian, Ethiopian, Dogans, We're not talking any of those empires for this particular talk. But I would bet that they run. If people are people, they probably run on a similar story arc. But that's
not what we're talking about right now. We're gonna go back and talk like the last like five hundred years. The way we can understand that has to do with the concept of capitalism as we know it, where commodities, the dollar, whatever dollar, whatever version of your nation or your empire's dollar, is the way y'all was getting money, How y'all maintain money, and how y'all maintain power, and then how that power started waning and falling, and then
how the next naked got up. So world order basically means which empire is up. We've been calling ourselves in America superpower. Now that's really just because we just own now. And that's the point we're trying to make here. And as you know, we wasn't always on and we ain't gonna always be on, which is what we're talking about. You know how we know because at one point the Dutch was on? Who knocked the Dutch off the bridge? This who knocked the British off? Us? Who gonna knock
us off? Some people think China, I don't know. Let's get to it though. Now what constitutes being up? A lot of it has to do with again, we use that economic theory, you know what I'm saying. It has to do with your Your currency? Is this the currency everybody mess with it? Does your is your currency dominant over everybody else's currency? Is your weight weightier than everybody else's weight? And do you got the muscle? Do you got the goons to make sure that that's what happening?
Don't nobody run through this city unless they run through us. You gotta tap in with us. No matter what you're doing across the world. You gotta tap in with us. No matter what you're doing across the hood, you gotta tap in with us. You ain't co signed with us, if we ain't stamped you, it don't matter. Now, this current, this current order, we end. Like I said, who up, America became top of the food chain everybody gotta tap into after World War Two for a number of reasons.
One because Britain was broke. Who were up at that time? Y'all remember that little island colonized everywhere they was up. They pound, the pound ruled everything. Eventually it took us that long. But at the end of World War two, after they was broke, we showed that we got our squabbles, you know what I'm saying. And then at Britain Woods Agreement, they agreed that like listen, man, currency gotta look. If you're gonna use currency, let's just use ours. Ours got
the tallest. So then we got to control the central bank of the world, which we still control now. It's called the reserve currency. It's the currency that's pretty much accepted everywhere wherever you go. You know what I'm saying, that somebody gonna take your dallar mostly, but it wasn't always like that. So according to this book, there's this thing that that ray is calling, calling ray like you hum, he calling a big cycle. And the big cycle is again a rough estimate as to this two hundred to
two h fifty year life cycle of an empire. You could latest on the Dutch, Um, the British, and ourselves and probably who coming next. Now that story I told you in the beginning of it, in the beginning of this p cast about that hood getting up, it's that
it's the same cycle. What starts off is you know, you got these you got this this rough upstart of a country, a civilization, you know, a real charismatic leader, Ali George Washington, you know what I'm saying, in the founding fathers who realized that like listen, man, we're not taking all this ship from from from the British no more. We tied all this. We want our own. And then you start scrapping and then you establish your own place, like look, this is who we are. That's the establishment.
The next step is a part of what we would call the peace and prosperity era, and then the next is like you know, then you start producing a lot of stuff and uh. And when you start producing, you start borrowing too much money. You start borrowing too much money, you start creating a big old wealth gap. Right. Once you create a big old wealth grap you gotta really you realize it, like, y'all, I'm spending more money than I have, So that means I gotta start printing money.
