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alright so anyways that's right
pewdiepie the man himself is back from
his break and in his third video back he
decided to check out and see what uh
Jake Paul's been up to lately you know
that when I was on break it gave me some
insight of what's really important it
gave me some ideas around what I really
want to focus on in the future
and it made me ask what is Jake Paul
doing what is Jake Paul doing right now
huh what is he up to that little snake
so yeah pewdiepie I took a look at Jake
Paul's recent business adventure the
financial freedom movement and he's not
the only one
every commentary channel and their mom
is making videos on this and I'm talking
about ImAllexx I'm talking about atozy
I'm talking about D'Angelo Wallace and
Kurtis Conner himself alright but I want
to take a look at this from an angle
that none of these other commentary
channels can I want to take it from the
angle of being a father alright because
Jay Paul obviously his audience is kids
we know that because one of them is a
great example his nerd Cities video or
videos about Jay Paul but Jay Paul has
openly discussed that his primary target
audience is kids all right so I'm a
father I want to look at this like well
I let my son do this how would I talk to
about it and all that stuff and by the
way real quick like doesn't my son like
isn't he a spitting image of me when I
was a kid like it's crazy I look at this
picture
it is almost creepy how much that kid
looks like me you know what I mean
but anyways I want to talk about a few
things first one is I would never let my
son sign up for anything that had the
worst financial freedom movement in it
and this is just a personal thing like
years and years and years ago here in
Las Vegas I worked at this shady shady
call center alright and a lot of the
people they dealt with were people from
MLMs or pyramid schemes and the word
that they use all the time was financial
freedom okay and even though it's been
like God like 10 years it still left
this like nasty taste in my mouth you
know what I mean so first thing let's
talk about is student loans okay so
something that Jay Paul's like talking
about in his little promotion for the
financial freedom movement is student
loans and here's what PewDiePie had to
say about student loans there's over 1
trillion dollars in student loan debt
and people with outdated education who
can't even get a job student loans they
took out student loan is the cheapest
loan you can ever get it's one of the
most fair loans it's a great loan to
actually take advantage of it's such dog
to be like oh my by student loans so yes
and no all right PewDiePie is living in
what is it England and he's originally
from Sweden so I'm not exactly sure how
their system for college works and all
that but here in the United States it's
a yes and no all right so what I'm going
to talk to my son about when it comes to
student loans once he gets there he's
only 11 right now so keep that in mind
too but student loans have some of the
lowest interest rates out there all
right it's different than giving a car
loan a house loan whatever it is okay so
that's cool but one of the drawbacks of
student loans is they are like the one
type of loan that you can't declare
bankruptcy against alright so you might
be dealing with that debt forever
like some people legit are dealing with
that student loan debt okay like I've
personally had too many friends who went
to the winter college just
sake of going to college majored in
something that they really could care
less about and it's been years and
they're still paying off that student
loan debt so when I talk to my son like
I'm gonna explain to him like this is a
huge investment like we need to talk and
make sure that you know like what what
you want to go to college for okay like
as he's in school you know we'll talk
about it like I'm not one of those
parents like we're not like a family of
like doctors or a lot of teachers in my
family a couple doctors but anyways like
I think it's important that college
students know that it's okay to switch
majors you know what I mean like as some
of you know I read a ton of books from
different psychologists and other
professionals and things like that and
part of some of their story is there
were on one route then they learned
about something else in like you know
what I'm going to go this route instead
you know what I mean so the next major
criticism that people like PewDiePie and
others are having is like Jake Paul is
kind of promoting dropping out of school
or not necessarily pursuing school okay
before we get started like watching
these commentaries about Jay Paul's
financial freedom movement from these
different youtubers like I want to ask
you guys all a question okay so what are
your thoughts about these different
youtubers discussing how awful it is for
Jake Paul to promote like not going to
college but most of these youtubers
discussing it dropped out of college to
pursue YouTube full time like that just
popped in my head while I was watching
