Video summary
The video explores the tension between modern desires for personal freedom and the structural realities required to sustain a family life, particularly regarding child-rearing and housing. The speaker argues that while society often tells women they have unlimited options and can do whatever they want, true independence requires significant financial resources that are rarely available to the average person. The discussion highlights that raising children to adulthood is an expensive endeavor, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars per child, which makes the idea of maintaining separate residences or living a completely self-sufficient life without a partner financially unfeasible for most people unless they achieve extreme wealth.
A central theme is the conflict between the idealized notion of "living apart together" and the economic necessity of compromise in relationships. The speaker points out that many women aspire to be sovereign individuals who do not need a man to support them, viewing partnership as a luxury rather than a necessity. However, the transcript emphasizes that this mindset ignores the practical costs of raising children and maintaining multiple households. Without substantial savings or high income, relying on investments like real estate or stocks is described as unrealistic for those starting from a middle-class position, as one cannot generate investment returns without first having capital to invest.
The conversation also addresses the disparity between outlier success stories and statistical averages, using the example of a manga artist aiming for an $80 million net worth versus the average salary in that field. The speaker warns against planning life based on the possibility of becoming a billionaire like Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg, noting that such outcomes are statistically negligible compared to the likelihood of homelessness or financial struggle. Ultimately, the video concludes that freedom comes at a cost, and for most people, including women who want children, achieving a comfortable life requires practical planning, mutual compromise, and an understanding that one must live off actual earnings rather than anticipated windfalls.
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Because what can't work is we all do
what the hell we want to.
That can't work. There has to be order.
There has to be structure. And coming
from the military, uh
hierarchy and structure is what that is
built on. You don't just make a battle
plan and say, "Hey, just get a gun, go
out there and cap some shit."
>> [music]
[music]
>> There has to be a plan.
So, [music] if marriage doesn't work,
cool. What does work to get the kind of
outcomes you would want? [music]
>> In the place where I'm at right now, or
even
what my mindset is, I'm not really
looking for a man in that sense.
I'm not really interested
in that relationship, only because I
know that I
How can I put this?
Let's just say I can't be or offer what
the typical man would want.
>> Okay.
>> So,
I don't really feel like with what
I don't want to say today's age, because
I ain't met all men. You know what I'm
saying? So, I'm not trying to like put a
bias or like a a whole general statement
about it. But from what I've
experienced, it's just not something
that I'm interested in.
>> Okay.
So,
if Now, I I heard you talking, you said
you wanted a couple kids.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh but you're not necessarily wanting
>> [music]
>> marriage.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh
how would you see your life being if it
wasn't married? With your children.
How does that How does that structure
look?
>> If I was married?
>> Well, if you have kids, but the outcome
you said you want by 50, you want to
have kids. And so, what would that
structure look like?
>> Um with a with a healthy co-parenting.
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>> Would you live in the same house?
>> Um not ideally.
Um or maybe a house like if when I
thought about it when I sat down and I
thought about it for myself, I felt like
maybe a house where we have separate
[music] bedrooms
to where either one of us can take space
when we need to cuz I've always found it
bizarre to like live your life
completely single and then immediately
like you have this one person that like
you just you're just with them.
>> So you live in the same house but in
separate rooms.
>> Not all the time.
But you know like cuz I'm a I'm a I'm a
very Yeah, I'm I'm a person that likes
to be alone a lot. So there's going to
be times where I def don't want to be
around
you, you know what I'm saying? And it
has it's not personal and it has nothing
to do with that, but yeah.
>> Okay, so you talking about having one
Are you talking about having one
residence or multiple?
>> Multiple ideally.
>> Okay. And this is where it comes down to
money.
I mean I'm It always comes down to
money. We have all these
>> I'm glad I'm glad you emphasized that.
>> Because because what I hear more often
than with today with women is [music]
I can't be around a man. The structure
is like If you listen to most women,
they're the freest of everybody, but you
sound like you're the most depressed.
You can do whatever the hell you want
to. The world is free. You can walk down
the street and feel relatively safe.
But
you got to understand it.
You want children You want the children
You said two kids? If you want to have
an upper class kid, let me give you
these numbers. Middle class children to
raise a child from zero to adulthood is
$284,000 a year per child. So you want
half a million or $350,000 worth of
kids. That's three kids. The kids you're
talking about having a half a million
dollars each. So you want a million
dollars worth of kids.
Two kids is a million dollars.
Then you talking about multiple
residences.
Where's all this money going to come
from?
That's all I'm ultimately saying for
everybody. Where is this money going to
come from? Or would it be better to
learn how get the [ __ ] along with one
another like everybody else has done for
the last 10,000 years?
Because you can't have it all. I can't
have it all. You can't. Nobody can.
Unless you are rich.
Unless you are going to be making big
money, you cannot have living apart
together. There's a term.
Where is the money going to come from?
When you think about relationships, do
you think about Do you think about it on
those terms? On where the money comes
from?
Huh?
>> It's definitely a part of the It's
definitely a part of the topic. You say
we think about relationships.
>> Yeah, when you think about When you
think about relationship with a When you
think about, you know, when you're
dealing with somebody. Cuz like as a
single woman
>> married, I think about
finances for myself.
>> And from what I recall,
you you think about what you don't want
to be responsible for. And And whether
you can articulate the way I do or not,
you know how you feel you want a man to
come. [music] You know you want him to
provide to where
you can kind of
>> I can kind [music] of have some sort of
cushion if I want to have a
>> Right.
All right.
And what I want you ladies to understand
is just as nuanced as you all have been,
the men [music] you want
all of that all want something too.
