>> In an effort to demonstrate just how out of touch Ben Shapiro is with the average American,
he did a segment talking about low wages.
And decided that the real victims in these cases, are the employers who are being bad
mouthed, because the bad actors here are the employees.
Let's hear his argument.
>> The fact is, that if you had to work more than one job to have a roof over your head,
or food on the table, you probably shouldn't have taken the job that's not paying you enough.
That'd be a you problem.
>> Wow, wow.
>> That would be a you problem, Cenk.
>> Okay, this reminds me of Rush Limbaugh when he's like, I don't get it.
Why don't poor people just go to the fridge?
He literally said that.
>> Why don't they just sell, was that their Range Rover?
>> That was when he got sick on vacation, when he had gone to, I think, it was a Caribbean
country with like a gallon of Viagra.
He got a caught in the airport with all the Viagra that he took there.
I don't believe he has a girlfriend down there, by the way, anyways, and then, he got sick
at some point.
You're right.
That might have been the Hawaii trip, not the Caribbean trip.
So in, and then, he said, it's no problem.
I went to the emergency room, and all I had to pay was the price of a half a Range Rover.
What, what are you talking about?
So these guys are totally out of touch.
Mitt Romney, like, you wanna start a business, why don't you just borrow $250,000 from your
dad?
Donald Trump, I got a small loan from my dad of a million dollars.
Did you?
That small loan.
Of course, it's not true, you got $430 million for free from his dad, but here's Ben Shapiro
like, if you take a low paying job, well, that was a stupid decision.
Why don't you take a higher paying job?
That's a you problem.
>> Okay, so let's talk a little bit about Ben Shapiro and who he is.
Ben Shapiro forgot that he's a talentless hack.
And I mean that in every sense of the word, I get it, he speaks quickly, and it's easy
to trick people into thinking, you're smart when you speak quickly, but if you listen
to the substance of what he's saying, it is easily debunkable, and we're gonna debunk
it today.
But before I get to that, remember, Ben Shapiro is a very well paid puppet for the right wing,
right?
They found him, they realized, hey, you know what, he would be a great mouthpiece for what
we want.
And he received several millions to start the daily wire by who?
By Wilkes, I believe it is?
>> Yeah, a fracking magnet.
>> Exactly.
>> Now, look, on that one, it depends, was it an investment, or was it just a donation,
if it was an investment, and Wilks got his money back, then, okay, it's a sound investment.
But if he's just like, here, say, fracking is awesome, and say, taxes for the rich or
fantastic, which is kinda what Ben Shapiro says.
And he paid him for that opinion, well, that's a different matter.
>> Also, look, I think that it's easy to develop the sense of entitlement and think highly
of yourself when you are making a lot of money.
But he gets paid a ton of money simply to give speeches on college campuses.
Now, some might argue, well, his talent is the reason why he gets invited to these college
campuses, except you forget that the right wing has this very well oiled machine for
propaganda.
And so, they all work together, and these Republican groups get these conservative speakers,
onto these college campuses, and he gets paid, minimum, $50,000 per speech.
And then, he turns around and points to the average American, and blames them for their
economic instability, which is pathetic.
>> By the way, if you're wondering, and you're in a college campus, you might get some TV
stars, you might get a Bill Maher, and then, he'll yell at you and stuff like that.
But you'll almost never see a progressive speaker, and you'll see wall to wall right
wing speakers.
Why is that?
Because right wing billionaires actually pay the right wing speakers.
>> Mm-hm.
>> They're like, go tell the kids that tax cuts for the rich are awesome, deregulating
people, so we could put poison in their atmosphere is awesome, climate change is not a big deal,
go.
And they give them a ton of money per speech to do that.
There's nobody on the left wing that does that.
>> Exactly.
>> Right, so there's no like, hey, go tell people that being decent to one another is
awesome, here's $20,000, $40,000, $50,000.
There's no such thing.
So that's why you've got this crazy disparity.
And yes, Shapiro apparently grew up in a wealthy family, I have no idea how wealthy they were.
But you could still have empathy for people, saying like-
>> And you don't need even have to have empathy, right?
Like, if you don't have empathy, fine, but just look at the numbers.
I mean, we just gave the wealthy $2 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade, and the
whole argument from right wing hacks, like Shapiro, was, well, it's gonna create better
paying jobs, higher wages.
