Lies, Logos, Luxury, and the Path to Neighbourhood Sovereignty

Summary

The video discusses the recent actions of Chinese manufacturers revealing the true production costs of luxury goods and the exaggerated mark-ups branded by Western companies, portraying it as a 'civilizational unmasking.' These disclosures highlight not only the economic disparities but also challenge the Western world's perceived excellence in entrepreneurship, craftsmanship, and quality. The narrative critiques the American and Western economies for creating an illusion of luxury and exclusivity while urging a shift towards entrepreneurial initiatives and community empowerment as a pathway to realizing neighborhood sovereignty.

Highlights

• Chinese companies are unveiling the real costs of luxury goods, shaking the foundations of Western branding 💥👜.
• The West's 'excellence' is critiqued as mere branding, not genuine innovation or production 🚫🏷️.
• A call for community-driven business initiatives to bypass Western economic models 🤝🏗️.
• Luxury brands' imagery of exclusivity is shattered amidst these revelations 🔍🚪.
• Push for grassroots empowerment as a means to achieve economic independence 🌱💪.

Key Takeaways

• Chinese manufacturers reveal the true production costs of luxury goods, exposing Western mark-ups 🌍💸.
• Western societies excel only in branding and overpricing, not in actual production or quality 🏷️🚫.
• The narrative encourages a shift towards community-driven entrepreneurship for neighborhood sovereignty 💪🤝.
• Disclosures challenge the perceived prestige of Western luxury brands, calling out the illusion of exclusivity 🔍👠.
• Emphasizing self-sufficiency, the discussion advocates for grassroots economic empowerment 🤲📈.

Overview

The video embarks on a bold narrative exposing the truth behind luxury goods often flaunted by the Western world. Chinese manufacturers have taken to social media, revealing unexpectedly low production costs of items like handbags and shoes, compared to their extravagant retail prices in the West. This disclosure serves as a cultural exposé, challenging the notion of Western craftsmanship and excellence, portraying it as an economy reliant on branding over tangible production.

The discussion critically analyzes the Western market's dependency on labels and perceived value, rather than actual product quality or substance. Amidst this, there's a powerful push towards rethinking entrepreneurial spirit, aiming to foster local businesses driven by community collaboration. The speaker articulates a vision for transforming the economic landscape through local ingenuity, urging communities to harness these revelations as an opportunity to embrace self-sufficiency.

At the core of the argument is a call to action against the illusion of luxury and a demand for transparency in pricing strategies. The speaker encourages a shift from consumerist dependency to entrepreneurs crafting their path to economic independence, mirroring the resilience seen in the Global South. This transformative approach champions solidarity and reformation, positioning communities to embrace a cooperative model for economic sovereignty.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction to Global Economic and Cultural Critiques The chapter titled 'Introduction to Global Economic and Cultural Critiques' delves into the significant developments on social media platforms, particularly TikTok, which reveal deeper insights into the global economy as well as psychological, cultural, and civilizational issues inherent in Western society. A focal point is the reaction to Trump's new tariffs on Chinese goods, highlighting an unprecedented response from Chinese manufacturers who have taken to social media to voice their perspectives. This chapter sets the stage for an in-depth exploration of these multi-layered global interactions.
• 01:00 - 02:30: Western Civilization and Outsourced Excellence The chapter titled 'Western Civilization and Outsourced Excellence' highlights the reality of luxury goods production. It reveals that many luxury items, such as handbags, shoes, and designer sunglasses, which are often thought to come from European fashion capitals like Milan or Paris, are actually manufactured in China. The chapter explores the transparency in production costs and profit margins, emphasizing the disparity between manufacturing costs and retail prices. For instance, a handbag sold for $2,000 in Western markets may cost only $40 to produce, and manufacturers are now willing to sell products directly to consumers, bypassing traditional retail models.