And just like you feel sovereign in your
right to think it's okay for you to be
able to get what you want, men feel the
same way.
I'm okay with marriage. Marriage isn't
the problem.
You guys are all under 30, so you you've
grown up in an in an area of immediacy,
a lot of options.
Uh you grew up in an era where it feels
like you have more choice than you
really have and more freedom than you
really do. There's a lot of structure.
And at the end of the day, what you're
going to find
>> [music]
>> is
especially for women, you have the way
nature works, you have to get the bigger
parts of your life
>> [music]
>> figured out sooner if you want children
because
life makes choices for women before they
make choices for men. You said you
didn't feel like you should have to
tailor your your needs around the man
you need.
>> I want there to be mutual ground and
good compromise if I'm in a
relationship, which I don't want to be.
But if I'm in a relationship I do want
there to be good compromise. However,
I want to fully I want to be able to
fully support myself with my goals and
what I want to do with my career to
where I'm in the position to where I
don't need another person.
>> Okay.
>> It would be nice. Having that other
person is more like a luxury, like a
good thing, like, you know, having ice
cream after you just ate dinner.
That's what I want it to be like, not a
not necessarily to need somebody.
>> Okay. So what do you
what do you
My bias is 50. What do you what what is
your profession? I didn't ask it
earlier.
>> Um I want to be a producer for anime and
cartoons.
>> Like
One Punch
>> Dragon Ball Z and One Punch. Yeah, I
want to produce my own books and my own
anime, but I illustrate, so I want
>> Okay.
>> animation
>> Yeah. At the height of your career, what
do you anticipate you'll be earning
annually?
>> The height of my career what I can do?
>> What do you anticipate? Not not
probability, not probably not
probability, not not not possibility,
probability. [music]
>> Okay, I don't know about annually, but I
know what I can say. I know that I
anticipate my net worth to be at least
at least
$80 million.
>> $80 million?
>> Yeah. My favorite um
>> $80 million?
>> My favorite artist that for manga and
anime, Rumiko Takahashi, she's worth $80
million, and that's my goal.
>> Okay.
$80 million?
>> That's what I strive for.
>> [music]
>> Uh-huh. And what is the average?
>> The average
um like annual?
>> Uh-huh.
>> $30 million a more.
>> No, no, the a-
the average annual salary?
>> No, net worth. That's what I said, like
I don't know about annual.
>> Okay. Well, the thing is you have before
you get in a Okay.
We always when we can look at we can
look at the outliers. But, what is your
what would your proper title be in your
job?
What What would be your profession?
>> Well, I don't
>> Would you be Would you
>> I don't know what it's called, but manga
artist.
>> Manga what?
>> Manga artist. That's what it's called.
It's like someone who makes manga comic
books and anime. It's called manga
artist in the Japanese
I don't know. Anime producer.
>> Manga
anime?
But, that's a job title, anime producer.
>> Yeah.
>> All right.
So, we can always point to Jeff Bezos
and everybody else like that. Top earn
The 70 The average is 58,987. [music]
It's the average for a manga for anime
producer salary. It's the average.
The The 75th percentile is 61,000. The
lower 25% is 36,000.
Top earners [music]
and talking about the top 10% is
100,000. Big gap from 80 million net.
That's just [music]
that's
ridiculously
infinitesimally small. It happens, but
just like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg,
and all these people, what is the what
is the average?
Because that's the only thing you can
really plan on.
Because I don't want to get into your
personal personal, but
is anybody here earning over six figures
annually?
Okay.
So, the likelihood of going from here
to high eight figures
is negligible.
It's possible,
but it's just possible but it's also
possible to get rich by hitting the
lottery and Powerball. And for you in
your particular case, not wanting to
need anybody,
it's going to become [music]
a
matter of ultimate necessity. You have
to live off of what you earn.
What's the likelihood of you And if
Here's the thing. Are you Are you
planning your life and living your life
in a way to where
you're going to be able to live
comfortably off of your
uh
off of your earnings that you're
actually making, not anticipated.
>> I'm not [music] like I don't want a lot
of money.
Like literally
No.
I would like a small little house with
my cat. I would like my cat.
Small little house with my cat. I don't
care if I have a million dollars. I
don't need a big
mansion. What's all that room and space
to be for me [music] to run like
>> But remember what I said, if you were
making $50,000,
you're almost perfect for what I said.
50
55 50,000 58,000.
Uh
you would still be short. You'd still
have almost a half a million dollars
short 7 $600,000 shortfall.
So on one hand,
you're saying I don't need all this
money, then you talk about 80 million.
And see, and here's the difference
between how men and women think.
We know
we got to be a hell of a lot more
practical about what it is because no
one comes We can't marry somebody who's
going to pay our bills, not not the
average rank and file men. There's if we
miss or we make a misstep, the streets
kind of out there waiting for us. So we
understand that homelessness is a hell
of a lot closer to most men than the
street the men tend to women. And my
thing is with today [music] with women
is many women today want to be free.
Freedom comes at a cost.
Can you pay that cost?
What you're talking about doing
puts you right in line with the average
middle class American.
Being able to live roughly paycheck to
paycheck.
No real [music] savings.
Having little to no cushion.
But you only can but you can only invest
what you earn. [music]
See, often times when I talk to people
especially when I talk to women, I hear
how they anticipate getting money in
some sort of entrepreneurialism
through real estate or stocks or crypto.
And that's just more
Jack and the Beanstalk. [music] It
requires input currency. You cannot in
you can't make money from investments
without having the the money to put into
it. Where's the money going to come
from?