Its nice dramatic artistic piece, and thats how I take it, anything more I would view as superficial and grossly simplistic as far as actual application to reality. To me this speaks volumes of truth the same way a child who has just read their first philosophy book preaches about "truth" unaware that actually many other people have considered reflected and reasoned over things both longer, more critically and more sincerely as well.
Being poor is relative and subjective, just like happiness, when happiness is the result for people based on external factors primarily then happiness is when people have more than others in the perceptive sense, and this applies to all tiers of wealth. A man in a big cardboard box with lots of blankets, socks and clothes and a bigger piece of bread will know happiness if he is only surrounded by people in small cardboard boxes with skimp clothing. The millionaire on the street full of billionaires can reflect on themselves negatively and be unhappy for their perceived failure. In modern times the spread of technology means everyone can be aware of how many people have it better than them, and most people still don't actually realize how unfair the system is. In this sense you could almost argue that knowledge, awareness and education is the root of all evil, incidentally a foundation for the status quo and tool of oppression throughout history is the vilification of knowledge and learning and also attempts to stop the spread of knowledge and information.
Still even with modern technology peoples perception of wealth, its distribution are off, better than the past, but still inaccurate. Evil is just a lazy short hand term for negative qualities in a more extreme sense. In that sense the term is meaningless. It just sounds a certain way. Knowledge and education can bring happiness, it lets you know it can just be an attitude that can arise from internal reasoning. Money wasn't really created by people, in the sense value always existed, variety of preference. Man projected value on to certain objects to use in a roughly objective way to aid in interactions. Before money it was goats and other people. I mean I could continue. I mean ugh equivocating anorexia with wealth is just a tricky thing to do, you know, and personal incredulity is not a good enough reason to draw that comparison. Video sets up too many strawman to knock down.
Like I said though, you use this kind of music as backing and footage from movies? Yeah its more artistic and thats cool. Art is power and a tool too, but I look for my truth in more objective places where invoking intellectual thinking is the goal not invoking emotional or naive responses. I mean the maker of the video even explained it was motivated by his own personal frustration and also summing up his feelings as a poor man, based on his external situation. Ultimately from what I can understand his main point was that poor people have less options and less options can mean participating in "evil" acts to get more money and that I actually do think is a pretty good and valid point.
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