And once you start printing money, you know what I'm saying, Now, the cost of stuff go up and the wealth gap starts growing. And when there's a wealth gap, then the natives get restless, my nigked. And at some point you're gonna have to pay them debts back. And when them debtors come for their money, then you have what's called an economic downturn. And the way to fix and pay them debts is you gotta pretend like you got the money. Oh, I got it. I'm just gonna keep sweep, keep swiping
my car. I pay this food to pay that food. I'll borrow from there to borrow from there, you know what I'm saying. But the only way to protect your money in the hard time, you gotta start building up. You got you need some goons. You need some goons to build up and protect everybody because while you up, you know, when you're on top of the hill, everybody coming for you. So you gotta make sure you got this big problem. You're spending most of your money on
your defense and on your luxuries. And then they become this political in fighting, and usually what happens is somebody leads towards a populace or a totalitarian ruler that can like, look, I'll calm everybody down, I get this stuff together. But everybody outside, who you've been stepping on for this whole time, is watching, y'all. And while we're going through all these in house debates, we can't get our ship together. The enemy watching and they're getting strong and they're about to
start the same cycle that we own. You got it. Now, let's put the pieces on the puzzle. How do you measure how up a nation is? How you measure how upper empire is? Well? According to this these here go your markers for it. Your your education, are y'all y'all schooling the young ins? Are you innovating? Are y'all building dope ship and that type stuff? Creates good myths, good buyings, good feelings of belonging. Are y'all competitive in the market?
Can anybody mess with your stuff? You got the best product or not? Are y'all out putting it like y'all putting it in the streets. It's getting everywhere you feel me your role in world trade, the strength of your currency as far as like world trade? Is your dollar worth more than everybody else's dollar? And how well y'all shoot, how strong you're military? Now, if you can average out these numbers, you could tell who really up and who
not according to this thing again? And yo, and since these are measurable numbers, like you can you can look this stuff up, then you could tell if an empire rise in the falling, you could tell where they are in this thing? You tell how long you're gonna be up. Of course, it's not like it's not a it's not a deloy in my nigga, Like you can't really tell the future, but you can measure these things like yo, Is I mean, are y'all strong? Is your work really
that dope? Is people really buying your product? Are y'all really educating your are y'all really innovating? I mean you were, are you still and hopefully you can see how that stuff is interconnected. Better education. You schooling the kids means you're probably gonna innovate a lot of stuff. And if you innovating a lot of stuff, that means you're creating the best product. If you're creating the best product, you're
gonna make the most money. That I mean, dug. So let's go back to the beginning and establishing of a new empire, new up, a new world order usually starts with some sort of big cataclysmic war conflict. If we're gonna use America, then let's do that. Uh, America started actually as a ward duh. You know what I'm saying. That's where we started our incline. We started at a war and Nigga we won and we wasn't puposed to win because y'all do you got I don't think y'all
understand how big balling, big Boss Great Britain was. I mean, like that little teeny Island almost conquered the planet. And it's because if you know your history, Niggada Navy didn't play like they listen, they had wealth coming in everywhere you're talking about, you talking about Mongolian silk with Indian spices and sugar from sugar from Haiti. You know what I'm saying in the t that they got from Persia,
niggd like everywhere. We wasn't supposed to win. I'm saying we because I'm American, Because no, nigga, that wasn't meet You know what I'm saying. I wouldn't. That wasn't my fight because you know what I'm saying because I'm Black. But you understand I'm trying to say America wasn'tupposed to win. That you ain't supposed to take them out. Go again, going back to our first example, you litt nigga ain't
supposed to win this, but you did. Now since you one and everybody saw it, people are like, like we said in beginning, oh man, maybe maybe there's a new ball. Maybe everything cool and don't nobody want to mess with you. Remember I told you before again, it's just like when you jumping somebody, you gotta molly whop them when you get you. When you're getting me, you gotta molly wap
these foods so they know don't come back again. But we this was the theory we talked about a long time ago with dropping uh, these atom bombs on Hiroshiama Nagasaki. It was like, this is the wrong thing to do if you have any sort of moral compass. But if you just talking war, what you're trying to say is like, listen, we're crazy. Don't don't listen. Try Jesus not me. I throw hands. I'm crazy. Do not come over here. It's terrifying. You're like, damn, it's crazy. I ain't gonna mess with them,
no mo. So that's what happens as a nation. It's like, okay, cool, So there's a relative moment of peace and prosperity. What was happening in America, nigga, We was building cities. I mean, we was getting free labor from slaves. And you gotta understand how much money Listen, I don't think y'all. Look, I'm gonna set aside the actual human atrocities that slavery was for a second. I'm just gonna talk money with you. Uh. Innovation was happening up north right with industrial growth. You
know what I'm saying. Technology all that ship was happening up north. Down south they were called a grarian where it was like this is agriculture, like they growing cotton, tobacco sometimes, but mostly cotton. Let me tell you something, do you understand that what cottons was worth, the gross national how much money they was making on cotton was
more than every other commodity in the States combined. There's so much money coming from cotton now, which meant that if you was Joe Blow slave owner, you was like, well, I know this sucks, but god damn, there's a lot of money. And I mean, what we're gonna do because I mean, I mean damn, Like I'm just one person. I know it's I know it's awful. I mean, but like, I mean, shoot, this is just the way of the world.
