YouTube's Former CEO Tragedy And What It Says About Rich People

tragedy has struck the family of YouTube's former CEO and we are going to be covering the reactions yeah obviously this is sad news and I think that it relates to a situation that a lot of people across America are going through right now let's run the clip the 19-year-old son of former Youtube CEO Susan wesy has died according to authorities Marco troper a freshman at UC Berkeley was found dead inside his dorm room on Tuesday his grandmother telling the San Francisco gate he died of an apparent overdose it is unclear what kind of drug was involved however a UC Berkeley spokesperson confirms there were no signs of Foul Play his grandmother says the family is devastated Beyond Comprehension the son of former Youtube CEO Susan wozki has been found dead at the University of California with his family suspecting a drug overdose as the cause 19-year-old Marco troper a freshman at UC Berkeley was found unresponsive in the Clark Kerr student complex on Tuesday afternoon the math Major's grandmother Esther Waitz suggested he might have succumbed to a drug overdose after confirming his death and identity um yeah this is terrible news but it's like uh actually relates to a trend that is happening in America right now obviously RP DeMarco troper the son of Susan wi jitsy uh the former CEO of YouTube Andrew we actually saw her speak one time at a YouTube conference for creators um I just think that this is a trend right now and it's happening to a lot of people almost regardless of socioeconomic status you know what I mean you have billionaire kids millionaire kids middle class kids lower middle class kids and of course lower class kids and it seems like it's impacting everybody uh equally yeah I mean let's talk about it uh so yeah let us know if you uh like topics like this uh as we cover them but I guess I would say David is this considered a suicide or just a drug overdose and is there a difference uh I don't know cuz I don't think that you know all the reports are out right now I believe that a lot of people suspect that it's uh drug overdose possibly fentanyl obviously that's what is been the trend right right right right that is what's trendy right now as in that's a common droo right right but what they gets uh cut into something else right that people are not expecting right but I I guess what what's I mean you know this does happen to all types of kids all over the world especially in America obviously we talk about the suicide rate in Asia especially like South Korea Japan uh primarily but I guess like why is this big news is it because she's a rich and famous person you know her net worth is 800 million obviously Rich families are actually not uh devoid of this tragedy this happens among rich people all the time and you can also argue that rich private school kids Andrew they might even do more drugs right and it I think it's regardless of like upbringing look at uh Hunter Biden look at Donald Trump Jr r um obviously we could go down the list of celebrities kids who have actually had substance abuse problems and even suicide so I guess it really can happen to anybody but it seems like even that there are statistics that show even amongst the Richer neighborhoods it even happens more often right uh I think there's more heavy drug use because the kids may have the liquidity or the the money access and the access because it's a lot of things it's like there's the desire to do something but there's also the capacity and the access like you said also you need the capital um I think the internet reaction shows a few things though you know obviously there is the typical like outpour of sympathy for somebody that you know was the CEO of a product that everybody used for a number of years right obviously she was CEO since 2014 Andrew that's like how long we've been on YouTube yeah you know what I mean and um but there's other people being like oh they deserved it and you know I mean the internet is going to have so many reactions yeah the internet's never going to be kind about this kind of thing no no no no the internet comments the internet is Savage right right right right so anyway let's just get into the comments section like we said rip I I hopefully you know us doing this video is really to hopefully like people can actually take something away from this rather than the emotional reactions one way or the other um somebody said you know the grandmother who was actually an author the grandmother who is the mother of Susan wi jitsy um she said you know one thing we know is right now is that it was drugs involved right like that's all we know right now she actually wrote a book saying how to raise successful people because she had three daughters that were really successful one of them was married to Sergey Bren who founded Google and who ended up she ended up founding 23 and me right so she she did do stuff on her own basically she had a bunch of billionaire daughters you what I mean like when one through one way or another and they they were powerhouses right um do you think it's true though that that doesn't necessarily mean those powerhouses kids will be in the same situation because me we me and you know Andrew we have immigrant parents who's to say that our kids wouldn't be more likely to engage in more hyper American dopamine chasing activities than we would be because we're still so close to that first generation struggle yeah yeah I mean I think that it's tough cuz as a as a parent you know I think you've I bet there's a lot of cases where uh parents feel like they've done every everything right treated that kid with respect showed him the right path obviously giv him everything right giv him everything you possibly can in the world but then they still choose to abuse drugs or get down into the wrong path and get into um an emotional hole that they can't get out of so um I do think I bet now I don't have the stats for this but I would assume that children of immigrants have a lower suicide rate I would just bet it because you grow up in in a family where you uh maybe have somewhat of a mission built in not every kid feels like this I'm sure there's cases that you know I do know of some cases where it's happened regardless but I guess like the rate might be lower just because you feel like you have a a mission in life to be I don't know like you said I think the situation and what motivates you and what your parents teach you growing up is completely different yeah I mean because because uh I will say this though to play Devil's Advocate I've seen some immigrant kids Andrew actually uh possibly commit suicide due to too much pressure versus the lack of mission oh that's true that's true that's true yeah it happens in all ways see I guess the truth is man it can kind of happen to anybody not to like scare and for different reasons yeah not to scare people but but it it does happen to all different said it's so crazy how privileged these kids are the first thing that they want to do is drugs somebody was saying uh you know some kids they have everything they have looks they have money they have access to systems and networks and then they just throw it all away and someone said they're all hedonists and uh this is what happens when you're rich and you get everything you want that kid probably never lifted a finger for work um etc etc etc obviously you know people