Oct 20, 2026 · 9 min · 8 segments
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and it was pertaining to revolution or Viva la Revolution, and particularly the French Revolution, what we find in most countries' revolutions is they successfully cause enough pain to create change, and if you give it a few years, another bureaucracy takes over, And it's just another version of what they had.
After the French Revolution, you had Napoleon eventually take over, which became basically a dictatorship.
And after many, many years, here we are with more protests and looting.
And I would love to talk more about this and go off on a tangent.
But to try to succinctly put this is that in this life, riches and fame and fortune are not guaranteed.
A lot of times folks will look for the, how should I say, assisted way out.
If you make $30,000 or less as a family of two with kids, you can't afford to live here.
But they'll give you a luxury apartment in some of these buildings for like $800,000, $900,000 a month.
Now it might sound great.
But it's a trap.
Because once you're in.
You really can never leave and you really have no incentive to make more money or to be more entrepreneurial or take risks or do better for yourself because you live in Manhattan and you have an apartment that may cost two, three, four million dollars if you have to buy it, but you're paying eight, nine hundred dollars a month to live there.
So why bother? Why work harder? Why educate yourself? Why take a risk on starting a business, employing people, and becoming a billionaire when you can just...
And again, I don't want you to construe this any differently when I say this.
I'm saying this because I understand it intimately.
my mother was a single parent.
They are super humans.
But when, let's say you have three kids, you're living in a NYCHA building, paying $800, $900 a month, you have three kids, there's no reason to ever leave.
You might have to leave in four years to another NYCHA building, but there's no reason to Elevate yourself, so to speak.
So that is my point.
People get oppressed.
They protest.
Things change for a little bit.
and it was pertaining to revolution or Viva la Revolution, and particularly the French Revolution, what we find in most countries' revolutions is they successfully cause enough pain to create change, and if you give it a few years, another bureaucracy takes over, And it's just another version of what they had.
After the French Revolution, you had Napoleon eventually take over, which became basically a dictatorship.
And after many, many years, here we are with more protests and looting.
And I would love to talk more about this and go off on a tangent.
But to try to succinctly put this is that in this life, riches and fame and fortune are not guaranteed.
A lot of times folks will look for the, how should I say, assisted way out.
If you make $30,000 or less as a family of two with kids, you can't afford to live here.
But they'll give you a luxury apartment in some of these buildings for like $800,000, $900,000 a month.
Now it might sound great.
But it's a trap.
Because once you're in.
You really can never leave and you really have no incentive to make more money or to be more entrepreneurial or take risks or do better for yourself because you live in Manhattan and you have an apartment that may cost two, three, four million dollars if you have to buy it, but you're paying eight, nine hundred dollars a month to live there.
So why bother? Why work harder? Why educate yourself? Why take a risk on starting a business, employing people, and becoming a billionaire when you can just...
And again, I don't want you to construe this any differently when I say this.
I'm saying this because I understand it intimately.
my mother was a single parent.
They are super humans.
But when, let's say you have three kids, you're living in a NYCHA building, paying $800, $900 a month, you have three kids, there's no reason to ever leave.
You might have to leave in four years to another NYCHA building, but there's no reason to Elevate yourself, so to speak.
So that is my point.
People get oppressed.
They protest.
Things change for a little bit.
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