Slavery existed forever. And besides, then you start turning your brain into a pretzel because of how much money is being made. You like know what, Well, maybe they built for that because they show don't die, I mean, you know, and if we ever let them free, Look, they try to kill us. They savages, So maybe we should just go on on and keep them. That's the because the money too much. And if you already think these people ain't humans, you ain't gotta listen. That's a hundred percent profit.
You ain't paying your wages give or take the cost of the slave themselves. But eventually, which never happened before, once the slaves have kids, the kids are slaves. It wasn't like that nowhere else. So you you multiplying and you ain't gotta buy new one. Not to mention, you know, we talked. I make the comment about the gold Rush, who really made most of the money where the shovel sales. Listen, you're selling slaves, nigga. You bawling out too. It's too
much money. So this prosperity happened in and again again we're talking nation building here, nigga. It's so much money coming in. We bought and it's so comfy. Don't nobody want to mess with us? We didn't. It was the seven year war. We didn't fought off the natives, didn't fought off. We didn't fought off the British like nign start getting comfortable. And of course this is not like a straight line because there was other hals and countries like now. I don't think that's the way to go,
you know what I'm saying. But as things, you know, we're still you still upstart, you're still figuring out, but you like you're bailing out, like Nick's gonna start taking you serious. By the time we get to World War one and World War two, we building shipped out the brain. You know what I'm saying. The Big five that built the country. You know, the Carnegie you know what I'm saying, the gerald Fords. You know what I'm saying, this industrial revolution.
We killing the game. It's too much money and so foods getting comfy. Once you start getting comfort, you gotta protect that comfortable. But also it's all you know at this point, it's kids that don't want you. A few generations after the Revolutionary War, there's people that don't know war. They weren't there for that. They was born into relative prosperity. There was this phrase that you learned. I learned from Dan Carlin. He was like, um, the stone boots and
silk slippers. You got the toughest nails. People that fought for something. This why I was talking about the earlier earlier fought for something to get us up. And then you have kids and all them kids know it's success. They don't know struggle. They gotta go through what you go through. All they know is prosperity. So they think you crazy for always being nervous because it ain't happen in their lifetime, and if it do go down, they think the world on't fire, which is like current America
right now. They got time to contemplate the start, They got time to envision better ways to do things. They got time to think about things like morality, you know, and if we should keep enslaving these people, they got time to do. Basically the nineties, if he was white and wealthy, just buy ship. That's all they did in the nineties. Again, this is for the sake of this argument. Think about it. Y'll like that Americana like the invention of a strip mall, a suburb track housing. That's because
they like, we find and they get everything good. You know, you remember black when you see the white people on TV and the milk man would come and they would just they were that's clean, green energy. Do you have glass bottles that you were cycled? Nigga America had to be taught to throw ship away because we used to not throw stuff away. You that's there's too much money, yo. Niggas is comfy now. If you know the money coming in, you're not worried about it. You can start borrowing. You
can gonna get the credit card. I know what I'm making year, I know we got We're good. It's fine. The crops always grow. We're gonna make the money. It's like, so you can start buying more and buying more on credit because you know what you're gonna do. You know, look, we flushed, flushed, but lush with cash. It's all good. What you're so worried about. It'll be fine. Swipe that card. We're cool as an individual and as a nation. You know we're good. Then you start diversifying, right, so rather
than just buying a card, buy a house. You know what I'm saying. You buy some stocks. You feel me, you get it. You know what I'm saying. Get some gold bars, put them away. You ain't just gonna be flushed with cash, and you can like put your stuff in some other stuff. You feel me. You know what I'm saying, Like bill out, you know what I mean. Like put your money in a lot of different places. And all I gotta do is put on credit because
it's cool. I'm gonna pay it back. Money coming in, right, Scared money don't make money, so you're putting your money in these places. And what's happening is the wealth gap is growing because the people that's producing that money, the people that's doing the actual work, they're not getting none of the none of rewards of what's coming from this wealth. While they steady being told, well, it's the American dream. You could just work hard and you two can have
