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Should Asians Stop Doing Demeaning Jobs?

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0:00 Okay, this is kind of a more sensitive topic for like smaller towns in Asia, but you guys know how sometimes you see videos of like villagers in Asia having to do a job that kind of looks demeaning for them. But the answer that a lot of white saviors have to offer is just to eliminate the job to save them from having to do it. >> Like making sticky tofu or something. Or like working at a factory. >> Working at a factory or or working as or you know like the when they got the monkey that takes the banana from the tree and they have a handler and then people like, "No, that's cruel." And then they just wiped this guy's job out so now he can't provide for his family. You know what I mean? Like that type of thing. I'm here to ask you if this falls under that category. Should this job stay or is it too demeaning? Okay, this is in India. There's a mountain that's 10,000

0:51 steps to the top. It's like a pilgrimage that people take as a religious thing. And not everyone can make 10,000 steps. >> Like fat American tourists. >> Jesus. >> A bunny. >> Oh, Jesus. >> That ████ reminds me of like those old British colonialists in like a >> chair. >> Yeah. >> Dude, how did I know it's going to be like a fat like American or something? >> big as ████ Is that guy American? >> I don't know. >> Australian or something. >> I don't know if he's American or >> I mean, I don't know, man. >> He's some kind of European. >> I don't know, man. >> Really? >> That doesn't sound like a >> He could be Middle Eastern. Yeah. >> Where is this? >> India. >> He looks like a fellow Indian. He might be. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> That guy looks like a liability, dude.

1:41 >> My question is, why does a fat guy want to go up so high? >> I think his eyes work the same as a skinny guy's. That's why. >> I think there's people that just got dreams and then they just they wanted to make >> do helicopter tours. >> They just want to make it happen. But I mean, to me a service, just like being a hooker, if someone's willing to suck it, then who cares? >> Jeez. >> It's not like there's Well, there They're not The guys that are carrying, like unless it's slavery, and they're just >> Yo, there's no opportunities in this town, but thanks for this fat dude. Now I could have like a few pennies. >> Wait, yeah? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Cuz it's either this or nothing. >> Yeah, to me it's like if there's a economy for it, don't destroy it because people are eating off of it. >> Yeah.

2:31 >> Guys' kids could be having a loaf of bread that night. >> Just cuz your sad ass watches this in your ████ home, and you're living a life of luxury, and you go, "They shouldn't be doing this. Make it go away so I'm not sad." ████ you. >> Does your Does your girlfriend ever have anything to say about um the Sherpas and how they're treated? Like, you know, cuz their job is arguably >> make money, though. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Well, they're like the Sherpas. Those people are like and they're like so acclimated to that environment. It's kind of insane how they can >> the only ones that can do it. >> The only ones that go up. Yeah. Like, even when I go like rock uh not like hiking with my girl. We went to like Colorado. We hit this like 14er, which is like 14,000 ft. 12,000 is when like trees disappear. That's like the alpine line. And she was fine. >> Oh, no way.

3:21 >> in her ████ mountain goat. Dude, I was just like But it's like the Sherpa people, I feel like if you took that away from them, what are How else were they supposed to make money? >> And that's their superpower. >> That is their superpower. >> Yeah, you bring them down to sea level, they're like, >> It looks bad cuz the Sherpa's carrying like three mountain loads of ████ and then you got the white guy like just like on two tanks of oxygen like slowly walking while he's ████ smoking a cigarette. But like he's making he's making mad he's making like hundreds of thousands per trip. It's dangerous, but like I don't know that's how they make money. >> funny to see that because it's the one white guy that's like, "I'm climbing Mount Everest for the first time." And the Sherpa's like, "Dude, I climbed like five times last week." >> Yeah.

4:11 >> With your ████ I climbed it with your ████ ████ And the white guy's like, "Oh, I'm almost there." And then the white guy gets to be on a podcast and be in books and ████ And there's like hella Sherpas like, It's just the It's just Everest, bro. >> In New Zealand, there on the money there's Sir Edmund Hillary who they say is the first guy that like climbed Mount Everest. That's why he's on the money, but it was actually like his Sherpa that made it top first, obviously. >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. It's like Tenzing Norgay. He's like the first guy who actually climbed Mount Everest a bunch of ████ times. And then they did took this white guy up. They're like, "Oh, I'm the first ████ blah blah blah. Put me on your money >> That's hilarious. He's like, "Yo, you want to see the spot I've been going?" >> Yeah, let me take you to my favorite spot. >> does it have to be like he gets to the like right before the peak and then goes, "All right, you go first." to make him the first official first one. >> Yeah.

