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MALL-URILE SUNT PLINE DECI SE TRAIESTE BINE - MITURILE ABUNDENTEI LA ROMANI
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Hello, good people! How do you do? What do you
think? I hope all is well with
you. Today I would like to discuss a little
about Romanian myths of abundance. It
is in the public space through certain
spheres, generally from the sphere of
upper middle class people in the urban area.
Because, you know, in Romania there is affluence, in
Romania there is no poverty. Look, for
example, at how all the malls are full
and that's one of the examples I
see quite frequently in the
comments. After discussing yesterday
about the opportunities to make a lot of
money from work in Romania and after
concluding that the opportunities are not
as great as
some in this educated bubble from the
big city imagine. Oh, I think we're going to discuss, we need
to discuss a little bit about
these affluent myths about Romanians' affluence and
how Romanians actually have a lot of
money. So why are they complaining?
The thing about malls being full all the time is
invariably, almost invariably, or so I
hear. How, oh, can you say that there is
poverty in Romania or how, oh, can you say
that people don't have money in Romania, because
now even this poverty is relative. And I'll
tell you what I mean by poverty.
poverty.
This poverty is somehow relative. And how can you
say, uh, that people are poor when the
malls are full? I mean, man, the
malls are full. How can you say that people
are poor? And now my question is,
well, how many people out of the total population as a
percentage, because again we have to discuss
large numbers, not because you saw 500
people in a mall from which you drew the
conclusion or that the mall was full. Yes, there
were 1000 people in the mall and from there
you drew the conclusion that, mom, all
Romanians want to come to the mall. The only
reason why not every Romanian is at the
mall is that it's too crowded.
These are not good conclusions, that you
went somewhere where there were 1000 people
and concluded and concluded that
in fact it's like this everywhere, which,
well, is nonsense from a logical and
rational perspective. But let's see which of
these people who come are going to the
mall, okay? How many of them do you think
spend hundreds of euros per month in that mall
? How many of them do you think
actually hang out with a juice or
coffee for about two hours, then
walk around a bit, then go home
or have a donut or a menu from the
MEC and go back home? I mean, how
many people do you think, as a percentage of the
population, spend hundreds of euros a month
at the mall?
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the
average salary in Romania is €1,100 and 80% of
people earn below the average salary.
Explain to me how many people you
think spend a lot of money in malls.
I'm telling you, a very small percentage of the
population. There are some who hardly step foot in
malls. Many, even most. There
are some who go to malls, indeed,
indeed,
but less often. The
man gets his salary, goes to the mall,
spends a little money there, a few
leu, goes home a
week before his salary, and doesn't even set
foot in the mall anymore because he doesn't have much money
for food. There are people like this,
and I'm telling you there are people like this
because I was one of them.
I mean, no, at some point, about
12, 13, 14 years ago, I was among
these people.
I was lucky that I somehow managed to get
past this stage, but the vast
majority don't manage to get past this
stage and I know people, I have friends,
acquaintances who didn't manage to get past
this stage or ok, I'm a little
better off than I was in my 20s
financially, but I'm still not the type that
if they went to a mall, that
means they're rich, because they
went to the mall and bought a pair of
sneakers. Mom, sensational! Because they hadn't
bought a pair of sneakers
in six months, they went to the mall and
bought a pair of sneakers. Sensational.
So these are the super rich people.
Plus, in malls, I told you, they're full of
young people, of these kids who
hang out over a soda, brother, for two hours.
Stop it, I know how it
works too. How can you not say that the mall is
full? Yes, the mall is full, but that doesn't
mean the people are rich. Plus, what you do
n't notice anymore are the
invisible people, like a bunch of people
who don't go to the mall. Yes? A bunch of
people who don't go to the mall, to the pub.
at the restaurant, at the beer and wine bar in the
center of Bucharest there are a lot
of people who are invisible and that's how it is
in many cities, in many cities you have
a significant percentage of the population
who are invisible.
That's the problem. You don't see that one.
They don't even have expensive cars. Some may
not even have cars at all or have a
chicken coop that they walk around from time to time.
And you don't see those. That's not impressive.