• 02:30 - 04:00: The Illusion of Luxury and Branding The chapter delves into the concept of the Western world being an illusion of luxury and branding, reflecting a broader civilizational truth. It critiques how the West, having established its global status, is perceived as producing nothing but still gains recognition for everything, akin to historical colonization efforts. This image has built on the idea that the West is synonymous with excellence, a myth that stems from its perceived unique freedom and superiority.
• 04:00 - 06:00: Opportunities for Direct Manufacturing Engagement The chapter explores the paradox of Western societies being regarded as pinnacles of craftsmanship, creativity, and innovation while simultaneously outsourcing actual manufacturing work. It criticizes the practice of merely branding products made by other societies, particularly those looked down upon or disrespected, highlighting a disconnect between perceived and actual excellence.
• 06:00 - 09:00: Consumerism vs. Entrepreneurship In this chapter, the speaker criticizes Western economies, labeling them as systems of branding and appropriation rather than genuine productivity. The argument is made that the West doesn't actually produce value but instead excels at marketing—taking what others create, branding it with their logos, and selling it back at massively inflated prices. This critique positions consumerism and entrepreneurial branding as mechanisms of economic dominance rather than paths to genuine innovation or productivity.
• 09:00 - 12:00: Critique of Western Manufacturing and Economic Systems The chapter 'Critique of Western Manufacturing and Economic Systems' delves into the superficial excellence promoted in Western societies, highlighting systemic fraud and exploitation. The narrative draws parallels between cultural manifestations, such as Elvis Presley's appropriation in music, and historical transgressions, like the British monarchy's acquisition of invaluable artifacts from India. The author metaphorically describes America as a person buying fake achievements, emphasizing the perceived lack of genuine value in certain Western economic practices, exemplified by overpriced consumer goods. The chapter alludes to the rise of Chinese manufacturing as a counterpoint to these entrenched Western practices.
• 12:00 - 15:00: Empowerment Through Community and Economic Sovereignty The chapter discusses the irony and reality behind consuming branded products, like overpriced coffee with a logo, where consumers pay for the logo rather than the actual product quality. It criticizes the superficial nature of such consumptions and questions the assumed exclusivity or value of luxury items like branded handbags, highlighting the facade of wealth and brand consumption.
• 15:00 - 18:00: Building Alternative Economic Models The chapter discusses the tactics used by luxury brands to maintain exclusivity and the surreal nature of the economy they operate in. It highlights the paradox of accessibility to supposedly exclusive products like high-quality leather bags and concludes that these companies often charge far more than the actual value of the products, exploiting both wealth and scarcity.
• 18:00 - 20:00: Call to Action for Community Empowerment and Resilience The chapter 'Call to Action for Community Empowerment and Resilience' delves into the concept of financialization, illustrating it as 'fake money' akin to 'fake luxury' created by marketing spins. It draws parallels between financial spin and everyday experiences, such as a coffee that's all foam. The discussion transitions into the realm of global manufacturing, particularly with Chinese manufacturers, positing that their business model should open up numerous opportunities for Western entrepreneurs. Direct purchasing from these factories is suggested as a new avenue for creating cost-effective supply chains, possibly through other intermediary production sites like those in Indonesia, promoting economic empowerment by enabling wholesale and bulk purchasing strategies.
• 20:00 - 23:00: Conclusion and Urgent Appeal for Change The chapter concludes with a strong call for change and highlights an innovative business method to circumvent tariffs by manufacturing products in certain countries and then rebranding them for sale. It critiques the lack of enterprise among Americans, suggesting that immigrants are more likely to seize such business opportunities.