Did it actually increase wages?
No.
What did they do with that money?
They bought shares of their own stock.
That's what these massive corporations did.
And so, there's this giant systemic issue where the wealth is just completely flowing
to the top, and the average American worker is getting screwed.
And then, Ben Shapiro turns around, points fingers at the people who are struggling in
this economy, and telling them, you're the problem, deal with it, come on.
>> Yeah, so more on that.
Even Trump's Labor Department says, exactly, as we told you would happen, that wages when
you account for inflation have gone down since the tax cuts, not up, down the average wages.
The bonuses were a mirage, they have on average gone down, not up since the Trump tax cuts.
And we also told you ahead of time that this was an artificial bubble they were creating
in the stock market through the buy backs, and it would pop, and guess what happened
yesterday?
The pop has begun, down 800 points, so look, the Conservatives claim they wanna free marketplace
of ideas, bring it, I love it, I have been in favor of free marketplace of ideas from
day one, and you know what's happening slowly?
Slowly they're losing.
So in the beginning online, there was just us.
And then, the right wing came, and they grew, they did, right.
And all of them combined finally passed us, okay.
Now, I would, they're beginning to contract.
And so, why is that?
Well, they're getting exposed, so Rubin is now a joke, right, Dave Rubin is like the
most common joke on the internet.
And now, Shapiro slowly getting exposed, because the internet catches you.
We say that about corporate democrats all the time, you're gonna get caught, right?
And Republicans, they're caught all over the place.
But when you're getting paid to say taxes for the richer great, and if you're poor,
it's your fault, you're such a dummy.
Why did you take a higher paying job?
You're gonna get caught.
Cuz who's your audience?
Ben, do you think everybody in your audience is millionaires and billionaires?
No, it's poor schmucks that you convinced being right wing, and being offensive to people
is such an awesome and wonderful thing.
But they're sitting there going, hey, wait a minute.
I didn't choose to get a low paying job.
It's not like, well, I could get a job for couple of $100,000, and I could get one for
$30,000, I go for the $30,000, dope, I made the wrong decision, who thinks likes that,
only the entitle prick thinks like that.
>> Yes.
>> And everybody knows it.
>> So I wanna also go to a trick the he does in every argument against the average American
worker, and it's to take data, and then, twist it to his advantage, to reinforce whatever
nonsense argument he's making.
He's about to do that in the next clip you watch, and we're gonna debunk this, so take
a look.
>> Also, it is not true, the vast majority of people in the United States are working
two jobs, it just is not true.
According to the census, statistics, a small, but steady number of American workers have
more than one job, because either they need extra income, or because they wanna gain more
experience, or explore different interests.
There's a recently released US census bureau report, and apparently, what they found, is
that, approximately, 8.3%, this is as of 2013, so it's actually lower now.
8.3% of workers had more than one job.
That's as of 2013, it's a lot lower now.
So this notion that there are just tons and tons of people who are working at multiple
jobs, it is not really true.
It's not actually the reality.
In May, 5% of Americans had multiple jobs, 5%.
That's really what's bringing down the unemployment rate, it's those 5% of workers who have multiple
jobs?
>> Okay, so let's play.
>> We went and looked at the report that he's citing there, and we found out that there
were some significant issues with the methodology in finding these numbers, so how was this
Bureau of Labor Statistics study done?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics explanation of unemployment statistics, the
Current Population Survey, administered by the Census Bureau, depends on in-person or
telephone interviews.
By the way, specifically, land-line telephone interviews of people over a period of time.
To include some, it must be possible to repeatedly find the person.
Now, let's give you some more information, this is from Forbes.
If people are working long hours at multiple jobs and spending time traveling between them
and home, successfully scheduling an in-person interview is less likely.
Poor people also move more frequently than those with higher incomes, so there's an issue
of finding an accurate current address.
A greater use of mobile phones rather than landlines, and the lack of directories of
mobile phone numbers, increases the difficulty of reaching specific people.
And then, there's one other thing that should be noted.
Not everyone who works two jobs gets paid through payroll.
So for instance, some people moonlight and take money under the table without it being
taxed.
They wouldn't want the government to know, and so, are unlikely to tell someone representing
any federal branch that they work more than one job.
