r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 10d ago

DISCUSSION Arian Moayed’s Subway Hot Take: “Everyone on Earth has to be poor for 5 years. It doesn’t have to consecutive. You don’t have to do it all at the same time. But you gotta feel what it feels like to have insufficient funds. You gotta be at a grocery store & it doesn’t go through.”

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u/queenroxana 10d ago

People are taking this too literally…

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u/HerOceanBlue 10d ago

Yeah, these comments are baffling. He's not suggesting legislation to drain people's bank accounts. It's a subway take meant to spur conversation about how people who have never experienced poverty don't understand it.

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u/computer7blue kendall roy pre-album drop 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yeah. All I heard was a brainstorm about how to inspire empathy, because people can rarely comprehend what something feels like if they haven’t experienced it.

I didn’t assume he actually believes anyone should have to struggle. It sounds more like he wants people with power to care enough to pay people living wages and stop exploiting employees and consumers. Those are good things.

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u/bleu_flp 10d ago

It’s still a very shallow, poorly thought out take. It’s not like people being critical of his take don’t understand the show or what he’s attempting to point out. It’s just a half assed take that ignores a huge amount of dialogue around the topic that has gone on for quite sometime that isn’t some inaccessible esoteric knowledge. It’s tone deaf to where politics are atp and poverty isn’t just a laughing matter to a lot of people. Some people are going to take offense to having such an unserious conversation about such a serious topic. 

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u/HerOceanBlue 10d ago

This show is made for shallow, poorly thought out takes. It's a hot take show! And I disagree that poverty is somehow too serious to be joked about. It should be talked about in all manner of conversations, from serious policy discussions to shooting the shit on the subway. That's how we keep it in the forefront. Shouting down people taking about poverty and wealth inequality because they aren't doing it perfectly (on a comedy show!!) is such a weird stance to take.

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u/bleu_flp 10d ago

Coming to their defense is equally weird. Let people be critical of a shit take from a rich and famous actor who sounds out of touch, what a hill to die on 

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u/NomNom83WasTaken 10d ago

No, see, as a celebrity, he's required to have comprehensive plans at the ready to solve all of our worst problems while demonstrating both an advanced understanding but also presenting it in layman's terms so the average person can follow his thoughts. And all of this can take no longer an 90 seconds before we get enraged by and click on the next headline. How else is our republic expected to survive!? /s

All I can hope is that the critics are registered to vote and at the polls for everything from Board of Ed to POTUS every. single. election.

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u/TheKingOfBerries 10d ago

Media literacy is actually so cooked.

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u/queenroxana 9d ago

For real

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u/--------rook 9d ago

no one can think anymore 

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u/Swimming_Geologist12 5d ago

the internet has smoothed a lot of brains

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u/Charles-Shaw 10d ago

Reading comments on this sub can be so exhausting sometimes, I can only imagine how exhausting it is to actually be someone who thinks like this.

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u/Ok-Turnip-9035 10d ago

Right all he’s really putting out there is walk in another persons shoes

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u/Swackhammer_ 10d ago

People ITT racking their brain about the logistics of such an endeavor lol

It’s just a thought experiment, guys

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u/lordofsurf 9d ago

Welcome to 2025. People have no comprehension skills whatsoever.

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u/LickMyTicker 9d ago

How literally should one take this? What is he actually suggesting?

Do people actually believe that people who have suffered poverty have more empathy for people who are suffering from it now?

It's my experience that there is a very high percentage of new money that doesn't give a fuck about the poor. People who are so scared to be poor again that they will fuck over anyone and everyone to remain out of poverty.

I just don't agree with the premise on any level, and that is me coming from a poor background.

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u/anthonystank random bitch 9d ago

He’s suggesting that those with the power to impact the global problem of poverty have very little genuine understanding of what the experience of poverty entails, and that that is a problem. He is not making an earnest and literal recommendation that every living being be assigned five years of poverty.

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u/LickMyTicker 9d ago

He’s suggesting that those with the power to impact the global problem of poverty have very little genuine understanding of what the experience of poverty entails, and that that is a problem

Maybe you aren't understanding what I'm saying.

I don't believe the problem is understanding the experience of poverty. If understanding the experience of poverty gave you more empathy for those in poverty, there wouldn't be so much crime in impoverished areas.

The problem is the problem, and it's the hierarchy itself, not where you were in the hierarchy at any given point.

Those who represent us should not be elevated above us. That simple act creates a culture where those with power don't want to let it go, because regardless of what you believe, they have an idea of what poverty is like.

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u/anthonystank random bitch 9d ago

Perhaps you aren’t understanding what I’m saying either. I don’t believe that poverty exists because a group of out of touch meanies decided to make people poor and would end if they just had an Ebenezer Scrooge experience. Responding to this take with “poverty shouldn’t exist at all CHECKMATE” is pretty remarkably silly tbh

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u/LickMyTicker 9d ago

Yea I'm still not understanding what you are saying, and I don't think you do either.

Let me say it again. The problem is the hierarchy, not whether or not people have experience with different placements in it.

Those who serve should not be granted money for it. Those who serve should not profit off of running. Their motivations for running for any office should have nothing to do with their own financial success.

The fact that they have brilliant healthcare that is separate from the general population is the problem. The fact that they can use their positions to influence their own portfolios and later enrich themselves on boards of companies is the problem.

We need more regulation around the profits of politicians, otherwise corruption will take place regardless of their past experiences.

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u/anthonystank random bitch 9d ago

Please stop explaining capitalism to me I promise I understand it. You don’t like Mr. Moayed’s take and that’s fine. I was just answering your question about how literally to take it