Lies, Logos, Luxury, and the Path to Neighbourhood Sovereignty Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 well something very interesting is happening right now uh on Tik Tok on social media you should pay close attention not just because of what it reveals about the global economy because of what it reveals about the psychological the cultural and the civilizational fraud that's at the core of Western society Western civilization the Western world you've got Trump's new tariffs against Chinese goods and now Chinese manufacturers are doing something about that that's unprecedented they're going on social media and they're saying "We are the
• 00:30 - 01:00 ones who make your luxury goods we make your handbags we make your shoes we make your designer sunglasses." And so on if you think that they come from Milan or from Paris no they come from China and they're not just revealing that they're the ones who are manufacturing these goods they're revealing the costs they're revealing the margins the markup they're saying this handbag that sells for $2,000 in the West well it only costs $40 to make and we'll make it and we'll sell it to you directly now
• 01:00 - 01:30 pause and reflect about that on the depth of what that means this is more than just a business revelation this is a uh a civilizational unmasking they're exposing that the West actually produces nothing but they take credit for everything just like with colonization the western world has built its global prestige and its reputation on the central myth that it's the home of excellence you know and that this excellence is a byproduct of their unequal freedom you know that western
• 01:30 - 02:00 societies are the pinnacle of quality of craftsmanship of innovation and refinement and so on and all of this because of because they have so much liberty and so much freedom so creativity and excellence thrive right brilliance and hard work all of that flourishes in the great sunlight of Western democracy meanwhile actual excellence is outsourced the only thing that you do is slap your label on what others make you slap your logo on things that are made by the people who you demonize who you disrespect who you denigrate who you look down upon who you
• 02:00 - 02:30 call peasants everything about your success is actually made possible by people who you call losers the only thing that the West excels at is branding taking credit your whole economy is a scam a logo a stamp a label and then they inflate the price a thousandfold that's what you make you make logos it's not a system of productivity it's a system of appropriation it's an economy of logos it takes what others produce stamp their name on it and then sell it back to the world at an obscene profit that's not
• 02:30 - 03:00 excellence that's fraud and no one should be surprised by this cuz this is a pattern that repeats throughout your so-called society your so-called civilization you know from Elvis Presley singing Hound Dog to the crown jewels of the British monarchy stolen from India you're that dumb jock who puts his name on a test that he paid someone else to take for him that's America and you're literally charging people for nothing it's like how you buy a $5 coffee this 80% phone well now the Chinese manufacturers are going online and
• 03:00 - 03:30 they're telling you that you're only getting a thimble of coffee a thimble of espresso and two tablespoons of milk and it should only actually cost you less than a dollar that's the equivalent of what they're doing you're literally paying for the privilege of drinking from a cup with a logo on it so how fake is that i mean imagine being some rich idiot uh who who's spending all of this money on on on a handbag and you thought that your wealth was buying you some sort of exclusivity who thought that you know this branded handbag or that branded handbag was actually made from a
• 03:30 - 04:00 higher quality leather than a suburban soccer mom could afford only to find out that even the highest quality of cowhide is actually still accessible to the janitor of their Manhattan apartment building well what are they going to do now to try to be exclusive to try to be fancy get handbags made out of giraffe skin some endangered species see they're even scamming the wealthy it's a surrealist economy they make you poorer than you should be and then they charge you for things uh uh far more than their
• 04:00 - 04:30 actual cost it's just like financialization the same way that that's fake money it's fake luxury it's all created by spin your coffee is all foam now theoretically with these Chinese manufacturers what they're doing should open up all sorts of opportunities for people in the west because now you can buy directly from these factories all the factories that make these products you could buy wholesale you could buy bulk you could create your own supply chains you could even uh route them through other factories say in Indonesia or in
• 04:30 - 05:00 Malaysia or wherever else uh uh and then have those factories slap your own uh logos or your own tags on them saying that they were made in that country to bypass the tariffs and boom you have your own business you can even make your own designs with identical materials with the identical quality standards of all those luxury brand companies but I know that the only people who are going to even do that uh most likely in the US are going to be immigrants because Americans themselves are not actually anymore an enterprising people if they ever were you don't actually come from a
