Deontay Kyle (49:26)
Because in order to be. In order to truly thrive in capitalism, you have to push everybody out. Socialism is more so about a communal thing, about taking the resources and dispersing them equally amongst the community. And that's how communities thrive. And there's a lot of communities with high capital in this country that thrive off of socialist tactics. We see it in the government. A government bailout, that's some socialist. We're gonna. Okay, you gambled you the money up, you did something wrong or, you know, things went bust. We're gonna fun, we're gonna fund. Yo, we're gonna get you back on your feet with government funds. If the government is funded by tax dollars, then there ain't no such thing as government funded anything. It's taxpayer dollars that fund everything. But we don't see ourselves as a part of a community. And they use words like that to trick us. Right? Government funded, which is technically funded by taxpayer dollars. So it should be funded by the working class. This, this big corporation was bailed out by the working class. That's what they should say. This big corporation was bailed out by taxpayer dollars. That's what they should say. But if they say government funded, then they look at it like, oh, the government's taking care of corporations, but it's really us taking care of the corporations. It's your corporate dollars that push forward most things that progress. Billionaires in that top 1% in this country, they use our taxpaying dollars, they use our labor to fund their endeavors. They're endeavors that push us out. That's capitalism, though. We don't see ourselves as a part of a greater class, and we should. Class solidarity is a very big thing. Labor Day just passed. A lot of the things you get now, child labor laws, 40 hour work week, PTO vacations, all that come from labor unions. Striking and rejecting company towns used to be a very real thing. It was akin to sharecropping. Cause you gotta pay the rent, you gotta pay for the car, the company pays for all these things. So by the time you get your check and you pay your fees back to what the company allowed you to borrow or what the company has provided, you left with little or nothing but for yourself. And it used to be mandated 60 hour work weeks, 56 hour work weeks, shit like that. No PTO. There used to be no child labor laws. We need to look up Labor Day and stop correlating it with don't wear white and look at Labor Day as a functional day of class solidarity. Capitalism breeds individualism. And when you are an individual and you like isolate yourself from a greater community, you become more consumption. Capitalism makes us sacrifice biological instincts for preservation, thus reinforcing this individualism. So when I say makes us sacrifice biological instincts. Reproduction, Reproduction is commodified and made a reward for financial success or a punishment for financial insecurity. So in a lot of old cultures, and even up until recently, you know, to the mid-1900s, in this country, a teenager getting pregnant wasn't out of the ordinary in a lot of old cultures when it was just, you know, when we was hunting and gathering, 16, 17, 18, that was just prime reproduction years. That's when you start your family. But because they need mandated public education that creates the worker, that creates the routine for working. Now you have to sacrifice. And I'm not saying this is right or wrong to have a baby at 16 is right or wrong. I'm saying it's a punishment to have it now because you don't have your finances in order. Money comes before the family. Once you get your money right and you start having a kid, then it becomes a reward to have a kid. You are now allowed to reproduce, but you also are a lot older. A lot of people don't make this decision to settle down and have kids until they 30. By that time you are out your prime reproduction years, both man and woman. So then we start getting a lot of uptick of people having though having to go the IV is IVF where they got to get the injections or just reckon with the fact that they may not be able to reproduce at all. And it puts a strain on people because there is a biological instinct to reproduce. That's, that's like damn near a law of nature. Once you find yourself protected and safe, once you safe from the elements, it's time to reproduce. Trying to have a baby. Time to carry on my legacy, right? I have a theory about this, about why like niggas in the streets get everybody pregnant. Because there's an understanding that they're not going to be around for long. So they have to leave an extension of themselves somewhere before they either die or go to prison. But by commodifying reproduction and making it a reward. Now we down talk people when they have a baby and they don't have their finances together. Oh, if you ain't got the money, you shouldn't be having kids. But that's how you got here. That's how we all got here. It wasn't about parents coming together and saying okay, do we have our finances or maybe we have a kid. A lot of it is a biological instinct. I'm in love. I'm in love. Everything in my body is saying it's time to have a baby. It's a biological instinct. You have to do away from things that come natural to you in order to adjust in an unnatural world. This is a manufactured world where money is first. So career of a community. Skills that could be used to amplify the community are now used to elevate self. This is why we advocate for trades. These trades can help community. These trades can help build community. If you have a neighbor that's a plumber and you and the neighbor type, if you have employment issues, you can just call your neighbor, hey man, I'll buy you a case of beer. I'll make you dinner. I'll do something like that. That's real community shit. But everybody, you know, and it's odd for us to say this as content creators now, but everybody want to be a content creator. But the trade is what made way for me to do this. I was a truck driver. Truck driving is why I got the pickup truck. The pickup truck is if my auntie called me and said, I need this move, I'm on the way. And you know, you know how black people do. I might not have no money to pay you to help me move, but I'm gonna put some food on your stomach. And then shit is me and my two men in a motherfucking truck. Just go get my partner. Hey, man, come help me help my auntie move this dryer, move this washer, move these couches. So not only is reproduction commodified for financial success as a reward, you can have a baby now. But also, it's a punishment. But then with government benefits now you got people that have more kids to reap the benefits of welfare, Section eight, things like that. The more kids you got, the more food stamps you get. And it becomes a thing of like, now I got to have kids for survival. I'm in a position where I'm 22. I don't have no career prospects. I haven't even started panning out a career. But I got two kids now. I'm on WIC. I got Section 8, and I got the welfare situation going on. And I got food stamps. Shit, if I have one more kid, I can get this amount of food stamps. And I get this amount on my Section 8 voucher and I get this amount. And you got people that live like that. And I ain't even talking about black people. Cause we know the true welfare queens is they live in Appalachia. They live in middle America. They live in them towns that ain't on the map like we talked about before. These are the biggest proponents of welfare and food stamps is white people. But they don us with the titles of welfare queens to make it seem like government assistance is a terrible thing and a thing that we take advantage of. Every, every food stamp fraud case, every welfare fraud case, it got 50 white faces in the tabloid. It got 50 white faces in the headline. That's that, that. That's that projection that you was talking about. They do a lot of projecting onto us for their shit, but it's government funded. It's funded by taxpayers. That ain't necessarily a bad thing. That's a symptom of capitalism where people have to, okay, I'm going to have more kids because I can get more benefits and I ain't got to worry about a career. I'd be good for the 18 years that they here and shit. Then you get people that just continue to cycle. Now you got six kids, food stamps through the roof, that tax, income check, crazy. Business and service, it's a lot of things, right? When we use, when we could use our skills to benefit the community. But we not a community minded people. This system isn't community minded. And the further we get involved and immersed into this system, the less we care about community, the more we care about self. Then it starts affecting everything. Business and service. It's less about doing good business and having affordable service and more about exploiting the customer and siphoning as much capital out of one individual as you can. We see this in our restaurants, we see this in our beauty services. Whether that be barber or whether that be salons. All of these rules. Now you can't even just walk in no more. Everything is appointment based. You know, I used to go to the hair salon with my mama. She might show up at 10, 10am, you might leave at 6pm we need that. I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you why. Why millennials ain't never got to worry about literary shit. Because we sitting in the salon reading magazines all day, all day long. All day long. All the Jets. All the Jet. I done seen every jet magazine from 1999. I done read every one of them. I know all the beauties. Yeah, I know all. I know all the culture. I know every show. I know everything. I don't read every XXL magazine, every Source, every Source magazine, every Ebony magazine.