Yes, those don't expose themselves, let me go, let me go
out, let me be outside all the time. Not.
Those who expose themselves go out, are outside all the time
, spend hundreds of euros a month
in a mall, have a fancy car. Those
are few. That's a small percentage. They
are very visible. On the other hand, the
invisible ones are also very visible, no, the
invisible ones look at the visible ones and gasp.
gasp.
And no, that's the reality, unfortunately. I
saw another comment, someone wrote me
a comment on the previous video
saying something like:
"If you have a car, you're not poor." Wow,
when I heard this, I was looking, wow,
friend, are you the one with all the tiles on your
house? I didn't want to tell him that, but I should have
told him: Brother, there are people
working in the factory. Yes. 3500 4000
RON salary per month. And they took out a
loan at the bank and bought a
€3,000 boiler. Brother, that man from
your perspective, that's a wealthy man. That's a man with money.
money.
Seriously. Serious? How many Romanians do you think
have expensive cars? Not many. I'm telling you,
not many. And again, don't tell me the percentage, there
are 300,000 expensive cars in
Romania. Yes, 300,000 expensive cars for
18 million inhabitants. The percentage is
very small. Again, calculate percentages.
Every time you say the mall is
full, there are 1,000 people. How much does
this represent in the total population?
How much of the total population are restaurants?
Calculate, do these calculations. Don't
look at your social circle anymore,
if you are upper
middle class urban and if you can
afford those things, it means that
everyone can afford them, that's not
the case. So that man who said that if
you have a car you're not poor. Well,
this principle is that there are no poor people in
America because everyone has a car, or
almost no poor people in America
because everyone has a car. Some of them
even live in that car because they don't have any
money for rent. So, I beg you,
this whole discussion about wealth and cars,
man, seriously, that's how we're discussing it, that's how the
problem really is. What do we understand
from the world we live in? It seems that,
well, many of us in Romania seem to think
nothing. A man also told me, "Hey, look
in Campina too, I'm from Campina and I
was in Campina when I made one
of the videos last week,
and he says, "Hey, look in Campina too, I
look, the houses are renovated, they look beautiful,
blam bam, where's the poverty?" Poverty is
only among the Roma, in the Roma neighborhoods and in those
villages far from the cities
where these social and alcoholic assistances are
. Well, I said to myself: "Well, wait
a minute. You're taking me with
Câmpina. I also know areas in Câmpina with
houses, where there are beautiful houses, new houses,
renovated houses, etc. But I can give you
and I gave examples of streets with blocks of flats,
with 10-storey blocks of flats. I gave him examples
of streets.
So 10-storey blocks of flats.
How much does a 10-storey block of flats make? Half a block
of flats, just one. If you have 20
10-storey blocks of flats, we're already talking about
something else, something else, something else
. And I gave the example,
look, look at that street like this, on that
street like this, in that neighbourhood like this, in that
neighbourhood like this. The blocks of flats are not renovated
, they look like hell. Some of them also have
seismicity issues. We don't discuss
these things anymore. I gave him an example of
blocks of flats with two-room apartments with the
comfort of that, I don't know. what about
small apartments and I know what kind of people
live there. I mean, I left him and I
took him up in the comments and I said: "Well, brother, you
see that I know the situation of the people in
that neighborhood, in that neighborhood, in those
blocks, in those blocks.
Why? How do I know them? Because I
lived there. Because I mean, don't take
me with anecdotal examples from the
city, my friend, because I know very well
where the people who are doing well in
my city are, where the people who are
doing badly in my city are and I can roughly estimate
what percentage is doing well and what percentage is doing
less well. And that man said, well,
no, so I gave examples of
neighborhoods, right? with blocks, with streets, with, you
know, well, that in a small town like
Câmpina and I understood that the situation is not
as you think that it is only the
Roma neighborhoods and the man comes and says to me: "Well, yes,
I said slave neighborhoods and the outskirts of the cities
and I had given him examples including
areas in the city center and I
specifically avoided giving him examples of
Roma neighborhoods in Câmpina, just so
he wouldn't say, look, you're giving me
examples of Roma neighborhoods, so
basically I'm telling you where Roma live. Yes.