• 05:00 - 05:30 culture that has initiative you know I even saw one American on social media whose response to the videos being made by the Chinese manufacturers was "Oh yeah I'd love to get a Birkin bag at an affordable price so if you're one of those factories that make the Birkin bags well DM me and I'll buy it." See this is the thinking you contact me and I'll pay for it i'm willing to consume at a lower price there's no initiative here as if that factory is going to just jump at the chance to DM some random guy looking for
• 05:30 - 06:00 a bargain this is the thinking level and imagine still wanting to have a Birkin bag after finding out that they're not actually prestigious or luxurious at all but your mind is still so programmed your mind is still so indoctrinated to think that the that that it's more valuable than it is even after you just found out that it's not so you still think that you're getting some kind of a bargain rather than understanding that the Chinese price is actually just what the price should be you understand no I
• 06:00 - 06:30 don't think American consumers can make the adjustment from consumption to entrepreneurship because they can't even break free from the brainwashing the marketing you know you're still having people wanting to buy products that they associate with wealth even after learning that they're not genuinely expensive i mean how do you imagine that walking around with these items you know Birkin bag or what have you how how is walking around with these items now going to be even prestigious anymore i mean think this through how does this actually not destroy the whole luxury
• 06:30 - 07:00 brand business model completely like I said how are those companies uh uh ever going to be able to convince people to pay those massive markups now i mean how are those companies not actually even going to face legal problems to be honest you know claiming that their products come from France or come from Italy or what have you when they're actually made in China and we see that they're made in China and they're only labeled in Europe i mean you could actually face some sort of a class action lawsuit for fraud you know people who fell for it people who spent
• 07:00 - 07:30 thousands of dollars because they thought uh that they were buying something special from some you know highass European craftsman that don't exist turns out European excellence is Chinese italian leather comes from Africa it's all a giant scam it's like plagiarism but with goods passing off someone else's work as your own that's what plagiarism is you know they call it counterfeit uh when you sell that same item without the logo on it but actually putting the logo on it is the real fakery and I mean consider the fact
• 07:30 - 08:00 looking at global economics consider the fact that most of the brands that are being exposed by these Chinese manufacturers are European luxury brands you know Louis Vuitton Hermes Versace uh Chanel all of these companies contribute tens of billions of dollars to their economies to the economies of the countries that they're associated with they're responsible thousands of jobs if not tens of thousands tourists too people actually travel over there to get those things yanking the curtain back on the fraud of these companies will potentially be a serious blow to
• 08:00 - 08:30 European economies no joke it's all part of the destabilization of Europe not to mention like I said that they could even face some sort of investigations and lawsuits for lying about where their products are actually made like I said even your rich people are getting scammed you know you can't even produce anything that's fancy enough to actually deserve an exorbitant price i mean at least in Dubai they sell stupid uh goldplated iPhones diamond encrusted iPhones at least with that you know that your decadent obscene spending is
• 08:30 - 09:00 actually getting you something that's genuinely worth the money but these luxury bags these clothes these designer clothes and shoes and what have you well their prestige and their value is purely based on perception it's based on branding not on actual quality not on actual standards you know I said a long time ago that every price tag on every item sold in the market should include what the markup is you know this is the price and this is the actual cost of producing it then you could decide for yourself if the markup was worth it or
• 09:00 - 09:30 not well China's basically doing that for you now they're literally telling you uh how much more you have been paying for these items how much more these companies have been charging you for these items and now it's up to those companies to try to justify those insane markups so rather it's upon you to demand an explanation but really I don't know how everyone doesn't already know this already i mean forget about the luxury brands even the non-luxury items you know already anytime you go shopping
• 09:30 - 10:00 you go to a store say and you buy something that's on sale they say it's 50% off or 70% off or whatever that just means that regularly you're paying 60 to 80 to 90% more than their break even price because they're still making a profit even when they sell it to you at 70% off meaning when it isn't on sale you're getting absolutely gouged on the price because yes that's what they're revealing about the luxury brands but it doesn't only apply to the luxury brands it's everything your whole economy is based on the principle never give a