are saying like if you have a future of prosperity already predetermined sometimes it's really easy to slip into like behaviors where you're like well just self-satisfaction is the only thing that matters yeah yeah I do know of a parent a family whose child told me he told me that his parents lied to him about how much money they had growing up so they actually were doing pretty well as a family business growing up but they kind of hid their wealth from the children in order to build in that work ethic and it kind of worked for maybe like two out of three of the kids but so it's not going to work three out of three it's not going to build in that you you never know again um one thing I've noticed is that every wealthy parent has a different approach like you said some people try to recreate the struggle some people try to make their kids work at a menial job and work their way up the ladder to get some sense of it everybody has like a different approach you know but I'll tell you this it's very difficult to recreate something in a way that doesn't exist like if there's not a real fire behind somebody's butt it's difficult to make them feel like there's a fire underneath them and behind them right um other people are saying Andrew of course the comments got political this is the outcome of liberal policies on brought down to a personal level people are talking about border control precursors shipped over from China all types of things uh is this a legitimate debate to have when something like this happens to somebody high-profile of course there there is a domino effect and there is and there isn't but then there's personal responsibility too I don't think it has to do with the liberal policies as much man I think this is just a right-wing person just trying to use this right because other people were like what people didn't overdose of on drugs like in the 70s and ' 80s like in Miami during like C Cowboys and all this stuff yeah yeah yeah lots of uh yeah it's always happened right right right um of course some people were in a way expressing some sort of like yeah you know cuz I disagreed with her politics and blah blah blah blah blah and of course you know I think anything anytime anything happens to somebody like ultra wealthy and Ultra influential and Ultra powerful there is some sense of like oh like you thought you were so high and mighty right yeah yeah yeah that is true I do think that what is tough but I'm sure I don't know if Susan's family really cares about this right now because this is probably the least of their concerns but like there are always going to be people who kind of want to see the rich fall no matter if the rich is is left or right whether they're liberal or conservative if they're just rich people are going to look at them as opposition and be like see you guys don't have it all together even your kids can go into these emotional Dark Places and never come out of them right and it's like and you gave them everything so you're wrong you're clearly not a perfect person you're not a perfect parent right because what in in in society we sort of put these people on a pedestal like they did everything right they're much stronger like game players than we are so they're able to accumulate all these wealth and assets and like I guess it comes down to like sometimes people feeling like man these self-righteous people always try to tell me how to live try to give me advice but they don't have it all together no it's true I mean and this is a very like we said I think internet comments tend to show people's worst face though and in person people tend to be much more balanced generally not always especially depends on their state of mind people were just talking about how come everybody is required to carry Naran they're trying to tell regular citizens Andrew on the New York subway to carry Naran they're like Narcan in every dorm room what is where are we at as a society in terms of normalized behavior if people are advertising that people need to carry this thing with them to to save somebody yeah yeah it is kind of weird I mean I think there's definitely a drug problem and I think that the suicide rate is only Just One symptom of it obviously I think there's actually I think there's actually worse problems than suicide that drugs create like I think drugs drugs in amer they create a lot of other even Huger ma macro problems more like violence and stuff because yeah because I would say you know we all know Japan and South Korea they have no drugs like no hard drugs very very hard to get hard drugs so the drug so when it comes to like suicide or drug overdose or accidental drug overdose in that country well I meant suicide from drug overdose is low but suicide in itself is very high well because they have a completely different Society with a lot of uh uh really really heavy buyin culture yeah a lot of pressure and a lot of shame in that culture so no matter what culture you have there's going to be sadness right and there's going to be this so I I'm not saying you can stop it completely no one can but you can only like you know I mean what could that family have done I guess like did they see any warning signs did they try to get him therapy sometimes the answer is that he he had all these expectations maybe he only went to honestly as crazy as it sounds he only went to UC Berkeley for his family that might have not been good enough right and maybe it's kind of crazy to say this and like I said rip to him like I'm not making light of this at all but it's like almost like what if he was a different type of thrill seeker where he was doing like uh uh uh you know building jumping or like uh hand gliding and then there was an accident and he passed doing like extreme skiing or something like that would that be perceived differently because you're still on a dopamine chase that you can't get from like I guess like a regular lifestyle I don't know that's a good point I mean because you know what I'm saying like how would it be perceived like I guess is your college student child dying period is that a failure if they die doing something risky and surfing in these hard Waters because that's their passion or if they die overdosing from drugs obviously it is perceived differently but at the end of the day they're still going too soon you know what I mean so I guess it's still volatile behaviors but in different ways like the the prob the probabilities in both of those like lifestyle Lanes is not that good but completely perceived differently right like we said guys um risky Behavior but for different reasons yes yes RIP and man you know the reason that we covered this it was not to you know what I mean it's a tragedy but we just wanted to cover it because it's going viral right now because it's high-profile but it's relating to something that's like a lot of people are going through at the moment yeah so I I guess I guess anybody out there in the comments down below like what would you say the simplest I mean there's no simple solution to this but I guess a lot of people in the comments I've seen are like just don't do drugs that is number one don't get hooked on drugs and if you do that is going to put you in a really bad position right but obviously like we said people can die many different ways out there so anyways you guys let us know in the comments down below what you think uh and until next time we out peace