So basically you're confirming my narrative.
So something like that can't be done. I can't
do it anymore. It seems to me that there's a disconnection from the
reality of 70-80% of Romanians.
From the reality of 70. So to tell you,
wait a minute, let's [ __ ] off,
as the French would say. There's a
disconnection from the urban middle class or the
educated bubble with above-
average incomes. There's a disconnection from the
vast majority of Romanians and that's what we
actually saw at the vote and we
might see this even more at the
vote in four years. There's a
disconnection. It seems to me that people in
this educated area, Apple Bindle Class
Urban, don't understand
how the rest of us live and I don't understand how the
rest of us live. on
quite low salaries, on quite
low incomes and there is a massive lack of empathy. It
seems to me that there is a massive lack of empathy
and a lack of understanding towards
our fellow human beings. Someone said in a
comment: "Well, of course, what do you expect? There
are 40% functional illiterates in
Romania. Well, I know
functional illiterates Romanians who lay tiles
and joinery well and make thousands of euros in the West. Yes, so
this is because these illiterate civil servants,
but they are good at, well,
manual work, which they do there. It brings them
thousands of euros in the West. Yes, you see
with this, well, yes, they are functional illiterates.
functional illiterates.
Well, I mean, we have a lot of
opportunities in Romania in
advanced engineering, what we have in microchips,
where we have many opportunities that we
cannot exploit because we do not have
educated people, because we have many
functional illiterates, there are opportunities, we do not
have a bit of an IT system and that's about it, I
pray, in the sector IT. I
wanted to tell you something. How much
money are you poor in Romania, because I said I
wanted to address this too. Well,
good people, in my opinion in
Romania, if you have a salary
around 3500 or under 3500 RON in hand,
well, you are poor. Regardless of whether you are in the
city and a small urban area, a large urban area, below
3500 you are poor. In a large urban area, like
Bucharest, Cluj, somewhere under 4000 4500,
net salary of RON. Well, you are poor.
Somewhere around in a large urban area. Yes. Somewhere
around 6000 RON in hand.
You are on a living wage that does not
allow you to have or support a
family. You are on a living wage to some
extent. From what salary or
income level up this big year
are you ok? From around 2000 €, that is 10000
RON. Yes? So you earn over 10,000 RON in
hand you are ok. Yes? Over 10,000 RON
in hand you are ok. From there, from there
on you can say that you are ok with money.
How much do employees earn this money
, at least people who work
with an employment contract? Very little.
You are probably in the top 10% or top 20%
to earn this money. Yes, from the
employees' perspective there are still people
with PFAs, micro-employment in
liberal professions, but these, well, are a
percentage, but they are not that many. So
yes, in Romania a lot of people are
poor, a lot of people are invisible,
even though they go to the mall to get a juice and
even though they have a car, it is a boiler taken on credit.
Yes, a lot of people in very, very, very
many cases. And I was just talking to the
Uber driver who took me to the
airport. I was coming from Bucharest to Țuri
and I asked him that I, Although despite
what some people think
about me, I am sometimes talkative,
but sometimes I talk, in fact I
am very talkative and I talk to
people, especially Uber drivers.
I talk to Uber drivers every time I have the
chance. And the Uber driver told me
that he wants to go to Holland, the one
who took me to the airport, that he works
around 50 and a little hours a
week and on 50, I don't know, 52, 53, 55
hours a week, something like that,
that he says that he works
makes 1500 RON a week, that's all he has
left. So every four weeks he makes
around 6000 RON. What he makes around
6000 RON a month, something that doesn't really
allow him to support his
family, that the man said that now he has a
small child who had
just been baptized
and he said I'm going to go to Holland because 6000
RON is not really enough for me and I work
50 hours. I mean, we have arrived in the 20th century,
my brothers and sisters,
to work or to think that in order to
have a decent living, we should
work 60 hours a week, because
the hell we have gone back to We are going back to 1920. I mean,
1920. I mean,
labor productivity has increased
so much. Yes.