• 10:00 - 10:30 sucker an even break and that's what you call the glory of the free market just take advantage of everybody meanwhile in so-called communist China where there's supposedly no freedom there's supposedly no liberty there's supposedly no democracy and so on in that so-called authoritarian terrible country that poses a threat to the whole world people are actually buying things at the prices that reflect their real cost they're paying fair prices and you know another aspect of this that that
• 10:30 - 11:00 that no one in the west wants to talk about uh they'll say that if those goods were made in America they'd be too expensive and in fact uh that's why so many manufacturing jobs even went to China in the first place because of so-called cheap labor that's what we always hear right they'll tell you that American workers want to be paid too much it's the workers fault and I even said it the other day i said "If you made iPhones in the United States of America and not in China where your phone would be $10,000 and the only way
• 11:00 - 11:30 that they would ever accept to even bring manufacturing jobs back to the US was if they could get factory workers to accept Chinese wages and Chinese conditions." Okay but why it's not really because workers need to work that cheaply it's because uh Apple executives will not accept a pay cut that's the real issue here i mean when Louis Vuitton charges 20 times the cost of production for a bag made in China where do you think that profit is going you already know it's not going to the labor
• 11:30 - 12:00 you already know it isn't going to the factory workers in China no that markup is going into executive pay packages it's going to executive bonuses and perks and so on do you understand it because you absolutely could manufacture these things in the US you could assuming that you could ever get Americans to you know to uh obtain the necessary skills to do it and be willing to do the work in a factory you absolutely could produce the same things and sell them for the same price or even less but the CEOs and the executives
• 12:00 - 12:30 couldn't make a,000 times the salary of a factory worker and that's just not going to happen they're not going to go for that see understand this with those fake luxury brands and with everything else you are paying more for the goods than what they're worth for only this reason for the reason of outrageous executive pay packages that's why you are paying to create the most drastic and the most obscene wealth disparity in human history that's what you're paying for you're buying that you are buying
• 12:30 - 13:00 wealth inequality and China is now offering you a way to stop doing that they're literally offering you uh the chance to cut out the price gouging middlemen you know Trump uh suspended the tariffs on technology technology built in China and labeled as American again things like iPhones and so on uh but at this point tariff or no tariff you shouldn't keep buying Chinese goods from fraudulent price gouging American middleman companies you should stop cuz
• 13:00 - 13:30 that's all they are they're just middlemen price gouging middlemen the veil has been lifted the curtain has been pulled back you have seen the scam that they're running on you they're already overcharging you by orders of magnitude even without the tariffs and they expect you to keep going along with it but you shouldn't you shouldn't keep going along with it you know I've been talking repeatedly about the need for Americans uh to build bridges rank and file Americans to build bridges with the global south especially Muslims in
• 13:30 - 14:00 America to build bridges with the Muslim world well this is the perfect opportunity to do that reach out to the manufacturers in China either to buy goods directly from them or to sell in the US or work together to build your own products build your own supply chains and get to work making contacts in the region to start selling across Asia selling across Africa selling across the Middle East or what have you now you see why I've talked uh about the need for cultivating community in the United States and solidarity because
• 14:00 - 14:30 look if you don't have the capital to do what I'm talking about you don't have the money to invest if you have a community where you can pull your resources think about it if you have just say 20 or 30 people in your community 20 or 30 people uh and you each put in $100 or $200 so now you have somewhere between $3,000 to $7,000 or say maybe you reach all the way up to $10,000 okay so you contact these factories in China you order an assortment of wholesale items you know from hoodies to sunglasses to watches
• 14:30 - 15:00 you know cosmetics what have you phone cases then you organize a block bazaar selling at 100% or 200% markup which is lower than the standard retail prices you you determine your markup depending upon your costs so say you get uh sunglasses for a dollar each wholesale from China and then you sell each pair at your block bazaar for $8 okay at the end of that inshallah your community has made a nice bundle of money that you could put into a fund for
• 15:00 - 15:30 neighborhood needs a community fund you know to help people pay their utility bills to help people pay their rent to to buy school supplies to buy groceries whatever eventually you could even potentially fund your own startups in your community you earmark a portion of the profits uh to continue financing those block bazaars those community markets every month every two months whatever is feasible i mean why not which masid can't do this well you could create your own rock this way you can
