Simu Liu Went Viral AGAIN...For WHAT?

simu is back in the news but this time it's not about Boba it's about Trump's new tax plan let's run the clip uh so I'll preface by saying that I'm not American I'm Canadian but I live in America uh I own property in America and I pay American taxes and I read the new administration's new tax plan and it looks like I get a tax cut I don't I don't need a tax cut I'm I'm happy to pay taxes I believe I should pay taxes and I actually believe that people like me should probably pay more tax um 95% of Americans Americans that make less than $360,000 a year will not get tax cuts they will have their taxes go up which means their cost of living will go up and their income will go down and I'm just so confused because you have so much of the American population who voted for a president that so clearly does not act in their best interest I think it's clear to me what's really happening which is that capitalism is is running rampant and there's massive deregulation that's that's really allowing for the creation of these multi- billionaires who have at this point amass so much wealth that they can buy media companies and uh very easily influence you know politics and policy and um you know change the course of Elections and I guess it's all just a little bit scary to me in a very roundabout way of saying that I don't need tax cuts and um and I guess just making a a verbal promise to myself that any money that I save from these tax cuts in this Administration I will be donating instead um that's it boom listen guys this is really interesting because like simu who always you know has viral hot takes and I can tell you this simu is a friend of mine he is the type of person where whether he achieved this level of success that he has or not I think he truly wants to have his words be heard now everybody has their own delivery methods and I guess that's where the devil's in the details but I'll tell you this respect to simu for always speaking his mind whether people like it or not this time it seems like overwhelmingly people like it even though there was still some people going against him this time too so let's take a look at the Hollywood Reporter it says Sim Leo calls Trump's proposed tax plan benefiting High income earners really ishy um there's uh this BuzzFeed article that says I have never heard a privileged wealthy person let alone a celebrity say this in public of course other people are posting him a lot of people are saying it's because he himself knows what it's like to be an accountant at KPMG or deoe I forgot which one it was so he's like basically knows what it's like to be a regular person whereas a lot of celebrities they may come from family money they may have found success very early on they never had a regular job play paying regular taxes but I will say this there was a video that a Canadian entrepreneur who's also Chinese made against simu let's play that I'm also Canadian but but I live in Canada I own property in the US as well I pay taxes to the IRS and the CRA what he doesn't mention is that he can pay more tax you can voluntarily pay more tax to the IRS Nothing Stops people who want to pay more tax to voluntarily pay more tax so if you feel that you are fortunate and that you should pay more tax you can always pay more tax but most people who say that they should pay more tax will never voluntarily pay more tax boom listen this is Canadian on Canadian and there's a whole interesting Dynamic that I don't want to get into right now about can Canada shifting right majorly right now after I guess 10 years of failed Trudeau policies however I I'll get into this because I think that simu actually grew up in an era where Canada was collecting taxes and actually properly Distributing them and everybody was pretty happy with it overall of course there's always people that are not happy about it but you're looking for the bulk Distribution on a uh bell curve being happy right somebody said uh this is Great Canadian representation humble and authentic but this other some Americans said bro is a Canadian and that alone disqualifies his opinion I will say this the reason that it's relevant is because he's like coming from a different world that works slightly different than America like uh FR uh Canada is more Franco Franco in the sense of like it is more for socialist leaning but you could argue that at least in Prior years possibly before Trudeau they did execute quite decently on those socialist capitalist bents of course there was other people in the comment section coming out saying it's both sides because it does see that uh seem that simu made it a little bit political in the sense of like he doesn't big up the left or Dems but it looks he's basically saying like Trump voting for Trump is voting against your own self-interest however I will say this I think a lot of people also voted for Trump across an identity spectrum and it wasn't necessarily about class Consciousness also I do think that there's an argument that the left with Nancy pelis and stuff like that it's false opposition to class Consciousness and also playing into the identity Spectrum right here but I'm going to be getting into those more complicated things but shout out to see for bringing this up not saying that I fully agree with him but I'm going to get into it so he also says in the BuzzFeed article it's clear what's happening capitalism running a mck there's massive deregulation that's really allowing for the creation of these multi-billionaires who at this point have Mass so much wealth that they can buy media companies and very easily influence politics policy and change the course of Elections he's actually not wrong he's not wrong in this but here's the thing the only thing that I would disagree with him or maybe that he's leaving out is that American culture has always been hyper this way it's always been PT Barnum and Bailey it's always been had this bent to it it's not just like America was like this goody two shoes place like Canada and then we just switched to liking Donald Trump Gordon gecko type characters this has been a common threat in America for literally I can't even think of a time where it wasn't like this and this actually plays into the iron law of oligarchy so this is actually a theory from Robert Michelle and basically he's saying that over time even though there is a social contract in capitalism where it's like you we let the people get rich but they give enough to the poor people to like satisfy them or whatever it's basically he's basically saying incompetence of humans in greed eventually leads to die convergence or entropy of the system so I would argue that you