this wealth. Well, the land of the free, land of opportunity, and every man who's willing to work hard can succeed. Meanwhile, Jim Crow abounds. So you creating this wealth gap right, Just like I said earlier. You know, we're out here, We're out here on the corners. We out here, y'all living in these nice houses up out in the valley. You know what I'm saying. Like we're out here on
the corner. We don't want to catching cases, and you're telling us we're better not snitched, because our life is only good because you're giving us the little bit we got. You're telling me, I'm I'm better off because of you. You know what I'm saying. Let me just you know, if I do go, do Julie, I do go five years. If I keep my mouth shut food, that's like a vacation. You know what I'm saying, like, well, make sure money
on your books. Everything cool. Meanwhile, you collecting dough this whole time, you're getting richer and richer, creating a wealth gap. You know these ogs, man, they just know what I'm saying. They're not even out here in the field. We're out in the field. Oh gee, like you just hate me because you hate me. Little niggas is saying something different. This ain't gonna keep but I'm not gonna keep standing for this. But look at eventually all that money you're spending,
all that stuff you're borrowing. Uh, you got you keep increasing that credit limit, that blackguard. Eventually you're gonna have to pay that ship back. Because again, money has to be something in real life unless it's just paper. Remember I told on the last one, on the last how much of dollar costs. Money is not real no more, it's just whatever we say it is. Wasn't always like
that money was a thing. It was gold. You take that dollar and I'm just making up this number, and this dollar means I can get this much gold because it was real thing. And instead of buying just the gold bar, I'm gonna buy a product. And I know this product is worth these many goal bars, and rather than me handing these goal bar and hand you this because gold is a finite thing. We know what it is, and it sits in a reserve. But eventually you borrowing more,
you spending more then there is gold? Are we good? Were good? You spending more than we guys? So I said, you know what I'm saying. You putting bricks on credit. You know what I'm saying. You You feel me? You promising ship you can't deliver. We ain't got it. Look look, look look again. You out with your homies. You're swiping your car, knowing full well you're gonna overdraft that. But you're good. The bank or just charge you the thirty five dollars. You'll just pay the thirty five dollars. You
keep swiping at that thirty five becomes seventy. You understand what I'm saying, and it just keep adding up. You mess around. Check your bank account. Your last seven transactions were now declined. You now overdraft elevens. Here is like you, what what you're gonna do? You ain't got it? What nations do keep swiping? How do they keep swiping? What we print? The money? Remember it's ours you just print more.
And what happens when you print more than what you actually got is it starts to become just paper again. That's called inflation. It's more money in circulation. Then we can actually back you just writing checks. You just pipe in your card. It ain't real money there. And at some point the nation like y'all, we've been a default on our loans. Because so that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna do this stimulus package. That's a nice way to say, is we're just gonna make up money. But
before they get to the makeup money. Look, I'm gonna blow your mind right now. You know what foods do? They lower the interest rates? Oh man, oh hey, interests are on a law time low. Everybody go by their houses or that's because they like, damn, these niggas not paying their debt. We don't loan are their money. They're not paying us. Okay, uh, well maybe if we lower the interests, niggas will start paying because we're not getting their money. You can lower the interest rates to zero, nigger,
because that happened. If I ain't got the money, I ain't got the money. You know what you do now? You just print the money, but the money don't mean nothing because we just printed it. And that, my friend, is inflation. It's because the dollar don't do ship for you because they just printed it. So you know what the wealthy dude, when you just make up money, they know, Oh, the price of everything is gonna go up. And I got the bread, but the price of real ship gonna
go up. You know i'mnna doing. I'm about a stock, I'm a body's bonds. I'm a buy this commodity. I'm gonna buy this goal. I'm gonna buy it right now because I know that's real. This doll ain't gonna be worth nothing. So let me get the dollars out of my hands because they're not worth nothing. And I'm gonna get the actual ship into my hands because that's worth something.