• 15:30 - 16:00 create your own uh source of funding for your local Muslim community for Islamic schools uh a fund for helping people uh pay for uh mah for marriage on and on you know with a one-time collaboration of collected capital think about it you could potentially create an ongoing source of revenue for your community but you won't do it i'm telling you all this but I know you won't do it because you've been so pacified you've been so numbed you've been so uh sedated so indoctrinated so Americanized that you
• 16:00 - 16:30 have no initiative you have no drive you have no sense of urgency no sense of possibility you want an app that will pull you up by your bootstraps you want to take a nap and wake up in a better world that everyone else built while you were sleeping that's how Americans are i mean I already know that there's going to be comments in the comment section when we upload this video uh uh talking about well what about this what about that what about this complication what about that complication that difficulty this difficulty and so on because you have no problem solving
• 16:30 - 17:00 skills so any challenge or any hurdle is prohibitive for you it's like that video of that girl uh who hired a a movers to move a box full of books that was too heavy for her to carry because she couldn't even think herself to remove half the books and put them in a second box and just make two trips because problem solving is insurmountable for Americans at this point that's why you're in the situation that you're in and that's why the power structure can do to you what they do because you're basically just lumps on the couch cushion arguing about politics honestly
• 17:00 - 17:30 in the Muslim community and outside the Muslim community you would rather give some money give your money to some politicians campaign thinking that they're going to make everything right for you if they just get elected into office you'd rather do that than to use your money yourselves to make your own community better right here right now positive change is literally right at your fingertips but that's still too far away for you and you know how I know this because all of this information that these Chinese manufacturers are putting out on social media all of this
• 17:30 - 18:00 information that they're spreading on TikTok right now all of that information has always been available it's not like it's new you just never looked into it before so like uh if you say for example you can't do what I'm suggesting because now there's tariffs on China so it's not going to work brother Shahid but China is not the only country on earth with factories brother you can get goods from Vietnam from Indonesia from Nigeria from Mexico from all over the place thailand you have options but you have no initiative i mean prove me wrong i
• 18:00 - 18:30 dearly hope you do you know everybody always likes to tell me that I'm wrong even when they can never prove that I am wrong because I'm not but uh uh I dearly hope that you can actually prove me wrong about this because look if you put just like say $4,000 out of that 7 or 8,000 or 10,000 to purchasing goods with the rest going to expenses and so forth you could triple or quadruple that amount of money over just one weekend of sales potentially bring 12 to $16,000 to your community or say$10,000 minus expenses and whatnot you could do that
• 18:30 - 19:00 every month you could do that every two months even twice a month if it's possible imagine the difference that you could make to your neighborhood imagine the difference you could make to your masid to your community how many people could be helped how many people could be supported with funds like that coming in every month every two months that's economic sovereignty on the community level and that's absolutely what you're going to need in America every community in America is going to need that going forward you know don't go to uh Walmart or Costco or wherever else you people go in America to fund executive pay
• 19:00 - 19:30 packages cuz that's what you're doing when you go there you need to normalize going to a block bazaar going to a community market whatever you want to call it doesn't matter habituate your neighborhood habituate your community to supporting themselves instead of donating their hard-earned salaries to the rich by shopping at some corporate behemoth because you already know that you can get all the same stuff now now you know you can get all the same stuff without the price gouging obviously something like this is
• 19:30 - 20:00 scalable i mean you could network communities across the country massage it across the country you know the 501c3 organizations which most mosques have they're allowed to import and resell or you could start an LLC you know or make use of what China just launched which is basically a shopping visa where you can go over there yourself you could find some designated buyers uh designated shoppers to go over there with some empty luggage and fill it up bring it back and declare it as personal items you know that might end up being being