know there were social contracts and like you know they've just like Fallen apart over time and that's due to entropy or human greed or things like that I'm not saying they didn't work but they seem to be not working as well and I believe that that is what simu is referring to but it is a little bit more and to place it on one side or the other is a little bit uh I would say not fully what I agree with for sure um but yeah you know like I said in terms of why this is we're Switching gears here to why like by the way guys I'm I'm going get back to capitalism but I think the reason why simu gets like loved and hated so much and this is like way more of a microanalysis is because he's like the only Asian guy in Hollywood but Hollywood doesn't necessarily I would say like from a Hollywood Hollywood perspective care about him like they care about Timothy shalam so because see was a regular person at one point and he was doing YouTube videos with Wan Fu and stuff like that he's he's of that Hollywood Elite world because he's gotten in there but he's also still very much rooted here with like your regular person and I think that he has a big voice with them but at the same time a lot of the people uh view him as sort of like uh it's so weird like some people lot him in the cases where they agree with him for being with the people and there's other times where like Hollywood aspiring wannabes roast him for like barely being part of this Hollywood Elite or having one foot in one foot out so it's almost like he's a newcomer into like he he's almost like too big for the regular folks and then he has that status where people are wary of him and then people are wary of him in the Hollywood Elite too because it's like you don't even really belong here simu like but are you like really a star like us or not so anyway anyway back to the taxes um I'll say this man I just think that in my opinion the tax rate increases they probably should be for the more rich people but I don't know if 360,000 is where I would start raising the taxes I'd probably raise it on people who make 1.5 million in declared income or higher like I would raise it because if you're in New York City even with $360,000 a year like and you have a family and you're paying for private schools and stuff it's really like that sounds crazy but somebody who's lived in New York and knows the cost of these things it's really not that much because think about it they're going to have some sort of graduated tax bracket on that already already so yes I agree agree with simu that people who make way in the millions a year which he falls into like over 3 million a year uh should get taxed more like people probably like 800k and up honestly but yeah I would not increase on people who make 360 that's just my opinion but yeah these are all just details right um I think that Canadians are very used to getting taxed right but the thing is like I said until the past 10 years Canadians were cool with it because they felt like they got the dental they got the medical now as those systems have gotten a little bit more shabby or maybe wait times for Urgent uh Critical Care have become longer in Canada due to the policies of the last 10 years possibly people are less and less happy with it but if you grew up in that Golden Era where the Canadian system was uh quasi hybrid socialist capitalist mix was working you probably really like it and have a favorable view because the main thing is right now in America people don't really trust government efficiency in terms of expenditure right and um I'm not clearly you know endorsing like Elon and vivec because like those guys are some kind of like wacky dudes to be in charge of that but absolutely the idea of Doge Department of government efficiency is super important because as you could see there's so many stories that came out about people milking the government for 400k 500k 600k I don't hey I was happy for them on one level I have friends that were working construction in New York City took a dive get a payout 80k here 120k here 40K here go on 6 month paid leave were they really hurt listen I'm not saying that those people don't deserve to have livable wages but sometimes they see the corrupt people at the top and that needs to stop too you know like the corporate manipulation and the CEOs and that corruption and then they're like hey what if why don't I get a piece of the pie but they're getting that money out of the tax coffers but you it's so like that's what I'm saying I'm they're trying to explain the system where like all the trust and this perceived social contracts whether it was always that way or not have broken down and now everybody's a little bit more blat going for theirs um this next comment said Americans are always tripped by short-term dopamine Cycles so this is somebody uh saying referring to their like voting logic here's the truth guys I'm not saying sometimes some some of Trump's policies honestly feel like a shot in the arm to me like taking a 5H Hour Energy drink at like 5:00 a.m. yes I think they will juice things for a moment but can it stop actually the inevitable crash I think that that would take a lot more behavioral changes from top level people I think that rich people would have to agnostically give to give build Universal Services for poor people I think that poor people would need to change their consumption patterns you can't just be hanging out all the time you might need to take a look at austerity you can't be like oh how come rich people have iPhones I I need a i the newest iPhone too I know poor people in New York they get the newest iPhone all the time I'm not saying they got a ton of bread in the bank but I'm just saying you might want to watch that behavior too though but then it's tough to tell people that cuz that's the only thing that they have in their life and the little FanDuel parlay and Etc ET Etc and the tobacco and the Liquors and the short-term dopamine like we said everybody's like short-term dopamine but it's like the the the the the rich people short-term dopamine is more damaging on a structural level and then Poor People's short-term dopamine Behavior sometimes is more damaging almost like to their ability to rise up a upward Mobility Society but also upward Mobility Society but you could also argue that those grooves that people use to as a uh the roads or the ladders to go up and down Society are more greased downward then they are uh getting grip upwards on those ladders so anyway guys here's the truth man I think that simu absolutely made a point but he was not talking about it was kind of it could have been a little reductive you know what I mean like I said Kant Emanuel