The rich get richard and eventually, once this start happened, and guess what, the natives get restless, not a hood mad, not a set mad, because what is we gonna do? You don't snatched up now? I can't afford nothing. Remember I talked about the ice cream truck. My five dollars don't get me the same amount of ice cream and get me before all right, we'll pay me more. They're like, oh, we ain't got it. We can't pay you more. What the funk mean you ain't got it? Now, think of
this as a nation we're telling. We're telling China, you're telling Russia. You're telling all these not Russia. Well yeah, Russia sometimes telling Russia. Yo, you're telling China, Like, Yo, let me buy let me get seven million of them U car chips, them car micro chips. Japan, let me get seven car micro chips, seven a million of them. They're like all right, cool, Uh that's gonna be nine trillion dollars. You're like, yo, well, uh, send a link, send,
send a square link. I'll just I'll swipe my card and you're gonna swipe your card. That mud gonna say processing, processing, processing processing. At some point, Japan gonna be like, I want my money. Look. That's when the cartel dude from Mexico fly in and he's like, Yo, where my money. That's a nice house you got. I see I see that, I see you shining in that car. I see look, I see. I said that's a nice car you got outside, nigg that's a nice house. That's a nice beach house.
You got so then what happens is like, Yo, whatever wealth is here, it's not distributed, right, the top ten percent got everything. So this is happening now internally. So then some sort of like conflict happens internally where the nation is like, look, man, we like, look, y'all need to rethink this stuff out because we're producing all the product and y'all making all the money. So then you
have a a call for the redistribution of wealth. I don't know if this ship is sounded familiar to you, but then you have an other side that says, wait, wait, wait, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, everything's fine. We got this. Y'all need to stop tripping. How about your work harder? Hell? I did you work harder? And has that solved either with the civil war or a culture war that's going on on Twitter? Like we got it right?
And what happens while that's happening. I know education suffers, I know the policing goes up because look, military that's not protecting your safety is protecting our money. The police ain't protecting your safety, they're protecting that property. When when you when you got your sociopath in the hood, that's just shooting. They're protecting their interests. It's the block. Niks ain't worried about you. Ain't worried about the block. They worry you securing the bag. So you gotta make sure
that their money good. What do we call that? The military industrial complex? They need to be able to get their money. They need to be cool because everybody coming after us. And while we can't get our ship together on the inside, China watching somebody over there watching. They're watching you fight inside it. They're watching y'all not be as smart. They watching y'all spending y'all time with a dollar that don't mean ship no more, because y'all don't
got comfortable. Y'all ain't got the grit you got used to being up. Your kids don't even go to college no more because it cost too much. And y'all can't even get the ship figured out because ain't no way, ain't no reason on God Green Earth college should cost this much. And y'all don't know how to work no more because you expect the government to pay y'all's debt. Y'all falling off again. This is China's perspective, or Whoever's next?