5:01 >> Yeah, some ████ like that. >> Lets him win. >> Yeah, like, "All right, go ahead." >> Is it Can I ask what's with uh is the name Tenzin to Tibetans like John is to white guys? >> Yeah, a lot of them It's like a It's a unisex name. So, there's like a lot of them are Tenzin. But they have like they have different They don't really have last names. They like some of them get one to be like here, but they have like depending on what they are it's like they have like I guess the equivalent of a middle name. >> Uh-huh. >> But there's no like family name. >> Whoa. >> But they like add one to have one to be with everyone else. >> they know like which family you're a part of? >> I think they just know. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Like they just know. >> Community so small, they just know. >> Like why do you need a last name when there's enough people just for first names? >> Yeah. >> Like literally like half of them are

5:51 named Tenzin. >> That's like not even >> That's what I thought. >> Yeah. >> like they don't have nothing else? >> You just walk around you can be like Tenzin like half of them will turn. >> their middle name Yeah, they usually have like a nickname that you go or that like uh that middle name. >> It's kind of cool. If your community is small. >> Mhm. So what do you guys think about demeaning jobs? Does that Does Does having a demeaning job >> No, I think there is a an objectively fair way to make this like never a demeaning concept. I just think it's got to be like a you got to pay extra if you weigh extra. That's all. >> That's exactly what he's doing, right? Cuz other people are just walking up. He's paying for this service. >> Yeah. >> But also I do think this guy is like a medical endangerment to this whole operation. >> Imagine if this fool rolled back. He's like a cannonball like Indiana Jones

6:41 wrecking ball. He's going to knock out all these people going down. >> Or if he like breaks a leg or something. Imagine like you can't just have one paramedic come and help you. You're going to need like six of them now. >> Well, yeah. >> It's like he's just a Yeah, he's not good. >> I never I never seen a fat guy that big hike. >> Well, he To be fair, he's not doing anything. >> Yeah, he's just sitting. >> He's just sitting. He's a Pakistani Jabba the Hutt. >> Yeah, I don't I don't find it demeaning just cuz he just cuz economies are economies, right? Like even if you go to like the airport, there's a shoe shiner. And that's what he's really good at and if you need your shoes shined, he's there to trade for his service. As long as it's not slavery, I think it's fine. >> You know what I realized is the people that feel sorry for others are the ones that are actually elitist. Cuz they think it's a pathetic job. Or for me I'm like yeah, there's tougher jobs than

7:32 others. But it's a way to live. Like people are trying to ████ make it and the world isn't luxurious. Like the I mean the world is tough. Like there's just s█████ ass places in the world. >> with an office job is like angry about this. >> Yeah, like just cuz you're above it doesn't mean they're above it. >> Then like all the tradesmen are like, "Bro's got to make a living." >> Cuz we have that here. Like we have ████ crab fishermen. >> Yeah. >> They die every year so we could have crab legs. Like that's crazy. >> Maybe it's also the proportionate income. You know how like they're they're not the Indian version of that. Like they're not making >> 100 grand or whatever. >> Yeah, for them it's like probably drastically lower. But I guess like we we still also have jobs like that, too. We have people doing ████ for ████ nothing. Internships.

8:22 >> Brutally generous. He's like feeding seven people. That's why he keeps eating. Do you know what I mean? Like that's There's so many dudes he's employing. >> I don't know if these guys are working. >> know if those those guys are spotters or something. >> Can't have an Indian video without guys watching from the background. >> are probably like, "F███, I hope one of these guys come up. I want a job, too." >> That's a low job right there. >> he gains is another job. >> How strong are those wooden sticks? >> That's true. >> Yeah, those got to be really strong, yeah. So then maybe there's more than just like uh these guys had to carry it, they also have to like make this thing for him. >> got a question. What's the difference between moving a piano into an apartment versus a fat ████ >> Oh, yeah. The demeaning part, probably. >> lighter. A piano is To be honest, maybe I'm just more

9:14 Yeah, maybe I'm being Robart here, but I'm like >> See you at >> I'm like the Yeah, the piano weighs more. It's It should be It's more That's more of a harder job, technically. >> Yeah. >> than to lift a fat dude, >> you know? >> It's the humanization. It's like when it's a person, you feel subservient to that person. >> But what What the person like, "You're going to move my piano." >> And he's on the piano. It's like that. It'd be like if he's on the piano, yeah. >> That's where I maybe I'm not connecting with this cuz I'm like there's heavier things that people lift and get paid for. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And then I'm like, to me I would rather lift a lighter human than a heavier object and then at the end of the day I'm ████ wrecked because it was so hard. >> Cuz the piano's useful?

10:06 Like once you move it it has use. Once you move this guy to the top like >> Oh. >> You got to move him back to the bottom. >> And and the reason, you know what the big difference is? Because the piano can't move itself because it it's not alive. This guy can't move himself just cuz he's fat. >> You lazy, rich, ████ slave owner. So there's that feeling of like you're you're using these people. I see. >> Like it takes four people for this one guy to move up. Then you'll be okay. He's a comedian. Still not okay. >> Or what if they install an elevator and now these guys don't have a job? >> It'd ████ up their economy. >> Yeah, that would happen. >> And but do people feel better? They're like, "Thank god they don't have to work anymore." And now they're begging on the street and they can't feed their kids. >> Well, that's that's the thing. Like the

10:57 feel better mentality doesn't always work across seas the same way that people were like, "Give Africa a free food and clothes and every Africa Africa give it to them give it to them." And then Africans were like, "Please stop. We you're ruining our market. Why would anyone buy from what I'm making? Why would anyone buy my food? Don't give us all these mosquito nets. Everyone used them to fish. They over fished the sea. There's nothing there now. Like we're not thinking like ahead of like the effect. We just want to feel better in the moment." >> Or you get rid of these big fat guys and all the guys underneath are like, "That's why my quads got smaller." I don't do leg day anymore. I had a big-ass quads. >> They lost the game. >> Those guys get so excited when a fat guy shows up. >> Hell, yeah. >> It's going to be a good workout.

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