these I would love to know your thoughts
so let me know down in the comments okay
so when it comes to my son like you know
as a parent I know I have you know a
certain amount of control over the
situation but like what is it well by
the time he's like 16 16 17 like he can
make the choice whether or not he wants
to finish high school like my main thing
is making sure that kid finishes high
school okay and then after that we'll
talk about you know what are you gonna
do next you know what I mean like is it
gonna be college or what are you
passionate about we're gonna have
conversations around this like I'm the
type of parent worse like listen I don't
care what you do as long as you're happy
like I'm not going to pressure him into
going to college but as you'll see in a
second like what he wants to do he's
probably gonna need to go to college
right so it depends on what he's he
wants to do like if if his passion is in
something that doesn't require a college
cool but like I'll use myself as an
example like eventually I want to get a
PhD in psychology alright like I was a
drug addict for about ten years and
during that time you know I dropped out
of college and all that I'm 34 now but
hey I'm still kind of young I'm losing
some weight getting healthy so my goal
is to go back to school and pursue that
and like something I'm really interested
in is psychological research and things
like that when it comes to like mental
health and all that stuff and for that
obviously I need a degree so my son for
example for years now he's wanted to be
a marine biologist like I thought that
was just a phase like when it was like
five six years old but he's stuck with
it he wants to be a marine biologist so
obviously if you want to be a marine
biologist you need to go to college for
that all right so on his path if that's
what he still wants to do in seven years
you know what he's you know finishing up
with high school and all that kind of
stuff he's going to need to go to
college for it okay but real quick let's
talk about the pros and cons of college
I get a lot of college students asking
me what they should do and I never tell
anybody what they should do with such a
major decision you know what I mean
but I'm going to teach them that since I
dropped out of college like my options
have been super limited and it's my
fault it is my fault right it's not the
system it's not student loans it's none
of that stuff it's my fault I dropped
out of college you know back in my
addiction and because of my addiction
like I wasn't thinking of the big
picture and there were so many jobs that
I couldn't get because I didn't have a
college degree like I am very fortunate
it that I found a job working at the
rehab that didn't require a college
degree all it required was that I was in
recovery from my drug and alcohol
addiction so that was pretty cool and
like my current job now didn't require a
college degree a lot of it was based on
my experience in a bunch of other things
that I do
alright but even though there are a lot
of opportunities out there if you don't
go to college like you need to
understand the trade-off okay because
like you know you have student loans
over here unless you pay cash which I
can't do so he'd have to not start
working his butt off
right like but if you don't go to
college you have to work extremely hard
all right there there's a completely
different kind of road that you have to
take okay
so personally I I think too many people
go to college just for the sake of going
to college or their family like
pressured them into going to college and
now they're sitting there with a degree
that has literally nothing to do with
anything they want to do you know and
they're paying back a bunch of student
loan debt on it a great example is one
of my friends he he went to college and
he he like he majored in something that
like I've known this dude for years and
he majored in something like it was like
being like a museum curator or something
like this guy does not give a shit about
museums or art or anything like that
right but that's what he majored in and
got his degree in and actually now he is
like a high level manager at a hotel and
he's been doing that for years okay why
because in high school who started at
the bottom like working at the pool at a
hotel like back in high school he worked
his way up to front desk then he became
an assistant manager and then all that
experience turned into his career you
know what I mean so my advice to my son
as well as anybody else out there Mike
don't rack up a bunch of debt just to go
to school for the sake of going to
school like it's cool for a minute and
get to brag about how you finished
college and stuff like that like ten
years later you're gonna be sitting
there
paying back your student loans like why
the fuck did I do that alright so if
you're gonna be in college make sure
that you are pursuing that that career
that you've got your degree from so the
next thing is pewdiepie and everybody
else they they are labeling this a scam
okay
so I wanna I want to break that down a