• 20:00 - 20:30 less expensive than uh shipping i mean don't get identical duplicates of the brands though obviously because in America you could actually get charged with selling counterfeits or intellectual property violations or copyright infringement or what have you so uh if you if you're trying to sell so-called pirated goods you'll get in trouble but get something close enough you know no one's going to be interested in those brands anymore anyway that ship is sailed so anyone who's thinking about uh going over to China and bring and and getting a a Birkin bag or a Louis
• 20:30 - 21:00 Vuitton bag without the logo and then selling it at Birkin bag prices in America no that's not going to work that's a bad idea but you can get the same quality and you can sell it at a reasonable profit and you could finance a community fund with that money i don't see why not why not they're always telling you in America to have a hustle mindset have a gr grind mentality no what you need is a solidarity mentality a community collective mentality a mentality to lift your people up help each other get ahead rather than trying to get ahead of other people you know
• 21:00 - 21:30 try to make your community better not try to get the better of your community and that way you can circumvent these predatory fraudulent price gouging corporations you can cut them out of your life and get them out of your neighborhoods make your community your own Walmart make your community your own bank make your community your own uh loan office make your community your own health care provider make it so that every time someone in your neighborhood uh wants to buy something wants to buy a phone case
• 21:30 - 22:00 or uh a handbag or some lipstick or power bank or whatever else some clothes uh that they buy it from the community market they're contributing to the financial upliftment of the community that's doable well if you take that to scale like I said if you took that to scale I don't see why you couldn't eventually even potentially buy the houses on your block you know what I mean imagine who knows maybe you could even fit uh uh houses in
• 22:00 - 22:30 your neighborhood with solar panels and get people out from under the electric company moving forward in America y'all are going to need to build solutions like this for yourselves alternative community power structures independence and neighborhood sovereignty there's not going to be a way for you to survive without this you need to think of yourselves just like you are actually from the global south and you're actually just like the global south trying to get out from under American hegemony you need to think of your own situation like that get out of that competition mindset and get into that
• 22:30 - 23:00 cooperation mindset solidarity cohesion collaboration community togetherness you can't keep going along with that dog eat dog lifestyle when you're nothing but chihuahua surrounded by wolves and jackals no the deck is stacked so you need to play with your own cards the dice is loaded so you need to use your own dice you understand the game is rigged i don't know if you're scared of being called a quitter or what you'd ra you you you'd rather be a loser than be
• 23:00 - 23:30 called a quitter because that's all you'll ever be as long as you play their game a loser because that is the game you're actually a loser as long as you play that game no you need to start this what I'm talking about in your city then go and teach them how to start that in another city and before you know it you can put these companies out of business or if not put them out of business you can at least get them to change uh their business model so they don't price gouge you for the sake of fat executive salaries this is how you take boycotting
• 23:30 - 24:00 to the next level you understand stop being a captive consumer because your captivity leaves you with no options but if you can provide for yourself uh then you don't need these companies anymore and if you don't need those companies anymore anymore then they're going to have to earn your patronage back that gives you power the power to reject them without hurting yourself like I said this is doable you can actually do this but I don't think you will i don't think you've got it in you
• 24:00 - 24:30 to be honest i think that your society has made you so passive it's made you so hopeless it's made you so helpless it's made you so unmotivated they've got you so docile and so sedated that I don't think you uh are even going to lift a finger you won't lift a finger to even reach for the rope that could potentially pull you out of the pit that you're in before they bury you alive but wahi I I I hope that you prove me wrong i hope so badly that you prove me wrong that I'm even willing to help you prove me wrong if anybody shows that much initiative
• 24:30 - 25:00 wahi so I'm saying you need to prove that you really are part of the global south that you deserve to be part of the global south prove that you have that same resilience and resourcefulness as as the people in the global south have prove that you have the same spirit as the people of Bkina Faso that you have the same spirit as Mali and Nijer the same spirit as Sagal you know show that you're the real comrades of Ibrahim Charori show that you have the same spirit as Bicks and defy those same powers that bricks is
• 25:00 - 25:30 defying do the work to secure your own sovereignty the way that they're doing the work to secure their sovereignty be part of that global movement against Western corruption the the the global movement against Western domination and exploitation and do it right there in their own house because if you have to be in the belly of the beast well I'm saying at least you can be an ulcer