Others might not disclose information out of general distrust of the government or concerns
over privacy.
This is similar to surveys about racial attitudes, sexual behavior, use of drugs or alcohol,
you guys get the picture.
So the methodology is not sound, and when you actually break things down accurately,
I mean, just anecdotally, think of how many people, you know personally who have to take
on a second job just to be able to pay their student loans, to be able to pay for the rising
cost of housing, the rising inflation, which our wages are not keeping up with.
I mean, he lives in a different world, guys.
He has this ridiculous entitled attitude, because he gets paid 15 grand per speech by
right wing groups.
So he thinks, I mean, it's easy for me.
Why isn't it easy for you?
Why don't you also become a right wing hack?
And some people have taken that advice.
That's what Dave Rubin's done.
>> So- >> And so, I don't understand, why don't they
just answer the survey, wait in their mansion, and wait for somebody to come by and give
them $50,000.
And then, answer the surveys and just have one job.
That's easy, isn't it?
That's a you problem, not a me problem, cuz I already took the money from the billionaires.
Okay, so.
>> And I'm not done yet, by the way.
>> Hold on, let me throw a couple things in here.
Look, actually, the one thing that he's avoiding, and a major issue is, and I can show you charts
of American productivity, it is sky high.
One of the things that's happening is that, in the old days, only one person in the household
had a job.
Now, most households have two people that have to have a job, otherwise, they can't
survive.
Let alone, some of them having multiple jobs.
So the number of jobs that a household has massively increased, inconveniently left that
part out.
And then, guys, you all know from your own lives, I love the what he said, he said, no,
most of the people that have two jobs are exploring different interests.
Now, come on, really, guys.
I mean, if you live in the real world, a lot of guys were like, you know what, I'm making
plenty of money in my first job, but I thought I'd take a different job to explore different
interests.
>> Right, right.
>> Yeah, that's the real world.
>> And oftentimes, the hobbies that Americans are interested in, don't pay well, like they
just don't.
>> Ain't nobody taking a second job for a hobby.
>> It's just- >> Okay.
>> So let me give you, so I told you, hey, just talk to your friends, anecdotally.
I mean, how many people do you personally know working two jobs?
Well, anecdotal evidence is not as credible as looking at the bigger picture.
So what is the bigger picture?
According to a Gallup poll, 36% of us workers are in the gig economy, which which works
out to be a very large number of approximately 57 million people.
29% of all workers in the US have an alternative work arrangement as their primary job.
>> That seems higher than 5%, that's interesting.
>> It does, it's weird.
This includes a quarter of all full-time workers, 24%, and half of all part-time workers, 49%,
including multiple job holders, 36%, have a gig work arrangement in some capacity.
Now, in his argument, he says, the vast majority of Americans don't work multiple jobs.
But nobody said the vast majority of Americans work multiple jobs, and increasing number
of Americans need to work multiple jobs just to make ends meet in this disastrous economy.
And so, again, if you just listen to the substance of what he's saying quickly, it's easy to
debunk the arguments he's making.
>> Yes, so look, guys, I love this man, we've been doing this online now for, since 2005,
so that's 14 years.
17 years old when you count radio, and when we said the Iraq War was a disaster back in
2002 and we shouldn't go into like, you guys are nuts.
How'd that work out?
So all those Bush and Cheney advocates, they're gone, they're buried, right?
And then, all these new guys came along, and they say, no, no, no, we got this thing figured
out, intellectual dark web.
Hilarious.
Dave Rubin, he's just turning up the ideas too hot.
>> Extra hot.
>> The dial of ideas has been turned to hot, right?
>> So hot that he needs to recover from it.
>> Yeah, well, he's got a long recovery, cuz it's been turned to cold.
The jury's in on Dave Rubin.
Even the conservatives think he's a joke.
Sam Harris, hey, you're taking me out of context until he did that trick 1,000 times, including
to Noam Chomsky.
And then, it turns out he agrees with racists like Charles Murray.
So yeah, you've got your deplorables who will still like you, and now, once you've slowed
down Ben Shapiro's talking, you realize, it's like, we told you from day one, there's nothing
there.
It's nothing, but privilege.
So you keep insulting your own audience, and see how that turns out for you.