Kant talks about this idea of a social contract social contract is how people understand that things work this watch work works like a like a watch that's designed to just last and last and never rewound maybe somebody needs to rewind the social contract watches but that requires people to be less short-term dopamine driven to the other posters Point there's something there as well but the short-term dopamine of the rich people is to like juice the system even what Trump did with the mean coins you cannot tell me I don't care if you first of all I didn't vote but I'm saying even my biggest Trump supporter friends if they were into whether it was defi or crypto they were like uh this is n not necessarily good like everybody rugging each other and then the uh the the pastor that was giving the the the speechs at the inauguration tried to launch his own meme coin which was so clearly a pump and dumb it might as well just been called like give me money I'm going to rug you so it's like what I'm saying is the so there's two terms here there's the social contract and the iron rule of oligarchy and those two things are turning right now now there is things that we can do like I said in the system to reverse it but everybody's got to be aware of it and whether like I said nobody wants austerity for the government lower and middle class because Ians get elected on giving people what they want or at least telling people they're going to give them what they want and delivering halfway I'm saying it would take the hyper rich and I'm not even talking about SE Rich making like let's just say make like four or five million a year I'm not even talking about SE SE Rich I'm talking about like Way Beyond that you know what I mean I'm talking about people in the billions way in the billions it would take them to agnostically give billions into self-funding systems that like actually can perpetuate not just like give the money and it be depleted like foreign aid right or or like Aid to certain countries foreign aid but I'm saying like literally he they would need to build self-perpetuating Universal basic services and Mark cubin is probably the only guy that I've SE the closest thing I've seen where he's like buying up you know um the the the the the drug.com I forgot the name of it I'll pop it up where it's like he's selling The Jug drugs at at cost to try to like change the margins in the Pharmaceuticals industry so it's just like we're basically a NBA player that's outside of our main era that was a little bit reliant on athleticism so so it's almost like like whether we're injured or we're just like aging out of our Prime where we could just like blow past everybody it's going to take more skill and more IQ based reads for like placement for the offense a little bit like how d r became more skilled or like you know there was other players that had to adapt to essentially their athleticism Vanishing the us some of the US athleticism that allowed it to get like easy advantage on the defender is evaporating so people are going to need to bust different moves so that's why I'm like man it's everybody but yes you could say that it's probably you're you're more looking at the really ultra wealthy to shift their behavior over like people who maybe not don't have the education or the as much capacity to switch up and stuff like that so anyway guys like I said that's my take on se's take uh like I said there's so there's two takes one take is shout out to seu for saying it I felt like he scored like at least a triple with this one I don't know if it's a home run cuz obviously the thing with the Boba thing in Montreal was more like 50/50 like some people were like they liked his take some people didn't like his take you know what I mean um but it seems like this one he more so is pointing out something but a lot of people are questioning and being like Oh you grew up in the Golden Age of Canada that's why you understand this social contract and believe in this social contract but some Canadians are even saying I don't even believe in it anymore in 2025 so obviously some Canadians actually even went against see but I would say overwhelmingly 8020 in support of what he said like I said I was just trying to provide more context to what he said obviously yes the hyper hyper Rich got to do it but as far as like even just government efficiency even if they gave the money to the government I just don't even know like how they would spend it because there's so much leakage and like slip and stuff going on right now literally you would need like the billionaires in the world or the you know the W would be trillionaires to almost create private self-sustaining Universal basic Services maybe like some sort of like robot thing where you could go in there and like analyze your health like as good as a real doctor and the whole body Dexter scan takes like 5 minutes and it's free for like low-income people like three times a year or something like that and it'll analyze your dental and your physical your androgens your bone density and stuff like that so anyway guys that's what I hope for in the future like I said I hope that the billionaires create some some quick body scans that at least gives you eight out of 10 you know quick Universal basic services for people and maybe we can invent some like food that's super nutritious that's actually delicious too and I know that's what people were trying to do for a while but they just haven't gotten there I tend to not believe in like government efficiency to be able to accomplish like world changing things I don't know if it was always this way or it's just this way right now but for sure like I said where does my opinion fall in the political Spectrum probably just a third place that is not marketed because I I didn't hear the solution from the left or the right but obviously the way things are set up in America I do believe uh in in private companies at least with some oversight and I was going to say government oversight but I like we said you got to clean up everything it's a it's all social contract guys there's a ton of gears in the watchwork they're not all the same gear though there's different gears but all the gears could be improved anyway guys let me know what you think in the comment section below how would you guys start improving the social contract watchwork Gears of America and do you guys think the iron rule of oligarchy is coming into play or is it something completely else let me know what you think in the comments section Below guys this is room for discussion I'm not I don't really know I just know something and I'm trying to share you guys until next time I'm out hop hop boys peace