little bit so when it comes to my son
and again Jake Paul's financial freedom
movement is targeted towards kids my son
is so good he's so good at asking me
he's like is this a scam is this bad or
whatever before he buys things before he
installs things you know what I mean
like on his laptop or even on the Xbox
or you know he watches a lot of YouTube
videos and like when he was playing for
tonight a lot they'd be like here get
free V books or like in Minecraft
there's it says some other things going
on and I he'll ask me about it and I
appreciate that okay many ways like
personally I think we're in a time a
weird time mainly on YouTube with
youtubers trying to push their products
and everything I think the word scam is
use a little too loosely alright so the
definition of a scam is I just saw this
scheme a fraud alright so what's the
definition of a fraud wrongful or
criminal deception intended to result in
financial or personal gain okay so if
you haven't yet I highly suggest you
check out the two videos drue good and
did on Jake Paul's last business venture
team 1000 which was about two years ago
he recently did a follow up and yeah
that whole thing does seem like a scam
okay so if that were to go to court like
I'm not sure I'm not sure Jake Paul
would have much of a leg to stand on
because when like drew gooden like he
actually signed up for it and you see
like they they didn't deliver the
product okay so that's what kind of
separates a scam from not a scam it's
like was that product delivered all
right so with Jake Paul's financial
freedom movement it seems more like a
ripoff Venice scam okay because he has
created this wackadoo course or whatever
it is
so people are getting that product was
it worth it
that's pretty subjective you know what I
mean so maybe it's a ripoff maybe for a
lot of people it's not worth that money
but he'll like 20 bucks
who cares and what I find hilarious is
Jay Paul has probably made more money
off youtubers buying his his course then
actual fans buying his course and so
many people wanted to look at it and see
what it's all about so at the end of the
day at the end of the day like what are
my thoughts on it with my son sign up
for it my son still has Christmas and
birthday money banked up I'd like if you
want to try it go for it I have my son
learn from his own mistakes and you know
what I mean if he wants to buy something
with his own money go for it like I'm
not giving him money for that like
that's one of the things like real quick
rant like so many people out there like
oh my god he's scamming kids he's
scamming kids like listen like unless my
son steals my like debit card or credit
card like you can't get anything like my
slack I just say no I say no if you want
to use your money go for it okay but
basically what it comes down to when it
comes to Jake Paul and then when it
comes to these youtubers commenting on
it it comes down to do you want a steady
career or do you want to be an
entrepreneur okay like that's kind of
how it is and although each of these
youtubers has put in a massive amount of
work there is you know something else
that we're not thinking about and I
think Curtis Connor said it the best I
don't know if either youtubers feel like
this how I feel but I feel like a
majority of my success on YouTube is all
luck sure I work pretty much every day
but still I like there's a so much luck
involved and so many other things that I
have no control over and it just fucking
worked out for me yeah there's a ton of
luck involved
like if if you're a youtuber out there
and there's something I teach my son to
like since I'm on YouTube like it is
unpredictable unreliable a lot of it has
to do with this mysterious algorithm
that nobody can quite figure out like
you never know which videos are gonna
pop and everything like that there's a
lot of luck involved but I think it's
important that we talk to our kids and
if you're not a parent talk to your
nieces nephews and stuff like that if
you spend a lot of time on YouTube and
all of that because like I know a lot of
kids in my son son's class they want to
become youtubers or twitch streamers and
we got to talk to him about the
realities of this but like I said like
like I think you know Curtis Connor
didn't do a good enough job like giving
himself props like a lot of the
youtubers you see have put in hard work
okay like obviously PewDiePie has been
on for years doing like daily videos
like that dude has earned it as well as
some of the other creators that I
mentioned like a tozi I'm Alex DeAngelo
Wallace Curtis Connor and whoever else
is like really successful on YouTube
there's been years of hard work that has
gone into it but what's that say like
luck is like opportunity plus
preparation you know what I mean like
you got to be prepared for when you take
off or when you have that opportunity
because if not it's just wasted and a
lot of people have learned to capitalize
on that opportunity by becoming more
insistent you know what I mean
anyways would love to know your thoughts
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