Youtube Recommendations

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Screen Rant has a series of fake "pitch meetings" between the writer of various Star Wars movies and an exec, funny ensues:

https://youtu.be/uAvprzqwbo8

There went my entire night. These are freaking fucking awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ

Yeah, that's one of the best.  But, watching it, I was disappointed by the fact that it didn't bring up the dragon breath that could destroy a 5,000-year-old thousand-foot-high wall, but not knock over a small pile of bricks when Jon was hiding behind it.  Maybe that was too tough even for Pitch Meeting.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4qdCs54ZE

The Netherlands has the highest wealth inequality in the world.

tldnw: In the Netherlands you can borrow 110% of the value of a home, so lots of people have negative net worth.  Plus Euro style dynasties tend to keep family wealth concentrated in the heir.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4qdCs54ZE

The Netherlands has the highest wealth inequality in the world.

tldnw: In the Netherlands you can borrow 110% of the value of a home, so lots of people have negative net worth.  Plus Euro style dynasties tend to keep family wealth concentrated in the heir.

You gotta wonder when the video is titled "How The Dutch Economy Shows We Can't Reduce Wealth Inequality With Taxes."  Of course, the Netherlands does not show that at all.  In fact, this video is premised on something very unlikely to be true:  that the Netherlands is the most unequal country in the word in terms of wealth distribution.  This appears to be true from the 2019 data, but in the 2018 GINI wealth data it is #71, and in 2008 #125 (of 170 countries).

GINI data in the table here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_equality

So wealth inequality seems to be rising in the Netherlands, but the 2019 data is way out of line with the historical data.  The reason seems to be a change in the Dutch government's estimate of the hidden economy, which the government admits is a preliminary estimate, not a final number.  Of course, to compare the Netherlands to other countries, you have to make the same assumptions about their hidden economies.

TLR Version:  don't believe videos that seem to be making claims that go against common sense, without checking out the data.  They could easily be just pursuing an agenda with cherry-picked evidence.

[Maladict]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4qdCs54ZE
The Netherlands has the highest wealth inequality in the world.

Nah. We have very high private debt, yes. But this video is more than a little misleading.

tldnw: In the Netherlands you can borrow 110% of the value of a home

Not true, and hasn't been for nearly a decade. But it is possible to borrow 100%.

, so lots of people have negative net worth. 

The number has been falling in recent years, but I suppose most young people with students loans and/or a recently bought home will have negative worth.

Plus Euro style dynasties tend to keep family wealth concentrated in the heir.

I don't know if we have a lot of dynasties. There's some old money for sure but I doubt it would affect nationwide numbers. And the 20% inheritance tax takes a fair chunk out of it.
Inheritance is equal parts among children by law. Even if disinherited they can still claim part of the inheritance.


Also from the video:
Tax deduction on mortgages is being phased out. And you can only deduct taxes on your primary mortgage, the example of the landlord is incorrect.
The mortgage guarantee is not free of charge, and is only applicable to homes up to 250K or so.
And a big one: we have massive pension schemes that are not considered wealth. If you include those the numbers would be different.

[Syt]

hbomberguy has released an excellent video about an excellent game, Fallout: New Vegas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzF7aHxk4Y4&ab_channel=hbomberguy

[Syt]

He's also added a video about the War on Christmas (TM). Contains the joke "It [Catholic Church] hasn't been the same since the Byzantine Papacy."

https://youtu.be/jbZo4x0NbbI

[The Larch]

It'd be cool if he could make videos that were not one hour long or even longer.

[Syt]

It'd be cool if he could make videos that were not one hour long or even longer.

Well, he only makes them every few months/years, so ...

I usually put them on in the background while doing something else, kind of like a podcast.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1oByXmohhU

Chinese woman attacked by octopus she is trying to eat live.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UvzWoQUJvc

I'm watching this series of clips about which country you hate/dislike.  A couple one off answers, plenty of people in all countries saying they dislike the US because of the politics.  Then I start watching the one shot in England and here's the first one with people saying they dislike their own country.

[Josquius]

Hating England is the British way.
It's why our nationalists are so utterly horrid. They fly in the face of the thing they claim to represent.

[Liep]

https://twitter.com/Martina/status/1351396110452011009?s=20

About the funniest clip I've seen in a long time.

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Here's a really surprising look at The Outlaw Josey Wales (one of my favorite movies) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndsdQO0Wmk

[Razgovory]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovrM0LdrZ0


This is genuinely terrifying.

[The Brain]

At the Lincoln Memorial, Joe needs your help to save Skyrim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am4a8EfQDQM