And we, instead of working fewer hours, are
starting to see a virtue in working
jobs like these, like Uber drivers,
60 hours a week, so that we can
have some living conditions that are
somewhat afloat. Yes, that
at 6000 RON and afloat. I have
seen the prices in Romania every
time I come. I mean, it seems to me that I
also have an advantage because I don't stay in
Romania continuously. All
these changes that I see once every
four, five, six months when I go to the
country, I really notice them. the changes
of mentalities. I talk to people, I see
how they pose the problem, I see what one person says
, how things are moving there.
I see them and I have the advantage that I see them
once every few months because I
realize that something has changed. If I
were in Romania all the time, I probably
wouldn't even notice these changes,
but coming twice a year or three
times a year, depending on, well, or
four times a year, sometimes I have time to
see what has changed and I notice
these things, I notice these things and I notice
this disconnect between the
urban middle class, the educated bubble and the
rest of the country. The urban middle class, the
educated bubble. These people are somewhere around 30%.
30%.
Maxim. Okay, actually it's a little
less, but let's say it's extended. They are
somewhere around 30%.
These people won't be able to
impose non-dilimanic leadership for a very
long time if the situation doesn't change
from the perspective of
their living conditions. The
remaining 70%.
If something doesn't change, if
something doesn't change
and it seems like it won't change,
something like I don't know, I don't know exactly what, how it
should change. If
something doesn't change so that these people in the bottom 70%
become more satisfied with their lives, you should
know that the combination is over and I
think that these people
who are in the top 10 20%
should understand a little more.
more.
the problems of others. Yes. And don't
tell them that in Romania you are poor because of
your own fault, that you have opportunities everywhere,
because objectively you don't. There are
opportunities, not everywhere and not
everyone can take advantage of them. Yes, so
that's stupid. and don't come and
say that life is super good, that the
malls are full. And that the only problems
are in the Roma neighborhoods and in the villages
that are far from the cities. That's it. No, the
problems are bigger than that.
And including in the big urban areas. Yes, I'm not
as big in the big urban area as I am in the
small urban area or in the countryside, but there are
these problems and this educated urban bubble
, the upper middle class should
understand them and be aware of them. Not
otherwise, but they are not the majority. And the
moment these minorities come
and bring you George
Simion or Călin Georgescu, you will have
some problems. You will have some
problems, including you, in this
educated bubble, because it will not be ok. It will not
be ok with the country, it will not be ok with the
economy and it will not be ok with
anyone, not with the poor,
not with those who are upper middle
class. The rich, well, they
will probably still manage. Yes,
Yes,
what I want to tell you, the fascists
could be a reaction. It could
be a reaction that could catch on
in Europe because the
fascist danger, populist, isolationist, it's not
over. It's possible that these people will catch on, it's
possible that these fascists will
even reach the government and power.
What will they solve, I tell you,
nothing will cause more chaos. After that, we
have to think about what the hell we do with an
alternative on the left, because the only
option for what's happening now is
something on the left. Yes, a model similar
to FDR's New Deal, FDR's Kenzianism,
something from that area adapted to
this century. We have to implement this at the
level of Europe, Romania and
preferably at the level of the West.
If we don't end up having
this thing, fascism will eat us. Let's hope it
won't eat us. Let's hope that it will, meaning let's
hope that we will avoid the fascists
or fascists.
Although it's not clear. And if we still don't
avoid them, let's hope that we can get rid of
them without wars or civil wars or
crimes or things like that. this kind, let's
hope we can ejaculate them.
Marian Vanghelie's words on the faistoids
when they show that they are
incompetent because they are and obviously
for, well, anyone who looks at
this political, economic space at least a little carefully and
understands what these people are saying
, that they are nothing but populists who
will put the country on the fence and let's hope that
after them a left-wing alternative will come. The
problem is that that left-wing alternative does
n't really exist at the moment.
But it's inevitable. Let's see what form it will
take. Because if people
radicalize even more,
this left-wing variant could take a
very, very radical form. It could take
a very, very radical form and that's it
and that's it. We have already seen that
many Romanians consider that it was very
good in the communist system. Let's see how
this will translate. Maybe through a PCR
2032. God knows. Ok. Thanks for
watching. Have a wonderful day. Goodbye.
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