I don’t watch either but those people could have just said no or sold it without having to register it and pay the taxes at that time. It be their own fault for financially ruining themselves.
Believe he went back and helped those people and learned from his mistakes. He now has videos about building wells and bringing lights/water to remote places in Africa/South America, building bridges where it was dangerous to cross rivers, building houses for people that need them that were crushed by floods (although I don’t know how well they are built). Some videos about helping getting dogs adopted and other random shit. There are things to criticize him about sure, and I’m sure a lot of it is for tax purposes, but at some point you have to blame our government setup and not a 20 something year old “taking advantage” of the system we vote representatives in over and over to not change.
Edit Oh and apparently spent a fuck load of money buying a chocolate factory and advertises the shit out of that, which is why you see posters of him at Zaxby’s or what not
I really, really don’t watch his videos. From that description it sounds like the thing rich people do to get brownie points on social media while not really helping in any meaningful way.
I think they are called trustafarians (YouTube link)
So a 20 something year old kid has a choice to help people vs not help people. Chooses to help people and you automatically label it as not helping in any meaningful way. What a bleak view.
The context does matter, but it doesn’t appear you have the right one.
This guy was a literal child when he started his videos. And did no good for the world whatsoever at that time, he was simply making videos to see what would stick. Only later once he began to acquire the appropriate amount of views and fame did he choose to make videos that try to help other people. I’m sure if those videos didn’t become as wildly popular as they did, they would’ve been forced to pivot away from philanthropy. But they worked, and so they continue to be able to afford new videos that appear to help individuals in a variety of ways.
Bad things might come of this, someone could even accidentally die from poor housing construction (maybe they chose the wrong construction company), a faulty car (maybe the Tesla he gave away was shit), or eating a chocolate bar (they happened to be allergic). But I don’t believe any of that would be intentional on his part. His company, of course, could/should be held liable.
If anything he just seems like a kid who got in too deep, became ridiculously famous, and is trying to navigate this mess with the skills he has (making popular videos). No one at his current level of popularity comes out unscathed, period.
I don’t know much about the guy, I don’t even watch him. I was making an observation based on what other people’s comments said. I’m pretty sure you’re on the nose. Most people in his situation probably would try to bring some good in the world.
I just like leaving it to the professionals. It’s also important to make sure the community gets a vote on weather that’s the best solution or if other things are more urgent.
Kinda like how funding went into mosquito nets and instead of using it to protect infants from malaria it was used as a fishing net. In that community putting food in the table was more important. Now there are issues of chemicals being leached into the water by the treated nets and overfishing due to the fine mesh.
I never watched his videos. Wasn’t he the kid that potentially bankrupt people by giving them a car they couldn’t afford the tax on?
I don’t watch either but those people could have just said no or sold it without having to register it and pay the taxes at that time. It be their own fault for financially ruining themselves.
Believe he went back and helped those people and learned from his mistakes. He now has videos about building wells and bringing lights/water to remote places in Africa/South America, building bridges where it was dangerous to cross rivers, building houses for people that need them that were crushed by floods (although I don’t know how well they are built). Some videos about helping getting dogs adopted and other random shit. There are things to criticize him about sure, and I’m sure a lot of it is for tax purposes, but at some point you have to blame our government setup and not a 20 something year old “taking advantage” of the system we vote representatives in over and over to not change.
Edit Oh and apparently spent a fuck load of money buying a chocolate factory and advertises the shit out of that, which is why you see posters of him at Zaxby’s or what not
I really, really don’t watch his videos. From that description it sounds like the thing rich people do to get brownie points on social media while not really helping in any meaningful way.
I think they are called trustafarians (YouTube link)
So a 20 something year old kid has a choice to help people vs not help people. Chooses to help people and you automatically label it as not helping in any meaningful way. What a bleak view.
I mean you could take it out of context like that.
I think he’s probably a good kid. I just find the act very similar to those rich hippies, kinda gross. It’s personal preference not judgement.
The context does matter, but it doesn’t appear you have the right one.
This guy was a literal child when he started his videos. And did no good for the world whatsoever at that time, he was simply making videos to see what would stick. Only later once he began to acquire the appropriate amount of views and fame did he choose to make videos that try to help other people. I’m sure if those videos didn’t become as wildly popular as they did, they would’ve been forced to pivot away from philanthropy. But they worked, and so they continue to be able to afford new videos that appear to help individuals in a variety of ways.
Bad things might come of this, someone could even accidentally die from poor housing construction (maybe they chose the wrong construction company), a faulty car (maybe the Tesla he gave away was shit), or eating a chocolate bar (they happened to be allergic). But I don’t believe any of that would be intentional on his part. His company, of course, could/should be held liable.
If anything he just seems like a kid who got in too deep, became ridiculously famous, and is trying to navigate this mess with the skills he has (making popular videos). No one at his current level of popularity comes out unscathed, period.
I don’t know much about the guy, I don’t even watch him. I was making an observation based on what other people’s comments said. I’m pretty sure you’re on the nose. Most people in his situation probably would try to bring some good in the world.
I just like leaving it to the professionals. It’s also important to make sure the community gets a vote on weather that’s the best solution or if other things are more urgent.
Kinda like how funding went into mosquito nets and instead of using it to protect infants from malaria it was used as a fishing net. In that community putting food in the table was more important. Now there are issues of chemicals being leached into the water by the treated nets and overfishing due to the fine mesh.