And what what? What? Happens is some sort of some sort of charismatic totalitarian, some sort of populace dude come up and he say, hey, listen, listen, I'm gonna fix this. I'm gonna calm everybody down. You just let's just just give me all the power. I'll fix this for y'all. I'm gonna give you some sort of peace. This is how you get the rise of these like dictators. You get the rise of these auto cracks because they're like, no, it's cool, I'll fix your money. You know what we
need to do. We need to muscle up. And you muscle up on your own people to get them to chill. And then you muscle up because you don't want nobody outside to think that there's problems happening. But there is problems happening because you're not innovating no more, y'all don't got comfy. Y'are spending your money. You you spreading your money too far. You're fighting on so many levels. Look
how many, how many? How many American outposts are there of the military cross We can't keep spending this much money? Why because we ain't got it. Think we ain't got it. The money made up China watching it, trying to get their act together, Russia trying to get their act together because Russia used to be up. And then what happens either we while we're fighting on the inside, somebody come knocking on our door and stretch us too thin. Look,
that's what happened with Britain. Britain got stretched too thin. Great Britain got stretched too thin at the end of World War Two. They couldn't pay their debts. You ain't got no money. Oh we got it. We're good. You are from us, but you got passed back though up. So when you think about where we are in the nation, you gotta ask yourself, yo, where are we? I don't know, man, We we ain't really educating our children the way we used to. Not like we ever really worked, I'm saying.
I mean, look, anybody that got any sense with money then left the place they're not. That's why it's like build U s A by us a nigga. You losing money, Nahmi? Why would I do that when I can get the work from China for half the price and it's just as good. That don't make no good money sense. China been reverse engineering all of your innovation and they didn't figure out how to do it cheaper. And I'm gonna
say this as callous as possible. Y'all worried about civil rights and ship niggd We tell you to work, you work. Anybody was sense gonna get what they can't get for cheaper and just as good, if not better, keep American jobs, nigga, Why like you, I think of it like if it's just, if it's just, if it's just raw, daddy, you gotta think of it like that. Why this one from over there is half the price, it costs better. And y'all printing money, Your money ain't even up no more. So
where are we? I mean, we haven't done the big sell off like Britain had to do after like they printed their money, they had their great depression, I mean not that great depression when their their their pounds just started dripping, dripping down to the bottom at the end of World War Two when they tried to print more and then inflation got crazy and it was like, I
can't pay my debts. This ain't real money. And you had this, like I said, somebody that when the when the cartel boss come in and say, you all right, give me that house. All right, give me that bike, all right, give me that necklace. That's the sell off. At some point, you gotta you gotta get rid of all your stuff because you gotta pay these foods back. Okay, that hasn't happened in America yet. We ain't got to full civil war yet, although the January six joint got
real close. Ain't. Nobody actually yet has yet to pop off on us. But the wealth gap, oh that's there. The inflation, Oh that's there. The stimulus, oh that's there. I just said, I just read that, uh Biden given eight million dollars billion dollars, eight million dollars to uh the Ukraine. Nigger where you get that money from? Because it's not real, y'all. Now, can our nation's leaders get together and actually do the hard things? I don't think. So that's the part I'm worried about. Like I said,
every nation grand opening, grand closing. But it don't mean we disappear off the face of the earth. It just means we just become just like every other nation, which we always were. Everybody had their moment in the sun. Will be fine, But I think to shave off the pain of all this, there's two principles that Daily O presents, which I have said so many times, which makes me feel vindicated. It's pretty simple. Make more than you spend, and treat people fairly. Don't spend money you ain't got.
If I wrote a financial book, it would be that one pain age. Don't spend money you don't have. That way, ain't gotta worried about. None of the speculationship. Don't spend money you ain't got. I know, cost of living is ridiculous. That was like the one I said before. I know this is super easy. I'm just saying, as a nation and as a whole, spend money you ain't got. And to just treat people fairly. What wealth gap is unfair paying people below their wages before living below we're living wages,
it's unfair. Just just treat people fairly, fad what they work, and don't spend money you ain't got. I know it's not that simple, and I know this arc we just explained ain't exactly it, and I know there's a lot to disagree with. I'll tell you what, though, it all falls down, y'all. The question is how hard you're gonna fall? And who did you smash on the way up because them niggas is watching little politics, y'all. M yeah, this is here. Thing was recorded by ME Propaganda in East Lows,
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